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Men in Black 3
Promotional poster
Directed byBarry Sonnenfeld
Written byEtan Cohen
Produced byWalter F. Parkes
Laurie MacDonald
StarringWill Smith
Tommy Lee Jones
Josh Brolin
Jemaine Clement
Michael Stuhlbarg
Emma Thompson
CinematographyBill Pope
Edited byDon Zimmerman
Music byDanny Elfman
Production
companies
Amblin Entertainment
P+M Image Nation
Hemisphere Media Capital
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release dates
  • May 23, 2012 (2012-05-23) (France[1])
  • May 25, 2012 (2012-05-25) (United States)
Running time
103 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$215 million[3]
Box office$624,026,776[4]

Men in Black 3 (stylized as MIB3 and alternately spelled Men in Black III) is a 2012 American 3D science fiction comedy film. It was released on May 25, 2012 and stars Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Emma Thompson. Principal photography began in New York City on November 16, 2010, taking place ten years after its predecessor Men in Black II and fifteen years after the release of the original Men in Black.[5] Barry Sonnenfeld and Steven Spielberg returned as director and executive producer respectively. It is the third installment in the Men in Black film series based on Lowell Cunningham's The Men in Black comic book series.

Men in Black 3 received generally positive reviews from critics[6] and became a box office success with a worldwide gross of over $623 million.[4] Buoyed by the film's success, another sequel has been confirmed.[7]

Plot

Boris the Animal, the last surviving member of the Boglodyte race, escapes from the LunarMax prison on Earth's moon with the help of his pet (the Weasel) and his girlfriend Lily (who would later die after Boris lets her get sucked into the moon's atmosphere), intent on going back in time and killing Agent K, who on July 16, 1969, had shot off one of Boris' arms and captured him. After investigating a spaceship crash in New York City, and following a skirmish in a Chinese restaurant, K learns Boris has escaped. Kay regrets not having killed Boris in 1969 and refuses to explain his reasons to Agent J, who is then left suspended after demanding to know why. Kay returns to his apartment, and then all traces of Kay disappear. Arriving at MIB headquarters, Jay discovers that only he remembers Kay as being alive in the present day, while all other MIB personnel remember Kay as having been killed in action in the year 1969.

Agent O, the new Chief after Zed's passing, deduces from Jay's statements that a fracture has occurred in the space-time continuum. The two realize Boris time-jumped to 1969 and killed Kay, resulting in a now-imminent Boglodyte invasion of Earth which is vulnerable due to the absence of the protective ArcNet, which Kay had installed in 1969. Through electronics-shop owner Jeffrey Price, Jay acquires the same time-jump mechanism as Boris. After jumping off the Chrysler Building to reach time-travel velocity, Jay arrives in 1969 a day before Boris kills Kay.

Jay follows a clue to Coney Island, where 29-year-old Agent K arrests him. After fruitless questioning at MIB headquarters, Kay has Jay placed inside a large Neuralyzer. At the last second, Jay says he will tell the truth of his mission. As a team, they follow Boris' trail to a bowling alley and then to Andy Warhol's Factory, where they meet the prescient alien Griffin, who possesses the ArcNet. Griffin tells them the Boglodytes destroyed his planet, and that he does not wish the Earth to suffer the same fate. Griffin warns the two agents of Boris' impending arrival and hurriedly leaves.

Around the same time, the elder Boris arrives, meeting up with his younger self and convincing him to let him help, assuring that they will get the ArcNet and kill Kay so that the invasion will be imminent. The Agents later locate Griffin at Shea Stadium, where he gives them the ArcNet and instructs them to place it onto the Apollo 11 lunar rocket launch occurring in less than six hours. Upon arriving at Cape Canaveral, the agents and Griffin are arrested by military police. A colonel, however, allows them to continue their mission after Griffin uses his precognitive power to show the colonel how important the agents are and what the future will be like if the ArcNet isn't deployed.

At the launch pad, Jay and Kay confront both the 1969 and 2012 incarnations of Boris. The elder Boris impales Jay with his spikes before they both fall off the pad; however, Jay uses the time-jump to travel back to the beginning of the fight and avoid the spikes before pushing the elder Boris off the pad. Meanwhile, as Kay battles the younger Boris, he ruptures a hose, causing it to spray liquid hydrogen on Boris' left arm, freezing it before he shatters it. Kay then plants the ArcNet on the rocket and the protective shield deploys after leaving the Earth's atmosphere. In the process, the elder Boris is incinerated to death by the flames from the rocket's boosters.

