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Blackhat
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Blackhat is a 2015 American action thriller and mystery film directed by Michael Mann, who also wrote the screenplay and produced the movie. The cast includes Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Holt McCallany, and Tang Wei. The film was produced by Legendary Pictures and Forward Pass, with distribution handled by Universal Pictures. It was filmed in Los Angeles and Hong Kong, with narrative settings in Indonesia, Chai Wan, and Los Angeles. The story is set in March 2015, specifically around March 9, 2015, and involves themes of hackers and computer viruses.
The film has a runtime of 133 minutes and was released in various formats, including video on demand. Its budget was $70,000,000, and it generated $17,752,940 in revenue. Review scores include a 32% rating, a 4.9 out of 10 score, and a 52 out of 100 assessment. The tagline for the film is "We are no longer in control." The production team included director of photography Stuart Dryburgh, composer Harry Gregson-Williams, production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas, and costume designer Colleen Atwood.
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5.5Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. As Hathaway closes in, the stakes become personal as he discovers that the attack on a Chinese nuclear power plant was just the beginning.
Cast
- Chris Hemsworth as Nicholas Hathaway
- Tang Wei as Chen Lien
- Leehom Wang as Chen Dawai
- Viola Davis as Carol Barrett
- Holt McCallany as Mark Jessup
- Andy On Chi-Kit as Alex Trang
Themes
- race against time
- computer
- hacker
- computer virus
- technology
- anti hero
- nuclear power plant
- national security agency (nsa)
- malaysia
- betrayal
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Michael Mann
- Written by
- Morgan Davis Foehl
- Produced by
- Thomas Tull Michael Mann Jon Jashni
- Starring
- Chris Hemsworth Tang Wei Viola Davis Ritchie Coster Holt McCallany Yorick van Wageningen Wang Leehom
- Cinematography
- Stuart Dryburgh
- Edited by
- Joe Walker Stephen E. Rivkin Jeremiah O'Driscoll Mako Kamitsuna Kevin Stitt
- Music by
- Harry Gregson-Williams Atticus Ross Leo Ross
- Production companies
- Legendary Pictures Forward Pass
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release dates
- January 8, 2015 ( 2015-01-08 ) ( Los Angeles ) January 16, 2015 ( 2015-01-16 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 134 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $70 million
- Box office
- $19.7 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- crime film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Michael Mann
- Screenwriter
- Michael Mann
- Composer
- Harry Gregson-Williams
- Producer
- Michael Mann
- Production company
- Legendary Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Stuart Dryburgh
- Narrative location
- Perak
- Filming location
- Hong Kong
- Duration
- 133
- FilmAffinity ID
- 271983
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- publication date
- 2015-01-29
- Commons category
- Blackhat (film)
- title
- Blackhat
- production designer
- Guy Hendrix Dyas
- costume designer
- Colleen Atwood
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 52/100
- set in period
- March 9, 2015
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Encyclopedic overview
Blackhat is a 2015 American action thriller film produced and directed by Michael Mann, written by Morgan Davis Foehl, and starring Chris Hemsworth, Tang Wei, Viola Davis, and Wang Leehom. Hemsworth portrays a convicted hacker offered clemency for helping track down a dangerous cybercriminal. The title refers to the cybersecurity term "black hat," meaning a hacker with malicious intent.
The film premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on January 8, 2015, and was released in theaters on January 16, by Universal Pictures. Blackhat was a box-office bomb, earning only $19.7 million at the box office against a budget of $70 million. The film received generally mixed reviews, with criticisms focused on casting and pace, though the film appeared on some critics' year-end lists.
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