Super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer recently told People magazine that Bruce Willis was so generous on the set of their 1998 blockbuster “Armageddon” that he gave money away to the crew to make sure people had some “nice extra cash at the end of the week.

As legendary producer Jerry Bruckheimer gears up to release several movies this summer, including Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Bad Boys: Ride or Die and Young Woman and the Sea, he’s looking back on one of his past seasonal blockbusters.

Armageddon, which also starred Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton, Steve Buscemi and Owen Wilson, follows a group of oil drillers that NASA recruits to fly into space to save the planet after they discover that a massive asteroid is quickly heading toward Earth. The Michael Bay-directed movie scored four Oscar nominations.