Research- The Industry

Top 20 Rated Thrillers by the IMDB

According to IMDB (Internet Movie DataBase) the Thriller film at the top of the charts is Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)

This film was directed by Quentin Tarantino, it had a estimated budget of  $8,000,000 and made a worldwide gross of $213,982,762.

Although Pulp Fiction has been voted as the best Thriller title by the IMDB the Thriller which made the highest US gross is the number 2 title The Dark Knight. As well as being the highest gross' film for a Thriller it is also in the top 10 of the highest gross films of all time.


The Dark Knight (Nolan, 2008) had an estimated budget of $185,000,000 the worldwide gross (1st December 2010) was stated to be $1,001.921,825, this turned out to be a huge profit for the film.

The Dark Knight was a blanket release, it was released on 4.366 Screens (US) and 502 Screens (UK) the overall opening weekend gross' was $158,411,483 (US) and £11,191,824 (UK)

The companies that helped to create The Dark Knight were:

Production

• Warner Bros. Pictures
• Legendary Pictures
• Syncopy 
• Dc Comics 

Distributors

• Warner Bros. Pictures (USA, Chile, Hong Kong, Thailand and Taiwan)
• 20th Century Fox (Malaysia)
• Warner Bros. (Argentina, Australia, Germany, UK, Japan, Netherlands and Singapore(