- Potsdam, Germany
Observance
- Long Island, New York, USA
Antarctica
- Finse, Norway
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
On Location (Season 20 Round 5)
- Potsdam, Germany
Observance
- Long Island, New York, USA
Antarctica
- Finse, Norway
Box Office Breakdown (Season 20 Round 5)
Budget: $135,000,000
Total Box Office: $330,150,767
Total Profit: $29,113,070
Observance
Budget: $8,000,000
Total Box Office: $37,584,507
Total Profit: $18,100,942
Antarctica
Budget: $46,000,000
Total Box Office: $163,593,456
Total Profit: $51,157,110
Box Office Facts
Aliens vs. Predator: The Long War
The box office results of the latest film in the Alien/Predator Anthology place it right in the middle of the five releases in the franchise.
Observance
Observance is not only one of the least expensive films ever produced by the studio, but it is also now the most profitable film with a budget $12 million or under.
Antarctica
After his first film, An Eye For An Eye, failed at the box office, this film puts writer Wyatt Allen into the profit margin. An Eye For An Eye lost approximately $29 million at the box office, with Antarctica making a profit of $51 million - combining for a total profit of $22 million at the box office.
Genre Rankings
Aliens vs. Predator: The Long War
Action: #87
Horror: #9
Sci-Fi: #43
Observance
Thriller: #74
Antarctica
Adventure: #37
Drama: #23
Season 20 Round 5
Total Box Office: $531,328,730
Total Profit: $98,371,122
Season 20 Totals
Total Box Office: $3,243,221,113
Total Profit: $944,369,791
Season 20 Box Office Summary
1. Risico - $1,025,066,118
2. X-Men: The Cure - $757,605,371
3. Aliens vs. Predator: The Long War - $330,150,767
4. The Emperor of Latium - $223,584,780
5. Antarctica - $163,593,456
6. The Crow: Wings of Isaiah - $158,439,039
7. The Lone Gunman - $125,527,314
8. The Curse of Janara - $101,591,124
9. Photographs - $85,257,939
10. Wish You Were Here - $72,435,139
11. L.A. Rex - $59,923,531
12. Boys of the Bayou - $46,360,158
13. The World: Done to Death - $40,644,229
14. Observance - $37,584,507
15. Happy Birthday - $15,457,641
Monday, August 30, 2021
Release: Antarctica
Genre: Adventure/Drama
Director: Danny Boyle
Writer: Wyatt Allen
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, George MacKay
Budget: $46,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $76,497,120
Foreign Box Office: $87,096,336
Total Profit: $51,157,110
Reaction: Who would have thought that a movie about people dying in Antarctica would be the third most profitable film of the season at the midway point? Not the studio, but we're certainly pleasantly surprised by the strong performance of this one.
"Antarctica, despite some of its shortcomings, is a well-told story based on real events. While some backstory on the characters would have been nice, it didn't hold the film back too much - especially with the talented cast assembled." - Allen Poole, AV Club
"While the story of Antarctica is mostly interesting, there was a constant emotional disconnect. We never really gain much information on the characters outside of the task at hand, which keeps their fates from landing emotionally." - Mike Stotts, Portland Tribune
"This feels like an old-fashioned flick with a simple goal, talented cast, and a reliable director to guide them. It can feel a bit like a war of attrition at times, something that likely would have been helped by some more characterization for our set of adventurers to heighten the emotional investment." - Michael St. Felix, The Dallas Morning News
Fact to Film: Antarctica
Sunday, August 29, 2021
Now Showing: Antarctica
Genre: Adventure/Drama
Director: Danny Boyle
Writer: Wyatt Allen
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, George MacKay
Plot: November 1910 in Lyttelton, New Zealand. Lots of supplies and equipment are loaded on a ship called „Terra Nova“. Captain Robert Falcon Scott (Ralph Fiennes) monitors everything and reminds everybody that this is the last stop they plan to make. Scott wants to be the first man to reach the south pole and assembled a team of explorers, former marines and scientists on his ship. While trying to get on board of the ship a drunken Edgar Evans (Charlie Hunnam) falls into the water and people have to help him get out. Some of the crew is angry because of Evans‘ unprofessionalism and want to leave him in New Zealand but Scott has a very high opinion of him and wouldn’t let it happen. The Terra Nova is filled with living animals, laboratory instruments and books and leaves Lyttelton on November 26, 1910.
