Collateral

Collateral

The film Collateral is a crime thriller which was made in 2004. The films plot is based on a cab driver (Jamie Foxx) finding himself the hostage of an impatient contract killer ( Tom Cruise) as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles. The cab driver then has to find a way to save both one last victim and himself.

 

The film was directed by Michael Mann and written by Stuart Beattie. This was Michael Manns first feature film to be shot mostly with high definition cameras. One event of note was the filming of the coyotes running across the road, the low light capability allowed Mann to spontaneously film the fox without having to set up lighting for the shot.

 

Collateral opened on August 6, 2004 in 3,188 theatres in the US and Canada and grossed approximately $24.7 million on its opening weekend which it ranked #1 at the box office. The film remained in theatres for 14 weeks and grossed $101,005,703 in the US and Canada. In other countries it grossed a total of $116,758,588 for a total worldwide gross of $217,764,291.