Equals (film)

Equals is a 2015 American science fiction romantic drama film, written by Nathan Parker and directed by Drake Doremus. It stars Nicholas Hoult, Kristen Stewart, Guy Pearce, and Jacki Weaver.

The film had its world premiere in the international competition section at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. The film had its North American premiere in the Special Presentations programme at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

Plot

In a futuristic utopian society, human emotions have been eradicated and everyone lives in peace but when a new disease surfaces, everything changes for illustrator Silas (Hoult). He becomes an outcast once infected and is drawn to his writer co-worker Nia (Stewart), who is also infected but hiding her condition. In order to survive, they have to escape together.

Cast

Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession. A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques; by means of CGI and computer animation; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to the industry of films and filmmaking or to the art of filmmaking itself. The contemporary definition of cinema is the art of simulating experiences to communicate ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty or atmosphere by the means of recorded or programmed moving images along with other sensory stimulations.

The process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry.

Kristen Stewart

Kristen Jaymes Stewart (born April 9, 1990) is an American actress, known for playing the protagonist Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga film series from 2008–12, which has grossed over $3.3 billion worldwide. She is the "face" of Chanel and Balenciaga fashion brands.

Stewart began her career in 1999 and came to prominence playing Jodie Foster's daughter in the 2002 thriller Panic Room. She has since starred in a range of films, including Speak (2004), Zathura (2005), Into The Wild (2007), Adventureland (2009), The Runaways (2010), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), On the Road (2012), Camp X-Ray (2014), Still Alice (2014) and Equals (2015).

Stewart was listed as the highest-earning female actress in the Vanity Fair "Hollywood Top Earners List of 2010", with an estimated earning of $28.5 million. In 2011, she was named number one on Forbes magazine's list of "Hollywood's Best Actors for the Buck".Forbes also named her as the highest paid actress in 2012, with total earnings of $34.5 million. She won the Rising Star BAFTA Award in 2010, and became the first American actress to win a Cesar Award, when she won Best Supporting Actress in 2015 for her role opposite Juliette Binoche in Clouds of Sils Maria (2014).

Nicholas Hoult

Nicholas Caradoc Hoult (born 7 December 1989) is an English actor. Born in Berkshire, Hoult made his professional acting debut at the age of seven in the 1996 film Intimate Relations. He received recognition after landing the role of Marcus Brewer in About a Boy, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. He received further acclaim for his performance as Tony Stonem in Skins.

Following these roles, Hoult found significant commercial success after landing the role of Beast in the X-Men films For his role as R in the romantic zombie comedy Warm Bodies, he received three Teen Choice Award nominations and won the Teen Choice Award for Choice Breakout. In 2015, he starred as Lyle Wirth in Dark Places and as Nux in Mad Max: Fury Road and is set to reprise his role as Beast in the upcoming superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse.

Early life

Hoult was born in Wokingham, Berkshire, the third of four children of Glenis (née Brown; born 1954), a piano teacher, and Roger Hoult (born 1953), a pilot for British Airways. His siblings are Clarista, James, and Rosanna, and his great-aunt was actress Dame Anna Neagle.

Drake Doremus

Drake Doremus (born March 29, 1983) is a film director and screenwriter best known for directing the films Like Crazy (2011) which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival,Douchebag (2010) which was in Dramatic competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and Spooner (2009). Doremus studied directing at the American Film Institute, being the youngest fellow ever accepted into the AFI Conservatory.

Doremus also taught at the Orange County High School of the Arts for a couple of semesters.

His 2011 film Like Crazy has been described as loosely inspired by his real life experiences. In June 2013, his new film Breathe In opened the Edinburgh International Film Festival EIFF.

The next Doremus film, Equals, is written by Nathan Parker and stars Kristen Stewart, Nicholas Hoult, Guy Pearce, and Jacki Weaver.

Filmography

Feature films

Music videos

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