The movie was originally ( in the USA ) rated " R " due to a scene where Lt. Pete Emmett ( Jon Bon Jovi ) is decapitated by flying debris.

Other examples are My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss ( modeled after The Apprentice ), My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, Hell Date ( modeled after Blind Date ), Superstar USA ( modeled after American Idol ), Space Cadets ( which convinced the hoax targets that they were being flown into space ), Punk'd ( involving celebrities in staged crises ), Invasion Iowa ( in which a town was convinced that William Shatner was filming a movie there ), and Reality Hell ( different target and premise every episode ).

In a USA Weekend interview, Hanks talked about how he chooses projects: " A League of Their Own, it can't be just another movie for me.

In the fall of 1982, USA began 24 hour a day operations, running a mix of talk shows, a children's program, and a low budget movie from 6 AM to 6 PM.

AHA organized picket lines outside movie theaters in Hollywood while local humane societies did the same across the USA.

USA Today considered the movie " plodding, unfunny and almost cringe-worthy ", but also noted that " Reese Witherspoon still does a fine job portraying the fair-haired lovable brainiac, but her top-notch comic timing is wasted on the humorless dialogue.

Armando Iannucci revealed in late March 2010 that Alan won ’ t be travelling to the USA as the rumours have suggested though: “ At the moment we ’ re just deciding whether we should ( make an Alan Partridge movie ) and the ideas we ’ ve come up with are very much Alan in the UK and his ideas of what he could be.

The previous Star Trek movie, First Contact, grossed $ 92, 027, 888 in the USA and $ 146, 027, 888 worldwide.

USA Today called the movie " highly entertaining ", describing Hawke and Hoffman's performances as excellent.

It was also the first movie of its kind to secure distribution in the USA by a major studio, Paramount Pictures.

USA Today gave the film two and half stars out of four and claimed that, " for many Ali fans, the movie may be good enough, but some perspective is in order.

The 1982 live album of these performances and the US version of The Secret Policeman's Other Ball movie ( which incorporated a " flashback " of Townshend's 1979 performances ) both became very successful and were widely seen and heard in the USA.

It was broadcast in the USA for a short time only, and in a different format where the segments were cut up and interspersed with a movie.

* Maciste il Vendicatore dei Mayas / Maciste, Avenger of the Mayans ( No American title, 1965 ) ( Note * This Maciste film was made up almost entirely of re-edited stock footage from 2 older Maciste films, Maciste contro i mostri and Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste, so Maciste switches from Kirk Morris to Reg Lewis in various scenes ; this movie is very scarce since it was never distributed in the USA and is not available in English.

* Maciste il Vendicatore dei Mayas / Maciste, Avenger of the Mayans ( no American title, 1965 ) ( Note * This Maciste film was made up almost entirely of re-edited stock footage from 2 older Maciste films, Maciste contro i mostri and Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste, so Maciste switches from Kirk Morris to Reg Lewis in various scenes ; this movie is very scarce since it was never distributed in the USA and is not available in English.

" ( Variant from the movie: "... good for the USA!

In the USA, she is probably best known for her movie work or as Charlotte " Chuck " Charles in Pushing Daisies.

However, USA Today felt his " scenery-chewing performance ... is meant as comic relief, but this movie thunders along so seriously that the attempt at humor feels jarring ".

' This incident later served as the basis of a movie called Rage, starring George C. Scott, but before it was released, I was deep into The Stand, finally writing my American fantasy epic, set in a plague-decimated USA.

For the first time there was also interest in the USA with the EP of the musical performances being released as an album by Atco / Atlantic Records and the US movie rights being acquired by fledgling independent distributor Miramax Films.

movie created by USA Network based on the Beltway sniper attacks of 2002.

From 1985 to 2012 has been a very busy period for Sorayama who released his new book Master Works in late spring of 2010 and is again working with movie makers in Hollywood, CA, USA on fantasy science fiction projects to be announced in 2012.

In a November 2003 interview with USA Today, Macy stated that he wanted to star in a big-budget action movie " for the money, for the security of a franchise like that ".

The name was changed to Beverly Hills, at a time when Beverly Hills in California, USA was becoming famous for being the home of many famous movie stars.

In addition, French movie stars began to claim fame abroad as well as at home.

BBC film critic Jane Crowther said that " Cruz is wonderfully ditzy as the innocent abroad " but remarked that " it's Harold Perrineau Jr as Monica who pockets the movie.

The movie found box-office favour abroad as well as at home, and within two years its star was invited to make his English-language debut in the British film The Wilby Conspiracy ( 1975 ).

This success was supplemented by two years of the TV show, a series of successful concert tours both across America and abroad, and a trippy-psychedelic movie, Head, a bit ahead of its time.

Yellow Foal became the first worldwide Hungarian success, distributed abroad under the title The Secret of the Blind Man: 137 prints were sold internationally and the movie was even screened in Japan.

When the movie was first shown, it encouraged many surfers to go abroad, giving birth to the " surf-and-travel " culture, which prizes finding " uncrowded surf ", meeting new people and riding the perfect wave.

Under his direction, in the 2009-2010 season, the National Theatre expanded its audience by beginning simulcast of live productions, to movie theater venues in the United Kingdom and abroad, through its programme National Theatre Live ( NTLive ).

In 1931 Orestis Laskos directed Daphnis and Chloe ( Δάφνις και Χλόη ), contained the first nude scene in the history of European cinema ; it was also the first Greek movie which was played abroad.

Instrumental to the birth of American movie culture, the Kinetoscope also had a major impact in Europe ; its influence abroad was magnified by Edison's decision not to seek international patents on the device, facilitating numerous imitations of and improvements on the technology.

The Cretan music theme Zorba's dance by Mikis Theodorakis ( incorporating elements from the hasapiko dance ) which appears in the Hollywood 1964 movie Zorba the Greek remains the best-known Greek song abroad.

The 1986 success, at home and abroad, of Le déclin ... marked another turning point in the movie history of the province.

However with Kitano not yet famous abroad, the movie would later benefit of this different situation especially in the European market.

Dionnet had to insist during several months to finally discover that the Shochiku didn't want to release Sonatine abroad, claiming the movie was " too Japanese " and would not be accepted, nor understood, by western audiences.

A new movie, to be released in 2010, was also mentioned, but with no confirmation of whether it will be made in Japan or abroad.

It was also the highest grossing Indian movie of the year in India and abroad and was declared an all time blockbuster by Box Office India.

When Warner Bros. was previously considering to make a movie of Sherwood's play, the studio checked with Joseph Breen, a film censor, who predicted it " would be banned widely abroad and might cause reprisals against the American company distributing it.

A year after the movie was released, the Cold Crush Brothers took Hip Hop abroad with tour dates in Japan and Europe.

The 1966 movie African Gold ( released abroad as Ride the High Wind ) shows an actress being trapped in dry quicksand.

The Spanish company Topo Soft developed a side-scrolling Gremlins 2: The New Batch video game for Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, MSX, Amstrad CPC and the ZX Spectrum, distributed by Erbe Software in Spain and by Elite abroad, being the first time a Spanish video game company got an exclusive license from a Hollywood movie to make a videogame.

In 1931 Astra Film with Orestis Laskos presented Daphnis and Chloe ( Δάφνις και Χλόη ), contained the first nude scene in the history of European cinema ; it was also the first Greek movie which was played abroad.