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.

* Mxyzptlk was considered as one of the villains in Superman III, as written in an outline by Ilya Salkind.

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.

* Brainiac was considered to be the main antagonist for Superman III, along with Mister Mxyzptlk, when Ilya Salkind made an early treatment.

* Ilya Salkind, movie producer

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

Salkind's son, Ilya Salkind ( b. 1947 ), is also a film producer.

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.

Instead Ilya Salkind shares ownership with Warner Bros. Television, who holds international distribution rights, and Viacom successor-in-interest CBS Television Distribution, who would distribute any reruns in the United States.

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.

Conceived by Ilya Salkind in the wake of the apparently waning critical and U. S. box office success of 1983's Superman III and its immediate follow-up, 1984's Supergirl, Santa Claus: The Movie was directed by Jeannot Szwarc, who had directed Supergirl, from a story by David and Leslie Newman.

Moore had always been the top choice to play the lead Elf in the movie, Ilya Salkind having remembered a scene in Arthur in which Liza Minnelli's character asks Moore if he is Santa's Little Helper.

For a while, Ilya Salkind actively pursued Carroll O ' Connor for the role before Szwarc showed him David Huddleston's screen-test, which won Salkind over.

** Christopher Columbus: The Discovery-Warner Bros .-Alexander Salkind / Ilya Salkind

The party flew on three planes ( pilots Ivan Cherevichnyy, Vitaly Maslennikov and Ilya Kotov ) from Kotelny Island to the North Pole and landed there at 4: 44pm ( Moscow Time, UTC + 04: 00 ) on April 23, 1948.

Saint Nicholas of Myra Saves Three Innocents from Death ( oil painting by Ilya Repin, 1888, State Russian Museum ).

* Homage to Friends from Montparnasse by Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska ( Marevna ), c. 1962, oil / canvas, top left to right: Diego Rivera, Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani, his wife Jeanne Hébuterne, Max Jacob, galerie owner Leopold Zborowski ; bottom left to right: Marevna, her and Diego Rivera's daughter Marika, ( Amedeo Modigliani ), Moise Kisling.

Detail from Ilya Repin's celebrated portrait of Mussorgsky, painted 2 – 5 March 1881, only a few days before the composer's death.

Ilya Bryzgalov shined as the Ducks swept the Avalanche and Bryzgalov broke Giguere's scoreless streak record from the 2003 season.

His circle of close friends, which included Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani and Modigliani's wife Jeanne Hébuterne, Max Jacob, gallery owner Léopold Zborowski, and Moise Kisling, was captured for posterity by Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska ( Marevna ) in her painting " Homage to Friends from Montparnasse " ( 1962 ).< ref >

In late 1935, Rothko joined with Ilya Bolotowsky, Ben-Zion, Adolph Gottlieb, Lou Harris, Ralph Rosenborg, Louis Schanker and Joseph Solman to form " The Ten " ( Whitney Ten Dissenters ), whose mission ( according to a catalog from a 1937 Mercury Gallery show ) was " to protest against the reputed equivalence of American painting and literal painting.

* Marevna, " Homage to Friends from Montparnasse " ( 1962 ) Top left to right: Diego Rivera, Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani, his wife Jeanne Hébuterne, Max Jacob, gallery owner Leopold Zborowski.

Her ancestors emigrated from Belarus and lived in the village of Ilya, in the Minsk area, and her great-grandmother was murdered in the Holocaust.

Never on Sunday (, ) is a 1960 Greek black-and-white film which tells the story of Ilya, a prostitute who lives in the port of Piraeus in Greece, and Homer, an American tourist from Middletown, Connecticut — a classical scholar enamored with all things Greek.

Ilya meets with two British sailors from the HMS Manchester.

The Supremus group, which in addition to Malevich included Aleksandra Ekster, Olga Rozanova, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Ivan Kliun, Liubov Popova, Nikolai Suetin, Ilya Chashnik, Nina Genke-Meller, Ivan Puni and Ksenia Boguslavskaya, met from 1915 onwards to discuss the philosophy of Suprematism and its development into other areas of intellectual life.

* Marevna, " Homage to Friends from Montparnasse " ( 1962 ) Top left to right: Diego Rivera, Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani, his wife Jeanne Hébuterne, Max Jacob, gallery owner Leopold Zborowski.

Gerontology ( from the Greek γέρων, geron, " old man " and-λογία ,-logy, " study of "; coined by Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov in 1903 ) is the study of the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging.

In Nash's sophomore campaign, he improved his rookie goal total from 17 to 41, a career high that tied Jarome Iginla and Ilya Kovalchuk for the Rocket Richard Trophy for most goals in the league.

After confessing to the destitute, pious prostitute Sonia Semyonovna Marmeladova, she guides him towards admitting to the crime, and he confesses to Ilya Petrovich, a police lieutenant with an explosive temper ( the book implies the policeman suspected him from the start ).

Along the way he single-handedly defended the city of Chernigov from nomadic invasion ( possibly by Polovtsi ) and was offered knighthood by the local ruler, but Ilya declined to stay.

In Kiev, Ilya was made chief bogatyr by Prince Vladimir and he defended Rus ' from numerous attacks by the steppe people, including Kalin, the ( mythical ) tsar of Golden Horde.

Although the remains of Ilya Muromets are supposedly stored in Kiev Pecherski Monastery, his character probably does not represent a unique historical persona, but rather a fusion of multiple real or fictional heroes from vastly different epochs.

Thus, Ilya supposedly served Prince Vladimir of Kiev ( ruled 980 – 1015 ); he fought Batu Khan, the founder of Golden Horde ( c. 1205 – 55 ); he saved Constantine the God-Loving, the tsar of Constantinople, from a monster ( there were a number of Byzantine emperors named Constantine, none of them contemporaries of Prince Vladimir or Batu Khan, and the one most likely to be called " God-loving " was Constantine XI, 1405 – 53 ).

Ilya Repin's painting shows Sophia after her fall from power, confined to a cell in the Novodevichy Convent

Pobedonostsev was known for his gaunt figure and pale, corpse-like countenance, as one may judge from this portrait by Ilya Repin.

* Ilya Pasternak, fictional character from the video game Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation