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Dwight H. Little
Dwight Hubbard Little (born January 13, 1956) is an American film and television director, known for directing the films '' Marked for Death'', '' Rapid Fire'', '' Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home'', '' Murder at 1600'' and '' Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers''. He has also directed several episodes of acclaimed television series such as '' 24'', ''Prison Break'', ''Dollhouse'', ''Bones'' and ''Nikita''. Little was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied film at USC. Career Dwight Little got his first break in the film business when producer Sandy Howard asked him to shoot additional material for ''Triumphs of a Man Called Horse.'' Howard needed the film to be longer in order to be able to sell it overseas. When Little was finished, Howard asked him to make him an action film for the video market. Little made '' KGB: The Secret War'' for a budget of 300,000 dollars. From that film, Little edited a show-reel that got him the attention of several members of the Hunt-Hill famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USC Cinema
The USC School of Cinematic Arts is an academic unit of the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles. With a history that dates to the first years of talkies, the school descends from America's first program to confer a college degree in film. Under a name that directly preceded its present one, it became, in the 1980s, an academic unit of its own, within the university. Colloquially "SCA" or "the USC film school," it now has several divisions or programs, which treat artistic or business aspects of the creation of motion pictures and related media. History In 1927, when Douglas Fairbanks became the first president of the nascent Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, one of his recommendations was that the academy have a “training school”. Fairbanks and his enablers reasoned that training in the cinematic arts should be seen as a legitimate academic discipline at major universities and be accorded degree considerations the same as those of fields like medic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Malmuth
Bruce Malmuth (February 4, 1934 – June 29, 2005) was an American film and television director, best known for his work in the action and thriller genres. His works include the Sylvester Stallone-Billy Dee Williams film '' Nighthawks'' (1981) and the Steven Seagal vehicle '' Hard to Kill'' (1990), as well as several collaborations with fellow director John G. Avildsen. Early life Malmuth was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Malmuth began making documentaries while serving with the U.S. Army Signal Corps, where he met baseball announcer Walter Red Barber. After his military career, Malmuth directed the New York Yankee games at WPIX radio before entering the film and television industry. Career Malmuth was an award-winning director of commercials, earning multiple Clio Awards. His feature directorial debut was '' Fore Play'', a sex comedy anthology film which he co-directed with John G. Avildsen, among others. Avildsen later recommended Malmuth to Sylvester Stallone, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Bros
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (WBEI), commonly known as Warner Bros. (WB), is an American film studio, filmed entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios Burbank, Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California and the main namesake subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Founded on April 4, 1923, by four brothers, Harry Warner, Harry, Albert Warner, Albert, Sam Warner, Sam and Jack L. Warner, Jack Warner, the company established itself as a leader in the American film industry before diversifying into animation, television, and video games. It is one of the "Major film studios, Big Five" major American film studios and a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). The company is known for its film studio division, the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, which includes Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Castle Rock Entertainment and the Warner Bros. Television Group. Bugs Bunny, a character created for the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hard To Kill
''Hard to Kill'' is a 1990 American vigilante action-thriller film directed by Bruce Malmuth, written by Steven McKay, and starring Steven Seagal, Kelly LeBrock, William Sadler and Frederick Coffin. Seagal's second film after '' Above the Law'', he portrays Mason Storm, a detective who falls into a coma after being shot during a home invasion that killed his wife. Reawakening seven years later, Storm embarks on a journey to avenge the death of his wife, and expose the corruption of Senator Vernon Trent, the man who ordered the murder of his family. The film was released by Warner Bros. on February 9, 1990, and grossed $75 million worldwide. Plot In 1983, LAPD internal affairs detective Mason Storm investigates a mob meeting that takes place by a pier. He records a shadowy figure who assures the mob they can rely on his political support. Mason is spotted, but escapes. Unaware that he is monitored by corrupt cops, Mason informs his partner, Becker, and his friend Lt. O'Malley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Seagal
Steven Frederic Seagal ( ; born April 10, 1952) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, and musician. A 7th-Dan (rank), dan Black belt (martial arts), black belt in aikido, he began his adult life as a martial arts instructor in Japan where he became the first American to teach in an aikido dojo. He later moved to Los Angeles where he continued teaching aikido. In 1988, Seagal made his acting debut in ''Above the Law (1988 film), Above the Law'', which is regarded as the first American film to feature aikido in fight sequences. He has appeared in over 50 films. By 1991, he had starred in three commercially successful films, and would go on to achieve greater fame in ''Under Siege'' (1992), where he played Navy SEALs counter-terrorist expert Casey Ryback, a role he reprised in the sequel ''Under Siege 2: Dark Territory'' (1995). In 1994, he starred in his directorial debut film ''On Deadly Ground''. During the latter half of the 1990s, Seagal starred in thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moustapha Akkad
