My Week with Marilyn Movie 2011

Movie Information

Directed by:Simon Curtis

Produced by:David Parfitt,Harvey Weinstein.

Written by:Adrian Hodges

Based on:The Prince, The Showgirl and Me and My Week with Marilyn by Colin Clark

Starring:Michelle Williams,Kenneth Branagh,Eddie Redmayne,Emma Watson,Judi Dench.

Music by:Conrad Pope,Alexandre Desplat

Cinematography:Ben Smithard

Editing by:Adam Recht

Studio:The Weinstein Company,BBC Films,LipSync Productions,Trademark Films

Distributed by:Entertainment Film Distributors,The Weinstein,Company

Release Date: 9 October 2011 (2011-10-09) (New York Film Festival)
25 November 2011 (2011-11-25) (United Kingdom)

Running Time:101 minutes

Country:United Kingdom

Language:English

Budget:£6.4 million ($10 million)

Box office:$8,070,092

Plot: In the summer of 1956, Colin Clark works as an assistant on the British set of The Prince and the Showgirl, which stars Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, who is also on honeymoon with her new husband, playwright Arthur Miller. When Miller leaves the country, Clark introduces Monroe to British life and they spend a week together, during which time she escapes from her Hollywood routine and the pressures of work.

Production: My Week with Marilyn is based on Colin Clark's The Prince, The Showgirl and Me and My Week with Marilyn; two diary accounts, which document his time on the set of the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl and the time he spent with Monroe. In 2004, Simon Curtis approached producer David Parfitt about making a film based on the two books.  Parfitt said everyone liked the idea, but because Monroe is so familiar and iconic to people, they wondered what was left to say.Adrian Hodges, who adapted and wrote the screenplay, told David Gritten of The Daily Telegraph "If you'd said to me one day I'd write a film about her, I'd have been amazed, because I wouldn't have known where to start." Gritten reported the saving grace for Hodges was that Clark's books were written about Monroe at a specific time. Curtis and Parfitt went to BBC Films and the UK Film Council and they put up the money for development. Hodges wrote the screenplay in eighteen months and they then began a search for finance and a cast. Curtis went to Harvey Weinstein and told him about his idea for making a film based on Clark's books. Weinstein told Michael Hogan of The Huffington Post that he had read the books for fun, but had never considered them as a film. He read Hodges' script, which he described as "quite good", charming and fun. Weinstein chose to finance My Week with Marilyn as he was keen to work with Michelle Williams again, following Blue Valentine. The film is produced by Trademark Films and is also financed by LipSync Productions. My Week with Marilyn is Curtis' debut feature film.