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Red is a color.

Red or RED may also refer to:

General[link]

Acronyms (RED)

• Random early detection, a queue management algorithm
• Redfern-Eveleigh-Darlington, a redevelopment scheme in Sydney, Australia
• Redruth railway station, Cornwall, England (National Rail station code RED)
• Reverse electrodialysis, used in the blue energy process
• Review of Economic Dynamics, a macroeconomics journal

Other

• Red (nightclub), a night club in Washington, D.C.
• Red (Pillow Pal), a Pillow Pal bull made by Ty, Inc.
• Red Digital Cinema Camera Company, a manufacturer of digital cinema cameras (commonly shortened to "RED" when referring to specific camera models or their output format)
• Red River (disambiguation), various and towns
• Allura Red AC, commonly called Red #40, a food coloring
• American Express Red, a credit card associated with the Product Red initiative
• Product Red, an initiative to raise money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
• Rhode Island Red, a breed of chicken
• Virgin America, uses an in-flight environment called Red

Politics[link]

• Red (political adjective), a term describing communism or its adherents
• Red (Norway), a political party founded in 2007

Music[link]

• Red (band), an American Christian rock band
• Red (Canadian band), a disbanded Canadian folk rock band also known as Uisce Beatha
• Red (King Crimson album), a 1974 album by English progressive rock band King Crimson
• Red (Black Uhuru album), a 1981 album by Jamaican reggae band Black Uhuru
• Red (The Communards album), a 1987 album by British pop duo Communards
• Red (Leslie Cheung album), a 1996 album by Cantopop musician Leslie Cheung
• Red (John Stevens album), a 2005 album by former American Idol contestant John Stevens
• Red (Guillemots album), a 2008 album by English indie rock band Guillemots
• Red (Datarock album), a 2009 album by Norwegian dance-punk group Datarock
• Red (Dia Frampton album), a 2011 album by pop-rock singer Dia Frampton
• The R.E.D. Album, a 2011 album American hip hop artist Game
• Red (Daniel Merriweather song), the fourth single from Australian singer Daniel Merriweather
• Red, a 2003 compilation by Hong Kong Cantopop singer Kelly Chen
• "Red", a hit single by Sammy Hagar featured on his 1977 self-titled album
• "Red", a song by Canadian rock band Treble Charger from their 1997 album Maybe It's Me
• "Red", a single by English alternative rock band Elbow from their album Asleep in the Back
• Red (The Gazette song), a song by Japanese rock band The GazettE from their 2011 album Toxic
• RED Distribution, a record distributor
• "The Red", a hit single by American hard rock band Chevelle from their 2002 album Wonder What's Next
• RED – 1404 AM, a university radio station for the University of Essex

Film[link]

• Red (2002 film), a Tamil film
• Red: The Dark Side, a 2007 Hindi film
• Red (2008 film), an American thriller film
• RED (2010 film), an American action-comedy film based on the comic book mini-series
• Three Colors: Red, a 1994 French-Swiss-Polish film and last film of Three Colors trilogy
• Reds (film), a 1981 film by Warren Beatty

People[link]

• Red (given name)

Fiction[link]

Titled works

• Red (play), a drama about the painter Mark Rothko by John Logan
• Red, a novel in the Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekker
• Red (Doctor Who audio), a Doctor Who audio drama
• Red, a 1998 manga by Kenichi Muraeda
• Red (Naoki Yamamoto manga), a 2007 award-winning manga by Naoki Yamamoto
• Red (manga), a 2006 manga by Sanae Rokuya
• Red (WildStorm comics), a 2003–2004 three-issue comic book mini-series

