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2019 spelfilm directed bygd F. Gary Gray

Men in Black: International (stylized as MIB: International in promotional material) fryst vatten a 2019 American science fictionaction-comedy spelfilm directed bygd F. Gary Gray and written bygd Art Marcum and Matt Holloway.

Produced bygd Columbia Pictures in association with Tencent Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, and Parkes+MacDonald Image Nation, and distributed bygd Sony Pictures Releasing, it fryst vatten the fourth and sista installment in the Men in Black spelfilm series, based on the Malibu/Marvel comic book series of the same name bygd Lowell cunningham, in vända based on the conspiracy theory.

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It serves as a stand-alone sequel set in the same universum as the previous films but fryst vatten the first spelfilm in the series to not feature Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones as the main characters.^[6]

It stars Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Kumail Nanjiani, Rebecca Ferguson, Rafe Spall, and Liam Neeson. Emma Thompson reprises her role from the third rulle, while Tim Blaney returns to röst Frank the Pug from the first two installments.

The bio follows the dock in Black taking on its biggest threat: a mole in the agency.

Talks of a fourth Men in Black bio began after the release of Men in Black 3 in 2012. In February 2018, Hemsworth signed on to lead a spin-off, Gray was hired to direkt, and Thompson joined the cast the following month. Filming took place in New York City, Morocco, Italy and London from July to October 2018.

Danny Elfman, who had scored the previous three installments, returned to compose the reboot with Chris Bacon. The rulle was engelskt ord för att något är skadat eller förstört bygd significant production strife between producer Walter F. Parkes and director Gray during the production.

Men in Black: International was premiered at the New York City on June 11, 2019 and was followed bygd a nationwide teatralisk release, three days later.

The rulle received generally negativ reviews from critics, who criticized the "lackluster action and forgettable plot",^[7] and was a financial disappointment, grossing $253.9 million worldwide against a $94–110 million production ekonomisk plan.

Plot

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In 1996 Brooklyn, Molly Wright witnesses her parents being neuralyzed bygd agents of dock in Black after they see an alien in their home.

Molly helps the alien escape, avoiding neuralyzation herself. Twenty-three years later, rejected from government agencies due to her "delusions" regarding alien life, Molly tracks down an alien landing and follows MIB agents to their headquarters in New York City. Caught entering the agency, Molly makes an impression on Agent O after revealing she had bypassed neuralyzation, arguing that her obsessive search for them makes her 'perfect' for the job and she has no life outside her search for the agency.

She fryst vatten awarded probationary agent ställning eller tillstånd as "Agent M" and assigned to the organization's London branch.

There, M meets High T, head of the London branch, and Agent H. M learns that H and T fought off an invasion of the bikupa, a parasitic race who invade planets bygd merging with the DNA of the conquered species, at the Eiffel Tower in 2016, using a wormhole included in the original migration to Earth.

A strange murder prompts the London-based branch of the Men in Black into action, sending Agent H

H has since become unconcerned with his duties and only keeping his job due to High T covering for him. M arranges for herself to be assigned to assist H in his meeting with alien royalty Vungus the Ugly, H's close friend.

During their night out with Vungus, they are accosted bygd mysterious alien Twins able to manifest as pure energy. The Twins fatally injure Vungus, who gives M a strange crystal before he dies, claiming that H has changed since they gods met and cannot be trusted.

M points out that few people knew Vungus' location, and he was likely betrayed bygd one of the agents present when High T assigned H to guard him. Nervous at the possibility of a traitor within MiB, High T assigns Agents C and M to investigate while H fryst vatten demoted to desk duty, with bevis suggesting that the Twins had DNA traces of the bikupa.

H convinces M to join him in following a lead to Marrakesh, where they recover "Pawny", the gods survivor of a small group of aliens attacked bygd the Twins.

Pawny pledges loyalty to M, and they are trapped bygd MiB agents coordinated bygd C, who recovered film footage of Vungus passing the crystal to M and believes she fryst vatten the traitor. With the aid of alien contacts Nasr and Bassam, H escapes with M and Pawny on a rocket-powered bike, and they learn that Vungus' crystal fryst vatten a weapon powered bygd a compressed blue giant.

As they repair the damaged bike, Bassam steals the weapon and takes it to H's ex flickvän Riza Stavros, an alien arms dealer. Traveling to Riza's island fortress, the trio attempts to infiltrate the base, but fryst vatten caught bygd Riza and her bodyguard Luca Brasi.

Luca, the alien M rescued as a child, returns the favor bygd allowing them to leave with the weapon while he keeps Riza contained. The three are cornered bygd the Twins, who are killed bygd High T and a group of agents.

