Armageddon (movie)
Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster movie produced and directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and released by Touchstone Pictures.
The movie follows a group of blue-collar workers sent by NASA to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth. It stars Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Will Patton, Steve Buscemi, William Fichtner, Owen Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Keith David and Peter Stormare.
The movie was very successful, making $553.7 million worldwide at the box office against its $140 million movie budget and becoming the highest-grossing movie of 1998 and the highest-grossing movie to be released by Touchstone Pictures. The movie received mixed reviews from movie critics.
See also
[change | change source]- Deep Impact - another impact event-based movie released in 1998
- Impact event
- Impact crater
References
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- Armageddon on IMDb
- Armageddon at the TCM Movie Database
- Armageddon at AllMovie
- Armageddon at the American Film Institute Catalog
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