Imaginaerum (film)

Imaginaerum
Official poster
Directed by	Stobe Harju
Screenplay by	Stobe Harju Mikko Rautalahti Richard Jackson
Story by	Stobe Harju Tuomas Holopainen
Produced by	Neil Dunn Jukka Helle André Rouleau Markus Selin
Starring	Marianne Farley Quinn Lord Francis-Xavier McCarthy Ilkka Villi Joanna Noyes Keyanna Fielding Stéphane Demers Ron Lea Hélène Robitaille
Cinematography	Benoît Beaulieu
Edited by	Mathieu Bélanger
Music by	Nightwish Petri Alanko
Production companies	Solar Films Caramel Films
Distributed by	Scene Nation
Release date	November 23, 2012 (2012-11-23)
Running time	85 minutes
Countries	Finland Canada
Language	English
Budget	$3.7 million
Box office	$190,819 (Finland, Russia, and Malaysia)[1]

Imaginaerum (also promoted as Imaginaerum by Nightwish) is a 2012 fantasy film co-written and directed by Stobe Harju. It was developed with and features music from Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish's seventh studio album of the same name; Nightwish's keyboardist and songwriter Tuomas Holopainen co-wrote the film. Imaginaerum, which is produced by Markus Selin from Solar Films Inc. along with Nightwish, is the feature film debut of director Stobe Harju.

It received grants from the Finnish Film Foundation, a Finnish government institution. The film received $575,000 toward its $3.7 million budget.^[2] The film was originally titled Imaginarium, but the title was later changed to Imaginaerum in order to avoid mix-ups. The film was released on 23 November 2012 in Finland,^[3] followed by releases in Germany (21 March 2013^[4]), Australia (22 October 2014), and North America (16 June 2015^[5]).