Skyline

Skyline movie synopsis: After a late night party, a group of friends are awoken in the dead of the night by an eerie light beaming through the window. Like moths to a flame, the light source is drawing people outside before they suddenly vanish into the air. They soon discover an otherwordly force is swallowing the entire human population off the face of the earth. Now our band of survivors must fight for their lives as the world unravels around them.

Additional Notes: A series of blindingly bright lights appear all over Los Angeles, mesmerizing the citizens of the city while luring them to an uncertain fate in this sci-fi thriller from sibling filmmakers Greg and Colin Strause. As speculation regarding the origin of the mysterious lights runs rampant, a Los Angeles entrepreneur (Donald Faison), his best friend, Jarrod (Eric Balfour), and Jarrod's frightened girlfriend (Scottie Thompson) struggle to resist temptation as they seek out the source of the luminous threat.

Box Office: Skyline opened on November 12, 2010 and grossed $4,752,000 on that opening day. By November 14, the film had grossed $11,678,000 and had made number four for the weekend, behind Megamind's second #1 opening, Unstoppable, and Due Date. As of December 11th the film had made $21,393,620 in the United States and $31,467,947 internationally for a worldwide total of $52,861,567.