"on a new adventure in a fictional African desert, in an effort to find the fabled ""Jewel of the Nile"". ""The Jewel of the Nile"" is notable for its top 40 theme song performed by Billy Ocean, ""When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going"". Taking place six months after the events in ""Romancing the Stone"", Joan Wilder's (Kathleen Turner) and Jack Colton's (Michael Douglas) romance has grown stale. While moored at a port in the South of France, Joan, suffering writer's block, wants to return to New York, while Jack prefers aimlessly sailing the world on his boat,"
"the helm but with Douglas, Turner and DeVito all returning. Another sequel, called ""The Crimson Eagle"", never made it past the development stage. This planned yet un-produced sequel would have seen Jack Colton and his partner Joan Wilder take their two teenage children to Thailand where they would find themselves blackmailed into stealing a priceless statue. DeVito reunited Douglas, Turner, and himself in his 1989 film ""The War of the Roses"". In 2005 and again in 2008, Michael Douglas was working on a second sequel to ""Romancing the Stone"" entitled ""Racing the Monsoon"", although there have been no further developments"
"and their chemistry is sometimes more entertaining than the contrivances of the plot."" Talk of another film in the romance/adventure series again featuring Douglas, Turner and De Vito reprising their roles never got beyond a draft. In ""The Crimson Eagle"" Jack Colton and Joan Wilder take their two teenage kids to Thailand where they are blackmailed into stealing a priceless statue. The project languished until 1997, when Douglas as the tentative producer of the film, announced he was no longer interested. In 2005 and again in 2008, Michael Douglas was working on a second sequel to ""Romancing the Stone"" entitled"
"how to use her dimples amusingly and how to dance like a woman who didn't know she could; her star performance is exhilarating."" ""Romancing the Stone"" was a surprise hit: she won a Golden Globe for her role in the film, and it became one of the top-ten-grossing movies of 1984. Turner teamed with Douglas and DeVito again the following year for its sequel, ""The Jewel of the Nile"". Pre-production for the movie was fraught with conflict, because Turner refused to commit to the ""terrible"" script she had been delivered. When she said no, 20th Century Fox threatened her with"
"The director was jobless until Michael Douglas hired him in 1984 to film ""Romancing the Stone"". A romantic adventure starring Douglas and Kathleen Turner, ""Romancing"" was expected to flop (to the point that, after viewing a rough cut of the film, the producers of the then-in-the-works ""Cocoon"" fired Zemeckis as director), but the film became a sleeper hit. While working on ""Romancing the Stone"", Zemeckis met composer Alan Silvestri, who has scored all of his subsequent pictures. After ""Romancing"", the director suddenly had the clout to direct his time-traveling screenplay, which was titled ""Back to the Future"". Starring Michael J."
"named the ""Angelina"", after the heroine of Joan's novels, and wearing boots made from the crocodile's skin. He explains the crocodile died from ingesting the emerald and he had sold it, using the money to buy the boat of his dreams. They go off together, planning to sail around the world. Sylvester Stallone was originally considered for the role of Jack T. Colton. Filming locations for ""Romancing the Stone"" included Veracruz, Mexico (Fort of San Juan de Ulúa); and Huasca de Ocampo, Mexico. Parts of the film were also shot in Snow Canyon, Utah. The scene where Turner and Douglas"
"their difficulties on the film, Zemeckis would go on to work with Turner again, casting her as the voice of Jessica Rabbit in 1988's ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". Upon the release of ""Romancing the Stone"", comparisons to ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" were inevitable; ""Time"" magazine called the film ""a distaff ""Raiders"" rip-off"". The screenplay for ""Romancing"" had actually been written five years earlier by a Malibu waitress named Diane Thomas in what would end up being her only screenplay. She died in a car crash shortly after the film's release. Studio insiders expected ""Romancing the Stone"" to flop (to"
"an advertising copywriter, wrote travel brochures, took acting classes and worked toward a degree in psychology."" In 1978, while working ""every spare hour for a year"" on ""Romancing the Stone"", Thomas was a waitress at Coral Beach Cantina on the Pacific Coast Highway. It took less than a week for her agent, Norman Kurland, to sell the script. Kurland had sent it to several major studios. Actor/producer Michael Douglas and Columbia Pictures bought the script, though the film would later be made by 20th Century Fox. According to other accounts, the sale of the screenplay was a Cinderella story in"
