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What song is playing in the famous pottery wheel scene in the movie Ghost?

The iconic love scene in Ghost is where Sam helps Molly on a potter's wheel and begins kissing her as " Unchained Melody " by The Righteous Brothers plays.

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"Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers

Unchained Melody by The Righteous Brothers

"Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers.

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What guitars are the Wonders playing in That Thing You Do?

In the first part of the movie (before they become famous), Jimmy is playing a Gibson Les Paul Junior and Lenny is playing a Silvertone Model 1457 (made by Danelectro).After they become famous Jimmy is playing a Rickenbacker 360 and Lenny is playing a Fender Jaguar. The bass player (who went to the army) is playing a Danelectro bass. And the wolfman (who replaces Ethan Embry) plays a Fender bass.Hope this helps. Frettin' Freddie

What movie did gene autry sing ghost riders in the sky?

Riders in the Sky (1949)

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He was never in any movie before he was famous.

What elton john song figured in the movie almost famous?

Tina Dancer was the song figured that played in Almost Famous. This is a well known movie.

When did they stop playing the national anthem in movie theaters before the movie?

Who is the artist that created the pottery in movie ghost.

The artist that created the pottery used in the movie The Ghost name is Mark Bischoff. Mark created all of the pottery single handedly and chose to let it be displayed during the, very popular movie, The Ghost.

Was the famous pottery love scene of the movie Ghost before or after Sam dies?

It takes place after. It's not really a 'love' scene persay, more an 'erotic' one. Demi Moore's character is using a pottery wheel, and Patrick Swayze as a ghost guides her hands from behind. >> It actually takes part before Sam dies, at the begining of the movie. It's after he dies that he entered the Mediums body and we saw them kiss.

Which movie released in 1990 featured a touching pottery scene?

Ghost, starring Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg.

Will slenderman be made into a movie?

That is not a possiblity.

Are there any films that were set in 1980?

Star 8o also the famous movie Ghost busters

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What year was the movie ghost made.

The movie Ghost was released in 5 October 1990. Starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Tony Goldwyn, and Directed by the famous Jerry Zucker. it was also written by Bruce Joel Rubin.

What makes movie viewers scared?

Come on. When you watch Ghost movie or Adventure movie or Killing movie, you will fear a lot. Especially you watch Ghost video, you can not sleep alone. And will really scary. But please note that almost Ghost movies are not real. Almost ghost director are want to make people to scary, fear and afraid. After they made a very scary ghost movie, they get money from people. So they are happy and they make a ghost movie again and again.Do not worry about Ghost movie.

What was the giant ghost made of in the movie ghost busters?

Marshmallow

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Vincent schiavelli

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The 3rd ghost rider movie will be about the person who will act as Nicholas Cage

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How ‘Unchained Melody’ Broke Free

The song began its life as a soundtrack to a prison movie. With the help of The Righteous Brothers, Leslie Nielsen, and some strategically molded clay, it became one of history’s greatest love songs.

Unchained Melody by Todd Duncan (Original 1955) by ron2612

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Papa Nihil and Sister Imperator reenact the intimate moment between Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore

Ghost (the band) gave fans a Valentine’s Day treat in the form of a clip recreating the intimate pottery scene from Ghost (the movie).

Papa Nihil and Sister Imperator play the roles of Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, respectively. But however romantic it looked like in the original movie, imagine it much creepier.

The O.G. Papa (also known as Papa Zero) slides up and sinks his fingers into the clay alongside the Sister. The painted grin on his face adds to the disturbing hilarity of the 51-second short, titled “Ghost on Ghost.” It thankfully cuts off before things get too heated inside the church.

Ghost cleverly tap into their abundance of lore, reviving the late Papa Nihil — the group’s purported frontman during the “Seven Inches of Satanic Panic” cycle circa 1969. Papa Nihil “passed away” on March 3rd, 2020, in Mexico City, after the band’s performance of “Miasma.”

As the story goes, Papa Nihil and Sister Imperator were lovers, as seen in the video for “Dance Macabre,”   and seemingly confirmed by the new clip.

Ghost Debut New Song “Kaisarion” at Kickoff of Co-Headlining Tour with Volbeat: Video + Photos

Besides confirming the romance between Nihil and Imperator, the video also reminds us that Ghost’s highly anticipated new album Impera arrives March 11th. The band, led by current frontman Papa Emeritus IV (aka Tobias Forge), is currently on tour with Volbeat , with dates running through March 3rd in Anaheim, California. Tickets for the outing are available via Ticketmaster .

Watch Ghost’s parody of the iconic Ghost pottery scene below.

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By Margaret Heidenry

Back on July 13, 1990, just like today, the multiplexes were thick with sequels and action flicks. That day, Ghost , starring Patrick Swayze as Sam Wheat, a murdered banker who haunts lower Manhattan to protect his lover Molly Jensen, played by Demi Moore, began its ascent to surprise summer blockbuster. The two-hour supernatural romance, produced on a $22 million budget, grossed more than half a billion worldwide and dramatically out-performed both Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall ($261,317,921) and Bruce Willis’s Die Hard 2: Die Harder ($240,031,094). The sleeper hit even toppled the year’s box-office darling, Pretty Woman , by almost $50 million as it launched key players into Hollywood’s stratosphere.

