John Milius

...he freely admitted in interviews. The biggest directors of the decade -- Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Michael Cimino, John Milius -- referred to it in their films. Scorsese even included a clip from it in Mean Streets...

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...film school. " Renowned worldwide as the faculty that produced blockbuster film giants like Star Wars' director George Lucas, John Milius and Stephen Sommers, the USC School of Cinematic Arts has opened a lot of doors for Griffiths in...

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...occupiers, employing every weapon and cliche at their disposal. It starts as pure hokum and, because it was written and directed by John Milius, turns bloody and surprisingly dark. A remake is due out soon. Sample quote: "They fought here...

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...secrets. Then, on set, he'd announce them over a loudspeaker for everyone to hear. " 4. Red Dawn was even more intense. Director John Milius put his actors through a training camp that culminated in a giant game of Capture the Flag with...

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...to stardom. Connor Cruise, 14, will join Watchmen star Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Red Dawn. The original 1984 movie, directed by John Milius, starred Swayze, his future Dirty Dancing partner Jennifer Grey, Charlie Sheen and C. Thomas...

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...to play Daryl, the role Darren Dalton played in the first film, reported contactmusic.com. The original 1984 movie, directed by John Milius, starred Swayze, his "Dirty Dancing" partner Jennifer Grey as well as Charlie Sheen and C. Thomas...

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...careers of several up-and-coming actors, notably Matt Damon, Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe. In the following year's Red Dawn, directed by John Milius, Swayze took the lead as Jed, the head of a gang of teenagers who turn themselves into guerrilla...

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...then 32, was positively grizzled next to his costars (including C. Thomas Howell and Lea Thompson), and gave writer-director John Milius's bear-ish WWIII fantasy a dose of humanity. Point Break (1991) In this surfer/caper movie from...

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...partnered with director Alfonso Arau ("Like Water for Chocolate," "A Walk in the Clouds") to develop it into a miniseries. John Milius -- an Oscar nominee for his "Apocalypse Now" screenplay and co-creator of HBO's "Rome" -- is in talks to...

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The two were the 1945 "Dillinger," a poverty-row production that introduced now-forgotten tough guy Lawrence Tierney to the screen, and John Milius's "Dillinger" of 1973, an early film in the opus of the writer-director who would go on to...

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