Les Miserables

Development: 

Les Miserables is a epic romantic musical historical drama based on the music 'Les Miserables'. The companies that agreed to produced the film where Relativity Media who is owned by Ryan Kavanaugh, Working Title Films who is owned by Comcast Corporation and  Cameron Mackintosh Ltd who is owned by Cameron Mac. The films budget was $60 million and the film was produced by Tim Bevan Eric Fellner Debra Hayward Cameron Mackintosh.

Pre Production:

The script was wrote by William Nicholson Alain Boublil Claude-Michel Schönberg Herbert Kretzmer. The film was Directed by Tom Hooper. The Film stared; 

Hugh Jackman 

Russell Crowe 

Anne Hathaway 

Amanda Seyfried. The film was filmed in the Uk and there were a lot of different locations used in the film some of them where; 

Boughton House

Winchester College 

Winchester Cathedral Close 

Her Majesty's Naval Base Portsmouth

Chatham Dockyard

St Mary the Virgin Church

Ewelme, South Oxford-shire

Greenwich, pinewood studios

Gourdon Aples-Maritimes in France.

Production:

They used a range of different cameras to film the film such as a 35mm spherical package of ARRICAM Lite and Studio cameras with ARRI/ZEISS Master Prime Lenses.

Post Production:

The film was edited by Melanie Ann Oliver and Chris Dickens. The film was released on the 11 January 2013 in UK and released on the 25 december in the US. SFX and CG special visual effects where used in the film. The film was marketed in many different ways for example there where posters, Trailers and a premier in London.
The guardian said that "the revolutionary-patriotic fervour is so bizarrely stirring, you'll feel like marching out of the cinema, wrapped in the tricolour, and travelling to Russia to find Gérard Depardieu and tear him limb from limb"
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/10/miserables-review

Another review said "Les Misérables is a blockbuster, and the special effects are emotional: explosions of grief; fireballs of romance; million-buck conflagrations of heartbreak. Accordingly, you should see it in its opening week, on a gigantic screen, with a fanatical crowd. There is a strong possibility I may be among them. Crying, probably"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/9792510/Les-Miserables-review.html

The Daily mail said "Truly revolutionary and visually stunning, Les Miserables isn't just the most ambitious British film ever - it may be the best"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-2260526/Les-Miserables-review-Not-just-ambitious-British-film--best.html

Another review said "Occasionally, like its characters, ragged around the edges, this nevertheless rings with all the emotion and power of the source and provides a new model for the movie musical"

http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/review.asp?FID=137471

Total Films said "Stirring and striking, Hooper’s epic musical won’t be wanting for awards and plaudits. Danny Cohen’s cinematography is stunning and Hathaway’s Oscar is guaranteed"
http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/les-miserables-2
The film made $103.6 million in the US Box Office and made over $400 million in total world wide. The DVD and Blu-ray was released on the 22nd of March 2013.

Avengers

Avengers

Development: 

The idea of the film came from the marvel comics
Marvel studios agreed to make the film

Avi Arad owns marvel studios and the budget for the film was £220 million and the film  produced by Kevin Feige 

Pre Production:

The script was written by Zak Penn and Joss Whedon.

The film was also directed by Joss Whedon.

The people who stared in the film where;

Robert Downey,Jr.

Chris Evans

Mark Ruffalo

Chris Hemsworth

Scarlett Johanson 

Jeremy Rennerbigigitututut

Tom Hiddleston

Clark Gregg

Cobie Smulders 

Stellan Skarsgard

Samuel L. Jackson  

The film was filmed in the USA. And the Filming locations were;  

Parma, Ohio 

Public Square Cleveland  

Wright pattersons air force base, Ohio 

Cincinnati, Ohio
East 9th street, Cleveland
Plum brook station, Sandusky 
Albuquerque studios
Wilmington, Ohio 
Lake side court house, Cleveland 
New Mexico 
Ameritrust, Cleveland 
Cedar Avenue and Ashland road, Cleveland 

NASA glan centre 
Los Angles, California
Pittsburg Pennsylvania
Raleigh Manhattan studios
Grumman aerospace centre, New york 
New york city centre. 

Production:

The filming for the mvid began on April 25th and finished on August 28th

There were a few different cameras used to shoot the film these include the canon EOS 5D mark 2 and the Cannon EOS 7D SLR. some of that shots there were high speed were shot with the arrifflex 435. 

Post Production:

 The film was edited by Jeffery Ford and Lisa Lassek.

In the UK the film was released on the 26th April and in the us the film was released on May the 4th 2011.   

All together there were 2200 special effects used in the film. A company called ILM were involved and did many of the special effects. 

One review said "The avengers have been assemble and, for the most part, they fit together superbly. A joyous blend of heroism and humour that raises the stakes even as it maintains a firm grip on what makes there individual heroes tick." http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=136194
The Guardian said that "For me, no superhero crew with out Kick-Ass's Hit girl could ever be truly awesome, but this one i.e. registering strongly on the awesome-o-meter nonetheless. Its an enjoyable absurd and absurdly enjoyable extravaganza, both delirious and surrealist. 
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/apr/26/avengers-assemble-review 
Another review said "with great power comes great banter in writer/director Joss Whendon's blockbuster multiplier, which isn't the best superhero movie ever - but might well be the funniest"
http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/the-avengers-assemble 
IGN said "We can all rest. They pulled it off! Marvels The Avengers is everything we've been hoping for an exiting superhero team-up film packed with memorable moments. 
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/04/27/the-avengers-review
Another review said "The Avengers has it all. And then some. Six superheroes for the price of one ticket: Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye, Black Widow and the Hulk. It's also the blockbuster I saw in my head when I imagined a movie that brought together the idols of the Marvel world in one shiny, stupendously exciting package. It's Transformers with a brain, a heart and a working sense of humor. Suck on that, Michael Bay."
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/the-avengers-20120430
There were a few different marketing campaigns involved in the avengers, one was that all the marvel films leading up to the avengers were building up to it and acted as trailers for the film. 

Another one was that there were different teasers and trailers being released up to the released date. Also there was a big premier for the film that built up a status for the film.  
The Film at US box office made $200.3 million and in the UK it made $25.5 million and overall now has made 641.8 million world wide.The film was released on DVD and blu-ray on the 25th september 2012.