The film was released in the united kingdom on 5 december 2014, and in the united states on 23 january 2015. Financial analysis of black sea 2015 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and. One of the more interesting subgenres to make a comeback across the horror genre has been the shark attack movie. Directed by academy award winner kevin macdonald one day in september. Five friends go to a beach house on the oregon coast for the weekend. Black sea looks so gorgeous and moves with such muscular grace that you might forget, or never imagine, that its a relatively small action movie. Black sea is a solid, mostly thrilling submarine movie. By the sea is a 2015 american romantic drama film written and directed by angelina jolie pitt, and produced by and starring jolie pitt and brad pitt. Were honestly surprised this nic cage movie isnt higher up on this list. Low budget films that are more thrilling than most big. The premise of the darkly comic film, at first glance, seems similarly worn out. The beauty of the black sea on a budget the irish times.
Thematically timely but dramatically inert, blackhat strands chris hemsworth in a muddled misfire from director michael mann. Here are movies that went disastrously over budget. But for black sea 2015, director kevin macdonald wasnt afraid of that. Everything you need to know about black sea movie 2015. Kevin macdonalds submarine thriller black sea could have been a bigbudget summer movie, but he opted for complexity over explosions.
It stars jeanclaude van damme and dolph lundgren in their fifth collaboration, specifically the second time they appear as onscreen allies. And as in some of the great films about gold, especially greed and the treasure of the sierra madre, greed begins. The film premiered at the 20 sundance film festival on january 19, 20, and was picked up by magnolia pictures and cnn films for wider release. Pirates of the caribbean screenwriter on how a budget. Allison is clearly troubled by something but the others dont say a word or intervene. New thriller black sea shot aboard a rickety old soviet. Trust no one in order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the black sea for a sub thats rumored to be loaded with gold. Black sea stars jude law as a seething adventurer the. Black sea the 2015 movie, trailers, videos and more at yidio. I found black sea totally grim, black and depressing without any sane relief. Today sees the release of white house down, which is the most. The 48yearold craft plays a big role in this fridays black sea, a gritty submarine thriller about an attempt to.
United states january 23, 2015 nationwide canada january 23, 2015. It concerns tilikum, an orca held by seaworld and the controversy over captive killer whales. Im something of a sucker for submarinemovie clichs. The best holiday deals at home and abroad this week thu, dec 21, 2017, 12. Before analyzing the ending of black sea 2015, its worth noting that there are a few details of the films ending and beginning, and middle that simply dont work. After a botched robbery escalates to homicide, a north philly gun runner has to escape or outsmart the south philly italian mob as they close in for vengeance. These indie black films on netflix have powerful messages. See the trailer for kevin macdonalds submarine thriller black sea, starring jude law. Jude law stars as a submarine captain searching for gold in the depths of the black sea in kevin macdonalds adventure thriller. Black sea trailer in theaters january 2015 youtube. Black sea wont rival too many of the famed submarine movie relics of years past. Any form of common sense as to their predicament did not prevail and i had no sympathy for them what so ever.
The black sea, which connects southeastern europe to western asia, covers more than 160,000 square miles, making it about the size of california. Kevin macdonald in black sea 2014 jude law and kevin macdonald at an event for black. Tons of lowbudget science fiction and fantasy movies are more exciting than your average big summer blockbuster. Naomie harris, tyrese gibson, reid scott, frank grillo, mike colter, beau knapp, nafessa williams. At the outset robinson declares that everyone aboard will get an equal portion of the. The film was released directtovideo in the us on may 25, 2018. At the resort, the guests are heard singing hungry like the wolf from duran duran.
Black sea is the kind of film that one might expect to be released over the summer on a big budget with an even biggername cast law is the only bonafide hollywood star in the movie, but. Director kevin macdonald of the similarly tense touching the void uses clarity of space on board the sub, establishing physical relationships between characters and using them for suspense. With jude law, scoot mcnairy, ben mendelsohn, david threlfall. Going in to the movie with that description and only having seen one trailer, i had low expectations for this.
Rent black sea 2015 starring jude law and scoot mcnairy on dvd and bluray. Released january 23rd, 2015, black sea stars jude law, scoot mcnairy, ben mendelsohn, david threlfall the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 55 min, and received a score of out of 100 on. I find that most indie movies have some type of message that resonates with. With bill sebastian, erin mcgarry, corrina repp, cora benesh. Black sea is a 2014 submarine disaster thriller film directed by kevin macdonald, written by dennis kelly, and starring jude law, scoot mcnairy, ben. It was quite a low budget film and i couldnt afford the people i had worked with in. By bulgarias beautiful black sea the new york times. The lighthouse is a 2019 psychological horror film directed and produced by robert eggers, who cowrote the screenplay with his brother max eggers. Director kevin macdonald on making black sea, and the still.
Although its great to have this type of documentation in the public domain proving the existence of these black budget programs, the numbers seem to be off according to some. Disguised as an oldfashioned adventure film, black sea is a really a jeremiad for the new gilded age. When the new james bond movie spectre debuts next month, itll join a select clubmovies that have gone way over budget. The beauty of the black sea on a budget great escapes. The washington post revealed that the blackbudget documents report a staggering 52. Black sea centers on a rogue submarine captain jude law who, after being laid off from a salvage company, pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost. A crew of misfits undertakes a mission to find a cache of gold bullion, mired at the bottom of the black sea in a. But the black widow, as its known, is about to get a little respect. Financial analysis of black sea 2015 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. In order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the black sea for a submarine rumored to be loaded with gold.
Even if youre not a filmmaker, even if you dont know much about the filmmaking process, stuffing a camera crew, sound people, lighting units, and a bunch of actors into tight quarters is obviously challenging. Black sea was released in 2015 on friday, january 23, 2015 in nationwide movie theaters. The plot of this film very much depends on the negative public sentiment and mistrust of banks and big business in general which is strangely not in vogue as much in 2018, but in 2014 when black sea was released, memories were more fresh of the 0709 financial crisis and public resentment was much stronger than it is today. Black water is an american action thriller film directed by pasha patriki. Black sea may not be particularly deep, but thanks to kevin. It was nominated for the bafta award for best documentary. First look at big budget chinese shark movie blood shark. In black sea, why couldnt robinson escape the sub with. Suspending disbelief on those subjects as in, who pulled the inflation cord on the suit full of gold. Tensions run high in kevin macdonalds dark submarine thriller.
An interview with kevin macdonald, director of black sea. It was shot with digital cameras the size of napkin dispensers, mainly inside a 1967vintage soviet hunterkiller sub owned by a private collector in the medway river in the town of rochester, in. In order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the black sea for a. Budget numbers for movies can be both difficult to find and unreliable. There were 10 other movies released on the same date, including the boy next door, strange magic and mortdecai.
Its not as hectic as u571 or anywhere close to as silly as down periscope or even remotely as boring as the hunt. You can thank the films tight budget for the bony, motley crew. This song was not released until the bands second album, in 1982. An international coproduction of the united states and canada, the film was shot in blackandwhite with a nearly square 1. In order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the black sea for. A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew after being laid off from a salvage company to go after a sunken treasure rumoured to be lost in the depths of the black sea. With black deniro, jowharah jones, byron squally vinson, dominic costa. Director kevin macdonalds low budget psychological thriller was better than it.