* January 1 – A black monolith — dubbed the Seattle Monolith — measuring approximately tall appears in Seattle, Washington's Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous artist in reference to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.

* The Monolith and primitive human scene from the movie 2001 are depicted in satirical form in the opening video of Mucky Foot Productions game Startopia.

Warner Bros. Studios had acquired Monolith Productions during 2004 and is expecting for the movie to receive a currently to be announced 2008 theatrical release date.

In 1979, Hanks moved to New York City, where he made his film debut in the low-budget slasher film He Knows You're Alone ( 1980 ) and got a part in the television movie Mazes and Monsters.

Their best known songs to date are " Brain Collapses ", " Unveiling the Secret ", " Eternal ", " Misery ", " Tears ", " Sanctuary ", " Gods and Monsters ", " 15 Minutes ", and a remake of the famous Q Lazzarus song " Goodbye Horses " made popular by the movie The Silence of the Lambs ; as well as their cover version of Soft Cell's " Sex Dwarf ".

The half-man half-fish character known as The Missing link ( often referred to as ' Link ') in the movie Aliens vs. Monsters is an homage to the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

His 1995 novel Father of Frankenstein, about film director James Whale, was made into the 1998 movie Gods and Monsters starring Ian McKellen, Lynn Redgrave, and Brendan Fraser.

The movie gave a nod to its source following the robbery with the newspaper headline, " Mechanical Monsters Unearth Generators.

After attempts to make another Hedorah movie failed, Toho begun work on a very different project with Godzilla vs. the Space Monsters: Earth Defense Directive.

While the finished product was much closer to the Japanese original than The Volcano Monsters would have been, it still differed greatly from Toho's original movie.

Mazes and Monsters is a 1982 made-for-TV movie directed by Steven Hilliard Stern about a group of college students and their interest in a fictitious role-playing game ( RPG ) of the same name.

Sweet Tooth is also an unlockable character in War of the Monsters, a game in which Incognito used the TMB engine to make a movie monster fighting game.

The book was adapted into a made-for-television movie ( see Mazes and Monsters ) in 1982.

He was also " Maurice " in the 1989 movie Little Monsters.

He lent his voice to the Dreamworks computer-animated hit movie Monsters Vs. Aliens.

A character in the DreamWorks Animated movie Monsters vs. Aliens named B. O. B.

In a series later on that was released after the final episodes, there was a special movie that used these Capsule Monsters as a main part of the game.

He left to work as a scriptwriter on an abortive Astro Boy movie project, and wrote several episodes of Halcyon Sun for Kuju Entertainment, before serving as a writer or translator on TV programs, including Japanorama ( BBC Three ), Saiko Exciting ( Sci-Fi Channel ) and Godzilla: King of the Monsters ( BBC Two ).

* Monsters, Inc., one of the CDA ( Child Detection Agency ) agents near the end of the movie ( when Roz, agent 001, enters the room ) has the number on the uniform.

Also, they contributed to the theatrical movie Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.

Famous Monsters of Filmland was resurrected in 1993 by New Jersey portrait photographer and monster movie fan Ray Ferry.

In recent years, older attractions have been replaced with newer ones that feature movie tie-ins: Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters and Monsters, Inc. Ride & Go Seek are two examples.

" Kinky Boot Beasts " make a brief appearance in the Sea of Monsters sequence in the 1968 Beatles ' movie Yellow Submarine.

Begun by James Warren, Warren Publishing's initial publications were the horror-fantasy -- science fiction movie magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland and Monster World, both edited by Forrest J Ackerman.

Steve Plunkett-When the original group disbanded in 1989, Plunkett became a staff writer and producer for All Nations Music, where he had over 170 of his songs released, including over 40 in movies like Rock Star, " Brave New Girl " ( Britney Spears penned movie for ABC Family ) and Gods and Monsters.

* Destroy All Monsters, a 1968 Japanese movie

In the movie Monsters, Inc., Joe Ranft had a monster named after him ( J. J. Ranft ) as most of the scarers in the film were named for Pixar staff.

Frankenheimer's first theatrical film was The Young Stranger ( 1957 ), starring James MacArthur as the rebellious teenage son of a powerful Hollywood movie producer.

In her next-to-last movie, Hellcats of the Navy ( 1957 ), she played nurse Lieutenant Helen Blair and shared the screen for the only time with her husband, playing what one critic called " a housewife who came along for the ride ".

Ironically, for an artist considered one of the Italian cinema's greatest and most influential directors, De Sica's sole Academy Award nomination was for acting, when he received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop.

In 1957, with the publication of the book The Three Faces of Eve and the popular movie which followed it, the American public's interest in multiple personality was revived.

They met during the making of the movie Štěňata ( 1957 ).

This story started as the CBC TV movie Flight into Danger, then became the 1957 Paramount Pictures movie Zero Hour !, and was finally published as the novel Runway Zero-Eight ( ISBN 0-440-17546-1 ).

* Portions of the 1957 movie " Raintree County " were filmed in Garrard County.

" Fluke " Holland, and Jay Perkins in the movie Jamboree ( 1957 film ) | Jamboree.

Shankar won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury at the 1957 Berlin International Film Festival for composing the music for the movie Kabuliwala.

The town of Ludlow features the first victim of the 1957 movie Beginning of the End.

* William Marchant ( 1923 – 1995 ), playwright and screenwriter, best known for writing the play that served as the basis for the 1957 Walter Lang movie, The Desk Set.

The Scaroon Manor was the site for the 1957 Warner Brothers movie " Marjorie Morningstar " which starred Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood.

Also of interest is Shootout at Medicine Bend shot in 1955, but released in 1957, which was Scott's last movie in black and white.

Despite these failures, Francis was hired to record the vocals for Tuesday Weld's " singing " scenes in the 1956 movie Rock, Rock, Rock, and for Freda Holloway in the 1957 Warner Brothers rock and roll movie Jamboree.

Thalberg was portrayed in the movie Man of a Thousand Faces ( 1957 ) by Robert Evans, who appropriately enough went on to become a studio head himself.

A fictional doomsday bomb, made popular by Nevil Shute's 1957 novel, and subsequent 1959 movie, On the Beach, the cobalt bomb was a hydrogen bomb with a jacket of cobalt metal.

When the film won the Special Jury Prize at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival, the attention generated by it ( along with the previous year's Smiles of a Summer Night ) made Bergman and his stars Max von Sydow and Bibi Andersson well-known to the European film community, and the critics and readers of Cahiers du Cinéma, among others, discovered him with this movie.

In 1957 Greene played the role of the prosecutor in the movie Peyton Place.

The film also performed very well at the box office, being the fourth most popular movie in Britain in 1957.

He appeared with Count Basie and his Orchestra in the 1957 rock and roll movie Jamboree ( 1957 film ), released by Warner Brothers.

In her third movie role, Blue Murder at St Trinian's ( 1957 ) she had a non-speaking role in which, despite sharing equal billing with the star Alastair Sim on posters and appearing in many publicity stills in school uniform, she was required only to sit up in bed wearing a nightdress, reading a book whilst the action took place around her.