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In 2025, two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, the former police sergeant Leo Barnes (Frank Grillo) has become head of security for Senator Charlene Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell), the front runner in the next Presidential election due to her vow to eliminate the Purge after losing her family to sadistic murderers on Purge night 15 years earlier.
On the night of what should be the final Purge, a betrayal from within the government at the hands of the New Founding Fathers of America forces Barnes and Senator Roan out onto the street where they must fight to survive the night and even comes across a group of anti-Purge rebels that support Senator Roan’s campaign.
The Purge: Election Year is a 2016 American dystopian action horror film written and directed by James DeMonaco and starring Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Mykelti Williamson. It is the sequel to 2014’s The Purge: Anarchy and is the third (Chronologically, the fourth) installment in The Purge franchise.
The Purge: Election Year grossed $79.2 million in North America and $39.4 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $118.6 million, against a budget of $10 million. Deadline.com calculated the net profit of the film to be $44.8 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues.
In the United States and Canada, the film opened alongside The BFG and The Legend of Tarzan, and was projected to gross around $25 million in its opening weekend. The film grossed $3.6 million from Thursday night previews, outperforming both of its predecessors (the original’s $3.4 million in 2013 and The Purge: Anarchy’s in $2.6 million in 2014). In its opening weekend, the film grossed $31.4 million, landing in between the $34 million debut for the first film and the $29 million opening for the second, and finished third at the box office behind Finding Dory ($41.4 million) and The Legend of Tarzan ($38.6 million). The film grossed a total of $34.8 million over its four-day July 4 holiday frame.
The Purge: Election Year
Directed by: James DeMonaco
Starring: Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mykelti Williamson, Edwin Hodge, Kyle Secor, Kimberly Howe, Stephanie McIntyre, Portland Helmich, Terry Serpico, Kristen Annese
Screenplay by: James DeMonaco
Production Design by: Sharon Lomofsky
Cinematography by: Jacques Jouffret
Film Editing by: Todd E. Miller
Costume Design by: Elisabeth Vastola
Art Direction by: David Blankenship
Music by: Nathan Whitehead
MPAA Rating: R for disturbing bloody violence and strong language.
Studio: Universal Pictures
Release Date: July 1, 2016
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