Deep Impact (film)
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Mimi Leder |
| Produced by |
David Brown Richard D. Zanuck |
| Written by |
Bruce Joel Rubin Michael Tolkin |
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| Music by | James Horner |
| Cinematography | Dietrich Lohmann |
| Edited by | Paul Cichocki David Rosenbloom |
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Production
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The Manhattan Project
Zanuck/Brown Productions |
| Distributed by |
Paramount Pictures (United States) DreamWorks Pictures (International) |
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Release date
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Running time
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121 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $80 million |
| Box office | $349.5 million |
| Deep Impact – Music from the Motion Picture | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by James Horner | ||||
| Released | May 5, 1998 | |||
| Recorded | 1997–1998 | |||
| Genre | Film score | |||
| Length | 77:12 | |||
| Label | Sony Classical | |||
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Deep Impact is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film directed by Mimi Leder, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin, and starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, and Morgan Freeman. Steven Spielberg served as an executive producer of this film. It was released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures in the United States on May 8, 1998. The film depicts the attempts to prepare for and destroy a 7-mile (11 km) wide comet set to collide with Earth and cause a mass extinction.
Notably, Deep Impact was released in the same summer as a similarly themed rival, Armageddon, which fared better at the box office, while astronomers described Deep Impact as being more scientifically accurate. Both films were similarly received by critics, with Armageddon scoring 39% and Deep Impact scoring 48% on Rotten Tomatoes. Nonetheless, Deep Impact grossed over $349 million worldwide on an $80 million production budget.
This is the final film of cinematographer Dietrich Lohmann.
On May 10, 1998, teenage amateur astronomer Leo Biederman discovers an unusual object near the stars Mizar and Alcor at a star party in Richmond, Virginia with his school's astronomy club. His teacher alerts astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf, who realizes that the object is a comet, heading for a collision course with Earth. Wolf dies in a car accident trying to alert the world.
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