His first studio film, Vantage Point, opened in the United States in February 2008 to the number one box office spot. Another film, Endgame, about the end of apartheid in South Africa, had its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. In June 2009, he signed on to direct Come Like Shadows, a reworking of Shakespeare's Macbeth. The following year he signed on to direct Dredd, a film adaptation of the Judge Dredd comics character.