Downey Ventures
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 HBO Max is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in the United States on May 27, 2020, the service is built around the libraries of HBO, Warner Bros., Cartoon Netw ... streaming tele ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Robert Downey Jr
Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor and producer. His career has been characterized by critical and popular success in his youth, followed by a period of substance abuse and legal troubles, before a resurgence of commercial success later in his career. In 2008, Downey was named by ''Time'' magazine among the 100 most influential people in the world, and from 2013 to 2015, he was listed by ''Forbes'' as Hollywood's highest-paid actor. At the age of five, he made his acting debut in his father Robert Downey Sr.'s film '' Pound'' in 1970. He subsequently worked with the Brat Pack in the teen films '' Weird Science'' (1985) and '' Less than Zero'' (1987). In 1992, Downey portrayed the title character in the biopic '' Chaplin'', for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a BAFTA Award. Following a stint at the Corcoran Substance Abuse Treatment Facility on drug charges, he joined the TV series '' Ally McBeal'', for which ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jude Law
David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor. He received a British Academy Film Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, two Tony Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. In 2007, he received an Honorary César and was named a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government."French Honour for Jude Law" , (UK), 2 March 2007. Retrieved 20 November 2007. Born and raised in London, Law started acting in theatre. After finding small roles in feature films, Law gained recognition for his role in 's ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Perry Mason (2020 TV Series)
''Perry Mason'' is an American period drama television series created by Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald for HBO. It is based on the character of the same name by Erle Stanley Gardner. The series stars Matthew Rhys in the title role and premiered on June 21, 2020. In July 2020, HBO renewed the series for a second season. In April 2021, it was announced that Jones and Fitzgerald left the series and were replaced as showrunners by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler. The second season is set to premiere on March 6, 2023. Premise The series focuses on the origin story of famed defense lawyer Perry Mason. In 1932, Los Angeles is prospering while the rest of the U.S. is recovering from the grip of the Great Depression. Down-and-out private investigator Perry Mason is struggling with his trauma from The Great War and being divorced. He is hired for a sensational child kidnapping trial; his investigation results in major consequences for Mason, those around him, and local leaders. Cast and c ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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YouTube Premium
YouTube Premium (formerly Music Key and YouTube Red) is a subscription service offered by the video platform YouTube. The service provides ad-free access to content across the service, as well as access to premium YouTube Originals programming produced in collaboration with the site's creators, downloading videos and background playback of videos on mobile devices, and access to the YouTube Music music streaming service. The service was originally launched on November 14, 2014, as Music Key, offering advertisement-free streaming of music videos from participating labels on YouTube and Google Play Music. The service was then revised and relaunched as YouTube Red on October 31, 2015, expanding its scope to offer advertisement-free access to all YouTube videos, as opposed to just music. YouTube announced the rebranding of the service as YouTube Premium on May 17, 2018, alongside the return of a separate, YouTube Music subscription service. Later in the year, it was reported that Y ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Age Of A
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dexter Fletcher
Dexter Fletcher (born 31 January 1966) is an English film director and actor. He has appeared in Guy Ritchie's ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'', as well as in television shows such as the comedy drama '' Hotel Babylon'' and the HBO series '' Band of Brothers'' and, earlier in his career, starred as Spike Thomson in the comedy drama ''Press Gang''. His earliest acting role was playing Baby Face in the 1976 film ''Bugsy Malone''. Fletcher made his directorial debut with '' Wild Bill'' (2011), and also directed '' Sunshine on Leith'' (2013) and ''Eddie the Eagle'' (2015). He replaced Bryan Singer as director of ''Bohemian Rhapsody'', a biopic about the band Queen, released in October 2018; due to DGA rules, he received executive producer credit. In 2019, he directed ''Rocketman'', a biographical film based on the life and music of performer Elton John. Career Fletcher trained at the Anna Scher Theatre. His first film part was as Baby Face in ''Bugsy Malone'' (1976). He ma ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Robert Downey Sr
Robert John Downey ( Elias Jr.; June 24, 1936 – July 7, 2021) was an American filmmaker and actor. He was known for writing and directing the underground film ''Putney Swope'', a satire on the New York Madison Avenue (Manhattan)#Advertising industry, Madison Avenue advertising world. According to film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon, Downey's films during the 1960s were "strictly take-no-prisoners affairs, with minimal budgets and outrageous satire, effectively pushing forward the Counterculture of the 1960s, countercultural agenda of the day." Early life Downey was born Robert John Elias Jr. in the Manhattan borough of New York City, on June 24, 1936. He was the son of Elizabeth ( McLauchlen), a model, and Robert John Elias, who worked in management of motels and restaurants. His paternal grandparents were Lithuanian Jews, while his mother was of half History of the Jews in Hungary, Hungarian Jewish and half Irish Americans, Irish ancestry. He grew up in Rockville Centre, New Yo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chris Smith (filmmaker)
Chris Smith (born 1970) is an American filmmaker. He directed ''American Movie'', which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. Career Smith completed his first film, ''American Job'', while attending the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee's Graduate Film Program. He was nominated for a "Someone to Watch Award" from the Independent Spirit Awards. Smith met Mark Borchardt, the subject of ''American Movie'', while editing ''American Job'', and began filming a documentary about the making of Borchardt's psychological thriller '' Coven''. Both films played at the Sundance Film Festival, and ''American Movie'' was bought by Sony Pictures for $1 million. Later works His resume also included the Emmy-nominated '' Jim & Andy'' (2017), about the making of the 1999 Andy Kaufman biopic '' Man on the Moon''. Smith wrote and directed the documentary '' Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened'' (2019), about the Fyre Festival fraud. He also ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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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]   |
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David Dobkin (director)
David Dobkin (born c. 1969/1970) is an American director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the films ''Clay Pigeons'', ''Shanghai Knights'', ''Wedding Crashers'', ''The Judge (2014 film), The Judge'', and ''Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga''. Early life Dobkin was raised in Washington, D.C., where he attended Lafayette Elementary School, and later was raised in the suburb of Bethesda, Maryland, where he attended Walt Whitman High School (Maryland), Walt Whitman High School. Career Dobkin made his music-video debut with a video clips for rapper Tupac Shakur. Fifteen more videos followed for such music groups as Extreme (band), Extreme, Robin Zander, Sonic Youth, dada (band), dada, Blues Traveler, and others. Dobkin's music-video credits include George Thorogood's "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer," Elton John's "You Can Make History", and Coolio's "1, 2, 3, 4". Dobkin also collaborated with band Maroon 5 in their music videos "Sugar (Maro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Judge (2014 Film)
''The Judge'' is a 2014 American legal drama film directed by David Dobkin. The film stars Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall with Vera Farmiga, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jeremy Strong, Dax Shepard and Billy Bob Thornton in supporting roles. The film was released in the United States on October 10, 2014. It received mixed reviews; critics praised the performances of Duvall and Downey as well as Thomas Newman's score while criticizing the formulaic nature of its script and the lack of development for its supporting characters. Duvall received multiple award nominations for his performance as Judge Joseph Palmer, including the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor. Thomas Newman also received a Satellite Award nomination for Best Original Score. Plot Hank Palmer is a successful attorney in Chicago. When Hank receives news his mother has just died, the judge grants his case a continuance. Before returning to his ho ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |