One Direction: This Is Us
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Directed by | Morgan Spurlock |
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Cinematography | Neil Harvey |
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Music by | Simon Franglen |
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Distributed by | TriStar Pictures |
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Running time | 92 minutes[2] |
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Language | English |
Budget | $10 million[4] |
Box office | $68.5 million[4] |
One Direction: This Is Us is a 2013 3-D documentary concert film about British boy band One Direction. It opened in the United Kingdom on 29 August 2013. It also opened a day later in the United States. The film follows the group on their Take Me Home Tour. It was a commercial success and grossed $68 million worldwide.
Synopsis
Billed as an intimate all-access look at life on the road for the global music phenomenon, This Is Us follows the lives of the five members of the boy band, One Direction. One Direction was first put into a group on the X Factor in 2010. This Is Us contains live concert footage from One Direction's
Production
This Is Us was first announced by the band while on
Scenes shown in trailers include footage of fans telling stories related to the band following a request posted on
Release
The
The film was released in the United Kingdom on 29 August 2013,[17] and was rolled out internationally on 30 August 2013 with a majority of markets being reached by the end of September 2013.[18]
Marketing
As part of the marketing campaign, the band allowed fans to upload pictures of themselves that would appear on a version of the theatrical poster. The theatrical poster itself has pictures of fans forming part of the background, with another version created and displayed on the band's website where the photos were used to recreate the poster itself.[19]
An initial
Box office
This Is Us grossed $28.9 million in North America, and $38.5 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $67.3 million.[4] It is currently the fourth highest-grossing concert film.[22] It made a net profit of $18 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues for the film.[23]
The film scored $2.7 million on its Thursday debut,[24][25] and topped the box office on its opening weekend, earning $17,000,000, far better than other concert films like Katy Perry: Part of Me, Glee: The 3D Concert Movie, and Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, but not enough to surpass Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds and Michael Jackson's This Is It.[26] This Is Us is the third concert film to top the box office, after the Hannah Montana and Michael Jackson films.
According to Forbes, the film would top the box office on its opening weekend with an estimated $18 million.[27] The Hollywood Reporter said the film would earn about $45 million in its four-day debut.[28]
The film has been a box office success worldwide, grossing over six times its budget.
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 64% based on 91 reviews, with an average rating of 5.8/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "It's mostly for the converted, but One Direction: This Is Us will be fun for fans — and it offers just enough slickly edited concert footage to entertain the casual viewer."[29] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 49 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[30] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[31] The audience was 87% female, and 65% under the age of 17.[32]
The A.V. Club gave the film a grade of B−, A.A. Dowd felt "For the most part, though, This Is Us plays like a victory lap for its adolescent stars, five best friends surprisingly aware that their fame and fortune won’t last forever. More delusional is the agreed-upon conclusion that the band wouldn't succeed if it was missing even a single one of its largely interchangeable members. Who do these kids think they are, The Beatles? Actually, Spurlock makes that connection more than once—first by noting that One Direction has conquered the world even faster than its Liverpool predecessors, second by casting the new British invaders in a loose A Hard Day’s Night homage."[36] Chicago Sun-Times's Bill Zwecker felt "My major issue with “One Direction: This Is Us” is the use of distracting 3-D effects that feel forced. And the insertion of animation during some of the concert footage come off as jarring and kind of amateurish. That said, the film is a successful witness to the great charm possessed by all five members of One Direction. I loved it when they were seen as the kids they still are, horsing around with their stage crew and bodyguards — joyfully letting off steam as they careen backstage on a forklift they've “hijacked.”"[37]
A more negative review came from The Telegraph, Robbie Collin felt "This Is Us has been made with these fans in mind, and there’s nothing like a guaranteed profit to stifle creativity. This isn't a problem peculiar to manufactured pop, either: there is a Morrissey concert film coming out later this week that makes One Direction: This Is Us look like Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz.".[38] The New York Times also gave it a negative review, Miriam Bale felt "With a group so evidently versed in the visuals of rock history, it’s a shame that a filmmaker wasn't hired who would pay homage to classic pop films instead of offering a satisfactory paid promotional. In the end credits — Richard Lester-style scenes of the boys in costumes doing pranks — we see how this film might have been more successful: as an obvious fiction starring these appealing personalities rather than a tame and somewhat fake documentary."[39]
Extended cut
On 9 September 2013, it was announced that Sony would release an "extended fan cut" of This Is Us on 13 September. This version included an additional 20 minutes of footage with four new songs,[40] including scenes that followed the boys on tour, and took fans back with them to their respective hometowns.
Blu-ray and DVD
The movie was released on
Charts
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Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Ireland (IRMA)[48] | 7× Platinum | 105,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[49] | 10× Platinum | 500,000* |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
International releases
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Sequel
The sequel to This Is Us entitled
See also
References
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