{"id":6675,"date":"2015-11-03T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bombreport.com\/?page_id=6675"},"modified":"2019-09-27T10:04:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T14:04:47","slug":"moonlight-mile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bombreport.com\/yearly-breakdowns\/2002-2\/moonlight-mile\/","title":{"rendered":"MOONLIGHT MILE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><div class=\"schema_block schema_movie\"><div typeof=\"schema:Movie\"><div class=\"schema_name\" property=\"schema:name\">Moonlight Mile<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6676\" src=\"https:\/\/bombreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/moonlight-mile.jpg\" alt=\"moonlight mile box office\" width=\"175\" height=\"257\" \/><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15912 alignnone alignleft\" style=\"box-shadow: none; padding-top: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bombreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/333px-RATED_PG-13.svg_-e1520716813810.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"26\" \/><button style=\"background-color: #c47135; box-shadow: 1px 2px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); margin-top: 10px; font-family: Arial Black; font-size: 11px;\"><strong>Genre(s): Drama<\/strong><\/button><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong style=\"color: black;\">Directed By:<\/strong>\u00a0Brad Silberling<\/li>\r\n<li><strong style=\"color: black;\">Written By:<\/strong>\u00a0Brad Silberling<\/li>\r\n<li><strong style=\"color: black;\">Release Date:<\/strong> September 27, 2002<\/li>\r\n<li><strong style=\"color: black;\">Domestic Distributor:<\/strong> Disney (Touchstone)<\/li>\r\n<li><strong style=\"color: black;\">Cast:<\/strong>\u00a0Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2WuXrZs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21017\" style=\"box-shadow: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/bombreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/amazon.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"42\" \/><\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<hr style=\"clear: both;\" \/>\r\n<pre>Box Office Info:<\/pre>\r\n<table border=\"\u201d5\u2033\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th><strong>Budget: $21 million<\/strong><\/th>\r\n<th><strong>Financed by: Hyde Park Entertainment; Disney<\/strong><\/th>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Domestic Box Office: $6,835,856<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td><strong>Overseas Box Office: $3,175,194<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18809 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bombreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/moonlight-mile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1199\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bombreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/moonlight-mile.jpg 1199w, https:\/\/bombreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/moonlight-mile-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bombreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/moonlight-mile-768x391.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bombreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/moonlight-mile-1024x521.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bombreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/moonlight-mile-400x204.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1199px) 100vw, 1199px\" \/><br \/><em>Moonlight Mile<\/em> was originally in development at DreamWorks (under the title\u00a0<em>Baby&#8217;s In Black<\/em>) in 1998.\u00a0 Spielberg had the project dropped after the studio began production on another modestly budgeted picture with no major stars <em>American Beauty<\/em> &#8212; which at the time was expected to land in a commercial dead zone.\u00a0 <em>Moonlight Mile<\/em> then moved over to the Warner Bros based Bel Air Entertainment.\u00a0 Bel Air wanted the young lead (played by\u00a0Jake Gyllenhaal) to be played by a bankable actor and suggested that writer\/director\u00a0Brad Silberling try to land Keanu Reeves, Brendan Fraser or Johnny Depp.\u00a0\u00a0Silberling refused and the project quickly fell apart.\u00a0 The next brief home for <em>Moonlight Mile<\/em> was the German based Intermedia, but they also pulled out.\u00a0 The project then found financing through Hyde Park Entertainment and Disney.\u00a0 \r\n<span class=\"schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block\">\r\n<span class=\"schema-faq-section\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">The budget for <em>Moonlight Mile<\/em><\/strong>\r\n<a class=\"schema-faq-answer\">was $21 million.<\/a>\r\n<\/span>\r\n<\/span>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>The mouse house distributed in the US and <em>Moonlight Mile<\/em> was positioned as a possible Oscar contender for the studio.\u00a0 It was dated for a limited release on September 27, 2002 with an expansion set the following weekend.\u00a0 Mixed to lukewarm reviews cooled any awards hype and Disney even tried to submit the picture to the Independent Spirit Awards, which rejected it because it cost too much.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Moonlight Mile<\/em> was booked into 22 theaters and pulled in $329,771 with a mediocre $14,989 per screen average.\u00a0 Disney expanded the picture into 434 engagements the following weekend to\u00a0$1,882,703, but then it fell 40.5% in its third frame to\u00a0$1,120,016 &#8212; killing off a further expansion. \u00a0<em>Moonlight Mile<\/em> closed its domestic run with only\u00a0$6,835,856.<\/p>\r\n<p>The film saw a small theatrical rollout overseas, where it took in $3,175,194.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genre(s): Drama Directed By:\u00a0Brad Silberling Written By:\u00a0Brad Silberling Release Date: September 27, 2002 Domestic Distributor: Disney (Touchstone) Cast:\u00a0Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon Box Office Info: Budget: $21 million Financed by: Hyde Park Entertainment; Disney Domestic Box Office: $6,835,856 Overseas Box Office: $3,175,194 Moonlight Mile was originally in development at DreamWorks (under the title\u00a0Baby&#8217;s In [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bombreport.com\/yearly-breakdowns\/2002-2\/moonlight-mile\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"parent":6382,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"Product","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6675","page","type-page","status-publish"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Moonlight Mile (2002) | Bomb Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Disney distributed Moonlight Mile, which was positioned as a possible Oscar contender for the studio. 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