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Dolittle (film)
''Dolittle'' (also referred to as ''The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle'') is a 2020 American fantasy adventure film directed by Stephen Gaghan from a screenplay by Gaghan, Dan Gregor, and Doug Mand, based on a story by Thomas Shepherd. ''Dolittle'' is based on the title character created by Hugh Lofting and is primarily inspired by the author's second Doctor Dolittle book, ''The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle'' (1922). Robert Downey Jr. stars as the title character, alongside Antonio Banderas and Michael Sheen in live-action roles, with Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Craig Robinson, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, and Marion Cotillard voicing an array of creatures. It is the third iteration of film adaptions based on the character, after the 1967 musical ''Doctor Dolittle'' starring Rex Harrison and the 1998–2009 Dr. Dolittle film series starring Eddie Murphy as the titular character and later Kyla Pratt as his daughter, and the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan (; born May 6, 1965) is an American screenwriter and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film ''Traffic'', based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as ''Syriana'' which he wrote and directed. He also wrote and directed the thriller '' Abandon'' and the family film '' Dolittle'', and directed the drama ''Gold''. Childhood and education Gaghan was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of the former Elizabeth Jane Whorton and her first husband, Stephen Gaghan (d. 1980), and a stepson of Tom Haag. Gaghan attended Kentucky Country Day School, a college preparatory school in Louisville. He was an All-State soccer player where he held the assist record at the school for nearly three decades. He is a grandson of Jerry Gaghan, a newspaper columnist and drama critic for ''Variety'' and the '' Philadelphia Daily News''. Gaghan wrote in a 2001 article in ''Newsweek'', "I also wan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selena Gomez
Selena Marie Gomez ( ; born July 22, 1992) is an American singer, actress and producer. Gomez began her acting career on the children's television series ''Barney & Friends'' (2002–2004). As a teenager, she rose to prominence for starring as Alex Russo on the Disney Channel television series ''Wizards of Waverly Place'' (2007–2012). Alongside her television career, Gomez appeared in the films ''Another Cinderella Story'' (2008), '' Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie'' (2009), ''Ramona and Beezus'' (2010), ''Monte Carlo'' (2011), ''Spring Breakers'' (2012), '' Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising'' (2016), and '' The Dead Don't Die'' (2019), and voiced Mavis in the ''Hotel Transylvania'' film franchise (2012–2022). Gomez executive produced the Netflix television series '' 13 Reasons Why'' (2017–2020) and ''Living Undocumented'' (2019) through her production company, July Moon Productions. Additionally, she executive produces and stars in the HBO Max cooking series ''Selena + ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Robinson (actor)
Craig Phillip Robinson (born October 25, 1971) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for portraying Darryl Philbin on ''The Office'' (2005–2013). He also portrayed LeVar "Freight Train" Brown on ''The Cleveland Show'' (2009–2013), and Doug "the Pontiac Bandit" Judy on '' Brooklyn Nine-Nine'' (2013–2021). He also frequently collaborates with Seth Rogen, including the films ''Pineapple Express'' (2008), ''Zack and Miri Make a Porno'' (2008), ''This Is the End'' (2013), and ''Sausage Party'' (2016). Robinson has appeared in numerous other television shows and films, including ''Hot Tub Time Machine'' (2010), '' Get on Up'' (2014), ''An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn'' (2018), and ''Dolemite Is My Name'' (2019), as well as voicing characters in films such as ''Shrek Forever After'' (2010) and ''The Bad Guys'' (2022), as well as others. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the film '' Morris from America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Voyages Of Doctor Dolittle
''The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle'' is the second of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books. Published in 1922, the writing style is aimed at a more mature audience and features more sophisticated illustrations than its predecessor. The novel's scope is vast; it is nearly five times as long as its predecessor and is divided into six parts. It won the Newbery Medal for 1923. Along with other novels in the series, it was adapted into the 1967 film ''Doctor Dolittle''. Plot In England, Tommy Stubbins (the narrator) finds a squirrel injured by a hawk. Matthew Mugg, the Cat's-Meat Man, suggests he seek help from Doctor Dolittle, who can speak to animals. The Doctor is away on a voyage, but when he returns, he attends the squirrel. Tommy is introduced to some of the strange animals in Dolittle's care, such as the Wiff-Waff fish, and those who care for his household, such as Dab-Dab the duck, and Jip the dog. Polynesia the parrot, who arrives in Puddleby from Africa, informs the Doctor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Film
An adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival films. Adventure films may also be combined with other film genres such as action, animation, comedy, drama, fantasy, science fiction, family, horror, or war. Overview Setting plays an important role in an adventure film, sometimes itself acting as a character in the narrative. They are typically set in far away lands, such as lost continents or other exotic locations. They may also be set in a period background and may include adapted stories of historical or fictional adventure heroes within the historical context. Such struggles and situations that confront the main characters include things like battles, piracy, rebellion, and the creation of empires and kingdoms. A common theme of adventure films is of characters leaving their home or place of comfort and going to fulfill a goal, embarking on travels, quests, tre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy Film
Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered a form of speculative fiction alongside science fiction films and horror films, although the genres do overlap. Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary. Prevalent elements include fairies, angels, mermaids, witches, monsters, wizards, unicorns, dragons, talking animals, ogres, elves, trolls, white magic, gnomes, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, demons, dwarves, giants, goblins, anthropomorphic or magical objects, familiars, curses and other enchantments, worlds involving magic, and the Middle Ages. Subgenres Several sub-categories of fantasy films can be identified, although the delineations between these subgenres, much as in fantasy literature, are somewhat fluid. The most common fantasy subgenres depicted in movies are High Fantasy a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an American film production and distribution company owned by Comcast through the NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment division of NBCUniversal. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour, Universal is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States; the world's fifth oldest after Gaumont, Pathé, Titanus, and Nordisk Film; and the oldest member of Hollywood's "Big Five" studios in terms of the overall film market. Its studios are located in Universal City, California, and its corporate offices are located in New York City. In 1962, the studio was acquired by MCA, which was re-launched as NBCUniversal in 2004. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perfect World Pictures
Perfect World Pictures (PWPIC) is a Chinese and American entertainment company. Founded in 2008, it engages in the production, distribution and marketing of film and television content, content related advertising, merchandising business, talent management business as well as investment. At the start of 2016, Perfect World announced a long term co-financing deal with Universal Pictures, which represents the first time a Chinese company has directly invested in a multi-year slate deal with a major U.S. studio. PWPIC trades on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in China under Ticker 002624. Chinese television series produced *List is incomplete. Only include shows which has its own page in Wikipedia. Chinese films produced Films co-financed with Universal Pictures or Focus Features Non Universal-Focus films See also * Universal Studios * Legendary Entertainment * Working Title Films * Blumhouse Productions * Will Packer Productions * RatPac Entertainment * Miramax * Colu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Downey
Team Downey is an American film production company founded by Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey that produces films using television properties. David Gambino is the president of production. Team Downey was based at Warner Bros. since its founding in 2010, but left in October 2016, when the company received a first look deal with Sonar Entertainment. However, it will still be part of Warner Bros' "top priority projects" such as a live-action adaptation of ''Pinocchio'', and an expanded media franchise shared universe based on Guy Ritchie's ''Sherlock Holmes'' (2009) and '' Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows'' (2011), in which Downey had starred with Jude Law, consisting of a third feature film and two HBO Max streaming television Streaming television is the digital distribution of television content, such as TV shows, as streaming media delivered over the Internet. Streaming television stands in contrast to dedicated terrestrial television delivered by over-the-air aer .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roth/Kirschenbaum Films
Roth/Kirschenbaum Films (formerly Roth Films) is a production company formed in 2007 by producer Joe Roth, the founder of Revolution Studios. History Joe Roth announced that they signed an overall deal with Sony Pictures in October 2007, when Revolution Studios' deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment was about to end. The studio's first production, ''Alice in Wonderland'' in 2010, grossed $1 billion worldwide. In 2015, Jeff Kirschenbaum announced that he would leave Universal Pictures in order to join Roth Films, which they rebranded to its current name Roth/Kirschenbaum Films. Filmography Feature films 2010s 2020s Upcoming Television References External links Roth Filmson IMDb Roth/Kirschenbaum Filmson IMDb RK filmson IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Lebenzon
Christopher Lebenzon is an American film editor with more than 36 film credits dating from 1976. The films he has edited have grossed over 10 billion dollars worldwide. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the films '' Top Gun'' (1986) and '' Crimson Tide'' (1995). He is a member of the American Cinema Editors (A.C.E) and has been nominated six times having won The Eddie Award for his work on '' Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'' (2007) and '' Alice in Wonderland'' (2010). He is noted particularly for working with directors Michael Bay, Tony Scott and has worked with Tim Burton for over 25 years. In addition to editing, he has also served as an executive producer on '' Alice in Wonderland'' (2010) and ''Dark Shadows ''Dark Shadows'' is an American gothic soap opera that aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show depicted the lives, loves, trials, and tribulations of the wealt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Alpert
Craig Alpert is an American film editor. Alpert has been in the industry for over 20 years and has edited over 20 feature films. Alpert began his career as an assistant editor at Pixar, where he worked on films such as ''Toy Story 2''. He then worked as an assistant editor on ''The Matrix Reloaded'', ''Hulk'', '' Meet the Fockers'', and as an additional editor on ''The 40-Year-Old Virgin'', and '' Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby''. Alpert has since gone on to edit several high-profile films. Alpert was nominated for an ACE Award in 2021 for his work on '' Borat Subsequent Moviefilm'' as well in 2018 for his work on ''Deadpool 2 ''Deadpool 2'' is a 2018 American superhero comedy film based on the Marvel Comics character Deadpool. Distributed by 20th Century Fox, it is the sequel to ''Deadpool'' (2016) and the eleventh installment overall in the ''X-Men'' film series. T ...''. In 2007 Alpert was selected by the ''Hollywood Reporter'' as one of three film editors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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