Think about the relative size of the film – was it a big budget blockbuster, or was it a medium sized budget film?

• Hidden Figures had a budget of 25 million USD, making it a low to medium budget Hollywood film.
• The movie was a co-production, between independent production companies and the major Hollywood conglomerate company, Fox 2000 Pictures.

 What do you think was the appeal of this film to Fox studios? 

• Low budget films had becoming increasingly more know for their profit potential
• Shines a light on a story few of us know about but which deserves to be more widely known.

What was the appeal of this film to audiences?

• Packed with history lessons, messages about morality 
• Inspiring
• True story
• Recounts the triumphs and struggles of three black women whose work was crucial to NASA in the early 1960s — a time when racial segregation was the law of the land, and gender discrimination was still the norm.

Do you think this film was a success?

• I think the film was a major success because – it was the highest-grossing Best Picture nominee at the 89th Academy Awards. 
• Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be 95.55 million USD
• One of the top twenty most profitable release of 2016
• It was rated 7.8/10 on IMDb and 93% on Rotten Tomatoes