Edge of Tomorrow

{{Short description|2014 film by Doug Liman}}

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| alt = The male and female leads, wearing battle armor, holding large guns, and looking battle-worn, stand against an urban background devastated by war. The sky is golden, meteors are falling, and The Arc de Triomphe can be seen in the background.

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| director = Doug Liman

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| based_on = {{Based on|All You Need Is Kill|Hiroshi Sakurazaka}}

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| cinematography = Dion Beebe

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  • Laura Jennings

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| music = Christophe Beck

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| distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures

| released = {{Film date|2014|05|28|London IMAX|2014|06|06|United States}}

| runtime = 113 minutes{{cite web |title=Edge of Tomorrow (12A) |url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/edge-tomorrow-film-0 |work=bbfc.co.uk |publisher=British Board of Film Classification |access-date=May 1, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140501235822/http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/edge-tomorrow-film-0 |archive-date=May 1, 2014 |url-status=dead }}

| country = United States{{cite web |title=Edge of Tomorrow (2014) |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/539784449398b |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=June 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912030001/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/539784449398b |archive-date=September 12, 2015 |url-status=dead }}

| language = English

| budget = $178 million

| gross = $370.5 million

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Edge of Tomorrow{{efn|Later marketed as Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow}} is a 2014 American science fiction action film directed by Doug Liman and written by Christopher McQuarrie and the writing team of Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, loosely based on the Japanese light novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. Starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, the film takes place in a future where most of Europe is occupied by an alien race. Major William Cage (Cruise), a public relations officer with no combat experience, is forced by his superiors to join a landing operation against the aliens, only to find himself experiencing a time loop as he tries to find a way to defeat the invaders. Bill Paxton and Brendan Gleeson also appear in supporting roles.

In late 2009, {{nowrap|3 Arts Entertainment}} purchased the rights to All You Need Is Kill and sold the spec script to Warner Bros. Pictures. The studio produced Edge of Tomorrow with the involvement of {{nowrap|3 Arts}}, the novel's publisher Viz Media, and Australian production company Village Roadshow. Filming began in late 2012, taking place in England: at Warner Bros. Studios in Leavesden, outside London, and other locations, such as London's Trafalgar Square and the coastal Saunton Sands. A total of nine companies handled the visual effects.

Edge of Tomorrow was released theatrically in select territories on {{nowrap|May 30}}, 2014, and in the United States on {{nowrap|June 6}}, 2014. The film underperformed at the box office, but received positive reviews from critics, who praised the plot, direction, action sequences, and performances.{{Cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/tom-cruise-best-movies-of-the-decade-imdb/10/?v=6&n=f|title=Edge Of Tomorrow – 7.9|date=December 6, 2019|website=Screen Rant|language=en-US|access-date=December 6, 2019}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} It grossed over $370.5 million worldwide in its theatrical run. Since then, it has been considered one of the best action films of the 2010s.

Plot

In 2015, an alien race known as "Mimics" lands in Germany and swiftly conquers much of continental Europe, killing millions. By 2020, humanity has formed a global military alliance, the United Defense Force (UDF), to combat the Mimics. However, victory remained elusive until the recent Battle of Verdun, which was secured by the celebrated war hero Sergeant Rita Vrataski.

In Britain, the UDF amasses forces for a major invasion of France. General Brigham orders public affairs officer Major William Cage to cover the offensive from the frontline, but the inexperienced and cowardly Cage attempts to blackmail Brigham into rescinding the order. Brigham has Cage arrested, demoted to Private and sent to the military base at Heathrow Airport to join the invasion as infantry. He is assigned to Master Sergeant Farell and the misfit J-Squad, who dislike and belittle him. The following day, the invasion forces land on a French beach but are ambushed and massacred by Mimics. Cage uses a Claymore mine to kill a larger "Alpha" Mimic. Bathed in the Mimic's blood, Cage dies during the ensuing explosion.

Cage suddenly awakens at Heathrow, realizing he is reliving the previous morning. He makes failed attempts to warn against the invasion, and experiences multiple loops in which he dies on the beach only to awaken again at Heathrow. With each loop, his combat skills and knowledge of the battlefield improve. He tries to save Vrataski's life so she can lead them but, after recognizing his apparent prescience, she allows herself to die, ordering Cage to find her on his next loop.

Cage quickly convinces Vrataski of the reset because she gained the same power after exposure to an Alpha's blood. Her loops enabled her, an initially inexperienced soldier, to win at Verdun, but a later blood transfusion removed the power. Vrataski takes Cage to Mimic expert Dr. Carter, who explains the creatures are a superorganism controlled by a single, gigantic "Omega" Mimic. Whenever the Alpha Mimics are killed, the Omega restarts a loop and adjusts its tactics until the Mimics win. Vrataski realizes the Mimics allowed the UDF victory at Verdun to make them overconfident in their new mech-suits and lure them into overcommitting their forces in retaking Europe, allowing the Mimics to exterminate most of the resistance.

Cage spends many loops training with Vrataski so they can reach the Omega, but he begins to care for her and struggles after seeing her repeatedly die. He experiences a vision of the Omega concealed in a German dam, and he and Vrataski seek it out. During the journey, the pair bond, but Vrataski remains distant, having seen someone she cared about die hundreds of times at Verdun. She eventually determines that this is not the first loop in which they approached the Omega. Cage reveals that she always dies before reaching the dam, regardless of his actions, and he is unwilling to kill the Omega and end the loops if she will remain dead. Upset, Vrataski attempts to leave but is killed by a Mimic. Despondent, during the next loop, Cage travels to the dam alone. He learns the vision was a trap and is ambushed by an Alpha, but Cage drowns before it can remove his power.

To find the Omega, Cage and Vrataski sneak into General Brigham's office and pressure him into handing over a prototype transponder designed by Carter. Having used it to locate the Omega beneath the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, Cage is knocked unconscious during their escape and given a blood transfusion for his injuries, removing his power.

Vrataski frees Cage, and he uses his detailed knowledge of J-Squad to convince them to help destroy the Omega. They fly to Paris, where the squad members sacrifice themselves to ensure Cage and Vrataski reach the Louvre. Cornered by an Alpha, Vrataski kisses Cage, lamenting that she does not have more time to get to know him. The Alpha kills Vrataski and mortally wounds Cage, but he drops several grenades that destroy the Omega and bathe him in its blood.

Cage awakens before his first meeting with General Brigham, and witnesses a news announcement that all Mimics are dead following a mysterious energy surge in Paris. Cage returns to Heathrow and finds Vrataski. Oblivious to his identity, she inquires what he wants; Cage chuckles.

Cast

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Crew

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  • Doug Liman – director{{cite web | url=http://html5.warnerbros.com/us/edgeoftomorrow/synopsis.html | title=Edge of Tomorrow – Story | work=warnerbros.com | publisher=Warner Bros. | access-date=March 31, 2022 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • Christopher McQuarrie – co-writer
  • Jez Butterworth – co-writer
  • John-Henry Butterworth – co-writer
  • Erwin Stoff – producer
  • Tom Lassally – producer
  • Jeffrey Silver – producer
  • Gregory Jacobs – producer
  • Jason Hoffs – producer
  • Dion Beebe – cinematographer
  • Oliver Scholl – production designer
  • Kate Hawley – costume designer
  • James Herbert – editor
  • Laura Jennings – editor
  • Christophe Beck – music composer
  • Nick Davis – visual effects supervisor

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Production

=Development and writing=

Viz Media published All You Need Is Kill in North America in 2009 as one of four translated Japanese science fiction novels that initiated its Haikasoru imprint.{{cite press release |url=https://www.viz.com/news/newsroom/v/1196 |title=Viz Media Launches Landmark Imprint Haika Soru to Published Acclaimed Japanese Science Fiction Novels |publisher=Viz Media |date=January 29, 2009 |access-date=June 14, 2009}} After drawing the interest of producer Erwin Stoff,{{cite press release |title=Edge of Tomorrow production notes |publisher=Warner Bros. |url=http://www.cinemareview.com/production.asp?prodid=18395 |date=May 31, 2014 |access-date=October 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923203614/http://www.cinemareview.com/production.asp?prodid=18395 |archive-date=September 23, 2015 |url-status=live }} his company {{nowrap|3 Arts}} Entertainment optioned the novel that same year. {{nowrap|3 Arts}} collaborated with the publisher's filmmaking subsidiary Viz Productions, headed by Jason Hoffs. Viz Media president Hidemi Fukuhara served as executive producer.{{cite web |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-04-06/warner-picks-up-sakurazaka-all-you-need-is-kill-novel |title=Warner Picks Up Sakurazaka's All You Need is Kill Novel |publisher=Anime News Network |date=April 6, 2010 |access-date=October 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029054249/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-04-06/warner-picks-up-sakurazaka-all-you-need-is-kill-novel |archive-date=October 29, 2014 |url-status=live }} Instead of making a pitch to a major studio to purchase the property and proceed with writing and producing a film adaptation, the company developed a spec script to show the studios. Stoff approached writer Dante Harper and sent him a copy of the novel. Harper found the book "too complex" to properly adapt, but, despite the prospect of not getting paid, he chose to "risk it" and accepted the job, taking eight months to write the script.{{Cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/be-true-to-yourself/article5867783.ece |title=Be true to yourself |author=Sarkar, Neeti |work=The Hindu |date=April 3, 2014 |access-date=December 4, 2014}} Upon completion, Warner Bros. Pictures purchased it in a {{nowrap|$3 million}} deal in April 2010.{{cite news |last=Fleming |first=Mike Jr |date=April 5, 2010 |title=Warners Makes 7-Figure Spec Deal For Japanese Novel 'All You Need Is Kill' |url=https://deadline.com/2010/04/warners-makes-7-figure-spec-deal-for-japanese-novel-all-you-need-is-kill-30679/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140210113405/http://www.deadline.com/2010/04/warners-makes-7-figure-spec-deal-for-japanese-novel-all-you-need-is-kill/ |archive-date=February 10, 2014 |access-date=May 8, 2014 |website=Deadline Hollywood}} The studio hired Doug Liman to direct the film the following August.{{cite journal |last=McNary |first=Dave |author-link=Dave McNary |date=August 23, 2010 |title=Doug Liman to direct 'All You Need Is Kill' |url=https://variety.com/2010/film/news/doug-liman-to-direct-all-you-need-is-kill-1118023208/ |url-status=live |journal=Variety |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203080011/http://variety.com/2010/film/news/doug-liman-to-direct-all-you-need-is-kill-1118023208/ |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |access-date=May 8, 2014}} Harper's screenplay was listed in the 2010 edition of the Black List, a survey of most-liked unproduced screenplays.{{cite journal |last=Oldham |first=Stuart |url=https://variety.com/2010/film/news/2010-black-list-best-unproduced-screenplays-1-7099/ |title=2010 Black List: Best Unproduced Screenplays |journal=Variety |date=December 13, 2010 |access-date=May 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508224741/http://variety.com/2010/film/news/2010-black-list-best-unproduced-screenplays-1-7099/ |archive-date=May 8, 2014 |url-status=live }}

In June 2011, Joby Harold was hired to rewrite the screenplay.{{cite news |last=McNary |first=Dave |author-link=Dave McNary |date=June 21, 2011 |title=Joby Harold rewriting WB's 'Kill' |url=https://variety.com/2011/film/news/joby-harold-rewriting-wb-s-kill-1118038915/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101120436/http://variety.com/2011/film/news/joby-harold-rewriting-wb-s-kill-1118038915/ |archive-date=January 1, 2016 |access-date=November 30, 2014 |work=Variety}} By September, Warner Bros. approached Brad Pitt to star;{{cite news |last=Brodesser-Akner |first=Claude |url=https://www.vulture.com/2011/09/brad_pitt_offer_all_you_need_i.html |title=Warner Brothers Wants Brad Pitt for Doug Liman Film After His Luna Craters |work=Vulture |date=September 23, 2011 |access-date=May 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140604220447/http://www.vulture.com/2011/09/brad_pitt_offer_all_you_need_i.html |archive-date=June 4, 2014 |url-status=live }} after he declined, the studio then approached Tom Cruise.{{cite journal |last1=Kit |first1=Borys |last2=Fernandez |first2=Jay A. |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-tom-cruise-still-matters-245261 |title=Why Tom Cruise Still Matters in the Film Industry (Analysis) |journal=The Hollywood Reporter |date=October 8, 2011 |access-date=May 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813134302/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-tom-cruise-still-matters-245261 |archive-date=August 13, 2014 |url-status=live }} Once Cruise accepted, the script changed the age of the leading role to fit the actors. In December 2011, Cruise officially joined the film.{{cite news |last=Kroll |first=Justin |url=https://variety.com/2011/film/news/cruise-cues-all-you-need-is-kill-1118046859/ |title=Cruise cues 'All You Need Is Kill' |work=Variety |date=December 1, 2011 |access-date=November 30, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226055331/http://variety.com/2011/film/news/cruise-cues-all-you-need-is-kill-1118046859/ |archive-date=December 26, 2014 |url-status=live }} Emily Blunt entered negotiations to star opposite Cruise in April 2012.{{cite journal |last=Kit |first=Borys |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/emily-blunt-tom-cruise-all-you-need-kill-doug-liman-312514 |title=Emily Blunt in Negotiations for Tom Cruise Sci-Fi Pic 'All You Need Is Kill' |journal=The Hollywood Reporter |date=April 16, 2012 |access-date=May 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610040701/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/emily-blunt-tom-cruise-all-you-need-kill-doug-liman-312514 |archive-date=June 10, 2014 |url-status=live }} Screenwriting duo Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman also delivered a draft of their own but their script wasn't used in the final version.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2012/05/universal-signs-first-look-deal-with-alex-kurtzman-and-roberto-orci-264868/ |title=Universal Signs Kurtzman And Orci; Pair Takes On 'The Mummy' And 'Van Helsing' |date=May 1, 2012 |website=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=December 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019140052/http://deadline.com/2012/05/universal-signs-first-look-deal-with-alex-kurtzman-and-roberto-orci-264868/ |archive-date=October 19, 2014 |url-status=live }}

