Crew are also separate from producers, those who own a portion of either the film company or the film's intellectual property rights.

Because her international fame was triggered by moving images, she is a watershed figure in the history of modern celebrity and, as one of silent film's most important performers and producers, her contract demands were central to shaping the Hollywood industry.

The primary cast for First Contact is from the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series, to which the film's producers added Alice Krige, Neal McDonough, James Cromwell and Alfre Woodard.

Burton repeatedly clashed with the film's producers, Jon Peters and Peter Guber, but the most notable debacle involved casting.

The film's producers did not agree to his request for a message, making it clear that the film was a work of fiction, but agreed to include a message at the film's end mentioning the Royal Navy's role in the capture of U-110.

General Bradley also served as a military advisor and consultant to the film's producers.

At age 21 Diaz auditioned for The Mask, based on the recommendation of an agent for Elite, who met the film's producers while they were searching for the female main actress.

After the film's release, Valentino made a trip to New York where he met with several French producers.

In Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles m ' était conté, Louis was portrayed by one of the film's producers, Gilbert Bokanowski, using the alias Gilbert Boka.

During the annual Academy Awards ceremony, Best Picture is reserved as the final award presented and, since 1951, is collected at the podium by the film's producers.

Unlike the Academy Award for Best Picture, which officially goes to the winning film's producers, the Foreign Language Film Award is not given to a specific individual but is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole.

Altman was introduced to the story by David Foster, one of the film's producers.

After the film's producers found a clause in Vidor's contract, entitling the director to 20 % of the net profits, studio lawyers called for a meeting with him.

The producers of the film declined to make suggested changes which could have altered the film's status.

The film's producers chose New Richmond to serve as the fictional town of Hickory, and recorded most of the film's location shots in and around the community.

In fact, the movie transforms this girlfriend from Molly Millions into " Jade ", as the film rights to Molly were owned by a company unaffiliated with the film's producers.

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

Original drafter Hilary Henkin took the film's producers to court and threatened to quit the Writers Guild of America after director Barry Levinson chose not to award her a screenwriting credit.

I was one cog in a larger set of wheels that involved the Seattle International Film Festival, Film. com ( now part of RealNetworks ), First Look Releasing, and the film's producers, as well as another online development company and a CUSeeMe consultant who also worked for the government down in Texas.

Tisdel sued the producers of the film for unauthorized use of her name and likeness before the film's release.

The film's producers had initially approached Frank Zappa to ask him if they could make a film based on his song.

Stock footage was used inasmuch as the United States Air Force declined to cooperate with the film's producers fearful of possible negative publicity from a fictional plot predicated on an inability to positively control its forces.

The studio decided to contribute half of the film's $ 12 million budget.

After intense lobbying from Jewish groups, the Academy decided to designate Paradise Now as a submission from the Palestinian Authority, a move that was decried by the film's director Hany Abu-Assad.

Pennebaker, the film's writer ( and director ) decided to punctuate the title this way because he " was trying to simplify the language ".

The studio decided to change the film's title to a more conventional science-fiction one.

The film's working title was Fanfares of Love, then Not Tonight, Josephine, before the release title was finally decided as Some Like It Hot.

Passolini stated that he decided to " remake the Gospel by analogy " and the film's sparse dialogue all comes directly from the Bible.

In order to make the film more commercial, it was ultimately decided that the film's lead would be a teenage girl from contemporary America.

The film's working title was Burned to Light, but the director E. Elias Merhige decided to change the name of the film when Willem Dafoe asked, " Who's Ed?

With no major film studio prepared to fund The Ninth Configuration, Blatty decided to raise the film's $ 4 million budget by putting up half the money himself, and persuading the PepsiCo conglomerate to provide the remaining $ 2 million.

In one of the commentary sequences, the film's writer, David Benioff, said that when it came to deciding whether to follow Iliad or do what was best for the film, they always decided with what was best for the film.

In production, it was decided that the FX for Saturn's rings would be too expensive, so the film's voyage is to Jupiter, instead.

The original plan by the film's creators was to have a Kylie Minogue song in the finale, although it was later decided that an ABBA song would be more appropriate because its " tacky qualities " were " more timeless ".

The film's subsequent failure at the box office damaged her career in Hollywood until Warren Beatty decided to give her one more chance.

The film's producers wanted a known actor to play the part but kept coming back to Butler's screen tests and decided he was their man.

Bass decided to create a controversial title sequence to match the film's controversial subject.

It was decided early on in production that as the film's most important sequence would have been the final battle, it was deemed necessary to design a dragon with an emphasis on its flying abilities.

The film's producers considered using an actual computer-generated character to play the part of Simone, but eventually decided to use a live actress in the role and make her look slightly less realistic in post-production.

In order to do this, the film's producers unwisely decided to flesh out the story with a love triangle involving white characters, essentially making Amos and Andy minor characters in what was marketed as a film about them.

" Because Van Peebles did not have any money for traditional advertising methods, he decided that by releasing a soundtrack album in anticipation of the film's release, he could help build awareness for the film with its music.

At film's end, the teenagers say that they have decided that they don't want to end up in jail.

Needham decided to include outtakes in the film's end credit scrawl to highlight alternate camera angles for the impressive stunts performed for the movie.

The suit initially demanded an injunction against the film's release, though Ellison later altered his suit to instead ask for screen credit before ultimately dropping the suit, with both sides releasing the following joint statement: " After seeing the film In Time, Harlan Ellison decided to voluntarily dismiss the Action.

During the concept stages of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Lucas and director Steven Spielberg decided to reveal some of this backstory in the film's opening scenes.

Despite this product placement, the film's protagonist expressed a decided preference for his lightweight Italian Masi road racing bike, deriding the elderly Roadmaster as a ' piece of junk '.