1.
Mark Canton
–
Mark Canton is an American film producer and executive. Canton was born in Queens, New York, the son of Shirley and Arthur Canton, as a young adult, he met well known movie personalities like Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, and Doris Day when they visited the familys apartment. After working in the room of Warner Bros. from 1980 onwards. In 1991, Canton quit Warner Bros. where he was vice president of the Worldwide Motion Picture Production unit. Warner Bros. let him out of his fifteen months early with studio head Bob Daly saying from our standpoint this was a job that was going to be eliminated. Canton was fired by Sony in 1996, after a series of flops including Last Action Hero and The Cable Guy. In 1998, Canton became an independent film producer, with Jack Frost starring Michael Keaton as his first major production, backed by the German company Senator Entertainment from August 2000 onwards, he struck a first-look deal with Warner Bros. By the end of 2001, the shares of Senator had dropped substantially, in 2002, he was the chief executive of Artists Production Group, the movie branch of Artist Management Group. After leaving APG in November 2003, he created Atmosphere Entertainment together with Mark Kimsey, the aims were to produce films and television programming. With this company, he produced such as 300, Immortals. In his roles as executive, chairman, and producer, Canton has been involved in over 300 major Hollywood productions, Canton was married to Oscar-winning producer Wendy Finerman, with whom he has three children. His brother is the film producer Neil Canton and they co-produced the 2000 film Get Carter. Mark Canton at the Internet Movie Database
Mark Canton
–
Canton at the 2011 WonderCon
Mark Canton
–
Canton in March 2010
2.
The Yellow Birds
–
The Yellow Birds is the debut novel from American writer, poet, and Iraq war veteran Kevin Powers. It was one of The New York Timess 100 Most Notable Books of 2012 and it was awarded the 2012 The Guardian First Book Award, and the 2013 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Much of the novel draws upon Powerss experience serving a year as a gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar, Iraq. After his honorable discharge, Powers enrolled in Virginia Commonwealth University and he holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. Powers has said that the novel took him four years to write. He also comes from a family as his father and grandfathers both served, and his uncle was a Marine. With regard to the elements of the novel, Powers says, The core of what Bartle goes through. I felt those things, and asked the questions, is there anything about this thats redeeming. The story is invented, but theres a definite alignment between his emotional and mental life and mine, the Yellow Birds begins, The war tried to kill us in the spring and follows Pvt. Much of the focuses on Bartles promise to the mother of Murph. Bartle and Murph also make a pact not to be the 1, the reader learns in the beginning of the novel, however, that Murph dies in the war. The Yellow Birds also examines the reactions of soldiers after their deployments, Bartle enters a state in which he does not want to leave his house upon his return from the war and slowly deteriorates as the novel progresses. Powers has stated, I wanted to show the whole picture and its not just, you get off the plane, youre back home, everythings fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way, I thought it was important to acknowledge that. For Powers, the epigraph has come to stand for, the lack of soldiers have over what happens to them. The war proceeds, no matter what you think or do, youre powerless, and powerlessness itself becomes the enemy. That was my experience of the war. The idea of the bird resonated with the core of what I was trying to get at, one of the major themes of The Yellow Birds is the separation between the American public and soldiers fighting overseas, which has dominated much of the Iraq War
The Yellow Birds
–
First edition cover image
3.
Tye Sheridan
–
Tye Kayle Sheridan is an American actor. Sheridan made his film debut in Terrence Malicks experimental drama film The Tree of Life and had his first leading role in Jeff Nicholss film Mud. He also co-starred in David Gordon Greens drama Joe, in 2015, he starred in the drama The Stanford Prison Experiment. Sheridan was born in Elkhart, Texas and his mother, Stephanie Sheridan, owns a beauty salon, and his father, Bryan Sheridan, is an employee of UPS. He has a sister, Madison. He attended the Elkhart Independent School District until he began his film career, Sheridan has graduated from high school. The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and went on to be awarded the prestigious Palme dOr and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, in 2012, he played the leading role of Ellis in Jeff Nicholss Mud opposite Jacob Lofland and Matthew McConaughey. The coming-of-age drama-thriller film premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, for his role he has received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for best upcoming young actor at the 70th Venice International Film Festival. In 2014, he played Will Cutter in the film The Forger, from a script by Richard D’Ovidio, in 2015, Sheridan starred in the three films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He also had a role in the film adaptation of Gillian Flynns Dark Places. Sheridan played the mutant Scott Summers / Cyclops in the 2016 film X-Men, Apocalypse, in June 2013, he joined the cast of a film written and directed by Kyle Wilamowski, Grass Stains, along with Kaitlyn Dever. He plays a teen discovering his first love, when a prank goes awry and causes the death of his girlfriend’s older brother, the boy must balance his secret guilt with his feelings for the girl. He will star in the The Yellow Birds opposite Alden Ehrenreich, Jack Huston, on February 24,2016, Sheridan was cast as Wade Watts, a. k. a. Parzival, the character in Steven Spielbergs Ready Player One. Tye Sheridan at the Internet Movie Database
Tye Sheridan
–
Sheridan at the 2013
Deauville Film Festival
4.
