Leonardo Cimino

Date of Birth

1917-11-04

Date of Death

2012-03-03

Place of Birth

Manhattan, New York, USA

Known for

Dune, Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead, The Monster Squad, Household Saints, Stardust Memories

Most Popular Stories

The new episode of the WTF Happened to This Horror Movie video series digs into the story of Amityville II: The Possession!

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Amityville II: The Possession (1982) – WTF Happened to This Horror Movie?

Posted 4 years ago

On the JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel, we got the week started with a WTF Happened to This Horror Movie? video that looked at the making of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Now we’re wrapping this week up...

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The Monster Squad (1987) Revisited – Horror Movie Review

Posted 5 years ago

If you’re a horror fan over a certain age, chances are you’re already very familiar with Fred Dekker’s 1987 film The Monster Squad (watch it HERE). Maybe you grew up watching it; maybe you caught up with it later. Either...

WTF Happened to David Lynch’s Dune?

Posted 6 years ago

WTF Happened To This Movie? – The JoBlo series that looks at TROUBLED movie productions! Box-office smashes and flops, fan-favorites or creative failures, these movies endured numerous problems behind-the-scenes. In the 1980s when studios were all desperately chasing “the next...

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Legendary acquires film and TV rights for the sci-fi epic Dune

Posted 10 years ago

Legendary Pictures is plenty busy these days bringing giant monsters to life in films like KONG: SKULL ISLAND and PACIFIC RIM: MAELSTROM, but it looks like they're going to bring the epic in more ways than one. As Deadline reports,...

One of Denis Villeneuve’s longstanding dreams is to adapt Dune

Posted 10 years ago

It's no secret that I have become a big fan of Denis Villeneuve over the years; INCENDIES, PRISONERS, ENEMY and SICARIO, one after another they became some my favourite movies of the year, and now that he's putting his stamp...

VHS Retro Art Round-up: Dune, Mr. Boogedy, Star Crash and more

Posted 11 years ago

Alex Every child of the 80s will remember going to the video store and trying to find a movie to rent. Back before the days of Blu-ray and On Demand, selecting a movie usually meant finding the flick with the...

Learn about the best movie never made in the trailer for Jodorowsky’s Dune

Posted 12 years ago

The casual movie fan has likely never heard of Alejandro Jodorowsky. The Chilean-French director is well known to students of film for his surreal and bizarre films FANDO Y LIS, EL TOPO, SANTA SANGRE, and HOLY MOUNTAIN. With fans like...