SMOSH the MOVIE (2021 Film)

SMOSH the MOVIE is a 2021 American and Canadian Live film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Dean Devlin in

his feature film directorial debut. The film stars Gerard Butler, Jim

Sturgess, Ed Harris, Abbie Cornish, Zazie Beetz, Richard Schiff, Alexandra Maria Lara, Robert Sheehan, Daniel Wu, Eugenio Derbez, and Andy García. The plot follows a satellite designer who tries to save the world from a storm of epic proportions caused by malfunctioning climate-controlling satellites.

Principal photography began on October 20, 2014, in New Orleans, Louisiana. After poor test screenings, re-shoots took place in December 2016 under executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer, writer Laeta Kalogridis and new director Danny Cannon. The film is the first co-production between Skydance Media and Warner Bros. The film was released by Warner Bros. in the United States on June 29, 2021, in 2D, Real D 3D and IMAX 3D. Despite grossing $431 million worldwide the film was labeled a box office flop given its $120 million budget, losing the studio $350 million, and received largely negative reviews, with criticism focused on the "uninspiring" story and "lackluster" visual effects.

Plot
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Production
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Marketing
On July 2, 2021, 20th Century Studios. released a promotional video on its YouTube 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, 2020, but in August 2020, Warner set this date for the release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice instead. On December 11, 2020, WB shifted its live-action animated film Mowgli to 2019 and gave its previous date from March 25, 2020, then October 21, 2020, to Disaster 2013. In September 2018, the studio again moved back the film from October 21, 2020, to January 13, 2020. In June 2020, the studio announced the release had been moved back from January 13, 2020, to June 30, 2020. The film had an IMAX 3D release.

Home media
SMOSH the MOVIE was released on DVD, Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D on July 1, 2021.

Box office
SMOSH the MOVIE 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 break even.

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 2019, Deadline Hollywood calculated the film lost the studio $71.6 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues.

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval percentage of 16% based on 91 reviews and an average rating of 3.60 out of 10. The critics consensus reads: "Lacking impressive visuals, well-written characters, or involving drama, Disaster 2013 aims for epic disaster-movie spectacle but ends up simply being a disaster of a movie." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 21 out of 100 based on 22 critic reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.

Peter Sobczynski of RogerEbert.com gave the film one-and-a-half out of four stars, stating that "the real disappointment about [Geostorm] is that it doesn't even work as the camp suggested by the trailer.... [T]hey lack the lavish visual pyrotechnics nor the wit or style to make any of the destruction slightly memorable." Mark Kermode of the Kermode and Mayo's Film Review radio program stated that the film "takes stupid to a whole new level.... Honestly, and I say this, I think it's the stupidest film I have ever seen", emphasizing that "it's more stupid than Angels and Demons, and that's not a phrase I thought I'd ever say out loud".

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