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Deborah Lynn Scott
Deborah Lynn Scott (born 1954), also known as Deborah Scott is a costume designer and set designer, best known for her work in James Cameron's directorial venture ''Titanic'' which won her the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. Her first movie as a costume designer was '' Don't Answer the Phone'' (1979). Some of her other movies are ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' (1982), ''Back to the Future'' (1985), ''Legends of the Fall'' (1994), ''Wild Wild West'' (1999), '' The Patriot'' (2000), ''Transformers'' (2007), ''Avatar'' (2009), and ''Love & Other Drugs'' (2010). Filmography * '' Avatar: The Way of Water'' (2022) * '' Sicario: Day of the Soldado'' (2018) * ''Rebel in the Rye'' (2017) * '' 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi'' (2016) * ''Aloha'' (2015) * '' Rock the Kasbah'' (2015) * ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'' (2014) * ''We Bought A Zoo'' (2011) * '' Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' (2011) * ''Love & Other Drugs'' (2010) * ''Avatar'' (2009) * '' Transformers: Revenge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge (CSUN or Cal State Northridge), is a public university in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. With a total enrollment of 36,848 students (as of Fall 2024), it has the fourth largest total student body in the California State University system. The size of CSUN also has a major impact on the California economy, with an estimated $1.9 billion in economic output generated by CSUN on a yearly basis. As of Fall 2024, the university has 2,173 faculty members, of which around 36% are tenured or on the tenure-track. California State University, Northridge, was founded first as the Valley satellite campus of California State University, Los Angeles. It then became an independent college in 1958 as San Fernando Valley State College, with major campus master planning and construction. In 1972, the university adopted its current name of California State University, Northridge. The 1994 Northridge earthquake ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Upside Of Anger
''The Upside of Anger'' is a 2005 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Binder and starring Joan Allen, Kevin Costner and Evan Rachel Wood. The film was produced by Jack Binder, Alex Gartner and Sammy Lee, received mostly positive reviews with praise for Allen and Costner's performances, and was also a moderate box office success grossing $28.2 million from a $12 million budget. Plot Beginning ''in medias res'', the opening scene presents Terry Wolfmeyer and a friend, Denny Davies, attending a funeral. The film flashes back to three years earlier, when a heavily intoxicated Terry announces to her daughters Hadley, Andy, Emily and Popeye that their father, Grey, has left the family to be with his secretary in Sweden. Terry continues to drink heavily to cope with her anger and pain, which causes her daughters to resent her. She later shares the news about her husband with her neighbor Denny, a retired baseball player turned radio talk show host a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Island (2005 Film)
''The Island'' is a 2005 American science fiction action film directed and co-produced by Michael Bay and written by Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, from a story by Tredwell-Owen. It stars Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Steve Buscemi. The film is about Lincoln Six Echo (McGregor), who struggles to fit into the highly structured world in which he lives, isolated in a compound, and the series of events that unfold when he questions how truthful that world is. After Lincoln learns the compound inhabitants are clones used for organ harvesting as well as surrogates for wealthy people in the outside world, he attempts to escape with Jordan Two Delta (Johansson) and expose the illegal cloning movement. ''The Island'' has been described as a pastiche of "escape-from-dystopia" science fiction films of the 1960s and 1970s, such as ''Fahrenheit 451'', ''THX 1138'', '' Parts: The Clonus Horror'', and '' Logan' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost City (2005 Film)
''The Lost City'' is a 2005 American drama film directed by Andy García. It stars García, Dustin Hoffman, Inés Sastre and Bill Murray. Plot Fico Fellove is the owner of El Trópico, a swank nightclub in Cuba in 1958. He lives for his family and his music while facing the harsh realities of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorial regime. His brother Ricardo becomes a revolutionary for Castro's rebel army, his brother Luis joins the student opposition, and his father Federico, a well-respected university professor, pushes for change by constitutional, peaceful means. When Ricardo is arrested and threatened with execution, Fico calls on an old prep-school friend, Castel, now a police captain, for help. Ricardo is released from jail, and Fico offers to help him go to Miami or New York City, but instead, he joins a rebel column headed by Che Guevara. Fico is approached by Meyer Lansky, of New York's Genovese crime family, who wishes to open up a gambling room at El Trópico. He in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seraphim Falls
