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Maggie (film)
''Maggie'' is a 2015 American post-apocalyptic horror film, horror drama film directed by Henry Hobson, in his List of directorial debuts, directorial debut, written by John Scott 3. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, and Joely Richardson. ''Maggie'' is a dramatic departure for Schwarzenegger, who is better known for his action film roles. The film was originally set to premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, but Lionsgate bought the American distribution rights and pulled the film out of the festival's roster. It instead premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival on April 23, 2015, as part of its lineup, followed by a limited theatrical release and simultaneous Video on demand, VOD release on May 8, 2015. Plot In the present-day Midwestern United States, Midwest United States, society struggles to function in the aftermath of a zombie pandemic (Necroambulism) barely under control. Maggie Vogel calls her father from a broken city under curfew; her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hobson (director)
Henry Hobson is an English film director, known for the 2015 film ''Maggie (film), Maggie''. Early life Hobson was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Hobson completed his Bachelor of Arts degree at London College of Communication, The London College of Printing and did his master's degree at the Royal College of Art. He began his career as a graphic designer, creating title sequences for films such as ''Snow White and the Huntsman, Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes (2009 film), Sherlock Holmes.'' and The Lone Ranger (2013 film), ''The Lone Ranger''. He also worked on the popular television series The Walking Dead (TV series), ''The Walking Dead''. He spent over 15 years in this field before transitioning to directing. Career ''Maggie'' ''Maggie'', an independent thriller about a viral pandemic, featured Arnold Schwarzenegger in a rare dramatic role as a father trying to protect his infected daughter. The film was based on a script by first-time screenwriter John Scott and was co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Film
The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work. The specifics of what constitutes an action film has been in scholarly debate since the 1980s. While some scholars such as David Bordwell suggested they were films that favor spectacle to storytelling, others such as Geoff King stated they allow the scenes of spectacle to be attuned to storytelling. Action films are often hybrid with other genres, mixing into various forms such as comedy film, comedies, science fiction films, and horror films. While the term "action film" or "action adventure film" has been used as early as the 1910s, the contemporary definition usually refers to a film that came with the arrival of New Hollywood and the rise of antihero, anti-heroes appearing in American films of the late 1960s and 1970s drawing from war films, crime films and Western (film), Westerns. These genres were followed by what is referred to as the "classical period" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chloë Grace Moretz
Chloë Grace Moretz (; born February 10, 1997) is an American actress. She began acting as a child, with early roles in the horror film ''The Amityville Horror (2005 film), The Amityville Horror'' (2005), the drama series ''Desperate Housewives'' (2006–2007), the horror film ''The Eye (2008 film), The Eye'' (2008), the drama film ''The Poker House'' (2008), the romantic comedy film ''500 Days of Summer'' (2009), and the children's comedy film ''Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010 film), Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' (2010). Her breakthrough came in 2010 with her performance as Hit-Girl in the superhero film ''Kick-Ass (film), Kick-Ass''. Moretz starred in Martin Scorsese's adventure film ''Hugo (film), Hugo'' (2011), Tim Burton's horror comedy film ''Dark Shadows (film), Dark Shadows'' (2012) and the sitcom ''30 Rock'' (2011–2013), reprised her role as Hit-Girl in ''Kick-Ass 2 (film), Kick-Ass 2'' (2013) and portrayed Carrie White in the horror film ''Carrie (2013 film), Carrie'' (2013). In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black List (survey)
The Black List is an annual survey of the "most-liked" motion picture screenplays not yet produced. It has been published every year since 2005 on the second Friday of December by Franklin Leonard, a development executive who subsequently worked at Universal Pictures and Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment. The website states that these are not necessarily "the best" screenplays, but rather "the most liked", since it is based on a survey of studio and production company executives. Of the more than 1,000 screenplays The Black List has included since 2005, at least 450 have been produced as theatrical films, including ''Argo'', '' American Hustle'', '' Juno'', '' The King's Speech'', '' Slumdog Millionaire'', '' Spotlight'', '' The Revenant'', '' The Descendants'', '' Promising Young Woman'' and '' Hell or High Water''. The produced films have together grossed over $30 billion, and been nominated for 241 Academy Awards and 205 Golden Globe Awards, winning 50 and 40 respec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards is an annual writing competition founded in 2003 with the stated mission to discover and promote up-and-coming screenwriters from around the world. The contest is judged by Hollywood producers, development executives and representatives who are looking for new projects and new clients. Each year in October, they present 31 awards and more than $50,000 in cash and prizes to the scripts they think are the most creative, well-written, and marketable. Entries are categorized by genre, with winners in each of the 10 sub-competitions vying for a Grand Prize. Bill Dubuque Awards. Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Retrieved January 17, 2021. After winning the PAGE Awards competition, many screenwriters have signed with [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana Gourrier
