<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $15 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $110.2 million </Td> </Tr> <P> 10 Cloverfield Lane is a 2016 American psychological horror film directed by Dan Trachtenberg, produced by J.J. Abrams and Lindsey Weber and written by Josh Campbell, Matthew Stuecken and Damien Chazelle . The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, and John Gallagher Jr . It is the second installment in the Cloverfield franchise . The film was developed from a script titled The Cellar, but under production by Bad Robot, it was turned into a spiritual successor of the 2008 film Cloverfield . The film follows a young woman who, after a car crash, wakes up in an underground bunker with two men who insist that an event has left the surface of Earth uninhabitable . </P> <P> The film is presented in a third - person narrative, in contrast to its predecessor's found - footage style . It was released in the United States on March 11, 2016, in conventional and IMAX format . The film received positive reviews, with many praising the performances of the cast, as well as the film's tense and suspenseful atmosphere; it grossed $110 million worldwide . </P>

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