“Around the World in 80 Days” is a 2004 film created in collaboration with American, Irish, British and German filmmakers. 110 million dollars were spent on the production of a film of the genre of adventure comedy; in addition, the creators of the cinema project spent 30 million on advertising. The film did not justify these costs, having collected at the box office only 72 million dollars. The fee from film distribution in Russia amounted to 2 642 million dollars.
Actors "Around the World in 80 Days": Jackie Chan, Cecile De France, Robert Fife, Steve Coogan and others. A 120-minute feature film was shot in several countries: China, Thailand, Germany, Poland, and the United States. The premiere of the film, created with the direct participation of Disney, took place in early June 2004. This two-hour picture is based on the fantastic work of Jules Verne.
Plot
The actors “Around the World in 80 Days” present a film for family viewing of category 6+. The main character of this adventure story is Phileas Fogg, a talented inventor with a reputation in the scientific community as a madman. To prove his worth in inventive work, Fogg promises Lord Kelvin to travel around the world in 80 days. In this matter, his footman Passepartout helps him. And later Monnik, an artist from France, joins the travelers, a very cheerful person who wants to see new countries as soon as possible as a participant in this crazy experiment, which, it would seem, cannot fail to end in collapse. However, the newly-minted companions, who in the near future will have to visit the most exotic places, themselves do not yet know how difficult their mission will be.
Lead actor
Steve Coogan is an actor in 80 Days Around the World. His role was played by Phileas Fogg, an eccentric inventor with pompous behavior who thoughtlessly started this journey. The image created in this cinematic project was supposed to be a happy ticket to the "Hollywood world" for the Briton Steve Coogan. But this did not happen, since the picture, on which its creators had high hopes, was a failure and received negative reviews from film critics.
Actor Biography
Steve Coogan, who today manifests himself not only as an actor, but also as a composer, screenwriter and producer, was born in the city of Middleton (England). He took part in the creation of 186 cinematographic and television projects, including feature films “Dancer”, “Filomena”, “Ruby Sparks” and the series “Mighty Bush”, “Type of happiness”.
The first cinematic role Steve Coogan received in 1984, playing in the series "Replica." In 1989, fans of comedy horror films praised his work in the television movie "Tales from the Crypt." And in 1997, the actor appeared in front of the audience as the leading actor in the British comedy series I Am Alan Partridge.
In 2017, the actor of the film “Around the World in 80 Days” (2004) Steve Coogan “gave” his voice to one of the characters in the cartoon “Despicable Me 3”. A year earlier he played in the movie "The Comforter" of the fantasy genre. The main character of this picture, Brian involuntarily exchanged the clerk's everyday life for a trip to a parallel world. He would be glad to return back, but he just does not know how to do this.
Now the actor replenishes his professional baggage with roles in the films "Catastrophe", "Stan and Ollie".
According to the zodiac sign Steve Coogan - Libra. His height is 179 cm, age is 52 years. He was married to Caroline Hickman.
Starring
The surname Cecile De Franstezhe appears in the list of actors "Around the World in 80 Days." This actress is played by French-Belgian descent as the artist Monnik, whose passion for travel sometimes becomes a big problem for the English inventor.
Cecile De Franstezhe was born in the town of Namur (Belgium) on July 17, 1975. It was easy for people around her to understand that the girl wanted to become an actress, since she, as a very young person, participated in various theater productions, and when she was 17 years old, she went to France to learn the basics of the acting profession.
Famous works of the artist
The actress, who has 70 cinematographic roles on her professional account, knows about the films “Enemy of the State”, “Me, Caesar” and the series “Young Dad”. Cecile, included in the cast of actors “Around the World in 80 Days” (2004), is known to the public as an actress in a comedy role, although in her career there are roles in melodramas and dramas.
On the way to great fame, De France made a stop in the project “The Art of Seduction”, where she performed the main character Laura, a capricious girl who offers a guy who has romantic feelings for her, in less than six months to become an ideal lover.
In 2017, fans enjoyed her game in the films “Deliver Me From Doubts” and “Django”.