The film was announced in December 2017, then untitled, with James Gunn as a producer, his brother Brian and cousin Mark writing the script, and David Yarovesky directing. In March 2018, Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Meredith Hagner and Matt Jones were cast. Gunn was set to appear on a panel to discuss the project at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2018, but his appearance was canceled after news broke that Disney had fired Gunn as director of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 due to offensive tweets.
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Brightburn (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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- 1 Timothy WilliamsBrightburn 1:09
- 2 Timothy WilliamsBreyer Family 1:26
- 3 Timothy WilliamsI'm Very Special 2:32
- 4 Timothy WilliamsYou Okay? 1:21
- 5 Timothy WilliamsCalled to the Barn 4:20
- 6 Timothy WilliamsSharp Object Meet Eyeball 1:51
- 7 Timothy WilliamsDear God 1:16
- 8 Timothy WilliamsWho Am I? 2:29
- 9 Timothy WilliamsDon't Tell the Sherriff 1:41
- 10 Timothy WilliamsReal Real Bad Things 2:17
- 11 Timothy WilliamsBrandon's Power 1:23
- 12 Timothy WilliamsUrges 2:12
- 13 Timothy WilliamsRevelations 2:03
- 14 Timothy WilliamsTime to Run 2:10
- 15 Timothy WilliamsComing Home 3:05
- 16 Timothy WilliamsDistress Call 2:22
- 17 Timothy WilliamsThe Hunt 1:37
- 18 Timothy WilliamsIt's Time 1:53
- 19 Timothy WilliamsTori and Brandon 2:26
- 20 Timothy WilliamsBrandon Unleashed 0:52
Brightburn
(2019)5
| Country | |
| Runtime | 1 hr 30 min |
| Budget | $7 000 000 |
| Premiere: World | $33 224 654 May 9, 2019 |
| USA | $17 300 439 |
| Other countries | $15 924 215 |
| Box Office – Budget | $26 224 654 |
| Premiere: USA | $17 300 439 May 24, 2019 |
| first day | $3 000 854 |
| first weekend | $7 845 658 |
| theaters | 2607 |
| rollout | 222 days |
| Digital: World | August 6, 2019 |
| Parental Advisory | Frightening & Intense Scenes, Violence & Gore, Profanity, ... |
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| Production Companies | |
| Also Known As | Brandenburg United States |
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Critique: 36
Brightburn risks falling into the all-too-familiar creepy kid horror formula but there’s just about enough to distinguish it from that ever-e...
For such a specific, clever-on-paper idea, Brightburn follows a shockingly predictable turn of events, possibly because it has few refere...
While not exactly original, the premise is certainly effective enough. But Brightburn lacks the visual stylization or wit to elevate it from the re...
An extremely dark, violent alt take on the superhero origin story. David Yarovesky and co. push it to such an extent that 'Brightburn' likely won&r...
This film draws its strength in part from its willingness to be a more humbly scaled operation than the tentpoles weighted down by mandates fo...
The premise is intriguing, but this gruesome origin story plays like just another slasher film with idiots for victims.
What If baby Superman broke bad? A great premise gets seriously squandered in this ridiculous superhero/horror movie mash-up. The only thing truly...
Several visuals – and the accompanying crunches and gurgles – will make appearances in my nightmares.
The movie is more or less all premise. The rest is just an occasionally suspenseful, occasionally gory sci-fi riff on any number of earthbound cree...
What it lacks in any greater meaning, it makes up for with good old B-movie gore. It’s a demon child story wearing the mask of a superhe...
Brightburn is not a major film, but it’s a genuinely provocative one, a hand grenade tossed out into the pop culture arena.
What makes "Brightburn" a little better than average is the time it spends observing Brandon with Tori and Kyle, his loving, increasingly alar...
The way the film shuttles through its 90 minutes, it’s as if it’s been stripped of its most crucial narrative parts.
If the goals were a little more clear, the film could’ve been better…they could’ve played with the audiences' expectations much mo...
The conceit works brilliantly until, in the closing 20 minutes, it clatters disappointingly into a fatal uncertainty.
Director David Yarovesky does the fantasy stuff with flair. And the dafter the plot gets, the better the acting conjured from Elizabeth Banks as fo...
This is primarily a character study, about that thin line between heroism and horror.
If the filmmakers had a modicum of curiosity about the implications of their own idea, the movie might have had something interesting to say.
What if Superman started out evil? And what if that was the only idea you had for your movie?
Although Brightburn’s final seconds hint at James' more finely attuned cinematic sensibilities the film is not nearly as strong as its villai...
Brightburn can at least boast an interesting premise – not that it does anything with it.
Its harsh, pitiless violence could earn it a cult, but it’s ultimately a workmanlike movie playing at being something more renegade...
The premise isn’t bad, even if the evil-Superman origin story was done better in "Chronicle." The execution, however, is lacking, particularl...
Because the film that this broadside of brass describes is ultimately, seriously, "Duuuumb!"
The final effect… is a disheartening vacuum. Having torn down a myth, it leaves little but a dropped mic in its wake.
A machine to deliver gore and violence, Brightburn also features some of the most improbably and even hatefully dumb salt-of-the-Earth type charact...
As an antihero with an oedipal complex, neither Brandon nor Dunn is sufficiently creepy or conflicted to launch a new franchise.
Despite its simplicity, Brightburn’s premise is filled with potential, but it struggles to find anything meaningful to say.
"Brightburn" was a good idea. Unfortunately the creativity stopped there.
It’s a fine and distinct funhouse ride designed to elicit cackles, then be forgotten about by the next ride.
A cure for superhero movie fatigue, this lean, gory horror film…has a coherent narrative and pays off with a bang.
The terror is baked in – what if a super-strong space alien crashed to Earth and wanted to kill everyone? now that’s an idea right...
Crossbreeding superhero tropes with horror staples was an idea laden with promise. Brightburn is enlivened by trademark James Gunn black comedy, bu...
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Another movie, the authors of which decided that motivation is an atavism and, well, fuck it. Increasingly, this approach is taken by horror writers. I strongly disagree with this, but for the rest – thumbs up, as they say. Atmospheric, the killings are brutally inventive, the effects are frighteningly good
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Evil Superman Origin: The idea is good, but the implementation is full of genre cliches
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Oh, that’s too bad. The best thing about the movie is the scene before the credits.
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A great "what if Superman was bad" idea was ruined by a shaky camera, silly characters, and mediocre performances by most of the cast. We have to admit that there were some super beautiful shots. All horror is about showing human mutilation. Dumb.
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