Robert Zemeckis Articles
DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards: Odd Men Out Roman Polanski, Kenneth Branagh, David Lynch
Bob Hoskins, Jessica Rabbit in Robert Zemeckis' DGA- (but not Oscar-) nominated Who Framed Roger Rabbit (top); Willem Dafoe in Martin Scorsese's Oscar- (but not DGA-) nominated The Last Temptation of Christ (bottom) DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1970s: Odd Men Out Bob Fosse, Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman 1980 DGA Michael Apted, Coal Miner's Daughter AMPAS Roman Polanski, Tess DGA/AMPAS Robert Redford, Ordinary People David [...]
Robert Zemeckis' MARS NEEDS MOMS Below $1m-per-Day on Day 4: Box Office
The Supervisor (Mindy Sterling), Ki (Elisabeth Harnois) watch Milo (Seth Green) and Milo's mother (Joan Cusack) in the Robert Zemeckis-produced Mars Needs Moms Directed by Jonathan Liebesman, Battle: Los Angeles topped the North American box office once again on Monday, March 14, taking in $3.04m according to Box Office Mojo. Battle: Los Angeles features Aaron Eckhart, Ramon Rodriguez, Gino Anthony Pesi, Cory Hardrict, Michael Peña, [...]
Robert Zemeckis' YELLOW SUBMARINE Canceled: MARS NEEDS MOMS' First Disney Casualty
It was inevitable. Following the abysmal box-office take of the Robert Zemeckis-produced, Simon Wells-directed Mars Needs Mom, reportedly budgeted at $150m but taking in $6.9m this past weekend, the Walt Disney Co. has canceled Zemeckis' next project for the studio, a remake of The Beatles' 1968 animated feature Yellow Submarine, The Hollywood Reporter has announced. Not that Yellow Submarine had just been sailing along. The [...]
CAST AWAY Review – Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt d: Robert Zemeckis
CAST AWAY (2000) Direction: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Lari White Screenplay: William Broyles Jr. Oscar Movies Tom Hanks, Cast Away Many will see Cast Away as a celebration of the triumph of the human spirit. Others, myself included, will prefer the more mundane explanation that the film merely depicts a man following his survival instincts, which propel him to fight to remain [...]