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Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul William Scott Anderson (born 4 March 1965) is an English filmmaker who regularly works in science fiction films and video game adaptations. Anderson made his feature film debut with the British independent film '' Shopping'' (1994), and found commercial success with his second film, the Hollywood-produced '' Mortal Kombat'' (1995), based on the first couple of video games of the same name by Midway Games. He is best known as the creative voice behind the first six films of the ''Resident Evil'' film series (2002–2016), which stars Milla Jovovich (whom he married in 2009), and is based on the Capcom video game series of the same name. The series's first six films, of which Anderson directed four, have collectively grossed over $1 billion worldwide, making it the most commercially successful video game adaptation of all time. Other of Anderson's notable films are ''Event Horizon'' (1997), an initial critical and commercial disappointment that found renewed appreci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WonderCon
WonderCon is an annual comic book, science fiction, and film convention held in the San Francisco Bay Area (1987–2011), then—under the name WonderCon Anaheim—in Anaheim, California (2012–2015, 2017–present), and WonderCon Los Angeles in 2016."WonderCon Moves To Anaheim With Costumed Avengers In Tow," CBS 2 San Francisco (March 17, 2012). The convention returned to the in 2017 after a one-year stint in Los Angeles due to construction at the Anaheim Convention Center. The convention was conceived by retailer [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capcom
is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It has created a number of multi-million-selling game franchises, with its most commercially successful being '' Resident Evil'', '' Monster Hunter'', '' Street Fighter'', ''Mega Man'', ''Devil May Cry'', '' Dead Rising'', and '' Marvel vs. Capcom''. Mega Man himself serves as the official mascot of the company. Established in 1979, it has become an international enterprise with subsidiaries in East Asia (Hong Kong), Europe (London, England), and North America (San Francisco, California). History Capcom's predecessor, I.R.M. Corporation, was founded on May 30, 1979 by Kenzo Tsujimoto, who was still president of Irem Corporation when he founded I.R.M. He worked concomitantly in both companies until leaving the former in 1983. The original companies that spawned Capcom's Japan branch were I.R.M. and its subsidiary Japan Capsule Computers Co., Ltd., both of which were devoted to the manufacture and distribution of electronic g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as drama or gangster film, but also include comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as mystery, suspense or noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. '' C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Grammar School, Newcastle
(By Learning, You Will Lead) , established = , closed = , type = Grammar SchoolIndependent day school , religion = , president = , head_label = Headmaster , head = Geoffrey Stanford , r_head_label = , r_head = , chair_label = , chair = , founder = Thomas Horsley , specialist = , address = Eskdale Terrace , city = Newcastle upon Tyne , country = England , postcode = NE2 4DX , local_authority = , urn = 108549 , ofsted = , staff = 91 , enrolment = 1,247 , gender = Coeducational , lower_age = , upper_age = , houses = Collingwood, Eldon, Horsley, Stowell , colours = , publication = , free_label_1 = Former pupils , free_1 = Old Novocastrians , free_label_2 = , free_2 = , free_label_3 = , free_3 = , website www.rgs.newcastle.sch.uk The Royal Grammar School (RGS), Newcastle upon Tyne is a selective British independent day school for pupils aged between 7 and 18 years. Founded in 1525 by Thomas Horsley, the Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne, it received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super-8 Camera
A Super 8mm camera is a motion picture camera specifically manufactured to use the Super 8mm motion picture format. Super 8mm film cameras were first manufactured in 1965 by Kodak for their newly introduced amateur film format, which replaced the Standard 8 mm film format. Manufacture continued until the rise in popularity of video cameras in the mid 1970s. In 2014 the first new Super 8mm camera in 30 years was introduced by the Danish company Logmar Camera Solutions. Most other cameras readily available are from the 1960s through the 1980s. Super 8mm cameras The first camera to be formatted for the new film was the Kodak M2. During the late 1960s, cameras were only formatted to film at 18 frames per second, but as technology improved, speeds such as 24 frame/s (the motion-picture standard) and faster speeds (for slow-motion filming) were incorporated into camera mechanics. Super 8mm film stock Super 8mm film cameras do not need to use the Super 8mm film produced by Kodak, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impact Pictures
Impact Pictures is an independent film production company founded in 2001 by British filmmakers Jeremy Bolt and Paul W. S. Anderson. Aside from Anderson's film projects (including the ''Resident Evil'' film series), the company has also been involved in a number of TV and independent productions. The company has collaborated with several larger studios, most frequently Davis Films, Constantin Film and Screen Gems. Films * ''The Big Fish'' * '' Shopping'' * ''Event Horizon'' * ''Soldier'' * ''Vigo'' * '' The Sight'' * ''Stiff Upper Lips'' * '' There's Only One Jimmy Grimble'' * ''Massacre Up North'' * '' The Hole'' * ''Resident Evil'' * '' The Dark'' * '' AVP: Alien vs. Predator'' * '' Resident Evil: Apocalypse'' * '' DOA: Dead or Alive'' * '' Death Race'' * '' Resident Evil: Extinction'' * ''Pandorum'' * '' Resident Evil: Afterlife'' * ''The Three Musketeers'' * '' Lost Christmas'' * '' Pompeii'' * '' Resident Evil: Retribution'' * '' Resident Evil: The Final Chapter'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Bolt
Jeremy Bolt (born 1965) is a British film producer. After co-founding Impact Pictures with Paul W. S. Anderson in 1992, Bolt has produced the majority of Anderson's films. He is most well-known for producing the ''Resident Evil'' series and '' Death Race''. As well as producing big budget genre movies, Bolt also produced the art house film ''Vigo'' for Film Four (directed by Julien Temple), and the comedy ''Stiff Upper Lips'' (starring Peter Ustinov). He has also produced ''There’s Only One Jimmy Grimble'' (starring Ray Winstone and Robert Carlyle), and teen horror '' The Hole'' (starring Thora Birch and Keira Knightley), both for Pathe Pictures. Education Bolt was educated at Edge Grove School, a boys' preparatory independent school in the village of Aldenham in Hertfordshire in Southern England, and then Wellington College. Career Bolt and Anderson's first collaboration, 1994's '' Shopping'' starring Jude Law ( Channel Four Films), was a film about joyriding and ram-ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Race 2000
''Death Race 2000'' is a 1975 American science fiction action film produced by Roger Corman, directed by Paul Bartel, and starring David Carradine. The film takes place in a dystopian American society in the year 2000, where the murderous Transcontinental Road Race has become a form of national entertainment. The screenplay is based on the short story ''The Racer'' by Ib Melchior.Bosnan, John and Nichols, Peter, "Death Race 2000" in Clute, John and Nichols, Peter, eds. (1998) ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' (2nd edition) Orbit Plot After the "World Crash of '79", massive civil unrest and economic ruin occurs. The United States government is restructured into a totalitarian regime under martial law. To pacify the population, the government has created the Transcontinental Road Race, where a group of drivers race across the country in their high-powered cars and which is infamous for violence, gore, and innocent pedestrians being struck and killed for bonus points. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Race (2008 Film)
''Death Race'' is a 2008 dystopian action thriller film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. It stars Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, and Joan Allen. Though referred to as a remake of the 1975 film '' Death Race 2000'' (which in turn is based on Ib Melchior's short story "The Racer") in reviews and marketing materials, director Paul W. S. Anderson stated in the DVD commentary that he thought of the film as something of a prequel. A remake had been in development since 2002, though production was delayed by disapproval of early screenplays, then placed in turnaround following a dispute between Paramount Pictures and the producer duo Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner (the latter was the producer without Cruise in the film). ''Death Race'' was acquired by Universal Pictures, and Anderson re-joined the project to write and direct. Filming began in Montreal in August 2007, and the completed project was released on August 22, 2008. The film received mixed reviews from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Predator (franchise)
''Predator'' is an American science fiction action anthology media franchise centered on the film series depicting humankind's encounters with an intelligent race of extraterrestrial trophy-seeking hunters known as the " Yautja". Produced and distributed by 20th Century Fox, the series began with ''Predator'' (1987), directed by John McTiernan, and was followed by three sequels, ''Predator 2'' (1990), '' Predators'' (2010), '' The Predator'' (2018), and one prequel, ''Prey'' (2022). The series has led to numerous novels, comics, and video game spin-offs such as '' Predator: Concrete Jungle'' (2005) and '' Predator: Hunting Grounds'' (2020). The '' Alien vs. Predator'' franchise combines the continuities and universe of the ''Alien'' franchise with the ''Predator'' franchise and consists of two films as well as varying series of comics, books, and video games. Premise The ''Predator'' franchise depicts a series of deadly encounters between humanity and a hostile, trophy hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alien (franchise)
''Alien'' is a science-fiction horror and action media franchise centered on the film series which depicts warrant officer Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and her battles with an extraterrestrial lifeform, commonly referred to as "the Alien" or Xenomorph. Produced and distributed by 20th Century Studios, the series began with ''Alien'' (1979), directed by Ridley Scott, and was followed by three sequels: ''Aliens'' (1986), directed by James Cameron; ''Alien 3'' (1992), directed by David Fincher, and ''Alien Resurrection'' (1997), directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Scott also directed a prequel series, composed of ''Prometheus'' (2012) and '' Alien: Covenant'' (2017), which follows the exploits of the David 8 android and the creators of the eponymous creatures referred to as the "Engineers". The series has led to numerous novels, comics, video games and an upcoming television series developed by Scott for FX on Hulu, with Noah Hawley. It has inspired a number of spin-offs – mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crossover (fiction)
A crossover is the placement of two or more otherwise discrete fictional characters, settings, or universes into the context of a single story. They can arise from legal agreements between the relevant copyright holders, unofficial efforts by fans, or common corporate ownership. Background Official Crossovers often occur in an official capacity in order for the intellectual property rights holders to reap the financial reward of combining two or more popular, established properties. In other cases, the crossover can serve to introduce a new concept derivative of an older one. Crossovers generally occur between properties owned by a single holder, but they can, more rarely, involve properties from different holders, provided that the inherent legal obstacles can be overcome. They may also involve using characters that have passed into the public domain with those concurrently under copyright protection. A crossover story may try to explain its own reason for the crossov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
