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Altered Carbon (TV Series)
''Altered Carbon'' is an American cyberpunk television series created by Laeta Kalogridis and based on the 2002 novel of the same title by English author Richard K. Morgan. In a world where consciousness can be transferred to different bodies, Takeshi Kovacs, a former soldier turned investigator, is released from prison in order to solve a murder. The first season consists of ten episodes and premiered on Netflix on February 2, 2018. On July 27, 2018, the series was renewed for a second season of eight episodes, which was released on February 27, 2020, with an anime film set before the first season released on March 19, 2020. Though the series received generally positive reviews, it was canceled after two seasons. Synopsis The series starts over 360 years in the future, with most episodes of the first season set in the year 2384 in a futuristic metropolis known as Bay City. In the future, a person's memories and consciousness (termed digital human freight, or DHF) are recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech", featuring futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with societal collapse, dystopia or decay. Much of cyberpunk is rooted in the New Wave science fiction movement of the 1960s and 1970s, when writers like Philip K. Dick, Michael Moorcock, Roger Zelazny, John Brunner, J. G. Ballard, Philip José Farmer and Harlan Ellison examined the impact of drug culture, technology, and the sexual revolution while avoiding the utopian tendencies of earlier science fiction. Comics exploring cyberpunk themes began appearing as early as Judge Dredd, first published in 1977. Released in 1984, William Gibson's influential debut novel ''Neuromancer'' helped solidify cyberpunk as a genre, drawing influence from punk subculture and early hacker culture. Other influential cyberpunk ... [...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, smartph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russel Friend
Russel Friend is an American television writer and producer who served as an executive producer on the Fox series ''House'', for which he won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2010 for co-writing the episode "Broken". He often works with his writing partner Garrett Lerner. Television career Friend's writing career began on the CBS crime series ''Martial Law'', after which he served as a writer and producer on several series through the late 1990s until the early 2000s, including ''FreakyLinks'', '' Roswell'', ''John Doe'', ''Boston Public'', ''LAX'' and ''Smallville''. In 2005, he and Lerner joined the writing staff of the medical mystery series ''House''. Their first episode, "Acceptance", was the premiere of the second season. At the start of the fourth season, Friend became an executive producer. He was also a Consulting Producer and writer on Glee. Filmography Awards and nominations In 2010, Friend was the recipient of the Writers Guild of America award for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Hurran
Nick Hurran (born 1959) is a British film and television director. His 1998 film '' Girls' Night'' was entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. Hurran is married to a television producer, Michele Buck, with whom he has two children. Selected filmography Film * ''Remember Me? '' (1997) * '' Girls' Night'' (1998) * '' Virtual Sexuality'' (1999) * ''Plots with a View'' (2002) * ''Little Black Book'' (2004) * '' It's a Boy Girl Thing'' (2006) Television * '' The Perfect Match'' (1995) * ''Happy Birthday Shakespeare'' (2000) * '' Take a Girl Like You'' (2000) * '' The Last Detective'' (2003, 1 episode) * ''Walk Away and I Stumble'' (2005) * ''A Class Apart'' (2007) * '' Bonekickers'' (2008, 1 episode) * '' The Prisoner'' (2009; 6 episodes) * ''Doctor Who'' (2011-2013) : ** The Girl Who Waited ** The God Complex ** Asylum of the Daleks ** The Angels Take Manhattan ** The Day of the Doctor * '' Sherlock'' ** His Last Vow - Nominated - Primetime Emmy A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Medavoy
Morris Mike Medavoy (born January 21, 1941) is an American film producer and business executive. He is the co-founder of Orion Pictures (1978), former chairman of TriStar Pictures, former head of production for United Artists (1974–1978), and the current chairman and CEO of Phoenix Pictures. Early life and education Morris Mike Medavoy was born in Shanghai, China. His father, Michael, was a garage mechanic and his mother, Dora, owned a dress shop and Chinese actresses as clients. His parents were both from Jewish families. His mother was born in Harbin, Manchuria (to parents originally from Odessa), and his father was born in Ukraine. Medavoy lived in Chile from 1947 to 1957, and he studied at the Liceo Valentín Letelier de Santiago learning to speak Spanish fluently in addition to Russian, which is his first language. The family moved to Los Angeles and they lived with Medavoy's aunt. He became an American citizen in 1963 and graduated from UCLA that same year. Joining the U. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ellison
David Ellison (born January 9, 1983) is an American film producer and actor best known as the founder and CEO of Skydance Media. Early life and education David Ellison was born in Santa Clara County, California. He is the son of billionaire Oracle Corporation co-founder and chairman Larry Ellison, and his ex-wife, Barbara Boothe Ellison. His father is of Italian and Jewish heritage.Matthew Symonds, Larry Ellison. ''Software: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle'' Simon and Schuster, 2004. pp332-333 David attended the University of Southern California. He has one sister, film producer Megan Ellison, who founded Annapurna Pictures. Career Ellison is the CEO and founder of Skydance Media. In 2010, with his father then the sixth richest person in the world, and a partnership deal with Paramount, Skydance was able to raise $350 million in equity and credit to co-finance and co-produce movies. The company's films include '' Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Annihilation, Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Nelson (screenwriter)
Brian Nelson is an American screenwriter. Early life Nelson holds degrees from Yale University and from UCLA. He worked as a drama instructor at Langley High School in McLean, Virginia in the early 1980s, where he taught Gilmore Girls actress Lauren Graham, Little Miss Sunshine screenwriter Michael Arndt, and UCLA screenwriting instructor Brian David Price. Writing career Nelson's numerous writing credits include episodes of the television series '' Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'', Gene Roddenberry's '' Earth: Final Conflict'', '' JAG'' and the Disney television series' '' So Weird'' and '' In a Heartbeat'' as well as the feature film '' Hard Candy''. He also wrote the play "Overlooked" and co-wrote the script for the vampire film ''30 Days of Night'', which was released in late 2007 and helmed by ''Hard Candy'' director David Slade. Nelson wrote the script for the M. Night Shyamalan-produced thriller '' Devil''. Nelson wrote episodes 3 and 8 of the Netflix o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skydance Media
Skydance Media, LLC (formerly known as Skydance Productions) is an American production company based in Santa Monica, California. Founded by David Ellison in 2006, the company entered a five-year partnership to co-produce and co-finance films with Paramount Pictures starting in 2009, and renewed the agreement twice extending to 2021. The company specializes in films, animation, television, and video games. History Skydance Productions was formed in 2006 by David Ellison. The firm's first film was '' Flyboys'' in 2006, starring Ellison and co-financed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In the fall of 2009, Skydance and Paramount Pictures signed a five-year co-financing, production and distribution agreement, with Paramount holding the additional option of distribution. Before August 2010, Skydance hired Dana Goldberg, formerly of Village Roadshow Pictures, to oversee development and production. In August 2010, with the Paramount partnership and an equity investment by Ellison's father and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoenix Pictures
Phoenix Pictures is an American film production company that has produced films since the late 1990s with features including ''Black Swan'' (2010), ''Shutter Island'' (2010), ''The People vs. Larry Flynt'' (1996), '' The Thin Red Line'' (1998), and ''Zodiac'' (2007). History Producers Mike Medavoy and Arnold Messer founded Phoenix in November 1995 as an independent production company. They acquired financing from Onex Corporation, Pearson Television, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. It struck a deal with CBS to air its movies on network television. Its business model was based on packaging films to present to studios and to then navigate the films' development. In 1996, the studio struck an exclusive deal with Showtime Networks to air its networks on pay television. ''Variety Variety may refer to: Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats * Variety (radio) * Variety show, in theater and television Films * ''Variety'' (1925 film), a German silent film directed by Ew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Vanderbilt
James Platten Vanderbilt (born November 17, 1975) is an American filmmaker best known for the films ''Zodiac'' (2007), ''White House Down'' (2013), ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' (2012), ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'' (2014), '' Independence Day: Resurgence'' (2016), ''Murder Mystery'' (2019) and '' Scream'' (2022). He also contributed as producer for the films ''The House with a Clock in Its Walls'' (2018) and '' Ready or Not'' (2019), where he cameoed as demon Mr. Le Bail. Early life A member of the Vanderbilt family of New York, James Vanderbilt is the son of Alison Campbell (''née'' Platten) and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt III. His paternal great-grandfather Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr. died on the in the 1915 sinking, his paternal grandfather, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., once chaired the New York Racing Association, and his maternal grandfather, Donald Campbell Platten, was the chief executive and chairman of Chemical Bank. Vanderbilt was raised in Norwalk, Connecticut, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos is a surround sound technology developed by Dolby Laboratories. It expands on existing surround sound systems by adding height channels, allowing sounds to be interpreted as three-dimensional objects with neither horizontal, nor vertical limitation. Following the release of Atmos for the cinema market, a variety of consumer technologies have been released under the Atmos brand, using in-ceiling and up-firing speakers. History The first Dolby Atmos installation was in the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles, for the premiere of ''Brave'' in June 2012. Throughout 2012, it saw a limited release of about 25 installations worldwide, with an increase to 300 locations in 2013. As of October 2022, there were over 10,000 Dolby Atmos enabled cinema screens, installed, or committed to. Dolby Atmos has also been adapted to a home theater format and is the audio component of Dolby Cinema. Most electronic devices since 2016, as well as smartphones after 2017, have been enabled fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital, originally synonymous with Dolby AC-3, is the name for what has now become a family of audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories. Formerly named Dolby Stereo Digital until 1995, the audio compression is lossy (except for Dolby TrueHD), based on the modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) algorithm. The first use of Dolby Digital was to provide digital sound in cinemas from 35 mm film prints; today, it is also used for applications such as TV broadcast, radio broadcast via satellite, digital video streaming, DVDs, Blu-ray discs and game consoles. The main basis of the Dolby AC-3 multi-channel audio coding standard is the modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT), a lossy audio compression algorithm. It is a modification of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) algorithm, which was first proposed by Nasir Ahmed in 1972 and was originally intended for image compression. The DCT was adapted into the modified discrete cosine transform (MD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
