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Childhood's End (miniseries)
''Childhood's End'' is an American-Australian television miniseries based on the 1953 novel of the same name, by Arthur C. Clarke, and developed by Matthew Graham. It premiered on Syfy on December 14, 2015. Cast Main *Mike Vogel as Ricky Stormgren * Osy Ikhile as Milo Rodericks * Daisy Betts as Ellie Stormgren *Yael Stone as Peretta Jones *Georgina Haig as Annabelle Stormgren *Charles Dance as Karellen Supporting * Colm Meaney as Hugo Wainwright *Don Hany as Paul Danlow *Darius Amarfio Jefferson as young Milo Rodericks *Ashley Zukerman as Jake Greggson *Hayley Magnus as Amy Morrel * Julian McMahon as Dr. Rupert Boyce *Charlotte Nicdao as Rachel Osaka * Tanc Sade as Jerry Hallcross * Robert Rabiah as Saudi Business Man Development From the late 1960s, attempts had been made to adapt ''Childhood's End'' as a movie, but none of them ever proceeded out of development hell. On April 10, 2013, Syfy announced its plans to develop a TV miniseries based on ''Childhood's End''. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Zukerman
Ashley Zukerman (born 30 December 1983) is an Australian-American actor known for playing Dr. Charlie Isaacs on WGN America's ''Manhattan'', Senior Constable Michael Sandrelli in Australian drama series ''Rush'', and Jesse Banks in the Australian political thriller '' The Code'', for which he received an AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama in 2014. He also played a recurring role in '' Succession''. In 2021, he portrayed Robert Langdon in the TV series adaptation of Dan Brown's ''The Lost Symbol''. Early life Zukerman was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Ingrid and Moshe Zukerman, and moved to Melbourne with his family when he was two years old. His family is Jewish; his father is from Israel and his mother is from Peru. His parents spoke Hebrew during his childhood. He is the older brother of '' Science Vs.'' podcaster Wendy Zukerman. Zukerman attended Wesley College at the Glen Waverley campus and began a degree in Science and Engineering at Monas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 In Science Fiction
The year 2015 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Events * April 2015 : last publication of the French magazine '':fr:Fiction (magazine), Fiction'', founded in 1953. * October 21, 2015: worldwide celebration of the Back to the Future Part II Day. It coincided with the release of two working hoverboard prototypes by Hendo Hover, Hendo and Lexus; release of a Back to the Future documentary Back in Time (2015 film), Back in Time and various other related fan events. Deaths * January 9 : Michel Jeury, French writer (born 1934 in science fiction, 1934). * January 27 : Suzette Haden Elgin, American writer (born 1936 in science fiction, 1936) * February 27 : Leonard Nimoy American actor, director, writer and playwright. (born 1931 in science fiction, 1931) * March 12 : Terry Pratchett, British writer (born 1948) * May 24 : Tanith Lee, British writer (born 1947) * May 30 : Joël Champetier, Canadian writer (born 1957) * June 7 : Christopher Lee, British actor (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film ''Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lark Ascending (Vaughan Williams)
''The Lark Ascending'' is a short, single-movement work by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, inspired by the 1881 poem of the same name by the English writer George Meredith. It was originally for violin and piano, completed in 1914, but not performed until 1920. The composer reworked it for solo violin and orchestra after the First World War. This version, in which the work is chiefly known, was first performed in 1921. It is subtitled "A Romance", a term that Vaughan Williams favoured for contemplative slow music. The work has gained considerable popularity in Britain and elsewhere and has been much recorded between 1928 and the present day. Background Among the enthusiasms of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams were poetry and the violin. He had trained as a violinist as a boy, and greatly preferred the violin to the piano, for which he never had a great fondness.De Savage, pp. xvii–xxKennedy, p. 11 His literary tastes were wide-ranging, and among the English p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ouija Board
The ouija ( , ), also known as a spirit board or talking board, is a flat board marked with the letters of the Latin alphabet, the numbers 0–9, the words "yes", "no", occasionally "hello" and "goodbye", along with various symbols and graphics. It uses a planchette (small heart-shaped piece of wood or plastic) as a movable indicator to spell out messages during a séance. Participants place their fingers on the planchette, and it is moved about the board to spell out words. "Ouija" is a trademark of Hasbro, but is often used generically to refer to any talking board. Spiritualists in the United States believed that the dead were able to contact the living and reportedly used a talking board very similar to a modern Ouija board at their camps in the U.S. state of Ohio in 1886 to ostensibly enable faster communication with spirits. Following its commercial introduction by businessman Elijah Bond on 1 July 1890, the Ouija board was regarded as an innocent parlor game unre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike DeLuca
Michael De Luca (born August 13, 1965) is an American film studio executive, film producer and screenwriter. The former president of production at both New Line Cinema and DreamWorks, De Luca has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Picture. De Luca formerly served as the chairman of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion Picture Group and currently serves as a co-chairperson and CEO of Warner Bros. Pictures Group. Early life De Luca was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His mother was a German-Jewish immigrant, and his father, who was Italian American and Catholic, worked at ConEdison. De Luca began pursuing a career in show business in 1986. Originally tapped to work as a story editor, he rose fairly quickly through the ranks, thanks in part to his mentor, chair and co-founder of New Line Cinema Robert Shaye. De Luca completed his degree from Tisch School of the Arts of New York University in 1995. Career In 1990, De Luca made his debut in the film industry as ... [...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 Award for Out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bantam Books
Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine, with funding from Grosset & Dunlap and Curtis Publishing Company. It has since been purchased several times by companies including National General, Carl Lindner's American Financial and, most recently, Bertelsmann; it became part of Random House in 1998, when Bertelsmann purchased it to form Bantam Doubleday Dell. It began as a mass market publisher, mostly of reprints of hardcover books, with some original paperbacks as well. It expanded into both trade paperback and hardcover books, including original works, often reprinted in house as mass-market editions. History The company was failing when Oscar Dystel, who had previously worked at Esquire and as editor on Coronet magazine was hired in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Development Hell
Development hell, development purgatory, and development limbo are Media industry, media and Software industry, software industry jargon for a project, concept, or idea that remains in development for an especially long time, often moving between different crews, scripts, game engines, or studios before it progresses to production, if it ever does. Projects in development hell generally have very ambitious goals, which may or may not be underestimated in the design phase, and are delayed in an attempt to meet those goals in a high degree. Production hell refers to when a film has entered production but remains in that state for a long time without progressing to post. The term can also apply generally to any project that has languished unexpectedly in its planning or construction phases, rather than being completed in a realistic amount of time, or otherwise having diverted from its original timely expected date of completion. Overview Film Film industry companies often buy th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Rabiah
Robert Rabiah is an Australian film actor best known for his roles as Hakim in ''Face to Face (2011 film), Face to Face'' for which he was nominated for a AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Film and Best Actor at the Inside Film Awards, Bilal in Safe Harbour (Australian TV series), Safe Harbour for which he was nominated at the Equity Ensemble Awards, Nick in ''Chopper (film), Chopper'', Dario Mancini in ''Fat Tony & Co.'', Spiro Politis on TV soap ''Neighbours, ''Mehmet in ''Deadline Gallipoli,'' Mohsen in ''Ali's Wedding'', Paul `PK' Kallipolitis in Underbelly (series 1), Underbelly, and Sami Almasi in ''Secret City (TV series)''. Career In 2000, Rabiah's first role was in the Australian film ''Chopper (film), Chopper'', alongside Eric Bana and Vince Colosimo. He got roles in television shows, including ''Blue Heelers'', ''Stingers (TV series), Stingers'', ''Underbelly (TV series), Underbelly'', ''Fat Tony & Co.'', and ''Neighbours''. In 2004, he had a minor role in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
