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Daniel Rappaport
Daniel Rappaport is an American producer. He is a founding partner, with Guymon Casady, of leading talent management firm Management 360. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rappaport, Daniel Living people 1970 births American television producers American film producers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guymon Casady
Guymon Patrick Casady (born 12 March 1969) is an American media executive, producer and talent manager. He was executive producer of the television series ''Game of Thrones, The Terror (TV series), The Terror'' and ''Ripley (TV series), Ripley'' on Netflix''.'' He has been nominated for nine Emmy Awards, winning four. He is the originating producer of the feature films ''Steve Jobs (film), Steve Jobs'', which was nominated for two Academy Awards, Oscars; ''Hope Springs (2012 film), Hope Springs'', which was nominated for a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe; ''Office Christmas Party''; ''Deep Water (2022 film), Deep Water;'' ''Bruised (film), Bruised''; and ''The Fall Guy (2024 film), The Fall Guy''. He originated and was an executive producer on the $800M grossing franchise ''The Expendables (franchise), The Expendables''. Casady is a founding partner of the management and production company, Entertainment 360, in Los Angeles, California. Early life and education He is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cavemen (TV Series)
''Cavemen'' is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from October 2 to November 20, 2007. The show was developed by Joe Lawson, Josh Gordon and Will Speck, based on the GEICO Cavemen TV commercials, which were also written by Lawson. It was described by the network as a "unique buddy comedy that offers a clever twist on stereotypes and turns race relations on its head", and is set in San Diego, California. The show earned an extremely negative reception, becoming regarded as one of the worst television shows of all time. Plot In the series, cavemen were never really fully supplanted by modern humans, but integrated into ''Homo sapiens'' civilization as a separate species sub-group. Cavemen are a small but widespread minority group that have been present in every global civilization since the dawn of recorded history (a montage scene in the opening credits shows Cavemen in Egyptian hieroglyphs, when George Washington crossed the Delaware River, standing with Abraham Lincoln, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 Births
Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and 14,621 are killed and 30,000 injured. * January 15 – After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under Philip Effiong formally surrender to General Yakubu Gowon, ending the Nigerian Civil War. February * February 1 – The Benavídez rail disaster near Buenos Aires, Argentina (a rear-end collision) kills 236. * February 10 – An avalanche at Val-d'Isère, France, kills 41 tourists. * February 11 – ''Ohsumi (satellite), Ohsumi'', Japan's first satellite, is launched on a Lambda-4 rocket. * February 22 – Guyana becomes a Republic within the Commonwealth of Nations. * February – Multi-business Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Virgin Group is founded as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Mackenzie (director)
David Hugh Mackenzie (born 10 May 1966) is a Scottish film director and co-founder of the Glasgow-based production company Sigma Films. He has made ten feature films including ''Young Adam (film), Young Adam'' (2003), ''Hallam Foe'' (2007), ''Perfect Sense'' (2011) and ''Starred Up'' (2013). In 2016, Mackenzie's film ''Hell or High Water (2016 film), Hell or High Water'' premiered at Cannes and was theatrically released in the United States in August. The same year he executive produced ''Damnation'', a TV pilot for Universal Pictures, Universal and USA Network. Mackenzie also directed ''Outlaw King'' (2018), a historical film for Netflix. Mackenzie and his films have been described as not fitting neatly into any particular genre or type. Career After studying at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, Mackenzie began his directorial career with a series of well-regarded shorts, the first being ''Dirty Diamonds'' (1994). After that came ''California Sunshine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Speck And Josh Gordon
Will Speck (born December 31, 1969) and Josh Gordon are an American filmmaker duo who generally work in the comedy genre. They have directed six feature films together. Their accolades include an Academy Award nomination. Speck and Gordon met while attending the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Their short film ''Culture'' (1997) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. They directed their first feature film, '' Blades of Glory'', in 2007. Their works include the movies '' The Switch'' (2010), '' The Power Inside'' (2013), '' Office Christmas Party'' (2016), '' Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile'' (2022), and '' Distant'' (2024), and the television shows ''Cavemen'' (2007) and '' Hit-Monkey'' (2021). Career Will Speck and Josh Gordon met when they were paired for a group assignment at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. They became friends and wrote screenplays together in Los Angeles in 1994. Gordon joined the writing staff of the si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Office Christmas Party
''Office Christmas Party'' is a 2016 American Christmas comedy film directed by Will Speck and Josh Gordon and written by Justin Malen and Laura Solon, based on a story by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. The film stars an ensemble cast consisting of Jason Bateman, Olivia Munn, T.J. Miller, Jillian Bell, Vanessa Bayer, Courtney B. Vance, Rob Corddry, Abbey Lee, Sam Richardson, Randall Park, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Karan Soni, Kate McKinnon, and Jennifer Aniston. It tells the story of two co-workers who throw an epic office Christmas party in order to prevent the layoff of 40% of employees at the company they work at. The film was released on December 9, 2016, by Paramount Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $114 million worldwide. Plot Newly divorced Josh Parker works as the chief technology officer of Zenotek in Chicago. Carol Vanstone, the Interim CEO following the death of her father and former CEO, arrives to notify Josh and her brother Clay, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Goffman
Mark Goffman is an American television writer and producer. He currently serves as an executive producer for the Netflix series ''The Umbrella Academy''. Prior to that, Goffman worked as the showrunner and an executive producer for CBS's ''Bull''. Early life Goffman began writing professionally in Brussels, for the magazine ''Commerce in Belgium''. He went on to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government to receive a masters in public policy. He has written speeches for state and federally elected officials and has consulted to the United States Department of State and the White House. Goffman has a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy from Emory University and served as a Masters Thesis Advisor, Fiction Writing Program, at Johns Hopkins University. Career Goffman began his TV writing career in 2002 as a staff writer on ''The West Wing'', where he wrote for several seasons. In 2006, he joined NBC’s ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip'', where he was a producer and ran the writers' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Carnahan
Joseph Aaron Carnahan (born May 9, 1969) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor whose films include '' Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane''; '' Narc''; '' Smokin' Aces''; ''The A-Team''; '' The Grey''; and '' Boss Level''. He also wrote and directed several episodes for the NBC television series ''The Blacklist''. He is the brother of screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan and producer Leah Carnahan. Early life Carnahan was raised in Michigan and Northern California. Carnahan graduated from Fairfield High School in 1987, where he also played football. He attended college at San Francisco State University but later transferred to California State University, Sacramento, and earned his B.A. in Filmography there. *a "CSU Sacramento, B.A. Film Studies (1994)." Carnahan eventually became employed in the Promotional Department of Sacramento's KMAX-TV, producing short films and television spots. *a "...(who started right here at Good Day Sacramento,)." — ¶ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of The Hill
''King of the Hill'' is an American animated sitcom created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels that initially aired on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox from January 12, 1997, to September 13, 2009, with four more episodes airing in First-run syndication, syndication from May 3 to 6, 2010. The series centers on the Hills, an American family who live in the fictional city of Arlen, Texas, as well as their neighbors, co-workers, relatives, classmates, friends, and acquaintances. The show's realistic approach seeks humor in the conventional and mundane aspects of everyday life, blue-collar workers, family conflicts, and the trials of puberty. Judge began creating ''King of the Hill'' during his time making the MTV series ''Beavis and Butt-Head'', which he also created and voiced the titular characters. After pitching the pilot to Fox, Judge was paired with Greg Daniels, an experienced writer who previously worked on ''The Simpsons''. The series debuted on the Fox network as a midseason rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Morrison (director)
Phil Morrison is an American film director best known for the Academy Award-nominated feature film, ''Junebug (film), Junebug'' (2005), which was also his debut. In 2006, Morrison directed the "Get a Mac" advertising campaign for Apple Inc. In 2011, he directed an episode of ''Enlightened (TV series), Enlightened''. His second film, in 2013, was ''All Is Bright''. In 2019, it was announced that Morrison was to direct ''Satan Is Real'', a biopic about the Louvin Brothers, starring Ethan Hawke and Alessandro Nivola. References External links * Apple Inc. advertising Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American advertising directors Film directors from North Carolina {{US-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junebug (film)
''Junebug'' is a 2005 American comedy-drama film directed by Phil Morrison (director), Phil Morrison. Amy Adams received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Academy Award nomination for her supporting role in the film. Plot When art dealer Madeleine travels from Chicago to North Carolina to pursue a local, self-taught painter for her outsider art gallery, she is accompanied by her new husband, George, whose family lives in the area and she takes the opportunity to get acquainted with them. There is his mother Peg; his reserved, contemplative father Eugene; and his sullen, resentful, twenty-something brother Johnny, who, although married, still lives at home. He is studying for his high school equivalency certificate while working at Replacements, Ltd. as an order processor. Johnny is married to Ashley, who is pregnant. Relations between Johnny and Ashley are strained, but Ashley believes that a baby will solve their marital problems. Madeleine and George stay in the exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
