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Eliza Dushku
Eliza Patricia Dushku (; born December 30, 1980) is an American former actress. Dushku starred as Faith (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Faith in the supernatural Drama (film and television), drama series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (1998–2003) and its spin-off series ''Angel (1999 TV series), Angel'' (2000–2003). She also had lead roles in the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox supernatural drama series ''Tru Calling'' (2003–2005) and the Fox Science fiction on television, science fiction series ''Dollhouse (TV series), Dollhouse'' (2009–2010), for which she was a producer. Dushku had starring roles in various films, including ''True Lies'' (1994), ''Bye Bye Love (film), Bye Bye Love'' (1995), ''Bring It On (film), Bring It On'' (2000), ''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back'' (2001), ''The New Guy'' (2002), ''Wrong Turn (2003 film), Wrong Turn'' (2003), ''On Broadway (film), On Broadway'' (2007), ''The Scribbler (film), The Scribbler'' (2014), ''Jane Wants a Boyfriend'' (2015), and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the Metropolitan statistical area, eleventh-largest in the United States. Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritans, Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. During the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, Boston was home to several seminal events, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bye Bye Love (film)
''Bye Bye Love'' is a 1995 American romantic comedy film that deals with the central issue of divorce. It was directed by Sam Weisman and written by Gary David Goldberg and Brad Hall. It stars Matthew Modine, Randy Quaid, Paul Reiser, Janeane Garofalo, Amy Brenneman, Eliza Dushku, Rob Reiner, Amber Benson, and Lindsay Crouse. Production costs were heavily underwritten by McDonald's product placement. Goldberg and Hall stated that they included in the script several fictionalized accounts of events that had happened to divorced friends of theirs. Also acting in the film were Jayne Brook, and Ed Flanders in his last movie role. Plot This is a story about the breakup of the family. In particular, it focuses on the lifestyle of three divorced men in the Los Angeles area, Dave Goldman ( Matthew Modine), wrestling coach/driver's ed teacher Vic D'Amico (Randy Quaid), and real estate agent Donny Carson (Paul Reiser). The film is presented from their perspective and it reveals thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watertown, Massachusetts
Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, part of Greater Boston. The population was 35,329 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Its neighborhoods include Bemis, Coolidge Square, East Watertown, Watertown Square, and the West End. Watertown was one of the first Massachusetts Bay Colony settlements organized by Puritans, Puritan settlers in 1630. The city is home to the Perkins School for the Blind, the Armenian Library and Museum of America, and the historic Watertown Arsenal, which produced military armaments from 1816 through World War II. History Archeological evidence suggests that Watertown was inhabited for thousands of years before European colonization of the Americas, colonization. In the 1600s, two groups of Massachusett, the Pequossette and the Nonantum, had settlements on the banks of the river later called the Charles, and a contemporary source lists "Pigsgusset" as the native name of "Water towne." The Pequossette built a fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the Metropolitan statistical area, eleventh-largest in the United States. Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritans, Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. During the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, Boston was home to several seminal events, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animated Films
Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby still images are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Animation has been recognised as an artistic medium, specifically within the entertainment industry. Many animations are either traditional animations or computer animations made with computer-generated imagery (CGI). Stop motion animation, in particular claymation, has continued to exist alongside these other forms. Animation is contrasted with live action, although the two do not exist in isolation. Many moviemakers have produced films that are a hybrid of the two. As CGI increasingly approximates photographic imagery, filmmakers can easily composite 3D animations into their film rather than using practical effects for showy visual effects (VFX). General overview Computer animation can be very detailed 3D animation, while 2D compute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video Game
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, game controller, controller, computer keyboard, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset. Most modern video games are audiovisual, with Sound, audio complement delivered through loudspeaker, speakers or headphones, and sometimes also with other types of sensory feedback (e.g., haptic technology that provides Touch, tactile sensations). Some video games also allow microphone and webcam inputs for voice chat in online gaming, in-game chatting and video game livestreaming, livestreaming. Video games are typically categorized according to their hardware platform, which traditionally includes arcade video games, console games, and PC game, comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eloise (2016 Film)
