“Amsterdam” is a new David O. Russell movie with an all-star cast led by Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington.
So let’s find out some trivia and facts about the new film.
- Amsterdam is a 2022 period comedy thriller film
- It is written, directed, and produced by David O. Russell
- Led by Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, and John David Washington
- The film features an ensemble cast including Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy, Zoe Saldaña, Mike Myers, Michael Shannon, Timothy Olyphant, Andrea Riseborough, Taylor Swift, Matthias Schoenaerts, Alessandro Nivola, Rami Malek, and Robert De Niro
- It was released in the United States on October 7, 2022, by 20th Century Studios.
- The story is based on the Business Plot, a 1933 political conspiracy in the United States
- The film follows three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and a lawyer—who are caught in the mysterious murder of a US senator
- It was filmed in Los Angeles from January to March 2021
- It is Russell’s first film since Joy (2015)
- Amsterdam received mixed reviews from critics
- Most of whom praised the production design and the performances of the cast
- They criticized Russell’s screenplay and direction
- It was also a box office bomb, with estimated losses for the studio reaching $97 million
- In January 2020, New Regency announced the development on an untitled film written and directed by David O. Russell and starring Christian Bale, with filming expected to begin that April
- In February, Margot Robbie and Michael B. Jordan were announced to star
- But the latter dropped out before production began due to scheduling conflicts
- Jennifer Lawrence was reportedly considered for Robbie’s role, while Jamie Foxx was considered for Jordan’s
- In October, John David Washington was cast as Jordan’s replacement
- The rest of the ensemble cast was revealed between January and June 2021
- Much of the cast worked for scale, including Bale taking less than his typical $5 million fee and Malek earning a six-figure salary
- Filming was originally set to begin in March 2021 in Boston on a $50 million budget, but was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Filming was moved to Los Angeles, California after the cast did not want to travel to Boston amid the pandemic
- Principal photography took place over 49 days between January and March 2021
- The move from Boston to Los Angeles and COVID-precautions caused the film’s final budget to balloon to $80 million
- Crew members included cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (his first feature film since 2015), editor Jay Cassidy, and score composer Hildur Guðnadóttir
- In April 2022, at CinemaCon, the film’s title was revealed to be Amsterdam
- In August, it was revealed that Guðnadóttir exited as composer, with Daniel Pemberton now composing the film
- According to Robbie, on the last day of filming, they kept production going after their filming permit ended, so the police had to call “wrap” on the film
- As of October 9, 2022, Amsterdam has grossed $6.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $3.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $10 million
- This was against a production budget of $80 million
- Following its opening weekend, Deadline Hollywood estimated the film would lose the studio an estimated $97 million, accounting for production budgets, marketing, talent participations, and other costs versus box office grosses and home media revenues
- In the United States and Canada, Amsterdam was released alongside Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
- It was initially projected to gross around $10 million from 3,005 theaters in its opening weekend
- With some estimates reaching $15 million
- The film made $2.6 million on its first day, including $550,000 from Thursday night previews
- Then, expectations were lowered to $7 million
- The film went on to debut to $6.5 million, finishing in third
- Deadline Hollywood blamed the poor performance on the critical response, 134-minute runtime deterring audiences, and Disney being unsure how to market the film due to its quirky style and convoluted plot
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 33% rating
- Based on 186 critics
- With an average rating of 5.1/10
- The site’s critics consensus reads: “Amsterdam has a bunch of big stars and a very busy plot, all of which amounts to painfully less than the sum of its dazzling parts”
- Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 47 out of 100
- Based on 44 critics
- Indicating “mixed or average reviews”
- Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “B” on an A+ to F scale
- While those at PostTrak gave the film a 72% overall positive score
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