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Something Wicked (The Alienist)
''The Alienist'' is an American period crime drama–thriller television series based on the 1994 novel of the same name by Caleb Carr. The ten-episode limited series first aired on TNT as a sneak peek on January 21, 2018, before its official premiere on January 22, 2018, airing until March 26, 2018. The series stars Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans, and Dakota Fanning as an ad hoc team assembled in mid-1890s New York City to investigate a serial killer who is murdering street children. The series incorporates fact with fiction by including the characters that are historical figures, such as Theodore Roosevelt, who held the post of police commissioner from 1895 to 1897. On August 16, 2018, TNT ordered a sequel series based upon the 1997 follow-up novel ''The Angel of Darkness''. The second season, titled ''The Alienist: Angel of Darkness'', premiered on July 19, 2020, and aired through August 9, 2020. Premise The first season is set in 1896, when a series of gruesome murders of boy p ...
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Period Drama
A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in the past, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents history, historical events and characters with varying degrees of fiction such as artistic license, creative dialogue or scenes which compress separate events. The biographical film is a type of historical drama which generally focuses on a single individual or well-defined group. Historical dramas can include romance film, romances, adventure films, and swashbucklers. Historical drama can be differentiated from historical fiction, which generally present fictional characters and events against a backdrop of historical events. A period piece may be set in a vague or general era such as the Middle Ages, or a specific period such as the Roaring Twenties, or the recent past. Scholarship In different eras different subgenres have risen to popularity, such as the westerns and sword and sandal films that dominated Nor ...
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Rupert Gregson-Williams
Rupert Gregson-Williams is a British composer, conductor, and record producer, best known for his film, video game, and television scores. His filmography includes ''Hotel Rwanda'', for which he was awarded the European Film composer award, '' Hacksaw Ridge'', ''Wonder Woman'', ''Aquaman'' and its sequel, ''Over the Hedge'', ''Bee Movie'', '' Abominable'', '' Back to the Outback'', '' Made of Honor'', '' The Holiday'', '' The Legend of Tarzan'', and numerous films by Happy Madison Productions, many of which star Adam Sandler. He composed music for the video game '' Battlefield 2: Modern Combat''. His notable works in television include ''Veep'', '' Catch-22'', and ''The Crown''. Educated at choir school, Lancing College, and St John's College, Cambridge, he is the younger brother of film composer Harry Gregson-Williams. He is a member of Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions team of composers. He has received a nomination for two Primetime Emmy Award The Primetim ...
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Crime Drama
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, 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. ''China ...
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Period Drama
A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in the past, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents history, historical events and characters with varying degrees of fiction such as artistic license, creative dialogue or scenes which compress separate events. The biographical film is a type of historical drama which generally focuses on a single individual or well-defined group. Historical dramas can include romance film, romances, adventure films, and swashbucklers. Historical drama can be differentiated from historical fiction, which generally present fictional characters and events against a backdrop of historical events. A period piece may be set in a vague or general era such as the Middle Ages, or a specific period such as the Roaring Twenties, or the recent past. Scholarship In different eras different subgenres have risen to popularity, such as the westerns and sword and sandal films that dominated Nor ...
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TNT (American TV Network)
TNT (an initialism of Turner Network Television) is an American basic cable television channel owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery Global Linear Networks unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. Its sister networks are TBS, TruTV, and Turner Classic Movies, with the former two also having sports coverage. , TNT was received by approximately 89.573 million households that subscribe to a subscription television service throughout the United States. By June 2023, this number has dropped to 71.2 million households. The channel was launched on October 3, 1988, with the purpose to air classic films and television series to which Turner Broadcasting System maintained spillover rights through sister channel TBS. On June 2001, the network went through a major shift in its programming, and began to focus on drama series and feature films, along with some sporting events (including NBA, NHL, U.S. Soccer, the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and professional wrestling shows '' AE ...
