| Title | . | Deep Impact
Release date: 8 May 1998 Deep Impact - Official Web Site Paramount / DreamWorks |
| Credits | . | Cast:
Robert Duvall -------- Spurgeon Tanner, astronaut/mission leader Téa Leoni ------------ Jenny Lerner, TV news producer Elijah Wood ---------- Leo Beiderman, 14 year-old comet discoverer Vanessa Redgrave --- Robin Lerner, Téa's mother Maximilian Schell ---- Jason Lerner, Téa's father Morgan Freeman ---- President Beck Leelee Sobieski ------ Sarah Hotchner, teenager James Cromwell ----- Alan Rittenhouse, government official Mary McCormack --- Andrea Baker, Messiah's Executive Officer Blair Underwood ----- Mark Simon, Messiah's flight navigator Dougray Scott -------- Eric Vennekor, TV cameron for Téa Ron Eldard ----------- Oren Monash, Messiah's Mission Commander Alexander Baluev ---- Mikhail Tulchinsky, Messiah's Russian Astronaut Jon Favreau ---------- Gus Partenza, Messiah's medical officer Len Berdick ---------- Fleeing Pedestrian W. Earl Brown ------- McCloud Denise Crosby ------- Vicky Hotchner Charles Dumas Phil Hawn ------------ Refugee Laura Innes ----------- Beth Stanley Joel Nater Jr. --------- Astronomy Club Member Richard Schiff -------- Don Biederman Bruce Weitz ---------- Stuart Caley Gary Werntz ---------- Chuck Hotchner Betsy Brantley --------- Ellen Biederman O'Neal Compton ------ Morten Entrekin Rya Kihlstedt ---------- Chloe Charles Martin Smith -- Marcus Wolf Joel Nater Jr. ------- Astronomy club Member Directed by: Mimi Leder
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. | Deep Impact, the movie,
is the first big event of the start of the summer. All about a mile-wide
asteroid traveling through space on a collision coarse with Earth. And
you thought you had a bad day.
Comet Wolf-Beiderman is the comet discovered by the 14 year old Leo Beiderman at high school. Former astronaut Spurgeon Tanner commands a mission aboard the experimental spaceship Messiah to travel to the comet, land on its surface and plant nuclear charges in the hope of breaking up the comet or changing its orbit away from a collision with the Earth. Day to day life is about to change in a hurry. Scientist have begun to build several caves or "Arks" beneath the earth in order to prevent the extinction of the human race. At random, 800,000 people as well as 200,000 scientists and doctors are selected to stay in the caves in order to survive the "Deep Impact." And just how would you react to a death sentence? Budget - Estimated cost of Deep Impact is put at approximately $100 million. Huge Impact Opening Weekend - Box Office for opening weekend 8-10 May was $41.1 million and arrived in 3,156 theaters. It ties with the tenth largest opening in history, Twister's $41.1 million from two years ago this very weekend. Box Office 22-25 May - Deep Impact is number 2 far behind Godzilla but still showing a strong $19.43 million gross for the 4-day weekend. Gross to date is $98.9 million. Year's top boxoffice 1. $577.0 mil Titanic in release 22 weeks 4 daysBox Office 15-17 May - Deep Impact is number 1 for the second week with a weekend gross of $23.3 based on preliminary figures available Sunday 17 May. Cume to date is an estimated $74.0 million. CBS Deal - CBS has secured six runs of "Deep Impact" from
Paramount over six years, beginning in February 2001. The deal is reported
to be for $25 million plus escalator clauses should the box office take
off. The film is expected to run through the usual home video and
pay-per-view chain first. As reported in the 12-14 June 1998 ussue of the
Hollywood Reporter.
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| Links | . | Deep
Impact Movie Review - Movie review by Michael Maynex.
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