* 1892 – Jack Warner, Canadian-American film producer ( d. 1978 )

She starred opposite Anthony Perkins in the 1978 Alan Rudolph film Remember My Name and opposite Jeff Bridges in the 1979 film Winter Kills.

Holly's life story inspired a Hollywood biographical film, The Buddy Holly Story ( 1978 ).

Following the success of The Buddy Holly Story in 1978, Haley expressed interest in having his life story committed to film, but this never came to fruition.

* The first film based on the Triangle was The Bermuda Triangle in 1978.

Its success ( coupled with some theatrical releases of the film in Europe ) convinced CBS to turn it into a weekly series, which began airing in the Spring of 1978.

There have been infrequent scientific and amateur radio expeditions, and in 1978 Jacques-Yves Cousteau visited with his team of divers, plus a survivor from the 1917 evacuation, to film a television special called Clipperton: The Island that Time Forgot.

The Commodores made a brief appearance in the 1978 film Thank God It's Friday.

In addition to R-rated sex comedies and horror films, cheerleaders became a staple of the adult film industry, starting with Debbie Does Dallas ( 1978 ) and its four sequels.

In 1978, the first of four Superman films was made in which Clark Kent and Superman were portrayed by Christopher Reeve ( with teenage Kent played by Jeff East in the first film ).

It won a Special Jury Award at the Cannes International Film Festival for best short film, and received an Academy Award nomination ( for best animated short film ), both in 1978.

Most notably, the 1978 comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House was co-written by Chris Miller ' 63, and is based loosely on a series of stories he wrote about his fraternity days at Dartmouth.

* Dark Star, a 1978 film distributed by David Grant

More than half of the footage filmed for Superman II by the originally credited director ( Richard Lester ) has been removed from the film and replaced with Donner footage shot during the original principal photography from 1977 – 1978.

* 1978: Dylan: Life and Death of a Poet, a BBC Wales film of Thomas ' final two visits to America ; directed by Richard Lewis.

She claimed she was offered two highly sought-after movie roles: the part of possessed child Regan MacNeil in the 1973 film, The Exorcist, and the starring role in Louis Malle's 1978 film, Pretty Baby.

The short film Within the Woods ( 1978 ) was made as a prototype to help convince possible investors to fund The Evil Dead.

In 1978 when the film premiered, Werner Herzog cooked and publicly ate his shoe, an event later incorporated into a short documentary by Les Blank.

The 1978 British comedy film The Rutles was done in the style of rock documentary which treated the fake band The Rutles as if they were a real band.

Franklin James Schaffner ( May 30, 1920July 2, 1989 ) was an American film director best known for such films as Planet of the Apes ( 1968 ), Patton ( 1970 ), Papillon ( 1973 ), and The Boys from Brazil ( 1978 ).

The film was given a North American theatrical release in March 1978 by Bob Conn Enterprises under the title The Terror of Godzilla.

Henry Saperstein, who sold the theatrical rights to Bob Conn Enterprises, also released the film to television in late 1978, this time under the title Terror of Mechagodzilla.

Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ) and Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ) recalled the Vietnam war ; George A. Romero satirized the consumer society in his zombie sequel, Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ); Canadian director David Cronenberg featured the " mad scientist " movie sub-genre by exploring contemporary fears about technology and society, and reinventing " body horror ", starting with Shivers ( 1975 ).

Eastwood's only comedies have been Every Which Way but Loose ( 1978 ) and its sequel Any Which Way You Can ( 1980 ), which are his two most commercially successful films after adjustment for inflation.

Near the end of the decade, she starred in two films based on best-selling novels by her younger sister Jackie Collins: The Stud ( 1978 ) and its sequel The Bitch ( 1979 ).

She then landed her first major film role as Stephanie Zinone in Grease 2 ( 1982 ), the sequel to the smash-hit musical Grease ( 1978 ).

It was remade as Heaven Can Wait ( 1978 ), and Down to Earth ( 2001 ) ( sharing the name with the sequel to Here Comes Mr. Jordan ).

The next year Keaggy released the album Phantasmagorical: Master and Musician 2, the sequel to his 1978 masterpiece.

The Alton Estate has featured as a film and television location, Fahrenheit 451 ( 1966 ) used some of the estate as its backdrop for a bleak dystopian society of the future, and Thames Television's film division Euston Films used the Danebury Avenue area of the estate to film the opening scene's of Sweeney 2 ( 1978 )-the sequel to the film Sweeney!

The franchise began with the original television series in 1978, and was followed by a brief sequel TV series in 1980, a line of book adaptations, original novels, comic books, a board game, and video games.

* Oliver's Story ( 1978 ), sequel to Love Story, starring Ryan O ' Neal and Candice Bergen

* June 11 = Michelle Pfeiffer appears in her first leading role, in Grease 2, the sequel to the top grossing film of 1978 ( her film debut had come as Tony Danza's character's girlfriend in the 1980 movie The Hollywood Knights ).

Mackay returned to the role of the newly retired prison officer in the first episode of Going Straight ( 1978 ), the sequel series to Porridge.

The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight.

Barker did, however, reprise his role as Fletcher in a sequel, Going Straight, which ran for one series in 1978.

A sequel concert, California Jam II, was held in 1978.

Two years after his death, he appeared in the film Superman Returns in archive footage as Superman's father Jor-El, a role he played in the original 1978 film Superman and in the 1980 sequel Superman II.

Jaws 2 is a 1978 horror / thriller film and the first sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws ( 1975 ), which was based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name.

In 1979, he achieved his international breakthrough with Zombi 2, a violent zombie film that was marketed in European territories as a sequel to George Romero's Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ).

She reprised her role in the sequel, Exorcist II: The Heretic ( 1977 ), garnering a Saturn Award nomination for Best Actress of 1978.

* Die Erben der Tante Jolesch ( 1978 ) ( the sequel to the above )

It is for his more infamous productions that De Laurentiis's name has become known — the legendary King Kong ( 1976 ) remake, which was a commercial hit, Lipstick, the killer whale film Orca ( 1977 ); The White Buffalo ( 1977 ); the disaster movie Hurricane ( 1979 ); the remake of Flash Gordon ( 1980 ); Halloween II ( the 1981 sequel to John Carpenter's 1978 classic horror film ); David Lynch's Dune ( 1984 ); and King Kong Lives ( 1986 ).

The original 1972 Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman series was followed by two sequel series, Gatchaman II ( 1978 ) and Gatchaman Fighter ( 1979 ).

In 1978, Beatty appeared in Gray Lady Down ( 1978 ), portraying Mickey and was cast by Richard Donner to portray Lex Luthor's henchman Otis in Superman: The Movie ( 1978 ), with Christopher Reeve and Gene Hackman, as he would in the 1980 sequel, directed by Richard Lester, where we see his character being left behind in prison.