An ethereal Moore—in addition to besting her then-husband Willis—soon became the highest-paid actress. Swayze, fresh off Dirty Dancing , further cemented his status as a go-to leading man. The movie’s five Academy Award nominations, including for best picture, netted two Oscars. Whoopi Goldberg’s best-supporting-actress win for her tart portrayal of con-artist psychic Oda Mae Brown ended a 50-year drought for African-American women in the category. (Hattie McDaniel had won for 1939’s Gone with the Wind .) Presenter Jodie Foster gave the film’s second statuette to Bruce Joel Rubin, Ghost ’s screenwriter, who defeated Woody Allen ( Alice ).

When the Los Angeles Times featured photos from the ceremony “there was Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and my right arm,” says Rubin, whose other credits include Jacob’s Ladder and The Time Traveler’s Wife . “That’s what it is to be a writer in Hollywood.” We asked Rubin to share memories of making the beloved film to mark its silver anniversary.

How turning on, tuning in, and dropping out led to Tinseltown success.

Ghost ’s journey from idea to screen began in 1965 with “an LSD trip,” says Rubin. A roommate—who knew counter-culture guru Timothy Leary—gave Rubin a tablet of LSD that he secreted away and waited “for the right time to take.” When that moment finally arrived, “nothing happened.” This being the 60s, a visitor had just stowed a vial of pure Sandoz acid in Rubin’s refrigerator. “My roommate went to give me one drop,” says Rubin. “He went, ‘Whoops!’ The entire eyedropper went shooting down my throat and I began a journey that has never ended.” Rubin realized he wanted to tell an “entertaining and not pontifical” story from a ghost’s point of view. Two years of pitching around Hollywood culminated in one trippy week that saw five studios vying for the idea.

The CAMERA MOVES IN and for the first time we see them. MOLLY JENSEN, in her late 20’s, has a bandanna around her hair and a workman’s mask over her nose, but we can tell from her eyes and cheekbones that she is beautiful. SAM WHEAT, in his late 30’s, is also hidden behind a mask, but he has a strong forehead and handsome features. — Ghost screenplay

Demi’s pixie haircut and snagging Swayze.

After the project landed at Paramount, studio executive Lindsay Doran called Rubin to say she had found a director. “My heart was beating through my chest and I’m thinking, Spielberg, Scorsese, then she said, ‘ Jerry Zucker. ’” At the time, Zucker was known for wacky comedies like the cult hit Airplane! . “I thought [he] was probably the worst choice.” Still, Rubin agreed to a dinner where “a great friendship formed. [Zucker’s] one of the most extraordinarily wonderful people around.” A year of collaborating on somewhat painful re-writes of re-writes yielded a script that was “crisper.”

Next came the “delicious” casting process. “Demi was on the radar immediately. And she wanted to do it, which was wonderful,” says Rubin, who calls her “ballsy.” Moore was hired “as a long-haired actress,” but showed up on the first day of shooting with “a short haircut, which is kind of an in-your-face choice,” Rubin recalls. “It announced to us that she had her own ideas about who her character was.” In addition to Moore’s “stunning haircut,” Rubin praises the actress’s “depth of emotionality. She can literally produce tears from one eye or the other.”

For the part of Sam, the filmmakers “went to every major actor in Hollywood who was hot at the time.” So who turned the part down? “Everybody. Harrison Ford said, ‘I read this thing three times and I still don’t get it.’ Michael J. Fox, Paul Hogan, on and on, we kept getting turned down.” Rubin believes the actors “didn’t want to play dead men . . . they all saw it as a loss of vitality.” Zucker had faith the film would land somebody better after each pass but “finally there wasn’t anybody. . . . When Patrick said yes, he basically saved the movie.”

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INT. MOLLY'S STUDIO — NIGHT Molly, dressed only in a T-shirt, is sitting at her potter’s wheel throwing a series of pots. Sam enters the studio. He is barefoot, shirtless, wearing jeans. — Ghost screenplay

Somewhere in the Paramount vault is an unseen Swayze-Moore sex scene.

Rubin’s wife is a potter, and it was Zucker’s idea to make Moore’s character one, too. The equal-parts hot and artsy scene between Moore and Swayze—where his hands envelop hers in wet clay as she spins a phallic pot between her legs—has become iconic in the annals of celluloid romance. Initially, though, the scene’s carnal nature “was not something that we were prepared for. In fact, we shot a lovemaking scene.” Yet as everyone watched the pottery-scene dailies—the screening of footage shot the previous day—“we just kind of looked at each other and started to understand that what we had was really amazing. The pottery scene proved to be so erotic that we didn’t need anything else.” And while the statistics on a presumed spike in pottery wheels is unknown, the song that accompanies the scene, 1965’s Unchained Melody by The Righteous Brothers, quickly reappeared on the Billboard charts.

The beginning of a beautiful GIF.

Zucker asked Rubin to create “a Casablanca line” and the two came up with Swayze’s final dialogue: “The love inside, you take it with you.” Yet the oft-quoted dialogue that has become an Internet GIF sensation occurs when Goldberg, acting as the medium between Swayze and Moore, warns, “Molly, you in danger, girl.” (Sam’s murderer, Carl Bruner, played by Tony Goldwyn, poses the danger in question.) Though Rubin cannot recall the remark’s exact providence, he guesses “it was Whoopi because she is unbelievably funny.” The TV smash Scandal , currently starring Goldwyn, appropriated the line for a tongue-in-cheek episode title .

Ghost also haunted the box office.

On opening weekend, 25 years ago, Zucker called Rubin and told him Ghost had “sold out everywhere.“ The movie continued to vie for the top slot at the box office through mid-September. ”And we were still playing in theaters six months later at Christmas,” Rubin says.

MOLLY I love you. I really love you. He smiles and strokes her cheek. SAM Ditto. — Ghost screenplay

Twenty-five years, a Japanese remake, and a Broadway musical later . . .

Rubin credits the secret of Ghost ’s success to the idea of a dead guy learning to say “I love you” to someone he failed to say it to when he was alive. “That you would fight back from the other side is a core wish of people. [The film] postulates a universe . . . where love goes on.” The writer says he used “a very simple line at the end” to convey this cosmic idea, one Moore says—as a tear wells in her right eye—after she and Swayze share a final kiss: ”See ya.“

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Ghost (the band) gave fans a Valentine’s Day treat in the form of a clip recreating the intimate pottery scene from Ghost (the movie).

Papa Nihil and Sister Imperator play the roles of Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, respectively. But however romantic it looked like in the original movie, imagine it much creepier.

The O.G. Papa (also known as Papa Zero) slides up and sinks his fingers into the clay alongside the Sister. The painted grin on his face adds to the disturbing hilarity of the 51-second short, titled “Ghost on Ghost.” It thankfully cuts off before things get too heated inside the church.

Ghost cleverly tap into their abundance of lore, reviving the late Papa Nihil — the group’s purported frontman during the “Seven Inches of Satanic Panic” cycle circa 1969. Papa Nihil “passed away” on March 3rd, 2020, in Mexico City, after the band’s performance of “Miasma.”

As the story goes, Papa Nihil and Sister Imperator were lovers, as seen in the video for “Dance Macabre,” and seemingly confirmed by the new clip.

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Besides confirming the romance between Nihil and Imperator, the video also reminds us that Ghost’s highly anticipated new album Impera arrives March 11th. The band, led by current frontman Papa Emeritus IV (aka Tobias Forge), is currently on tour with Volbeat , with dates running through March 3rd in Anaheim, California. Tickets for the outing are available via Ticketmaster .

Watch Ghost’s parody of the iconic Ghost pottery scene below.

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The Untold Truth Of Ghost

Jerry Zucker's classic 1990 hit, "Ghost," has become an indelible part of pop culture, elevating "Unchained Melody" into a favorite love song and spawning  endless spoofs of its iconic pottery scene . The film tells the story of Sam (Patrick Swayze), a banker who is killed by a mugger and finds himself as a ghost, invisible and unable to engage with the physical world. As Sam watches his girlfriend, Molly ( Demi Moore ), cope with his death, he starts to learn the truth of who really killed him. He tries to contact Molly with the help of a psychic, Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg), to warn Molly of impending danger and find the closure he needs to move on to the next world.

"Ghost" became the highest-grossing film of 1990 and won two Academy Awards . But the film's success was a surprise to all those involved, as Ghost's blending of genres — romance, comedy, and the supernatural — made it a risk. Sam wasn't the typical leading man — many A-list stars weren't interested in the role because playing a dead man felt like a loss of "vitality" — and the film's exploration of love through the spirit world was a bit different from other popular romances of the time like "Pretty Woman." Still, "Ghost" has continued to resonate with audiences for over three decades now, so whether you're already a fan or meeting Sam, Molly, and Oda Mae for the first time, read on to find out how "Hamlet," a pottery magazine, and an obscure prison film all led to the making of "Ghost."

Ghost was inspired by Hamlet (and some LSD)

Screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin first got the idea for "Ghost" while watching a production of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." When Hamlet's dead father tells him to avenge his death, Rubin thought, "Wow, let's transpose that into the 20th century; it'd be an interesting story," as he reminisced to the Detroit News . So the idea for "Ghost" was born but perhaps the origins of the story go back even farther to 1965, when Rubin accidentally took a full eye dropper of LSD instead of a few drops (it was the '60s, after all). The massive LSD trip took Rubin on a journey where he decided he wanted to tell an "entertaining and not pontifical" story from a ghost's perspective .

It would take some time for Rubin's "Ghost" script to gain traction. After all, as his LA agent told him just before dropping him, Rubin's work was "too metaphysical" and "nobody wants to do a ghost story." Luckily for Rubin, his other supernatural script for "Jacob's Ladder" was causing a stir in Hollywood and eventually, the "Ghost" script landed at Paramount. Rubin was thrilled to turn his story over to the hands of a dramatic auteur like Martin Scorsese or Steven Spielberg , but his producers (or the universe, depending on who you ask) had other plans for him.

