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Wish Dragon
''Wish Dragon'' is a 2021 animated fantasy comedy film written and directed by Chris Appelhans (in his feature directorial debut) and produced by Sony Pictures Animation and Tencent Pictures. The film stars Jimmy Wong, John Cho, Constance Wu, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Jimmy O. Yang, Aaron Yoo, Will Yun Lee, and Ronny Chieng. Jackie Chan produced the film and voiced Cho's role in the Chinese Mandarin version. It tells the story about a college student named Din Song, who encounters a teapot inhabited by a dragon named Long, who has the power to grant three wishes. ''Wish Dragon'' was released theatrically in China on January 15, 2021, and on Netflix internationally on June 11, 2021. Plot Din Song is a working-class college student in Shanghai who dreams of reuniting with his childhood friend Li Na, who moved away ten years ago from their neighborhood with her father, Mr. Wang, and now lives a lavish life. One day, Din is given a teapot by an elderly man, from which emerges Long, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Appelhans
Chris Appelhans is an American illustrator, production designer, and film director born in Idaho. His independent artistic work appears in galleries around the United States. He is known for illustrating two children's books, ''A Greyhound, A Groundhog'' and ''Sparky''. He won the Children's Choice Book Award in 2015. He is also the writer and director of the 2021 film '' Wish Dragon''. In 2012, he married author Maurene Goo, with whom he resides in Los Angeles Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, .... Their son was born in 2020. Filmography References https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2282774/?ref_=tt_ov_dr Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Walt Disney Animation Studios people DreamWorks Animation people Laika (company) people Nickelodeon Animati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Pictures Releasing
Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group (formerly known as the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group until 2013, and abbreviated as SPMPG) is a division of Sony Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment to manage its motion picture operations. It was launched in 1998 by integrating the businesses of Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. and TriStar Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Inc. History The Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group was founded in 1998 as the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, as a current division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, owned by Sony. It has many of Sony Pictures' current motion picture divisions as part of it. Its divisions at that time were Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Triumph Films, Sony Pictures Classics, and Sony Pictures Releasing. On December 8, 1998, SPE resurrected its former animation and television division Screen Gems as a film division of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Lee
Robert Young Lee Jr. (born September 17, 1971) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster. Lee co-hosts the podcasts Bad Friends (podcast), ''Bad Friends'' with Andrew Santino and ''TigerBelly'' with Khalyla Kuhn. From 2001 to 2009, Lee was a cast member on ''MADtv'', and he co-starred in the American Broadcasting Company, ABC single-camera sitcom series ''Splitting Up Together'' alongside Jenna Fischer and Oliver Hudson between 2018 and 2019. Lee has also appeared in the films ''Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle'' (2004), ''Pineapple Express (film), Pineapple Express'' (2008), and ''The Dictator (2012 film), The Dictator'' (2012). He had a guest appearance as the cynical, burned-out Dr. Kang on FX (TV channel), FX on Hulu's TV comedy series ''Reservation Dogs''. Early life and education Lee was born on September 17, 1971 in San Diego to Korean immigrant parents Jeanie and Robert Lee. He and his younger brother Steve grew up in Poway, California. His parents owned cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nico Santos (actor)
Nico Santos is a Filipino-American actor known for portraying Oliver T'sien in ''Crazy Rich Asians'' and sales associate Mateo Liwanag in the NBC series '' Superstore''. On December 10, 2018, Santos was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Early life Santos was born in Manila, Philippines. Santos moved with his family to the United States when he was sixteen, settling in Gresham, Oregon. He and his brother attended Gresham's Centennial High School, where they were the only two Filipinos in attendance. In his junior year, he attended the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's summer seminar for high school students, where he discovered his love for theater. Santos attended Southern Oregon University because of its proximity to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He studied acting there before transitioning to costume design due to discouraging remarks from his acting teacher. However, he later dropped out when he came out as gay, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Charles
Max Joseph Charles (born August 18, 2003) is an American photographer and actor. He appeared in the 2012 film ''The Three Stooges'', as young Peter Parker in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'', and had a role in the ABC comedy science fiction series '' The Neighbors''. In 2014, Charles voiced Sherman in DreamWorks' '' Mr. Peabody & Sherman''. He played the recurring role of Spin in Disney XD's '' Lab Rats: Bionic Island''. He voiced Kion on the Disney Junior series '' The Lion Guard'', and Harvey on the Nickelodeon series '' Harvey Beaks''. He also played Zach Goodweather on seasons two through four on the TV series ''The Strain'', replacing Ben Hyland from the first season. Max Charles also voiced Buddy G in the direct-to-video Scooby-Doo film '' Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown''. Early life Charles was born in Dayton, Ohio on August 18, 2003. He has three older brothers, Logan, Brock, and Mason who are also actors. Career He first appeared in a third-season episode of the HBO series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Chen (actor)
