He and the film's production designer Joe Alves rejected shooting on location in New York City because it would be too hard to make it look like a destroyed city.

The film was overshadowed by the death of Coppola's eldest son Gian-Carlo Coppola during the film's production.

Because large amounts of money are involved, and most of a film's budget is spent during production, the post-production period can often be difficult and challenging.

: The Visual Effects Supervisor is in charge of the VFX crew, working with production and the film's Director to achieve the desired in-camera optical effects of the film.

Although Coppola's ambition was for him to establish a production unit to rival the Freed Unit at MGM, the film's failure put an end to this idea.

The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate " production numbers ".

Throughout the film's production, Gorō and his father were not speaking to each other, due to a dispute over whether or not Gorō was ready to direct.

* The movie Seven Days in May now lies with Warner Bros., successor-in-interest to the film's production company, Seven Arts Productions.

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.

For example, the star motif featured predominantly throughout the movie started with the film's production designer Richard Heinrichs ' design for the bowling alley.

Star Heath Ledger's death in January 2008 cast doubt on the film's future, but the production was salvaged with the addition of new actors playing his character in scenes he did not complete.

When the film opened in June 1989, it was backed by the biggest marketing and merchandising campaign in film history at the time, and became one of the biggest box office hits of all time, grossing well over US $ 250 million in the US alone and $ 400 million worldwide ( numbers not adjusted for inflation ) and earning critical acclaim for the performances of both Keaton and Nicholson, as well as the film's production aspects, which won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.

The film's production was frequently delayed because, unusually, the film started shooting without a finished script.

According to Booth, the film's true controller is the creative energy " that hundreds of people put into its production, agreeing and disagreeing, inserting and cutting ".

Another sequence, a parody of the Albertina Rasch ballet's " pearl dance " by Marie Dressler, was planned but not shot ( as the film's production records reveal ).

A misunderstanding arose during the film's production about whether Shatner would make a cameo appearance.

Theatrically, the film's break-even point was actually $ 6. 3 million, approximately twice the production cost, a figure it never came close to achieving in its initial release.

Even early in the film's production, there was concern that the material would encounter controversy.

In an Astaire-Rogers picture, the Big White Set — as these Art Deco-inspired creations were known — took up the largest share of the film's production costs, and Top Hat was no exception.

Dining together during carnival night in Venice, and to help assuage her guilt, Astaire declares: " Let's eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we have to face him ," which serves as the cue for the music of " The Piccolino ", the film's big production number.

Music by the film's composer, Alberto Iglesias, was incorporated into the stage production, with additional music by Max and Ben Ringham.

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.

Fields by now was considerably heavier than in his henpecked-husband pictures of just five or six years earlier, and his voice suggests that he may have been suffering from a cold during the film's production.

David Robinson writes that the film's failure was probably due to it seeming too old-fashioned compared to many of the other films released that year, such as the French New Wave films.

The film's title was inspired by the line, " Bring me my chariot of fire ," from the William Blake poem adapted into the popular British hymn " Jerusalem "; the hymn is heard at the end of the film.

The film's lesbian eroticism was however significantly cut for its US release.

The Academy cited the film's genre of " non-fiction ", arguing that it was not actually a documentary.

The film's total budget was estimated to be US $ 6 million.

Avco-Embassy Pictures, the film's financial backer, preferred either Charles Bronson or Tommy Lee Jones to play the role of Snake Plissken to Carpenter's choice of Kurt Russell, who was trying to overcome the " lightweight " screen image conveyed by his roles in several Disney comedies.

The finished version of the film was significantly different from the original screenplay drafts as Bruce Lee revised much of the script himself, including having written and directed the film's opening Shaolin Monastery fight sequence.

In 1980 Jeff Lynne was asked to write for the soundtrack of the musical film Xanadu, with the other half written by John Farrar and performed by the film's star Olivia Newton-John.

Life Without Zoe was mostly panned by critics and was generally considered the segment that brought the film's overall quality down.

Although a moderate box-office success, grossing $ 58 million domestically on an estimated $ 45 million budget, it was panned by critics, many of whom disliked the film's abrupt contrast between actual comedy and tragic melodrama.

Andy Garcia has since claimed the film's script was nearly produced.

Camille Claudel, directed by newcomer Bruno Nuytten and starring Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu, was a major commercial success in 1988, earning Adjani, who was also the film's co-producer, a César Award for best actress.

There has been a refocus onto celluloid film's ability to capture an " indexical " image of a moment in time by theorists like Mary Ann Doane, Philip Rosen and Laura Mulvey who was informed by psychoanalysis.

The film's cinematography | cinematographer was John Alton, the creator of many of film noir's stylized images.

Scarlet Street was a semi-independent — cosponsored by Universal and Lang's own Diana Productions, of which the film's costar, Joan Bennett, was the second biggest shareholder.

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.

Nonetheless, Capra's vision about the film's significance was clear:

The significance of the film's message was established further in France, shortly after World War II began.

This time there was no soundtrack album in spite of the importance of music in the film as the film's writer, director and star Tim Robbins was concerned that the politically right wing content would be taken seriously and used by right wing politicians.