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Directed by | Craig Zobel |
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Cinematography | Darran Tiernan |
Edited by | Jane Rizzo |
Music by | Nathan Barr |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 90 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $14 million[2] |
Box office | $12.4 million[2][3] |
The Hunt is a 2020 American action horror film[a] directed by Craig Zobel and written by Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof. The film stars Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, and Emma Roberts. Jason Blum was a producer under his Blumhouse Productions banner, along with Lindelof.[4] Zobel and Lindelof have said that the film is intended as a satire on the profound political divide between the American left and right.[5] It is about a group of elites who kidnap working class people to hunt them.
The film was first announced in March 2018, and the cast signed on a year later. Filming took place in New Orleans. The film was originally scheduled for release on September 27, 2019. However, as a result of the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings in early August 2019, Universal Pictures decided to delay it.
The Hunt was released in theaters in the United States on March 13, 2020, by Universal Pictures and received mixed reviews from critics. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the closure of most theaters within a week of the film's release, which resulted in the film underperforming at the box office, grossing only $12.4 million. Universal made The Hunt available digitally on March 20.
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