The Colonel congratulates Kay returning from the launch pad. As Jay watches from the distance, Kay offers to employ the Colonel into the MiB, but the younger Boris emerges and kills the Colonel. Revealing his true form, the younger Boris tries to goad Kay into arresting him, but the junior agent refuses and instead shoots the young Boris, killing him. A young boy named James exits a military vehicle looking for his father, who happens to be the Colonel. He pulls out a pocket watch revealed earlier to have been passed down to Agent J by his father, and Jay realizes that the young boy is actually his younger self. Unwilling to reveal his father's death, K neuralyzes James, telling him his father is a hero. Jay realizes why Kay didn't want to tell him why he regretted arresting Boris in the first place.

Jay returns to the present day, where he meets his partner at a diner. There, he shows Kay his father's pocket watch and thanks him. The senior agent replies that "it's been a privilege." As they leave the diner, Griffin, a few seats away, tells the viewers all is well with the world, except for an imminent asteroid impact on Earth if this is the timeline where Kay forgot to leave a tip. But when Kay returns to leave his tip, the asteroid collides with an orbiting satellite instead of the Earth, to which Griffin finally calms down and replies: "That was a close one."

Cast

Production

The film's premise was first proposed to director Barry Sonnenfeld by Will Smith during the filming of Men in Black II in 2002, with Smith suggesting that his character, Agent J, travel back in time to save his partner, Agent K, while at the same time exploring Agent K's backstory. Sonnenfeld said the idea "turned out to be a very long process of development, mainly because of the knotting [sic] issues of time travel...",[15] It was reported that Smith and executives were leery about bringing back Barry Sonnenfeld because of conflicts on the set of Men in Black II.[16] In a lawsuit filed against his former agents over commissions, Sonnenfeld alleged that Sony considered other directors for Men in Black 3.[16][17] Sonnenfeld ultimately convinced all involved that he had a strong vision for the film.[16]

The film was first announced on April 1, 2009, by Sony Pictures Entertainment president Rory Bruer during a Sony ShoWest presentation.[18] By October 2009, Etan Cohen had been hired to write the screenplay.[19] Sonnenfeld read the script and started working on it in January 2010.[20] As of March 2010, Will Smith remained undecided whether to join this film or another, The City That Sailed.[21] Sonnenfeld in May 2010 confirmed the return of the protagonists played by Tommy Lee Jones and Smith.[8] Both had expressed interest in 2008 in reprising their roles.[22][23] Other staff includes Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald as producers, with Steven Spielberg as executive producer; all were producers of the two previous films.[24]

In June 2010, writer Davids Aumeisters was hired to rewrite the Cohen script.[25] A third writer, Jeff Nathanson, was hired in November 2010 to rewrite the time-travel segment of the script in which the story takes place in 1969.[26] Nathanson and Koepp, along with producer Spielberg, had previously worked together on the 2008 film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Principal photography began on November 16, 2010,[27] even though, "We knew starting the movie that we didn't have a finished second or third act," director Sonnenfeld said in 2012. "Was it responsible? The answer is, if this movie does as well as I think it will, it was genius. If it's a total failure, then it was a really stupid idea."[28] It was originally slated to commence on October 18, 2010, and continue until May 2011 in New York City,[29] with shooting starting in 2010 partly in order to take advantage of a New York tax break in which the state rebates 30 percent of production costs incurred there.[30] Filming was split into two parts, the first taking place from November until about Christmas 2010; the filmmakers announced shooting would begin again in mid-February, but it was delayed until April.[30] Sonnenfeld initially stated he would be shooting in 3D, but later decided to film in 2D and convert to 3D during post-production.[31][32][33][34]

Set photos for the film appeared online November 17, 2010, showing Smith, Jones, Emma Thompson, and Nicole Scherzinger on set.[35] Shooting was scheduled to resume from March through June 2011.[36] Filming was done in April 2011 in the Morris Park section of The Bronx.[37] Parts of Coney Island, in Brooklyn, had parking and filming permits posted for April 24 and May 2–4, 2011, production dates of what the permits titled MIB3.[38] Shooting also took place in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood.[39]

For the film, the Ford Taurus SHO was selected as the MIB's official car, replacing the Ford LTD Crown Victoria and Mercedes-Benz E-Class from the first two films.[40] For the 1969 scenes, a 1964 Ford Galaxie was used as the MIB's official car.

This is the first time Frank the Pug was absent in a Men in Black movie, as well as Chief Zed or Jack Jeebs. Zed is written in the story as having died and immortalized at MIB Headquarters. A portrait of Frank can also be seen in J's apartment. An advertisement for Frank the talking dog can be seen as Agent J enters Coney Island.

