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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

ACTORSGEORGE 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 Ritchie An 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.

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UNIVERSAL 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 BROSFounded 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.