Welcome to the Punch

Welcome to the Punch
UK cinema poster
Directed byEran Creevy
Written byEran Creevy
Produced byRory Aitken
Ben Pugh
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones
Starring
CinematographyEd Wild
Edited byChris Gill
Music byHarry Escott
Production
companies
Distributed byMomentum Pictures
Release dates
  • 24 February 2013 (2013-02-24) (Glasgow Film Festival)
  • 15 March 2013 (2013-03-15)
Running time
99 minutes[2]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$8.5 million[3]
Box office$3.9 million[4]

Welcome to the Punch is a 2013 British action thriller film written and directed by Eran Creevy and starring James McAvoy, Mark Strong, and Andrea Riseborough.[5][6] The script had been placed on the 2010 Brit List, a film-industry-compiled list of the best unproduced screenplays in British film. With seven votes, the film was placed third.[7][8]

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  2. ^ "WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 15 March 2013. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Welcome to the Punch". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Welcome to the Punch".
  5. ^ "James McAvoy hits kerb filming car chase scenes for Welcome to the Punch". mirror.co.uk. 23 August 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
  6. ^ "James McAvoy cast in Welcome To The Punch". Britmovie. 26 April 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
  7. ^ "The Brit List 2010". Industrialscripts.co.uk. 5 November 2010. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
  8. ^ Dawtrey, Adam (6 November 2010). "Brit List spotlights unproduced gems". Variety. Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2022.