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Judgment Night (film)
''Judgment Night'' is a 1993 American action crime thriller film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jeremy Piven and Stephen Dorff as a group of friends on the run from a gang of drug dealers (led by Denis Leary) after they witness a murder. Plot Frank Wyatt, his brother John and their friends, Mike Peterson and Ray Cochran meet up in their suburban neighborhood to take a road trip in Ray's luxurious RV to watch a professional boxing match in Chicago for the night. With the freeway gridlocked, Ray exits the expressway and cuts through an extremely run-down and destitute residential neighborhood. The four friends are alarmed when they accidentally hit a man named Teddy. A long argument ensues regarding contacting the police, which Ray, who had been driving the RV when it hit Teddy, does not want to happen due to the fact the friends had been drinking during their journey. Frank makes the decision to exit the RV to help the victim. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Hopkins (director)
Stephen Hopkins is a Jamaican-born British-Australian director and producer of film and television. He directed ''Predator 2'', '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child'', '' Blown Away'', ''The Life and Death of Peter Sellers'', ''Lost in Space'' and '' Under Suspicion''. He also produced and directed several episodes of the first season of ''24''. Career Film In Australia Hopkins made '' Dangerous Game'' (1987). This helped him get the job directing '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child''. Hopkins later said, "I went at it like a dog, and had a wild, fun time. But when I look back, I think I'm the luckiest guy in the world because I don't understand how it all happened." He went on to make ''Predator 2'', of which he said, "I'm pretty immature, really, so it was kind of a laugh". He followed it with '' Judgment Night'' ("a real, absolute, total bomb" according to Hopkins), ''Blown Away'' ("made a lot of mistakes") and ''The Ghost and the Darkness'' ("It was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Greene
Peter Greene (born Peter Green; October 8, 1965) is an American actor. A character actor, he is generally known for portraying villains. He is best known for the roles in the 1994 films ''The Mask'', where he plays the films antagonist, Dorian Tyrell, and ''Pulp Fiction'', in which he portrayed Zed, a sadistic security guard, rapist, and serial killer who serves as an antagonist in the film. Early life A native of Montclair, New Jersey, Greene did not pursue a career in acting until his mid-20s. He initially landed several roles in cinema and television in the early 1990s. Film career Greene had roles in ''Pulp Fiction''; ''The Mask''; ''Clean, Shaven''; and ''The Usual Suspects'' in 1994 and 1995. In ''Pulp Fiction'', Greene appeared as Zed, who rapes Marsellus Wallace. ''The Mask'' saw him play the villainous Dorian Tyrell opposite Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz. Greene played the schizophrenic Peter Winter in ''Clean, Shaven''. ''The Usual Suspects'' saw him play the charact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Crowe (screenwriter)
Christopher Crowe (born August 1, 1948) is an American screenwriter, film producer, and film director. Crowe was born in Racine, Wisconsin, and graduated from William Horlick High School in 1967. In the mid-1970s, he was working for an East Coast magazine, but returned home to Racine. While working at his father's graphic arts company, he created the logo for the band Cheap Trick. He has written the screenplays for ''The Last of the Mohicans'',Neal Koch, "Sex, Violence And Comedy: Inside the Audition", ''The San Francisco Examiner'' (August 30, 1992), Datebook p. 32. ''Nightmares'', ''The Mean Season'', ''Fear'', and '' The Bone Collector'' He also wrote and directed '' Off Limits'' and '' Whispers in the Dark''. He created the television shows '' Seven Days'', '' The Watcher'', ''The Untouchables'', ''H.E.L.P.'', ''B.L. Stryker'', and ''B. J. and the Bear''. He was also executive producer of the 1985 TV revival of ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wisher Jr
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Carpenter
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, actor, and composer. Although he worked in various film genres, he is most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s. He is generally recognized as one of the greatest masters of the horror genre. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the French Directors' Guild gave him the Golden Coach Award, lauding him as "a creative genius of raw, fantastic, and spectacular emotions". Carpenter's early films included box office and critical successes like ''Halloween'' (1978), '' The Fog'' (1980), '' Escape from New York'' (1981), and '' Starman'' (1984). His other productions from the 1970s and the 1980s only later came to be considered cult classics, and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker. These include '' Dark Star'' (1974), '' Assault on Precinct 13'' (1976), '' The Thing'' (1982), ''Christine'' (1983), '' Big Trouble in Little China'' (1986), '' Prin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Los Angeles Times
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already 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 pronouns 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 pronoun '' thee'') when followed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Hard
