The early summer of 1982 was a very spacey time on America’s movie screens. Six major studios released a whopping eight science fiction and fantasy films between May 16 and July 9, with hundreds of ...

It makes us laugh, it makes us cry and it gives us a dose of 80s nostalgia that's hard to come by — ET the Extra-Terrestrial is a certified classic, and these fun facts are sure to surprise you!

Director Steven Spielberg recently shared how he prevented a sequel to his iconic 1982 film ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, calling it a “hard-fought victory”. Steven Spielberg's ET was the ...

The mechatronic has 85 points of movement and was operated by 12 people in days before computer-generated imagery. Regarded as an engineering masterpiece, it was made by Italian special effects expert ...

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Film Review, a movie directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace, Robert ...

Bidding for the iconic creation of Italian special effects master Carlo Rambaldi opened at $500,000 Ryan Parker is the former Senior News Editor, Weekends for PEOPLE. He left PEOPLE in 2023. The ...

One of Steven Spielberg's best-known movies of all time, ET the Extra-Terrestrial, is still proving to be extremely successful, even 40 years after its release. The family movie, which was originally ...

John Williams has been making movie magic with his music for decades, transporting audiences on emotional cinematic journeys to a galaxy far far away, to a school for young witches and wizards, to an ...

Not so very long go, Steven Spielberg was considered one of the boy wonders of Hollywood. Today, at 34, he is still a child at heart. In “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” a glorified kiddie matinee show, he ...

The first season of Stranger Things is filled with nods to E.T., including the opening scene where the kids play Dungeons & Dragons. During the season, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) was substituted for ...

For cinephiles of a certain age, it is impossible to conceive of a world without a summer movie season. Kicking off on the first weekend of May (or, occasionally, the last weekend of April) and ...