Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away

Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Andrew Adamson
Written by	Andrew Adamson
Produced by	Martin Bolduc; Andrew Adamson; Aron Warner;
Cinematography	Brett Turnbull
Edited by	Sim Evan-Jones; Dirk Westervelt;
Music by	Benoît Jutras; Stephen Barton;
Production; companies	Cirque du Soleil; Reel FX Creative Studios; Strange Weather Films; Cameron/Pace Group;
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	October 20, 2012 (TIFF); December 21, 2012 (United States);
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$25 million
Box office	$34 million

Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away is a 2012 American 3D family fantasy film directed by Andrew Adamson. The film premiered on October 20, 2012, at the Tokyo International Film Festival,^[3] and was released theatrically in the United States on December 21, 2012.^[4]

Distributed worldwide by Paramount Pictures on December 21, 2012, the film tells the story of a girl named Mia going to a traveling circus and falling in love with its main attraction, the Aerialist. After the Aerialist falls during his act, he and Mia are transported to another world where each encounter the different worlds of Cirque du Soleil. It stars Erica Linz and Igor Zaripov as the main characters and incorporates acts from O, Mystère, Kà, Love, Zumanity, Criss Angel Believe, and Viva Elvis, some of the Cirque du Soleil shows that were running in Las Vegas in 2011.

Eels performed a song titled "Calling for Your Love" for the movie.

Plot

Mia, a young woman in a small American Midwestern town, goes to a traveling carnival one evening, where she is urged by a silent clown to visit the carnival's circus and see the Aerialist, the show's star attraction. She is entranced by the Aerialist, but during his act he misses a catch and falls to the ground. She rushes to help him, but then the ground beneath them gives way and they fall into the dreamlike world of Cirque du Soleil. Separated, they travel through the different tent worlds trying to find each other, interacting with the strange and wonderful performers and performances of Cirque du Soleil. Mia and the Aerialist perform an aerial courtship for the grand finale.

