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The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible to submit a nomination and vote on the final ballot. [1] The Best Picture ...
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Lucy is an American studying in Taipei, Taiwan. Her new boyfriend Richard tricks her into working as a drug mule for a South Korean kkangpaeand drug lord, and she delivers a briefcase containing four packets of the highly valuable synthetic drug CPH4 to Mr. Jang. After witnessing Richard being shot and killed, she is captured and a bag of the drug ...
Scarlett Johansson as Lucy Miller: An unwilling drug mule who is accidentally dosed with a drug that activates myriad pre-encoded genetic conscious capabilities. The role of Lucy called for "an act...Morgan Freeman as Professor Samuel Norman: A scientist and a professor at the University of Paris who has knowledge of different human capabilities. Producer Virginie Sillastated that given Freeman...Choi Min-sik as Mr. Jang: A Korean drug lord. Besson said that Mr. Jang is the "best villain" he scripted since Gary Oldman's character Norman Stansfield, adding that "Whereas Lucy is the ultimate...Writing
Besson stated that he intended for the first part of Lucy to be like Léon: The Professional (which he also wrote and directed), the second part to be like Inception and the third part to be like 2001: A Space Odyssey. He was intrigued by the brain capacity of Lucy, a female Australopithecus afarensis, stating that her brain weight was only 400g, and modern human brains weigh in around 1.4 kg. "I was very interested with all the science," he said. "When I learned one cell can send 1000 message...
Budget and filming
Lucy was the second largest budget French film production in 2013, with an estimate of 48 million euros. It is also one of the biggest productions for EuropaCorp, the company founded by Luc Besson in 2000. According to EuropaCorp CEOChristophe Lambert, this film had the highest budget in the company's history. Principal photography started in September 2013 at the Cité du Cinéma, a new megastudio located on the outskirts of Paris. On 5 September 2013, scenes were shot at the cliffs of Étretat...
Visual effects
Lucy has the most visual effects in a film directed by Besson, with over 1,000 effects shots under senior visual effects supervisor Nicholas Brooks.The majority of visual effects were done by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), with a team headed by supervisor Richard Bluff. Bluff described Lucy as "really fun because it wasn't a thousand shots of robots or things we typically do," instead relying on short sequences "that required a lot of new ways to problem-solve and to visualize them." ILM beg...
Several print and digital posters were issued by the distributor Universal Pictures for Lucy, with the theatrical release poster including the tagline: "The average person uses 10% of their brain capacity. Imagine what she could do with 100%." On 15 August 2014 Universal Pictures released two advance posters for the upcoming comedy film Dumb and Du...
Lucygrossed $126.7 million in North America and $336.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $463.4 million, against a budget of $40 million. On July 25, Lucy opened at 3,172 theaters in the United States. It opened with $17,088,110, placing it in the top spot for the box office opening weekend, ahead of the competing film Hercules...
Early reviews for the film were positive and mixed, and later generally positive. Lucy was categorized as entertaining and silly, but also polarizing, by critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, it holds an approval rating of 66% based on 241 reviews, with an average rating of 6.00/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Enthusiasti...
Hollywood journalist Nikki Finke reported in a July 2014 post on her film industry blog that: "In August, a Lucy graphic novel will be released online with four chapters appearing every other day for one week."The first chapter of the semi-animated graphic novel was published on the international version of the movie's official website and features...
Charly, a 1968 film based on the 1959 short story and novel Flowers for Algernon, about a man whose IQ gets tripled."Understand", a 1991 novelette by Ted Chiangabout a man who's made super-intelligent by an experimental drug.Phenomenon, a 1996 film in which John Travoltais mysteriously turned into a genius with telekinetic powers.Official website at the Wayback Machine(archived April 7, 2014)Lucy at IMDbLucy at AllMovieUp is a 2009 American animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed by Pete Docter, co-directed by Bob Peterson, and produced by Jonas Rivera. Docter and Peterson also wrote the film's screenplay and story, with Tom McCarthy co-writing the latter.
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