''Geostorm'' is a 2017 American

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directed, co-written, and co-produced by

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(in his feature directorial debut). The film stars

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Abbie Cornish Abbie Cornish (born 7 August 1982) is an Australian actress. Cornish is best known for her film roles as Heidi in '' Somersault'' (2004), Fanny Brawne in '' Bright Star'' (2009), Sweet Pea in '' Sucker Punch'' (2011), Lindy in '' Limitless'' ( ...

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, and

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. It follows a

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designer who tries to save the world from a storm of epic proportions caused by malfunctioning climate-controlling satellites.

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began on October 20, 2014, in

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. After poor test screenings, re-shoots took place in December 2016 under executive producer

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, writer Laeta Kalogridis and new director Danny Cannon. The film is the only co-production between

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and Warner Bros. The film was released by Warner Bros. in the United States on October 20, 2017, in 2D, Real D 3D and

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. Despite grossing $221 million worldwide the film was labeled a

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given its $120 million budget (not including marketing costs), losing Warner Bros. $74 million, and received largely negative reviews, with criticism focused on the "uninspiring" story and "lackluster" visual before it was released in

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and released in theatres.

Plot

In 2019, following many catastrophic

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, an international coalition commissions a system of climate-controlling satellites called "Dutch Boy". After it neutralizes a

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, a

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sub-committee reprimands chief architect Jake Lawson because he brought Dutch Boy online without authorization. He is replaced by his brother Max, who works under

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Leonard Dekkom. Three years later, a UN team stationed in the

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discovers a frozen village. Makmoud Habib, an Indian engineer working on the International Climate Space Station (ICSS), copies data from the satellite responsible for

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onto a hard drive before he is killed in a supposed accident. After convincing

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Andrew Palma to conduct an investigation, Max persuades Jake to go to the ICSS to investigate. In

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, a satellite severely increases city temperatures and causes

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and the collapse of multiple buildings. Jake arrives at the ICSS to examine the malfunctioning satellites, which were damaged and their data erased. He works with station commander Ute Fassbinder and her crew, consisting of engineer Eni Adisa, systems specialist Duncan Taylor, technician Al Hernandez, and security officer Ray Dussette. They recover the hard drive but hide it from the crew, suspecting a traitor. Examining the data leads to the discovery that a

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has been introduced, causing the malfunctions and has wiped out the login access of key senior people to the satellite. Suspecting Palma is using Dutch Boy as a weapon, Jake tells Max he needs to reboot the system to eliminate the virus, requiring the kill code held by Palma. The ICSS staff neutralize malfunctioning satellites by deliberately knocking them offline via collisions with replacement ones. Back on Earth, Cheng Long discovers that he and Max have lost login access and warns Max of a global cataclysm known as a "Geostorm" if the malfunction continues. Cheng is pursued to Washington, D.C. by a team of rogue government agents, who kill him in a traffic incident, but not before he says "Zeus." Discovering Project Zeus simulates extreme weather patterns to create a Geostorm, Max enlists his girlfriend,

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agent Sarah Wilson, to acquire the code. During this time, the ICSS team loses control of all operations as the virus initiates the

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program. During the DNC in Orlando, Florida, Max discovers Orlando is next to be targeted after a massive

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hits

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and an offshore cold snap takes out a portion of

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. Max requests Dekkom's help, who instead unsuccessfully tries to kill him, revealing himself as the saboteur. Max immediately informs Sarah, so they kidnap Palma to protect him from Dekkom's agents and secure the kill code. As they escape from the arena before a lightning storm destroys it, Max discloses their activities and Dekkom's treachery to Palma. After outsmarting Dekkom's mercenaries, the three arrest Dekkom and confront him about his plan to eliminate the other elected officials in America's line of succession, allowing him to dominate the world while eliminating America's enemies. Max and Sarah escort Palma to the

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, where they transmit the code but learn that the self-destruct sequence cannot be stopped. More disasters strike around the world (including

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es in

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, a major

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, and a

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). Jake realizes Duncan is the traitor who masterminded Habib's death and created the storms on Dekkom's orders and confronts him. Duncan reveals that he's doing it for the big paycheck from Dekkom as he receives a meager salary as a software engineer. Jake mocks him for his foolishness as if he does not stop the Geostorm, there will be nothing left on Earth for him to spend his millions. But Duncan sadistically states that he is curious to see how the world would end. Jake escapes in the ensuing confrontation, and Duncan accidentally ejects himself into space. As the crew evacuates the station, Jake and Ute stay behind to ensure the system's reboot, eliminating the virus and transferring satellite control to

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, thus preventing the Geostorm at the last second. They then escape in a replacement satellite, where they take shelter as the self-destruct sequence completes. They use the replacement satellite's thrusters as a beacon, and a nearby shuttle piloted by Hernandez picks them up. Six months later, Jake is working as the head engineer for Dutch Boy once more, now administere by an international committee.

Cast

as Jacob "Jake" Lawson, a satellite designer, former ICSS commander, and Hannah's father *

as Assistant Secretary of State Max Lawson, Jake's younger brother and Hannah's uncle *

as U.S.

Agent Sarah Wilson, Max's fiancée * Alexandra Maria Lara as Ute Fassbinder, the commander of the space station and DLR Astronaut *

as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom *

as U.S. President Andrew Palma *

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Senator Thomas Cross *

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as Duncan Taylor, a British crew member of the ICSS and UKSA Astronaut *

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as Al Hernandez, a Mexican crew member of the ICSS and AEM Astronaut * Adepero Oduye as Eni Adisa, a Nigerian crew member of the ICSS and NASRDA Astronaut * Amr Waked as Ray Dussette, a French crew member of the ICSS and

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Astronaut *

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as Cheng Long, the Hong Kong-based supervisor for the Dutch Boy Program * Zazie Beetz as Dana, a cybersecurity expert, and good friends with Max *

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as Hannah Lawson, Jake's daughter and Max's niece. She is the beginning and end narrator of the film. * Billy Slaughter as Karl Dright *

Tom Choi Tom T. Choi (born in Daegu, South Korea) is a Korean-American actor best known for ''Teen Wolf (2011 TV series), Teen Wolf'' and his voice work on the ''Mortal Kombat'' video games and the first season of ''Squid Game''. He has acted in numerous ...

as Chinese Representative Lee *

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as Dr. Jennings *

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as Emmett *

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as General Montgaff * Drew Powell as Chris Campbell Katheryn Winnick had been cast as Olivia Lawson, Jake's ex-wife and the mother of Hannah, but during reshoots, her role was recast with Julia Denton.

Production

explained

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to his daughter Hannah, she asked why a machine could not be built to fix that. Devlin went on to imagine such a thing, and how it could be used for evil purposes. As he struggled to develop his script, he asked the help of Paul Guyot, specially to write the brother dynamics. In 2013, Skydance Productions purchased the filming rights. After Skydance's distributing partner

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put the project into turnaround, ''Geostorm'' was pitched and accepted by Warner Bros.

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began on July 7, 2014. With an initial budget of $82 million,

principal photography Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production. Personnel Besides the main film personnel, such as a ...

began on October 20, 2014, in

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, and lasted through February 10, 2015. Filming began on Loyola Avenue on the first day. Some NASA scenes were filmed at a NASA Rocket Factory in New Orleans in November 2014 and January 2015. After poor test screenings in December 2015, $15 million reshoots were conducted in Louisiana in early December 2016, under new producer

, writer Laeta Kalogridis and director Danny Cannon. Winnick's role was recast with Julia Denton during reshoots, while new characters were added into the script.

Marketing

On October 16, 2017, Warner Bros. released a promotional video on its

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channel. In the video, a New York taxicab outfitted with hidden cameras drives onto a street apparently affected by an ice storm, much to the shock of its unwitting passengers.

Release

The film was originally set for release on March 25, 2016, but in August 2014, Warner set this date for the release of '' Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'' instead. On December 11, 2014, WB shifted its live-action animated film ''

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'' to 2017 and gave its previous date from March 25, 2016, then October 21, 2016, to ''Geostorm''. In September 2015, the studio again moved back the film from October 21, 2016, to January 13, 2017. In June 2016, the studio announced the release had been moved back from January 13, 2017, to October 20, 2017. The film had an IMAX 3D release.

