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Night Skies

Index Night Skies

Night Skies was a science fiction horror film that was in development in the late 1970s, but was never actually made. [1]

62 relations: An American Werewolf in London, Animatronics, Autism spectrum, Carlo Rambaldi, Cattle, Chicken, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Columbia Pictures, Comanche, Critters (film series), Dark Skies, Dark Skies (film), Drums Along the Mohawk, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Frank Price, Grasshopper, Gremlins, Harrison Ford, Hawaii, Hawk, Horror film, J. Allen Hynek, Jaws (film), Joe Dante, John Landis, John Sayles, John Wayne, Kathleen Kennedy (producer), Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter, Lawrence Kasdan, London, Marquee (sign), MCA Inc., Melissa Mathison, NASA, Native Americans in the United States, Nazism, Piranha (1978 film), Poltergeist (1982 film), Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rick Baker, Roger Corman, Science fiction film, Sentience, Sidney Sheinberg, Signs (film), Space Shuttle, Steven Spielberg, Steven Spielberg's unrealized projects, Straw Dogs (1971 film), ..., The Brother from Another Planet, The Empire Strikes Back, The Guardian, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Thing from Another World, Tobe Hooper, Turnaround (filmmaking), Ufology, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney, War of the Worlds (2005 film), Western (genre). Expand index (12 more) »

An American Werewolf in London

An American Werewolf in London is a 1981 horror comedy film written and directed by John Landis and starring David Naughton, Jenny Agutter and Griffin Dunne.

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Animatronics

Animatronics refers to the use of robotic devices to emulate a human or an animal, or bring lifelike characteristics to an otherwise inanimate object.

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Autism spectrum

Autism spectrum, also known as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is a range of conditions classified as neurodevelopmental disorders.

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Carlo Rambaldi

Carlo Rambaldi (September 15, 1925 – August 10, 2012) was an Italian special effects artist, winner of three Oscars: one Special Achievement Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1977 for the 1976 version of King Kong and two Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects in 1980 and 1983 for, respectively, Alien (1979) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).

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Cattle

Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

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Chicken

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl.

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Comanche

The Comanche (Nʉmʉnʉʉ) are a Native American nation from the Great Plains whose historic territory, known as Comancheria, consisted of present-day eastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, western Oklahoma, and most of northwest Texas and northern Chihuahua.

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Critters (film series)

The Critters film series, from New Line Cinema, comprises four movies that combine elements of horror, science fiction, dark fantasy and comedy.

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Dark Skies

Dark Skies is an American UFO conspiracy theory–based sci-fi television series (1996–97).

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Dark Skies (film)

Dark Skies is a 2013 American science fiction horror film, written and directed by Scott Stewart, produced by Jason Blum, and starring Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton, Dakota Goyo, and J. K. Simmons.

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Drums Along the Mohawk

Drums Along the Mohawk is a 1939 historical fiction film based upon a 1936 novel of the same name by American author, Walter D. Edmonds.

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Melissa Mathison.

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Frank Price

Frank Price (born May 17, 1930) was a television writer and executive during the 1950s to 1970s, and a Hollywood studio chief in the 1980s.

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Grasshopper

Grasshoppers are insects of the suborder Caelifera within the order Orthoptera, which includes crickets and their allies in the other suborder Ensifera.

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Gremlins

Gremlins is a 1984 American comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante and released by Warner Bros. The film is about a young man who receives a strange creature called a mogwai as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, evil monsters.

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Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor and film producer.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.

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Hawk

Hawks are a group of medium-sized diurnal birds of prey of the family Accipitridae.

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Horror film

A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat, through the use of fear and shocking one’s audiences.

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J. Allen Hynek

Josef Allen Hynek (May 1, 1910 – April 27, 1986) was an American astronomer, professor, and ufologist.

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Jaws (film)

Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel of the same name.

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Joe Dante

Joseph James Dante Jr. (born November 28, 1946) is an American film director, producer, editor and actor.

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John Landis

John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.

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John Sayles

John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor and novelist.

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John Wayne

Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed "The Duke", was an American actor and filmmaker.

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Kathleen Kennedy (producer)

Kathleen Kennedy (born June 5, 1953) is an American film producer.

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Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter

The Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter (a.k.a. Hopkinsville Goblins Case, Kelly Green Men Case) was a claimed close encounter with extraterrestrial beings in 1955 near Kelly and Hopkinsville in Christian County, Kentucky, United States.

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Lawrence Kasdan

Lawrence Edward Kasdan (born January 14, 1949) is an American screenwriter, director and producer.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Marquee (sign)

A marquee is most commonly a structure placed over the entrance to a hotel or theatre.

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MCA Inc.

MCA Inc.

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Melissa Mathison

Melissa Marie Mathison (June 3, 1950 – November 4, 2015) was an American film and television screenwriter and an activist for Tibetan freedom.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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Nazism

National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.

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Piranha (1978 film)

Piranha is a 1978 American satirical B horror film directed and co-edited by Joe Dante, and starring Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Steele and Dick Miller.

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Poltergeist (1982 film)

Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Tobe Hooper.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark (also known as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) is a 1981 American action adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Lawrence Kasdan from a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman.

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Rick Baker

Richard A. Baker (born December 8, 1950) is a retired American special make-up effects creator, mostly known for his creature effects and designs.

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Roger Corman

Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American director, producer, and actor.

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Science fiction film

Science fiction film (or sci-fi film) is a genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception and time travel, along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar travel or other technologies.

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Sentience

Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive or experience subjectively.

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Sidney Sheinberg

Sidney Jay "Sid" Sheinberg (born January 14, 1935) is an American lawyer and entertainment executive.

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Signs (film)

Signs is a 2002 American science fiction horror film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and executive produced by Shyamalan, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy and Sam Mercer.

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Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as part of the Space Shuttle program.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Steven Spielberg's unrealized projects

The following is a list of unproduced Steven Spielberg projects in roughly chronological order.

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Straw Dogs (1971 film)

Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George.

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The Brother from Another Planet

The Brother from Another Planet is a 1984 science fiction film written, directed and edited by John Sayles.

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The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back (also known as Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back) is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American horror film directed by Tobe Hooper and written and co-produced by Hooper and Kim Henkel.

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The Thing from Another World

The Thing from Another World, sometimes referred to as The Thing, is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction-horror film, directed by Christian Nyby, produced by Edward Lasker for Howard Hawks' Winchester Pictures Corporation, and released by RKO Pictures.

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Tobe Hooper

Willard Tobe Hooper (January 25, 1943 – August 26, 2017) was an American director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work in the horror genre.

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Turnaround (filmmaking)

A turnaround or turnaround deal is an arrangement in the film industry whereby the production costs of a project which one studio has developed are declared a loss on the company's tax return, thereby preventing the studio from exploiting the property any further.

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Ufology

Ufology is the study of reports, visual records, physical evidence, and other phenomena related to unidentified flying objects (UFO).

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.

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War of the Worlds (2005 film)

War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction horror film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp, loosely based on the novel of the same title by H. G. Wells.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various arts which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Skies

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