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Dragon Wars (film)
''D-War'' (Korean: 디워, released in North America as ''Dragon Wars: D-War''), is a 2007 South Korean action-adventure fantasy film written and directed by Shim Hyung-rae, and starring Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Robert Forster, and Elizabeth Peña. At the time of its release, it was the highest-budgeted South Korean film of all time. The film grossed $75 million worldwide and received generally negative reviews. Plot The story follows the adventures of Ethan Kendrick, charged in his childhood by the enigmatic Jack to protect the Yuh Yi Joo, an individual who had been born able to change an Imoogi chosen by heaven into a Celestial Dragon, from a corrupt Imoogi identified as "Buraki", who was prevented from obtaining it in the past by Ethan and Jack's previous incarnations. To this end, Jack gives Ethan a medallion formerly belonging to Ethan's previous incarnation Haram, and reveals that the reincarnated Yuh Yi Joo is Sarah Daniels, whom Ethan will find in Los Angeles. 15 y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shim Hyung-rae
Shim Hyung-rae (; born January 3, 1958, sometimes credited as Hyung Rae Shim) is a South Korean former comedian and filmmaker best known for directing '' Yonggary'' () and ''D-War'' (), by far the most expensive Korean movie in history. He has often worked with fellow directors Nam Gi-nam () and Kim Cheong-gi (). Selected filmography ''as a producer'' *'' D-War: Mysteries of the Dragon'' (디워: 미스테리즈 오브 더 드래곤, 디워2, D-War2, Dragon Wars2) (2028) ''as a director'' *''The Last Godfather'' (라스트 갓파더, The Dumb Mafia) (2010) *''D-War'' (디 워 Dragon War) (2007) *'' Yonggary'' (용가리 Yong-gari) (1999) *''Dragon Tuka'' (드래곤 투카 Deuraegon Tuka) (1996) *'' The Power King'' (파워킹 Paweo King) (1995) *'' Tirano's Claws'' (티라노의 발톱 Tirano-ui Baltop) (1994) *'' Pinky Can'' (핑크빛 깡통 Pingkibit Ggang-tong) (1994) *'' Young-Goo and Dinosaur Zu-Zu'' (영구와 공룡 쭈쭈 Yeong-gu wa gongnyong Jju-jju ) (1993) ''as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the USAF was established as a separate branch of the United States Armed Forces in 1947 with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947. It is the second youngest branch of the United States Armed Forces and the fourth in order of precedence. The United States Air Force articulates its core missions as air supremacy, global integrated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, rapid global mobility, global strike, and command and control. The United States Air Force is a military service branch organized within the Department of the Air Force, one of the three military departments of the Department of Defense. The Air Force through the Department of the Air Force is headed by the civilian Secretary of the Air Force ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Mears
Derek Mears (born April 29, 1972) is an American actor and stuntman. Often appearing in horror and science-fiction titles, he came to prominence for portraying Jason Voorhees in the 2009 reboot of '' Friday the 13th''. His film roles also include ''The Hills Have Eyes 2'' (2007), ''Predators'' (2010), '' Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides'' (2011), '' Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters'' (2013), and '' Alita: Battle Angel'' (2019). On television, he played the title character on the DC Universe series ''Swamp Thing'' (2019). Life and career Mears was born in Bakersfield, California. He performed improv comedy at ComedySportz in Bakersfield. He graduated from Highland High School in Bakersfield in 1990. Early on in life Mears had a severe case of the auto-immune disease alopecia, causing him to lose almost all his body hair. Mears has numerous credits both as a stuntman and as an actor. He had minor roles in ''The Tick'', '' ER'', ''Alias'', '' Nash Bridges'', ''Men in Black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Pierson
Geoff Pierson is an American actor known for his starring television roles on '' Dexter'', ''Unhappily Ever After'', '' Grace Under Fire'', '' 24'', '' Ryan's Hope'', and '' Designated Survivor''. He has guest-starred in dozens of other TV shows. Career Pierson appeared with George C. Scott on Broadway in ''Tricks Of The Trade'', before continuing on to do several New York soap operas and many regional theater plays. Some notable theatrical roles include Angelo in '' Measure For Measure'' at the Yale Rep, Stanley in '' A Streetcar Named Desire'' at the Penn Ctr. Stage, Bobby in '' Speed The Plough'' at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, and Ricky in '' Glengarry Glen Ross'' and Teach in ''American Buffalo'' at the Virginia Stage Company. His most prominent daytime role was as Frank Ryan on '' Ryan's Hope'', a role he played from February 1983 through September 1985. Pierson's first high-profile prime-time television role was as Jack Malloy, the head of a dysfunctional family, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Gardell
William Gardell Jr. (born August 20, 1969) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. Gardell played Chicago police officer Mike Biggs on ''Mike & Molly.'' He also had a recurring role as Billy Colivida on ''Yes, Dear'' and appeared in a dozen episodes of ''My Name Is Earl'' as a police officer. Gardell voiced Santa in '' Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas'', as well as starring on ''Sullivan & Son'' in the recurring role of Lyle Winkler. Since 2019, Gardell has played Bob Wheeler in the CBS sitcom series '' Bob Hearts Abishola''. Early life Born in Swissvale, Pennsylvania, Gardell attended Winter Park High School in Orange County, Florida, during 1985. As a child, he moved to Florida with his mother and younger siblings after his parents divorced. After that, he only visited Pennsylvania in the summers. He has said living in Florida was a positive experience. At the age of 15, he started working at a department store warehouse in the receiving area where he would unload trucks and sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ales
John Ales (born January 3, 1969) is an American actor best known for appearing in '' Spy Hard'', '' The Nutty Professor'', '' You Wish'', and other films and television series. Filmography Film *''Crime Killer'' (1985) ... Kids *'' Spy Hard'' (1996) ... Kabul *'' The Nutty Professor'' (1996) ... Jason *''Vibrations'' (1996) ... Miles *'' Ride with the Devil'' (1999) ... William Quantrill *'' Nutty Professor II: The Klumps'' (2000) ... Jason *'' Burning Down the House'' (2001) *''The Zeroes'' (2001) ... Seth *''Life of the Party'' (2001) ... Artie *''Uprising'' (2001) ...Marek Edelman *''Living with Lou'' (2004) ... Lou *''D-War'' (2007) ... Agent Judah Campbell *''Lucky Man'' (2007) *'' Murder at Emigrant Gulch'' (2021) *'' Gatlopp: Hell of a Game'' (2022) ... Andre *'' 9 Bullets'' ... Rabbi Steins Television *'' Madman of the People'' (1994) ... Dylan Buckler *'' You Wish'' (1997–1998) ... Genie *''Fantasy Island'' (1998) ... Nathan O'Neil *'' Chicago Hope'' (1999) ... File ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aimee Garcia
Aimee Sandimés Garcia López de Ordóñez (born November 28, 1978) is an American actress and writer. She is known for her television roles as Veronica Palmero on the ABC sitcom ''George Lopez'', Yvonne Sanchez on the CBS period drama ''Vegas'', Jamie Batista on the Showtime drama '' Dexter'' and Ella Lopez on the Fox/Netflix drama ''Lucifer''. Early life Aimee Garcia was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother, Eloisa, is from Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, and graduated from Northwestern University's dental school; her father, Hector, is from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and was in the U.S. Armed Forces. Garcia started acting in commercials as a child, and participated in theater at seven years old. She grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, where she attended Fenwick High School. While in school, she took acting classes at Piven Theatre Workshop. She appeared in local plays and musicals during her time at Northwestern University, where she triple majored in economics, journalism, and French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Mulkey
Chris Mulkey (born May 3, 1948) is an American film and television actor. Career Mulkey played the supporting role of husband to Annie Potts's character in '' Any Day Now'' from 1998 to 2002. He has also appeared in '' Captain Phillips'', '' Against the Wall'', ''Cloverfield'', the NBC TV movie ''Knight Rider'', '' 24'', '' Boardwalk Empire'', '' Friday Night Lights'', ''Boomtown'', '' Justified'', ''Baretta'', and ''Twin Peaks''. He played the main character in the controversial 1985 Supertramp music video "Brother Where You Bound". He appeared in the ''Wing Commander'' franchise as Jacob "Hawk" Manley. He costarred with John Jenkins and Karen Landry in the 1988 indie film ''Patti Rocks''. He appeared in the science fiction action film '' The Hidden'', and the 1989 sci-fi cop film ''K-9000''. He has appeared in more recent films as ''The Purge'', '' Slow Burn'', '' Sanitarium'', ''The Identical'' and ''On the Basis of Sex''. In 2014, he had a cameo role in ''Whiplash''. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mentor