Cast

Erica Linz as Mia
Igor Zaripov as The Aerialist
Lutz Halbhubner as Ringmaster
Benedikt Negor as Le Vieux
Dallas Barnett as Boss
Tanya Drewery
Sarah Houbolt
Ascia Maybury
Damien Gordon
Zach Brickland
Iren Goed
Roufan Gan
Pei Pei Lane
Shaowei Xin
Stephen Cooper
Mengkai Shi
James Fletcher
Wenbo Zheng
Mariska du Plessis
Dan Hales
Graham Candy
Mike Baker
Matt Gillanders
Alan Thompson
John Abraham
Peter McPhail
Maria Akhlatkina
Alifia Alimova
Zulfia Alimova
Terry Bartlett
Oomaa Bayartsogt
Suzannah Bianco
Stephen Bland
P.J. Bogart
Irina Borbounewitch
Cinthia Bouhier
Brynn Butzman
Jorge Castano
Luydmyla Chovhun
Alexander Clements
Johanne Clerk
Jonathan Cole
Danut Coseru
Pierre Cottin
Natalia Custurova
Alessandro D'Agostini
Namchinkhand Damba-Kaye
Enkhjargal Dashbaljir
Benjamin Deschamps
Naranglia Dulamsuren
Sylvie Dumaine
Yuliya Eremina
Junior Faitau
Tatiana Frolova
Olessia Gaidych
Saraana Gantumur
Aleksandr Gorshkov
Daniel Headecker
Yun Jin Hong
Zoltan Jobbagy
Andy Jones
Erez Kaplan
Evgeny Karasev
Mika Kawabe
Valerie Keft
Kanako Kitao
Miho Kono
Toumany Kouyaté
Kari Kreitzer
Sergei Kuorovich
Mikhail Lashchuk
Caroline Lauzon
Qiang Lei
Julia Lopatkina
Chelsea Luker
Dena Massaro
John Manson
Bill May
Noara Mello
Anna Melnikova
Tatyana Mironovich
Benedikt Negro
Tatiana Nikitenko
Justice Orion
Zipporah Peddle
Eric Plante
Kurt Rasmussen
Steven Isijia Reynolds
Briana Shaw Rüssi
Volodymyr Rozbitskyy
Regina Rufenacht
Karl Sanft
Chantale Sauvageau
Katy Savoie
Daria Shemiakina
Paul Emile Shihadeh
Natalia Sigwarth
Craig Paul Smith
Elena Solodowniküva
Cristian Stefanescu
Irina Syrova
Isabelle Thomas
Jozsef Tokar
Florian Toussaint
Turchmeg Turbat
Olena Usik
Norbert Virag
Ray Wold
Anja Wyttenbach
Mai Yamamoto
Anna Zarianova
Vladimir Zibrov
Francisco Alegria
Sabu Alegria
Andrian Nikolaev Angelov
Ge Bai
Jason Biltz
Jeana Blackman
Sergiy Bobrovnik
Rochelle Collins
Janine De Lorenzo
Florent Deplanche
Julie Duflos
Yan Chao
Nicolle Ford
Hubert Gall
Gail Gilbert
Darin Good
Sarah Guillot-Guyard
Peng Guo
Johan Guy
Mathieu Guyard
Jennifer Haight
Cheri Haight
Lionel Hamel
Jason Hardabura
Eric J. Henderson
Marylène Hickock
Vitaly Hudzenko
Eric Jeffers
Zeng Jiao Jian
Derek Philip Jones
Peter Kismartoni
Emmanuel Kizayilawoko
Jörg Lemke
Dan Hong Li
Zhong Zhi Lu
Victoria Lubecki
Tej Limlas Ly
Teng-Meng Ly
Chao Ma
Summer Marik
Brien McCrea
Julie McInnes
Brahim Meslem
Ivan Mokrousov
Emma Nicholson
Gabryel Nogueira
Reinaldo Noguti
Spencer Novich
Richard Oberacker
Leonardo Oliveira Santos
Jamie Pannucci
Julia Parrot
Mikhail Petrov
Dongxing Qiu
Robert Louis Robinson Jr.
Matthew Salcedo
Sami Saula
Eric Scribner
Chang Jun Shao
Grygory Shevchenko
Kun Shi
Ya Hui Sun
Pierre-Luc Sylvain
Noriko Takahashi
Arisa Takami
Kelly Tucker
Altanzul Ulambayar
Su Ming Zhang
Guangsheng Zou
Jason Zulauf
Jonas Zuniga
Haoyuen Chen
Alexander Dryjenko
Roman Ermolenkov
Sébastian Fortier
Florence Gaillard
Yevgen Kuz'min
Xun Li
Petro Marakhovskyy
Alexandre Plotnikov
Andrei Ridetski
Dimitry Vorobiev
Derrick Aldrich
Lorin-Pierre Andre
Andy Howard
Wellington Lima
David Locke
Sheila Joy Buford
Gyulnara Karaeva
Sylvia Aderne
Ekaterina Arnaoutova
Joel Baker
Marina Boutina
Eugen Brim
Marin Britten
Tina Cannon
Gianni Cardinale
Kristofer Carrison
Eve Castelo Branco
Jimmie Cervera
Roshan Chopra
Jason Chu
Ekenah Claudin
Nathan Cooper
Laura Cota
Ryan Dawes
Marco De Santi
Youssef El Toufali
Ryan Elrod
Marc Englehart
Reed Evans
Delphine Gaillard
Halil Gashi
Mike Goodenough
Wieslaw Haczkiewicz
Ronald Harris
Carrie Helms
Khetanya Henderson
Gaz Hopkins
Joel Howard
Tal Iozef
Meredith Kerr
Leisha Knight
Alina Leiva
Mariana Rodrigues Maekawa
Ghislain Malardier
Kishema Pendu Malik
Cosmin Malita
Marian Malita
Nnete Campbell Manyesa
Sandrine Mattei
Bernhardt Mattes
Cameron McKinlay
Tumelo Michael Moloi
Mukhtar Omar Sharif Mukhtar
Charlotte O Dowd
Rares Iulian Orzata
Nolan Padilla
Dakotah Rhoades
Mason Roberts
Melena Rounis
Dmitro Rybikin
David Schexnayder
David Shay
Taras Shevchenko
Vladimir Sosnin
Jonathan Strong
Alexander Strownov
Jake Van Orden
Anne Weissbecker
Rob Winch
Wallace Zernich
Kyle Zingler
Chris Silcox
Nicolas Bosc

