However, the film's ambitious scope and its extensive effects work forced Campbell, Raimi and producer Rob Tapert to put up $ 1 million of their collective salaries to shoot a new ending and not film a scene where a possessed woman pushes down some giant pillars.

Castle invented the Cabbie character and came up with the film's ending.

One of the most controversial scenes was the film's ending: Brian's crucifixion.

In 1991 Scott's notes were used by Warner Brothers to create a rushed director's cut which removed the voiceovers originally added at the request of worried executives before the film's release, and made a number of other small changes, including to the ending.

In an interview decades later, Roberta Findlay said that the film's distributor Allan Shackleton had read about snuff films being imported from South America and retitled the film to Snuff to exploit the idea ; he also added a new ending that depicted an actress being murdered on a film set.

Roger Ebert has written of the film's ending:

On the Laserdisc audio commentary, Scorsese acknowledged several critics ' interpretation on the film's ending being Bickle's dying dream.

Industry insiders said that the release delay was because nervous executives ordered the film's ending completely re-shot.

The film's ending begins the 1995 comic series Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny, which moves forward to depict Indiana and his father searching for the Holy Lance in Ireland in 1945.

Colonel Linnan was portrayed as half-European, a change which she found insulting to his Chinese lineage, and she felt her reputation damaged by the Hollywood-embellished love scenes in the film ; not only had she never kissed any man, but also the film's ending portrayed her character abandoning the orphans in order to join the colonel elsewhere even though in reality she did not retire from working with orphans until she was sixty years old.

Test audience reaction to Spock's death and the film's ending ( the tone of which was dark and final ) was poor, so Bennett made it more uplifting by adding a final scene revealing Spock's casket on the Genesis planet.

The 2002 TV documentary on the making of the film, The Tramp and the Dictator, presented newly discovered footage of the film production ( shot by Chaplin's elder half-brother Sydney ) which showed Chaplin's initial attempts at the film's ending, filmed before the fall of France.

The draft that Allen presented to the film's editor, Ralph Rosenblum, concluded with the words, " ending to be shot.

At this point, the story proceeds to one of three endings: A, B, or C. In the film's initial theatrical run, some theaters announced which ending the viewer would see.

The gang looks at their dead boss and with both the Screwface's dead are presumed to be arrested at the film's ending.

Sometime after its first release, the ending was crudely altered on the film's original negative, removing over a minute's worth of shots where Hammer and Velda escape and superimposing the words " The End " over the burning house.

The film's ending also became iconic as " one of the bloodiest death scenes in cinematic history ".

Other music includes incidental music in the scene at the Ritz and an arrangement of I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby during the beginning and ending credits by the film's musical director Roy Webb.

While the Internet Movie Database states that the film's original ending had been reinstated for a re-release in 1979, Steve Biodrowski of Cinefantastique magazine claims that the film is still being released with its additional footage, including a screening at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2005, honouring director Don Siegel.

The original ending also appeared on a special edition VHS and Laserdisc release by Paramount in 1992, and was included on the film's DVD release a decade later.

On 25 July 2003, cinemas started showing the alternative ending after the film's credits.

On the DVD commentary, Boyle and Garland explain that this was the original ending of the film's first cut, which was tested with preview audiences.

Criticism was also drawn from the film's ending, claiming following Stallone's last minute decision not to kill Rocky, the film's build-up and narrative was lost.

Even though the villain's body count is only two, the film's " whodunit " plot structure, knife-wielding and mentally disturbed killer, twist ending and ' stalking ' camera technique proved influential on films to come.

On the film's DVD commentary, Di Novi mentions that the filmmakers wanted to use the original Doris Day version of the song, but Day would not lend her name to any project using profanity.

Following the film's success, Dixit became famously known as the " Dhak Dhak Girl " for her performance in the famous song " Dhak Dhak Karne Laga ".

They watch as the Transylvanians, servants and a tap-dancing groupie dance the film's signature song, " Time Warp ".

The song " Show Me Love " was prominently used in the 1998 Lukas Moodysson film Fucking Åmål, and the song's title was used as the film's title in English-speaking countries.

He began acting and composing for film with Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence ( 1983 ), which he starred in and composed the score for ; the song " Forbidden Colours " which he composed for it became a worldwide hit and he won a BAFTA Award for the film's score.

The band started drifting back together in 1998. and officially re-formed to record a song for the soundtrack of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, at the behest of the film's director ( and Hoffs ' husband ) Jay Roach.

The song was not used in the movie, nor was the band, the only band not to receive a call-back to perform live for the film's " Battle of the Bands " sequence, perhaps due to the fact that the Germs ' chaotic Roxy performance had featured an unscripted, full-on food fight.

The short film's episodes are framed by dreamy paintings and the song " Michelangelo Antonioni ", composed and sung by Caetano Veloso.

*** " The Young Ones " ( song ), the film's title track.

It features the opening title song " Reach For The Sun ( Summer Holiday )" ( released as a single to coincide with the film's release ) and a memorable music-fantasy sequence, where the Team perform a cover version of The Cowsills 1967 song " The Rain, The Park & Other Things ".

In 2005, Bridges, known as " The Dude " in the film Big Lebowski, showed up at a Lebowski Fest in Los Angeles singing and playing the film's theme song written by Bob Dylan, " Man in Me ".

The song, entitled " The Song of the Heart ", appears on the film's soundtrack, which also features a cover of Prince's earlier hit " Kiss ", sung by Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.

A number of films have used the title of a Cure song as the film's title, including Boys Don't Cry ( 1999 ) and Just Like Heaven ( 2005 ).

On the final day of shooting, Jackson discovered that the scene in which Uncle Remus sings the film's signature song, " Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah ", had not been properly blocked.

His theme song " Sweepin ' the Clouds Away " from the film Paramount on Parade ( 1930 ) was one of its theme songs and was played in the end credits of the film's second part.

Having been originally approached by his friend Emilio Estevez to lend " Wanted Dead Or Alive " as the theme song for his upcoming Billy The Kid sequel, Jon Bon Jovi ended up composing an all new theme song for the film's soundtrack and delivering his first solo album.

Davis performed a novelty song, " They're Either Too Young or Too Old ", which became a hit record after the film's release.

Evans had also hired Jim Bridger ’ s great-grandnephew, Bobby Bridger, to sing the film's theme song.

The song is played over the end credits of the film and appears on the film's soundtrack album.

In 1984, Ray Parker Jr. was signed by the producers of Ghostbusters to develop the film's title song.

His first theatrical film direction was 2003's Blizzard for which he received a " Best of Fest " award from the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, and a Genie Award nomination for his work on the film's theme song, " Center of My Heart.

While the song is only heard briefly in the film ( on a car radio ), it is available on the film's soundtrack.

The film's theme song is " In the Sentimental Past " ( 當年情 ), performed by lead Leslie Cheung, composed and arranged by Joseph Koo and written by Wong Jim.