- Released on the 13th May 2011
- Won several awards, an example of these would be.. Chainsaw award for best Make up/Creature fx. Audience award for Best narrative feature. Audience award for Best feature film. Best original sound track award for best music. And many more.
- Budget - $13,000,000.
- Opening weekend - £1,133,859
- Gross prophet - $1,024,175.
Plot
A teen gang in south London defend their block from an alien invasion.
E-media
- Attack The Block has it's own official website, this website contains lots of features which are used to increase the audiences interest in the film. Firstly it has music which automatically plays in the background, this music fits the genre of the film. Next it has a moving image as the background, it has meteors which fall towards the bottom of the screen, this relates back to the film as it's how the aliens were transferred to earth. Firstly it has a video page, in this section it gives you the choice of 9 different videos to watch, Including the official trailer in hd. Next is the 'Story' page, on this it gives the reader a rough idea of the plot in the film. By giving away small details of the plot, it'll make the audience interested therefore making them want to watch the film. Next is the 'Photos page, on this page it shows a range of different photos taken from the film. Also giving the audience a sneak preview from the film. Next is the 'Cast & Crews' page, on this page it gives the audience a chance to meet the characters over a screen. It makes the audience feel like they know the characters personally. Next it has a 'Play games' page, this is done to attract the audience, it creates a new interest that the audience might be interested in.
- Attack the Block has it's own Facebook group, on this it offers a range of different photos and videos. It also gives the audience a chance to view the closest cinema to them. The Facebook page has a total of 96,946 likes.
Broadcast
- The official trailer on YouTube has reached a total of 3,219,664 views since March 3rd 2011. 5,077 likes and a small 484 dislikes. The trailer attracted a massive audience, it was played on many different media platforms, for example the television, YouTube, computer adverts, and in cinema's.
Print
- Attack the Block only had one key print, which is shown below. The image is a wide angled shot, simply because it shows the surroundings and the environment that it's set it. It also allows them to show the meteors in the sky. On the print it has 'Attack The Block' written clearly and in bigger writing than the rest. This means it'll be the first thing that the viewer sees when looking at the print.
Reviews
- This review is written by Peter Bradshaw from the Guardian. This review will have been read from middle to upper class people. He rated the film 4 stars out of 5.
Back in 1995, Mathieu Kassovitz gave us a brutal inner-city classic called La Haine (Hate). Now British comedian-turned-film-maker Joe Cornish has created something from much the same world. But this good-natured and endlessly likable debut could as well be called La Gaiété, or L'Espoir, or indeed L'Amour. It's a terrifically funny, gutsy action-adventure comedy about invaders from space attacking a council tower block in south London. The extra-terrestrials, with their hairy lupine bodies and glowing blue fangs, make aggressive planetfall right in the middle of a council estate, to the astonishment of a petty gang of lairy teens who have just mugged a defenceless nurse for her money and jewellery, and are about to move up to the big time, selling drugs for a paranoid gangland leader holed up in his reinforced strongroom, growing weed under halogen lights. But this gang of bullies on BMXs must find redemption by teaming up with their victim and saving Planet Earth. As well as excitement and laughs, Cornish provides some sharp social comment on the subject of aliens and alienation. Now, there are many who will feel they have consumed enough hand-wringing analysis from the concerned commentariat about aggressive youths in Broken Britain controlling their turf, and yet as scared as babies of moving anywhere beyond these "ends". Cornish tackles the same idea but with a light touch and a cheerful, unfashionably optimistic belief in a happy outcome somewhere along the line. His sci-fi urban pastoral is also a satirical fantasy. What if enemies or opposing groups were suddenly confronted by a common foe? Might they not discover common ground that should have been cultivated anyway? Jodie Whittaker plays Sam, an overworked, underpaid nurse who is walking home from the tube station, talking to her mum on the mobile. She finds herself surrounded by a crew of five teenagers, led by the hard, impassive Moses (John Boyega). They demand her valuables and threaten her with a knife. She is white; they are black and mixed-race; she speaks RP English and they speak London patois-slang, the language in which the rest of the movie is to be conducted. Moses and his mates don't realise it, but Sam lives in the same place they do – the awe-inspiringly gaunt, grim tower block that looms into the night sky like a marooned spaceship. Just as trembling, terrified Sam hands over her possessions, the extra-terrestrial assault begins. Furiously, Moses attacks the invader and becomes as terrified of these interplanetary beasts as Sam is of them. Yet Sam and Moses have to team up to fight the aggressor. There is tremendous supporting work from Jumayn Hunter (last seen in Paul Andrew Williams's Cherry Tree Lane) as drug dealer Hi-Hatz, Nick Frost as his laidback, avuncular second-in-command Ron, and Luke Treadaway as the appalling trustafarian Brewis, always trying to be street-cred and speak like the guys from the block – his witty performance is a reminder that there is a certain type of middle-class white man who should never attempt to use the word "jokes" adjectivally, to mean "funny". It's easy to watch a film like this and wonder … when are the grownup white actors going to take over? The answer is never. With tremendous assurance and utter lack of condescension, Cornish puts his young cast playing the council-block kids at the very centre of the action. He directs them tremendously well and they reward him with performances of charm and energy that carry the film. Cornish intelligently uses his medium-range budget to suggest, rather than show the aliens themselves, and succeeds in creating a genuine action picture from which comedy naturally arises, rather than a series of sketch-show gags we are expected to buy into as drama. When Sam is simmeringly angry with Moses, and tells a police officer that she has no intention of being forced out of her home by a bunch of thugs and bullies, she could almost be in a gritty social-realist picture.(Attack the Block looks a little like Michael Winterbottom's film Wonderland.) Later, she must search around Moses's flat while talking to him on the phone; she comes across what appears to be a little kid's bedroom with a Spider-Man duvet on the bed. Between them, Cornish, Whittaker and Boyega create a situation of poignancy and force when Sam asks Moses if he has a baby brother, before the penny drops. "How old are you?" she asks. "Fifteen," says Moses, blankly. "You look older," says Sam wonderingly, and Moses's artless reply of "Thanks" is given something heart-wringingly vulnerable by Boyega. Attack the Block draws on the classic science-fiction model such as Independence Day and the siege drama Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 – but there's also something very innocent and English here, something reminiscent of the 1947 Ealing comedy Hue and Cry. Cornish has made an impressive debut: in his early comedy career, he made his name by pastiching and taking the mickey out of Hollywood movies. But this doesn't look like a pastiche; it looks like the real thing.
- This review is written by Rotten Tomatoe, as you can see the review isn't as much as the guardian. But they rated it 90%.
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