Ian Chen (; was born on 7 September 2006) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Evan Huang in the ABC sitcom ''Fresh Off the Boat'' (2015–2020) and Eugene Choi in the DC Extended Universe films '' Shazam!'' (2019) and ''Shazam! Fury of the Gods'' (2023). Personal life Ian Chen was born to a Taiwanese American immigrant family in Los Angeles, California. He has a younger brother named Max and both are fluent in Mandarin. He has shown enthusiasm for video games. Chen also sings and plays guitar in a band, and is an aviation enthusiast. He graduated from Arcadia High School in 2024, and currently attends Harvard University. Filmography Television Film Awards and nominations Chen was ranked #1 in "The Best Asian Actors Under 25 In 2022" on Ranker by its visitors. Chen was named one of Hollywood's Top 30 Stars Under Age 18 by The Hollywood Reporter in 2018 and 2019. Chen was ranked #3 in ''Entertainment Weekly''s "12 Under 12: The Best Child Actors of 2015", b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midas
Midas (; ) was a king of Phrygia with whom many myths became associated, as well as two later members of the Phrygian royal house. His father was Gordias, and his mother was Cybele. The most famous King Midas is popularly remembered in Greek mythology for his ability to turn everything he touched into pure gold and this came to be called the ''golden touch'', or the ''Midas touch''. The legends told about this Midas and his adopted father Gordias, credited with founding the Phrygian capital city Gordium and tying the Gordian Knot, indicate that they were believed to have lived sometime in the 2nd millennium BC, well before the Trojan War. However, Homer does not mention Midas or Gordias, while instead mentioning two other Phrygian kings, Mygdon of Phrygia, Mygdon and Otreus. Midaeum was presumably named after him, and this is probably also the Midas that according to Pausanias (geographer), Pausanias founded Ancyra (today known as Ankara). Another King Midas ruled Phrygia in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meaning Of Life
The meaning of life is the concept of an individual's life, or existence in general, having an intrinsic value (ethics), inherent significance or a Meaning (philosophy), philosophical point. There is no consensus on the specifics of such a concept or whether the concept itself even exists in any Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), objective sense. Thinking and discourse on the topic is sought in the English language through questions such as—but not limited to—"What is the meaning of life?", "What is the purpose of existence?", and "Why are Human, we World, here?". There have been many proposed answers to these questions from many different cultural and ideological backgrounds. The search for life's meaning has produced much philosophical, scientific, theological, and metaphysics, metaphysical speculation throughout history. Different people and cultures believe different things for the answer to this question. Opinions vary on the usefulness of using time and Resource, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Dragon
The Chinese dragon or loong is a legendary creature in Chinese mythology, Chinese folklore, and Chinese culture generally. Chinese dragons have many animal-like forms, such as Bixi (mythology), turtles and Chiwen, fish, but are most commonly depicted as snake-like with four legs. Academicians have identified four reliable theories on the origin of the Chinese dragon: Snakes in Chinese mythology, snakes, Chinese alligators, thunder worship and nature worship. They traditionally symbolize potent and auspicious powers, particularly control over water and weather. Symbolism Historically, the Chinese dragon was associated with the emperor of China and used as a symbol to represent imperial power. Liu Bang, the founder of the Han dynasty, claimed that he was conceived after his mother dreamt of a dragon. During the Tang dynasty, emperors wore robes with dragon motif as an imperial symbol, and high officials might also be presented with dragon robes. In the Yuan dynasty, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanghai
Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowing through it. The population of the city proper is the List of largest cities, second largest in the world after Chongqing, with around 24.87 million inhabitants in 2023, while the urban area is the List of cities in China by population, most populous in China, with 29.87 million residents. As of 2022, the Greater Shanghai metropolitan area was estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (GDP (nominal), nominal) of nearly 13 trillion Renminbi, RMB ($1.9 trillion). Shanghai is one of the world's major centers for finance, #Economy, business and economics, research, science and technology, manufacturing, transportation, List of tourist attractions in Shanghai, tourism, and Culture of Shanghai, culture. The Port of Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. It is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. She was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper# ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Directorial Debuts
This is a list of film directorial debuts in chronological order. The films and dates referred to are a director's first commercial cinematic release. Many filmmakers have directed works which were not commercially released, for example early works by Orson Welles such as his filming of his stage production of ''Twelfth Night (1933 film), Twelfth Night'' in 1933 or his experimental short film ''The Hearts of Age'' in 1934. Often, these early works were not intended for commercial release by intent, such as film school projects or inability to find distribution. Subsequently, many directors learned their trade in the medium of television as it became popular in the 1940s and 1950s. Notable directors who did their first directorial work in this medium include Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet, and Alfonso Cuarón. As commercial television advertising became more cinematic in the 1960s and 1970s, many directors early work was in this medium, including directors such as Alan Parker and Ridle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
