Overbrook Entertainment
Overbrook Entertainment, Inc. is an American production company based in Culver City, California. It was founded by partners Will Smith and James Lassiter in 1998, around the same time production for ''Wild Wild West'' (1999) began. The name "Overbrook" is derived from Will Smith's neighborhood in West Philadelphia. The on-screen logo consists of a spinning record with the company name. The company produces music, films and television shows. Smith claimed to have started the company in order to serve as producer and find roles. He uses his role in the company to help unknown artists record music, and also records music for some of his films in Overbrook. History On November 11, 1997, actor Will Smith (age 29) and manager James Lassiter signed an overall first-look term deal at Universal Pictures. Thus, Overbrook Entertainment was born. It was formally incorporated on February 2, 1998. David Tochterman, formerly employee of The Carsey-Werner Company, joined the company on Septe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Overbrook is the name of several places: Places United States *Overbrook, Delaware, an unincorporated community * Overbrook Shores, Delaware * Overbrook, Georgia * Overbrook, Kansas, a city * Overbrook, New Jersey * Overbrook Hospital for the Insane in Cedar Grove, New Jersey * Overbrook, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community *Overbrook, Philadelphia, a neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ** Overbrook station ** Overbrook School for the Blind in Overbrook, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania * Overbrook (Pittsburgh), a neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania * Overbrook (Greenville, South Carolina), a neighborhood of Greenville, South Dakota * Overbrook (Nashville, Tennessee), NRHP building in Nashville, Tennessee Canada *Overbrook, Ottawa, a neighborhood of Ottawa, Ontario Other *Overbrook Entertainment Overbrook Entertainment, Inc. is an American production company based in Culver City, California. It was founded by partners Will Smith and James Lassiter in 1998, around t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Wild Wild West
''Wild Wild West'' is a 1999 American steampunk Western film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by S. S. Wilson and Brent Maddock alongside Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman, based on a story conceived by Jim and John Thomas. Loosely adapted from ''The Wild Wild West'', a 1960s television series created by Michael Garrison, it is the only production in the franchise since the television film ''More Wild Wild West'' (1980). The film stars Will Smith (who previously collaborated with Sonnenfeld on ''Men in Black'' two years earlier in 1997) and Kevin Kline as two U.S. Secret Service agents who work together to protect U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant (Kline in a dual role) and the United States from all manner of dangerous threats during the American Old West. The film features a supporting cast consisting of Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek and Ted Levine, as well as an orchestral film score by Western film score veteran Elmer Bernstein and extensive visual effects courte ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group
Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group (formerly known as the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group until 2013, and abbreviated as SPMPG) is a division of Sony Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment to manage its motion picture operations. It was launched in 1998 by integrating the businesses of Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. and TriStar Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Inc. History The Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group was founded in 1998 as the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, as a current division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, owned by Sony. It has many of Sony Pictures' current motion picture divisions as part of it. Its divisions at that time were Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Triumph Films, Sony Pictures Classics, and Sony Pictures Releasing. On December 8, 1998, SPE resurrected its former animation and television division Screen Gems as a film division of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group that ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michael Mann
Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, author and producer, best known for his stylized crime dramas. He has received a BAFTA Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards as well as nominations for four Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. His most acclaimed works include the films ''Thief (film), Thief'' (1981), ''Manhunter (film), Manhunter'' (1986), ''The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film), The Last of the Mohicans'' (1992), ''Heat (1995 film), Heat'' (1995), ''The Insider (film), The Insider'' (1999), ''Ali (film), Ali'' (2001), ''Collateral (film), Collateral'' (2004), ''Public Enemies (2009 film), Public Enemies'' (2009), and ''Ferrari (2023 film), Ferrari'' (2023). He was executive producer on the popular TV series ''Miami Vice'' (1984–90), which he adapted into a Miami Vice (film), 2006 feature film. Early life and education Mann was born February 5, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois. He is Jewish and the son of Esther and Jack M ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ali (film)
''Ali'' is a 2001 American biographical sports drama film co-written, produced and directed by Michael Mann. The film focuses on ten years in the life of the boxer Muhammad Ali, played by Will Smith, beginning with his capture of the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston in 1964 and ending with his reclaiming the title from George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle fight of 1974. The project began in 1992 when producer Paul Ardaji optioned the movie rights to Muhammad Ali's life story. In 1992, Ardaji visited Ali on his 50th birthday and persuaded him to allow a film to be made about his life. Nearing the end of his option period, Ardaji signed a contract with Sony Pictures, joining forces with producer Jon Peters as producing partner. In February 2000, it was announced that Mann had taken over as a director, following his Academy Award nomination for '' The Insider''. Filming began in Los Angeles on January 11, 2001, on a $105 million budget, shooting took place in New York Ci ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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National Geographic