Ghost was Jerry Zucker's departure from comedy

When Jerry Zucker first got the script for "Ghost," he forgot it on his nightstand for a while . Zucker had been part of the Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker directing team with his brother David and childhood friend Jim. The trio were well-known in the comedy world as they'd directed films like "Airplane!," "Top Secret!," and "Ruthless People." By the time he was given the script for "Ghost," Zucker was ready to direct a film on his own so long as it wasn't a satire.

Zucker's wife picked up "Ghost" from the nightstand one day and handed it to her husband, telling him that he needed to read it immediately. Zucker thought the script was terrific and signed on to direct. Rubin was initially upset (okay, he cried) with the choice since Zucker was a comedy director, but after the two met and had a philosophical discussion, he realized Zucker was the one to do the film. So Zucker took on "Ghost," the first film he'd direct on his own and funnily enough, one that wasn't a comedy.

Patrick Swayze wasn't the first choice for Sam

Although Patrick Swayze had won over the hearts of millions by refusing to put Baby in a corner in 1987's "Dirty Dancing," he wasn't at the top of Zucker's list for Sam because he was mostly known as an action star due to his role in "Roadhouse." In fact, Zucker was so unconvinced that he said Swayze would be Sam "over [his] dead body."   Instead, the part went out to other A-list actors at the time, like Harrison Ford ( who read the script three times and didn't "get it" ), Paul Hogan, and Michael J. Fox. Bruce Willis had the chance to play opposite then-wife Demi Moore, but turned down the script because he didn't think it would work. Years later, he  told Playboy he was a "knucklehead" for making that choice .

While Zucker was hesitant to consider Swayze, Rubin knew he was the man for the role after seeing Swayze interviewed by Barbara Walters , where he wept while talking about his father. Swayze, meanwhile, was determined to get the role as the script had left him "boo-hooing."  When Swayze came in to read the final farewell scene of the film, there wasn't a dry eye in the room and Zucker's mind was changed: they'd found their Sam.

Patrick Swayze fought for Whoopi

Part of what sets "Ghost" apart is its comedic side and it would be hard to imagine the film without Whoopi Goldberg . Certainly, we wouldn't have been blessed with this priceless (and always useful) gif from the film . But Whoopi also wasn't the top choice for Oda Mae Brown, a fraudulent psychic who discovers she actually does have psychic gifts when she starts communicating with Sam's ghost.

The role of Oda Mae went out to nearly every Black actress and performer in Hollywood, including Oprah Winfrey, Patti Labelle, and Paramount's favorite choice, Tina Turner (although Zucker had his doubts about her as an actress) . While Oda Mae is the comedic glue of the film, Zucker didn't want a comedian for the part. But Swayze fought for Whoopi to read because as he put it to People magazine's Jess Cagle, they clicked right away and were just like "girlfriends."  Again, Zucker changed his mind once he saw Goldberg and Swayze's chemistry and how Goldberg "hit it out of the park."  As it turns out, she was much more than just a comedian; she could act.

The pottery scene was an accident

It's nearly impossible to imagine "Ghost" without its super sexy scene of Sam and Molly at the pottery wheel while The Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody" plays from a jukebox. But this scene wasn't in the original script at all. As Rubin first wrote it, Molly was a sculptor, which Zucker felt didn't work because "it felt harsh, taking a hammer and chisel and banging on something," as he told Forbes in 2020 . Zucker continued on to describe how one day, while doing post-production on the second "Naked Gun" movie, he was sitting next to a sound engineer, who was reading a pottery magazine. As Zucker flipped through the images of beautiful pots and pieces, he got a vision of a pottery wheel and people making things with their hands. Rubin agreed to make Molly a potter instead and wrote the scene into the film.

While Demi Moore took pottery classes to prepare for the role, the pot she threw on camera collapsed, which wasn't in the script. In fact, Swayze had decided to "throw a curve ball" and make the pot fall, which made it into the final cut of the film. The rest, as they say, is history as this scene has become one of the most well-known, beloved and parodied film scenes of all time . In fact, the chemistry was so hot that Zucker decided to cut an actual sex scene out of the film . Who needs sex when you have clay?

Demi's surprise haircut

Demi Moore had made a name for herself as part of the 1980s "brat pack" and was always the top choice for Molly. She was a long-haired beauty who could cry on cue from either eye , which made her perfect for this role of a grieving woman. But Moore had ideas of her own for Molly; specifically, she wanted to play up Molly's strength rather than weakness.

So she showed up to the first day of filming with a shocking new 'do: she'd cut all of her hair to sport Molly's now iconic pixie cut. Zucker was horrified; he'd told Swayze to grow out his hair and his leading actress had arrived with a totally different look. But when he started videotaping their rehearsals, he saw how good Moore looked and decided to go ahead with this style . In fact, he's thanked her since for the bold choice because if she had asked him at the time, he would have said no.

