"recreates several of its scenes.""American Dad!"" also parodied the film with the season 10 episode ""Poltergasm"", in which the Smith house has become haunted by Francine's unsatisfied sex drive. Poltergeist (1982 film) Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Tobe Hooper and starring JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, and Beatrice Straight. Steven Spielberg wrote and produced the film, but a clause in his contract prevented him from directing another movie while he made ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"". Therefore, Hooper was selected to direct based upon his work on ""The Texas Chain Saw Massacre"". First conceived as a dark"
"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Melissa Mathison. It features special effects by Carlo Rambaldi and Dennis Muren, and stars Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore and Pat Welsh. It tells the story of Elliott (Thomas), a boy who befriends an extraterrestrial, dubbed ""E.T."", who is stranded on Earth. Elliott and his siblings help E.T. return to his home planet, while attempting to keep him hidden from the government. The concept was based on an imaginary friend Spielberg created after"
"a sequel to be titled ""E.T. II: Nocturnal Fears"". It would have shown Elliott and his friends getting kidnapped by evil aliens and follow their attempts to contact E.T. for help. Spielberg decided against pursuing it, feeling it ""would do nothing but rob the original of its virginity"". E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Melissa Mathison. It features special effects by Carlo Rambaldi and Dennis Muren, and stars Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore and Pat Welsh. It tells the"
"his parents' divorce in 1960. In 1980, Spielberg met Mathison and developed a new story from the stalled sci-fi horror film project ""Night Skies"". It was filmed from September to December 1981 in California on a budget of $10.5million USD. Unlike most films, it was shot in rough chronological order, to facilitate convincing emotional performances from the young cast. Released on June 12, 1982, by Universal Pictures, ""E.T."" was an immediate blockbuster, surpassing ""Star Wars"" to become the highest-grossing film of all time—a record it held for eleven years until ""Jurassic Park"", another Spielberg-directed film, surpassed it in 1993. It"
"1982, as he did not have enough time to perfect the animatronics. Computer-generated imagery (CGI), provided by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), was used to modify several shots, including ones of E.T. running in the opening sequence and being spotted in the cornfield. The spaceship's design was also altered to include more lights. Scenes shot for but not included in the original version were introduced. These included E.T. taking a bath, and Gertie telling Mary that Elliott went to the forest on Halloween. Spielberg did not add the scene featuring Harrison Ford, feeling that would reshape the film too drastically."
"1982 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 17th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 2 January 1983, honored the best filmmaking of 1982. 1. Tootsie<br> 2. ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial""<br> 3. ""Moonlighting"" 1. Steven Spielberg – ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial""<br> 2. Sydney Pollack – ""Tootsie""<br> 3. Jean-Jacques Beineix – ""Diva""<br> 3. Francesco Rosi – ""Three Brothers"" (""Tre fratelli"") 1. Dustin Hoffman – ""Tootsie""<br> 2. Ben Kingsley – ""Gandhi""<br> 3. Peter O'Toole – ""My Favorite Year"" 1. Meryl Streep – ""Sophie's Choice""<br> 2. Jessica Lange – ""Frances"" and ""Tootsie""<br> 3. Diane Keaton – ""Shoot the Moon"" 1. Mickey Rourke –"
"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (album) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is an audiobook and soundtrack album for the 1982 blockbuster film of the same name directed by Steven Spielberg. Narrated by American recording artist Michael Jackson and featuring music composed by John Williams, the album was produced by composer Quincy Jones and distributed by MCA Records. The production of the audiobook brought Jackson together with several former collaborators, such as Rod Temperton, Freddy DeMann, and Bruce Swedien. The ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"" audiobook was released by MCA on November 7, 1982—the same month as Jackson's acclaimed sixth studio album ""Thriller"" despite conditions given by"
"""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"" (1982). The producers were quick to take advantage of her unexpected interest, and signed her to play the lead role of Sidney Prescott. Her involvement was believed to be instrumental in attracting other popular actors to the film in spite of its smaller budget, and in causing Craven to reconsider his decision to direct the film. Before filming began, Barrymore was faced with unexpected commitments that meant she would no longer be available to play the demanding lead role. She instead played the smaller role of Casey Becker, which allowed her to remain involved and still gave"
