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Turistas
''Turistas'' (; English: ''Tourists'', released in the United Kingdom and Ireland as ''Paradise Lost'') is a 2006 American horror film produced and directed by John Stockwell, written by Michael Arlen Ross, and starring Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Max Brown, and Beau Garrett. Its plot focuses on a group of international backpackers in Brazil who find themselves in the clutches of an underground organ trafficking ring. It was the first American film to be exclusively shot in Brazil. It was also the first film distributed by Fox Atomic, a subsidiary of 20th Century Fox, which released it theatrically in the United States on December 1, 2006. Plot Three young American tourists, Alex, his sister Bea, and her friend Amy, are backpacking in Brazil. After a bus crash leaves all the passengers stranded, they are joined by two British men, Finn and Liam, and an Australian woman, Pru, who is fluent in Portuguese. The group find a cabana bar where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beau Garrett
Beau Jesse Garrett (born December 28, 1982) is an American actress and model. She began her career appearing in GUESS advertisements in the late 1990s after being discovered by an Elite modeling agent at age fourteen. She made her feature film debut in the horror film ''Turistas'' (2006) before portraying Captain Raye in '' Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer'' (2007) and Gem in '' Tron: Legacy'' (2010). Garrett would later appear as a regular guest star on the television series '' Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior'' (2011) and had a regular role on ''Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce'' from 2014 to 2018. In 2017, she portrayed Jessica Preston on the ABC series '' The Good Doctor''. Early life Garrett was born at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, on December 28, 1982, as the second child of David and Randi Garrett (née Rowland). She was raised in Topanga, California, in the Santa Monica Mountains where, as a child, she frequently rode horses. In her youth, Garrett became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stockwell (actor)
John Stockwell Samuels IV (born March 25, 1961) is an American actor and filmmaker. For his work on the television film ''Cheaters (2000 film), Cheaters'' (2000), Stockwell was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special. Early life Stockwell was born in Galveston, Texas, the son of Ellen (Richards) and John S. Samuels III, an attorney. Stockwell's sister is historian Evelyn Welch, and his niece is singer and songwriter Florence Welch. His father was a Texas lawyer and coal magnate, purchased Salutation (estate), Salutation in Glen Cove, Long Island. While he was in college at Harvard University near Boston, he commuted to New York City to appear on episodes of the soap opera ''Guiding Light''. Career Early in his career, Stockwell was an international model. During this time, he became a friend of pop artist Andy Warhol. Stockwell's first feature film as an actor came in a small role in 1981's ''So Fine (film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Haslinger
Paul Haslinger (born 11 December 1962) is an Austrian musician and composer. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Life and career Early life Haslinger was born and raised in Linz, Austria. He attended high school at Kollegium Aloisianum, a Jesuit school near Linz. After graduating, he decided to pursue music professionally and studied at both the Vienna’s Academy of Music and the University of Vienna. During this time he developed a career as a session player in Vienna and performed with local bands and artists. Tangerine Dream (1986–1991) In 1986, Haslinger joined the German electronic music group Tangerine Dream. During his 5 years with the group, he recorded a total of 15 albums, participated in 4 international tours, and collaborated on a number of soundtracks including '' Miracle Mile'', '' Near Dark'', '' Shy People'' and Miramar’s '' Canyon Dreams'' directed by Jan Nickman. The soundtrack for Canyon Dreams earned Haslinger his first Grammy nomination i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa George
Melissa Suzanne George (born 6 August 1976) is an Australian and American actress. She began her career playing Angel Parrish on the Australian soap opera ''Home and Away'' between 1993–1996. After moving to the United States, George made her feature film debut with a supporting role in the 1998 tech noir '' Dark City''. She made the transition to leading roles when she starred in the 2005 remake of ''The Amityville Horror'', gaining further recognition with the thriller '' Derailed'' (2005), and the genre films ''30 Days of Night'' (2007) and ''Triangle'' (2009). Outside film, George played the recurring role of Lauren Reed on ABC's '' Alias'' (2003–2004). She was Golden Globe nominated for playing Laura Hill on the first season of HBO's ''In Treatment'' (2008), and won the Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actress for her portrayal of Rosie in the Australian miniseries '' The Slap'' (2011); a part she reprised in the 2015 American adaptation. She starred as Margot Fox on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Duhamel
Joshua David Duhamel ( ; born November 14, 1972) is an American actor. After various modeling work, he made his acting debut as Leo du Pres on the ABC daytime soap opera ''All My Children'' for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award and later starred as Danny McCoy on NBC's ''Las Vegas''. Duhamel has ventured into film, appearing as one of the main protagonists in four of the ''Transformers'' films, most recently in the fifth entry, '' Transformers: The Last Knight'' (2017). He has also appeared in '' When in Rome'' (2010), '' Life as We Know It'' (2010), ''New Year's Eve'' (2011), '' Safe Haven'' (2013), and '' You're Not You'' (2014). In 2015, Duhamel co-starred on the short-lived CBS crime drama '' Battle Creek''. He has also starred in several video games, most notably '' Call of Duty: WWII'' (2017). In 2018, he appeared in the coming of age film ''Love, Simon''. In 2021, Duhamel starred in the role of Sheldon Sampson in the Netflix superhero series '' Jupiter's Legacy''. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Brown (British Actor)
