Eagle vs Shark
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Eagle vs Shark is a 2007 New Zealand romantic comedy film directed by Taika Waititi
and financed by the New Zealand Film Commission
. The screenplay
was also written by Waititi, based on the character of Lily created by Loren Horsley
.
The film had its world premiere at Sundance
in the World Cinema Dramatic section of the festival and opened in the United States
on June 15, 2007.
The soundtrack to Eagle vs Shark features New Zealand artists The Phoenix Foundation
, Age Pryor
, The Reduction Agents
, and Tessa Rain
, along with M. Ward
, Devendra Banhart
and British group The Stone Roses
. Along with a number of songs The Phoenix Foundation wrote the original score for the film. The soundtrack is available through Hollywood Records
and Apple's iTunes
.
), a shy, wistful girl, is a songwriter when no one is listening. She works as a cashier at a fast food restaurant and has a crush from afar on Jarrod (Jemaine Clement
), a geek who works in a video game store. Jarrod is more interested in Lily's attractive workmate, Jenny. With Jenny not at work one day, Jarrod gives Lily an invitation to his "dress as your favourite animal" party to pass along to her, but Jenny crumples it up and throws it away upon receiving it. Lily retrieves the invitation from the trash, hoping Jarrod won't mind when she shows up.
The party is sparsely attended with what are apparently teenage and adult customers of Jarrod's store, all dressed extravagantly as their favourite animal. Jarrod is impressed with Lily's shark costume as well as her savant-like video game skills, making it to the finals of a Fight Man video game competition, though she is no match for defending champion, Jarrod (mainly because she spends most of their contest staring at him). Jarrod questions Lily and learns that her parents are dead, having had heart attacks. He says that both his brother (Gordon) and his mother are dead. (He says his mother died by getting kicked in the head by a cow.) After the conversation, they kiss and have very brief sex.
Lily now considers Jarrod her boyfriend and hangs out around his store. They set a date one night to see a film at the local cinema. Jarrod fails to turn up. He comes by Lily's house later that night to apologize, saying he was depressed and needed to be alone. He later says that he has to kill a man in his hometown who used to bully him in high school, but laments that he has no car to get there. Lily asks her brother Damon, and he consents to drive Jarrod and Lily to Jarrod's home.
On the way to Jarrod's home town, Damon offers Lily and Jarrod apples to eat. Jarrod takes a bite only to discover that his apple is rotten. He throws it out the window into a river that they are driving past. This apple then becomes the representation of Jarrod in several claymation scenes of the film. Upon arriving, Damon and Lily discover that the family is just as bizarre as Jarrod himself. Jarrod's sister (Nancy) and brother-in-law (Doug) seem to sell all kinds of "sell from home products", like questionable make-up kits, knives, and their own athletic jumpsuit clothing line "Awesome apparel". Jarrod's dad is a withdrawn man in a wheelchair.
Jarrod spends his time alternating between trying to win his dad's affection (by any means possible) and training for his impending fight with his high school bully Eric Elisi. It becomes quite clear that his father loved his other son Gordon much more than Jarrod. Gordon was very successful, winning many ribbons, especially in running. When Lily asks how Gordon died, Jarrod says that he died saving a kid from a fire at the school. Lily meets with Mason - Jarrod's best friend and computer geek - to find out that Eric will return from Samoa the next day. The three then run to Eric's house to drop off Jarrod's invitation to the fight between the two of them.
Gordon's fiance, Tracy, comes over. It is quite obvious that she is a person of similar success to Gordon and that the father even loves her more than Jarrod. Jarrod tries to impress his father with the news that he's dating Lily, but the father isn't impressed. The two go to the beach and Lily finds a rock shaped like a heart that she shows Jarrod. Shortly thereafter, Jarrod breaks up with Lily on the beach because he's too busy with the revenge mission and "too complex" for a relationship. Lily is visibly upset but tries to hide it. Jarrod, attempting to make his father happy by going out with Tracy, takes flowers over to Tracy's house and spends the day with her on the beach trying to impress her with all the fighting "skills" that he has. She isn't impressed.
