Monday 7 March 2011

Unknown 2011

Released on February 18th 2011, Drive Angry is an thriller film starring Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger and directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (House of Wax, Orphan).
The film is based on a 2003 french novel by Didier Van Cauwelaert. In english the book is translated into 'Out Of My Head.'

"A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, not even his wife, believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is."
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Most of the film is produced/filmed in Berlin, Germany thanks to the Studio Babelsberg film studio located in Germany. The movie had around a $40 million budget which $30 million came from the Babelsberg studio, the other $10 million came from Dark Castle Entertainment (DCE). DCE is a production house affiliated with Warner Bros. Pictures and usually focuses on producing horror films although it has been seen to produce films from other genres, for example Unknown.
Warner Bros. Pictures is the main distributor for this film (and might be why Dark Castle Entertainment also got involved).

Having a budget of around $40 million the film raked in around $61 million of revenue which means that the film was not a total failure but also not a great success.

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