Which 2001 film is based on the story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss that deals with the age of machines where child creation is controlled?
"A.I. Artificial Intelligence A.I. Artificial Intelligence, also known as A.I., is a 2001 American science fiction drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. The screenplay by Spielberg and screen story by Ian Watson were based on the 1969 short story ""Supertoys Last All Summer Long"" by Brian Aldiss. The film was produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Spielberg and Bonnie Curtis. It stars Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson and William Hurt. Set in a futuristic post-climate change society, ""A.I."" tells the story of David (Osment), a childlike android uniquely programmed with the ability to love. Development of ""A.I."" originally"
"Supertoys Last All Summer Long ""Supertoys Last All Summer Long"" is an American short story by British science fiction author Brian Aldiss, first published in 1969. The story deals with humanity in an age of intelligent machines and of the aching loneliness endemic in an overpopulated future where child creation is controlled. In a dystopian future where only 1/4th of the world's overcrowded population is fed and living comfortably, families must request permission to bear children. Monica Swinton lives with her husband Henry and her young son David, whom she struggles to bond with. She seeks help from Teddy, a"
"wife asked Steven Spielberg to direct and complete the film, which was released in 2001. In the same year, the short story was re-published in the eponymous Aldiss short-story collection ""Supertoys Last All Summer Long"", along with the tie-in stories ""Supertoys When Winter Comes"" and ""Supertoys in Other Seasons"". The collection also contained a number of stories not tied to the Supertoys theme. Monica Swinton: A troubled, lonely woman and less-than-compassionate mother, Monica struggles to understand her A.I. son David. Throughout the story, she seeks a way to communicate with him and understand him. While Monica may appear selfish in"
"ancient, hopelessly out of touch, infatuated with the hot taboos of his youth and unable to connect with that twisty thing contemporary sexuality has become."" Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Kubrick collaborated with Brian Aldiss on an expansion of his short story ""Supertoys Last All Summer Long"" into a three-act film. It was a futuristic fairy tale about a robot that resembles and behaves as a child, and his efforts to become a 'real boy' in a manner similar to Pinocchio. Kubrick approached Spielberg in 1995 with the AI script with the possibility of Steven Spielberg directing it and"
"clone can live for only a day, and that the process cannot be repeated. David spends the next day with Monica and Teddy. Before she drifts off to sleep, Monica tells David she has always loved him. Teddy climbs onto the bed and watches the two lie peacefully together. Kubrick began development on an adaptation of ""Super-Toys Last All Summer Long"" in the late 1970s, hiring the story's author, Brian Aldiss, to write a film treatment. In 1985, Kubrick asked Steven Spielberg to direct the film, with Kubrick producing. Warner Bros. agreed to co-finance ""A.I."" and cover distribution duties. The"
"mechanical babies are devised to pacify the maternal instincts of 10 billion women. But to Carol, the very idea of accepting one of the robot infants is abhorrent. She wants and needs a ""real"" child, and this slowly becomes an obsession. Derek Meddings created the life-size realistic animatronic children for the film. Geraldine Chaplin won Best Actress at the 1972 Sitges Film Festival for her performance. Z.P.G. Z.P.G. (short for ""Zero Population Growth"") is a 1972 Danish-American dystopian science fiction film starring Oliver Reed and Geraldine Chaplin and directed by Michael Campus. It is inspired by the non-fiction best-selling book"
"film halted in 2000 when Steven Spielberg began ""A.I."", another film with a robot boy who replaces a dead child. In December 2001, Sony hired Eric Leighton to direct an all-CGI film, with Angry Films and Jim Henson Productions producing it for a 2004 release. A screenplay draft was written, but the film did not go into production, and Leighton left in early 2003 to pursue other film projects. In June 2004, animator Genndy Tartakovsky was hired to direct a live-action/animatronics/CGI feature film. After writing the script, the film didn't go into the production, and Tartakovsky left next year to"
"The Time Machine (2002 film) The Time Machine is a 2002 American science fiction film loosely adapted from the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells and the screenplay of the 1960 film of the same name by David Duncan. Arnold Leibovit served as executive producer and Simon Wells, the great-grandson of the original author, served as director. The film stars Guy Pearce, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Jones, Samantha Mumba, Mark Addy, Sienna Guillory and Phyllida Law, and includes a cameo by Alan Young, who also appeared in the 1960 film adaptation. The film is set in New"
