Kick Ass.

Kick ass is a superhero comedy film and was based on the comic book of the name by John Romita jr and Mark Millar. The films actual release was March 25th 2010 in the UK and in the US was released April 16th 2010. The film was directed and produced by Matthew Vaughn and was also produced by Brad Pitt (actor), Kris Thykier, Adam Bohling, Traquin Pack, and David Rei. Brad Pitt also co-wrote the screen play along with Jane Glodman. The film is altogether 1 hour, 53 minutes. In all of the footage there is about 18 minutes that were deleted but if the film was a hit Matthew said he would do an extended cut. The film was released out on DVD and Blue ray in America August the 3rd 2010 and were released in the UK September 6th 2010. The film sold 1.4 million in the first week and one-third of these were blue ray disks. Kick ass was debuted as the number one on the DVD sales chart. The budget to the film was estimeted to be $30,000,000.  The opening weekend of the film brought in £3,881,704 and was shown in 402 screens, and in America it brought in $48,043,505 the film was a financial success.

Kick ass later then released a video game that was based on the movie, and the game was produced by WHA entertainment and Frozen code-base. It was first released through the app store to the iPhone and iPod touch. For other marketing before the film posters were released. There were posters of just the cover of the film and other posters that were released has just one of the characters on. This was so that the audience could relate more to each character and get to know what that character was about.

Kick ass the film tells us about and ordinary teenage boy who decides that he is going to become a real life superhero and calls himself 'kick ass'. Not only is he trying to become more popular but is also trying to impress a girl. He gets caught up in all sorts of situations, one being in a big fight with another superhero 'big daddy' who is a former cop . Big daddy is trying to bring down a drug company and owner 'lord Frank D'Amico' and has trained his daughter who is now eleven to be the ruthless  vigilante 'hit girl'. In the end they all work as a team to bring down frank but have to get out of the situation frank has put them in first, but hit girl is the real hero of the story. But Kick ass the film, despite its violence and black humour, generally had positive reviews!

The cast:

• Aaron Johnson as David Dave Lizewski/Kick-Ass
• Nicolas Cage as Damon Macready/Big Daddy
• Chloe Grace Moretz as Mindy Macready/Hit-Girl
• Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Chris D'Amico/Frank D'Amico's son/Red Mist
• Mark Strong as Frank D'Amico

having a few well known actors/actresses helps a film sell a lot more as people will recognise the name and think of the previous film that the actor/actress has been in. If they have been in good films that the particular audience is aimed at likes them then its bring in the much more people to watch the film and buy all the merchandise that comes with it. Also by making Kick-ass a more attractive character also brings in more girls to see the action film and this also widens the audience.

Kick ass was filmed in several places, these places were Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (Dip 'N' Sip Donuts) Winston Churchill Secondary and other locations in the UK. These include Elstree Studios and the opening sequence with Nicolas Cage was filmed in a sewage plant in East London. The film got an 'R' rating by the MPAA, it was rate this because of the violence, strong language, drug use, nudity, and sexual scenes. It was rated a 15 by the BBFC and the director (Matthew Vaughn) felt that it was about right for the film but was a little confused when it was rated a PG in France. The film got huge amounts of awards/nominations, it got nominated for, teen choice awards (Choice Movie Actor: Action adventure, Choice movie villain, Choice movie: Action adventure, Choice movie breakout female, and choice movie breakout male ). It was also nominated at Peoples choice awards, The comedy awards, Young artist awards, and Critics choice awards. It was nominated in Empire awards and won the best British film and best newcomer awards. In the MTV awards kick ass won best breakout star and biggest bad-ass star, and was nominated for best fight. the star rating for the film is 7.9 stars.

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