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Cathy Yan
Cathy Y. Yan is a Chinese-born American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Her films include the comedy-drama film '' Dead Pigs'' (2018) and ''Birds of Prey'' (2020), the eighth installment of the DC Extended Universe. Early life and education Yan was born in China and raised in Northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C. While her family was living in China, Yan's father was given a visa to study sociology in the U.S. Two years later her mother left for America, and Yan remained in China with her grandparents. At age four she was reunited with her parents in America. As a child, Yan grew up with various creative outlets courtesy of her relatives and "deeply creative father". By age 8, Yan was the kid carrying around a video camera, eager to express herself through art and through dancing as a choreographer. She moved to Hong Kong when she was fourteen years old, where she attended high school. She graduated with an A.B. from the Princeton School of Public and Internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birds Of Prey (2020 Film)
''Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)'' (also known as ''Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey'', or simply ''Birds of Prey'') is a 2020 American superhero film directed by Cathy Yan and written by Christina Hodson, based on the DC Comics team the Birds of Prey. It is the eighth installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) and serves as a spin-off and sequel to ''Suicide Squad'' (2016). The film stars Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn alongside Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Rosie Perez, Chris Messina, Ella Jay Basco, Ali Wong, and Ewan McGregor. It follows Harley Quinn, who, after breaking up with the Joker, is threatened by Gotham City crime lord Roman Sionis and joins forces with Helena Bertinelli, Dinah Lance, and Renee Montoya (who form the Birds of Prey) to save Cassandra Cain. Robbie, who also served as producer, pitched the idea for ''Birds of Prey'' to Warner Bros. in 2015. The film was announced in May 2016, with Hods ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' (''WSJ''), also referred to simply as the ''Journal,'' is an American newspaper based in New York City. The newspaper provides extensive coverage of news, especially business and finance. It operates on a subscription model, requiring readers to pay for access to most of its articles and content. The ''Journal'' is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp. As of 2023, ''The'' ''Wall Street Journal'' is the List of newspapers in the United States, largest newspaper in the United States by print circulation, with 609,650 print subscribers. It has 3.17 million digital subscribers, the second-most in the nation after ''The New York Times''. The newspaper is one of the United States' Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. The first issue of the newspaper was published on July 8, 1889. The Editorial board at The Wall Street Journal, editorial page of the ''Journal'' is typically center-right in its positio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Khong
Rachel Khong (born 1985) is an American writer and editor based in Los Angeles as of 2021. Life Khong was born in Malaysia to a Malaysian Chinese family, but they soon moved to the United States when she was two. She grew up in Rancho Cucamonga, California and attended high school in nearby Diamond Bar, California. Khong attended Yale University and graduated with a degree in English in 2007. In 2011, she received her MFA from the University of Florida, where she studied with Padgett Powell. Khong is married to Eli Horowitz, co-creator of Gimlet's ''Homecoming'' podcast and former editor at McSweeney's. Career After completing her graduate degree, Khong moved to San Francisco and worked in the food service industry. She interned at McSweeney's while in college and edited cookbooks for them after graduating. In 2011, Chris Ying of '' Lucky Peach'', who Khong had met while interning at McSweeney's, asked her to be the managing editor of the magazine. She later went on to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sour Heart
''Sour Heart'' is a 2017 short story collection by Chinese American writer Jenny Zhang. Consisting of seven stories involving different Chinese families and their daughters, it was published by Lenny Books, Lena Dunham's Random House imprint. The short story collection was critically acclaimed and named a best book of the year by several publications. It went on to win the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. Table of contents Background In ''The Brooklyn Rail'', Zhang stated that "there's a span of fourteen years between when I wrote the first story of this collection and when this collection came to exist in the final state that it’s in now." Many of her stories, about Chinese girls, were written during her time at Stanford University and subsequently the Iowa Writers' Workshop, with "The Evolution of My Brother" being written during her sophomore year at the former and then revised at the latte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DC Films
