The Brief: Film Noir Thriller =/ Film Noir Opening

You are being commissioned to produce a film opening and the theme is “contemporary ‘Film noir’ thrillers”. Your work should update the noir genre but to bring the values, traditions, narrative, mood and conventions of film noir to a new audience in contemporary style and setting. You will need to consider and mention what sort of institution it would sit within the cinemas and distribution pattern the film would have film and also where it will sit best in television schedules and on which TV station it would be most suited to.