Alden Ehrenreich
–
Alden Caleb Ehrenreich is an American actor. He made his film debut in Francis Ford Coppolas independent film Tetro. In 2013, he appeared in Woody Allens Blue Jasmine, Park Chan-wooks Stoker, in 2016, he starred as Hobie Doyle in the Coen brothers comedy Hail, Caesar. and as Frank Forbes in Warren Beattys Rules Dont Apply. In 2018, he will star as Han Solo in an as of yet untitled Star Wars spin-off film revolving around the younger years. Ehrenreich was born in Los Angeles, California, the child of Sari, an interior designer, and Mark Ehrenreich. He is named after the director Phil Alden Robinson and his stepfather, Harry Aronowitz, is an orthodontist. Alden is Jewish, his ancestors were Jewish emigrants from Austria, Hungary, Russia, and Poland, Ehrenreich began acting at the Palisades Elementary School in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, and continued doing so at Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California. After graduating from school, he studied acting at New York University. In 2009, he co-founded The Collectin with his friend Zoë Worth in New York that consists of actors, writers, producers and directors who collaborate on films, Ehrenreich, in a kimono, screaming to stop a wedding. Ehrenreich has described the performance he gave in the movie as, I ran around as a skinny little punk, trying on girls clothes. He was then contacted by DreamWorks, a studio which Spielberg helped found, the meeting with Spielberg led to acting roles on television shows such as Supernatural and CSI, Crime Scene Investigation. In 2007, Ehrenreich auditioned and won the role of Bennie Tetrocini in Francis Ford Coppolas Tetro, coppola requested Ehrenreich read a passage from The Catcher in the Rye for his main audition. The film was released in limited release in 2009 and received positive reviews from critics. In 2011, he played a role in Coppolas subsequent film Twixt. In 2013, he starred as Ethan Wate in the adaptation of the novel Beautiful Creatures. He then played the stepson of Cate Blanchett in the Woody Allen-directed drama film Blue Jasmine, in 2016, Ehrenreich became more widely known for his co-leading role as Hobie Doyle in the Coen brothers film Hail, Caesar. Alongside a cast that included Josh Brolin and George Clooney, many critics praised Ehrenreichs performance in particular. That same year, Ehrenreich starred in the role of Frank Forbes in Warren Beattys romantic comedy-drama Rules Dont Apply
Alden Ehrenreich
–
Ehrenreich (right) with actress Zöe Worth
5.
Jack Huston
–
Jack Alexander Huston is an English actor. He appeared as Richard Harrow in the HBO television drama series Boardwalk Empire and he also had a supporting role in the 2013 film American Hustle, and played the title role in the 2016 historical drama Ben-Hur. Huston was born in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, the son of Lady Margot Lavinia and actor, writer, Huston decided to become an actor at the age of six, after playing the title role in a school production of Peter Pan. He later attended Hurtwood House, a drama institute and his mother is English and his father is American. His paternal aunt is actress Anjelica Huston, and his uncle is actor Danny Huston. His paternal grandparents were American director John Huston and model/dancer Enrica Soma, Huston is the nephew of David Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley. On his fathers side, he has Italian, Irish, Scottish, and English ancestry, through his maternal grandfathers father, George Cholmondeley, the 5th Marquess, Huston is descended from Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. Huston started his career with a small screen adaptation of Spartacus. He then went on to having more prominent roles in films as Factory Girl, playing the American poet Gerard Malanga. In 2010, he had a role in The Twilight Saga. He appeared in HBOs Boardwalk Empire as Richard Harrow, a severely disfigured World War I marksman turned gangster, on 16 December 2010, it was announced Huston would be made a series regular after appearing in five episodes of the first season. After this he went on to be directed by Al Pacino in the 2011 film Wilde Salome and to having starring roles in Not Fade Away, Two Jacks and Night Train to Lisbon. In 2012, he played the part of narrator on avant-garde musician John Zorns album A Vision in Blakelight, in 2013, he appeared in David O. Russells comedy-drama American Hustle, as Pete Musane. Later that year, Huston played Charles Bruno in Strangers on a Train at Londons Gielgud Theatre, Huston began dating American model Shannan Click in 2011. Huston and Click have one daughter, Sage Lavinia Huston, born on 6 April 2013 in New York City, Jack Huston at the Internet Movie Database Jack Huston on Twitter Interview with Jack Huston in Details
Jack Huston
–
Jack Huston at the 2015
Comic-Con International
Jack Huston
–
Jack Huston at the Berlin International Film Festival, 2013
6.
Jennifer Aniston
–
Jennifer Joanna Aniston is an American actress, producer, and businesswoman. She is the daughter of Greek-born actor John Aniston and American actress Nancy Dow, the character was widely popular during the airing of the series and was later recognized as one of the 100 greatest female characters in United States television. Aniston has played the female protagonist in a number of comedies and her box office hits include Bruce Almighty, The Break-Up, Marley & Me, Just Go with It, Horrible Bosses, and Were the Millers, each of which have grossed over US$200 million in worldwide receipts. Her other films include Along Came Polly and Hes Just Not That Into You, in 2008, she co-founded the production company Echo Films. In 2012, Aniston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and she is one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood, and as of 2014, her net worth is estimated to be US$150 million. She has also included in magazines lists of the worlds most beautiful women. People magazine named Aniston The Most Beautiful Woman in 2004 and 2016, divorced from actor Brad Pitt, to whom she was married for five years, she has been married to actor Justin Theroux since 2015. Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks, California, the daughter of actor John Aniston and her father is Greek, while her mother was born in New York City. One of her maternal great-grandfathers was an Italian immigrant, and her mothers ancestry includes English, Irish, Scottish. Aniston has two half-brothers, John Melick, her older maternal half-brother, and Alex Aniston, her younger paternal half-brother, Anistons godfather was actor Telly Savalas, one of her fathers best friends. As a child, Aniston lived in Greece for a year with her family and they then moved to Eddystone, Pennsylvania, where they lived with her grandmother Stella Anastassakis in a three-bedroom home. While living in Eddystone, Aniston was enrolled at a elementary school. She and her family moved to New York City. Despite her fathers career, Aniston was discouraged from watching TV. When she was six, she began attending a Waldorf school and her mother and father split up when she was nine years old. Her father is best known for his role as Victor Kiriakis on the NBC daytime drama Days of Our Lives and her mother appeared in two 1960s TV series, The Wild Wild West and The Beverly Hillbillies. In 2015, she spoke about an incident that led to her lifelong fear of water. She stated during an event for her film Cake, I basically have a real fear of going underwater
Jennifer Aniston
–
Aniston at a ceremony to receive a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame in February 2012
Jennifer Aniston
–
Aniston at the
He's Just Not That Into You premiere in 2009
Jennifer Aniston
–
Aniston in March 2010
Jennifer Aniston
–
Aniston at the
2008 Toronto International Film Festival
7.
Toni Collette
–
She is a recipient of six AACTA Awards, one Emmy Award and one Golden Globe Award, and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award and once for both an Academy Award and a Tony Award. Collettes acting career began in the early 1990s with comedic roles in such as Spotswood and Muriels Wedding. Collette returned to Broadway in Will Enos The Realistic Joneses, for which she earned a Drama Desk Special Award, Toni Collett was born in Blacktown, a suburb in Western Sydney, the daughter of Judith, a customer-service representative, and Bob Collett, a truck driver. She has two brothers, Ben and Christopher. She was born under the surname Collett, but added an e at the end for her stage name and her biological paternal grandfather was an American serviceman whose name Toni does not know. From an early age, Collette showed a talent for acting and she faked an appendicitis when she was eleven, and was so convincing that doctors removed her appendix, although tests showed nothing wrong with it. She attended Blacktown Girls High School until the age of 16 and her first acting role was onstage in the musical Godspell in Sydney in her early teens. Collette made her debut in 1990, in a guest appearance on the Seven Network drama series A Country Practice. In 1992, she made her film debut as part of the ensemble comedy-drama Spotswood, which starred Anthony Hopkins. Collette soon rocketed to international notice with her performance in the role for Muriels Wedding in 1994. She won the Australian award for Best Actress as Muriel, her first of five Australian Film Institute awards, in 1996, she was part of the ensemble cast of the comedy, Così, and had a leading role in Emma as the naïve Harriet Smith. She has also received acclaim on Broadway, starring as Queenie in Michael John LaChiusas musical work. For this role, Collette was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, Collette turned down the title role in Bridget Joness Diary because she was committed to perform on Broadway at the time. In 1999, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as the mother of a boy in the U. S. film The Sixth Sense. In 2000, she was the voice of Meg Bluegum Bunyips mother in The Magic Pudding based on the childrens book by Norman Lindsay. Collette won the Australian Film Institute award for Best Actress for her performance, in 2004, Collette starred with Nia Vardalos and David Duchovny in the musical comedy Connie and Carla, released by Universal Studios. Collettes only film in 2005 was In Her Shoes, a comedy-drama about the relationship between two sisters and their estranged grandmother, co-starring Cameron Diaz and Shirley MacLaine. In 2006, Collette starred in Little Miss Sunshine, a movie about a familys trip to a childrens beauty pageant
Toni Collette
–
Toni Collette in 2013
Toni Collette
–
Collette studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in
Kensington, New South Wales
Toni Collette
–
Collette at the 2015
San Diego Comic-Con International.
Toni Collette
–
Collette at the Orange British Academy Film Awards in London's Royal Opera House in February 2007
8.
War film
–
War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. It has been associated with the 20th century. The fateful nature of battle scenes means that war films often end with them, themes explored include combat, survival and escape, sacrifice, the futility and inhumanity of battle, the effects of war on society, and the moral and human issues raised by war. War films are categorized by their milieu, such as the Korean War. The stories told may be fiction, historical drama, or biographical, critics have noted similarities between the Western and the war film. Subgenres, not necessarily distinct, include anti-war, comedy, animated, propaganda, the war film genre is not necessarily tightly defined, the American Film Institute, for example, speaks of films to grapple with the Great War without attempting to classify these. However, some directors and critics have offered at least tentative definitions, the director Sam Fuller defined the genre by saying that a war film’s objective, no matter how personal or emotional, is to make a viewer feel war. However, Neale notes, films set in the American Civil War or the American Indian Wars of the 19th century were called war films in the time before the First World War, the film scholar Kathryn Kane points out some similarities between the war film genre and the Western. Both genres use opposing concepts like war and peace, civilization, james Clarke notes the similarity between a Western like Sam Peckinpahs The Wild Bunch and war-movie escapades like The Dirty Dozen. They take place in the combat zones of World War II, against the established enemies, on the ground. They contain many repeated events, such as mail call, all presented visually with appropriate uniforms, equipment and she argues that the combat film is not a subgenre but the only genuine kind of war film. This in turn pushes combat scenes to the ends of war films. Not all critics agree, either, that war films must be about 20th century wars, the costliest war in U. S. history in terms of American life, this war has been the subject of, or the backdrop to, numerous films, documentaries and mini-series. One of the earliest films using the Civil War as its subject was D. W. Griffiths 1910 silent picture, The Fugitive. Some films such as Gettysburg focused on a battle during the war, or even on a single incident, like the French short film. Others like the 1993 miniseries North and South spanned the entire breadth of the war, some films deal with the human aspects of the war, such as The Red Badge of Courage, or Shenandoah, on the tragedy that the war inflicted on the civilian population. Ken Burnss The Civil War is the most watched documentary in the history of PBS, the first war films come from the Spanish–American War of 1898. Short actualities – documentary film-clips – included Burial of the Maine Victims, Blanket-Tossing of a New Recruit and these non-combat films were accompanied by reenactments of fighting, such as of Theodore Roosevelts Rough Riders in action against the Spanish, staged in the United States
War film
–
Film poster for
Kajiro Yamamoto 's
Hawai Mare oki kaisen, (ハワイ・マレー沖海戦, The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya), Toho Company, 1942
War film
–
John Wayne in
The Longest Day, 1962
War film
–
1918 film poster for Die grosse Schlacht in Frankreich (The Great Battle in France), with
Hindenburg in the background
War film
–
Soviet poster for an exhibition about the
Spanish Civil War, 1936
9.