Dana Gourrier is an American actress, known for her roles as Tessa on the Netflix show '' Raising Dion'' (2019), Cora in the film ''Django Unchained'' (2012), and as Minnie Mink in ''The Hateful Eight'' (2015), both directed by Quentin Tarantino. Early life Raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Gourrier graduated from Ursuline Academy in 1997. She originally majored in Psychology at the University of New Orleans, but dropped out to pursue performing arts as she had originally wanted. Gourrier received a bachelor’s degree in performing arts from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and a master’s in acting from the California Institute of the Arts The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a Private university, private art school in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for .... Filmography Films TV series Video games References Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euthanasia
Euthanasia (from : + ) is the practice of intentionally ending life to eliminate pain and suffering. Different countries have different Legality of euthanasia, euthanasia laws. The British House of Lords Select committee (United Kingdom), select committee on medical ethics defines euthanasia as "a deliberate intervention undertaken with the express intention of ending a life to relieve intractable suffering". In the Netherlands and Belgium, euthanasia is understood as "termination of life by a doctor at the request of a patient". The Dutch law, however, does not use the term 'euthanasia' but includes the concept under the broader definition of "assisted suicide and termination of life on request". Euthanasia is categorised in different ways, which include Voluntary euthanasia, voluntary, Non-voluntary euthanasia, non-voluntary, and Involuntary euthanasia, involuntary. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quarantine
A quarantine is a restriction on the movement of people, animals, and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests. It is often used in connection to disease and illness, preventing the movement of those who may have been exposed to a communicable disease, yet do not have a confirmed medical diagnosis. It is distinct from medical isolation, in which those confirmed to be infected with a communicable disease are isolated from the healthy population. The concept of quarantine has been known since biblical times, and is known to have been practised through history in various places. Notable quarantines in modern history include the village of Eyam in 1665 during the bubonic plague outbreak in England; East Samoa during the 1918 flu pandemic; the Diphtheria outbreak during the 1925 serum run to Nome, the 1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak, the SARS pandemic, the Ebola pandemic and extensive quarantines applied throughout the world during the COVID-19 pande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curfew
A curfew is an order that imposes certain regulations during specified hours. Typically, curfews order all people affected by them to remain indoors during the evening and nighttime hours. Such an order is most often issued by public authorities, but may also be given by the owner of a house to those living in the household. For instance, children are often given curfews by their parents, and an au pair is traditionally given a curfew by which time they must return to their host family's home. Some jurisdictions have juvenile curfews which affect all persons under a certain age not accompanied by an adult or engaged in certain approved activities. Curfews have been used as a control measure in martial law, as well as for public safety in the event of a disaster, epidemic, or crisis. Various countries have implemented such measures throughout history, including during World War II and the Gulf War. The enforcement of curfews has been found to disproportionately affect margina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zombie
A zombie (Haitian French: ; ; Kikongo: ''zumbi'') is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse. In modern popular culture, zombies appear in horror genre works. The term comes from Haitian folklore, in which a ''zombie'' is a dead body reanimated through various methods, most commonly magical practices in religions like Vodou. Modern media depictions of the reanimation of the dead often do not involve magic but rather science fictional methods such as fungi, radiation, gases, diseases, plants, bacteria, viruses, etc. Zombies are real-life individuals in Haiti who have undergone a religious punishment called zombification for committing crimes such as rape or land theft. They are drugged, buried alive, exhumed and then enslaved by secret societies in Haiti. This practice became the basis for the zombie myth of a resurrected corpse. The English word "zombie" was first recorded in 1819 in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States (also referred to as the Midwest, the Heartland or the American Midwest) is one of the four census regions defined by the United States Census Bureau. It occupies the northern central part of the United States. It was officially named the North Central Region by the U.S. Census Bureau until 1984. It is between the Northeastern United States and the Western United States, with Canada to the north and the Southern United States to the south. The U.S. Census Bureau's definition consists of 12 states in the north central United States: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The region generally lies on the broad Interior Plain between the states occupying the Appalachian Mountain range and the states occupying the Rocky Mountain range. Major rivers in the region include, from east to west, the Ohio River, the Upper Mississippi River, and the Missouri River. The 2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
