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Justice League (film)
''Justice League'' is a 2017 American superhero film based on the DC Comics superhero team of the same name. Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Films, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Atlas Entertainment, and Cruel and Unusual Films, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is the fifth installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Directed by Zack Snyder, who was replaced by Joss Whedon after Snyder left the project, and written by Chris Terrio and Whedon, the film features an ensemble cast including Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Amy Adams, Jeremy Irons, Diane Lane, Connie Nielsen, and J. K. Simmons. In the film, following the events of '' Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'' (2016), Batman and Wonder Woman recruit The Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg after the death of Superman to save the world from the catastrophic threat of Steppenwolf and his army of Parademons. Warner Bros. began to develop a live-actio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zack Snyder
Zachary Edward Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American filmmaker. He made his feature film debut in 2004 with ''Dawn of the Dead (2004 film), Dawn of the Dead'', a remake of the 1978 horror film Dawn of the Dead (1978 film), of the same name. Since then, he has directed or produced a number of comic book and superhero films, including ''300 (film), 300'' (2006) and ''Watchmen (2009 film), Watchmen'' (2009), as well as the Superman film that started the DC Extended Universe, ''Man of Steel (film), Man of Steel'' (2013), and its follow-ups, ''Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'' (2016) and ''Justice League (film), Justice League'' (2017), the latter of which had a Zack Snyder's Justice League, director's cut released in 2021. Aside from comic adaptation, he also directed the animated film ''Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole'' (2010), the Psychological fiction, psychological action film ''Sucker Punch (2011 film), Sucker Punch'' (2011), the zombie film, zombie heist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciarán Hinds
Ciarán Hinds ( ; born 9 February 1953) is a British Northern Irish actor from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Hinds is known for a range of screen and stage roles. He has starred in feature films including '' The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'' (1989), ''Persuasion'' (1995), '' Oscar and Lucinda'' (1997), '' Road to Perdition'' (2002), ''The Sum of All Fears'' (2002), ''Munich'' (2005), ''Amazing Grace'' (2007), ''There Will Be Blood'' (2007), '' Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day'' (2008), ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2'' (2011), '' Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'' (2011), ''Silence'' (2016), '' First Man'' (2018) and ''Belfast'' (2021), the last of which earned him Oscar and BAFTA nominations for Best Supporting Actor. Known for his distinctively deep voice, Hinds is also known for his voice role as Grand Pabbie, the Troll King in the animated film '' Frozen'' (2013) and its sequel, '' Frozen II'' (2019). He played General Zakharow in ''Red Sparrow'' (2018). He al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlas Entertainment
Atlas Entertainment, LLC is an American film financing and production company, started by Charles Roven, Bob Cavallo and Dawn Steel in 1994. Its logo features the Greek Titan Atlas, which was the basis for the company's name. History In 1990, Charles Roven and partner Bob Cavallo formed Roven/Cavallo Entertainment. At the same time, wife Dawn Steel, who was formerly employee of Columbia Pictures formed Steel Pictures, and signed a deal with Walt Disney Studios to produce feature films. In March 1994, they merged Roven/Cavallo Entertainment with Steel Pictures to create a new entity Atlas Entertainment, and it signed an exclusive feature film deal with Turner Pictures, with international backers, including TF1. In 1997, Bob Cavallo left Atlas Entertainment to join Walt Disney Studios. Later that year, Dawn Steel, a manager in the company, died. On July 29, 1999, Atlas Entertainment was merged with Gold/Miller Management to create Mosaic Media Group. In 2008, Charle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screen Rant
''Screen Rant'' is an entertainment website that offers news in the fields of television, films, video games, and comic books. It is owned by Valnet, parent of publications including Comic Book Resources, Collider, MovieWeb and XDA Developers. History ''Screen Rant'' was launched by Vic Holtreman in 2003, and had its office in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada. In February 2015, ''Screen Rant'' was acquired by Valnet, an online media company based in Montreal, Quebec. It was combined with its sister site, ''Game Rant'', in 2019, when Valnet acquired the other publication. After agreeing to sell Screen Rant to Valnet, founder Vic Holtreman, who had served as the company's CEO, retired. ''Screen Rant'' features a video series called ' by YouTube comedian Ryan George. By 2025, the series included over 400 videos, garnering a combined 400 million views. In the series, George Dual role, plays both a screenwriter and a film producer in a Pitch (filmmaking), pitch for a film or television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Ratner
Brett Ratner (born March 28, 1969) is an American film director and producer. He directed the Rush Hour (film series), ''Rush Hour'' film series, ''The Family Man'', ''Red Dragon (2002 film), Red Dragon'', ''X-Men: The Last Stand'', ''Tower Heist'', and ''Hercules (2014 film), Hercules''. He is a producer of several films, including the ''Horrible Bosses'' series, as well as executive producer on other projects, including the films ''The Revenant (2015 film), The Revenant'' and ''War Dogs (2016 film), War Dogs'' and the television series ''Prison Break''. Ratner got his start directing with music videos in the 1990s, and directed his first motion picture, ''Money Talks (1997 film), Money Talks'', in 1997. Overall, the films Ratner has directed have earned over $2 billion at the global box office. Ratner is the co-founder of RatPac-Dune Entertainment, RatPac Entertainment, a film production company. Ratner led RatPac's partnership with Dune Entertainment in September 2013 for a co- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Access Entertainment
