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Sébastien Pan
Sébastien Pan (born 9 July 1984) is a French composer and musician, best known for his work on motion picture and animated TV series. He is a permanent resident of New Zealand since 2015. Biography Born in Montbéliard, France, Sébastien Pan gained experience writing music for motion pictures, animated TV series and TV commercials at Imaginex Studios, an international award-winning audio post-production house. Besides writing for live action movies and TV series, Sebastien began his collaboration with the director Wang YunFei in scoring the animated film '' Yugo & Lala'' in 2012, followed by '' Yugo & Lala 2'' in 2014 and ''Kwai Boo, Crazy Space Adventure'' in 2015. ''Kwai Boo'' marks the first time a Chinese animation project has received investment from a Hollywood giant, in this case 20th Century Fox. Filmography Film Television TV commercials Pan also scored more than 60 international TV commercials and worked with renowned advertising agencies such as Saatchi and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montbéliard
Montbéliard (; traditional ) is a town in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France, about from the border with Switzerland. It is one of the two subprefectures of the department. History Montbéliard is mentioned as early as 983 as . The County of Montbéliard or Mömpelgard was a feudal county of the Holy Roman Empire from 1033 to 1796. In 1283, it was granted rights under charter by Count Reginald. Its charter guaranteed the county perpetual liberties and franchises which lasted until the French Revolution in 1789. Montbéliard's original municipal institutions included the Magistracy of the Nine Bourgeois, the Corp of the Eighteen and the Notables, a Mayor, and Procurator, and appointed "Chazes", all who participated in the administration of the county as provided by the charter. Also under the 1283 charter, the Count and the people of Montbéliard were required by law to defend Montbéliard, while citizens of Montbéliard were not re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Burger
Neil Norman Burger (born November 22, 1963) is an American filmmaker. He is known for the fake-documentary '' Interview with the Assassin'' (2002), the period drama '' The Illusionist'' (2006), '' Limitless'' (2011), and the sci-fi action film '' Divergent'' (2014). Life and career Neil Norman Burger was born in 1963 in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States of America. After graduating from Yale University with a degree in fine arts, Burger became involved with experimental film in the 1980s and went on to direct music videos for such alternative artists as the Meat Puppets. Burger approached MTV in 1991 with the idea to create and direct a series of promotional spots for what would be the ''MTV Books: Feed Your Head'' campaign against aliteracy. In association with Ridley Scott Associates, Burger directed commercials for companies such as Mastercard, IBM and ESPN, and created a series of television spots for Amnesty International and their campaign for prisoners of consc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kung Fu Yoga
''Kung Fu Yoga'' ( zh, 功夫瑜伽) is a 2017 Chinese action adventure comedy film written and directed by Stanley Tong and starring Jackie Chan. The film's cast includes Chinese actors Aarif Rahman, Lay Zhang, and Miya Muqi, and Indian actors Sonu Sood, Disha Patani, and Amyra Dastur. The film was released in China on 28 January 2017. It features original music composed by Nathan Wang and an ending dance number choreographed by Farah Khan. It is Jackie Chan's highest-grossing film in China. It was also the highest-grossing comedy film in China, until it was overtaken by ''Never Say Die'' (2017). Plot Jack (Jackie Chan), a renowned professor of archaeology at the Terracotta Warriors Museum in Xi'an, teams up with young Indian professor Ashmita ( Disha Patani) from the National Museum Institute, Rajasthan to locate India's lost Magadha treasure in Tibet. Their team, Jones Lee ( Aarif Rahman), Xiaoguang (Lay Zhang), Kyra ( Amyra Dastur) and Noumin (Miya Muqi); find the tre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railroad Tigers
''Railroad Tigers'' is a 2016 Chinese action comedy film directed by Ding Sheng and starring Jackie Chan. It was released in China on December 23, 2016. The film is about a railroad worker who leads a team of freedom fighters to oppose the Japanese during the occupation in World War II. The film performed well at the box office. Plot In December 1941, Japan expands the occupation of its neighbouring countries to Southeast Asia. The railway from Tianjin to Nanjing in East China became a key military transportation route, heavily guarded by Japanese soldiers. Railroad worker Ma Yuan (Jackie Chan) leads a team of freedom fighters. Using his deep knowledge of the train network, he and his men sabotage it, ambushing Japanese soldiers and stealing supplies to feed the starving Chinese. Although the freedom fighters have no weapons of their own, they employ whatever tools are at hand, including a hammer and shovels, loose railway track planks and diverted trains. The local Chinese call t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shed Skin Papa
''Shed Skin Papa'' is a 2016 Hong Kong comedy-drama film written by Norihiko Tsukada and Roy Szeto based on Tsuksda's Japanese play ''Nukegara'', and directed by Szeto, who had previously directed an award-winning Hong Kong stage adaptation of the play titled ''Shed Skin'' in 2011. The film stars Louis Koo as a washed-out, debt-ridden film director who must take care of his seventy nine-year-old dementia-ridden father (Francis Ng), who begins to shed a layer a skin everyday where regains his youth. ''Shed Skin Papa'' made its world premiere at the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival on 26 October 2016 where it was shown in competition for the Tokyo Grand Prix The film was theatrically released in Hong Kong on 10 May 2018. Plot Washed-out film director Tin Lik-hang (Louis Koo) is encountering a series of crisis in life. His mother has recently passed away, his film company is bankrupt and debt-ridden as a result, while wife wants a divorce. On the other hand, he must now take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munafik
