Newspaper and magazine reviews
The Guardian says 21/10/10 "The King's Speech, a funny and moving film that tells the story of the monarch's vocal difficulties, had been given a 15 rating, much to the annoyance of its director". this element is important to the film industry because if you didn't know what the film was about you could read what a film citric published in the newspaper and newspaper most people like Reading it and its cheap and easy to get.
The slant magazine 19/10/10 " Yet despite such simplistic psychologizing, The King's Speech barely buys what it's selling. No sooner are these explanations introduced than they're discarded, all so the proceedings can eschew true character development in favor of the jokey sight of George learning to enunciate through singing and cursing, the romantic shenanigans of his older brother, Edward VIII (Guy Pearce)—who assumes the throne and then relinquishes it to marry a twice-divorced American hussy, Wallis Simpson (Eve Best)—and the buildup to war with Hitler, whose threat to the U.K and, specifically, George, is epitomized by his mesmerizing oratory skills. " This section from magazines is important for the industry becasue its other intpretation of how people would talk about the film itself and could help producers and writiers in the future.
Box office statistics
"The healthy performance on Orange Wednesday (£965,000) suggests the film is crossing over into younger and broader audiences. That is echoed by statistics showing where the film made its best improvements on the second weekend, indicating how The King's Speech is crossing over from its upscale niche: Showcase Bluewater up 105%, Reel Crewe up 115%, Odeon Wrexham up 132%, Vue Hamilton (in Scotland) up 145%, and Cineworld Falkirk (also Scotland) up 150%. While The King's Speech ended its first weekend in fifth place in the Republic of Ireland, it's now No 1." this shows how imporant this is for the film industry to see how they are doing and how sells of tickets are going up because of the relsease of the film and how succsesful and popluar this film is.
Social networking sites
This image shows the amount of tweets that where about this films and as you can see king’s speech it the second film most tweeted about. "As a comparison, a majority of the tweets in The King’s Speech Tracker are related directly to the film. Given that, we believe The King’s Speech to be the true front runner in the Best Picture race." This is from tweets reach blog and the gather and research information about tweets. this is important to the industry because its important for the audience to have there own opinion on the film because it was made for our entertainment purpose if nobody liked it it wouldn’t have been waste of time and money making the film so its very important that its turned out to be successfully as it did.
Youtube posts and comments
On youtube the trailer for the kings speech as had over 1 million views and under 2000 hits.
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