producing a film on a budget.

RECESS - REAL PEOPLE.

 PLOT:

THE FILM IS BASED AROUND THE CHARACTERS FROM THE CHILDREN'S SERIES RECESS. BUT THE TWIST IS THAT NOW THERE ALL GROWN UP AND HAVE NEW MORE DRASTIC PERSONALITIES. FOR EXAMPLE TJ BECOMES THE PRESIDENT AND RANDALL BECOMES AN INTERNATIONAL ART THIEF. HE STEALS THE MONA LISA FROM A GALLERY THAT IS OWNED BY THE NOW MARRIED COUPLE OF MIKEY AND GRETCHIN. THIS CREATES A POLITICAL UNREST BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONS AND VINCE AND GUSS WHO ARE IN THE FBI HAVE TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM TO SAVE THE COUNTRIES FROM A MASSIVE POLITICAL WAR OVER ONE OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS PIECES OF ART EVER CREATED. THE PRESIDENT AND HIS SECOND IN COMMAND CREATE THEIR OWN PROBLEMS THROUGHOUT BY HAVING A PUBLIC RELATIONSHIP.

CONTAINS VIOLENCE, DRUGS, STRONG LANGUAGE AND SEXUAL REFERENCES.

THE BUDGET:

ORIGINAL BUDGET: £60M.

FILMING IN THE UK: -£5M.

DIRECTOR - BRAD BIRD: FREE.

COLIN FIRTH AS PRIME MINISTER: -£1M.

TOMMY LEE JONES AS THE PRESIDENT (TJ): -£0.5M.

STEVE BUSCEMI AS THE THIEF (RANDALL): -£0.8M.

MILA KUNIS AS THE VICE PRESIDENT (SPINELLI): -£2.5M.

MATTHEW GREY GUBLER AS THE HEAD OF FBI (GUSS): -£0.1M.

JONAH HILL AS A GALLERY OWNER (MIKEY): -£4M.

SHEMAR MOORE IN THE FBI (VINCE): -£0.1M.

GWYNETH PALTROW A GALLERY OWNER: -£1M. 

BUDGET LOST ON ACTORS IS -£10M.

SOUNDTRACK BY COLDPLAY: FREE (£1M TO CHARITY).

SCRIPT WRITTEN BY ABI MORGAN: -£1M.

RIGHTS: -£10M.

TECHNOLOGY IMAX: -£10M.

MEDIUM RELEASE OF -£5M.

MARKETING WITH CROSS MEDIA CONVERGENCE: -£10M.

REMAINING BUDGET IS £8M.