Vivian Kubrick in "" (1968), as a guest at Bryan's birthday party in "Barry Lyndon" (1975), as a guest on a ballroom couch in "The Shining" (1980), and as a news camera operator in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987). In her late teens, Kubrick directed, filmed, and edited a half-hour documentary for the BBC, "The Making of "The Shining"", which is included on all DVDs and many videotapes of the film. She composed the score to his next film, "Full Metal Jacket", using the pseudonym Abigail Mead. She also shot 18 hours of footage for a documentary on the making of the film,
Full Metal Jacket the dynamic range of the music was too great, and we couldn't work in dialogue". A single "Full Metal Jacket (I Wanna Be Your Drill Instructor)", credited to Mead and Nigel Goulding, was released to promote the film. It incorporates Ermey's drill cadences from the film. The single reached number two in the UK pop charts. "Full Metal Jacket" received a limited release on June 26, 1987, in 215 theaters. Its opening weekend saw it accrue $2,217,307, an average of $10,313 per theater, ranking it the number 10 film for the June 26–28 weekend. It took a further $2,002,890 for