After Earth

After Earth
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	M. Night Shyamalan
Screenplay by	Gary Whitta M. Night Shyamalan
Story by	Will Smith
Produced by	Caleeb Pinkett Jada Pinkett Smith Will Smith James Lassiter M. Night Shyamalan
Starring	Jaden Smith Will Smith
Cinematography	Peter Suschitzky
Edited by	Steven Rosenblum
Music by	James Newton Howard
Production companies	Columbia Pictures Overbrook Entertainment Blinding Edge Pictures Relativity Media
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Releasing
Release dates	May 1, 2013 (2013-05-01) (Tokyo) May 31, 2013 (2013-05-31) (United States)
Running time	100 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$130 million[2][3]
Box office	$243.8 million[3]

After Earth is a 2013 American post-apocalyptic action-adventure film co-produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, who co-wrote the script with Gary Whitta. The film was loosely based on an original story idea by Will Smith about a father-and-son trip in the wilderness before it was eventually reworked into a sci-fi setting, taking place 1,000 years in the future where humans evacuated Earth to another planet due to a massive environmental catastrophe. It is the second film after The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) that stars real-life father and son Will and Jaden Smith; Will Smith, his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, his brother-in-law Caleeb Pinkett, and business partner James Lassiter also produced the film via their company Overbrook Entertainment while Columbia Pictures distributed the film. The film was co-produced by John Rusk, who was also the first assistant director on this film as well as on many of Shyamalan's other films.^[4]

The film follows father and son, Cypher and Kitai Raige, who find themselves crash-landing on the abandoned Earth. When Cypher gets injured from the crash, Kitai must travel across the wild environment in search of a backup beacon to fire a distress signal, while having to defend himself from the highly evolved animals, as well as an extraterrestrial creature that detects its prey by smelling fear.

The film was released in IMAX on May 31, 2013. Upon release, After Earth was panned by film critics, who targeted the story, visuals, performances of Will and Jaden Smith, and Shyamalan's direction. It made $243.8 million at the box office against a budget of $130 million.