Word: darkman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After working in numerous British feature and TV films, Neeson moved in 1985 to Los Angeles, where he began performing in a string of indifferently received movies like The Good Mother, with Diane Keaton, and Sam Raimi's Darkman. But he never forgot the stage, and it was his dynamic performance in a '93 Broadway revival of Anna Christie that convinced Spielberg he had found his Schindler...
...whimsical comedy about future cop Whoopi Goldberg and her dinosaur partner, to a video release. Increasingly, though, the majors view DTV as an attractive alternative--a place to release franchise spin-offs, avoid $50 million marketing costs, make a bundle. Sequels to such mainstream fare as Land Before Time, Darkman, Children of the Corn and the Jim Varney Ernest series have been big DTV hits. In 1994, when Disney released The Return of Jafar, a DTV sequel to Aladdin, it expected to move about 2 million copies. Jafar sold close to 11 million, earning Disney around $100 million...
...Liam Neeson, "Schindler's List"--Forgest Schindler-sweep, "Darkman...
...took a while for Spielberg to realize he needed the 6-ft. 4-in. Irishman as his Schindler. He knew Neeson as the vengeful Darkman, as a man accused of child molesting in The Good Mother, as the one decent fellow in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives. Spielberg had even tested the actor for Schindler. Then in January the director saw Neeson play the passionate, saintly seaman in a Broadway revival of Anna Christie. And that's when he made the top of Spielberg's list. The director told himself, "I want that great actor in this movie...
...Darkman wants to be Batman. Its hero, a scientist (Liam Neeson) scarred in body and soul after being left for dead by venal thugs, is a cloaked crusader bent more on vengeance than on justice. Director Sam Raimi, whose cheapo slasher film The Evil Dead achieved cult status, mines familiar comic-book terrain with a plucky heroine (Frances McDormand), a couple of corporate villains -- one slick (Colin Friels), the other slimy (Larry Drake) -- and plenty of explosive violence that virtually reads KA-BOOM! in block letters across the screen...