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Hacksaw Ridge grossed $67.2 million in the United States and Canada and $113.2 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $180.5 million, against a production budget of $40 million. [ 5 ] The film opened alongside Doctor Strange and Trolls , and was projected to gross around $12 million from 2,886 theaters.
Desmond Thomas Doss was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, to William Thomas Doss (1893–1989), a carpenter, and Bertha Edward Doss (née Oliver) (1899–1983), a homemaker and shoe factory worker. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] His father served in the Army during World War I , he was awarded the Silver Star , and he later suffered from PTSD.
In 2016, Hacksaw Ridge, a fictional film directed by Mel Gibson and starring Andrew Garfield as Doss, was released to critical and commercial success, signaling Gibson's welcome-back to Hollywood. Benedict was one of the producers of Hacksaw Ridge , and the film features several excerpts from The Conscientious Objector immediately before the ...
Terry Benedict is an American film producer. He is the founder and CEO of The Shae Foundation. [1]Benedict co-produced Hacksaw Ridge, nominated for six Academy Awards. [2] [3] Hacksaw Ridge is based on Benedict's documentary, The Conscientious Objector; a film about Medal of Honor winner Desmond Doss, who refused to carry a weapon in World War Two.
EXCLUSIVE: Hacksaw Ridge backer Argent Pictures, Nine Days producer Mandalay Pictures and Book Club writer-director Bill Holderman are teaming up on a feature adaptation of WWII tale The Last ...
Eight years after Hacksaw Ridge, Garfield is starring in We Live in Time, a tearjerker romance about newly single Tobias who falls for talented chef Almut (Florence Pugh). The story, which is not ...
David Permut, the Oscar-nominated producer of “Hacksaw Ridge,” has acquired the life rights to the story of John Franzese Jr., the son of the Colombo crime family's second-in-command, Sonny ...
[87] [88] Hacksaw Ridge, however, was a commercial success, earning over $175.3 million worldwide. [89] In it, Garfield portrayed Desmond Doss , a combat medic during World War II, who was the first conscientious objector in American history to be awarded the Medal of Honor .