A heavy storm in December makes things difficult for the crew almost causing the Terra Nova to sink. The ship fills itself with water and Captain Scott tells everybody around him to grab a bucket and to scoop up the water. They lose some of the animals, tons of coal and also petroleum but make it out of the storm. Shortly after that they reach the southern drift ice and get trapped in it. Scott remains calm and tells his crew they just have to be patient. Still being unable to move after a week Scott starts to get nervous too, because they lose too much time . After 20 days they are finally able to make it out of the drift ice and can proceed to move south.
They arrive at Cape Evans and prepare a house on the edge of the ice for the winter. The house is filled with everything they could wish for so they can prepare their trip with the best conditions possible.
The plan is to wait for the summer months in December and January so they could perfectly make use of every bit of sunbeam they might get. Scott is sure that the difference in temperature in the summer months will have a huge impact on them and scientist Edward Wilson (Jude Law) agrees with him. A guard is placed in a watchtower in which he measures the sunrays so he can phone them when it’s time to start.
In the meantime everybody is looking for something meaningful to do. Scientist and physician Edward Wilson examines stone samples while former army officer Lawrence Oates (Nicholas Hoult) trains the Siberian ponies. Every evening there are presentations comparable to university courses where one of the scientists shares his research with the others. To toughen up they make day trips all around their camp which gives them alot of experience. One day a group of people returns with bad news. They tell Scott that they are not the only ones here. They found the camp of Norwegian Roald Amundsen and his crew and it‘s 110 kilometers closer to the south pole than their camp. Now they know they are not the only ones trying to reach the south pole.
Scott gathers the whole group in one room to explain their plan. They want to push forward with the whole group of people so they can bring as much supplies with them as possible. The plan is to set up depositories where they store everything they need so they can use them on their way back. Everytime they set up one, a group of people returns to Cape Evans until only a few of them are left. These few people left will be writing history as the first humans to reach the south pole, Scott is telling them. One of the scientist raises his hand and asks Scott how he decides who the the few remaining will be. But Scott tells him he honestly doesn’t know, it will probably depend on who seems more fitter but first they have to make it really far to even have this discussion.
The time has finally come as the phone in their camp rings and the guy in the watchtower reports the first appearance of the sun in months. They quickly make their last preparations before finally starting their expedition.
Motorized sledges are pushing forward, followed by Siberian ponies and dogs. Every other day they set up a small depository filled with clothes, food and the most important thing petroleum. Together they try to leave as much freight as possible in the depositories. The group gets smaller as they progress southward and Scott sends people back home as planned. Some of them decide to stay at the house they prepared their trip in and others returned home to Britain. Even though a lot of things go as they planned it, there still are some misfortunes. The motorized sledges break down under those extreme conditions and they decide to leave them behind. The ponies are also having a hard time to adjust to the conditions and some of them don’t make it.
The concerns are increasing as they cover less and less kilometer per day. The crew feels badder every day suffering from frozen limbs and snow blindness. They have to shorten the ponies‘ food again until they break down. Wilson is sure that they don’t make it very far and suggest they kill them so they don’t have to suffer. Oates doesn’t want to hear any of it, he knows his ponies will make it. Scott pulls him to the side and tells him to take a close look at them, which he does. They all look extremely exhausted almost as if they were already dead. After taking a deep breath Oates agrees to killing the ponies. And so they killed all of them creating a place that looks like a slaughterhouse.
Ten people are left as they arrive at the Farthest South the most southerly latitude reached by explorers. This is the time for the last five people to go back. Scott is looking at the faces of the remaining nine people, trying to decide who he wants to take with him for the last kilometers. Taking Lieutenant Evans with him is a no-brainer for Scott as he is not only the person he trusts the most but also one of the fittest person in the whole crew. Chief scientist and physician Wilson also is an easy choice for Scott to take with him. The last two people he takes with him are Henry Bowers (George MacKay) and Lawrence Oates mostly because of their experience in earlier expeditions. The other five people who will not come with them are sad but they respect Scott’s decision. They all shake hands and wish each other luck and then Scott, Evans, Wilson, Oates and Bowers continue to move south.
Scott steadily reports to them how many kilometers they still have to go. When there finally are only 50 kilometers left there mood starts to brighten up as there goal seems in reach. The next morning they even start their trip earlier than usual and cheerfully march through the white desert. Suddenly Bowers gets really anxious as he sees a small dark spot in the distance. Everyone of them probably has the same assumption but nobody speaks it out loud. They try to calm themselves down. Evans tells them it just might be a reflection while Wilson says it could just be a crack in the ice. They get closer and closer and the thing nobody wanted to say out loud just seems to be true. The Norwegians lead by Amundsen were faster than Scott and his crew. Only a couple kilometers before their goal they find traces of sled runners, lots of footsteps from dogs and an abandoned camp. Lastly a Norwegian flag breaks any last doubt they still had. They are too late.
