US film director Steven Spielberg

Perhaps the greatest filmmaker of all time, Steven Spielberg has captivated audiences since 1968, and remains one of the most influential and important directors to date. Spielberg revolutionized the film industry through fantastic and entertaining blockbusters, inspiring Hollywood as a whole. Fresh off a ...

A massive step forward for equality this week, with filmmaker Steven Spielberg acknowledging that he could remake Indiana Jones with a woman in the lead role. “We'd have to change the name from Jones to Joan. And there would be nothing wrong with that,” he said. Gee thanks, Steve. He's right, of ...

Stephen King and Steven Spielberg are a pair of iconic creators who both came to prominence around the same time. It seems insane the pair have never worked together. Yet, they almost did. The two recently revealed that back in the early 1980s when Steven Spielberg was producing, and possibly also ...

The next Indiana Jones could be played by a woman when Harrison Ford retires from the franchise, Steven Spielberg has suggested. Spielberg, who has directed every instalment in the blockbuster movie series, told the Sun that he was “pretty sure” the upcoming fifth outing for the explorer would be Ford's ...

There's no debating the fact that Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's most successful living director. But over the course of his nearly-50-year career, he's also time and again reminded us that he's arguably its greatest one, too. No one toggles between unabashed popcorn entertainment and more challenging ...

“Colin Trevorrow is going write and direct the third Jurassic World story,” executive producer Steven Spielberg exclusively tells EW. Spielberg will also return as an executive producer on the third World. Trevorrow co-wrote and directed 2015's Jurassic World, which went on to gross $1.67 billion worldwide.

Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek) is a giant Steven Spielberg fan. But so is Dawson's Creek creator Kevin Williamson. “I was that kid who was in love with Spielberg when I was growing up,” remembers Williamson. “I had an 8-mm camera because I heard Spielberg had an 8-mm camera. And then I ...

On this week's podcast, Tim Ahrens, Jordan Bishop and Jimmy Gillispie sit down to play a trivia game about Steven Spielberg movies. Tim quizzes Jordan and Jimmy about the legendary film maker in a silly, entertaining game. Jordan reviewed “Love Simon” this week. It was a film he really enjoyed and he ...

Empire's April 2018 magazine is all about Steven Spielberg and full of tributes to the director from the likes of J.J. Abrams, Martin Scorsese, Rian Johnson, and more. But perhaps the coolest part is from Edgar Wright, who somehow managed to get Spielberg on the phone for a 45-minute conversation ...

Now that our Top 50 Superhero Movies of All Time list has come and gone, it's on to the next! But this time around, we're putting the spotlight on one specific filmmaker – one of the best of all-time, Steven Spielberg. From 1975's Jaws, which started the summer blockbuster phenomenon, to 2017's Academy ...

Movie director Steven Spielberg has avoided a close encounter with a burger chain that decided to name one of its menu items a "SpielBurger." Fast-food restaurant Carl's Jr changed the name of its Charbroiled Sliders to "SpielBurgers" in honor of the director's new movie "Ready Player One." It has posted ...

After all, we're still awaiting a release date for Steven Spielberg's The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. But you can see how each film makes sense as a Best Picture contender based on the current social and political climate and the Academy's voting history. You've got biopics, socially-conscious dramas ...

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg is no stranger to the Academy Awards, having earned himself seven nominations over the years for Best Director, in addition to his films amassing dozens of other accolades. At this year's ceremony, at which his film The Post was up for several awards, Spielberg honored one of ...

One moment that elicited mixed reactions was Jimmy Kimmel's brief bit with Steven Spielberg. Between presenters, Kimmel went up to Spielberg and asked what he does. “I'm Kate Capshaw's husband,” Spielberg answered, pointing to his wife. Lots of people loved the answer, calling it #relationshipgoals ...

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The 71-year-old filmmaker admitted his latest sci-fi saga has been one of the most "difficult" projects he's ever worked on and he needed to learn a lot of new skills to make it work. He said: "It's the third most difficult film I've made after 'Jaws' and 'Saving Private Ryan'. "I think there is a distinction between a ...

While Steven Spielberg will get plenty of video game action going later this month with his film adaptation of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, there's still some talk going on regarding his proposed Halo mini-series over at Showtime – and it looks like it's making some traction. A new report from Production ...

Attendees at the South by Southwest Conference will get the chance to step into the futuristic world of Steven Spielberg's forthcoming action adventure Ready Player One ahead of the movie's March 29 release. Related · Justin Vivian Bond To Narrate SXSW-Bound Doc 'The Gospel Of Eureka'. The SXSW ...

We at Film School Rejects are not the first to sing Steven Spielberg's praises for his iconic moments in adventure films like the Indiana Jones series; I'm not even the first person here to do it this year! His work warrants this amount of discussion and close attention even to attempt to catch all of the small ...

The OASIS (Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation) in Ready Player One comes from the mind of author Ernest Cline, but this virtual world is filled with avatars, vehicles and more that hail from 1980s and 1990s pop culture, which includes Steve Spielberg movies. So when Spielberg ...

It was on an interview with the Kermode & Mayo Film Review programme, back when he was promoting Lincoln, that director Steven Spielberg admitted that Hook was the film of his that he had the most problems with. “I want to see Hook again," he said. “I still don't like that movie. I'm hoping some day I'll ...

Director Steven Spielberg says casting a female to play the iconic role of Indiana Jones could actually become a reality. “We'd have to change the name from Jones to Joan,” Spielberg told The Sun in a recent interview. “And there would be nothing wrong with that.” Spielberg has had no problem putting ...

It seems that The Talisman is not the only frustrating and tantalizing instance of Steven Spielberg and Stephen King almost working together. Spielberg and King discussed the long and winding tale of trying to get King's dark fantasy novel The Talisman (written with Peter Straub) to the screen in an EW ...

Filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney have teamed to produce a docu-series for Discovery Channel examining the origins and dangers of hate. The two Oscar winners will executive produce the six-part series tentatively titled “Why We Hate.” Spielberg's Amblin Television partnered with Gibney's ...

Whether it's rampaging dinosaur attacks, metaphysical robot dramas or all-out alien invasions, some of Steven Spielberg's greatest works capture a child's-eye view of his subject matter. The director has a gift for bringing the best out of his young stars, and so for Empire's #SpielbergTakeover issue we ...

There is perhaps no director whose films did more to shape the childhoods of a generation of film fans than Steven Spielberg. Films like Jaws, E.T. and the Indiana Jones franchise are undisputed classics that define the legendary director's career. But not all of Spielberg's films hold such universal regard.