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The Good Liar is a 2019 crime thriller film directed and produced by Bill Condon and written by Jeffrey Hatcher, based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Nicholas Searle. It stars Ian McKellen as a career con artist who meets a wealthy widow ( Helen Mirren ) online, and then discovers that his plan to steal her fortune has unexpected roadblocks.
Mr. Holmes is a 2015 mystery film directed by Bill Condon, based on Mitch Cullin 's 2005 novel A Slight Trick of the Mind, and featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. The film stars Ian McKellen as Sherlock Holmes, Laura Linney as his housekeeper Mrs. Munro and Milo Parker as her son Roger. Set primarily during his retirement in Sussex, the ...
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The story opens in 2010, with the release of the Afghan War Logs. It then flashes back to 2007, where journalist Daniel Domscheit-Berg meets Australian journalist Julian Assange for the first time, at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. Daniel's interest in online activism has led him to Assange, with whom he has corresponded by email. They...
It was reported in March 2011 that Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Studios had acquired the rights of Domscheit-Berg's book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange and the World's Most Dangerous Website, as well as WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by British journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding.Spielberg was quick to clarif...
On January 24, 2013, Assange claimed during a presentation of the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence—held at Oxford University—that he had read a version of the screenplay of the film, describing it as a "serious propaganda attack on WikiLeaks and the integrity of its staff", as a "lie built upon a lie", and as "fanning the flames for wa...
The film's score was composed by Carter Burwell and its soundtrack was released by Lakeshore Recordson October 8, 2013.
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributed The Fifth Estate globally through its Touchstone Pictures label, except for territories in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, where the film's rights were sold by Mister Smith Entertainment to independent distributors, including Entertainment One Films in the United Kingdom. DreamWorks' financial par...
Box office
The Fifth Estategrossed $3.3 million in North America and $5.3 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $8.6 million, against a budget of $28 million. In its opening weekend, the film came in eighth place with $1.7 million, one of the lowest openings for a DreamWorks release and the worst 2013 debut for a wide release in the United States. The film was a box office bomb in the United States,though according to Disney distribution chief Dave Hollis, the film performed best in majo...
Critical response
The Fifth Estate received mixed reviews from film critics, although Cumberbatch's performance as Assange received praise. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 35%, based on 181 reviews, with an average score of 5.4/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Heavy on detail and melodrama but missing the spark from its remarkable real-life inspiration, The Fifth Estate mostly serves as a middling showcase for Benedict Cumberbatch's remarkable talent." On Metacritic, the film...
Accolades
Benedict Cumberbatch won the award as British Artist of the Year at the Britannia Awards for this film as well as for his work on 12 Years a Slave, August: Osage County, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, and Star Trek Into Darkness.
The Fifth Estate at IMDbThe Fifth Estate at Box Office MojoThe Fifth Estate at AllMovieA list of 18 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Sister, Sister (1987), Murder 101 (1991), White Lie (1991), Dead in the Water (1991) and Deadly Relations (1993). The Films of Bill Condon, a list of films by StevenCarrier • Letterboxd
Sep 25, 1991 · 987.4M. From IMDB: A New York official (Gregory Hines) avenges his Southern father's racial slaying with the assistance of a doctor (Annette O'Toole) probing her past. A made-for-TV movie starring Gregory Hines, adapted by Nevin Schreiner from a novel by Samuel Charters. An early directorial work from Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, Dreamgirls ...
Murder 101: Directed by Bill Condon. With Pierce Brosnan, Dey Young, Antoni Corone, Raphael Sbarge. After writing/publishing a book about a real murder trial, Charles returns to his college to teach creative writing - art of the thriller. 1st essay assigned: plan a perfect murder.
Mar 2, 2022 · The Prestige (2006) Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) both work as magicians under the mentorship of John Cutter (Michael Caine) in 1890’s London. When Alfred uses a riskier knot and Angier’s wife, Julia (Piper Perabo), dies in the water tank, the two become bitter rivals.
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