Collateral is a 2004 American neo-noir action crime thriller film starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. The supporting cast includes Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, Javier Bardem, and Bruce McGill. The plot centers around a man on a killing spree in Los Angeles. Collateral was released in the United States on August 6, 2004, and grossed USD 217 million worldwide.
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Collateral is a 2004 American neo-noir action crime thriller film starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. The supporting cast includes Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, Javier Bardem, and Bruce McGill. It follows Max, a Los Angeles cab driver and his customer Vincent. Max is taken hostage by Vincent who turns out to be a hitman on a contract killing spree. Collateral was released in the United States on August 6, 2004, and grossed USD 217 million worldwide. It received critical acclaim in particular for the performances of Cruise and Foxx, Mann’s direction and the editing. At the 77th Academy Awards, Foxx received a nomination for Best Supporting Actor; while film editors Jim Miller and Paul Rubell were nominated for Best Film Editing. The musical score was composed by James Newton Howard, with additional songs from Audioslave and Paul Oakenfold. The film was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2004. It was the first feature film to be shot with a Viper FilmStream High-Definition Camera. It is also the first film to have been directed by Michael Mann and produced by Frank Darabont, and the first to be directed by Mimi Leder, Janusz Kamiński, Fernando Meirelles and Russell Crowe were in talks to star as Vincent and Max, respectively. It has been described as the most successful film of the 2000s in terms of box office receipts and box office box office gross, with a total of $1.2 billion to $2.1 billion to date, making it the fourth highest-grossing film of all time in the U.S.
and the fifth highest-earning film of 2004 in the UK. The movie was released on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which occurred on the same day as the release of the book The Godfather: Particulars, by John Cusack, by Simon & Schuster, and by The New York Review of Books, by David Bianculli, and on the 30th birthday of President George W. Bush, by Robert De Niro, by Julian Zelizer, and Michael Douglas, by Peter Travers, and John Curnow, by Tom Hanks, by Neil Patrick Harris, and David Fincher, by Stuart Beattie, and Peter Schlossberg, by Michael Ehrlich, among others. The plot centers around a man on a killing spree in Los Angeles. Vincent offers Max USD 600 to drive him to several locations. As Max waits at the first stop, a corpse falls onto his car; Vincent reveals himself as ahitman and the body is one of his five targets. Vincent forces Max to hide the body in the trunk and continue driving. Max asks a group of young men for help, but two of them rob him and seize Vincent’s briefcase; seeing the men walk away with the briefcase, Vincent deftly shoots them both dead and retrieves the brief case.
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