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Underworld: Evolution
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Underworld: Evolution is an action, thriller, and horror film directed by Len Wiseman, following the earlier film Underworld and followed by Underworld: Awakening. Filmed in Vancouver and Budapest, it stars Kate Beckinsale, who also serves as narrator, alongside Scott Speedman, Tony Curran, and Derek Jacobi, with a score by Marco Beltrami.
Produced by Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, and Kevin Grevioux for Lakeshore Entertainment and Screen Gems, the film was distributed by Screen Gems and Netflix. It runs 106 minutes, carried a budget of $51,000,000, and earned a box office of $111,476,513. It was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Hero and is rated R.
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6.6As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael, the werewolf hybrid, work together in an effort to unlock the secrets of their respective bloodlines.
Cast
- Kate Beckinsale as Selene
- Scott Speedman as Michael Corvin
- Tony Curran as Marcus Corvinus
- Shane Brolly as Kraven
- Derek Jacobi as Alexander Corvinus
- Bill Nighy as Viktor
Themes
- budapest, hungary
- vampire
- key
- light
- forbidden love
- rivalry
- werewolf
- gothic
- evolution
- dark fantasy
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Ratings
IMDb
6.7/10
217,151 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
17%
Metacritic
36/100
- Year
- 2006
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Genres
- Action, Fantasy, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 2 wins & 6 nominations total
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Directed by
- Len Wiseman
- Screenplay by
- Danny McBride
- Story by
- Len Wiseman Danny McBride
- Based on
- Characters , by Kevin Grevioux Len Wiseman Danny McBride
- Produced by
- Tom Rosenberg Gary Lucchesi David Coatsworth Richard Wright
- Starring
- Kate Beckinsale Scott Speedman Tony Curran Shane Brolly Steven Mackintosh Derek Jacobi Bill Nighy
- Cinematography
- Simon Duggan
- Edited by
- Nicolas De Toth
- Music by
- Marco Beltrami
- Production companies
- Screen Gems Lakeshore Entertainment
- Distributed by
- Sony Pictures Releasing
- Release dates
- January 11, 2006 ( 2006-01-11 ) ( Cinerama Dome ) January 20, 2006 ( 2006-01-20 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 106 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $45 million
- Box office
- $113.4 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- Hungarian
- Followed by
- Underworld: Awakening
- Follows
- Underworld
- Director
- Len Wiseman
- Composer
- Marco Beltrami
- Producer
- Kevin Grevioux
- Production company
- Screen Gems
- Cinematographer
- Simon Duggan
- Filming location
- Budapest
- Duration
- 102
- FilmAffinity ID
- 363337
- Distribution format
- video on demand
Show 8 more facts
- publication date
- 2006-06-20
- narrator
- Kate Beckinsale
- nominated for
- MTV Movie Award for Best Hero
- title
- Underworld: Evolution
- distributed by
- Netflix
- capital cost
- 51000000
- box office
- 111476513
- review score
- 17%
Sources (15)
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Encyclopedic overview
Underworld: Evolution is a 2006 American action horror film directed by Len Wiseman from a screenplay by Danny McBride, based on a story by Wiseman and McBride. It is the sequel to Underworld (2003) and the second installment in the Underworld film series. The film stars Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran, Shane Brolly, Steven Mackintosh, Derek Jacobi, and Bill Nighy. The plot follows Selene and Michael, again played by Beckinsale and Speedman, respectively, as they fight to protect the Corvinus bloodline from its hidden past.
Underworld: Evolution premiered at the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles, California on January 11, 2006, and was released in the United States on January 20, by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed over $113 million worldwide against a production budget of $45 million.
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