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Pre-Production
Director Joe Wright likes to use the same creative team, as executive producers, Debra Hayward, Liza Chasin, and co-producer Jane Frazer collaborated a second time, after working on Pride and Prejudice (2005 film). As well as, production designer Sarah Greenwood, editor Paul Tothill, with costume designer Jacqueline Durran and composer Dario Marianelli, who have all previously worked together with Wright. In an interview Wright states “It’s important for me to work with the same people. It makes me feel safe, and we kind of understand each other.”

To prepare for the film to authentically re-enact the WWII era, a historian was employed to work with the department heads to research and prepare for the time periods. Research involved: paintings, photographs, films, and searched archives for inspiration to fit the story. The war scenes, like many others, were filmed on location in a seaside town where 1,000 local extras were employed acting as the wounded or dying soldiers. Set decorator Katie Spencer and production designer, Sarah Greenwood both visited archives from the Country Life (magazine) in search of finding fit locations for their initial creative ideas for the interior and exterior scenes. Seamus McGarvey the cinematographer worked closely with Wright on the aesthetics of the visual storytelling of the film, implementing techniques and particular movement with the camera to achieve capturing the story to a high quality.

Production Companies
· Universal Pictures (presented by).

· StudioCanal (in association with) (as STUDIOCANAL).

· Relativity Media (in association with) Working Title Films

Post-Production
In the post-production development, all departments of Atonement worked together in order to create a detailed and unified sound and editing process. Wright utilised the soundtrack as a key component to illustrate the narrative. The integration of moving image and the soundtrack along with the sound effects interact to focus the film on emphasising a strong, visceral formation that works on the instruments of filmmaking to the fullest. The coalition of the rhythm in the music, the editing, and acting all complement one another, to create a harmony of cinema and expanding on the passionate impression of scenes onto the audience.

Release
The film opened at the 2007 Venice International Film Festival, making Wright, at 35, the youngest director ever to be so honoured. . The film also opened at the 2007 Vancouver International Film Festival. Atonement was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 7 September 2007, and in North America on 7 December 2007. Along with a worldwide theatrical distribution which was managed by Universal Pictures, with minor releases through other divisions on September 7 2007.

Distribution
· Universal Pictures International (UPI) (2007) (UK) (theatrical).

· Focus Features (2007) (USA) (theatrical).

· StudioCanal (2007) (France) (all media)

Box Office
The film grossed a cumulative $131,016,624 worldwide and in opening weekend in USA, $784,145, 9 December 2007 with a budget to make the film of $30,000,000 (estimated). A total gross of $23,934,714 (worldwide) and with the release in the US a total gross of $50,927,067.

Home Media
Atonement was released on DVD in the US on January 3rd 2008 in region 2, and followed a release in Blu-ray edition on 13 March 2012. The film followed a DVD release on February 4 2010 on Amazon in the UK and in Blu-ray with a release on 27 May 2010.