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Karl Gajdusek
Karl Gajdusek is an American screenwriter, producer, and playwright. He was the showrunner for the first season of the Netflix series ''Stranger Things'' and the co-creator of the TV series '' Last Resort'' with Shawn Ryan. They were both also executive producers for the series. Gajdusek also wrote for the series ''Dead Like Me'' and wrote the film ''Trespass'' (2011). He co-wrote the screenplay for the 2013 Tom Cruise movie, '' Oblivion'', and ''The November Man'', which was released in 2014. Early life Karl Gajdusek was born in 1968 in San Francisco, California, United States. Career Film Gajdusek's first professional break came through an option by independent producer Jeff Young for his screenplay ''Widow's Walk''. Although the film would never be produced, Young's attempts to get the film made landed Gajdusek with his first agent. Gajdusek's next film, ''Higher'' was developed with director James Foley and later with director John McNaughton. For a period of time, Gajdusek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of California cities by population, fourth most populous in California and List of United States cities by population, 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the County statistics of the United States, fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trespass
Trespass is an area of tort law broadly divided into three groups: trespass to the person, trespass to chattels, and trespass to land. Trespass to the person historically involved six separate trespasses: threats, assault, battery, wounding, mayhem (or maiming), and false imprisonment. Through the evolution of the common law in various jurisdictions, and the codification of common law torts, most jurisdictions now broadly recognize three trespasses to the person: assault, which is "any act of such a nature as to excite an apprehension of battery";''Johnson v. Glick'', battery, "any intentional and unpermitted contact with the plaintiff's person or anything attached to it and practically identified with it"; and false imprisonment, the " or of freedom from restraint of movement".''Broughton v. New York'', 37 N.Y.2d 451, 456–7 Trespass to chattel does not require a showing of damages. Simply the "intermeddling with or use of … the personal property" of another gives cau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Redwood High School (Larkspur, California)
Redwood High School is a public secondary school located in the city of Larkspur, Marin County, California, approximately 11 miles north of San Francisco. Redwood High is part of the Tamalpais Union High School District (TUHSD). The school serves the cities of Belvedere, Corte Madera, Greenbrae, Kentfield, Larkspur, Ross, and Tiburon. The school houses the TUHSD headquarters. History By 1957, the school age population of the Tamalpais Union High School District had grown too large for Tamalpais High School and Sir Francis Drake High School to accommodate. With the pressure of students coming in from elementary schools from Sausalito to Belvedere to Ross, voters chose to create a new school, and chosen for its site was the marshy area that extended east from the centrally located town of Larkspur to U.S. Route 101, an area that townspeople had called "the slough" since Larkspur was settled. The importance of wetlands was not yet widely appreciated (this was the era righ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When The Bough Breaks (2016 Film)
''When The Bough Breaks'' is a 2016 American psychological thriller film directed by Jon Cassar and starring Morris Chestnut, Regina Hall, Theo Rossi and Jaz Sinclair. It was written by Jack Olsen. The screenplay concerns a woman who begins to develop a deadly crush on the husband of the couple she is surrogate mothering for. Filming began on February 2, 2015 in New Orleans. The film was released on September 9, 2016, received generally negative reviews and grossed $30 million. Plot A married couple in their 40s, named John and Laura Taylor (Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall) desperately want to have a baby, but they are unable to have a lasting pregnancy. Laura had already suffered three miscarriages in the past years. After attempting all other options, the couple hire a beautiful young woman named Anna (Jaz Sinclair) who agrees to become a gestational surrogate mother for the Taylors. After Anna has a doctor's appointment, her boyfriend, Mike (Theo Rossi), doesn't pick her u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Brother (2018 Film)
''Blood Brother'' is an American action-thriller film directed by John Pogue and written by Michael Finch, Karl Gajdusek, and Charles Murray. The film stars Trey Songz. Premise A recently released convict begins to take murderous revenge against his childhood friends, whom he believes let him take the fall for a crime they collectively committed. As the bodies start piling up, one of the friends Sonny (Trey Songz), now a police officer, will stop at nothing to put an end to the murderous rampage and to right the many wrongs of their tragically violent past. Cast *Trey Songz as Sonny *Jack Kesy as Jake Banning *R-Truth as Blaine *Fetty Wap as Emilio *Hassan Johnson as Joe *China Anne McClain as Darcy *J. D. Williams as Kayvon Production ''Blood Brother'' was originally titled ''Brother's Blood'', and was announced in December 2015. Principal photography on the film began on January 13, 2016 in New Orleans. WWE Studios would be co-producing and co-financing the film under a deal w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collider (website)
