A journalist risks her life by infiltrating militant extremist groups online.
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Release Date:
Friday, May 14, 2021 Limited
Plot: What's the story about?
Follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself.
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Who stars in Profile: Cast List
Who's making Profile: Crew List
A look at the Profile behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Timur Bekmambetov last directed Ben Hur and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
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Timur BekmambetovOlga Kharina
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Production: What we know about Profile?
Key Facts
- Inspired by the 2015 nonfiction bestseller In the Skin of a Jihadist by a French journalist who now has round-the-clock police protection and has changed her name to Anna Érelle.
- Profile premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2018, receiving rave critics’ reviews and an Audience Award, and took the same prize at SXSW later that year.
- The unconventional thriller plays out entirely on a computer screen in the Screenlife format, pioneered by Bekmambetov. As a producer, his big break came with his Screenlife films Unfriended, which was picked up by Universal and grossed about $65 million worldwide — on a budget of $1 million, and Debra Messing and John Cho-led Searching picked up by Sony Pictures and making $75 million on an even smaller budget.
Filming Timeline
- 2021 - March: The film was set to Completed status.
Profile Release Date: When was the film released?
Profile was a Limited release in 2021 on Friday, May 14, 2021. There were 13 other movies released on the same date, including Spiral: From the Book of Saw, Above Suspicion and The Djinn.
As a Limited release, Profile will only be shown in select movie theaters across major markets. Please check Fandango and Atom Tickets to see if the film is playing in your area.