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Sofia Falcone
Sofia Falcone, also known as Sofia Gigante, is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics, primarily in association with the character Batman. Debuting in the 1996–97 comic book limited series '' Batman: The Long Halloween'' by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, she is introduced as a member of the Falcone crime family, who assists her father Carmine Falcone in unearthing the identity of the "Holiday Killer", a serial killer who had been killing Gotham City's citizens in correlation with holidays in the yearly calendar. In the 1999–2000 limited series '' Batman: Dark Victory'' which served as a continuation of the arc established in ''The Long Halloween'', Sofia is revealed as the identity behind the murderer known under the alias the Hangman, who had spent over a year targeting and eliminating various members of the Gotham City Police Department, notably in association with former district attorney-turned criminal, Harvey Dent / Two-Face, who ends up killing her during a lengthy c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Victory
''Dark Victory'' is a 1939 American melodrama film directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Bette Davis, and featuring George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers, and Cora Witherspoon. The screenplay by Casey Robinson was based on the 1934 play of the same title by George Brewer and Bertram Bloch, starring Tallulah Bankhead. Plot Judith "Judy" Traherne is a young, carefree, hedonistic Long Island socialite and heiress with a passion for horses, fast cars, and too much smoking and drinking. She initially ignores severe headaches and brief episodes of dizziness and double vision, but when she uncharacteristically takes a spill while riding and then tumbles down a flight of stairs, her secretary and best friend Ann King insists she see the family doctor, who refers her to a specialist. Dr. Frederick Steele is closing his New York City office in preparation for a move to Brattleboro, Vermont, where he plans to devote his time to brain cell re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotham Season 4
The fourth season of the American television series ''Gotham (TV series), Gotham'', based on characters from DC Comics related to the Batman Batman franchise media, franchise, revolves around the characters of Jim Gordon (Gotham), James "Jim" Gordon and Bruce Wayne (Gotham), Bruce Wayne. The season is produced by Primrose Hill Productions, DC Comics#DC Entertainment, DC Entertainment, and Warner Bros. Television, with Bruno Heller, Danny Cannon, and John Stephens (TV producer), John Stephens serving as executive producers. The season was inspired and adapted elements from the comic book storylines of ''Batman: Year One'', ''Batman: The Long Halloween'', and ''Batman: No Man's Land''. The subtitle for the season is ''A Dark Knight''. The season was ordered in May 2017, and production began the following month. Ben McKenzie stars as Gordon, alongside Donal Logue, David Mazouz, Morena Baccarin, Sean Pertwee, Robin Lord Taylor, Erin Richards, Camren Bicondova, Cory Michael Smith, Jess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Globe
The Golden Globe Awards are awards presented for excellence in both international film and television. It is an annual award ceremony held since 1944 to honor artists and professionals and their work. The ceremony is normally held every January, and has been a major part of the film industry's awards season, which culminates each year in the Academy Awards. The eligibility period for Golden Globes corresponds from January 1 through December 31. The Golden Globes were not televised in 1969–1972, 1979, and 2022. The 2008 ceremony was canceled due to the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike. Currently, the Golden Globes Awards are owned and operated by Dick Clark Productions, following its sale by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association on June 12, 2023. History The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was founded in 1943 as the Hollywood Foreign Correspondent Association (HFCA) by Los Angeles–based foreign journalists seeking to develop a better-organized proc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Critic's Choice Award
The Critics' Choice Awards (formerly known as the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award) is an awards show presented annually by the American Critics Choice Association (CCA) to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Written ballots are submitted during a week-long nominating period, and the resulting nominees are announced in December. The winners chosen by subsequent voting are revealed at the annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards ceremony in January. Additionally, special awards are given out at the discretion of the BFCA Board of Directors. History The awards were originally named simply ''Critics' Choice Awards''. In 2010, the word ''Movie'' was added to their name, to differentiate them from the Critics' Choice Television Awards, which were first bestowed the following year by the newly created Broadcast Television Critics Association. The name ''Critics' Choice Awards'' now officially refers to the ceremony honoring performances in both film and television. From 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Falcone (Gotham)
The ''Gotham'' franchise is a media franchise and Shared universe, shared fictional universe that is the setting of television series, novels, and comic book series developed by Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon, produced by DC Entertainment and based on characters that appear in DC Comics publications. The franchise began with the American Crime fiction, crime television series ''Gotham (TV series), Gotham'', based on characters (primarily Jim Gordon (character), James "Jim" Gordon and Batman, Bruce Wayne / Batman) appearing in DC's Batman Batman franchise media, franchise. ''Gotham'', starring Ben McKenzie as a young Gordon, premiered in the United States on September 22, 2014 on the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox television network and concluded on April 25, 2019 after List of Gotham episodes, five seasons. Heller and Cannon next developed ''Pennyworth (TV series), Pennyworth'', a Spin-off (media), spin-off prequel series to ''Gotham'' starring Jack Bannon (English actor), Jack Ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catwoman