Six months before filming started, Liman discarded two-thirds of Harper's original script. Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth were hired to rewrite the script. Screenwriter Simon Kinberg took over from the Butterworths, and eight weeks before the start of filming, Kinberg was replaced by Christopher McQuarrie.{{cite news |last=Lee |first=Chris |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-ca-doug-liman-20140601-story.html |title=Doug Liman hopes his wild loop means a hit with 'Edge of Tomorrow' |work=Los Angeles Times |url-access=limited |date=May 31, 2014 |access-date=June 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140603045411/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-ca-doug-liman-20140601-story.html |archive-date=June 3, 2014 |url-status=live }} McQuarrie was introduced to the project while directing Cruise in Jack Reacher. While reading the earlier script McQuarrie "understood very clearly what the premise of the story was and what they were looking for in terms of characters".{{cite web |url=https://filmschoolrejects.com/features/christopher-mcquarrie-interview-telling-stories.php#ixzz3GMzJEoQA |title=Christopher McQuarrie Talks 'Edge of Tomorrow' and the Unexpected But Necessary Narrative of Filmmaking |first=Jack |last=Giroux |date=July 3, 2014 |access-date=October 16, 2014 |publisher=Film School Rejects |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016004246/http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/christopher-mcquarrie-interview-telling-stories.php#ixzz3GMzJEoQA |archive-date=October 16, 2014 }} Even if the previous scripts were darker, Cruise stressed the importance of the story's humor to McQuarrie.{{cite web |url=https://filmschoolrejects.com/features/edge-of-tomorrow-ending-alternate.php |title=The 'Edge of Tomorrow' Ending You Didn't See (And Why You Saw The One That You Did) |first=Jack |last=Giroux |date=July 2, 2014 |access-date=October 16, 2014 |publisher=Film School Rejects |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140801065611/http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/edge-of-tomorrow-ending-alternate.php |archive-date=August 1, 2014 }} The actor compared Cage's violent demises to Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, declaring, "It's fun coming up with new ways to kill yourself."

The screenplay did not yet have a satisfactory ending, and, despite the producers and studio executives worried about starting filming without a set conclusion, Liman opted to finish the script during principal photography. McQuarrie at one point suggested adding a twist involving the Mimics figuring out Cage's attack on Paris and resetting time during his strike, but discarded it as "you were so exhausted by the time you got to that point." Eventually, McQuarrie considered that focusing on the comedic aspects meant "it needed to end in a way that wasn't harsh", and thus opted to end the plot where it started, on the helicopter bringing Cage to London, fulfilling the notion that "comedies generally have to go back to the way things were".

=Filming=

Production began at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden near London, which Warner Brothers had purchased as a permanent studio site. WB had been renting space there for its production of the Harry Potter films, but had been leaving the sets up permanently for nearly a decade and eventually chose to make the site semi-permanent.{{cite journal |last=Kemp |first=Stuart |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tom-cruise-leavesden-studios-all-you-need-is-kill-358591 |title=Tom Cruise's 'All You Need is Kill' to Shoot at Leavesden Studios |journal=The Hollywood Reporter |date=August 6, 2012 |access-date=May 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231082734/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tom-cruise-leavesden-studios-all-you-need-is-kill-358591 |archive-date=December 31, 2013 |url-status=live }} The parts with Tom Cruise in the opening scene were filmed in Liman's editing room, with the actor doing his own make-up and hair, leading the director to say it "may be the most independent thing I've ever done."{{cite web |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/doug-liman/51049/doug-liman-interview-the-wall-bourne-edge-of-tomorrow-2 |title=Doug Liman interview: The Wall, Bourne, Edge Of Tomorrow 2 |publisher=Den of Geek |last=Lambie |first=Ryan |date=July 28, 2017 |access-date=January 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117070709/http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/doug-liman/51049/doug-liman-interview-the-wall-bourne-edge-of-tomorrow-2 |archive-date=January 17, 2018 |url-status=live }} Though Liman intended to film the beach battle on-location, the studio instead ended up building a beach set at the studio site. The set was surrounded by chroma key green screens, which the visual effects artists later used to extend the beach with plates shot at Saunton Sands in North Devon.{{cite web |url=http://www.artofvfx.com/?p=8198 |title=EDGE OF TOMORROW: Daniel Kramer – VFX Supervisor – Sony Pictures Imageworks |author=Frei, Vincent |date=July 3, 2014 |publisher=Art of VFX |access-date=July 21, 2014 }} It was intended for the battle scenes to be reminiscent of coastal battles during World War II such as the Invasion of Normandy and the Battle of Dunkirk.{{cite news |last=Lee |first=Chris |url=http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/edge-of-tomorrow-emily-blunt-fights-mimics-and-the-beach/ |title='Edge of Tomorrow': Emily Blunt talks Tom Cruise, brutal sci-fi battle |work=Los Angeles Times |url-access=limited |date=April 25, 2014 |access-date=May 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427223221/http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/edge-of-tomorrow-emily-blunt-fights-mimics-and-the-beach/ |archive-date=April 27, 2014 |url-status=live }}

Principal photography began at Leavesden on {{nowrap|October 1}}, 2012.{{cite journal |last=Szalai |first=George |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tom-cruise-emily-blunt-all-you-need-is-kill-march-2014-401928 |title=Tom Cruise's 'All You Need Is Kill' to Hit Theaters in March 2014 |journal=The Hollywood Reporter |date=October 1, 2012 |access-date=May 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022013046/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tom-cruise-emily-blunt-all-you-need-is-kill-march-2014-401928 |archive-date=October 22, 2012 |url-status=live }} The Los Angeles Times said on the second day, Liman "demanded a total reshoot of everything filmed on Day 1", which concerned producers. Filming on the beach set was scheduled to last two weeks, but extended to nearly three months due to what the Los Angeles Times called "the director's self-described 'workshop-y' filming style". Filming also took place in Trafalgar Square in London on Saturday {{nowrap|November 24}}, 2012. The square was closed to the public, and tanks were brought in to film the action scenes.{{cite news |last=Child |first=Ben |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/nov/26/tom-cruise-filming-halts-trafalgar-square |title=Tom Cruise filming halts Trafalgar Square |work=The Guardian |date=November 26, 2012 |access-date=May 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508223550/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/nov/26/tom-cruise-filming-halts-trafalgar-square |archive-date=May 8, 2014 |url-status=live }} The brief scene in the Square required closing 36 roads, diverting 122 bus routes and booking all available rooms in nearby hotels and a costly restoration of a historic wicket at a local cricket ground after one of the production helicopters knocked it over.{{cite web |last=Minow |first=Nell |title=SDCC 2018: Location Managers Discuss How They Find the Perfect Spot to Film |date=July 23, 2018 |url=https://www.mpaa.org/2018/07/sdcc-2018-location-managers-discuss-how-they-find-the-perfect-spot-to-film/ |publisher=MPAA |access-date=July 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728221643/https://www.mpaa.org/2018/07/sdcc-2018-location-managers-discuss-how-they-find-the-perfect-spot-to-film/ |archive-date=July 28, 2018 |url-status=live }} A former army base in the village of Barton Stacey in Hampshire was also used as a filming location for two weeks.{{cite news |author= |url=http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/winchester/11250475.Latest_Tom_Cruise_blockbuster_shot_at_Barton_Stacey_in_Hampshire/ |title=Latest Tom Cruise blockbuster shot at Barton Stacey in Hampshire |work=Hampshire Chronicle |date=June 2, 2014 |access-date=June 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607004828/http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/winchester/11250475.Latest_Tom_Cruise_blockbuster_shot_at_Barton_Stacey_in_Hampshire/ |archive-date=June 7, 2014 |url-status=live }} Filming also took place at Essex & Suffolk former water treatment facilities in Hanningfield, Essex.

Liman said filming took place seven days a week using two crews to film {{nowrap|20 days}} in addition to what had originally been scheduled. The crew struggled with changed British weather since the film was supposed to be set in one day and had to maintain the same weather.{{cite news |last=Franklin |first=Oliver |url=http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2014-03/04/edge-of-tomorrow-film-preview |title=Why we're dying (repeatedly) to see Tom Cruise's Edge Of Tomorrow |work=GQ |date=March 5, 2014 |access-date=June 5, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140825132022/http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2014-03/04/edge-of-tomorrow-film-preview |archive-date=August 25, 2014 }} The indoor beach set also became muddy, requiring the visual effects artists to enhance the environment with digital sand and surf. Though filming concluded by August 2013, actor Jeremy Piven was added to the cast and extra scenes including him were filmed;{{cite news |last=Fleming |first=Mike Jr |date=August 15, 2013 |title=Jeremy Piven Is A Very Late Addition To The Cast Of Tom Cruise's 'Edge Of Tomorrow' |url=https://deadline.com/2013/08/jeremy-piven-is-a-very-late-addition-to-the-cast-of-tom-cruises-edge-of-tomorrow-564810/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140618050723/http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/jeremy-piven-is-a-very-late-addition-to-the-cast-of-tom-cruises-edge-of-tomorrow/ |archive-date=June 18, 2014 |access-date=May 9, 2014 |website=Deadline Hollywood}} ultimately, however, Piven did not appear in the finished film.{{cite news |last=Marsh |first=James |url=http://twitchfilm.com/2014/05/review-edge-of-tomorrow.html |title=Review: Edge of Tomorrow Is High Concept Sci-Fi At Its Most Fun |work=Twitch |date=May 22, 2014 |access-date=May 23, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523225236/http://twitchfilm.com/2014/05/review-edge-of-tomorrow.html |archive-date=May 23, 2014 }} Cinematographer Dion Beebe made his first feature film with Liman, with whom he had worked previously on commercials. Beebe's approach was to develop "a world under siege, but not a bleak, dark, post-apocalyptic landscape"; Beebe preferred to avoid the saturated bleach bypass look. 35 mm film was used instead of digital cameras to evoke the World War II footage that provided inspiration for the battle scenes.{{cite web |url=http://motion.kodak.com/motion/Publications/InCamera/Dion_Beebe_Frames_Edge_of_Tomorrow.htm#ixzz3GN2PyGMJ |title=Dion Beebe Frames Edge of Tomorrow |date=June 4, 2014 |work=InCamera |publisher=Kodak |access-date=October 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021180418/http://motion.kodak.com/motion/Publications/InCamera/Dion_Beebe_Frames_Edge_of_Tomorrow.htm#ixzz3GN2PyGMJ |archive-date=October 21, 2014 |url-status=live }}

=Design=

Production designer Oliver Scholl and his team worked with lead builder Pierre Bohanna to develop concept art for several battle suit options based on contemporary, real-world powered exoskeleton initiatives, such as those supported by DARPA. When director Doug Liman chose a design, the team built an aluminum prototype frame that had pivot points and hinges. Costume designer Kate Hawley contributed a gritty aesthetic design for the color palettes and surface treatments. While the design was meant to be utilitarian, it was also created so the actors could be seen in the suits and also run in them. The team created a foam mock-up of Tom Cruise so the frame could be tailored for him. The team handcrafted {{nowrap|70 hard}} material and {{nowrap|50 soft}} material battle suits in the course of almost five months. There were three versions of the battle suits: "grunts, dogs, and tanks". The battle suit for Blunt's character was given red slash marks "as if to say she had been to hell and back and lived to tell about it."{{cite news |last=Abrams |first=Bryan |url=https://www.mpaa.org/2014/06/building-edge-of-tomorrows-armored-exosuits/ |title=Building Edge of Tomorrow's Armored ExoSuits |work=The Credits |publisher=Motion Picture Association of America |date=June 3, 2014 |access-date=June 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726040825/https://www.mpaa.org/2014/06/building-edge-of-tomorrows-armored-exosuits/ |archive-date=July 26, 2018 |url-status=live }}