Meanwhile, it's been revealed that Jarrod has a little girl who is nine that he sees only occasionally from a previous random sexual encounter at a party. Lily and the girl walk with Jonah around town coming to a hill. He refuses to go any farther, holding the wheels of his wheelchair and finally getting up out of his wheelchair and walking himself and his wheelchair home (proving that there is no real reason that he needs it). Lily and the girl continue up the hill where the girl says that "That's where my Uncle Gordon died", bringing up that Gordon did not die saving a kid from a fire as Jarrod had said, but rather by committing suicide.
They return home and the family eats dinner. Lily tells a silly joke and the whole group gets along very well. Jarrod comes home to find the group laughing and then kills the mood by saying that he'd been with Tracy all day and that they'd been laughing like that, "but like ten times more laughter". Jarrod's father Jonah spends most of his time watching an old tape of Gordon winning a cross country meet and reliving the victory that he felt at that time. In the video, Gordon wins the race and is congratulated obsessively by his father. Tracy comes over and the two are celebrating. Jarrod then attempts to come over and is pushed away by the father. Seeing his father watching this and feeling even more alienated, Jarrod announces that he is dating Tracy. Johan is crushed. Lily, annoyed by this, leaves the house and takes her sleeping bag from the tent, choosing to sleep over on the other side of the yard instead. Jarrod is annoyed by this and moves the whole tent over to her and sleeps inside it (though it collapses on top of him). The next morning, Lily wakes up to find Jarrod semi-sleeping on her, though he insists that it's her doing that he ended up that way.
Finally, annoyed by Jarrod's behavior, Lily decides to go with Doug and Nancy to a local party. She gets very drunk and dances with a lot of boys while Jarrod watches, looking extremely jealous, from the other side of the party. The whole party loves Lily. Eventually, she runs off, ripping off all her clothes to sleep naked in the bushes somewhere that night. Jarrod waits up for her. In the morning, he tells Lily he didn't get any sleep that night waiting for her, implying he still has feelings for her. Then he has his battle.
Jarrod confronts Eric with his family and friends watching, and finds out that Eric is paralyzed and uses a wheelchair. Eric apologizes for how he bullied him in high school, and Jarrod attacks him with his nunchuks. Despite his condition, Eric is able to easily wrestle Jarrod to the ground and only relents in his attacks when Jarrod's father tells him to leave him alone.
Jarrod is depressed about his fight with Eric, however Lily finds him and attempts to cheer him up. Lily leaves saying that she is leaving for home on the following day - but that could change. However at the bus stop Jarrod meets her and presents her with a bouquet of lillies. They reconcile, and head back to where they met on a bus together.
Director's and Screenwriter's Labs in June 2005. The script was sold in August and given a budget of NZ$1.8 million (US$1.35 million). It was shot entirely in New Zealand
, in and around Wellington
and Porirua
, during 25 days in October and November 2005 with a crew of 35 workers.
The film is composed mostly of live action, but segments within the film are done in stop motion
by Another Planet Ltd., utilizing both props and actors.
2006 it was announced that Miramax Films
had purchased the North American theatrical rights after watching a five-minute trailer.
The creators of the film asked art website DeviantArt
to hold a competition to come up with a poster for the film. The winning poster, by DeviantArt user 'puggdogg', was printed in The Onion
newspaper.
and a 44% Top Critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes
. The critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes was that while there were "frequent moments of wit and mordant humor, Eagle vs Shark needs more to distinguish itself from other precious, Napoleon Dynamite-ish comedies' moments." Joe Morgenstern
of the Wall Street Journal commented that "...'Eagle vs Shark' has its own distinctive style, partly thanks to whimsical little interludes of animation, but mainly because it ties blithe absurdity to a rock bed of emotional truth." Jim Ridley of The Village Voice
noted the dissimilarity to Napoleon Dynamite
saying "Napoleon Dynamite looks like Cary Grant next to the hero of this Kiwi quirk-a-thon: a hulking, sullen creep named Jarrod whose goony sulking, petulant selfishness and dweeby videogame obsession somehow work like Spanish fly
on mousy burger-flipper Lily."
