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Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema and is the highest-grossing film director of all time. Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and three BAFTA Awards, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, an honorary knighthood in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, and the National Medal of Arts in 2023. According to Forbes, he is the wealthiest celebrity. Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He moved to California and studied film in college. After directing several episodes for television, including Night Gallery and Columbo, he directed the television film Duel (1971), which Barry Diller approved. He made his theatrical debut with The Sugarland Express (1974), also beginning his decades-long collaboration with composer John Williams, with whom he has worked for all but five of his theatrical releases. He became a household name with the summer blockbuster Jaws (1975). He continued directing acclaimed escapist box-office hits with Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and the original Indiana Jones trilogy (1981–1989). He also explored drama in The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987). In 1993, Spielberg directed back-to-back hits with the science fiction thriller Jurassic Park, the highest-grossing film at the time, and the epic historical drama Schindler's List, which has often been ranked among the greatest films ever made. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the latter as well as for the World War II epic Saving Private Ryan (1998). Spielberg has since directed the science fiction films A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Minority Report (2002), War of the Worlds (2005) and Ready Player One (2018); the historical dramas Amistad (1997), Munich (2005), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015) and The Post (2017); the comedies Catch Me If You Can (2002) and The Terminal (2004); the animated film The Adventures of Tintin (2011); the musical West Side Story (2021); and the family drama The Fabelmans (2022). Spielberg co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures, and he has served as a producer for many successful films and television series, among them Poltergeist (1982), Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), An American Tail (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Animaniacs (1993), Freakazoid! (1995), Twister (1996), Band of Brothers (2001) and Transformers (2007). Several of Spielberg's works are considered among the greatest films in history, and some are among the highest-grossing films of all time. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". In 2013, Time listed him among the 100 most influential people. In 2023, Spielberg was the recipient of the first-ever Time 100 Impact Award in the US. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Spielberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
A sequel to the 1985 film, The Goonies. Thirty-five years have past since the original Goonies adventure. Mikey is now a lawyer in Portland. He is married, and has a daughter named Zayna. Brand and Andy married, and together they currently run the Inferno Emporium, a treasure themed gift shop in Astoria. Chunk also stayed in Astoria. He cared for Sloth until his passing. Afterwards, he opened a medical home for the mentally handicapped, Sloth's Home of Helping Hands. Mouth and Stef married as well. They currently live in Eugene, where they both attended college. They are school teachers, and have a son named Rex. Data is a single father. He has a daughter named Laurie. He is the current authority manager at the Astoria bank. Mikey and his family move into their new home in Portland. Zayna, his daughter, quickly discovers a painting of a pirate ship above the fireplace. Mikey studies the painting, and thinks to himself that the ship looks awful familiar. Everyday that Mikey passes the painting of the ship, he notices that it looks as if it is moving closer to the frame. One day Mikey believes he notices water pouring from under the frame. He begins to think that he is going insane, and decides to visit a doctor. Meanwhile, a small pirate ship statue has turned up in the Inferno Emporium store, owned by Brand and Andy, and neither of them remember ordering such a item. Everyday the ship looks realer and realer. Almost to the point that Brand and Andy swear they hear small voices coming from the statue. Similarly, Chunk, Mouth, Stef, and Data also begin to suffer from strange pirate ship type unusualities. The goonies decide to contact one another. They all discover that they are having strange pirate-themed activities occur around them. Mikey believes that it is the ghost of One-Eyed Willy trying to summon the goonies. The rest of the gang is much too mature, and don't believe such nonsense. Mikey takes matters into his own hands. Slowly, him and his daughter are able to break the codes of the many strange occurrences that are occurring around their new Portland home. Mikey figures out that once the Inferno escaped the grotto, that it came back to life; as well did everything on board. One-Eyed Willy is alive and his ship and treasure are in trouble. Blackbeard has returned and will stop at nothing until he has the treasure of One-Eyed Willy. The Goonies must reunite, along with their children, and save their befriended pirate.
