A Good Day to Die Hard

A Good Day to Die Hard
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Directed by	John Moore
Written by	Skip Woods
Based on	Characters by Roderick Thorp
Produced by	Alex Young Wyck Godfrey
Starring	Bruce Willis Jai Courtney Sebastian Koch Yulia Snigir Rasha Bukvić Cole Hauser Amaury Nolasco Sergei Kolesnikov
Cinematography	Jonathan Sela
Edited by	Dan Zimmerman
Music by	Marco Beltrami
Production companies	Giant Pictures TSG Entertainment Temple Hill Entertainment
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	January 31, 2013 (2013-01-31) (Leicester Square) February 14, 2013 (2013-02-14) (United States)
Running time	97 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Languages	English Russian
Budget	$92 million[1]
Box office	$304.7 million[1]

A Good Day to Die Hard is a 2013 American action thriller film and the fifth installment in the Die Hard film series. The film was directed by John Moore and written by Skip Woods, and stars Bruce Willis as John McClane in his final film in the franchise. The main plot finds McClane traveling to Russia to get his estranged son, Jack, an undercover CIA agent, out of prison. He is soon caught in the crossfire of a global terrorist plot. Alongside Willis, the film also stars Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch, Cole Hauser and Yulia Snigir.

Talks of a fifth Die Hard film began before the release of the fourth installment, Live Free or Die Hard, with Willis affirming that the latter would not be the last in the series, but pre-production did not start until September 2011, when John Moore was officially announced as the director. Filming began in April 2012, primarily in Budapest, Hungary.

A Good Day to Die Hard premiered in London on January 31, 2013, coinciding with the unveiling of a Die Hard mural at the Fox Lot,^[2] and was released in North America on February 13, 2013.^[3] Unlike the film's predecessors, it received negative reviews from critics, who called it cliched and the worst in the series.^[4]

It is the first film financed by TSG Entertainment, since distributor 20th Century Fox's departure from Dune Entertainment upon the completion of their distribution contract at the end of 2012.