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Cube Vision
Cube Vision, Inc. (sometimes stylized as CubeVision or Cubevision) is an American film and television production company founded by Ice Cube and Matt Alvarez in 1995. Their logo consists of the earth shaped as a cube. History Ice Cube started his movie producing career in 1995 with his then manager Patricia Charbonet. Together, they produced ''Friday'' (1995), '' Dangerous Ground'' (1997) and ''The Players Club'' (1998). Cube, along with new producing partner Matt Alvarez, founded CubeVision (later credited in films as Cube Vision) in 1998. The company's first film would be 2000's '' Next Friday'', a sequel to Ice Cube's 1995 film ''Friday''. Cube Vision went on to produce '' All About the Benjamins'', '' Barbershop'' and ''Friday After Next'', the third film in the ''Friday'' film series, in 2002. In February 2003, Ice Cube signed a deal to star and produce three pictures with Revolution Studios. In an interview, Cube said of the deal, "I believe that a lot of good things are g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Entertainment Industry Topics
The following Outline (list), outline provides an overview of and topical guide to entertainment and the entertainment industry: Entertainment is any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure, leisure time, and may also provide fun, enjoyment, and laughter. People may create their own entertainment, such as when they spontaneously invent a game; participate actively in an activity they find entertaining, such as when they play sport as a hobby; or consume an entertainment product passively, such as when they attend a performance. The Show business, entertainment industry (informally known as show business or show biz) is part of the tertiary sector of the economy and includes many sub-industries devoted to entertainment. However, the term is often used in the mass media to describe the mass media companies that control the distribution and manufacture of mass media entertainment. In the popular parlance, the term ''show biz'' in pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Carr
Steven Harold Carr (born April 7, 1965) is an American film director, music video director, and film producer from Brooklyn, New York. After studying fine arts on a full scholarship to Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts, Carr founded design firm The Drawing Board with Cey Adam to create iconic album artwork for Def Jam Recordings artists such as Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, LL Cool J and more. Asked to take his vision to film, Carr created groundbreaking videos for influential hip-hop artists from Slick Rick to Jay-Z, and was signed to Quentin Tarantino's A Band Apart Music Video production company in Los Angeles, CA. Carr made his feature film directorial debut with the comedy '' Next Friday'' in 2000. He subsequently directed many box office hits in the 2000s including '' Dr. Dolittle 2'', ''Daddy Day Care'', and '' Paul Blart: Mall Cop'', and is currently working on an unnamed Netflix film project. Career Shortly after graduating from SVA, Carr convinced Russell Simmons t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandeville Films
Mandeville Films is an American film production company headquartered in Burbank, California. Founded in 1995 by David Hoberman the company re-formed as Mandeville Films and Television in 2002 after a short hiatus for three years, with Hoberman and Lieberman as partners and co-owners. History Film executive David Hoberman founded Mandeville Films in January 1995 as he exited Walt Disney Studios with a five-year, multi-picture production deal. In 1999, Todd Lieberman became studio partner and as president. A week later, Hoberman and its employees both left Mandeville to form a self-financing outfit, Hyde Park Entertainment, with Ashok Amritraj (former founder of Franchise Pictures), with split deals at the Walt Disney Studios and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) as the company initially went inactive. In 2002, Amritaj and Hoberman split their ties, and Hoberman himself reformed Mandeville Films with an exclusive five-year contract with Walt Disney Studios. Hoberman brought alon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bille Woodruff
Bille Woodruff is a director of film, television and music videos, noted for directing many videos for a number of R&B and hip-hop artists since the mid-1990s. These artists include Joe, for whom Woodruff has directed 9 music videos since 1994, and Toni Braxton, with whom he has worked 10 times since 1996. Woodruff directed the videos for some of Braxton's biggest singles, including " Un-Break My Heart", " You're Makin' Me High", and " He Wasn't Man Enough". Film and television career Woodruff directed the 2003 film ''Honey''. Rumors stated singer and actress Aaliyah was originally slated to play the title role, but died before filming began. However, Woodruff said, "That’s incorrect. It was supposed to be Beyoncé. That’s been widely reported but it’s incorrect. She couldn’t do it because of her touring schedule for her first album '' Dangerously in Love''." She was replaced by Jessica Alba. The film was released on December 5, 2003 and opened at #2 at the US Box Office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauty Shop
''Beauty Shop'' is a 2005 American comedy film directed by Bille Woodruff. The film serves as a spin-off of the ''Barbershop'' film series, and stars Queen Latifah as Gina Norris, a character first introduced in the 2004 film '' Barbershop 2: Back in Business''. This film also stars Alicia Silverstone, Andie MacDowell, Mena Suvari, Kevin Bacon and Djimon Hounsou. Released theatrically in the United States by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures on March 30, 2005, ''Beauty Shop'' received generally mixed reviews from critics. The film grossed $37.2 million worldwide against a $25 million production budget. Plot Widowed hairstylist Gina Norris has moved to Atlanta so her daughter Vanessa can attend a private music school. After a disagreement with her domineering Austrian boss Jorge, she quits and sets up her own shop, purchasing a run-down salon with the help of a loan officer. The shop is old fashioned and needs a lot of work, so Gina hires an electrician named Joe to help bring i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Trade name, doing business as Columbia Pictures, is an American film Production company, production and Film distributor, distribution company that is the flagship unit of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Major film studios, "Big Five" film studios and a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony, Sony Group Corporation. On June 19, 1918, brothers Jack Cohn, Jack and Harry Cohn and their business partner Joe Brandt founded the studio as CBC Film Sales Corporation, Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name on January 10, 1924 (operating as Columbia Pictures Corporation until December 23, 1968), went public two years later, and eventually began to use the image of Columbia (personification), Columbia, the female personification of the United States, as its logo. In its early years, Columbia was a minor player in Hollywood, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Brian Levant
Brian Michael Levant (born August 6, 1952) is an American filmmaker. Early life and career Born in Highland Park, Illinois to a Jewish family, Levant started his career in 1976 as a writer for the TV series ''Happy Days''. He also wrote for, among other TV shows, '' The Jeffersons,'' ''Mork & Mindy'' and '' Still the Beaver.'' He is best known for directing the films ''Beethoven'', ''The Flintstones'' and its 2000 prequel '' The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas'', '' Jingle All the Way'', '' Snow Dogs'' and '' Are We There Yet?''. Though his work is generally disliked by film critics, Levant has responded to the criticism with, "I'm making movies for the audience that I was when I was sitting at home watching '' Garfield Goose'' and '' The Three Stooges'' on WGN...To read those reviews is an act of self-flagellation, but reviews be damned when you're at Blockbuster, and you're seeing family after family grab one of your movies off the shelf on a Friday night. I can't tell yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Kevin Rodney Sullivan (born August 3, 1958) is an American film and television actor and film director. Early life and acting career Sullivan is a San Francisco native who began his career as a child actor. The youngest of three children, he grew up in St. Francis Square in the Fillmore district. His father was a bus driver, and his mother was a receptionist for St. Mary's Hospital. According to Sullivan, he was "one step up from a housing project".Fenjves, Pablo F., and Rocky Lang. ''How I Broke into Hollywood: Success Stories from the Trenches''. New York: Regan, 2006. Print. During sixth grade while performing in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', Sullivan's talents were noted by Ann Brebner, who hired him and his entire class as extras in a 1970 Sidney Poitier film, '' They Call Me Mr. Tibbs!''. This was his first experience with cinema. Brebner would continue to give Sullivan various auditions. In 1970, he was cast in an Alpha-Bits Cereal commercial, earning over $7,000. He con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Back In Business
Back in Business may refer to: * ''Back in Business'' (1997 film), an action film starring Brian Bosworth * ''Back in Business'' (EPMD album), 1997 * ''Back in Business'' (Eartha Kitt album), 1994 *"Back in Business", a song by AC/DC from their 1985 album ''Fly on the Wall Fly on the wall is a style of documentary-making used in film and television production. The name derived from the idea that events are seen candidly, as a fly on a wall might see them. In the purest form of fly-on-the-wall documentary-making, ...'' * Back in Business (''Desperate Housewives''), an episode of the TV series ''Desperate Housewives'' {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Raboy
Marcus Raboy (born November 30, 1965) is an American film director, film and music video director. Since the early 1990s, Raboy has amassed a large number music video credits directing music videos for Mary J. Blige, Dixie Chicks, Rihanna, Luther Vandross, Shakira, Santana (band), Santana, and Westlife among other notable artists. His feature film credits are ''Friday After Next'' (2002) and ''Janky Promoters'' (2009) both starring Ice Cube and Mike Epps. Raboy grew up in New York City and attended New York University. He is managed by David Naylor & Associates and currently resides in Los Angeles. Music videos 1991 * Naughty by Nature – "O.P.P. (song), O.P.P." (co-directed with Rodd Houston) 1992 * A.D.O.R. - "Let It All Hang Out" * Mary J. Blige – "Real Love (Mary J. Blige song), Real Love" * Mary J. Blige – "Reminisce (song), Reminisce" * EPMD featuring K-Solo & Redman (rapper), Redman – "Head Banger (EPMD song), Head Banger" * Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth – "They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Tillman Jr
George Tillman Jr. (born January 26, 1969) is an American filmmaker. Tillman directed the films ''Soul Food (film), Soul Food'' (1997) and ''Men of Honor'' (2000). He is also the producer of ''Soul Food: The Series'' on television and the four films in the Barbershop (film series), ''Barbershop'' series: ''Barbershop (film), Barbershop'', ''Barbershop 2: Back in Business'', ''Beauty Shop'' and ''Barbershop: The Next Cut''. He directed the 2009 biopic ''Notorious (2009 film), Notorious'', about the late Brooklyn-born rapper The Notorious B.I.G., and directed and produced the drama The Hate U Give (film), ''The Hate U Give'' (2018). Tillman was nominated for the American Black Film Festival, Black Film Award for Best Director for ''Soul Food'' (1997). Tillman was also nominated for the Black Reel Award for Best Director and Best Screenplay for ''Notorious'' (2009). Early life Tillman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father, George Tillman, worked at the American Motors plan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
