But a big step ahead of what followed.
And it certainly has it's fans (myself included); I mean, Lugosi's Ygor is iconic for a reason.

Well, they certainly know how to make a commercial: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Some considered him the best "cheesecake" artist of his generation… and not without reason:
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He also did art featured in the movie: https://s-media-cache-ak0.p…

That original Art Deco ROCKETEER poster also holds a unique distinction: it may be the only time a poster for a comic-book adaptation movie was done by the original comic's creator, Dave Stevens.

So wait, is CIMIRRON STRIP a series worth watching?

After Warner made a big impact with cartoon buffs by voicing Rhas Al Ghul for BTAS, Andrea Romano brought him back to voice a parody supervillain, The Lobe, for FREAKAZOID!. He clearly had a ball playing his "classy villain" persona for laughs.

You know they'll go with KUNG FU PANZA

" first-time director makes remake of seminal classic, doesn't screw it up as badly as most of the zillion other Romero rip-offs" shouldn't be the high point of a career.

When a movie featuring the two most famous superheroes in the history of the world does less at the box office than a film about "that stupid supporting character from the Wolverine movie no one liked", it's called underperforming.

Translation: "our accountants determined that there was more money in making movies that didn't alienate the mainstream audience".

Yes. They're very different in some ways, but a lot more faithful to the spirit of the originals than you might think.
And Serkis' Caesar is a marvelous performance; he's a worthy heir to Roddy McDowell.

I believe you're thinking of the Burton remake.

"Smart, relevant, fun but kind of terrifying"
So, basically, like the first four "Planet of the Apes" movies.

As I recall (it's been years since I've seen it), JP3 basically said that the entire field of paleontology was transformed overnight by the events of the previous movies, because what was essentially "the dinosaur economy" (the financial system set up to fund and profit off paleontological research) collapsed.
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It's literally a different character- she isn't even named Selina Kyle.

Zemeckis once defended his use of extensive special effects by saying that he felt that, as someone making big-budget movies, it was his responsibility to use some of that budget as "research and development" for technical advances that would make things easier for future filmmakers.

He really had an extraordinary skill at adapting material; everyone's going to point at L.A. CONFIDENTIAL and WONDER BOYS, but he also got a viable script out of Farley Mowatt's NEVER CRY WOLF, and even did a pretty good job at making the notoriously tricky Lovecraft work (DUNWICH HORROR is no masterpiece, but it's…

Before the film came out, a lot of fans of the book thought he would be too low-key for the larger-than-life Dudley Smith… but it was a brilliant piece of casting against type.

To be fair, his breakthhrough was writing the screenplay for SCREAM.