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Mórbido Fest
Mórbido Fest is an annual fantasy and horror film festival in Mexico City, Mexico. Known as "Mexico’s Premier Horror Event", it was founded in 2008 by Pablo Guisa Koestinger and is a member of the Méliès International Festivals Federation. History Prior guests include Roger Corman, Barbara Crampton, Elijah Wood, Hideo Nakata, John Landis and Joe Dante. The 2016 event took place November 2–6 and featured 28 films from 13 nations, plus 77 short films from 20 nations, 12 Latin-American Premiers and 13 Mexican Premiers, including ''Demon'', '' The Wailing'', ''Miruthan'', '' Scare Campaign'', ''Seoul Station'', '' Shut In'', '' The Mermaid'' and '' The Thinning''. The 2017 event saw the debut of Gigi Saul Guerrero's web series ''La Quinceanera''. The 2019 event took place October 30 to November 3 and saw Latin premieres for Paco Plaza's ''Eye for an Eye'' , Alice Waddington’s feature debut '' Paradise Hills'' and Richard Elfman's '' Aliens, Clowns & Geeks''. Juan Diego ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and financial centers in the world, and is classified as an Globalization and World Cities Research Network, Alpha world city according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) 2024 ranking. Mexico City is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 Boroughs of Mexico City, boroughs or , which are in turn divided into List of neighborhoods in Mexico City, neighborhoods or . The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the list of largest cities#List, sixth-largest metropolitan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mermaid (2016 Film)
''The Mermaid'' () is a 2016 romantic fantasy comedy film directed, co-written and produced by Stephen Chow, which stars Lin Yun, Deng Chao, Zhang Yuqi and Show Lo. A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the film tells the story of a playboy businessman ( Deng Chao) who falls in love with a mermaid ( Lin Yun) sent to assassinate him. The film was released in China on 8 February 2016, and broke numerous box office records, including biggest opening day and biggest single-day gross through its seventh day of release. ''The Mermaid'' had the biggest opening week of all time in China, where it became the thirteenth-highest-grossing film of all time. The film was the highest-grossing non-English, non-Hollywood movie globally from 2016 to 2019. A sequel is reported to have completed filming. A treatment for an American remake is being written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao. Plot Playboy property tycoon Liu Xuan ( Deng Chao) purchases the Green Gulf, a coastal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bone Woman
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teatro De La Ciudad
The (Theater of the City) was built as the (Esperanza Iris Theatre) in 1918 and is now one of Mexico City’s public venues for cultural events. The theater is located in the historic center of Mexico City on Donceles Street 36. The former Esperanza Iris Theatre The current theater building was constructed in 1918, on the site of the prior Teatro Xicoténcatl. It was originally named after diva Esperanza Iris. Iris, born María Esperanza Bonfil, was an operetta singer from the state of Tabasco active in the early 20th century. Her career was most successful in Mexico City, Havana and Madrid, but she toured extensively in the Americas. Some of her best known works are ''The Merry Widow'', ''The Count of Luxembourg'' and ''.'' She also acted in a number of films in the 1930s.'''' The theatre was partially funded by Iris, from earnings from a recent tour. The architects were Capetillo Servín and who based the work on the La Scala opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Stanley (director)
Richard Stanley is a South African filmmaker, known for his work in the horror genre. He began his career making short films and music videos, and subsequently directed the feature films '' Hardware'' (1990) and ''Dust Devil'' (1992). He was the original director of ''The Island of Dr. Moreau'' (1996), but was fired early into principal photography due to creative differences, an episode recounted in the 2014 documentary '' Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau''. In 2019, he returned to feature films after more than twenty years, directing the H. P. Lovecraft adaptation '' Color Out of Space.'' Career Early career (1983–1987) Stanley's first foray into film making began in high school where he joined the Young Filmmaker's Workshop. Here he created his first film, ''Rites of Passage''. Shot on super-8 stock, the 10-minute short film draws comparisons between modern man and primitive man. The short eventually won Stanley the IAC Internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
