Kill Your Darlings

I went to see Kill Your Darlings on Sunday 8th December - the opening weekend.
It was showing in Screen 3 in the Southbury Cineworld, in a 234 seat screen.

Before the film, these adverts were shown:

• McDonalds coffee
• 3 phone service
• Barclays
• Drambuie
• Audi
• Tesco's
• BOSE Earphones
• Wonga
• Coca Cola
• HTC
• Morrison's
• Sony Xperia Z1
• Cider
• Waitrose
• Johnnie Walker
• EE phone service

Then these film trailers were shown:

• The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty
• Mandela; Long Walk To Freedom
• 12 Years A Slave
• August Osage Country
• The Wolf Of Wall Street

These adverts are mainly aimed at middle-aged, educated adults. This was proven by the other people in the screen; mostly middle-aged couples. However, there wasn't that many people watching the film; there was about 15 other people.

The film itself was visually stunning; the camerawork was perfect, and the editing and colouring completely portrayed the 1940s. It was intense, with some troubling scenes, but I found these to be tastefully handled. I learnt a lot about the poets of the Beat generation, and left me contemplating their theories and work. I found I didn't sympethise as such with the characters, but I felt glad for Ginsberg when he freed himself of Carr's grip, and sorrow for Ginsberg when his mother was taken away. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the film, and would watch it again, but only if I was fully focused on it, as this film requires concentration and engagement.

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Kill Your Darlings Quotes and Hashtag

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Kill Your Darlings Review

Source: The Culture

Audience: middle-class adults and film fans

Benefit: targets specific audience, and persuades them to see the film as it is a mostly positive review

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Kill Your Darlings Review On BBC Film 2013

3rd December 2013

Source: BBC Film 2013 

Audience: middle-class adults and film fans

Benefit: raising awareness and targets specific audience

The Hobbit; The Desolation Of Smaug Review On BBC Film 2013

11th December 2013

Source: BBC Film 2013 

Audience: middle-class adults and film fans

Benefit: raising awareness and targets specific audience

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Daniel Radcliffe on The Graham Norton Show

6th December 2013

Source: The Graham Norton Show 

Audience: Graham Norton fans, or middle-class adults

Benefit: reaches a large audience, and uses star name

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Kill You Darlings Venice Film Festival Review

Source: The Telegraph

Audience: educated middle-class adults

Benefit: global and national audiences

Kill Your Darlings UK Trailer

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Audience: fans of Daniel Radcliffe

Benefit: reaches a specific group of people (fans)

Kill Your Darlings Facebook Page

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Audience: fans of Daniel Radcliffe

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Kill Your Darlings

1) UK release date?
6th December 2013

2) Institutions behind the film's production and distribution?
Production:

• Killer Films
• Benaroya Pictures (presents)
• Outpost Studios (post-production)

Distribution:

• Future Film (2013) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Lumière (2013) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Classics (2013) (USA) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Releasing (2013) (Australia) (theatrical)
• Works UK Distribution, The (2013) (UK) (theatrical)
• Paris Filmes (2014) (Brazil) (all media)

3) What's the film's production budget?
n/a

4) Nationality of the film?
American

5) What kind of production is it?
Low budget indie film

6) Any connection with other films?
No

7) Who's the director?
John Krokidas

8) Any star names in the cast?

• Daniel Radcliffe - Allen Ginsberg
• Dane Dehaan - Lucien Carr
• Ben Foster - William Burroughs
• Michael C. Hall - David Kammerer
• Jack Huston - Jack Kerouac

9) What's the film about?
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs

10) Who will this film appeal to?
Audiences who like drama, romance or biographies, as well as those who are fans of Daniel Radcliffe