"west conducted arbitration through the scripts that had been written since Barry Levinson developed the film at Warner Bros. in 1987. Lewis Colick, James Toback and Tom Epperson disassociated themselves for credit by the WGA. The Guild justified credit to Lewis Colick, who wrote the first draft of ""The Bobby Darin Story"" in 1987, and Kevin Spacey. Actor-writer Jeffrey Meek believed he should have deserved credit; he was paid $85,000 of a promised $125,000 to settle his claim to have performed writing services. Spacey said Meek was ""not a hired writer"" on ""Beyond the Sea"". ""He turned in a draft,"
"using his own singing voice for the musical numbers. The film covers much of Darin's life and career, including his marriage to Sandra Dee, portrayed by Kate Bosworth. With the consent of the Darin estate and former Darin manager Steve Blauner, ""Beyond the Sea"" opened at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival. Although Dodd Darin, Sandra Dee, and Blauner responded enthusiastically to Spacey's work and the film was strongly promoted by the studio, ""Beyond the Sea"" received mixed-to-poor reviews upon wide release, and box office results were disappointing. Spacey, however, was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor—Motion"
"Darin ever was as a singer."" Stephen Holden of ""The New York Times"" felt that ""with ""Beyond the Sea"", Spacey crawls back from his doomed quest to be a Tom Hanks-like everyman to his niche on the underbelly of Hollywood's pantheon. The movie's a mess, and at 45, Spacey is far too old to play Darin. Yet the star captures his desperation, his braggadocio, and yes, his magnetism."" Peter Travers, writing in ""Rolling Stone"" magazine, believed Spacey could not prevent ""the movie from groaning under the weight of biopic clichés. But the actor forges a bond with his subject that"
"""Beyond the Sea"" (starring Kevin Spacey as Darin and Kate Bosworth as Dee). Initially, Lollobrigida was reluctant because she was not enthusiastic about returning to Italy, where the film was shot. In an interview, she mentioned accepting the role because it allowed her to work with Hudson. Furthermore, she explained: ""It's a comedy that can only be made in Italy."" Bobby Darin sings ""Multiplication"" and composed the ""Come September"" theme. On Rotten Tomatoes, ""Come September"" has an 80% score based on five critic reviews. There are three Indian remakes of ""Come September"". Two are in Hindi: ""Kashmir Ki Kali"" (1964)"
"direct a film based on the life of Darin, and he began pre-production on the project in early 1997. When he eventually vacated the director's position, Spacey, along with Darin's son Dodd, acquired the film rights. ""Beyond the Sea"" was released in December 2004 to mixed reviews from critics and bombed at the box office. Dodd Darin, Sandra Dee and former Darin manager Steve Blauner responded with enthusiastic feedback to Spacey's work on the film. Despite a number of negative reviews, some critics praised Spacey's performance, largely due to his decision to use his own singing voice. He received a"
"show, complete with a gospel choir, at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, and against all odds it is a huge success. But his triumph is short-lived. Suffering from blood poisoning following surgery to repair his mechanical heart valve, Darin is rushed to the hospital, where he dies at the age of thirty-seven. Following his death, he meets the younger counterpart of himself once again, and the two duet with ""As Long As I'm Singing."" Cathy Moriarty-Gentile and Vanessa Redgrave were originally cast in ""Beyond the Sea"", but both actresses dropped out for unspecified reasons. Beginning in 1986, Barry Levinson"
"one of the twentieth century's greatest entertainers. Fans paid for the star. Darin also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On December 13, 2009, at its 2010 Grammy Awards ceremony, the Recording Academy awarded Darin a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1986, director Barry Levinson intended to direct a film based on Darin's life, and had begun preproduction on the project by early 1997. He abandoned the project, the rights to which were subsequently bought by actor Kevin Spacey, along with Darin's son, Dodd. The resultant biopic, ""Beyond the Sea"", starred Spacey as Darin, with the actor"
"in films like ""Pay It Forward"", ""K-PAX"" and ""The Shipping News"". The actor was criticized for his career move; Spacey acknowledged the similarities when Darin integrated into folk music and protest songs. In February 2003, it was announced that production for ""Beyond the Sea"" was becoming fast tracked with Spacey as lead actor, co-writer, producer and director, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) agreed to cover distribution duties in North America. The following August, with principal photography to begin in just weeks, MGM dropped out as distributor and main financier over scheduling conflicts. To accumulate financing of the film's $25 million budget, which"
"1986. Shortly afterwards, Spacey was in discussions with Dodd Darin to star in the lead role. Spacey was able to acquire the film rights from Warner Bros. in early 2000. With the help of Dodd Darin, the actor also received exclusive music rights for no charge. With his Academy Award-winning performance in ""American Beauty"" (1999), Paramount Pictures became interested in distributing/financing ""Beyond the Sea"". The deal fell apart when Paramount told Spacey was that he was too old for the role and instead wanted Leonardo DiCaprio. Beginning in October 2000, Spacey took vocal training lessons from Darin collaborator Roger Kellaway"
"Kevin Spacey Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, producer and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the 1990s that culminated in his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the neo-noir crime thriller ""The Usual Suspects"" (1995) and an Academy Award for Best Actor for the midlife crisis-themed drama ""American Beauty"" (1999). His other starring roles have included the comedy-drama film ""Swimming with Sharks"" (1994), the psychological thriller ""Seven"" (1995), the neo-noir crime film ""L.A."
