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Red Widow
''Red Widow'' is an American drama television series created by Melissa Rosenberg, starring Radha Mitchell and Goran Visnjic. On May 11, 2012, ABC picked up ''Red Widow'' as a series. The series ran from March 3 to May 5, 2013 and aired on Sundays. The series is based on a 2010 Dutch drama series titled '' Penoza'' created by Pieter Bart Korthuis and Diederik van Rooijen. On May 10, 2013, ABC canceled the series after one season. Overview The series stars Radha Mitchell as Marta Walraven, a housewife from Northern California whose husband, a marijuana smuggler, was killed. She has to continue his work to protect her family. Cast and characters * Radha Mitchell as Marta Walraven (née Petrova), housewife and widow of Evan Walraven, a marijuana smuggler * Goran Visnjic as Nicholae Schiller, San Francisco's premier crime boss and the man to whom Marta owes money * Clifton Collins Jr. as James Ramos, the FBI agent assigned to Marta's case * Rade Šerbedžija as Andrei Petrov, Mart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama (genre)
In film and television show, television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or docudrama, semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humour, humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police procedural, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, Drama (film and television)#Teen drama, teen drama, and comedy drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular Setting (narrative), setting or subject matter, or they combine a drama's otherwise serious tone with elements that encourage a broader range of Mood (literature), moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of Conflict (process), conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of Film industry, cinema or television that involve Fiction, fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, the province has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, forests, lakes, mountains, inland deserts and grassy plains. British Columbia borders the province of Alberta to the east; the territories of Yukon and Northwest Territories to the north; the U.S. states of Washington (state), Washington, Idaho and Montana to the south, and Alaska to the northwest. With an estimated population of over 5.7million as of 2025, it is Canada's Population of Canada by province and territory, third-most populous province. The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, British Columbia, Victoria, while the province's largest city is Vancouver. Vancouver and its suburbs together make up List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, the third-largest metropolit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Benjamin
Elizabeth Benjamin is an American television writer and producer. Benjamin has worked on the series '' Law & Order: Criminal Intent'', ''Bones'', '' Crash'', ''UnReal'', ''13 Reasons Why'', '' The Man In The High Castle'' , '' Dead To Me'' and ''The Flight Attendant''. A former modern dancer, Benjamin has danced for a number of choreographers including Molissa Fenley, David Parsons, & Twyla Tharp. Awards * Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Television Teleplay for ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' " Want." * Best Writing Short Film, ''Didactic Encounter'', Williamsburg, Brooklyn Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordered by Greenpoint to the north; Bedford–Stuyvesant to the south; Bushwick and East Williamsburg to the east; and the East River to the west. It was an independe ... Film Festival. * Gold Ogle Award for, "The Field," Best Fantasy/Horror/Mystery Audio Production of the Year presented by the American Society for Science Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry McDonough
Terry McDonough is a British television director. He has been active since 1985. He moved on to directing episodes of ''Peak Practice'', '' Eleventh Hour'', '' Where the Heart Is'', '' Sweet Medicine'', ''The Royal'', '' Wire in the Blood'', '' The Street'' and ''Vincent''. In 2008, he began directing episodes of American television series namely ''Breaking Bad'', ''The Gates'', ''No Ordinary Family'', ''Tower Prep,'' '' Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior'' and the mystery miniseries ''Clue''. In January 2014, he was announced as the director of the BBC docudrama ''An Adventure in Space and Time'', which depicts the creation of the iconic British science-fiction series ''Doctor Who''. In 2015 and 2016, he directed four episodes of the first season of ''The Expanse'', including the pilot episode and the season finale. He directed the 2024 film '' Damaged'' starring Samuel L. Jackson and Vincent Cassel Vincent Cassel (; ; born 23 November 1966) is a French actor. He has ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Sackheim
Daniel Sackheim (born in 1962) is an American television and film director, producer, and photographer. Sackheim has produced and directed for ''The X-Files'', ''Law & Order'', ''House'' and ''NYPD Blue''. He also directed '' The Walking Dead,'' ''The Americans,'' and ''Ozark'', for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award. He has won a Primetime Emmy Award as a director and been nominated twice for his work as a producer and director. Sackheim directed the third and fourth episodes of the sixth season of ''Game of Thrones''. Life and career Daniel Sackheim was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles, the son of screenwriter William Sackheim and his wife JoAnne (née Cohen).Los Angeles Times: "JoAnne Sackheim July 11, 1924 - May 15, 2014 May 15, 2014 His broth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Pellington