''Munafik'' ( Malay: ''Hypocrite'') is a 2016 Malaysian supernatural horror film directed by Syamsul Yusof. It was his ninth film as well as his second horror film after '' Khurafat'' (2011) and also the first film in a planned ''Munafik'' trilogy. It stars Syamsul himself, Fizz Fairuz, Pekin Ibrahim and Nabila Huda. The film depicts Adam, a Muslim medical practitioner who is unable to continue with his job and accept the reality of his wife's death. After he meets Maria, unsettling things start to happen. The film was released on February 25, 2016, in Malaysia and October 5, 2016, in Indonesia. It received positive reviews from film critics and has grossed RM17.04 million nationwide, making ''Munafik'' the best-selling Malaysian film of 2016. The film garnered nine nominations at the 2016 Malaysian Film Festival and won five, including Best National Language Film and Best Director. Its sequel, '' Munafik 2'', was released on August 30, 2018. Plot Adam, a traditional relig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ding Sheng (filmmaker)
Ding Sheng () is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. Born in Qingdao, Shandong in 1970 , his film works include ''Little Big Soldier'', '' Police Story 2013'' and '' Railroad Tigers'' (2016) both films directed by him and starring Jackie Chan. Filmography *''Underdog Knight'' (2008) (Director) *''Little Big Soldier'' (2010) (Director) *''He-Man'' (2011) (Director, screenwriter, film editor) *'' Police Story 2013'' (2013) (Director, screenwriter, film editor, man in taxi) *''Saving Mr. Wu'' (2015) (Director) *'' Railroad Tigers'' (2016) (Director) *''A Better Tomorrow 2018 ''A Better Tomorrow 2018'' (), is a Chinese action film directed by Ding Sheng and starring Wang Kai, Ma Tianyu, Wang Talu, Yu Ailei, Lam Suet and Wu Yue. In this remake of John Woo’s 1986 classic, director Ding Sheng delivers a similar st ...'' (2018) (Director) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ding, Sheng Living people Film directors from Shandong Chinese film directors Year of birth missin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saving Mr
Saving is income not spent, or deferred consumption. Methods of saving include putting money aside in, for example, a deposit account, a pension account, an investment fund, or as cash. Saving also involves reducing expenditures, such as recurring costs. In terms of personal finance, saving generally specifies low-risk preservation of money, as in a deposit account, versus investment, wherein risk is a lot higher; in economics more broadly, it refers to any income not used for immediate consumption. Saving does not automatically include interest. ''Saving'' differs from ''savings''. The former refers to the act of not consuming one's assets, whereas the latter refers to either multiple opportunities to reduce costs; or one's assets in the form of cash. Saving refers to an activity occurring over time, a flow variable, whereas savings refers to something that exists at any one time, a stock variable. This distinction is often misunderstood, and even professional economists and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Final Master
''The Master'' (released internationally as ''The Final Master'') is a 2015 Chinese martial arts film written, co-produced, and directed by Xu Haofeng, about the last Wing Chun master’s quest to pass down his art in pre-WWII China. The film stars Liao Fan, Jiang Wenli, Chin Shih-chieh, Song Jia and Song Yang. Plot Grandmaster Chen, the last surviving practitioner of the Wing Chun style of martial arts, arrives in Tianjin with the desire to open a martial-arts school. Upon defeating all of Grandmaster Zheng's disciples, Chen receives an offer from Zheng to establish a school jointly, which Chen declines. Zheng then threatens to expel Chen from the city. He gives Chen another offer: if Chen can train a disciple to defeat the eight schools of Tianjin, then Chen will be allowed to open his school. Zheng reveals that he plans to defeat the disciple after the eight schools are defeated, thus enhancing his own reputation. Meanwhile, Chen decides that he should marry a local woman, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Schwentke
Robert Schwentke (; born 15 February 1968) is a German film director and screenwriter. Life and career Schwentke was born in Stuttgart, West Germany. He graduated from Los Angeles film school, Columbia College Hollywood (CCH), in 1992. His wife is an American. He directed two feature films in Germany, the thriller ''Tattoo'' and the comedy ''Eierdiebe'', the latter a semi-autobiographical film about a man being treated for testicular cancer, a disease he had been diagnosed with and survived himself in 1995. Although not intending to do Hollywood movies, he ended up doing so after having trouble financing a third German film. Schwentke directed 2009's ''The Time Traveler's Wife'', based on the best-selling novel, and starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams. That same year, Schwentke directed the pilot episode of Fox's ''Lie to Me''. In 2008, Summit Entertainment optioned ''Red'', the 2003 graphic novel thriller by writer Warren Ellis and artist Cully Hamner, as a feature film. Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Insurgent
An insurgency is a violent, armed rebellion against authority waged by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare from primarily rural base areas. The key descriptive feature of insurgency is its asymmetric nature: small irregular forces face a large, well-equipped, regular military force state adversary. Due to this asymmetry, insurgents avoid large-scale direct battles, opting instead to blend in with the civilian population (mainly in the countryside) where they gradually expand territorial control and military forces. Insurgency frequently hinges on control of and collaboration with local populations. An insurgency can be fought via counter-insurgency warfare, as well as other political, economic and social actions of various kinds. Due to the blending of insurgents with the civilian population, insurgencies tend to involve considerable violence against civilians (by the state and the insurgents). State attempts to quell insurgencies frequently lead to the in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
