The Finest Hours Movie Updates

Wed., Oct. 1, 2014

from Walt Disney Studios

Walt Disney Pictures

• added IMDb link
• changed the US film release date from TBA to TBA 2015
• added Craig Gillespie as director to credits
• added a synopsis

• In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, ... show all four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel. “The Finest Hours” is the story of their heroic mission, which is still considered the greatest small boat rescue in Coast Guard history.

• added Holliday Grainger as actor to credits
• changed the production status to Production

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Tue., Sep. 9, 2014

from Deadline

• added Kyle Gallner as actor to credits

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Tue., Aug. 12, 2014

• added Casey Affleck as actor to credits
• added Chris Pine as actor to credits
• changed the production status to Development

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Fri., Aug. 12, 2011

from Deadline

Disney Acquires Coast Guard Rescue Saga 'The Finest Hours'

While the summer dealmaking has tapered off in the dog days of August, a big one went down yesterday. In a deal worth high-six against seven-figures, Walt Disney Pictures acquired a package to make a movie out of the bestselling book The Finest Hours, with Oscar-nominated The Fighter scribes Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson to write...

• added a synopsis
• A Coast Guard rescue undertaken after two oil tankers were torn in half by treacherous waves during a deadly nor'easter blizzard off Cape Cod in 1952.
• changed the production status to Development
• added Dorothy Auferiero to the credits
• added Jim Whitaker to the credits
• added Eric Johnson to the credits
• added Paul Tamasy to the credits
• added Walt Disney Pictures as a distributor
• created the movie profile