"Jimmy Scalia Jimmy Scalia (born 1960) is a record producer, the official archivist for the singer Bobby Darin's estate, a disc jockey, writer, and documentarian of American popular and rock music. He currently serves as an adviser and consultant to Darin's former manager Stephen Blauner and ""The Bobby Darin Estate"", as well as to Joel Dorn, Buddy Greco and publicist Harriet Wasser. He was the archivist for Kevin Spacey's film, ""Beyond the Sea"", and provided major footage for the film. Scalia was the writer, producer, and disc jockey for the syndicated 30-show radio series entitled ""The Magic of Bobby Darin""."
"their own there."" ""Beyond the Sea"" received mixed reviews from critics. Based on 147 reviews collected by ""Rotten Tomatoes"", 42% of the critics gave the film a positive review, with an average score of 5.2/10. ""Metacritic"" calculated a weighted average score of 46/100, based on 35 reviews. Sandra Dee, Dodd Darin, Jimmy Scalia and Steve Blauner responded enthusiastically to Spacey's work on the film. Mick LaSalle of the ""San Francisco Chronicle"" felt Spacey looked too old to portray Darin convincingly and called the film ""one of the most embarrassing spectacles of 2004"" and ""jaw-droppingly awful, a misbegotten and ill-conceived vanity"
"1996. Since 1997, Fantl has worked as a producer and entrepreneur who specializes in realizing Hollywood movies in Europe, e.g. ""eXtreme Ops"", and the musical-drama ""Beyond the Sea"", starring Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman and Bob Hoskins. The story mainly takes place in the United States, but the movie was shot almost entirely in Germany at Filmstudios Babelsberg and in Berlin. Fantl also co-produced ""The Musketeer"" and ""A Sound of Thunder"". Since 2008, he lived and worked from Prague and since 2011 in London. 1. ""Martial Arts X-treme"" (2006) TV series (producer) 2. Tristan + Isolde (2006), Kevin Reynolds,"
"played Hoss in Sam Shepard's ""The Tooth of Crime"", and the title role in Shakespeare's ""Coriolanus"", both directed by Keith Fowler. He has studied acting with Ivanna Chubbuck and Cameron Thor. He has also been writing for most of his 30-year career. He co-wrote the Bobby Darin biographical film ""Beyond the Sea"", starring Kevin Spacey and Kate Bosworth. During Meek's time in New York, he fronted a rock band, ""Crime"" which included Jaco Pastorius, Derf Scratch of the band Fear and John Densmore, the drummer of The Doors. He is an accomplished athlete. In addition to playing basketball and golf,"
"Captain Beyond Captain Beyond is an American/British rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1971. The original line-up for Captain Beyond were singer Rod Evans (ex-Deep Purple), drummer Bobby Caldwell (ex-Johnny Winter), guitarist Larry ""Rhino"" Reinhardt (ex-Iron Butterfly), and bassist Lee Dorman (ex-Iron Butterfly), as well as keyboardist Lewie Gold. Gold left due to personal reasons before the first album was recorded. The remaining line-up recorded the self-titled debut album, released in 1972. Following this album Caldwell left the band to join Derringer and was replaced by drummer Brian Glascock. Also joining the band around this time were Reese"
"a gay man."" His decision to come out via his statement was criticized by prominent members of the gay community, including Billy Eichner, George Takei, and Wanda Sykes, as an attempt to change the subject and shift focus from Rapp's accusation, for using his own drunkenness as an excuse for making sexual advances to a minor, and for implying a connection between being gay and sexually assaulting a minor. Kevin Spacey Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, producer and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles"
"""The Shipping News"", was hired to write a new draft for ""Beyond the Sea"". Epperson's script included Darin's penchant for orgies after his divorce with Sandra Dee. Spacey, finding the Epperson script to be overtly dark and morbid, began to rewrite ""Beyond the Sea"", incorporating info from the 1987 Lewis Colick script. Spacey acknowledged he portrayed Darin in an exaggeratedly sympathetic way, and decided not to centrally depict the darker side of Darin's life. ""The other scripts made Bobby [Darin] a rather unlikable figure,"" he explained. ""I was not interested in making a conventional biopic, as you can see from"
"appeared in several tribute concerts around the time of the film's release. He received mostly positive reviews for his singing, as well as a Golden Globe nomination for his performance. However, reviewers criticized the age disparity between Spacey and Darin, noting that Spacey was too old to convincingly portray Darin, particularly during the early stages of the singer's life depicted in the film. Spacey hosted ""Saturday Night Live"" twice: first in 1997 with musical guest Beck and special guests Michael Palin and John Cleese from ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"" and again in May 2006 with musical guest Nelly Furtado. In"
