Showing posts with label Tom Hanks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Hanks. Show all posts

Friday, December 4, 2015

Bridge of Spies (2015)


"In the shadow of war, one man showed the world what we stand for."


Directed by Steven Spielberg
Produced by Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt, Kristie Macosko Krieger
Written by Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Starring: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda
Music by Thomas Newman
Cinematography: Janusz Kamiński
Edited by Michael Kahn
Production companies: Touchstone Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Fox 2000 Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, Participant Media, Afterworks Limited, Studio Babelsberg, Amblin Entertainment, Marc Platt Productions
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios, Motion Pictures, 20th Century Fox
Release date: 16 October 2015 (United States)
Running time: 141 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $40 million
Box office: $160.9 million


"Bridge of Spies" is a historical biographical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. The story is about an American lawyer who is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot during the Cold War.

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Forrest Gump (1994)



"The world will never be the same once you've seen it through the eyes of Forrest Gump."


Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Produced by Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey, Charles Newirth
Screenplay by Eric Roth
Based on "Forrest Gump" by Winston Groom
Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field
Music by Alan Silvestri
Cinematography: Don Burgess
Edited by Arthur Schmidt
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date: 6 July 1994 (United States)
Running time: 142 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $55,000,000
Box office: $677,945,399


"Forrest Gump" is a epic romantic comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and based on the novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The story is about Forrest Gump - not very intelligent but good-hearted and athletically prodigious man, who witnesses, and in some cases influences, some of the defining events of the latter half of the 20th century in the United States. The film differs substantially from Winston Groom's novel on which it was based, including Gump's personality and several events that were depicted.

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Saving Mr. Banks (2013)


"To Walt Disney, "Mary Poppins" was more than a book. To her, it was more than a movie."


Directed by John Lee Hancock
Produced by Alison Owen, Ian Collie, Philip Steuer
Screenplay by Kelly Marcel, Sue Smith
Starring: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Bradley Whitford, Colin Farrell
Music by Thomas Newman
Cinematography: John Schwartzman
Edited by Mark Livolsi
Production company: Walt Disney Pictures, BBC Films, Essential Media Entertainment, Ruby Films, Hopscotch Features
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Release date: November 29, 2013 (UK & Ireland)
Running time: 125 minutes
Country: Australia, United Kingdom, United States

"Saving Mr. Banks" is a biopic comedy drama film directed by John Lee Hancock and written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith. One day Walt Disney gave a promise to his daughter that he would make a film based on her favourite book - "Mary Poppins" by P.L. Travers. But he didn't even suppose that idea would take twenty years. Disney had been confronted by many difficulties with the screen version before in 1961 a hard-edged author arrived in Los Angeles from Great Britain. However, problems didn't end -  P.L. Travers inserted lots of amendments, the business magnate wasn't able to do anything. It seemed like that screen version would stay just a dream.