The Founder(Movie, 2017)

Name: The Founder
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 2017
Duration: T01:55:00
Rating: 3.6

1h 55min | Genres: Drama, History

Rating: 3.6/5 (with 2,147 votes)

The Founder is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by John Lee Hancock and written by Robert Siegel. Starring Michael Keaton as businessman Ray Kroc, the film depicts the story of his creation of the McDonald's fast-food restaurant chain, which eventually involved forcing out the company's original founders to take control with conniving ruthlessness. Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch co-star as McDonald's founders Richard and Maurice McDonald, alongside Linda Cardellini as Ray Kroc's third wife Joan Smith, and B. J. Novak as McDonald's president and chief executive Harry J. Sonneborn. The film premiered at Arclight Hollywood on December 7, 2016, and was released theatrically in the United States on January 20, 2017, by the Weinstein Company. It grossed $24 million worldwid... ()

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About The Founder

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

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Trailer for The Founder + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

THE FOUNDER - Official UK Trailer - On DVD & Blu-ray June 12th(Trailer, 2:05)

THE FOUNDER - Official UK Trailer - On DVD & Blu-ray June 12th (Trailer) | The Founder Official Trailer #1 (2016) - Michael Keaton Movie HD (Trailer) | THE FOUNDER Trailer German Deutsch (2017) (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Official websites:

thefounderfilm.com

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Shot in: Georgia, Atlanta (Georgia)

Plays in: Arizona, California

Made by: The Weinstein Company, FilmNation Entertainment, Faliro House Productions, The Combine, Speedie Distribution

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 36 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Norwegian Bokmål (NB), Dutch (NL), Norwegian Nynorsk (NN), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date GR: 02/23/2017 (World premiere: 09/13/2016)

Appearing Characters: Ray Kroc, Richard McDonald, Maurice McDonald, Joan Kroc, Harry J. Sonneborn, Fred L. Turner, June Martino

Cast: Michael Keaton, Laura Dern, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Patrick Wilson, B. J. Novak, Linda Cardellini, Justin Randell Brooke, Kate Kneeland, Griff Furst, Wilbur Fitzgerald, David de Vries, Andrew Benator, Cara Mantella, Randall Taylor, Jeremy Madden, Rebecca Ray, Adam Rosenberg, Jacinte Blankenship, Braileanu Cristina, David Silverman, Mike Pniewski, Catherine Dyer, Susan Williams, Franco Castan, Afemo Omilami

Director: John Lee Hancock

Screenwriter: Robert D. Siegel

Film Editor: Robert Frazen

Director of Photography: John Schwartzman

Composer: Carter Burwell

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Hambre De Poder"

"Fome de Poder"

"The Founder - Die Geschichte wird immer vom Sieger geschrieben"

"The Founder - Die wahre Geschichte von McDonalds"

"El Fundador"

Keywords: biography, 1950s, ambition, franchise, family business, salesman, hamburger, fast food, greed, burger, based on true story

Budget: 15,000,000 USD

Revenue: 24,121,245 USD (= 161%)

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