The 1994 book Lost Moon is the basis of what subsequent year's Hollywood hit?
"Lost Moon Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (published in paperback as Apollo 13), is a non-fiction book first published in 1994 by astronaut James Lovell and journalist Jeffrey Kluger, about the failed April 1970 Apollo 13 lunar landing mission which Lovell commanded. The book is the basis of the 1995 film adaptation ""Apollo 13"", directed by Ron Howard. Apollo 13 was the third mission of the Apollo program intended to land men on the Moon. An explosion of an onboard liquid oxygen tank in the Service Module, when the craft was close to reaching the Moon, crippled"
"China Moon China Moon is a 1994 American neo-noir film directed by John Bailey and starring Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe and Benicio del Toro. It was written by Roy Carlson. It was filmed in 1991 but ""shelved"" for three years before its release. The story opens with detectives Kyle Bodine and Lamar Dickey investigating a murder scene. Bodine tutors Dickey in the ways of homicide investigations, stressing that all murderers make stupid mistakes, which is how they get caught. At a local bar, Bodine hits on Rachel Munro, who blows him off. Rachel is married to wealthy banker Rupert Munro."
"was released in 1993. The film became extremely successful. In 1992, Crichton published the novel ""Rising Sun"", an international best-selling crime thriller about a murder in the Los Angeles headquarters of Nakamoto, a fictional Japanese corporation. The book was adapted into the 1993 film directed by Philip Kaufman and starring Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes, released the same year as the adaption of ""Jurassic Park"". His next novel, ""Disclosure"", published in 1994, addresses the theme of sexual harassment previously explored in his 1972 ""Binary"". Unlike that novel however, Crichton centers on sexual politics in the workplace, emphasizing an array of"
"The book has been optioned by Hollywood numerous times, and has had many leading actress attached to play the role including Winona Ryder, who in the Hot issue of ""Rolling Stone"" magazine proclaimed her next role was playing the female Jesus, to most recently Rooney Mara, who can be seen on the cover of the paperback release of the novel. In 1993, long before the widespread availability of broadband internet, he produced a multi-media web novel called ""The Hazmat Diary,"" which featured images, video clips, and music programmed in Flash. The site was eventually taken down in 2007, and the"
"months later it appeared as a book in Britain. Hilton, who lived and worked in Hollywood beginning in the mid-1930s, won an Academy Award in 1942 for his work on the screenplay of ""Mrs. Miniver"", based on the novel by Jan Struther. He presented six episodes of ""Ceiling Unlimited"" (1943) and hosted ""The Hallmark Playhouse"" (1948–1953) for CBS Radio. One of his later novels, ""Morning Journey"", was about the film business. Some of Hilton's novels were filmed: Hilton co-wrote the book and lyrics for ""Shangri-La"", a disastrous 1956 Broadway musical adaptation of ""Lost Horizon"". There is one sequel to ""Lost"
"million copies by May 1998. It has been Mitchard's only #1 New York Times Bestseller, on the list for 29 weeks, including 13 weeks at number 1. The book had originally reached number 14, but after being selected by Winfrey, sales jumped. The paperback would spend 16 weeks on the list. The film rights were sold to Mandalay Entertainment, and the story later became a feature film starring Michelle Pfeiffer. But all of her other novels have been bestsellers as well as garnering critical acclaim—particularly for ""The Most Wanted"", ""Cage of Stars"" and ""The Breakdown Lane"". ""The Most Wanted"" was"
"of the film were shot in Cisco, Crescent Junction, Ruby Ranch Road, and Arches National Park in Utah. Pontiac Moon Pontiac Moon is a 1994 adventure film directed by Peter Medak, and produced by Robert Schaffel and Youssef Vahabzadeh. The film stars Ted Danson as Washington Bellamy, a ""pigheaded"" science teacher in a small California town, and Mary Steenburgen as his wife Katherine. Danson was also one of three executive producers of the film, along with Jeffrey D. Brown (co-writer) and Robert Benedetti. The film takes place in the summer of 1969, when NASA astronauts successfully landed on the moon"
"to acquire the rights to his 1954 short story, ""The Golden Man"". The completed script was sold to Nicolas Cage's production company, Saturn Films, and eventually became the 2007 film, ""Next"", directed by Lee Tamahori and starring Cage, along with Julianne Moore and Jessica Biel. Unfortunately, the film was not a great critical or financial success. On March 21, 2017, Goldman filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Disney over the film ""Zootopia"". The lawsuit claims that Goldman (in 2000 and 2009) pitched a concept to Disney for a live-action film titled ""Looney"", which was about a socially awkward animator who"
