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Seven Two detectives are partnered to solve to case of a mysterious and intelligent killer who is causing chaos through a series of murders following the pattern of the seven deadly sins. The detectives Mills and summerset, a rookie and a veteran, must hunt down this killer whilst understanding his logic.

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SevenTwo detectives are partnered to solve to case of a mysterious and intelligent killer who is causing chaos through a series of murders following the pattern of the seven deadly sins. The detectives Mills and summerset, a rookie and a veteran, must hunt down this killer whilst understanding his logic.

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Seven

Director: David Fincher

- Also directed alien 3, fight club, the game and panic room

Writer: Andrew Kevin Walker

Producer(s): Arnold Kopelson, Phyllis Carlyle

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Film Budget

Budget: The budget for se7en was estimated to be $33,000,000 for the production and the film grossed a total of $327,311,859 worldwide.  

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FilmingSe7en was filmed in Los Angeles, California due to the bustling pedestrians and polluted streets which gave the film an urban and violent atmosphere, which was what Fincher intended. He wanted the city to be portrayed as ‘dirty’ and ‘often depressing’ which really came through visually to the audience due to the yellow toned filter used to slightly drain the films colour.

After

Before

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Distributors Se7ven had many distributors in order to exhibit the film worldwide, however the main distributors were new line cinema(USA) (theatrical)

New line cinema distributed many successful films and had early success with Reefer madness. The company is an American film studio, founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne as a film distributor and later became an independent film studio. The company later merged with Warner bros in 08, and are currently owned by time warner.

New line cinema also released many classic foreign films such as stay as you are and immortal tales along with producing films of multiple genres including alone in the dark (horror) and xtro (science fiction fantasy.)

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AdvertisingSe7en was mainly advertised through a trailer, which consisted of suspenseful scene due to the use of fast cut editing and eerie music with a low toned bass.

Se7en was also advertised through posters, with one of the most famous ones being extremely simple with only the films title being portrayed on a plain black background. This was a good poster to advertise due to it’s lack of information which had an intriguing effect on the audience due to the obscurity of it.

Another poster revealed more information, as each poster revealed more information than the last. This one consisted of the seven deadly sins written in scratchy typography on the poster which revealed this was what the story line was centered around.

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AdvertisingSe7en was also highly spread by mouth, as in 1995 everyone was talking about se7en thus a strong buzz was created.

Se7en used a total of 7 websites to communicate the sins to the audience. One for example being a pizza pie shop which represented the sin ‘gluttony’ and there was another website for each sin. Once all these websites were used 7 letter where taken from the address links names to from the website www.johndoe.com , a characters name, it was on this website that the users could watch the trailer before it was officially released.

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Publicity

The film was highly praised in the reviews it received, and managed to achieve an 8.7/10 rating from imdb, which is based upon reviews from critics.

The cast of se7en worked as a strong selling point for the film due to Morgan Freeman staring as a lead character and since he was nominated for the ‘best actor in a leading role’ for the film shawshank redemption this created a strong interest for the audience.

David Fincher was also a good form of publicity due to him directing alien 3 which was rather successful and popular.

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Financial successSe7en was highly distributed worldwide and was exhibited in most countries such as Canada, USA, Australia, Netherlands, South Korea, Germany, Italy etc (32 Countries in total)

Box office figures: Budget: $33,000,000 (estimated)Gross: $316,400,000 (Worldwide)

$100,125,000 (USA)

£19,234,230 (UK) (17 March 1996)

£17,834,902 (UK) (19 February 1996)

£11,434,343 (UK) (21 January 1996)

£19,500,000 (UK)

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Release date

Se7en was released on the 22nd September 1995, this is a good release date considering the classification of the film is a certificate 18. This date would mean adults would have more free time as children would be back at school thus this date is more convenient for the target audience.

Since this would be released in the fall the genre is taken into consideration as the film as a dark atmosphere to it so the weather itself would reflect the films genre and themes. This is also close to Halloween which is the general release date for horrors and thrillers.

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Home release

DVD release dates

Seven(new line platinum series) December 19, 2000

seven(single disk edition) February 3, 2004

Seven blu-ray(blu-ray book) September 14, 2010

Seven blu-ray April 26, 2011

Rentals $43,100,000 (USA)

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Was it successful?

Se7en was an extremely successful production due to the grossing over ten times the budget amount which is a huge success. It is also successful from the ratings and highly praise reviews it has received over the years and continue being positive and highly rated to this very day.

The film was such as success that when it came to home release many versions of the film were release, this included VHS, DVD, special editions and recently Blu-ray.