The U.S. version of the magazine was launched in the United States with a July/August 1987 edition featuring Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks from "Dragnet" (1987) on the front cover. Their mission was to "reflect The Second Golden Age of the Movies". The magazine originally had offices in New York City and Los Angeles and was published by Rupert Murdoch. The founding editor was Susan Lyne. Among those working for the magazine was Peter Biskind, who spent a decade at the magazine as executive editor, later writing the film history "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls". He said that, early on, the magazine "gave us a lot of freedom to do hard-hitting, in-depth reporting."