8½ inspired among others: Mickey One ( Arthur Penn, 1965 ), Alex in Wonderland ( Paul Mazursky, 1970 ), Beware of a Holy Whore ( Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971 ), Day for Night ( François Truffaut, 1973 ), All That Jazz ( Bob Fosse, 1979 ), Stardust Memories ( Woody Allen, 1980 ), Sogni d ' oro ( Nanni Moretti, 1981 ), Parad Planet ( Vadim Abdrashitov, 1984 ), La Pelicula del rey ( Carlos Sorin, 1986 ), Living in Oblivion ( Tom DiCillo, 1995 ), 8½ Women ( Peter Greenaway, 1999 ), Falling Down ( Joel Schumacher, 1993 ), along with the successful Broadway musical, Nine ( Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, 1982 ).

Zombie s in Romero's influential Night of the Living Dead.

An influential American horror film of this period was George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ).

Examples include, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, The Evil Dead, I Am Legend, Land of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Quarantine and The Return of the Living Dead.

Any list of these would have to include the Night of the Living Houses ( said to be the first comic strip to enter the collection of the Louvre ) wherein Nemo and a friend are chased down a city street by a gang of tenement houses on legs ; the Walking Bed, in which Nemo and Flip ride over the rooftops on the increasingly long limbs of Nemo's bed ( see illustration ); and the Befuddle Hall sequence, wherein Nemo and his friends attempt to find their way out of a funhouse environment of a Beaux-Arts interior turned topsy-turvy.

Zombies became a popular device in modern horror fiction, largely because of the success of George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead and they have appeared as plot devices in various books, films and in television shows.

King partly dedicated his book Cell to film director George Romero, and wrote an essay for the Elite DVD version of Night of the Living Dead.

Patrick Taggart of the Austin American-Statesman hailed it as the most important horror film since George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ).

Night of the Living Dead is an American independent horror film directed by George A. Romero and starring Duane Jones, Judith O ' Dea and Karl Hardman.

Night of the Living Dead was heavily criticized at its release owing to explicit content, but eventually garnered critical acclaim and has been selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as a film deemed " culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.

Night of the Living Dead was the basis of five subsequent Living Dead films ( 1978-2010 ) also directed by Romero and has inspired two remakes ( 1990, 2006 ).

After Night of the Living Dead, he was in a few other films, and continued as a theater actor and director until his death in 1988.

Assessing Night of the Living Dead, she stated " I honestly had no idea it would have such a lasting impact on our culture ".

ho-hum Judy O ' Dea until they realize Barbra from Night of the Living Dead.

Part one became Night of the Living Dead.

Discussing the creation of Night of the Living Dead, Romero remarked, " I had written a short story, which I basically had ripped off from a Richard Matheson novel called I Am Legend.

Night of the Living Dead was the first feature-length film directed by George A. Romero.

Romero's decision to direct Night of the Living Dead essentially launched his career as a horror director.

Miller admits, however, that " Night of the Living Dead takes greater relish in mocking these military operations through the general's pompous demeanor " and the government's inability to source the zombie epidemic or protect the citizenry.

Although zombie cannibals were inspired by Matheson's I Am Legend, film historian Robin Wood sees the flesh-eating scenes of Night of the Living Dead as a late-1960s critique of American capitalism.

The Manhattan-based Walter Reade Organization agreed to show the film uncensored, but changed the title from Night of the Flesh Eaters to Night of the Living Dead because a film had already been produced under a similar title to the former.

: Music from the soundtrack of Night of the Living Dead.

Jello Biafra of The Dead Kennedys, in the song " Saturday Night Holocaust ", likened disco to the cabaret culture of Weimar-era Germany for its apathy towards government policies and its escapism.

After a string of successful films, including the comedies The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ), The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ) and The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), as well as dramas like Dead of Night, Scott of the Antarctic and The Cruel Sea, Ealing Studios finally ceased production in 1958, and the studios were taken over by the BBC for television production.

The band also contributed most of the show's original music, including " My Lovely Horse ", as used in the episode " Song For Europe " and " My Lovely Mayo Mammy " for the episode " Night of the Nearly Dead ".

The film grossed US $ 121. 6 million in its theatrical run, placing it as the tenth highest-grossing film of 1992 and the highest-grossing film ever based on a Saturday Night Live skit.

After becoming a Saturday Night Live cast member, Sandler went on to star in several Hollywood feature films that grossed over $ 100 million at the box office.

The film grossed almost $ 47 million in the United States alone, and recovered Travolta from the flop " Moment by Moment " ( 1978 ), but the film was nowhere near as successful as either " Saturday Night Fever " ($ 94 million ) or " Grease " ($ 188 million ).