The south pole, uninhabited since thousand of years, will be reached twice in a short amount of time and Scott and his crew will probably be just a month late to write history. All five of them are devastated and Scott is furious. He screams that all the effort all the torture they had to go through was worthless. They spend the night at the camp even though all of them are completely tired, not one of them can sleep well. Nonetheless they get started on their last march to finally reach the south pole. The atmosphere is pretty bad and nobody makes an effort to brighten up the mood. All of them know they just missed their chance to participate in history as the first people to reach the south pole.
They finally reach the south pole and Scott shockingly notices that the south pole is nothing special. Monotonous just like everything they saw on their way here. The only thing that stands out is Amundsen’s tent with the Norwegian flag next to it which Scott stares at like a man who is possessed. He finds a letter in which Amundsen asks the founder to bring it to the Norwegian King. They stick the Union Jack next to Amundsen’s sign of victory quickly before they start to make their way back.
It doesn’t get easier, rather the opposite is the case. On their way back they can’t rely on their compass and have to be careful to not lose their own track so they don’t miss any depositories. Every mistake leads to death. The five of them feel very bad. The weather is horrible even worse than before. All that wouldn’t stop Wilson to do his research as he drags 16 kilograms of different rock types on his sledge with him. He is telling his demotivated comrades that he found sea plants and tree fossils that proof that the Antarctic once was a warmer place but even though they are congratulating Wilson for it, it’s obvious they don’t share the same type of enthusiasm for his discovery.
In a moment of inattention Edgar Evans falls into a crevasse where he hits his head. After helping him out Wilson thinks he might have sustained a serious concussion and tells the others that they all have to keep an eye on him.
Their feet are destroyed and their body starts to fail them. Every depository gets harder to reach. Edgar Evans who is considered to be the strongest and fittest of the whole team starts to talk gibberish and has a wild-look in his eyes. The others are sure he is getting crazy. Wilson takes a look at him and is sure he won’t last long out there and they have to reach the next depository as quick as possible. They load him on a sledge and do their best to increase the pace but it’s already too late for Evans and he dies shortly before they reach the place where they killed all their ponies. They don’t have much time to grieve but bury his corpse under the snow.
The remaining four marsh to the next depository which turns out to be a big disappointment because there is not enough petroleum which means they can only heat sparingly. Oates is the next person they have to be worried about. His frozen toes are making it hard for him to walk. When they arrive at the next depository and there is not enough petroleum again, there situation even worsens. Oates is becoming more and more of a burden. Everything takes longer because of him and he knows he could be the one dooming the group.
While they sit in their camp in the morning waiting for a storm to pass by, Oates suddenly stands up and says „I am just going outside and may be some time“. Everyone, including Oates, knows that he will not survive but nobody says anything or tries to stop him. Oates leaves the camp honorably facing his death.
Thanks to Oates‘ sacrifice the remaining crew can now move on faster. Three tired and weakened humans drag themself through the endless icy desert. Every depository is just another disappointment. Not enough petroleum, not enough heat. Before they reach the next and also largest depository the „One Tone Depot“ they wait in a tent because a blizzard makes it impossible to move forward. They stay for some days and their supplies start to come to an end as the fuel is already used up and the temperature is -40°C. After eight days they know nothing will save them and so they decide to spend their last days in the tent, waiting for their death.
Scott thanks his comrades for sacrificing everything for this expedition and tells them how proud he is of everyone of them. They might not have been the ones who won the race but he is sure there courage and enthusiasm will inspire many others.
Captain Scott uses his last moments to write letters to his loved ones with his frozen fingers. He writes to his wife, his friends and among others the English nation. He writes that he doesn‘t regret anything and asks them to care for the bereaved. Scott, Wilson and Bowers freeze to death while laying in each others arms.
Interview: Wyatt Allen
PD: Reactions were a bit on the mixed end of spectrum for your first LRF project, An Eye For An Eye. What did you learn or take away from the critical reception to the film?
WA: It was an incredible experience seeing guys like Bong-Joon ho or Brad Pitt turning the words you wrote into an actual movie. I think I take a lot with me from that alone. For my first project I was actually pretty happy with the reviews it got. I know there are a lot of things that I could have done better and I can completely understand most of the criticism. I guess with An Eye For An Eye, I was a bit too focused on painting the picture of a revenge story in the west, which led to me neglecting the characters. I actually had the characters fleshed out in my head but I just didn’t put it on paper and also didn’t give most of them anything important to do. This is definitely something I have to do better in the future.
Another point of criticism was, that it didn’t bring anything new to the western genre and I have to agree to that. When I started writing, I wanted to make an original story stylized as a western, but I completely got away from it in the process of writing. I think with it being my first film for LRF I was a bit to careful not to do anything wrong and that’s why I looked to much at how other western have done certain things. In the future I want to trust my own original ideas more and I’m also thinking of revisiting the western genre and giving myself another try at it after I do some other movies.
PD: What's more important to you as a writer: critical or box office success?
WA: That’s actually a tough question to answer, best case scenario is of course having both. I would love to write movies that stay in people’s minds, that’s like the most important thing for me. They don’t have to be critically acclaimed to do that but I feel like it helps for longevity. I think there are a lot of box office hits that will soon be forgotten and I don’t want that for any movie I write. I would rather make a great movie that is well received but doesn’t turn in a huge profit, than make a bad movie that makes a lot of money. So I guess my answer would be critical succes is more important to me as a writer.
PD: You've only been with the studio for a short while, but do you have any favorite LRF productions?
WA: I had a close eye on my debut season, season 19 and my favorites where probably Klondike, Poison Ivy and At the Mountains of Madness. All three of them were fantastic in their own way.
I’ve also been watching some of the older LRF movies and especially remember Mo Buck’s Letter to Myself and John Malone’s To the White Sea. With Letter to Myself I really enjoyed the autobiographical approach, something I would like to include more into my movies. And the duo of Lucas Hedges and Elle Fanning is at the latest after season 19 absolutely iconic. I don’t think I have to say a lot about To the White Sea. A man who tries to survive the war. I love movies that mostly focus on the story of one specific person stuck in an extreme situation just like in The Revenant or The Pianist and I think To the White Sea is similar to that. Great perfomance by Alden Ehrenreich and phenomenal movie.
PD: What's next for you?
WA: Right know I’m actually just happy Antarctica is finally being shown to the public and I’m very excited about how it is received. We all worked hard to make the best out of it and I really want to thank Danny, Ralph, Charlie, Jude, Nicholas, George and all the other cast and crew members working on the movie. I’m glad we were able to show the real story of these heroic explorers who risked everything to be the first at the south pole.
But to answer your question, I’ve already finished the screenplay to my next movie and can’t wait so see it getting made. I don’t want to get into details but I can tell you it’s an original story set in the 60s about a director who is trying to adapt Moby Dick onto the big screen. It’s something I’ve been really passionate about the last months and especially figuring out a good ending that I was satisfied with took a lot of time to write.
And of course I’ve already continued writing new stuff. I have a lot of ideas for movies but unfortunately you can’t devote yourself to all the ideas at the same time. Currently I’m working on a screenplay for one of my favorite superheroes, who also hasn’t gotten a live-action movie until now but it’s still way to early to tell if anything comes out of it
Saturday, August 28, 2021
In Development
Gears of War: Terry Crews (John Henry, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"), Daniel Dae Kim (Dragon Ball: The Wrath of the Demon King, Hellboy) and Lili Simmons (The Crow: Wings of Isaiah, Carmilla) have signed on to the video game adaptation Gears of War. Crews and Kim will play members of a military unit fighting an alien threat. Simmons will play communications officer who interacts with the unit. Zack Snyder is directing the film from a script by Mark Newton.
INFINITY: Tom Cruise and Anne Hathaway will be joined by Nicholas Hoult (Germinal, Antarctica), Sterling K. Brown (Bad Dreams Come True, Tail) and Hayley Atwell (Pulp, The Killings) in INFINITY. Hoult will play a computer prodigy, Brown will play a consultant who works for Cruise, while Atwell will play a mathematics professor. Duncan Jones is directing the sci-fi thriller based on an original script by Jacob Jones.
Gambit: District X: The Gambit sequel has added Kiki Layne (Coming 2 America, The Old Guard), Olivia Cooke (Escape the Unknown, Maximum Ride), Nicholas Hamilton (Tumor, All the Pretty Horses) and Anthony Carrigan (Huntress, "Barry"). Layne will play Ororo Munroe aka Storm, Cooke will play Callisto, Hamilton will play a teenaged Gambit, and Carrigan will play Kaliban. Jim Mickle is set to direct the film based on Chad Taylor's script.
