At the beginning of Robert Wise's 1951 sci-fi classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still," a flaying saucer lands in Washington, D.C. and a stern, masked alien named Klaatu (Michael Rennie ...

"I felt like I had died on somebody else's sword on Day the Earth Stood Still. I found myself at the end of somebody else's movie," he said. "I was like, 'I'm going to make the movie that I want ...

But "The Day the Earth Stood Still" is a notable exception to the general run of outer-space productions. Most of the recent science fiction movies have been involved with trick celestial ...

Bounding in theaters on March 14, 2025, after several delays as the first fully-animated Looney Tunes movie in Warner Bros.

Travelling at mind-boggling speed, a gleaming unidentified flying object zooming in from boundless deep space penetrates the Earth's atmosphere, landing smoothly in Cold War Washington ...

The ’50s sci-fi fan was inspired by “The Day the Earth Stood Still” along with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby “Road” movies. Presented in CinemaScope, Warner Bros. Animation did the majority of the work, ...

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The alien identifies himself as Klaatu and says he has come to save the Earth. The US military and political authorities see him as a threat however and decide to use so-called intensive ...