Cinderella is a 2015 British-American romantic fantasy film directed by Kenneth Branagh, with a screenplay written by Chris Weitz, and co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures, Kinberg Genre, Allison Shearmur Productions and Beagle Pug Films. The film is based on eponymous folklore and was inspired in part by Walt Disney's 1950 animated film of the same name. The film features an ensemble player, including Lily James as an eponymous character and Cate Blanchett as Lady Tremaine, with Richard Madden, Stellan SkarsgÃÆ' ¥ rd, Holliday Grainger, Sophie McShera, Nonso Anozie, Derek Jacobi, and Helena Bonham Carter in supporting roles.
The development for a live-action reimagining of the original animated film began in May 2010, with producer Simon Kinberg attached to the project. In late January 2013, Branagh was signed to direct, with Weltz hired to revise the manuscript of Aline Brosh McKenna. In November 2012, the casting started with Blanchett being the first to sign up; James finally plays a role in a titular role in April 2013. The main photography starts at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England on 23 September 2013 and ends on December 14th.
Cinderella has aired in the world on February 13, 2015, at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival and was released theatrically in the United States on March 13, 2015 and in the UK on March 27th in standard and IMAX format by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The film earned more than $ 543 million worldwide, becoming Branagh's best-selling film to date as a director. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, with many praising the performance of James' and Blanchett as well as ensemble players, production values, direction and loyalty to original animated films. The film won the Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Movie at the 42nd Saturn Award. It received a nomination at the Critics 21 Awards and the 69th Academy of Film Awards, both for costume design. The film also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design at the 88th Academy Awards.
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Plot
After losing her mother at a young age, Ella promised to follow her dying mother's wish: to have courage and to be kind. A few years later, Ella's father remarried with Lady Tremaine, the widow of an old acquaintance, who has two daughters, Drisella and Anastasia. Ella welcomes her new stepfamily, despite the unpleasant attitude of the stepbrother. When Ella's father goes abroad on business, Lady Tremaine slowly reveals her cruel and jealous nature, as she pushes Ella to give her bedroom up the stairs up to the attic. When Ella's father suddenly died during the trip, Lady Tremaine refused the household to save money and force all work on Ella. One morning, when her stepfather saw Ella's face covered with ash because she slept in the fireplace for warmth, they taunted Ella as "Cinderella" and forbade her to eat with them.
Destroyed by their cruelty, Ella goes to the forest, where she meets Kit, the crown prince, disguised as a court apprentice, along with her hunting party. Though Ella is unaware of Kit's original identity, they both like each other. Two parts without Kit learn Ella's name. The King, knowing that he had little time to live, insisted on Kit that, for the benefit of the kingdom, he had to bring a princess to his bride at the upcoming dance party. Kit persuades his father to also invite every eligible girl in the kingdom to the ball, hoping to see Ella again.
After receiving a notice about the ball, Ella finds a dress that used to belong to her deceased mother and decides to fix it for the ball. On the eve of the party, Ella tries to join the stepfamily, but Lady Tremaine and her daughter rip her shirt to pieces and leave without her. Ella ran into the park crying and met an elderly lady beggar, who revealed herself as the Fairy Mother. To help Ella attend the party, her Godmother Fairy magically transformed the pumpkin into a golden cart, four mice into a white horse, two lizards being knights, and a goose into the coachman. She then transforms Ella's torn dress into a beautiful blue dress, complete with a pair of miraculous glass slippers. When Ella goes to the dance, the Fairy Lady will warn her that the spell will break in the last attack of midnight. Finally, he read a spell to keep Ella's stepmother and stepbrother away from recognizing her.
At the ball, all the courts were captivated by Ella when she appeared. Ella and Kit went on to perform their first dance. This greatly disappointed Grand Duke, who had promised Kit to Princess Chelina from Zaragoza, a comment Lady Tremaine overhears. While shocked by Kit's original identity, Ella continues to be tied to her, walking around to the palace. When Ella was about to tell Kit his name, Ella heard the clock start to ring at midnight and run away. As he escapes from the castle, one of his sandals falls. After being chased by the Grand Duke and his men, Ella manages to escape to the house before the last stroke in the middle of the night bells, causing the charm to fade. Upon returning home, Ella hides the remaining glass shoe left under her bedroom floor.