''Collider'' is an entertainment website and digital video production company, with a focus on the film industry, television series, and video games. ''Collider'' focuses on entertainment news, analysis, and commentary, along with original features. The website primarily covers film and television news, with complementary film and television reviews and editorials. , ''Collider'' YouTube channel had 627,000 subscribers and over 550,000,000 cumulative views. Former extensions of the channel include ''Movie Talk'', ''Movie Trivia Schmoedown'', ''Heroes'', ''Jedi Council'', ''Behind the Scenes & Bloopers'', and ''Collider News''. The channel had also branched out and produced content for other outlets, such as ''Awesometacular with Jeremy Jahns'' for go90. Extensions of the main YouTube channel include ''Collider'' Podcasts (including a period named under ''Collider'' Live), ''Collider'' Interviews (formerly ''Collider'' Quick), ''Collider'' Games (later renamed Revog and presumab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. The site is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. Finke was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times'' as being worth "millions of dollars", as well as part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The King's Man
''The King's Man'' is a 2021 spy action film directed by Matthew Vaughn from a screenplay by Vaughn and Karl Gajdusek and a story by Vaughn. The third installment in the British ''Kingsman'' film series, which is based on the comic book ''The Secret Service'' (later retitled to ''Kingsman'') by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, it is a prequel to '' Kingsman: The Secret Service'' (2014) and '' Kingsman: The Golden Circle'' (2017). Its ensemble cast includes Ralph Fiennes (also one of its executive producers), Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander, Harris Dickinson, Daniel Brühl, Djimon Hounsou, and Charles Dance. It focuses on several events during World War I and the birth of the Kingsman organisation. It was released in the United States on 22 December 2021, and in the United Kingdom on 26 December 2021 by 20th Century Studios, delayed several times from an original November 2019 release date, partially due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It received mixed reviews f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beginning Of Everything
''Z: The Beginning of Everything'' is an American period drama television series created by Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin for Amazon Studios that debuted on November 5, 2015. It is based on '' Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald'' by Therese Anne Fowler. The series presents a fictionalized version of the life of American socialite and writer Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (Christina Ricci) in the 1920s. The first season covers her marriage to the author F. Scott Fitzgerald – who had yet to become famous for his work – and the subsequent marital tensions that arose from their lifestyle full of partying and alcohol. The first season was released on January 27, 2017. On April 27, 2017 it was revealed that Amazon had ordered a second season. It was then announced on September 7, 2017, that Amazon had rescinded the renewal, cancelling the show after one season. Cast Main cast * Christina Ricci as Zelda Fitzgerald * David Hoflin as F. Scott Fitzgerald * David Strathairn as Judge Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Stiller
Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is the son of the comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. Stiller was a member of a group of comedic actors colloquially known as the Frat Pack. His films have grossed more than $2.6 billion in Canada and the United States, with an average of $79 million per film. Throughout his career, he has received various awards and honors, including an Emmy Award, multiple MTV Movie Awards, a Britannia Award and a Teen Choice Award. While beginning his acting career, Stiller wrote several mockumentaries and was offered a variety sketch comedy series titled ''The Ben Stiller Show'', which he produced and hosted for its 13-episode run. The series ran on MTV from 1990 to 1992, earning him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Program. He then appeared on shows such as '' Friends'', '' Curb Your Enthusiasm'', and ''Arrested Development''. Having previo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Sad True Love Story
''Super Sad True Love Story'' is the third novel by American writer Gary Shteyngart. The novel takes place in a near-future Dystopian novel, dystopian New York where life is dominated by media and retail. Plot summary The son of a Russian American, Russian immigrant, protagonist Leonard (Lenny) Abramov, a middle-aged, middle class, otherwise unremarkable man whose mentality is still in the past century, falls madly in love with Eunice Park, a young Korean-American from New Jersey struggling with materialism and the pressures of her traditional Korean family. The chapters alternate between profuse diary entries from the old-fashioned Lenny and Eunice's biting e-mail correspondence on her "GlobalTeens" account. In the background of what appears to be a love story that oscillates between superficiality and despair, a grim political situation unravels. America is on the brink of economic collapse, threatened by its Chinese creditors. In the twilight nation, the only three industries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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