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It’s fairly common knowledge that Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video was inspired by John Landis’ movie An American Werewolf In London. After watching ...
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John Landis began his career in the mail room of 20th Century-Fox. A high-school dropout, 18-year-old Landis made his way to Yugoslavia to work as a production assistant on Kelly's Heroes (1970). Remaining in Europe, Landis found work as an actor, extra and stuntman in many of the Spanish/Italian "spaghetti" westerns.
Twilight Zone: The Movie is a 1983 American science fiction anthology film produced by Steven Spielberg and John Landis. Based on Rod Serling 's 1959–1964 television series of the same name, the film features four stories directed by Landis, Spielberg, Joe Dante, and George Miller. [3] Landis' segment is an original story created for the film ...
Jun 21, 2021 · The Locarno Film Festival will pay homage to genre-bending U.S. director John Landis with its Leopard of Honor Award. The “Blues Brothers” and “American Werewolf in London” director will ...
Oct 18, 2023 · Director John Landis is a huge fan of Dan Aykroyd and it shows in this new interview on the brand new Trading Places Blu-ray release. By Brian B. Dec 2, 2020 Movie News
For John Landis, that decade was the 1980's. Starting in the late 70's with The Kentucky Fried Movie, Landis began to push his way into Hollywood, eventually making some landmarking films. Unfortunately as time went on, nothing was the same for Landis, however we are lucky enough to have the films he made that gave way to inspiration to future ...
Sep 6, 2017 · As an eighteen-year-old, John Landis (b. 1950) got a job in the mailroom at 20th Century Fox, only after he had his hair cut and promised to wear a tie. Most of the legendary filmmakers he met in those days, like George Stevens, Alfred Hitchcock, William Wyler, and Billy Wilder, were all still alive—and working—and….
