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Spacejacked
''Spacejacked'' is a 1997 American-Irish film. It was made for Concorde Anois, a studio Roger Corman ran in Galway.Spacejacked Slifkin, Irv. Video Business; Radnor Vol. 18, Iss. 32, (Aug 10, 1998): 17. Plot In the near future, a spaceship on a luxury cruise to the moon is taken over by Barnes, an evil computer expert, who plants a bomb on the craft in an attempt to get all of the wealthy passengers' bank account numbers. Cast *Corbin Bernsen as Barnes * Bill Murphy as Jack * Amanda Pays as Dawn *Ciara O'Callaghan as Monica Miles *Steve Bond as Taylor References External links''Spacejacked''at IMDb IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biograp ...''Spacejacked''at BFI 1997 films 1997 science fiction films 1990s English-language films English-language science fiction films ...
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Mary Ann Fisher
Mary Ann Fisher is an American producer, director and production manager best known for her long association with Roger Corman. Fisher was a Stanford graduate who became Corman's assistant in 1977 and was head of production at New Work's studio in Venice by 1980, at age 25. Fisher was a key figure in Roger Corman's short lived studio in Ireland, Concorde Anois. Select credits *''Battle Beyond the Stars'' (1980) - associate producer *''Escape from New York'' (1981) - producer liaison *''Galaxy of Terror'' (1981) - production supervisor *''Forbidden World'' (1982) - co producer *'' Android'' (1982) - producer, actor *'' Space Raiders'' (1983) - head of production, second unit *''Hour of the Assassin'' (1987) - producer *'' Blood Screams'' (1989) - producer *'' Lords of the Deep'' (1989) - director *'' Dracula Rising'' (1994) - producer *'' House of the Damned'' (1996) - producer *'' Shadow of a Scream'' (1996) - producer *'' Bloodfist VIII: Trained to Kill'' (1996) - producer *'' Cr ...
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Bill Murphy (Irish Actor)
William A. Murphy (born 14 February 1963), better known as Bill Murphy, is an Irish theatre and screen actor, writer and producer. He has appeared in films such as ''Ordinary Decent Criminal'' (2000), '' My Brother's War'' (1997), '' Criminal Affairs'' (1997) and '' Moving Target'' (2000). He has also had roles in TV series such as ''Jack Taylor'' (2010)'', Titanic: Blood and Steel'' (2012), '' Vikings: Valhalla'' (2022) and '' The Gone'' (2023), and he portrayed Nick Barret on the RTÉ One soap opera ''Fair City'' in 2003. He has had roles in theatre and concert productions of ''Once (The Musical)'' (2015–2024), '' The Country Girls'' (2019), and ''Joyce's Women'' (2022). In 2022 he wrote, produced and starred in the short film ''Lily's Theme.'' Early life and education Murphy was born William A. Murphy in Cork City, County Cork. He began his career in Cork while training with the Irish Opera Repertory Company before moving to Dublin to continue his training with the Focu ...
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Ciara O'Callaghan
Ciara O'Callaghan is an Irish actress. She appeared in '' The Clinic'' and ''Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars''. She is best known for her portrayal of Yvonne Gleeson on the Irish soap opera ''Fair City''. She first came into the show in 1998 as Yvonne Doyle. She left in 2003 and returned in 2008. She also left again in 2014. She also appeared in ''Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie'', ''Insatiable'', and the RTE drama ''Striking Out ''Striking Out'' is an Television in the Republic of Ireland, Irish television legal drama television series, broadcast on RTÉ, that first aired on 1 January 2017, based on ''The Good Wife'' by Robert King (writer), Robert and Michelle King. Prod ...''. In 2009, she appeared in one episode of ''The Restaurant''. Filmography Film Television See also * List of longest-serving soap opera actors#Ireland References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:OCallaghan, Ciara Living people Actresses from Dublin (city) Irish soap opera act ...
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Amanda Pays
Amanda Pays (born 6 June 1959) is an English interior designer, actress, and television presenter. She is known for her television series roles as Theora Jones in ''Max Headroom'' and as Tina McGee in ''The Flash'' and the 2014 series of the same name. As an interior designer, Pays hosts the show ''Breathing Room'' on Fine Living Network. Early life Pays was born on 6 June 1959 in London, the daughter of actors Jan Miller and Howard Pays. Her aunt is the former child actress Mandy Miller. Career Pays made her film debut in ''Oxford Blues'' (1984) and she played a French nun, Sister Nicole, in '' Off Limits'' (1988 film) with Willem Dafoe, Gregory Hines and Fred Ward. Pays also had a guest role as Phoebe Green in the episode "Fire" (1993) of ''The X-Files'', in the episode "Cindy Plumb" (2006) of ''Nip/Tuck'', and in the episode " Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion" (2008) of ''Psych'', opposite her husband Corbin Bernsen. She also appeared in early 1980s music videos, incl ...