Cruise, known for performing his own film stunts, also did so in Edge of Tomorrow. Both he and Blunt wore the heavy metal suits.{{cite news |last=Tauber |first=Michelle |url=http://www.people.com/article/tom-cruise-edge-of-tomorrow-emily-blunt-interview-stunts-85-pound-armor |title=Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt Talk Stunts on Edge of Tomorrow: 'Never Compare Bruises' |work=People |date=May 15, 2014 |access-date=June 4, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529104136/http://www.people.com/article/tom-cruise-edge-of-tomorrow-emily-blunt-interview-stunts-85-pound-armor |archive-date=May 29, 2014 |url-status=live }} The battle suits weighed {{convert|85|lb}} on average; the heavier versions weighed around {{convert|130|lb}} due to being equipped with a mock sniper rifle and rocket launcher. Blunt trained three months for her role, "focusing on everything from weights to sprints to yoga, aerial wire work and gymnastics", and studying the Israeli combat system Krav Maga.{{cite news |last=Alexander |first=Bryan |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/12/10/edge-of-tomorrow-tom-cruise-emily-blunt/3921349/ |title=Sneak peek: 'Edge of Tomorrow' suits Cruise and Blunt |work=USA Today |date=December 10, 2013 |access-date=May 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513211418/http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/12/10/edge-of-tomorrow-tom-cruise-emily-blunt/3921349/ |archive-date=May 13, 2014 |url-status=live }}

Each actor needed four people to help put on the battle suit. Initially, Cruise needed {{nowrap|30 minutes}} to put on the suit and another {{nowrap|30 minutes}} to remove it. Ultimately, the time was reduced to {{nowrap|30 seconds}}. Between takes, the actors would be suspended by chains from iron frames to take the weight of the suits off their shoulders.{{cite news |last=Day |first=Patrick Kevin |url=http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/wondercon-2014-bill-paxton-edge-of-tomorrow-avatar-sequels/ |title=WonderCon 2014: Bill Paxton talks 'Edge of Tomorrow,' 'Avatar' sequels |work=Los Angeles Times |url-access=limited |date=April 19, 2014 |access-date=May 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140423045455/http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/wondercon-2014-bill-paxton-edge-of-tomorrow-avatar-sequels/ |archive-date=April 23, 2014 |url-status=live }}

=Visual effects=

Nine companies handled the visual effects for Edge of Tomorrow under VFX supervisor Nick Davis.{{cite web |url=http://www.cinefex.com/upcomingfilms/upcoming.php?id=385 |title=Edge of Tomorrow |work=Cinefex |access-date=August 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819082513/http://www.cinefex.com/upcomingfilms/upcoming.php?id=385 |archive-date=August 19, 2014 |url-status=live }} Davis worked with the crew of The Third Floor on the film's previsualization process. Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI) worked on the first two acts of the film and created over {{nowrap|400 shots}}, including photorealistic environments, battle scenes, and computer-generated creatures and characters. One major shot involved covering London Heathrow Airport with military troops, vehicles, and aircraft; SPI split some of the work with Framestore. Cinesite joined in production and developed {{nowrap|221 shots}} for ten key sequences, with 189 appearing in the final cut.{{cite news |last=Hellard |first=Paul |url=http://www.cgsociety.org/index.php/CGSFeatures/CGSFeatureSpecial/edge_of_tomorrow |title=Edge of Tomorrow |work=The CGSociety |date=June 10, 2014 |access-date=September 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140816232921/http://www.cgsociety.org/index.php/CGSFeatures/CGSFeatureSpecial/edge_of_tomorrow |archive-date=August 16, 2014 |url-status=dead }}

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Designers created the alien Mimics to look different from any terrestrial animal. Davis and Liman favored an early model composed primarily of tentacles. SPI's Dan Kramer described its appearance as "heavy black spaghetti" and noted that the modelers faced a challenge creating the tentacled creatures. A technical animator created an Autodesk Maya plugin that made the movement of each tentacle independent.{{cite news |last1=Essman |first1=Scott |last2=Irabor |first2=Osahon |url=http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/dan-kramer-on-edge-of-tomorrows-visual-effects/ |title=Dan Kramer on Edge of Tomorrow's Visual Effects |work=Below the Line |date=July 15, 2014 |access-date=September 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014192341/http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/dan-kramer-on-edge-of-tomorrows-visual-effects/ |archive-date=October 14, 2014 |url-status=live }} Since Liman did not want the Mimics to look "too organic or terrestrial", Imageworks' artists devised the idea of making the aliens out of an obsidian-like material, "basically a glass that could cut". Various debris was incorporated within the tentacles to give the creature a sense of weight and fast movement. The Alphas were given a definable head area to show their status as more sentient, while receiving a different color and a bigger size compared to the Mimic grunts.{{cite web |url=http://www.fxguide.com/featured/live-die-repeat-the-effects/ |title=Live. Die. Repeat the effects |publisher=FX Guide |first=Ian |last=Failes |date=June 10, 2014 |access-date=August 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714163706/http://www.fxguide.com/featured/live-die-repeat-the-effects/ |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |url-status=live }} Cinesite created the mechanical Mimics used in the training areas,{{cite web |url=http://www.awn.com/news/cinesite-creates-killer-effects-edge-tomorrow |title=Cinesite Creates Killer Effects for 'Edge of Tomorrow' |publisher=Animation World Network |author=Wolfe, Jennifer |date=June 6, 2014 |access-date=August 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140608161030/http://www.awn.com/news/cinesite-creates-killer-effects-edge-tomorrow |archive-date=June 8, 2014 |url-status=live }} while Moving Picture Company (MPC) created the Omega in a digital environment into which the visual effects artists composited underwater footage filmed at Leavesden's water tank.{{cite web |url=http://www.awn.com/news/mpc-dives-deep-edge-tomorrow |title=MPC Dives Deep for 'Edge of Tomorrow' |publisher=Animation World Network |author=Wolfe, Jennifer |date=June 19, 2014 |access-date=August 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819120102/http://www.awn.com/news/mpc-dives-deep-edge-tomorrow |archive-date=August 19, 2014 |url-status=live }}

Animators created digital versions of the battle suits, at times with the soldiers inside them. On the set, a 3D scanner booth digitized the actors, while hand scanners captured the textures of the practical suits. Imageworks received pieces of the suits for reference. The company's library of reflection data on various materials helped enhance the armor's shading. SPI's crew created the base at Heathrow by merging the set at Leavesden with digitally altered footage from the airport; the film's dropships, barracks and mess halls replaced the existing aircraft. Framestore created the digital Paris and recreated it with photomodeling from three days of visits. Given that the city is a no-fly zone, Framestore's artists obtained their aerial images by climbing an 80-meter crane parked in the Louvre courtyard. The quadcopter dropships were based on the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey that can tilt its rotors to fly as either planes or helicopters, while having a design closer to the Quad TiltRotor.{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/tech/edge-of-tomorrow-future-tech-innovations/ |title='Edge of Tomorrow': Future tech innovations |first=John |last=Brandon |website=Fox News |date=June 9, 2014 |access-date=August 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811055959/http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/06/09/edge-tomorrow-future-tech-innovations/ |archive-date=August 11, 2014 |url-status=live }} Aside from the crashed ship on the beachhead and a gimbal set to depict the plane used by Cage's squad, the film used digital models for most ships. The computer-generated dropships had some of Imageworks' heaviest detail given the proximity of the actors to the aircraft in the camp scenes; the visual effects artists wanted to make sure the ships broke apart realistically during the crashes.

Prime Focus World converted the film into 3D in post-production using the same tools for the stereoscopy as in World War Z and Gravity. The company made use of scans of the cast's faces from film production while vendor Nvizible helped the company convert the hologram table used by Dr. Carter.

=Music=

{{Main|Edge of Tomorrow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack}}

Composer Christophe Beck was a late addition to the film, taking over from Ramin Djawadi, who was Liman's first choice to replace his frequent collaborator John Powell, as Powell was on sabbatical.{{cite web |url=http://www.hitfix.com/news/interview-frozen-composer-christophe-beck-on-scoring-edge-of-tomorrow#QqYQbiWGDJjJyv6z.99 |title=Interview: 'Frozen' composer Christophe Beck on scoring 'Edge of Tomorrow' |first=Melinda |last=Newman |work=HitFix |date=June 6, 2014 |access-date=October 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019081119/http://www.hitfix.com/news/interview-frozen-composer-christophe-beck-on-scoring-edge-of-tomorrow#QqYQbiWGDJjJyv6z.99 |archive-date=October 19, 2014 |url-status=live }} Edge of Tomorrow marked Beck's first science fiction film score.{{cite news |last=Schweiger |first=Daniel |url=http://www.filmmusicmag.com/?p=13118 |title=Interview with Christophe Beck |work=Film Music Magazine |publisher=Global Media Online |date=June 3, 2014 |access-date=June 4, 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140604151619/http://www.filmmusicmag.com/?p=13118 |archive-date=June 4, 2014 |url-status=live }} To prepare, Beck watched the film with temp tracks, including one from the 2012 film Battleship. He experimented with repeating the music with the scenes, but because this approach did not frequently fit the events on the screen, Beck used minimal repetition in the film. "The day is reset dozens of times in the film and it would get very repetitive to approach that musically the same way every time", Beck recalled.{{cite news |last=Topel |first=Fred |url=http://www.craveonline.com/film/interviews/698309-edge-of-tomorrow-christophe-beck-on-over-scoring-frozen-and-buffy |title=Edge of Tomorrow: Christophe Beck on Over-Scoring, Frozen and Buffy |work=craveonline.com |publisher=CraveOnline |date=June 2, 2014 |access-date=June 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607005914/http://www.craveonline.com/film/interviews/698309-edge-of-tomorrow-christophe-beck-on-over-scoring-frozen-and-buffy |archive-date=June 7, 2014 |url-status=dead }} He initially tried for "traditional heroic themes" that involved horns and trumpets, but he said Liman "preferred a non-traditional approach, driven by percussion and distorted orchestra". To that end, Beck used the pizzicato playing technique, "not in the traditional, plinky-plinky-isn't-this-funny way, but a little darker, and always accompanied by some higher concept synth colors". The distorted orchestral samples enhanced the comedic tone of the extended sequences where Cage recurrently dies in battle, as the director felt it was important for the audience to find humor in this sequence. With Liman's approach, the composer said there were "only a couple of traditional themes" in the film, including one for Emily Blunt's character Rita.

Release

=Marketing=

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Warner Bros. invested over $100 million in the marketing campaign for Edge of Tomorrow.{{cite journal |last=McClintock |first=Pamela |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tom-cruise-s-edge-tomorrow-707437 |title=Tom Cruise's 'Edge of Tomorrow' Tests Overseas Star Power as U.S. Tracking Soft |journal=The Hollywood Reporter |date=May 28, 2014 |access-date=May 28, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531034602/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tom-cruise-s-edge-tomorrow-707437 |archive-date=May 31, 2014 |url-status=live }} The film was initially titled All You Need Is Kill after the light novel, but as filming ended in July 2013, Warner Bros. changed the title to Edge of Tomorrow;{{cite news |last=Graser |first=Marc |url=https://variety.com/2013/film/news/tom-cruise-thriller-all-you-need-is-kill-changes-to-edge-of-tomorrow-gets-comic-con-push-1200563120/ |title=Tom Cruise Thriller 'All You Need Is Kill' Changes to 'Edge of Tomorrow,' Gets Comic-Con Push |journal=Variety |date=July 15, 2013 |access-date=May 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508222520/http://variety.com/2013/film/news/tom-cruise-thriller-all-you-need-is-kill-changes-to-edge-of-tomorrow-gets-comic-con-push-1200563120/ |archive-date=May 8, 2014 |url-status=live }} Warner Bros. president Sue Kroll said the title was changed partly due to "negative chatter" about the word "kill" in the title.{{cite journal |last=Cheney |first=Alexandra |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/warner-bros-tom-cruise-gear-up-to-make-sure-tomorrow-never-dies-1201183917/ |title=Warner Bros. Tom Cruise Gear Up to Make Sure 'Tomorrow' Never Dies |journal=Variety |date=May 19, 2014 |access-date=May 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521001800/http://variety.com/2014/film/news/warner-bros-tom-cruise-gear-up-to-make-sure-tomorrow-never-dies-1201183917/ |archive-date=May 21, 2014 |url-status=live }} Doug Liman, who said he rejected the title All You Need Is Kill because it "didn't feel like it was the tone of the movie I had made", wanted to rename the film Live Die Repeat, but Warner decided to use that just as the tagline.

The film was promoted at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2013, and at WonderCon in Anaheim, California in April 2014. Turner Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Time Warner like the studio Warner Bros., promoted the film across its TV properties, including CNN, TNT, TBS, Adult Swim, TruTV, and Funny or Die. Variety said the move "put forth the notion that buying bigger packages of advertisements across a TV company's holdings is a viable option in an increasingly fragmented TV-viewing landscape". Turner also launched a website which would unlock film-related content like "a 3D game, back stories and artwork" if its promotional hashtag was circulated enough through the social media website Twitter.{{cite journal |last=Steinberg |first=Brian |url=https://variety.com/2014/tv/news/tom-cruise-may-give-time-warners-turner-a-calling-card-in-coming-tv-upfront-1201171941/ |title=Tom Cruise Pic May Give Time Warner's Turner a Calling Card in Coming TV Upfront |journal=Variety |date=May 5, 2014 |access-date=May 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140509133916/http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/tom-cruise-may-give-time-warners-turner-a-calling-card-in-coming-tv-upfront-1201171941/ |archive-date=May 9, 2014 |url-status=live }}

Viz Media released a new edition of the light novel on {{nowrap|April 29}}, 2014, retitled Edge of Tomorrow.{{cite news |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2014-04-14/edge-of-tomorrow-official-movie-tie-in-novel-and-all-you-need-is-kill-original-graphic-novel-release |title=Edge of Tomorrow Official Movie Tie-In Novel and All You Need Is Kill Original Graphic Novel Release |work=Anime News Network |date=April 14, 2014 |access-date=May 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140601040236/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2014-04-14/edge-of-tomorrow-official-movie-tie-in-novel-and-all-you-need-is-kill-original-graphic-novel-release |archive-date=June 1, 2014 |url-status=live }} It also published a graphic novel adaptation of the light novel on {{nowrap|May 5}}, 2014.{{cite news |last=Melrose |first=Kevin |url=http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/04/viz-media-to-roll-out-edge-of-tomorrow-movie-tie-ins/ |title=Viz Media to roll out 'Edge of Tomorrow' movie tie-ins |work=Comic Book Resources |date=April 15, 2014 |access-date=May 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512213526/http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/04/viz-media-to-roll-out-edge-of-tomorrow-movie-tie-ins/ |archive-date=May 12, 2014 |url-status=live }}

For the film's release on home media, Warner Bros. formed two teams for a {{nowrap|September 28}}, 2014, Tough Mudder endurance event series in Black Diamond, Washington.{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Elliott |url=http://blog.seattlepi.com/videoguy/2014/09/09/live-die-repeat-edge-of-tomorrow-and-the-video-guy-at-tough-mudder/ |title=Live.Die.Repeat. Edge of Tomorrow and The Video Guy at Tough Mudder |work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |date=September 9, 2014 |access-date=September 30, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006093631/http://blog.seattlepi.com/videoguy/2014/09/09/live-die-repeat-edge-of-tomorrow-and-the-video-guy-at-tough-mudder/ |archive-date=October 6, 2014 |url-status=live }} The teams included YouTube personalities and participants from the TV series American Ninja Warrior. Warner Bros. based the teams on the soldiers from "J Squad" in the film. To promote teamwork, the two teams competed in a Tough Mudder obstacle course.{{cite news |last=Tribbey |first=Chris |url=http://www.homemediamagazine.com/news/warner-gets-tough-ahead-edge-tomorrow-release-34270 |title=Warner Gets Tough Ahead of 'Edge of Tomorrow' Release |work=Home Media Magazine |date=September 28, 2014 |access-date=September 30, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141001144558/http://www.homemediamagazine.com/news/warner-gets-tough-ahead-edge-tomorrow-release-34270 |archive-date=October 1, 2014 |url-status=dead }}

=Box office forecast=

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Weeks before the film's release, reports in early May 2014 predicted an underwhelming box-office performance in the North American (United States and Canada) box office for Edge of Tomorrow. Variety noted a "worrisome lack of buzz" leading up to the film's release. Initial box office tracking at the start of the month for the film estimated a gross between {{nowrap|$25 million}} and {{nowrap|$30 million}} on its opening weekend.{{cite news |last=Cunningham |first=Todd |url=https://www.thewrap.com/tom-cruises-edge-tomorrow-summers-first-big-budget-bomb/ |title=Tom Cruise's 'Edge of Tomorrow' Could Be Summer's First Big-Budget Bomb |work=The Wrap |publisher=The Wrap News |date=May 15, 2014 |access-date=May 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140516201934/http://www.thewrap.com/tom-cruises-edge-tomorrow-summers-first-big-budget-bomb/ |archive-date=May 16, 2014 |url-status=live }} Several weeks later, the estimate decreased by {{nowrap|$5 million}}. The film planned to compete with The Fault in Our Stars in the same opening weekend with an equivalent estimated gross around {{nowrap|$25 million}}. TheWrap predicted that this competition could potentially affect the opening weekend gross of Edge of Tomorrow. In contrast, Variety said Edge of Tomorrow could serve as counterprogramming to The Fault in Our Stars since that film's demographic is women under 25 years old.

With its budget of over {{nowrap|$175 million}}, The Hollywood Reporter called Edge of Tomorrow, one of the "biggest box-office risks" in North America for mid-2014. The trade paper said the film was similar to Oblivion, a 2013 science fiction film that also starred Tom Cruise, and that like Oblivion, it would likely perform better outside North America.{{cite journal |last=McClintock |first=Pamela |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/maleficent-hercules-summers-5-biggest-701772 |title=From 'Maleficent' to 'Hercules': Summer's 5 Biggest Box-Office Risks |journal=The Hollywood Reporter |date=May 8, 2014 |access-date=May 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140510215743/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/maleficent-hercules-summers-5-biggest-701772 |archive-date=May 10, 2014 |url-status=live }} Box Office Mojo reported that four of Cruise's films with original material—Valkyrie (2008), Knight and Day (2010), Jack Reacher (2012), and Oblivion (2013)—failed to gross more than {{nowrap|$100 million}} in North America. The website forecast that Edge of Tomorrow would gross {{nowrap|$90 million}} in North America and {{nowrap|$220 million}} in other territories.{{cite news |last=Subers |first=Ray |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3827&p=.htm |title=Summer 2014 Forecast (cont.) |work=boxofficemojo.com |publisher=Box Office Mojo |date=April 23, 2014 |access-date=May 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140510175619/http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3827&p=.htm |archive-date=May 10, 2014 |url-status=live }} TheWrap said that the studio focused on theatrical releases in other territories where Cruise "remains a major force" in drawing audiences. Variety, writing from the U.S. perspective, said, "Media reports have been quick to speculate that Edge of Tomorrow may be one of the summer's first big bombs based on the lack of enthusiasm by U.S. audiences. That may come to pass, but these reports downplay the centrality of foreign markets in today's globalized movie industry."

In the week prior to the release of Edge of Tomorrow in North America, its estimated opening-weekend gross increased from the {{nowrap|mid-$20 million}} range to {{nowrap|$27 million}}.{{cite journal |last=Lang |first=Brent |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/edge-of-tomorrow-korean-box-office-1201214262/ |title=Box Office: 'Edge of Tomorrow' Racks Up Impressive Korea Debut |journal=Variety |date=June 5, 2014 |access-date=June 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607005322/http://variety.com/2014/film/news/edge-of-tomorrow-korean-box-office-1201214262/ |archive-date=June 7, 2014 |url-status=live }}

=Theatrical run {{Anchor|Box office}}=

Edge of Tomorrow initiated its theatrical run in several territories on {{nowrap|May 28}}, 2014, and rolled out to a total of {{nowrap|28 territories}} for its opening weekend of {{nowrap|May 30 – June 1}}, 2014.{{cite web |url=http://www.edgeoftomorrowmovie.com/releasedates/index.html |title=Edge of Tomorrow Movie 2014 – Worldwide Release Dates |work=edgeoftomorrowmovie.com |publisher=Warner Bros. Pictures |access-date=June 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607004442/http://www.edgeoftomorrowmovie.com/releasedates/index.html |archive-date=June 7, 2014 |url-status=live }} It grossed {{nowrap|$20.1 million}} on its opening weekend. For the second weekend of {{nowrap|June 6–8}}, 2014, it was released in 36 additional territories. Edge of Tomorrow grossed ${{nowrap|100.2 million}} in North America and ${{nowrap|270.3 million}} in other territories for a worldwide total of ${{nowrap|370.5 million}}.{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=allyouneediskill.htm |title=Edge of Tomorrow |work=boxofficemojo.com |publisher=Box Office Mojo |date=September 11, 2014 |access-date=April 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412045213/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=allyouneediskill.htm |archive-date=April 12, 2016 |url-status=live }} After the film's theatrical run, Entertainment Weekly said it had a "lukewarm box-office reception" despite praise from critics.{{cite magazine |last=Labrecque |first=Jeff |url=http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/09/30/edge-of-tomorrow-tom-cruise-trafalgar-square/ |title='Edge of Tomorrow' Blu-ray: Tom Cruise copters into London's Trafalgar Square |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=September 30, 2014 |access-date=September 30, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141002033750/http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/09/30/edge-of-tomorrow-tom-cruise-trafalgar-square/ |archive-date=October 2, 2014 |url-status=live }}

==Opening weekend==

The film had premiere screenings in London, Paris, and New York City on {{nowrap|May 28}}, 2014. The cast and the crew mimicked the film's time loop premise by attending the premieres in a single day, traveling westward to attend them on a staggered schedule.{{cite journal |last=Lew |first=Janine |url=https://variety.com/2014/scene/news/tom-cruise-edge-of-tomorrow-premiere-1201174743/ |title=Tom Cruise to Visit Three Countries In One Day for 'Edge of Tomorrow' Premieres |journal=Variety |date=May 7, 2014 |access-date=May 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508224907/http://variety.com/2014/scene/news/tom-cruise-edge-of-tomorrow-premiere-1201174743/ |archive-date=May 8, 2014 |url-status=live }} The film was screened in New York City at {{nowrap|11:59 pm}}, the time chosen to refer to the film title.{{cite journal |last=Lang |first=Brent |url=https://variety.com/2014/scene/news/edge-of-tomorrow-director-most-studios-arent-making-big-original-movies-1201195294/ |title='Edge of Tomorrow' Director: 'Most Studios Aren't Making Big, Original Movies' |journal=Variety |date=May 29, 2014 |access-date=June 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140602005329/http://variety.com/2014/scene/news/edge-of-tomorrow-director-most-studios-arent-making-big-original-movies-1201195294/ |archive-date=June 2, 2014 |url-status=live }} The film was released in theaters in {{nowrap|28 territories}}—including the United Kingdom, Brazil, Germany, Spain, and Indonesia—on the weekend of {{nowrap|May 30}}, 2014.{{cite journal |last=Lang |first=Brent |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/tom-cruise-angelina-jolie-test-star-power-at-international-b-o-with-edge-of-tomorrow-maleficent-1201189240/ |title=Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie Test Star Power at International B.O. With 'Edge of Tomorrow,' 'Maleficent' |journal=Variety |date=May 23, 2014 |access-date=May 23, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523233745/http://variety.com/2014/film/news/tom-cruise-angelina-jolie-test-star-power-at-international-b-o-with-edge-of-tomorrow-maleficent-1201189240/ |archive-date=May 23, 2014 |url-status=live }} Certain territories with strong association football followings were chosen so the film could screen to audiences before the month-long 2014 FIFA World Cup began on {{nowrap|June 12}}, 2014. Edge of Tomorrow competed against Maleficent starring Angelina Jolie, which opened the same weekend in {{nowrap|46 territories}}.

