The unopened FedEx package in Cast Away symbolizes hope ... to go into further detail about the final scene in Cast Away. Making movies is never an easy process, but making Forrest Gump was ...

Tom Hanks did not film Cast Away “600 miles south of the Cook Islands,” as Helen Hunt says in the movie. The survival ... the infamous wing-engraved FedEx package. Apparently, the alternate ...

Tom Hanks spends nearly the entirety of Cast Away with a single unopened FedEx package, but what was in there during the movie? "I made Cast Away because I wanted to examine the concept of four ...

FedEx Corp. hit the product-placement jackpot with “Cast Away,” a movie in which Tom Hanks plays ... FedEx provided filming locations at its package sorting hubs in Memphis, Los Angeles ...

Make another movie, with the same crew, in the off-season. Robert Zemeckis admitted as much on Cast Away’s commentary: The only way I could then really make it become fiscally sound was to do ...

By Kirk Honeycutt On Dec. 22, 2000, Robert Zemeckis’ 142-minute survival tale Cast Away hit theaters ... Robert Zemeckis’ compelling visual design — as well as Helen Hunt in a small but ...

Cast Away is a handsome but ponderous hymn to the power of the human spirit. It's been a big critical and audience hit in America. Tom Hanks, who is on screen solo for more than half its length ...

The final scene of Cast Away has him delivering a FedEx package with angel wings painted on it, which is the only package from the plane he never opened. As he departs from the house he delivered ...

He said: “I realized that 747s filled with packages fly across the Pacific three times a day. “What happens if the plane goes down?'' Before writing the script for Cast Away, film writer ...

Released in 2000, audiences at first didn’t know what to make of director Robert Zemeckis’ Cast Away. Early in the movie, the plane that Hanks’ character Chuck Noland is on crashes into the sea.