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Mark Morgan (producer)
Mark Paul Morgan is an American film producer. He has been a producer and executive producer on films including '' The Twilight Saga'' film series, '' Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief'', and the ''Agent Cody Banks'' films. Career Morgan began his producing career at New Regency and Warner Brothers as a story editor on such films as ''L.A. Confidential'', ''Heat'', '' A Time to Kill'', and ''Murder at 1600. He moved on to be Director of Development and later Vice President of Production at Orion/ MPCA, where he was involved in the development and production of film projects such as '' Ringmaster''. When Orion/ MPCA split off to form Destination Films, Morgan served as Executive Vice President of the company and produced films including ''Beautiful'', ''Slackers'', and ''The Wedding Planner''. Morgan moved on to become the CEO of Maverick Films, founded by Guy Oseary and Madonna. He optioned the manuscript ''Twilight'' by Stephenie Meyer. It later became ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a Normal school, teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School (now San Jose State University, San José State University). This school was absorbed with the official founding of UCLA as the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919, making it the second-oldest of the 10-campus University of California system (after UC Berkeley). UCLA offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines, enrolling about 31,600 undergraduate and 14,300 graduate and professional students. UCLA received 174,914 undergraduate applications for Fall 2022, including transfers, making the school the most applied-to Higher education in the United States, university in the United States. The university is or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slackers (film)
''Slackers'' is a 2002 American comedy film directed by Dewey Nicks and starring Jason Schwartzman, Devon Sawa, Jason Segel, Michael Maronna, Jaime King, and Laura Prepon. Its plot follows a nerdy college student who blackmails a group of young men with his knowledge that they have cheated throughout college, and uses it to get closer to a young woman he is obsessed with. Plot Best friends Dave Goodman, Sam Schecter, and Jeff Davis have spent almost four years at Holden University scamming their way through college. During one exam scam in their final semester, Dave meets Angela Patton and asks her out while writing his phone number on her exam sheet. Ethan Dulles (who calls himself "Cool Ethan"), a nerdy student who is obsessed with Angela, observes Dave and grows jealous. Ethan takes her exam question sheet after Angela leaves and uses it to blackmail the guys into setting up a successful date with Angela for him. The guys set Ethan up in multiple situations in an attempt t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hit And Run (2009 Film)
''Hit and Run'' (also known as ''Bumper'' or ''Hit and Run unrated'') is a 2009 horror film directed by Enda McCallion and written by Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur K. Flam (as Arthur Flam). The film tells the story of a young woman who tries to cover up a deadly hit and run accident, only to have the supposedly dead victim come back to terrorize her. Plot The film opens as Mary Murdock (Laura Breckenridge), a young student, leaves a lively party at a club in New Jersey one night. She hits a bad bump driving home drunk on a dark road. Later, hearing noises in the garage, she finds a bleeding man, mangled and impaled on her jeep's bumper. Not calling 911, she tries to help, but he suddenly attacks. Panicked, she hits him with a golf club. After that, she buries his body in a shallow grave in the woods off Clover Rd. The next day, Mary covers up the crime (before parents return from a weekend trip); she scrubs off the blood but doesn't get the dent fixed (a suspicious cop at the au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Material Girls
''Material Girls'' is a 2006 American teen comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge, loosely based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel ''Sense and Sensibility'', updating the setting to modern Los Angeles. Starring Hilary Duff and Haylie Duff, the film is co-produced by Patriot Pictures and Maverick Films. Plot Sisters Tanzania "Tanzie" and Ava are wealthy, spoiled Hollywood socialites who enjoy shopping and dating, paying little attention to their late father's (Victor Marchetta) company, Marchetta Cosmetics, run by co-founder and family friend Tommy Katzenbach. Tanzie is going to college soon and Ava is planning to announce her engagement with fiancée Mic. A major media scandal breaks, involving disfigurement from Marchetta night cream. The girls and their father's reputation is destroyed, and Ava and Tanzie retreat to their mansion. While preparing a home spa treatment, Tanzie accidentally spills nail polish remover. Ava's lit cigarette is then dropped during an argument, starting a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Sassy Girl (2008 Film)
''My Sassy Girl'' is a 2008 romantic comedy film and the remake of the 2001 South Korean film of the same name. It stars Elisha Cuthbert and Jesse Bradford and was directed by Yann Samuell. Both films are based on a true story told in a series of blog posts written by Kim Ho-sik, who later adapted them into a novel. The film is set in New York City's Central Park and Upper East Side. Samuell, describes the film as "a fable about destiny, " while Bradford described it as "a romantic comedy about how they pull each other to a more healthy place by virtue of their relationship." The film was released direct-to-DVD in the United States on August 26, 2008, and on Region 2 DVD in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2008. It was distributed by Entertainment in Video. Plot Charlie Bellow, a polite, kind-hearted young man, hopes he will one day secure a managerial position with the Tiller King agricultural company, where his father works as a maintenance mechanic. When he starts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruel World