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Anonymous Content
Anonymous Content (AC) is an independent global entertainment company founded in 1999 by CEO Steve Golin, Dave Morrison and Gore Verbinski. It is based in Los Angeles with offices in Culver City, New York City and London. History Anonymous Content was founded in 1999 by CEO Steve Golin, who had left Propaganda Films, Dave Morrison and Gore Verbinski. The company initially had a deal with USA Films to produce its pictures. The company begin taking on the Anonymous Content name in 2000. In 2002, AC made its first foray into television with '' Crime & Punishment'', a reality show that ran for three seasons on NBC. In May 2011, it was announced that AC's talent management division had added managers Tony Lipp, Sandra Chang and Doug Wald, who brought several major talents with them. In May 2014, it signed a three-year first look production deal with Paramount Television, where Paramount would produce and distribute scripted programming developed by AC. In February 2016, Kevin C ...
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Paramount Television Studios
Paramount Television Studios, formerly the second incarnation of Paramount Television, was the television arm of American film studio Paramount Pictures, a division of Paramount Global, founded on March 4, 2013, by its predecessor, Viacom, following an emerging vigorous business with the technological expansion of television via streaming services. Paramount also recognized that television could give them little to fall back on when films fail, except for studio stage rentals. It was the revival and successor to Paramount's original television division, which rebranded as CBS Paramount Television and was kept by CBS Corporation, the new name for the original Viacom, on December 31, 2005 – on that same day, the second Viacom took ownership of Paramount Pictures. After the expiration of a 3-year licensing agreement between the split companies for the "Paramount" trademarks, CBS Paramount Television was rebranded to CBS Television Studios on May 17, 2009 and then currently CB ...
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Larry Smith (cinematographer)
Larry Smith is a British cinematographer. Born in London, he is known for his work with Stanley Kubrick, Tom Hooper and Nicolas Winding Refn Nicolas Winding Refn (; born 29 September 1970) is a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer. He directed the ''Pusher'' trilogy (1996–2005), the crime drama '' Bronson'' (2008), and the adventure film '' Valhalla Rising'' (2009). I .... Smith had also his directing debut with the 2015 film ''Trafficker'' Filmography Film Television Miniseries References External links * British cinematographers Artists from London Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Cinematographer-stub ...
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Budapest, Hungary
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, second-largest city on the river Danube. The estimated population of the city in 2025 is 1,782,240. This includes the city's population and surrounding suburban areas, over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a List of cities and towns of Hungary, city and Counties of Hungary, municipality, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,019,479. It is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celts, Celtic settlement transformed into the Ancient Rome, Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Pannonia Inferior, Lower Pannonia. The Hungarian p ...
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Eric Roth
Eric R. Roth (born March 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter. He has been nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: ''Forrest Gump'' (1994), '' The Insider'' (1999), ''Munich'' (2005), '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' (2008), '' A Star Is Born'' (2018), and ''Dune'' (2021) — winning for ''Forrest Gump''; he also earned a Best Picture nomination for producing ''Mank'' (2020). Roth also worked on the screenplays for the Oscar-nominated films '' Ali'' (2001), '' Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close'' (2011), and '' Killers of the Flower Moon'' (2023). Early life and education Roth was born in New York City, New York, into a Jewish family, the son of Miriam "Mimi", a teacher, studio executive, and radio writer, and Leon Roth, a university teacher and film producer. He grew up in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn in New York. He grew up boxing and would credit some of his later successes to habits learned from the sport. Roth went to college at th ...
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Cary Joji Fukunaga
Cary Joji Fukunaga (born July 10, 1977) is an American filmmaker. A director of TV and film, he first came to wide prominence by directing the first season of the HBO series ''True Detective'' (2014). He is known for directing critically acclaimed films such as the thriller '' Sin nombre'' (2009), the period drama ''Jane Eyre'' (2011), the war drama '' Beasts of No Nation'' (2015) and the 25th ''James Bond'' film, '' No Time to Die'' (2021). He also co-wrote the Stephen King adaptation '' It'' (2017). He was the first director of East Asian descent to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, as the director and executive producer of ''True Detective''. He also directed and executive produced the Netflix limited series '' Maniac'' (2018), and executive produced and directed several episodes of the Apple TV+ miniseries '' Masters of the Air'' (2024). Early life Fukunaga was born on July 10, 1977 in Oakland, California. His father, Anthony Shu ...
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Jakob Verbruggen
Jakob Verbruggen (born in Merksem in 1980) is a Belgian television and film director. He studied at the Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) in Belgium.Jakob Vebruggen
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He has directed episodes of '' The Fall'', '' London Spy'', and ''''. In 2016 he directed " Men Against Fire", an episode of the third series ...
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