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16 hours ago · Return of the Jedi revealed that Princess Leia was Luke Skywalker's twin sister, but this wasn't the original plan. According to Gary Kurtz, who produced A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, Luke's sister was initially a new character training to be a Jedi on the other side of the galaxy. She would have appeared later in the sequel trilogy ...
1 day ago · Box office. $104.8 million [4][5] Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
4 days ago · He knew right away that George Lucas and producer Gary Kurtz weren’t feeling him. After a full day of auditions, they weren’t exactly thrilled by Sly’s take on the role. And Stallone wasn ...
5 days ago · Star Wars 100 Interviews is back and this time round Darryl sits down with the legend that is Rusty Goffe to talk about his time in the Star Wars galaxy as Kabe, a GNK droid and a Jawa.
3 days ago · The Spirit, an animated feature based on the comic Bird developed with Jerry Rees and producer Gary Kurtz, based on Will Eisner's acclaimed comic strip. The studios they pitched it to liked the script, but were unwilling to take the gamble on an animated feature for the adult audience.
2 days ago · When we featured Milwaukee’s Peggy James over the past few years, her husband Jim Eannelli was the producer on the recordings. Now it is Eannelli’s turn to step out with songs he has written over the years and give them a proper treatment, with a range of sounds from Neil Young to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and perhaps a little bit of Deep Purple in the middle, on his solo debut ...
1 day ago · At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony held in 1929 (for films made in 1927 and 1928), there were two categories of awards that were each considered the top award of the night: "Outstanding Picture" and "Unique and Artistic Picture", the former being won by the war epic Wings, and the latter by the art film Sunrise.