Lee Tergesen
–
Lee Allen Tergesen is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Tobias Beecher in HBOs prison drama Oz and as Evan Wright in Generation Kill, Tergesen was born in Ivoryton, Connecticut and graduated from Valley Regional High School in nearby Deep River. He moved to New York at the age of 18 to try to become an actor and he graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy s two-year program in Manhattan, where, from 1986 to 1989, he worked at the Empire Diner. I was funny, but I gave a lot of attitude and he added, The place is like a vortex for me. In 1989, the diner was where he met Tom Fontana, the creator of Oz. He did some work during this time. I was doing all the time, but theres no money in it. After graduation, I thought Id be making a living at it and he went to Los Angeles to help Tom Fontana move house. While dining at a restaurant on the day arriving in Los Angeles, California. He told me there was a part in movie and at that time, I couldnt imagine what it could be. The movie ended up being Point Break, starring Keanu Reeves and it was the beginning of me never having to do anything else but act, he told LT. com in 1990. Tergesen began his career with a bit role in the 1991 prime-time aired pilot, Tergesen then starred in Waynes World and Waynes World 2, the 1994 series Weird Science, and a recurring role in the first season of Homicide, Life on the Street. Tergesens career took off in 1997 with his acclaimed portrayal of Tobias Beecher on HBOs Oz. His film credits include Point Break, Shaft, Monster, The Forgotten, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Beginning, Cast A Deadly Spell and he played an Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor in the second season of Desperate Housewives, becoming romantically involved with Bree Hodge. He appeared in the USA Network series Royal Pains and in Seasons 4–5 of the Lifetime Network series Army Wives and he played Evan Wright in the HBO mini-series Generation Kill. He married Yuko Otomo in 2011, their daughter Lily was born December 5,2012 and he is the brother-in-law of actress Toni Lewis by her marriage to Lees brother, Chris. Official website Lee Tergesen at the Internet Movie Database Lee Tergesen Fan Site Lee Tergesen Info, The Annotated and Illustrated Site
Lee Tergesen
–
Lee Tergesen in 2012
10.
Aylin Tezel
–
Aylin Tezel is a German actress. Her father is Necmettin Tezel, a Turkish medical doctor practicing in Bielefeld and her mother is Ingrid Tezel, a German nurse. She is a child, having an older sister and a younger brother. Aylin Tezel was born in Bünde and grew up in the Bielefeld district of Sennestadt, there she studied dance from the age of six and graduated from the Hans Ehrenberg private evangelical school. She studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, after her film debut in the arthouse feature Unschuld she played a central role in Oliver Kienle’s award- winning film Closer Than Blood. The film was a big hit in German cinemas and had releases in many countries. During Christmas 2011, Tezel was seen as Cinderella in Uwe Janson’s TV film Aschenputtel, in 2012 there were cinema releases of her films 3 Zimmer/Küche/Bad and Breaking Horizons. Most recently Aylin Tezel has filmed Marco Kreuzpaintner’s new feature Coming In which was released by Warner Bros. in October 2014 and she played female lead Sabine in Irish Robert Manson’s forthcoming debut feature film Lost in the Living. In the feature Macho Man, the version of a German bestseller she plays the female lead alongside German actor Christian Ulmen. The film was released on October 29,2015 by Universum Film, Tezel took voice lessons from the late voice coach Julia Wilson-Dickson in London to improve her opportunities for English language roles
Aylin Tezel
–
Aylin Tezel
11.
Nikolai Kinski
–
Nanhoï Nikolai Kinski is a French-American film actor, who has also done work in television and on stage. He was born in Paris, France and grew up in California, currently residing in Berlin, Germany, he has acted primarily in American and German films, and speaks English, German and French. He holds dual citizenship in the United States and France and he is the son of the German actor Klaus Kinski and his third wife, Minhoi Geneviève Loanic. He is the half-brother of actresses Pola Kinski and Nastassja Kinski, the senior Kinski had two older daughters, Pola Kinski and Nastassja Kinski, born in Germany to his first and second wives, respectively. He took his family to California, where Nikolai lived mostly with his mother after his parents divorced in 1979 and he was never close to his half-sisters, who lived most of the time in Germany. His father encouraged his interest in acting, Nikolai first had a role at the age of 13 alongside his father in the film Kinski Paganini. In the mid-1990s, he entered the UCLA School of Theatre as a theatre major, afterward Kinski moved to Berlin, where he learned to speak German fluently. He has since starred in a number of German language films and TV series and he starred in Æon Flux alongside Charlize Theron. In 2006, he won the Romy Award as best newcomer, Nikolai Kinski at the Internet Movie Database Official website
Nikolai Kinski
–
Nikolai Kinski
12.
Blue Caprice
–
Blue Caprice is a 2013 American independent drama film directed by Alexandre Moors. The film stars Isaiah Washington, Tequan Richmond, Joey Lauren Adams, Tim Blake Nelson, Blue Caprice debuted at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The film was released in theaters on Sept 13,2013, the film is titled The Washington Snipers in some regions. The movie opens with Lee Malvo separating from his mother in Jamaica and his mother has to leave him at home due to her job requirements. In subsequent days, as a teenager, Malvo comes in contact of John Muhammad. Muhammad is living with his three children - one daughter and two sons, after spending some time together Muhammad and Malvo move to Tacoma, Washington in US. Muhammad, along with Malvo, starts living there with his girlfriend Angela, Muhammad starts introducing Malvo as his son. Muhammad subsequently meets his old time friend Ray while going for a jog with Malvo, Malvo turns out to be naturally good at marksmanship. One day Muhammad tries to contact his children in Maryland but is due to restraining order. Frustrated by this, Muhammad comes home and has a spat with Angela over some petty issue, Angela subsequently throws both the men out of her house. Muhammad and Malvo move in with Ray and his family, Ray lives with his wife and toddler son. Malvo discovers a cache of arms in Rays basement, gradually Muhammad brainwashes an impressionable Malvo into committing murders. Malvo commits his first murder by shooting a neighbor point-blank in the head, Muhammad instigates Malvo further to commit more murders in order to pay back the favor of bringing Malvo to US. Malvo commits his next murder by shooting a pub owner in back, with the robbed money Muhammad and Malvo buy a Caprice Classic. Muhammad subsequently teaches Malvo to drive, Muhammad also modifies the car trunk so as to make a rectangular slit in the rear which is later used to shoot a sniper rifle from. John Muhammad and Lee Malvo subsequently conduct a siege of terror on the Washington and they conduct series of random shootings in public places. They use a rifle fired from the trunk of a blue Chevrolet Caprice, one night while they were parked in a no-parking spot, the local police department catches up on them and subsequently the FBI is shown as taking over the investigation. After 5 months, Malvo is lodged in Graymore State Prison and he is visited by a female lawyer who tries to question him about the motive of all those random killings
Blue Caprice
–
Theatrical release poster
13.
Benedict Cumberbatch
–
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch CBE is an English actor who has performed in film, television, theatre and radio. He is the son of actors Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham, Cumberbatch graduated from the University of Manchester and continued his training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, obtaining a Master of Arts in Classical Acting. He first performed at the Open Air Theatre, Regents Park in Shakespearean productions, since then he has starred in the Royal National Theatre productions After the Dance and Frankenstein. In 2015, he played William Shakespeares Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre, Cumberbatchs television work includes appearances in Silent Witness and Fortysomething before playing Stephen Hawking in the television film Hawking in 2004. He has starred as Sherlock Holmes in the series Sherlock since 2010 and he has also headlined Tom Stoppards adaptation of Parades End and The Hollow Crown, The Wars of the Roses. From 2012 to 2014, through voice and motion capture, he played the characters of Smaug, Cumberbatch portrays the Marvel Comics character Dr. Stephen Strange in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, first appearing in the film Doctor Strange. Cumberbatch has received awards and nominations for acting including three Laurence Olivier Award nominations, winning Best Actor in a Play for Frankenstein. He has also received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Sherlock and his performance in The Imitation Game earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In addition, he has received six BAFTA nominations, five Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, in 2014, Time magazine included him in its annual Time 100 as one of the Most Influential People in the World. He was appointed a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in June 2015 for his services to the performing arts, Cumberbatch was born at Queen Charlottes and Chelsea Hospital in the White City district of West Londons Hammersmith and Fulham borough, to actors Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham. He grew up in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and he has a half-sister, Tracy Peacock, from his mothers first marriage. His grandfather, Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, was an officer of both World Wars, and a prominent figure of London high society. His great-grandfather, Henry Arnold Cumberbatch, was Queen Victorias consul general in Turkey, Cumberbatch attended boarding schools from the age of 8, he was educated at Brambletye School in West Sussex and was an arts scholar at Harrow School. He was a member of The Rattigan Society, Harrows principal club for the dramatic arts and he was involved in numerous Shakespearean works at school and made his acting debut as Titania, Queen of the Fairies, in A Midsummer Nights Dream when he was 12. Cumberbatchs drama teacher, Martin Tyrell, called him the best schoolboy actor he had worked with. After leaving Harrow, Cumberbatch took a gap year to volunteer as an English teacher at a Tibetan monastery in Darjeeling and he then attended the University of Manchester, where he studied Drama. He continued his training as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art graduating with an MA in Classical Acting. Since 2001, Cumberbatch has had roles in a dozen classic plays at the Regents Park Open Air, Almeida, Royal Court
Benedict Cumberbatch
–
At the 2014
San Diego Comic-Con International
Benedict Cumberbatch
–
During rehearsals for
Frankenstein, April 2011
Benedict Cumberbatch
–
Filming
Sherlock in
Chinatown, London, March 2010
Benedict Cumberbatch
–
At the Los Angeles premiere of
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, December 2013
14.
