{"id":15484,"date":"2013-08-21T22:38:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T21:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=15484"},"modified":"2013-08-21T22:44:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T21:44:24","slug":"the-future-of-movies-1990-spielberg-lucas-scorsese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2013\/08\/21\/the-future-of-movies-1990-spielberg-lucas-scorsese\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Movies (1990)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Future-of-Movies-in-1990.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15485\" alt=\"The Future of Movies in 1990\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Future-of-Movies-in-1990.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 1990 the late Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel hosted a TV special which featured directors Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese discussing the future of movies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/steven-spielberg-predicts-implosion-film-567604\">Spielberg and Lucas made headlines earlier this summer<\/a> by predicting the implosion of Hollywood&#8217;s current economic model, but what did they feel 23 years ago?<\/p>\n<p>The answer lies in this programme &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/cinephilearchive.tumblr.com\/post\/58718991066\/in-1990-gene-siskel-and-roger-ebert-interviewed\">recently discovered by Cinephilia and Beyond<\/a> &#8211; where they not only discuss the future of movies but also their careers and a good deal else beside, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The possibility of a sequel to E.T. (1982)<\/li>\n<li>Spielberg&#8217;s interest in a Howard Hughes project<\/li>\n<li>Lucas on the Star Wars prequels<\/li>\n<li>Scorsese on Goodfellas (1990) and commercial success<\/li>\n<li>The sex scene in Don&#8217;t Look Now (1973)<\/li>\n<li>HD television<\/li>\n<li>Film preservation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can watch the full programme here (along with the fast-forwarded ads):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x0TTuEqk8LE\" height=\"420\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/\">RogerEbert.com<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1990_in_film\">Find out about 1990 on film at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1990 Siskel and Ebert TV special which features directors Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese discussing the future of movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413,16],"tags":[2610,74,1861,58,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}