Budget: Can't find
Genre: Comedy
Stars: Ricky Gervais, Doc Brown, Rob Jarvis, Abbie Murphy
Box Office: $5,511,343
Production company: BBC Films, Entertainment one.
Certificate: 15. Restricting the audience. Already has a fan base as it was a TV show before a film (spinoff).
Marketing: Three posters, two tag lines "The Boss is back" and "I'm a friend first, boss second, probably an entertainer third." Clips of the film and adverts were put on social media to try and get a younger audience as well as the pre-existing audience. The clips that were put online were of jokes to give a taste of what is in the film.
Release date: 19th August 2016. Holidays, lots of people could be gone to see this but as it is rated a 15 it restricted the audience to either older families or older fans of the show.
Reviews: The Guardian-At its worst – some weak gags about fat people, a couple of moments where Brent’s too stupid for his back story – it’s small, shabby and outdated.
Empire-David Brent has experienced all manner of humiliations – accidentally headbutting a potential secretary, getting fired on camera, the grunting majesty of The Dance – but as he wanders through this fitfully funny big screen resurrection you feel sorry for him for an entirely new reason. Slough’s premier chilled-out entertainer has been denied his perfect ending.
Variety-Should have no trouble connecting with the original show's sizable fanbase.
Reviews are mostly negative towards this film, but the film sill got $5 million in profits. This may be because Ricky Gervais is a well known comedian, there were songs that helped promote the film, and the original tv series fan base would want to see it as they watched the show.
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