Catwoman is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, she debuted as "the Cat" in ''Batman (comic book), Batman'' #1 (spring 1940). She has become one of the superhero Batman's most prominent enemies, belonging to the collective of adversaries that make up his List of Batman Family adversaries#Classic rogues gallery, rogues gallery, as well as Batman's best known and most enduring love interest, with many stories depicting their complex love–hate relationship. Since 1993, Catwoman has had her own ongoing series, ''Catwoman (comic book), Catwoman''. Catwoman is the alter ego of Selina Kyle, a burglar in Gotham City who usually wears a skintight bodysuit and uses a bullwhip for a weapon. She was originally characterized as a supervillain and adversary of Batman, but has been featured in an eponymous series since the 1990s that portrays her as an antiheroine, often with a utilitarian moral philosophy. The charac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Falcone
Alberto Falcone is a fictional comic book villain appearing in books published by DC Comics, in particular the Batman books. In addition to being a mobster, he has also made appearances as the Holiday Killer, a serial killer featured in '' Batman: The Long Halloween'' and '' Batman: Dark Victory''. Luke Brandon Field portrayed Al Falcone in the DC Extended Universe film ''The Flash''. The character also appeared in the HBO television miniseries ''The Penguin'' (2024) set in '' The Batman'' shared universe, portrayed by Michael Zegen. Publication history Alberto Falcone first appeared in '' Batman: The Long Halloween'' #1 and was created by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale. Fictional character biography Born as the middle child of Gotham City crime lord Carmine Falcone on February 14, Alberto earned a scholarship to Harvard University and received post-graduate education at Oxford. As a young man, he is eager to follow in his father's footsteps as a crime boss, but Carmine rebuffed his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holiday (comics)
''Batman: The Long Halloween'' is a 13-issue American comic book Limited series (comics), limited series written by Jeph Loeb with art by Tim Sale (artist), Tim Sale. It was originally published by DC Comics in 1996 and 1997. It was the follow-up to three ''Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight#Specials and spin-offs, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Specials'' which were reprinted in ''Batman: Haunted Knight'' by the same creative team. The series' success led to Loeb and Sale to reteam for two Sequel, sequels, ''Batman: Dark Victory'' and ''Catwoman: When in Rome'', which are set concurrently. A third sequel, a 10-issue limited series entitled ''The Last Halloween'', began publication on September 25, 2024. Set during Batman's early days of crime-fighting, the story follows the Dark Knight as he partners with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Captain Jim Gordon (character), James Gordon to uncover the identity of a mysterious killer known as Holiday, who murders people o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonny Corleone
Santino "Sonny" Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel ''The Godfather'' and its 1972 film adaptation. He is the eldest son of the mafia boss don Vito Corleone and Carmela Corleone. He has two brothers, Fredo and Michael, and a sister, Connie. In the film, Sonny was portrayed by James Caan, who briefly reprised his role for a flashback scene in ''The Godfather Part II''. Director Francis Ford Coppola's son Roman Coppola played Sonny as a boy in the 1920s scenes of ''The Godfather Part II''. Novel and film biography In both the novel and the film, Sonny is the eldest of Vito Corleone's four children. Unlike his quiet, level-headed father, Sonny is hot-tempered and prone to violence. At age 16, Sonny commits a robbery. When Peter Clemenza, Vito's right-hand man and Sonny's godfather, informs Vito about it, Vito demands his son explain himself. Sonny replies that he had witnessed Vito murder the " Black Hand" gangster Don Fanucci years before, and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corleone Family
The Corleone family are fictional characters in both the novels and the films created by Mario Puzo, first appearing in his 1969 novel, ''The Godfather''. They are an organized crime family originating from the Sicilian town of Corleone, and based in New York City. The Corleone family has drawn comparisons with the real-life Genovese and Bonanno crime families. Fictional history The fictional Corleone crime family traces its roots to 1920, when Vito Corleone assassinated Little Italy's padrone, Don Fanucci, and took over Fanucci's territory along with his friends Genco Abbandando, Peter Clemenza and Salvatore Tessio. Shortly afterward, he founded the Genco Pura Olive Oil Company which was named after his closest friend Genco. Around 1925, Vito formally organized the family, with Genco as his consigliere and Clemenza and Tessio as caporegimes. They became the most powerful crime family in New York City after defeating Salvatore Maranzano during the Olive Oil War in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristin Milioti
Cristin Milioti (born August 16, 1985) is an American actress. She is known for playing The Mother, The Mother (How I Met Your Mother), Tracy McConnell, in the CBS sitcom ''How I Met Your Mother'' from 2013 to 2014, and Sofia Falcone in the HBO crime drama series ''The Penguin (TV series), The Penguin'' (2024). The latter earned her a Critics' Choice Television Award and a nomination for a Golden Globe Award. She appeared in theater productions such as ''That Face'' (2010) and the musical ''Once (musical), Once'' (2011–2013), for which she won a Grammy Award and was nominated for a Tony Award. Milioti also featured in the 2013 film ''The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film), The Wolf of Wall Street'', the 2020 film ''Palm Springs (2020 film), Palm Springs'', the Fargo season 2, second season of the FX (TV channel), FX anthology crime series ''Fargo (TV series), Fargo'' (2015), the HBO Max comedy series ''Made for Love (TV series), Made for Love'' (2021–2022), Peacock (streaming s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Batman (film)
''The Batman'' is a 2022 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman. Directed by Matt Reeves from a screenplay he wrote with Peter Craig, it is a reboot of the ''Batman'' film franchise produced by DC Films. Robert Pattinson stars as Bruce Wayne / Batman alongside Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, and Colin Farrell. The film sees Batman, in his second year fighting crime in Gotham City, uncover corruption with ties to his own family while pursuing the Riddler (Dano), a mysterious serial killer targeting the city's elite. A new ''Batman'' film for the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) franchise starring Ben Affleck as the character was announced in October 2014. Affleck signed on to direct, produce, co-write, and star in ''The Batman'' by 2016, but had reservations about the project and dropped out in January 2017. Reeves took over the following month and reworked the story, removing the DCEU conn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