"Bobby Darin Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor in film and television. He performed jazz, pop, rock and roll, folk, swing, and country music. He started his career as a songwriter for Connie Francis. He recorded his first million-selling single, ""Splish Splash"", in 1958. This was followed by ""Dream Lover"", ""Mack the Knife"", and ""Beyond the Sea"", which brought him worldwide fame. In 1962 he won a Golden Globe Award for his first film, ""Come September"", co-starring his first wife, Sandra Dee. During the 1960s,"
"came from foreign production companies, Spacey performed six songs at the November 2003 American Film Market. Lions Gate Entertainment quickly picked up the distribution duties and Spacey found enough investors from England and Germany to continue to move forward on production. In addition, Spacey declined to be paid for his work as actor, director, co-writer and producer on ""Beyond the Sea"". A portion of the $25 million budget came from his own Trigger Street Productions. Producer Arthur Friedman, who had shepherded the biopic since 1987, commented that he and Spacey experienced creative differences during pre-production. Friedman remarked that he was"
"Beyond the Sea (song) ""Beyond the Sea"" is a 1945 contemporary pop romantic love song by Jack Lawrence, with music taken from the song ""La Mer"" by Charles Trenet. Trenet had composed ""La Mer"" (which means ""the Sea"") with French lyrics. It had some differences to the English-language version that Lawrence later wrote. Trenet's French version was a homage and ode to the changing moods of the sea, while Lawrence, by just adding one word ""Beyond"" to the title, gave him the start whereby he made the song into a love song. It has been recorded by many artists, but"
"Bobby Darin's version released in late 1959 is the best known by many, reaching No. 6 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, No. 15 on the US R&B Chart, and No. 8 in the UK Singles Chart. in early 1960. Before Bobby Darin's, two recordings reached the Top 40 of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. Benny Goodman's version charted in 1948, and was featured in the Cary Grant/Betsy Drake romantic comedy ""Every Girl Should Be Married"". Roger Williams' recording reached No. 37 in 1955. Deana Martin recorded ""Beyond the Sea"" in 2013. The song was released on her album, ""Destination Moon"", in"
"Sissy Spacek Mary Elizabeth ""Sissy"" Spacek (; born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of various accolades including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, two Critics' Choice Movie Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and nominations for four BAFTA Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award. Born and raised in Texas, Spacek initially aspired a career as a singer. In 1968, using the name ""Rainbo,"" she recorded a single, ""John, You've Gone Too Far This Time. Sales of her music sputtered, however, and she was dropped from her record label. She"
"Instrumental versions were done by Ray Conniff His Orchestra and Chorus, Le Grand Orchestre de Paul Mauriat, Richard Clayderman, Django Reinhardt. English lyrics, unrelated to the French lyrics, were later written by Jack Lawrence and entitled ""Beyond the Sea"". The English version has been recorded by many artists, including Benny Goodman, Mantovani, Roger Williams and Gisele MacKenzie, but Bobby Darin's version released in 1959 is the best known by many, reaching #6 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The song reached the top 40 twice prior to the Darin version (Goodman's version in 1948, Williams's in 1955). More recent versions include"
"Beyond the Stars Beyond the Stars is a 1989 American drama film written and directed by David Saperstein and starred Martin Sheen, Christian Slater, Sharon Stone, Olivia d'Abo, and F. Murray Abraham. This science fiction drama centers on Eric, teenage son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo program which sent the first humans to the moon. Eric, determined to become an astronaut himself one day, befriends Paul Andrews, the thirteenth man on the moon. Paul is avoided by other astronauts nowadays because he was very rude and rebuffing when he returned from space. Eric slowly learns that"
"joined briefly by guitarist Steve Petrey. Captain Beyond once again disbanded in 2003 when lead guitarist Larry Reinhardt developed cancer. Following treatment, Reinhardt continued to perform music until late 2011, when he again fell ill. He died on January 2, 2012. Bassist Lee Dorman died on December 21, 2012. Rod Evans has stayed reclusive from performing, partly due to legal troubles from his original Deep Purple bandmates, and his current residence is still unknown. Caldwell resurrected the band in 2013, with a lineup consisting of Don Bonzi, Jeff ""Boday"" Christensen, and Jamie Holka, bassist Allen Carmen, and guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Simon Lind."
