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Joseph Mallozzi
Joseph Mallozzi (born 16 October 1965) is a Canadian writer and producer. He is most noted for his contributions to the ''Stargate SG-1'', '' Stargate: Atlantis'' and ''Stargate Universe'' television series and as showrunner of ''Dark Matter''. He joined the ''Stargate'' production team at the start of ''Stargate SG-1s fourth season in 2000. He was a writer and executive producer for all three ''Stargate'' series. On television, he worked as a writer for ''Animal Crackers'', ''The Little Lulu Show'', ''Flying Rhino Junior High'', ''The Babaloos'', ''Night Hood'', '' The Lost World'', '' Lassie'', ''Robinson Sucroe'', ''Caillou'', ''Wimzie's House'', ''Ivanhoe'', ''Largo Winch'', ''The Busy World of Richard Scarry'', ''The Adventures of Paddington Bear'', ''George and Martha'', ''The Wombles'', ''Mona the Vampire'', ''Ripley's Believe It or Not!'', ''Student Bodies'', '' Birdz'', ''Dr. Xargle'', '' Big Wolf on Campus'', and ''The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures''.'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. Terminology In the silent era, writers now considered screenwriters were denoted by terms such as photoplaywright, photoplay writer, photoplay dramatist and screen playwright.Steven Maras. ''Screenwriting: History, Theory and Practice.'' Wallflower Press, 2009. pp. 82–85. Screenwriting historian Steven Maras notes that these early writers were often understood as being the authors of the films as shown and argues that they cannot be precisely equated with present-day screenwriters because they were responsible for a technical product, a brief "scenario", "treatment", or "synopsis" that is a written synopsis of what is to be filmed. Profession Screenwriting is a freelance profession. No education is required to be a professional scree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Largo Winch (TV Series)
''Largo Winch'' is a television program based on the Belgian comic book series of the same name by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme that first aired on January 26, 2001 in France on M6, and May 3, 2001 in Germany on ProSieben. The show lasted two seasons. Guest stars included Kim Poirier, Vernon Dobtcheff, Elisha Cuthbert, Olga Kurylenko and David Carradine. Plot Largo Winch (Paolo Seganti) is a 28-year-old adventurer, drifting around the world, searching for himself. Along the way he's picked up with Simon Ovrannaz (Diego Wallraff), an ex-thief he met in a Turkish prison. The two are best friends...almost brothers. Then one day, Largo's life is changed forever when he learns that Nerio Winch (David Carradine), the step-father he barely knew, is dead. Nerio is an Aristotle Onassis-like billionaire who secretly adopted Largo as a child, but never took him in. Instead, he paid a family in Luxembourg to raise him, then sent him to a monastery as a teenager to be educated. Nerio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Matter (comics)
''Dark Matter'' is a four-issue science fiction comic book series created by writers Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie. The story follows six individuals who wake up in a spacecraft with no memory of their past. The concept was originally intended for a television series, but was published through Dark Horse Comics with art by Garry Brown.Chris ArrantDark Matter interview Newsarama, 21 November 2011 On October 15, 2014, Syfy announced they had picked up a 13-episode first season of a ''Dark Matter'' TV series, which premiered on June 12, 2015. The first episode of the TV series adapts the plot of the first two issues, and the second episode adapts the latter two issues. Publication history Mallozzi credits ''The Shield'', ''The Dirty Dozen'', and the '' Thunderbolts'' as his inspiration for the concept. The series was originally designed for television, but was later altered into a comic series for Dark Horse Comics. Syfy and Space, along with the original creators Mallozzi and Mulli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Book
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and written narrative, usually, dialogue contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. "Comic Cuts" was a British comic published from 1890 to 1953. It was preceded by "Ally Sloper's Half Holiday" (1884) which is notable for its use of sequential cartoons to unfold narrative. These British comics existed alongside of the popular lurid "Penny dreadfuls" (such as "Spring-heeled Jack"), boys' " Story papers" and the humorous Punch (magazine) which was the first to use the term "cartoon" in its modern sense of a humorous drawing. The interweaving of drawings and the written word had been pioneered by, among others, William Blake (1757 - 1857) in works such as Blake's "The Descent Of Christ" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 In Comics
This is a list of comics-related events in 2012. It includes any relevant comics-related events, deaths of notable comics-related people, conventions and first issues by title. Events January * January 2: The first episode of Norm Feuti's ''Gil (comic strip), Gil'' is published. * January 8: The long-running gag comic ''Ferd'nand'' publishes its final episode. * January 17: Siegfried Woldhek wins the Inktspotprijs for ''Best Political Cartoon''. February * The final episode of ''Liberty Meadows'' by Frank Cho is published. March * March 10–11: During the Stripdagen in Haarlem Eric Heuvel is awarded the Stripschapprijs, while Ron Poland, known for the distribution company ''Strips In Voorraad'', wins the P. Hans Frankfurtherprijs. Patty Klein wins the Bulletje en Boonestaak Schaal. * March 26: Nicole Hollander discontinues ''Sylvia (comic strip), Sylvia''.Gardner, Alan"Nicole Hollander Retires Sylvia After 33 Years"''The Daily Cartoonist'' (March 28, 2012). April * April 11: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Country Mouse And The City Mouse Adventures
''The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures'' is an animated television series co-produced by CINAR Films and France Animation, produced in association with Ravensburger Film & TV, WIC Entertainment, Reader's Digest (Season 1), TVOntario (Season 1), Videal (Season 1) and Motion Pictures, S.A. (Season 1), in co-production with Canal J and France 3. ''The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures'' aired in the U.S. on HBO (who also provided development funding for the series) from March 1, 1998 to October 27, 1999. It premiered in France on France 3 on March 27, 1998. Storyline and basis The show follows the adventures of two cousin mice, Alexander from the city and Emily from the country, who go on adventures around the world in the late 19th and early 20th century, usually to help their cousins, solve a mystery, or stop the evil rat, No-Tail No-Goodnik. The two main characters originally appeared in the 1993 television special '' The Country Mouse and the City Mouse: A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Wolf On Campus
''Big Wolf on Campus'' is a Canadian television series created by Peter A. Knight and Christopher Briggs that ran from 1999 to 2002. The central plot revolves around a teenage boy named Thomas "Tommy" P. Dawkins, who was bitten by a werewolf during a camping trip in the woods a week before his senior year of high school. After the bite transforms him into a werewolf, he fights against vampires, werecats, ghosts, zombies and other supernatural entities to keep his hometown of Pleasantville safe - even though almost everyone in Pleasantville believes that their protector, dubbed the "Pleasantville Werewolf", is dangerous. Overview Thomas "Tommy" P. Dawkins is a teenager who is mauled by a werewolf during a camping trip. After returning to his home town of Pleasantville, of which his father is the mayor, there are sightings of the "Pleasantville Werewolf". The first person to find out that Tommy is the Pleasantville Werewolf is Tommy's goth friend Merton J. Dingle, a keen expert of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birdz (TV Series)
''Birdz'' is an animated television series created by Larry Jacobs, who later worked on ''Cyberchase''. It was produced by Nelvana Limited in association with CBS Television and STVE. The show was first aired on October 3, 1998, on CBS with the final episode's airing on January 2, 1999. Later, it was shown in Scotland in 2001, aired on Scottish Television and Grampian TV (now ''STV North'') - now both known as STV. The show was returned from 2015 as part of the "''Weans' World''" block on STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh. Plot The show is about an anthropomorphic 13-year-old bird named Eddie Storkowitz, who films his everyday life in aspiration of becoming a filmmaker. His family includes his father, Morty, who is a psychiatrist; mother Betty, an artist; college-age older sister Steffy; and baby sister Abby. Several episodes focus on Eddie's class, which includes an owl named Olivia, a robin named Spring, a turkey named Tommy, a woodpecker named Gregory, and a bat named Sleepy, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Student Bodies
''Student Bodies'' is a 1981 American parody slasher film written and directed by Mickey Rose, with an uncredited Michael Ritchie co-directing. A spoof of slasher horror films such as ''Halloween'', '' Friday the 13th'' and '' Prom Night'', ''Student Bodies'' was the first film to satirize the thriving slasher film genre. A prominent feature of the film is a body count that is superimposed onscreen whenever a death occurs. Plot ''Student Bodies'' is about a serial killer who stalks students at Lamab High School, while at the same time, voyeuristically watching them. The killer calls himself "the Breather", presumably because the killer is always breathing heavily. The Breather enjoys stalking victims over the telephone and hates seeing youngsters having sex. The Breather uses many unusual objects to kill his female victims such as a paper clip, a chalkboard eraser and a horsehead bookend. The film itself ends with several twists: initially, it is revealed that the Principal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
''Ripley's Believe It or Not!'' is an American franchise founded by Robert Ripley, which deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that readers might question the claims. Originally a newspaper panel, the ''Believe It or Not'' feature proved popular and was later adapted into a wide variety of formats, including radio, television, comic books, a chain of museums and a book series. The Ripley collection includes 20,000 photographs, 30,000 artifacts and more than 100,000 cartoon panels. With 80-plus attractions, the Orlando, Florida-based Ripley Entertainment, Inc., a division of the Jim Pattison Group a Canadian global company with an annual attendance of more than 12 million guests. Ripley Entertainment's publishing and broadcast divisions oversee numerous projects, including the syndicated TV series, the newspaper cartoon panel, books, posters and games. Syndicated feature panel Ripley first called his cartoon feature, originally involving sports feats, ''Champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona The Vampire
''Mona the Vampire'' is an animated children's television series that is based on a children's book of the same name written and illustrated by Sonia Holleyman, as well as a series of novels illustrated by Holleyman and written by Hiawyn Oram. The series is co-produced by the CINAR Corporation and Alphanim, with Animation Services (in Hong Kong) for Season 3, produced in association with YTV in co-production with France 3, Canal J (Seasons 1-2) and Tiji (Seasons 3-4), with the participation of the Independent Production Fund, the Shaw Children's Programming Initiative, and Telefilm Canada. It originally premiered in Canada on YTV on September 13, 1999, and later in France on France 3 on October 30, 2000. Synopsis The series follows the adventures of Mona Parker, who refers to herself as "Mona the Vampire", as well as her two best friends, Lily Duncan ("Princess Giant") and Charley Bones ("Zapman"), and her pet cat, Fang, as they imagine themselves confronting a new supernatur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wombles (1996 TV Series)
''The Wombles'' is an animated series for children transmitted in 1997 and 1998, based on the 1973 series created by Elisabeth Beresford. ''The Wombles'' had remained popular with children into the 1980s. After FilmFair was acquired by the Canadian company Cinar Films in 1996, a new series of episodes was made, with three new Womble characters. The series is a co-production with Cinar and United Film & Television Productions/HTV Wales ITV Wales and West, previously known as Harlech Television (HTV), was an ITV franchise area in the United Kingdom until 31 December 2013, licensed to a broadcaster by the regulator Ofcom. There is no channel, past or present, named "ITV Wales ..., in association with FilmFair Limited and ITV. 52 episodes were produced. Episodes Voice artists Spanish (Spain) * Demián Velazco Rochwerger as Great Uncle Bulgaria * Sol Nieto as Madame Cholet * Emiliano Dionisi as Wellington * Javier Naldjián as Bungo * Hernán Bravo as Tobermory * Ezequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
