Showing posts with label Jeff Daniels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeff Daniels. Show all posts

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Steve Jobs (2015)


"Can a great man be a good man?"


Directed by Danny Boyle
Produced by Danny Boyle, Guymon Casady, Christian Colson, Mark Gordon, Scott Rudin
Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Based on "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels
Music by Daniel Pemberton
Cinematography: Alwin H. Küchler
Edited by Elliot Graham
Production companies: Legendary Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, Mark Gordon Company, Entertainment 360, Decibel Films, Cloud Eight Films
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date: 9 October 2015 (United States)
Running time: 122 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $30 million
Box office: $31 million


"Steve Jobs" is a biographical drama film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin, based on Walter Isaacson's 2011 biography of the same name and interviews conducted by Sorkin. It tells the story of Steve Jobs who takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution, to paint a portrait of the man at its epicenter.

Friday, October 9, 2015

The Martian (2015)


"Help is only 140 million miles away"



Directed by Ridley Scott
Produced by Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer, Aditya Sood, Mark Huffam
Screenplay by Drew Goddard
Based on "The Martian" by Andy Weir
Starring: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Sean Bean, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Donald Glover
Music by Harry Gregson-Williams
Cinematography: Dariusz Wolski
Edited by Pietro Scalia
Production companies: Scott Free Productions, Kinberg Genre
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date: 2 October 2015 (United States)
Running time: 141 minutes
Country: United States, Hungary
Budget: $108 million
Box office: $598.6 million



"The Martian" is an adventure science fiction drama film directed by Ridley Scott and based on Andy Weir's 2011 novel "The Martian", which was adapted into a screenplay by Drew Goddard. The story follows Astronaut Mark Watney who is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew during a manned mission to Mars. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.