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Deadpool (film)
''Deadpool'' is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics Deadpool, character of the same name. Directed by Tim Miller (director), Tim Miller (in his directorial debut) and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, it is a spin-off (media), spin-off of the X-Men (film series), ''X-Men'' film series and its overall eighth installment. The film stars Ryan Reynolds in the title role, alongside Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T.J. Miller, Gina Carano, and Brianna Hildebrand. In the film, Wade Wilson (film character), Wade Wilson hunts the man responsible for giving him Mutant (Marvel Comics), mutant abilities and a scarred physical appearance, becoming the antihero Deadpool. Following a greenlight from 20th Century Fox in 2014 after test footage for a potential film was leaked, principal photography took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, between March and May 2015. Several vendors provided visual effects for the film, ranging from the addition of blood and gore to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Miller (director)
Timothy Miller (born October 10, 1964) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, and visual effects artist. He is best known for directing the films ''Deadpool'' (2016) and '' Terminator: Dark Fate'' (2019). He is also the creator of the animated anthology series '' Love, Death & Robots'' (2019–present), for which he has won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program. Miller is the co-founder of the visual effects company Blur Studio. He was nominated Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film as co-story writer and executive producer of the short animated film '' Gopher Broke'' (2004). He also designed the title sequences of ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' (2011) and '' Thor: The Dark World'' (2013). Early life Miller was born in Fort Washington, Maryland. He studied illustration and animation in college. Career Visual effects and animation In March 1995, Miller co-founded Blur Studio, a visual effects, animati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Holkenborg
Tom Holkenborg (born 8 December 1967), also known as Junkie XL, is a Dutch composer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, producer, and engineer. Originally known for his trance productions, he has moved to producing electronica and big beat music and film scores. His remix of Elvis Presley's " A Little Less Conversation" became a worldwide hit in 2002. In film scores, he has worked with Hans Zimmer and his company Remote Control Productions on '' Man of Steel'' and '' Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'', as well as composing the scores for ''Zack Snyder's Justice League'', '' Divergent'', '' Mad Max: Fury Road'', '' Deadpool'', ''Tomb Raider'', '' Alita: Battle Angel'', '' Terminator: Dark Fate'', ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' (and its sequels), '' Scoob!'', '' Godzilla vs. Kong'', '' Army of the Dead'', '' Three Thousand Years of Longing'' and '' Rebel Moon'' as well as '' Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver''. Early life Holkenborg was born in Lichtenvoorde, Gelderland, Netherlands. Clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X-Men (film Series)
''X-Men'' is an American Superhero film, superhero film series based on the Marvel Comics X-Men, superhero team of the same name. It was produced by 20th Century Fox and Marvel Entertainment from 2000 to 2020. Fox obtained the film rights to the team and other related characters in 1994 for $2.6 million. They first produced the ''X-Men'' film trilogy consisting of ''X-Men (film), X-Men'' (2000), ''X2 (film), X2'' (2003), and ''X-Men: The Last Stand'' (2006). After each film outgrossed its predecessor, further films were released, set in the same shared universe. These included three Spin-off (media), spin-off films centered around Logan (film character), Wolverine (''X-Men Origins: Wolverine'' in 2009, ''The Wolverine (film), The Wolverine'' in 2013, and ''Logan (film), Logan'' in 2017), two films centered around Wade Wilson (film character), Deadpool (''Deadpool (film), Deadpool'' in 2016 and ''Deadpool 2'' in 2018), and the stand-alone ''The New Mutants (film), The New Mutants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spin-off (media)
A spinoff or spin-off is any narrative work derived from an already existing work that focuses on different aspects from the original work. History One of the earliest spin-offs of the modern media era, if not the first, happened in 1941 when the supporting character Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve from the old time radio comedy show '' Fibber McGee and Molly'' became the star of his own program '' The Great Gildersleeve'' (1941–1957). Description A spin-off (also spelled spinoff) is derived from already existing works that focus on more details and different aspects from the original work (e.g. particular topics, characters or events), and includes books, radio programs, television programs, films, video games, or any narrative work in any medium. In genre fiction, the term parallels its usage in television; it is usually meant to indicate a substantial change in narrative viewpoint and activity from that (previous) storyline based on the activities of the series' principal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics is a New York City–based comic book publishing, publisher, a property of the Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023. Marvel was founded in 1939 by Martin Goodman (publisher), Martin Goodman as Timely Comics, and by 1951 had generally become known as Atlas Comics (1950s), Atlas Comics. The Marvel era began in August 1961 with the launch of ''Fantastic Four (comic book), The Fantastic Four'' and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and numerous others. The Marvel brand, which had been used over the years and decades, was solidified as the company's primary brand. Marvel counts among List of Marvel Comics characters, its characters such well-known superheroes as Spider-Man, Wolverine (character), Wolverine, Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Thor (Marvel Comics), Thor, Doctor Strange, Daredevil (Marvel Comics character), Daredevil, Black Panther (character), Black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Superhero Film
