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Pedro Bromfman
Pedro Bromfman (born 20 January 1976) is a Brazilian musician, film composer, video game composer and music producer. He is primarily known for having scored 2014's ''RoboCop'' and the TV series ''Narcos'', ''Elite Squad'' and '' Elite Squad II''; the highest-grossing film in Brazil's box office history, and the video game ''Max Payne 3''. Recently, he has composed the music for ''Panama Papers'', "Thumper", ''The Story Of Us With Morgan Freeman'', ''Chain of Command'', ''The Blackout'' and the video game ''Need for Speed Heat''. Bromfman's latest project ''Far Cry 6'' was released by Ubisoft on 7 October 2021. His score for ''Far Cry 6'' is nominated for a BAFTA Award, an ASCAP Award and two G.A.N.G. Awards (Music of the Year and Soundtrack Album of the Year). Life and career Pedro Bromfman was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and was introduced to music at very young age, playing nylon string and electric guitars. When he turned eighteen, Pedro moved to Boston to attend the Berk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the List of cities in Brazil by population, second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the Largest cities in the Americas, sixth-most-populous city in the Americas. Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese people, Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. In 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a List of states of the Portuguese Empire, state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil, Portuguese Royal Court moved to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal. She subsequently, under the leadership of her son the prince regent John VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a kingdom, within the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves, United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 World Series Of Poker
The 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was the 53rd edition of the event and run from May 31-July 20. After being held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino since 2005, the event moved to Bally's Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas for the first time. There were 88 bracelet events on the schedule, including the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event beginning on July 3. The series culminated with the Tournament of Champions, a freeroll with a $1 million prize pool open to the year's bracelet and circuit ring winners. Event schedule Source: Key: (bracelets won in 2022/bracelets won in career) Michigan Online Pennsylvania Online Player of the Year ''Final standings as of July 19 (note: does not include events from the 2022 WSOP Online series or the 2022 WSOP Europe series):'' Main Event The $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event began on July 3. The event had 8,663 entries, which marked the second-largest Main Event field in WSOP history, only behind 2006. Performance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ASCAP
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadcasters, and digital streaming services (music stores). ASCAP collects licensing fees from users of music created by ASCAP members, then distributes them back to its members as royalties. In effect, the arrangement is the product of a compromise: when a song is played, the user does not have to pay the copyright holder directly, nor does the music creator have to bill a radio station for use of a song. In 2024, ASCAP collected approximately 1.84 billion in revenue, distributed approximately 1.7 billion in royalties to rightsholders, and maintained a registry of approximately 20 million works. The organization had approximately 1 million members as of 2024. ASCAP has drawn negative attention for attempting to enforce licensing fees when so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Health (band)
Health is an American industrial/noise rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band currently consists of drummer B.J. Miller, vocalist and guitarist Jake Duzsik, and bassist and producer John Famiglietti. It formerly also included Jupiter Keyes, who left in 2015. Originating from the Los Angeles underground experimental music community, they gained prominence with a remix of " Crimewave" by Crystal Castles before releasing a self-titled album in 2007. Since then, they have released a further five albums: '' Get Color'' in 2009, '' Death Magic'' in 2015, '' Vol. 4: Slaves of Fear'' in 2019, and '' Rat Wars'' in 2023. The band also released the collaborative double album '' Disco4'' in 2020 and 2022, and have contributed to a variety of video game soundtracks, including those for ''Max Payne 3'', ''Cyberpunk 2077'', ''Grand Theft Auto V, and Ultrakill.'' History Health was founded after its singer Jake Duzsik met bassist John Famigletti, while Duzsik was working at the fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Story Of Us With Morgan Freeman
''The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman'' is a documentary television series televised on the National Geographic Channel in 2017. It is hosted and narrated by actor Morgan Freeman Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and narrator. In a career spanning six decades, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a Tony .... Produced by Revelations Entertainment, the series examines some of the fundamental forces that drive humanity including love, freedom, peace, factionalism, power and rebellion. The thesis of the series is that people have more in common with each other than what divides them. Six episodes in total, the show airs in an hour long format for a total of six hours (including commercials). National Geographic approved the series in April 2017 and the first episode aired on October 11, 2017 at 9 pm EDT (8 pm central time) Episodes Home media References E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SportsCentury
''SportsCentury'' is an ESPN biography television program that reviews the people and events that defined sports in North America throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Using stock footage, on-camera interviews, and photographs of their athletic lives, who grew up. In 1999 in television, 1999, ESPN counted down the Top 50 Athletes of the 20th Century, selected from North American athletes and voted on by a panel of sports journalists and observers, premiering a new biography highlighting each top athlete every week throughout the year. The episodes for the top two athletes, Michael Jordan and Babe Ruth, appeared on a special combined edition broadcast on Christmas Day on ABC Sports, ABC. The top two names were announced in no particular order, and the final positioning was announced at the conclusion of the two episodes. An additional list of numbers 51–100 were announced on the ESPN ''SportsCentury'' website. Themed specials such as ''Greatest Games'', ''Greatest Coaches'', ''G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Winter
