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Oz (a.k.a. Oz – A Rock 'n' Roll Road Movie also released as 20th Century Oz in United States) is a 1976 Australian film written, directed and co-produced by Chris Löfvén. [3] It stars Joy Dunstan , Graham Matters , Bruce Spence , Gary Waddell , and Robin Ramsay ; and received four nominations at the 1977 AFI Awards . [ 3 ]
In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in New York City, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of films and documentaries set in New York, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to the city. The list is sorted by the year the film was released.
Checking Out (1976) Annie (1977) Chapter Two (1977) 42nd Street (1980) Little Shop of Horrors (1982) Strawhead (1982) Mama, I Want to Sing! (1983) Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983) Falsettos (1992) My Favorite Year (1992) The Goodbye Girl (1993) Rent (1996) The Life (1997) Ragtime (1998) The Capeman (1998) Bright Lights, Big City (1999) Saturday ...
Oz the Great and Powerful is a 2013 American fantasy adventure film directed by Sam Raimi and written by David Lindsay-Abaire and Mitchell Kapner from a story by Kapner. Based on L. Frank Baum's early 20th century Oz books and set 20 years before the events of the original 1900 novel, [5] the film is a spiritual prequel to the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz. [6]
Fontana was born on the west side of Buffalo, New York, and is the fourth of five children in an Italian-American family; [2] he is a cousin of actress Patti LuPone. He attended Cathedral School, Canisius High School, and Buffalo State College. He worked at the Studio Arena Theater in Buffalo in various capacities before moving to New York City ...
April 1 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show is officially re-released as a midnight movie at the Waverly Theater (Now the IFC Center) in Greenwich Village in New York City, starting through the run and still being shown in there as of 2013 all around the world. [4] April 9 – Alfred Hitchcock's last film, Family Plot, is released.
[31] [77] The conversion occurred as similar Yiddish venues in the East Village and Lower East Side had become movie houses. [112] Shortly after the Century reopened, its sound equipment was replaced. [114] The theater went into foreclosure by September 1937 and was taken over by the Greater New York Savings Bank. [77]
Highest-grossing films of 1976 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Rocky: United Artists: $117,235,147 2 To Fly! IMAX Films $86,600,000 3 A Star Is Born: Warner Bros. $63,129,898 4 King Kong: Paramount: $52,614,445 5 Silver Streak: 20th Century Fox: $51,079,064 6 All the President's Men: Warner Bros. $51,048,435 7 The Omen: 20th Century Fox ...