Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)Based upon Tom Clancy""s novel, written in 1989.With two Academy Award nominations (and no wins): Best Sound Effects Editing, and Best Sound.With a production budget of $62 million, and box-office gross receipts of $122 million (domestic) and $216 million (worldwide).Dean""s warning about their doomed enterprise:Sister Briony: She has violent pains in her joints, a boil on her finger, and headaches.In more views, it moves across the face of the mountainside from lower right to upper left of the frame as the credits begin to roll, and the camera catches up with the car.Riding on Buckbeak""s back, they returned to the prison cell of the Dark Tower holding Sirius and freed him - he flew away on Buckbeak.