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e e e e e e e e Armageddon is a 1998 American Science Fiction disaster film produced and directed by Michael B produced by Jerry bookhamer and released by Touchstone pictures the film follows a group of blue collar deep core Drillers sent by NASA to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth it stars an ensemble cast consisting of Bruce Willis with Billy Bob Thornton Liv Tyler benel Will Patton Peter Stormare Keith David and Steve busam the film was a commercial success grossing $ 5537 million worldwide against a $140 million budget and becoming the highest grossing film of 1998 and the highest grossing film to be released by Touchstone pictures the film received mixed reviews from critics a massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting space shuttle Atlantis before entering the atmosphere and bombarding New York City Boston Philadelphia IA mon Halifax and New Finland the meteors were pushed out of the asteroid belt by a collision from a rogue Comet which also dislodged a massive asteroid the size of Texas and NASA learns that the asteroid will impact Earth in 18 days potentially wiping out all life on Earth NASA devises a plan to have a deep hole drilled into the asteroid into which they will insert and detonate a nuclear bomb to destroy the asteroid they recruit Harry Stamper a third generation oil driller and owner of his own oil drilling company Harry agrees to help but on the condition that he bring in his own team to do the drilling he picks his best employees for the job chick Chapel his best friend and right-hand man geologist rockhound and Oscar choice and Drillers bear Cen Freddy Nunan Max Leonard and AJ Frost who has been dating Harry's daughter Grace despite Harry's objections over 12 days they are trained to become astronauts with astronaut Willie sharp who will pilot Freedom one of the two super shuttles to fly to the asteroid the other being the independence before leaving chick apologizes to his ex-wife for wronging her and sees his son who is unaware of his parentage grace accepts AJ's marriage proposal much to Harry's reluctant dismay she later has her father promised to return home safe with her fiance following the destruction of Shanghai by another meteor strike word of the massive asteroid becomes public to the world both shuttles take off without incident and dock with a Russian space station near to take on fuel however a leaky pipeline ignites the fuel pod on fire AJ and roscosmos cosmina Lev andropov narrowly managed to board Independence before the space station is destroyed approaching the asteroid Independence is damaged by debris and crashes killing all on board except Lev bear in ag they Embark in the shuttle armadillo to find the freedom crew which lands 26 mi from its intended Landing site when the drilling goes slower than predicted sharp reports to Mission Control that it is unlikely the team will reach the depth necessary to destroy the asteroid before Z barrier the point after which detonating The Rock will not save Earth the president of the United States decides to remotely detonate the bomb from Earth immediately which will cause total Mission failure sharp and Harry have a vicious argument but agree to diffuse the bomb and work together after Harry promises sharp that he will accomplish the mission they make progress on drilling but aist gas pocket causes the armadillo and Max to be blown into space just as Harry NASA and the world believe the mission to be a failure while another meteor destroys Paris agj and the others arrive in the second armadillo agj succeeds in drilling the hole to the required depth but a rock storm kills Gruber and damages the remote Detonator forcing someone to stay behind and manually detonate the bomb they draw straws agj is given the responsibility Harry takes him down to the asteroid surface only to disconnect AJ's air hose and force him into the shuttle's air loock Harry then tells agj that he is the son Harry never had and he would be proud to have him marry Grace using the armadillo Harry tearfully gives Grace his Blessing to Mary Ai and Grace says that she is proud to be his daughter after some difficulty Freedom takes off and just before Zur barrier Harry manages to detonate the bomb and saves the planet the astronauts land on Earth safely Ag and grace are United and chick reconciles with his ex-wife and estranged son during the credits agj and grace are married with the portraits of Harry and the others lost on the mission present in memoriam according to Bruce Joel Rubin writer of Deep Impact a production president at Disney took notes on everything the writer said during lunch about his script and initiated Armageddon as a counter film at Disney 49 writers worked on the script five of whom are credited in addition to Robert Roy po Jonathan Hensley Tony Gilroy Shane salero and JJ Abrams the writers involved included Paul atanasio Anne byerman Scott Rosenberg and roberttown originally it was Hensley's script based on Po's original that had been given the green light by Touchstone pictures then producer Jerry brookheimer hired the succession of scribes for rewrites and polishes 56 Bruce Willis was cast in the film as part of a three- picture deal he cut with the studio to compensate them for the dissolution of 1997's Broadway brawler 78 he received a significant pay cut for the picture as part of the deal nine Sean caner was originally considered for the role of Stamper but Michael Bay decided to cast a younger actor in the role after meeting oil drillers 10 filming principal photography for Armageddon began in August 27th 1997 and ended on January 29th 1998 11 filming occurred at Culver studios in Culver City California 12 in May 1998 Walt Disney Studios chairman Joe Roth expanded the film's budget by $3 million to include additional special effects scenes by dream Quest images showing an asteroid impacting Paris this additional footage Incorporated two months prior to the film's release was specifically added for the television advertising campaign to visually differentiate the film from Deep Impact which was released a few months before 13 at a budget of $140 million it was buav vista's most expensive film at the time three after filming was complete according to Home Improvement actor Richard K he stumbled upon the main asteroid set and suggested to Tim Allen that they needed to film on it according to K Allen asked then ABC executive Bob erer who then asked Michael Bay for permission Bay required waiting 6 months after the film was released the asteroid set was used as a credit roll gag seen to imitate a cave in Wilson's basement 14 music main article Armageddon the album despite a mixed critical reception the Criterion Collection a specialist film distributor of primarily art housee films that markets what it considers to be important classic and contemporary films and cinema at its finest released the director's cut of the film to DVD and Lazard disk in an essay supporting the selection of Armageddon film scholar G9 Bas singer who taught Michael Bay at West lion University states that the film is a work of art by a cuttingedge artist who is a master of movement light color and shape and also of chaos razzled Dazzle and explosion she sees it as a celebration of working men this film makes these ordinary men Noble lifting their efforts up into an epic event further she states that in the first few moments of the film all the main characters are well established saying if that isn't screenwriting I don't know what is 16 the film was also released on VH s and DVD by Touchstone home video on November 13th 1998 and would surpass pretty woman to become buav Vista Home entertainment's best-selling liveaction title 17 Armageddon then premiered on both VHS and DVD formats on February 1st 1999 in the UK it was the country's bestselling DVD release selling over 100,000 copies however this record would be surpassed by The Matrix later that year 18 the film was released on a standard edition Blu-ray in 2010 with only a few special features 19 television airing by April 2002 ABC airings of Armageddon had already received modifications due to the September 11th attacks that occurred 7 months prior the scene where the World Trade Center was hit by meteors and caught on fire was edited out because of its similarity to the attacks 20 following the 23 Columbia disaster some screen captures from the opening scene where Atlantis is destroyed were passed off as satellite images of the disaster in a hoax 21 Additionally the American cable network FX which had intended to broadcast Armageddon that evening removed the film from its schedule and aired aliens in its place Armageddon was released on July 1st 1998 in 3D 127 theaters in the United States and Canada it ranked first at the box office ahead of Dr dittle with an opening weekend gross of $36 million combined with 54.2 $ million from its first 5 days 23 upon opening the film had the third highest Fourth of July opening weekend at the time behind Men In Black in Independence Day 24 the film was dethrown by Lethal Weapon 4 in its second weekend although it collected a total of $23.5 million 25 in Late July 1998 it surpassed its Rival deep impact to become the highest grossing domestic release of the Year 26 the film grossed $21.6 million in the United States and Canada and $352.00 million in other territories for a worldwide total of 5537 million to it was the highest grossing film of 1998 worldwide and the second highest grossing film of that year in the United States finishing just behind Saving Private Ryan critical response Armageddon received mostly mixed reviews from film critics many of whom took issue with the Furious pace of its editing 7 on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the film has a 43% approval rating based on 176 reviews with an average rating of five threaten the critical consensus States lovely to look at but about as intelligent as the asteroid that serves as the movie's antagonist Armageddon slickly sums up the Cinematic legacies of producer Jerry brookheimer and director Michael Bay 28 Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 42 out of 100 based on 2 3 critics indicating mixed or average reviews audiences pulled by cinemascore gave the film an average grade of on an A plus to f scale 29 the film is on the list of Roger Ebert's most hated films 30 in his original review Ebert stated the movie is an assault on the eyes the ears the brain common sense and the human desire to be entertained on cisal and Ebert Ebert gave it a thumbs down however his co-host Jean csll gave it a thumbs up commenting on the noise and intensity of the film but also stating that he found the film to be amusing Ebert went on to name Armageddon as the worst film of 1998 though he was originally considering Spice World 31 Todd McCarthy of variety also gave the film a negative review noting Michael Ba's rapid cutting style much of the confusion as well as the lack of dramatic Rhythm or character development results directly from Ba's cutting style which resembles a machine gun stuck in the fire ing position for 212 hours 27 in April 2013 in a Miami Herald interview to promote Pain and Gain ba was quoted as having said we had to do the whole movie in 16 weeks it was a massive undertaking that was not fair to the movie I would redo the entire third act if I could but the studio literally took the movie away from us it was terrible my visual effects supervisor had a nervous breakdown so I had to be in charge of that that I called James Cameron and asked what do you do when you're doing all the effects yourself but the movie did fine 32 sometime after the article was published ba changed his stance claiming that his apology only related to the editing of the film not the whole film 33 and accused the writer of the article for taking his words out of context the author of the article Miami Herald writer Renee Rodriguez claimed NBC asked me for a response and I played them the tape I didn't misquote anyone all the sites that picked up the story did 34 scientific accuracy see also asteroid deflection in an interview with Entertainment Weekly ba admitted that the film's central premise that NASA could actually do