On its opening weekend in {{nowrap|5,018 screens}} across {{nowrap|28 territories}}, Edge of Tomorrow grossed {{nowrap|$20.1 million}}.{{cite news |last=Tartaglione |first=Nancy |url=https://deadline.com/2014/06/international-box-office-maleficent-awakens-100m-overseas-bow-x-men-adds-95-6m-edge-of-tomorrow-cruises-to-20m-in-select-markets-a-million-ways-to-die-in-the-west-holsters-10-738691/ |title=Int'l Box Office: 'Maleficent' Awakens $100M+ Overseas; 'X-Men' Adds $95.6M; 'Edge Of Tomorrow' Cruises To $20M In Select Markets; 'A Million Ways To Die In The West' Holsters $10.3M; More |website=Deadline Hollywood |date=June 2, 2014 |access-date=June 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140603105202/http://www.deadline.com/2014/06/international-box-office-maleficent-awakens-100m-overseas-bow-x-men-adds-95-6m-edge-of-tomorrow-cruises-to-20m-in-select-markets-a-million-ways-to-die-in-the-west-holsters-10/ |archive-date=June 3, 2014 |url-status=live }} The Hollywood Reporter called the film's debut a "soft" opening. In many territories, Edge of Tomorrow ranked third behind fellow new release Maleficent and holdover X-Men: Days of Future Past. These included the United Kingdom, where the film ranked third and grossed {{nowrap|$3.1 million}}, where Cruise's 2013 film Oblivion had opened with {{nowrap|$7.6 million}}, and Germany, with an income of {{nowrap|$2.1 million}} compared to Oblivion{{'}}s {{nowrap|$2.6 million}}. Edge of Tomorrow ranked first in Indonesia and Taiwan, grossing {{nowrap|$2 million}} and {{nowrap|$1.9 million}}, respectively.{{cite journal |last=McClintock |first=Pamela |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-tom-cruises-edge-708523 |title=Box Office: Tom Cruise's 'Edge of Tomorrow' Opens to Soft $20M Overseas |journal=The Hollywood Reporter |date=June 1, 2014 |access-date=June 1, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140605044106/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-tom-cruises-edge-708523 |archive-date=June 5, 2014 |url-status=live }} Its opening weekend in {{nowrap|286 screens}} in Indonesia was Tom Cruise's biggest opening, to date, in the country. The film also grossed {{nowrap|$1.5 million}} in Italy and {{nowrap|$1.5 million}} in Spain.{{cite journal |last=Lang |first=Brent |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/tom-cruise-edge-of-tomorrow-international-box-office-1201202699/ |title=Box Office: 'Edge of Tomorrow' Nabs $20 Mil Internationally |journal=Variety |date=June 1, 2014 |access-date=June 1, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140603141422/http://variety.com/2014/film/news/tom-cruise-edge-of-tomorrow-international-box-office-1201202699/ |archive-date=June 3, 2014 |url-status=live }} Deadline.com said the film had good word of mouth, citing significant increases in Saturday grosses compared to the Friday grosses in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Spain. Bloomberg Businessweek reported that {{nowrap|$110 million}} was grossed in the first week of release and summarized its debut, "While it did solid business in Asia, its reception in Germany, France, and the U.K. has been tepid."{{cite journal |last=Ebiri |first=Bilge |url=http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-13/after-edge-of-tomorrow-is-tom-cruise-still-a-movie-star |title=Is Tom Cruise Still a Movie Star? |journal=Bloomberg Businessweek |date=June 13, 2014 |access-date=June 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140617035501/http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-13/after-edge-of-tomorrow-is-tom-cruise-still-a-movie-star |archive-date=June 17, 2014 |url-status=dead }}

==Second weekend==

In the first week of June 2014, Edge of Tomorrow opened in {{nowrap|36 additional}} markets, including North America, China, Russia, South Korea and France. The film was now showing in {{nowrap|63 countries}} and {{nowrap|19,000 screens}}.{{cite journal |last=Lang |first=Brent |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/edge-of-tomorrow-tops-foreign-box-office-with-82-mil-1201215924/ |title='Edge of Tomorrow' Tops Foreign Box Office with $82 Mil |journal=Variety |date=June 8, 2014 |access-date=June 18, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140614011236/http://variety.com/2014/film/news/edge-of-tomorrow-tops-foreign-box-office-with-82-mil-1201215924/ |archive-date=June 14, 2014 |url-status=live }} The film led the global weekend box office with {{nowrap|$28.8 million}} in North America and {{nowrap|$82 million}} elsewhere. The debut in China occurred on Monday, {{nowrap|June 2}}, to take advantage of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday.{{cite journal |last=Coonan |first=Clifford |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/china-box-office-edge-tomorrow-710659 |title=China Box Office: 'Edge of Tomorrow' Opens to $25 Million, 'X-Men' Hits $100 Million |journal=The Hollywood Reporter |date=June 10, 2014 |access-date=June 18, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140613012512/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/china-box-office-edge-tomorrow-710659 |archive-date=June 13, 2014 |url-status=live }} Edge of Tomorrow topped the Chinese box office with {{nowrap|$26.7 million}},{{cite news |last=Makinen |first=Julie |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-edge-of-tomorrow-china-box-office-story.html |title='Edge of Tomorrow' tops China box office; 'X-Men' hits $100 million |work=Los Angeles Times |url-access=limited |date=June 11, 2014 |access-date=June 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140617024323/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-edge-of-tomorrow-china-box-office-story.html |archive-date=June 17, 2014 |url-status=live }} encompassing {{nowrap|4.06 million}} admissions in {{nowrap|99,768 screenings}}.{{cite journal |last=McClintock |first=Pamela |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-fault-stars-eyes-710051 |title=Box Office: 'Fault in Our Stars' Eyes Stunning $52M-Plus Debut, Crushes 'Edge of Tomorrow' |journal=The Hollywood Reporter |date=June 7, 2014 |access-date=June 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140608040308/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-fault-stars-eyes-710051 |archive-date=June 8, 2014 |url-status=live }} Edge of Tomorrow{{'}}s debut in both Russia ({{nowrap|$8.6 million}}) and South Korea ({{nowrap|$3.8 million}}, taking advantage of a five-day holiday) marked Tom Cruise's highest-grossing opening weekend in both countries.{{cite news |last=McClintock |first=Pamela |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-tom-cruises-edge-709553 |title=Box Office: Tom Cruise's 'Edge of Tomorrow' Soars in South Korea With $3.8M |journal=The Hollywood Reporter |date=June 5, 2014 |access-date=June 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607204511/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-tom-cruises-edge-709553 |archive-date=June 7, 2014 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.thewrap.com/tom-cruises-edge-of-tomorrow/ |title=Tom Cruise's 'Edge of Tomorrow' Takes in $82 Million at Overseas Box Office MOVIES |first=Todd |last=Cunningham |date=June 8, 2014 |publisher=The Wrap |access-date=December 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141203215231/http://www.thewrap.com/tom-cruises-edge-of-tomorrow/ |archive-date=December 3, 2014 |url-status=live }}

Edge of Tomorrow was released in {{nowrap|3,490 theaters}} in North America on {{nowrap|June 6}}, 2014.{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3855&p=.htm |title=Weekend Report: 'Stars' Align for 'Fault,' Cruise Misses with 'Edge' |author=Subers, Ray |date=June 8, 2014 |work=Box Office Mojo |access-date=August 18, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611230350/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3855&p=.htm |archive-date=June 11, 2014 |url-status=live }} The ticket service Fandango reported advance tickets surpassed Tom Cruise's previous film Oblivion, but were being overcome by the competing film The Fault in Our Stars.{{cite journal |last=McClintock |first=Pamela |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-fault-stars-is-708896 |title=Box Office: 'The Fault in Our Stars' is Top-Selling Love Story in Fandango's History |journal=The Hollywood Reporter |date=June 3, 2014 |access-date=June 4, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606060124/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-fault-stars-is-708896 |archive-date=June 6, 2014 |url-status=live }} Edge of Tomorrow grossed {{nowrap|$28.8 million}} on the opening weekend, ranking it third below The Fault in Our Stars ({{nowrap|$48 million}}) and Maleficent ({{nowrap|$34.3 million}}).{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2014&wknd=23&p=.htm |title=Weekend Box Office Results for June 6–8, 2014 |work=boxofficemojo.com |publisher=Box Office Mojo |access-date=June 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610230433/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2014&wknd=23&p=.htm |archive-date=June 10, 2014 |url-status=live }} Polling firm CinemaScore said 61% of the opening weekend audiences were male.{{cite news |last=Villarreal |first=Yvonne |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-fault-in-our-stars-shoots-past-tom-cruise-scifi-epic-edge-of-tomorrow-20140608-story.html |title='Fault in Our Stars' tops Tom Cruise's 'Edge of Tomorrow' for No. 1 |work=Los Angeles Times |url-access=limited |date=June 8, 2014 |access-date=July 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706160628/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-fault-in-our-stars-shoots-past-tom-cruise-scifi-epic-edge-of-tomorrow-20140608-story.html |archive-date=July 6, 2014 |url-status=live }} It reported that audiences overall gave Edge of Tomorrow a "B+" grade, where younger filmgoers gave "A" and "A−" grades.{{cite journal |last=McNary |first=Dave |author-link=Dave McNary |date=June 7, 2014 |title='Fault in Our Stars' Blazing with $58 Million Opening Weekend in U.S. |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/fault-in-our-stars-blazing-with-58-million-opening-weekend-in-u-s-1201215597/ |url-status=live |journal=Variety |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140608020702/http://variety.com/2014/film/news/fault-in-our-stars-blazing-with-58-million-opening-weekend-in-u-s-1201215597/ |archive-date=June 8, 2014 |access-date=June 8, 2014}} The Los Angeles Times said the disappointing box office performances of non-franchise films Edge of Tomorrow and Blended, both produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, indicated risky investments by the studio, which had better success earlier in the year with franchise films The Lego Movie and Godzilla (2014).{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Daniel |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-edge-of-tomorrow-disappoints-highlights-warner-bros-risky-summer-20140609-story.html |title='Edge of Tomorrow' disappoints, highlights Warner's risky summer |work=Los Angeles Times |url-access=limited |date=June 9, 2014 |access-date=June 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140616155445/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-edge-of-tomorrow-disappoints-highlights-warner-bros-risky-summer-20140609-story.html |archive-date=June 16, 2014 |url-status=live }}

==Subsequent weekends==

In its second weekend of release in North America ({{nowrap|June 13–15,}} 2014), Edge of Tomorrow had a "light" second-weekend drop of 43% due to word of mouth and grossed {{nowrap|$16.5 million}} on the second weekend.{{cite news |last=Subers |first=Ray |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3858&p=.htm |title=Weekend Report: 'Jump Street' Sequel Scores, 'Dragon' Disappoints |work=boxofficemojo.com |publisher=Box Office Mojo |date=June 15, 2014 |access-date=June 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140617140153/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3858&p=.htm |archive-date=June 17, 2014 |url-status=live }} In the same weekend in territories outside North America, the film was on {{nowrap|14,725 screens}}. With approximately {{nowrap|5.1 million}} admissions, it grossed {{nowrap|$37.3 million}}. China, Russia, and South Korea, respectively, had the film's largest weekend grosses among the territories.{{cite news |last=Tartaglione |first=Nancy |url=https://deadline.com/2014/06/intl-box-office-godzilla-thrashes-again-with-38m-weekend-led-by-china-how-to-train-your-dragon-2-fires-up-24-8m-more-788313/ |title=Final Int'l Box Office: 'Godzilla' Thrashes Again With $38.4M Weekend Led By China; 'How To Train Your Dragon 2' Fires Up $24.4M; 'Fault' On Fire In Brazil |website=Deadline Hollywood |date=June 16, 2014 |access-date=June 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140623050140/http://www.deadline.com/2014/06/intl-box-office-godzilla-thrashes-again-with-38m-weekend-led-by-china-how-to-train-your-dragon-2-fires-up-24-8m-more/ |archive-date=June 23, 2014 |url-status=live }} In South Korea, the film ranked first at the box office for two consecutive weekends, grossing a total of {{nowrap|$25.65 million}} by {{nowrap|June 17}}, 2014.{{cite journal |last=Hyo-won |first=Lee |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/edge-tomorrow-tops-south-korean-712363 |title='Edge of Tomorrow' Tops South Korean Box Office for Second Week |journal=The Hollywood Reporter |date=June 16, 2014 |access-date=June 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140619225623/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/edge-tomorrow-tops-south-korean-712363 |archive-date=June 19, 2014 |url-status=live }}

In Japan, Edge of Tomorrow was released on {{nowrap|July 4}}, 2014, under the light novel's title All You Need Is Kill.{{cite web | url=http://wwws.warnerbros.co.jp/edgeoftomorrow/ | script-title=ja:映画『オール・ユー・ニード・イズ・キル』公式サイト | work=warnerbros.co.jp | publisher=Warner Bros. | access-date=May 21, 2014 | language=ja | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140520091126/http://wwws.warnerbros.co.jp/edgeoftomorrow/ | archive-date=May 20, 2014 | url-status=live }} The film opened second in the weekend rankings behind Maleficent, with an intake of $4.5 million.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2014/07/international-box-office-maleficent-frozen-transformers-extinction-dragon-tammy-edge-tomorrow-799879/ |title=Update: Intl Box Office: 'Transformers' Adds $52M In China Weekend; 'Dragon 2′ Fires Up $30M; And How's 'Tammy'?; 'Maleficent' Dethrones 'Frozen' In Japan; More |first=Nancy |last=Tartaglione |website=Deadline Hollywood |date=July 8, 2014 |access-date=August 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819090312/http://deadline.com/2014/07/international-box-office-maleficent-frozen-transformers-extinction-dragon-tammy-edge-tomorrow-799879/ |archive-date=August 19, 2014 |url-status=live }} {{as of|2014|11|30|df=US}}, with $15.3 million, Edge of Tomorrow is the sixth-highest-grossing foreign movie of the year in Japan, and the 21st overall.{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/japan/yearly/ |title=2014 Japan Yearly Box Office |publisher=Box Office Mojo |access-date=August 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707075345/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/japan/yearly/ |archive-date=July 7, 2017 |url-status=live }}

