Evolution [2001]

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 2000
Running Times: 101 mins
Format: Technicolor     35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: DTS     Dolby Digital     SDDS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: The Montecito Picture Company
Executive Producers: Jeff Apple, Tom Pollock, David Rodgers, Steven Spielberg [uncredited]
Producers: Daniel Goldberg, Joe Medjuck, Ivan Reitman
Co-Producer: Paul Deason
Associate Producers: Sheldon Kahn, Ken Schwenker, Ronell Venter
Unit Production Manager: Paul Deason
Production Supervisor: Angela Heald
Production Coordinator: Robert West
Assistant Production Coordinators: Jorge Agraz, Don Wygal

SCRIPT
Script: David Diamond, David Weissman, Don Jakoby
Story: Don Jakoby

DIRECTION
Director: Ivan Reitman
1st Assistant Director: Michael Neuman
Assistant Directors: Sonia Bhalla, Deiter Busch, Anthony Kountz, Ken Roth

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Michael Chapman
Additional Photography: Jorge Agraz
"A" Camera Operator: Daniel C. Gold
Best Boy Electric: Chuck Sharp
Gaffer: Melton Maxwell
Stills: Murray Close
Cameras: Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Labs: DeLuxe, USA

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editors: Wendy Greene Bricmont, Sheldon Kahn
Assistant Editors: Anna Solorio-Catalano, Dana E. Glauberman, Saul Saladow
Apprentice Editor: Adam Peiken
Editorial Production Assitant: Jonathan Finkel
Post-Production Supervisor: Lisa Dennis Kennedy
Negative Cutter: Gary Burritt

MUSIC
Music: John Powell
Additional Music: Gavin Greenaway, James McKee Smith
Scoring Mixer: Alan Meyerson

SOUND
Production Sound Mixer: William B. Kaplan
Supervising Sound Editors: Karen M. Baker, Per Hallberg
Sound Editor: Peter Staubli
Assistant Sound Editor: Philip D. Morrill
Sound Effects Editors: Christopher Assells, Dino Dimuro, Scott Martin Gershin, Dan Hegeman, Randy Kelley, Tony Lamberti, Scott Sanders
Foley Mixer: Nerses Gezalyan
Dialogue Editor: Laura R. Harris

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Key Make Up: Ken Chase
Make Up: Ken Wensevic
Make Up For Orlando Jones: Laini Thompson
Hair Department Head: Judy Alexander Cory
Key Hair: Karyn Huston
Hair: Colette Slattery
Costume Designer: Aggie Rodgers

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Amalgamated Dynamics; Pacific Data Images; Tippett Studio
Visual Effects Supervisor: Phil Tippett
Associate Visual Effects Supervisor: Brennan Doyle
Visual Effects Producer: Nancy St. John
Visual Effects Co-Ordinator: Diana Stulic
Special Effects Co-Ordinator: Burt Dalton
Special Effects: Frank Ayre, Jay Bartus, Terry P. Chapman, Steve Cremin, Albert Delgado, Dale Ettema, Garth Majors, Paul Martos, Arnold Peterson, Thomas Tate, Glenn Thomas, Keith Urban, Jeffrey Watts, Ralph Allan Winiger
Special Effects Technicians: Chad Atkinson, Philip Bartko
Special Effects Foremen: William Aldridge, Rodney Byrd, Donald E. Myers Jr
Puppeteer: Christine Papalexis
2nd Engineer: Kevin Globerman

DIGITAL EFFECTS
Character Animators: Rick Glen, Tracie Horie, Bil Van Ness
CGI Animator: Anthony Scott
Digital Rotoscope: Kenneth Voss
Compositing Lead: Alan Boucek
Digital Compositor: Matt Jacobs [uncredited]
Matchmover: Joanie Karnowski [uncredited]
Digital Puppet Character Set-Up: Paul G. Thuriot

Tippett Studio
Associate Visual Effects Supervisor: Frank Petzold
Digital Character Animator: Morgan Ratsoy
Compositing Lead / Supervisor: Jim McVay
Digital Compositors: Brian Begun, Karim Sahai, Guerdon Trueblood, Colin Epstein [uncredited], Jeff A. Johnson [uncredited], Jason M. Halverson [uncredited]
Digital Colour Correctors: Page Frakes, Matthew Tomlinson
Digital Camera Operator: Nathan Abbot
Digital Scanner Operator: Stephen Stanton
Digital Film I/O Supervisor: David Rosenthal
Digital Film I/O Manager: Vicki Wong

Pacific Data Images / Dreamworks
CG Supervisor: Eric Bruneau
Compositor: Erik Winquist
Assistant Editor: Philip R. Garrett [uncredited]

SPI
Senior Digital Artists: Aimee Campbell, Nicole Herr

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: J. Michael Riva
Art Directors: David F. Klassen, Richard F. Mays
Lead Set Designer: Noelle King
Set Designers: Matthew Bekoff, Masako Masuda, Eric Sundahl
Set Decorator: Lauri Gaffin
Property Master: Hope M. Parrish
Art Department P.A.: Claudia Bonfe

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Accountant: Janet Lonsdale
Set Estimator: Edward V. Pannozzo
Production Secretary: Jorge Agraz
Set Medic: Jim Roberts
Transportation Co-Ordinator: Dave Robling
Unit Publicist: Peter J. Silbermann

