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Arvind Ethan David
Arvind Ethan David, (born 21 February 1975) is a Malaysian-born, British film producer, founder of Slingshot Productions, and Principal of Prodigal Entertainment. He is best known for producing a stage musical of ''Jagged Little Pill'', based on the album by Alanis Morissette, and the American adaptation of Douglas Adams' science fiction detective comedy novel series ''Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'' on BBC America, which premiered in October 2016. Other feature films he has produced include '' Tormented'' starring Alex Pettyfer and ''French Film'' starring Hugh Bonneville and Manchester United football legend Eric Cantona - with the latter winning Best Actor for Bonneville and Best Screenplay for Aschlin Ditta at the 2008 Monte Carlo Film Festival. Slingshot Productions David founded film production and finance company Slingshot in 2005 in partnership with Norwegian venture capitalist Thomas Hoegh. They were soon being viewed as dynamic entrepreneurs by respected trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Malaysia. Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime Malaysia–Thailand border, border with Thailand and Maritime boundary, maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia. East Malaysia shares land and maritime borders with Brunei and Indonesia, and a maritime border with the Philippines and Vietnam. Kuala Lumpur is the national capital, the country's largest city, and the seat of the Parliament of Malaysia, legislative branch of the Government of Malaysia, federal government. The nearby Planned community#Planned capitals, planned capital of Putrajaya is the administrative capital, which represents the seat of both the Government of Malaysia#Executive, executive branch (the Cabine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hoegh
Thomas Hoegh is a Norwegian artist, investor and entrepreneur who oversees a portfolio of high-growth businesses in the creative sectors. Thomas directs films and theatre under the name Torstein Blixfjord. He was born in Oslo in 1966. Career Hoegh graduated from Northwestern University in 1992 with a Bachelor degree in Communication in Theatre. He was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. While at Northwestern, he was a co-chair of The Waa-Mu Show in 1990 and 1991. Hoegh was the Founder, Co-Owner and Artistic Director of Norwegian Performance Ltd, an Oslo-based production company specialising in multimedia performances, dance, events and concerts. Hoegh was Artistic Director of “Folkefest,” a festival of peace to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, and Assistant Artistic Director for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Hoegh then received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1997 and founded his Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl With All The Gifts
''The Girl with All the Gifts'' is a science-fiction novel by M. R. Carey, published in June 2014 by Orbit Books. It is based on his 2013 Edgar Award-nominated short story ''Iphigenia In Aulis'' and was written concurrently with the screenplay for the 2016 film. It deals with a dystopian future in which most of humanity is wiped out by a zombie-like fungal infection. Characters *Melanie – test subject number one, a host of the ''Ophiocordyceps unilateralis'' fungal infection. She has a brilliant intellect. She is 10 years old. *Miss Helen Justineau – a compassionate teacher with a psychology background, who has become attached to the child subjects of the military-run experiment at Hotel Echo. *Sergeant Eddie Parks – a battle-hardened, non-commissioned officer who is acting as field commander of the Hotel Echo military complex. *Dr Caroline Caldwell – the scientific leader of the study taking place at Hotel Echo. She is the teachers' boss. She is obsessed with findi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucifer (DC Comics)
Lucifer Samael Morningstar is a character who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is an adaptation of Lucifer—the Biblical fallen angel and devil of Christianity—and is one of the most powerful beings in the DC Universe. Though various versions of the Devil have been presented by DC Comics, this interpretation by Neil Gaiman debuted in ''The Sandman'' #4 in 1989. Lucifer appears primarily as a supporting character in ''The Sandman'' and as the protagonist of the spin-off ''Lucifer.'' The spin-off series ''Lucifer'' (2000–2006) written by Mike Carey depicts his adventures on Earth, Heaven, and in the various other realms of his family's creations and in uncreated voids after abandoning Hell in ''The Sandman''. Lucifer also appears as a supporting character in issues of '' The Demon,'' '' The Spectre'', and other DC Universe comics. Two angels, a human, and briefly Superman have taken his place as ruler of Hell. Lucifer made his live-action debut in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Carey (writer)
Mike Carey (born 1959), also known by his pen name M. R. Carey, is a British writer of comic books, novels and films, whose credits include the long-running '' The Sandman'' spin-off series ''Lucifer'', a three-year stint on ''Hellblazer'', as well as his creator-owned titles '' Crossing Midnight'' and '' The Unwritten'' for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, a lengthy run on Marvel's ''X-Men'', the 2014 novel '' The Girl with All the Gifts'' and its 2016 film adaptation. Early life and career Carey was born in Liverpool, England, in 1959. He describes his young self as "one of those ominously quiet kids... holived so much inside my own head I only had vestigial limbs". As a child, he maintained an interest in comics, writing and drawing primitive stories to entertain his younger brother. He studied English at St Peter's College, Oxford and, upon graduation, became a teacher. He taught for 15 years before moving on to writing comics. Writing career After a series of one-off jobs for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darkness Visible (comics)
Darkness Visible is a phrase from Milton's poem ''Paradise Lost''. It may refer to: Literature * ''Darkness Visible'' (novel), a 1979 novel by British writer Sir William Golding * ''Darkness Visible'' (Hannah book), a 1952 book about Freemasonry by English clergyman Walton Hannah * ''Darkness Visible'' (memoir), a 1989 memoir by U.S. writer William Styron *'' Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergil's Aeneid'', a 1979 monograph by the classicist W. R. Johnson * '' Visible Darkness'', a 1959 Russian story and later book by Dmitri Bilenkin Music * ''Darknesse Visible'', a piece for solo piano by British composer Thomas Adès based on John Dowland's ''In darknesse let me dwelle'' * ''Darkness Visible'', a piece for symphony orchestra by Spanish composer, Benet Casablancas, with words by Pessoa and Milton * "Darkness Visible", a song by Mumford & sons from their 2018 album ''Delta Delta commonly refers to: * Delta (letter) (Δ or δ), a letter of the Greek alphabet * River delta, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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