The Jackal

After a series of events involving a hitman hired to assassinate a prominent American, with the help of an Irish IRA sniper and others, the assassination attempt is thwarted, resulting in the hitmans death and the promise to continue pursuing the mastermind behind the operation. The Jackal is a 1997 American English-language Action Crime film starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora, Mathilda May, J.k. Simmons and Edgar Olvera. The movie is inspired from The Day of the Jackal by Kenneth Ross. Mutual Film Company in association with Alphaville Films. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) James Jacks, Sean Daniel, Michael Caton-jones and Kevin Jarre. The Jackal is written by Kenneth Ross and Chuck Pfarrer and it is directed by Michael Caton-jones. Universal Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the film. The Jackal was released on 16th February 2021 and takes a screen time of 124 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. The Jackal was made on a budget of $60 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $159 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Chuck Pfarrer. Cinematography was done by Karl Walter Lindenlaub and editing by Jim Clark. The music was composed by Carter Burwell.