Twenty years ago, "The Fugitive" debuted in theaters. It was a solid big-screen adaptation of the '60s TV series and made major bank at the box office with $369 million. It was also a critical smash and an awards-getter, a surprise for a movie based on a TV series.
Star Joe Pantoliano later recalled "I remember one day, me and Tommy Lee [Jones] were driving back to the airport after shooting, and he said something like 'It's not like any of us are going to win any Oscars for this!'"
How wrong you were, Mr. Jones! The film not only earned Jones a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, but it was also nominated for Best Picture and five other Academy Awards.
Though "The Fugitive" is a movie most of you have probably watched repeatedly, here are a few things you might not have known about the film.
1. Harrison Ford was not...
Star Joe Pantoliano later recalled "I remember one day, me and Tommy Lee [Jones] were driving back to the airport after shooting, and he said something like 'It's not like any of us are going to win any Oscars for this!'"
How wrong you were, Mr. Jones! The film not only earned Jones a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, but it was also nominated for Best Picture and five other Academy Awards.
Though "The Fugitive" is a movie most of you have probably watched repeatedly, here are a few things you might not have known about the film.
1. Harrison Ford was not...
- 8/7/2013
- by Sharon Knolle
- Moviefone
Actor William H. Macy has an odd link to his co-stars in new TV comedy series "Shameless" - he once babysat them for their parents. The Fargo star recalls looking after Joan Cusack and Jeremy Piven when they were kids in Chicago, Illinois.
The actor befriended Byrne Piven and Dick Cusack, who were fellow regulars in the Chicago theatre scene, where he co-founded the St. Nicholas Theater Company with playwright and pal David Mamet - and he still remembers babysitting their kids Jeremy and Joan. He tells USA Today newspaper, "Jeremy was just a little kid," when he offered to babysit "because I needed the work".
And he admits that he and actress Cusack enjoyed their racy scenes in Shameless, even though her father would have been far from happy. Macy adds, "That would have been an interesting conversation." Macy also has another theatrical link to Piven - he replaced...
The actor befriended Byrne Piven and Dick Cusack, who were fellow regulars in the Chicago theatre scene, where he co-founded the St. Nicholas Theater Company with playwright and pal David Mamet - and he still remembers babysitting their kids Jeremy and Joan. He tells USA Today newspaper, "Jeremy was just a little kid," when he offered to babysit "because I needed the work".
And he admits that he and actress Cusack enjoyed their racy scenes in Shameless, even though her father would have been far from happy. Macy adds, "That would have been an interesting conversation." Macy also has another theatrical link to Piven - he replaced...
- 11/4/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Macy Was Shameless Stars' Babysitter
Actor William H. Macy has an odd link to his co-stars in new TV comedy series Shameless - he once babysat them for their parents.
The Fargo star recalls looking after Joan Cusack and Jeremy Piven when they were kids in Chicago, Illinois.
The actor befriended Byrne Piven and Dick Cusack, who were fellow regulars in the Chicago theatre scene, where he co-founded the St. Nicholas Theater Company with playwright and pal David Mamet - and he still remembers babysitting their kids Jeremy and Joan.
He tells USA Today newspaper, "Jeremy was just a little kid," when he offered to babysit "because I needed the work".
And he admits that he and actress Cusack enjoyed their racy scenes in Shameless, even though her father would have been far from happy.
Macy adds, "That would have been an interesting conversation."
Macy also has another theatrical link to Piven - he replaced the star at short notice in Speed-The-Plow on Broadway after Piven fell ill with mercury poisoning.
The Fargo star recalls looking after Joan Cusack and Jeremy Piven when they were kids in Chicago, Illinois.
The actor befriended Byrne Piven and Dick Cusack, who were fellow regulars in the Chicago theatre scene, where he co-founded the St. Nicholas Theater Company with playwright and pal David Mamet - and he still remembers babysitting their kids Jeremy and Joan.
He tells USA Today newspaper, "Jeremy was just a little kid," when he offered to babysit "because I needed the work".
And he admits that he and actress Cusack enjoyed their racy scenes in Shameless, even though her father would have been far from happy.
Macy adds, "That would have been an interesting conversation."
Macy also has another theatrical link to Piven - he replaced the star at short notice in Speed-The-Plow on Broadway after Piven fell ill with mercury poisoning.
- 11/4/2010
- WENN
'American Gangster' steals boxoffice: $46.3 mil
Universal/Imagine's American Gangster gunned down the competition to capture the top spot in the domestic boxoffice with an estimated $46.3 million in opening loot.
DreamWorks/Paramount's animated feature Bee Movie also generated significant buzz with its own honey of an opening, gathering $39.1 million in second place.
New Line's John Cusack-Amanda Peet starrer Martian Child bowed with $3.7 million in seventh place.
Lionsgate's Saw IV got chopped up by the new entrants and fell 65% in its second weekend to gross $11 million in third place with a $51.1 million cume. But Disney's Steve Carell comedy Dan in Real Life slid just 29% in its sophomore session to gross $8.1 million and finish fourth with a cume of almost $23 million.
In a limited bow, Warner Independent's documentary about war-torn Sudan Darfur Now grossed $24,000 from two runs in New York and one in L.A., or a solid $8,000 per location. The Don Cheadle-starring docu expands to 20 runs in 12 additional markets next weekend.
Industrywide, the weekend represented some needed good news for a town wracked by labor tensions, with the frame's $140 million in total grosses marking an 8% improvement over the same session last year. It was the first improved session after six successive weekends of year-over-year declines.
Year-to-date, boxoffice is still running 6% ahead of the same period of 2006 at a total of $7.85 billion. But fall grosses are off 4% compared with a year ago, at $966.8 million.
Gangster always looked to be the weekend's likeliest top finisher, despite an R rating and a running time two hours and 37 minutes, as pre-release tracking surveys showed moviegoers anxious to mob movieplexes.
Its opening was the biggest ever for Washington and Crowe but fell just short of being the best debut among pics over 2 1/2 hours with restricted ratings. Troy (2:43) still holds those bragging rights after unspooling with $46.9 million in May 2004.
DreamWorks/Paramount's animated feature Bee Movie also generated significant buzz with its own honey of an opening, gathering $39.1 million in second place.
New Line's John Cusack-Amanda Peet starrer Martian Child bowed with $3.7 million in seventh place.
Lionsgate's Saw IV got chopped up by the new entrants and fell 65% in its second weekend to gross $11 million in third place with a $51.1 million cume. But Disney's Steve Carell comedy Dan in Real Life slid just 29% in its sophomore session to gross $8.1 million and finish fourth with a cume of almost $23 million.
In a limited bow, Warner Independent's documentary about war-torn Sudan Darfur Now grossed $24,000 from two runs in New York and one in L.A., or a solid $8,000 per location. The Don Cheadle-starring docu expands to 20 runs in 12 additional markets next weekend.
Industrywide, the weekend represented some needed good news for a town wracked by labor tensions, with the frame's $140 million in total grosses marking an 8% improvement over the same session last year. It was the first improved session after six successive weekends of year-over-year declines.
Year-to-date, boxoffice is still running 6% ahead of the same period of 2006 at a total of $7.85 billion. But fall grosses are off 4% compared with a year ago, at $966.8 million.
Gangster always looked to be the weekend's likeliest top finisher, despite an R rating and a running time two hours and 37 minutes, as pre-release tracking surveys showed moviegoers anxious to mob movieplexes.
Its opening was the biggest ever for Washington and Crowe but fell just short of being the best debut among pics over 2 1/2 hours with restricted ratings. Troy (2:43) still holds those bragging rights after unspooling with $46.9 million in May 2004.
- 11/5/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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