Knowing (2009)
Genres: Science Fiction, Thriller
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Ben Mendelsohn, Chandler Canterbury, Lara Robinson, Nadia Townsend, Alan Hopgood, Benita Collings, Adrienne Pickering, Liam Hemsworth, Ra Chapman, Gareth Yuen, Alethea McGrath, Danielle Carter, Terry Camilleri, Lesley Anne Mitchell, Sam Velasquez, Verity Charlton, Tamara Donnellan, Travis Waite, D.G. Maloney, Joel Bow, Maximillian Paul, Karen Hadfield, David Lennie, Carolyn Shakespeare-Allen
Knowing is a 2009 American science fiction thriller film directed and co-produced by Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage. The film, conceived and co-written by Ryne Douglas Pearson, was originally attached to a number of directors under Columbia Pictures, but it was placed in turnaround and eventually picked up by Escape Artists. Production was financially backed by Summit Entertainment. Knowing was filmed in Docklands Studios Melbourne, Australia, using various locations to represent the film's Boston-area setting. The film centers on the discovery of a strange paper filled with numbers and the possibility that they somehow predict the details of various disasters culminating in the apocalypse.