Apollo 18 (film)

Apollo 18
Official film poster
Directed byGonzalo López-Gallego
Written byBrian Miller
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJosé David Montero
Edited byPatrick Lussier
Production
company
Distributed byDimension Films (United States)
Alliance Films (Canada)
Release date
  • September 2, 2011 (2011-09-02)
Running time
86 minutes[1]
Countries
  • United States
  • Canada
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5 million[2]
Box office$26.2 million[2]

Apollo 18 is a 2011 found-footage science fiction horror film[3] written by Brian Miller, directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego, and co-produced by Timur Bekmambetov and Michele Wolkoff. An American-Canadian co-production, its premise is that the cancelled Apollo 18 mission actually landed on the Moon in December 1974, but never returned.

Apollo 18 is López-Gallego's first English-language film. After various release date changes, it was released in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada on September 2, 2011.[4] The film received mostly negative reviews, with most critics comparing it negatively to Paranormal Activity, The Blair Witch Project and Alien.

  1. ^ "Apollo 18 (15)". British Board of Film Classification. August 25, 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Apollo 18 (2011)". Box Office Mojo. September 2, 2011. Retrieved October 26, 2011.
  3. ^ "Apollo 18 (2011) – Gonzalo López-Gallego". AllMovie.
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