=Home media=

Edge of Tomorrow was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and video on demand in the United States on {{nowrap|October 7}}, 2014. The Blu-ray includes over {{nowrap|90 minutes}} of bonus features. The home release's packaging downplays the original Edge of Tomorrow title in favor of placing more prominence on the film's original tagline, "Live. Die. Repeat." Media critics believed that the re-branding was an attempt by Warner Bros. to re-launch the film's marketing following its lackluster U.S. box office performance. Posters for the film's theatrical release had similarly placed a larger emphasis on the "Live. Die. Repeat." tagline than the actual title of the film.{{cite news |last=Hughes |first=William |url=https://www.avclub.com/article/edge-tomorrow-has-been-rebranded-live-die-repeat-h-208199 |title=Edge Of Tomorrow has been rebranded as Live Die Repeat for home video |work=The A.V. Club |date=August 15, 2014 |access-date=October 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006225602/http://www.avclub.com/article/edge-tomorrow-has-been-rebranded-live-die-repeat-h-208199 |archive-date=October 6, 2014 |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |last=Graser |first=Marc |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/tom-cruise-edge-of-tomorrow-gets-repositioned-as-live-die-repeat-on-home-video-1201283383/ |title=Tom Cruise's 'Edge of Tomorrow' Gets Repositioned as 'Live Die Repeat' on Home Video |journal=Variety |date=August 14, 2014 |access-date=October 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016011700/http://variety.com/2014/film/news/tom-cruise-edge-of-tomorrow-gets-repositioned-as-live-die-repeat-on-home-video-1201283383/ |archive-date=October 16, 2014 |url-status=live }} Similarly, some digital retailers listed the film under the title Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow. The film ranked first in home media sales for the week beginning {{nowrap|October 7}}, with 62% of sales coming from the Blu-ray version.{{cite news |last=Arnold |first=Thomas K. |url=http://www.homemediamagazine.com/research/edge-tomorrow-battles-top-disc-sales-charts-34396 |title='Edge of Tomorrow' Battles to Top of Disc Sales Charts |work=Home Media Magazine |date=October 16, 2014 |access-date=October 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017225650/http://www.homemediamagazine.com/research/edge-tomorrow-battles-top-disc-sales-charts-34396 |archive-date=October 17, 2014 |url-status=dead }} The DVD and Blu-ray releases grossed {{US$|27.9 million|long=no}} in the United States.{{cite web |title=Edge of Tomorrow (2014) – Financial Information |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Edge-of-Tomorrow |website=The Numbers |access-date=July 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725183811/https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Edge-of-Tomorrow |archive-date=July 25, 2018 |url-status=live }} On July 5, 2022, Edge of Tomorrow was released on 4K Blu-ray.{{cite news |last=Ames |first=James |url=https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1222875-tom-cruise-edge-of-tomorrow-4k-uhd-blu-ray-release-date |title=Tom Cruise's Edge of Tomorrow Arriving on 4K UHD & Blu-ray |date=May 23, 2022 |access-date=June 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523212229/https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1222875-tom-cruise-edge-of-tomorrow-4k-uhd-blu-ray-release-date |archive-date=May 23, 2022 |url-status=live }}

Reception

=Critical response=

Edge of Tomorrow received largely positive reviews from critics,{{cite news |last=Faughnder |first=Ryan |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-fault-in-our-stars-20140604-story.html |title='Fault in Our Stars' likely to break Tom Cruise's heart at box office |work=Los Angeles Times |url-access=limited |date=June 5, 2014 |access-date=June 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140605205123/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-fault-in-our-stars-20140604-story.html |archive-date=June 5, 2014 |url-status=live }} who praised the humor, Liman's direction, the aliens' design, Cruise and Blunt's performances, and the time-loop premise's ability to remain fresh. However, some critics had issues with the film's conclusion.{{cite news |last=Acuna |first=Kirsten |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/edge-of-tomorrow-reviews-tom-cruise-best-movie-in-years-2014-5 |title='Edge Of Tomorrow' Is One Of Tom Cruise's Best Movies In Years |work=Business Insider |date=May 28, 2014 |access-date=May 28, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529084609/http://www.businessinsider.com.au/edge-of-tomorrow-reviews-tom-cruise-best-movie-in-years-2014-5 |archive-date=May 29, 2014 |url-status=live }} Based on 335 reviews, review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 91% of critics gave the film a positive review, with a rating average of 7.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Gripping, well-acted, funny, and clever, Edge of Tomorrow offers entertaining proof that Tom Cruise is still more than capable of shouldering the weight of a blockbuster action thriller."{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/edge_of_tomorrow/ |title=Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow (2014) |work=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango Media |access-date=March 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222052350/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/edge_of_tomorrow/ |archive-date=December 22, 2017 |url-status=live }} On another aggregator, Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 71 out of 100, based on reviews from 43 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/edge-of-tomorrow |title=Edge of Tomorrow Reviews |work=Metacritic |publisher=CBS Interactive |access-date=March 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140620220413/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/edge-of-tomorrow |archive-date=June 20, 2014 |url-status=live }} Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2014/06/box-office-the-fault-in-our-stars-astronomical-opening-knocks-tom-cruise-off-edge-of-tomorrow-2-786435/|title=FINAL BOX OFFICE: 'The Fault In Our Stars' Phenom $48M; 'Edge Of Tomorrow' $28.7M And Bows At No. 3 Behind Disney's 'Maleficent'|last=Busch|first=Anita|date=June 9, 2014|website=Deadline|language=en|access-date=February 27, 2020}}

Justin Chang of Variety called Edge of Tomorrow "a cleverly crafted and propulsively executed sci-fi thriller", saying that the film was director Doug Liman's best since The Bourne Identity (2002). Chang said that the screenwriters, with the assistance of the editors, "tell their story in a breezy narrative shorthand (and at times, sleight-of-hand), transforming what must surely be an unbelievably tedious gauntlet for our hero into a deft, playful and continually involving viewing experience". Regarding the relationship between Cruise and Blunt's characters, Chang said "Liman handles it with a pleasing lightness of touch that extends to the proceedings as a whole." He also commended the visual effects of the "expertly designed Mimics" as well as Dion Beebe's cinematography.{{cite journal |last=Chang |first=Justin |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/film-review-edge-of-tomorrow-1201184836/ |title=Film Review: 'Edge of Tomorrow' |journal=Variety |date=May 22, 2014 |access-date=May 22, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523012620/http://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/film-review-edge-of-tomorrow-1201184836/ |archive-date=May 23, 2014 |url-status=live }}

Todd McCarthy, writing for The Hollywood Reporter, said the film was "a narratively ambitious sci-fi actioner" that "takes a relatively playful attitude toward the familiar battle tropes". McCarthy said that, despite the humor, he found the time loop premise "tedious" and that "the final stretch becomes dramatically unconvincing and visually murky". However, he also called the effects "exciting, convincing and gritty" and applauded Gleeson and Paxton in their supporting roles.{{cite journal |last=McCarthy |first=Todd |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie/edge-tomorrow/review/706507 |title='Edge of Tomorrow': Film Review |journal=The Hollywood Reporter |date=May 22, 2014 |access-date=May 22, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525013547/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie/edge-tomorrow/review/706507 |archive-date=May 25, 2014 |url-status=live }} Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, considering the film "a star-driven mass-market entertainment that's smart, exciting and unexpected while not stinting on genre satisfactions" that broke a string of "cookie-cutter, been-there blockbusters".{{cite web |last=Turan |first=Kenneth |author-link=Kenneth Turan |date=June 5, 2014 |title='Edge of Tomorrow,' Tom Cruise run loops around competition |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-edge-of-tomorrow-20140606-column.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140705202651/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-edge-of-tomorrow-20140606-column.html |archive-date=July 5, 2014 |access-date=July 5, 2014 |work=Los Angeles Times}}

Edge of Tomorrow was listed on 23 critics' top ten lists of movies of 2014 (out of 201 evaluated).{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/feature/film-critic-top-10-lists-best-movies-of-2014 |title=Film Critic Top 10 Lists – Best Movies of 2014 |publisher=Metacritic |access-date=May 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227042842/http://www.metacritic.com/feature/film-critic-top-10-lists-best-movies-of-2014 |archive-date=December 27, 2014 |url-status=live }}

David Hynes of WhatCulture ranked Dante Harper's original script, All You Need Is Kill (2010), fifth in a list of the "10 Best Movie Screenplays Since 2010", considering certain changes made for the film to be detrimental: "Is it me or does [the title Edge of Tomorrow] suck in comparison? [...] The conflict between Cage and the Mimics is also far more localised to the beach and marine barracks in the screenplay which improves the cohesiveness of the overall story, whereas Cruise finds himself up in a helicopter in no time in the film version."{{Cite web|last=Hynes|first=David|title=10 Best Movie Screenplays Since 2010|url=https://whatculture.com/film/10-best-movie-screenplays-since-2010|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=WhatCulture.com|date=February 2, 2017 |language=en}}

=Accolades=

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|+ {{sronly|Accolades received by Edge of Tomorrow}}

scope="col" | Award

! scope="col" | Date of ceremony

! scope="col" | Category

! scope="col" style="width:30%;" | Recipient(s)

! scope="col" | Result

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{Refh}}

scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2" | Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards

| rowspan="2" | {{dts|January 12, 2015|nowrap=off}}

| Best Female Action Star

| data-sort-value="Blunt, Emily" | Emily Blunt

| {{Won}}

| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|{{Cite web |last=Mitchell |first=Wendy |date=January 9, 2015 |title=Birdman leads Women Film Journalists nominees |url=https://www.screendaily.com/awards/birdman-leads-women-film-journalists-nominees-/5081661.article |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221217033245/https://www.screendaily.com/awards/birdman-leads-women-film-journalists-nominees-/5081661.article |archive-date=December 17, 2022 |access-date=December 17, 2022 |website=Screen Daily}}
{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=Anne |author-link=Anne Thompson (film journalist) |date=January 13, 2015 |title=Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards Led by Birdman |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2015/01/alliance-of-women-film-journalists-awards-led-by-birdman-189339/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416232708/https://www.indiewire.com/2015/01/alliance-of-women-film-journalists-awards-led-by-birdman-189339/ |archive-date=April 16, 2021 |access-date=December 17, 2022 |website=IndieWire}}

Most Egregious Age Difference Between The Leading Man and The Love Interest

| data-sort-value="Cruise, Tom and Blunt, Emily" | Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt

| {{Nom}}

scope="row"| Annie Awards

| 42nd Annie Awards

| Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in a Live Action Production

| data-sort-value="Avoujageli, Steve; Ikarashi, Atsushi; Grochola, Pawel; Waggoner, Paul; and Lundqvist, Viktor" | Steve Avoujageli, Atsushi Ikarashi, Pawel Grochola, Paul Waggoner, and Viktor Lundqvist

| {{Won}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Cite web |date=December 1, 2014 |title=Complete list of Annie Award 2014 nominees |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-complete-list-of-annie-award-2014-nominees-20141201-story.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310132436/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-complete-list-of-annie-award-2014-nominees-20141201-story.html |archive-date=March 10, 2015 |access-date=December 16, 2022 |website=Los Angeles Times}}

scope="rowgroup" rowspan="4"|Critics' Choice Movie Awards

| rowspan="4"| 20th Critics' Choice Awards

| Best Action Movie

| Edge of Tomorrow

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|{{Cite web |date=January 15, 2015 |title=Critics' Choice Awards: The Winners |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/critics-choice-awards-2015-winners-764183/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220510100327/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/critics-choice-awards-2015-winners-764183/ |archive-date=May 10, 2022 |access-date=December 16, 2022 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}}

Best Actor in an Action Movie

| data-sort-value="Cruise, Tom" | Tom Cruise

| {{nom}}

Best Actress in an Action Movie

| data-sort-value="Blunt, Emily" | Emily Blunt

| {{Won}}

Best Visual Effects

| Edge of Tomorrow

| {{nom}}

scope="row"| Empire Awards

| 20th Empire Awards

| Best Actress

| data-sort-value="Blunt, Emily" | Emily Blunt

| {{nom}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Cite web |last=Barraclough |first=Leo |date=March 30, 2015 |title=Interstellar wins Film, Director at Empire Awards |url=https://variety.com/2015/film/global/interstellar-wins-film-director-at-empire-awards-1201462423/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312130035/http://variety.com/2015/film/global/interstellar-wins-film-director-at-empire-awards-1201462423/ |archive-date=March 12, 2016 |access-date=December 16, 2022 |website=Variety}}

scope="rowgroup" rowspan="4"|Golden Trailer Awards

| rowspan="2" | {{dts|May 30, 2014|nowrap=off}}

| Best Action

| data-sort-value="Believe Again" | "Believe Again" (Wild Card)

