In 1975, Charles and his family were caught in a deadly fire in their triplex apartment on East 80th Street in New York City.
"[1] His first professional credit came on the 1988 horror film on Monkey Shines, which was financially backed by his father.
[6] In 1998, Evans said he had purchased a script by Frederic Raphael which adapted the 1905 Edith Wharton novel, The House of Mirth, for the big screen.
[7] But financing and cast did not fall into placed in time, and producer Olivia Stewart's competing project made it into production first.
[9] In 1996, Evans optioned the book Howard Hughes: The Untold Story, by Pat H. Broeske and Peter Harry Brown.
Spacey helped Evans find financing, and New Regency Productions agreed to put up the money.
Mann subsequently hired Tony- and Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan in the spring of 1999[10] to write yet another screenplay.
Evans sued for breach of implied contract, fraud, and intentional interference with economic advantage.
[11] Mann strongly denied the accusations, arguing that his Howard Hughes biopic had nothing to do with the one he and Evans had worked on.
A confidential out-of-court settlement was reached in 2001, and Evans was granted producer credit on Mann's New Line Cinema picture.
Also added as producer was Graham King, whose Initial Entertainment Group helped finance the picture.
[13] During the after-show picture-taking, King and Mann invited Climan and Scorsese to stand on the stage with them, but Evans was not.
[9] Evans subsequently demanded that he be included as one of the three producers nominated to receive the Oscar should The Aviator win the Academy Award for Best Picture.