"primarily vehicles. The Autobots intend to use the AllSpark, the object that created their robotic race, to rebuild their home planet Cybertron and end the war, while the Decepticons have the intention of using it to build an army by giving life to the machines of Earth. Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Anthony Anderson, Megan Fox, Rachael Taylor, John Turturro, and Jon Voight also star, while voice actors Peter Cullen and Hugo Weaving voice Optimus Prime and Megatron respectively. Murphy and DeSanto developed the project in 2003, and DeSanto wrote a treatment. Steven Spielberg came on board the following year, hiring"
"century era by time travel. ""The Invisible Boy"" is a mixture of lighthearted playfulness and menacing evil. In 1957, ten-year-old Timmie Merinoe (Eyer) seems only to want a playmate. After he is mysteriously invested with superior intelligence, he reassembles a robot that his father and other scientists had been ready to discard as unrepairable junk. No one pays much attention to the robot, named Robby, after Timmie gets it operating again, until Timmie's mother becomes angry when her son is taken aloft by a huge powered kite that Robby has built at Timmie's urging. When Timmie expresses a wish to"
"grants too much access and power to the AI program Omnius, which usurps control from the Titans themselves. Seeing no value in human life, the thinking machines – now including armies of robot soldiers and other aggressive machines, with the Titans as their commanders – dominate and enslave nearly all of humanity in the universe for 900 years, until a jihad is ignited by the independent robot Erasmus's murder of Manion Butler, the young son of Serena Butler. This crusade against the machines lasts for nearly a century, with much loss of human life, ending in human victory at the"
"While this is intended as a clever con trick, the machine surprisingly works, sending Blackadder and Baldrick back to the Cretaceous period, where they manage to cause the extinction of the dinosaurs through the use of Baldrick's best-worst-and-only pair of underpants as a weapon against a hungry T. Rex. Finding that Baldrick has forgotten to write dates on the machine's dials, the rest of the film follows their attempts to find their way back to 1999, often creating huge historical anomalies in the process that must be corrected before the end. The film includes cameo appearances from Kate Moss and"
"He is unable to tell lies and helps to guide both David and Monica, despite not understanding either of their situations. His knowledge is limited and his personality is simplistic, but Monica finds Teddy easier to communicate with than David. This could be for a number of reasons, including the possibility that Monica is not used to dealing with a robot that acts human, and Teddy does not provide this feature. He only speaks when spoken to, and seeks to comfort always. Supertoys Last All Summer Long ""Supertoys Last All Summer Long"" is an American short story by British science"
"destroys most of the world. It was partially remade in 1996 in the film ""12 Monkeys"". In 1965 the BBC produced ""The War Game"", but it was considered too horrifying to broadcast at the time; it was only in 1985 that it was shown. It portrays a nuclear attack on Great Britain and its after-effects, particularly the efforts of the Civil Defence system. ""Genesis II"" (1973) television film, created by Gene Roddenberry. Dylan Hunt, a NASA scientist, begins a multi-day suspended animation test right before an earthquake buries the underground laboratory. Discovered in 2133 still alive he is awakened by"
"also won several Academy Awards, one most notably for its then-cutting edge computer animation. The film was remastered for 3D and re-released in August 2017. ""Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines"", released by Warner Bros. Pictures domestically and Columbia Pictures internationally, is the 2003 sequel to ""Terminator 2"" and is written by John Brancato, Michael Ferris, directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes and Kristanna Loken. As a result of the destruction of Cyberdyne at the end of ""Terminator 2"", the Skynet takeover has been postponed, not averted. In an attempt to ensure a victory"
"to become the biggest selling remix album of all time (13 million). In 2001, Winston, together with Colleen Camp and Samuel Z. Arkoff's son, Lou Arkoff, produced a series of made-for-cable films for Cinemax and HBO. The five films, referred to as ""Creature Features"", were inspired by the titles of AIP monster movies from the 1950s — i.e., ""Earth vs. the Spider"" (1958), ""How to Make a Monster"" (1958), ""Day the World Ended"" (1955), ""The She-Creature"" (1956), and ""Teenage Caveman"" (1958) — but had completely different plots. In 2003, Winston was invited by the Smithsonian Institution to speak about his"
"toy line ""Hot Wheels"" with McG attached to direct. Although unwritten, the premise involved a young man ""trying to reconcile with his father. It's a kid who steals his dad's racecar and ends up going through a sort of ""Back to the Future"" portal into this world, and he has to reconcile his relationship with his father."" In 2006, McG said that he dropped out as director and chose to produce instead. In 2009, with no recent developments, the film was put into turnaround, and the rights were handed over to Warner Bros. Joel Silver took over producing with Matt"
"actress. When he's not busy flirting with the ladies or learning to live on his own, would-be writer Jones divides his time between fending off queries from his alcoholic mother, penning letters to an absentee father, and indulging in an overactive fantasy life. An auto accident forces a reality check, however, nudging Jones to grow up and decide what he really wants. This is the second film in which Elizabeth Perkins plays Elijah Wood's mother, the first being ""Avalon"", directed by Barry Levinson. All I Want (film) All I Want (also known as Try Seventeen) is a 2002 coming-of-age dramedy"
"first fully computer animated feature film, ""Toy Story"", with software it designed in-house and whose computer animation films have since garnered 26 Academy Awards and critical acclaim. Industrial Light & Magic, which is based in the Presidio in San Francisco, was created in 1975 to help create visual effects for the ""Star Wars"" series has since been involved with creating visual effects for over three hundred Hollywood films. Throughout its recent history, the Bay Area has been home to several musical movements that left lasting influences on the genres they affected. San Francisco, in particular, was the center of the"
"being born, they try again in 1995, this time attempting to terminate him as a child by using a more advanced Terminator, the T-1000. As before, John sends back a protector for his younger self, a reprogrammed Terminator, who is a doppelgänger to the one from the previous film. After eleven years of preparing for the future war, Sarah decides to use the same tactics the machines used on her: preventing Skynet from being invented by destroying Cyberdyne Systems before they create it. It was released on July 3, 1991 to critical acclaim and grossed $523.7 million worldwide. Additionally, it"
"of the ""Thomas"" media franchise in the United States. ""Shining Time Station"" lasted until 1995. Allcroft followed ""Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends"" and ""Shining Time Station"" with the cartoon-animated ""Magic Adventures of Mumfie"" in collaboration with director John Collins. Inspired by the books by Katharine Tozer, this production received critical acclaim and was seen in many parts of the world. In 2008, several years after she left her original company, Allcroft bought back the ""Mumfie"" library. Allcroft wrote and directed ""Thomas and the Magic Railroad"", a film based on the ""Thomas"" franchise that was released in 2000. She also"
"movies were produced in 2001: """", which addressed the problem the Guardians were facing in season three (and used much of ""Terabyte Rising""), and """", which brings back a corroded and mutated Megabyte in a cliffhanger ending. The two movies, broken up into eight episodes in its U.S. run on Cartoon Network's Toonami, revealed much of Mainframe's history, including the formation of Lost Angles, Bob's arrival in the system, and the origin of Megabyte and Hexadecimal. The films end with Megabyte in control of the Principal Office, and the characters scattered and about to be hunted down. It is revealed"
"Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn. It is the first work in the ""Terminator"" franchise. In the film, machines take over the world in the near future, directed by the artificial intelligence Skynet. With its sole mission to completely annihilate humanity, it develops android assassins called Terminators that outwardly appear human. A man named John Connor starts the Tech-Com resistance to fight the machines, defeat Skynet and free humanity. With a human victory imminent, the machines' only choice is to send a Terminator back in time to kill John's mother, Sarah Connor, and prevent the boy's birth, thereby handicapping the"
"began with producer-director Stanley Kubrick, after he acquired the rights to Aldiss' story in the early 1970s. Kubrick hired a series of writers until the mid-1990s, including Brian Aldiss, Bob Shaw, Ian Watson, and Sara Maitland. The film languished in protracted development for years, partly because Kubrick felt computer-generated imagery was not advanced enough to create the David character, whom he believed no child actor would convincingly portray. In 1995, Kubrick handed ""A.I."" to Spielberg, but the film did not gain momentum until Kubrick's death in 1999. Spielberg remained close to Watson's film treatment for the screenplay. The film divided"
"of the heart, this film is most transporting when it stays put in the past."" The film received a 29% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 148 critic reviews. The Time Machine (2002 film) The Time Machine is a 2002 American science fiction film loosely adapted from the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells and the screenplay of the 1960 film of the same name by David Duncan. Arnold Leibovit served as executive producer and Simon Wells, the great-grandson of the original author, served as director. The film stars Guy Pearce, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Jones,"