Will Poulter
–
For his work in Were the Millers, Poulter won the BAFTA Rising Star Award. Poulter was born in Hammersmith, London, the son of Caroline, a nurse, and Neil Poulter. His mother was raised in an Anglo family in Kenya, where her father was a game warden and he also performed with other young comedic actors in School of Comedy, which aired its pilot on Channel 4s Comedy Lab on 21 August 2008. School of Comedy was then commissioned for a series by Channel 4. The programme finished after a second series, in 2009, he was selected to play the role of Eustace Scrubb in the film The Chronicles of Narnia, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and was accompanied by some members of his family. The movie was first screened on 10 December 2010, the film opened to mixed reviews, but Poulters performance was well received. In 2010, he appeared in the BBC Three pilot The Fades, the pilot has been commissioned to be written as six-part series with almost entirely a new cast. Poulter began filming a small British independent film called Wild Bill, directed by Dexter Fletcher, at the end of 2010. It centres around Bill Hayward, played by Charlie Creed-Miles, who, on parole after spending eight years in prison, finds his two sons, Dean and Jimmy, living alone abandoned by their mother. With the attention of social services now focused on the boys, the film was released on 23 March 2012 to extremely positive reviews, with praise for Poulters performance. In 2011, Poulter appeared with the popular British blogger and his School of Comedy co-star Jack Harries on his YouTube channel by the name of JacksGap in a video called Jack, in 2013, he played Kenny in Were the Millers, starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis. While the film opened to mixed reviews, the performances of the cast were well-received and he also appeared as a caretaker in the music video for Rizzle Kicks song Skip to the Good Bit. In 2014, he played Fordy in the crime film Plastic, directed by Julian Gilbey and starring Ed Speleers, Alfie Allen, Sebastian De Souza, the film was critically panned on release. The same year, he played Gally in the adaptation, The Maze Runner, alongside Dylan OBrien. The film was a critical and commercial success, with the performances of the cast being praised, in 2015, Poulter starred as Shane in the Irish indie film Glassland, directed by Gerard Barrett and co-starring Jack Reynor and Toni Collette. The film was a success, with many reviewers praising Poulters performance in particular as being his most diverse role to date. In an interview with BBC Radio 1, Poulter stated the film was the proudest Ive been to be a part of a movie, in 2014, Poulter won the BAFTA Rising Star Award, voted for by the public. Other actors nominated for the award were Lupita Nyongo, George MacKay, Léa Seydoux, the same year, he also won the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss for his performance in Were the Millers
Will Poulter
–
Poulter at the London premiere of
We're the Millers in August 2013
15.
Deauville American Film Festival
–
The Deauville American Film Festival is a yearly film festival devoted to American cinema, taking place since 1975 in Deauville, France. It was established by Lionel Chouchan, André Halimi, and then Mayor of Deauville Michel dOrnano, although not competitive at its origin, the festival began to award prizes in 1995, for feature films, and 1998 for short films. This award was named Grand Prix spécial Deauville from 1995 to 2007,1989, Torch Song Trilogy by Paul Bogart 1990, Pump Up the Volume by Allan Moyle Tune in Tomorrow by Jon Amiel 1991, Trust by Hal Hartley Hangin with the Homeboys by Joseph B. It carries a grant of 3,000 euros for the awarded director-writer,3,000 euros for the films producer, and 10,000 euros for the French distributor to help promote the film. The award, which is named in honour of the former Mayor of Deauville and co-founder of the festival, thomas for Willy 1er The Revelation Prize is awarded by a Revelation jury composed of up-and-coming actors and filmmakers. 1996, Charlotte Rampling, Sabine Azéma, René Cleitman, Dominique Farrugia, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chiara Mastroianni, Laura Morante, Ornella Muti, Melvil Poupaud and Alain Rocca. 1997, Sophie Marceau, Élodie Bouchez, Philippe Carcassonne, Étienne Chatiliez, Alain Finkielkraut, John Hurt, Michèle Laroque, Inés Sastre, Nathalie Quintane and Lambert Wilson. 1998, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Michèle Halberstadt, Sandrine Kiberlain, Virginie Ledoyen, Russell Banks, Maurice Bernart, Alessandro Gassman, Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Éric Serra and Christian Vincent. 1999, Régis Wargnier, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Humbert Balsan, Richard Berry, Gabriel Byrne, Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Marie Gillain, Michel Houellebecq, Marie-France Pisier and Elsa Zylberstein. 2000, Neil Jordan, Guillaume Canet, Clotilde Courau, Tchéky Karyo, Philippe Labro, Samuel Le Bihan, François Ozon, Vincent Perez, Danièle Thompson and Marie Trintignant. 2001, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Sandrine Bonnaire, Marion Cotillard, Arielle Dombasle, Gérard Darmon, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Darius Khondji, Benoît Poelvoorde and Gabriel Yared. 2002, Pierre Lescure, Chantal Akerman, Richard Anconina, Jean-Marc Barr, Charles Berling, Amira Casar, Julie Gayet, Irène Jacob, Cédric Kahn and Bruno Wolkowitch. 2003, Roman Polanski, Claudia Cardinale, Pawel Edelman, Jacques Fieschi, Ben Kingsley, Anne Parillaud, Zbigniew Preisner, Ludivine Sagnier, Fernando Trueba and Tom Tykwer. 2004, Claude Lelouch, Anouk Aimée, Marie-Josée Croze, Danièle Heymann, Diane Kurys, Jeanne Labrune, Lio, Claudie Ossard, Bettina Rheims and Mathilde Seigner. 2005, Alain Corneau, Enki Bilal, Dominique Blanc, Romane Bohringer, Rachida Brakni, Christophe, Dominik Moll, Melvil Poupaud and Brigitte Roüan. 2006, Nicole Garcia, Maurice Barthélémy, Guillaume Canet, Amira Casar, Emmanuelle Castro, Antoine de Caunes, Julien Clerc, Philippe Djian and Marthe Keller. 2007, André Téchiné, Odile Barski, Xavier Beauvois, Nicolas Cazalé, Charlélie Couture, Émilie Deleuze, Anouk Grinberg,2008, Carole Bouquet, Édouard Baer, Ronit Elkabetz, Diane Fleri, Pierre Jolivet, Cédric Kahn, Cristian Mungiu, Leonor Silveira and Dean Tavoularis. 2009, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Hiam Abbass, Dany Boon, Jean-Loup Dabadie, Émilie Dequenne, Déborah François, Sandrine Kiberlain, Patrice Leconte, Géraldine Pailhas and Bruno Podalydès
Deauville American Film Festival
–
Sharon Stone at the Deauville American Film Festival in 1991
Deauville American Film Festival
–
George Clooney (2007)
16.