"""Diner""<br> 2. John Lithgow – ""The World According to Garp"" 1. Jessica Lange – ""Tootsie""<br> 2. Glenn Close – ""The World According to Garp""<br> 3. Teri Garr – ""Tootsie"" 1. Murray Schisgal and Larry Gelbart – ""Tootsie""<br> 2. Barry Levinson – ""Diner"" 1982 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 17th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 2 January 1983, honored the best filmmaking of 1982. 1. Tootsie<br> 2. ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial""<br> 3. ""Moonlighting"" 1. Steven Spielberg – ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial""<br> 2. Sydney Pollack – ""Tootsie""<br> 3. Jean-Jacques Beineix – ""Diva""<br> 3. Francesco Rosi – ""Three Brothers"" (""Tre"
"Spy Who Loved Me"" (1977) and ""Moonraker"" (1979), and ""Rambo III"" (1988), among others. Day also directed television episodes, such as two episodes of ""The New Avengers"" and a 1978 episode of ""The Professionals"". Day directed the theatrical films ""Green Ice"" (1981) and ""Waltz Across Texas"" (1982). Ernest Day Ernest Day, B.S.C. (April 15, 1927 - November 16, 2006) was a British cinematographer and director of film and television, known for his collaborations with David Lean and Lewis Gilbert. He spent the majority of his career as a camera operator, often referred to Lean as his ""eyes"", and was the"
"1982. W. Stuart McDowell directed, with assistance from Jeannie H. Woods. It featured Dan Southern as Gaveston and Tim Oman as Edward. The cast also included Andrew Achsen, Larry Attille, Christopher Cull, Michael Franks, Margo Gruber, Dan Johnson, Will Lampe, Joe Meek, Jason Moehring, Gay Reed, Count Stovall, Patrick Sullivan, and Jeffery V. Thompson. Dorian Vernacchio designed the set and lighting, David Robinson was the costume designer, and Valerie Kuehn was responsible for the props. Michael Canick composed an original musical score for percussion, which was played by Noel Counsil. Bertha Case (the literary representative for the Brecht estate in"
"closing gala, and was released in the United States on June 11, 1982. It opened at number one with a gross of $11million, and stayed at the top of the box office for six weeks; it then fluctuated between the first and second positions until October, before returning to the top spot for the final time in December. In 1983, ""E.T."" surpassed ""Star Wars"" as the highest-grossing film of all-time, and by the end of its theatrical run it had grossed $359million in North America and $619million worldwide. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold more than 120million tickets"
"Enigma (1982 film) Enigma is a 1982 Anglo-American thriller film directed by Jeannot Szwarc and starring Martin Sheen, Sam Neill, Brigitte Fossey, and Kevin McNally. Based on Michael Barak's novel ""Enigma Sacrifice"", the film centers on a CIA agent who tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence in order to stop a murderous plot. Alex Holbeck (Martin Sheen) is recruited as a CIA agent. He is sent to East Berlin on a mission to steal an Enigma code scrambler. This is part of an attempt to stop the Russian assassination of five Soviet dissidents which is planned for Christmas Day. What Alex"
"tale and in psychoanalytic terms. Producer Kathleen Kennedy noted that an important theme of ""E.T."" is tolerance, which would be central to future Spielberg films such as ""Schindler's List"". Having been a loner as a teenager, Spielberg described it as ""a minority story"". Spielberg's characteristic theme of communication is partnered with the ideal of mutual understanding: he has suggested that the story's central alien-human friendship is an analogy for how real-world adversaries can learn to overcome their differences. The film was previewed in Houston, Texas, where it received high marks from viewers. It premiered at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival's"
"1982 (film) 1982 is a 2013 American drama film written and directed by Tommy Oliver and starring Hill Harper. It is Oliver's directorial debut. The film is also semi-autobiographical. A father struggles to protect his daughter from the reality of her mother's drug addiction. The film premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and made its multi-platform release on March 2016. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 71% based on 7 reviews, and an average rating of 6.8/10. Sheri Linden of ""The Hollywood Reporter"" gave the film a positive review and wrote,"
"who introduces him to the practice of Zen."" Peter Coyote Peter Coyote (born Robert Peter Cohon; October 10, 1941) is an American actor, author, director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audiobooks. He is known for performing in films including ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"" (1982), ""Cross Creek"" (1983), ""Jagged Edge"" (1985), ""Patch Adams"" (1998), ""Erin Brockovich"" (2000), ""A Walk to Remember"" (2002), ""Hemingway & Gellhorn"" (2012) and ""Good Kill"" (2014). He was the ""Voice of Oscar"" for the 72nd Academy Awards ceremony, the first Oscars announcer to be seen on-camera. Coyote's voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of"
