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Sparks (2026 film)
Sparks (2026) is Fergus Campbell's debut feature, a queer coming-of-age fantasy drama starring Elsie Fisher as Cleo, a Nevada teen trying to time-travel via a reservoir to 1960s Paris; SXSW premiere, Strand Releasing.
SparkShorts
SparkShorts is Pixar Animation Studios' experimental short-film program, launched with Purl, Smash and Grab, and Kitbull in January 2019, giving staff six months and modest budgets to direct personal shorts on Disney+.
Sparrows
Sparrows (1926) is a Mary Pickford silent melodrama directed by William Beaudine, originally titled Scraps, about orphans escaping a swamp baby farm; premiered May 1926, restored by the Library of Congress, added to the National Film Registry in 2025.
Sparsh Shrivastava (स्पर्श श्रीवास्तव)
Sparsh Shrivastava (स्पर्श श्रीवास्तव), Indian actor-dancer-singer born 1997 in Dholpur, Rajasthan; winner of Chak Dhoom Dhoom (2010), Kundan in Balika Vadhu, Sunny in Jamtara, Deepak in Laapataa Ladies (2024).
Spartacus (film)
Spartacus (1960): Stanley Kubrick epic starring and produced by Kirk Douglas, from Howard Fast's novel, scripted by blacklisted Dalton Trumbo; $12 million, four Oscars, blacklist-breaking credit, 1991 restoration.
Spartacus (TV series)
Spartacus (TV series) is an American historical drama that aired on Starz from 2010 to 2013. It was shot entirely in Auckland, New Zealand, and features a graphic-novel aesthetic.
Spartacus: Blood and Sand
Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010) is the first season of Starz's four-season Spartacus series, produced by DeKnight and Tapert, starring Andy Whitfield as the enslaved Thracian gladiator, shot in New Zealand in a 300-inspired slow-motion style with mixed critic scores.
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena is Starz's six-episode 2011 prequel to Spartacus: Blood and Sand, created when Andy Whitfield's cancer halted season 2; it follows Batiatus's ludus and Gannicus, the first Champion of Capua.
Spartacus: House of Ashur
Spartacus: House of Ashur is a 2025 Starz spin-off of Spartacus, created by Steven S. DeKnight, set in an alternate timeline where Ashur (Nick E. Tarabay) survives Vengeance and runs Batiatus's gladiator school with gladiatrix Achillia; canceled after one season in 2026.
Spartacus: Vengeance
Spartacus: Vengeance is the second season (third installment) of Starz's Spartacus, airing ten episodes January 27 to March 30, 2012, with Liam McIntyre replacing the late Andy Whitfield as the rebel gladiator leader.
Spartacus: War of the Damned
Spartacus: War of the Damned is the 2013 final season of Starz's Spartacus series, depicting the Third Servile War's end against Crassus, with about 4,350 VFX shots and a 69% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Spartan (film)
Spartan (film) is a 2004 political thriller written and directed by David Mamet. It stars Val Kilmer as Robert Scott, uncovering a high-level government conspiracy.
Spawn (1997 film)
Spawn (1997 film): New Line Cinema superhero horror film directed by Mark A.Z. Dippé, based on Todd McFarlane's comic, starring Michael Jai White and John Leguizamo; grossed over $100 million but was panned by critics.
Speak No Evil (2022 film)
Speak No Evil (Danish: Gæsterne) is a 2022 Danish psychological horror film by Christian and Mads Tafdrup about a Danish family visiting a Dutch couple whose politeness traps them; Sundance 2022 premiere, bleak ending, remade by Blumhouse in 2024.
Spec script
Spec script: a non-commissioned screenplay written unpaid on the writer's own initiative (also called speculative screenplay) to be sold, optioned, or used as a writing sample; distinct from assignments, pitches, and shooting scripts.
Special (TV series)
Special is an American semi-autobiographical comedy series created by, written by, and starring Ryan O'Connell, adapted from his 2015 memoir and streamed on Netflix from 2019 to 2021.
Special 26
Special 26 is a 2013 Hindi heist thriller directed and written by Neeraj Pandey, starring Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, and Manoj Bajpayee, about con artists posing as CBI officers, based on the 1987 Opera House heist.
Special Agent Oso
Special Agent Oso, American computer-animated preschool series created by Ford Riley, aired on Playhouse Disney/Disney Channel 2009-2012, 2 seasons, 60 episodes; panda agent-in-training of U.N.I.Q.U.E. voiced by Sean Astin teaches tasks in three steps.
Special Bulletin
Special Bulletin (1983) is an NBC television drama directed by Edward Zwick and written by Marshall Herskovitz, a simulated live newscast of nuclear terrorism in Charleston, S.C.; it won four Emmys.
Special Correspondents
Special Correspondents is a 2016 Netflix comedy written and directed by Ricky Gervais, starring Eric Bana, a remake of Envoyés très spéciaux about radio journalists faking Ecuador war reports from Queens; released April 29, 2016, poorly reviewed.
Special effect
Special effect: an illusion created live or on camera, beyond ordinary scenery or lighting. Covers theatre classifications (mechanical, pyrotechnical, electrical), Shakespearean and Victorian stagecraft, early cinema, fog safety, and modern projection and tracking systems.
Special Forces: World's Toughest Test
Special Forces: World's Toughest Test is a Fox reality series (premiered January 4, 2023), adapted from SAS: Who Dares Wins, putting celebrities through ex-Special Forces-led selection challenges with no formal eliminations.
Special OPS
Special OPS is an Indian Hindi espionage thriller web series created by Neeraj Pandey, starring Kay Kay Menon as RAW officer Himmat Singh in a 19-year manhunt; streamed on Hotstar/JioHotstar since 2020, distinct from Special Ops: Lioness and Special Ops: True.
Special Ops 1.5: The Himmat Story
Special Ops 1.5: The Himmat Story is a 2021 Hindi espionage thriller, a four-episode Disney+ Hotstar spin-off of Special Ops by Neeraj Pandey, telling Himmat Singh's (Kay Kay Menon) 2001–2003 backstory, neither prequel nor sequel.
Special Ops: Lioness
Special Ops: Lioness (Lioness from season 2) is a Taylor Sheridan Paramount+ spy thriller premiered July 23, 2023, starring Zoe Saldaña as CIA officer Joe and Laysla De Oliveira as Marine Cruz Manuelos, loosely based on the real Iraq War Team Lioness program.
Species – The Awakening
Species – The Awakening (Species: The Awakening, 2007) is the fourth and final Species franchise film, a Sci-Fi Channel TV movie directed by Nick Lyon, starring Helena Mattsson as human-alien clone Miranda Hollander, with Ben Cross and Dominic Keating.
Species (film)
Species is a 1995 American science fiction horror film directed by Roger Donaldson. It stars Natasha Henstridge as Sil, a hybrid creature that grossed over $113 million worldwide.
Species 8472
Species 8472, later named the Undine, is a fictional telepathic Star Trek species from fluidic space, immune to Borg assimilation, nearly destroying the Collective before Voyager's nanoprobe warheads forced their retreat.
Species II
Species II, also known as Species 2, is a 1998 American science fiction horror film and the sequel to Species, about an astronaut infected by alien DNA on Mars.
Species III
Species III is a 2004 American sci-fi horror TV film, third in the Species series, directed by Brad Turner, written by Ben Ripley, starring Sunny Mabrey as Sara, Robert Knepper, and Robin Dunne; it premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel November 27, 2004.