Ex-Machina Research

Ex-Machina is a British-American Sci-Fi produced by DNA Films and Film4, DNA films is most known for creating 28 Days later and the film adaption of the comic book Dredd. Film4 is a British Company most known for producing successful films such as the Inbetweeners; Co-produced 12 years a Slave and 127 Hours. Meaning that they are a successful company in their own right and have made several well received films, however since they co-produced, they only get a cut of the total earnings meaning Budgets for the films they make are smaller than expected. Ex-Machina reflects that with only having a $15.000.000 budget. A small budget when compared to some films. Its director was  Alex Garland, who had been a writer for many films such as the aforementioned 28 days later; Dredd and Even helped write the story for some video games such as The Devil May Cry remake in 2013. However he is most known for Writing novels such as The Beach and The Tesseract. meaning that Ex-Machina was his First film as director.


 It was distributed by Universal Pictures in the UK but was distributed by A24 Films in the US as Universal refused to release it. It was released 3 moths later in April in North America.





Ex-Machina has a small cast, but the main part of the cast consists of: Alicia Vikander as Ava; Domhnall Gleeson as Caleb Smith; Oscar Isaac as Nathan Bateman; Sonoya Mizuno as Kyoko. Ex-machina had a $15.000.000 budget, but at the box office it was able to gross $36.900.000. Meaning it was a success at the box office, along with that it received critical acclaim and was nominated for a lot of awards. in which it won the Academy Award for best Visual effetcs.
Ex-Machina was filmed in pinewood studios and at the Juvet Landascape Hotel in Norway. It was shot in live action. so there was very little special effects such as greenscreen or motion sensors. A lot of Instead a lot if visual effects were used and then Ava was rotoscaped onto the actress digitally. over 800 VFX shots were used.

In its opening weekend in the US, Ex-machina was shown in 1,225 theatres and grossed over $5.000.000 dollars. At its peak, it was shown in over 2000 theatres in the US over 21 weeks. Ex-Machina was only shown at cinemas for 5 days in the UK . Where it grossed $1.600.000 dollars.