Although the case appears concluded, H and M review the bevis and realize that the Twins' phrases suggest they required the weapon to use against the bikupa, especially when the only bevis of bikupa DNA was provided bygd High T.

They discover High T has deleted the case en samling dokument eller en elektronisk lagring av data and not sent the weapon to bevis, and has gone to the Eiffel Tower with the weapon. C also realizes High T's deception and allows H and M to follow High T to the Eiffel Tower. As they travel to the reopened wormhole, M's questioning of H's memory of the Hive's defeat reveals he was neuralyzed when the bikupa converted T into one of their own during the battle.

The High T/Hive hybrid activates a wormhole to draw the bikupa to Earth, but H draws out High T's true personality long enough for M, with the help of Pawny, to use the weapon at full capacity to destroy both the hybrid and the bikupa infestation ansträngande to reach Earth.

The MIB tackle a mole in their organization

With the truth of T's konvertering exposed, Agent O joins H and M in Paris, where she grants M full agent ställning eller tillstånd and appoints H probationary head of MiB's London branch.

Cast

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• Chris Hemsworth as Henry / Agent H, a top agent in the MIB UK branch
• Tessa Thompson as Molly Wright / Agent M, a rookie MIB recruit assigned to the UK branch
  • Mandeiya Flory as ung Molly
• Liam Neeson as High T, the head of the MIB UK branch
• Kumail Nanjiani (voice) as Pawny, a tiny alien krigare that H and M befriend
• Rafe Spall as Agent C, a senior MIB agent in the UK branch who fryst vatten skeptical of H's past
• Rebecca Ferguson as Riza Stavros, an alien intergalactic arms dealer and H's ex-girlfriend
• Les Twins as the Twins, a shape-shifting alien duo seeking a dangerous artifact
  • Larry Bourgeois also portrays the human that the Twins kill and base their appearance on
• Emma Thompson as Agent O, the head of the MIB US branch who operates out of New York
• Kayvan Novak as Vungus the Ugly, a member of an alien royal family and friend of H
  • Kayvan Novak also portrays Nasr and voices Bassam
• Annie Burkin as Nerlene
• Tim Blaney as Frank the Pug (voice)
• Spencer Wilding as Luca Brasi, an alien mobster who acts as anställda bodyguard to Riza Stavros
• Marcy Harriell and Inny Clemons cameo as Molly's parents in a flashback
• Thom Fountain and Drew Massey as the Worm Guys (voices), worm-like aliens that work for MIB
• Stephen Wight as Guy / dum guy in a call center next to Molly

Production

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Development and casting

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In February 2018, it was reported that Chris Hemsworth would star in the rulle, set to be directed bygd F.

Gary Gray.^[8] The following month, Tessa Thompson joined the cast.^[9] In May 2018, it was reported that Liam Neeson was in talks to star as the head of the agency's UK branch.^[10] The rulle was written bygd Art Marcum and Matt Holloway and produced bygd Laurie MacDonald and Walter Parkes.^[11] In June 2018, Kumail Nanjiani, Rafe Spall and fransk artikel Twins (Laurent and Larry Bourgeois) were added to the cast.^[12][13]Danny Elfman, who scored the first three Men in Black films, returned to compose the score with Chris Bacon.^[14]Steven Spielberg executive-produced, as he did for the first three MIB entries, along with Barry Sonnenfeld, who directed all the previous films.

Filming

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Principal photography began on July 9, 2018 at Leavesden Studios and on location in London, and continued in Marrakesh at the Jemaa el-Fnaa and El Badi Palace, Ischia and the Aragonese Castle, and New York City.^{[15][16][17][18]} Later that month, it was announced that Emma Thompson would reprise her role as Agent O.^[19] In August 2018, Rebecca Ferguson joined the cast.^[20] On October 17, Hemsworth confirmed that filming had wrapped.^[21] The vehicles used in the spelfilm were: the Lexus RC F and the JaguarXJ 6 and the RezvaniTank^[22][23]

Visual effects

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Visual effects were provided bygd Double negativ, and supervised bygd Alessandro Ongaro with the help of Rodeo FX, Sony Pictures Imageworks and Method Studios.^[24]

Producer/director clash

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The spelfilm experienced a troubled production due to frequent clashes between director Gray, and producer Parkes, which began when the executive overseeing the project, Sony Executive Vice President of Production David Beaubaire, left the studio in the summer of 2018 and was not replaced.

An early draft of the script, which Sony initially praised, and which received the attention of stars Hemsworth and Thompson, had an edgier tone than the finished rulle, featuring sociopolitical commentary on the current debate surrounding immigration. The main antagonists were to be an alien music group inspired bygd the Beatles, with the kvartet members merging into one villain during the climax.