The king soon died thereafter, but before giving permission to his son to marry Ella. Now King, Kit issued a royal proclamation order ordering every girl in the kingdom to try sandals in an attempt to find the girl. Ella hurriedly picked up the glass shoe to prove her identity, only to find her stepmother holding her. After concluding that Ella is a mystery princess, Lady Tremaine tells her stepdaughter of her tragic past and the bitter consequences it has caused her life. He blackmailed Ella to be head of the royal family and that a respectable husband was found for the half-brother, as a condition of giving Ella's hand in marriage to Kit. When Ella refuses to fulfill her request, Lady Tremaine destroys her shoes and locks Ella in the attic. Lady Tremaine then takes the remains of damaged shoes to the Grand Duke, and manipulates her to agree to make her a countess and secure a marriage for her daughter, in exchange for keeping Ella hidden.
The Grand Duke and the palace guard captain lead the mission to find the mystery princess, but the sandals refuse to match the other girls. When they arrived at Tremaine's estate, the shoes did not fit the stepsisters. As they turned to leave, Ella's singing on Lavender's Blue was heard. Grand Duke tries to ignore this, but Kit, posing as a guard, orders the captain to investigate. Refusing Lady Tremaine's attempt to stop her, Ella reunited with Kit. They leave home when Ella offers her apology to her stepmother. After that, the Fairy Godmother states that Ella's and Grand Duke's stepchildren were exiled from the kingdom, never to return.
Ella and Kit married and eventually grew up to be the beloved king in the country, ruling with the courage and kindness that Ella had promised her mother, living happily ever after.
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Cast
As shown in the credit, several names differ in dialogue.
- Cate Blanchett as Stepmother, also known as Lady Tremaine
- Lily James as Cinderella, also known as Ella
- Eloise Webb as a young Ella
- Richard Madden as Prince, also known as Kit
- Helena Bonham Carter as Fairy Mother
- Nonso Anozie as Captain
- Stellan SkarsgÃÆ' ¥ rd as Grand Duke
- Sophie McShera as Drisella
- Holliday Grainger as Anastasia
- Derek Jacobi as King
- Ben Chaplin as Ella's father
- Hayley Atwell as Ella's mother
- Rob Brydon as Master Phineus
- Jana Perez as Princess Chelina from Zaragosa
- Alex Macqueen as Royal Crier
Production
Development
In May 2010, following the box office success of Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland , which was the second best-selling film of 2010 and earned more than $ 1 billion at box office worldwide, Walt Disney Pictures began to flourish. adaptation of a new movie from Cinderella , commissioned a live-action reimagining based on a script by Aline Brosh McKenna and produced by Simon Kinberg. In August 2011, Mark Romanek was brought in to direct. On February 29, 2012, it was announced that Chris Weitz would revise the McKenna script. In January 2013, Romanek left the project due to creative differences, as he developed a darker version than Disney wanted. Later that month, Disney negotiated with Kenneth Branagh to take over as director.
Cate Blanchett was the first actor to sign the contract, when it was announced in November 2012 that she would portray Lady Tremaine, Cinderella's evil stepmother. In March 2013, Emma Watson is in talks to describe Cinderella, but the deal can not be settled. Gabriella Wilde, Saoirse Ronan, Alicia Vikander, Bella Heathcote and Margot Robbie are also considered for that part, but the deal can not be resolved due to scheduling and other conflicts.
On April 30, 2013, Lily James plays the title character. A week later, Richard Madden plays the Prince Charming, who is named Kit in the film. In June 2013, it was reported that Holliday Grainger and Sophie McShera joined the film as two evil stepbrothers, Anastasia and Drisella. Later that month, Helena Bonham Carter was elected Fairy Lady. In August 2013, Hayley Atwell and Ben Chaplin joined the cast to play Cinderella's mother and Cinderella's father. In September 2013, the role of Stellan SkarsgÃÆ' Â rd as Grand Duke was confirmed. On September 23, 2013, it was announced that Derek Jacobi was cast as King, Prince Kit's father, and Nonso Anozie as the Captain, a loyal friend of the Prince.
According to Walt Disney Pictures production president Sean Bailey, studio chairman Alan F. Horn wants to make a "definitive Cinderella film for future generations," and tells him that "if you need to spend a little more, spend it, that's one for the time capsule. "
Costume
Three times Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell is responsible for the costumes for the film. Powell began working on concepts for characters' performances almost two years before the main photo shoots began in the summer of 2013. Powell said he was aiming to find "nineteenth-century movies made in the 1940s or 1950s."
For stepmother and stepbrother, Powell has a very clear idea of ​​the look; "They're meant to be really ridiculous on the outside - a bit too much and overdone - and ugly on the inside." The prince's silhouette comes from the original animation, but it creates a more fitting look and less masculine color. Some of the prince's costumes were dyed to accentuate Madden's eyes.
