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Airplane II opened in the United States the same weekend as The Toy and 48 Hrs. and finished second for the weekend behind The Toy with a gross of $5,329,208 from 1,150 screens. [ 2 ] [ 9 ] Grosses dropped 45% [ 10 ] the following week and the film went on to earn only $27.2 million in the United States and Canada, [ 2 ] compared to the ...
Fortress (aka Flying Fortress) is a 2012 American war film directed by Michael R. Phillips and stars Bug Hall, Donnie Jeffcoat, Sean McGowan and Joseph Williamson. [Note 1] The film was released by Bayou Pictures and although initially intended for wider release, was a direct-to-video release on July 31, 2012 made by Monarch Video.
David Zucker said "it was the first time we had ever been on a movie set. We learned a lot. We learned that if you really wanted a movie to come out the way you wanted it to, you had to direct. So on the next movie, Airplane!, we insisted on directing". [18] Eventually the Airplane! script found its way to Paramount through Michael Eisner.
New oral history of "Airplane!" traces the making of the beloved parody of 1970s disaster movies. 'Airplane!' creators to tell all about their surprise 1980 hit movie at Dearborn event
But leaving aside the movie's content, it's fair to ask whether Airplane! could take flight at a major studio given the way R-rated comedies have cratered at the box office in recent years.
Paul Mavis writing for Movies & Drinks in 2022 appreciated its non-glossy approach to the disaster genre: "This is a straightforward, simple, mean little suspense thriller, extremely well-told by director John Guillermin and screenwriter Stanley R. Greenberg, and unpretentiously unembellished." [15]
Plane is a 2023 American action thriller film directed by Jean-François Richet from a screenplay by Charles Cumming and J. P. Davis. [4] Starring Gerard Butler and Mike Colter , it follows a commercial pilot allying with a suspected murderer to save his passengers from a hostile territory after an emergency landing .
Recently, though, Presley has returned to the movie business as part of the creative team behind two movies that depict her pre-Naked Gun life: Baz Luhrmann's 2022 musical biopic, Elvis, and Sofia ...