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|{{Cite web |last=Wolfe |first=Jennifer |date=May 7, 2014 |title=Golden Trailer Award Nominees Announced |url=https://www.awn.com/news/golden-trailer-award-nominees-announced |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305144710/https://www.awn.com/news/golden-trailer-award-nominees-announced |archive-date=March 5, 2022 |access-date=December 17, 2022 |website=Animation World Network}}
{{Cite web |last=Pedersen |first=Erik |date=May 30, 2014 |title=Golden Trailer Awards: Gravity Wins Best Of Show; Warner Bros Tops Studios |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/awards/golden-trailer-awards-complete-winners-list-1201199085/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305144800/https://variety.com/2014/film/awards/golden-trailer-awards-complete-winners-list-1201199085/ |archive-date=March 5, 2022 |access-date=June 30, 2023 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}

Best Summer 2014 Blockbuster Trailer

| data-sort-value="Converge Trailer" | "Converge Trailer" (AV Squad)

| {{nom}}

{{dts|May 6, 2015|nowrap=off}}

| Best Action TV Spot

| data-sort-value="Judgment Day" | "Judgment Day" (TRANSIT)

| {{nom}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=April 10, 2015 |title=Golden Trailer Nominations: Jurassic World, Furious 7 Propel Universal To Leading 44 |url=https://deadline.com/2015/04/golden-trailer-nominations-2015-jurassic-world-furious-7-full-list-1201407876/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318141605/https://deadline.com/2015/04/golden-trailer-nominations-2015-jurassic-world-furious-7-full-list-1201407876/ |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |access-date=December 17, 2022 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}
{{Cite web |last=Pedersen |first=Erik |date=May 6, 2015 |title=Golden Trailer Awards: Furious 7 Peels Out With Best In Show |url=https://deadline.com/2015/05/golden-trailer-awards-winners-2015-furious-7-1201421951/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508033217/https://deadline.com/2015/05/golden-trailer-awards-winners-2015-furious-7-1201421951/ |archive-date=May 8, 2015 |access-date=November 26, 2023 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}

{{dts|October 6, 2022|nowrap=off}}

| Best Digital: Action

| data-sort-value="Power" | "Power" (Arkive Creative)

| {{won}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Cite web |last=Davis |first=Clayton |date=August 2, 2022 |title=Golden Trailer Awards: The Batman and Top Gun: Maverick Among Nominees, Disney Leads for Studios (Exclusive) |url=https://variety.com/2022/awards/news/golden-trailer-awards-2022-the-batman-top-gun-maverick-1235330834/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803185431/https://variety.com/2022/awards/news/golden-trailer-awards-2022-the-batman-top-gun-maverick-1235330834/ |archive-date=August 3, 2022 |access-date=November 13, 2022 |website=Variety}}
{{Cite web |title=Winners of the 22nd Annual Golden Trailer Awards |url=https://goldentrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GTA22-Winners-List.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012002436/https://goldentrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GTA22-Winners-List.pdf |archive-date=October 12, 2022 |access-date=November 13, 2022 |publisher=Golden Trailer Awards}}

scope="row"| Hugo Awards

| {{dts|August 22, 2015|nowrap=off}}

| Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

| data-sort-value="McQuarrie, Christopher; Butterworth, Jez; Butterworth, John-Henry; and Liman, Doug" | Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, and Doug Liman

| {{nom}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Cite web |last=Fortune |first=Ed |date=April 4, 2015 |title=Hugo Awards Nominee Announcement Causes Controversy |url=https://www.starburstmagazine.com/hugo-awards-nominee-announcement-causes-controversy |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220510111824/https://www.starburstmagazine.com/hugo-awards-nominee-announcement-causes-controversy |archive-date=May 10, 2022 |access-date=December 16, 2022 |website=Starburst}}
{{Cite web |last=Polo |first=Susana |date=August 24, 2015 |title=Here are all the 2015 Hugo Award winners that you can read online, right now, for free |url=https://www.polygon.com/2015/8/24/9198371/all-the-2015-hugo-award-winners |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220510103220/https://www.polygon.com/2015/8/24/9198371/all-the-2015-hugo-award-winners |archive-date=May 10, 2022 |access-date=December 16, 2022 |website=Polygon}}

scope="row"| London Film Critics Circle Awards

| London Film Critics Circle Awards 2014

| British Actress of the Year

| data-sort-value="Blunt, Emily" | Emily Blunt

| {{nom}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2014/12/mr-turner-birdman-london-critics-circle-film-awards-nominations-2014-1201326863/|title='Mr Turner', 'Birdman' Lead London Critics' Circle Film Awards Nominations|last=Tartaglione|first=Nancy|date=December 16, 2014|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=May 15, 2021}}

scope="row"|San Diego Film Critics Society Awards

| San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2014

| Best Editing

| data-sort-value="Herbert, James and Jennings, Laura" | James Herbert and Laura Jennings

| {{won}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{cite web|url=http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/san-diego-film-critics-really-really-love-nightcrawler|title=San Diego film critics really, really love 'Nightcrawler'|last=Tapley|first=Kristopher|date=December 15, 2014|website=HitFix|access-date=May 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304210846/http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/san-diego-film-critics-really-really-love-nightcrawler|archive-date=March 4, 2016}}

scope="rowgroup" rowspan="7"|Saturn Awards

| rowspan="7" | 41st Saturn Awards

| Best Science Fiction Film

| Edge of Tomorrow

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;"|{{Cite magazine |last=Blake |first=Emily |date=March 4, 2015 |title=2015 Saturn Awards: Captain America: Winter Soldier, Walking Dead lead nominees |url=https://ew.com/article/2015/03/04/saturn-awards-captain-america-walking-dead/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191111174504/https://ew.com/article/2015/03/04/saturn-awards-captain-america-walking-dead/ |archive-date=November 11, 2019 |access-date=December 16, 2022 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}}

Best Director

| data-sort-value="Liman, Doug" | Doug Liman

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Best Writing

| data-sort-value="McQuarrie, Christopher; Butterworth, Jez; and Butterworth, John-Henry" | Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, and John-Henry Butterworth

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Best Actor

| data-sort-value="Cruise, Tom" | Tom Cruise

| {{nom}}

Best Actress

| data-sort-value="Blunt, Emily" | Emily Blunt

| {{nom}}

Best Editing

| data-sort-value="Herbert, James and Jennings, Laura" | James Herbert and Laura Jennings

| {{won}}

Best Special Effects

| data-sort-value="Brozenich, Gary; Davis, Nick; Fawkner, Jonathan; and Rouleau, Matthew" | Gary Brozenich, Nick Davis, Jonathan Fawkner, and Matthew Rouleau

| {{nom}}

scope="rowgroup" rowspan="3"|Teen Choice Awards

| rowspan="3" | 2014 Teen Choice Awards

| Choice Movie: Action

| Edge of Tomorrow

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|{{Cite web |last=Nordyke |first=Kimberly |date=August 10, 2014 |title=Teen Choice Awards: The Complete Winners List |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/teen-choice-awards-2014-winners-724423 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812214317/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/teen-choice-awards-2014-winners-724423 |archive-date=August 12, 2014 |access-date=August 17, 2014 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}}

Choice Movie Actor: Action

| data-sort-value="Cruise, Tom" | Tom Cruise

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Choice Movie Actress: Action

| data-sort-value="Blunt, Emily" | Emily Blunt

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scope="rowgroup" rowspan="3"|Visual Effects Society Awards

| rowspan="3" |13th Visual Effects Society Awards

| Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture

| data-sort-value="Cheng, Albert; Astacio, Jose Enrique Jr.; Havart, Michael; and Beebe, Dion" | Albert Cheng, Jose Enrique Astacio Jr., Michael Havart, and Dion Beebe for "Beach and Paris Attacks"

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|{{Cite web |date=January 13, 2015 |title=Visual Effects Society Awards Nominations Announced |url=https://deadline.com/2015/01/ves-awards-nominations-visual-effects-society-movies-2015-full-list-1201348607/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207230703/http://deadline.com/2015/01/ves-awards-nominations-visual-effects-society-movies-2015-full-list-1201348607/ |archive-date=February 7, 2015 |access-date=December 16, 2022 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}
{{Cite web |last1=Pedersen |first1=Erik |last2=Bloom |first2=David |date=February 4, 2015 |title=VES Awards: Apes Wins Top Live-Action Movie Prize; Big Hero 6 Leads All With Five Nods |url=https://deadline.com/2015/02/dawn-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-wins-ves-award-visual-effects-in-a-visual-effects-driven-movie-1201366485/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207230748/http://deadline.com/2015/02/ves-awards-winners-2015-visual-effects-society-award-winner-list-1201366460/ |archive-date=February 7, 2015 |access-date=December 16, 2022 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}

Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture

| data-sort-value="Avoujageli, Steve; Grochola, Pawel; Ikarashi, Atsushi; and Waggoner, Paul" | Steve Avoujageli, Pawel Grochola, Atushi Ikarashi, and Paul Waggoner for "Destruction and Sand"

| {{nom}}

Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture

| data-sort-value="Wentworth, Craig; Welford, Matthew; Denoga, Marie Victoria; and Fieser, Frank" | Craig Wentworth, Matthew Welford, Marie Victoria Denoga, and Frank Fieser for "Beach"

| {{nom}}

Social commentary

=Gender roles=

File:Emily Blunt by Gage Skidmore.jpg|Emily Blunt, who plays Sergeant Rita Vrataski]]

Emily Blunt plays Sergeant Rita Vrataski, a veteran who guides and trains Tom Cruise's character, Major William Cage. Blunt said of her role, "In these male-fueled genres, it's usually the woman who's holding the hand of the guy and he's running through explosions leading her, and I wanted to be doing the leading."{{cite news |last=Cohen |first=Sandy |url=http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/blunt-reveals-new-toughness-edge-tomorrow |title=Blunt Reveals New Toughness in 'Edge of Tomorrow' |work=bigstory.ap.org |publisher=Associated Press |date=June 4, 2014 |access-date=June 4, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141105050027/http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/blunt-reveals-new-toughness-edge-tomorrow |archive-date=November 5, 2014 |url-status=dead }} Chris Nashawaty, reviewing the film for Entertainment Weekly, called it "the most feminist summer action flick in years".{{cite magazine |last=Nashawaty |first=Chris |url=https://ew.com/article/2014/06/19/edge-tomorrow-movie-2/ |title=Edge Of Tomorrow (2014) |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=June 12, 2014 |access-date=June 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627145034/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20483133_20822916,00.html |archive-date=June 27, 2014 |url-status=live }} Bustle{{'}}s Alicia Lutes described Rita as "ruthless and exacting in her takedown ... of a bunch of aliens" and said: "This is very much counter to the age-old ideals about ladies being the constant, delicate flowers of emotional heartstring-pulling." Lutes noted how Cage's strength depended on Rita's guidance, as "she trains him, aids him, and protects him (and in turn the fate of humanity) time and time again."{{cite news |last=Lutes |first=Alicia |url=http://www.bustle.com/articles/26760-emily-blunts-edge-of-tomorrow-role-is-refreshingly-unapologetically-feminist |title=Emily Blunt's 'Edge of Tomorrow' Role Is Refreshingly & Unapologetically Feminist |work=Bustle |publisher=BDG Media Inc. |date=June 6, 2014 |access-date=June 18, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714170226/http://www.bustle.com/articles/26760-emily-blunts-edge-of-tomorrow-role-is-refreshingly-unapologetically-feminist |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |url-status=live }} Tasha Robinson, writing a piece in The Dissolve about "strong female characters" that lack real purpose in films, said that Rita in Edge of Tomorrow was an exception. Robinson acknowledged that Rita existed to support Cage in his trials, but believed that "the story doesn't degrade, devalue, weaken, or dismiss her".{{cite news |last=Robinson |first=Tasha |url=http://thedissolve.com/features/exposition/618-were-losing-all-our-strong-female-characters-to-tr/ |title=We're losing all our Strong Female Characters to Trinity Syndrome |work=The Dissolve |date=June 16, 2014 |access-date=June 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709052855/http://thedissolve.com/features/exposition/618-were-losing-all-our-strong-female-characters-to-tr/ |archive-date=July 9, 2015 |url-status=dead }}

