At the height of his career, Richard Williams was hailed as the next Walt Disney. He wanted to prove that animation was high art, not just something to sell toys and cereal. So he spent three decades working on a …
It took Mario and Luigi to break Dennis Hopper
The once lost film features George Clooney, Laura Dern and Charlie Sheen
In 1986, Cannon films was riding high — with plans to work with A-list talent on a huge film slate
When Melanie Griffith and Tippi Hedren spent five years filming a wild-animal epic gone violently wrong
In 1970 Warner Brothers had a surprise hit on its hands when they released the documentary/concert film Woodstock. Though the studio spent less than a million dollars on it, the film would eventually gross $50 million at the box office. …
When I met my wife, I only knew one thing about her home country
But Superman IV spawned Morgan Freeman's career
Wrestling, rock and fake gold: What could go wrong?
John Barry won an Oscar for Star Wars – then worked on a disaster
In 1971 actor Elliott Gould was on top of world. Then he started A Glimpse of Tiger, a new movie that he was starring and producing. What followed was a tumultuous five day production that would see Gould fire his …
When Israeli filmmaker Menahem Golan wanted to break into Hollywood he went all in on an over the top disco musical. Unfortunately by 1980, when his movie was released, disco was dead and the reaction to his flashy new film …