''National Geographic'' (formerly ''The National Geographic Magazine'', sometimes branded as ''Nat Geo'') is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners. The magazine was founded in 1888 as a scholarly journal, nine months after the establishment of the society, but is now a popular magazine. In 1905, it began including pictures, a style for which it became well known. Its first color photos appeared in the 1910s. During the Cold War, the magazine committed itself to present a balanced view of the physical and human geography of countries beyond the Iron Curtain. Later, the magazine became outspoken on environmental issues. Until 2015, the magazine was completely owned and managed by the National Geographic Society. Since 2015, controlling interest has been held by National Geographic Partners. Topics of features generally concern geography, history, nature, science, and world culture. The magazine is well known for its distinctive appearance: a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Westbrook Inc
Westbrook may refer to: People *Westbrook (surname), includes a list of notable people with this surname *Westbrook Pegler (1894–1969), American journalist * Westbrook Van Voorhis (1903-1968), American voice actor Places Australia * Westbrook, Queensland, a town south-west of Toowoomba. New Zealand * Westbrook, New Zealand, a suburb of Palmerston North South Africa * Westbrook, KwaZulu-Natal, a coastal village north of Durban United Kingdom * Westbrook, Berkshire * Westbrook, Kent, part of Margate * Westbrook, Herefordshire * Westbrook, Warrington, a council ward in Warrington, Cheshire * Westbrook, Wiltshire, a settlement in the civil parish of Bromham, Wiltshire United States * Westbrook, Connecticut, a town in Middlesex County * Westbrook, Maine, a city in Cumberland County * Westbrook, Minnesota, a small city in Cottonwood County * Westbrook, Missouri, a ghost town * Westbrook, Texas, a city in Mitchell County Transportation *Westbrook station (Calgary), CTrai ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded videos) through multiple platforms. Through an intermediate holding company called Sony Film Holding Inc., it is operated as a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., which is itself a subsidiary of the Japanese holding conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. is a wholly owned fifth-tier subsidiary of Sony Corporation. It is directly owned by Sony Film Holding Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.FY2015 Securities Report(in Japanese), Sony Corporation) Based at the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, California, as one of the "Big Five" major American film studios, it encompasses Sony's motion picture, television production and distribution units. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (nicknamed Nick) is an American pay television channel and the flagship property of the Nickelodeon Group, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children, it is primarily aimed at children and adolescents aged 2 to 17, along with a broader family audience through its programming blocks. The channel began as a test broadcast on December 1, 1977, as part of QUBE, an early cable television system broadcast locally in Columbus, Ohio. On April 1, 1979, the channel was renamed Nickelodeon and launched to a new nationwide audience, with '' Pinwheel'' as its inaugural program. The network was initially commercial-free and remained without advertising until 1984. Nickelodeon gained a rebranding in programming and image that year, and its ensuing success led to it and its sister networks MTV and VH1 being sold to Viacom in 1985. Nickelodeon began expanding as a franchis ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Firm, Inc
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Dukakis
John Dukakis (; born June 9, 1958) is an American former actor, entertainer, music executive, and political aide. Early life Dukakis was born John Chaffetz Jr. in San Jose, California, on June 9, 1958, and grew up in the Boston area. He is the son of Kitty Dukakis and John Chaffetz, a businessman, and the adopted son of former Massachusetts Governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis whom his mother married when he was five. His half-brother, through his biological father, is Jason Chaffetz who was a U.S. Representative from Utah from 2009 to 2017. He changed his name from Chaffetz to Dukakis at age 18. Acting career While attending Brown University in the 1970s, Dukakis was cast in Universal's ''Jaws 2''. He relocated to Hollywood and continued to work as an actor for the next six years. He had substantial roles in the films ''Making Love'', ''Delusion'' and ''Split Image'' and on television in ''Family Ties'', ''Little House on the Prairie'', ''Taxi'', t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Carsey-Werner Company
The Carsey-Werner Company (previously known as Carsey-Werner Productions and Carsey-Werner-Mandabach Productions, before that, Carsey Productions and also known as Carsey-Werner Television) is an independent production company founded in 1981 by former ABC writer/producer duo Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner (now co-owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball franchise and Liverpool F.C.). Caryn Mandabach was made a partner in the firm in 2001 (she joined in 1984), but left in 2004 to embark on her own production deal. The company first started when Marcy Carsey left ABC in 1980 to form out Carsey Productions to develop TV shows. Tom Werner succeeded Carsey, but she persuaded him to join her to form an independent production company. Carsey-Werner has had its own production and, since the early 1990s, distribution arms. Prior to controlling their own distribution, Viacom, and later Paramount Domestic Television, syndicated their programming for them. Carsey-Werner announced that they ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |