INTERSTELLAR
- Era
- HIGH-CONCEPT
- Genres
- Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi
- Released
- 2014-11-07
- Runtime
- 2h 49m
SIGNAL SUMMARY
- Released
- 2014-11-07
- Runtime
- 2h 49m
- Budget
- $165M
- Worldwide gross
- $775M
- IMDb
- 8.7 (2.6M votes)
- RT critics
- 73%
- Metacritic
- 74
- Oscars
- 1 wins / 5 noms
TIME IS CURRENCY
The structure: Time dilation makes simultaneity itself the plot — one hour below costs seven years above.
Interstellar turns relativity into drama: every hour the crew spends down the gravity well costs the people left behind seven years. The casting makes the toll visible — the same character appears three times, played by different actors across the decades the crew skipped.
LOVE, GRAVITY, BOX OFFICE
- Budget
- $165M
- Worldwide gross
- $774.7M
- Return
- ×4.7
- Format
- IMAX 70MM
Interstellar had no cape and no franchise — an original film about dust, wheat, and a bookshelf — yet it pulled $774.7M worldwide on a $165M spend, holding its own against the Batman-scale hits charted around it. On the format: IMAX 70mm sequences; Kip Thorne-consulted black-hole rendering.
THE ORGAN PIPES
- Composer
- Hans Zimmer
- Cinematographer
- Hoyte van Hoytema
- Editor
- Lee Smith
For the score, Hans Zimmer traded the brass of his Batman years for a cathedral organ — sustained pipes standing in for rocket thrust and held breath. It was the fifth of 6 Zimmer collaborations with Nolan, and the loudest quiet one.