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Strange Behavior (also known as Dead Kids, Small Town Massacre, Shadowlands, Human Experiments) is a 1981 slasher film written, directed and co-produced by Michael Laughlin, co-written with Bill Condon, and starring Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher and Dan Shor. Its plot follows a series of bizarre murders being perpetrated against teenagers in ...
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 ...
Bill Condon is an accomplished American film director and screenwriter with a career spanning more than three decades. Born in New York City in 1955, Condon graduated with a degree in philosophy from Columbia University in 1976. He then pursued his passion for cinema and moved to Los Angeles, where he began his career in the film industry.
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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 AllMovieThe Good Liar: Directed by Bill Condon. With Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen, Russell Tovey, Jim Carter. Consummate con man Roy Courtnay has set his sights on his latest mark: the recently widowed Betty McLeish, worth millions.
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The Fifth Estate: Directed by Bill Condon. With Peter Capaldi, David Thewlis, Anatole Taubman, Alexander Beyer. A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.
Sep 7, 2017 · Sir Ian McKellen owes his first Oscar nomination, for the biopic about troubled gay filmmaker James Whale, Gods and Monsters, to the sterling direction of Bill Condon. That was 17 years ago and they became fast friends, although they bided their time on working together again until this month’s Mr. Holmes – an adaptation of the novel A Slight Trick of the Mind that reimagines the fictional ...
