From Star Wars To Predator

...continued from the message board for Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan.

E.T.
*this 1982 film directed by Spielberg was the biggest money-maker of its time, adding weight to the end of Spielberg's other 1982 movie Poltergeist. At the end of Poltergeist, it's Spielberg's name that first appears during the end credits.

*grossed 276% of the nearest competition that summer. Or to put it another way, the nearest competition that summer grossed only 36% of what E.T. made at the box office.

*Spielberg had become Hollywood's most successful director in 1981, the success of this film secured his position for decades. He followed with additional successes with two Indiana Jones sequels, The Color Purple, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, among others.

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*John Williams won an Oscar for best original score over Spielberg's Poltergeist
*John Williams' film score was ranked #14 by the AFI
*was the 3rd time that John Williams would win an Oscar after composing for the biggest money-making film of all time. He would do it a 4th time in 1993.

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*won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects over Spielberg's Poltergeist
*won an Oscar for Best Sound Effects Editing over Spielberg's Poltergeist
*was nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Picture

*Spielberg received his third Best Director nomination and his fourth DGA nomination. His successes with acquiring numerous DGA nominations, Best Director nominations, two Best Director Oscars (movies about the problems caused by fascists), three DGA wins, numerous Best Picture nominees, the number of hit movies, the sum of all tickets sold for his directed movies, and tickets sold after opening weekends sort of makes (rest of sentence censored for fear of arbitrary censors at IMDb)...but back to E.T. and the Star Wars To Predator list...

*other Oscar nominations for E.T. were for original screenplay, cinematography, and film editing

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*was involved in many similarities between 1982 and 1993, adding weight to the (rest of sentence censored in fear of the arbitrary censors at IMDb)

*was ranked #24 on the AFI's Best American Movies of All Time (2007)

*underwent the knife by Spielberg in 2002
*Spielberg regretted altering E.T., and has allowed both versions to be seen and has considered ditching the altered version

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*aired on CBS in 1992 in a Sears Family Theater presentation unedited in its original form. Think about that. That means families used to having movies cleaned up from profanity got to watch a "family" movie on TV with profanity left in it...in a Sears Family Theater presentation.

*aired many years later on some cable network in between repeated broadcasts of American Pie 2. Think about that. That means that if children or families tuned in a little early or didn't tune out immediately after the airing of E.T., then they ended up seeing scenes from a sex comedy.

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*was obviously mentioned in the 1984 edition of the Guinness Book Of World Records in a paragraph titled Highest Box Office Gross under Motion Pictures. Also mentioned in the paragraph for opening weekend and single day records were Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan and Return Of The Jedi.

To be continued on the message board for Return Of The Jedi...

What is the point of all these posts about 'E.T.'? What is your goal, what are you trying to accomplish?

I.Need.To.Know

You left out The Last Starfighter, there.


The Falcon flies