Moustapha al Akkad (; July 1, 1930 – November 11, 2005) was a Syrian Americans, Syrian-American film producer and Film director, director, best known for producing the original series of ''Halloween (franchise), Halloween'' films and directing ''The Message (1976 film), The Message'' and ''Lion of the Desert''. He was killed along with his daughter Rima Al Akkad Monla in the 2005 Amman bombings.King Abdullah II of Jordan, ''Our Last Best Chance'', New York, New York: Viking Press, 2011, p. 251 He is also the cousin to television personality star Tareq Salahi. Early life Al Akkad was born on July 1, 1930, in Aleppo in the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon. He received his high school degree from the Aleppo College, Aleppo American College. His father, then a customs officer, gave him $200 and a copy of the Quran before he left for the United States to study film direction and production at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Akkad spent a further thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debra Hill
Debra Hill (November 10, 1950 – March 7, 2005) was an American film producer and screenwriter, best known for her professional partnership with John Carpenter. Hill and Carpenter wrote four films together: ''Halloween'', '' The Fog'', '' Halloween II'', and '' Escape from L.A.'' Independently and as part of Hill/Obst Productions, she produced works for television and film, including ''The Fisher King'', which was nominated for five Academy Awards. Early life Debra Hill was born on November 10, 1950, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Jilda, a nurse, and Frank Hill, a salesman who had previously been an art director on the Hope/Crosby'' Road to'' films. She was raised Catholic and moved repeatedly with her parents and younger brother, including to Detroit, Michigan, before settling in Haddonfield, New Jersey. In an interview with the ''Courier-Post'', Hill said she knew at an early age that she wanted to make films, using a Super 8 film camera to shoot home movies. She attende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Carpenter
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor. Most commonly associated with horror film, horror, action film, action, and science fiction film, science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, he is generally recognized as a master of the horror genre. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the French Directors' Guild gave him the Golden Coach Award and lauded him as "a creative genius of raw, fantastic, and spectacular emotions". On April 3, 2025, he received a List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Carpenter's early films included critical and commercial successes such as ''Halloween (1978 film), Halloween'' (1978), ''The Fog'' (1980), ''Escape from New York'' (1981), and ''Starman (film), Starman'' (1984). Though he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker, his other productions from the 1970s and the 1980s only later came to be considered Cult film, cult classics; these include ''Dark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloodstone (1988 Film)
''Bloodstone'' is a 1988 action-adventure film produced by Ashok Amritraj and Sunanda Murali Manohar, directed by Dwight H. Little and written by Nico Mastorakis. Starring Rajinikanth, Brett Stimely and Anna Nicholas, the film was shot primarily in India. The story revolves around a mythical ruby called the "bloodstone". The film was dubbed and released in Tamil as ''Vairavel'' with Ilaiyaraaja working as the music director. The film is notable for being Indian actor Rajinikanth's only foreign film. Plot In 12th Century India, a huge ruby was bestowed with the power of good and the curse of evil by the spilt blood of Princess Lafla. In the 18th Century, the British stole it. In today's India, small-time crook Paul Lorre steals the stone back. While attempting delivery to international fence Ludwig Van Hoeven, he realizes the authorities are onto him and slips the priceless gem into the baggage of the unsuspecting Sandy and Stephanie McVey. Lorre manages to indicate th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nico Mastorakis
Nico Mastorakis (; born 28 April 1941) is a Greek filmmaker and radio producer. He is probably best known for his 1973 live interview of 17 arrested Greek students, which happened without their consent, in favor of the Greek military junta. The students were later tortured. He is also known for writing and directing the infamous exploitation horror film '' Island of Death'' in 1975 and co-creating the nationally available Star Channel in 1993. Early career At the age of 18, Mastorakis as a young reporter with the Greek newspaper '' Ethnikos Kirikas'' scored his first international scoop, an exclusive interview with the exiled Princess Soraya. Later, as an investigative reporter for the daily '' Messimvrini'', adding to multiple award-winning reports, he created the first "automobile page" in Greek press. In his last job as a reporter for the daily '' Apogevmatini'' he posed as a musician for the group of popular singer Giannis Poulopoulos and gained access to Aristotle Onassis� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Learjet
Learjet was a manufacturer of business jets for civilian and military use based in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Founded in the late 1950s by William Powell Lear as Swiss American Aviation Corporation, it became a subsidiary of Canadian Bombardier Aerospace in 1990, which marketed the company’s aircraft as the "Bombardier Learjet Family". The 3,000th Learjet was delivered in June 2017. The Learjet line was once sufficiently popular that the Learjet name became synonymous and interchangeable with the terms business jet or private jet in the popular vernacular. In February 2021, Bombardier announced the end of production for all new Learjet aircraft in 2021, with the continuation of support and maintenance for aircraft currently in service. History Learjet was one of the first companies to manufacture a private, luxury aircraft. Lear's preliminary design was based upon an experimental American military aircraft known as the Marvel, substituting fuselage-mounted turbojet eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
