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1997–2001 CNN Headline News logo on a table in the food court at CNN Center. Tables like these have since been removed. In 1992, Headline News pioneered the use of a digital video "jukebox" to recycle segments of one newscast seamlessly into another. The new technology reduced the number of staffers needed by enabling news segments to be re ...
Box office. $171.1 million [ 3 ] Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Carl Sagan. Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film.
5. February 2, 1997. Star Wars (Special Edition) $35,906,661. Star Wars (Special Edition) broke 12 Monkeys ' record ($13.8 million) for the highest weekend debut in January and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ' s record ($33.9 million) for the highest weekend debut for a PG-rated film. [6]
Marcos Zurinaga (director/screenplay); Juan Antonio Ramos, Neil Cohen (screenplay); Esai Morales, Edward James Olmos, Andy García, Jeroen Krabbé, Miguel Ferrer, Tony Plana, Giancarlo Giannini, Teresa Jose Berganza, Marcela Walerstein, Denise Blasor, Eusebio Lazaro. The End of Violence. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
October 26 – 1997 World Series: The Florida Marlins defeat the Cleveland Indians. October 27 – Stock markets around the world crash due to a global economic crisis scare. The Dow Jones Industrial Average follows suit and plummets 554.26, or 7.18%, to 7,161.15. The points loss exceeds the loss from Black Monday.
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): Taste of Cherry (طعم گيلاس, Ta'm-e gilass ), directed by Abbas Kiarostami , Iran / France The Eel (うなぎ, Unagi ), directed by Shohei Imamura , Japan
Hollywood Confidential was a pilot for a TV series by Paramount, which would have begun airing in 1996. [5] The pilot would instead air as a stand-alone TV movie on Paramount's UPN in April 1997. [5] Despite the title, it bears no relation to the 1997 film L.A. Confidential, and was produced prior to it. [5]
In 1997, News Corporation it would launch a Fox Sports network in Michigan, and won a surprise bid for local cable television rights to Detroit Pistons games. Fox Sports Detroit then acquired broadcast rights to Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Tigers games from competitor Pro-Am Sports System , and launched on September 17 in the for the NHL and ...