''Seraphim Falls'' is a 2006 American revisionist Western film directed by television producer and director David Von Ancken in his only feature film. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Von Ancken and Abby Everett Jaques. The fictional story focuses on a bounty hunt for a Union soldier by a Confederate colonel following the American Civil War in the late 1860s. Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Michael Wincott, Tom Noonan, and Ed Lauter star in principal roles. ''Seraphim Falls'' explores civil topics, such as violence, human survival and war.David Von Ancken. (2007). ''Seraphim Falls'' otion picture United States: Icon Productions. The film was produced by the motion picture studio of Icon Productions. It was commercially distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Destination Films theatrically, and by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for home media. The film score was composed by musician Harry Gregson-Williams, although a soundtrack version for the motion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reign Over Me
''Reign Over Me'' is a 2007 American buddy drama film written and directed by Mike Binder, produced by his brother Jack Binder, and starring Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Donald Sutherland, Saffron Burrows, and Binder himself. The film follows the story of former college roommates and old friends Alan and Charlie, the latter of whom is struggling with depression after the death of his wife and daughters in the September 11 attacks. This was also Melinda Dillon's final film acting role before retiring from acting later that same year and her death in 2023. Distributed by Columbia Pictures, the film was theatrically released on March 23, 2007, and on DVD and Blu-ray on October 9, 2007. It is the first of two films produced by Madison 23, a drama subsidiary of Sandler's Happy Madison Productions. Plot After the Twin Towers went down in 2001, Charlie Fineman lost everything important in his life. Five years have passed since Charlie's wife and daught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Get Smart (film)
''Get Smart'' is a 2008 American spy action comedy film directed by Peter Segal, written by Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember and produced by Leonard B. Stern, who was also the producer of the original series. The film is based on Mel Brooks and Buck Henry's television series of the same name. The film stars Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, and Alan Arkin, with Terence Stamp and James Caan in supporting roles. Bernie Kopell, who played Siegfried in the original series, also appeared in the film. The film centers on an analyst named Maxwell Smart (Carell) who dreams of becoming a real field agent and a better spy. The film was released in North America on June 20, 2008. ''Get Smart'' received mixed reviews from critics but was a commercial success, earning $230 million on an $80 million budget. Plot Maxwell Smart, an analyst for CONTROL, a top secret American intelligence agency, yearns to become a field agent, but is blocked by the Chief, who values his analyt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Invention Of Lying
''The Invention of Lying'' is a 2009 romantic comedy fantasy film written and directed by comedian Ricky Gervais and writer Matthew Robinson in their directorial debuts. The film stars Gervais as the first human with the ability to lie in a world where people can only tell the truth. The cast also includes Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill, Louis C.K., Jeffrey Tambor, Fionnula Flanagan, Rob Lowe, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Tina Fey. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 14, 2009, and was released in the United States on October 2, 2009 by Warner Bros. Pictures and Focus Features. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $32.7 million against a $18.5 million budget. Plot The film is set in an alternative reality in which lying does not exist and people are straightforward about what they think and feel. Mark Bellison is a screenwriter, in a film industry limited to historical readings because there is no fiction. One night he has a date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revenge Of The Fallen
''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' is a 2009 American science fiction action film based on Hasbro's ''Transformers'' toy line. The film is the second installment in the ''Transformers'' film series and a sequel to ''Transformers'' (2007). The film is directed by Michael Bay and written by Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman. Set two years after the events of ''Transformers'', ''Revenge of the Fallen'' recounts the battle between the Autobots, led by Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen), and the Decepticons, led by Megatron (voiced by Hugo Weaving). The Autobots and Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) ally again to face an ancient Decepticon named the Fallen (voiced by Tony Todd), who pursues revenge on Earth. Development on a sequel to ''Transformers'' began by May 2007. With deadlines jeopardized by possible strikes by the Directors Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild, Bay managed to finish the production on time with the help of previsualization and a scrip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
