<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $11 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $40.4 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Wind River is a 2017 neo-Western murder mystery film written and directed by Taylor Sheridan . The film stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen as a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tracker and an FBI agent, respectively, who try to solve a murder on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming . Gil Birmingham, Jon Bernthal and Graham Greene also star . According to Sheridan, the opening "inspired by true events" card was a reference to the "thousands of actual stories just like it" involving sexual assault of women on reservations, his primary motivation for writing the film . </P> <P> Wind River premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was released in the United States on August 4, 2017 . The film received positive reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing $40 million against an $11 million budget . While theatrically released by The Weinstein Company, in October 2017, following the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations, the film's distribution rights for home media were acquired by Lionsgate, with Weinstein's credits and logo being omitted, which causes TWC to lose distribution rights . </P>

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