Characters

• Red (Cars), a fire truck in the Pixar film Cars
• Red (Mega Man), a video game character in the Mega Man X series
• Red (Pokémon), the player character in Pokémon Red and Blue
• Red, a character from the children's show Fraggle Rock
• Red the Dragon, the main villain in the video game Spyro: A Hero's Tail
• Red Forman, a fictional character on That '70s Show
• Red XIII, a character in Final Fantasy VII
• Bertha (South Park), a girl often referred to as Red
• Red, a mascot character for M&M's candy
• Red, the narrator in Steven King's novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and movie The Shawshank Redemption
• Red, a character in Tex Avery's MGM cartoon Red Hot Riding Hood and its sequels
• Red, a character in the film Hoodwinked
• Red Raymond, a fictional character on Hellcats
• Little Red Riding Hood, a fairy tale character

Other

• "Red" (Dark Angel), an episode of the television series Dark Angel
• Reliable Excavation & Demolition, one of the two playable factions in the online video game Team Fortress 2

See also[link]

• All pages beginning with "Red"
• Redding (disambiguation)
• Redd (disambiguation)
• Reds (disambiguation)
• Rouge, the French word for Red
• Code Red (disambiguation)

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RED is a 2010 American action-comedy film inspired by the limited comic book series of the same name created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, and published by the DC Comics imprint Homage. The film stars Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirren, and Karl Urban with Robert Schwentke directing a screenplay by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber. The film was released on October 15, 2010.^[3]

In the film version, the title is derived from the designation of the status of agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), meaning "Retired, Extremely Dangerous". A sequel has been confirmed for a summer 2013 release. ^[4][5]

Plot[link]

Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), a former black-ops CIA agent, is retired and living a quiet life in the Cleveland suburb of Parma Heights. However, he begins to feel lonely and often chats on the phone with Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker), a customer service agent working for Frank's pension office in Kansas City. He creates opportunities to talk to her by tearing up his pension checks and calling her to say they had never arrived.

His life is disrupted when a hit squad raids his house in the middle of the night. Frank kills the assassins and, knowing they would have tapped his phone, goes to Kansas City to protect Sarah. She becomes Frank's reluctant companion while he tries to find out who is trying to kill him, and track down his old black ops team for help. Meanwhile, CIA agent William Cooper (Karl Urban) is assigned to hunt and kill Frank.

Frank kidnaps Sarah, keeping her tied up and gagged in his car and then at the hotel, first goes to New Orleans to find his mentor Joe Matheson (Morgan Freeman), currently living in a retirement community and terminally ill, who tells him that the hit squad Frank killed were also responsible for the murder of a New York Times reporter. While avoiding Cooper, Frank and Sarah find clues left behind by the deceased reporter, which leads them to a hit list. They then track down Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich), also a former black ops agent and a paranoid conspiracy theorist, to provide more information. Marvin tells them that the names on the list are all connected to a 1981 secret mission in Guatemala in which Frank and Marvin participated, and that one person, Gabriel Singer (James Remar), is still alive. The trio track down Singer, who tells them that the mission involved extracting a person from a village and that everybody on the list has been killed to silence them. Singer is then assassinated by a helicopter-borne machine-gunner, and the team makes their escape as Cooper closes in. With the help of Russian secret agent Ivan Simanov (Brian Cox), Frank and Sarah infiltrate the CIA headquarters to steal the file but Frank is injured in the process after fighting with Cooper. Joe, having escaped an attempt on his life, helps extract the team and joins them, and they all hide out in Victoria's (Helen Mirren) house for first aid. Victoria, who misses her old life as a wetwork agent, joins the team as well.

After reviewing the file, all the team can figure out is that the only man involved on the reporter's list but not in the file, Alexander Dunning (Richard Dreyfuss), has some way of protecting himself. The team arrives at Dunning's house, where he reveals under interrogation that the mission was to extract Vice-President Robert Stanton (Julian McMahon), who at the time was a young lieutenant who experienced a breakdown and massacred the occupants of the village. It becomes apparent that Stanton is trying to erase all the loose ends as he plans to run for president. At that moment, Cooper and the FBI surround Dunning's mansion. Cooper tries to negotiate Frank's surrender, but Frank tells Cooper about the vice-president's treachery, which shakes his faith. Joe sacrifices himself by taking Frank's place and pretending to give up. An unknown sniper kills Joe as he leaves the mansion, despite Cooper's order to hold fire. The confusion buys the team enough time to escape, but Sarah is captured. Frank calls Cooper, from his house and threatens his family if Sarah is harmed, and says that he intends to kill Stanton.

