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Empire of the Sun was given a limited release on 11 December 1987 before being widely released on Christmas Day, 1987. The film earned $22.24 million in North America, [4] and $44.46 million in other countries, accumulating a worldwide total of $66.7 million, earning more than its budget but still considered a box office disappointment by ...
Its star, Amy Irving, who was married to director Steven Spielberg, subsequently recommended Bale for Spielberg's 1987 film Empire of the Sun. [19] At age 13, Bale was chosen from over 4,000 actors to portray a British boy in a World War II Japanese internment camp. [20]
Over his career he has received various awards including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, six Critics' Choice Movie Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Bale started his career making his film debut in Steven Spielberg's coming-of-age war epic Empire of the Sun (1987).
Empire of the Sun may refer to: Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard published in 1984; Empire of the Sun, a film adaptation of the novel Empire of the Sun; Empire of the Sun (band), an Australian electronic music duo; Empire of Japan, due to the kanji characters
Flynn was born on 13 December 1939 on Hainan Island, China, where his father was a customs officer for the Hong Kong government.After the outbreak of war and the Japanese invasion of China, his family spent several years interned in a Japanese prisoner of war camp (50 years later he would play a British prisoner in the film Empire of the Sun, set in a Japanese prison of war camp in China).
In 1986, he was cast as the anonymous main character (Marwood) in Bruce Robinson's cult film, Withnail and I. He also starred as Anton Skrebensky in Ken Russell's 1989 adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow. McGann's other early film appearances include The Monk, Dealers, Tree of Hands and the epic war film Empire of the Sun.
Best Picture: Empire of the Sun; Best Foreign Language Film (tie): Jean de Florette, France; Manon des sources (Manon of the Spring), France Best Actor: Michael Douglas - Wall Street
Ben Stiller talked about one of his first movie roles when he stopped by Late Night With Seth Meyers on Thursday. Stiller was given essentially one line in Stephen Spielberg's 1987 film Empire of ...