The first film to be distributed through the network was Artisan Entertainment's STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF MOTOWN.

In March 2012 the PBS network broadcast a feature length documentary about the life and music of Don McLean called " American Troubadour " produced by 4-time Emmy Award winning film maker Jim Brown.

A planned 1972 U. S. network television screening of the 1966 Warner Bros. film The Brides of Fu Manchu was cancelled due to protests from an Asian anti-defamation group.

Afterwards it became the only Godzilla film to receive a television premiere on a major U. S network, as NBC aired it on prime time television in the summer of 1977, where it was hosted by actor John Belushi dressed in a Godzilla costume.

A film called Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society, was created after the anime series and directed by Kenji Kamiyama, premiering on the SKY Perfect satellite television network on September 1, 2006.

Life of Brian has regularly been cited as a serious contender for the title " greatest comedy film of all time ", and has been named as such in polls conducted by Total Film magazine in 2000, the British TV network Channel 4 in 2006 and The Guardian newspaper in 2007.

The film was re-shot as a pilot program for a new series broadcast by the U. S .- based ABC television network.

* Extended placement: full episodes of television talkshows ( Oprah ), entertainment news programs ( ET ), or network news programs ( 20 / 20 ), devoted to compensated exposure of the film, stars, clips, director, etc.

NBC later acquired the rights to the film around the time it first aired on the network.

Often, if a television special such as Peter Pan or a network TV showing of a classic film like The Wizard of Oz is especially well-received, it will be rerun from time to time.

The party operates as a network of street gangs and has a powerful hold over the Bollywood film industry.

Through family, friends, and a network of investors Raimi was able to finance production of the highly successful horror film The Evil Dead ( 1981 ) which became a cult hit and effectively launched Raimi's career.

* In the 2009 film Avatar, the Na ' vi live in Hometree, the spiritual and physical home of the tribe ; over 300 meters tall, Hometree is connected with all the other plant life of Pandora through a neural-like network.

* The Elephant Will Never Forget, an 11-minute film made in 1953 by British Transport Films to celebrate the London tram network at the time of the last few days of its operation.

TiVo also provides a range of features when the TiVo DVR is connected to a home network, including film and television show downloads, advanced search, personal photo viewing, music offerings, and online scheduling.

The Day After is a 1983 American television film which aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network.

Meyer had many heated arguments over elements in the script, both little and big, that the network censors wanted cut out of the film.

The network paid the city to halt demolition for a month so it could film scenes of destruction there.

The film was originally planned by the network as a four-hour " event " to be spread over two nights, having an actual total running time of 180 minutes without commercials.

Meanwhile, the network had found out it was difficult to find advertisers, considering the subject matter, and Meyer was told he could edit the film for a one-night version.

The network now wanted to trim the film to the bone, but Meyer and his editor Bill Dornisch refused to cooperate.

In its time, the film was considered so radical that when first broadcast in Germany, the Bavarian network turned off the transmitters rather than broadcast it.

* March 14 – After eight years on NBC, The Wizard of Oz returns to CBS, where it will remain for the next twenty-two years, setting what was likely then a record for the most telecasts of a Hollywood film on a commercial television network.

* November 3 – MGM's film The Wizard of Oz makes its TV debut on the CBS network.

makes its network TV debut, when CBS telecasts the 1955 film version as a 3-hour Thanksgiving special.

The film, in which Brooks obnoxiously films a typical suburban family in an effort to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize, was a sendup of PBS's An American Family documentary.

This combination of story improvisation and relentless perfectionism — which resulted in days of effort and thousands of feet of film being wasted, all at enormous expense — often proved very taxing for Chaplin, who in frustration would often lash out at his actors and crew, keep them waiting idly for hours or, in extreme cases, shutting down production altogether.

Initially, the opening sequence included all five characters from the original film, but, in an effort to save time and money, all but Ash and Linda were cut from the final draft.

For starters, the film refuses to even allow for the possibility that men and women with homosexual predilections might-with great effort, to be sure-achieve successful and happy marriages to members of the opposite sex.

In addition, western animation has ventured into the genre with the most successful effort being the internationally hailed DreamWorks Animation film franchise, Kung Fu Panda, starring Jack Black and Angelina Jolie.

During the events of the comic book mini-series Star Trek: Countdown ( which serves as the canonical prequel to the 2009 Star Trek film ), Geordi ( now a commander ) is reunited with Data and Picard during an effort to stop a massive supernova that threatens all of existence.

It placed at several film festivals and was the first major effort from her latest production company, Tit 4 Tat Productions.

The main character in The Claim ( 2000 ) is a surveyor for the Central Pacific Railroad, and the film is partially about the effort of a frontier mayor to have the railroad routed through his town.

In Moe's autobiography, he said they each got $ 600 per week on a one-year contract with a renewable option ; in the Ted Okuda – Edward Watz book The Columbia Comedy Shorts, the Stooges are said to have received $ 1, 000 among them for their first Columbia effort, Woman Haters, and then signed a term contract for $ 7, 500 per film ( equal to $ today ), to be divided among the trio.

In the film, a sentient computer called Skynet attempts to exterminate the human race, but faces difficulty in dealing with a human resistance effort led by a man called John Connor.

In the mid-1990s, Hoffman starred in — and was deeply involved in the production of — David Mamet's American Buffalo ( also 1996 ), and an early effort of film editor Kate Sanford.

Churchill is further quoted by Bernard Wasserstein in his book, " Barbarism and Civilization ," as saying that the book ( and later the film ) was worth " six divisions of war effort.

In the 1968 film Planet of the Apes, time travelling astronaut Landon ( Robert Gunner ) is subjected to a lobotomy by Dr. Zaius ( Maurice Evans ) and rendered catatonic in an effort to shield the truth from the Ape race by covering up the fact that man was once an intelligent being capable of speech.

DiCaprio's first effort of 1995 was Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead, a western film in which he appeared alongside Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, and Russell Crowe, playing the role of Hackman's alleged son named Kid.

" Ebert believed the film was an improvement over Smith's previous effort Mallrats and he added that Adams was a discovery.

Many scenes were filmed at Repton School, Derbyshire in an effort to remain faithful to the original film.

The film was inspired by Bob Fosse's manic effort to edit his film Lenny while simultaneously staging the 1975 Broadway musical Chicago.

Bell, in an effort to get each scene exactly right, was known for his use of more film and more takes than his predecessors and for using wider angles that feature more of the local Holmfirth landscape.

Director McCarey reportedly came up with the title for the film, having previously used it for an earlier directorial effort with Laurel and Hardy.

The film nearly doubled the earnings of Captains of the Clouds, Cagney's previous effort, bringing in more than $ 6 million in rentals to Warner Bros.

Coward was anxious that it succeed, not only because it was his first film project, but because he felt it was his contribution to the war effort and he wanted it to be perceived as such by the public.

He travelled to the Philippines in 1998, carrying out Natural Farming research, and visited Greece later that year to assist plans to re-vegetate 10, 000 hectares around the Lake Vegoritis area in the Pella regional unit and to produce a film of the major seed ball effort.

The second and perhaps most notable effort was the 1934 film, which was directed by Frenchman Raymond Bernard and starred Raimu in the role of Tartarin, as well as Sinoël, Fernand Charpin and Charles Camus in other principal roles.