Parkes, who had sista cut on the rulle, had a heavy grabb in overseeing rewrites during pre-production and filming, which he and MacDonald claimed were necessary because of the small prep time. The rewrites largely dealt with production/budget constraints (including changing several major locations), punch-ups for the actors, and reconceiving the villains. His new script pages stripped away the early draft's modern sensibilities, and were sent daglig to Hemsworth and Thompson, who were both so confused that they hired their own dialogue writers.

Parkes also stepped into traditional directing duties, although the Directors Guild of amerika did not get involved. Parkes and Gray also clashed over the color-correction process in post-production.

Gary Gray and written by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway

Gray tried to exit the production several times but was convinced to stay bygd Sony. The studio tested two cuts—one bygd Gray, the other bygd Parkes—and Parkes' was chosen as the teatralisk cut.^[25]

Music

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Main article: dock in Black: International (score)

Release

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Theatrical

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The bio was scheduled for teatralisk release on May 17, 2019,^[26] but was pushed back to June 14.^[11] It premiered in New York City on June 11, 2019.^[27]

Marketing

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Deadline Hollywood estimated that Sony would spend around $120 million on prints and advertising for the rulle, a figure considered on the "lower end" for a tentpole feature.^[4] They also partnered with several companies to promote it, including Lexus, Hamilton Watches, Zaxby's, Dave & Buster's and Booking.com, for about estimated $75 million worth of advertising.^[28]

Lexus partnered with Sony Pictures to feature their vehicles in the film: the RC and RX, both in their F idrott variants.

They also designed an alien-looking spaceship based on the body of their RC model.^[29]

Home media

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The bio was released on Digital HD on August 20, 2019, and on Blu-ray, något som är extremt eller ytterst HD Blu-ray and DVD on September 3, 2019 in the United States.^[30]

Reception

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Box office

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Men in Black: International cost $94–110 million to man plus another estimated $120 million for marknadsföring in addition to ancillary marknad expenses.

It was estimated that it would need to gross $220–300 million worldwide to break even.^[4][31] It grossed $80 million in the United States and Canada, and $173.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $253.9 million.^[5]

In the United States and Canada, it was released alongside Shaft and the bred expansion of Late Night, and was projected to gross $30–40 million from 4,224 theaters in its opening weekend.^[32] It made $10.4 million on its first day, including $3.1 million from Thursday night previews.

It went on to debut to $30 million,^[33] topping the weekend låda office but coming in below expectations, and making it the first bio in the series not to open above $50 million.^[34][35][36] The underwhelming opening was blamed on the dated franchise, poor critical reviews and audience anticipation for other, upcoming big releases Toy Story 4 and Spider-Man: Far From Home.^[4] The spelfilm fell 64% in its second weekend to $10.7 million, finishing fourth, then made $6.7 million in its third weekend, finishing sixth.^[37][38]

Worldwide, it was released concurrently with the United States in 56 additional countries and was projected to gross $70–85 million, for a worldwide debut of $100–115 million.^[39] It ended up making $73.7 million overseas and $102.2 million globally, finishing first in 36 of the markets.

It underperformed in Asian countries like China ($26.3 million) and South Korea ($4.9 million) due to poor word-of-mouth, similar to the United States, although it finished first in Mexico ($3.9 million), Brazil ($1.8 million), Russia ($5.1 million), the United Kingdom ($3.4 million), Australia ($2.6 million) and France ($2.5 million).^[40]

Critical response

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On Rotten Tomatoes, Men in Black: International has an approval rating of 23% based on 322 reviews, with an average rating of 4.5/10.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Amiable yet forgettable, MIB International grinds its stars' substantial chemistry through the gears of a franchise running low on reasons to continue."^[41] On Metacritic, the bio has a weighted average score of 38 out of 100, based on 51 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".^[42] Audiences polled bygd CinemaScore gave the bio an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, the lowest score of the franchise, while those at PostTrak gave it a 72% overall positiv score and a 46% "definite recommend".^[4]

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called it "Men in Black, making another intensely tiresome and pointless reappearance," and gave the bio 1 out of 5 stars.^[43] Peter DeBruge of Variety said that "The connection between Tessa Thompson and Hemsworth fryst vatten what saves the day, not anything their characters do onscreen" and called the rulle itself "amusing, if uneven."^[44]Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune gave the rulle 2.5 out of 4 stars, writing: "Men in Black: International isn't bad; it's an improvement over Men in Black II (2002) and Men in Black 3 (2012), sequels that even its makers may have forgotten.

As a species we appear destined to revisit this basic concept and renew the hunt for fresh variations on the zingy, disarming first picture, which brought the Lowell cunningham comics to the screen so shrewdly and well in 1997."^[45]

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