In the late 1920s, Heigo became a benshi ( silent film narrator ) for Tokyo theaters showing foreign films, and quickly made a name for himself.

She started her acting career in 1952 and, after appearing in 16 films, became world-famous due to her role in her then-husband Roger Vadim's controversial film And God Created Woman.

He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s.

The film was Mabel's Strange Predicament, but " The Tramp " character, as it became known, debuted to audiences in Kid Auto Races at Venice — shot later but released two days earlier.

Chaplin became fearful that Harris would claim The Kid as part of the divorce proceedings, so packed the 400, 000 feet negative into crates and travelled to Salt Lake City to cut the film in a hotel room.

The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ) was a flop on its initial release, yet became a cult classic and has been called " the first cult film of the Internet era.

Although Blade Runner was largely unsuccessful in its first theatrical release, it found a viewership in the home video market and became a cult film.

Marker became known internationally for the short film La jetée ( The Pier ) in 1962.

In addition to R-rated sex comedies and horror films, cheerleaders became a staple of the adult film industry, starting with Debbie Does Dallas ( 1978 ) and its four sequels.

The artistic challenge was resurrected with increasing ambition as art became more and more realistic with the invention of photography, film ( see Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat ), and immersive computer simulations.

" Budgeted at US $ 32 million, the film became a moderate financial success at a worldwide box office total of US $ 40 million.

During the filming of the film, Day became concerned about Hitchcock's lack of direction.

The film eventually became a moderate success.

The song " Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps " was included in the soundtrack of the Australian film Strictly Ballroom, and became a theme song for the British TV show, Coupling, with Mari Wilson performing it for the title sequence.

“ On the Amazon ” from the 1920s musical Mr Cinders was an unusual choice but became an audience favorite in concerts and featured in “ Till Tomorrow ”, a documentary film about McLean produced by Bob Elfstrom.

He became a regular at the Pacific Film Archive, as Tom Luddy, the director of the archive at the time, later remembered: " He was a film noir nut.

Ball and Arden became acquainted when they co-starred together in the film Stage Door in 1937.

Steven Spielberg had previously filmed The Color Purple in Wadesboro, and the large white farmhouse used as an exterior location in that film became the production office for Evil Dead II.

The film introduced George Lucas to him, who became his lifelong friend as well as production assistant in his next film The Rain People in 1969.

The movie became a box-office hit, grossing $ 82, 522, 790 domestically, making it the 15th highest-grossing film of the year.

Some of these used different film widths and projection speeds, but after a few years the 35-mm wide Edison film, and the 16-frames-per-second projection speed of the Lumière Cinématographe became standard.

The reel of film, of maximum length, which usually contained one individual film, became the standard unit of film production and exhibition in this period.

He cites as examples Hollywood coverage and the use of language in publications like Empire Magazine, as well as blockbuster dominance in multiplexes, but he also notes that this is an industrial matter: " The Full Monty was entirely financed and distributed by one of the US majors, Twentieth Century Fox, The praise went to Britain, but all the film ’ s profits went to America.

In 1994, he starred as Egyptologist Daniel Jackson in the blockbuster film Stargate.

His next film, Murder in the First, earned him the Broadcast Film Critic's Association Award in 1995, the same year that he starred in the blockbuster hit Apollo 13.

The film combines the storyline and tone of a B-movie spoof with the budget of a blockbuster movie.

He is best known for directing cult horror / comedy films the Evil Dead series, the action / superhero film Darkman, crime thriller A Simple Plan and supernatural horror Drag Me to Hell, as well as the blockbuster Spider-Man films and the producer of the successful TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, Legend of the Seeker ( also the creator ) and Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

Finally, in May, ABC hired feature film director Nicholas Meyer, who had just completed the blockbuster Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Billy Crystal was worried that the film would flop at the box office because it was up against several summer blockbuster films, like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Batman.

The modern Hollywood blockbuster is the most popular film format from the 1980s.

For her first movie, Casta has made forays into the blockbuster Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar directed by Claude Zidi, a live-action film of the comic book Asterix created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo in which Obelix, portrayed by Gérard Depardieu, plays a love interest for Falbala.

The two directors of Chang, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, had previously worked together on Grass ( 1925 ) and later collaborated on the blockbuster film King Kong ( 1933 ).

The 1980s would see the action film take over Hollywood to become a dominant form of summer blockbuster ; literally " the action era " popularized by actors such as Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Chuck Norris.

The best selling novel Jaws by Peter Benchley and the subsequent blockbuster film by Steven Spielberg depicted the great white shark as a " ferocious man eater ".

The then very popular singing of MacDonald helped make this film a hit, coming on the heels of her other 1936 blockbuster, Rose Marie.

" USA Today gave the film three out of four stars and wrote, " Most of this underwater blockbuster is ' good ,' and at least two action set pieces are great.

He did enjoy a final commercial blockbuster with Clint Eastwood in Where Eagles Dare in 1968 but his last film of the decade, Anne of the Thousand Days ( 1969 ), was a commercial and critical disappointment.

With 11 Academy Award nominations, the film earned nearly $ 120 million at the box office, becoming an unexpected blockbuster.

After the classic Hercules ( 1958 ) became a blockbuster sensation in the film industry, a 1959 Steve Reeves film Terrore dei Barbari ( Terror of the Barbarians ) was retitled Goliath and the Barbarians in the United States, ( after Joseph E. Levine claimed the sole right to the name of Hercules ); the film was so successful at the box office, it inspired Italian filmmakers to do a series of four more films featuring a beefcake hero named Goliath, although the films were not really related to each other.

As both actors had been reluctant to make romantic films similar to Titanic, it was Winslet who suggested that both should work with her on a film adaptation of the 1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates after reading the script by Justin Haythe, knowing that plot had little in common with the 1997 blockbuster.

In 1990, she starred as Oda Mae Brown, a psychic helping a slain man ( Patrick Swayze ) find his killer in the blockbuster film Ghost.

Weaver appeared two years later as Warrant Officer / Lieutenant Ripley in Ridley Scott's blockbuster 1979 film Alien.

That film reunited Seagal with director Andrew Davis, and was a blockbuster in the U. S. and abroad, grossing $ 156. 4 million worldwide.

was a blockbuster, surpassing Star Wars to become the highest-grossing film of all time, a record it held for ten years.

The studios have played host to many productions over the years from huge blockbuster films to television shows, commercials and pop promos and is well known as the home of the Carry On ..., Superman and James Bond film franchises.