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18 Things You Never Knew About Steven Spielberg's 'E.T.'
Admit it: "E.T." made you cry. It still does. If you didn't find yourself misting up at certain points late in "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," you either have a heart of stone or have been away from...
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16 Things You Never Knew About James Bond Classic 'You Only Live Twice'
Maybe "memorable" isn't the right word to describe "You Only Live Twice"; "nutty" is closer. Released 50 years ago this week, on June 13, 1967, it's the James Bond adventure where we first see...
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22 Things You Never Knew About 'Blade Runner'
Given how vastly influential "Blade Runner" has been over the 35 years since its release (on June 25, 1982), it's hard to remember that the movie wasn't a hit. Neither critics nor audiences were...
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14 Things You Never Knew About 'Magic Mike'
A male stripper might be lucky to get a few $20 bills stuffed into his G-string. For Channing Tatum, however, strip-club work turned into a movie franchise that has earned $290 million since the...
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18 Things You Never Knew About 'Men in Black'
"I make this look good," exclaimed Will Smith of the plain dark suit that was his uniform in "Men in Black." Indeed, he made it look not just good but effortless. The release of the sci-fi comedy 20...
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19 Things You Never Knew About Disney's 'Tron'
Thirty-five years ago this week (on July 9, 1982), Disney's release of "Tron" was a bold gamble, an experiment in new storytelling technology and a bid to reinvent the then-adrift studio. And in every...
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26 Things You Never Knew About the James Bond Classic 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
"Nobody does it better," sang Carly Simon during the opening credits of "The Spy Who Loved Me." Indeed, you could make a case that the 007 adventure, released 40 years ago this week in the U.S. (on...
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18 Things You Never Knew About 'RoboCop'
Has it really been 30 years since the release of "RoboCop"? I'll buy that for a dollar. Released July 17, 1987, "RoboCop" had a huge impact, even bigger than that of an ED-209 police droid falling down...
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14 Things You Never Knew About 'Air Force One'
Today, you might be skittish at the prospect of Harrison Ford in the cockpit of a 747, but 20 years ago this week, on July 25, 1997, we all felt reassured to have Ford not only in command of "Air Force...
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Why Was There Never Another 'Simpsons Movie'?
Ten years ago, "The Simpsons Movie" opened nationwide. The David Silverman-directed film was a hit with critics (The New York Times film critic A.O. Scott said he'd watch it "20 or 30 more times") and...
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16 Things You Never Knew About the 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' Movie
It seemed like just your ordinary, sweet, little, satirical, high school vampire horror comedy. Certainly when it was released 25 years ago this week, on July 31, 1992, no one could have imagined that...
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14 Things You Never Knew About Vampire Classic 'The Lost Boys'
It may have been 30 years since the release of "The Lost Boys" (on July 31, 1987), but the teenage vampires, like their "Peter Pan" namesakes, never grow old. The film remains popular to this day, and...
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18 Things You Never Knew About 'Signs'
Pop quiz: What's the biggest hit of Mel Gibson's acting career? "Braveheart"? One of the "Lethal Weapons"? No, it's "Signs." Released 15 years ago this week, on August 2, 2002, the alien-invasion...
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14 Things You Never Knew About Clint Eastwood's 'Unforgiven'
"I will never win an Oscar and do you know why?" Clint Eastwood asked, back in the 1970s. "First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, because I make too much money for those old farts in the...
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20 Things You Never Knew About 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High'
Believe it or not, Sean Penn first became famous for being a hilarious comic actor. Yep, the intense, Method-acting, two-time Oscar-winner made his big splash playing blissed-out teenage surfer dude...
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15 Things You Never Knew About 'The Monster Squad'
Universal may have stumbled this summer with Tom Cruise's "The Mummy," the studio's first entry in what is to be a franchise that will unite its classic movie monsters. But a low-budget kiddie horror...
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12 Things You Never Knew About 'Dirty Dancing'
Hard to believe, but "Dirty Dancing" never reached higher than No. 2 on the box office chart. (It kept losing to "Stakeout.") Yet 30 years after the Jennifer Grey-Patrick Swayze romance's release (on...
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11 Things You Never Knew About James Cameron's 'Terminator 2'
It's hard to believe it's been more than 25 years since "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" first exploded onto the big screen. Like a good sequel is supposed to, it took everything that was great about the...
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15 Things You Never Knew About Karl Urban's 'Dredd'
When "Dredd" came out five years ago this week (on Sept. 21, 2012), it seemed that the box office dispensed Judge Dredd-style summary judgment against the film. An effort to rescue the futuristic comic...
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14 Things You Never Knew About David Fincher's 'The Game'
The best description of the Michael Douglas drama "The Game" came from director David Fincher upon the movie's release 20 years ago this week (on September 12, 1997). Fincher said it was a film about a...
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