something in a situation like this was unrealistic Additionally the largest known potentially hazardous asteroid fa is 53319 1999 jam8 which is only 7 km 4.3 mil in diameter 35 while the asteroid in the movie is described as being the size of Texas near the end of the credits there is a disclaimer stating the National Aeronautics and Space administration's cooperation and assistance does not reflect an endorsement of the contents of the film or the treatment of the characters depicted therein 36 astronomers would subsequently note that Deep Impact was more scientifically accurate 3D 738 the infeasibility of the hbomb approach was published by four postgraduate physics students in 2011 and 139 and then reported by The Daily Telegraph in 2012 a mathematical analysis of the situation found that for Willis's approach to be effective he would need to be in possession of an hbomb a billion times stronger than the Soviet unions big Ivan the biggest ever detonated on Earth using estimates of the asteroids size density speed and distance from Earth based on information in the film The postgraduate student from Lester University found that to split the asteroid in two with both pieces clearing Earth would require 800 trillion ter of energy in contrast the total energy output of big Ivan which was tested by the Soviet Union in 1961 was only 418 in inals 40 or 41 in the commentary track Ben AOL says he asked Michael why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers and he told me to shut the up so that was the end of that talk 42 Neil degrass Tyson said on the October 2nd 2023 episode of The Late Show with Steven Colbert that until the release of the 2022 film moonfall Armageddon was the movie which violated more laws of physics per minute than any other movie ever bosami has appeared in independent and mainstream films including living in Oblivion 1995 Desperado 1995 Conair 1997 Armageddon 1998 Monsters Inc 2001 Ghost World 2001 Big Fish 2003 the boss baby 2017 and the death of Stalin 2017 bsame has often starred in Coen Brothers films such as Miller's Crossing 1990 Fargo 1996 and the big laosi 1998 he has also appeared in supporting Oro roles in many films with Adam Sandler including AirHeads 1994 Billy Madison 1995 The Wedding Singer 1998 Mr Deeds 22 and huie Halloween 2020 busam has also had an extensive career in television notably starring in the lead role of Enoch Nucky Thompson in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire 2010 2014 his performance earned him two Screen Actors Guild Awards a Golden Globe and two nominations for a prime time Emmy Award his other television roles include Lonesome Dove 1989 The Sopranos 24 26 30 Rock 7 2013 Horus and Pete 2016 and miracle workers 2019 2023 bsame has directed films such as trees Lounge 1996 animal Factory 2000 and interview 2007 Steven Vincent busam 5 was born on December 13th 1957 six in the burough of Brooklyn in New York City to Dorothy nay Wilson and John busam 57 his father was a sanitation worker and served in the Korean War and his mother was a hostess said Howard Johnson's bame's paternal ancestors were from the town of meni in Sicily Italy and his mother is of English and Dutch ancestry 89 he has three brothers John Ken and Michael Michael is also an actor whose most notable role to date was as officer Jimmy in Black Clansman 2018 busam was raised Catholic nine when busam was 10 years old the family moved from East New York to Valley Stream in Nassau County 10 basami graduated in 1975 from Valley Stream Central High School along with future writer Edward J renan Jr and future actress Patricia charbono in high school busam wrestled for the Varsity squad and participated in the drama troop Bam's 1996 film trees Lounge in which he starred and served as screenwriter and director is set in and was largely shot in his childhood Village of Valley Stream 11 busam briefly attended Nassau Community College before moving to Manhattan to enroll in the Lee Strasburg Institute before making his film debut busam was a regular live performer at the pyramid cocktail lounge and other downtown no way venues for many years performing comic skits with Mark Boon Jr in 1988 they presented as a duo called busam and Boon an evening of original black comedy at la mama experimental theater club that they called in your mind with one extended playlet titled two Americans in Paris two Americans in Paris was said in Paris in the 19 60s and portrayed manipulative confrontations between two young American men in a beastro 12 prominent solo performances were given in John jeron's Chang in a void Moon series as well as appearing in an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Titus andronicus 1990 1998 rise to prominence busam in 1996 in 1990 he played mink leroi and the Coen Brothers neo- Noir gangster felm Miller Crossing starring opposite Gabriel Bayan G Harden and John Truro 17 this was the first of five of the Coen Brothers films in which bsame performed critic Roger Ebert described the film as one that is likely to be most appreciated by movie lovers who will enjoy its resonance with films of the past 18 also that year he starred as test tube a henchman of Lawrence fishburn's character Jimmy jump and able ferrara's crime film King of New York 19 as well as Edward in the Anthology film Tales from the Dark Side the movie The protagon of the lot 249 in segment of the film 20 in 1991 he played a Bellboy chat in the Coen Brothers film black comedy Barton Fink starring John Tero and John Goodman 21 his first lead role was as ad Doo Rolo in Alexander rockwells in the soup 1992 22 he gained wider attention for his supporting part as pseudonymous criminal Mr Pink in Quenton Tarantino's crime film Reservoir Dogs 1992 23 a role that Tarantino originally wrote for himself 17 and one that earned busam the independent Spirit Award for best supporting male in his second nomination 24 also in 1992 he had a guest role as Phil hickle Ellen's father and older Pete's guidance counselor in The Adventures of Pete and Pete 25 the following year he starred as the aonomus character in the horror comedy film Ed and his dead mother 1993 26 throughout the late W 990s busam appeared in several films by the Coen Brothers Joel and Ethan he also appeared in a cameo appearance in Tarantino's next film Pulp Fiction where he portrays a waiter dressed as Buddy Holly who serves Mia Wallace and Vincent via 27 he endeared himself to Comedy fans as Rex Bas player of the Lone Rangers in the 1994 comedy Airheads in 1995 bsame guest starred a suspected murderer Gordon Pratt in endgame an episode of the television series homicide life on the street busam was rumored to be considered for the role of the Scarecrow in Joel Schumacher's proposed fifth installment of the first Batman franchise Batman Unchained before Warner Bros cancelled the project 28 in 1995 he also starred alongside Tarantino and Antonio bandros in Desperado the next year basami again collaborated with the Coen Brothers starring his kidnapper Carl schalter in the black comedy crime film Fargo starring Francis McDormand and William H Macy 29 the film was a critical and Commercial Success debuting at the 1996 can's Film Festival where it competed for the pomidor subsequently he gained a reputation as character actor 30 with supporting roles in Blockbuster action films as Garland green and Simon West's Con Air 1997 and rockhound and Michael Bay's Armageddon 1998 basame also appeared as Donnie in the coen's cult classic black comedy film The Big laosi 1998 starring Jeff Bridges and John Goodman 31 also in 1998 he played a supporting role in the romantic comedy The Wedding Singer starring Adam Sandler and Drew baramore during this time he also made his directing debut the episode Finnegan's wake 1998 of the NBC drama homicide life on the street from 1999 to 2001 he also directed Two episodes of HBO prison drama Oz 19992 2009 The Sopranos in 1999 he acted a alongside Adam Sandler in The Comedy Big Daddy 1999 going into the 2000s busam continued to co-star in supporting roles he played Seymour in the black Comedy Ghost World 2001 opposite Scarlet Johansson and Thora Burch the film received critical Acclaim with critic Roger Ebert declaring the busam role is one he's been pointing toward during his entire career 32 busam received numerous nominations for his performance including for the Golden Globe Award for best supporting actor Motion Picture in 2001 he voiced Randall bogs in the Disney Pixar animated film Monsters Inc 2001 the film was a critical and financial success and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for best animated feature he also extensively performed voiceover work for animated films reprising the role of Randall in its prequel Monsters University 2013 Mr Wesley and Home on the Range 24 NE cracker in Monster House 26 and Templeton the rat and Shar web 333d 435 during this time he also took the supporting role as Romero in the children's action adventure film Spy Kids 2 the island of Lost Dreams 2002 as well as its sequel Spy Kids 3D game Over 293 busam at the 29 Tribeca film festival in 2004 busam joined the cast of The acclaimed HBO crime television series The Sopranos as Tony Soprano's cousin and childhood friend Tony blundetto a role that earned him an Emmy Award nomination 36 busam had previously contributed to the show as director of the third season episode Pine Barons which was one of the most critically acclaimed episodes of the series and the fourth season episode Everybody Hurts 37 he appeared in episode 3 of season 6 as a Dorman in the afterlife which is portrayed as a country club in Tony Soprano's dream he also directed the episodes in Camelot the seventh episode of season 5 and miss Mr and Mrs John sacrimony request the fifth episode of season 6 busam appeared in the music video for Joe strummer's cover version of Bob Marley's Redemption Song 38 during this time busam acted in several comedy films often starring Adam Sandler in films such as Mr Deeds 22 I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry 27 grown-ups 2010 and opposite Chris Rock I Think I Love My Wife 2007 he also starred in numerous critically acclaimed independent drama films such as the Tim Burton fantasy drama Big Fish 23 the Jim jarmush film coffee and cigarettes 2003 the John Truro romantic drama romance and cigarettes 2005 the Anthology film Paris JM 2006 the war drama the messenger 2009 and the romantic comedy Youth in Revolt 2009 he also directed The Comedy drama film's Lonesome gym 2005 and interview 27 while also serving as an executive producer for the film St John of Las Vegas 29 during this time he continued to voice roles in films such as Monster House 2006 eigor 2008 gForce 29 and Hotel Transylvania 2012 2010 2015 Boardwalk Empire busam continued directing for television including for the Showtime series Nurse Jackie 29 2011 starring Eddie Falco the NBC sitcom 30 Rock 29 2011 starring Tina Fay and Alec Baldwin and Portlandia from 14 to 2015 he also directed 27 episodes of his web series park bench with Steve busam from 2014 to 2015 busam starred in the HBO drama series Boardwalk Empire created by Terrence winter the series started in 20110 where busam assumed the role as Enoch Nucky Thompson based on Enoch l Johnson a corrupt Atlantic City politician who rules the town during the prohibition Era bame's Performance garnered him a Golden Globe award for best actor television series drama 39 he later received two more nominations for his work on the same show 441 and 42 in 2011 he hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live 43 and 44 busam had a recurring role as Lenny wnc in the NBC sitcom 30 Rock from 27 to 2013 during this time he appeared as a guest star in numerous shows such as the if sketch series Portlandia 2014 2017 The Comedy Central sketch series inside a Schumer 2016 the Netflix comedy series unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt 2016 and The Comedy Central Comedy series Broad City 2017 he also acted alongside Adam Sandler in the animated film Hotel Transylvania 2 and the ridiculous 6 both in 2015 he hosts directs and produces his own web series talk show park bench with Steve busam which debuted in May 2014 45 busam won the prime time Emmy Award for outstanding short form