The Untouchables was a slightly ahead-of-its-time example of turning a TV show into a top-tier, very serious Hollywood movie. For maximum alliteration, I’ll call the successes booms and the. I decided to focus on this topic a little more by using Box Office Mojo’s data to provide some top 25 lists. Robert De Niro hams it up as Al Capone while Sean Connery won an Oscar and cemented a post-007 commercial comeback as the film’s fictionalized “Obi-Wan Kenobi” to Costner’s Luke Skywalker. If you read my last post about the correlation between a film’s budget and its performance in the box office, you were possibly intrigued about my mentions of the biggest box office successes and failures. But from the opening Ennio Morricone theme through to the closing credits, this Kevin Costner star vehicle just rocks and rocks hard. $76.27 million in 1987/$163.65 million adjustedīrian DePalma’s and David Mamet’s kick-ass adaptation of the Robert Stack/Neville Brand TV show is almost comically fictional in terms of turning the Prohibition-era pursuit of Al Capone into a white-knuckle action spectacular. Im not saying that this 175 million box office disaster of a post-disaster film flopped like a fish, but the world wasnt the only thing pertaining to.
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(Photo by Images/Getty Images) Getty Images the lunatics behind Waterworld decided to make a movie set in a world without land that was set entirely on the ocean.
(Billy Drago), a murderous member of Al Caone's mob, in Paramount Pictures' "The Untouchables". LOS ANGELES - CIRCA 1987- Federal Treasury Agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) arrests Frank Nitti.