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American Horror Story
''American Horror Story'' (''AHS'') is an American horror film, horror anthology series, anthology television series created by Ryan Murphy (producer), Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk for the Cable television, cable network FX (TV channel), FX. The first installment in the ''American Story'' media franchise, seasons of ''AHS'' are mostly conceived as self-contained miniseries, following a different set of characters in a new setting within the same fictional universe (which the show occasionally utilizes for crossover (fiction), crossovers between seasons, and shares with episodic spin-off ''American Horror Stories''), and a storyline with its own "beginning, middle, and end." Some plot elements of each season are loosely inspired by true events. Many actors appear in more than one season, usually playing a new character though sometimes as a returning character. Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, and Lily Rabe have returned most frequently, with each having appeared in nine seasons, foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror Fiction
Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare an audience. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon, in 1984, defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". Horror intends to create an eerie and frightening atmosphere for the reader. Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for larger fears of a society. History Before 1000 The horror genre has ancient origins, with roots in folklore and religious traditions focusing on death, the afterlife, evil, the demonic, and the principle of the thing embodied in the person. These manifested in stories of beings such as demons, witches, vampires, werewolves, and ghosts. Some early European horror-fiction were the Ancient Greeks and Ancie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crystal Liu
Crystal Liu is an American television writer. She is well known for her work on FXs ''American Horror Story''. Career Liu got her start as a production assistant on the 75th Academy Awards. She went on to serve as an assistant to executive producers on NBCs '' Lipstick Jungle'', for the entirety of its two-season run. She served as an associate producer for one episode of '' Maneater''. She first worked with Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy on their Fox musical comedy ''Glee'', as script coordinator. A position she served in during the shows third year. In 2011, the writing duo recruited Liu to their new FX series ''American Horror Story''. She worked as script coordinator from the pilot to the end of the third season; she was then promoted to staff writer for the fourth season ''The Fourth Season'' is the fourth album by the Australian progressive metal band Vanishing Point A vanishing point is a point (geometry), point on the projection plane, image plane of a graphica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Story (franchise)
''American Story'' is an American anthology television franchise consisting of several television series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk for the cable network FX and FX on Hulu. Each series follows a different genre of fiction, with each individual season conceived as a self-contained miniseries, following a different set of characters and settings, and a story line with its own "beginning, middle, and end." Some plot elements of each season and series are loosely inspired by true events. Many actors appear in more than one season and series, often playing a new character. Actors who have appeared in two or more instalments of the franchise include: Sarah Paulson; Cuba Gooding Jr.; Connie Britton; Darren Criss; Finn Wittrock; Jon Jon Briones; Billy Eichner; Matt Bomer, who directed an episode of ''American Crime Story''; Kaia Gerber; Naomi Grossman; Chad James Buchanan; John Carroll Lynch; Dylan McDermott; Charles Melton; Billie Lourd; Jamie Brewer; Naomi Camp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FX (TV Channel)
FX (originally/formerly Fox Extended) is an American pay television channel owned by FX Networks, a division of the Disney Entertainment business segment of the Walt Disney Company. Based at the 20th Century Studios, Fox Studios lot in Century City, Los Angeles, FX was originally launched by the first-incarnation News Corporation on June 1, 1994, and later became one of the properties that was included in acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, Disney's acquisition of one of News Corporation's successor companies, 21st Century Fox, in 2019. The channel's original programming aspires to the standards of premium cable channels in regard to mature themes and content, high-quality writing, directing and acting. Sister channels FX Movie Channel, FXM and FXX were launched in 1994 and 2013, respectively. FX also carries reruns of theatrical films and terrestrial-network sitcoms. Advertising-free content was available through the FX+ premium subscription service until it was shut dow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Television
20th Television, Inc. (formerly known as TCF Television Productions, Inc., 20th Century-Fox Television and 20th Century Fox Television) is the television studio arm of 20th Century Studios, owned by Disney Television Studios, a division of the Disney Entertainment business segment of the Walt Disney Company. Productions from this company are distributed on/in home video, home media formats by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment through the 20th Century Home Entertainment banner. 20th Television was part of the majority of 21st Century Fox's assets acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, acquired by Disney in 2019. The company's current name was adopted in 2020 when Disney dropped the "Fox" word from the names of the acquired 21st Century Fox assets to avoid brand confusion with Fox Corporation. 20th Television has since become American Broadcasting Company, ABC's flagship television production arm with the closure of ABC Signature on October 1, 2024. Divisions 20th Televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Single Camera Setup