variety series for the series in 2016 in January 2016 busam began co-starring alongside Louis CK and alen Alda in cks acclaimed comedy drama web series Horus and Pete 46 in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter busam was the first actor to sign on to the project with Boardwalk Empire over he was available to star in the series The Two reportedly met up in New York City where CK pitched the still evolving series idea to busam signed on on the spot to play CK as brother Pete 47 2016 present in 2016 busam acted in the political drama Norman the moderate rise and tragic fall of a New York fixer starring Richard jir the film premiered at the teleride film festival the following year he starred as Dell Montgomery in the British Coming of Age drama lean on Pete 2017 directed by Andrew hag the film premiered at the 74th Venice International Film Festival the performance earned him a beefa award for best supporting actor in 2017 basame starred in Armando yui's dark comedy and satirical film The Death of Stalin busam portrayed Nikita kusf he received critical Acclaim from critics with Mana dargas describing his performance as superb 48 the role earned him a beefa award for best supporting actor nomination during this time busam continued taking roles in comedy films such as the week of 2018 the dead don't die 2019 the king of state and Island 2020 and huie Halloween 2020 as well as voicing roles in the boss baby 2017 Transformers the last night 2017 Hotel Transylvania 3 summer vacation 2018 and Hotel Transylvania transformania 2022 in February 2020 busam was cast as chken in a New York Theater Workshop Revival of Anton Czech hov's Three Sisters alongside Greta jerg Oscar Isaac and Chris Messa the production was supposed to begin May 13th but was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic with no return date set Armageddon is a 1998 American Science Fiction disaster film produced and directed by Michael Bay produced by Jerry Brooker and released by Touchstone pictures the film follows a group of blue collar deep core Drillers sent by NASA to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth it stars an ensemble cast consisting of Bruce Willis with Billy Bob thorn Liv Tyler benel Will Patton Peter stor Keith David and Steve busam the film was a commercial success grossing $ 5537 million worldwide against a $140 million budget and becoming the highest grossing film of 1998 and the highest grossing film to be released by Touchstone pictures the film received mixed reviews from critics a massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting space shuttle Atlantis before ENT entering the atmosphere and bombarding New York City Boston Philadelphia mountaint Halifax and New Finland the meteors were pushed out of the asteroid belt by a collision from a rogue Comet which also dislodged a massive asteroid the size of Texas and NASA learns that the asteroid will impact Earth in 18 days potentially wiping out all life on Earth NASA devises a plan to have a deep hole drilled into the asteroid into which they will insert and detonate a nuclear bomb to destroy the asteroid they recruit Harry Stamper a third generation oil driller and owner of his own oil drilling company Harry agrees to help but on the condition that he bring in his own team to do the drilling he picks his best employees for the job chick Chapel his best friend and right-hand man geologist rockhound and Oscar choice and Drillers bear Cen Freddy Nunan Max Leonard and AJ Frost who has been dating Harry's daughter Grace despite Harry's objections over 12 days they are trained to become astronaut with astronaut Willie sharp who will pilot Freedom one of the two super shuttles to fly to the asteroid the other being the independence before leaving chick apologizes to his ex-wife for wronging her and sees his son who is unaware of his parentage grace accepts AJ's marriage proposal much to Harry's reluctant dismay she later has her father promised to return home safe with her fiance following the destruction of Shanghai by another meteor strike word of the massive asteroid becomes public to the world World both shuttles take off without incident and dock with a Russian space station near to take on fuel however a leaky pipeline ignites the fuel pod on fire AJ and roscosmos Cosmonaut Lev andropov narrowly managed to board Independence before the space station is destroyed approaching the asteroid Independence is damaged by debris and crashes killing all on board except Lev bear in ag they Embark in the shuttle's armadillo to find the freedom crew which lands 26 mil from its intended Landing site when the drilling goes slower than predicted sharp reports to Mission Control that it is unlikely the team will reach the depth necessary to destroy the asteroid before Z barrier the point after which detonating The Rock will not save Earth the president of the United States decides to remotely detonate the bomb from Earth immediately which will cause total Mission failure sharp and Harry have a vicious argument but agree to diffuse the bomb and work together after Harry promises sharp that he will accompl the mission they make progress on drilling but a missed gas pocket causes the armadillo and Max to be blown into space just as Harry NASA and the world believe the mission to be a failure while another meteor destroys Paris agj and the others arrive in the second armadillo agj succeeds in drilling the hole to the required depth but a rock storm kills grber and damages the remote Detonator forcing someone to stay behind and manually detonate the bomb they draw straws AG is given the resp responsibility Harry takes him down to the asteroid's surface only to disconnect AJ's air hose and force him into the shuttle air loock Harry then tells agj that he is the son Harry never had and he would be proud to have him marry Grace using the armadillo Harry tearfully gives Grace his Blessing to Mary Ai and Grace says that she is proud to be his daughter after some difficulty Freedom takes off and just before Zur barrier Harry manages to detonate the bomb and saves the planet the astronauts land on Earth safely agj and grace are reunited and chick reconciles with his ex-wife and estranged son during the credits agj and grace are married with the portraits of Harry and the others lost on the mission present in memorium according to Bruce Joel Rubin writer of Deep Impact a production president at Disney took notes on everything the writer said during lunch about his script and initiated Armageddon as a counter film at Disney four nine writers worked on the script five of whom are credited in addition to Robert Roy P Jonathan Hensley Tony Gilroy Shane Salo and JJ Abrams the writers involved included Paul atanasio Anne byerman Scott Rosenberg and Robert Town originally it was Hensley's script based on pools original that had been given the green light by Touchstone pictures then producer Jerry brookheimer hired the succession of scribes for rewrites and polishes 56 Bruce Willis was cast in the film as part of a three PR picture deal he cut with the studio to compensate them for the dissolution of 1997's Broadway brawler 78 he received a significant pay cut for the picture as part of the deal nine Shan Canary was originally considered for the role of Stamper but Michael Bay decided to cast a younger actor in the role after meeting oil drillers 10 filming principal photography for Armageddon began in August 27th 1997 and ended on January 29th 1998 11 filming occurred at Culver studios in Culver City California 12 in May 1998 Walt Disney Studios chairman Joe Roth expanded the film's budget by $3 million to include additional special effects scenes by dream Quest images showing an asteroid impacting Paris this additional footage Incorporated 2 months prior to the film's release was specifically added for the television advertising campaign to visually differentiate the film from Deep Impact which was released a few months before 13 at a budget of $140 million it was buav vista's most expensive film at the time three after filming was complete according to Home Improvement actor Richard K he stumbled upon the main asteroid set and suggested to Tim Allen that they needed to film on it according to K Allan asked then ABC executive Bob erer who then asked Michael Bay for permission Bay required waiting 6 months after the film was released the asteroid set was used as a credit roll gag scen to imitate a cave in Wilson's basement 14 music main article Armageddon the album despite a mixed critical reception the Criterion Collection a specialist film distributor of primarily art housee films that markets what it considers to be important classic and contemporary films and cinema at its finest released the director's cut of the film to DVD and Lazard disk in an essay supporting the selection of Armageddon film scholar G9 Basinger who taught Michael Bay at West lion University states that the film is a work of art by a cuttingedge artist who is a master of movement light color and shape and also of chaos razzled Dazzle and explosion she sees it as a celebration of working men this film makes these ordinary men Noble lifting their efforts up into an epic event further she states that in the first few moments of the film all the main characters are well established saying if that isn't screenwriting I don't know what is 16 the film was also released on VHS and DVD by Touchstone home video on November 13th 1998 and would surpass pretty woman to become bua Vista Home entertainment's best-selling liveaction title 17 Armageddon then premiered on both VHS and DVD formats on February 1st 1999 in the UK it was the country's bestselling DVD release selling over 100,000 copies however this record would be surpassed by The Matrix later that year 18 the film was released on a standard edition Blu-ray in 2010 with only a few special features 19 television airing by April 2002 ABC airings of Armageddon had already received modifications due to the September 11th attacks that occurred 7 months prior the scene where the World Trade Center was hit by meteors and caught on fire was edited out because of its similarity to the attacks 20 following the 23 Columbia disaster some screen captures from the opening scene where Atlantis is destroyed were passed off as satellite images of the disaster and a hoax 21 Additionally the American cable network FX which had intended to broadcast Armageddon that evening removed the film from its schedule and aired aliens in its place Armageddon was released on July 1st 1998 in 3D 127 theaters in the United States and Canada it ranked first at the box office ahead of Dr dittle with an opening weekend grow of $36 million combined with $ 54.2 million from its first 5 days 23 upon opening the film had the third highest Fourth of July opening weekend at the time behind Men In Black and Independence Day 24 the film was dethrown by Lethal Weapon 4 in its second weekend although it collected a total of $23.5 million 25 in Late July 1998 it surpassed its Rival deep impact to become the highest grossing domestic release of the year 26 the film gross $21.6 million in the United States and Canada and $352.00 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $ 5537 million to it was the highest grossing film of 1998 worldwide and the second highest grossing film of that year in the United States finishing just behind Saving Private Ryan critical response Armageddon received mostly mixed reviews from film critics many of whom took issue with the Furious pace of its editing 27 on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the film has a 43% approval rating based on 176 reviews with an average rating of five threaten the critical consensus States lovely to look at but about as intelligent as the asteroid that serves as the movie's antagonist Armageddon slickly sums up the Cinematic legacies of producer Jerry brookheimer and director Michael Bay 28 Metacritic gave the film awaited average score of 42 out of 100 based on 23 critics indicating mixed or average reviews audiences ped by cinemascore gave the film an average grade of a on an A plus to f scale 29 the film is on the list of Roger Ebert's most hated films 30 in his original review Ebert stated the movie is an assault on