The party dress is inspired by the Disney animated film in its colors and shapes; "The dress should look beautiful when she dances and runs off the ball, I want her to look like she's floating, like a watercolor painting." The dress was made with more than a dozen fine fabrics, bodice and skirts. Nine Cinderella dress versions are designed, each with over 270 meters of fabric and 10,000 crystals. It took 18 tailors and 500 hours to make each outfit.
The wedding dress is a difficult project. "Creating a wedding dress is a challenge... Instead of trying to make something even better than a party dress, I have to do something completely different and simple... I want the whole effect to be transitory and just fine, so we go with an extreme corset with a long train, "Powell said. It took 16 people and 550 hours to complete the sutra-organza, hand-painted dress. When the crew photographed James in a dress, the actress stood too close to the electric heater and the dress was on fire; the top layer of the dress must be reworked because only one wedding dress is made due to time and budget constraints.
For the glass shoe, Powell took inspiration from the 1950s shoes he saw in the museum. Because the glass is not shiny, they decided to use the crystal instead. Swarovski partnered with Disney to make famous shoes. Powell went straight to Swarovski's headquarters in Austria to see a product developer. It took 6 digital renderings from the shoes until they found the right one for the movie. Swarovski made eight pairs of crystal shoes for the film, though nothing really works. As a result, the leather shoes worn by James on sets must be digitally converted into crystals. Along with sandals, Swarovski provides more than 7 million crystals used in costumes and 100 tiara for the ball scene.
Filming
The subject of photography at Cinderella begins on September 23, 2013. The film was taken at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England, where Disney Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Maleficent is also filmed, and in various other locations including Blenheim Palace, Windsor Castle, Cliveden, Old Royal Naval College, and Black Park. Although the royal court was primarily a computer generated, it has been modeled after Zwinger in Dresden, Germany. Postproduction
Post-production begins in December 2013, and finishes in August 2014. The finished film is rated PG for "light theme elements" by the American Film Film Association. In the UK, the film received the U classification for "very light emotional distress scenes" by the British Board of Film Classification.
Music
On June 7, 2013, news confirmed that composer Patrick Doyle would be filming a movie, with music that has an emphasis on romance. Doyle has previously scored several Branagh movies, including Hamlet and Thor . He has also scored a comedy animated computer animation DisneyÃ,  · Pixar Brave . Doyle recorded a film score with the London Symphony Orchestra at Air Lyndhurst Studios in London.
This soundtrack debuts at No. 60 at Billboard 200, selling 8,000 copies in its first week.
Track list
Release
The film premiered worldwide on February 13, 2015 at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, and was released on March 13, 2015. Theatrical, accompanied by the short film Walt Disney Animation Studios Frozen Fever , featured characters from Frozen . On February 10, 2015, IMAX Corporation and Disney announced plans to repeat the movie digitally into IMAX format and release it in IMAX theaters globally on the scheduled release date.
The first official presentation of the film took place at Disney's three-day Expo D23 in August 2013. The film was previewed at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Nevada, in March 2014, with a teaser showing Cinderella hearing about his father's death, meeting the prince while riding through the forest , her mother's party dress was torn apart by a stepfamily, and a bit of a comedy in which the Elderly Mother transformed the pumpkin into a carriage.
The first official trailer debuted on May 15, 2014. In the minute-long teaser, which does not include footage of the film, the shimmering glass shoe is slowly revealed on a black background. The second official trailer, two and a half minutes long and contains footage from the film, made its debut on Good Morning America on November 19, 2014, with a 15 second footage of footage released two days earlier. In the first 24 hours of release, the trailer was seen 4.2 million times on YouTube and 33 million times on Facebook, the highest showing among all Disney movies in history except for the release of Marvel Studios. The film's official poster was also released on November 19, featuring James as Cinderella and photographed by Annie Leibovitz. Disney released an international trailer on December 16, 2014. A new trailer was released on January 1, 2015. On February 11, 2015, Disney released the final footage for the film.
In October 2014, a licensing agreement between Disney and Turner Broadcasting was announced, under which Cinderella will premiere across Turner's cable network portfolio (including TBS and TNT) in Spring 2017.
Home media
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released Cinderella on Blu-ray combo, Digital HD, DVD and Disney Movies Anywhere packages on September 15, 2015. Blu-ray bonus features include an alternative opening, Frozen Fever short, and featurettes: "Staging The Ball", "Ella's Furry Friends", "A Fairy Tale Comes to Life", and "Costume Test Fun". Five scenes deleted by introduction by Kenneth Branagh are included exclusively in "Disney Movies Anywhere". The film debuted in second place on the home media sales ladder behind Furious 7 .
