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Terkina (Terk)
''Tarzan'' is a 1999 American animated adventure comedy-drama film directed by Kevin Lima and Chris Buck, and produced by Bonnie Arnold, from a screenplay written by Tab Murphy, and the writing team of Bob Tzudiker and Noni White. It is based on the 1912 story ''Tarzan of the Apes'' by Edgar Rice Burroughs, being the first animated major motion picture version of the story. Produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures, the film stars Tony Goldwyn as the title character, alongside Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, Rosie O'Donnell, Brian Blessed, Lance Henriksen, Wayne Knight, and Nigel Hawthorne. The film follows an orphan who is raised by the family of gorillas in Africa, after his real parents were killed by a leopard. Years later, he grows up into a man and meets other humans. He is soon torn by them and must choose between staying with them or a group of animals. Pre-production of ''Tarzan'' began in 1995, with Lima selected as director and Buck j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Lima
Kevin Lima (born June 12, 1962) is an American film director and animator who has directed '' A Goofy Movie'' (1995), ''Tarzan'' (1999), ''102 Dalmatians'' (2000), and '' Enchanted'' (2007). He is married to Brenda Chapman, the head of story for ''The Lion King'' (1994), the co-director of ''The Prince of Egypt'' (1998), and the writer and director of '' Brave'' (2012). Life and career Kevin was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. His grandparents were both Portuguese. Lima studied film and animation at the California Institute of the Arts, during the mid-1980s. Lima's student film ''Let's Misbehave'' was later preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012. After graduation, he went to Taiwan for half a year to work on '' The Brave Little Toaster'' (1987). Then, he worked on '' The Chipmunk Adventure'' (1987), where he met Glen Keane, one of many artists, who had left Disney after '' The Black Cauldron'' (1985) had failed at the box office. Keane persuaded Lima to apply at Disney, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minnie Driver
Amelia Fiona Jessica "Minnie" Driver (born 31 January 1970) is a British and American actress and singer. She rose to prominence with her break-out role in the 1995 film ''Circle of Friends (1995 film), Circle of Friends''. She went on to star in a wide range of films, including the cult classic ''Grosse Pointe Blank''; Gus Van Sant's ''Good Will Hunting'' (for which she was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award); the musical ''The Phantom of the Opera (2004 film), The Phantom of the Opera''; and ''Owning Mahowny''. She also provided the voice of Lady Eboshi in Hayao Miyazaki's ''Princess Mononoke''. In television, Driver starred with Eddie Izzard in ''The Riches'', for which she was nominated for both an Emmy Awards, Emmy and a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe. She starred in the American Broadcasting Company, ABC sitcom ''Speechless (TV series), Speechless'', the NBC sitcom ''About a Boy (TV series), About a Boy'', and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Capitan Theatre
El Capitan Theatre is a fully restored movie palace at 6838 Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, United States. The theater and adjacent Hollywood Masonic Temple (now known as the El Capitan Entertainment Centre) are owned by The Walt Disney Company and serve as the venue for a majority of the Walt Disney Studios' film premieres. History El Capitan early years In the early 1920s, real estate developer Charles E. Toberman (the "Father of Hollywood") envisioned a thriving Hollywood theater district. Toberman was involved in 36 projects while building the Max Factor Building (now the Hollywood Museum), Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and the Hollywood Masonic Temple. With Sid Grauman, he opened the three themed theaters: Egyptian (1922), El Capitan (1926), and Chinese (1927). Barker Bros. Furniture Emporium took up the rest of the building in the 1920s. El Capitan, dubbed "Hollywood's First Home of Spoken Drama," began presenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures is an American film Film production company, production company and subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios (division), the Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company. The studio is the flagship producer of Live action, live-action feature films and animation within the Walt Disney Studios unit and is based at the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. Animated films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar, Pixar Animation Studios are also released under the studio banner. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by Walt Disney Pictures. Disney began producing live-action films in the 1950s. The live-action division became Walt Disney Pictures in 1983, when Disney reorganized its entire studio division, which included the separation from the feature animation division and the subsequent creation of Touchstone Pictures. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is an American film distributor within the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company. It handles theatrical and occasional digital distribution, marketing, and promotion for films produced and released by the Walt Disney Studios, including Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, and Searchlight Pictures, though it operates its own autonomous theatrical distribution and marketing unit in the United States. The company was originally established by Walt Disney in 1953 as Buena Vista Film Distribution Company Inc. (later renamed Buena Vista Distribution Inc. and Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Inc.). It took on its current name in late 2007. History Before in 1953, Disney's productions were previously distributed by: * M.J. Winkler Pictures (1924–1926), * Film Booking Offices of America (1926–1927), * Universal Pictures (1927–1928), * Celebrity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Disney Feature Animation
Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), sometimes shortened to Disney Animation, is an American animation studio that produces animated feature films and short films for the Walt Disney Company. The studio's current production logo features a scene from its first synchronized sound cartoon, ''Steamboat Willie'' (1928). Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney after the closure of Laugh-O-Gram Studio, it is the longest-running animation studio in the world. It is currently organized as a division of Walt Disney Studios and is headquartered at the Roy E. Disney Animation Building at the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank, California. Since its foundation, the studio has produced 63 feature films, from '' Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' (1937), which is also the first hand drawn animated feature film, to '' Moana 2'' (2024), and hundreds of short films. Founded as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio (DBCS) in 1923, renamed Walt Disney Studio (WDS) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Mancina
Mark Mancina (born 1957) is an American film composer. A veteran of Hans Zimmer's Media Ventures, Mancina has scored over sixty films and television series including ''Speed'', '' Bad Boys'', ''Twister'', ''Tarzan'', '' Training Day'', '' Brother Bear'', '' Criminal Minds'', '' Blood+'', '' Planes'', and '' Moana''. He has made several collaborations with The Walt Disney Company, and has won two Grammy Awards, and was nominated for an Annie Award for ''Brother Bear''. For his work on the Disney Theatrical Productions adaptation of ''The Lion King'', he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Original Score in a Musical. Career Mancina has worked primarily as a composer for Hollywood soundtracks, such as his collaboration with Trevor Rabin on the soundtrack for '' Con Air''. He arranged many of the songs behind Disney's '' The Lion King'' (while Hans Zimmer wrote the orchestral score with Nick Glennie-Smith and Lebo M for the African chants) including the Broadway music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Knight
Wayne Elliot Knight (born August 7, 1955) is an American actor. In television, he played recurring roles such as Newman on the NBC sitcom ''Seinfeld'' (1992–1998) and Officer Don Orville on the NBC sitcom ''3rd Rock from the Sun'' (1996–2001). Knight also voiced Igor on '' Toonsylvania'' (1998–1999), Mr. Blik on '' Catscratch'' (2005–2007) and Baron Von Sheldgoose on ''Legend of the Three Caballeros'' (2018). In film, he played Dennis Nedry in ''Jurassic Park'' (1993), which earned him a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. Knight additionally acted in the films '' Dead Again'' (1991), '' JFK'' (1991), '' Basic Instinct'' (1992), '' To Die For'' (1995), '' Space Jam'' (1996), '' For Richer or Poorer'' (1997), and '' Rat Race'' (2001). He provided the voices of Tantor in ''Tarzan'' (1999), Al McWhiggin in ''Toy Story 2'' (1999), and The Elf Elder in '' Tom and Jerry: The Lost Dragon'' (2014). Early life Wayne Elliot Knight was born on August 7, 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lance Henriksen
Lance Henriksen (born May 5, 1940) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in various science fiction, action and horror genre productions, including Bishop in the ''Alien'' film franchise and Frank Black in the Fox television series ''Millennium'' (1996–99) and ''The X-Files'' (1999). He has also done extensive voice work, including the Disney film ''Tarzan'' (1999) and the video games '' Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2'' (2009) and BioWare's ''Mass Effect'' trilogy (2007–2012). Other film credits include '' The Right Stuff'' (1983), '' The Terminator'' (1984), '' Hard Target'' (1993), '' Color of Night'' (1994), '' The Quick and the Dead'' (1995), '' Powder'' (1995), '' Scream 3'' (2000), '' Appaloosa'' (2008), and ''Falling'' (2020). Henriksen was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards for his role on ''Millenium,'' and won a Saturn Award (out of four total nominations) for his performance in ''Hard Target''. In 2021, he was nominated for a Canadian Screen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Hawthorne
Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne (5 April 1929 – 26 December 2001) was an English actor. He is known for his stage acting and his portrayal of Sir Humphrey Appleby, the permanent secretary in the 1980s sitcom ''Yes Minister'' and the Cabinet Secretary (United Kingdom), Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, ''Yes, Prime Minister''. For this role, he won four BAFTA TV Awards for British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance, Best Light Entertainment Performance. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying King George III in ''The Madness of King George'' (1994), having previously won an Olivier Award for the stage version. He later won the BAFTA TV Award for British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, Best Actor, for the 1996 series ''The Fragile Heart''. He was also an Olivier Award and Tony Award winner for his work in theatre. Early life Hawthorne was born on 5 April 1929 in Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed ( ; born 9 October 1936) is an English actor. He is known for his distinctive bushy beard, booming voice, and exuberant personality and performances. He portrayed PC "Fancy" Smith in ''Z-Cars''; Augustus in the 1976 BBC television production of ''I, Claudius (TV series), I, Claudius''; List of Blackadder characters#King Richard IV of England, King Richard IV in the The Black Adder, first series of ''Blackadder''; Prince Vultan in ''Flash Gordon (film), Flash Gordon''; Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Bustopher Jones and Old Deuteronomy in the 1981 original London production of ''Cats (musical), Cats'' at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, New London Theatre; Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, in ''Henry V (1989 film), Henry V''; Boss Nass in ''Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace''; and the voice of Clayton and the Tarzan yell in Disney's ''Tarzan (1999 film), Tarzan''. In 2016, Blessed was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