the eyes the ears the brain common sense and the human desire to be entertained on csll and Ebert Ebert gave it a a thumbs down however his co-host Jean csll gave it a thumbs up commenting on the noise and intensity of the film but also stating that he found the film to be amusing Ebert went on to name Armageddon as the worst film of 1998 though he was originally considering Spice World 31 Todd McCarthy of variety also gave the film a negative review noting Michael Ba's rapid cutting style much of the confusion as well as the lack of dramatic Rhythm or character development results directly from Ba's cutting style which resembles a machine gun stuck in the firing position for 212 Hours 27 in April 2013 in a Miami Herald interview to promote Pain and Gain ba was quoted as having said we had to do the whole movie in 16 weeks it was a massive undertaking that was not fair to the movie I would redo the entire third act if I could but the studio literally took the movie away from us it was terrible my visual effects supervisor had a nervous breakdown so I had to be in charge of that I called James Cameron and asked what do you do when you're doing all the effects yourself but the movie did fine 32 sometime after the article was published ba changed his stance claiming that his apology only related to the editing of the film not the whole film 33 and accused the writer of the article for taking his words out of context the author of the article Miami Herald writer Renee Rodriguez claimed NBC asked me for a response and I played them the tape I didn't misquote anyone all the sites that picked up the story did 34 scientific accuracy see also asteroid deflection in an interview with Entertainment Weekly B admitted that the film's central premise that NASA could actually do something in a situation like this was unrealistic Additionally the largest known potentially hazardous asteroid fa is 5331 99 1999 jam8 which is only 7 km 4.3 mi in diameter 35 while the asteroid in the movie is described as being the size of Texas near the end of the credits there is a disclaimer stating the National Aeronautics and Space administration's cooperation and assistance does not reflect an endorsement of the contents of the film or the treatment of the characters depicted therein 36 astronomers would subsequently note that Deep Impact was more scientifically accurate 3D 738 the infeasibility of the hbomb approach was published by four postgraduate physics students in 2011 and 139 and then reported by The Daily Telegraph in 2012 a mathematical analysis of the situation found that for Willis's approach to be effective he would need to be in possession of an hbomb a billion times stronger than the Soviet unions big Ivan the biggest ever detonated on Earth using estimates of the asteroid size density speed and distance from earth based on information in the film The postgraduate students from leester University found that to split the asteroid in two with both pieces clearing Earth would require 800 trillion ter of energy in contrast the total energy output of big Ivan which was tested by the Soviet Union in 1961 was only 418 inals 40 or 41 in the commentary track Bena folk says he asked Michael why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers and he told me to shut the up so that was the end of that talk 42 Neil degrass Tyson said on the October 2nd 2023 episode of The Late Show with Steven Colbert that until the release of the 2022 film moonfall Armageddon was the movie which violated more laws of physics per minute than any other movie ever bosami has appeared in independent and mainstream films including living in Oblivion 1995 Desperado 1995 Con Air 1997 Armageddon 1998 Monsters Inc 2001 Ghost World 2001 Big Fish 2003 the boss baby 2017 and the death of Stalin 2017 bsame has often starred in Coen Brothers films such as Miller's Crossing 1990 Fargo 1996 and the big laosi 1998 he has also appeared in supporting or Cameo roles in many films with Adam Sandler including AirHeads 19 1994 Billy Madison 1995 The Wedding Singer 1998 Mr Deeds 22 and huie Halloween 2020 busam has also had an extensive career in television notably starring in the lead role of Enoch Nucky Thompson in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire 2010 2014 his performance earned him two Screen Actors Guild Awards a Golden Globe and two nominations for a prime time Emmy Award his other television roles include Lonesome Dove 19 89 The Sopranos 24 26 30 Rock 27 2013 Horus and Pete 2016 and miracle workers 2019 2023 bsame has directed films such as trees Lounge 1996 animal Factory 2000 and interview 2007 Steven Vincent busam 5 was born on December 13th 1957 six in the burrow of Brooklyn in New York City to Dorothy nay Wilson and John busam 57 his father was a San worker and served in the Korean War and his mother was a hostess at Howard Johnson's bame's paternal ancestors were from the town of meni in Sicily Italy and his mother is of English and Dutch ancestry 89 he has three brothers John Ken and Michael Michael is also an actor whose most notable role to date was as officer Jimmy in Black Clansman 2018 busam was raised Catholic nine when busam was 10 years old the family moved from East New York to to Valley Stream in Nassau County ten basami graduated in 1975 from Valley Stream Central High School along with future writer Edward J renan Jr and future actress Patricia charbono in high school busam wrestled for the Varsity squad and participated in the drama troop bame's 1996 film trees Lounge in which he starred and served as screenwriter and director is set in and was largely shot in his childhood Village of Valley Stream 11 busam briefly attended Nassau Community College before moving to Manhattan to enroll in the Lee Strasburg Institute before making his film debut busam was a regular live performer at the pyramid cocktail lounge and other downtown no way venues for many years performing comic skits with Mark Boon Jr in 1988 they presented as a duo called busam and Boon an evening of original black comedy at l Mama experimental theater club that they called in your mind with one extended playlit titled two Americans in Paris two Americans in Paris was set in Paris in the 1960s and portrayed manipulative confrontations between two young American men in a beastro 12 prominent solo performances were given in John jeron's Chang in a void Moon series as well as appearing in an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Titus andronicus 1990 1998 rise to prominence bsame in 1996 in 1990 he played mink laroi and the Coen Brothers Neo Noir gang gster felm Miller Crossing starring opposite Gabriel Bayan Marsha Gay Harden and John Truro 17 this was the first of five of the Coen Brothers films in which busam performed critic Roger ibert described the film as one that is likely to be most appreciated by movie lovers who will enjoy its resonance with films of the past 18 also that year he starred as test tube a henchman of Lawrence fishburn's character Jimmy jump and able ferrara's crime film King of New York 19 as well as Edward and the Anthology film Tales from the Dark Side the movie the protagonist of the lot 249 in segment of the film 201 1991 he played a Bellboy chat in the Coen Brothers film black comedy Barton Fink starring John Truro and John Goodman 21 his first lead role was as a doo Rollo in Alexander rockwells in the soup 1992 22 he gained wider attention for his supporting part as pseudonymous criminal Mr Pink in Quenton Tarantino's crime film res resir dogs 1992 23 a role that Tarantino originally wrote for himself 17 and one that earned busam the independent Spirit Award for best supporting male in his second nomination 24 also in 1992 he had a guest role as Phil hickle Ellen's father and older Pete's guidance counselor in The Adventures of Pete and Pete 25 the following year he starred as the aonomus character in the horror comedy film Ed and his dead mother 1993 26 throughout the late W 990s busam appeared in several films by the Coen Brothers Joel and Ethan he also appeared in a cameo appearance in Tarantino's next film Pulp Fiction where he portrays a waiter dressed as Buddy Holly who serves Mia Wallace and Vincent via 27 he endeared himself to Comedy fans as Rex base player of the Lone Rangers in the 1994 comedy Airheads in 1995 busam guest starred a suspected murderer Gordon Pratt in end game an episode of the television series homicide life on the street busam was rumored to be considered for the role of the Scarecrow in Joel Shockers proposed fifth installment of the first Batman franchise Batman Unchained before Warner Bros cancelled the project 28 in 1995 he also starred alongside Tarantino and Antonio bandros in Desperado the next year basame again collaborated with the Coen Brothers starring his kidnapper Carl shalter in the black comedy crime film Fargo starring Francis McDormand and William H Macy 29 the film was a critical and Commercial Success debuting at the 1996 can's Film Festival where it competed for the pomy door subsequently he gained a reputation as character actor 30 was supporting roles in Blockbuster action films as Garland green and Simon West's con- air 1997 and rockhound and Michael Bay's armagedon 1998 basame also appeared as Donnie in the coen's cult classic black comedy filmed the big laosi 1998 starring Jeff Bridges and John Goodman 31 also in 1998 he played a supporting role in the romantic comedy The Wedding Singer starring Adam Sandler and Drew baramore during this time he also made his directing debut the episode finnean wake 1998 of the NBC drama homicide life on the street from 1999 to 2001 he also directed Two episodes of HBO prison drama Oz 19992 9 The Sopranos in 1999 he acted alongside Adam Sandler in The Comedy Big Daddy 1999 going into the 2000s bsame continued to co-star in supporting roles he played Seymour in the black Comedy Ghost World 2001 opposite Scarlett Johansson and Thora Burch the film received critical Acclaim with critic Roger Ebert declaring the busam role is one he's been pointing toward during his entire career 32 busam received numerous nominations for his performance including for the Golden Globe Award for best supporting actor Motion Picture in 2001 he voiced Randall bogs in the Disney Pixar animated film Monsters Inc 2001 the film was a critical and financial success and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for best animated feature he also extensively performed voiceover work for animated films reprising the role of Randall and its prequel Monsters University 2013 Mr Wesley and Home on the Range 24 neor cracker in Monster House 26 and Templeton the rat and Charlotte's Web 333d 435 during this time he also took the supporting role as Romero in the children's action adventure film Spy Kids 2 the island of Lost Dreams 2002 as well as its sequel Spy Kids 3D game Over 293 busam at the 29 Tribeca film festival in 2004 busam joined the cast of The acclaimed HBO crime television series The Sopranos Tony Soprano's cousin and childhood friend Tony blundetto a role that earned him an Emmy Award nomination 36 busam had previously contributed to the show as director of the third season episode Pine Barons which was one of the most critically acclaimed episodes of the series and the fourth season episode Everybody Hurts 37 he appeared in episode 3 of season 6 as a dorant in the afterlife which is portrayed as a country club in Tony Soprano's dream he also directed the episodes in Camelot the seventh episode of season 5 and Mr and Mrs John sacrimony request the fifth episode of season 6 busam appeared in the music video for Joe strummer's cover version of Bob Marley's Redemption Song 38 during this time busam acted in several comedy films often starring Adam Sandler in films such as Mr Deeds 22 I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry 27 grown-ups 2010 and opposite Chris Rock I think I love my wife to the 2007 he also starred in numerous critically acclaimed independent drama films such as the Tim Burton fantasy drama Big Fish 23 the Jim jarmush film coffee and cigarettes 2003 the John Truro romantic drama romance and cigarettes 2005 the Anthology film Paris JM 2006 the war drama the messenger 2009 and the romantic comedy Youth in Revolt 2009 he also directed