"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 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 –"
"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."
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"digital enhancements or digital additions to anything based on any film I direct... When people ask me which ""E.T."" they should look at, I always tell them to look at the original 1982 ""E.T."" If you notice, when we did put out ""E.T."" we put out two ""E.T.""s. We put out the digitally enhanced version with the additional scenes and for no extra money, in the same package, we put out the original '82 version. I always tell people to go back to the '82 version. For the film's 30th anniversary release on Blu-ray in 2012, and for its 35th"
"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"
"6million times during its first two weeks in 1988, a record that ""E.T."" held up until the VHS release of ""Batman"" the following year. The 2012 release of ""E.T."" on DVD and Blu-ray grossed in sales revenue in the United States. ""E.T."" also generated more than in merchandise sales, as of 1998. The film received universal acclaim. Roger Ebert gave the film four stars and wrote, ""This is not simply a good movie. It is one of those movies that brush away our cautions and win our hearts."" He later added it to his Great Movies list, structuring the essay"
"""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"
"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"
"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"
"Arthur C. Clarke, to represent him in Hollywood. Wilson copyrighted the script credited to ""Mike Wilson & Satyajit Ray"", although he contributed only one word. Ray later said that he never received a penny for the script. After Brando dropped out of the project, the project tried to replace him with James Coburn, but Ray became disillusioned and returned to Calcutta. Columbia expressed interest in reviving the project several times in the 1970s and 1980s, but nothing came of it. When ""E.T."" was released in 1982, Clarke and Ray saw similarities in the film to his earlier ""Alien"" script. Ray"
"""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"
"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"
"(1980) starring Powers Boothe; ""Playing For Time"" (1980) starring Vanessa Redgrave; ""The Bunker"" (1981) starring Anthony Hopkins; ""Bill"" (1981) starring Mickey Rooney and Dennis Quaid; ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" (1982) starring Anthony Hopkins; and ""The Blue and the Gray"" (1982), an American Civil War mini-series which gained four prime-time Emmy nominations. Self returned to the feature film in 1982 when he was made President of CBS Theatrical Film Production. He served in this capacity for three years, supervising the making of ten movies including ""Target"" (1985) directed by Arthur Penn and starring Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon; ""Eleni"" (1985)"
"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"
"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,"
"made, including providing some more detailed instructions on how to play, as the original Atari version was often cited as having very little instruction on gameplay. Later the game went ""out of stock"" on the store. 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"
"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"
"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"
"The G.I. Executioner The G.I. Executioner, originally titled Wit's End, is a 1975 action film co-written and directed by Joel M. Reed, the director of the 1976 cult classic ""Blood Sucking Freaks"". Originally titled ""Wit's End"" and shot in Singapore. production finished in 1971, but the film was not released in theatres until 1975. The film was also released under the title Dragon Lady. Tom Keena plays a Vietnam veteran and millionaire freelance journalist who spends his time operating a discotheque in Singapore. When he receives a mysterious offer to investigate a defecting Chinese scientist, he finds himself mixed up"
"""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,"
"Temple of Doom"". After he finished ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"", Spielberg almost planned to direct the comedy ""Three Amigos"" next, with Steve Martin, Bill Murray and Robin Williams as the leads. He chose to direct ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"" instead. In July 1982, Spielberg hired ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"" writer Melissa Mathison to write a script for a sequel film, entitled ""E.T. II: Nocturnal Fears"". The film's plot would have shown Elliott and his friends getting kidnapped by evil aliens and follow their attempts to contact E.T. for help. However, Spielberg finally decided to cancel the sequel's production, feeling it ""would"
"in May 2000. 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"
"the Jedi"" (1983), also saw worldwide box office success. Ridley Scott's films, such as ""Alien"" (1979) and ""Blade Runner"" (1982), along with James Cameron's ""The Terminator"" (1984), presented the future as dark, dirty and chaotic, and depicted aliens and androids as hostile and dangerous. In contrast, Steven Spielberg's ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"" (1982), one of the most successful films of the 1980s, presented aliens as benign and friendly, a theme already present in Spielberg's own ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"". The big budget adaptations of Frank Herbert's ""Dune"", Alex Raymond's ""Flash Gordon"" and Arthur C. Clarke's sequel to ""2001"", ""2010"","
"product placement resulted in a large increase in Reese's Pieces sales. Science and technology educator Henry Feinberg created E.T.'s communicator device. Having worked with Cary Guffey on ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"", Spielberg felt confident in working with a cast composed mostly of child actors. For the role of Elliott, he auditioned hundreds of boys before Jack Fisk suggested Henry Thomas for the role because Henry had played the part of Harry in the film ""Raggedy Man"" which Jack Fisk had directed. Thomas, who auditioned in an Indiana Jones costume, did not perform well in the formal testing, but"
"the film, Jackson's ""effective and emotional"" reading of the narrative and the audiobook's ""grand soaring orchestration"" made the ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"" album ""[elicit] as many tears as the movie does"". A writer for ""Billboard"" described the audiobook as being ""lavishly packaged, lovingly produced"" and worth its high asking price. A journalist for the ""Lexington Herald-Leader"" concluded that it was a ""delightful"" storybook album. Notes References Bibliography 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"
"with a dastardly Communist agent and his voluptuous stripper mistress. The G.I. Executioner The G.I. Executioner, originally titled Wit's End, is a 1975 action film co-written and directed by Joel M. Reed, the director of the 1976 cult classic ""Blood Sucking Freaks"". Originally titled ""Wit's End"" and shot in Singapore. production finished in 1971, but the film was not released in theatres until 1975. The film was also released under the title Dragon Lady. Tom Keena plays a Vietnam veteran and millionaire freelance journalist who spends his time operating a discotheque in Singapore. When he receives a mysterious offer to"