, two in Los Angeles
) grossing $20,361 in its opening weekend. This was preceded by a series of free screenings, some with a Q&A with Taika Waititi and Loren Horsley, in certain cities to gain a word of mouth buzz. The film eventually expanded to 20 screens and grossed $221,846 in North America. It grossed $1,076,191 in other territories, totaling $1,298,037 worldwide.
, outtakes, deleted scenes with optional commentary, and The Phoenix Foundation
music video "Going Fishing".
Taika Waititi
Taika Waititi , also known as Taika Cohen, is a New Zealand-born film director, writer, painter, comedian and actor named as one of Varietys "ten new directors to watch" in 2007....
and financed by the New Zealand Film Commission
New Zealand Film Commission
The New Zealand Film Commission is a New Zealand government agency formed to assist with creating and promoting New Zealand films...
. The screenplay
Screenplay
A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...
was also written by Waititi, based on the character of Lily created by Loren Horsley
Loren Horsley
Loren Horsley is a New Zealand born actress and writer. She is best known for her role as Lily in the 2007 film Eagle vs Shark directed by her real life partner, Taika Waititi...
.
The film had its world premiere at Sundance
2007 Sundance Film Festival
The 2007 Sundance Film Festival ran from January 18 until January 28, 2007 in Park City, Utah with screenings in Salt Lake City, Utah and Ogden, Utah. It was the 23-rd iteration of the Sundance Film Festival...
in the World Cinema Dramatic section of the festival and opened in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
on June 15, 2007.
The soundtrack to Eagle vs Shark features New Zealand artists The Phoenix Foundation
The Phoenix Foundation
The Phoenix Foundation are an progressive indie rock band formed in Wellington, New Zealand.-Early years and China Cove:Founded by Conrad Wedde, Samuel Flynn Scott, and Luke Buda in 1997 while students at Wellington High School, they were joined by Tim Hansen , Richie Singleton and Will Ricketts ...
, Age Pryor
Age Pryor
Age Pryor is a New Zealand musician and songwriter. He records and performs solo, is a founding member of both the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra and The Woolshed Sessions, and is also a contributing artist to the group Fly My Pretties....
, The Reduction Agents
The Reduction Agents
The Reduction Agents are a New Zealand band fronted by James Milne, who also records under the name Lawrence Arabia. In 2006 the band released their debut album The Dance Reduction Agents, as well as Milne releasing his debut solo album, Lawrence Arabia...
, and Tessa Rain
Tessa Rain
Tessa Rain is a New Zealand singer-songwriter best known for her collaboration with Fly My Pretties. She wrote the songs Carrier Pigeon and Smoke Me from The Return of Fly My Pretties, and Mauri from A Story...
, along with M. Ward
M. Ward
Matthew Stephen Ward, known by his stage name M. Ward, is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who rose to prominence in the Portland, Oregon music scene. In addition to his solo work he is known as a member of She & Him and Monsters of Folk.-Career:...
, Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart
Devendra Obi Banhart is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San...
and British group The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses are an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester in 1983. They were one of the pioneering groups of the Madchester movement that was active during the late 1980s and early 1990s...
. Along with a number of songs The Phoenix Foundation wrote the original score for the film. The soundtrack is available through Hollywood Records
Hollywood Records
Hollywood Records is an American record label owned by Disney Music Group, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company.-History:Hollywood Records was founded in 1989 by then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner with the idea of expanding the music operations of the company and to develop and promote...
and Apple's iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
.
Plot
Lily (Loren HorsleyLoren Horsley
Loren Horsley is a New Zealand born actress and writer. She is best known for her role as Lily in the 2007 film Eagle vs Shark directed by her real life partner, Taika Waititi...