The Comedy drama films Lonesome gym 2005 and interviewed 7 while also serving as an executive producer for the film St John of Las Vegas 29 during this time he continued to voice roles in films such as Monster House 2006 eigor 2008 GeForce 2009 and Hotel Transylvania 2012 2010 2015 Boardwalk Empire busam continued directing for television including for the Showtime series Nurse Jackie 29 2011 starring Eddie Falco the NBC sitcom 30 Rock 2920 11 starring Tina Fay and Alec Baldwin and Portlandia from 2014 to 2015 he also directed 27 episodes of his web series park bench with Steve busam from 2014 to 2015 busam starred in the HBO drama series Boardwalk Empire created by Terrence winter the series started in 2010 where busam assumed the role as Enoch Nucky Thompson based on Enoch l Johnson a corrupt Atlantic City politician who rules the town during the prohibition era bame's performance garnered him a Golden Globe award for best actor television series drama 39 he later received two more nominations for his work on the same show 441 and 42 in 2011 he hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live 43 and 44 basami had a recurring role as Lenny wnc in the NBC sitcom 30 Rock from 27 to 2013 during this time he appeared as a guest star in numerous shows such as the IFK sketch series Portlandia 14 2017 The Comedy Central sketch series Inside Amy Schumer 2016 the Netflix comedy series unbreakable Kimmy Schmid 2016 and The Comedy Central Comedy series Broad City 2017 he also acted alongside Adam Sandler in the animated film Hotel Transylvania 2 and the ridiculous 6 both in 2015 he hosts directs and produces his own web series talk show park bench with Steve busam which debuted in May 2014 45 busam won the prime time Emmy Award for outstanding short form variety series for the series in 2016 in January 2016 busam began co-starring alongside Lou CK and Alan Alda in cks acclaimed comedy drama web series Horus and Pete 46 in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter busam was the first actor to sign on to the project with Boardwalk Empire over he was available to star in the series The Two reportedly met up in New York City where CK pitched the still evolving series idea to busam he signed on on the spot to play CK as brother Pete 47 2016 present in 2016 busam acted in the political drama Norman the moderate rise in tragic fall of a New York fixer starring Richard jir the film premiered at the teleride film festival the following year he starred as Del Montgomery in the British Coming of Age drama lean on Pete 2017 directed by Andrew hag the the film premiered at the 74th Venice International Film Festival the performance earned him a beefa award for best supporting actor in 2017 busam starred in Armando yui's dark comedy and satirical film The Death of Stalin busam portrayed Nikita kusf he received critical Acclaim from critics with manela dargas describing his performance as superb 48 the role earned him a Bea Award for best supporting actor nomination during this time busam Contin taking roles in comedy films such as the week of 2018 the dead don't die 2019 the king of state and Island 2020 and huie Halloween 2020 as well as voicing roles in the boss baby 2017 Transformers the last night 2017 Hotel Transylvania 3 summer vacation 2018 and Hotel Transylvania transformania 2022 in February 2020 busam was cast as chaen and a New York Theater Workshop Revival of Anton Czech hov's Three Sisters alongside Greta jerg Oscar Isaac and Chris Messa the production was supposed to begin May 13th but was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic with no return date set Armageddon is a 1998 American Science Fiction disaster film produced and directed by Michael Bay produced by Jerry bookhammer and released by Touchstone pictures the film follows a group of blue collar deep core Drillers sent by NASA to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth it s an ensemble cast consisting of Bruce Willis with Billy Bob Thornton Liv Tyler benel Will Patton Peter Stormare Keith David and Steve busam the film was a commercial success grossing $ 5537 million worldwide against a $140 million budget and becoming the highest grossing film of 1998 and the highest grossing film to be released by Touchstone pictures the film received mixed reviews from critics a massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting space shuttle Atlantis before entering the atmosphere and bombarding New York City Boston Philadelphia mon Halifax and New Finland the meteors were pushed out of the asteroid belt by a collision from a rogue Comet which also dislodged a massive asteroid the size of Texas and NASA learns that the asteroid will impact Earth in 18 days potentially wiping out all life on Earth NASA devises a plan to have a deep hole drilled into the asteroid into which they will in inert and detonate a nuclear bomb to destroy the asteroid they recruit Harry Stamper a third generation oil driller and owner of his own oil drilling company Harry agrees to help but on the condition that he bring in his own team to do the drilling he picks his best employees for the job chick Chapel his best friend and right-hand man geologist rockhound and Oscar choice and Drillers bear Cen Freddy Nunan Max Leonard and AJ Frost who has been dating Harry's daughter Grace despite Harry's objections over 12 days they are trained to become astronauts with astronaut Willie sharp who will pilot Freedom one of the two super shuttles to fly to the asteroid the other being the independence before leaving chick apologizes to his ex-wife for wronging her and sees his son who is unaware of his parentage grace accepts AJ's marriage proposal much to Harry's reluctant dismay she later has her father promised to return home safe with her fiance following the destruction of Shanghai by meteor strike word of the massive asteroid becomes public to the world both shuttles take off without incident and dock with a Russian space station near to take on fuel however a leaky pipeline ignites the fuel pod on fire AJ and roscosmos Cosmonaut Lev andropov narrowly managed to board Independence before the space station is destroyed approaching the asteroid Independence is damaged by debris and crashes killing all on board except Lev bear in ad they Embark in the shuttles armadillo to find the freedom crew which lands 26 mi from its intended Landing site when the drilling goes slower than predicted sharp reports to Mission Control that it is unlikely the team will reach the depth necessary to destroy the asteroid before Zer barrier the point after which detonating The Rock will not save Earth the president of the United States decides to remotely detonate the bomb from Earth immediately which will cause total Mission failure sharp and Harry have a vicious argument but agree to defe fuse the bomb and work together after Harry promises sharp that he will accomplish the mission they make progress on drilling but a missed gas pocket causes the armadillo and Max to be blown into space just as Harry NASA and the world believe the mission to be a failure while another meteor destroys Paris agj and the others arrive in the second armadillo agj succeeds in drilling the hole to the required depth but a rock storm kills grber and damages the remote Detonator forcing someone to stay behind and manually detonate the bomb they draw straws AG is given the responsibility Harry takes him down to the asteroids surface only to disconnect AJ's air hose and force him into the shuttle air loock Harry then tells agj that he is the son Harry never had and he would be proud to have him marry Grace using the armadillo Harry tearfully gives Grace his Blessing to marry Ai and Grace says that she is proud to be his daughter after some difficulty Freedom takes off and just before Zur barrier Harry manages to detonate the bomb and saves the planet the astronauts land on Earth safely AJ and grace are reunited and chick reconciles with his ex-wife and estranged son during the credits agj and grace are married with the portraits of Harry and the others lost on the mission present in memoriam according to Bruce Joel Rubin writer of Deep Impact a production president at Disney took notes on everything the writer said during lunch about his script and initiated Armageddon as a counter film at Disney four nine writers worked on the script five of whom are credited in addition to Robert Roy P Jonathan Hensley Tony Gilroy Shane solero and JJ Abrams the writers involved included Paul ad anaso Anne byerman Scott Rosenberg and roberttown originally it was Hensley's script based on Po's original that had been given the green light by Touchstone pictures then producer Jerry brookheimer hired the succession of scribes for rewrites and polishes 50 6 Bruce Willis was cast in the film as part of a three- picture deal he cut with the studio to compensate them for the dissolution of 1997's Broadway brawler 78 he received a significant pay cut for the picture as part of the deal nine Shan Canary was originally considered for the role of Stamper but Michael Bay decided to cast a younger actor in the role after meeting oil drillers 10 filming principal photography for Armageddon began in August 27th 199 7 and ended on January 29th 1998 11 filming occurred at Culver studios in Culver City California 12 in May 1998 Walt Disney Studios chairman Joe Roth expanded the film's budget by $3 million to include additional special effects scenes by dream Quest images showing an asteroid impacting Paris this additional footage Incorporated two months prior to the film's release was specifically added for the television advertising campaign to visually differentiate the film from Deep Impact which was released a few months before 13 at a budget of $140 million it was buav vista's most expensive film at the time three after filming was complete according to Home Improvement actor Richard K he stumbled upon the main asteroid set and suggested to Tim Allen that they needed to film on it according to K Allan asked then ABC executive Bob Iger who then asked Michael Bay for permission Bay required waiting 6 months after the film was released East the asteroid set was used as a credit roll gag seen to imitate a cave in Wilson's basement 14 music main article Armageddon the album despite a mixed critical reception the Criterion Collection a specialist film distributor of primarily art housee films that markets what it considers to be important classic and contemporary films and cinema at its finest released the director's cut of the film to DVD and Lazard disk in an essay supporting the selection of Armageddon film scholar G9 Basinger who taught Michael Bay at Wes lion University states that the film is a work of art by a Cutting Edge artist who is a master of movement light color and shape and also of chaos razzled Dazzle and explosion she sees it as a celebration of working men this film makes these ordinary men Noble lifting their efforts up into an epic event further she states that in the first few moments of the film all the main characters are well established saying if that isn't screenwriting I don't know what is 16 the film was also released on VHS and DVD by Touchstone home video on November 13th 1998 and would surpass pretty woman to become buav Vista Home entertainment's best-selling liveaction title 17 Armageddon then premiered on both VHS and DVD formats on February 1st 1999 in the UK it was the country's bestselling DVD release selling over 100,000 copies however this record would be surpassed by The Matrix later that year 18 the film was released on a standard edition Blu-ray in 2010 with only a few special features 19 television airing by April 2002 ABC airings of Armageddon had already received modifications due to the September 11th attacks that occurred 7 months prior the scene where the World Trade Center was hit by meteors and caught on fire was edited out because of its similarity to the attacks 20 following the 23 Columbia disaster some screen captures from the opening scene where Atlantis is destroyed were passed off as satellite images of the disaster in a hoax 21 Additionally the American cable network FX which had intended to broadcast Armageddon that evening removed the film from its schedule and aired aliens in