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Executive producer. Director. Years active. 2012–present. Notable work. Extinction. Moonfall. Spenser Cohen is an American screenwriter, film producer, and director best known for his work on Extinction (2018) and Moonfall (2022).
Tarot (2024 film) Tarot. (2024 film) Tarot is a 2024 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg in their feature film directorial debuts. It is based on the 1992 novel Horrorscope by Nicholas Adams. The film stars Harriet Slater, Adain Bradley, Avantika, Wolfgang Novogratz, Humberly González ...
May 1, 2024 · For the filmmakers behind the horror film Tarot, seeing a mother and daughter walk out of the theater during a recent screening was the highest form of compliment.. The feature debut from writers and directors Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg, Tarot follows a group of friends (including Spider-Man's Jacob Batalon and Mean Girls’ Avantika) who commit the cardinal sin of Tarot: Using someone ...
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In 2011, astronauts Brian Harper, Jocinda "Jo" Fowler, and newcomer Alan Marcus are on a Space Shuttle mission to repair a satellite. A mysterious swarm of alien technology attacks the orbiter, killing Alan and knocking Jo unconscious before tunneling into the surface of the Moon. Brian, the only witness to the swarm, returns the crippled shuttle t...
Halle Berry as Jocinda Fowler, a former NASA astronaut now serving as deputy director of NASA and Brian Harper's colleague who once flew together on a Space Shuttle EndeavourmissionJohn Bradley as K.C. Houseman, an amateur researcher, who finds out about the Moon being artificial and also discovers the incoming Moon impact towards Earth following his contact with an official...Development
In May 2019, Roland Emmerich was announced to be writing and directing the film. With a $138–146 million budget (including $40 million from Huayi Brothers, $15 million from Lionsgate Films, and $15 million from Germany), it is one of the most expensive independent films ever produced. Emmerich said the project had previously been bought by Universal Pictures, and once he got the rights back, Emmerich and partner Harald Kloser went to the Cannes Film Festival to get financial backers, with the...
Filming
Filming began in Montreal in October 2020, after previously being planned for a spring start, and lasted for a total of 61 days. Michael Peña, Carolina Bartczak, Maxim Roy and Stephen Bogaert were added in January 2021, with Peña replacing Tucci in his role due to COVID-19 travel restrictions preventing Tucci from traveling to the production. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film had to speed up its principal photography with an additional $5.6 million spent.Among the pandemic's restrictions...
Music
For the recording of the score, composer Thomas Wander returned to Synchron Stage Vienna in the autumn of 2021, where Midway's soundtrack had previously been recorded. The soundtrack album, containing a total of 23 pieces of music, was released as a download by Atlantic Screen Music/Filmtrax on February 4, 2022.
The film held a premiere in Los Angeles on January 31, 2022. It was released theatrically in the United States on February 4, 2022. It was previously scheduled to be released on October 22, 2021. Despite having been advertised in 2021, the film's theatrical release in Canada was canceled because the local distributor, Mongrel Media, found it too ri...
Box office
Moonfall grossed $19.1million in the United States and Canada, and $48.2million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $67.3million. In the United States, Moonfall was released alongside Jackass Forever, and was projected to gross $8–11 million from 3,446 theaters in its opening weekend, with Boxoffice Pro predicting a $9–14 million three-day debut. The film earned $3.4 million on its first day, including an estimated $700,000 from Thursday night previews. Around 300 theaters were clo...
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 35% of 216 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.40/10. The website's consensus reads: "Whether Moonfall is so bad it's good or simply bad will depend on your tolerance for B-movie cheese – but either way, this is an Emmerich disaster thriller through and through." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 41 out of 100, based on 45 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Audiences pol...
In January 2022, Emmerich spoke about the possibility of filming two sequels back-to-back if the first film was a success.The following month, star John Bradley said that "if Roland goes down the direction that he wants to", the sequels would be "even more batshit crazy than the first".
Moonfall at IMDbMoonfall at AllMovieMoonfall at Box Office MojoMay 6, 2024 · How ‘Tarot’ Filmmakers Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg Made a Studio Horror Film Personal. One heart-wrenching story point in the feature was inspired by Cohen’s own childhood: "That ...
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May 3, 2024 · Tarot: Directed by Spenser Cohen, Anna Halberg. With Harriet Slater, Adain Bradley, Jacob Batalon, Avantika. When a group of friends recklessly violates the sacred rule of Tarot readings, they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards.
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May 2, 2024 · Partial poster image for "Tarot." Sony Pictures Entertainment/Screen Gems. With Tarot, filmmakers Anna Halberg and Spenser Cohen did what any responsible writer, director and producer team would ...