Hamptons International Film Festival
–
The Hamptons International Film Festival is an international film festival founded in 1993, the festival has since taken place every year in East Hampton, New York. It is usually an annual event in mid-October and is held in theatre venues located in the Long Island area of New York. HIFF was founded as a celebration of independent film in a variety of forms, the festival is also involved with other events during the remainder of the year, including screenings in other parts of New York State and an annual Screenwriters Lab. HIFF primarily showcases short films, documentaries and narrative films and is a festival for the Academy Awards. The festival also offers special presentations, including, Breakthrough Performers program, showcasing new, a Conversation With…, presenting a Q&A session with a film luminary. Conflict & Resolution program, featuring films that explore contemporary issues of a social and political nature. The Lab facilitates the improvement of participating screenwriters work, as the selected writers consult with industry professionals to attain insight into the mechanisms of the film industry, recent mentors include, Michael Cunningham, James Vanderbilt, J. The Lab actively seeks a broad selection of screenplays that cumulatively address a diversity of subject matter, official website Hamptons International Film Festival Facebook page Hamptons International Film Festival at the Internet Movie Database
Hamptons International Film Festival
–
Hamptons International Film Festival
17.
Principal photography
–
Principal photography is the phase of film production in which the movie is filmed, with actors on set and cameras rolling, as distinct from pre-production and post-production. Its start generally marks a point of no return for the financiers, feature films usually have insurance in place by the time principal photography begins. The death of a star before completing all planned takes. For example, sets are notoriously flammable, and most older studios feature water towers for that reason, furthermore, professional-quality movie cameras are normally rented as needed, and most camera houses will not allow rentals of their equipment without proof of insurance. Once a film concludes principal photography, it is said to have wrapped, in these circumstances, additional material may have to be shot. If the material has already been shot once, or is substantial, the process is referred to as a re-shoot, learning materials related to Filmmaking at Wikiversity Media related to Filmmaking at Wikimedia Commons
Principal photography
–
Film production on location in
Newark, New Jersey.
18.
Morocco
–
Morocco, officially known as the Kingdom of Morocco, is a sovereign country located in the Maghreb region of North Africa. Geographically, Morocco is characterized by a mountainous interior, large tracts of desert. Morocco has a population of over 33.8 million and an area of 446,550 km2 and its capital is Rabat, and the largest city is Casablanca. Other major cities include Marrakesh, Tangier, Tetouan, Salé, Fes, Agadir, Meknes, Oujda, Kenitra, a historically prominent regional power, Morocco has a history of independence not shared by its neighbours. Marinid and Saadi dynasties continued the struggle against foreign domination, the Alaouite dynasty, the current ruling dynasty, seized power in 1666. In 1912 Morocco was divided into French and Spanish protectorates, with a zone in Tangier. Moroccan culture is a blend of Arab, indigenous Berber, Sub-Saharan African, Morocco claims the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara as its Southern Provinces. Morocco annexed the territory in 1975, leading to a war with indigenous forces until a cease-fire in 1991. Peace processes have thus far failed to break the political deadlock, Morocco is a constitutional monarchy with an elected parliament. The King of Morocco holds vast executive and legislative powers, especially over the military, foreign policy, the king can issue decrees called dahirs which have the force of law. He can also dissolve the parliament after consulting the Prime Minister, Moroccos predominant religion is Islam, and the official languages are Arabic and Tamazight. The Moroccan dialect, referred to as Darija, and French are also widely spoken, Morocco is a member of the Arab League, the Union for the Mediterranean, and the African Union. It has the fifth largest economy of Africa, the full Arabic name al-Mamlakah al-Maghribiyyah translates to Kingdom of the West, although the West in Arabic is الغرب Al-Gharb. The basis of Moroccos English name is Marrakesh, its capital under the Almoravid dynasty, the origin of the name Marrakesh is disputed, but is most likely from the Berber words amur akush or Land of God. The modern Berber name for Marrakesh is Mṛṛakc, in Turkish, Morocco is known as Fas, a name derived from its ancient capital of Fes. The English name Morocco is an anglicisation of the Spanish Marruecos, the area of present-day Morocco has been inhabited since Paleolithic times, sometime between 190,000 and 90,000 BC. During the Upper Paleolithic, the Maghreb was more fertile than it is today, twenty-two thousand years ago, the Aterian was succeeded by the Iberomaurusian culture, which shared similarities with Iberian cultures. Skeletal similarities have been suggested between the Iberomaurusian Mechta-Afalou burials and European Cro-Magnon remains, the Iberomaurusian was succeeded by the Beaker culture in Morocco
Morocco
–
Berber Roman King
Ptolemy of Mauretania.
Morocco
–
Flag
Morocco
–
Roman mosaic of Diana in
Volubilis.
Morocco
–
Morocco, Safi ceramic vessel Jobbana
19.
