Everything You Need to Know About Profile Movie (2021): Apr. 10, 2021 - added a poster to the photo gallery - Movie Insider (original) (raw)
Plot Outline: A journalist risks her life by infiltrating militant extremist groups online.
Who's Involved:
Timur Bekmambetov, Valene Kane, Shazad Latif, Britt Poulton, Igor Tsay, Olga Kharina
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Runtime: N/A
Language: English
Plot: What's the story about?
Follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself.
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Who stars in Profile: Cast List
Who's making Profile: Crew List
A look at the Profile behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Timur Bekmambetov last directed Mercy and Ben Hur.
Producers
Timur Bekmambetov
Olga Kharina
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Production: What we know about Profile?
Key Facts
- Inspired by the 2015 nonfiction bestseller In the Skin of a Jihadist by a French journalist who now has round-the-clock police protection and has changed her name to Anna Érelle.
- Profile premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2018, receiving rave critics’ reviews and an Audience Award, and took the same prize at SXSW later that year.
- The unconventional thriller plays out entirely on a computer screen in the Screenlife format, pioneered by Bekmambetov. As a producer, his big break came with his Screenlife films Unfriended, which was picked up by Universal and grossed about 65millionworldwide—onabudgetof65 million worldwide — on a budget of 65millionworldwide—onabudgetof1 million, and Debra Messing and John Cho-led Searching picked up by Sony Pictures and making $75 million on an even smaller budget.
Filming Timeline
- 2021 - March: The film was set to Completed status.
Profile Release Date: When was the film released?
Profile was a limited release in 2021 on Friday, May 14, 2021. There were 13 other movies released on the same date, including Spiral: From the Book of Saw, Finding You and Those Who Wish Me Dead.
As a limited theatrical release, Profile will only be shown in select movie theaters across major markets. Please check Fandango and Atom Tickets to see if the film is playing in your area. Sometimes, limited theatrical releases are simulatenously released to buy or rent on video on demand services like Prime Video and Apple TV.
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