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Katrina Law
Katrina Law is an American actress. She is known for playing the roles of Mira on the Starz television series '' Spartacus: Blood and Sand'' and '' Spartacus: Vengeance'', Nyssa al Ghul on The CW television series ''Arrow'', Karen Beach on the Sony Crackle series ''The Oath'' and Quinn Liu on the CBS series ''Hawaii Five-0''. Early life Law was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Deptford Township, New Jersey. Her mother is Taiwanese and her father is of German and Italian descent. As a teenager, she was crowned Miss New Jersey Teen USA. She graduated from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey (now Stockton University) with a B.A. in Performing Arts (Theatre Performance) in 1999. Career Law worked alongside director Adrian Picardi with producers Eric Ro and Don Le, to create a low budget web series called '' The Resistance''. Picardi was the series' official creator and director. The show was later picked up by Starz which led to Law's casting in '' Spartacus: Blood and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian American
Italian Americans ( it, italoamericani or ''italo-americani'', ) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry. The largest concentrations of Italian Americans are in the urban Northeast and industrial Midwestern metropolitan areas, with significant communities also residing in many other major US metropolitan areas. Between 1820 and 2004 approximately 5.5 million Italians migrated from Italy to the United States, in several distinct waves, with the greatest number arriving in the 20th century from Southern Italy. Initially, many Italian immigrants (usually single men), so-called “birds of passage”, sent remittance back to their families in Italy and, eventually, returned to Italy; however, many other immigrants eventually stayed in the United States, creating the large Italian-American communities that exist today. In 1870, prior to the large wave of Italian immigrants to the United States, there were fewer than 25,000 Italian immigrants in America, many of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen "tWitch" Boss
Stephen Laurel "tWitch" Boss (September 29, 1982December 13, 2022) was an American freestyle hip hop dancer, choreographer, actor, television producer, and television personality. In 2008, he finished in second place on the American version of ''So You Think You Can Dance'' (''SYTYCD''). From 2014 to May 2022, he was featured on ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' as a repeated guest host and he was also a co-executive producer of the program. He was featured in ''Ellen's Game of Games'' as a sidekick to DeGeneres. Between 2018 and 2020, he and his wife, Allison Holker, hosted '' Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings'' on Freeform and Disney+. Early life Boss was born on September 29, 1982, to Connie Boss Alexander and Sandford Rose in Montgomery, Alabama. He graduated from Lee High School in 2000 and studied dance performance at Southern Union State Community College in Wadley, Alabama, and Chapman University. Career In 2003, Boss was a semifinalist on MTV's ''The Wade Robson Projec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Shum, Jr
Harry Shum Jr. (born April 28, 1982) is an American actor, dancer, choreographer, and singer. He is best known for his roles as Mike Chang on the Fox television series ''Glee'' (2009–15), Benson Kwan on the ABC television series ''Grey's Anatomy'' (2005-), and as Magnus Bane on the Freeform television series ''Shadowhunters'' (2016–19). He was nominated for four Screen Actors Guild Awards for his performance in ''Glee'', winning once. He won the award for The Male TV Star of 2018 in the E! People's Choice Awards for ''Shadowhunters''. Shum has appeared in the films '' Step Up 2: The Streets'' (2008), ''Step Up 3D'' (2010), ''White Frog'' (2012), '' Revenge of the Green Dragons'' (2014), '' Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny'' (2016), ''Crazy Rich Asians'' (2018), the Hulu web series ''The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers'' (2010–2011) and the YouTube Originals series '' Single by 30'' (2016). In 2020, he starred in Universal's romantic drama '' All My Life''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Wang (producer)
George Wang is a Taiwanese American film and television producer, best known for ''Snakehead'' (2021) and ''The Jade Pendant'' (2017). He is fluent in both English and Mandarin Chinese. His brother is Taiwanese American pop singer Dawen Wang. Career Digital content George Wang began his career in early 2011, producing his first short film, ''3 Minutes'' with Don Le and director Ross Ching. Starring Harry Shum Jr. and Stephen “tWitch” Boss, with Katrina Law, ''3 Minutes'' became Wang, Le, and Ching's breakout piece. Chosen as "Vimeo’s Staff Pick", ''3 Minutes'' was also screened at the 2011 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and other festival screenings that year including the Newport Beach Film Festival and Geneva International Film Festival Tous Ecrans. From 2010 to 2012, Wang collaborated and produced digital content with noted talent such as Just Kidding Films, Poreotics, Wong Fu Productions, Kid David, Luigi, Tyler Shields, AJ Rafael, KevJumba, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Ching
Ross Ching is an American filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. Early life and education Ching grew up in San Jose, California. He started making skateboarding videos as a teenager. Ching went on to study film at San Diego State University and graduated in 2008. He was originally interested in producing but later transitioned to production after his time lapse and stop motion videos in college began winning awards. Career Ching's edited together thousands of long-exposure photographs in QuickTime Pro for first short film ''Eclectic'' . He's released at least two more sequels by March 2009. Following his graduation, he created a video inspired by Death Cab for Cutie's song, "Little Bribes" due to the lack of employment opportunities during the Great Recession. He used time-lapse photography to visually represent the song's 211 words alongside images from Los Angeles. The project took 50 hours to make and costed about $100. Prior to releasing it, he contacted different ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3 Minutes
