Tom Hanks’ new movie Here, valued at $50 million, has been a failure at the box office, grossing only $5 million in its opening weekend.
Hanks, 68, reunited with Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis and co-star Robin Wright, 58, for the film, which covers the events of a single place of land and its inhabitants into the future.
However, unlike the acclaimed 1994 classic, Here has failed to succeed at the box office, with Oscar winner Zemeckis blaming the “stressful situation” of the film industry.
Sources said Deadline There was a shaky bet here from the beginning, saying that all “studios passed over the film at the package stage seeing that it was a risky and difficult film for wide audiences.”
Here too it was made without a national distributor.
Tom Hanks’ new movie Here, valued at $50 million, has been a failure at the box office, grossing only $5 million in its opening weekend. Pictured is the film with co-star Robin Wright.
Hanks, 68, reunited with Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis (pictured together last month) and co-star Robin Wright, 58, for the film, which covers the events of a single piece of land and its inhabitants until the future.
Zemeckis said: “I have to give all the credit to (former Miramax head) Bill Block, who had the courage and the vision to understand the movie and make it. He’s the only guy who had the conviction to do this. That was “Fantastic. Thank God he was there to do it.”
Block left Miramax in October 2023 when Here was “almost finished.” Sony then picked up the film in a distribution deal due to its relationship with Hanks on previous releases, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and A Man Called Otto.
Zemeckis added: “I think the movie business is in a stressful situation right now.”
Here it is described in IMDb as “a generational story about families and the special place they inhabit, sharing love, loss, laughter and life.”
The drama film, based on the 2014 graphic novel by Richard McGuire, also stars Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly, Michelle Dockery, Gwilym Lee and Ophelia Lovibond, among many others.
Fast forward to 1994 and Hanks, Wright, Zemeckis and Roth were riding high amid the massive success of Forrest Gump.
The acclaimed film follows the life of Forrest Gump (Hanks), a physically and mentally challenged Alabama man, as he experiences many of the most notable events of the 20th century in the US.
Along with Hanks and Wright, the main cast included the likes of Sally Field, Gary Sinisem, Mykelti Williamson, and Haley Joel Osment.
However, unlike the acclaimed 1994 classic, Here has failed to succeed at the box office, with Oscar winner Zemeckis blaming the “stressful situation” of the film industry.
30 years earlier, Forrest Gump became a cultural phenomenon while grossing $678.2 million at the global box office against a budget of $55 million.
The film directed by Zemeckis and written by Roth became a huge hit among moviegoers and critics alike, grossing $678.2 million at the worldwide box office on a budget of $55 million.
Among his many accolades were 13 Academy Award nominations, resulting in six wins, including Best Picture, Best Director for Zemeckis, and Best Actor for Hanks.
In December 2011, Forrest Gump became one of the few films selected for preservation in the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry.
The Register said the film was “honored for its technological innovations (the digital insertion of Gump seamlessly into old footage), its resonance within the culture that has elevated Gump (and what he represents in terms of American innocence) to the status as a popular hero, and his attempt to engage in a playful and serious way with controversial aspects of the traumatic history of the time.