"Cat People (1982 film) Cat People is a 1982 American erotic horror film directed by Paul Schrader. It stars Nastassja Kinski and Malcolm McDowell; John Heard, Annette O'Toole, Ruby Dee, Ed Begley Jr., Scott Paulin, and Frankie Faison play supporting roles. Wilbur Stark and Jerry Bruckheimer served as executive producers. Alan Ormsby wrote the screenplay, basing it loosely on the story by DeWitt Bodeen, the screenwriter for the original ""Cat People"" (1942). Giorgio Moroder composed the film's score, including the theme song, which features lyrics and vocals by David Bowie. A prologue set in an undisclosed, primitive human settlement shows"
"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (video game) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (also referred to simply as E.T.) is a 1982 adventure video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600 video game console. It is based on the film of the same name, and was designed by Howard Scott Warshaw. The objective of the game is to guide the eponymous character through various screens in a cubic world to collect three pieces of an interplanetary telephone that will allow him to contact his home planet. Warshaw intended the game to be an innovative adaptation of the film, and Atari thought"
"his character was originally to have featured. The arm-cast which he is seen wearing was hastily written into the film. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 70% approval rating based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 6.2/10. Director Martin Scorsese considers ""The Entity"" one of the scariest horror films of all time. Richard F. Shepard, in a ""New York Times"" review, praised Hershey's performance but went on to say """"The Entity"" offers thrills in short staccato bursts and dull science in long bursts."" The Entity The Entity is a 1982 American horror film directed by Sidney"
"film tells the story of Elliott, a boy who befriends a good-natured extraterrestrial called E.T., who is stranded on Earth. Upon its release, the film became a blockbuster and surpassed ""Star Wars"" to become the highest-grossing film released to that point. Critics lauded it as a timeless story of friendship, and the American Film Institute ranks it as the third greatest science fiction film ever produced in the United States. Jackson began work on the audiobook of ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"" in June 1982—around the same time he began recording his sixth studio album ""Thriller"". Quincy Jones served as the producer"
"Quintet (film) Quintet is a 1979 post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Robert Altman. It stars Paul Newman, Brigitte Fossey, Bibi Andersson, Fernando Rey, Vittorio Gassman and Nina Van Pallandt. The story takes place during a new ice age. The camera tracks a blank, frozen, seemingly deserted tundra until two blurry, distant figures can just be made out. They are the seal hunter Essex (Paul Newman) and his pregnant companion, Vivia (Brigitte Fossey), the daughter of one of Essex's late hunting partners. They are traveling north, where Essex hopes to reunite with his brother, Francha (Thomas Hill). Essex and Vivia"
"Marker"" (1980), she worked as a stand-in for the child actress. De Treaux later worked with a singing group in San Francisco called the Medflies in 1980. At one of the Medflies' performance in Los Angeles, she was noticed by Steven Spielberg. She became one of the performers who played ET in Spielberg's film ""E. T."" (1982). De Treaux's work in ""Ghoulies"" (1985) was praised by Michael Wilmington in the ""Los Angeles Times"" who hated the movie, but enjoyed her performance. De Treaux went back to the stage, appearing in by Ramón del Valle-Inclán in 1989 in Los Angeles in"
"Pat Welsh (actress) Patricia Anderson Welsh (née Carroll; February 11, 1915 – January 26, 1995) was an American film actress, known as the raspy voice of E.T. in the 1982 film ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"". Welsh was a radio soap opera actress and only appeared in three films, all uncredited. The only movie in which she was seen was the 1940 World War I film ""Waterloo Bridge"". She was the voice of E.T. in the 1982 film ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"". As a chain smoker, she had a raspy voice that gave E.T. his trademark speech sound. She also had been hired"
"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (soundtrack) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Music from the Original Soundtrack is the film score to the 1982 film of the same name composed and conducted by John Williams. The score was released by MCA Records on June 11, 1982. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. The album was remastered and reissued by La-La Land Records on September 26, 2017. The soundtrack for the film has actually been issued numerous times. The original issue was a recording of concert arrangements based on the film's music. Later"
"1980s California, can only communicate with his abductors by gesturing and gurning – since Bill and Ted, it goes without saying, speak not a word of ancient Greek. Even the miracle of time travel, it appears, cannot serve to alter what is, for any historian, a most awkward fact: that it is impossible to be certain of what Socrates actually said. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a 1989 American science fiction comedy film directed by Stephen Herek and written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. It stars Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, and George Carlin."
