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Allied Filmmakers was a British film production company, founded by Jake Eberts in London in 1985 as a film branch from Pathé. After the closure of the company Pathé held the rights to most of the companies output with a few exceptions.
Allied Film Makers was a shortlived British production company, formed in November 1959, which produced several films. Producer Sydney Box came up with the idea of forming a consortium of film-makers that would distribute the films they made.
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In 1942 during World War II, Wing Commander Max Vatan, a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot with intelligence duties, travels to Casablanca in Morocco to assassinate a German ambassador. He is partnered with a French Resistancefighter, Marianne Beauséjour, who escaped from France after her resistance group was compromised and killed. They pose as a mar...
Development and pre-production
In February 2015, it was announced that Robert Zemeckis was to direct the film, then only known as an untitled World War II romantic thriller, in which Brad Pitt would star. Steven Knight wrote the original screenplay. It had been a story he had first heard when he was 21 and had travelled with his girlfriend to Texas to visit her family. Her aunt told him the story of how her brother had fallen for a French woman who would become pregnant with his child and how he brought her to the United S...
Filming
Principal photography on the film began in February 2016 in London, with the family home located on the corners of Christchurch Hill and Willow Road in Hampstead. Southwark was also used for filming, particularly at Pullens Yard. To keep within budget, many of the film's scenes were shot in a former Gillette factory as, according to VFX supervisor Kevin Baillie, most of the remaining studio space had been occupied by bigger Star Wars and Marvel films. Production designer Gary Freeman coordina...
Costume design
Designer and frequent Zemeckis collaborator Joanna Johnston provided the costume design on the film, and was given free rein by Zemeckis on the designs. Due to the quick process of the pre-production, little more than two weeks were available to Johnston for research. She described in an interview that she sought to give the costumes a polished, glossy look. For influence, Johnston paid visits to the Imperial War Museum in London, a practice she had also done when working on other war set fil...
The film had its worldwide premiere on November 9, 2016, at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles. Paramount Picturesreleased the film on Wednesday, November 23, 2016.
Box office
Allied grossed $40.1 million in the United States and Canada and $79.4 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $119.5 million, against a net production budget of $85 million. The Hollywood Reporter estimated the film lost the studio $75–90 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues, and was listed amongst the year's box office flops. Allied opened alongside Moana, Rules Don't Apply and Bad Santa 2 as well as the wide expansion of Loving and was expected to gross ar...
Critical response
The review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 60% based on 258 reviews, and a weighted average of 6.20/10. The site's consensus states: "Allied has its moments, but doesn't quite achieve epic wartime romance status—a disappointment made more profound by the dazzling talent assembled on either side of the camera." Metacritic reports a normalized score of 60 out of 100, based on 44 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore g...
15 movies. Allied Filmmakers. GB. Overview. Movies. Sort. Dances with Wolves. November 9, 1990. Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
Nov 23, 2016 · Allied is a film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Steven Knight, starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard as a Canadian intelligence officer and a French Resistance fighter in World War II. The film explores their relationship, their missions, and their dilemmas in a thrilling and romantic story.
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- Action, Drama, Romance
- Robert Zemeckis
- 2016-11-23
Nov 23, 2016 · The film is based on a true story of a British spy who marries a French Resistance fighter during World War II, but the details are uncertain and fictionalized. The screenwriter Steven Knight draws on his own family history and his love of Hitchcock to create a tense and romantic thriller.
View full company info for Allied Filmmakers (GB) 1. Dances with Wolves. 1990 3h 1m PG-13. 8.0 (285K) Rate. 72 Metascore. Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose. Votes 285,399.