Soundtrack

Calling
Circus Marvelous
The Aerialist
Sandtrap
Faraway Chapiteau
Empty Theatre
Rideau Rouge
Squelette
Reda
Pieds II
Steben
Bateau
Terre Brûlée
Fontaines
Coup d'état
Slave Cage
Fight for the Prisoner
Battlefield
Aftermath
Washed Up
The Pursuers
Cliff
The Last Pursuer
Flight
Love Dance
Variation on Love Dance
Mystère
Got a Lot o' Livin' to Do
Good Rockin' Tonight (sample)
Baby Let's Play House
Nostalgie
Blackbird
Octopus's Garden
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
Get Back
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
All You Need is Love

Reception

This film received mixed reviews from critics. It has a rating of 45% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 47 reviews and an average score of 5.30/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Cirque Du Soleil loses its sense of wonder when bottled for the screen, with Worlds Away's shapeless story and relentless spectacle feeling hollow when divorced from the theatrical experience."^[5] On Metacritic, it has a rating of 51 out of 100, indicating "mixed or average reviews", based on 16 reviews.^[6]

A. O. Scott of The New York Times gave this film a score of 3/5, and said that "For me, Cirque du Soleil will always be associated with the movie Knocked Up, in which the characters played by Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd take in a performance of Mystère under the influence of hallucinogenic mushrooms. If such a trip is not to your taste, or if a trip to Las Vegas is not on your calendar, you might opt for the relatively inexpensive, mildly mind-blowing Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away, a new 3-D movie directed by Andrew Adamson."^[7]

Awards

List of awards and nominations
Award	Category	Nominee	Result
Golden Trailer Awards	The Don LaFontaine Award for Best Voice Over	Paramount Pictures and The AV Squad	Nominated

Home video

On March 12, 2013, Worlds Away was released on DVD and Blu-ray.

References

^ "CIRQUE DU SOLEIL - WORLDS AWAY". British Board of Film Classification. December 5, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2012.
^ "Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
^ Lehmann, Megan (October 20, 2012). "Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away: Tokyo Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 31, 2012.
^ The Deadline Team (February 27, 2012). "Paramount Sets December 2012 Release Date For 'Cirque Du Soleil' Pic". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved October 31, 2012.
^ "Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D Movie Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved December 23, 2012.
^ "Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More - Metacritic". Metacritic. CBS. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
^ Scott, A.O (20 December 2012). "'Cirque du Soleil - Worlds Away' in 3-D - NYTimes.com". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 January 2013.

External links

[1] "CIRQUE DU SOLEIL - WORLDS AWAY". British Board of Film Classification. December 5, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2012.

[BOM-2] "Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 18, 2018.

[THRReview-3] Lehmann, Megan (October 20, 2012). "Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away: Tokyo Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 31, 2012.

[4] The Deadline Team (February 27, 2012). "Paramount Sets December 2012 Release Date For 'Cirque Du Soleil' Pic". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved October 31, 2012.

[5] "Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D Movie Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved December 23, 2012.

[6] "Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More - Metacritic". Metacritic. CBS. Retrieved 3 January 2013.

[7] Scott, A.O (20 December 2012). "'Cirque du Soleil - Worlds Away' in 3-D - NYTimes.com". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 January 2013.

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v t e Films by Andrew Adamson
Directed	Shrek (2001) Shrek 2 (2004) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) Mr. Pip (2012) Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (2012)
Written	Shrek the Third (2007)
Produced	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)