Deepwater Horizon (film)

Deepwater Horizon
Deepwater Horizon
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Peter Berg
Screenplay by	Matthew Michael Carnahan; Matthew Sand;
Story by	Matthew Sand
Based on	"Deepwater Horizon's Final Hours"; by David Barstow; David Rohde; Stephanie Saul;
Produced by	Lorenzo di Bonaventura; Mark Vahradian; Mark Wahlberg; Stephen Levinson; David Womark;
Starring	Mark Wahlberg; Kurt Russell; John Malkovich; Gina Rodriguez; Dylan O'Brien; Kate Hudson;
Cinematography	Enrique Chediak
Edited by	Colby Parker Jr.; Gabriel Fleming;
Music by	Steve Jablonsky
Production; companies	Summit Entertainment; Participant Media; Di Bonaventura Pictures; Closest to the Hole Productions; Leverage Entertainment;
Distributed by	Lionsgate
Release dates	September 13, 2016 (TIFF); September 30, 2016 (United States);
Running time	107 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$156 million (gross); $110–120 million (net);
Box office	$121.8 million

Deepwater Horizon is a 2016 American biographical disaster film based on the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Peter Berg directed it from a screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, Dylan O'Brien, and Kate Hudson. It is adapted from "Deepwater Horizon's Final Hours", a December 25, 2010 article in The New York Times written by David Barstow, David Rohde, and Stephanie Saul.^[4]

Principal photography began on April 27, 2015, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The film premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival^[5] and was theatrically released in the United States on September 30, 2016. It received generally positive reviews, but was a box-office bomb, grossing slightly less than $122 million worldwide against a budget of $110 million, resulting in a loss of $60–112 million for the studio. The film was nominated for two Oscars at the 89th Academy Awards: Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects, and a BAFTA Award for Best Sound at the 70th British Academy Film Awards.

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