Whoopi's Oscar nomination and win were historic

Whoopi Goldberg is one of only 16 people to be an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) winner and it's thanks to "Ghost" that she has that "O" win. Goldberg won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1991 for her role as Oda Mae Brown, which made her only the second Black actress at the time to win this award (a full 51 years after Hattie McDaniel's win for 1939's "Gone with the Wind" ).

Goldberg made history  again as she became the first African-American woman to be nominated for both the Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress awards (for her role in 1986's "The Color Purple"). Goldberg's win for "Ghost" proved inspirational for many, including Tiffany Haddish, who was a pre-teen at the time and told Variety in 2021 that when she watched Goldberg's Oscar speech, it made her think that "if they can do it, I can do it too."

Ghost helped Swayze confront his own ghosts

Patrick Swayze's father passed away suddenly from a heart attack in 1982, which led to Swayze's  long struggle with depression and alcoholism . Eight years later, Swayze's work on "Ghost" brought up some unexpected and repressed feelings about his father's death. When he saw the plaster dummy of his character's body, it reminded him of his father's funeral, when he nearly fainted from touching his father's body in the coffin. 

He told People magazine that "I had pushed that memory out of my life until that moment on location when it all came back, big time," and that as a result, there were some scenes in "Ghost" where "something happened to me that was very scary." After the film was released, Swayze said that he needed to do "Ghost" for his "soul."  Perhaps some of these difficult confrontations with his past and father's death were part of the reason for that feeling.

Tony Goldwyn was haunted by Ghost

Years before his turn as US President Fitz Grant in "Scandal," Tony Goldwyn was an unknown actor with a very known last name (his grandfather was OG movie mogul  Samuel Goldwyn ) whose feature film debut was as Carl, the villain of "Ghost." Goldwyn's wife was the production designer for "Ghost," and she encouraged him to bug his agent to get an audition for Carl. Zucker wasn't convinced because  he thought Goldwyn was "too nice"  (we're starting to sense a pattern here with Zucker and his casting intuition). Eventually, Zucker came around and Goldwyn hit the big screen as Carl, Sam's business partner with an ulterior motive. 

Goldwyn found unexpected success with "Ghost" as people around the world saw him as the man who screwed over Sam. In fact, not long after the film's release, he went to dinner and the waitress refused to serve him. As he told it to the AV Club , she was rude to him and eventually asked if he was an actor. She realized that she knew she hated him but didn't remember why, just that she did; she actually had thought he was someone she'd slept with who had hurt her. But no, he was just the guy who hurt Patrick Swayze. Either way, it was reason enough not to take his order.

Demi thought Ghost was a 'recipe for disaster'

While Demi Moore seems to have been the only sure thing as far as casting "Ghost," she actually thought the film was anything but a sure thing. During a 2013 AFI screening of "Ghost," Moore revealed that while she found Rubin's script "fascinating and different," she also thought the film was a "recipe for disaster" since it was a love story about a dead guy trying to save his wife with comedic elements mixed into it. Critics at the time seem to have agreed as the film got mixed reviews , even as audiences continued to line up for screenings.

She went on to say that the film was going to be "something really special, really amazing, or really an absolute bust," but ultimately, it was the alchemy of the cast and crew that made the film work. And that alchemy helped make "Ghost" stand the test of time, where it's still being watched and loved over 30 years later.

Ghost was a surprise box office hit

While Zucker, Rubin, the cast, and producers were all unsure of how this supernatural love story would do in the theaters, all were pleasantly surprised to see that "Ghost" not only did well at the box office, but was an outright smash. The film was made for $22 million and grossed over $500 million worldwide , making it the top hit of 1990 and one of the most successful films ever. In fact, at the time of its release, it was only the third film to surpass $500 million (besides "Star Wars" and "E.T.") and it was a love story to boot.

There weren't many 1990s films that matched the success of "Ghost" and the ones that did were mostly action flicks like "Independence Day," "Jurassic Park," and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day." "Ghost" had a life of its own, with audiences lining up around the block and theaters in Monterrey, Mexico allegedly  providing women with envelopes of tissues to make sure they could cry as much as they needed (although this latter item sounds more like an urban legend). ​​

Beliefs in the beyond

While the success of "Ghost" could be attributed to a variety of factors, perhaps part of what helps it resonate with audiences is its exploration of spirituality, which was present both on and off screen. Writer Bruce Joel Rubin has a strong spiritual side and practice as  he's taught meditation for decades . As he notes in his bio , he writes films "to witness and explore the unseen world of our lives." For the 30th anniversary of "Ghost," Jerry Zucker noted that Rubin's immersion and belief in spirituality was akin to having a general present when writing a war movie ; Zucker also described "Ghost" as a movie that Rubin wrote from the heart , not from a desire to make something commercial. 

The cast also had their own beliefs in other worlds. In a 1994 interview with the Academy of Achievement , Whoopi Goldberg expressed her belief that "when people die, the spirit flies from them and fragments," and that she's been "hit with a lot of fragments." Perhaps it's some of those fragments that helped her tap into the role of Oda Mae, who starts out a skeptic but becomes a believer. Patrick Swayze believed that people could come back and visit loved ones because "death is a beginning, not an ending," according to Wendy Leigh's Patrick Swayze: One Last Dance .