In contrast, The Wire{{'}}s Esther Zuckerman criticized the inclusion of a romantic relationship in the film, and said of the two characters' kiss: "There's a case to be made that the kiss is simply an acceptance of their fate, but everything we know about Rita up until this point implies that she's a dedicated soldier, and making her a sudden romantic betrays her character." Zuckerman added: "That's not to say she can't soften up a bit as humans do, but the moment reads less like she's accepting her humanity and more like the filmmakers had to acknowledge two attractive leads ... who should lock lips because that's what men and women do in movies."{{cite news |last=Zuckerman |first=Esther |url=http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2014/06/why-did-edge-of-tomorrow-need-a-romance/372446/ |title=Why Did 'Edge of Tomorrow' Need a Romance? |work=The Wire |publisher=The Atlantic Monthly Group |date=June 9, 2014 |access-date=June 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140612012428/http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2014/06/why-did-edge-of-tomorrow-need-a-romance/372446/ |archive-date=June 12, 2014 |url-status=live }} Writing in The Week, Monika Bartyzel also criticized the romance in the film, stating that Rita is the one who kisses Cage, despite knowing him for only a day where he had known her for multiple days via time loop. Bartyzel said that Rita's portrayal was part of a commonly seen motif in which a female character helps a male "Chosen One" character and that this was "the new normal because it allows Hollywood to appeal to feminist concerns while continuing to feed male wish fulfillment". Bartyzel said that Rita "at her most powerful" ultimately serves "to make the male hero into a fighter like herself".{{cite news |last=Bartyzel |first=Monika |url=https://theweek.com/article/index/263032/girls-on-film-hollywood-keeps-stranding-women-at-the-edge-of-tomorrow |title=Girls on Film: Hollywood keeps stranding women at the Edge of Tomorrow |work=The Week |date=June 13, 2014 |access-date=June 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140619005647/https://theweek.com/article/index/263032/girls-on-film-hollywood-keeps-stranding-women-at-the-edge-of-tomorrow |archive-date=June 19, 2014 |url-status=live }}

=Comparison to video games=

Liman said that the film's repeated scenes intentionally paralleled the respawning feature in video games, where players have to start over on a level if their character dies.{{cite journal |last=Lewis |first=Hilary |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/edge-tomorrow-ny-premiere-director-707986 |title='Edge of Tomorrow' NY Premiere: Director Doug Liman Talks Video Game-Like Nature of Movie |journal=The Hollywood Reporter |date=May 29, 2014 |access-date=June 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140603103848/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/edge-tomorrow-ny-premiere-director-707986 |archive-date=June 3, 2014 |url-status=live }} In the afterword of All You Need Is Kill, author Hiroshi Sakurazaka notes his experience playing video games as a source of inspiration while writing the novel.{{cite book |last=Sakurazaka |first=Hiroshi |date=2004 |chapter=Afterword |title=All You Need Is Kill |publisher=VIZ Media |isbn=978-1-4215-4244-7 |pages=199–200}} Salon{{'}}s Ryan Leas said analyses of the film noted that it "steals from the video game genre". Leas called Edge of Tomorrow{{'}}s looped action "a meta-commentary on the blockbuster genre", saying: "It's a blockbuster interested in the question of how mind-numbing its genre has become to its viewers."{{cite news |last=Leas |first=Ryan |url=http://www.salon.com/2014/06/18/meet_the_meta_blockbuster_what_edge_of_tomorrow_reveals_about_the_state_of_its_genre/ |title=A blockbuster for the 'meta-blockbuster' age: What 'Edge of Tomorrow' reveals about the sad state of action movies |work=Salon |date=June 18, 2014 |access-date=June 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140619044450/http://www.salon.com/2014/06/18/meet_the_meta_blockbuster_what_edge_of_tomorrow_reveals_about_the_state_of_its_genre/ |archive-date=June 19, 2014 |url-status=live }} Comparing Edge of Tomorrow to film adaptations of video games, Wired's Angela Watercutter said Liman's film was more successful for basing itself on the medium's narrative structure, and for its "ability to continue after 'Game Over' and discover something new".{{cite magazine |last=Watercutter |first=Angela |url=https://www.wired.com/2014/06/edge-of-tomorrow-review/ |title=Edge of Tomorrow Is the Best Videogame You Can't Play |magazine=Wired |date=June 6, 2014 |access-date=June 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140620202157/http://www.wired.com/2014/06/edge-of-tomorrow-review/ |archive-date=June 20, 2014 |url-status=live }}

Future

=Possible sequel=

In a December 2015 interview with Collider, McQuarrie said that Cruise had an idea for a sequel, and that the concept is "locked and loaded."{{cite web |url=https://collider.com/mission-impossible-5-6-edge-of-tomorrow-2-christopher-mcquarrie-interview/ |title=Christopher McQuarrie on 'Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation', 'M:I 6' and 'Edge of Tomorrow 2' |last=Weintraub |first=Steve |work=Collider |date=December 16, 2015 |access-date=October 28, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161101010249/http://collider.com/mission-impossible-5-6-edge-of-tomorrow-2-christopher-mcquarrie-interview/ |archive-date=November 1, 2016 |url-status=live }} In April 2016, Doug Liman had signed on to direct the sequel, while Race screenwriters Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse will write the script for the film.{{cite web |url=https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/674713-edge-of-tomorrow-sequel-enlists-screenwriters#/slide/1 |title=Edge of Tomorrow Sequel Enlists Screenwriters |last=Perry |first=Spencer |publisher=ComingSoon.net |date=April 8, 2016 |access-date=October 28, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026162230/http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/674713-edge-of-tomorrow-sequel-enlists-screenwriters |archive-date=October 26, 2016 |url-status=live }} In October 2016, Liman stated that the film would "revolutionize how people make sequels", and went on to say that the story is "much better than the original film" and that it is "a sequel that's a prequel."{{cite news |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2016/10/28/director-doug-liman-talks-justice-league-dark-movie |title=Director Doug Liman Talks Justice League Dark Movie |last=Rougeau |first=Mike |work=IGN |date=October 27, 2016 |access-date=October 28, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161029044439/http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/10/28/director-doug-liman-talks-justice-league-dark-movie |archive-date=October 29, 2016 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://collider.com/edge-of-tomorrow-2-prequel-doug-liman/ |title=Doug Liman Says 'Edge of Tomorrow 2' Is "A Sequel That's a Prequel" |last=Chitwood |first=Adam |work=Collider.com |date=October 28, 2016 |access-date=October 28, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161029044208/http://collider.com/edge-of-tomorrow-2-prequel-doug-liman/ |archive-date=October 29, 2016 |url-status=live }} In May 2017, Liman revealed that the title will be Live Die Repeat and Repeat and that both Cruise and Blunt will reprise their roles from the first film.{{cite web |url=https://collider.com/edge-of-tomorrow-2-title/ |title='Edge of Tomorrow 2' Title Revealed; Emily Blunt to Return |last=Chitwood |first=Adam |work=Collider |date=May 7, 2017 |access-date=May 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170507192103/http://collider.com/edge-of-tomorrow-2-title/ |archive-date=May 7, 2017 |url-status=live }} In January 2018, Liman said that Live Die Repeat and Repeat could be his next film and that scheduling issues have been worked out and the film is moving steadily toward a window in which to start production.{{cite web |url=https://collider.com/edge-of-tomorrow-2-status-doug-liman/ |title=Exclusive: Doug Liman Says 'Edge of Tomorrow 2' Could Be His Next Film |last=Chitwood |first=Adam |work=Collider |date=January 15, 2018 |access-date=January 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116081155/http://collider.com/edge-of-tomorrow-2-status-doug-liman/ |archive-date=January 16, 2018 |url-status=live }} In March 2018, Liman said that he was now working with Jez Butterworth on a script rewrite for the film.{{cite web |last=Radish |first=Christina |date=March 28, 2018 |title=Doug Liman on His YouTube Series 'Impulse', Why 'Jumper' Didn't Work, and 'Edge of Tomorrow 2' |url=https://collider.com/doug-liman-interview-impulse-jumper-edge-of-tomorrow-2/#jumper |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330143434/http://collider.com/doug-liman-interview-impulse-jumper-edge-of-tomorrow-2/#jumper |archive-date=March 30, 2018 |access-date=March 30, 2018 |website=Collider}} Later that month, Blunt stated that she, Cruise and Liman were all enthusiastic about the project, but also noted that "It's a lot for all the stars to align for everyone to be free at the same time and available to do it at the same time."{{cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/03/emily-blunt-mary-poppins-returns-stand-alone-story-1201943621/ |title=Emily Blunt Says Tom Cruise Asked Her to Do the Sequel to 'Edge of Tomorrow' But She Was Busy Shooting 'Mary Poppins' |first=Kate |last=Erbland |date=March 27, 2018 |access-date=March 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330080229/http://www.indiewire.com/2018/03/emily-blunt-mary-poppins-returns-stand-alone-story-1201943621/ |archive-date=March 30, 2018 |url-status=live }} In March 2019, it was reported that Matthew Robinson would rewrite the screenplay,{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/edge-tomorrow-2-development-at-warner-bros-1191695 |title='Edge of Tomorrow' Sequel in Development at Warner Bros. |last=Couch |first=Aaron |website=The Hollywood Reporter |date=March 1, 2019 |access-date=October 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302001318/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/edge-tomorrow-2-development-at-warner-bros-1191695 |archive-date=March 2, 2019 |url-status=live}} and in October, Liman confirmed that the script was finished.{{cite web |last=Hood |first=Cooper |title=Edge of Tomorrow 2's Script Is Finished, Confirms Director |url=https://screenrant.com/edge-tomorrow-2-script-update-doug-liman/ |website=Screen Rant |access-date=March 8, 2021 |date=October 18, 2019}}

After numerous delays, Liman said on Instagram that the project was still in "planning stages" as of January 2020.{{cite web |last=Sandwell |first=Ian |title=Edge of Tomorrow 2: Everything you need to know |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a868028/edge-of-tomorrow-2-plot-cast-trailer-release-date/ |website=Digital Spy |access-date=March 20, 2020 |date=February 11, 2020}} In January 2021, Liman continued to suggest a sequel will eventually happen and merely needs the two stars to pull the trigger.{{cite web |last=Taylor |first=Drew |title=Doug Liman Gives Update on 'Edge of Tomorrow 2,' Including Script Status |url=https://collider.com/edge-of-tomorrow-2-update-doug-liman/ |website=Collider |access-date=May 2, 2021 |date=January 14, 2021}} Blunt has since stated that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the budget for another film would be "too expensive", casting further doubt on a possible sequel.{{Cite AV media |title=Emily Blunt Explains Why There Hasn't Been a Sequel to "Edge of Tomorrow" |work=The Howard Stern Show |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke1ivYVVqfA| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211114/ke1ivYVVqfA| archive-date=November 14, 2021 | url-status=live|language=en|access-date=May 25, 2021}}{{cbignore}} In June 2023, Blunt reiterated her interest in a returning for a sequel, but said she does not know when it would happen.{{Cite web |last=Blyth |first=Antonia |date=June 16, 2023 |title='The English's Star and EP Emily Blunt On Evolving The Western Hero & An 'Edge Of Tomorrow' Sequel: "I Would Love To Do Another One" |url=https://deadline.com/2023/06/the-english-emily-blunt-interview-chaske-spencer-1235415772/ |access-date=June 27, 2023 |website=Deadline Hollywood}} That month, McQuarrie said that getting the sequel produced had been a complicated situation thus far.{{Cite web |last=Brail |first=Nathaniel |date=June 20, 2023 |title=Edge of Tomorrow 2: Christopher McQuarrie Teases "Really Cool" Sequel Idea |url=https://comicbook.com/movies/news/edge-of-tomorrow-2-christopher-mcquarrie-cool-sequel/ |access-date=June 27, 2023 |website=ComicBook.com}} In August 2023, Blunt stated that Cruise's busy schedule was preventing production from moving forward.{{Cite web |last=Thomas |first=Carly |date=August 3, 2023 |title=Emily Blunt Says She Is "So Ready" for an 'Edge of Tomorrow' Sequel With Tom Cruise |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/emily-blunt-ready-edge-of-tomorrow-sequel-1235550726/ |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}}

In January 2024, following a contractual partnership between Cruise and Warner Bros. Pictures, it was revealed that the actor will develop and appear in various projects from the studio. It was stated that co-heads/co-chairpeople Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy had been in negotiations with Cruise to develop an Edge of Tomorrow sequel following the project's many delays.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/inside-tom-cruise-new-deal-1235785619/|work=The Hollywood Reporter|title=What Tom Cruise's New Deal Really Means|author=Masters, Kim|date=January 11, 2024|accessdate=January 11, 2024}} They discussed a potential sequel at a meeting that month.{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/warner-bros-spending-joker-2-budget-tom-cruise-deal-1235917640/ | title=Warner Bros. Spends Big: 'Joker 2' Budget Hits $200 Million, Lady Gaga's $12 Million Payday, Courting Tom Cruise's New Deal and More | date=February 21, 2024 }}

=Television series=

In February 2022, it was revealed by Village Roadshow Pictures that Warner Bros. Pictures had been developing a television series spin-off of the film with intentions to release the show exclusively on HBO Max.{{cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/edge-tomorrow-tv-show-status-lawsuit/|work=Screen Rant|title=Edge of Tomorrow TV Show Status Revealed|author=Hood, Cooper|date=February 7, 2022|access-date=February 10, 2022}}

See also

References

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