My prefferred film genre: Comedy/ dark comedy

My preferred film genre: Comedy/dark comedy

Shaun of the dead

Rated: 15

Plot: A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.
Budget:£4,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£1,603,410 (UK) (11 April 2004) (367 Screens)

Gross:

$13,464,388 (USA) (28 November 2004)

Superbad
Rated: 15
Plot: Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.
Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$33,052,411 (USA) (19 August 2007) (2948 Screens)

Gross:

$169,871,719 (Worldwide) (4 May 2008)

Why?

Comedy has always been a big part of the film industry from the Monty Python film series (The life of Bryan) all the way through to the Simon Pegg series (Shaun of the dead, Hot fuzz, Paul).I feel that comedy is a very popular genre of film for people to watch at the cinema or at home.
Comedy can be split into different categories, kid humour which is often funny for kids but usually not for teenagers or adults, then there is the comedy for the masses, for example the most recent big hit comedy in England cinemas is Inbetweeners the movie.