Lazer Team
2015 comedy science fiction film directed by Matt Hullum / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lazer Team is a 2015 American science fiction action comedy film directed, produced, and co-written by Matt Hullum. The first feature film produced by Rooster Teeth, it stars Burnie Burns, Gavin Free, Michael Jones, Colton Dunn, Allie DeBerry, and Alan Ritchson. The film follows the Lazer Team, a group of four who find themselves responsible for the fate of the planet upon discovering an alien crash site containing a battle suit.
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Directed by | Matt Hullum |
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Story by | Burnie Burns |
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Cinematography | Philip Roy |
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Music by | Jeff Williams |
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Running time | 102 minutes[2] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2.4 million[3] |
Box office | $1.6 million[3] |
The film was produced by Hullum, Burns, and Doreen Copeland. Burns and Hullum also co-wrote the script, alongside Rooster Teeth employees Chris Demarais and Josh Flanagan. Funding for Lazer Team was largely raised through a successful Indiegogo campaign, raising over $2.4 million in a month. Filming began in October 2014, with principal photography taking place in Austin and New Mexico.
Lazer Team premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 24, 2015. Through Amplify and Tugg, the film was theatrically released on January 27, 2016, as a cinema-in-demand model. The film was released onto YouTube Premium a month later,[4] and was added to Rooster Teeth's FIRST streaming service on November 3, 2017.[5] Lazer Team received mixed reviews and grossed $1.6 million on a $2.4 million budget. A sequel, Lazer Team 2, was released on November 13, 2017.[6]