its place Armageddon was released on July 1st 1998 in 3D 127 theaters in the United States and Canada it ranked first at the box office ahead of Dr dittle with an opening weekend gross of $36 million combined with $ 54.2 million from its first 5 days 23 upon opening the film had the third highest Fourth of July opening weekend at the time behind Man in Black in Independence Day 24 the film was dethroned by Lethal Weapon 4 in its second weekend although it collected a total of $23.5 million 25 in Late July 1998 it surpassed its rival Deep Impact to become the highest grossing domestic release of the Year 26 the film grossed $21.6 million in the United States and Canada and $ 352.50 53.7 million to it was the highest grossing film of 1998 worldwide and the second highest grossing film of that year in the United States finishing just behind Saving Private Ryan critical response Armageddon received mostly mixed reviews from film critics many of whom took issue with the Furious pace of its editing 27 on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the film has a 43% approval rating based on 176 reviews with an average rating of five threaten the critical consensus States lovely to look at but about as intelligent as the asteroid that serves as the movie's antagonist Armageddon slickly sums up the Cinematic legacies of producer Jerry Brook HR and director Michael Bay 28 Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 42 out of 100 based on 23 critics indicating mixed or average reviews audiences pulled by cinemascore gave the film an average grade of on an app plus to f scale 29 the film is on the list of Roger Ebert's most hated films 30 in his original review Ebert stated the movie is an assault on the eyes the ears the brain common sense and the human design ire to be entertained on cisc and Ebert Ebert gave it a thumbs down however his co-host Jean cisl gave it a thumbs up commenting on the noise and intensity of the film but also stating that he found the film to be amusing Ebert went on to name Armageddon as the worst film of 1998 though he was originally considering Spice World 31 Todd McCarthy of variety also gave the film a negative review noting Michael Ba's rapid cutting style much of the confusion as well as the lack of dramatic Rhythm or character development results directly from Ba's cutting style which resembles a machine gun stuck in the firing position for 212 Hours 27 in April 2013 in a Miami Herald interview to promote Pain and Gain ba was quoted as having said we had to do the whole movie in 16 weeks it was a massive undertaking that was not fair to the movie I would redo the entire third act if I could but the studio literally took the movie away from us it was terrible my visual effects supervisor had a nervous breakdown so I had to be in charge of that I called James Cameron and asked what do you do when you're doing all the effects yourself but the movie did fine 32 sometime after the article was published ba changed his stance claiming that his apology only related to the editing of the film not the whole film 33 and accused the writer of the article for taking his words out of context the author of the article Miami Herald writer Renee Rodriguez claimed NBC asked me for a response and I played them the tape I didn't misquote anyone all the sites that picked up the story did 34 scientific accuracy see also asteroid deflection in an interview with Entertainment Weekly ba admitted that the film's central premise that NASA could actually do something in a situation like this was unrealistic additionally the largest known potential potentially hazardous asteroid fa is 53319 1999 j8 which is only 7 km 4.3 mi in diameter 35 while the asteroid in the movie is described as being the size of Texas near the end of the credits there is a disclaimer stating the National Aeronautics and Space administration's cooperation and assistance does not reflect an endorsement of the contents of the film or the treatment of the characters depicted therein 36 astronomers would subsequently note that Deep Impact was more scientifically accurate 3D 738 the INF feasibility of the hbomb approach was published by four post-graduate physics students in 2011 and 139 and then reported by The Daily Telegraph in 2012 a mathematical analysis of the situation found that for Willis's approach to be effective he would need to be in possession of an hbomb a billion times stronger than the Soviet unions big Ivan the biggest ever detonated on Earth using estimates of the asteroid size density speed and distance from Earth based on information in the film The postgraduate students from ler University found that to split the asteroid in two with both pieces clearing Earth would require 800 trillion teraj of energy in contrast the total energy output of big Ivan which was tested by the Soviet Union in 1961 was only 418 and inals 40 or 41 in the commentary track Ben AOL says he asked Michael why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers and he told me to shut the up so that was the end of that talk 42 Neil degrass Tyson said on the October 2nd 2023 episode of The Late Show with Steven Colbert that until the release of the 2022 film moonfall Armageddon was the movie which violated more laws of physics per minute than any other movie ever bosam has appeared in independ and mainstream films including living in Oblivion 1995 Desperado 1995 Con Air 1997 Armageddon 1998 Monsters Inc 2001 Ghost World 2001 Big Fish 2003 the boss baby 2017 and the death of Stalin 2017 bosami has often starred in Cen Brothers films such as Miller's Crossing 1990 Fargo 1996 and the big laosi 1998 he has also appeared in supporting or camp roles in many films with Adam Sandler including AirHeads 1994 Billy Madison 1995 The Wedding Singer 1998 Mr Deeds 22 and huie Halloween 2020 busam has also had an extensive career in television notably starring in the lead role of Enoch Nucky Thompson in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire 2010 2014 his performance earned him two Screen Actors Guild Awards a Golden Globe and two nominations for a prime time Emmy Award his other television roles include Lonesome Dove 1989 The Sopranos 24 26 30 Rock 27 2013 Horus and Pete 2016 and miracle workers 2019 2023 busam has directed films such as trees Lounge 1996 animal Factory 2000 and interview 2007 Steven Vincent busam 5 was born on December 13th 1957 six in the burrow of Brooklyn in New York City to Dorothy Wilson and John busam 57 his father was a sanitation worker and served in the Korean War and his mother was a hostess at Howard Johnson's bame's paternal ancestors were from the town of meni in Sicily Italy and his mother is of English and Dutch ancestry 89 he has three brothers John Ken and Michael Michael is also an actor whose most notable role to date was as officer Jimmy in Black Clansman 2018 busam was raised Catholic nine when busam was 10 years old the family moved from East New York to Valley Stream in Nassau County 10 busam graduated in 1975 from Valley Stream Central High School along with future writer Edward J renan Jr and future actress Patricia charbono in high school busam wrestled for the Varsity squad and participated in the drama troop bame's 1996 film trees Lounge in which he starred and served as screenwriter and director is set in and was largely shot in his childhood Village of Valley Stream 11 busam briefly attended Nassau Community College before moving to Manhattan to enroll in the Lee Strasburg Institute before making his film debut busam was a regular live performer at the pyramid cocktail lounge and other downtown no way venues for many years performing comic skits with Mark Boon Jr in 1988 they presented as a duo called busam and Boon an evening of original black comedy at la mama experimental theater club that they called in your mind with one extended playlet titled two Americans in Paris two Americans in Paris was set in Paris in the 1960s and portrayed manipulative confrontations between two young American men in a beastro 12 prominent solo performances were given in John jesson Chang in a void Moon series as well as appearing in an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Titus andronicus 1990 1998 rise to prominence busam in 1996 in 1990 he played mink laroi and the Coen Brothers Neo Noir gangster Fel Miller Crossing starring opposite Gabriel Bayan Marsha Gay Harden and John Truro 17 this was the first of five of the Coen Brothers films in which bsame performed critic Roger ibert described the film as one that is likely to be most appreciated by movie lovers who will enjoy its resonance with films of the past 18 also that year he starred as test tube a henchman of Lawrence fishburn's character Jimmy jump and able ferrara's crime film King of New York 19 as well as Edward in the Anthology film Tales from the Dark Side the movie the protagonist of the lot 249 in segment of the film 20 in 1991 he played a bell booy Chad in the Coen Brothers film black comedy Barton Fink starring John Tero and John Goodman 21 his first lead role was as a doo Rolo in Alexander rockwells in the soup 1992 22 he gained wider attention for his supporting part as pseudonymous criminal Mr Pink in Quenton Tarantino's crime film Reservoir Dogs 1992 23 a role that Tarantino originally wrote for himself 17 and one that earned busam the independent Spirit Award for best supporting male in his second nomination 24 also in 1992 he had a guest role as Phil hickle Ellen's father and older Pete's guidance counselor in The Adventures of Pete and Pete 25 the following year he starred as the aonomus character in the horror comedy film Ed and his dead mother 1993 26 throughout the late W 990s busam appeared in several films by the Coen Brothers Joel and Ethan he also appeared in a cameo appearance in Tarantino's next film Pulp Fiction where he portrays a waiter dressed as Buddy Holly who serves Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega 27 he endeared himself to Comedy fans as Rex Bas player of the Lone Rangers in the 1994 comedy Airheads in 1995 bu bamey guest starred a suspected murderer Gordon Pratt in endgame an episode of the television series homicide life on the street busam was rumored to be considered for the role of the Scarecrow and Joel Schumacher proposed fifth installment of the first Batman franchise Batman Unchained before Warner Bros cancelled the project 28 in 1995 he also starred alongside Tarantino and Antonio bandas in Desperado the next year basami again collaborated with a Coen others starring his kidnapper Carl shalter in the black comedy crime film Fargo starring Francis McDormand and William H Macy 29 the film was a critical and Commercial Success debuting at the 1996 can's Film Festival where it competed for the pomy door subsequently he gained a reputation as character actor 30 with supporting roles in Blockbuster action films as Garland green and Simon West's con- air 1997 and rockhound and Michael Bay's Armageddon 1998 busam also appeared as Donnie in the coen's cult classic black comedy film The Big laosi 1998 starring Jeff Bridges and John Goodman 31 also in 1998 he played a supporting role in the romantic comedy The Wedding Singer starring Adam Sandler and Drew baramore during this time he also made his directing debut the episode Finnegan's wake 1998 of the NBC drama homicide life on the street from 1999 to 2001 he also directed Two episodes of HBO prison drama Oz 1999 2009 The Sopranos in 1999 he acted alongside Adam Sandler in The Comedy Big Daddy 1999 going into the 2000s busam continued to co-star in supporting roles he played Seymour in the black Comedy Ghost World 2001 opposite Scarlet Johansson and Thora Burch the film received critical Acclaim with critic Roger Ebert declaring the busam role is one he's been pointing toward during his entire career 32 busam received numerous nominations for his performance including for the Golden Globe Award for best supporting actor Motion Picture in 2001 he voiced Randall bogs in the Disney Pixar animated film Monsters Inc 2001 the film was a critical and financial success and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for best animated feature he also extensively performed voiceover work for animated films reprising the role of Randall in