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Michael Goi
Michael Goi (born March 4, 1959) is an American cinematographer and film director. He is well known for his work on Showtimes ''Web Therapy'', and for his work with Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk on ''Glee'', ''Scream Queens'' and ''American Horror Story''. He also wrote and directed the infamous 2011 film '' Megan Is Missing''. Career He began his career as director of photography on a short horror film directed by John Strysik, ''The Music of Erich Zann'', in 1980; and then on the comedy ''The Blues Brothers'', as a production assistant. He went on to serve as cinematographer on film and television series, such as: '' Moonstalker'', ''How U Like Me Now'', ''What Matters Most'', ''Call Waiting'', '' Funky Monkey'', '' Cloud 9'', ''Witness Protection'', ''My Name is Earl'', '' The Nine Lives of Chloe King'', '' Mr. Sunshine'', '' Salem'' and '' The Town That Dreaded Sundown'' Goi has written and directed three feature films during his career; ''Voyeur'', an action drama about a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Carver
Charles Carver Martensen (born July 31, 1988) is an American actor. His better known roles include Porter Scavo on the ABC television series ''Desperate Housewives'' (2008–2012), Ethan on the MTV television series ''Teen Wolf'' (2013–2014, 2017), Scott Frost on the first season of the HBO television series '' The Leftovers'' (2014), and as Cowboy in both '' The Boys in the Band'' on Broadway and the subsequent 2020 film of the same name. His identical twin brother Max Carver has frequently portrayed the twin of his characters. Early life Carver was born in San Francisco, California, on July 31, 1988. His identical twin brother, Max, was born seven minutes later on August 1. Before he began acting professionally, he was known as Charlie Martensen. His father was a physician, historian, and author Robert Martensen, and his mother, Anne Carver (b. 1952), is a philanthropist and community activist. In 1992, Anne and her new husband Denis Sutro moved the family to Calistoga i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Peters
Evan Thomas Peters (born January 20, 1987) is an American actor. He made his acting debut in the 2004 drama film '' Clipping Adam'' and starred in the ABC science fiction series ''Invasion'' from 2005 to 2006. Peters gained wide recognition for playing multiple roles over ten seasons in Ryan Murphy's FX anthology series ''American Horror Story'', from 2011 to 2021. His performance as a detective in the HBO crime miniseries '' Mare of Easttown'' (2021) won him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor. For portraying the titular character in Murphy's Netflix miniseries '' Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story'' (2022), he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor. In film, Peters has played a supporting role in the superhero film '' Kick-Ass'' (2010), and Peter Maximoff / Quicksilver in the ''X-Men'' film series (2014–2019). He also received a nomination for the BIFA for Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Eyrich
Lou A. Eyrich ( ; born New Ulm, Minnesota) is an American costume designer best known for her work in the television series ''Glee'' and '' American Horror Story: Asylum.'' In 2012, she was awarded a Career Achievement Award in Television from the Costume Designers Guild. In 2010 and 2011, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in the Outstanding Costumes for a Series category for her work on ''Glee,'' work that was also given awards in 2010, 2011, and 2012 by the Costume Designers Guilde for in the Outstanding Contemporary Television Series. Her work on '' American Horror Story: Asylum'' received an award from the Costume Designers Guild in the Outstanding Made for TV Movie or Mini Series category in 2013, and her work on '' American Horror Story: Freak Show'' was nominated in the same category in 2015. More recently, Eyrich designed the costumes for the FX series ''Feud,'' which depicts the Hollywood rivalry between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis between 1963 and 1978. Eyrich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ned Martel
Ned Martel is an American television writer, producer and former columnist. He is well known for his work on the Fox musical series ''Glee''; and for FXs ''American Horror Story''. Career Martel was ''The Washington Post''s style editor from 2009 to 2012, before leaving to work at Ryan Murphy Television and for Murphy himself. He started as an executive story editor on ''Glee''s fifth season. Over the course of his time there he contributed two scripts. He was associate producer on HBOs '' The Normal Heart''; and a producer on '' Inside Look: The People vs. O. J. Simpson'', which won him a shared EMMY Award (along with Murphy, Stephanie Gibbons, Sally Daws, and Sue Keeton). Since its fifth year, Martel has served as a writer and co-producer on Murphy and Brad Falchuks ''American Horror Story''; writing episodes "Room Service Room service or in-room dining is a hotel service enabling guests to choose items of food and drink for delivery to their hotel room for consumptio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Lady J
Our Lady J is a screenwriter, best-known for her work on '' Pose'', '' Transparent'', and ''American Horror Story''. She is the first out trans woman to perform at Carnegie Hall, as well as the first out trans writer to be hired in a television writers room. Early career From 2000 to 2010, Our Lady J freelanced as a collaborative pianist and musical director in New York City for multiple classical and musical theatre institutions, including American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and the Mark Morris Dance Group. In 2004, Lady J met Lady Gaga at the CAP21 musical-theater conservatory in New York, where she served as an accompanist and music director. Our Lady J made her Carnegie Hall debut with the New York City Gay Men's Chorus in 2004, and continued to perform as their pianist until 2007. In 2008, she returned to Carnegie Hall to perform with Justin Vivian Bond in The McGarrigle Christmas Hour concert. Our Lady J toured and performed with pop singer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
