Taglines: This summer, he’ll have to find the answers… in time.
When Boris, an alien who is the last of his race, is confined to a penal colony in space. He escapes and goes to Earth to get the man who placed him there, MIB agent K. He confronts K, K and J corner him but he disappears. J asks K who he is but K doesn’t want to say anything. J goes to MIB and learns who Boris is but before he could learn more the one in charge, O, stops him. The next day J goes to pick up K but finds someone else living at his apartment.
When he goes to MIB, he looks for K but everyone there tells him, K died in 1969 after tackling with Boris. But J says K captured him. That’s when alien vessels which are from Boris’ planet show up and they’re about to devour the Earth. But J says that K placed a barrier that keeps them from entering Earth in 1969 which would lead to their extinction. It’s obvious that Boris went back in time and killed K before he could deploy the barrier. So J goes to see an alien on Earth whose father was also at the penal colony, whom J assumes told Boris that he worked on time travel and his son has the device. J goes to see him and tells him about the invasion.
So he sends J back just before K’s death. J arrives in 1969 and fails to stop Boris and is captured by the younger K who asks him who he is and what is he doing here. J was told not to tell him anything. But with time running out J tells him but K doesn’t believe him at first, so they go out to stop Boris. Only problem J doesn’t exactly know what happened so he’s not sure where they should go.
Men in Black 3 (alternatively Men in Black III, and stylized as MIB³) is a 2012 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin. It is the third installment in the Men in Black film series based on the comic book series The Men in Black by Lowell Cunningham.
It was released fifteen years after the original Men in Black (1997) and ten years after the first sequel, Men in Black II (2002). Sonnenfeld and Steven Spielberg returned as director and executive producer, respectively. In the film, Boris the Animal, an old enemy of Agent K, escapes from prison and goes back in time to kill the younger K in order to allow his species, a ruthless alien race known as Boglodites, to attack Earth. This forces Agent J to go back in time and team up with K’s younger self on a mission to save his partner and the world.
Men in Black 3 was released on May 25, 2012, and grossed over $624 million worldwide, making it the 10th highest-grossing film of 2012. Unadjusted for inflation, it is the highest-grossing film in the series.
MIB 3 grossed $179 million in the US and Canada, and $445 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $624 million. It had a worldwide opening weekend of $189.9 million. It made the biggest worldwide IMAX Memorial-Day weekend ($12.7 million from 474 theaters), surpassing the previous record of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
In North America, MIB 3 earned $1.55 million during its midnight run from 2,233 locations. 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. During its three-day opening weekend, it topped the box office with $54.6 million, which was higher than the opening weekends of the two previous films. The movie then earned an additional $14.7 million on Memorial Day, bringing its four-day weekend total to $69.3 million. The opening weekend audience was 54 percent male and 56 percent over the age of 25. The film received a B+ CinemaScore. It remained in first place at the North American box office for one week.
Outside North America, MIB 3 is the highest-grossing film of the Men In Black franchise and the tenth highest-grossing 2012 film. 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). It was in first place at the box office outside North America for two consecutive weekends.
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Emma Thompson, Jemaine Clement, Michael Stuhlbarg, Nicole Scherzinger, Alice Eve, David Rasche, Keone Young, Clarke Thorell
Screenplay by: Etan Cohen, Lowell Cunningham
Production Design by: Bo Welch
Cinematography by: Bill Pope
Film Editing by: Don Zimmerman
Costume Design by: Mary E. Vogt
Set Decoration by: Susan Bode
Art Direction by: Kasra Farahani, Luke Freeborn, W. Steven Graham, Kevin Ishioka, Maya Shimoguchi, Chris Shriver
Music by: Danny Elfman
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sci-fi action violence, and brief suggestive content.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: May 25, 2012
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