Access Entertainment is an investment fund management company focused on production companies, film, theatre, and digital content. The company, co-founded and led by Danny Cohen, is a division of Access Industries, a multinational industrialist group owned by Len Blavatnik. Notable films financed include the A24's '' Beau Is Afraid'', '' The Zone of Interest'', '' The Iron Claw'', (all 2023) and Focus Features' ''Conclave'' (2024). History In late 2015, senior executive Danny Cohen in charge of television output for BBC Television left the company and joined Len Blavatnik's Access Industries. Cohen founded Access Entertainment in May 2016 to invest in the entertainment sector focusing on television and film dramas. By August 2016, Access obtained a first-look deal to develop and finance feature films from Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell's newly formed indie production company, House Productions. In October 2016, the company entered into a $61.3 million investment dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RatPac-Dune Entertainment
RatPac Entertainment, LLC was an American media and entertainment company that financed and produced motion pictures, television, documentaries, live theater, and podcasts. The company was owned by Brett Ratner and James Packer. History Dune Entertainment was a company founded by Steven Mnuchin in 2004. Mnuchin founded Dune Entertainment as a side business. It financed a number of large-budget films, mostly for 20th Century Fox, including the ''X-Men'' film franchise and ''Avatar''. In 2012, after Dune's deal with 20th Century Fox ended, Mnuchin worked with the filmmaker Brett Ratner and the Australian businessman James Packer to merge his Dune Entertainment company with Ratner and Packer's newly founded RatPac Entertainment joint venture which would be formed into RatPac-Dune Entertainment in 2013; the following year. Between 2013 and 2018, RatPac-Dune financed many films for Warner Bros., including ''American Sniper'' and '' Mad Max: Fury Road''. Mnuchin was co-chairman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DC Films
DC Studios is an American film and television production company that is a division of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). It is responsible for the production of live-action and animated films and television series, as well as video games, based on characters from the American comic book publisher DC Comics, primarily as part of its flagship media franchise and shared universe, the DC Universe (DCU). The studio has been led by writer/director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran as its co-chairmen and co-CEOs since it was formed in November 2022. The studio's predecessor, DC Films, was formed in May 2016 as a division of Warner Bros. Pictures to oversee DC-based film productions, primarily those from its shared universe franchise the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). It was led by DC comic book and television writer Geoff Johns and Warner Bros. producer Jon Berg as co-chairmen. After several DCEU films received poor reception and underperformed financially, the duo stepped down by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Bros
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (WBEI), commonly known as Warner Bros. (WB), is an American film studio, filmed entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios Burbank, Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California and the main namesake subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Founded on April 4, 1923, by four brothers, Harry Warner, Harry, Albert Warner, Albert, Sam Warner, Sam and Jack L. Warner, Jack Warner, the company established itself as a leader in the American film industry before diversifying into animation, television, and video games. It is one of the "Major film studios, Big Five" major American film studios and a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). The company is known for its film studio division, the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, which includes Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Castle Rock Entertainment and the Warner Bros. Television Group. Bugs Bunny, a character created for the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Walsh (film Editor)
Martin Walsh (born 8 November 1955 in Manchester, England) is an English film editor with more than 30 film credits dating from 1984. Walsh won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and the ACE Eddie Award for the film ''Chicago'' (2002), for which he was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing. Walsh has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors (ACE) is an honorary society of film editing, film editors who are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing. Members use the ...."American Cinema Editors > Members" webpage archived by WebCite froon 2008-03-04. Selected filmography TV documentaries TV movies TV series References Further reading * * * This 2015 article is based on an interview with Walsh about his career as an editor and the film ''Cinderella''. 1955 births Living people English film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Pearson (film Editor)
Richard Pearson (born 1961) is an American film editor who is mainly associated with action films. Pearson, with Clare Douglas and Christopher Rouse, received the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film '' United 93'' (2006). Life and career Pearson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota,Strickler, Jeff (2007). "'Invisible artist' getting noticed. For a transplanted Minnesotan, editing film is a cut above other Hollywood jobs", interview with Richard Pearson from the ''Minneapolis Star-Tribune'', April 1, 2007. and raised in New Hope, Minnesota. As a college student in the early 1980s, Pearson was an intern at the television station WCCO-TV in Minneapolis. He moved to Hollywood in 1985 to pursue a career in the entertainment industry. His first editing credit was for the television miniseries ''From the Earth to the Moon'' (1998). The "1968" episode of ''From the Earth to the Moon'' was nominated for an American Cinema Editors "Eddie" award (Best Edited Episode from a Televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Brenner (film Editor)
David Brenner (November 3, 1962 – February 17, 2022) was an American film editor known (along with fellow film editors Joe Hutshing, Pietro Scalia, and Julie Monroe) for being one of director Oliver Stone's "hot shot" group of up-and-coming film editors. He was elected as a member of the American Cinema Editors. He died at the age of 59. Filmography Academy Award nominations & wins *1990 – '' Born on the Fourth of July'' (won w/ co-editor Joe Hutshing) Best Film Editing Other awards and nominations *1990 – '' Born on the Fourth of July'' (nominated) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie - Best Edited Feature Film (w/ co-editor Joe Hutshing) *1997 – ''Independence Day'' (won) Satellite Awards (International Press Academy) - Golden Satellite for Outstanding Film Editing *2023 – '' Avatar: The Way of Water'' (nominated) (Critics Choice Association) - Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Editing (w/ co-editor James Cameron James Francis Cameron ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