), a shy, wistful girl, is a songwriter when no one is listening. She works as a cashier at a fast food restaurant and has a crush from afar on Jarrod (Jemaine Clement
Jemaine Clement
Jemaine Clement is a New Zealand comedian, actor and musician, best known as one half of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords along with Bret McKenzie.-Early life:...
), a geek who works in a video game store. Jarrod is more interested in Lily's attractive workmate, Jenny. With Jenny not at work one day, Jarrod gives Lily an invitation to his "dress as your favourite animal" party to pass along to her, but Jenny crumples it up and throws it away upon receiving it. Lily retrieves the invitation from the trash, hoping Jarrod won't mind when she shows up.
The party is sparsely attended with what are apparently teenage and adult customers of Jarrod's store, all dressed extravagantly as their favourite animal. Jarrod is impressed with Lily's shark costume as well as her savant-like video game skills, making it to the finals of a Fight Man video game competition, though she is no match for defending champion, Jarrod (mainly because she spends most of their contest staring at him). Jarrod questions Lily and learns that her parents are dead, having had heart attacks. He says that both his brother (Gordon) and his mother are dead. (He says his mother died by getting kicked in the head by a cow.) After the conversation, they kiss and have very brief sex.
Lily now considers Jarrod her boyfriend and hangs out around his store. They set a date one night to see a film at the local cinema. Jarrod fails to turn up. He comes by Lily's house later that night to apologize, saying he was depressed and needed to be alone. He later says that he has to kill a man in his hometown who used to bully him in high school, but laments that he has no car to get there. Lily asks her brother Damon, and he consents to drive Jarrod and Lily to Jarrod's home.
On the way to Jarrod's home town, Damon offers Lily and Jarrod apples to eat. Jarrod takes a bite only to discover that his apple is rotten. He throws it out the window into a river that they are driving past. This apple then becomes the representation of Jarrod in several claymation scenes of the film. Upon arriving, Damon and Lily discover that the family is just as bizarre as Jarrod himself. Jarrod's sister (Nancy) and brother-in-law (Doug) seem to sell all kinds of "sell from home products", like questionable make-up kits, knives, and their own athletic jumpsuit clothing line "Awesome apparel". Jarrod's dad is a withdrawn man in a wheelchair.
Jarrod spends his time alternating between trying to win his dad's affection (by any means possible) and training for his impending fight with his high school bully Eric Elisi. It becomes quite clear that his father loved his other son Gordon much more than Jarrod. Gordon was very successful, winning many ribbons, especially in running. When Lily asks how Gordon died, Jarrod says that he died saving a kid from a fire at the school. Lily meets with Mason - Jarrod's best friend and computer geek - to find out that Eric will return from Samoa the next day. The three then run to Eric's house to drop off Jarrod's invitation to the fight between the two of them.
Gordon's fiance, Tracy, comes over. It is quite obvious that she is a person of similar success to Gordon and that the father even loves her more than Jarrod. Jarrod tries to impress his father with the news that he's dating Lily, but the father isn't impressed. The two go to the beach and Lily finds a rock shaped like a heart that she shows Jarrod. Shortly thereafter, Jarrod breaks up with Lily on the beach because he's too busy with the revenge mission and "too complex" for a relationship. Lily is visibly upset but tries to hide it. Jarrod, attempting to make his father happy by going out with Tracy, takes flowers over to Tracy's house and spends the day with her on the beach trying to impress her with all the fighting "skills" that he has. She isn't impressed.
Meanwhile, it's been revealed that Jarrod has a little girl who is nine that he sees only occasionally from a previous random sexual encounter at a party. Lily and the girl walk with Jonah around town coming to a hill. He refuses to go any farther, holding the wheels of his wheelchair and finally getting up out of his wheelchair and walking himself and his wheelchair home (proving that there is no real reason that he needs it). Lily and the girl continue up the hill where the girl says that "That's where my Uncle Gordon died", bringing up that Gordon did not die saving a kid from a fire as Jarrod had said, but rather by committing suicide.
They return home and the family eats dinner. Lily tells a silly joke and the whole group gets along very well. Jarrod comes home to find the group laughing and then kills the mood by saying that he'd been with Tracy all day and that they'd been laughing like that, "but like ten times more laughter". Jarrod's father Jonah spends most of his time watching an old tape of Gordon winning a cross country meet and reliving the victory that he felt at that time. In the video, Gordon wins the race and is congratulated obsessively by his father. Tracy comes over and the two are celebrating. Jarrod then attempts to come over and is pushed away by the father. Seeing his father watching this and feeling even more alienated, Jarrod announces that he is dating Tracy. Johan is crushed. Lily, annoyed by this, leaves the house and takes her sleeping bag from the tent, choosing to sleep over on the other side of the yard instead. Jarrod is annoyed by this and moves the whole tent over to her and sleeps inside it (though it collapses on top of him). The next morning, Lily wakes up to find Jarrod semi-sleeping on her, though he insists that it's her doing that he ended up that way.
Finally, annoyed by Jarrod's behavior, Lily decides to go with Doug and Nancy to a local party. She gets very drunk and dances with a lot of boys while Jarrod watches, looking extremely jealous, from the other side of the party. The whole party loves Lily. Eventually, she runs off, ripping off all her clothes to sleep naked in the bushes somewhere that night. Jarrod waits up for her. In the morning, he tells Lily he didn't get any sleep that night waiting for her, implying he still has feelings for her. Then he has his battle.
Jarrod confronts Eric with his family and friends watching, and finds out that Eric is paralyzed and uses a wheelchair. Eric apologizes for how he bullied him in high school, and Jarrod attacks him with his nunchuks. Despite his condition, Eric is able to easily wrestle Jarrod to the ground and only relents in his attacks when Jarrod's father tells him to leave him alone.
Jarrod is depressed about his fight with Eric, however Lily finds him and attempts to cheer him up. Lily leaves saying that she is leaving for home on the following day - but that could change. However at the bus stop Jarrod meets her and presents her with a bouquet of lillies. They reconcile, and head back to where they met on a bus together.
Cast
- Jemaine ClementJemaine ClementJemaine Clement is a New Zealand comedian, actor and musician, best known as one half of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords along with Bret McKenzie.-Early life:...
as Jarrod - Loren HorsleyLoren HorsleyLoren Horsley is a New Zealand born actress and writer. She is best known for her role as Lily in the 2007 film Eagle vs Shark directed by her real life partner, Taika Waititi...
as Lily - Craig HallCraig Hall (actor)-Film:* Siren as Soldier* Savage Honeymoon as Dean Savage* The World's Fastest Indian as Antarctic Angel* King Kong as Mike* Perfect Creature as Dominic* Knife Shift as Shane...
as Doug Davis - Joel TobeckJoel TobeckBorn in 1971 in Auckland, New Zealand, He is a well known actor in New Zealand and Australia with over 20 years acting experience.He comes from an acting background, his mother Liddy Holloway was a well known theatre and TV actress in New Zealand...
as Damon - Brian SergentBrian SergentBrian Sergent is an actor born and based in Wellington, New Zealand. He has appeared in some of New Zealand’s television series, commercial advertisements, and is well known in theatre and his voice is recognized for his voice-overs and radio presentations...
as Jonah - Rachel House as Nancy
- Dave Fane as Eric
- Taika WaititiTaika WaititiTaika Waititi , also known as Taika Cohen, is a New Zealand-born film director, writer, painter, comedian and actor named as one of Varietys "ten new directors to watch" in 2007....
as Gordon
Production
The film's script was workshopped at the Sundance Film FestivalSundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
Director's and Screenwriter's Labs in June 2005. The script was sold in August and given a budget of NZ$1.8 million (US$1.35 million). It was shot entirely in New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, in and around Wellington
Wellington
Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
and Porirua
Porirua
Porirua is a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand, immediately north of the city of Wellington, with their central business districts 20 km apart. A large proportion of the population commutes to Wellington, so it may be considered a satellite city. It almost completely surrounds...
