Now Thunderbirds, which inspired the look of the 2004 film Team America: World Police, is getting a remake.
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"Ironically, I was interrogated at the airport for hours about my last name when I was going to present the film in America for the first time, " he wrote.
Due out in November, it is the most expensive independent film ever shot outside America.
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What about that DC Comics' "Justice League of America" film (which, if not for a 2008 writers' strike, might well have beaten Marvel's "The Avengers" to the screen by a good many years)?
In 1968, the Motion Picture Association of America adopted its film-rating system, ranging from "G" for "general" audiences to "X" for adult patrons only.
The positive reviews of the small budget film have reached the shores of America as well.
The department's varied landscape has made it a favorite for film producers from Europe and North America, and no less than 57 made-in-Narino films were shown.
The question becomes what does it mean that the third Iron Man solo film did almost as well in America and better than The Avengers did last year?
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"I was trying to find a way to fund it and wasn't finding success anywhere because it didn't fit the model -- especially here in America where the short film is viewed as a novelty, " Salmon said Monday.
"Before I came to America, in every Hollywood film I saw there was a cocktail party on a terrace, " says de la Renta.
If the punning survives the translators, perhaps the same will be true as the film opens now in Britain and in America next year.
While Americans saw Chang as a med-student son of an immigrant father, Chinese viewers will see a film about a Chinese native living in America but returning to China.
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Morocco is trying to entice more western filmmakers to its fabulous landscapes of mountains, sea and sand, and it recently won the right to continue to subsidise its fledgling film industry in a trade deal with America.
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All of which makes it disappointing, to say the least, that the Motion Picture Association of America decided to give the film an R rating requiring minors to be accompanied by a parent or guardian because of the brief use of explicit language.
As Burton became more successful, she gave up her career to travel to Switzerland and then America for her husband to pursue his film career.
With a third Iron Man film, another Thor, and a second Captain America on the way (along with the prospects for a new Hulk now that the character has been redeemed in the eyes of moviegoers), Disney might have finally obtained the ultimate cash cow.
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However, revenues for boys products increased by 25%, with film releases this summer promoting items like Transformers and Captain America toys.
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The film was nominated for an Oscar and was widely shown in America on NBC, the network that had turned it down.
Mr Lee said a reconstruction would be filmed in Germany and the film will be shown in countries including Canada, Australia and America.
Back in 2003, Mr Carp assumed that the film industry would decline by some 10% a year in America, and by 6% worldwide.
The film, which received an enthusiastic welcome at the Venice film festival earlier this month and which has just opened in America (it opens in Britain in November) is far, far better.
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In 1942, Orson Welles was sent to Rio to make a film that would strengthen wartime relations between the United States and Latin America.
Last September, the Director's Guild of America Task Force on Violence and Social Responsibility urged the film industry to adopt references that more clearly delineate a film's "intended" audience.
And at the time I was not in the United States of America, I was in Venice, Italy for the Venice Film Festival.
The film also became the first Bond film to be nominated for the top prize at the Producers Guild of America (PGA) Awards.
If the movie flops, that could make things difficult for the 2012 film The Avengers which will feature a slew of Marvel heroes including Captain America.
He started reviewing books for the New Republic in 1933 and became that magazine's film critic in 1934, at a time when scarcely anyone else in America was writing regularly about movies.
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The first film invented the modern sci-fi blockbuster, observes Herbert, and helped redefine America's movie-going habits.
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The Gigapixl Project, meantime, is using large-format film cameras to create a highly detailed coast-to-coast portrait of North America, focusing on cities, parks and monuments.
It's also a tightly controlled film about an out-of-control situation: the prevalence of violence in America and how that impacts both individuals and the culture as a whole.
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