Algeria had also won an Oscar for the movie Z, a political thriller directed by Costa Gavras.

Angela Lansbury, who had played Miss Marple in the movie, The Mirror Crack'd, directed by Guy Hamilton, went on to star in the TV series Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery novelist who also solves crimes.

In an interview, Brooks mentioned a conversation he'd had with Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, in which Schrader said that Brooks's character was the only one in the movie that he could not " understand " – a remark that Brooks found amusing, as the movie's antihero was a psychotic loner.

Preproduction for the film had coincided with the casting process for George Lucas's Star Wars, and many of the actors cast in De Palma's film had been earmarked as contenders for Lucas's movie, and vice-versa.

stating, " I finally sat down and had written it and somebody had made it into a movie, and I felt like — well, that's not quite her.

On November 22, 2010, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Warner Bros. had picked up the movie rights to the remake.

In December 2011, more than a year after the official reboot announcement, the Los Angeles Times site reported that Whit Anderson, the writer picked for the new Buffy movie, had her script rejected by the producers behind the project, and that a new writer was being sought.

This was done one year after the rest of the cast ( including both Mumy & Harris ) appeared inside TV Guide and said that the Sci Fi Channel had planned to do a Lost in Space marathon while promoting a new movie.

By the 1950s, the television industry had become a serious competition for the movie industry.

Several comic forms that had previously been a staple of movie theaters transitioned to the television.

The alien creature Sil is nearly identical to Tolentino ’ s chupacabra eyewitness account and she had seen the movie before her report: " It was a creature that looked like the chupacabra, with spines on its back and all ...

At the time of his death, Janssen had just begun filming a television movie playing the part of Father Damien, the priest who dedicated himself to the leper colony on the island of Molokai.

By the time the movie was completed, they had taken the name Oingo Boingo and begun recording and touring as a rock group.

In the 1980s, movie roles and other ventures caused Parton to tour less than she had done during the previous decade.

Fuller's ability as a songwriter manifested itself through the intervention of her friend, producer Hal Wallis ; Fuller had wanted to get an acting role in the Elvis Presley movie Blue Hawaii, which Wallis was producing, but instead he put her in touch with Hill & Range, the publisher that provided Presley with songs.

Original 1982 cinema and video releases of the movie had been seized, making the movie successful on the black market video circuit with pirated copies abounding.

It was written, directed and initially produced by Coppola himself, though as the movie advanced, he fell short of his budget and the studio had to underwrite the remainder of the movie.

Director Stanley Kubrick believed that The Godfather was possibly the greatest movie ever made, and had without question the best cast.

For quite some time, he had been planning to direct an epic movie named Megalopolis, a story about the aftermath and reconstruction of New York City after a mega-disaster, but after the city was hit by the real life disaster of September 11, the project was suddenly seen as being too sensitive.

Often after the director has had his chance to oversee a cut, the subsequent cuts are supervised by one or more producers, who represent the production company and / or movie studio.

After ten weeks nearly 17. 5 million people had seen the film in France, Intouchables was the second most-seen French movie of all-time in France, and the third including foreign movies.

The acting award was given in 1929 and the other two in 1930, which accords the movie the distinction of being the only film to ever receive an Oscar nomination in two different years that was not a foreign language film.

A principal offering was Knowles's colorful movie reviews, but the primary distinction from other sites was the ( ostensible ) insider news articles.

She had a major role in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings based on Maya Angelou's memoir of the same name, and has the distinction of having won the first Emmy Award for the category Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie, in 1979, for her work in the television movie Summer of My German Soldier.

The Opening of Misty Beethoven has the distinction of being the first widely-released porn movie to feature female-on-male pegging.

One such song, which holds a unique distinction, was for the 1993 movie Muddina Maava, wherein he provided playback to the legendary singer S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, who acted in the movie.

The film was advertised as being the first movie to be filmed in 70mm since David Lean's 1970 film Ryan's Daughter, although the film was not shot entirely in 70mm ; that distinction would go to Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet.

