Showing posts with label Steven Spielberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steven Spielberg. Show all posts

Friday, December 4, 2015

Bridge of Spies (2015)


"In the shadow of war, one man showed the world what we stand for."


Directed by Steven Spielberg
Produced by Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt, Kristie Macosko Krieger
Written by Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Starring: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda
Music by Thomas Newman
Cinematography: Janusz Kamiński
Edited by Michael Kahn
Production companies: Touchstone Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Fox 2000 Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, Participant Media, Afterworks Limited, Studio Babelsberg, Amblin Entertainment, Marc Platt Productions
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios, Motion Pictures, 20th Century Fox
Release date: 16 October 2015 (United States)
Running time: 141 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $40 million
Box office: $160.9 million


"Bridge of Spies" is a historical biographical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. The story is about an American lawyer who is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot during the Cold War.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Back To The Future Part III (1990)


"They've saved the best trip for last... But this time they may have gone too far."


Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Produced by Neil Canton, Bob Gale
Screenplay by Bob Gale
Story by Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale

Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Thomas F. Wilson, Lea Thompson
Music by Alan Silvestri
Cinematography: Dean Cundey
Edited by Harry Keramidas, Arthur Schmidt
Production company: Amblin Entertainment
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date: 25 May 1990 (United States)
Running time: 119 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $40 million (shared with Part II)
Box office: $244.5 million

"Back to the Future Part III" is an action adventure comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Bob Gale. It's the third and final installment of the "Back to the Future" trilogy which follows Doctor Emmet Brown who is about to be killed by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen in 1885.

Back To The Future Part II (1989)


"Getting back was only the beginning."


Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Produced by Neil Canton, Bob Gale
Screenplay by Bob Gale
Story by Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson
Music by Alan Silvestri
Cinematography: Dean Cundey
Edited by Harry Keramidas, Arthur Schmidt
Production company: Amblin Entertainment
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date: 22 November 1989 (United States)
Running time: 108 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $40 million (shared with Part III)
Box office: $332 million

"Back to the Future Part II" is a science-fiction adventure comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Bob Gale. It's the sequel to "Back to the Future" and the second installment in the "Back to the Future" trilogy. The story is about Marty McFly who must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985 after visiting 2015.

Back to the Future (1985)


"17 year old Marty McFly got home early last night. 30 years early."


Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Produced by Bob Gale, Neil Canton
Written by Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover
Music by Alan Silvestri
Cinematography: Dean Cundey
Edited by Arthur Schmidt, Harry Keramidas
Production company: Amblin Entertainment
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date: 3 July 1985 (United States)
Running time: 116 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $19 million
Box office: $389.1 million

"Back to the Future" is a science-fiction adventure comedy film directed and co-written by Robert Zemeckis. This is the first instalment in the "Back to the Future" film series which follows a young man who is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence.

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Jurassic Park III (2001)


"Nature Takes No Prisoners"


Directed by Joe Johnston
Produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Larry J. Franco
Written by Peter Buchman, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Based on Characters created by Michael Crichton
Starring: Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan, Michael Jeter
Music by Don Davis
Cinematography: Shelly Johnson
Edited by Robert Dalva
Production company: Amblin Entertainment
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date: July 18, 2001 (United States)
Running time: 93 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $93 million
Box office: $368.8 million


"Jurassic Park III" is an action science fiction adventure film directed by Joe Johnston. It's the third installment in the Jurassic Park film series. The story is about  Dr. Alan Grant who goes to Isla Sorna in order to help parents find their child but meets earlier unknown species of dinosaurs.

Monday, June 15, 2015

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)


"Something has survived"


Directed by Steven Spielberg
Produced by Gerald R. Molen, Colin Wilson
Screenplay by David Koepp
Based on "The Lost World" by Michael Crichton
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard
Music by John Williams
Cinematography: Janusz Kamiński
Edited by Michael Kahn
Production company: Amblin Entertainment
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date: May 23, 1997 (United States)
Running time: 129 minutes
Country: United States, Australia, New Zealand
Budget: $73 million
Box office: $618.6 million

"The Lost World: Jurassic Park" is an action science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. It's the second installment in the Jurassic Park film series. It tells the story of a research team which is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island in order to study the dinosaurs there while another team approaches with another agenda.

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Jurassic Park (1993)


"An adventure 65 million years in the making."


Directed by Steven Spielberg
Produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Gerald R. Molen
Screenplay by Michael Crichton, David Koepp
Based on "Jurassic Park" by Michael Crichton
Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, B.D. Wong, Samuel L. Jackson, Wayne Knight, Ariana Richards, Joseph Mazzello
Music by John Williams
Cinematography: Dean Cundey
Edited by Michael Kahn
Production company: Amblin Entertainment
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date: June 11, 1993 (United States)
Running time: 127 minutes
Country: United States, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, 
Budget: $63 million
Box office: $1.029 billion

"Jurassic Park" is a adventure science fiction thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. It's the first installment of the Jurassic Park film series. The story is about Isla Nublar, a fictional island where scientists have created a wildlife park of cloned dinosaurs.

Friday, June 12, 2015

Jurassic World (2015)


"The park is open."


Directed by Colin Trevorrow
Produced by Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley, Steven Spielberg
Screenplay by Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Derek Connolly, Colin Trevorrow
Story by Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver
Based on Characters created by Michael Crichton
Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ty , Nick Robinson, Omar Sy, B. D. Wong, Irrfan Khan
Music by Michael Giacchino
Cinematography: John Schwartzman
Edited by Kevin Stitt
Production companies: Amblin Entertainment, Legendary Pictures
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date: 10 June 2015 (Belgium)
Running time: 123 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $150 million
Box office: $1.670 billion

"Jurassic World" is an action science fiction adventure film directed by Colin Trevorrow and it's the fourth installment in the Jurassic Park film series. The story begins 22 years after the events of Jurassic Park. Today Isla Nublar is a dinosaur theme park originally envisioned by John Hammond. Visitors have already got used to these creatures therefore they want something more tremendous, more "fanged", more "wow". However nobody wanted it to be cleverer...

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Schindler's List (1993)


"Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire."


Directed by Steven Spielberg
Produced by Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig
Screenplay by Steven Zaillian
Based on "Schindler's Ark" by Thomas Keneally
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall, Embeth Davidtz
Music by John Williams
Cinematography: Janusz Kamiński
Edited by Michael Kahn
Production company: Amblin Entertainment
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date: 25 December 1993 (Canada)
Running time: 197 minutes
Country: United States, Poland, Israel
Budget: $22 million
Box office: $321.2 million

"Schindler's List" is a biographical history drama, directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, scripted by Steven Zaillian, and based on the novel "Schindler's Ark" by Thomas Keneally. The story is about Oskar Schindler, who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

War Horse (2011)


"Separated by war. Tested by battle. Bound by friendship."


Directed by Steven Spielberg
Produced by Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
Screenplay by Lee Hall, Richard Curtis
Based on "War Horse" by Michael Morpurgo
Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Niels Arestrup, Tom Hiddleston, Toby Kebbell, Peter Mullan, Patrick Kennedy
Music by John Williams
Cinematography: Janusz Kamiński
Edited by Michael Kahn
Production company: Touchstone Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, Amblin Entertainment, The Kennedy/Marshall Company
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios, Motion Pictures
Release date: 25 December 2011 (Canada)
Running time: 146 minutes
Country: United States, India
Budget: $66 million
Box office: $177.6 million

"War Horse" is a war drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and adapted from Michael Morpurgo's 1982 children's novel of the same name. It tells the story of young Albert who enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry.