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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is a 2023 American live action film based on the Forgotten Realms setting of the tabletop role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. It has no connection to the previous D&D film trilogy consisting of D&D 2000, Wrath of the Dragon God, and The Book of Vile Darkness. In 2013 Warner Bros. Pictures teamed up with Sweetpea Entertainment, who had worked on the 2000 film, to produce a script for a new Dungeons & Dragons movie. The project was held up for two years by a lawsuit over who possessed the film rights to D&D - Hasbro or Sweetpea. Hasbro argued that the rights had reverted back to them because Sweetpea had not made a movie based on D&D since 2000, and the the TV films ( Wrath of the Dragon God and The Book of Vile Darkness ) did not constitute proper sequels. In 2015 the two companies settled the case with an undisclosed arrangement. The project then shifted from Warner Bros. to Paramount Pictures sometime a

Intro: This is a series on old dinosaur movies. Specifically, I am looking at anything released before 1990; before Jurassic Park revolutionized cinema with its CGI animation. I will not be covering anything "dinosaur-adjacent", such as kaiju monsters like Godzilla or the creature from The Giant Behemoth, which are perhaps inspired by dinosaurs, but clearly not meant to represent any real world genus. I will also be skipping over films that are heavily dependent on "borrowed" footage from other films, such as the Valley of the Dragons / Prehistoric Valley . Also known as: Journey into prehistory Cesta do pravěku Runtime: 1 hr 33 min (Czech) 1 hr 24 min (North America) Background: Journey to the Beginning of Time is a 1955 Czechoslovak film produced by Filmové Studio Gottwaldov. The film's imagery was heavily inspired by paleo-artist Zdeněk Burian and used full-sized models for the prehistoric animals in conjunction with 3D models that were anim

Intro: This is a series on old dinosaur movies. Specifically, I am looking at anything released before 1990; before Jurassic Park revolutionized cinema with its CGI animation. I will not be covering anything "dinosaur-adjacent", such as kaiju monsters like Godzilla or the creature from The Giant Behemoth, which are perhaps inspired by dinosaurs, but clearly not meant to represent any real world genus. I will also be skipping over films that are heavily dependent on "borrowed" footage from other films, such as the Valley of the Dragons / Prehistoric Valley . Also known as: Planeta Bur Planet of Storms Storm Planet Runtime: 1 hr 18 min Background: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet is a 1965 Russian film produced by The Filmgroup. This movie is basically the film Planeta Bur dubbed into English with a few new additional scenes added in. Footage from the films A Dream Come True (Mechte Navstrechu) and Battle Beyond the Sun (Nebo Zovyot) were also reused.

Intro: This is a series on old dinosaur movies. Specifically, I am looking at anything released before 1990; before Jurassic Park revolutionized cinema with its CGI animation. I will not be covering anything "dinosaur-adjacent", such as kaiju monsters like Godzilla or the creature from The Giant Behemoth, which are perhaps inspired by dinosaurs, but clearly not meant to represent any real world genus. I will also be skipping over films that are heavily dependent on "borrowed" footage from other films, such as the Valley of the Dragons / Prehistoric Valley . Also known as: Legend of Dinosaurs The Monsters of Prehistory Earthquake 10° God of the Sea Giants of Prehistoric Times The Giant Monster Bird vs. The Giant Dragon God The Monster Birds Against the Island of the Dinosaurs Runtime: 1 hr 34 min Background: Legend of Dinosaurs & Monster Birds is a 1977 Japanese film produced by Toei Company. The idea for the film reportedly came from Toei's p

Intro: This is a series on old dinosaur movies. Specifically, I am looking at anything released before 1990; before Jurassic Park revolutionized cinema with its CGI animation. I will not be covering anything "dinosaur-adjacent", such as kaiju monsters like Godzilla or the creature from The Giant Behemoth, which are perhaps inspired by dinosaurs, but clearly not meant to represent any real world genus. I will also be skipping over films that are heavily dependent on "borrowed" footage from other films, such as the Valley of the Dragons / Prehistoric Valley . Also known as: N/A Runtime: 1 hr 25 min    Background: Dinosaurus! is a 1960 American film produced by Fairview Productions and Jack Harris Productions. A few scenes were filmed on the Island of St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Marcel Delgado was only given two weeks out of an agreed six, to make the dinosaur models. The stop-motion brontosaurus model and jungle set miniature would go on

Intro: This is a series on old dinosaur movies. Specifically, I am looking at anything released before 1990; before Jurassic Park revolutionized cinema with its CGI animation. I will not be covering anything "dinosaur-adjacent", such as kaiju monsters like Godzilla or the creature from The Giant Behemoth, which are perhaps inspired by dinosaurs, but clearly not meant to represent any real world genus. I will also be skipping over films that are heavily dependent on "borrowed" footage from other films, such as the Valley of the Dragons / Prehistoric Valley . Also known as: N/A Runtime: 1 hr 40 min (United Kingdom) 1 hr 31 min (North America) Background: One Million Years B.C. is a 1966 British film produced by Hammer Film Productions and Seven Arts. It is a remake of the 1940 American film One Million B.C. which was controversial for its use of live animals in staged fights. Filming was done in Lanzarote and Tenerife on the Canary Islands during the

Intro: This is a series on old dinosaur movies. Specifically, I am looking at anything released before 1990; before Jurassic Park revolutionized cinema with its CGI animation. I will not be covering anything "dinosaur-adjacent", such as kaiju monsters like Godzilla or the creature from The Giant Behemoth, which are perhaps inspired by dinosaurs, but clearly not meant to represent any real world genus. I will also be skipping over films that are heavily dependent on "borrowed" footage from other films, such as the Valley of the Dragons / Prehistoric Valley . Also known as: Cave Man Man and His Mate Tumak Runtime: 1 hr 20 min Background: One Million B.C. is a 1940 American film produced by Hal Roach Studios. Footage from this movie was often 'borrowed' by other productions well into the 1960s. The practice was so common that you have likley seen footage from this movie at some point in your life. Men in dinosaur suits alongside live animals i