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Empire Records is a 1995 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Allan Moyle, written by Carol Heikkinen, and starring Anthony LaPaglia, Maxwell Caulfield, Debi Mazar, Rory Cochrane, Johnny Whitworth, Robin Tunney, Renée Zellweger, and Liv Tyler. The film follows a group of record store employees over the course of one exceptional ...
- Empire Records Flopped in Theaters.
- The Soundtrack Fared Much Better Than The Movie.
- The Sound Version of “Sugar High” Was Not The Intended Mix.
- Angelina Jolie Almost Played The Part of Deb.
- Tobey Maguire Was Cast in The Movie But Dropped Out Due to Personal reasons.
- Coyote Shivers Lied About His Age to Get The Part of Berko.
- Ethan Embry Had A Crush on Liv Tyler ... and So Did Everybody else.
- Renée Zellweger and Rory Cochrane Were Dating at The time.
- The Studio Made Allan Moyle Tone Down Empire Records.
- Tom Jones Inspired Rex Manning’s Wardrobe.
The film grossed just $293,879. Originally, Warner Bros. planned to release the film in 1250 theaters on September 22, 1995, but the studio wasn’t happy with the film, so they didn’t promote it in any way—no ad campaign, no big Hollywood premiere. The $10 million film, which only screened in 87 theaters, grossed $180,286 in its first week, but by t...
The soundtrack, which only featured 16 out of 50 songs used in the movie, cracked the top 100 Billboard charts and spawned two hit songs. The Gin Blossoms’s “Til I Hear It From You” was written by band members Jesse Valenzuela and Robin Wilson and musician Marshall Crenshaw. The song peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard chart and was the Gin Blossoms’s...
In the movie, Zellweger performed the song with Coyote Shivers. During an interview with Consequence of Sound, Shivers explainedwhy the version he and Zellweger sang in the movie isn’t the one that appeared on the soundtrack. Apparently the record company didn’t want it on the soundtrack, and the music supervisor thought the song was too loud. But ...
In hindsight, it would have made sense for Jolie to play the shaved-head and suicidal Deb, a role that eventually went to Robin Tunney. Producer Alan Riche described Jolie as being “a force of nature,” and considered her for the other female roles but, as Buzzfeed put it, “she was just too much.” Which begs the question: Would Jolie have actually s...
IMDb credits Maguire’s role as “Andre,” but the scenes he shot were cut. Empire Records filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, and director Allan Moyle forced all the actors to live in beachfront properties next door to each other to create real friendships. According to Buzzfeed, “Maguire showed up, felt aimless, may or may not have consumed a psyc...
Originally, producers wanted Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day to play the role, but his touring schedule wouldn’t allow for it. Shivers, who at the time of casting was in his late twenties, got picked to play a teenage character named Berko. In 2015, Shivers told Consequence of Soundhe lied about his age because the producers wanted a teen to pl...
“I just remember having the biggest crush on [Liv]. Ever. Which was very difficult, because then we went to shoot That Thing You Do! and I still had a f***ing crush on her,” Embry told The Wrap. During a Rex Manning Day video message, Maxwell Caulfield relayed how everybody in the cast took to Liv. “Liv Tyler was at the center of it all,” he said. ...
The couple met on the set of Dazed and Confused (Zellweger had a brief cameo) two years prior to filming Empire Records. They also appeared together in the 1994 film Love and a .45. Cochrane (who plays the store’s night manager Lucas) encouraged Zellweger to audition for the film, and she got the part of store employee Gina. In the movie, the stone...
At one point, the studio took the movie from the director and wouldn’t let him have final cut of it. “The studio was in a cocaine mentality, while we at the movie were in a pot mentality,” Moyle explained to BuzzFeed. Even though the script contained R-rated material, the studio wanted a PG-13 rating and rid the movie of much of its swearing and sc...
Costume designer Susan Lyall told BuzzFeed how former 1980s pop idol Rex Manning’s over-the-top wardrobe came to be. She found the purple satin shirt at New York’s Trash and Vaudeville and then added fringe to it. She described the fashion as being “Tom Jones + Rod Stewart + Trash and Vaudeville.”
- Garin Pirnia
Empire Records: Directed by Allan Moyle. With Anthony LaPaglia, Maxwell Caulfield, Debi Mazar, Rory Cochrane. Twenty-four hours in the lives of the young employees at Empire Records when they all grow up and become young adults thanks to each other and the manager.
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- Comedy, Drama, Music
- Allan Moyle
- 1995-10-20
Jun 4, 2017 · Despite performing poorly upon release both critically and commercially, Allan Moyle's Empire Records has gone on to become a coming-of-age classic, gradually amassing a cult following in...
Sep 22, 1995 · Empire Records is a 1995 coming-of-age comedy-drama directed by Allan Moyle. The film centers around a group of young employees working at an independent record store, grappling with personal issues and the potential corporate takeover of their cherished workplace.
May 26, 2023 · Maxwell Caulfield. Maxwell Caulfield joined the cast of Empire Records as Rex Manning. Rex is a former pop idol from the 1980s whose only fans are older women and Corey. He proves himself to be a creep when Corey approaches him and is eventually forced out of the store by the employees.
Apr 8, 2021 · Empire Records, directed by Allan Moyle and starring Anthony LaPaglia, Debi Mazar, Rory Cochrane, Johnny Whitworth, Robin Tunney, Renée Zellweger, Liv Tyler and Caulfield, was a major...
