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'Greminlins,' 'Back to the future' and the 'Harry Potter' films all owe a certain debt to the founder of Spielberg's Amblin and Dreamworks.

Steven Spielberg directed the iconic film to share a story and promote tolerance rather than make money.

Welcome to This Week in Genre History, where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world's greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released. By the late 1980s, Michael Crichton was one of the most popular novelists in the world. The author of The Andromeda Strain and Westworld and Coma, showing an ability to capture an audience with a killer sci-fi premise. He next wanted to write a book about dinosaurs, but he couldn't figure out the angle. "The problem always with these creatures is...

Oscar-winning film produced by Stephen Spielberg's Shoah Foundation interviews Hungarian survivors in a jarring but even more relevant wakeup call amid rising global antisemitism

The kaput King Kong that almost broke Jessica Lange How a $2 million robot ape, a man covered in bear fur and a bruised and battered actress made one of the most maligned monster movies ever The beauty that charmed the beast: Jessica Lange Credit: Alamy The 1976 remake of King Kong was sold on a never-before-seen, ground-shaking special effect: a 40ft, fully robotic ape. Originally, the film was set to use a puppet-style model, but Dino De Laurentiis, the Italian producer behind the remake, was inspired by the publicity that Jaws had received for its mechanical shark. Visual effects artist Ca...