Word: backdraft
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...Redford and Clint Eastwood have dominated movies for a quarter-century, but their latest pictures have played in empty theaters. Robert De Niro, the most admired actor in films, went a decade after The Deer Hunter (1978) without a hit. Then he appeared in three commercial successes: GoodFellas, Awakenings, Backdraft. When Bruce Willis flexed his pecs through two Die Hard melodramas and gave voice to the Look Who's Talking hits, he had to be hot; each pair of films grossed close to $200 million. Then he fell off the table with The Bonfire of the Vanities, Mortal Thoughts...
...represents, in the words of coordinator Dennis Muren, "the beginning of a new period of filmmaking." The San Rafael, Calif., firm, which director George Lucas founded in 1975 to design the special effects for his Star Wars, has crafted dazzling sequences for dozens of movies, including current releases like Backdraft, The Rocketeer and Hudson Hawk. But its work for Terminator 2 sets new standards...
...galloped to a $70 million gross; Total Recall, the first brawnbuster released last June, beat out its beefy competition. So an early start is helpful. This Memorial Day weekend, Hudson Hawk, with Bruce Willis as a reformed thief forced to commit one last heist, will try to shoulder out Backdraft, director Ron Howard's fireman-buddy epic starring Kurt Russell and Robert De Niro. Maybe those two films will duke it out all summer. Or maybe they will cream each other and leave space for late May's gal-buddy movie, Thelma and Louise, with Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis...