26 h. ago ‘We used a beachball as an alien!’ John Carpenter on his gloriously shonky sci

‘The control room buttons were upside-down ice-cube trays, one space suit had a dish-drying rack on it – and the special effects guy wrote the theme tune lyrics’In 1970, I partnered with Dan O’Bannon, a classmate at the University of Southern California, on a senior student project. We wanted to make a science fiction movie inspired by Dr Strangelove and 2001. We had no money but we did have enormous ambition. Dan co-wrote it, and he was also its production designer and editor, and he acted in the movie, playing Sergeant Pinback. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Is The Running Man based on a book as Glen Powell movie hits cinemas

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2 w. ago Jack White shares parable about God as White Stripes are inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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2 w. ago Bad Bridgets podcast about crime among Irish women in US inspires film

Margot Robbie’s company to make movie based on Northern Ireland academics’ stories of poverty and prisonIt started as a trawl of dusty archives for an academic project about female Irish emigrants in Canada and the US by two history professors, a worthy but perhaps niche topic for research.The subjects, after all, were human flotsam from Ireland’s diaspora whose existence was often barely recorded, let alone remembered. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Pride: London is Getting the World Premiere of a New Musical Based on the Cult Movie

Pride: London is Getting the World Premiere of a New Musical Based on the Cult Movie  Time Out

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3 w. ago Yellowstone creator to make movie based on billion dollar video game franchise

The prolific writer and filmmaker has signed up for a major adaptation

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3 w. ago ‘Best horror movie ever made’ based on a ‘haunting’ classic is on TV tonight

Frequently voted one of the best horror movies ever made, this 1970s thriller is about to become available to watch for free

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4 w. ago How to watch all the Marvel movies in chronological order based on the MCU timeline

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4 w. ago More military bases could be used to house migrants, says defence minister

Luke Pollard appeared to suggest that the cost of moving migrants into the bases could be higher than housing them in hotels.

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4 w. ago Werewolves of London: John Carpenter almost made a movie based on the Warren Zevon song with Peter Fonda

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last month 'Masterpiece' war film with 94% Rotten Tomatoes rating on TV today

The World War II action movie is based on a true story will be free to watch on TV.

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