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View more photos Movie Info Synopsis Fifty years after it was buried in a time capsule, a schoolgirl's cryptic document falls into the hands of Caleb Koestler, the son of professor John Koestler...
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May 24, 2009 · Knowing comes with an interesting idea – a time capsule is opened and is found to contain a page of numbers that transpire into dates, casualty figures and geographical coordinates of the major disasters in the fifty years since the capsule was buried. There is a good idea here.
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The film, conceived and co-written by Ryne Douglas Pearson, was originally attached to a number of directors under Columbia Pictures, but it was placed in turnaround and eventually picked up by Escape Artists.
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In 1959, a Lexington, Massachusetts elementary school celebrates its opening with a competition in which students draw what they believe will happen in the future. All the children create visual works except for Lucinda Embry. Guided by whispering voices, Lucinda fills her paper with a series of numbers. Before she can write the final numbers, the ...
Development
In 2001, novelist Ryne Douglas Pearson approached producers Todd Black and Jason Blumenthal with his idea for a film, where a time capsule from the 1950s is opened revealing fulfilled prophecies, of which the last one ended with 'EE' – "everyone else". The producers liked the concept and bought his script. The project was set up at Columbia Pictures. Both Rod Lurie and Richard Kelly were attached as directors, but the film eventually went into turnaround. The project was picked up by the prod...
Filming
The film is set primarily in the town of Lexington with some scenes set in the nearby cities of Cambridge and Boston. However, it was shot in Australia, where director Proyas resides. Locations included the Geelong Ring Road; the Melbourne Museum; "Cooinda", a residence in Mount Macedon which was the location for all of the "home and garden" scenes; and Collins Street in Melbourne. Filming also took place at Camberwell High School, which was converted into the fictional William Dawes Elementa...
The music for the film was written by Marco Beltrami, but also features classical works such as Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven) - Allegretto, which is played without any accompanying sound effects in the final Boston disaster scene of the film.Beltrami released the soundtrack as a CD with 22 tracks.
Box office
Knowing was released in 3,332 theaters in the United States and Canada on March 20, 2009, and grossed US$24,604,751 in its opening weekend, placing first at the box office. According to exit polling, 63% of the audience was 25 years old and up and evenly split between genders. On the weekend of March 17, 2009, Knowing ranked first in the international box office, grossing US$9.8 million at 1,711 theatres in ten markets, including first with US$3.55 million in the United Kingdom.The film had g...
Critical reception
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 34% critic rating based upon a sample of 184 critics with an average rating of 4.80/10. The site's consensus: "Knowing has some interesting ideas and a couple good scenes, but it's weighted down by its absurd plot and over-seriousness". Metacriticgave the film a score of 41% based on 27 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". A. O. Scott of The New York Times gave the film a negative review and wrote, "If your intention is to make a b...
The film was nominated at the 8th Visual Effects Society Awardsin the category of "Best Single Visual Effect of the Year" for the plane crash sequence.
On November 25, 2009, Global Findability filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Summit Entertainment and Escape Artists in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, claiming that a geospatial entity object code was used in the film Knowing which infringed Patent . The case was dismissed on January 10, 2011.
Regarding the film's grounding in science, director Alex Proyas said at a press conference: "The science was important. I wanted to make the movie credible. So of course we researched as much as we could and tried to give it as much authenticity as we could". Several writers criticized the treatment of science in the film. Ian O'Neill of Discovery ...
Web site: Knowing (2009) - Alex Proyas | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related. AllMovie.Knowing All: The Making of a Futuristic Thriller. KnowingDVD.Laporte . Nicole . February 16, 2005 . Proyas digs Knowing gig . . May 20, 2008.Fleming . Michael . December 10, 2007 . Cage to star in Proyas' Knowing . . May 21, 2008.Mar 25, 2009 · Director: Alex Proyas. Writers: Ryne Douglas Pearson, Juliet Snowden, Stiles White, Stuart Hazeldine. Cinematographer: Simon Duggan. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne,...
Oct 16, 2014 · Ryne Douglas Pearson is an accomplished novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of several novels, including Cloudburst, October's Ghost, Capitol Punishment, Simple Simon, Top Ten, The Donzerly Light, All For One, Confessions, and Cop Killer.