The Case Against 8: James Franco (Life of a Champion, Paradiso) is set to star in and direct an adaptation of the documentary, The Case Against 8. Franco will play LGBT activist Chad Griffin in this story of the battle to fight California's ban on gay marriage (Proposition 8). Franco will be joined by Mark Rylance (Firestorm, The Stranger) and Jeff Bridges (Hunter, Skyrim) in the film as two famed attorneys with different political ideologies who team up to help Griffin's case. Alex Conn (Dan Star, Happy Birthday) penned the film.
If We Know the Right Way: Writer Meirad Tako (The Emperor of Latium, The Cry of the Night Lady) is set to make his theatrical directorial debut in the terrorism themed Indonesian film, If We Know the Right Way, based on his own script. Indonesian actors Iqbaal Ramadhan, Angga Aldi Yunanda, Ray Sahetapy and Tio Pakusadewo will star in the film.
Release: Observance
Genre: Thriller
Director: Trey Edward Shults
Writer: Chad Taylor
Cast: Margaret Qualley
Budget: $8,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $20,575,022
Foreign Box Office: $17,009,485
Total Profit: $18,100,942
Reaction: Tied for the second least expensive film in the history of LRF, Observance didn't need to make much to turn a profit - and it managed to exceed the studio's mild expectations.
"Director Trey Edward Shults and writer Chad Taylor have managed to craft a quietly creepy psychological thriller that is anchored by a star-making performance from the film's lone performer, Margaret Qualley." - Ken Decker, Denver Post
"While Observance definitely can feel a bit light-weight at times, the project is more often than not elevated by a clever script from writer Chad Taylor and a career-best performance from Qualley." - Charles Triano, Los Angeles Times
Friday, August 27, 2021
Top 10 Sophomore Writing Efforts (with special guest Chad Taylor)
Top 10 Sophomore Writing Efforts
10. The Creature (Ben Collins)
9. An Honest Mistake (Chad Taylor)
8. American Outlaws (Seth Overton)
7. An Then There Were None (James Morgan)
6. Shake Hands with the Devil (Dominic Wilkins)
5. Every Secret Thing (Lon Charles)
4. Libra (Dwight Gallo)
3. Paradise Lost (Matt Parker)
2. Hated: The Ballad of GG Allin (Billy Armstrong)
1. The Prisoner (John Malone)
Chad Taylor's Top 10 Sophomore Writing Efforts
10. The Banded Ants (Jack Ryder)
9. The Creature (Ben Collins)
8. Shake Hands With the Devil (Dominic Wilkins)
7. American Outlaws (Seth Overton)
6. And Then There Were None (James Morgan)
5. Every Secret Thing (Lon Charles)
4. Paradise Lost (Matt Parker)
3. Libra (Dwight Gallo)
2. Hated: The Ballad of GG Allin (Billy Armstrong)
1. The Prisoner (John Malone)
Now Showing: Observance
Genre: Thriller
Director: Trey Edward Shults
Writer: Chad Taylor
Cast: Margaret Qualley
Plot: 1957
After the death of her estranged father Ezra, Rachel (Margaret Qualley) travels back home. She talks with Ezra’s rabbi about the next steps. Knowing that she is his only family left and that he had very little friends, they decide against having a funeral. The rabbi does remind her that her father would have wanted the custom of Shemira to be carried out. In the Jewish faith, as the soul hovers above the body after death, the shomeret accompanies a body between the time of death and burial - essentially preparing it for the afterlife.
Rachel inquires about this and is told that it is usually carried out by a third party but family members can also do it. Without much deliberation, Rachel says she would like to do it. He tells her that she will not be able to eat or sleep during this time. She says she is still willing to do it, since it is only 24 hours. The rabbi smiles and says that he is glad that she is re-embracing her faith and that he thinks she will grow from this experience.
Rachel enters a small two-room building adjacent to the synagogue. She enters a bare room that has a bench and some candles. There is a small window into another candle-lit room where the casket sits. Her main job is to comfort the body by reading psalms to it. She does this dutifully but it does grow tiresome. When she takes a break, she begins to think back on her relationship with her father. After some time elapses, she decides to pick back on the psalms. As she intensely stares at the casket, a breeze travels through the room, causing some cackling in the candles which frightens Rachel. After a beat, she is able to laugh at her own irrational fear.
After some time has elapsed, one of the psalms sparks a debate within Rachel’s mind and she begins talking to the casket as if it is God. She talks about how she saw this as an opportunity to repair her relationship with her father and her faith. She’s been estranged from both for quite some time. Actually, the fracturing of each relationship exacerbated the fracturing of the other. She asks God if the sins of her father are handed down to his kin.
With more time elapsed, she asks her father if he would like to hear his obituary. Instead of pulling out some small local paper, she pulls out the New York Times, which had an article covering Ezra’s death. As she reads it, it is revealed that Ezra was a notorious member of a Jewish-American organized crime group. The article notes that he and many of his other counterparts escaped prosecution, despite the murders they committed, escaped conviction. However, what set Ezra apart was his crimes outside of the group. Rachel finds tears rolling down her eyes before the door to the casket room creaks and this again makes her jump. She continues: Ezra was rumored to have molested more than two dozen children. Despite never being proven, this did lead to him being essentially socially isolated from the friends he once knew.
Rachel is in full tears at this point, when she gets to the final part. Preceded in death by his father, mother, and brother. Survived by a daughter. She is in full tears at this point, although her face also reads of anger. She bangs on the window, begging the casket to tell her the truth. She paces the room and is mad at herself for reading it. She tells the casket that she trusted him, as everyone trusts their parents. After some reflection, she calms herself down and starts to read the psalms again.
As she grows drowsy from that, she decides to get up and enter the room where the casket lies. She slowly approaches the casket and starts to clean it - which is not one of her required activities. She tells her father that this wasn’t about repairing her relationship with him as much as it was about coming to grips with what he had done. It is eerily silent as she opens up the casket to see her father one final time. However, the sadness on her face turns to shock as no one is the casket. Behind her, she can hear footsteps and someone blow out the candles, causing her to scream for help.
Rachel wakes up, realizing she had fallen asleep. However, as she gets reacquainted with her surroundings, she finds that two of the candles in the casket room has been knocked over. She runs in to try to put out the fire that is still small but is starting to spread. She looks around at her environment and realizes she would have plenty of time to push the casket out of the building before the fire gets worse. She has her hands on the casket but instead of moving it, she starts to open it. However, she decides against this and keeps it closes. She closes her eyes and starts to consider whether or not she should stay behind.
From outside, we see a dry-heaving Rachel leave the building by herself, without the casket. Her emotions cause her to fall to the ground. She crawls away in tears as the building burns behind her.
Thursday, August 26, 2021
Resume: Margaret Qualley
Season 1
Director: Tarsem Singh
Writer: Matt Parker
Budget: $201,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $229,116,009
Foreign Box Office: $405,906,679
Total Profit: $206,897,860
Margaret Qualley made her LRF debut as Eve in the biblical blockbuster Paradise Lost. The film was nominated for two awards in the inaugural GRA ceremony and was obviously a big hit at the box office as well.
Season 4
Director: Gareth Edwards
Writer: Mo Buck
Budget: $207,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $303,844,004
Foreign Box Office: $400,707,982
Total Profit: $424,160,334
After missing out on an appearance in the first Halo film, Qualley was brought into the series in its second entry as the daughter of Clive Owens' character from the first film. This sequel was a much bigger hit with critics and audiences alike compared to the first film.
Season 5
Director: Tom Tykwer
Writer: Mo Buck
Budget: $142,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $175,434,096
Foreign Box Office: $280,966,483
Total Profit: $59,347,630
In a nod to her previous role as Eve in Paradise Lost, Qualley next took on a minor cameo in the film Purgatorio reprising the role of Eve in the second film in the Divine Comedy trilogy.
Season 7
Director: Gareth Edwards
Writer: Mo Buck
Budget: $225,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $333,084,120
Foreign Box Office: $420,001,104
Total Profit: $440,755,108
In Season 7, Margaret Qualley made her final appearance in the Halo franchise. The film was again another box office hit and received the second-best batch of reviews in the entire series.
Season 15
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Jimmy Ellis
Budget: $44,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $47,221,090
Foreign Box Office: $28,833,112
Total Profit: -$40,105,774
After several seasons away from the studio, Qualley finally appeared again in The Second Life of John Wilkes Booth as the love interest of the main character. The film bombed at the box office and only managed to score reviews in the lower mixed range.
Up Next: After Observance, Margaret Qualley does not yet have any projects in the works.
Review:
- Highest Grossing Film: Halo 3 ($753,085,224)
- Most Profitable Film: Halo 3 ($440,755,108)
- Most Awarded Film: Paradise Lost (2 Nominations)
- Best Reviewed Film: Paradise Lost (Metascore: 78)
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