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Release Date Title Production Budget Opening Weekend Domestic Box Office Worldwide Box Office; Unknown: Iron Eagle IV: Jun 12, 1992: Aces: Iron Eagle III: $2,517,600
Iron Eagle is a 1986 action film directed by Sidney J. Furie who co-wrote the screenplay with Kevin Alyn Elders, and starring Jason Gedrick and Louis Gossett Jr. [3] While it received negative reviews, being unfavorably compared to the similarly-themed Top Gun released the same year, the film earned $24,159,872 at the U.S. box office.
Jan 17, 2018 · Financial analysis of Iron Eagle (1986) including budget, domestic and international box office gross, DVD and Blu-ray sales reports, total earnings and profitability.
Mar 15, 2018 · No matter how niche or forgotten the franchise, the question, “Why did this exist?” always has an obvious answer: A first film was made and turned a profit, and its formula was revisited until it...
- Iron Eagle Came Out Before Top Gun
- Iron Eagle and Top Gun’s Stories Aren’T Similar
- Iron Eagle Wasn’T Military-Approved
- Iron Eagle Received Sequels Before Top Gun
- The Bizarre Reason Fans Think Iron Eagle Ripped Off Top Gun
Despite what many fans and critics of the movie think, Iron Eagle was actually released a few months beforeTop Gun.Iron Eagle arrived in cinemas in January 1986, whileTop Gun arrived four months later at the beginning of the blockbuster season in May.Top Gun was undeniably the bigger hit, earning over $300 million on a budget of only $15 million. H...
A failed test pilot teaming up with a veteran to steal a plane and save his father from a nation imprisoning him is not a lot like the tale of a successful test pilot running afoul of competitive co-workers and issues with authority. Iron Eagle's story is more of a classic war film plot (ironically, as it was the less successful military movie), fo...
The creators ofIron Eagle could not get permission to use any real-life F-16s thanks to the Air Force’s longstanding policy to not condone depictions of aircraft theft (no matter how heroic and over-the-top). As a result, Iron Eagle was made without US military cooperation where Top Gun relied on the US military for both equipment and script approv...
Top Gun is just now receiving its first sequel, 35 long years after the original. In contrast,Iron Eagle received a sequel only two years after the first film in 1988. Not only that,Iron Eagle soon followed this feat with another sequel in 1992, and the fourth film in 1995. Admittedly, Iron Eagle’s sequels were not successes at the box office, with...
Despite the ample evidence that Iron Eagle did not rip off Top Gun, many fans can be found claiming the opposite online. Even generally well-informed sources make the mistakes, as epitomized by one major review’s dismissal of Iron Eagle: “There’s no apparent logic to any of this, except as a way to capitalize on the current vogue for imperialist fe...
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Apr 20, 2022 · The movie performed well at the box office, raking in more than $24 million, despite a substantially lower (and painfully obvious) budget. Apparently audiences didn’t care whether shots of exploding jets still had visible wires dangling the stationary planes from the ceiling.
Iron Eagle is an action film series that lasted just under ten years, from 1986 to 1995. They follow the exploits of the United States Air Force Colonel (later Brigadier General) Charles "Chappy" Sinclair (Louis Gossett Jr.) in his seemingly never-ending battles against hostile foreign regimes, drug smugglers, terrorists, and rogue government ...
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