One scene in particular that gained the movie infamy was the rape of Blair's character in the communal showers by a girl gang led by lesbian Denny ( Janit Baldwin ) with a broom handle ; this scene had the distinction of being the first all-female rape scene aired on American television.

He has the distinction of appearing as one of the crowd on the original Woodstock movie poster.

It also holds the distinction of being the first feature-length movie filmed specifically in Hollywood.

Instead, that distinction goes to actress Jayne Mansfield in the 1963 movie Promises!

This title has the distinction of perhaps being the anime movie which suffered the harshest editing for length in its English release.

The Stanley Theatre had the distinction of being the largest movie theater in Western Pennsylvania.

Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").

* Sebastian was stated as being dead in the movie, yet he is alive in The Edge of Human.

* Pris was clearly stated as being a replicant in both the movie and the original novel, yet The Edge of Human claims she was human.

Richard Cromwell owed his 1930s movie fame in part to being personally selected by DeMille for the role as the leader of the youth gang in DeMille's poignant, now cult-favorite, This Day and Age ( 1933 ).

To avoid being type cast as villainous characters, Sarandon took on various roles in the years to come, portraying the title role in the made-for-television movie The Day Christ Died ( 1980 ).

In the Arliss movie Doctor Syn, Syn escapes to sea with Mipps and the rest of the Dymchurch smugglers, whereas Captain Clegg ends more faithfully to the novel, with Parson Blyss being killed by the mulatto ( who is then killed by Mipps ) and then being carried to and buried in Captain Clegg's empty grave by Mipps.

His daughter Sofia also appeared in all three ( the first two movies uncredited ): as the infant being baptized at the end of the first movie, as a young child on board ship in the second, and in a supporting role as Michael Corleone's daughter Mary in the third.

* The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath !, a comedy-drama so beloved in Russia that it is broadcasted on television every New Year Eve, similarly to the American movie It ’ s a Wonderful Life being broadcast every Christmas.

After appearing in minor movie roles, Wray gained media attention being selected as one of the " WAMPAS Baby Stars ".

Scenes of a crowd fleeing Godzilla that appeared later in the Japanese print were moved to an earlier point in the movie ( and corresponding footage of them gathering around Godzilla after he is knocked out by the Super X was removed ), the Super X fight was re-arranged ( in the Japanese version, Godzilla fires his atomic ray at the Super X after being hit with cadmium missiles, not before ), and various other scenes of destruction were either placed in a different order or deleted completely.

Jaws is often credited as being one of the first films to use traditionally B movie elements such as horror and mild gore in a big-budget Hollywood film.

Recently, Indian pop has taken an interesting turn with the " remixing " of songs from past Indian movie songs, new beats being added to them.

After being inundated by movie fans, Cagney sent out a rumor that he had hired a gunman for security.

When creators became aware of this problem, karaoke machines were no longer being sold strictly for the purpose of karaoke but as home theater systems to enhance television watching to " movie theater like quality ".

The placing of " soft " subtitles within the picture or matte varies according to the DVD player being used, though it appears to be dependent on the movie for Blu-ray disc.

Despite being a multi-starrer movie, the film failed in India but it was an overseas success.

In the movie, the character of Whitacre is portrayed as illustrating bizarre behavior, such as often being delusional, manic, compulsively lying, and was eventually learned that Whitacre was suffering from bipolar disorder.

* Jessica Böhrs, German actress and singer, known for being in the movie Eurotrip

However, after the Revenge of the Nerds movie franchise ( with multicultural nerds ), and the introduction of the Steve Urkel character on the television series Family Matters, nerds have been seen in all races and colors as well as more recently being a frequent young Asian or Indian male stereotype in North America.

His reputation for being sentimental is based largely on the movie versions of the musicals, especially The Sound of Music, in which a song sung by those in favour of reaching an accommodation with the Nazis, " No Way to Stop It ", was cut.

The movie was supposed to be a pseudo-documentary about cowboys being led by an old miner and a wise Indian tracker on a hunt for Bigfoot.

A parody of a popular song, movie, etc., may be given a title that hints at the title of the work being parodied, substituting some of the words with ones that sound or look similar.