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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

6.1

Released January 17, 2013Runtime 1h 28min

Revenge is sweeter than candy.

After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches... their past.

Genres

Fantasy

Horror

Action

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

MTV Films

Gary Sanchez Productions

Studio Babelsberg

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Production Countries

United States of America

Germany

Finances

Budget: $50,000,000
Revenue: $226,349,749
Profit/Loss: $176,349,749

Stream

Rent

Buy

Videos

Cast

Jeremy RennerHansel

Gemma ArtertonGretel

Famke JanssenMuriel

Pihla ViitalaMina

Derek MearsEdward

Robin Atkin DownesEdward (voice)

Ingrid Bolsø BerdalHorned Witch

Joanna KuligRed Haired Witch

Thomas MannBen

Peter StormareSheriff Berringer

Bjørn SundquistJackson

Rainer BockMayor Engleman

Thomas ScharffFather

Kathrin KühnelAdrianna

Zoë BellTall Witch

Monique GandertonCandy Witch / Mother

Christian RubeckTracker Jonathan

Cedric EichYoung Hansel

Alea Sophia BoudodimosYoung Gretel

Matthias ZiesingDeputy

Sebastian HülkDeputy

Vegar HoelGamekeeper

Jeppe Beck LaursenTracker William

Stig Frode HenriksenMute Tracker

Rose WakeshoWitch

Lucy Ella von ScheeleMary Behlmer

Stephanie CorneliussenDesert Witch (uncredited)

Vanessa WieduwiltTumor Witch (uncredited)

Tommy WirkolaDeputy #4 (uncredited)

Crew

Tommy WirkolaDirector

Lori WyantScript Supervisor

Matthew HeffernanSecond Assistant Director

Chris CastaldiFirst Assistant Director

David LeitchSecond Unit Director

Tommy WirkolaWriter

Adam McKayProducer

Tommy WirkolaProducer

Will FerrellProducer

Deborah AquilaCasting

Tricia WoodCasting

Jennifer L. SmithCasting

Tripp VinsonExecutive Producer

Denis L. StewartExecutive Producer

Chris HenchyExecutive Producer

Beau FlynnProducer

Kevin J. MessickProducer

Atli ÖrvarssonOriginal Music Composer

Jim PageEditor

Stephen ScottProduction Design

Marlene StewartCostume Design

Michael BonvillainDirector of Photography

Bernhard HenrichSet Decoration

Alessija LauseStunts

Chris O'ConnellVisual Effects Editor

Brian N. BentleyCompositors

Anja MüllerArt Direction

Stephan O. GesslerArt Direction

Ingeborg HeinemannArt Department Coordinator

Andreas OlshausenSupervising Art Director

Ben CookeStunt Coordinator

John T. CucciFoley Artist

Wade BarnettADR Recordist

John GuentnerFoley Mixer

Travis MacKayADR Mixer

Mikki LeviAssistant Editor

Chris JargoADR Supervisor

Karen Baker LandersSupervising Sound Editor

David LeitchStunt Coordinator

Christopher AssellsSound Designer

Anna MacKenzieADR Editor

Chris HoganDialogue Editor

Hans ZimmerExecutive Music Producer

Bob BeherFoley Editor

Judah GetzADR Mixer

James AshwillFoley Mixer

Blake CollinsFoley Mixer

David FlemingAdditional Music

Scott MillanSound Re-Recording Mixer

Beauxregard NeylonADR Mixer

Michael PayneSound Effects Editor

Mac RuthProduction Sound Mixer

Evan DaumADR Mixer

Piero MuraSound Effects Editor

Michelle PazerADR Editor

Harry CohenSound Effects Editor

Mark DeSimoneADR Mixer

Ric SchnuppADR Recordist

Greg P. RussellSound Re-Recording Mixer

Rabb WhiteheadADR Recordist

John C. StuverDialogue Editor

Dan O'ConnellFoley Artist

Peter StaubliSound Designer

Maja AroStunts

Katharina HingstProduction Office Assistant

Elliot ScottDraughtsman

David ApplebyStill Photographer

Jackson SpidellStunts

Alexandra NazahnStunts

Florian HotzStunt Double

Jennifer CaputoStunts

Jana ReinhardtStunts

Vanessa WieduwiltStunt Double

Katja RichterStunts

Kristin HaberlandStunt Double

Mathis LandwehrStunts

Monique GandertonStunt Double

Antje RauStunts

Stephani BurkhardStunt Double

Dian HristovStunts

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Reviews

by Andres Gomez

Nice fantasy and action movie. Interesting to see again Gemma Arterton and good FX but nothing else to remark.

by Per Gunnar Jonsson

This is a movie which you watch for the action and the special effects and pretty much nothing else. As such it is a excellent movie. The original story of Hansel & Gretel is essentially only used to boot this movie. The movie itself plays out when Hansel & Gretel are adult witch hunters. The mo...

***Kick axx continuation of the sylvan fairy tale about slaying diabolical witches*** In Medieval Germany, Hansel & Gretel (Jeremy Renner & Gemma Arterton) are now adults and formidable witch slayers, not to mention considered heroes in the community. When numerous children turn-up missing, they...

This might have done better had they just stuck to a plain old witch-hunting adventure film, rather than embroil us in a rather dull familial back story that really just clutters the whole thing up. If you are familiar with the fairy tale, you will know that "Hansel" (Jeremy Renner) and sister "Gre...