"the point that, after viewing a rough cut of the film, the producers of the then under development ""Cocoon"" fired Zemeckis as director of that film), but the film became a surprise hit. It became 20th Century Fox's ""only big hit"" of 1984. Zemeckis later stated that the success of ""Romancing the Stone"" allowed him to make ""Back to the Future"", which was an even larger success. ""Romancing the Stone"" was well received by critics, and is considered by some as among the best films of 1984. It holds an 86% approval rating with a 7.3/10 average on the review"
"did not ask Diane Thomas, the writer who had penned the script for ""Romancing the Stone"", to return for the sequel, apparently because he decided her asking price was too high. When Douglas agreed to undertake rewrites to please Turner, Thomas was asked to consult on alterations, but Turner remained disappointed with the script. She elaborated in an interview in 2018: Turner, Douglas and DeVito would later reunite in the unrelated film ""The War of the Roses"". Filming in North Africa was dogged with problems from unbearable 120 degree F heat to problems with the local crew but the most"
"his portrayal of amoral corporate raider Gordon Gekko in the Oliver Stone-directed drama ""Wall Street"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in the sequel """" (2010). Douglas's subsequent film roles included: ""Black Rain"" (1989); ""The War of the Roses"" (1989); ""Basic Instinct"" (1992); ""Falling Down"" (1993); ""The American President"" (1995); ""The Game"" (1997); ""Traffic"" and ""Wonder Boys"" (both 2000); ""Solitary Man"" (2009); ""Ant-Man"" (2015) and ""Ant-Man and the Wasp"" (2018). In 2013, Douglas's performance as Liberace in the HBO biopic ""Behind the Candelabra"", received universal critical acclaim, and the actor won numerous"
"and ""The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer"" as a correspondent. Hoffman is also a puzzlemaster using the pseudonym Dr. Crypton. He designed the puzzle in the 1984 book """". He also designed the treasure map in the 1984 film, ""Romancing the Stone"", starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito. Paul is a chess player rated around 1900 (or class-A level) who was the last man standing when world champion Magnus Carlsen played blindfold blitz chess against three challengers. Hoffman, who holds a B.A. degree summa cum laude from Harvard, is the winner of the first National Magazine Award for Feature"
"Romancing the Stone (song) ""Romancing the Stone"" is a song written, recorded and produced by Eddy Grant, who released it from his 1984 album ""Going for Broke."" It was intended for the 1984 feature film of the same name, in fact was announced by Casey Kasem on the 30 June 1984 edition of American Top 40 as the title song to the movie, but ultimately was not used, though clips from the film appeared in the song's music video, and the song is mentioned in the film's closing credits. In the United States, the song reached number 26 on the"
"New extras include an on-camera introduction by Stone, extensive deleted scenes, ""Greed is Good"" featurettes, and interviews with Michael Douglas and Martin Sheen. In reviewing the film's sequel 23 years later, ""Variety"" noted that though the original film was ""intended as a cautionary tale on the pitfalls of unchecked ambition and greed, Stone's 1987 original instead had the effect of turning Douglas' hugely charismatic (and Oscar-winning) villain into a household name and boardroom icon -- an inspiration to the very power players and Wall Street wannabes for whom he set such a terrible example"". The film is recognized by American"
"series ""Stone"" with Dennis Weaver. He played Commissioner Gordon in the 1989 film ""Batman"" and its three sequels. He is one of only two actors to appear in the four ""Batman"" films from 1989 to 1997; the other is Michael Gough. In November 2007, he created the Pat Hingle Guest Artist Endowment to enable students to work with visiting professional actors at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Hingle married Alyce Faye Dorsey on June 3, 1947. They had three children: Jody, Billy and Molly. The couple later divorced. In 1979 Hingle married Julia Wright. He and his second wife"
"liked the script for the sequel. He read up on psychiatry and worked out in a gym for the nudity scenes. The film was a box office and critical failure. The ""Washington Post"" criticised the film's focus on Morrissey's character and called the actor ""overmatched by Stone"" and ""a sad sack"", and the ""Seattle Post-Intelligencer"" called him ""a charisma-challenged non-entity"". The same ""Washington Post"" critic later wrote in the ""Los Angeles Times"" that because Morrissey was not a film star, the chemistry between him and Stone had been spoiled. Nathan Rabin of ""The A.V. Club"" wrote that Morrissey had ""the"