"success, grossing $35 million from a budget of $1.9 million. Directed by Sidney Lumet, the cast included: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, and Ingrid Bergman. ""Death on the Nile"" followed in 1978, with another all-star cast, headed by Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot. The later adaptions, ""The Mirror Crack'd"", in 1980, and ""Evil Under the Sun"", in 1982, received mixed reviews, and disappointed at the box office. In 1981, Goodwin and John Brabourne finally secured the rights to produce E.M.Forster's A Passage to India. They managed to persuade David Lean to return to directing, after a 14-year lull. ""A"
"""Suitably low-key but sometimes under-realized, this drama is fueled by its working-class milieu and a heart-wrenching performance by Hill Harper."" 1982 (film) 1982 is a 2013 American drama film written and directed by Tommy Oliver and starring Hill Harper. It is Oliver's directorial debut. The film is also semi-autobiographical. A father struggles to protect his daughter from the reality of her mother's drug addiction. The film premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and made its multi-platform release on March 2016. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 71% based on 7 reviews,"
"Titan A.E. Titan A.E. is a 2000 American animated post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman and starring the voices of Matt Damon, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo, Nathan Lane, Janeane Garofalo and Drew Barrymore. Its title refers to the spacecraft central to the plot with ""A.E."" meaning ""After Earth"". The animation of the film combines 2D traditional hand-drawn animation with the extensive use of computer-generated imagery. Produced by Fox Animation Studios as its second and final film and project, the film was theatrically released on June 16, 2000 by 20th Century Fox in the United"
"attempting to return home. ""E.T."" went on to become the top-grossing film of all time. It was also nominated for nine Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director and it won 4 out of them. Between 1982 and 1985, Spielberg produced three high-grossing films: ""Poltergeist"" (for which he also co-wrote the screenplay), a big-screen adaptation of """" (for which he directed the segment ""Kick The Can""), and ""The Goonies"" (Spielberg, executive producer, also wrote the story on which the screenplay was based). Spielberg appeared in a cameo on Cyndi Lauper's music video for the movie's theme song, ""The Goonies"
"Carnegie Mellon University, where he graduated from in 1979. John Wells (filmmaker) John Marcum Wells (born May 28, 1956) is an American theater, film and television producer, writer and director. He is best known for his role as executive producer and showrunner of the television series ""ER"", ""Third Watch"", ""The West Wing"", ""Southland"", ""Shameless"", ""Animal Kingdom"" and ""American Woman"". His company, John Wells Productions, is currently based at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California. Wells is also a labor leader, and served as president of the Writers Guild of America, West from 1999 to 2001 and again from 2009 to"
"Hammett (film) Hammett is a 1982 mystery film directed by Wim Wenders and executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay was written by Ross Thomas and Dennis O'Flaherty, based on the novel of the same name by Joe Gores. It stars Frederic Forrest as detective story writer Dashiell Hammett, who gets caught up in a mystery very much like one of his own stories. Marilu Henner plays Hammett's neighbor, Kit Conger, and Peter Boyle plays Jimmy Ryan, an old friend from Hammett's days as a Pinkerton agent. The film was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. San Francisco-based"
"1972 and 1975. (""Got to Be There"", ""Ben"", ""Music & Me"" and ""Forever, Michael""), and several with his brothers as part of The Jackson 5. In 1975, he and his brothers (except Jermaine) moved to Epic Records and in 1979, Michael released his fifth solo album, ""Off the Wall"", to critical and commercial success.</small> In June 1982, the Steven Spielberg–directed science fiction film ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"" was released to cinemas. Created by Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures (then a subsidiary of MCA Inc.), it starred Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore and Peter Coyote. The"
"story film, the Hollywood blockbuster movie ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"". Manoy later unsuccessfully attempted to sue Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg, claiming he had stolen the idea for ""E.T."" from him. After playing cameo roles in a string of low budget sci-fi and martial arts movies in the late 70’s, in 1980 Weng Weng, through the Caballes, was introduced to Dolphy. Dolphy, with his film outfit – RVQ Productions, produced the spy-spoof hit film ""The Quick Brown Fox"" starring Dolphy and introducing Weng Weng as his Kato-inspired sidekick. This was Weng Weng’s first big budget role and movie. The success of this"