"of the Year,"" which caught the notice of mainstream publishing houses. After a bidding war among publishers, it was picked up by HarperCollins and published under the same title, making it into the Book-of-the-Month Club. ""PEOPLE"" magazine, after the book was re-released, published a review in 1994. He went on to write ""Devils Hole"" and ""Spider Snatch."" A book about a fictional coyote was his fourth book. In 1994, he moved to Las Vegas from Southern California with his wife Lolly. ""There are more stories per square inch in Las Vegas than anywhere else. It has a vibe to it,"""
"then on December 7, 2007, and finally on November 1, 2011, by Anchor Bay Entertainment. Black Moon Rising Black Moon Rising is a 1986 science fiction action thriller film directed by Harley Cokliss, written by John Carpenter, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn, Keenan Wynn, and Richard Jaeckel. The plot revolves around the theft of a prototype vehicle called the Black Moon. Sam Quint (Tommy Lee Jones) is a former thief hired by the FBI to steal a computer disk which contains incriminating evidence against The Lucky Dollar Corporation of Las Vegas. After stealing the disk, Quint"
"men and one woman who were lost at sea after a storm in the Pacific. Thompson's ""Lost!"" was retold in a made-for-TV movie in 1986 whose cast included Helen Shaver. ""Blood and Money"" (1976) was based on a true story of scandal and the murders of Houston socialite Joan Robinson Hill and her husband John Hill, and the alleged involvement of Mrs. Hill's father, Ash Robinson, a wealthy Texas oil magnate. The book sold four million copies in fourteen languages. There were three lawsuits against Thompson after the book's publication. Ann Kurth, John Hill's second wife, sued Thompson for his"
"special hospital is located to take Ricky; after his recovery, they will be moved elsewhere. As soon as the family fly off in an FBI plane, Reggie reveals the location of the body to the FBI. A 1994 film based on the novel was directed by Joel Schumacher and starred Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary-Louise Parker and newcomer Brad Renfro. The film was released on July 20, 1994. For her work in the film, Susan Sarandon was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. The film"
"followed by ""Hollywood Moon"" in 2009, ""Hollywood Hills"" in 2010, and ""Harbor Nocturne"" in 2012, set in successive calendar years and involving officers of Hollywood Station's midwatch (5:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m.). The only recurring characters to appear in all five books of the series are ""Hollywood Nate"" Weiss, a cop with dreams of movie stardom; ""Flotsam"" and ""Jetsam"", two cops who are avid surfers and always speak in a thick surfer lingo; and ""Compassionate Charlie"" Gilford, a lazy night-watch detective who functions as a sardonic Greek chorus. The incidents that the various police characters are involved in are based"
"basis of the film ""Oranges and Sunshine"" directed by Jim Loach and starring Emily Watson as Margaret Humphreys and Hugo Weaving and David Wenham as two of the child migrants. Michael went on to collaborate on fifteen ""autobiographies"" for people in the arts, politics, the military and sport. Twelve of these titles became ""Sunday Times"" bestsellers and sold more than 2 million copies. These books included the autobiographies of Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, British comedy actor Ricky Tomlinson and sixties musical legend Lulu. In 1996 Michael returned to Australia with his family and continued writing full-time. In 2002, a partial"
"Under the Hula Moon Under the Hula Moon is an action comedy film from 1995 directed by Jeff Celentano and starring Stephen Baldwin, Emily Lloyd, Chris Penn, and Musetta Vander. Buzz and Betty Wall are a young couple living in a trailer in the desert outside Cactus Gulch in Arizona. Their biggest dream is to move to Hawaii and therefore they decorated their trailer house in Hawaiian themes complete with pink plastic flamingoes and palms. While Betty is trying to get pregnant, Buzz has ambitions to bring a new sunscreen lotion on the market. Financing is difficult and Betty asked"
"""And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic"", published in 1987, won the Stonewall Book Award and brought him nationwide literary fame. ""And the Band Played On"" is an extensively researched account of the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the United States. The book was translated into seven languages, and was later made into an HBO film of the same name in 1993, with many big-name actors in starring or supporting roles, including Matthew Modine, Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Phil Collins, Lily Tomlin, Ian McKellen, Steve Martin, and Alan Alda, among others. The film earned"
"in May 1994 and became a box office hit, grossing over $50 million in the U.S., and retaining a loyal cult following many years after its release. Lee's portrayal of Eric Draven posthumously earned him an MTV Movie Award nomination for Best Male Performance and a Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Actor. The film is dedicated to Brandon and Eliza. In an interview just prior to his death, Lee quoted a passage from Paul Bowles' book ""The Sheltering Sky"" that he had chosen for his wedding invitations; it is now inscribed on his tombstone: The quotation is not attributed to"
"the ""Sunday Times"" bestseller list. The book won the Creative Freedom Award in 1999 and was shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. The film rights were sold to David Brown and developed by Miramax Pictures. The success of the motion picture, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp, brought Harris worldwide recognition, and in 2012 she became one of only four female members of the ""Millionaires Club"", the elite group of authors who have achieved a million sales of a single book in the UK since records began. Since ""Chocolat"" all of Harris's books have been UK"
"on the songs of Queen). Live-action film musicals were nearly dead in the 1980s and early 1990s, with exceptions of ""Victor/Victoria"", ""Little Shop of Horrors"" and the 1996 film of ""Evita"". In the new century, Baz Luhrmann began a revival of the film musical with ""Moulin Rouge!"" (2001). This was followed by ""Chicago"" (2002); ""Phantom of the Opera"" (2004); ""Dreamgirls"" (2006); ""Hairspray"", ""Enchanted"" and """" (all in 2007); ""Mamma Mia!"" (2008); ""Nine"" (2009); ""Les Misérables"" and ""Pitch Perfect"" (both in 2012), ""Into The Woods"" (2014) and ""La La Land"" (2016), among others. Dr. Seuss's ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"" (2000)"
"co-author) of more than two-dozen books, most of which were biographies of the celebrities he covered, including ""Bogie"" in 1966, ""Bogart & Bacall: A Love Story"" in 1975 and ""James Dean: Little Boy Lost"" in 1992. He co-authored celebrity autobiographies, with Chuck Norris on ""The Secret of Inner Strength: My Story"" and worked on ""Michael Reagan: On the Outside Looking In"", with the adopted son of the former President. His own autobiography, ""Mislaid in Hollywood"", was written in 1973. He also wrote novels set in Hollywood, such as ""The Pool"" and ""Murder at the Academy Awards."" His 1979 book ""Zen"
"Disclosure (film) Disclosure is a 1994 American erotic thriller film directed by Barry Levinson, starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore. It is based on Michael Crichton's novel of the same name. The cast also includes Donald Sutherland, Rosemary Forsyth and Dennis Miller. The film is a combination thriller and slight mystery in an office setting within the computer industry in the mid-1990s. The main focus of the story, from which the film and book take their titles, is the issue of sexual harassment and its power structure. Bob Garvin, a technology company founder, plans to retire when his company merges"
"Pontiac Moon Pontiac Moon is a 1994 adventure film directed by Peter Medak, and produced by Robert Schaffel and Youssef Vahabzadeh. The film stars Ted Danson as Washington Bellamy, a ""pigheaded"" science teacher in a small California town, and Mary Steenburgen as his wife Katherine. Danson was also one of three executive producers of the film, along with Jeffrey D. Brown (co-writer) and Robert Benedetti. The film takes place in the summer of 1969, when NASA astronauts successfully landed on the moon for the first time, in the Apollo 11 spacecraft. Katherine, suffering from panic attacks caused by an automobile"
"Moon 44 Moon 44 is a 1990 German English-language science fiction action film from Centropolis Film Productions, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Michael Paré and Lisa Eichhorn alongside Brian Thompson and Malcolm McDowell. The film is set on a futuristic mining site on an unspecific moon, where convicts and teenage technicians are partnered. An undercover agent (Paré) must discover what has happened to missing corporate shuttles. By 2038, all of Earth's natural resources have been depleted. Multinational corporations have taken control of the galaxy and rival companies battle each other for access to mining planets. A major battle is"
"on some of the most successful Hollywood blockbuster films and television series of all time, including ""Lassie"" (1954), ""Hawaii Five-O"" (1968), ""Beneath the Planet of the Apes"" (1970), ""Conquest of the Planet of the Apes"" (1972), ""Magnum Force"" (1973), ""Starsky and Hutch"" (1975-1979), ""Charlie's Angels"" (1980-1981), ""Blade Runner"" (1982), ""Scarface"" (1983), ""Top Gun"" (1986), ""The Untouchables"" (1987), ""Rambo III"" (1988), ""Lethal Weapon 2"" (1989), ""The Hunt for Red October"" (1990), ""Days of Thunder"" (1990), ""Die Hard 2"" (1990), ""Basic Instinct"" (1992), ""Jurassic Park"" (1993), ""Demolition Man"" (1993), ""Speed"" (1994), ""L.A. Confidential"" (1997), """" (1997), ""Armageddon"" (1998) and ""Wild Wild West"""
"names. Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner adapted this novel into a 2009 award-winning feature film starring George Clooney. The film was critically acclaimed and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The book received some good reviews and initially sold well until September 11, 2001 when sales slowed to a near halt. The cover with a cartoon of flying businesspeople (presumably reminiscent of ""The Falling Man"") one of them on fire and hurtling earthward also hurt sales. Sales of the book were revived following Jason Reitman's film adaptation. Up in the Air (novel) Up in the Air is"