Superhero film/movie is a film genre categorized by the presence of superhero characters, individuals with extraordinary abilities who are dedicated to fighting crime, saving the world, or helping the innocent. It is sometimes considered a sub-genre of the action film genre and has evolved into one of the most financially successful film genres worldwide. These films focus on Superpower (ability), superhuman abilities, advanced technology, mystical phenomena, or exceptional physical and mental skills that enable these Hero, heroes to fight for the common good or defeat a supervillain antagonist. Superhero films typically include genre elements of Romance film, romance, Comedy film, comedy, Fantasy film, fantasy, and Science fiction film, science fiction, with large instances of the superhero genre predominantly occupied and produced by American media franchises DC Universe (franchise), DC and Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, originally adaptations of their existing works of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by Amazon. History Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis. In 1999, he started to post the Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. Along with the weekend grosses, he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules and other charts, such as all-time charts, international box office charts, genre charts, and actor and director charts. The site gradually expanded to include weekend charts goin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Board Of Film Classification
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is a non-governmental organization, non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, Trailer (promotion), trailers, adverts, public information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content, etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom. It has a statutory requirement to classify all video works released on VHS, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray (including Blu-ray 3D, 3D and Ultra HD Blu-ray, 4K UHD formats), and, to a lesser extent, some video games under the Video Recordings Act 1984. The BBFC was also the designated regulator for the UK age-verification, UK age-verification scheme, which was abandoned before being implemented. History and overview The BBFC was established in 1912 as the British Board of Film Censors, under the aegis of the Incorporated Associa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Grand Rex
Le Grand Rex is a cinema and concert venue in Paris, France. Location and access It is located at No. 1, boulevard Poissonnière in the 2nd arrondissement, on the grands boulevards. Its facades and roofs, as well as its hall and its decor, have been listed as a ''Monument historique'' since a decree on October 5, 1981. This giant cinema has a capacity of more than 2,700 people in its great hall and posts an average attendance level of 1 million visitors per year. Le Grand Rex is served by the Metro lines 8 and 9 at the ''Bonne-Nouvelle'' station, as well as by bus lines 20, 32, and 39. History In the early 1930s, Jacques Haïk, a wealthy movie producer, distributor and owner of the Olympia, got the idea of building a very extravagant cinema: which could have a capacity of more than 5000 spectators on a surface area of m², with a ceiling peaking at more than 30 meters, representing a luminous starry vault. Its designers are the architect Auguste Bluysen and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Donners' Company
The Donners' Company (formerly Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions) is the film production company of director Richard Donner and producer Lauren Shuler Donner, founded in 1986. It is notable for the ''Free Willy'' and ''X-Men'' franchises. History Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions In 1986, film producer Lauren Shuler Donner announced that she would end her production deal with The Walt Disney Studios. She announced that she would merge with Warner Bros.-based Richard Donner Productions, to create Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions, to be operating on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California. The first film released under the name was '' Radio Flyer'', which was directed by Richard Donner, produced by Lauren, and it was released by Columbia Pictures in 1992. It flopped at the box office. The banner made its first major success in 1993 with box office hits '' Dave'' and ''Free Willy''. The latter's success spawned two sequels, and a television series. That year, the studio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinberg Genre
Genre Films, usually credited as Kinberg Genre, is a production company founded by screenwriter-producer-director Simon Kinberg. History Genre Films in April 2010 signed a first-look deal with 20th Century Fox 20th Century Studios, Inc., formerly 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio, film production and Film distributor, distribution company owned by the Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios, the film studios division of the ..., which gave Fox "direct access" to ideas by Kinberg. Aditya Sood became president of production, and Josh Feldman became director of development. In December 2013, Genre Films renewed its deal with Fox for three additional years. In 2016, the studio made its first leap onto television when ABC picked up '' Designated Survivor'' to series. In July 2019, it was announced that Kinberg and his Genre Films would be leaving Fox after 20 years. Filmography Film 2010s 2020s Upcoming Television 2010s 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TSG Entertainment
TSG Entertainment (also known as TSG) is an American film finance company which was established in 2013, founded by Chip Seelig and based in New York City. TSG was established after the American theatrical release of '' Parental Guidance'' to replace Dune Entertainment when Dune did not renew their deal with 20th Century Fox. Fox was looking for a new long term co-financing arrangement and made a deal with TSG Entertainment. TSG also has a co-financing agreement with Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group since 2022. TSG stands for parent company The Seelig Group. TSG's logo and vanity card depict a man with a bow shooting an arrow through a dozen axe heads, a reference to the feat performed by Odysseus in Book 21 of Homer's ''Odyssey''. History The financing entity was founded by former Dune Entertainment partner Chip Seelig with majority funding from Magnetar Capital with additional funding from Seelig and others. Seelig had left Dune in May 2011 to launch a new funding compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
