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At the height of his career, Richard Williams was hailed as the next Walt Disney. He wanted to prove that animation was high art, not just something to sell toys and cereal. So he spent three decades working on a single film called The Thief and The Cobbler, which was going to be extraordinary. But he made a deal with a movie studio that he couldn't keep. This episode of Imaginary Worlds features Garrett Gilchrist, Kevin Schreck, Neil Boyle and Greg Duffell discuss whether Hollywood or Williams...

It took Mario and Luigi to break Dennis Hopper

The once lost film features George Clooney, Laura Dern and Charlie Sheen

In 1986, Cannon films was riding high — with plans to work with A-list talent on a huge film slate

Send in the Clones

When Melanie Griffith and Tippi Hedren spent five years filming a wild-animal epic gone violently wrong

In 1970 Warner Brothers had a surprise hit on its hands when they released the documentary/concert film Woodstock. Though the studio spent less than a million dollars on it, the film would eventually gross $50 million at the box office. Warner Bros. had caught lightning in a bottle. The question for the suits was: How do we make lightning strike twice?

When I met my wife, I only knew one thing about her home country

But Superman IV spawned Morgan Freeman's career

Wrestling, rock and fake gold: What could go wrong?

John Barry won an Oscar for Star Wars – then worked on a disaster

In 1971 actor Elliott Gould was on top of world. Then he started A Glimpse of Tiger, a new movie that he was starring and producing. What followed was a tumultuous five day production that would see Gould fire his director, terrify his co-star, and have ...

When Israeli filmmaker Menahem Golan wanted to break into Hollywood he went all in on an over the top disco musical. Unfortunately by 1980, when his movie was released, disco was dead and the reaction to his flashy new film didn’t go according to plan.