"to Los Angeles with Sal, while Al remains for the night, at least, with Julie. Mojave Moon Mojave Moon is a 1996 American road movie. It stars Danny Aiello, Anne Archer, Michael Biehn, Angelina Jolie and Jack Noseworthy. The film was written by Leonard Glasser and directed by Kevin Dowling. Al McCord is hanging out at his favourite restaurant when he meets an attractive young woman, Ellie, who is looking for a ride from the city into the Mojave Desert, where her mother Julie lives. Al discovers romance with the free-spirited Julie despite the nearby presence of her boyfriend Boyd,"
"Rich Little. Niven only learned of it from a newspaper report. This was his last film appearance. Niven wrote four books. The first, ""Round the Rugged Rocks"", (published simultaneously in the US under the title ""Once Over Lightly"") was a novel that appeared in 1951 and was forgotten almost at once. In 1971, he published his autobiography, ""The Moon's a Balloon"", which was well received, selling over five million copies. He followed this with ""Bring On the Empty Horses"" in 1975, a collection of entertaining reminiscences from Hollywood's ""Golden Age"" in the 1930s and '40s. It now appears that Niven"
"of each to anticipate the other's thoughts and even complete her sentences. The success of their first collaborative effort spurred them on to the next. In 1993, under the pseudonym Jillian Karr (a combination of Jill and Karen), they published Something Borrowed, Something Blue (Doubleday, Bantam Books). The novel - a story of intrigue involving four brides-to-be with secrets - was excerpted by ""Cosmopolitan Magazine"" and released as a made-for-TV movie starring Connie Sellecca, Twiggy and Ken Howard. In 1996, again writing as Jillian Karr, the writing team published ""Catch Me If You Can"" (Avon Books), a suspense novel about"
"""Stranger than Paradise"" (Jim Jarmusch, 1984), ""Blue Velvet"" (David Lynch, 1986), ""The Civil War"" (Ken Burns, 1990), ""The Crying Game"" (Neil Jordan, 1992), ""Mulholland Drive"" (David Lynch, 2001), ""Brokeback Mountain"" (Ang Lee, 2005), ""The Imitation Game"" (Morten Tyldum, 2014), ""Sully"" (Clint Eastwood, 2016), ""Moonlight"" (Barry Jenkins, 2016), and ""Lady Bird"" (Greta Gerwig, 2017). Since 1995 a special medallion has also been presented annually, usually to a non-filmmaker who has had a major impact on American or international film culture. Past recipients include Milos Stehlik (founder of Facets Multi-Media), HBO, the French film magazine ""Positif"", Ted Turner, and Janus Films. Each"
"film of the same name in 1994, which was marred by the tragic death of its star, Brandon Lee, during filming. The film went on to spawn three sequels and a television series. After the success of ""The Crow"" film, O'Barr began planning a post-apocalyptic graphic novel series entitled ""Gothik"". The series was based on ""The Wizard of Oz"" and featured ""Jonny Z"" from his short story ""Frame 137"" as the main character. In January 2013 Motionworks Entertainment released O'Barr's western comic, ""Sundown"", which served as their debut motion comic. for iPhone and iPad. He also announced his work on"
"Lamar's car. Lamar calls out to the police that Kyle has a gun, and they open fire, killing Kyle. A distraught Rachel runs over to Kyle as he lies dying. She picks up the .38 and kills Lamar. The film was shot in DeLuxe color on location in Florida, using Panavision equipment, in the locations of Bartow, Lakeland and Tampa. ""China Moon"" has a 40% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The following songs are used in the film: China Moon China Moon is a 1994 American neo-noir film directed by John Bailey and starring Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe and Benicio"
"Carole Lombard in the leading roles. The Moon's Our Home The Moon's Our Home is a 1936 American comedy film directed by William A. Seiter. A comedy about marriage and everything relating to it. New York novelist Henry Fonda meets up with an actress, Margaret Sullavan, and the two date and later marry, though neither knows of the other's fame. The real adventure begins on the honeymoon, when this screwball comedy really heats up with insults and arguments. The film recorded a loss of $111,845. The Moon's Our Home was produced as part of the Lux Radio Theater on February"
"project was planned to be part of Travolta's vision to make films out of L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction novels. Hubbard's novel ""Battlefield Earth"" was first on his list, and Travolta starred in and helped fund the film version of the book which was released in 2000. A film version of ""To the Stars"" had not yet begun production as of 2008. The jazz musician Chick Corea released a CD of the same name with music inspired by the story in 2004, and Galaxy Press reissued a hardcover edition of Hubbard's novel the same year as a form of cross"