Max Brown (born ) is a British actor who made his television debut in 2001 at the age of 20. Early life Brown spent most of his childhood in the town of Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He has two sisters, Chloe and Phoebe. Brown's father is a civil servant and his mother a governor at a family support charity. Brown was drawn to acting from an early age after moving schools at a young age. He performed in plays regularly at the local Music Hall in Shrewsbury. Career Brown first appeared on screens playing the heartthrob Danny Hartston in ''Grange Hill'' (2001). He has gone on to appear in several television shows, including '' Crossroads'', ''Hollyoaks'', ''Doctors'', ''Casualty'', '' Mistresses'' and ''The Tudors''. In 2010, he was cast as MI5 Piracy and Terrorism Case Officer Dimitri Levendis in the BBC One drama series '' Spooks'' until its final season in 2011. He originated the role of Adam Wainwright in ''Foyle's War'', though the role needed to be re-cast when Brown moved to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organ Trafficking
Organ trade (also known as the blood market or the red market) is the trading of human organs, tissues, or other body products, usually for transplantation.(Carney, Scott. 2011. "The Red Market." Wired 19, no. 2: 112–1. Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts.) According to the World Health Organization (WHO), organ trade is a commercial transplantation where there is a profit, or transplantations that occur outside of national medical systems. There is a global need or demand for healthy body parts for transplantation, which exceeds the numbers available. , there are more than 100,000 candidates waiting for organ transplant in the United States. The median wait time for heart and liver transplants in the U.S. between 2003 and 2014, was approximately 148 days. Commercial trade in human organs is currently illegal in all countries except Iran. Recent bans on the commercial organ trade (e.g. India in 1994 and the Philippines in 2008) have increased the availability of transpl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Butan
Marc Butan is an American film producer and CEO at MadRiver Pictures, a Beverly Hills, California-based motion picture production company. During his career, he has served as co-president at Sierra/Affinity, president at Panorama Media, president at 2929 Productions and executive vice president of production at Lionsgate, where he was responsible for overseeing film production for the studio. Butan was previously an investment banker at Kidder, Peabody & Co. and Prudential Financial. In 2015, he founded MadRiver Pictures to produce star-driven commercial feature films. Since inception, the company has produced James Gray's '' The Lost City of Z'' starring Charlie Hunnam; Burr Steers' '' Pride and Prejudice and Zombies''; '' Triple 9'' starring Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Winslet and Woody Harrelson; '' Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House'' starring Liam Neeson and most recently James Gray's '' Ad Astra'' starring Brad Pitt. In 2016, MadRiver Pictures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Atomic
Fox Atomic was a short-lived production and distribution label of film studios 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures created in 2006 to generate comedy and genre films. In 2008, following overall disappointing results, Fox Atomic scaled back its production operations and shut down all marketing divisions. In 2009, the label was shut down, with films in development transferred to other Fox labels. All of the Fox Atomic film library are now owned by The Walt Disney Company via Walt Disney Studios, following Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox on March 20, 2019. History In late 2006, Fox Atomic was started up as a label of 20th Century Fox under Fox Searchlight head Peter Rice and COO John Hegeman as a sibling production division under Fox Filmed Entertainment. In early 2008, Atomic's marketing unit was transferred to Fox Searchlight and 20th Century Fox, when Hegeman moved to New Regency Productions. Debbie Liebling became president. After two middling successes a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2929 Entertainment
2929 Entertainment, LLC. is an American integrated media and entertainment company co-founded by billionaire entrepreneurs Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban. 2929 maintains companies and interests across several industries including entertainment development and packaging, film and television production and distribution, digital and broadcast syndication, theatrical exhibition, and home entertainment. 2929 Entertainment has offices in Los Angeles, New York, and Dallas. Wagner and Cuban co-own 2929 with Sky Hansen serving as managing director. History 2929 Entertainment made several strategic acquisitions to assure that releases could be made available to any audience across a variety of platforms simultaneously. Wagner says that "ready availability of such infrastructure would be an operating advantage to both the circuit and the production company." Some titles would even see DVD releases alongside theatrical openings as early as 2007, through an early partnership with Netflix. An ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Chediak
Enrique Proper Chediak ASC (born June 30, 1967) is an Ecuadorian cinematographer, who works principally in the United States. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Danny Boyle's ''127 Hours'' (2010). His other film credits include '' Hurricane Streets'' (1997), ''The Faculty'' (1998), '' Boiler Room'' (2001), ''28 Weeks Later'' (2007), '' Charlie St. Cloud'' (2010), ''The Maze Runner'' (2014), ''Deepwater Horizon'' (2016), ''Bumblebee'' (2018), and '' A Minecraft Movie'' (2025). Early life and education Chediak was born in Quito, Ecuador. He studied communication science in Santiago de Chile and photography in Madrid before studying film at New York University cinematographers.nl from 1992 to 1996. Career His first film as cinematographer was ''American ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desmond Askew
Desmond Askew (born 17 December 1972) is an English actor of film and television. In 1983 he had the lead role of 'naughty schoolboy' in the promo video of the Wham! single " Bad Boys". He has appeared in the films '' Go'' (1999), '' Repli-Kate'' (2002), '' The Hills Have Eyes'' (2006) and ''Turistas'' (2006). He has appeared in episodic television on series such as ''Grange Hill'' from 1991 to 1994 portraying Richard Hare, ''Las Vegas'', ''Charmed'', the short-lived '' Then Came You'', as the recurring character Brody Davis on '' Roswell'', and the titular adaptation of the 1987 children's series '' Simon and the Witch''. He also voiced many minor characters (including Jowan and Chanter Devons) in the 2009 video game '' Dragon Age Origins''. He has recently voiced as CIA Nerd in '' Call of Duty: Black Ops II''. Askew studied at the Sylvia Young Theatre School Sylvia Young Theatre School is an independent school in Marble Arch, London, England. It is a specialist perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