Home media

''Geostorm'' was released on

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and

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on January 16, 2018.

Reception

Box office

''Geostorm'' grossed $33.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $187.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $221.4 million, against a production budget of $120 million. It was estimated the film needed to gross $300–350 million worldwide in order to

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. In North America, the film was released alongside '' Boo 2! A Madea Halloween'', '' The Snowman'' and '' Only the Brave'', and was expected to gross $10–12 million from 3,246 theaters in its opening weekend. After not holding Thursday night preview screenings, the film made $4.2 million on Friday. It went on to debut to $13.3 million, finishing second at the box office. The week after its release, it was reported the film would likely lose the studio around $100 million. In March 2018, ''

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'' calculated the film lost Warner Bros. $71.6 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues.

Critical response

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, the film holds an approval rating of 17% based on 93 reviews, with an average rating of 3.60/10. The site's critical consensus read, "Lacking impressive visuals, well-written characters, or involving drama, ''Geostorm'' aims for epic disaster-movie spectacle but ends up simply being a disaster of a movie." On

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, the film had a weighted average score of 21 out of 100, based on reviews from 22 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by

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gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave it a 67% overall positive score and a 49% "definite recommend". ''

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'' gave the film a negative review and stated, "Disaster movies might have just flatlined with director and co-writer Dean Devlin's chaotically stupid bid to emulate his old partner, catastrophe peddler

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of '' ScreenCrush'' gave the film 2 out of 10, calling the film a "slog, but the final act achieves a kind of transcendent idiocy." Peter Debruge of '' Variety'' gave the film a negative review and stated, "The only thing more reliable than bad weather is bad movies, and in that respect, ''Geostorm'' is right on forecast." A. O. Scott of ''

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'' gave the film a negative review and stated, "''Geostorm'' uses digital technology to lay waste to a bunch of cities and hacky screenwriting to assault the dignity of several fine actors." Peter Sobczynski of '' RogerEbert.com'' gave the film 1.5 out of 4 and stated that ''Geostorm'' "really could have used a Sharknado or two to liven things up." ''

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'' gave the film 2 out of 5 and criticized its lack of "exciting action", "chintzy visuals", and "without enough Gerald to go around". ''

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'' gave the film a 'D' score and sarcastically summarized the film as "a bunch of supposedly connected scenes that don't seem to even know each other and were maybe shot years apart." Mike D'Angelo of ''

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'' gave the film a score of 'D+' and praised its "15 minutes worth of impressive annihilation", but criticized its "dramatic monotony". Anna Smith of '' Time Out'' gave the film 2 out of 5 and found it to be "appealing to scientists looking for a good laugh." ''

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'' praised its "clever premise", but cited its result as "mostly dull-witted". ''

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'' gave the film 2 out of 5 and remarked that audiences "have been sold a false bill of goods." Donald Clarke of ''

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'' gave the film 2 out of 5 and stated, "''Geostorm'' feels like the sequel to a slightly better, slightly more expensive, significantly more

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y film that made all its money in foreign-language territories." ''

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'' gave the film a negative review and stated, "Big, dumb and boring, 'Geostorm''finds the co-writer of

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hoping to start a directing career with the same playbook - but forgetting several rules of the game."

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of ''

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'' gave the film 1 out of 5 and stated, "Watching Gerard Butler solve a whodunit is like watching ... chimpanzees move a piano downstairs: a kind of teeth-baring, flea-picking burlesque of recognizable human behavior that's funny for a while until you start to worry about the ethics of it." Alissa Wilkinson of '' Vox'' gave the film 0.5 out of 5 and stated, "The level of boredom I experienced during ''Geostorm'' ought to qualify as at least a second-degree felony in the state of New York."

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of '' Kermode & Mayo's Film Review'' gave the film a negative review and stated, "It is the kind of film in which having a

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will get you punched in the face, but the fact that Gerald Butler talks like

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in that weird sequence from The Untouchables? Nobody cares." '' Empire Magazine'' gave the film 2 out of 5 and called it "not quite the geostinker people were expecting, but the outlook is far from favorable."

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