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Escape from New York is a 1981 American science fiction action film directed and scored by John Carpenter.

A sequel, Escape from L. A., was released in 1996.

Carpenter originally wrote the screenplay for Escape from New York in 1976, in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal.

Escape from New York grossed $ 25. 2 million in American theaters in summer 1981 with a comparable gross in the international market, resulting in a $ 50 million box office, a revenue-production ratio of almost 7: 1.

J. J. Abrams, producer of the 2008 film Cloverfield, mentioned that a scene in his film, which shows the head of the Statue of Liberty crashing into a New York street, was inspired by the poster for Escape from New York.

Escape from New York was released on DVD twice by MGM ( USA ), and once by Momentum Pictures ( UK ).

* Escape from New York at Official John Carpenter's Website

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PC Gamer wrote that Exile: Escape from the Pit " offers an easygoing point-and-click interface ; pleasant, if unambitious, graphics ; ... literate prose ; and a vast scope.

* Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time.

Together with undersea archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, Hackman has written three historical fiction novels: Wake of the Perdido Star ( 1999 ), a sea adventure of the 19th century, Justice for None ( 2004 ), a Depression-era tale of murder, and Escape from Andersonville ( 2008 ) about a prison escape during the Civil War.

* Escape from Hell ( 2009, sequel to Inferno )

Van Cleef also had a supporting role in John Carpenter's cult hit Escape from New York.

During the launch phase of the mission, the Mercury spacecraft and astronaut were protected from launch vehicle failures by the Launch Escape System.

Jenkins mentions use of the word in book titles including Life among the Moonies and Escape from the Moonies, and comments: " These titles further illustrate how the derogatory term ' Moonie ' became a standard for members of this denomination, in a way that would have been inconceivable for any of the insulting epithets that could be applied to, say, Catholics or Jews.

John Carpenter's Escape from New York ( 1981 ) influenced the novel ; Gibson was " intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake ' You flew the Gulfire over Leningrad, didn't you?

* Escape from East Berlin ( 1962 )

In 2000, Gellar guest appeared as Debbie in the HBO series Sex and the City episode " Escape from New York ".

Escape from the gas giants ( especially Jupiter ) seems well beyond current or near-term foreseeable chemical-rocket technology however, due to the combination of large velocity and high acceleration needed even to achieve low orbit.

* Maugham, Robin, 1970, Escape from the Shadows.

He has since appeared in starring and supporting roles in many films, including Francis of Assisi, The Fiercest Heart, The Longest Day, The Comancheros ( sharing leading man status with John Wayne ), Convicts 4, The Day and the Hour, Signpost to Murder, Shock Treatment, Rio Conchos, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Sands of the Kalahari, The City Beneath the Sea, An American Dream, The Last Escape, The Invincible Six, Night of the Lepus, Shatter, Captain Apache, Strange Shadows in an Empty Room, Guyana: Crime of the Century, Treasure Seekers and The White Buffalo.

The Escape Club's cover single of The Doors ' " 20th Century Fox " appeared on the The Wonder Years: Music From the Emmy Award-Winning Show & Its Era, which also received airplay on MTV.

* Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century, a nonfiction book on cyberpunk by Mark Dery

" Deus Ex Machina: Technopaganism ," in Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century.

* In the 1971 20th Century Fox film Escape from the Planet of the Apes, the characters Zira and Cornelius are briefly quarantined at the Los Angeles Zoo.

It has been featured in many movies and television series over the years including: Strange Days, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Blue Thunder, Breathless, This is Spinal Tap, Hit the Booty Do, In the Line of Fire, Nick of Time, True Lies, Midnight Madness, Showtime, Hard to Kill, The Lincoln Lawyer, Chuck, Moby Dick, The Fantastic Journey and was destroyed ( via special effects ) in Escape from LA and Epicenter.

The band went on to record a second album, Escape from the 20th Century, which included tracks produced by legendary hip hop producer Prince Paul.

Leoniders are mentioned in " Noon: 22nd Century ", " An Attempt to Escape " and " Beetle in an Anthill ".

Other roles for Campbell included the Michael Crichton adaptation Congo, the film version of McHale's Navy, and Escape From L. A., the sequel to John Carpenter's Escape From New York.

Other related artists include The Bran Flakes, Emergency Broadcast Network, Escape Mechanism, Negativland, John Oswald, People Like Us and The Tape-beatles.

Other units here include the Air Force Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape school, medical detachments, a weapons squadron and the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency.

Other projects included collaborations with John Zorn, Björk, Rahzel, Imani Coppola and The Dillinger Escape Plan.

The company's website, Cracked. com, continued on and has become known for its humorous lists and compilations, for example, " The 9 Most Obnoxious Memes to Ever Escape the Web ", " 6 Bizarre Forms of Discrimination That Can Lose You a Job " A book collection in that vein, You Might be a Zombie, and Other Bad News, was published in 2010.

Other current attractions include Stitch's Great Escape, Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin and Monsters, Inc.

He produced some of their best known songs to date, including (" There's No Other Way ", " Girls & Boys ", " Country House ", " Beetlebum ", and " Song 2 ") and some of their arguably most popular albums, Parklife, The Great Escape and Blur.

Other notable Australian novels converted to celluloid include: Paul Brickhill's The Great Escape ; Pamela Lyndon Travers ' Mary Poppins ; Morris West's The Shoes of the Fisherman and Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One.

Other artists include MC Lars, with whom he wrote the song " Twenty-three " on the " This Gigantic Robot Kills " album, and Pat Monahan, with whom he co-wrote " Great Escape " on the album " Last Of Seven ".

Other outstanding Mirisch films include John Ford ’ s The Horse Soldiers ; William Wyler ’ s The Children's Hour ; John Sturges ’ The Great Escape ; Blake Edwards ’ The Pink Panther, A Shot in the Dark, and The Party, all starring Peter Sellers ; Wilder ’ s Some Like It Hot, One, Two, Three, Irma La Douce, and The Fortune Cookie ; and Norman Jewison ’ s The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, an Academy Award nominee for Best Picture ; The Thomas Crown Affair ; and the motion picture versions of the Broadway plays Same Time, Next Year and Romantic Comedy and the musical Fiddler On The Roof, also an Academy Award nominee for Best Picture.

Other notable recent appearances include The Venture Bros., in the episodes " Escape to the House of Mummies Part II ," " I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills ," and " The Better Man ," in which he played Dr. Orpheus's master – who appears in the form of Cerberus, Catherine the Great's horse and, in " The Better Man ", both Dr. Orpheus's ex-wife and a future Dean Venture, respectively.

Other songs planned for the album were left out of this compilation as simply too raw, including " Come Down Hard On Me " ( originally released on Loose Ends ) and " Cherokee Mist " ( both released on 2000's four-CD The Jimi Hendrix Experience ), " Drifter's Escape " ( originally released on Loose Ends and later found on the 1997 compilation South Saturn Delta ) and " Valleys of Neptune " ( released on the 2010 album Valleys of Neptune in a major remix using the vocal track taken from one version overdubbed on to an instrumental backing track of another version recorded several months apart ).

Other examples include the films Total Recall and The Running Man, in which a net gun is used to capture the stuntmen of characters played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Escape from L. A. where Kurt Russell is captured doing his own stunt.

Other press sources described the accident as the " Miracle in Toronto ", the " Toronto Miracle ", the " Miracle " Escape, and the Miracle of Runway 24L ".

Other notable film roles from that period included War Party ( 1988 ), No Escape ( 1994 ), and The Doors ( 1991 ), in which he played drummer John Densmore.