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Let There Be Light. 2017 1h 20m Documentary CTA List. 100% Tomatometer 6 Reviews 73% Popcornmeter 100+ Ratings. Scientists gather in the French countryside with the goal of creating an artificial...
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Let There Be Light is a 2017 American Christian drama film directed by and starring Kevin Sorbo (in his feature film directorial debut) and written by Dan Gordon and Sam Sorbo. Its plot follows an atheist who goes through a near-death experience in an auto accident and converts to Christianity.
At First Light [1] (also titled First Light) [2] is a 2018 Canadian science fiction thriller drama film written and directed by Jason Stone and starring Stefanie Scott and Théodore Pellerin. [4]
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Cellular biology professor and former U.S. Army soldier Lena is under interrogation. She was part of an expedition to an anomalous zone known as the "Shimmer", but she was the only one to return. The Shimmer emerged three years prior from a meteor that landed in a lighthouse in the St. Mark's National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, and it is gradually...
Development
Paramount Pictures and Scott Rudin acquired the film rights to Annihilation, the then-unpublished first novel in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, on March 26, 2013. Rudin and Eli Bush were set to produce the film, and Alex Garland, who had previously worked with Rudin and Bush on Ex Machina, was hired to write and direct the film in October 2014. Garland explained that his adaptation was necessarily based on only the first novel in the trilogy: "At the point I started working on Anni...
Casting
The first cast member to join Annihilation was Natalie Portman, who entered negotiations with Paramount in May 2015, under the agreement that production not begin until 2016. Once Portman had agreed to play the biologist, the next cast member added was Gina Rodriguez, who entered talks with the studio in November 2015. By that point, production was set to begin in early 2016, a decision made to accommodate Portman's schedule, but which also meant that the film would be shot during Rodriguez's...
Filming
Principal photography for the film was underway by April 2016, when actor David Gyasi was added to the cast. Lighthouse Pictures Ltd started location filming in late April in South Forest, Windsor Great Park. Some test shooting had been done in St. Marks, Florida, but the vegetation in the area turned out to be too dense to give any depth perception on screen. On May 9, 2016, cinematographer Rob Hardy began sharing pictures from the set of the film. On July 13 and 14, filming took place at Ho...
Due to a poorly received test screening, David Ellison, a financier and producer at Skydance, became concerned that the film was "too intellectual" and "too complicated", and demanded changes to make it appeal to a wider audience, including making Portman's character more sympathetic, and changing the ending. Producer Scott Rudin sided with the dir...
Box office
The film grossed $32.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $10.3 million in China, for a worldwide total of $43.1 million, against a production budget of $40–55 million. While it did not amass much in terms of box office, the film found new life in home release, with some publications arguing it could become a cult classic. In the United States, Annihilation was released alongside Game Night and Every Day, and was projected to gross $10–12 million from 2,012 theaters during its openi...
Critical response
On film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 88% based on 331 reviews, and an average score of 7.7/10; the site's "critics consensus" reads: "Annihilation backs up its sci-fi visual wonders and visceral genre thrills with an impressively ambitious—and surprisingly strange—exploration of challenging themes that should leave audiences pondering long after the end credits roll." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 79 out of 100 based o...
Annihilation at IMDbAnnihilation at AllMovieAnnihilation at Rotten TomatoesIn the heart-stopping documentary FLY, from National Geographic Documentary Films, directors Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau (“Shaun White: The Last Run,” “Immigration Nation,” the Emmy®...
As such, the limited world-building is just window-dressing for a basic survive-the-night thriller that putters along on toxic fumes Rated: 1/5 Dec 30, 2017 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus ...
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