Ex Machina Research

Ex Machina

 

The Producer/Producers

Ex Machina was produced by Andrew Mcdonald and Allen Reich.

 

The Director

Ex Machina was directed by Alex Garland. Ex Machina was his directorial debut. Alex Garland also wrote 28 days later and the sequel 28 weeks later as well as Dredd.

 

Screen writer

The film was both directed and written by Alex Garland. Alex Garland is an experienced screen writer as he has written for Danny Boyle.

 

Actors

• Alicia Vikander as Ava
• Domhnall Gleeson as Caleb Smith
• Oscar Isaac as Nathan Bateman
• Sonoya Mizuno as Kyoko
• Symara A. Templeman as Jasmine
• Elina Alminas as Amber
• Gana Bayarsaikhan as Jade
• Tiffany Pisani as Katya
• Claire Selby as Lily
• Corey Johnson as Jay the helicopter pilot
   
  budget
   
  Ex Machina's budget was 15 million.
   
   
   
  Screens shown on and gross/ box office
   
   
   
  Opening Weekend$250,000 (USA) (12 April 2015) (4 Screens)€38,500 (Netherlands) (3 May 2015) (8 Screens)Gross$25,434,333 (USA) (23 August 2015)$25,405,058 (USA) (2 August 2015)$25,361,484 (USA) (19 July 2015)$25,233,155 (USA) (9 July 2015)$24,954,673 (USA) (21 June 2015)$24,330,000 (USA) (7 June 2015)$23,587,000 (USA) (31 May 2015)$21,947,000 (USA) (24 May 2015)$19,566,000 (USA) (17 May 2015)$16,705,000 (USA) (15 May 2015)$15,762,000 (USA) (10 May 2015)$10,924,000 (USA) (3 May 2015)$6,827,930 (USA) (26 April 2015)$250,000 (USA) (12 April 2015)$36,659,611 (Worldwide) (9 July 2015)$26,187,268 (Worldwide) (15 May 2015)€89,727 (Netherlands) (6 May 2015)$29,501 (Portugal) (15 May 2015)$5,349,500 (USA) (24 April 2015) (1,255 Screens)$25,440,971 (USA) (30 August 2015)
   
  Music (composer)
   
  The musical score for Ex Machina was composed by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow, who previously worked with Garland on Dredd (2012). A soundtrack album was released digitally on 20 January 2015, with an LP and Compact Disc UK release in February 2015 by Invada Records.
   
   
   
  Marketing
   
  Marketing of the film included Trailers, Teaser Trailers, posters, social media such as Facebook profiles, Instagram and Twitter accounts. TV Spots also help to advertise the film on television.
   
   
   
  SFX (Special Effects)
   
  The work on Ex Machina was divided amongst four facilities. Double Negative created the android, Ava. Milk VFX created Ava’s brain, “Ava vision” and did a number of monitor inserts and clean-up effects. Utopia created a CG mobile phone for Caleb and added extra CG buildings to the Norwegian location plates. Web FX provided a number of clean-up and monitor composites.