According to The Times, although Wilson sold for a high price, there are some iconic items that still dwarf the amount: The 6th Critics' Choice Movie Awards Winners and Nominees". Broadcast Film Critics Association. Archived from the original on January 4, 2012. Weekend Box Office Results for December 22-25, 2000". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 . Retrieved April 9, 2015. When the Matt Damon film The Martian came out, critics immediately compared it to Cast Away and wrote “ The Martian is Cast Away in space,” especially because both films featured men marooned, alone, and trying to survive, and both movies were distributed by Fox. The difference is Matt Damon’s Mark Watney had the ability to communicate with people. In a USA Today profile, Damon disagreed with the comparisons. “It’s not Cast Away in the sense that it’s actually a guy who is behaving with the expectation that people are watching him. He’s on video all the time on these GoPros. Nobody’s seeing the video feed live, but he’s behaving as if someday someone might.” 13. Cast Away was depicted in an unauthorized parody film.

Wallace consulted with Kuehne and Volleyball and Soccer Business Manager, Alan Davenport. It was a more vague request than Wilson usually received, but with the reassurance only Tom Hanks could provide, the team agreed to send Fox what it had asked for… which was actually soccer balls.Watch: Tom Hanks throws first pitch at Guardians home opener". Fox 8 Cleveland WJW. April 15, 2022 . Retrieved April 16, 2022. Wallace confirms that two decades, dozens of focus groups and brand studies later, Wilson the Volleyball from "Cast Away" is still one of the top three things people know about the brand.

Germain, David (December 27, 2000). " 'Cast Away' sails to top of debut list". The Associated Press. The Daily Journal. p.10. Archived from the original on September 26, 2023 . Retrieved September 26, 2023– via Newspapers.com. Carlson, Paul (August 2007). "Cast Away and the Texas Panhandle" (PDF). The Cyclone. Vol.XIV, no.2. West Texas Historical Association. pp.1–2. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 19, 2015 . Retrieved January 2, 2015. Accounts of Selkirk’s experiences were later published in newspaper articles of the times and in books by his former shipmate Edward Cooke and the leader of the expedition on the ship that had rescued him, Woodes Rogers. What other real life castaways were there? How Phish Phooled with a Phake Hanks". people.com. Archived from the original on January 1, 2021 . Retrieved September 23, 2021.Unlike Tom Hanks in the film, she was left trying to survive in cold climates, with just a cat who had been aboard the ship for company. He was eventually rescued in 1709, four years after his arrival, when a ship came by and took him aboard. While there, he made himself find his own food, water, which included breaking open coconuts and eating speared stingrays, and building shelter made of bamboo and palm leaves. From a sheer exposure standpoint, this goes much deeper than simple product placement,” said then-General Manager of Wilson Team Sports, Chris Considine. “This bumps us out of the gym and into the arena of pop culture.”

a b Kehr, Dave (December 17, 2000). " 'Cast Away' Director Defies Categorizing". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 22, 2018 . Retrieved October 18, 2012.Schaefer, Stephen (January 31, 2001). "SAG might shake up Oscar field". The Boston Herald. Archived from the original on November 11, 2013 . Retrieved October 9, 2013. Wilson Sporting Goods is no stranger to product donation requests. For over a century, the company has provided equipment for community organizations, fundraisers, youth sports leagues, pro teams, and everything in between. It wasn’t a paid product placement, so we had no idea until after the film was released,” Kuehne adds. “That’s why we were a few months behind in producing replica balls.”

Find CinemaScore" (Type "Cast Away" in the search box). CinemaScore. Archived from the original on January 2, 2018 . Retrieved July 25, 2020. It was a representative from 20th Century Fox, one of the most prominent production companies in the world. He explained to Molly that the studio was about to start filming a movie and hoped Wilson could provide some balls to be used in the film. The reality show debuted on May 31, 2000, about seven months before Cast Away was released. In similar fashion, a group of people are stranded in an exotic location and must compete against each other, and the show became an immediate hit for CBS. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Hanks said he was “spooked by the show’s like-minded theme” but he knew “we didn’t have a trivial film. Good or bad, we always had something that was much more substantial than what is essentially a game show that is a television phenomenon.” 9. Cast Away led to the creation of Lost. At this point, all Wallace, Davenport, and Kuehne knew was that a one-sided Wilson Volleyball was going to be in a Tom Hanks movie. And that’s all the information they would have for the better part of a year.I immediately started getting calls from the media. And I felt like an idiot because I had no idea what they were talking about,” Wallace laughs. “Fox still hadn’t told us anything at all about the storyline or how the volleyballs had been used.” The price for the prop paid by an anonymous buyer "places it high among the most expensive movie props ever sold at auction," the British newspaper The Times reported. It was expected to sell for 60,000 British pounds. Among the most famous is the story of Alexander Selkirk, who is known by some as a real-life Robinson Crusoe, inspiring the Daniel Defoe novel. There were several more real life castaways over the years, some of whom had ended up in isolation by force, and others of their own accord.