The films were somewhat controversial at the time because the producers, Alexander and Ilya Salkind, decided to split the first film into two after principal photography was completed.

However, the original ending for the first film where Superman flew from accident to disaster was deemed to be missing a certain something by the film's independent financiers Ilya Salkind and his father Alexander Salkind.

The decision to remove him from the film series, made by producers Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind, has been widely viewed as a huge mistake on the Salkinds ' part, as the subsequent Superman films helmed by their preferred director Richard Lester, though still breaking the $ 100 million mark for domestic USA alone, were perceived as being of poorer quality and quickly resulted in a downward spiral in popularity for the series.

* Alexander Salkind ( 1921 – 1997 ), film producer

Marlon Brando played Jor-El in the 1978 film Superman, which Alexander Salkind, his son Ilya Salkind, and their business partner Pierre Spengler produced and which Richard Donner directed.

Jor-El was " played " by George Lazenby, who was actually playing the role of an alien disguised as Jor-El, in the late 1980s television series Superboy, which Alexander Salkind and his son Ilya Salkind produced for first-run syndication.

* Santa Claus: The Movie, a 1985 Alexander Salkind film

Viacom had cancelled the Superboy television series produced by Alexander Salkind ( Salkind produced the first three Superman films starring Christopher Reeve, as well as the Supergirl movie ).

* By the time The Death of Superman hit the newsstands, Warner Bros. had gained the rights to produce a fifth Superman film from Alexander Salkind.

She publicly disagreed with the decision of producers Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind to replace Richard Donner as director of 1980's Superman II.

Alexander Salkind ( June 2, 1921 – March 8, 1997 ) was the second of three generations of successful international film producers.

Alexander Salkind died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1997 and was buried in the Cimetière de Bagneux in the Parisian suburb of Montrouge.

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The Superboy series was brought to the screen by executive producers Ilya and Alexander Salkind, the producers of the first three Superman movies and the 1984 Supergirl movie.

Also noteworthy were her films The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, again acting with Raquel Welch ; both films being produced by Ilya and Alexander Salkind.

It is the last major fantasy film produced by the Paris-based father-and-son production team of Alexander and Ilya Salkind.

Echion (), also known as Aetion, was a celebrated Greek painter spoken of by Lucian, who gives a description of one of his pictures, representing the marriage of Alexander and Roxana.

Macdonald calls Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain and Alexander Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia " powerful orchestral pictures, each unique in its composer's output ".

In 1815 Alexander I of Russia purchased 38 pictures from the heirs of Joséphine de Beauharnais, most of which had been looted by the French in Kassel during the war.

Working with low budgets, and influenced by the French New Wave, such directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg and Wim Wenders made names for themselves and produced a number of ' small ' motion pictures that caught the attention of art house audiences, and enabled these directors ( particularly Wenders and Schlöndorff ) into better-financed productions which were backed by the big US studios.

The Pope Alexander VI pressured Florence to remove these lifelike pictures, and they were eventually destroyed in 1494.

" Alexander Pope in the Dunciad spoke of the Emblems, " Where the pictures for the page atone And Quarles is saved by beauties not his own.

Beginning shortly before the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, Repin painted a series of pictures dealing with the theme of the Russian revolutionary movement: Refusal to Confess, Arrest of a Propagandist, The Meeting, and They Did Not Expect Him.

As soon as the 1934 Iofan-Shuko-Gelfreikh draft was published, the Palace became a symbol in Soviet art, appearing in propaganda pictures such as those by Alexander Deineka.

Alexander bluntly told Boll that his movies were " bloated, expensive and incoherent attempts at aping American genre pictures, sporting some of the most boneheaded casting choices in filmdom ".

Further bequests included £ 1, 400 and two houses in Marylebone and Argyll Ground Westminster to John Sherwine of Soho plus £ 100 to be given to a charity of Sherwine's daughters choice, to Robert Pringle of Clifton a Cavendish Square house and £ 400 and to Cosmo Alexander ( 1724 – 1772 ) a Scottish painter " my house I live in withall its furniture as it stands with pictures bustoes etc ".

* Strandbeestmovie. com-documentary film about Theo Jansen by Alexander Schlichter-The website is a workbook with videos and pictures.

Before the introduction of the " HD ready " certification, many TV sources and displays were being promoted as capable of displaying high definition pictures when they were in fact SDTV devices ; according to Alexander Oudendijk, senior VP of marketing for Astra, in early 2005 there were 74 different devices being sold as ready for HD that were not.

As one who shares much of the blame for casting another shadow — the shadow of Susan Alexander Kane — I rejoice in this opportunity to record something which today is all but forgotten except for those lucky enough to have seen a few of her pictures: Marion Davies was one of the most delightfully accomplished comediennes in the whole history of the screen.