DC Studios is an American film and television production company that is a division of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). It is responsible for the production of live-action and animated films and television series, as well as video games, based on characters from the American comic book publisher DC Comics, primarily as part of its flagship media franchise and shared universe, the DC Universe (DCU). The studio has been led by writer/director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran as its co-chairmen and co-CEOs since it was formed in November 2022. The studio's predecessor, DC Films, was formed in May 2016 as a division of Warner Bros. Pictures to oversee DC-based film productions, primarily those from its shared universe franchise the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). It was led by DC comic book and television writer Geoff Johns and Warner Bros. producer Jon Berg as co-chairmen. After several DCEU films received poor reception and underperformed financially, the duo stepped down by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Hodson
Christina Hodson is an English screenwriter. She is best known for writing the films ''Bumblebee'' (2018), ''Birds of Prey'' (2020), and ''The Flash'' (2023). Her screenplay ''Shut In'' appeared on the 2012 edition of the Black List, an annual list of Hollywood's best unproduced screenplays, but the resulting film released in 2016 was critically panned. Another of her screenplays, ''The Eden Project'', was picked up by Sony Pictures in 2014. Early life Hodson was born and raised in London, where she was privately educated at Wimbledon High School. She is half Taiwanese. Career Hodson initially worked as a development executive in London for Focus Features. She transitioned from development executive to screenwriter in 2012 after her first screenplay, psychological thriller '' Shut In'', made the 2012 Black List of best un-produced scripts. Hodson's ''Shut In'' was bought by David Linde's Lava Bear Films. The film, starring Naomi Watts, was directed by Farren Blackburn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Robbie
Margot Elise Robbie ( ; born 2 July 1990) is an Australian actress and producer. Her work includes both blockbuster and independent films, and her accolades include nominations for three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and six BAFTA Awards. ''Time'' named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2017, and ''Forbes'' named her the world's highest-paid actress in 2023. Born and raised in Queensland, Robbie began her career in 2008 on the television series ''Neighbours'', on which she was a regular until 2011. After moving to the United States, she led the television series ''Pan Am'' (2011–2012) and had her breakthrough in 2013 with Martin Scorsese's black comedy film '' The Wolf of Wall Street''. She achieved wider recognition with starring roles as Jane Porter in '' The Legend of Tarzan'' (2016), and as Harley Quinn in the DC Extended Universe films beginning with ''Suicide Squad'' (2016). Robbie received critical acclaim and a nomination for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birds Of Prey (comics)
The Birds of Prey is a superhero team featured in several American comic book ongoing series, series, miniseries, and special editions published by DC Comics since 1996. The book's premise originated as a partnership between Black Canary and Barbara Gordon, who had adopted the codename Oracle at the time, but has expanded to include additional Superhero#Female superheroes and villains, superheroines. The team name "Birds of Prey" was attributed to DC assistant editor Frank Pittarese in the text page of the first issue. The group is initially based in Gotham City and later operates in Metropolis (comics), Metropolis and then relocates once more to "Platinum Flats", California, a new locale introduced in ''Birds of Prey'' in 2008. The series was conceived by Jordan B. Gorfinkel and originally written by Chuck Dixon. Gail Simone scripted the comic from issue #56 to #108. Sean McKeever was originally to replace Simone, but McKeever subsequently decided to leave the project and only wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harley Quinn
Harley Quinn (Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel, PhD) is a fictional American character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She was created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm for ''Batman: The Animated Series'' as a henchwoman for the Joker (character), Joker, and debuted in its 8th episode, "Joker's Favor", on September 11, 1992. While intended to appear in one episode, Quinn became a recurring character within the DC Animated Universe (DCAU) as the Joker's sidekick and love interest, and was adapted into DC Comics' Canon (fiction), canon seven years later, beginning with the One-shot (comics), one-shot ''Batman: Harley Quinn'' #1 (October 1999). Quinn's origin story features her as a former psychologist at Gotham City's Arkham Asylum who was manipulated by and fell in love with the Joker, her patient, eventually becoming his accomplice and lover. The character's alias is a word play, play on the stock character Harlequin from the 16th-century Theatre of Italy, Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
