Word: fi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cinema sci-fi takes...
...Star Wars fast becoming the biggest moneymaker ever (box office receipts are $12 million a week), the movie industry is wasting no time jumping onto the spacewagon. 20th Century-Fox is already plotting its first Star Wars sequel, and other film makers are rushing to make their own sci-fi flicks before the fad wears thin. Judging from some of their plans, that may not take too long...
...order to keep from liquefying. Universal Pictures plans to remake The Thing from Another World, originally directed by Howard Hawks in 1951, and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), which will star Lily Tomlin this time as an incredible shrinking woman. Even the Disney studios are joining the sci-fi follies with a new kid flick titled The Cat from Outer Space...
...Dollar Baby" stamped all over it. Star Wars is a rousing crowdpleaser, a reaffirmation that the good guys still win some of the time, and an affectionate needle at the legendary Flash Gordon movies of yesteryear all wrapped into one very slick package. And while devotees of the sci-fi movie genre may not take too kindly to the implicit parody of their chosen cult contained in Lucas' film, the dazzling special effects of Star Wars by themselves should prove sufficient to eclipse any lingering qualms they might experience about this decidedly good-natured spoof of motion pictures that journey...
...publicity mill of Twentieth-Century Fox makes abundantly clear--in the course of leafing through some 39 handouts--that Lucas has maintained an ongoing infatuation for many years with the sci-fi heroes who thrilled a generation, and then some, of American youths from the 1930s onwards. Lucas worked hard on Star Wars; his first film since the 1973 hit American Graffiti, the 33-year-old director spent the better part of three years writing the script (during which time he drew up four different versions) before he commenced shooting in March 1976. A lot of care and effort went...