During the winter of 1887, as he worked to complete Alexander Borodin's unfinished opera Prince Igor, Rimsky-Korsakov decided to compose an orchestral piece based on pictures from The Arabian Nights as well as separate and unconnected episodes.

Kansas City Pioneer Square monument in Westport features Pony Express founder Alexander Majors, Westport / Kansas City founder John Calvin McCoy and Mountainman Jim Bridger who owned Chouteau's Store.

First owned and published by Alexander Macmillan, Nature was similar to its predecessors in its attempt to “ provide cultivated readers with an accessible forum for reading about advances in scientific knowledge .” Janet Browne has proposed that “ far more than any other science journal of the period, Nature was conceived, born, and raised to serve polemic purpose .” Many of the early editions of Nature consisted of articles written by members of a group that called itself the X Club, a group of scientists known for having liberal, progressive, and somewhat controversial scientific beliefs relative to the time period.

The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010.

Russell Field Airport ( KALX ), off U. S. Highway 280 adjacent to the Airport Industrial Park, is owned and maintained by the City of Alexander City.

The township was named in honor of General Alexander Macomb, who was a highly decorated veteran of the War of 1812 ; his successful mercantile family owned most of Macomb County at one time.

The town is named after Alexander Macomb, who once owned much of northern New York as Macomb's Purchase.

Early on in the town ’ s history, pottery became an important part of Greensboro ’ s economic base, with the first operation owned and operated by Alexander Vance.

John Adams owned none ; George Washington freed his slaves in his will ( his wife independently held numerous dower slaves ); Thomas Jefferson freed five slaves in his will, and the remaining 130 were sold to settle his estate debts ; James Madison did not free his slaves but some were sold to pay off estate debts, and his wife and son retained most to work Montpelier plantation ; Benjamin Franklin freed his slaves ; Alexander Hamilton likely owned slaves and freed them, as he was an officer of the New York Manumission Society ; the society was founded by John Jay, who freed his domestic slaves in 1798, the same year as governor he signed a gradual abolition law in New York.

BBC executive Cecil Madden later recalled filming a production of The Scarlet Pimpernel in this way, only for film director Alexander Korda to order the burning of the negative as he owned the film rights to the book, which he felt had been infringed.

Alexander Pope ( 1688 – 1744 ) owned a copy of Rogers ' reprint of Crowley's edition of Piers Plowman with the Crede appended, and Isaac D ' Israeli ( 1766 – 1848 ) wrote in his Amenities of Literature that Pope had " very carefully analyzed the whole " of the latter text.

In 1858, Alexander Tilloch Galt made a motion in the Legislature at Kingston recommending that the Province of Canada ask the British Government to create a federal union of British North America ( Canada East and West, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia ) and Rupert's Land ( owned by the Hudson's Bay Company ).

The Evening Standard and The Independent are both owned by Russian businessman and ex KGB agent Alexander Lebedev.

Initially ignored by the state media, bards like Vladimir Vysotsky, Bulat Okudzhava, Alexander Galich gained so much popularity that they finished being distributed by the state owned Melodiya record company.

Commercial vehicle manufacturers active in the UK include Alexander Dennis, Ford, GMM Luton ( owned by General Motors ), Leyland Trucks ( owned by Paccar ) and London Taxis International.

RAR is owned by Alexander L. Roshal, the elder brother of Eugene Roshal.

The British Argosy magazine ( also known as “ The Argosy ”) was founded by Alexander Strahan in 1865, and later owned and edited by Ellen Wood.

During the English Civil War the manor house at Hillesden, was owned by Sir Alexander Denton, Member of Parliament for Buckingham.

Innes Road running through the Hamlet was named after Alexander Innes who owned a farm further west than Blackburn Hamlet.

Olympic Aviation was created on August 2nd, 1971, when Olympic Airways was still owned by Aristotle Onassis, by his son Alexander.

Following several poor sets of results for the group, HMV put the chain up for sale and in May 2010, it was announced that A & NN Capital Fund Management, owned by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut, had bought the chain and appointed James Daunt as managing director.

Merchant Stuart Alexander Donaldson ( 1812 – 1867 ), the first Premier of New South Wales, owned the farming property known as ' The Montmorency Estate ' until the 1840s.

After Alexander died, the lease was taken over by Gilbert Miller, the American impresario, who later purchased the theatre and owned it up to its eventual sale for re-development and demolition.

* Evening Standard-Previously owned by Associated, after facing financial difficulties the paper was purchased by Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev, on 21 January 2009, for the price of £ 1.