Blue Velvet: Iconic Music–“In Dreams” by Roy Orbison

Orbison’s dreamy ballad in “Blue Velvet,” David Lynch’s 1986 masterpiece.

Heat 2: Mann’s Sequel to his 1995 Crime Classic, Moves Forward

Michael Mann Crime Drama Moves From Warner to United Artists; Jerry Bruckheimer, Scott Stuber Producing 

These Are the Damned (aka “The Damned”) (1962, 1963): Jospeh Losey’s Sci-Fi Horror Message Picture

Actor Oliver Reed recalled that during roduction of The Damned, Joseph Losey, the blacklisted U.S. director who exiled to London, used to take the cast out to dinner and “preach anti-Bomb stuff to them.”

Smashing Machine, The: Dwayne Johnson on he Biggest Commercial Failure of Career

‘You Can’t Control Box Office Results’–Dwayne Johnson

Francis (1950): Arthur Lubin’s Animal Talking Comedy, Starring Donald O’Connor, Vice by Chill Wills

Surprisingly, “Francis” became the 11th-most successful hit in the U.S. in 1950.