The Kingdom is a 2007 action film directed by Peter Berg and starring Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ashraf Barhom, with Kyle Chandler, Jeremy Piven, Richard Jenkins and Ali Suliman.
The film is fictional, but inspired by bombings at the Riyadh compound on May 12, 2003 and the Khobar housing complex on June 26, 1996, in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The story follows a team of FBI agents who investigate the bombing of a foreign-workers facility in Saudi Arabia. Screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan has summarised the plot as "What would a murder investigation look like on Mars?”[1]
The film was screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival as its yearly 'Surprise Movie' on 22 August 2007.[2]
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The film is fictional, but inspired by bombings at the Riyadh compound on May 12, 2003 and the Khobar housing complex on June 26, 1996, in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The story follows a team of FBI agents who investigate the bombing of a foreign-workers facility in Saudi Arabia. Screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan has summarised the plot as "What would a murder investigation look like on Mars?”[1]
The film was screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival as its yearly 'Surprise Movie' on 22 August 2007.[2]
| Directed by | Peter Berg |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Michael Mann Scott Stuber |
| Written by | Matthew Michael Carnahan |
| Starring | Jamie Foxx Ashraf Barhom Chris Cooper Jennifer Garner Jason Bateman Kyle Chandler Richard Jenkins Jeremy Piven Ali Suliman |
| Music by | Danny Elfman |
| Cinematography | Mauro Fiore |
| Editing by | Colby Parker Jr. Kevin Stitt |
| Studio | Relativity Media |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 22, 2007 (EIFF) September 28, 2007 (United States) October 11, 2007 (Germany) |
| Running time | 109 minutes |
| Country | United States Germany |
| Language | English Arabic |
| Budget | $70 million |
| Box office | $86,579,130 |
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