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Wild Wild West is a 1999 American steampunk Western film co-produced and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by S. S. Wilson and Brent Maddock alongside Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman, from a story penned by brothers Jim and John Thomas. Loosely adapted from The Wild Wild West, a 1960s television series created by Michael Garrison, it is the only production since the television film More Wild Wild West (1980) to feature the characters from the original series.

The film stars Will Smith (who previously collaborated with Sonnenfeld on Men in Black two years earlier) and Kevin Kline as two U.S. Secret Service agents who work together to protect U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant (Kline, in a dual role) and the United States from all manner of dangerous threats during the American Old West. The film features a supporting cast consisting of Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek, Ted Levine, and M. Emmet Walsh, as well as an orchestral film score by Western film score veteran Elmer Bernstein and extensive visual effects courtesy of Industrial Light & Magic.

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Scream is a 1996 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven and  written by Kevin Williamson. The film stars Neve Campbell, David  Arquette, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich,  Jamie Kennedy, and Drew Barrymore. Released on December 20, it follows  high school student Sidney Prescott (Campbell) and her group of friends  in the fictional town of Woodsboro, California, who become the targets  of a mysterious killer in a Halloween costume known as Ghostface. The  film satirizes the clichés of the slasher genre popularized in films  such as Halloween (1978), Friday the 13th (1980) and Craven's own A  Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Scream was considered unique at the time  of its release for featuring characters aware of real-world horror  films who openly discussed the clichés that the film attempted to  subvert.

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Lost in Space is a 1998 American science-fiction adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins, and starring William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, Gary Oldman, and Heather Graham. The plot is adapted from the 1965–1968 CBS television series of the same name (itself inspired by the 1812 novel The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss). Several actors from the TV show make cameo appearances.

The film focuses on the Robinson family, who undertake a voyage  to a nearby star system to begin large-scale emigration from a  soon-to-be uninhabitable Earth, but are thrown off course by a saboteur  and must try to find their way home.

Lost in Space received negative reviews from critics and grossed $136.2 million worldwide with an $80 million budget.

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Interstellar is a 2014 science fiction film co-written, directed and  produced by Christopher Nolan. It stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne  Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, Matt Damon, and  Michael Caine. Set in a dystopian future where humanity is struggling to  survive, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through a  wormhole near Saturn in search of a new home for mankind.

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The Martian is a 2015 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and  starring Matt Damon. Drew Goddard adapted the screenplay from the 2011  novel The Martian by Andy Weir. The film depicts an astronaut's lone  struggle to survive on Mars after being left behind and the efforts of  NASA to rescue him and bring him home to Earth. It also stars Jessica  Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Kristen Wiig, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sean Bean,  Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Mackenzie Davis,  Donald Glover, and Benedict Wong.

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Spaceballs is a 1987 American space opera parody film co-written,  produced and directed by Mel Brooks. It is primarily a parody of the  original Star Wars trilogy, but also parodies other sci-fi films and  popular franchises including Star Trek, Alien, The Wizard of Oz, 2001,  Planet of the Apes, and Transformers. The film stars Bill Pullman, John  Candy and Rick Moranis, with the supporting cast comprising Daphne  Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, George Wyner, Lorene Yarnell, and the voice of  Joan Rivers. In addition to Brooks playing a dual role, the film also  features Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise and Rudy De Luca in cameo  appearances.

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is a 2015 spy film directed by Guy Ritchie and  written by Ritchie and Lionel Wigram. It is based on the 1964 MGM  television series of the same name, which was created by Norman Felton  and Sam Rolfe. The film stars Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia  Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki, and Hugh Grant. The film was produced by  RatPac-Dune Entertainment, and Davis Entertainment, while Turner  Entertainment Co., the original TV series current holder, was also  involved.

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John Carter is a 2012 American science fiction action film directed by  Andrew Stanton (in his live-action debut), written by Stanton, Mark  Andrews, and Michael Chabon, and based on A Princess of Mars (1912), the  first book in the Barsoom series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The  film was produced by Jim Morris, Colin Wilson, and Lindsey Collins.  John Carter stars Taylor Kitsch in the title role, Lynn Collins,  Samantha Morton, Mark Strong, Ciarán Hinds, Dominic West, James Purefoy  and Willem Dafoe. The film chronicles the first interplanetary adventure  of John Carter and his attempts to mediate civil unrest amongst the  warring kingdoms of Barsoom.

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Event Horizon is a 1997 science fiction horror film directed by Paul W.  S. Anderson and written by Philip Eisner. It stars Laurence Fishburne,  Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan and Joely Richardson. Set in 2047, it  follows a crew of astronauts sent on a rescue mission after a missing  spaceship, the Event Horizon, spontaneously appears in orbit around  Neptune. Searching the ship for signs of life, they learn that the Event  Horizon was a test bed for an experimental engine that created a rift  in the space–time continuum and left our universe entirely, allowing a  malevolent force to possess it.

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Predator is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by John  McTiernan and written by brothers Jim and John Thomas. It is the first  installment in the Predator franchise. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as  the leader of an elite paramilitary rescue team on a mission to save  hostages in guerrilla-held territory in a Central American rainforest,  who encounter the deadly Predator (Kevin Peter Hall), a skilled,  technologically advanced alien who stalks and hunts them down.