Mentorship is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor. A mentor is someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced and often younger person. In an organizational setting, a mentor influences the personal and professional growth of a mentee. Most traditional mentorships involve having senior employees mentor more junior employees, but mentors do not necessarily have to be more senior than the people they mentor. What matters is that mentors have experience that others can learn from. According to the Business Dictionary, a mentor is a senior or more experienced person who is assigned to function as an advisor, counsellor, or guide to a junior or trainee. The mentor is responsible for offering help and feedback to the person under their supervision. A mentor's role, according to this definition, is to use their experience to help a junior employee by supporting them in their work and career, providing comments on their work, and, most crucially, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cody Arens
Cody Arens (born November 8, 1993) is an American actor. He is the brother of Logan Arens and Skye Arens. Career He is most notable for the voice of Littlefoot in ''The Land Before Time'' television series based on the films A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ... and ''The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends'' and as the role of Maddie Fitzpatrick#Family members, Liam Fitzpatrick, the younger brother of Maddie Fitzpatrick, on ''The Suite Life of Zack & Cody''. He also plays as the young Ethan Kendrick in the film ''D-War (film), D-War'', which was released in the United States on September 14, 2007, and is the voice of young Jaster in ''Rogue Galaxy''. He also had a minor role in ''Meet the Parents'' in 2000 and ''Anger Management (film), Anger Management'' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocket
A rocket (from it, rocchetto, , bobbin/spool) is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using the surrounding air. A rocket engine produces thrust by reaction to exhaust expelled at high speed. Rocket engines work entirely from propellant carried within the vehicle; therefore a rocket can fly in the vacuum of space. Rockets work more efficiently in a vacuum and incur a loss of thrust due to the opposing pressure of the atmosphere. Multistage rockets are capable of attaining escape velocity from Earth and therefore can achieve unlimited maximum altitude. Compared with airbreathing engines, rockets are lightweight and powerful and capable of generating large accelerations. To control their flight, rockets rely on momentum, airfoils, auxiliary reaction engines, gimballed thrust, momentum wheels, deflection of the exhaust stream, propellant flow, spin, or gravity. Rockets for military and recreational uses date back to at least 13th-century China. Signific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Dragon
The European dragon is a legendary creature in folklore and mythology among the overlapping cultures of Europe. The Roman poet Virgil in his poem ''Culex'' lines 163-201, describing a shepherd having a fight with a big constricting snake, calls it "serpens" and also "draco", showing that in his time the two words probably could mean the same thing. In and after the early Middle Ages, the European dragon is typically depicted as a large, fire-breathing, scaly, horned, lizard-like creature; the creature also has leathery, bat-like wings, four legs, and a long, muscular prehensile tail. Some depictions show dragons with one or more of: feathered wings, crests, ear frills, fiery manes, ivory spikes running down its spine, and various exotic decorations. In folktales, dragon's blood often contains unique powers, keeping them alive for longer or giving them poisonous or acidic properties. The typical dragon in Christian culture protects a cavern or castle filled with gold and trea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
