Director John Landis shaped the face of American comedy for a generation.

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In the most lavish days of John Landis, Hype Williams and Spike Jonze, video budget was devoted to physical production- actors, location, set creation, etc.

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Not even John Landis could have imagined such a resurrection.

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Director John Landis described Harryhausen as a "true giant of the cinema" and said his creations were "not only the stars of those movies, but the main reason for those movies to exist at all".

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John Landis married Deborah Nadoolman.

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Paul Anderson, a journalist in Los Angeles, says it was his dad, also Paul, a Chicago, Illinois, police radio engineer who was tasked with fixing up the Dodge Polaras and Monacos wrecked in the film (with the Chicago city council spurred into action by the possibility of Steven Spielberg and John Landis coming to their city to make a big-budget movie).

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