Jaws is an American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 1975. The film was based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. It was the highest-grossing film of all time until Star Wars came out. But did you know the film was not originally supposed to be shot from the point of […]
Steven Spielberg directed Hook, a 1991 American fantasy swashbuckler adventure film written by James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo. Dustin Hoffman plays Captain Hook, Robin Williams as Peter Banning, Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell, Bob Hoskins as Mr. Smee, and Maggie Smith as Granny Wendy. It serves as a follow-up to JM Barrie’s 1911
Goonies was a 1985 film that was part of the genre of movies focusing on young viewers, along with Back to the Future, Gremlins, and Ghostbusters. Many child actors in the film pursued their careers in Holywood. But did you know what Chunk, played by Lawrence Cohen, decided to follow after his stint in the
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Contrary to what people might think, the Gremlins movie is not something meant for all ages. The film actually has the same rating as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The Gremlins movie which was released in 1984 was so intense and violent that it was rated PG-13. Steven Spielberg was the one who
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The Jurassic Park movie is an American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 1993. While the film may not have been the first to feature dinosaurs, it did show them in the most realistic way possible. But did you know they didn’t want to use CGI at the start? Jurassic Park
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The first Jurassic Park movie was released on June 11, 1993. The film won more than twenty awards, including three Academy Awards for its technical achievements in visual effects and sound design. But did you know that the entire cast and crew filmed the movie when a hurricane hit? Hurricane Iniki hit Hawaii when Steven
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When the Jurassic Park movie came out in 1993, people mixed feelings about having a park with free-roaming dinosaurs. Luckily for us, we’re probably dozens of years away from actually cloning these giant reptiles from their fossils. The merchandise is real. Here’s how much the ticket at Hammond’s Jurassic Park would cost: If you were
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In casting the film Spielberg sought to create a cast that “looked” the part, stating in an interview, “You know, the people in World War II actually looked different than people look today”, adding to this end that he cast partly based on wanting the cast “to match the faces I saw on the newsreels.”