"the UCLA Extension Writers' Program created the Diane Thomas Screenwriting Awards in her honor. Original judges included Steven Spielberg, Michael Douglas, James Brooks and Kathleen Kennedy. Diane Thomas Diane Renee Thomas (January 7, 1946 – October 21, 1985) was an American screenwriter. She was working as a waitress while writing scripts and then had the opportunity to pitch the script for ""Romancing the Stone"" to customer Michael Douglas who then bought, produced, and starred in the film with Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. She was born January 7, 1946 in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Her family moved to Long Beach,"
"""I completely regret that decision."") Robert Zemeckis was hired to direct in 1985, based on the success of ""Romancing the Stone"" and ""Back to the Future"". Disney executives were continuing to suggest Darrell Van Citters to direct the animated sequences, but Spielberg and Zemeckis decided against it. Richard Williams was eventually hired to direct the animation. Zemeckis wanted the film to imbue ""Disney's high quality of animation, Warner Bros.' characterization, and Tex Avery humor"". Harrison Ford was Spielberg's original choice to play Eddie Valiant, but Ford's price was too high. Bill Murray was also considered for the part, but due"
"over the years how people still approach them and say that they became stockbrokers because of their respective characters in the film. Stone and Douglas reunited for a sequel titled """", which was released theatrically on September 24, 2010. In 1985, Bud Fox is a junior stockbroker at Jackson Steinem & Co. in New York City. He wants to work with his hero, Gordon Gekko, a legendary Wall Street player. After calling Gekko's office 59 days in a row trying to land an appointment, Bud visits Gekko on his birthday with a box of Gekko's favorite, contraband Cuban cigars. Impressed"
"The Family Stone The Family Stone is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Thomas Bezucha. Produced by Michael London and distributed by 20th Century Fox, it stars an ensemble cast, including Diane Keaton, Craig T. Nelson, Dermot Mulroney, Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson, Claire Danes, Rachel McAdams, and Tyrone Giordano. The plot follows the Christmas holiday misadventures of the Stone family in a small New England town when the eldest son, played by Mulroney, brings his uptight girlfriend (played by Parker) home with the intention of proposing to her with a cherished heirloom ring. Overwhelmed by the"
"win an Academy Award for Best Picture since 1931's ""Cimarron"", ""Dances with Wolves"" won a number of additional awards, making it one of the most honored films of 1990. The Holy Road, a sequel novel by Michael Blake, the author of both the original ""Dances with Wolves"" novel and the movie screenplay, was published in 2001. It picks up eleven years after ""Dances with Wolves"". John Dunbar is still married to Stands with a Fist and they have three children. Stands with a Fist and one of the children are kidnapped by a party of white rangers and Dances with"
"episodes: ""The Pyramid"", ""The Antidote"", ""Sanctuary Earth"" and ""On the Run""; in the third season. Stone and his wife Dee Wallace also appeared together in ""Cujo"" (1983), ""Legend of the White Horse"" (1987), and in ""Runaway Daughters"" (1994), a made-for-TV movie that was a remake of the 1950s B movie. Stone married actress Dee Wallace in 1980; they worked on several projects together before their daughter Gabrielle Stone was born in 1988. Stone died of a heart attack on October 20, 1995. Christopher Stone (actor) Christopher Stone (born Thomas Edward Bourassa; October 4, 1942 – October 20, 1995) was an"
"its American distributor, and cut for U.S. release, it became a huge hit abroad in its unedited version. Lyne's fourth film was the blockbuster ""Fatal Attraction"", which generated over $320 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of 1987. The story of a happily married lawyer (Michael Douglas) who tries to break off an affair with an attractive single woman (Glenn Close), only to have her become obsessed with him and endanger his family, the film struck a chord with audiences. Deemed ""the zeitgeist hit of the decade"" by ""TIME Magazine"", ""Fatal Attraction"" earned six Academy Award nominations including Best"
"studio previewed it, so Ron Howard was then hired as director. ""Romancing the Stone"" turned out to be a huge commercial success and gave Zemeckis the clout to do ""Back to the Future"" which he had already scripted and had been previously turned down by every major studio. About 10,000 years ago, peaceful aliens from the planet Antarea set up an outpost on Earth on Atlantis. When Atlantis sank, twenty aliens were left behind, kept alive in large rock-like cocoons at the bottom of the ocean. Now, a group of Antareans have returned to collect them. Disguising themselves as humans,"
"and David Mansfield received a Best Original Score nod. Year of the Dragon (film) Year of the Dragon is a 1985 American neo-noir crime film directed by Michael Cimino, starring Mickey Rourke, Ariane Koizumi and John Lone. The screenplay was written by Cimino and Oliver Stone and adapted from the novel by Robert Daley. This was Cimino's first film after the infamous failure of ""Heaven's Gate"" (1980). ""Year of the Dragon"" is a New York crime drama and an exploration of gangs, the illegal drug trade, ethnicity, racism, and stereotypes. Despite mixed reviews and poor box office returns, it has"
