Robert Zemeckis Articles

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 [...]

Judy Garland as Dorothy in Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz So, Robert Zemeckis, the guy who brought you Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Death Becomes Her, Forrest Gump, What Lies Beneath, The Polar Express, and Beowulf, will not direct a remake of the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz. A Deadline report tying Zemeckis to a potential Oz remake caused a [...]

As expected, Walt Disney’s A Christmas Carol took the No. 1 spot at the North American box office this weekend with a solid $31 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Starring Jim Carrey (above), the Robert Zemeckis-directed 3D motion-capture adventure tale based on Charles Dickens’ classic opened at 3,683 locations and scored an average of $8,417 per theater, enough to crush its [...]

Brad Bird’s The Incredibles (top); Robert Zemeckis‘ The Polar Express (bottom) Eleven animated features are eligible to compete for the Best Animated Feature Film Oscar in the 2005 Academy Awards race. They are: Clifford’s Really Big Movie Disney’s Teacher’s Pet Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence Home on the Range The Incredibles The Legend of Buddha The Polar Express Shrek 2 Shark Tale Sky Blue [...]