When Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen began their collaboration in 1940, Mercer, like Arlen, had several substantial film songs to his credit, among them `` Hooray For Hollywood '', `` Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride '', `` Have You Got Any Castles, Baby??

With the increasing production of talking pictures in the early 1930s, film narrators like Heigo began to lose work, and Akira moved back in with his parents.

In 2010, Cuarón began to develop a science fiction film named Gravity, which he is set to direct.

De Palma recalls that he was “ floored ” by this performance upon first sight, and in 1973 recounts how he " began to try and figure out a way to capture it on film.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Following an endorsement by horror writer Stephen King, the film slowly began to receive distribution.

Its success ( coupled with some theatrical releases of the film in Europe ) convinced CBS to turn it into a weekly series, which began airing in the Spring of 1978.

Shortly after the publication of his memoirs, Chaplin began work on what would be his final completed film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ), based on a script he had written for Paulette Goddard in the 1930s.

In 1996, Love began obtaining small acting parts again in Basquiat and Feeling Minnesota ( 1996 ), before landing the co-starring role of Larry Flynt's wife, Althea, in Miloš Forman's 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, against Columbia Pictures ' reluctance due to her low profile and " troubled " past.

Near the end of his life, DeMille began pre-production work on a film biography of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement and had asked David Niven to star in the film, which was never made.

This series of work began with the film This Is Spinal Tap, where his character introduces the phrase " but this ones goes up to eleven ".

He began frequenting film camera rental houses, learning art of filmmaking and made two 16mm films ( Transfer and From the Drain ).

When the game design phase began in late 1992, the main thematic influences were the science fiction action film Aliens and the horror film Evil Dead II.

After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, at the age of 22, Vertov began editing for Kino-Nedelya (, the Moscow Cinema Committee's weekly film series, and the first newsreel series in Russia ), which first came out in June 1918.

Vertov explains himself in " On ' Kinopravda '": in editing " chance film clippings " together for the Kino-Nedelia series, he " began to doubt the necessity of a literary connection between individual visual elements spliced together ....

The film was re-released in March 2010 as part of The Evil Dead Cross Country Tour, which began in the NuArt Theatre in West Los Angeles.

Morris left for Napa Valley and began working on the film that would become his first feature, Gates of Heaven.

Her film career began in earnest in 1937 when she appeared in the films Oh Doctor and Stage Door.

In 1953 he was cast as Angelo Maggio in the film From Here to Eternity, but was abruptly replaced by Frank Sinatra before filming began.

Before production of the film began, Coppola went to his mentor Roger Corman for advice about shooting in the Philippines, since Corman had filmed several pictures there.

Digital feature film distribution began in 2005, along with the arrival of the world's first online film festival, the GreenCine Online Film Festival, sponsored by DivX.

After the good experience of writing the screenplay for a film called Easy Wheels, Sam and his brother Ivan Raimi decided to co-write the film together.

The Birth of a Nation ( originally called The Clansman ) is a 1915 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay ( with Frank E. Woods ), and co-produced the film ( with Harry Aitken ).

With the support of Otto Preminger, Trumbo was credited for his screenplay for the 1960 film Exodus, adapted from the novel by Leon Uris.

In the screenplay by Anthony Hinds, the main character's name was changed from Doctor Syn to Parson Blyss to avoid rights problems with Disney's upcoming film version, and Captain Cleggs screenplay follows the novel Doctor Syn and the screenplay of the 1937 film closely with the exception of a tightening of the plot.

In January 2004, it was announced that the screenplay he wrote for his novels Ilium and Olympos would be made into a film by Digital Domain and Barnet Bain Films, with Simmons acting as executive producer.

Neal Moritz was to produce and Ken Nolan was to write the screenplay which would combine an original story for Plissken with the story from the 1981 movie, although Carpenter has hinted that the film might be a prequel.

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.

George Lucas and Walter Murch incorporated an Eliza-like dialogue interface in their screenplay for the feature film THX-1138 in 1969.

