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Hail, Caesar! is a 2016 comedy and mystery film written and directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. The production, which originated in the United Kingdom and the United States, features a cast including George Clooney, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, and Ralph Fiennes. Carter Burwell composed the score, while Roger Deakins served as director of photography. Nancy Haigh was the production designer, and the film was produced by Working Title Films.
The narrative is set in California, with filming taking place in Los Angeles. The story follows a studio fixer sent to retrieve a Hollywood star who disappears during filming. Distributed by Netflix, the 106-minute English-language film has a budget of 22,000,000 and generated box office revenue of 63,647,656. It received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Production Design. Audience ratings include an average of 6.3 on IMDb and 5.943 on TMDb.
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Film · TMDB
5.9When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.
Cast
- Josh Brolin as Eddie Mannix
- George Clooney as Baird Whitlock
- Alden Ehrenreich as Hobie Doyle
- Ralph Fiennes as Laurence Laurentz
- Scarlett Johansson as DeeAnna Moran
- Tilda Swinton as Thora Thacker / Thessaly Thacker
Themes
- journalist
- ransom
- cat
- kidnapping
- ancient rome
- film in film
- disappearance
- hollywood
- whodunit
- period drama
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- Written by
- Joel Coen Ethan Coen
- Produced by
- Joel Coen Ethan Coen Tim Bevan Eric Fellner
- Starring
- Josh Brolin George Clooney Alden Ehrenreich Ralph Fiennes Jonah Hill Scarlett Johansson Frances McDormand Tilda Swinton Channing Tatum
- Narrated by
- Michael Gambon
- Cinematography
- Roger Deakins
- Edited by
- Reginald Jaynes , Roderick Jaynes
- Music by
- Carter Burwell
- Production companies
- Working Title Films Mike Zoss Productions
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release dates
- February 1, 2016 ( 2016-02-01 ) ( Regency Village Theater ) February 5, 2016 ( 2016-02-05 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 106 minutes
- Countries
- United States United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $22 million
- Box office
- $63.6 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Hail, Caesar! is a 2016 comedy mystery film written, produced, edited, and directed by the brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. An American-British co-production, the film stars Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, and Channing Tatum, with Michael Gambon as the narrator. It is a fictional story that follows the real-life studio fixer Eddie Mannix (Brolin), working in the Hollywood film industry in the 1950s, trying to discover what happened to a star actor during the filming of a biblical epic.
First talked about by the Coens in 2004, Hail, Caesar! was originally to take place in the 1920s and follow actors performing a play about ancient Rome. The Coens shelved the idea until late 2013. Principal photography for the film began in November 2014 in Los Angeles, California. The film premiered at the Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles on February 1, 2016, and was theatrically released by Universal Pictures on February 5.
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