"I would listen to Oliver on the phone and sometimes he talks very rapid-fire, the way Gordon Gekko does"". Stone cites as influences on his approach to business, the novels of Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis and Victor Hugo, and the films of Paddy Chayefsky because they were able to make a complicated subject clear to the audience. Stone set the film in 1985 because insider trading scandals culminated in 1985 and 1986. This led to anachronisms in the script, including a reference to the Space Shuttle ""Challenger"" disaster, which had not yet occurred. Stone met with Tom Cruise about playing"
"a second nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. The film was greeted with positive critical reviews and became a commercial success, earning over $69 million worldwide. After a two-year hiatus from films, Parton was teamed with Sylvester Stallone for ""Rhinestone"" (1984). A comedy film about a country music star's efforts to mould an unknown into a music sensation, the film was a critical and financial failure, making just over $21 million on a $28 million budget. In 1989, she returned to film acting in ""Steel Magnolias"" (1989), based on the play"
"Brenda Vaccaro and Michael Douglas initially shared the same trailer, then began a six-year relationship. She guest starred twice with him in ""The Streets of San Francisco"", playing a rookie cop in season 1, episode 15, and a hit-woman in season 3, episode 2, during that time. Roger Greenspun of ""The New York Times"" did not care for the film: Summertree Summertree is a 1971 film directed by Anthony Newley. The screenplay was written by Edward Hume and Stephen Yafa, based on the 1967 play of the same name by Ron Cowen. In 1970 twenty-year-old Jerry (Michael Douglas) returns to"
"(Don Ameche) and for Best Visual Effects. A sequel, """", was released in 1988, in which almost all of the original cast reprised their roles. Robert Zemeckis was originally hired as director, but after spending a year working on it in development, he was fired before production began as 20th Century Fox (the studio financing ""Cocoon"") felt he was box office poison, due to his films ""I Wanna Hold Your Hand"" and ""Used Cars"" both being critically acclaimed, but commercial failures, and the studio felt his then-current film with Fox, ""Romancing the Stone"" would also be a flop after the"
"played tycoon Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's ""Wall Street"" for which he received an Academy Award as Best Actor. He reprised his role as Gekko in the sequel """" in 2010, also directed by Stone. Douglas starred in the 1989 film ""The War of the Roses"", which also starred Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. In 1989 he starred in Ridley Scott's international police crime drama ""Black Rain"" opposite Andy García and Kate Capshaw; the film was shot in Osaka, Japan. In 1992, Douglas had another successful starring role when he appeared alongside Sharon Stone in the film ""Basic Instinct"". The"
"escape the prison. Love on the Run (1985 film) Love on the Run is a 1985 television film starring Alec Baldwin and Stephanie Zimbalist. A criminal lawyer goes on the run with her escaped convict lover. Diana Rockland, an inhibited and reclusive attorney whom is berated for the lack of momentum and enthusiasm in her life by her father and sister, has been assigned to represent a convict, Sean Carpenter, who has killed a fellow inmate during a prison brawl, supposedly in self-defence. As she counsels Sean, an attraction that leads to a secret romance ensues, which leads to Diana"
"Love on the Run (1985 film) Love on the Run is a 1985 television film starring Alec Baldwin and Stephanie Zimbalist. A criminal lawyer goes on the run with her escaped convict lover. Diana Rockland, an inhibited and reclusive attorney whom is berated for the lack of momentum and enthusiasm in her life by her father and sister, has been assigned to represent a convict, Sean Carpenter, who has killed a fellow inmate during a prison brawl, supposedly in self-defence. As she counsels Sean, an attraction that leads to a secret romance ensues, which leads to Diana eventually helping Sean"
"Year of the Dragon (film) Year of the Dragon is a 1985 American neo-noir crime film directed by Michael Cimino, starring Mickey Rourke, Ariane Koizumi and John Lone. The screenplay was written by Cimino and Oliver Stone and adapted from the novel by Robert Daley. This was Cimino's first film after the infamous failure of ""Heaven's Gate"" (1980). ""Year of the Dragon"" is a New York crime drama and an exploration of gangs, the illegal drug trade, ethnicity, racism, and stereotypes. Despite mixed reviews and poor box office returns, it has gained a cult following in the years since its"