Peter Hyams
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Peter Hyams (born July 26, 1943) is an American screenwriter, director and cinematographer.
Born in New York City, New York, Hyams is the son of Barry Hyams (a theatrical producer and publicist on Broadway) and grandson of Sol Hurok, the Russian impresario. His stepfather was blacklisted Arthur Lief. His sister is casting director Nessa Hyams.
His early career began at the age of 21 as a newsman with CBS in New York, for whom he later worked as a war correspondent covering the Vietnam War. He had a spell as a news anchorman for a Chicago TV station. He describes himself as "one of the very few, if not only, writer/directors of major films who also shoots his own pictures."
On December 19, 1964 he married George-Ann Spota, with whom he has three children. (Trivia note: in all his movies appears a minor character named Spota.)
During his time with CBS (where he worked from 1964 to 1970), Hyams began to shoot documentary films. He moved to Los Angeles in 1970, selling his first screenplay to Paramount Pictures (T.R. Baskin, 1971). His first excursion into space was Capricorn One (1978), and made his maiden voyage to Jupiter with the movie Outland (1981). He produced and wrote the screenplay for ' (1984), collaborating closely with author Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote the novel ' upon which the film is based.
Hyams also co-authored with Clarke The Odyssey File: The Making of 2010, published 1985, a collection of their email correspondence which illustrates their fascination with the then pioneering medium and its use for them to communicate on an almost daily basis at the time of planning and production of the film.
Filmography
| film (as director) | released | box office | adjusted[1] | |
| A Sound of Thunder | May 15, 2005 | ,891,821 | [DP] | |
| The Musketeer | September 9, 2001 | ,053,815 | [DP] | mio |
| End of Days | November 24, 1999 | ,889,043 | [DP] | mio |
| The Relic | January 10, 1997 | ,956,608 | [DP] | |
| Sudden Death | October 26, 1995 | ,214,270 | [DP] | |
| Timecop | September 16, 1994 | ,450,000 | [DP] | |
| Stay Tuned | August 14, 1992 | ,736,401 | [DP] | |
| Narrow Margin | September 21, 1990 | ,873,237 | [DP][W] | |
| The Presidio | June 10, 1988 | ,036,242 | [DP] | mio |
| Running Scared | June 27, 1986 | ,500,726 | [DP] | |
| December 7, 1984 | ,200,000 | [DP][W] | ||
| The Star Chamber | August 5, 1983 | ,600,000 | [W] | |
| Outland | May 22, 1981 | ,374,595 | [W] | |
| Hanover Street | May 18, 1979 | ,000,000 | [W] | |
| Capricorn One | June 1978 | |||
| Peeper | 1975 | |||
| Busting | February 1974 | |||
| Our Time | 1974 |
Additionally he directed in 1972 the TV movies Goodnight, My Love and Rolling Man.
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Notes
- ↑ also screenwriter
- ↑ also director of photography
- ↑ inflation adjusted using movies (released at the same time) from [The Numbers - All Time Highest Grossing Movies in the United States Since 1977, Inflation Adjusted]
- ↑ taken from [Peter Hyams Box Office Data]
- ↑ taken from [Business Data for Outland]
- ↑ taken from [Business Data for 2010]
- ↑ taken from [Business Data for The Presidio]
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