Mark Pellington (born March 17, 1962) is an American film director, writer, and producer. Life and career Pellington was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Bill Pellington, an All-Pro linebacker who played American Football, football with the Baltimore Colts for 12 seasons. Pellington then began directing feature films, including ''Going All the Way'' (1997), starring Ben Affleck and Rachel Weisz, ''Arlington Road'' (1999), starring Tim Robbins and Jeff Bridges, as well as ''The Mothman Prophecies (film), The Mothman Prophecies'' (2002), starring Richard Gere dealing with mysterious deaths foretold by a strange red-eyed flying creature, Mothman. Filmography Director Feature films Short films & documentaries Television Music videos Producer Feature films References External links * * Mark Pellington'Official Website* Mark Pellington's Guest DJ Set on KCRKCRW Guest DJ Project {{DEFAULTSORT:Mark Pellington 1962 births Living people American mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond District, San Francisco
The Richmond District is a neighborhood in the northwest corner of San Francisco, on the West Side (San Francisco), West Side of the city. Developed initially in the late 19th century. It is sometimes confused with the city of Richmond, California, Richmond, which is northeast of San Francisco; accordingly, the neighborhood usually is referred to as "the Richmond." The Richmond is bordered by Golden Gate Park on the south, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Lincoln Park (San Francisco), Lincoln Park, Mountain Lake Park and the Presidio of San Francisco to the north, bisected by the Presidio Greenbelt. Name The neighborhood was given its name by Australians, Australian immigrant and art dealer George Turner Marsh, one of the neighborhood's earliest residents, who called his home "the Richmond House" after Richmond, Victoria, Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. In 1917, the district was legally named "Park-Presidio District", chosen to avoid confusion between the distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Mafia
The Russian mafia ( or ), also known as Bratva ( ; ) less as Obshchak (Общак) or Brigades (Бригады) , is a collective of various organized crime related elements originating or/and operating in Russia. In December 2009, Timur Lakhonin, the head of the National Central Bureau of Interpol within Russia, stated that "Certainly, there is crime involving our former compatriots abroad, but there is no data suggesting that an organized structure of criminal groups comprising former Russians exists abroad" on the topic of international Russian criminal gangs. In August 2010, Alain Bauer, a criminologist from France, said that the Russian mafia "is one of the best structured criminal organizations in Europe, with a quasi-military operation" in their international activities. The Russian mafia, according to Mark Galeotti, an expert in modern Russia, is a highly organized and global criminal network that emerged and expanded significantly after the collapse of the Sovi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern California
Northern California (commonly shortened to NorCal) is a geocultural region that comprises the northern portion of the U.S. state of California, spanning the northernmost 48 of the state's List of counties in California, 58 counties. Northern California in its largest definition is determined by dividing the state into two regions, the other being Southern California. The main northern population centers include the San Francisco Bay Area (anchored by the cities of San Jose, California, San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland, California, Oakland), the Greater Sacramento area (anchored by the state capital Sacramento, California, Sacramento), the Redding, California, area south of the Cascade Range, and the Metropolitan Fresno area (anchored by the city of Fresno, California, Fresno). Northern California also contains Sequoia sempervirens, redwood forests, along with most of the Sierra Nevada, including Yosemite Valley and part of Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta (the second-highest peak in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diederik Van Rooijen
Diederik van RooijenSometimes spelled as Diederik Van Rooijen. (born 26 December 1975) is a Dutch television and film director. Career Film Van Rooijen graduated in 2001 from the Netherlands Film Academy with his English-language film ''Chalk''. ''Chalk'' was also one of the graduation films of cinematographer Lennert Hillege. Van Rooijen and Hillege worked together on many films in the years that followed, including ''Mass'' (2005), ''De bode'' (2005), ''Bollywood Hero (film), Bollywood Hero'' (2009), ''Stella's oorlog'' (2009), ''Taped'' (2012) and ''Daylight (2013 film), Daylight (Daglicht)'' (2013). In 2002, he directed the film ''A Funeral for Alan Smithee, Mr. Smithee'' which follows an unnamed girl (Priscilla Knetemann) burying a dead bird. His short film ''Babyphoned'' won the Nederlandse Programma Stichting, NPS Award for Best Short Film at the 2002 Netherlands Film Festival. Van Rooijen made his feature film debut with his 2003 film ''Zulaika''. The film is the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American Commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast Television broadcaster, television and radio Radio network, network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company. ABC is headquartered on Riverside Drive in Burbank, California, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Team Disney – Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network maintains secondary offices at 77 66th Street (Manhattan), West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, which houses its broadcast center and the headquarters of its news division, ABC News (United States), ABC News. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. The youngest of the "Big Three (American television), Big Three" American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