''Die Hard'' is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan, with a screenplay by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza. Based on the 1979 novel '' Nothing Lasts Forever'', by Roderick Thorp, it stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia. ''Die Hard'' follows New York City police detective John McClane (Willis) who is caught up in a terrorist takeover of a Los Angeles skyscraper while visiting his estranged wife. Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, and Hart Bochner feature in supporting roles. Stuart was hired by 20th Century Fox to adapt Thorp's novel into a screenplay in 1987. His finished draft was greenlit immediately by Fox, which was eager for a summer blockbuster the following year. The role of McClane was turned down by a host of the decade's most popular actors, including Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. Known mainly for work on television, Willis was paid $5million for his involvement, placing hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Predator (film)
''Predator'' is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by John McTiernan and written by brothers Jim and John Thomas. It is the first installment in the ''Predator'' franchise. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the leader of an elite paramilitary rescue team on a mission to save hostages in guerrilla-held territory in a Central American rainforest, who encounter the deadly Predator ( Kevin Peter Hall), a skilled, technologically advanced alien who stalks and hunts them down. ''Predator'' was written in 1984 under the working title of ''Hunter''. Filming ran from March to June 1986 with creature effects devised by Stan Winston; the budget was around $15 million. 20th Century Fox released the film on June 12, 1987, in the United States, and it grossed $98 million worldwide. Initial reviews were mixed, but the film has since been considered a classic of the action and science fiction genres and one of the best films of the 1980s. The success of ''Predator'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Gordon (producer)
Lawrence Gordon (born March 25, 1936) is an American producer and motion picture executive. He specializes in producing action-oriented films and other genres. Some of his most popular productions include ''Predator'' (1987), '' Die Hard'' (1988), ''Die Hard 2'' (1990), '' Predator 2'' (1990), '' Point Break'' (1991), ''Boogie Nights'' (1997), '' Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'' (2001), and ''Prey'' (2022). Life and career Gordon was raised in a Jewish family in Belzoni, Mississippi. He graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans. After moving to Los Angeles he began his producing career in 1964 working for Aaron Spelling and became writer and associate producer on the TV series '' Burke's Law''. He quickly moved up the ranks and worked as an executive producer at ABC and at Screen Gems. In the 1970s he was a key executive at American International Pictures and received credit as executive producer on John Milius's '' Dillinger'' (1973). He left as worldwide production head in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard DiLello
''The Longest Cocktail Party'' is a book by Richard DiLello, published in 1972 by Playboy Press in the US and Canada and Charisma in the UK, and reprinted in 1981, 1983 (Pierian Press) and 2005. ''The Longest Cocktail Party'' is one man's account of the history of the Beatles' company Apple Corps, the break-up of the Beatles, and the beginning of their solo careers. Background The title is a reference to the press office's habit of entertaining members of the media, and the company's potential business partners, with expensive drinks, luncheons and perks – which ultimately led to a financial and spiritual hangover, as did the unrealised potential of the company. DiLello served as the "house hippie" (formally termed Client Liaison Officer; a sort of in-house youth consultant and gofer) at Apple's Savile Row headquarters, from 1968 until 1970, becoming one-on-one acquainted with each of the Beatles, many of their wives and girlfriends, and also the inner circle of agents, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Jarre
Kevin Noel Jarre (August 6, 1954 – April 3, 2011) was an American screenwriter, actor, and film producer. He adopted the last name of his adoptive father, Maurice Jarre. Background and personal life Jarre was born on August 6, 1954, in Detroit, Michigan, to actress Laura Devon and her second husband, Cleland B. Clark. After his parents' divorced, he lived in Wyoming for a time with his father, whom he referred to as Hemingwayesque, and who had combined ranching and fashion photography. He then returned to Los Angeles with his mother, who was married at that time to actor Brian Kelly. In the mid-1960s, Devon subsequently married French composer Maurice Jarre, who adopted Kevin. He was the step-brother of Jean-Michel Jarre and Stéfanie Jarre. In the early 1990s, he had dated actress Lisa Zane; he had written the role of Josephine Marcus in ''Tombstone'' with her in mind. On July 25, 2009, Jarre was arrested in Santa Monica for driving while intoxicated, his bail was set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Harnos
Christine Harnos (born November 16, 1968) is a Canadian actress and co-founder of the circus outreach organization Circus Remedy. Career Acting Harnos portrayed Jennifer Greene, the first wife of main character Mark Greene on '' ER'' (1994–2002), Josie Ray in ''Remembering Sex'' (1998), Dotty from ''The Girl Gets Moe'' (1997), Rimmer in the action-horror film '' Hellraiser: Bloodline'' (1996), Kaye Faulkner in '' Dazed and Confused'' (1993), Linda Wyatt in '' Judgement Night'' (1993), Sarah Hughes in '' Cold Dog Soup'' (1990), and Sid in ''Denial Denial, in ordinary English usage, has at least three meanings: asserting that any particular statement or allegation is not true (which might be accurate or inaccurate); the refusal of a request; and asserting that a true statement is not true. ...'' (1990). Child development In 2003, Harnos left acting to pursue a degree in child development at Mills College. In 2006, she helped co-create the circus outreach organization Circus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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