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| This was developed with the main goal of recreating film sound in film theaters exactly as the filmmakers had intended. | |
| This Ridley Scott movie from 1979 was 20th Century Fox's extremely suspenseful horror film. It was the first R-rated film to have merchandising aimed at children. | |
| He was the first professional actor to serve in the White House, completing two terms as a Republican, from 1981-1989. | |
| This psychological thriller from 1999 was the director's first major film with his trademark plot-shifting twist and it came to be known as the 'Shyamalan twist. | |
| This movie on the media's exploitative precoccupation with violence (1994), came under critical fire for its own graphic, on-screen violence. | |
| She solidified her place as filmdom's greatest action heroine, with closely-cropped hair, no makeup, and a fight-to-the-death maternal instinct. | |
| This movie broke new technological ground with its remarkable blending of animated imagery and live-action human characters (1988). | |
| The DreamWorks sci-fi spoof of 50s monster movies, Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) was the first computer-animated feature film to be shot directly in this. | |
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| It was the first film with an Oscar-winning rap/hip-hop song (2002). | |
| This movie debuted in 1980- it was the first segment in one of the longest running, most prolific and financially-successful horror film series of all time. | |
| In 2010 this actor died at the age of 85 of cardiac arrest. His marriage to fellow actress Janet Leigh led to the birth of daughter Jamie Lee. | |
| Robert De Niro set the world record for most weight gained for a film by gaining 50-60 pounds to play boxer Jake LaMotta in this movie. | |
| Bruce Willis was paid $10 million - the highest reported fee at the time for only a voice-over role in this sleeper hit from 1989. | |
| This 1971 film was the first film to use Dolby technology noise reduction for its sound recording. | |
| In 1977 this 43 year-old Polish director had sex with a 13-year-old girl following champagne (and allegedly, quaaludes) in actor Jack Nicholson's hot tub. | |
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