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Army Of One (2016 Film)
''Army of One'' is a 2016 American comedy film directed by Larry Charles and written by Rajiv Joseph and Scott Rothman. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Rainn Wilson, Russell Brand, Denis O'Hare, Paul Scheer, and Will Sasso. The film was released through video on demand and select theaters on November 4, 2016, before being released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 15, 2016, by Dimension Films. In a 2020 interview, Cage revealed that the released version of the film was recut by Bob Weinstein without Charles' permission and that the latter's original version remains unreleased. Premise The film follows Gary Faulkner, an ex-construction contractor and unemployed handy man who believes that God has sent him to capture Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The story is based on the real-life Faulkner, who traveled to Pakistan looking for bin Laden. Cast *Nicolas Cage as Gary Brooks Faulkner *Wendi McLendon-Covey as Marci Mitchell *Rainn Wilson as Agent Simons *Russell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Charles
Larry Charles (born ) is an American comedian, screenwriter, director, actor, and producer. He was a staff writer for the sitcom ''Seinfeld'' for its first five seasons. He has also directed the documentary film ''Religulous'' and the mockumentary comedy films ''Borat'', ''Brüno'', and ''The Dictator (2012 film), The Dictator''. His Netflix documentary series ''Larry Charles' Dangerous World of Comedy'' premiered in 2019. Early life Charles was raised in a Jewish family in Trump Village, located between Brighton Beach and Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from John Dewey High School, he attended college at Rutgers University in New Jersey, but he left school to perform comedy routines. Career Early career Charles performed stand-up comedy during the 1970s until he was hired to write for the short-lived sketch comedy show ''Fridays (TV series), Fridays'', where he worked with Larry David. This began Charles's career in television writing that included ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video On Demand
Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos without a traditional video playback device and the constraints of a typical static broadcasting schedule. In the 20th century, broadcasting in the form of over-the-air programming was the most common form of media distribution. As Internet and IPTV technologies continued to develop in the 1990s, consumers began to gravitate towards non-traditional modes of content consumption, which culminated in the arrival of VOD on televisions and personal computers. Unlike broadcast television, VOD systems initially required each user to have an Internet connection with considerable bandwidth to access each system's content. In 2000, the Fraunhofer Institute IIS developed the JPEG2000 codec, which enabled the distribution of movies via Digital Cinema Packages. This technology has since expanded its services from feature-film productions to include broadcast television programmes and has led to lower bandw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Principal Photography
Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production. Personnel Besides the main film personnel, such as actors, director, cinematographer or sound engineer and their respective assistants ( assistant director, camera assistant, boom operator), the unit production manager plays a decisive role in principal photography. They are responsible for the daily implementation of the shoot, managing the daily call sheet, the location barriers, transportation, and catering. In addition, there are numerous roles that serve the organization and the orderly sequence of the production, such as grips or gaffers. Other roles are related with the preparation of a daily production report, which shows the progress of the production compared to the schedule and contains further reports. This includes the storyboard with instructions for the copier and the editing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Marino
Kenneth Joseph Marino (born December 19, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He was a cast member on MTV's ''The State'' and has starred in shows such as ''Party Down'', '' Marry Me'', ''Burning Love'', and ''Childrens Hospital''. He played the Lehman brothers on the Showtime series ''Black Monday''. Early life Marino was born on Long Island, New York, to an Italian-American family. He attended West Islip High School in West Islip, New York. He then studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute and Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in New York City. On Marino's first day at NYU, he met David Wain and Craig Wedren and quickly befriended both of them; Marino was popular in part because he had milk crates full of bottles of alcoholic beverages (which he had stolen the previous summer at a job at a yacht club), and he carried the crates around with him when he visited people's dorm rooms. The next year, Wain and Marino were among the co-founders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis O’Hare
Denis Patrick Seamus O'Hare (born January 17, 1962) is an American actor, singer, and author noted for his award-winning performances in the plays '' Take Me Out'' and ''Sweet Charity'', as well as portraying vampire king Russell Edgington on HBO's fantasy series ''True Blood''. He is also known for his supporting roles in such films as '' Charlie Wilson's War'', ''Milk'', ''Changeling'', and ''Dallas Buyers Club''. In 2011, he starred as Larry Harvey in the first season of the FX anthology series ''American Horror Story'', for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie in 2012. He returned to the show in 2013, playing Spalding in '' American Horror Story: Coven'' and once more as Stanley in '' American Horror Story: Freak Show'', the latter for which he earned a second Primetime Emmy Award nomination. For his performance in '' American Horror Story: Hotel'' as Liz Taylor, O'Hare received critical acclaim. Earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Modine
Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker, who rose to prominence through his role as U.S. Marine Private/Sergeant J.T. "Joker" Davis in ''Full Metal Jacket''. His other film roles include the title character in '' Birdy'', the high school wrestler Louden Swain in ''Vision Quest'', FBI agent Mike Downey in ''Married to the Mob'', Joe Slovak in ''Gross Anatomy'', William Shaw in ''Cutthroat Island'', Drake Goodman in ''Pacific Heights'', Peter Foley in ''The Dark Knight Rises'', and Dr. Ralph Wyman in ''Short Cuts''. On television, Modine portrays the villainous Dr. Martin Brenner in Netflix's ''Stranger Things'', the oversexed Sullivan Groff on '' Weeds'', Dr. Don Francis in ''And the Band Played On'' and Ivan Turing in '' Proof''. Modine has been nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for his work in ''And the Band Played On'' and ''What the Deaf Man Heard'' and receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Martinez (actor)
Adrian Martinez (born January 20, 1972, in New York City) is an American actor and comedian, known for ''The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'' and ''Focus''. He also worked in the theatre. He is also known for his role as the "Discount Double Check" guy in a series of State Farm commercials starring Aaron Rodgers. Career Martinez debuted his acting career with the series ''America's Most Wanted'' in 1993, and since then he has acted in several television series. He has also worked in the theater, and a member of LAByrinth Theater Company. In 2009, Martinez appeared in '' Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned'' as Brian Jeremy, the secondary antagonist, Set in 2008, Johnny Klebitz in The Angels of Death and The Lost MC Brotherhoods. In 2010, Martinez starred in the action comedy ''Cop Out'' as Tino, along with Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, directed by Kevin Smith, released on February 26, 2010, by Warner Bros. Pictures. He portrayed the role of Ginger Goon in the superhero come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's Islam by country#Countries, second-largest Muslim population just behind Indonesia. Pakistan is the List of countries and dependencies by area, 33rd-largest country in the world by area and 2nd largest in South Asia, spanning . It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by India to India–Pakistan border, the east, Afghanistan to Durand Line, the west, Iran to Iran–Pakistan border, the southwest, and China to China–Pakistan border, the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the north, and also shares a maritime border with Oman. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osama Bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi-born extremist militant who founded al-Qaeda and served as its leader from 1988 until Killing of Osama bin Laden, his death in 2011. Ideologically a Pan-Islamism, pan-Islamist, his group is designated as a List of designated terrorist groups, terrorist group by the United Nations Security Council, the NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union, and various countries. Belonging to the wealthy Bin Laden family, Osama bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia. His father was Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, a Saudi millionaire from Hadhramaut, Yemen, and the founder of the construction company, Saudi Binladin Group. His mother, Hamida al-Attas, Alia Ghanem, was from a secular middle-class family in Latakia, Syria. He studied at university in the country until 1979, when he joined Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen, Mujahideen forces in Pakistan Soviet–Afghan War, fighting against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handyman
A handyman, also known as a fixer, handyperson or handyworker, is a person skilled at a wide range of repairs, typically around the home. These tasks include trade skills, repair work, maintenance work, are both interior and exterior, and are sometimes described as "side work", "odd jobs" or "fix-up tasks". Specifically, these jobs could be light plumbing jobs such as fixing a leaky toilet or light electric jobs such as changing a light fixture or bulb. The term ''handyman'' increasingly describes a paid worker, but it also includes non-paid homeowners or do-it-yourselfers. The term ''handyman'' is also occasionally applied as an adjective to describe politicians or business leaders who make substantial organizational changes, such as overhauling a business structure or administrative division. Many people can do common household repairs. There are resources on the Internet, as well as do-it-yourself guide books, with instructions about how to complete a wide range of projects. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Construction Contractor
A general contractor, main contractor or prime contractor is responsible for the day-to-day oversight of a construction site, management of vendors and trades, and the communication of information to all involved parties throughout the course of a building project. Description A general contractor is a construction manager employed by a client, usually upon the advice of the project's architect or engineer. Responsible for the overall coordination of a project, general contractors may also act as building designer and foreman (a tradesman in charge of a crew). A general contractor must first assess the project-specific documents (referred to as a bid, proposal, or tender documents). In the case of renovations, a site visit is required to get a better understanding of the project. Depending on the project delivery method, the contractor will submit a fixed price proposal or bid, cost-plus price or an estimate. The general contractor considers the cost of home office overhead, gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Brooks Faulkner
Gary Brooks Faulkner (born 1958) is an American former construction worker and landlord who was arrested in 2010 in Pakistan carrying a katana, pistol, night vision goggles, a map, and a Bible on his one-man hunt to capture Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of Al-Qaeda. Faulkner claimed that he was on a mission from God to capture Bin Laden. Faulkner spent ten days in the custody of Peshawar police before being released with no charges in what was reported to be his seventh visit to Pakistan to find Bin Laden, but according to Faulkner, it was his eleventh. Early media reports said that Faulkner intended to kill Bin Laden, but Faulkner said that he planned to hand him over to Pakistani authorities. The 2016 film ''Army of One'' starring Nicolas Cage was based on him. Early life Faulkner was born in 1958 in Los Angeles, California. When he was ten years old, he and his family moved to Colorado where Faulkner lived in Denver and Greeley where he currently resides. In 1981 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
