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...majority are shot in a day or two. That sort of speed, and per dollar value, has its appeal for such film makers as John Landis, Mike Hodges and Bob Rafelson, who have worked within the slower, costlier Hollywood system. Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist) shot Billy Idol's Dancing with Myself in two days, edited it in a week, and saw it on the air two weeks after that. "You can have fun and experiment and try new things with rock video," Hooper says. "The medium is so immediate...
Some companies are copying Paramount. Warner plans to release Risky Business at $39.98, and MCA will charge a similar amount for Jaws 3. Other firms are keeping prices high. Says Myron Hyman, president of the MGM/UA home video division, which has sold 50,000 copies of Poltergeist at $79.95: "To make a decent return on your investment, the number of units you have to move at $39.95 is phenomenal." RCA/Columbia, which also charges $79.95, has two tapes in the Top Ten on Billboard's bestsellers chart: Blue Thunder (3) and Gandhi...
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...Spielberg has tapped directly into the power source of youthful fantasies and produced two remarkable works of popular art. Poltergeist, which he supervised from original story to final cut, is a horror movie about malevolent spirits that infiltrate the home of an ordinary California family. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, which he devised and directed, tells of a creature from outer space who is mistakenly abandoned on earth and befriended by three school-age children. "Poltergeist is a scream," Spielberg says. "E. T. is a whisper." The first film means to thrill, the second to enthrall. Both succeed beyond anyone...
...with half of the megahit movies of the past eight years. But they never forgot The Twilight Zone. In Steven Spielberg's E.T., one teen-ager hypes the spookiness by singing Marius Constant's ding-ding-ding-ding theme from the TV show; and Spielberg's Poltergeist is an updating of a Twilight Zone episode. Now this quartet has concocted a four-part feature that takes Serling's moral tales into a new dimension: the second, where images and characters are as crisp, bright and fiat as those in a Chuck Jones cartoon...