its prequel Monsters University 2013 Mr Wesley and Home on the Range 24 NE cracker in Monster House 26 and Templeton the rat and Charlotte's Web 333d 435 during this time he also took the supporting role as Romero in the children's action adventure film Spy Kids 2 the island of Lost Dreams 2002 as well as its sequel Spy Kids 3D game over 23 busam at the 29 Tribeca film festival in 2004 busam joined the tast of the acclaimed HBO crime television series The Sopranos as Tony Soprano's cousin and childhood friend Tony blundetto a role that earned him an Emmy Award nomination 36 busam had previously contributed to the show as director of the third season episode Pine Barons which was one of the most critically acclaimed episodes of the series and the fourth season episode Everybody Hurts 37 he appeared in episode 3 of season 6 as a dorant in the afterlife which is portrayed as a country Club in Tony Soprano's dream he also directed the episodes in Camelot the seventh episode of season 5 and Mister and Mrs John sacrimony request the fifth episode of season 6 busam appeared in the music video for Joe strummer's cover version of Bob Marley's Redemption Song 38 during this time busam acted in several comedy films often starring Adam Sandler in films such as Mr Deeds 22 I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry 27 grown up 2010 and opposite Chris Rock I Think I Love My Wife 2007 he also starred in numerous critically acclaimed independent drama films such as the Tim Burton fantasy drama Big Fish 23 the Jim jarmush film coffee and cigarettes 2003 the John Truro romantic drama romance and cigarettes 2005 the Anthology film Paris JM 2006 the war drama the messenger 2009 and the romantic comedy Youth in Revolt 2009 he also directed the com comedy drama films Lonesome gym 2005 an interview 27 while also serving as an executive producer for the film St John of Las Vegas 29 during this time he continued to voice roles in films such as Monster House 2006 eigor 2008 GeForce 2009 and Hotel Transylvania 2012 2010 2015 Boardwalk Empire busam continued directing for television including for the Showtime series Nurse Jackie 29 2011 St ing Eddie Falco the NBC sitcom 30 Rock 29 2011 starring Tina Fay and Alec Baldwin and Portlandia from 2014 to 2015 he also directed 27 episodes of his web series park bench with Steve busam from 2014 to 2015 busam starred in the HBO drama series Boardwalk Empire created by Terrence winter the series started in 2010 where busam assumed the role as Enoch Nucky Thompson based on Enoch l Johnson a corrupt Atlantic City politician who rules the town during the prohibition Era bame's Performance garnered him a Golden Globe award for best actor television series drama 39 he later received two more nominations for his work on the same show 440 when he in 42 in 2011 he hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live 43 and 44 basami had a recurring role as Lenny wnc in the NBC sitcom 30 Rock from 27 to 2013 during this time he appeared as a guest star in numerous shows such as the if sketch series Portlandia 2014 2017 The Comedy Central sketch series Inside Amy Schumer 2016 the Netflix comedy series unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt 2016 and The Comedy Central Comedy series Broad City 2017 he also acted alongside Adam Sandler in the animated film Hotel Transylvania 2 and the ridiculous 6 both in 2015 he hosts directs and produces his own web series talk show Park bench with Steve busam which debuted in May 2014 45 busam won the prime time Emmy Award for outstanding short form variety series for the series in 2016 in January 2016 busam began co-starring alongside Louis CK and alen Alda in cks acclaimed comedy drama web series Horus and Pete 46 in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter busam was the first actor to sign on to the project with Boardwalk Empire over he was available to Star and the series The Two reportedly met up in New York City where CK pitched the still evolving series idea to busam he signed on on the spot to play CK as brother Pete 47 2016 present in 2016 busam acted in the political drama Norman the moderate rise and tragic fall of a New York fixer starring Richard Jer the film premiered at the teleride film festival the following year he starred as Del Montgomery in the British Coming of Age drama Molen on Pete 20177 directed by Andrew hag the film premiered at the 74th Venice International Film Festival the performance earned him a beefa award for best supporting actor in 2017 basami starred in Armando yui's dark comedy and satirical film The Death of Stalin busam portrayed Nikita cruff he received critical Acclaim from critics with manela dargas describing his performance as superb 48 the role earned him a beefa award for best supporting actor nomination during this time busam continued taking roles in comedy films such as the week of 2018 the dead don't die 2019 the king of Staton Island 2020 and huie Halloween 2020 as well as voicing roles in the boss baby 2017 Transformers the last night 2017 Hotel Transylvania 3 summer vacation 2018 and Hotel Transylvania transformania 2022 in February 2020 busam was cast as chin and a New York Theater Workshop Revival of Anton covs Three Sisters alongside Greta jerg Oscar Isaac and Chris Messa the production was supposed to begin May 13th but was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic with no return date set armagedon is a 1998 American Science Fiction disaster film produced and directed by Michael Bay produced by Jerry bookhamer and released by Touchstone pictures the film follows a group of bluecollar deep core Drillers sent by NASA to stop stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth it stars an ensemble cast consisting of Bruce Willis with Billy Bob Thornton Liv Tyler benel Will Patton Peter Stormare Keith David and Steve busam the film was a commercial success grossing $ 5537 million worldwide against a $140 million budget and becoming the highest grossing film of 1998 and the highest grossing film to be released by Touchstone pictures the film received mixed reviews from critics a massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting space shuttle Atlantis before entering the atmosphere and bombarding New York City Boston Philadelphia Mont Halifax and New Finland the meteors were pushed out of the asteroid belt by a collision from a rogue Comet which also dislodged a massive asteroid the size of Texas and NASA learns that the asteroid will impact Earth in 18 days potentially wiping out all life on Earth NASA devises a plann to have a deep hole drilled into the asteroid into which they will insert and detonate a nuclear bomb to destroy the asteroid they recruit Harry Stamper a third generation oil driller and owner of his own oil drilling company Harry agrees to help but on the condition that he bring in his own team to do the drilling he picks his best employees for the job chick Chapel his best friend and right-hand man geologists rockhound and Oscar choice and Drillers Bear cleen Freddy Nunan Max Leonard and agj frost who has been dating Harry's daughter Grace despite Harry's objections over 12 days they are trained to become astronauts with astronaut Willie sharp who will pilot Freedom one of the two super shuttles to fly to the asteroid the other being the independence before leaving chick apologizes to his ex-wife for wronging her and sees his son who is unaware of his parentage grace accepts AJ's marriage proposal much to Harry's reluctant dismay she later has her father promised to return home safe with her fiance following the destruction of Shanghai by another meteor strike word of the massive asteroid becomes public to the world both shuttles take off without incident and dock with a Russian space station near to take on fuel however a leaky pipeline ignites the fuel pod on fire AJ and roscosmos cosmina Lev andropov narrowly manag to board Independence before the space station is destroyed approaching the asteroid Independence is damaged by debris and crashes killing all on board except Lev bear in ag they Embark in the shuttle armadillo to find the freedom crew which lands 26 miles from its intended Landing site when the drilling goes slower than predicted sharp reports to Mission Control that it is unlikely the team will reach the depth necessary to destroy the asteroid before Z barrier the point after which detonating The Rock will not save Earth the president of the United States decides to remotely detonate the bomb from Earth immediately which will cause total Mission failure sharp and Harry have a vicious argument but agree to diffuse the bomb and work together after Harry promises sharp that he will accomplish the mission they make progress on drilling but a missed gas pocket causes the armadillo and Max to be blown into space just as Harry NASA and the world believe the mission to be a failure while another meteor destroys Paris agj and the others arrive in the second armadillo AJ succeeds in drilling the hole to the required depth but a rock storm kills Gruber and damag is the remote Detonator forcing someone to stay behind and manually detonate the bomb they draw straws agj is given the responsibility Harry takes him down to the asteroid surface only to disconnect AJ's air hose and force him into the shuttle's air loock Harry then tells agj that he is the son Harry never had and he would be proud to have him marry Grace using the armadillo Harry tearfully gives Grace his Blessing to Mary aie and Grace says that she is proud to be his daughter after some difficulty Freedom takes off and just before Zur barrier Harry manages to detonate the bomb and saves the planet the astronauts land on Earth safely agj and grace are reunited and chick reconciles with his ex-wife and estranged son during the credits agj and grace are married with the portraits of Harry and the others lost on the mission present in memoriam according to Bruce Joel ruin writer of Deep Impact a production president at Disney took notes on everything the writer said during lunch lunch about his script and initiated Armageddon as a counter film at Disney 49 writers worked on the script five of whom are credited in addition to Robert Roy P Jonathan Hensley Tony Gilroy Shane Salo and JJ Abrams the writers involved included Paul at an asio Anne byerman Scott Rosenberg and Robert Town originally it was Hensley's script based on P's original that had been given the green light by Touchstone pictures then producer Jerry brookheimer hired the succession of scribes for rewrites and polishes 56 Bruce Willis was cast in the film as part of a three- picture deal he cut with the studio to compensate them for the dissolution of 1997's Broadway brawler 78 he received a significant pay cut for the picture as part of the deal nine Shan Canary was originally considered for the role of Stamper but Michael Bay decided to cast a younger actor in the role after meeting oil drillers 10 filming principal photography for Armageddon began in August 27th 1997 and ended on January 29th 1998 11 filming occurred at Culver studios in Culver City California 12 in May 1998 Walt Disney Studios chairman Joe Roth expanded the film's budget by $3 million to include additional special effects scenes by dream Quest images showing an asteroid impacting Paris this additional footage Incorporated 2 months prior to the film's release was specifically added for the television advertising campaign to visually differentiate the film from Deep Impact which was released a few months before 13 at a budget of $140 million it was buav vista's most expensive film at the time three after filming was complete according to Home Improvement actor Richard K he stumbled upon the main asteroid set and suggested to Tim Allen that they needed to film on it according to K Allan asked then ABC executive Bob erer who then asked Michael Bay for permission Bay required waiting 6 months after the film was released the asteroid set was used as a credit roll gag seen to imitate a cave in Wilson's basement 14 music main article Armageddon the album despite a mixed critical reception the Criterion Collection a specialist film distributor of primarily art housee films that markets what it considers to be important classic and contemporary