''Eloise'' is a 2016 American thriller film directed by Robert Legato and written by Christopher Borrelli. The film stars Eliza Dushku, Robert Patrick, Chace Crawford, Brandon T. Jackson, Nicole Forester, and P. J. Byrne. The film was released on February 3, 2017, by Vertical Entertainment. Plot The film opens with pictures and audio about the real Eloise Asylum and the fire that destroyed the building in 1982. Afterwards, a woman named Pia in an asylum is shown being questioned by a detective. The detective informs Pia that they have found the bodies of her brother and friend but were unable to find her other friend Jacob. In the past, Jacob is contacted by an attorney to inform him of his father's death. After meeting with the attorney, Jacob learns he will inherit $1,200,000 but first must prove that an unknown aunt is also deceased. He also learns that while his father had cancer, he instead died by suicide. While retrieving items from his father's house, Jacob is start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Wants A Boyfriend
''Jane Wants a Boyfriend'' is a 2015 American romantic comedy drama film directed by William C. Sullivan and written by Jarret Kerr. Starring Louisa Krause, Eliza Dushku, Gabriel Ebert, and Amir Arison, the film follows Jane (Krause), a woman with Asperger's syndrome who is searching for a boyfriend with the help of her older sister, Bianca (Dushku). ''Jane Wants a Boyfriend'' premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival on November 11, 2015, and was theatrically released in the United States on March 25, 2016, to negative reviews from critics. Synopsis Jane is a young woman diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome who is living with her parents in Queens, New York. She works as a costume designer at the theatre that Bianca (her extremely protective older sister) is acting in, playing Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Now moving into Brooklyn with her fiancé, Rob (a field journalist), Bianca learns on Jane's birthday that their parents are now moving to New Jersey and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scribbler (film)
''The Scribbler'' is a 2014 American science fiction thriller film directed by John Suits and written by Daniel Schaffer, based on his own graphic novel of same name. The film stars Katie Cassidy, Garret Dillahunt, Michelle Trachtenberg (in her final film role), Michael Imperioli, Gina Gershon, Sasha Grey, Kunal Nayyar, Ashlynn Yennie, Eliza Dushku, and Billy Campbell. Plot Suki, a young woman suffering from split personality disorder, moves into Juniper Tower, a strange, darkly gothic apartment building, that serves as a halfway house for mental patients who don't need to be institutionalized any longer, but are not completely cured yet. Suki has been given an experimental device that lets her perform a procedure known as ''The Siamese Burn'' on herself. The machine is supposed to "burn" all her extra personalities until she only has one left. At Juniper Tower, Suki reconnects with her friend with benefits Hogan, a man who may fake depression so that he can stay there a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On Broadway (film)
''On Broadway'' is an independent film, shot in Boston in May 2006, starring Joey McIntyre, Jill Flint, Eliza Dushku, Mike O'Malley, Robert Wahlberg, Amy Poehler and Will Arnett. Plot Emotionally devastated by the death of his uncle, Boston, Massachusetts, Boston carpenter Jack O'Toole (McIntyre) writes a play inspired by the man's wake. When nobody will produce the play, Jack quits his job to produce it himself, imagining that this play will give a new start to the strained relationship Jack has with his father. But the only stage Jack can afford is in the back room of a neighborhood pub. In this humble environment, Jack pulls together a theater company of sorts and brings his story to the stage, and in the process he brings together his family and friends and helps them move beyond their loss. Cast * Joey McIntyre as Jack O'Toole, a carpenter turned playwright * Eliza Dushku as Lena Wilson, the lead actress in Jack's play * Mike O'Malley as Father Rolie O'Toole, Jack's priest b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrong Turn (2003 Film)
''Wrong Turn'' is a 2003 slasher film directed by Rob Schmidt, written by Alan B. McElroy, and starring Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, and Kevin Zegers. The first installment in the ''Wrong Turn'' film series, it follows a group of six individuals being stalked by a cannibal family in the woods of West Virginia. Development for the film began in 2001 when it was announced Summit Entertainment and Newmarket Group teamed to produce ''Wrong Turn'', a 1970s-style horror pic to be directed by Schmidt, while McElroy wrote the script. The film was a co-production between Summit and Constantin Film, with Stan Winston designing the creature effects and serving as a producer. ''Wrong Turn'' was theatrically released in the United States on May 30, 2003, by 20th Century Fox. It grossed over $28 million worldwide against a $12 million budget but received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics. Plot Several years after the massacre at Fairlake, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
