Budget
$19,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend
$622,337 (USA) (26 May 1980) (10 Screens)Gross
$44,017,374 (USA) (31 December 1980)$622,337 (USA) (26 May 1980)
AUD 3,722,000 (Australia) ( 1980)
HKD 2,751,789 (Hong Kong) ( 1983)
ITL 3,548,800,000 (Italy) ( 1981)
€1,353,605 (Spain) (20 December 2002)
SEK 6,140,088 (Sweden)
$7,000,000 (West Germany) ( 1980)
Weekend Gross
$622,337 (USA) (26 May 1980) (10 Screens)Admissions
2,220,100 (France)1,326,293 (Spain) (20 December 2002)
273,783 (Sweden)
2,022,832 (West Germany) ( 1980)
Rentals
$30,900,000 (USA)Movie Posters:
Imagery:
Shining Trivia:
- According to Shelley Duvall the infamous 'Heere's Johnny!' scene took 3 days to film and the use of 60 doors. + For the scene in which Jack breaks down the bathroom door, the props department built a door that could be easily broken. However, Jack Nicholson had worked as a volunteer fire marshal and tore it apart far too easily. The props department were then forced to build a stronger door.
- Garret Brown does say however that the scene where Hallorann explains to Danny what shining is was shot 148 times
- Stanley Kubrick considered both Robert De Niro and Robin Williams for the role of Jack Torrance but decided against both of them. Kubrick didn't think De Niro would suit the part after watching his performance in Taxi Driver, as he deemed De Niro not psychotic enough for the role. He didn't think Williams would suit the part after watching his performance in Mork & Mindy, as he deemed him too psychotic for the role.
- Stanley Kubrick, known for his compulsiveness and numerous retakes, got the difficult shot of blood pouring from the elevators in only three takes. This would be remarkable if it weren't for the fact that the shot took nine days to set up; every time the doors opened and the blood poured out, Kubrick would say, "It doesn't look like blood." In the end, the shot took approximately a year to get right.
- During the shooting of the movie, Lloyd was under the impression that the film he was making was a drama, not a horror movie. He only realized the truth seven years later, when, aged 13, he was shown a heavily edited version of the film. He didn't see the uncut version of the film until he was 17 - eleven years after he'd made it.
- The "snowy" maze near the conclusion of the movie consisted of 900 tons of salt and crushed Styrofoam.
- The making-of documentary shot by Vivian Kubrick shows that the hedge maze set, while nowhere near as large as the maze in the film (which was mostly a matte painting), was still large and complex enough to require a detailed map. In the commentary for her documentary, she notes that many crew members really got lost in the maze, dryly noting that it now reminds her of the lost-backstage scene in This Is Spinal Tap. + There was no air conditioning on the sets, meaning it would often become very hot. The hedge maze set was stifling; actors and crew would often strip off as much of the heavy clothing they were wearing as quickly as they could once a shot was finished. + The maze was constructed on an airfield near Elstree studios, by weaving branches to chicken wire mounted on empty plywood boxes. The maze was shot using an extremely short lens (a 9.8mm, which gives a horizontal viewing angle of 90 degrees) which was kept dead level at all times, to make the hedges seem much bigger and more imposing than they were in reality.
- Shelley Duvall revealed that due to her role requiring her to be in an almost constant state of hysteria, she eventually ran out of tears from crying so hard. To overcome this she kept bottles of water with her at all times on set to remain hydrated.
- Approximately 5000 people auditioned for the role of Danny over a six-month period. The interviews were carried out in Chicago, Denver and Cincinnati by Stanley Kubrick's assistant Leon Vitali and his wife, Kersti
- The film took almost 200 days to shoot. However, according to assistant editor Gordon Stainforth, it took much more, nearly a year. The film was originally supposed to take 17 weeks, but it ultimately took 51
- The shot of the tennis ball rolling into Danny's toys took 50 takes to get right.
- The scene towards the end of the film, where Wendy is running up the stairway carrying a knife, was shot 35 times; the equivalent of running up the Empire State Building.
-How many steps are there to the top of the Empire State Building?
There are 1,860 from street level to 102nd floor.
How tall is it?
There are several numbers to describe the height of the Empire State Building. The total height of the building, including the lightning rod, is 1,454 feet. The height of the building from the ground to its tip is usually given as 1,250 feet. The measurement from the ground to the 102nd floor observatory is 1,224 feet and from the ground to the 86th floor observatory is 1,050 feet.
There are several numbers to describe the height of the Empire State Building. The total height of the building, including the lightning rod, is 1,454 feet. The height of the building from the ground to its tip is usually given as 1,250 feet. The measurement from the ground to the 102nd floor observatory is 1,224 feet and from the ground to the 86th floor observatory is 1,050 feet.
- This film was shot in the same film studio that was used for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. In fact, much of the same fake snow used for this film was used for the Hoth scenes.
- Garrett Brown discovered that Danny weighed about as much as a film camera. A chair was fashioned with webbing and “he would yell with delight as he swooped along riding suspended from the Steadicam arm.
- He saw a chance to create text for Jack’s novel, and decided there should be a real manuscript of 500 or so pages. A secretary was hired to type the phrase ”All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” over and over, so no matter where Shelley dipped into paper, she would find it. The secretary spent months and months typing out pages, formatted differently, with typos and the weirdness of typewriters.
- Kubrick shot over 1.3 million feet of film during a shooting schedule of nearly a year.
Rank
|
Movie Year
|
Adjusted for Inflation Box Office $ (millions)
|
Cogerson Movie Score
|
Critics Audience Rating
|
Oscar Noms / Win
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st
|
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
|
349.60
|
83.90
|
90%
|
04 / 01
|
2nd
|
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
|
185.00
|
81.69
|
88%
|
04 / 00
|
3rd
|
Spartacus (1960)
|
288.50
|
75.80
|
88%
|
06 / 04
|
4th
|
Barry Lyndon (1975)
|
80.70
|
63.34
|
88%
|
07 / 04
|
5th
|
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
|
95.40
|
62.86
|
93%
|
04 / 00
|
6th
|
The Shining (1980)
|
137.70
|
57.99
|
87%
|
00 / 00
|
7th
|
Lolita (1962)
|
107.60
|
54.62
|
88%
|
01 / 00
|
8th
|
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
|
97.00
|
51.50
|
90%
|
01 / 00
|
9th
|
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
|
89.60
|
45.38
|
75%
|
00 / 00
|
10th
|
Paths of Glory (1957)
|
38.30
|
38.97
|
90%
|
00 / 00
|
11th
|
The Killings (1956)
|
10.60
|
33.27
|
89%
|
00 / 00
|
12th
|
Killer's Kiss (1955)
|
0.80
|
26.23
|
75%
|
00 / 00
|
13th
|
Fear and Desire (1953)
|
0.80
|
26.12
|
64%
|
00 / 00
|
Sources:
http://kubrickfilms.warnerbros.com/video_detail/shining/
http://www.fast-rewind.com/trivia_shining.htm
http://kubrickfilms.warnerbros.com/video_detail/shining/
http://www.fast-rewind.com/trivia_shining.htm
http://www.pajiba.com/seriously_random_lists/mindhole-blowers-20-facts-about-the-shining-that-might-make-you-say-talk-to-the-finger.php
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~mkb9600/finalproject/facts.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/
http://cogerson.hubpages.com/hub/Stanley-Kubrick-Movies-Best-to-Worst-With-Box-Office-Results-with-Inflation
http://cogerson.hubpages.com/hub/Stanley-Kubrick-Movies-Best-to-Worst-With-Box-Office-Results-with-Inflation
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