films and cinema at its finest released the direct cut of the film to DVD and Lazard disk in an essay supporting the selection of Armageddon film scholar G9 Basinger who taught Michael Bay at Wes lion University states that the film is a work of art by a cuttingedge artist who is a master of movement light color and shape and also of chaos razzled Dazzle and explosion she sees it as a celebration of working men this film makes these ordinary men Noble lifting their efforts up into an epic event further she states that in the first few moments of the film all the main characters are well established saying if that isn't screenwriting I don't know what is 16 the film was also released on VHS and DVD by Touchstone home video on November 13th 1998 and would surpass pretty woman to become buav Vista Home entertainment's best-selling liveaction title 17 Armageddon then premiered on both VHS and DVD formats on February 1st 1999 in the UK it was the country's best-selling DVD release selling over 100,000 copies however this record would be surpassed by The Matrix later that year 18 the film was released on a standard edition Blu-ray in 2010 with only a few special features 19 television airing by April 2002 ABC airings of Armageddon had already received modifications due to the September 11th attacks that occurred 7 months prior the scene where the World Trade Center was hit by meteors and caught on fire was edited out because of its similarity to the attacks 20 following the 23 Columbia disaster some screen captures from the opening scene where Atlantis is destroyed were passed off as satellite images of the disaster and a hoax 21 Additionally the American cable network FX which had intended to broadcast Armageddon that evening removed the film from its schedule and aired aliens in its place Armageddon was released on July 1st 1998 in 3d1 27 theaters in the United States and Canada it ranked first at the box office ahead of Dr dittle with an opening weekend gross of $36 million combined with $ 54.2 million from its first 5 days 23 upon opening the film had the third highest Fourth of July opening weekend at the time behind Men In Black and Independence Day 24 the film was dethroned by Lethal Weapon 4 in its second weekend although it collected a total of $23.5 million 25 in Late July 1998 it surpassed its Rival deep impact to become the highest grossing domestic release of the Year 26 the film gross $21.6 million in the United States and Canada and $352.00 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $ 5537 million to it was the highest grossing film of 1998 worldwide and the second highest grossing film of that year in the United States finishing just behind Saving Private Ryan critical response Armageddon received mostly mixed reviews from film critics many of whom took issue with the Furious pace of its editing 27 on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the film has a 43% approval rating based on 176 reviews with an average rating of five threaten the critical consensus States lovely to look at but about as intelligent as the asteroid that serves as the movie's antagonist AR eddon slickly sums up the Cinematic legacies of producer Jerry brookheimer and director Michael Bay 28 Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 42 out of 100 based on 23 critics indicating mixed or average reviews audiences ped by cinemascore gave the film an average grade of a on an A plus to f scale 29 the film is on the list of Roger Ebert's most hated films 30 in his original review Ebert stated the movie is an assault on the eyes the ears the brain common sense and the human desire to be entertained on csll and Ebert Ebert gave it a thumbs down however his co-host Jean csll gave it a thumbs up commenting on the noise and intensity of the film but also stating that he found the film to be amusing Ebert went on to name Armageddon as the worst film of 1998 though he was originally considering Spice World 31 Todd McCarthy of variety also gave the film a negative review noting Michael Bay's rapid cutting style much of the confusion as well as the lack of dramatic Rhythm or character development results directly from Ba's cutting style which resembles a machine gun stuck in the firing position for 212 Hours 27 in April 2013 in a Miami Herald interview to promote Pain and Gain ba was quoted as having said we had to do the whole movie in 16 weeks it was a massive undertaking that was not fair to the movie I would would redo the entire third act if I could but the studio literally took the movie away from us it was terrible my visual effect supervisor had a nervous breakdown so I had to be in charge of that I called James Cameron and asked what do you do when you're doing all the effects yourself but the movie did fine 32 sometime after the article was published ba changed his stance claiming that his apology only related to the editing of the film not the whole film 33 and accused the writer of the article for taking his words out of context the author of the article Miami Herald writer Renee Rodriguez claimed NBC asked me for a response and I played them the tape I didn't misquote anyone all the sites that picked up the story did 34 scientific accuracy see also asteroid deflection in an interview with Entertainment Weekly ba admitted that the film's central premise that NASA could actually do something in a situation like this was unrealistic Additionally the largest known potentially hazardous asteroid fa is 53319 1999 jam8 which is only 7 km 4.3 m in diameter 35 while the asteroid in the movie is described as being the size of Texas near the end of the credits there is a disclaimer stating the National Aeronautics and Space administration's cooperation and assistance does not reflect an endorsement of the contents of the film or the treatment of the characters depicted therein 36 astronomers would subsequently note that Deep Impact was more scientifically accurate 3D 738 the INF feasibility of the hbomb approach was published by four postgraduate physics students in 2011 and 139 and then reported by The Daily Telegraph in 2012 a mathematical analysis of the situation found that for Willis's approach to be effective he would need to be in possession of an hbomb a billion times stronger than the Soviet Union big Ivan the biggest ever detonated on Earth using estimates of the asteroid size density speed and distance from Earth based on information in the film The postgraduate students from leester University found that to split the asteroid in two with both pieces clearing Earth would require 800 trillion ter of energy in contrast the total energy output of big Ivan which was tested by the Soviet Union in 1961 was only 418 inals 40 or 41 in the commentary track Ben AOL says he asked Michael why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers and he told me to shut the up so that was the end of that talk 42 Neil degrass Tyson said on the October 2nd 2023 episode of The Late Show with Steven Colbert that until the release of the 2022 film moonfall Armageddon was the movie which violated more laws of physics per minute than any other movie ever bosami has appeared in independent and mainstream films including living in Oblivion 1995 Desperado 1995 Con Air 1997 Armageddon 1998 Monsters Inc 2001 Ghost World 2001 Big Fish 2003 the boss baby 2017 and the death of Stalin 2017 bsame has often starred in Coen Brothers films such as Miller's Crossing 1990 Fargo 1996 and the big bosski 1998 he has also appeared in supporting Oro roles in many films with Adam Sandler including AirHeads 1994 Billy Madison 1995 The Wedding Singer 1998 Mr Deeds 22 and huie Halloween 2020 busam has also had an extensive career in television notably starring in the lead role of Enoch nocki Thompson in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire 2010 2014 his performance earned him two Screen Actors Guild Awards a Golden Globe and two nominations for a prime time Emmy Award his other television roles include Lonesome Dove 1989 The Sopranos 24 26 30 Rock 27 2013 Horus and Pete 2016 and miracle workers 20192 23 bosam has directed films such as trees Lounge 1996 animal Factory 2000 and interview 2007 Steven Vincent busam 5 was born on December 13th 195 57 six in the burough of Brooklyn in New York City to Dorothy nay Wilson and John busam 57 his father was a sanitation worker and served in the Korean War and his mother was a hostess at Howard Johnson's bame's paternal ancestors were from the town of meni in Sicily Italy and his mother is of English and Dutch ancestry 89 he has three brothers John Ken and Michael Michael is also an actor whose most notable role to date was as officer Jimmy in Black Clansman 2018 busam was raised Catholic nine when busam was 10 years old the family moved from East New York to Valley Stream in Nassau County ten basami graduated in 1975 from Valley Stream Central High School along with future writer Edward J renan Jr and future actress Patricia charbono in high school busam wrestled for the Varsity squad and participated in the drama troop bame's 1996 film trees Lounge in which he starred and served as screenwriter and director is set in and was largely shot in his childhood Village of Valley Stream 11 busam briefly attended Nassau Community College before moving to Manhattan to enroll in the Lee Strasburg Institute before making his film debut busam was a regular live performer at the pyramid cocktail lounge and other downtown no wave venues for many years performing comic skits with Mark Boon Jr in 1988 they presented as a duo called busam and Boon an evening of origin origin black comedy at la mama experimental theater club that they called in your mind with one extended playlet titled two Americans in Paris two Americans in Paris was set in Paris in the 1960s and portrayed manipulative confrontations between two young American men in a beastro 12 prominent solo performances were given in John jeron's Chang in a void Moon series as well as appearing in an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Titus andronicus 1990 1998 rise to prom Min busam in 1996 in 1990 he played mink laroi and the Coen Brothers neon Noir gangster film Miller Crossing starring opposite Gabriel Bayan Marsha Gay Harden and John Truro 17 this was the first of five of the Coen Brothers films in which bsame performed critic Roger ibert described the film as one that is likely to be most appreciated by movie lovers who will enjoy its resonance with films of the past 18 also that year he starred as test tube a henchman of Lawrence fishburn's character Jimmy jump en able ferrara's crime film King of New York 19 as well as Edward in the Anthology film Tales from the Dark Side the movie the protagonist of the lot 249 in segment of the film 20 in 1991 he played a Bellboy chat in the Coen Brothers film black comedy Barton Fink starring John Truro and John Goodman 21 his first lead role was as a doo Rolo in Alexander rockwells in the soup 1992 22 he gained wider attention for his supporting part as pseudonymous criminal Mr Pink in Quenton Tarantino's crime film Reservoir Dogs 1992 23 a role that Tarantino originally wrote for himself 17 and one that earned busam the independent Spirit Award for best supporting male in his second nomination 24 also in 1992 he had a guest role as Phil hickle Ellen's father and older Pete's guidance counselor in The Adventures of Pete and Pete 25 the following year he starred as the ayous character in the horror comedy film Ed and his dead mother 1993 26 throughout the late W 990s busam appeared in several films by the Coen Brothers Joel and Ethan he also appeared in a cameo appearance in Tarantino's next film Pulp Fiction where he portrays a waiter dressed as Buddy Holly who serves Mia Wallace and Vincent VGA 27 he endeared himself to Comedy fans as Rex Bas player of the Lone Rangers in the the 1994 comedy Airheads in 1995 bsame guest starred a suspected murderer Gordon Pratt in endgame in episode of the television series homicide life on the street busam was rumored to be considered for the role of the Scarecrow in Joel schacher proposed fifth installment of the first Batman franchise Batman Unchained before Warner Bros canceled the project 28 in 1995 he also starred alongside Tarantino and Antonio bandros