Alexander Winter (born 1965) is a British-born American actor and filmmaker. As an actor, he is best known for playing Bill S. Preston, Esq., in the 1989 film '' Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure'' and its sequels '' Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey'' (1991) and '' Bill & Ted Face the Music'' (2020). He is also known for his role as Marko in the 1987 vampire film '' The Lost Boys'', for co-writing, co-directing, and starring in the 1993 film '' Freaked'', and for directing documentaries in the 2010s. Early life Winter was born in London, England. His mother, Gregg Mayer, is a New York-born dancer who trained with Martha Graham, and founded a modern-dance company in London in the mid-1960s. His father, Ross Albert Winter, is an Australian who danced with Winter's mother's troupe and co-founded the Mid American Dance Company in St. Louis. His father has English ancestry and his mother is Jewish, of Ukrainian Jewish descent. His family wasn’t observant with their Judaism although he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Web (film)
''Deep Web: The Untold Story of Bitcoin and the Silk Road'' is a 2015 documentary-film directed by Alex Winter, chronicling events surrounding Silk Road, bitcoin and the politics of the dark web. Covering the trial of Ross Ulbricht, the documentary features interviews with ''Wired'' writer Andy Greenberg and developer Amir Taaki. ''Deep Web'' features narration from actor Keanu Reeves. The film premiered at the 2015 South By Southwest South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and Convention (meeting), conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas. It began in 1987 and has conti ... film festival, and aired on the Epix network on May 31, 2015. See also * Darknet market References External links * * 2015 documentary films 2015 films American documentary films Bitcoin Dark web Darknet markets Documentary films about the Internet Documentary films about c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio, I Love You
''Rio, I Love You'' () is a 2014 Brazilian anthology film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities. It's the fourth film in the '' Cities of Love'' franchise (following 2006's ''Paris, je t'aime'', the 2008 film ''New York, I Love You'', and '' Tbilisi, I Love You'' released earlier in 2014), created and produced by Emmanuel Benbihy. Production The participating directors were Brazilians Carlos Saldanha (''Ice Age'' and '' Rio''), José Padilha (''Elite Squad''), Andrucha Waddington ('' The House of Sand'') and Fernando Meirelles ('' City of God''), the Lebanese director Nadine Labaki (''Caramel''), the Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga ('' Babel''), the Australian director Stephan Elliott (''The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert''), the Italian director Paolo Sorrentino ('' The Great Beauty''), the American actor and director John Turturro, and the South Korean director Im Sang-soo ('' A Good Lawyer's Wife'', '' The Housemaid''). The opening an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freida Lee Mock
Freida Lee Mock is an American filmmaker, director, screenwriter and producer. She is a co-founder of the American Film Foundation with Terry Sanders. Her documentary, '' Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision'' (1994) won an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 1995. Background Mock was the first Governor of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied both History and Law. Director Mock directed a documentary ''Anita'', about Anita Hill, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. She has directed the documentaries ''G-Dog'' (2012), ''Sing China!'' (2009), '' Wrestling With Angels'' (2006) (which screened again on the TV show '' P.O.V.'' in 2007) a documentary feature about playwright Tony Kushner, '' Bird by Bird with Anne'' (1999; which screened again on the PBS TV show Independent Lens in 2003) about author Anne Lamott, ''Return with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qualquer Gato Vira-Lata
''Qualquer Gato Vira-Lata'' (lit. "Any Stray Cat") is a 2011 Brazilian romantic comedy film directed by Tomas Portella. Based on the 1998 play ''Qualquer Gato Vira-Lata tem uma Vida Sexual Mais Saudável que a Nossa'' (English: ''Any Stray Cat Has a Healthier Sex Life Than Ours'') by Juca de Oliveira, it stars Cléo Pires, Malvino Salvador, and Dudu Azevedo. A sequel is set to be released in the second half of 2014 with the three main actors and director set to return. Plot In Rio de Janeiro, Tati (Cléo Pires) meets her boyfriend Marcelo (Dudu Azevedo) on his birthday and he breaks-up with her, claiming that she is not romantic. An unbalanced Tati enters the class of the biologist Conrado (Malvino Salvador) and hears his lesson about evolution, where he tells that modern women have destroyed years of evolution with their attitudes and lack of romanticism. Later, Tati meets Conrado on the street and offers to work with him in his thesis. Conrado teaches Tati the correct behavior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Junge
Daniel Junge (born October 7, 1969) is an American documentary filmmaker. On February 26, 2012, he won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) for the film '' Saving Face'', which he co-directed along with Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. He lives in Los Angeles, CA. Life and career Raised in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Junge is an alumnus of Cheyenne East High School and Colorado College and attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Junge made his feature debut with ''Chiefs'', a documentary about the Wyoming Indian High School basketball team. The film won the Grand Jury Award at the 2002 Tribeca Film Festival and broadcast on PBS's '' Independent lens''. Junge was selected by '' Filmmaker Magazine'' as one of their "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2002. Subsequent feature documentaries by Junge include ''Iron Ladies of Liberia]'' which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and aired on over 50 broadcasters as part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
