You Got Served

You got served is about a group of friends who are very talented street dancers. David (Omarion) and Elgin (Marques Houston) direct the best, talented unstoppable dance crew in Los Angeles, California. The Crew battle against other crews in a warehouse owned by Mr. Rad (Steve Harvey). The crew has always won every battle, however when a member of the group, Sonny (Young Rome) betrays them and decides to join another group, he steals his original crews' moves and teaches to his new crew, resulting with Davids and Elgins crew first ever lost.

David and Elgin need a large amount of money so the decide to do a drug deal with the top drug "Lord" Emerald (Michael Taliferro), however David does not turn up, and leaves Elgin to do it on his own. Elgin gets robbed and seriously injured, with all the drugs missing. The crew then splits up, and they both try to make there own crew. A friend who was also part of the crew, Rico (J-Boog) tells David and Elgin about the "Big Bounce," a $50,000 dance competition sponsored by MTV which will provide the winning crew the opportunity to perform in a Lil' Kim video.

At the comepetion, Elgin's crew beats Davids crew. David leaves and goes to a restuarant where Elgins sister and her fried are there. After some time,Rashann (Lil' Fizz) shows up and tells them that Lil' Saint (Malcolm David Kelley), the youngest member of the crew, was shot during a drive-by shooting. They rush over to the hospital, after a few minutes, a doctor tells the gang that Lil' Saint died a few hours ago. Rico who was like a brother to him and took care of Lil' Saint , becomes upset.

Rico goes over to Elgin's house and tells him that they should reunite the crew in honor of Lil' Saint. David arrives a few minutes later and is told the same thing, but he and Elgin disagree. Elgin's crew, going by the name "The Lil' Saints", shows up to the finals of the "Big Bounce" competition. Wade Robson and Lil' Kim host the competition. The finals begin, but when they say the winner, they discover there is a tie between "The Lil' Saints" and "Wade's Crew". Both crews decline a tie. Lil' Kim gets an opinion from Mr. Rad, who announces a battle competition, "straight hood," with no rules, even letting other people to join the battling crews. Rico, Rashann and Oscar, a previous member of the crew join in. David walks up to Elgin and asks to let him battle with his crew. Elgin agrees to it which ends their argument and brings them back together their crew.They battle Wade's crew, dedicating the battle to Lil' Saint. They win the battle and the $50,000 prize. Wade and Max walk up to them very upset, saying that it was not fair that they lost. David replies with, "Ya'll just mad, 'cause today, you suckas got served" The show ends with everyone chanting "Served"

You got served had an estimated budget of $8,000,000. The production company’s of the film are, Screen Gems (Also produced "The Medallion", "Obsessed", "The Exorcism Of Emily Rose".) (Screen Gems was also part of the distribution.) Ultimate Group Films, the (TUG) (produced “Somebody Help Me”), Melee Entertainment (produced “Furnace” and “A Cats Tale”) and Gotta Dance Inc. Gotta Dance Inc, only produced one movie, which is you got served.

In the process of making the movie you got served, all these companies had some involvement in the production. After the production stage of the film, this includes the finace, pre- production, post-production and the editing and filming. The production company’s have to find a distributor(s), which include them to have prints (making copies) and advertise the movie. Distribution can be theatrical and home.

You Got Served has both theatrical and home distributors,

Home Distributors:

Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (2004) (Netherlands) (DVD)

Columbia TriStar Home Video (2004) (Netherlands) (VHS)

Columbia TriStar Home Video (2004) (USA) (DVD)

Columbia TriStar Home Video (2004) (USA) (VHS)

Columbia TriStar (2005) (Brazil) (DVD)

LK-TEL (2004) (Argentina) (DVD)

LK-TEL (2004) (Argentina) (VHS)

Theatrical Distributors:

Screen Gems (2004) (USA) (theatrical)

Columbia TriStar Films (2004) (Spain) (theatrical)

Columbia TriStar Films (2004) (France) (theatrical)

Columbia TriStar Films AB (2004) (Sweden) (theatrical)

Columbia TriStar Films (2004) (Netherlands) (theatrical)

Columbia TriStar Italia (2004) (Italy) (theatrical)

Buena Vista International (2004) (Switzerland) (theatrical)

Columbia TriStar Film (2004) (Germany) (theatrical)

In the opening weekend you got served did well in the UK, making £68,255, from 54 screens. In the US, it made $16,123,105, from 1,933 screens. Also, in italy it made €169,970 from 95 screens.

For home cinema you got served, can be viewed by the internet, download, DVD and Blu-Ray and On Demand Viewings. I would expect you got served to be shown at Romford VUE cinema, as other dance movies like this one has been previously shown there, such as Step-up, and a recent movie called Fame is being shown there.

Shiima Sharif Year 12 AS Media Studies - My Media Summer

My Media Summer!

During the summer, I watched many films. Movies played a big part in making my summer entertaining. Out of all the movies I have watched, I mainly enjoyed these three movies:

“The hills have eyes” 2006 broadcast on Film four, is a horror/thriller. This was a brilliant movie as it was scary, which was what I enjoyed about the movie as that is the aim of it, since it was meant ‘to scare/frighten/make people jump’, and it did exactly that. I also enjoyed watching the movie, as you would see something very quickly like a shadow, or have a sense that someone/something is watching you; however you would not get the full picture of it.

“Saw V”, which was another horror/thriller movie but it also had crime. I like all the “Saw Movies”, however Saw V was slightly different. I enjoyed the fact that you had to think and watch the movie with all your attention to understand what’s going on. The storyline, in my opinion is fantastic, I absolutely loved the fact that one of the detective in this “Saw movie” was actually behind all the “Jigsaw murders”. My favourite line in the movie was when the character jigsaw (john Kramer) stated that he was not actually committing a crime and he did not kill them, but he gave them a chance as the victims had to be selfless for all of them to survive. This movie appealed to me due to the fact that it had crime, which is something I’m very interested in, also because of the way the people in the movie was killed was very different and extraordinary.

- “College”, was an amazing comedy movie. The comedy in this movie was superb. It is about three high school students that go to a college campus as fresher’s, however throughout there stay they go to parties and do what the usual stereotypical teenagers do, ‘drink, take drugs, and have sex’. The movie is mainly aimed at a teenage audience as they find most if not all the movie amusing. The comedy in the movie is what appealed to me mostly.

In the summer I also watched a few TV programmes. I have been watching “The Hills”, broadcast on MTV. I have been catching up with the episode as the new series will be out soon. This TV programme appeals to me as I enjoy reality TV.

I have also been watching the new series of “Ugly Betty” broadcast on channel 4.

There were many songs that I enjoyed listening during the summer, yet the two songs that I was so addicted to are:
- ‘Run this town- Jay Z, Rhianna, Kanye west’, the reason I like this song, was because of the was a range of different vocals, also the beat of the music made me like this song. I loved the way the three artists came together to make the song and be in "Jay-Z's" new album “Blueprint 3”, I have already downloaded a few songs from this album from iTunes.

Another artist which I like is Peter Andre. He’s new single “Behind closed doors” is a great comeback to the music industry. I have also downloaded this song. I will buy his album “Revelation” when it comes out on the 14^th September.