LOCATIONS
Locations: Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton, California, USA; Hawthorne Plaza, Hawthorne, California, USA; Los Angeles, California, USA; Page, Arizona, USA; Pasadena, California, USA; South Bay Pavilion, Carson, California, USA
Locations: Raleigh Studios, Manhattan Beach, California, USA
Location Scout: Steve Knisely

STUNTS
Stunt Co-Ordinator: Thomas Robinson Harper
Stunts: Larry Rippenkroeger
Stunt Double for Julianne Moore: Cinda-Lin James
Stunt Primate: Tim Trella

CASTING
Casting: Margery Simkin
Casting Associate: Michele Short

CAST
David Duchovny [Dr Ira Kane]
Orlando Jones [Dr Harry Block]
Julianne Moore [Dr Allison Reed]
Seann William Scott [Wayne Gray]
Ted Levine [General Woodman]
Ethan Suplee [Deke]
Michael Bower [Danny]
Pat Kilbane [Officer Johnson]
Ty Burrell [Flemming]
Dan Aykroyd [Governor of Arizona]
Katharine Towne [Nadine]
Gregory Itzin [Cartwright]
Ashley Clark [Lt Cryer]
Michelle Wolff [Carla]
Sarah Silverman [Denise]
Richard Moll [fire training inspector]
Michael McGrady [fireman]
Steven Gilborn [Judge Guilder]
Wayne Duvall [Dr Paulson]
Michael Chapman [Sheriff Long]
Kyle Gass [Officer Drake]
Lucas Dudley [Sgt Toms]
Steven Pierce [Sgt Larson]
Wendy Braun [Nurse Tate]
Jennifer Savidge [Claire]
Jerry Trainor [Tommy]
Stephanie Hodge [Jill Mason]
Kristen Meadows [Patty]
Winifred Freedman [Debbi]
Miriam Flynn [Grace]
Mary Pat Gleason [customer]
Tony Mirzoian [husband]
Morgan Nagler [dressing room shoplifter]
Andrew Bowen [road worker]
Steve Kehela, Lee Garlington [reporter]
Joshua Ackerman, Kenny Blank, John Cho, Tressa Pope, Adrienne Smith, Chris Wylde [students]
Marty Belafsky, Lee Weaver [military policemen]
Tom Davis, Gary Kent [Governor's aides]
Timothy R. Layton [guard gate soldier]
Angelo Vacco [Officer Thompson]
Tom Woodruff Jr [lead primate creature]

A meteorite crashes to Earth in Arizona and a team of scientists from a nearby community college are sent to investigate. They find the meteorite in a cave and that it's leaking a blue slime that harbour millions of single-celled life-forms that are evolving at an astonishing rate. Soon, the area is over-run by rapidly evolving alien creatures and a full scale invasion is under way.

Argentina
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia TriStar Films de Argentina

Australia
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia TriStar Films Pty Ltd

France
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia TriStar Films

Norway
Theatrical Distributor: ECT

USA
Theatrical Distributor: DreamWorks Distribution L.L.C.

Argentina
Rating: 13

Australia
Rating: PG

France
Rating: U

Germany
Rating: 12

Hong Kong
Rating: IIB

Netherlands
Rating: 12

Norway
Rating: 11

Sweden
Rating: 11

UK
Rating: PG

USA
Rating: PG-13 [for crude and sexual humor, and for sci-fi action]

2000
October
19: USA - production begins

2001
February
Day Unknown: USA - production ends

June
8: USA - theatrical release
20: Philippines - theatrical release
21: Malaysia - theatrical release
22: UK - theatrical release
28: Hong Kong, Singapore - theatrical release
29: Greece, Portugal, Spain - theatrical release

July
5: Netherlands - theatrical release
6: Czech Republic - shown at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival
6: Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Panama - theatrical release
11: Venezuela - theatrical release
12: Argentina, Australia, Czech Republic, Israel, New Zealand - theatrical release
13: Brazil, Estonia, Mexico, Norway - theatrical release
14: South Korea - theatrical release
18: France, Sweden - theatrical release
19: Germany, Hungary - theatrical release
20: Poland, Turkey - theatrical release
25: Belgium - theatrical release
27: Finland, Guatemala - theatrical release

August
9: Russia - theatrical release

Have a nice end of the world.

Coming to wipe that silly smile off your planet.

SEQUELS
Alienators: Evolution Continues [2001 - 2002]
Alienators: Evolution Continues [2001]

SEE ALSO
Alien [1979]
Dawn of the Dead [1978]
Ghostbusters [1984]
Independence Day [1996]
Jurassic Park [1993]
Outbreak [1995]
Red Dwarf [1988 - 1999]
The X Files [1993 - 2002]

MAGAZINES

Entertainment Weekly no.600 [15 June 2001] pp.53-54 [USA]
review [The X-Smiles (B) by Lisa Schwarzbaum]

Rolling Stone no.872 [5 July 2001] pp.149-150 [USA]
review [Why Movies Suck and How To Fight Back by Peter Travers]

academics, alien invasions, aliens, asteroids, colleges, courtrooms, dna, fire trucks, government coverups, insects, lecturers, meteors, military, mutations, politicians, professors, scientists, shopping malls

Last Updated: 6 March, 2007