Media Studies Islay

This is ’stolen’ from the great site AS and A2 Media Studies

These sites are great for establishing the relative success or failure of case study films at the box office. Remember that DVD sales at Amazon (their rankings for the film’s respective genres) is another indicator.

Try their search engine. They are great for statistics including box office stats., etc.
http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org/weekendboxoffice

http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/distributionandexhibition

Another useful site for stats and info. is IMDB. See their left hand columns after finding your institution’s films. Search other parts of the site, too.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1131729/business

Wikipedia has got to be a useful port of call for each part of your case study film and its institutions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boat_That_Rocked

Newspaper reviews are often crucial for discovering the reasons why a film succeeded or failed. Newspaper reviews are also a key source for finding out about box office statistics and comparisons with  other or previous films in the same genre:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/apr/07/richard-curtis-boat-that-rocked-box-office

http://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/86395/the-boat-that-rocked.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/the-boat-that-rocked-15-1660783.html

Pearl and Dean - business section is really useful for statistics, target audiences, comparisons with films in the same genre, etc.
http://business.pearlanddean.com/