Deep Impact (movie)
Deep Impact is a 1998 American science fiction disaster movie[3] directed by Mimi Leder, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin, and starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, and Morgan Freeman. Steven Spielberg was an executive producer of this movie. It was released by Paramount Pictures in North America and by DreamWorks Pictures internationally on May 8, 1998.
| Deep Impact | |
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 Impact Event | |
| Directed by | Mimi Leder |
| Produced by | David Brown Richard D. Zanuck |
| Written by | Bruce Joel Rubin Michael Tolkin |
| Starring | |
| Music by | James Horner |
| Cinematography | Dietrich Lohmann |
| Edited by | Paul Cichocki David Rosenbloom |
Production company | Paramount Pictures DreamWorks Pictures Amblin Entertainment The Manhattan Project The Zanuck Company/Brown Productions |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures (North America) DreamWorks Pictures (International, through United International Pictures) |
Release date |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $80 million[1] |
| Box office | $349.5 million[2] |
The movie shows the attempts to prepare for and destroy a 7-mile (11 km) wide comet set to collide with Earth and cause a mass extinction.
Deep Impact was released in the same summer as the similarly themed Armageddon, which earned more at the box office, while astronomers described Deep Impact as being more accurate.[4][5]
Both movies got similar mixed reviews by movie critics, with Armageddon scoring 43% and Deep Impact scoring 45% on Rotten Tomatoes. Deep Impact did very well at the box office, earning over $349.5 million worldwide on an $80 million movie budget, becoming the sixth highest-earning movie of 1998.
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References
- ↑ Deep Impact. The NumbersNash Information Services. Retrieved February 1, 2013.
- ↑ Deep Impact. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 1, 2013.
- ↑ Stweart, Bhob. Deep Impact. AllmovieRhythmOne. Retrieved August 12, 2012.
- ↑ Disaster Movies. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
- ↑ Plait, Phil. Hollywood Does the Universe Wrong. Space.com (February 17, 2000)TechMedia Network.
