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.

The film's producers decided to cut part of the film in which Lombard's character asks, ' What can happen on a plane?

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.

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.

In an interview around the film's DVD release in 2001, Elwes said, " The studio didn't know how to sell itas an adventure, fantasy, comedy or love story, it had to rely on word of mouth ".

Time magazine writer Richard Corliss was less scathing, but agreed that it was forgettable, saying that people would " forget all about movie by the time they leave the multiplex ," even joking at the end of his review that he had forgotten the film's name.

After the film's success, a soundtrack album was produced which was supposed to be made up of music one of the characters had on her walkman when she " disappeared ", although the film itself has little music in it.

Robinson had always had top billing over Bogart in their previous films together but for this movie, Robinson's name appears to the right of Bogart's, but placed a little higher on the posters, and also in the film's opening credits, to indicate Robinson's near-equal status.

Marvin, who had selected Boorman himself for the director's slot, had a central role in the film's development, plot line, and staging.

Warner Bros. acquired the rights to the film from the film's financer The Quaker Oats Company in 1977 ( around the same time they bought out Wolper itself ), after Paramount no longer had any interest to own the distribution rights to the film due to the initial box office failure of Willy Wonka.

Variety reported that Cruz had originally auditioned for the role of the film within a film's star, Claudia, which eventually went to Nicole Kidman.

The film's title derives from Flaherty's own statement that he had been accused, in the staged climactic sequence of Man of Aran, of " trying to drown a boatload of wild Irishmen ".

The film's plot, setting, and style echoes that of the Hammer Horror films, which had their own instantly recognizable style ( just as Universal Studios ' horror films did ), and is reminiscent of the Hammer production of The Revenge of Frankenstein starring Peter Cushing.

This film's script was based on early drafts he had written after seeing the original.

The site was a success, being viewed millions of times worldwide in the weeks leading to the film's release at a time when fewer than a million Americans had internet access.

Brent Spiner portrays the android Data ; rumors before the film's release suggested that since Data's skin had been largely removed at the end of the story, it would allow another actor to assume the role.

Under pressure, Eisenstein blamed Mary Sinclair's younger brother, Hunter Kimbrough, who had been sent along to act as a line producer, for the film's problems.

The film's final shot is of two young soldiers, who had witnessed and collaborated in all of the prior atrocities, dancing a simple waltz together.

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.

The actor went into his own closet with the film's wardrobe person and picked out clothes that he had thought the Dude might wear.

However, he had a tough time securing the rights to Townes Van Zandt's cover of the Rolling Stones ' " Dead Flowers ", which plays over the film's closing credits.

In the special edition DVD, Michael Chapman, the film's cinematographer, regrets the decision and the fact that no print with the unmuted colors exists anymore, as the originals had long since deteriorated.

Variety reported that Ledger's involvement had been a " key factor " in the film's financing.

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.

Brooks, who is also executive producer of The Simpsons, had cast Smith in his 1994 film I'll Do Anything ( in one of the film's musical numbers ) but her part was cut.

Tora !, Richard Fleischer, stated that while Yamamoto may never have said those words, the film's producer, Elmo Williams, had found the line written in Yamamoto's diary.

John Wayne, who had declined a role in the film, sent a letter to Eastwood soon after the film's release in which he complained that, " the townspeople did not represent the true spirit of the American pioneer, the spirit that made America great ".