Lift Trivia | 25 facts about the movie

Lift is an upcoming American heist comedy film directed by F. Gary Gray and written by Daniel Kunka starring Kevin Hart.

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1. Lift is an upcoming American heist comedy film.
2. It was directed by F. Gary Gray.
3. The screenplay was written by Daniel Kunka. The film stars Kevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Vincent D’Onofrio, Úrsula Corberó, Billy Magnussen, Jacob Batalon, Jean Reno, and Sam Worthington.
4. Lift was released by Netflix on January 12, 2024.
5. Filming in Ward Park, Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland on 2nd June 2022.
6. In the scenes shot in Venice, Italy they used 400 extras between people in Carnival masks and tourists.
7. On 20, 23 and 24 May 2022 filming took place in Miramare, Trieste, Italy.
8. The shots shot on Riva degli Schiavoni in Venice were shot on 10 May 2022 from 6:30 in the morning.
9. Filming in Venice, Italy took place from 9 to 19 May 2022.
10. Jeremy Doner and Drew Pearce also worked on the script.
11. Kevin Hart and Jean Reno previously starred Die Hart (2020) together.
12. Vincent D’Onofrio and Billy Magnussen both starred in a Will Smith movie, D’Onofrio was in Men in black (1997) and Magnussen was in Aladdin (2019).
13. Kevin Hart also served as producer.
14. In March 2021, Dan Kunka’s spec script Lift was acquired by Netflix.
15. Simon Kinberg’s Genre Pictures and Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho were set to produce.
16. In September, F. Gary Gray was set to direct and Kevin Hart was attached to star and produce.
17. Principal photography took place from February to May 2022 in Italy and Northern Ireland.
18. Filming occurred in March at Belfast’s Harbour Studios.
19. cenes were shot in Trieste on the Miramare Castle grounds in late May.
20. It was originally scheduled to be released on August 25, 2023.
21. However, it was postponed to its current date, due to the impact of the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike in the United States on the film’s promotion.
22. Its running time is 104 minutes.
23. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 36% of 11 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.6/10.
24. On review aggregator Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score of 42 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.
25. Lift is largely focused on one big heist in midair, but there was a slightly smaller-scale heist on Nov. 5, when Swoop, the mascot of the Philadelphia Eagles, lifted the trailer from Netflix offices during the second quarter of the Eagles’ game against the Dallas Cowboys. That rascal.