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Skyline (2010 Film)
''Skyline'' is a 2010 American science fiction disaster film directed by Greg and Colin Strause and co-produced and written by Liam O'Donnell. It stars Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson, Brittany Daniel, Crystal Reed, David Zayas, and Donald Faison as a group of Los Angeles residents who witness an alien invasion while in a condominium. Released on November 12, 2010, in the United States, ''Skyline'' was panned by critics, who lamented the plot and script, though some praised the CGI effects. The film grossed $68.3 million worldwide against its $10–20 million budget. ''Skyline'' initiated the ''Skyline'' film series, being followed by three sequels: ''Beyond Skyline'' (2017), '' Skylines'' (2020) and '' Skyline: Warpath'' (2025). Plot Jarrod and his wife Elaine arrive in Los Angeles, California for Jarrod's best friend Terry's birthday party. They celebrate with Terry's wife, Candice, and his assistant, Denise. During a private argument about whether or not they should move ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg And Colin Strause
Greg and Colin Strause, known professionally as The Brothers Strause, are American film directors, producers and Special effect, special effects artists. They are known for directing the 2007 film ''Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem'' and the 2010 film ''Skyline (2010 film), Skyline.'' The brother duo are also founders of Hydraulx, a special effects company. Life and career They began experimenting with visual effects in their early teens using Amiga computers. In 1995, they moved to Los Angeles and started working on the special effects for films such as '' The Nutty Professor (1996 film), The Nutty Professor'' (1996) and ''The X-Files (film), The X-Files''. In 1996, they formed a digital effects company with partners Edson Williams and Mat Beck that was called Pixel Envy, which they worked on until 2002. They began working on big-budget films such as ''Volcano (1997 film), Volcano'' and the iceberg sequence of James Cameron's Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning ''Titanic (1997 fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wrap
''TheWrap'' is an American online news organization that covers the business of entertainment and media. It was founded by journalist Sharon Waxman in 2009 and is based in Los Angeles. The site features original reporting, analysis, and editorial coverage of the entertainment industry, with particular focus on Hollywood film, television, and streaming media. History ''TheWrap'' was launched in January 2009 by Sharon Waxman, a former Hollywood correspondent for ''The New York Times'' and ''The Washington Post ''The Washington Post'', locally known as ''The'' ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'' or ''WP'', is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington m ...''. The site was created to offer in-depth business coverage of the entertainment industry, including breaking news, analysis, and opinion. In November 2015, TheWrap expanded its editorial and digital operations with a ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JoBlo
JoBlo.com is an anchor website of the JoBlo Movie Network focused on news, film reviews, and film trailers. The network has YouTube channels that focus on trailers, movie clips, celebrity interviews, original content, and film distribution. History In 1998, Montreal native Berge "JoBlo" Garabedian founded JoBlo.com. Garabedian is a writer and producer of Armenian descent. His film reviews generally critiqued movies from the perspective of an average movie-goer. The site eventually hired other critics to write reviews. Garabedian wrote more than 1,400 reviews as the site's main critic, until health problems forced him to withdraw in 2007. The website’s name is a play on " Joe Blow," and registered users of the website are known as "schmoes." The site also features news about movies, movie trailers, movie previews, and celebrity interviews. In 2001, the site started holding an annual awards presentation for films chosen by the site's visitors that became known as "The Golden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Del Rey
Marina del Rey ( Spanish for "Marina of the King") is an unincorporated seaside community in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The eponymous harbor is a major boating and water recreation destination of the Greater Los Angeles area. The port is North America's largest man-made small-craft harbor and is home to approximately 5,000 boats. The area is a popular tourism destination for both land and water activities such as paddle board and kayak rentals, dining cruises, and yacht charters. Land activities include bicycling on several bicycle paths, walking paths along the waterfront, and birdwatching (birding). Wildlife watching opportunities include California sea lions and harbor seals. Dolphins and whales occasionally visit the deeper waters of the harbor. This Westside locale is approximately south of Santa Monica, north of Los Angeles International Airport, and west-southwest of downtown Los Angeles. The harbor is owned by Los Angeles County and managed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Gammell
Robin Gammell (born September 22, 1936) is a Canadian film, television and stage actor."Transplanted to Hollywood". ''The Globe and Mail'', January 24, 1981. Career Gammell began acting as a junior ensemble member at the Stratford Festival, playing roles including Robin Starveling in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', Octavius in ''Julius Caesar'', Ariel in ''The Tempest'', and Malcolm in ''Macbeth''; he later reprised this role for the 1961 television film ''Macbeth'' opposite Sean Connery in the title role. He later moved on to film and television work, including the films '' The Pyx'' (1973), ''Lipstick'' (1976), '' Raid on Entebbe'' (1977), ''Rituals'' (1977), '' Full Circle'' (1977), '' The Concorde ... Airport '79'' (1979), '' Murder by Phone'' (1982), '' The Star Chamber'' (1983), '' Project X'' (1987) and '' Striker's Mountain'' (1987), recurring or starring roles in '' Wiseguy'', '' WIOU'', '' Street Legal'', ''Amazing Grace'', ''Millennium'', '' Manhattan, AZ'' and ''Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Hopkins
