The Huntsman: Winter's War

"The story before Snow White."

2016 1h 54m EN

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★6.3TMDB · 5,141

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As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, two renegades—Eric the Huntsman, who aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna in Snowwhite and the Huntsman, and his forbidden lover, Sara—set out to stop them.

“The story before Snow White.”

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Cast

Chris Hemsworth
The Huntsman
Charlize Theron
Queen Ravenna
Emily Blunt
Freya
Jessica Chastain
Sara
Nick Frost
Nion
Sam Claflin
William
Rob Brydon
Gryff
Sheridan Smith
Mrs. Bromwyn

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
Writers: Craig Mazin, Evan Spiliotopoulos, Tracey Wilson
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America, China

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MONEY

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$115M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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ERA

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Released 10 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: United States of America, China.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "The Huntsman Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, shot by Phedon Papamichael. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by James Newton Howard. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Conrad Buff IV shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron and Emily Blunt carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Cedric Nicolas-Troyan directs. Phedon Papamichael behind the camera. James Newton Howard scores. Conrad Buff IV cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America, China. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1$115M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Released 10 years ago.
3International production across 2 countries: United States of America, China.
4Part of the "The Huntsman Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, shot by Phedon Papamichael. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by James Newton Howard. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Conrad Buff IV shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron and Emily Blunt carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "The story before Snow White.".
10IMDB entry: tt2381991 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 8 themes, including "witch", "strong woman", "magic", "fairy tale".
12Released under 14 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Phedon Papamichael
Original score: James Newton Howard
Editing: Conrad Buff IV
Production design: Dominic Watkins
Costume design: Colleen Atwood
Makeup / hair: Luca Vannella
VFX supervisor: Paul Lambert
Sound: Tobias Poppe
Stunt coordinator: Ben Cooke
Runtime: 114 min · 1h 54m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $115,000,000
Box office: $164,989,338
Return: 143% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)

Part of

The Huntsman Collection

A fantasy film series inspired by the German fairy tale "Snow White" compiled by the Brothers Grimm and also based on "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen. It follows the retelling of the tale of Snow White, Queen Ravenna & Eric, The Huntsman. The Ice Queen, Freya and Eric's love, Sara are introduced in the prequel/sequel.

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Reno2016-09-29
★ 6/10
The Huntsman and his romance caught between the two evil sisters. This is a sequel as well as a prequel to the 2012 film 'Snow White and Huntsman'. It opened with the earlier story where and how the Huntsman grew up, especially the journey of his innocent childhood to a great fighter that covers in the first half an hour. And then it skips for about 7 years where the original film takes place, but immediately begins where it had ended in the first half, as well as the first film. Actually, not a bad film as I have heard of it, but same as the previous film that stands just above the average and slightly loses some decibel rating. The actors were good though. Emily Blunt, Jessica Chastain and Charlize Theron, wow, super hot women, but sadly they are in fairytale costume. Their performances were great, but the characters, particularly the two sisters resemble the 'Frozen's Anna and Elsa. You can feel how desperate was the filmmakers to avoid such comparisons by viewers, so they developed the story very far from any string attached to that famous animation. In the end these things are unavoidable, since the story is not fresh enough to claim its independent status. Chris Hemsworth was okay, I hope he won't return for the third film. It is a decent watch, and I think it will remain as an duology, for right now it seems a good idea. The problem is it was being made a dark-fantasy to appeal the grown ups, particularly men. But it should have been a children's film where adults too can enjoy like the Disney's 'Maleficent'. Except the opening the rest of the story seemed very ordinary. Though the action sequences were enjoyable and so the film with a low expectation, or the purpose of the watch is the timepass. 6/10
Dark Jedi2017-03-02
★ 8/10
This is kind of a prequel and a sequel to Snow White and The Huntsman. It is not as impressive as the first movie but quite good anyway. I would call it a nice family movie although probably not for the youngest members of the family. The story is partly before and partly after the events in Snow White and The Huntsman. It is a good adventure with plenty of magic and special effects and a fair bit of action. It is a fairly straightforward story without much in terms of surprises. There is a bit of comical relief in particular by the dwarfs, especially when the two dwarfs following the huntsman encounters the grumpy female one and her friend. Apart from the classical Snow White setting, quite good special effects and quite decent action this is a fairly normal fantasy adventure movie. It is about two hours of good fun but does not really reach wow-status.