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Star Trek Prodigy
''Star Trek: Prodigy'' is an American animated Science fiction on television, science fiction television series created by The Hageman Brothers, Kevin and Dan Hageman. It is the tenth ''Star Trek'' series and debuted in 2021 as part of executive producer Alex Kurtzman's expanded Star Trek Universe, ''Star Trek'' Universe. ''Prodigy'' is the first ''Star Trek'' series to specifically target a younger audience, and the franchise's first solely Computer animation, 3D animated series. It follows a group of young aliens in the 24th century who find the abandoned starship ''Protostar'' and learn about Starfleet. Brett Gray, Ella Purnell, Jason Mantzoukas, Angus Imrie, Rylee Alazraqui, and Dee Bradley Baker voice the young crew of the ''Protostar'', with Jimmi Simpson, John Noble, Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Robert Picardo, Jameela Jamil, and Wil Wheaton also providing voices for the series. Kurtzman first mentioned a youth-focused animated series in January 2019 and it was confirmed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Film
An adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival films. Adventure films may also be combined with other film genres such as action, animation, comedy, drama, fantasy, science fiction, family, horror, or war. Overview Setting plays an important role in an adventure film, sometimes itself acting as a character in the narrative. They are typically set in far away lands, such as lost continents or other exotic locations. They may also be set in a period background and may include adapted stories of historical or fictional adventure heroes within the historical context. Such struggles and situations that confront the main characters include things like battles, piracy, rebellion, and the creation of empires and kingdoms. A common theme of adventure films is of characters leaving their home or place of comfort and going to fulfill a goal, embarking on travels, quests, tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jameela Jamil
Jameela Alia Jamil (born 25 February 1986) is a British actress and presenter. She began her career on Channel 4, where she hosted a pop culture series in the T4 strand from 2009 until 2012. She then became the radio host of '' The Official Chart'', and was co-host of ''The Official Chart Update'' alongside Scott Mills on BBC Radio 1. She was the first solo female presenter of the BBC Radio 1 chart show. In 2016, Jamil relocated to the United States. She played Tahani Al-Jamil in the NBC fantasy comedy series ''The Good Place''. She is also the host of the TBS late night game show in ''The Misery Index'' and as one of the judges of voguing reality competition show '' Legendary''. In 2022, Jamil worked on two superhero projects: the animated film ''DC League of Super-Pets'' and the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series '' She-Hulk: Attorney at Law''. Early life Jamil was born on 25 February 1986 in Hampstead, London, to an Indian father, Ali Jamil, and a Pakistani-Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netflix
Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a film and television series library through distribution deals as well as its own productions, known as Netflix Originals. As of September 2022, Netflix had 222 million subscribers worldwide, including 73.3 million in the United States and Canada; 73.0 million in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 39.6 million in Latin America and 34.8 million in the Asia-Pacific region. It is available worldwide aside from Mainland China, Syria, North Korea, and Russia. Netflix has played a prominent role in independent film distribution, and it is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). Netflix can be accessed via web browsers or via application software installed on smart TVs, set-top boxes connected to televisions, tablet computers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paramount+
Paramount+ is an American subscription video on-demand service owned by Paramount Global. The service's content is drawn primarily from the libraries of CBS Media Ventures (including CBS Studios), Paramount Media Networks (formerly Viacom Media Networks and ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks), and Paramount Pictures, while also including original series and films, live streaming sports coverage, and in the U.S., live streaming of local CBS broadcast stations. The service was first launched in the United States on October 28, 2014, as CBS All Access; the service initially focused on the live streaming of CBS programming from its local affiliates, as well as on-demand access to CBS programs and library content. The service began to expand into original programming in 2016, beginning with spin-offs of CBS programs such as ''Big Brother,'' '' The Good Fight'', and the new ''Star Trek'' television series '' Star Trek: Discovery''. The service also began to expand into other marke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS Eye Animation Productions
CBS Eye Animation Productions is an American animation studio division of CBS Studios owned by Paramount Global. The studio is closely associated with the ''Star Trek'' franchise with its first projects, ''Star Trek: Lower Decks'' and '' Star Trek: Prodigy.'' CBS reinstated it as an animation division in late 2018 before its re-merger with Viacom in 2019. Background In the 1950s, CBS began to invest further into television programs, creating many live shows as ''I Love Lucy'' and ''Captain Kangaroo''''.'' However, in 1955 CBS purchased Terrytoons from Paul Terry under CBS Films. After the deal's closure in 1956, CBS placed Terrytoons the management of UPA's Gene Deitch (which they'd already secured a contract with CBS). Deitch would soon produce animated ''Tom Terrific'' shorts for ''Captain Kangaroo'' in 1957. Terrytoons would continue animation under CBS until its closure in 1972 after the corporate spin-off of the original Viacom International. Despite the change o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nickelodeon Animation Studio
Nickelodeon Animation Studio is an American animation studio owned by Paramount Global. It has created many original television programs for Nickelodeon, such as ''SpongeBob SquarePants'', ''The Fairly OddParents'', ''Rugrats'' and ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'', among various others. Since the 2010s, the studio has also produced its own series based on preexisting IP purchased by Paramount Global, such as ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' and ''Winx Club''. In November 2019, Nickelodeon Animation Studio signed a multiple-year output deal for Netflix, which will include producing content, in both new and preexisting IP, for the streaming platform. The studio was founded in 1990, originally named Games Productions Inc. and later Games Animation. It oversaw the production of three animated programs for Nickelodeon: ''Doug'', ''Rugrats'', and ''The Ren & Stimpy Show''. In 1992, Nickelodeon began work on Games Animation's first fully in-house series, ''Rocko's Modern Life''. Games Ani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roddenberry Entertainment