Neil Edward Hopkins (born May 13, 1977) is an American television and film actor. He is a trained actor and singer, best known for his portrayal of Charlie's heroin-addicted brother Liam on '' Lost''. Early life and education Hopkins was born in Trenton, New Jersey. Later, he and his family moved to Aurora, Colorado, where he graduated from Regis Jesuit High School in 1995. He then attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1996 to 1999. He is a graduate of the American Conservatory Theater's MFA program. Career Hopkins has portrayed characters in several television shows including a "Specialist" in ''Birds of Prey'', "Lester" in ''Crossing Jordan'', and has had appearances in '' Dragnet'', ''Charmed'', '' Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service'', ''My Name Is Earl'', '' Point Pleasant'' and ''Ghost Whisperer''. Hopkins has also starred in an episode of '' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' as "Donny Drummer" and had a recurring role on ''Lost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare, maritime military branch, service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is the world's most powerful navy with the largest Displacement (ship), displacement, at 4.5 million tons in 2021. It has the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet, with List of aircraft carriers in service, eleven in service, one undergoing trials, two new carriers under construction, and six other carriers planned as of 2024. With 336,978 personnel on active duty and 101,583 in the Ready Reserve, the U.S. Navy is the third largest of the United States military service branches in terms of personnel. It has 299 deployable combat vessels and about 4,012 operational aircraft as of 18 July 2023. The U.S. Navy is one of six United States Armed Forces, armed forces of the United States and one of eight uniformed services of the United States. The United States Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warpath
Warpath may refer to: *Great Indian Warpath, a network of trails in eastern North America used by Native Americans Characters *Warpath (comics) James Proudstar, known first as Thunderbird and then as Warpath, is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. Proudstar first appears as the second Thunderbird in ''New Muta ..., a Marvel Comics character * Warpath (''Transformers''), a character in the ''Transformers'' franchise Games * ''Warpath'' (video game), a 2006 video game by Digital Extremes for Microsoft Windows and Xbox *'' Warpath: Jurassic Park'', a 1999 video game based on the films ''Jurassic Park'' and ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' *''Warpath'', a miniature game by Mantic Games *''Warpath'', a 1994 video game by Synthetic Reality for Microsoft Windows *''Warpath'', a free-to-play ww2 mobile game Music * ''Warpath'' (Boris album), 2015 * ''Warpath'' (Six Feet Under album), 1997 *"Warpath", a so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skylines (film)
''Skylines'' (stylized as ''SKYLIN3S'', and also known as ''Skyline 3'') is a 2020 American science fiction action film co-produced and directed by Liam O'Donnell which he wrote from a story he developed with producer Matthew E. Chausse. It is a sequel to ''Beyond Skyline'' (2017), and the third installment in the ''Skyline'' film series. The film premiered at the London FrightFest film festival on October 25, 2020, and was released on December 18, 2020, in the United States in theaters and on Apple TV by Vertical Entertainment (all during the COVID-19 pandemic). Plot Ten years after the first invasion, Rose leads the human fleet against the aliens, now called 'Harvesters', aboard the ''Armada'', a mother ship orbiting the Moon. When she breaks through enemy lines, she hesitates to fire, one of her ships is destroyed. As the aliens prepare to attack Earth, Rose sacrifices another one of her ships, killing thousands, but ultimately destroys the ''Armada''. Overcome with guilt, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond Skyline
''Beyond Skyline'' is a 2017 American science fiction action film written, co-produced and directed by Liam O'Donnell in his directorial debut. It stars Frank Grillo, Bojana Novakovic, Jonny Weston, Iko Uwais, Callan Mulvey, Yayan Ruhian, Pamelyn Chee, Betty Gabriel, and Antonio Fargas. It is the sequel to the 2010 film ''Skyline'' and the second installment in the ''Skyline'' film series, set concurrently with the events of the first film. The film was released on December 15, 2017, in the United States by Vertical Entertainment. Unlike its critically panned predecessor, ''Beyond Skyline'' received mixed reviews, with several critics calling it an improvement over the original. Plot Mark Corley, a Los Angeles police detective, helps his estranged son, Trent, out of jail just as an alien invasion begins. Much of the city's population is taken up into various spaceships by a blue light. Mark leads a group of surviving humans through underground subway tunnels to escape, though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skyline (film Series)
The ''Skyline'' film series consists of American science fiction-disaster alien action films. Created by Joshua Cordes and Liam O'Donnell, the series centers around a global alien invasion and the uprise of mankind to fight back and save humanity. The series implements various genres within each installment. The first film was met with negative critical reception but was a box office success, given its smaller production budget. The second installment was met with a generally positive reception from film critics, and was not a box office success. A third film, which mas made in part by a distribution deal with Netflix, was met with mixed reception. Films ''Skyline'' (2010) Jarrod and Elaine take a trip to Southern California for a getaway trip and to visit his friend named Terry. Their vacation quickly turns into a horrific weekend of terror, when an alien invasion follows a night of hypnotizing strange lights in the sky. What starts off as a city under attack, quickly b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