Unchained Melody is a bit more literal than not

It's hard to imagine the pottery scene in "Ghost" without the Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody" playing on the jukebox (fun fact: Zucker brought the jukebox from his own home ). In fact, "Ghost" was originally going to be called "Unchained Melody," as one of the producers had decided before production that this would be the song used in the pottery love scene. But the name, "Unchained Melody," doesn't refer to a metaphorical, boundless love; the song was actually written for the little-known 1955 prison film, "Unchained," which was based on the book, "Prisoners are People."

Originally sung by Todd Duncan, the song first appears in "Unchained" when an inmate starts singing it in his cell. The lyrics "time goes by so slowly" are actually about the slowness of time for this inmate, who's stuck in jail while his lover is outside. The song was nominated for an Oscar at the time (but didn't win) and it wasn't until the Righteous Brothers covered it in 1965 that it started to gain some traction. And it really wasn't until Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore turned cold, wet clay into the hottest material on earth that the song made it into popular culture as the staple of classic love songs it is today.

Ghost became part of hip-hop slang

Of all the ways that "Ghost" has made a lasting impact on popular culture, one of the most surprising may be its influence on hip-hop. One might not expect to see a connection between the supernatural love story of "Ghost" and rap songs but Patrick Swayze has a last name that rhymes with "crazy," which has led to him being name-dropped in a number of hip-hop songs.

With the release of "Ghost," his name took on a new meaning as rappers like the Notorious B.I.G. , DMX , and Method Man started saying "Swayze" as a substitute for the slang "ghost," which means "disappear." While "ghosting" has come back into the mainstream as a term for "disappearing," especially in the realm of dating, maybe it's time to take a note from these rap songs and start saying that we're "Swayze-ing" someone. It has a nice and weird ring to it, don't you think?

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An emotional performance of The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody will leave you speechless

Oh, my love, my darling

I’ll never forget the first time I watched the movie “ Ghost “. This song, Patrick Swayze , Demi Moore , and the infamous pottery scene- is a memory in my mine that will stick forever.

It might possibly be one of the greatest love scenes of all time ; “ Unchained Melody ” making it that much more powerful.

“Unchained Melody ” was written in ’55, with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret . North used the music as a theme for the little-known prison film, Unchained-  hence the name.

“ Unchained Melody ” has since become one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century . Including an incredible cover by The King, Elvis Presley .

The Righteous Brothers ‘ track became a jukebox standard, achieving a second round of great popularity when it was featured in the 1990 blockbuster film Ghost .

+Unchained Melody lyrics below+

Oh, my love, my darling I’ve hungered for your touch A long, lonely time Time goes by so slowly And time can do so much Are you still mine? I need your love I need your love God speed your love to me Lonely rivers flow To the sea, to the sea To the open arms of the sea Lonely rivers sigh “Wait for me, wait for me” I’ll be coming home, wait for me

Oh, my love, my darling I’ve hungered, for your touch A long, lonely time Time goes by so slowly And time can do so much Are you still mine? I need your love I need your love God speed your love to me Lonely mountains gaze At the stars, at the stars Waiting for the dawn of the day

All alone I gaze At the stars, at the stars Dreaming of my love far away

Oh, my love, my darling I’ve hungered, for your touch A long, lonely time Time goes by so slowly And time can do so much Are you still mine? I need your love I need your love God speed your love to me

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Ranking the top 5 parodies of Ghost 's pottery wheel scene

Over the past two decades, it's been nearly impossible not to associate a pottery wheel with one of the sexiest scenes in cinematic history. Set to The Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody," Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze turned the once-innocent act of making ceramics into a steamy seduction in 1990's "Ghost." To celebrate the anniversary of Jerry Zucker's haunting love story, EW has compiled the top five pop culture parodies of the film's iconic pottery wheel scene.

To rank the spoofs, hit on the arrows on the left side of the video:

* What critics thought of 'Ghost' when it came out 25 years ago

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Flashback: 30 years ago, supernatural weeper ‘Ghost’ would forever redefine the summer blockbuster season

• August 1, 2020 12:00PM

Given that the summer blockbuster season has been a bust as theater chains shut down while cases of the deadly coronavirus rose. Studios continue push openings of highly anticipated films into the fall, next year and beyond. Warner Bros. seems determined to open “Tenet,” Christopher Nolan ‘s new big-screen spectacular that involves a secret agent who is tasked to stop World War III.  For now, it is expected to play in selective cities and auditoriums in the U.S. starting on September 3.

But more and more titles are turning to VOD or streaming services as options to serve a cinema-starved audience, including Spike Lee ‘s “Da 5 Bloods,” Judd Apatow ‘s “The King of Staten Island” and “Greyhound,” a war film starring Tom Hanks .

The lack of multiplex visits during these steamy summer days has made me nostalgic for the when I was a movie critic and basked in the escapist hot-weather fare that typically consisted of either action films like “Batman” or “Die Hard” and sci-fi outings like “Star Wars” and “E.T. the Extra-terrestrial.” But 30 years ago, a film materialized in the midst in July of 199o that would defy most of the signposts of a summer hit — namely, a supernatural romantic weeper aimed at adults named “ Ghost .”

The plot involved a murdered Manhattan banker named Sam ( Patrick Swayze ) is present in spirit form and relies on a con-artist psychic Oda Mae ( Whoopi Goldberg ) as a go-between to help his endangered weepy artist girlfriend Molly ( Demi Moore ).  While critics initially dismissed the jarring mix of genres — Richard Corliss of Time magazine damned it as “a bad movie that a lot of people will like”–but public opinion counted more, especially at the box office. The film directed by Jerry Zucker  — best known as part of the team behind the comedy spoof “Airplane!” — would not only beat out such typical fare as “Total Recall,” “Die Hard 2” and “Back to the Future 3” that summer. It would also go on to be the top box-office title of the year with a worldwide gross of $505 million. “Ghost” would also scare up a Best Picture Oscar nomination and four others, including a supporting actress win for Goldberg.

Here are five reasons why “Ghost” possesses the power to transfix audiences, now and then, and how it led to other supernatural summer releases as “Phenomenon,” “The Sixth Sense,” “Signs,” “The Others” and “The Conjuring.”

No. 1: A belief that counter-programming can work. As Zucker observed about the unlikely success of his $22 million comedy-fantasy-romance hybrid,  “Nobody saw this as a summer blockbuster. But ‘Ghost’ did something they can’t do anymore.” That would be building old-fashioned word or mouth. The director also credited screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin for why the film touched so many, saying, “It’s a movie that was guided by a passion and a belief rather than trying to make a hit.” It would manage to linger in the top-five popular films through the Thanksgiving holiday.

No. 2: A story that can make grown men cry. Screenwriter Rubin based Sam’s struggles to profess his feelings to Molly on his own conflict with expressing such emotions. He based his character on the response he would give as a young man in his 20s –“Ditto” — whenever anyone told him, “I love you.” Rubin, who won an Academy Award for his original screenplay, was glad to see his personal experience allow other men respond to Sam’s second chance to say the L word to Molly. “When we first showed it to a roomful of Paramount executives, everyone walked out with red eyes.”

No. 3: The right tear-jerker musical cue. It was producer Linda Weinstein who heard the ballad “Unchained Melody” playing on an oldies station in her car and knew she found the right love theme to set the mood.  The Oscar-nominated song originally heard in a 1955 prison drama “Unchained” but “Ghost” went with the 1965 version by Bobby Hatfield of The Righteous Brothers. The song is heard in the infamous pottery-wheel scene, when Sam and Molly dance together as a precursor to making love and is reprised when Sam inhabits Oda Mae’s body to dance with Molly one last time.

No. 4:  Just the right casting. Rubin thought Swayze would a perfect Sam after he saw the actor break down and weep when talking about his late father in a TV interview. But Zucker was skeptical about Swayze’s he-man image. But after several actors turned down the part, he allowed Swayze to audition — and he brought those in the office to tears. As for Moore, she had a string of non-starter movies in the ’80s. Legend says Moore was able to cry out either eye at will and be quite fetching by doing so. As for Goldberg, after earning a best actress Oscar nomination for her work in 1985’s “The Color Purple,” Hollywood didn’t quite know what to do with her. But Goldberg’s bogus clairvoyant and Swayze’s sexy-sensitive spirit also made for an special couple. Her role does lean towards being an example of the “magical other,” as a Black woman unselfishly helping out a Tribeca-loft-inhabiting yuppie couple but who could deliver the line, “Molly, you in danger, girl,” with such panache.

No. 5:  A one-of-a-kind foreplay scene that launched a wave of countless adult-ed pottery classes and parodies. The ooey-gooey pottery wheel scene has been lampooned and referenced countless times on such TV shows as “In Living Color,” “Saturday Night Live,” “Futurama,” “Community,” “30 Rock,” “Glee” and “Bob’s Burgers.” But any parody couldn’t top the one in the trailer for Zucker’s older brother David’s 1991 comedy “Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear” with stars Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley behind the wheel.

If you feel as the need to laugh, cry or croon “Unchained Melody” right about now, you can find “Ghost” available on multiple streaming sites.

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Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg re-enact sensual 'Ghost' scene (with cake!)

Many have tried to recreate the famously romantic scene around the pottery wheel from the movie "Ghost" over the year. But if you've ever wondered what it would look like with Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg instead of Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, you now have the answer ... for better or worse.

The cooking duo we never knew we needed in our lives recently starred in a new promotional spot for the second season of "Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party" by re-enacting the famous scene. But in true Martha fashion, they're sensuously frosting a cake instead of sculpting pottery.

The Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody" plays as Snoop and Martha, who have been unlikely friends since he appeared on her show back in 2008, taste a spinning chocolate cake.

The commercial for the VH1 show first aired on Sunday night during MTV's Video Music Awards after Entertainment Weekly had a sneak peek beforehand. The new commercial has spawned a wide range of reactions across social media — from utterly perplexed to downright giddy.

Oh dear god. That commercial for Martha Stewart & Snoop Dogg was amazing. #VMAs — Mary Harding (@MEH957) August 28, 2017

The new Martha and Snoop commercial is everything !!! #VMAS — Jmarie (@jmariec36) August 28, 2017

This Martha and Snoop commercial I cant... — Candece🤓 (@CanLynn) August 28, 2017

Me watching this Martha Stewart & Snoop Dogg commercial #VMAs pic.twitter.com/orAmFIj2B4 — GoodGirl Gone Rhogue (@KrazyLov3r) August 28, 2017

I just witnessed a commercial with Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg making pottery....what is life — Sierra (@_theatrechick_) August 28, 2017

The show, which returns on Oct. 16, will include all-star guests like Jamie Foxx, Anthony Anderson, P. Diddy and Kate Upton.

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We can't wait to see if Snoop's signature cocktail , The Laid Back, makes a return to the program and whether Martha has picked up any more new slang from her cooking buddy.

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What is Hamas, and why did it attack Israel now?

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Israel declared war against Hamas on Sunday, following a surprise attack by the Palestinian militant group based in Gaza that included the taking of civilian hostages at a music festival, where at least 260 bodies have been recovered. Israeli security forces, caught off guard, have pounded the Gaza Strip with retaliatory strikes, and U.S. officials said they expect Israel to soon launch a ground incursion into the enclave as violence escalates in the conflict-ridden region.

Israel is searching for more than 100 hostages, including Americans, believed to have been taken to Gaza by Hamas. President Biden labeled the actions of Hamas as “beyond the pale” in a speech Wednesday.

Since winning legislative elections in 2006, Hamas has repeatedly attacked Israel with rockets and mortars, emerging as a defiant adversary. Israel has retaliated with its superior firepower and a punishing blockade, restricting imports and the movement of civilians in a strategy of collective punishment. The blockade and recurring Israeli strikes have contributed to Gaza’s poor infrastructure and living conditions. Israel declared a full siege of the enclave on Monday, with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant promising “no electricity, no food, no fuel” and calling Hamas militants “savages.”

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Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Here is a timeline of the decades-old conflict and what to know about the more recent violence in Israel and Gaza . The Hamas -controlled Gaza Strip has a complicated history , and its rulers have long been at odds with the Palestinian Authority , the U.S.-backed government in the West Bank.

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Five Nights at Freddy's: release date, cast, plot, trailer and everything we know

The Five Nights at Freddy's movie is based on the popular horror video game franchise.

Five Nights At Freddy's joins the 2023 horror movie slate alongside the likes of Saw X and The Exorcist: Believer , meaning the cinemas are flooded with horror offerings to celebrate Halloween.

Based on the anxiety-inducing video game series, we follow a night security guard who takes a job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria, but it turns out there's more to this job than meets the eye and his life is soon in danger.

Freddy Fazbear is the lovable mascot of the local pizzeria and he is joined by other animal animatronics who used to perform songs and entertain families by day, but by night, they become murderous, wandering the halls of the now abandoned pizzeria.

The series is produced by horror aficionados Blumhouse who have previously brought us the likes of M3GAN , The Black Phone , and The Invisible Man , so it's looking like the adaptation is in very good hands.

Are you ready for Freddy? If so, read on to find out everything you need to know about the movie...

Five Nights At Freddy's release date

Five Nights At Freddy arrives in cinemas worldwide on Wednesday, October 25, 2023.

It will simultaneously be released on the streaming service Peacock for US audiences. Peacock is also available to Sky TV customers in the UK. 

Five Night's at Freddy's plot

According to the official website, the plot for the movie is: "The film follows Mike, a troubled young man caring for his 10-year-old sister Abby and haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother more than a decade before.

"Recently fired and desperate for work so that he can keep custody of Abby, Mike agrees to take a position as a night security guard at an abandoned theme restaurant: Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria."

It adds: "But Mike soon discovers that nothing at Freddy’s is what it seems. With the aid of Vanessa, a local police officer, Mike’s nights at Freddy’s will lead him into unexplainable encounters with the supernatural and drag him into the black heart of an unspeakable nightmare."

Five Nights at Freddy's cast

Josh Hutcherson leads the cast as Mike Schmidt, a new security guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. This is the player-controlled role of the Five Nights at Freddy's video game series, so fans are very familiar with him!

Piper Rubio stars as Abby, Mike's younger sister, whom he is very close to and has custody over. Mary Stuart Masterson plays their Aunt Jane, and Elizabeth Lail  is Vanessa, a local police officer.

Finally, Scream star Matthew Lillard plays Steve Raglan, Mike's career counselor.

We also have confirmed voice actors for each of the animatronics, which are as follows; Kevin Foster as Freddy Fazbear, Jade Kindar-Martin as Bonnie, Jessica Weiss as Chica and Roger Joseph Manning Jr. as Foxy.

Is there a trailer?

Yes, and it's certainly gripping stuff! The creepy game environment comes to life in the trailer, where we get to see the inside of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria, and learn more about the creepy lore behind the restaurant.

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