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Middle Men (film)
''Middle Men'' is a 2009 American drama film directed by George Gallo and written by Gallo and Andy Weiss. It stars Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, Gabriel Macht and James Caan. The movie is based on the experiences of Christopher Mallick, who was previously associated with the internet billing company Epoch and was the founder of ePassporte. Christopher Mallick has been accused of stealing millions of dollars from his customers at ePassporte to fund the creation of the film. Plot In 2004 Houston, Jack Harris leaves home with several million dollars in a duffel bag, to pay Russian mobsters. Harris is worried about the safety of his wife Diana and their children. Flashback to 1997 in Los Angeles, where Jack helps a sick friend managing a nightclub. Nearby, Wayne Beering and Buck Dolby are best friends renting together. The drug-addicted friends are watching porn movie reels when Wayne asks why there is no porn on the internet. Buck, a former NASA scientist, takes 15 minutes to creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gallo
George Gallo Jr. (born March 20, 1956) is an American screenwriter, film director, producer, painter and musician. He is known for writing ''Midnight Run'' and ''29th Street (film), 29th Street'', and is an accomplished painter in the style of the Pennsylvania Impressionism, Pennsylvania Impressionists. In 1990, he won the coveted Arts for the Parks award, and has had three one-man exhibitions in New York City. In 2010, Gallo wrote and directed the film ''Middle Men (film), Middle Men'' starring Luke Wilson. Filmography Producer only Other works References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gallo, George 1956 births Living people 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American painters 20th-century American screenwriters 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American painters 21st-century American screenwriters American Impressionist painters American male painters American male screenwriters Film directors from New York (state) Film producer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Vegas
Las Vegas, colloquially referred to as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-largest in the Southwestern United States. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city had 641,903 residents in 2020, with a metropolitan population of 2,227,053, making it the 24th-most populous city in the United States. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city, known primarily for its gambling, shopping, fine dining, entertainment, and nightlife. Most of these venues are located in downtown Las Vegas or on the Las Vegas Strip, which is outside city limits in the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester. The Las Vegas Valley serves as the leading financial, commercial, and cultural center in Nevada. Las Vegas was settled in 1905 and officially incorporated in 1911. At the close of the 20th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by Amazon. History Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis. In 1999, he started to post the Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. Along with the weekend grosses, he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules and other charts, such as all-time charts, international box office charts, genre charts, and actor and director charts. The site gradually expanded to include weekend charts goin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metacritic
Metacritic is an American website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999, and was acquired by Fandom, Inc. in 2022. Metacritic turns each critic and user review into respective percentage score. This can be done either by calculating the score from the rating given or by making a subjective decision based on the review's quality. Before averaging the scores, they are adjusted based on the critic's popularity, reputation, and the number of reviews they have written. The site also includes a summary from each review and links to the original source, using colors like green, yellow, or red to indicate the overall sentiment of the critics. Metacritic won two Webby Awards for excellence as an aggregation website. It is regarded as the foremost online rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator, review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor Theatre, stage performance, the direct inspiration for the name from Duong, Lee, and Wang came from an equivalent scene in the 1992 Canadian film ''Léolo''. Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros. in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango Media, Fandango ticketing company. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. The site is influential among moviegoers, a third of whom say they consult it before going to the cinema in the U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pornhub
Pornhub is a Canadian-owned Internet pornography video-sharing website, one of several owned by adult entertainment conglomerate Aylo. , Pornhub is the 16th- most-visited website in the world and the most-visited adult website. The site allows visitors to view pornographic videos from various categories, including professional and amateur pornography, and to upload and share their own videos. Content can be flagged if it violates the website's terms of service. The site also hosts the Pornhub Awards annually. In December 2020, following a ''New York Times'' exposé of non-consensual pornography and sex trafficking, payment processors Mastercard and Visa cut their services to Pornhub. Pornhub then removed all videos uploaded by unverified users, reducing the total content from 13million to 4million videos. A 2023 documentary, '' Money Shot: The Pornhub Story'', covers the opposition to Pornhub and the views of some pornographic performers. History Pornhub was launche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ashton (actor)
John David Ashton (February 22, 1948 – September 26, 2024) was an American actor, known for his roles in the ''Beverly Hills Cop'' films, '' Some Kind of Wonderful'', and ''Midnight Run''. Biography Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Ashton attended Defiance College in Ohio and was a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Theatre and Dance. He attended Enfield High School in Enfield, Connecticut. Ashton made numerous appearances in both television and feature films. He played Willie Joe Garr on several episodes of ''Dallas''. He appeared in an episode of ''Columbo'', "Negative Reaction", and in episode 5 of '' Police Squad!'', "Rendezvous at Big Gulch (Terror in the Neighborhood)". His early film credits included roles in '' An Eye for an Eye'' (1973), '' Breaking Away'' (1979), '' Borderline'' (1980), '' Honky Tonk Freeway'' (1981), '' Last Resort'' (1986) and ''King Kong Lives'' (1986). Ashton starred as Detective Sergeant John Taggart in the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelsey Grammer
Allen Kelsey Grammer (born February 21, 1955) is an American actor and producer. He gained fame for his role as the psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcom ''Cheers'' (1984–1993) and its spin-off ''Frasier'' (1993–2004, and again Frasier (2023 TV series), from 2023 to 2024). At more than 20 years on-air, this is one of the longest-running roles played by a single live-action actor in primetime television history. He has received List of awards and nominations received by Kelsey Grammer, numerous accolades including a total of six Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Tony Award. Grammer, having trained as an actor at Juilliard School, Juilliard and the Old Globe Theatre, made his professional acting debut as Macbeth#Characters, Lennox in the 1981 Broadway (theatre), Broadway revival of ''Macbeth''. The following year, he portrayed Michael Cassio, Cassio acting opposite Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones in ''Othello''. In mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Crews
Terry Alan Crews (born July 30, 1968) is an American actor, television host, and former professional American football, football player. He played Julius Rock in the UPN/The CW Television Network, CW sitcom ''Everybody Hates Chris'', which aired from 2005 to 2009, and portrayed Terry Jeffords in the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox and NBC sitcom ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine'' (2013–2021). Crews starred in the Black Entertainment Television, BET reality series ''The Family Crews'' (2010–2011), and hosted the U.S. version of the game show ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (American game show), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' from 2014 to 2015. He has appeared in films, including ''Friday After Next'' (2002), ''White Chicks'' (2004), ''Idiocracy'' (2006), ''Blended (film), Blended'' (2014), The Expendables (franchise), ''The Expendables'' film series (2010–2014), and ''Rumble (2021 film), Rumble'' (2021). Crews began hosting ''America's Got Talent'' in 2019, following his involvement in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Jordan
Claudia Angela Jordan (born April 12, 1973) is an American talk show host, actress, model, businesswoman, and reality television and radio personality. She is known for appearing as a model on the American version of '' Deal or No Deal'' and ''The Price Is Right'', and for competing on seasons 2 and 6 of '' The Celebrity Apprentice'' as well as the first season of '' Deal or No Deal Island''. Jordan appeared on the Bravo reality television series '' The Real Housewives of Atlanta'' for its seventh season. Career Jordan appeared on the second season of '' The Celebrity Apprentice''. In the series, celebrities raise money for a charity of their choice; Jordan selected the NAPSAC Foundation as her charity. She was later asked to return to compete on the All-Star version of '' The Celebrity Apprentice''. She was then hired by ''Apprentice'' host Donald Trump to co-host the Miss Universe 2009 pageant from the Bahamas alongside Billy Bush. Jordan's first hosting job was for Fox Spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rade Šerbedžija
Rade Šerbedžija ( sr-Cyrl, Раде Шербеџија, ; born 27 July 1946) is a Croatian actor, director and musician. He is known for his portrayals of imposing figures on both sides of the law. He was one of the best known Yugoslav actors in the 1970s and 1980s. He is internationally known mainly for his role as Boris the Blade in '' Snatch'' (2000), his supporting roles in such Hollywood films as '' The Saint'' (1997), '' Eyes Wide Shut'' (1999), '' Mission: Impossible 2'' (2000), '' X-Men: First Class'' (2011), '' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1'' (2010), and '' Taken 2'' (2012); and for his recurring role as former Soviet Army General Dmitri Gredenko in Season 6 of TV action series '' 24''. Šerbedžija is a four-time recipient of the Golden Arena for Best Actor, Croatia’s highest filmmaking honors. He won the Critics Award for Best Actor at the 51st Venice International Film Festival for his performance in ''Before the Rain'' (1994). He was awarded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Ramsey
Laura Ramsey (born November 14, 1982) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her roles in films such as ''She's the Man'' and '' The Covenant'' (both (2006), '' The Ruins'' (2008), '' Middle Men''(2009), ''Kill the Irishman'' (2011), and '' Are You Here'' (2013). Early life and education Ramsey was born on November 14, 1982, in Brandon, Wisconsin, the daughter of Jill and Mark Ramsey. She graduated from Laconia High School in Rosendale, Wisconsin, in 2001 and then attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin. Career Ramsey was approached while working in a restaurant on Sunset Boulevard and received an audition the next day, for a role she won—''The Real Cancun'', a documentary that revolves around the exploits of several American youths in Mexico. She then began a role in ABC's television series, '' The Days'' before making her feature-film acting debut with Catherine Hardwicke's ''Lords of Dogtown''. She returned to television and made an appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