Release

Under distribution by Columbia Pictures, the film was released on May 25, 2012 in theaters.[41] The film is rated PG-13 by MPAA for "sci-fi action violence and brief suggestive content".[42] The film is rated PG by the BBFC for "mild language, innuendo and fantasy violence".[2] The film is rated M by Australian Classification Board for "science fiction violence".[43]

Home media

The film is set to be released on DVD, Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D on November 30, 2012.[44]

Marketing

Video game

Activision has released MIB: Alien Crisis on May 22, 2012 for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Nintendo Wii. It features a never before seen MIB agent instead of Agent J or Agent K.[45][46][needs update]

Gameloft also developed a mobile phone video game based on the film released on May 17, 2012, for iOS and Android.[47][needs update]

Music

Untitled

The soundtrack for the film was composed by Danny Elfman and was released on May 29, 2012, four days after the film's release.

"Back in Time" by rapper Pitbull was originally released as the first single from the soundtrack on March 26, 2012.[48] It was supposed to be the first lead single for a Men in Black soundtrack not performed by Will Smith. But for unknown reasons, it didn't make the final cut.

No.TitleLength
1."Men in Black 3 – Main Titles"5:54
2."Spiky Bulba"2:17
3."The Set-Up"3:35
4."Headquarters"1:59
5."Regret"3:03
6."Wrong"1:02
7."Not Funny"1:48
8."Big Trouble"1:14
9."Out on a Limb"2:00
10."Time Jump"1:14
11."Bad Fortune"1:14
12."Forget Me Not"1:27
13."Into the Past"1:37
14."Griffin Steps Up"1:40
15."True Story"0:41
16."The Prize – Monocycles"3:56
17."Boris Meets Boris"1:26
18."Under the Bridge"5:51
19."The Mission Begins"5:27
20."Mission Accomplished"3:07
21."A Close One"1:33
22."Men in Black 3 – Main Title Revisited"1:33
Total length:53:38

Reception

Critical response

Men in Black 3 received generally positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 69% approval rating with an average rating of 6/10, based on an aggregation of 212 reviews. The consensus states: "It isn't exactly a persuasive argument for the continuation of the franchise — but Men in Black III is better than its predecessor and manages to exceed expectations, largely due to Josh Brolin's impressive performance."[6] It has a score of 58 on Metacritic based on 38 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[49]

Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, in particular praising Josh Brolin's role as the young Agent K, which he cites as an excellent example of good casting. Ebert also praises the "ingenious plot, bizarre monsters, audacious cliff-hanging" and the "virtuoso final sequence".[50]

Box office

MIB 3 has earned $179,020,854 in North America, as of September 9, 2012, and $445,005,922 in other countries, as of August 19, 2012, for a worldwide total of $624,026,776.[51] It had a worldwide opening weekend of $189.9 million.[52] It made the biggest worldwide IMAX Memorial-Day weekend ($12.7 million from 474 theaters), surpassing the previous record of On Stranger Tides.[53]

In North America, MIB 3 earned $1.55 million during its midnight run from 2,233 locations.[54] On its opening day, the film debuted at the top of the box office and grossed $17.7 million (including midnight grosses). This was slightly lower than the opening day grosses of its predecessors.[55] During its 3-day opening weekend, it topped the box office with $54.6 million, which was higher than the opening weekends of the two previous films.[56] The movie then earned an additional $14.7 million on Memorial Day,[57] bringing its 4-day weekend total to $69.3 million.[58] The opening weekend audience was 54% male and 56% over the age of 25. The film received a B+ CinemaScore.[56] It remained in first place at the North American box office for one week.[57]

Outside North America, MIB 3 is the highest-grossing film of the franchise[59] and the fifth highest-grossing 2012 film.[60] It made $135.3 million on its opening weekend from 85 territories. Its highest-grossing openings were recorded in China ($21.7 million), and Russia and the CIS ($16.9 million).[61][62] It was in first place at the box office outside North America for two consecutive weekends.[63]

Potential sequel

Both Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones have said that they would "consider" appearing in a Men in Black 4.[64] Jones said it would be "easy to pick up where we left off. We know what we are doing, we know how to do it. It's just a hell of a lot of fun." [65] Columbia chief executive Doug Belgrad said earlier this month: "We're very pleased with the financial performance of Men in Black 3, and we believe it is an ongoing franchise. We're going to do [another one], but we don't have clarity yet on how it should be done."[66] Barry Sonnenfeld said: “Will‘s kind of really smart, but as I said, kind of really annoying, too much energy. When he would get too rambunctious, I would tell him that for Men in Black 4, Will is out and [his son] Jaden Smith is in … if we continue on this path, it won’t be released until 2032 but it will be damn good.” Will Smith said that: "Jaden is already 13 years old, so he’s at that mythological boys age, you know – it’s time for his bro-mitzvah. So he’s right at that place ... He’s ready to test me so he can’t come anywhere near my movies right now!"[67]

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External links

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