''3 Minutes'' is an action-oriented short film that was released on January 10, 2011. Production on the film commenced in 2010, with director Ross Ching at the helm, alongside producers Don Le and George Wang. The film stars Harry Shum, Jr., Stephen "tWitch" Boss, Katrina Law, and Thaine Allison Jr. The special effects work was provided by David Adametz and the score composed by Paul Dateh. Plot The film centers on the unnamed main character (Harry Shum) receiving a handgun from an old man (Thaine Allison Jr.) and being told he has to complete an unspecified task within three minutes. Shum's character then rushes into a storage yard in pursuit of "Steve" (Stephen Boss), who evades Shum's gunshots and hides. Steve finds a dead body (Nicholas Acosta) holding a lightsaber, and uses the weapon to disarm Shum, who draws his own lightsaber. After a short battle, Shum decapitates Steve and runs back to the old man, where he is told that his time was three minutes, eighteen seconds. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MovieWeb
MovieWeb is an entertainment news website and video brand. Overview MovieWeb reports on entertainment news through their long-running website and related social media and video platforms. The site also maintains a searchable database of films. History MovieWeb launched in 1995. MovieWeb is owned by WATCHR Media, Inc., a privately held Las Vegas company. Partnerships In August 2000, MovieWeb announced a collaboration with video rental chain Video Update and video retail software provider Unique Business Systems Inc. MovieWeb acts as a distribution partner of Hulu Hulu () is an American subscription streaming service majority-owned by The Walt Disney Company, with Comcast's NBCUniversal holding a minority stake. It was launched on October 29, 2007 and it offers a library of films and television serie .... MovieWeb also produces video content for IMDb.com. References External links * {{official website, http://www.movieweb.com/ American film websites Internet propert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starz
Starz (stylized as STARZ since 2016; pronounced "stars") is an American premium cable and satellite television network owned by Lions Gate Entertainment, and is the flagship property of parent subsidiary Starz Inc. Programming on Starz consists of theatrically released motion pictures and first-run original television series. Created in 1994 as a multiplex service of Encore (now Starz Encore), Starz operates six 24-hour, linear multiplex channels; a traditional subscription video on demand service; and a namesake over-the-top streaming platform that both acts as a TV Everywhere offering for Starz's linear television subscribers and is sold directly to streaming-only consumers. Starz is also sold independently of traditional and over-the-top multichannel video programming distributors a la carte through Apple TV Channels and Amazon Video Channels, which feature VOD library content and live feeds of Starz's linear television services (consisting of the primary channel's East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Resistance (series)
''The Resistance'' started off as a low budget web series in the form of 4 short online teasers featured on YouTube. Before filming the actual web show, the series was picked up by Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures and Starz Media, after executives at Starz and Ghost House viewed "The Resistance" teasers online. Plot The Resistance is set in a world where brilliant chemist Syrus Primoris ( Adrian Zaw) has taken control in the wake of a devastating plague virus that has killed 99% of the population. Only Primoris’ suppressant, called Noxe, keeps the survivors from succumbing to the plague. One group opposes his regime and fights to find another cure. The web show aired on October 4, 2010, on the SyFy channel as a one-hour television pilot along with being released in its original 8 episodic form on iTunes, Xbox Live, and the PlayStation Network, and Dailymotion. "The Resistance" is directed and created by Adrian Picardi, executive produced by Ben Ketai, Scott Bayless, Scott Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Le
Don Pham Le (born September 20, 1983) is an American television and music video producer. Career In 2008, he co-founded the production company Northern Five Entertainment and produced the original pilot episodes for the action web series ''The Resistance'' with director Adrian Picardi and producer Eric Ro. Under Northern Five, Le worked as associate producer for the music video "Makeup Smeared Eyes" for the band Automatic Love Letter. In 2009, he produced a music video for a song called "A Soldier Never Dies", a track dedicated to fallen marine Anthony Hector Vargas. Currently, Le is focused on a new production company specializing in videography and photography for film, TV, commercials, and music videos. He also recently started a wedding production company called Bliss Imagery that focuses on traditional and photojournalistic videography and photography for engaged/soon-to-be wedded couples. Le's video work on Neuromarketing was featured on CNN's The Screening Room (the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Ro
Eric Ro is a Korean-American producer based in Los Angeles. Career In 2008, Ro produced an original seriesThe Resistance for Starz Media, co-produced by Sam Raimi’Ghost House Pictures Set in a post apocalyptic world, The Resistance aired on SyFy channel. He has produced countless branded content and commercials for companies including Warner Bros., Marvel Studios, Synchrony Financial, Amazon and Ubisoft, as well as music videos for The Chainsmokers and Avicii. His latest film, Luce,' starring Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth and Kelvin Harrison Jr. Kelvin Harrison Jr. (born July 23, 1994) is an American actor. He is the recipient of such accolades as a Screen Actors Guild Award and nominations for a British Academy Film Award, Gotham Award, an Independent Spirit Award. He began his caree ..., held its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival">">[7/nowiki>/sup>_on_opening_weekend.__Shortly_afterLuce_was_acquired_for_domestic_distribution_rights_by_Neo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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