"overall. In a 2016 BBC poll of international critics, it was voted the 29th greatest film since 2000. It was nominated for the 2009 Kids' Choice Awards, but lost to """". In 2012, Mike McMaster, an American robotics hobbyist, began working on his own model of WALL-E. The final product was built with more moving parts than the WALL-E which roams around Disneyland. McMaster's four-foot robot made an appearance at the Walt Disney Family Museum and was featured during the opening week of Tested.com a project headed up by Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage of ""MythBusters"". Since WALL-E's creation, Mike"
"Automatons (film) Automatons is a 2006 black-and-white horror film about a war against robots. The movie was made under the working title ""Death to the Automatons"". Christine Spencer, Angus Scrimm, and Brenda Cooney star. John Levene, Don Wood and Executive Producer Larry Fessenden have supporting roles. The film was directed by James Felix McKenney. The tagline was, ""Men started this war. The machines will finish it."" Somewhere in the distant future, The Girl is living alone in a bunker. She continues to fight with the generations-long war with the assistance of a group of antiquated robot helpers and soldiers. Her"
"The film ""Titanic"" used computer effects in nearly every scene of its three-hour running time; one of the film's 11 Oscars was for special effects. While Disney had made the film ""Tron""—which extensively mixed live action, traditional animation, and CGI—in 1982, and introduced the CAPS system to enhance traditional animation in 1990s ""The Rescuers Down Under"", a completely computer-animated feature film had yet to be made. In 1995, Disney partnered with Pixar to produce ""Toy Story"", the first feature film made entirely using CGI. The film's success was so great that other studios looked into producing their own CGI films."
"""The Fox and the Hound"" (1981), Steven Spielberg's ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"" (1982), ""The Great Mouse Detective"" (1986), and ""The Little Mermaid"" (1989). Spielberg portrays children realistically, having to cope with issues. This is seen in ""E.T. the Extra Terrestrial"", where the children have to cope with the issues of single parenting and divorce, as well as separation from their father. Also, in the motion picture ""Empire of the Sun"" (1987), the protagonist child Jim Graham has to deal with separation from his parents for years, to the point where he is unable to even remember what his mother looked like."
"notably a singing and dancing marionette called Lizzie Dreams, sometimes paired up with another marionette called Nick. """" is a 2004 movie made by ""South Park"" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker which uses a crude, naive, child like style of supermarionation as in ""Thunderbirds"". Matt Stone and Trey Parker dubbed their version ""Supercrappymation"" due to the fact they intentionally left the strings visible among other reasons. Also appearing in 2004 was the full-length, award-winning marionette fantasy film ""Strings"", directed by Dane Anders Rønnow Klarlund. A marionette was also used in the ""Doctor Who"" episode ""The Shakespeare Code"". This type"
"regained their popularity, with Disney's ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991), ""Aladdin"" (1992), and ""The Lion King"" (1994). During 1995, the first feature length computer-animated feature, ""Toy Story"", was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Disney. After the success of Toy Story, computer animation would grow to become the dominant technique for feature length animation, which would allow competing film companies such as DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox to effectively compete with Disney with successful films of their own. During the late 1990s, another cinematic transition began, from physical film stock to digital cinema technology. Meanwhile, DVDs became"
"stars, saying that it was ""wonderful and maddening."" Leonard Maltin, on the other hand, gives the film two stars out of four in his ""Movie Guide"", writing: ""[The] intriguing story draws us in, thanks in part to Osment's exceptional performance, but takes several wrong turns; ultimately, it just doesn't work. Spielberg rewrote the adaptation Stanley Kubrick commissioned of the Brian Aldiss short story 'Super Toys Last All Summer Long'; [the] result is a curious and uncomfortable hybrid of Kubrick and Spielberg sensibilities."" However, he calls John Williams' music score ""striking"". Jonathan Rosenbaum compared ""A.I."" to ""Solaris"" (1972), and praised both"
"models were created by HimAnI productions using laser scans of existing physical models, which were used in the second film, created by Amalgamated Dynamics. ""Tremors 3: Back to Perfection"" holds a ""fresh"" rating of 67% at Rotten Tomatoes based on 6 reviews. At the Video Premiere Awards show, in 2001, Michael Gross won the award for best actor, for his work in ""Tremors 3"". Tremors 3: Back to Perfection Tremors 3: Back to Perfection is a 2001 direct-to-video monster film directed by Brent Maddock, and is the third installment in the ""Tremors"" series featuring the subterranean worm-creatures dubbed ""Graboids"". It"