"In 2015 Carmen and Christensen departed the band and Artabasy returned as bassist. The reformed group began touring in 2015. Captain Beyond Captain Beyond is an American/British rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1971. The original line-up for Captain Beyond were singer Rod Evans (ex-Deep Purple), drummer Bobby Caldwell (ex-Johnny Winter), guitarist Larry ""Rhino"" Reinhardt (ex-Iron Butterfly), and bassist Lee Dorman (ex-Iron Butterfly), as well as keyboardist Lewie Gold. Gold left due to personal reasons before the first album was recorded. The remaining line-up recorded the self-titled debut album, released in 1972. Following this album Caldwell left the"
"Fisher, Perry Como, and Patti Page, who had dominated the first half of the decade, found their access to the pop charts significantly curtailed by the decade's end. However, new Pop vocalists continued to rise to prominence throughout the decade, many of whom started out singing Rock 'n' Roll. These include: Pat Boone (""Don't Forbid Me,"" ""April Love,"" ""Love Letters in the Sand""), Connie Francis (""Who's Sorry Now,"" ""Among My Souvenirs,"" ""My Happiness""), Gogi Grant (""Suddenly There's a Valley,"" ""The Wayward Wind""), Bobby Darin (""Dream Lover,"" ""Beyond the Sea,"" ""Mack the Knife""), and Andy Williams (""Canadian Sunset,"" ""Butterfly,"" ""Hawaiian Wedding"
"the Sand""), Anita Bryant (""Till There Was You"", ""Paper Roses""), Connie Francis (""Who’s Sorry Now"", ""Among My Souvenirs"", ""My Happiness""), Gogi Grant (""Suddenly There’s a Valley"", ""The Wayward Wind""), Bobby Darin (""Dream Lover"", ""Beyond the Sea"", ""Mack the Knife""), and Andy Williams (""Canadian Sunset"", ""Butterfly"", ""Hawaiian Wedding Song""). Even Rock ‘n’ Roll icon Elvis Presley spent the rest of his career alternating between Pop and Rock (""Love Me Tender"", ""Loving You"", ""I Love You Because""). Pop would resurface on the charts in the mid-1960s as ""Adult Contemporary"". In 1951, Little Richard Penniman began recording for RCA Records in the late-1940s"
"Wong Ka Keung Wong Ka-keung (born 13 November 1964), also known as Steve Wong, is a Hong Kong musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known as bassist for the rock band Beyond, of which his elder brother Wong Ka Kui is the lead vocalist. Wong formed a new band called Picasso Horses since the dissolution of Beyond in 2005. At the 23rd Annual Hong Kong Film Awards, Beyond won the award for ""Best Original Film Song"" (最佳電影配樂) for ""Vast Skies"" (長空), written by Steve Wong and Yip Sai Wing. He is now married to Makiko Mizuguchi from Japan and"
"Hollywood Beyond Hollywood Beyond was a British pop group from Birmingham, England. Hollywood Beyond was the brainchild of singer-songwriter Mark Rogers. Their first single, ""What's the Colour of Money"", reached #7 on the UK Singles Chart in 1986. The song also reached #8 in The Netherlands, #21 in Germany and #14 in Switzerland. The follow-up single, ""No More Tears"", peaked at #47 in the UK. An album for Hollywood Beyond entitled ""If"", followed on Warner Bros. Records in 1987, produced by Bernard Edwards, Mike Thorne and Stephen Hague. Former members include Andy Welch, Steve Elliott, Dean Loren, Mike Burns, Carol"
"Beyond the Sunset (Hank Williams song) ""Beyond the Sunset"" is a song written by Blanche Kerr Brock, Virgil P. Brock, and Albert Kennedy Rowswell. It was released as a single by Hank Williams under the pseudonym Luke the Drifter in 1950. The recitation in ""Beyond the Sunset"" was originally a poem called ""Should You Go First"" by Albert ""Rosey"" Rowswell, the voice of the Pittsburgh Pirates for more than twenty years, and later first put to the 1936 hymn ""Beyond the Sunset"" by West Virginian performer Chickie Davis. Elton Britt released a version before Williams in February 1950. Country music"
"they have two sons. Wong Ka Keung Wong Ka-keung (born 13 November 1964), also known as Steve Wong, is a Hong Kong musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known as bassist for the rock band Beyond, of which his elder brother Wong Ka Kui is the lead vocalist. Wong formed a new band called Picasso Horses since the dissolution of Beyond in 2005. At the 23rd Annual Hong Kong Film Awards, Beyond won the award for ""Best Original Film Song"" (最佳電影配樂) for ""Vast Skies"" (長空), written by Steve Wong and Yip Sai Wing. He is now married to Makiko"