, during 25 days in October and November 2005 with a crew of 35 workers.
The film is composed mostly of live action, but segments within the film are done in stop motion
Stop motion
Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence...
by Another Planet Ltd., utilizing both props and actors.
Distribution
At CannesCannes Film Festival
The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
2006 it was announced that Miramax Films
Miramax Films
Miramax Films is an American entertainment company known for distributing independent and foreign films. For its first 14 years the company was privately owned by its founders, Bob and Harvey Weinstein...
had purchased the North American theatrical rights after watching a five-minute trailer.
The creators of the film asked art website DeviantArt
DeviantArt
deviantART is an online community showcasing various forms of user-made artwork. It was first launched on August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, Angelo Sotira and others. deviantArt, Inc...
to hold a competition to come up with a poster for the film. The winning poster, by DeviantArt user 'puggdogg', was printed in The Onion
The Onion
The Onion is an American news satire organization. It is an entertainment newspaper and a website featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news, in addition to a non-satirical entertainment section known as The A.V. Club...
newspaper.
Critical reception
The film received mixed reviews, receiving a rating of 55/100 on MetacriticMetacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
and a 44% Top Critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films—widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance...
. The critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes was that while there were "frequent moments of wit and mordant humor, Eagle vs Shark needs more to distinguish itself from other precious, Napoleon Dynamite-ish comedies' moments." Joe Morgenstern
Joe Morgenstern
Joe Morgenstern is a Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for The Wall Street Journal.-Career:Morgenstern graduated from Lehigh University in 1953. His first journalism experience was as news clerk at the New York Times...
of the Wall Street Journal commented that "...'Eagle vs Shark' has its own distinctive style, partly thanks to whimsical little interludes of animation, but mainly because it ties blithe absurdity to a rock bed of emotional truth." Jim Ridley of The Village Voice
The Village Voice
The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper and news and features website in New York City that features investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts and music coverage, and events listings for New York City...
noted the dissimilarity to Napoleon Dynamite
Napoleon Dynamite
Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 comedy film co-written and directed by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess and stars Jon Heder as Napoleon Dynamite. The film was Jared Hess' first full-length feature and is partially adapted from his earlier short film, Peluca....
saying "Napoleon Dynamite looks like Cary Grant next to the hero of this Kiwi quirk-a-thon: a hulking, sullen creep named Jarrod whose goony sulking, petulant selfishness and dweeby videogame obsession somehow work like Spanish fly
Spanish fly
The Spanish fly is an emerald-green beetle in the family Meloidae, Lytta vesicatoria. Other species of blister beetle used by apothecaries are often called by the same name...
on mousy burger-flipper Lily."
Box office
Eagle vs Shark opened on June 15, 2007 on three screens (one in New York CityNew York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, two in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
) grossing $20,361 in its opening weekend. This was preceded by a series of free screenings, some with a Q&A with Taika Waititi and Loren Horsley, in certain cities to gain a word of mouth buzz. The film eventually expanded to 20 screens and grossed $221,846 in North America. It grossed $1,076,191 in other territories, totaling $1,298,037 worldwide.
Home media
Eagle vs Shark was released January 8, 2008 on DVD. Bonus features include a commentary by director Taika WaititiTaika Waititi
Taika Waititi , also known as Taika Cohen, is a New Zealand-born film director, writer, painter, comedian and actor named as one of Varietys "ten new directors to watch" in 2007....
, outtakes, deleted scenes with optional commentary, and The Phoenix Foundation
The Phoenix Foundation
The Phoenix Foundation are an progressive indie rock band formed in Wellington, New Zealand.-Early years and China Cove:Founded by Conrad Wedde, Samuel Flynn Scott, and Luke Buda in 1997 while students at Wellington High School, they were joined by Tim Hansen , Richie Singleton and Will Ricketts ...
music video "Going Fishing".