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2016 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of films released, and notable deaths.
Hanja. 金 彩 彬. Revised Romanization. Gim Chae-bin. McCune–Reischauer. Kim Ch'ae-pin. Chae Bin (born Kim Chae-bin, August 22, 1997) is a South Korean actress. Known as the second Moon Geun-young due to her maturity and consistent acting, Chae-bin first drew viewer's attention for her performance in the television series Kim Su-ro, The ...
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Spanish industrialist-turned-anarchist Xavier Heimdahl arranges for his associate Jan Strook—a hacker known as "the Dutchman"—to create a wormhole program that would allow the owner to bypass all computer codes protecting the world's nuclear defense codes. The Dutchman panics and attempts to hand his secret over to CIA agent Bill Pope. Although Pop...
Development
On June 20, 2013, it was announced that Millennium Films had acquired the script for Criminal, written by Douglas Cook and David Weisberg, an action film in which a dead CIA operative's memories, secrets, and skills are implanted into a dangerous criminal, who is sent on a government mission. J.C. Spink, Chris Bender, Matt O'Toole and Mark Gill were initially announced as producers, with Boaz Davidson later joining the production. On September 13, Millennium set Ariel Vromento direct the film.
Casting
On June 17, 2014, Kevin Costner was cast to play a dangerous criminal with a dead CIA operative's skills, secrets, and memories implanted into him to finish a job. On July 10, Gary Oldman was in talks to join the film to play the CIA chief. On July 23, Tommy Lee Jones joined the film to play a neuroscientist who transplants the memories to the criminal, while Oldman's role was also confirmed. On August 4, Ryan Reynolds was added to the cast. On August 7, Alice Eve joined the cast. On August 1...
Filming
Principal photography on the film began on September 4, 2014, in London. Some actors and crews were also spotted filming scenes for the film on King's Road in Kingston. From September 22–25, filming was taking place in Yateley, Hampshire, where actors were spotted filming car crashes and helicopter chase scenes at the Blackbushe Airport. Filming was also done in Croydon College in Croydon, with the college building used as medical research labs and the CIA operations centre. In October 2014,...
The film was to be released on January 22, 2016 in the United States,but in August 2015 the release was pushed back to April 15, 2016.
Box office
Criminal grossed $14.7million domestically (United States and Canada), and $24.1million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $38.8million, against a budget of $31.5million. In the United States and Canada, the film was released alongside The Jungle Book and Barbershop: The Next Cut, and was projected gross $9–12 million from 2,683 theaters in its opening weekend.The film ended up grossing just $5.8 million in its opening weekend, below expectations and among the worst wide-release o...
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 30% of 138 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.4/10. The website's consensus reads: "Despite the valiant efforts of a game and talented cast, Criminal has little to offer beyond the bare minimum expected by the most undemanding of genre enthusiasts." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 36 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews. In his review, Empire...
Criminal at IMDbCriminal at Box Office MojoCriminal at Metacritic- $38.8 million
- Brian Tyler, Keith Power
- $31.5 million
1. Moonlight. 2016 1h 51m R. 7.4 (332K) Rate. 99 Metascore. A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood. Director Barry Jenkins Stars Mahershala Ali Naomie Harris Trevante Rhodes. 2.
Mark Sinclair (born July 18, 1967), known professionally as Vin Diesel, is an American actor and producer. One of the world's highest-grossing actors, he is best known for playing Dominic Toretto in the Fast & Furious franchise. Diesel began his career in 1990, but faced difficulty achieving recognition until he wrote, directed and starred in the short film Multi-Facial (1995) and his debut ...
She decided in 2008 to focus on her acting career and starred in the television series Yaksha (2010), My Love By My Side (2011), Insu, The Queen Mother (2011) and Queen of the Office (2013), Gunman in Joseon (2014) and Another Oh Hae-young (2016).
Dunkirk is a 2017 epic historical war thriller film written, directed and co-produced by Christopher Nolan that depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II from the perspectives of the land, sea and air.
