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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cast Away stars Hanks as Chuck Noland, a FedEx employee who winds up stranded on a deserted island after a company plane crashes. His only company are the many packages that wash ashore.

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 ...

It’s one of Tom Hanks’ most iconic films, but the 2000 survival movie ... Cast Away. “I had that original idea. I was reading an article about FedEx, and I realised that 747s filled with ...