* The 1993 film of The Trial was based on Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation and starred Kyle MacLachlan and Anthony Hopkins.

Fellini also worked with Rossellini on the anthology film L ' Amore ( 1948 ), co-writing the screenplay and in one segment titled, " The Miracle ", acting opposite Anna Magnani.

The screenplay was first written in 1980, but as an entirely different film.

The film was based on a screenplay written by Colin Higgins and published as a novel in 1971.

Daniel Waters wanted his screenplay to go to director Stanley Kubrick, not only out of profound admiration for Kubrick but also from a perception that " Kubrick was the only person that could get away with a three-hour film ".

John Huston won the Academy Award for direction and screenplay and his father won Best Supporting Actor, but the film had mediocre box office results.

Barrie's Marie Rose contains references to Harris inspired by a holiday visit to Amhuinnsuidhe Castle and he wrote a screenplay for the 1924 film adaptation of Peter Pan whilst on Eilean Shona.

After 1. 5 years of work, it was decided that it didn't really work as a whole, so production on the TV special was stopped ( with the exception of some very short clips, no material from it has ever been seen by the public ), and Caprino and Aukrust instead wrote a screenplay for a feature film using the characters and environments that had already been built.

He wrote the screenplay with the help of Welles ( who produced the film ), and starred in the film with Dolores del Río.

) The film was called The Diet of Worms, which I felt was just what Letch deserved.

Also on the bill at the Fifty-fifth Street is a nice ten-minute color film called `` Sunday In Greenwich Village '', a tour of the haunts and joints.

In 1973, a short animated film called Perseus was made in the Soviet Union.

In the film, the monster is called a Kraken, although it is depicted as a lizard-like creature rather than a squid ; and combining two elements of the myth, Perseus defeats the sea monster by showing it Medusa's face, turning the monster into stone.

A new feature-length documentary film by Edwin Pagan called Bronx Burning is in production in 2006, chronicling what led up to the numerous arson-for-insurance fraud fires of the 1970s in the borough.

In the late 1950s she shared an exchange which was called " la croisée de deux sillages " (" the crossing of two wakes ") with actor and true-crime author John Gilmore, then an actor in France who was working on a New Wave film with Jean Seberg.

After several small, studio and independent released films that included stand-outs Sisters, Phantom Of The Paradise, and Obsession, a small film based on a novel called Carrie was released directed by Brian De Palma.

Burton Stephen " Burt " Lancaster ( November 2, 1913-October 20, 1994 ) was an American film actor noted for his athletic physique, blue eyes and distinctive smile ( which he called " The Grin ").

In January 2010, he stated in an interview that his new film project is called Bruce vs. Frankenstein.

* Dead Mary, a 2007 horror film, called Bloody Mary in Japan

He also produced a short propaganda film, donated to the government for fund-raising, called The Bond.

* John Woo directed a parody film of Chaplin's " The Kid " called Hua ji shi dai ( 1981 ), also known as " Laughing Times.

In 2006, a documentary film called Crokinole was released.

There have been infrequent scientific and amateur radio expeditions, and in 1978 Jacques-Yves Cousteau visited with his team of divers, plus a survivor from the 1917 evacuation, to film a television special called Clipperton: The Island that Time Forgot.

When a film is primarily about the experience of civilians called into military service and being trained, it may be referred to as a " service comedy ".

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.

Love received critical acclaim, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, for what film critic Roger Ebert called " quite a performance ; Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress ".

The film Blade Runner ( 1982 ), adapted from Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, is set in 2019 in a dystopian future in which manufactured beings called replicants are slaves used on space colonies and are legal prey on Earth to various bounty hunters who " retire " ( kill ) them.

* Communion, a 1976 horror film ( also called Alice, Sweet Alice ) starring Brooke Shields

The 2000 film Bring It On, about a San Diego high school cheerleading squad called " The Toros ", starred real-life former cheerleader Kirsten Dunst.

The 1982 film Blade Runner featured creatures called replicants, bio-engineered or bio-robotic beings.