Eugene Wesley "Rod" Roddenberry Jr. (born February 5, 1974) is an American television producer and the chief executive officer of Roddenberry Entertainment. He is the son of ''Star Trek'' creator Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett and is an executive producer on '' Star Trek: Discovery'', '' Star Trek: Picard'', '' Star Trek: Lower Decks'', '' Star Trek: Prodigy'' and '' Star Trek: Strange New Worlds''. Early life Roddenberry was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Majel Barrett and writer and producer Gene Roddenberry, creator of the American science fiction series ''Star Trek''. Roddenberry went to the John Thomas Dye School in Bel Air and Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood. and then attended Hampshire College in the early 1990s. As a young man, Roddenberry was not closely familiar with ''Star Trek'', having never even watched it. In 1991, when he was 17 years old, his father died, after which he began to examine ''Star Trek'' and discover "what made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Hideout
Secret Hideout is a film and television production company founded in 2014 by Alex Kurtzman. It is notable for the recent incarnations of the ''Star Trek'' franchise with Roddenberry Entertainment. History In 2014, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci announced that they would dissolve the partnership in motion pictures in order to focus solely on television. Later that year, the company signed a three-year production deal with Universal Pictures to produce its feature films. Secret Hideout's first film was ''The Mummy''. They hired Jeb Brody, who was formerly an employee of Focus Features, and Bobby Cohen, who was a former K/O Paper Products staffer, to join the company, along with Kim Rosen, who served as head of digital and interactive. In 2016, it was announced that Roberto Orci was not attached to CBS All Access' revival of '' Star Trek: Discovery'' and that Kurtzman had signed a new deal with CBS Television Studios to produce ''Discovery'' along with ''Salvation''. They hired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Kurtzman
Alexander Hilary Kurtzman (born September 7, 1973) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his work on the ''Star Trek'' franchise since 2009, co-writing the scripts to ''Transformers'' (2007), '' Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' and ''Star Trek'' (2009), ''Star Trek Into Darkness'' (2013), and ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'' (2014) with his writing and producing partner Roberto Orci, and directing and co-writing ''The Mummy'' (2017). He'd made his directorial debut with '' People Like Us'' (2012), co-written by him, Orci, and Jody Lambert from a story by him. Kurtzman is known, alongside Orci, for frequently collaborating with Michael Bay and J.J. Abrams, as well as co-creating the more recent ''Star Trek'' shows, including '' Star Trek: Discovery'', '' Star Trek: Picard'', and '' Star Trek: Strange New Worlds''. Early life, family and education Kurtzman was born into a Jewish family and raised in Los Angeles, California. His longtime screenwriting partner Roberto Orci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Kadin
Heather Kadin (born August 7, 1972) is an American television producer and film producer. She co- executive produces '' Star Trek: Discovery''. Life and career Kadin was born on August 7, 1972, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Before being President of the production company, K/O Paper Products, she was an executive producer at ABC. Kadin had previously worked with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci together at ABC, where as a drama executive, was involved in J. J. Abrams' spy series '' Alias'', on which Kurtzman and Orci were writer-producers since the first episode. For a brief time, before joining ABC, she had worked at the television division of Shady Acres Entertainment, which at that time, was based at Touchstone Television. She had left Warner Bros. Television where she served as vice president of drama development in 2010. Kadin worked with Kurtzman and Orci on the WBTV-produced '' Fringe'', which Kurtzman and Orci co-created with Abrams. Kadin is the executive producer of ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Roddenberry
Eugene Wesley "Rod" Roddenberry Jr. (born February 5, 1974) is an American television producer and the chief executive officer of Roddenberry Entertainment. He is the son of ''Star Trek'' creator Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett and is an executive producer on '' Star Trek: Discovery'', '' Star Trek: Picard'', '' Star Trek: Lower Decks'', '' Star Trek: Prodigy'' and '' Star Trek: Strange New Worlds''. Early life Roddenberry was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Majel Barrett and writer and producer Gene Roddenberry, creator of the American science fiction series ''Star Trek''. Roddenberry went to the John Thomas Dye School in Bel Air and Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood. and then attended Hampshire College in the early 1990s. As a young man, Roddenberry was not closely familiar with ''Star Trek'', having never even watched it. In 1991, when he was 17 years old, his father died, after which he began to examine ''Star Trek'' and discover "what made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Hibon
Ben Hibon is a Swiss animation director. Hibon was born in Geneva, Switzerland, where he completed studies in Fine Art. He moved to London in 1996 to study Graphic Design at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, followed by a master's degree at the same school. Hibon created in-game sequences for the Capcom, Capcom's 2005 video game ''Killer7''. He also designed and directed a segment for ''Tokyo Zombie'', a Japanese horror film written and directed by the infamous Sakichi Sato. Hibon's short film ''Codehunters'' premiered at the MTV Asia Awards 2006 held in Bangkok, Thailand. Since its release, ''Codehunters'' has been shown in more than 50 festivals all around the world, and received nominations at the Raindance Film Festival and the Rushes Shorts Festival. It won a gold award for Best Animation at the Promax/BDA Asia awards in 2006, the Imagina Award 07 for best short film, a D&AD Nomination for Animation, and most recently the highly coveted Golden Nica award at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
