Notting Hill

Notting Hill (1999)

Genre: Rom-Com
Director: Roger Michell
Writer: Richard Curtis
Stars: Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts

Budget: $42Mill







I only found that the movie was shown in 12 country's but seeing as the movie was very popular it was most likely shown in more.

• IMDB
• Box Office Mojo:
• The-numbers

In the US it made $116Mil (3 October) and in the UK it made £30Mil (19 September)(now equivalent to $43mil)

The marketing focused mostly on Julia Roberts(evidenced by poster) seeing as she is the American star. The American actors are the ones that are heavily marketed as the distributes want the American audience to see a familiar face to sell more tickets in America another example of this is Bridget Jonas's Diary.

Even though they market it well in America most of these Working title Rom-coms don't follow the Gant rule as there main market is the British because they can relate and understand the British humor.

The movie got a 15 age rating from BBFC, which it is backed up on the imdb page. The movie got a lot of criticism form people because the movie is set in Notting Hill which is a place where there are many African American people but in the movie not one African American was seen.

 

It is very easy to identify Notting Hill as a Working Title film because it follows the WT Rom-Com conventions of the American girl and the clumsy British guy. It was also worked on by Richard Curtis who is now famous for making Working Title a lot of money by following this format.