The film opened on October 8, 2004 and grossed $ 4, 022, 693 in its opening weekend at # 6, behind Shark Tales second weekend, Friday Night Lights, Ladder 49s second weekend, Taxi, and The Forgottens third weekend.

It was released in October 1975 in New York City and Chicago, and previously played under the title Silent Night, Evil Night in Virginia in July 1975. and grossed over $ 4, 053, 00 internationally, managing to earn more than the film's budget of $ 620, 000.

Later on, she agreed to appear in It Happened One Night only if her salary was doubled to $ 50, 000, and also on the condition that the filming of her role be completed in four weeks so that she could take her well-planned vacation.

In 1987, after ABC initially hedged on renewing its contract to carry Monday Night Football, Fox made an offer to the NFL for the same amount ABC had been paying, about $ 13 million per game at the time.

ABC's daytime lineup became strong throughout the 1970s and 1980s with the soap operas General Hospital, One Life to Live, The Edge of Night ( which had moved to ABC from CBS in late 1975 ), All My Children, and Ryan's Hope, and the game shows The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, Let's Make a Deal, Split Second, The $ 20, 000 Pyramid and Family Feud.

opens ; Dragster H2O added to Soak City ; Fast Lane ; $ 15 million in improvements to the park: New lights on Giant Wheel, Millennium Force, and Power Tower ; Blue Streak and Giant Wheel repainted ; Iron Dragon midway renamed Celebration Plaza with new show, Luminosity — Ignite the Night!

The advertisement's imagery of shelter animals mixed with the soundtrack and McLachlan's simple appeal for donations has raised $ 30 million for the ASPCA since it began to air in 2006, which allowed the organization to air appeals in higher profile prime-time cable ad slots ; subsequently the organization produced a new ad for the 2008 holiday season featuring McLachlan appealing for the ASPCA over her Wintersong performance of " Silent Night ", and a new ad with her was released in January 2009 featuring the song " Answer ".

* April 24 – Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels makes a semi-serious on-air offer to pay the Beatles $ 3000 to reunite live on the show.

It was at first rejected and Bergman was given the go-ahead for the project from Carl-Anders Dymling at Svensk Filmindustri only after the success at Cannes of Smiles of a Summer Night Bergman rewrote the script five times and was given a schedule of only thirty-five days and a budget of $ 150, 000.

Ferrell became the highest paid cast member of Saturday Night Live in 2001 with a season salary of $ 350, 000.

* January 13 – ABC and ESPN negotiate a $ 1. 15 billion a season contract to keep Monday Night Football.

The pilot episode, " The Night of the Inferno ", was produced by Garrison and, according to Robert Conrad, cost $ 685, 000.

A A $ 4. 5 million 88-metre symbolic tower for the Expo was constructed, called The Night Companion, which featured a gold and copper dome black spire top, with a xenon laser beam eye that scanned the Brisbane horizons each Expo evening up to 60 km away.

In 1960, Arthur Wang of Hill & Wang — who Wiesel writes " believed in literature as others believe in God "— agreed to pay a $ 100 pro-forma advance, and published a 116-page English edition in the United States in September that year as Night, translated by Stella Rodway of McGibbon & Kee.

The eventual winner was Terrace, British Columbia, which received an NHL preseason game, $ 100, 000 for arena upgrades, and a broadcast of CBC ’ s " Hockey Night in Canada ".

The film, Night of Dark Shadows, was shot in six weeks on a budget of $ 900, 000 and released in 1971, after the TV show had left the air.

Miller charged the group US $ 6, 000 to produce the songs " Red Neck Hoe ," " Psychopathic ," " Your Rebel Flag ," and part of " Night of the Axe.

The bid, negotiated by Alan Eagleson, who, at the time, was both Orr's agent and a Hockey Canada director, outbid McLaren Advertising, producers of Hockey Night in Canada, which had offered $ 500, 000.

In September 2007, Triumph was interviewed by Dr. Phil ( a mock interview on Late Night ) to discuss Triumph's lawsuit against Trouble Helmsley claiming that Trouble ( Leona Helmsley's dog that inherited $ 12 million when Helmsley died ) is the mother of his child.

Night Shift earned $ 23. 6 million in the United States.

When Formula One raced at IMS, midget, sprint, and stock car races were held at ORP in the " Night Before F1 " meets, including the 2002 and 2003 USGP races that featured a twin 25-lap midget format, with a full inversion, and the winner winning $ 50, 000 if he could win both features.

In 1907 May Night ( Corcoran Gallery of Art ) won the Corcoran gold medal, was honored with the top purchase prize of $ 3, 000, and was the first contemporary American painting to be bought by that institution.

It went on to gross $ 461, 981, 604 worldwide ( ranking number 6 in 2006 films ) and $ 244, 082, 982 in the United States ( the third highest-grossing film of 2006 in the country, behind Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Night at the Museum ).