Steven Spielberg
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Duel (1971 film)...by a large tanker truck and its almost unseen driver. It was the first feature film directed by Steven Spielberg and was written by Richard Matheson based on his own short story. The tanker truck David Mann (Dennis Weaver) is a... In this article: David Mann, Duel, Steven Spielberg, Dennis Weaver, Plymouth Valiant, Touch of Evil, Richard Matheson, California, Universal, and Jaws |
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Wired: Underwire | September 30, 2009
Hugh Jackman May Join Robot Boxing Flick
...between one-ton android gladiators. Variety reports that Steven Spielberg is executive-producing Real Steel, with Transformers producers Don Murphy and Susan Montford overseeing the project day to day. The picture is based on a short story...
In this article: Hugh Jackman, Shawn Levy, E mail, Wired.com, Richard Matheson, Don Murphy, Susan Montford, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and I Am Legend
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Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. | October 13, 2009
A Movie A Day: ROAD GAMES (1981) + DUEL (1971)<BR> <i> Tomorrow's Bacon </i>
...exercise like Duel. Granted, he had Richard Matheson writing for him on Duel, but I'm sure there's at least one writer out there who can deliver something as simple, yet fucking awesome as Matheson did time after time. Yep, I have yet to...
In this article: Stacy Keach, Duel, Psycho II, 'n Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Franklin, Richard Matheson, Dennis Weaver, Alfred Hitchcock, and The Hitcher
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Variety | December 09, 2007
I Am Legend: Matheson Redux
...King is a major Matheson fan. A fave film of mine, A Stir of Echoes, is based on a Matheson story, as is The Incredible Shrinking Man, What Dreams May Come, Somewhere in Time and Steven Spielberg's Duel. And of course Omega Man and Last...
In this article: Richard Matheson, I Am Legend, Will Smith, Duel, The Incredible Shrinking Man, What Dreams May Come, Stephen King, and Manhattan
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SCI FI Wire | March 24, 2008
King And Son To Collaborate
...universes Matheson created. The King/Hill collaboration, "Throttle," is set in the same world as Matheson's story "Duel," which was famously adapted into a television film by Steven Spielberg. Other contributors include Matheson's...
In this article: Richard Matheson, Richard Christian Matheson, RSS, Sci Fi Wire, John Shirley, I Am Legend, Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Jr., Avengers, and Bloglines
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Wikipedia | October 27, 2009
Jaws 3-D
...the film. Richard Matheson, who had written the script for Steven Spielberg's celebrated 1971 television movie Duel '', says that he wrote a "very interesting" outline, although the story is credited to "some other writer". Universal...
In this article: Jaws 3-D, Jaws 2, Joe Alves, Richard Matheson, SeaWorld, and Jaws
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ABC Movie of the Week
...well-received. Duel '' (1971), based on a Richard Matheson short story from ''Playboy, was director Steven Spielberg's first feature film, catapulting his career and enabling him to move from television to theatrical films. The "alphabet...
In this article: Movie of the Week, ABC Movie Of The Week, Peabody Award, Playboy, American Cancer Society, Aaron Spelling, David Wolper, Barry Diller, and Richard Matheson
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Steven Allan Spielberg ,KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion. In 2006, the magazine Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. Time listed him as one of the 100 Greatest People of the Century. At the end of the twentieth century, Life named him the most influential person of his generation.
In a career of almost four decades, Spielberg's films have touched on many themes and genres. Spielberg's early sci-fi and adventure films, sometimes centering on children, were seen as an archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years his movies began addressing such issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism.
Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for 1993's Schindler's List and 1998's Saving Private Ryan. Three of Spielberg's films, Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993), broke box office records, each becoming the highest-grossing film made at the time.
- Name At Birth:
- Steven Allan Spielberg
- Birth Date:
- December 18, 1946
- Birthplace:
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Occupation:
- Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer
- Years Active:
- 1964 – present
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