Field of Dreams Articles
Brad Pitt/MONEYBALL, Morgan Freeman/DOLPHIN TALE Gross $1m Less Than Estimated: Box Office
Dolphin Tale THE LION KING Surpasses STAR WARS, FANTASIA: Box Office (Inflation Adjusted) Behind The Lion King 3D, Bennett Miller's baseball drama Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Robin Wright, collected $19.5 million at 2,993 North American locations this past weekend (Sept. 23-25) according to box-office actuals found at Box Office Mojo. That's $1.1m less than Sony Pictures' estimates released yesterday. With its $19.5 [...]
J.D. Salinger and the Movies
Upon learning of author J.D. Salinger's death at the age of 91, I immediately thought of Phil Alden Robinson's Academy Award-nominated 1989 drama Field of Dreams, in which Kevin Costner's character sets out to find a reclusive writer played by James Earl Jones. In W.P Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe, the character is Salinger himself, but not surprisingly, the reclusive real-life Salinger refused to allow the [...]
Kevin Costner at FIELD OF DREAMS Screening
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented a 20th anniversary screening of the Academy Award-nominated Field of Dreams on Wednesday, December 16, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Pictured above prior to the screening of the family drama featuring baseball, corn fields, and ghosts are (left to right): Academy President Tom Sherak, cinematographer John Lindley, Oscar-nominated writer/director Phil Alden Robinson (he [...]
Kevin Costner, director Phil Alden Robinson at FIELD OF DREAMS Screening
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Phil Alden Robinson's Field of Dreams, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented a screening of the supernatural baseball drama on Wednesday, December 16, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Back in 1989, Field of Dreams, in which a farmer builds (a baseball field) so they'll come ("they" being the Shoeless Joe Jackson and the [...]