The team, along with Ivan (revealed to be Victoria's former lover), infiltrate Stanton's fundraising gala in Chicago and successfully kidnap him despite Cooper's best efforts to stop them. Frank calls Cooper and says he is willing to trade Stanton for Sarah. At the meeting point, Dunning arrives and reveals that he is the mastermind behind the assassinations and that Stanton was merely a pawn and scapegoat. Cooper's handler, Cynthia Wilkes (Rebecca Pidgeon), is also in on the plot. Disgusted with Dunning and Wilkes' greed and corruption and being used by her and Dunning, Cooper gives Frank the key to his handcuffs and shoots Wilkes while Marvin and Victoria kill Dunning's bodyguards, and Frank crushes Dunning's windpipe. Cooper agrees to let Frank and his team go. As they leave the scene, Frank and Sarah are eager to start a new life together.

The final scene shows Frank and Marvin in Moldova, fleeing from Moldovan Army troops with a stolen nuclear device, in a wooden wheelbarrow with Marvin wearing a dress being pushed by Frank, as part of returning a favor to Ivan for his help.

Cast[link]

• Bruce Willis^[3] as Frank Moses
• Mary-Louise Parker^[3] as Sarah Ross
• Morgan Freeman^[6] as Joe Matheson
• Helen Mirren^[7][8] as Victoria
• John Malkovich^[8][9] as Marvin Boggs
• Karl Urban^[10] as William Cooper
• Julian McMahon^[11] as Vice President Robert Stanton
• Ernest Borgnine^[11] as Henry, The Records Keeper
• Richard Dreyfuss^[11] as Alexander Dunning
• Brian Cox^[11][12] as Ivan Simanov
• James Remar^[13] as Gabriel Singer
• Rebecca Pidgeon as Cynthia Wilkes
• Jefferson Brown as Fred
• Chris Owens as Hanged Man
• Jaqueline Fleming as Marna
• Randy Wade Kelley as Paramedic
• Jason Giuliano as Endercott
• Alec Rayme as Cop at intersection
• Lawrence Turner as Retirement Home Assassin
• Emily Kuroda as Mrs.Chan
• Joe Chrest as Retirement Home Detective
• Justine Wachsberger as Nurse

Production[link]

Gregory Noveck, a representative of DC Comics working in Hollywood to get their titles made into films, wanted the comic developed but Warner Brothers was not interested. The creators of the comic exercised their right to go to elsewhere but this required approval from all divisions of Warner including television before it could be approved. After several years, in 2008 Noveck was allowed to take the project elsewhere, to Mark Vahradian at Di Bonaventura Productions. Unusually this made it the first film from DC not produced by Warner Bros.^[14]

In June 2008, Summit Entertainment announced plans to adapt Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner's RED. RED was adapted for the big screen by brothers Erich and Jon Hoeber, who also wrote the adaptations of Whiteout and Alice. The project was produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (GI Joe, Transformers).^[15]

By April 2009, Bruce Willis was reportedly in discussions with Summit to take the starring role of Frank Moses.^[16] It was reported in July 2009 that Morgan Freeman was in talks to co-star alongside Bruce Willis in the film.^[17] Also in July 2009, Robert Schwentke, the director of The Time Traveler's Wife and Flightplan, was in negotiations to direct RED.^[18] In August 2009 Schwentke confirmed to MTV News that he was onboard. He stated that he loved the script but there are differences between the comic and the movie stating; "It's very funny, which the comic book isn't ... It's not as violent as the comic book," and that "The script that I've read is obviously different from the comic, because I don't think the comic gives you enough for a two-hour movie."^[6]

