Meteor (film)

For the 2009 television film, see Meteor (TV miniseries).
Meteor
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRonald Neame
Screenplay byStanley Mann
Edmund H. North
Story byEdmund H. North
Produced byArnold Orgolini
Theodore R. Parvin
Run Run Shaw
Starring
CinematographyPaul Lohmann
Edited byCarl Kress
Music byLaurence Rosenthal
Production
companies
Meteor Joint Venture
Palladium Productions
Shaw Brothers[1]
Distributed byAmerican International Pictures (North America)
Warner Bros (International)
Release date
  • October 19, 1979 (1979-10-19)
Running time
107 minutes
CountriesUnited States
Hong Kong[1]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$16 million[2] or $15.4-17 million[3]
Box office$8.4 million (domestic) or $4.2 million (US rentals)[3][4]

Meteor is a 1979 American science fiction disaster film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Sean Connery and Natalie Wood. The film's premise, which follows a group of scientists struggling with Cold War politics after an asteroid is detected to be on a collision course with Earth, was inspired by a 1967 MIT report, Project Icarus.[5][6] The screenplay was written by Oscar winner Edmund H. North and Stanley Mann.

The international cast also includes Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Joseph Campanella, Richard Dysart and Henry Fonda. The film was a box-office flop and received negative reviews,[7] but it was nonetheless nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound.

  1. ^ a b Craig, Rob (15 February 2019). American International Pictures: A Comprehensive Filmography. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 255. ISBN 9781476635224. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  2. ^ Lee, Grant (May 29, 1978). "Buried Alive--in the Line of Duty". Los Angeles Times. p. f5.
  3. ^ a b Epstein, Andrew (Apr 27, 1980). "THE BIG THUDS OF 1979--FILMS THAT FLOPPED, BADLY". Los Angeles Times. p. o6.
  4. ^ Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 300. ISBN 9780835717762. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada
  5. ^ Kleiman Louis A., Project Icarus: an MIT Student Project in Systems Engineering Archived 2007-10-17 at the Wayback Machine (M.I.T. Report No. 13), Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1968; reissued 1979
  6. ^ "MIT Course precept for movie" Archived 2011-06-27 at the Wayback Machine, The Tech, MIT, October 30, 1979
  7. ^ "REVIEW: "METEOR" (1979)". www.cinemaretro.com. Retrieved August 8, 2018.