John Mellencamp
–
John J Mellencamp, also known as John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, painter, and actor. He is known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock, Paper in Fire, and Cherry Bomb. He has amassed 22 Top 40 hits in the United States. In addition, he holds the record for the most tracks by a solo artist to hit one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, with seven. Mellencamp released his latest album, Plain Spoken, on September 23,2014, Mellencamp was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 10,2008. His biggest musical influences are Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, James Brown, said longtime Rolling Stone contributor Anthony DeCurtis, Mellencamp has created an important body of work that has earned him both critical regard and an enormous audience. The late Billboard magazine editor-in-chief Timothy White said in 2001, John Mellencamp is arguably the most important roots rocker of his generation, Mellencamps best music is rock n roll stripped of all escapism, and it looks directly at the messiness of life as its actually lived. In his music, mortality, anxiety, acts of God, questions of romance and brotherhood and this is rock music that tells the truth on both its composer and the culture hes observing. Johnny Cash called Mellencamp one of the 10 best songwriters in music and he was born with spina bifida, for which he had corrective surgery as an infant. Mellencamp formed his first band, Crepe Soul, at the age of 14 and later played in the local bands Trash, Snakepit Banana Barn, when Mellencamp was 18, he eloped with his pregnant girlfriend Priscilla Esterline. Mellencamp became a father in December 1970, only six months after he graduated high school. His daughter, Michelle, later became a mother when she was 19, Mellencamp attended Vincennes University, a two-year college in Vincennes, Indiana, starting in 1972. I would lie there, listening to Roxy Music, right next to the player so I wouldnt have to get up to flip the record over. Id listen to this record, that record, there would be four or five days like that when I would be completely gone. Mellencamp reluctantly agreed, but the album was a complete failure, Mellencamp confessed in a 2005 interview, That was put on me by some manager. I went to New York and everybody said, You sound like a hillbilly, so thats where he came up with that name. I was totally unaware of it until it showed up on the album jacket, when I objected to it, he said, Well, either youre going to go for it, or we’re not going to put the record out. So that was what I had to do, but I thought the name was pretty silly
John Mellencamp
–
Mellencamp in 2014
John Mellencamp
–
Mellencamp (right) and his band perform at
Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 2007.
John Mellencamp
–
John Mellencamp and Sheryl Crow perform Mellencamp's 2008 single "My Sweet Love" in the
Hunter Region,
New South Wales, Australia on November 29, 2008.
20.
Edinburgh International Film Festival
–
The Edinburgh International Film Festival is an annual fortnight of cinema screenings and related events taking place each June. Established in 1947, it is the worlds oldest continually running film festival, the EIFF presents both UK and international films, in all genres and lengths. It also presents themed retrospectives and other specialised programming strands, the 2016 edition was the Festivals 70th. The first festival, a programme of documentaries, was presented by the Edinburgh Film Guild alongside the 1947 Edinburgh International Festival, at the time, Cannes and Venice were the most significant annual film festivals. Over the subsequent years, the programme expanded to include fiction films, in 2008, the film festival moved from its traditional August slot to June. The film festival shows a range of films and documentaries as well as short films, animations. A jury awards The Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film while the audience can vote for the Audience Award, there are also several awards given for short films. The artistic director from September 2006 to 2010 was Hannah McGill, previously a film critic and her predecessor, Shane Danielsen, served from 2002-2006. Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlyle and Seamus McGarvey are honorary patrons, in December 2009 Hannah McGill collected the prestigious Talkback Thames New Talent Award at the Women in Film and Television Awards. Following McGills departure a new format was announced with no artistic director, the Festival returned to a more conventional format in 2012 under artistic director Chris Fujiwara, who stepped down in 2014. The current Artistic Director is Mark Adams, who joined EIFF in January 2015, Edinburgh Filmhouse is the festivals home. The festival uses a range of cinemas and venues across the city including Fountainpark Cineworld, Edinburgh Festival Theatre and the Odeon. com EIFF news, reviews
Edinburgh International Film Festival
–
Edinburgh International Film Festival logo 2015
21.
IMDb
–
In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
IMDb
–
Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
22.
Rotten Tomatoes
–
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by Senh Duong and since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, in February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcasts Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, since 2007, the websites editor-in-chief has been Matt Atchity. The name, Rotten Tomatoes, derives from the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a stage performance. From early 2008 to September 2010, Current Television aired the weekly The Rotten Tomatoes Show, featuring hosts, a shorter segment was incorporated into the weekly show, InfoMania, which ended in 2011. In September 2013, the website introduced TV Zone, a section for reviewing scripted TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12,1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U. S. As a fan of Jackie Chans, Duong was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chans movies as they were being published in the United States, the first movie whose reviews were featured on Rotten Tomatoes was Your Friends & Neighbors. The website was an success, receiving mentions by Netscape, Yahoo. and USA Today within the first week of its launch. They officially launched it on April 1,2000, in June 2004, IGN Entertainment acquired rottentomatoes. com for an undisclosed sum. In September 2005, IGN was bought by News Corps Fox Interactive Media, in January 2010, IGN sold the website to Flixster. The combined reach of both companies is 30 million unique visitors a month across all different platforms, according to the companies, in May 2011, Flixster was acquired by Warner Bros. In early 2009, Current Television launched the version of the web review site. It was hosted by Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox and written by Mark Ganek, the show aired every Thursday at 10,30 EST on the Current TV network. The last episode aired on September 16,2010 and it returned as a much shorter segment of InfoMania, a satirical news show that ended in 2011. By late 2009, the website was designed to enable Rotten Tomatoes users to create, one group, The Golden Oyster Awards, accepted votes of members for different awards, as if in parallel to the better-known Oscars or Golden Globes. When Flixster bought the company, they disbanded the groups, announcing, in the meantime, please use the Forums to continue your conversations about your favorite movie topics. As of February 2011, new community features have been added, for example, users can no longer sort films by fresh ratings from rotten ratings, and vice versa
Rotten Tomatoes
–
60–100%
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes
–
≤0-59%