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Steve Bond
Steve Bond (born Shlomo Goldberg, , on April 22, 1953) is an Israeli-American television actor and model. Early life Shlomo Goldberg (later Steve Bond) was born in Haifa, Israel, to a Romania-born mother and a Hungary-born father who immigrated to Israel. Career Bond made his film debut with a starring role in ''Tarzan and the Jungle Boy'', shot in 1965 but not released until 1968. In 1975, he appeared full-frontal nude for a photo-spread published in the October issue of ''Playgirl'' magazine. He moved to the U.S. in the early 1980s. He became a daytime television actor on ''General Hospital'', playing Jimmy Lee Holt from 1983 to 1987. In 1984, Bond posed bare-chested for a pin-up wall poster. In the early 1980s, he worked as a male stripper for Chippendales and appeared in one of the calendars. As a Chippendale dancer, he appeared on the 1982 show ''The Shape of Things''. His early film credits included roles in ''Massacre at Central High'' (1976), ''H.O.T.S.'' (1979), ''Gas ...
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Corbin Bernsen
Corbin Dean Bernsen (born September 7, 1954) is an American actor and film director. He appeared as divorce attorney Arnold Becker on the NBC drama series ''L.A. Law'',Biography
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as Dr. Alan Feinstone in ''The Dentist'', as retired police detective Henry Spencer on the USA Network comedy-drama series ''Psych'', and as Roger Dorn in the films ''Major League (film), Major League'', ''Major League II'', and ''Major League: Back to the Minors''. He also appeared regularly on ''The Resident (TV series), The Resident'', ''The Curse (American TV series), The Curse'', ''General Hospital'', and ''Cuts (TV series), Cuts'', and has had intermittent appearances on ''The Young and the Restless''.


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Concorde Anois
Concorde Anois was a short lived film production company based in Ireland that operated in the late 1990s. It was an offshoot of Roger Corman's Concorde Pictures. Anois is the Irish language word for 'now'. History Corman was invited to set up operations in Ireland by the Irish government, keen to develop filmmaking in the west of the country. He built studios in Connemara, County Galway. He received a start-up grant from Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Michael D. Higgins. Around twenty films were made, using Irish crew and actors. They were mostly in exploitation genres such as action adventure, suspense thrillers, science fiction, and horror The assistance provided by the Irish government became controversial when the content of some Corman productions such as '' Criminal Affairs'' was criticised in the press. A documentary was later made about the studio called ''It Came from Connemara!''. Films *'' Star Portal'' (1996) – starring Athena Massey and Steven Ba ...
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New Concorde
New Concorde (NC) is an American film distribution company founded by Roger Corman. NC got its start in 1983 when Corman formed the production and distribution Concorde-New Horizons (CNH) as one of the first production companies to develop and take advantage of video as a distribution tool. The company was originally Concorde-New Horizons, which was itself created when Corman combined his two new companies Concorde Pictures (CP) and New Horizons Pictures in 1983. The company is now officially known as New Horizons Picture Corp. History New World Pictures Corman founded New World Productions (NWP) in 1970, and had been making low budget genre films until 1982. When larger studios began producing the same genres with larger budgets that his company could not meet, and after being approached by a consortium of attorneys wishing to buy the company, he opted in 1982 to sell his interests. Millennium Films Corman sold New World Pictures in January 1983 for $16.9 million. H ...
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Roger Corman
Roger William Corman (April 5, 1926 – May 9, 2024) was an American film director, producer, and actor. Known under various monikers such as "The Pope of Pop Cinema", "The Spiritual Godfather of the New Hollywood", and "The King of Cult", he was known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Many of the more than 500 features directed or produced by Corman were low-budget films that later attracted a cult following, such as ''A Bucket of Blood'' (1959), ''The Little Shop of Horrors'' (1960), ''The Intruder (1962 film), The Intruder'' (1962), ''X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes'' (1963), and the Counterculture of the 1960s, counterculture films ''The Wild Angels'' (1966) and ''The Trip (1967 film), The Trip'' (1967). ''House of Usher (film), House of Usher'' (1960) became the first of eight films directed by Corman that were adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and which collectively came to be known as the "American International Pictures#The Corman-Poe cycle, Poe ...
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Siobhán Cleary
Siobhán Cleary (born 10 May 1970) is an Irish composer. Her most successful compositions have been her orchestral works ''Alchemy'' and ''Cokaygne'' and her choral piece ''Theophilus Thistle and the Myth of Miss Muffett''. Her opera ''Vampirella'' was first performed in Dublin in March 2017. She is a member of Aosdána. Early life and education Born in Dublin, Cleary started to compose from an early age, often writing pieces while she was supposed to be practising at the piano. When she began to study music at Maynooth University, she was initially inspired by Luciano Berio's ''Sinfonia (Berio), Sinfonia'', and soon afterwards by the works of the Irish composer Gerald Barry (composer), Gerald Barry, the French Olivier Messiaen and the Hungarian György Ligeti. She continued her studies at Queen's University Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin. In addition, she has followed courses in composition with the Italian composer Franco Donatoni and the Dutch Louis Andriessen and receive ...
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IMDb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ...
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British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, distribution, and education. It is sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and partially funded under the British Film Institute Act 1949. Activities Purpose The BFI was established in 1933 to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and the moving image generally, and their impact on society, to promote access to and appreciation of the widest possible range of British and world cinema and to establish, care for and develop collections reflecting the moving image history, heritage and culture of the United Kingdom. Archive The BFI maintain ...
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