In November 2009, it was reported that Helen Mirren would work alongside Freeman and Willis in the film.^[7] It was also reported in November 2009 that John C. Reilly and Mary-Louise Parker were in negotiations to join the cast. Reilly would play a retired CIA agent who is paranoid that everyone is out to kill him. Parker would play the romantic interest, a federal pension worker who becomes embroiled in the Willis character's struggle to stay alive.^[19] In the same month Julian McMahon, Ernest Borgnine, Richard Dreyfuss and Brian Cox entered negotiations to join the cast.^[11]

In December 2009, creator Warren Ellis stated on his mailing list that "(I) Read the RED script. Not bad. Not the book, but not bad. Funny. Especially when you know the casting. Very tight piece of work. Talked to the producers last week. They're all kind of giddy over the casting coups. Who wouldn't want to see Helen Mirren with a sniper rifle?"^[20] Also in December 2009 Summit Entertainment announced a release date of October 22, 2010.^[21] The same month James Remar was cast in an unspecified role,^[13] in addition to Karl Urban as "Cooper".^[10] In January 2010 it was reported that John Malkovich had signed to star opposite Bruce Willis, replacing John C. Reilly, who exited the role in late December.^[9]

Principal photography began on RED on January 18, 2010 in Toronto, Canada. RED was shot in and around the Toronto metropolitan area for nine weeks before moving on to the road and ending in New Orleans in late March for the final two weeks of principal photography.^[3] Filming in the French Quarter of New Orleans commenced in March 2010.^[22] Additional photography was shot for a post-credits scene in Louisiana in August 2010.^[23]

Release[link]

RED premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California on October 11, 2010.^[24][25]

Marketing[link]

Mirren and Willis at a panel for the film at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2010

A teaser trailer for the film was released in June 2010.^[26] The first full trailer debuted in July 2010 at the San Diego Comic-Con International.^[8]

Home media[link]

RED was released on Blu-ray and DVD on January 25, 2011.^[27]

Reception[link]

Critical response[link]

Reception for the film has been mostly positive. RED has a 71% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 170 reviews with an average rating of 6.3/10.^[28] Metacritic gave the film a score of 61% based on a normalized rating of 37 reviews.^[29]

Positive reviewers of the film include Justin Chang of Variety stated RED is "An amusing, light-footed caper about a team of aging CIA veterans rudely forced out of retirement".^[30] John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter stated "Although tailor-made for genre fans, it benefits from flavors of humor and romance that keep its appeal from being fanboy-only".^[31] John Malkovich received particular praise for his role in the film.

Critics of the film include Roger Ebert who gave the film two stars out of four, stating that it's "neither a good movie nor a bad one. It features actors that we like doing things we wish were more interesting."^[32]

Box office[link]

On its opening weekend Red earned an estimated $22.5 million on around 4,100 screens at 3,255 locations, coming in second behind Jackass 3-D.^[33] As of March 25, 2011, the film has grossed over $90 million in the United States and total of over $186.5 million worldwide.^[1]

Awards[link]

Sequels[link]

In January 2011, it was reported and later confirmed that Summit rehired writers Erich and Jon Hoeber to write a second installment due to the film's financial success, which even surpassed producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura's expectations.^[35][36] Helen Mirren stated in March 2011, that she is ready for Red 2.^[37] In October 2011, Summit Entertainment announced that Red 2 will be released on August 2, 2013 and the film "will reunite the team of retired CIA operatives with some new friends as they use their 'old-school style' to take on new enemies in Europe".^[38] In February 2012, Dean Parisot, best known for directing Galaxy Quest and Fun With Dick and Jane, entered final negotiations to direct the sequel.^[39] In May 2012, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Lee Byung-hun signed on to join the cast of Red 2.^[40] Also in May, it was reported that Anthony Hopkins was up to appear in the film as the villain, Edward Bailey, if a scheduling conflict could be worked out with Thor 2.^[41]

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