He has also appeared in box office hits such as Days of Thunder, Hot Shots !, Twister, Liar, Liar and New Year's Eve.

The Stock Car Speed Association ASCAR or Days of Thunder was a " Nascar " style racing series based at Rockingham, United Kingdom, though the series did also race at the Lausitzring in Germany as well.

* Days of Thunder ( 1990 )

The city itself also hosts an annual celebration named Canadian Days in early August with its sister city Thunder Bay, Ontario, in Canada.

* Lee USA Speedway, a NASCAR track where several scenes of Days of Thunder ( starring Tom Cruise ) were filmed

Other roles during this period that displayed the actor's wide range included that of a crew chief in Days of Thunder ( 1990 ), a retiring cop in Falling Down ( 1992 ), an Hispanic barber in Wrestling Ernest Hemingway ( 1993 ), a New York tabloid editor in The Paper ( 1994 ), a rural doctor in Phenomenon ( 1996 ), an abusive father in 1996's Slingblade, an astronaut in Deep Impact ( 1998 ), a trail boss in Open Range ( 2003 ), a soccer coach in the comedy Kicking & Screaming, an old free spirit in Secondhand Lions ( 2003 ), a Las Vegas poker champion in Lucky You and a New York police chief in We Own the Night ( both 2007 ).

On one occasion, a fan asked Forster what he thought of the movie Days of Thunder.

The novel Seven Days in May mentions a facility called Mount Thunder, a reference to Mount Weather, but the road descriptions in the book make it quite clear that it is the same facility.

* Days of Thunder go-kart tracks were renamed Thunder Alley.

He had a number of other hits including the Beverly Hills Cop films, Top Gun and Days of Thunder.

Shortly after starring in National Lampoon Christmas Vacation, Randy Quaid was also featured in Days of Thunder as comical NASCAR car owner and successful car salesman Tim Dailand, a determined businessman who expects his team to be top-notch for fans and sponsors.

* Russ Wheeler, a character played by Cary Elwes in the film Days Of Thunder

It opened at # 4, behind Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Days of Thunder, and Dick Tracy, with a weekend gross of $ 5, 029, 640, for an average of $ 3, 220 from 1, 562 theaters.

* 46 is the number of the City Chevrolet and Superflo cars driven by Cole Trickle in the movie Days of Thunder.

He appeared in the 1983 film Stroker Ace and the 1990 film Days of Thunder.

Wallace made a cameo appearance in the movie Days of Thunder.

In 1993, they added a motion simulator attraction, originally featuring the Days of Thunder film, and Lion County Safari was removed at the end of the season.

He appeared in Days of Thunder ( 1990 ) as stock car crew member “ Buck Bretherton ” – in 2006 he revisited this film ’ s subject matter as the character of race car driver “ Cal Naughton, Jr .” in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

His films were generally more popular with audiences than critics and includedThe Hunger ( 1983 ), Top Gun ( 1986 ), Beverly Hills Cop II ( 1987 ), Days of Thunder ( 1990 ), The Last Boy Scout ( 1991 ), True Romance ( 1993 ), Crimson Tide ( 1995 ), Enemy of the State ( 1998 ), Spy Game ( 2001 ), Déjà Vu ( 2006 ), The Taking of Pelham 123 ( 2009 ) and Unstoppable ( 2010 ).

Once again directing Tom Cruise, Scott returned to the Simpson-Bruckheimer fold to helm the big-budget racing film Days of Thunder ( 1990 ).

Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that after Top Gun, Scott " found his commercial niche as a brash, flashy, sometimes vulgar action painter on celluloid ", citing Beverly Hills Cop II, Days of Thunder, The Last Boy Scout, True Romance, and The Fan as examples.

He subsequently met film and TV actress Donna Wilson — who was 24 years younger than him — on the set of Days of Thunder in 1990 and they subsequently married in 1994.

* Days of Thunder ( 1990 )

He also had a longtime working relationship with director Blake Edwards, starring in My Sister Eileen ( 1955 ), Days of Wine and Roses ( 1962 ), The Great Race ( 1965 ) and That's Life!

*" What if ... starring Secret Wars: 25 years later " the children of heroes are teleported back to earth where sometime in the last 25 years, a variation of " Days of future's past " is shown when the group is attacked by Sentinels

* In the 1956 film Around the World in Eighty Days, starring David Niven, Passepartout ( played by Cantinflas ) rescues a princess captured by the Thuggee and sentenced to burn to death in the funeral pyre with her deceased husband.

Other films shot in widescreen were the musical Happy Days ( 1929 ) which premiered at the Roxy Theater, New York City, on February 13, 1930, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell and a 12 year old Betty Grable as a chorus girl ; Song o ’ My Heart, a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms ), which was shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, but never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger ( the 35mm version, however, debuted in New York on March 11, 1930 ); and the western The Big Trail ( 1930 ) starring John Wayne and Tyrone Power, Sr. which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on October 2, 1930, all of which were also made in the 70mm Fox Grandeur process.

When director Mario Bonnard fell ill during the production of the 1959 Italian epic The Last Days of Pompeii ( Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompei ), starring Steve Reeves, Leone was asked to step in and complete the film.

Roddy McDowall, who had a long distinguished career including as the regular star of the Planet of the Apes series ; Ron Howard, who, in addition to being the star of the long running Happy Days television series, became an Oscar-winning director in adulthood ; Elijah Wood, who continued his career successfully into adulthood from playing Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings film series and starring as Ryan Newman in the T. V.

The 2007 independent feature film, Dog Days of Summer, starring Will Patton was shot entirely on location in historic Edenton.

The first film that Brown and the band appeared in was Seven Days ' Leave starring Victor Mature and Lucille Ball.

It was also used for location work in the 1975 pilot episode of Ripping Yarns, Tomkinson's Schooldays written by and starring Michael Palin and Terry Jones, and was used for exterior and interior locations in 1980 in the BBC production of To Serve Them All My Days starring John Duttine and Frank Middlemass.

He began acting in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and a starring role in Days of Heaven.

* La Décade prodigieuse ( 1971 ) ( English title, Ten Days ' Wonder ) directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles.

* Happy Days starring Charles E. Evans and Marjorie White and featuring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell

Among his 2007 roles were Resurrecting the Champ, a drama also starring Samuel L. Jackson, and the graphic novel-based 30 Days of Night, in which he played a small-town sheriff.

She is known for her role as Teresa Lisbon in the television series The Mentalist, as well as starring in Prison Break and the movies The Craft, End of Days, and Vertical Limit.

In 2002, he wrote the screenplay for Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, starring Cillian Murphy.

She later starred in the comedy series Battery Park and has appeared in television and films including the 1994 remake of Miracle on 34th Street and 2000's 28 Days starring as Sandra Bullock's sister.

She is best known for her starring role as Selena in 28 Days Later, as well as her supporting turn as Tia Dalma / Calypso in the second and third Pirates of the Caribbean films.

Days of Heaven is a 1978 American romantic drama art film written and directed by Terrence Malick and starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard and Linda Manz.

Three Days of the Condor is a 1975 US political thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, and Max von Sydow.