''Cruel World'' is a 2005 American independent horror comedy film starring Edward Furlong, Laura Ramsey, Daniel Franzese, Nate Parker, Brian Geraghty, and Jaime Pressly. The film combines elements of a typical slasher film with elements of reality television. The film is about a psychotic man who loses a reality game show and subsequently kills the host. He uses the house where the show took place to film his own reality show. In the show, several contestants perform challenges, and the losers are killed rather than being sent home. The killings are done in serial killer style, and filmed as snuff films. Plot Cathy Anderson, the former star of a reality show similar to '' The Bachelor'', is now married and living with her husband in the house where the show took place. The house still has several secret rooms and passages, as well as a host of cameras all over the estate. Philip Markham, who was a contestant on the show, comes to the home for a visit. Cathy is initially put of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gravedancers
''The Gravedancers'' is a 2006 American horror film. It was chosen as one of the 8 Films To Die For in 2006 and screened at that year's After Dark Horrorfest film festival. Plot An unidentified young woman, alone in a room, is attacked by an invisible assailant, who hangs her in the stairway of her house. As she dies, she drops an ornate black envelope. A year later, former college friends Sid ( Marcus Thomas), Kira ( Josie Maran), and Harris (Dominic Purcell) go out drinking after a funeral. They break into the Crescent View Cemetery to say their final goodbyes to the departed. Continuing their revelries, they get quite drunk. Sid finds a black envelope tucked behind a garland of flowers at the grave. It contains a poem urging those present to be joyful and to dance upon the graves. In their drunken state, the three regard this as a celebration of life, and they dance. Afterwards, mysterious things happen. Harris and his wife Allison (Clare Kramer) are frightened by unexpected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam's Lake
''Sam's Lake'' is a horror film directed by Andrew C. Erin and starring Sandrine Holt, Fay Masterson, and William Gregory Lee, it was an official selection at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. Synopsis Near an isolated lake, an escaped psychiatric patient makes his way through the forest to his childhood home where he kills his family in their sleep before disappearing into the woods never to be found. Many years later the massacre has become legend as disappearances haunt the surrounding towns. Sam (Fay Masterson), a young woman who comes back home every summer to the secluded lakeside cottage where she grew up, returns after the death of her father to reconnect with her traditions, old friends and memories of the past. This year, a group of hip, young urbanites, Kate (Sandrine Holt), Franklin (Stephen Bishop (actor), Stephen Bishop), Melanie (Megan Fahlenbock) and Dominik (Salvatore Antonio) join Sam on her annual trip. But when Sam and her friend Jesse (William Gregory Lee), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destination London , one of a set of board games by RTL games
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Destination London may refer to: * Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, a 2003 film starring Frankie Muniz * Destination (game) ''Destination'' is a brand of taxi-themed board games first published in 2004. Players compete as taxi drivers to acquire play money by moving from destination to destination using dice. Developed by Portsmouth-based entrepreneur Rachel Lowe, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephenie Meyer
Stephenie Meyer (; née Morgan; born December 24, 1973) is an American novelist and film producer. She is best known for writing the vampire romance series ''Twilight'', which has sold over 100 million copies, with translations into 37 different languages. Meyer was the bestselling author of 2008 and 2009 in the U.S., having sold over 29 million books in 2008, and 26.5 million in 2009. Meyer received the 2009 Children's Book of the Year award from the British Book Awards for ''Breaking Dawn'', the ''Twilight'' series finale. An avid young reader, she attended Brigham Young University, marrying at the age of twenty-one before graduating with a degree in English in 1997. Having no prior experience as an author, she conceived the idea for the ''Twilight'' series in a dream. Influenced by the work of Jane Austen and William Shakespeare, she wrote ''Twilight'' soon thereafter. After many rejections, Little, Brown and Company offered her a $750,000 three-book deal which led to a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twilight (Meyer Novel)
''Twilight'' (stylized as ''twilight'') is a 2005 young adult vampire-romance novel by author Stephenie Meyer. It is the first book in the ''Twilight'' series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington. She is endangered after falling in love with Edward Cullen, a 103-year-old vampire frozen in his 17-year-old body. Additional novels in the series are ''New Moon'', ''Eclipse'', and '' Breaking Dawn''. ''Twilight'' received lukewarm reviews. Some praised the novel's tone and its portrayal of common teenage emotions such as alienation and rebellion. Others criticized Meyer's prose and argued the story was lacking in character development. It reached number five on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list within a month of its release and eventually reached first place. The novel was named one of ''Publishers Weekly'''s Best Children's Books of 2005. The film adaptation, released in 2008, was a commercial succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madonna (entertainer)
Madonna Louise Ciccone (; ; born August 16, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Widely dubbed the "Queen of Pop", Madonna has been noted for her continual reinvention and versatility in music production, songwriting, and visual presentation. She has pushed the boundaries of artistic expression in mainstream music, while continuing to maintain control over every aspect of her career. Her works, which incorporate social, political, sexual, and religious themes, have generated both controversy and critical acclaim. A prominent cultural figure crossing both the 20th and 21st centuries, Madonna remains one of the most "well-documented figures of the modern age", with a broad amount of scholarly reviews and literature works on her, as well as an academic mini subdiscipline devoted to her named Madonna studies. At 20 years old, Madonna moved to New York City in 1978 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing as a drummer, guitarist, and vocalist in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
