HISTORY

Throughout the 1930’s thievery and scams were

present in such films as ‘Raffles’ and the unholy

garden. The classic film noir period of the 1940’s and

1950’s brought the genre to fame, by focusing more

explicitly on the heists themselves with such films

like John Huston’s ‘Asphalt Jungle’ and Stanley

Kubrick's ‘The Killing’.

The remakes of Ocean’s 11 (2001, as Oceans Eleven)

and the Italian Job 2003, show that the genre still has

a future in contemporary Hollywood.

TOP 10 HEIST FILMS According to movies.amctv.com

ACTORS

GEORGE CLOONEY:

An American actor, film

director, producer and

screenwriter. For his

work as an actor he

received, 3 Golden

Globe awards and an

Oscar (Academy

Award). In 2001 he

worked with Steven

Soderbergh for the

remake of Oceans 11. It

was his most

commercially

successful film earning

more than $450 million

worldwide.

ROBERT DE NIRO:

An American actor,

producer and

director. He has

starred In multiple

crime films such as

Mean streets in 1973.

In 1974 He played the

young ‘Vito Corleone’

the Godfather part 2,

a role that won him

the Academy award

for best supporting

actor.

JASON STATHAM:

An English actor, has

appeared in many

supporting roles in

various American films

such as The Italian

Job, a heist film. Which

was the highest

grossing film by

paramount in 2003.

DIRECTORS

Quentin Tarantino is an American film director, producer, screenwriter

and actor. Gaining numerous industry awards such as the Golden

Globe award and the BAFTA award and has also been nominated for

a Grammy award.

In January 1992 Tarantino's Reservoir dogs screened at the Sundance

film festival and was an immediate hit. Reservoir Dogs was a

dialogue-driven heist driven movie that inspired and set the tone for

his later films.

Guy

RitchieAn English screenwriter, film director and producer. Best known for

directing such films as ‘Lock Stock and two smoking barrels’, Snatch,

RocknRolla and Sherlock Holmes. His second feature film Snatch

was very successful in the box office and was listen on Rotten

Tomatoes as having 73% of the reviews as being ‘fresh’ (positive). But

Snatch was criticised to have a similar plot and theme to his previous

film Lock stock and two smoking barrels, causing critic; Robert Ebert

to give the film two out of four stars. However the film grossed a total

of £12,137,698 in the United Kingdom and $30,093,107 in the

United States.

STUDIOSUNIVERSAL

PICTURES

Founded in April 30, 1912. An American motion picture

studio owned by Comcast, and one of the six major movie

studios. It is one of the longest-lived motion picture studios

to be located outside of Hollywood. Universal Pictures

creates and distributes theatrical and non-theatrical filmed

entertainment. They are the distributors of Tower Heist

2011 a crime comedy film directed by Brett Ratner and

written by Ted Griffin and Jeff Nathanson. Tower Heist

received an NAACP Image Award nomination, for

Outstanding Motion Picture.WARNER

BROS

Founded in April 4, 1923. A fully integrated, American broad-

based entertainment company and a global leader in the

creation, production, distribution, licensing and marketing of all

forms of entertainment and their related businesses. It is

considered one of the foremost motion picture and television

production and post-production facilities in the world and

home to 35 soundstages. Distributor of Ocean’s Thirteen (2007)

a crime comedy film that generated $311.4 million in box office

revenue worldwide.

TOP GROSSING FILMS BY BUDGET

The Italian Job premiered at the

Tribeca Film festival on May 11, 2003,

and was theatrically released in the

United States on May 30, 2003. In its

opening weekend, the film grossed

$19,457,944. Paramount re-released

the film on August 29, and by the time

its theatrical release closed in

November 2003, the film had grossed

$106,128,601 in the United States and

Canada and $69,941,570 overseas—

$176,070,171 worldwide.

Fast Five accumulated $209,837,675

(33.5%) in the United States and Canada

and a further $416,300,000 (66.5%)

elsewhere – a total of $626,137,675,

making it the seventh highest-grossing

film of 2011 worldwide. This amount

makes Fast Five the number 113 highest-

grossing film of all time in the domestic

market and the number 63 highest-

grossing film of all time worldwide, in

unadjusted dollars.