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Midnight in the Switchgrass is a 2021 American crime thriller film directed by Randall Emmett in his directorial debut from a screenplay by Alan Horsnail. It stars Megan Fox, Bruce Willis, Emile Hirsch, Lukas Haas, Colson Baker and Lydia Hull.
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Bluegrass Films is the current production company of film producer Scott Stuber, launched in 2012 following a rename from Stuber Pictures. Logo (April 3, 2012-) Visuals: On a black background, there is a dark blue wheel with gray rims on it.
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is a 2021 American satirical science fiction comedy film written, produced, and directed by Adam McKay. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as two low-level astronomers attempting to warn mankind, via a media tour, about an approaching comet that will destroy Earth. Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Ron Perlman, Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi, Himesh Patel, Melanie Lynskey, Cate Blanchett, and Meryl Streep round out the ensemble cast. The film is a satirical allegory of media, government, and cultural indifference to the crisis of anthropogenic climate change. Grande and Mescudi also collaborated on the song "Just Look Up" as part of the film's soundtrack.
Produced by Hyperobject Industries and Bluegrass Films, the film was announced in November 2019, and sold by Paramount Pictures to Netflix several months later. Lawrence became the first member of the cast to join, with DiCaprio signing on after rewriting McKay's script; the rest of the cast was added through the rest of 2020. Filming was originally set to begin in April 2020 around Massachusetts, but was delayed until November due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and then lasted through February 2021.
Astronomy student Kate Dibiasky discovers the existence of an unidentified comet. Her professor, Dr. Randall Mindy, calculates that the trajectory of the asteroid crosses that of the Earth and that an impact will take place in about six months, killing all life in the process.
Accompanied by scholar Teddy Oglethorpe, they immediately go to the White House but President Janie Orlean does not seem inclined to do something about the asteroid. The attempt to inform the population through a television program also fails: Kate becomes the laughing stock of the web because of the colorful language with which she expresses herself. President Janie then gets involved in a sex scandal, and decides to deal with the danger announced by the three astronomers to divert the attention.
The news is finally spread by the media and the launch of a spaceship that can hit and divert the comet, saving the planet, is announced. However, the operation is canceled mid-flight when the investor Peter Isherwell, a large funder of President Janie, discovers that the asteroid is composed of precious minerals. The White House plans to commercially exploit the asteroid by crushing it to reduce its size and recover the fragments after their sinking in the ocean.
Kate and Teddy immediately abandon the operation, followed by Randall after a period of passive submission to the President. The world is now divided between those who demand the total destruction of the comet, those who scream at unjustified alarmism, and those who deny that a comet even exists. The plan to recover minerals finally fails so Janie, Peter, and the wealthiest Americans flee into space in a spaceship. Randall and Kate spend their last moments with serenity, in the company of Randall's family, a boy in love with Kate, and Teddy. The asteroid finally hits the planet.
Twenty-two thousand years later, the presidential rocket lands on a lush alien planet. Its passengers wake up from cryogenic sleep and take a look at the surrounding environment only to be attacked and killed by wild animals.
In a post-credits scene back on Earth, it is revealed that Jason managed to survive the impact. He records himself, declaring himself the "last man on Earth" and asking any viewers still alive to "like and subscribe".
•Leonardo DiCaprio as Dr. Randall Mindy
•Jennifer Lawrence as Kate Dibiasky
•Meryl Streep as President Janie Orlean
•Cate Blanchett as Brie Evantee
•Rob Morgan as Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe
•Jonah Hill as Jason Orlean
Development
On November 8, 2019, it was announced that Paramount Pictures would distribute the film, with Adam McKay writing, directing and producing under his Hyperobject Industries banner. On February 19, 2020, Netflix acquired the film from Paramount.
Casting
On February 19, 2020, Jennifer Lawrence was cast in the film. On May 12, 2020, it was announced that Cate Blanchett had joined the film. In September 2020, Rob Morgan joined the cast. In October 2020, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Himesh Patel, Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi (Kid Cudi), Matthew Perry, and Tomer Sisley were added. McKay wrote the part of Dibiasky specifically for Lawrence, and spent four-to-five months going over ideas with DiCaprio, tweaking the script before the actor ultimately signed on. In November 2020, Tyler Perry, Melanie Lynskey and Ron Perlman joined the cast. In December 2020, Chris Evans joined the cast. Gina Gershon, Mark Rylance, and Michael Chiklis were revealed as part of the cast in February 2021. Paul Guilfoyle was announced in May.
Filming
On February 19, 2020, it was announced that principal photography would start in April 2020. However, it was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming commenced on November 18, 2020, at various locations in Boston, Massachusetts. Part of the film takes place in New York City with Boston standing in as New York. Filming also took place in other Massachusetts cities including Brockton, Framingham, and Westborough. On February 5, 2021, Jennifer Lawrence was mildly injured during filming when a controlled glass explosion went awry. On February 18, 2021, principal photography wrapped.
On February 19, 2020, it was announced Netflix planned to release the film in 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, filming and release of the film were delayed. It received a limited theatrical release on December 10, 2021, and is set to begin streaming on Netflix on December 24, 2021. The film premiered in New York City on December 5, 2021.
Though Netflix does not publicly release box office grosses, the film made an estimated $260,000 from 500 theaters on its first day, and a total of $700,000 in its opening weekend.
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 56% of 167 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Don't Look Up aims too high for its scattershot barbs to consistently land, but Adam McKay's star-studded satire hits its target of collective denial square on." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 52 out of 100 based on 39 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Reviewing the film for the San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle praised the film and wrote, "Don't Look Up might be the funniest movie of 2021. It's the most depressing too, and that odd combination makes for a one-of-a-kind experience. Writer-director Adam McKay gives you over two hours of laughs while convincing you that the world is coming to an end." Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2.5 out of 4 stars and said: "From Streep and DiCaprio and Lawrence through the supporting players, Don't Look Up is filled with greatly talented actors really and truly selling this material — but the volume remains at 11 throughout the story when some changes in tone here and there might have more effectively carried the day." Reviewing the film for the Los Angeles Times, Justin Chang wrote, "Nothing about the foolishness and outrageousness of what the movie shows us — no matter how virtuosically sliced and diced by McKay's characteristically jittery editor, Hank Corwin — can really compete with the horrors of our real-world American idiocracy." In a negative review, David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "A cynical, insufferably smug satire stuffed to the gills with stars that purports to comment on political and media inattention to the climate crisis but really just trivializes it. Dr. Strangelove it ain't." Peter Debruge of Variety called the film a "smug, easy-target political satire" and wrote, "Don't Look Up plays like the leftie answer to Armageddon — which is to say, it ditches the Bruckheimer approach of assembling a bunch of blue-collar heroes to rocket out to space and nuke the approaching comet, opting instead to spotlight the apathy, incompetence and financial self-interest of all involved."
•Additional filming locations include Canton, Chicopee, Fall River, Norton, Salisbury, Weymouth, and Worcester.
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