Reception
box office
Cinderella earned $ 201.2 million in the US and Canada, and $ 342.4 million in other countries, totaling $ 543.5 million worldwide for a $ 100 million budget. This is the twelfth best-selling movie of 2015 in any genre. The film has a worldwide opening of $ 132.45 million, and an IMAX opening of $ 9 million. The Hollywood Timeout calculates the net profit of the film to $ 164.77 million, while factoring together all expenses and revenues for the film.
In the US and Canada, Cinderella opens on Friday, March 13, 2015, at 3,845 theaters, and generates $ 23 million. Gross Friday movies included $ 2.3 million late at night. It topped the box office during its opening weekend as a projection, earning $ 67.9 million, including a record $ 5 million from 358 IMAX theaters, and became the grandstay of Disney's 2D PG-the greatest value of all time. This was the biggest opening of Kenneth Branagh in his career (breaking the 2011 record of Thor), Disney's fourth highest opening in March, and the seventh highest opening in March overall (excluding inflation). The audience during the opening weekend consisted of 66% women, 66% families, 26% adults, 8% adolescents, 31% under the age of 12 and 9% 50 years and older. Cinderella completed the first week at the box office with $ 87.55 million, which is a very high end of the hope of releasing pre-release movies. On its second weekend, the film dropped 49% to $ 35 million and was surpassed by The Divergent Series: Insurgent , falling to # 2. The fall occurred between two previous live action fantasy movies, Oz the Great and Powerful (48%) and Maleficent (51%). In North America, Cinderella is the highest-grossing film of ninth in 2015.
Outside North America, box office analysts predict an opening of $ 60 million. The film debuted outside of North America on the same weekend with a wide North American release and gained about $ 62.4 million from 31 countries, including $ 4 million from the IMAX theater. It occupied the box office for two weeks without end. Opened in China with $ 25 million, the largest opening of March in the country, and Russia with $ 7.3 million. Opening in both countries is considered impressive considering both countries are notorious for their sharpness for 3D movies rather than 2D. Other high openings occurred in the UK, Ireland and Malta ($ 5.6 million), Mexico ($ 5 million), Japan ($ 4.8 million), France ($ 3.3 million), and Brazil ($ 3.7 million). In Australia, where the release date coincides with the Cricket World Cup final, it successfully opened with $ 3.4 million. Italy opened with $ 4.6 million and topped the box office for three consecutive weekends. It also occupied the Japanese box office for five consecutive weekends. The film became the second best-selling Disney direct action film in China, behind Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and in the Philippines, behind Maleficent. In total revenue, its largest markets outside the US and Canada are China ($ 71.1 million), Japan ($ 46 million) and Britain, Ireland and Malta ($ 29.2 million).
Critical response
Cinderella received most positive reviews from critics with special praise on the cast, especially Blanchett, James, and Bonham Carter, Patrick Doyle's music score, loyalty to original animated films, and Sandy Powell's costume design, with some criticism for the scenario. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an 84% approval rating, based on 220 reviews, with an average rating of 7.1/10. The critical consensus of the site reads, "Refreshing tradition in revisionist era, Kenneth Branagh's
David Rooney from The Hollywood Reporter reviewed the film at the Berlin Film Festival and praised Blanchett's special effects, scenarios and appearances and said that "anyone who is nostalgic with the dream of transformation will find something to enjoy in the movie that evokes a spirit that instills a warm sentiment in the universal theme of loss and endurance, experience and maturity. "Peter Debruge of Variety says," It's all a bit square, big on charm, but lacking sparkle. Enchanted or The Princess Bride .But even though this
Richard Corliss of Time magazine says that Branagh's Accolades
Impact
After the release and success of Cinderella , along with Maleficent , The Jungle Book , and Beauty and the Beast ? -? Walt Disney Pictures has announced the development of several other live-action remakes from their Animated Classics series. Since the release of these four films, Disney has announced the development of live-action adaptations of Christopher Robin Dumbo , Aladdin , The Lion King , Mulan , Pinocchio , Fantasia , Sword in the Stone , The Black Cauldron , Peter Pan , The Little Mermaid , Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , and Lady and Tramp . The company also has plans to perform live-action spin-offs from Peter Pan , One Hundred and One Dalmatians and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs together with live-action prequel to Aladdin .
References
External links
- Official website
- Cinderella on IMDb
- Cinderella in Box Office Mojo
- Cinderella at Rotten Tomatoes
- Cinderella in Metacritic
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