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Meredith Stiehm
Meredith Stiehm (born 1968) is an American television producer and writer. She is the creator of the hit crime drama '' Cold Case'' and the FX thriller drama '' The Bridge''. She is President of the Writers Guild of America. Early life and education Stiehm grew up in Santa Monica, California and graduated from Santa Monica High School. She went on to attend the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), graduating in 1990 with a degree in English and playwriting. Her experiences in urban Philadelphia at UPenn and as a young woman in the entertainment industry provided much of the inspiration for ''Cold Case''. Career Stiehm got her start in the entertainment industry writing for '' Northern Exposure'' and later '' Beverly Hills, 90210''. She went on to write for ''NYPD Blue'' for four seasons, for which she earned an Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series." After leaving NYPD Blue, Stiehm wrote for '' ER'' for two seasons. On both NYPD Blue and ER, Stiehm was o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meredith Stiehm 2014
Meredith is a Welsh Brittonic family name, and is also sometimes used as a girl's or boy's forename. The Welsh form is "Maredudd". People * Meredith (given name) * Meredith (surname) Places Australia * Meredith, Victoria United States * Meredith, Colorado * Lake Meredith (Colorado) * Meredith, Michigan * Meredith, New Hampshire, a New England town ** Meredith (CDP), New Hampshire, the main village in the town * Meredith, New York * Meredith Township, Wake County, North Carolina * Lake Meredith, reservoir formed by a dam on the Canadian River at Sanford, Texas Ships * HMS ''Meredith'' (1763), sloop of the British Royal Navy purchased in 1763 and sold in 1784 * USCS ''Meredith'', survey ship in United States Coast Survey service from 1851 to 1872 * USS ''Meredith'', the name of more than one United States Navy ship * SS ''Meredith Victory'', United States Merchant Marine Victory ship Other * Meredith College, women's liberal arts college located in Raleigh, North Carolina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Showtime (TV Network)
Showtime is an American pay television, premium television television network, network owned by Paramount Media Networks, and is the flagship property of the namesake parent company, Showtime Networks, a part of Paramount Media Networks. Showtime's programming primarily includes Art release#Film, theatrically released Feature film, motion pictures and Original series, original television program, television series, along with boxing and mixed martial arts matches, occasional stand-up comedy television special, specials, and Television film, made-for-TV movies. Headquartered at Paramount Plaza on the northern end of New York City's Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway district, Showtime operates eight 24-hour, linear Multiplex (television)#Pay television multiplexes, multiplex channels; a traditional subscription video on demand service; and two proprietary streaming media, streaming platforms, the TV Everywhere offering Showtime Anytime (which is included as part of a subscription to th ... [...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] |
Movie Packaging
In film industry terminology, ''movie packaging'' or ''film packaging'' is a type of product bundling in which a top level talent agency starts up a film or television project using writers, directors and/or actors it represents, before giving other agencies a chance to submit their clients for the project. For this service the talent agency negotiates a packaging fee. Instead of collecting the usual 10% fee from individual clients, the agency receives the equivalent of 5% of what the studio or network pays the production company; 5% of half (''i.e.'' 2.5%) of any profit the production company earns; and 15% of adjusted gross (syndication revenue minus costs the network does not pay). Packaging incentive Packaging can be much more lucrative for agencies than the usual 10% fee; in 1989 ''The New York Times'' reported that a major talent agency could earn $21,000 to $100,000 for each episode of a network show. Packaging is frequently done by the “big four” talent agencies Creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Of Talent Agents
The Association of Talent Agents (ATA) is a non-profit trade association representing talent agencies in the United States entertainment industry. ATA agencies represent the vast majority of artists working in the field, including actors, directors, writers, and other artists in film, stage, television, radio, commercial, literary work, and other entertainment enterprises. History Established in 1937, ATA is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit trade association of over 100 talent agencies located primarily in the New York and Los Angeles areas. Today, over 100 agencies that serve the various branches of the entertainment industry are members of the Association of Talent Agents. Originally known as the Artists' Managers Guild, the ATA was founded in the aftermath of '' National Labor Relations Board v Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation'', a US labor law case in which the Supreme Court upheld the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. This landmark piece of New Deal legislation, als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickly spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 are variable but often include fever, cough, headache, fatigue, breathing difficulties, Anosmia, loss of smell, and Ageusia, loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days incubation period, after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected Asymptomatic, do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms (dyspnea, Hypoxia (medical), hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms (respiratory failure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demián Bichir
Demián Bichir Nájera (; born 1 August 1963) is a Mexican actor. After starring in telenovelas, he began to appear in Hollywood films. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in ''A Better Life''. Personal life Bichir was born in Torreón. His parents are Alejandro Bichir and Maricruz Nájera. His paternal family are Lebanese people, Lebanese actors. His brothers are Odiseo and Bruno. He worked at the National Theater Company, performed Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky, and won several awards at the Mexican Association of Theater Critics. He attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, and worked at Rosa Mexicano Restaurant. Bichir is an American Civil Liberties Union Ambassador of Immigration Rights. His second wife, Stefanie Sherk, committed suicide by drowning in a swimming pool on 12 April 2019. The couple met in 2010. He was married to Lisset for two years. He has a daughter. Career Bichir played Fidel Castro in ''Che (2008 film), Che'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Kruger
Diane Kruger ( Heidkrüger; ; born 15 July 1976) is a German and American actress. Early in her career, Kruger gained worldwide recognition and received the Trophée Chopard from the Cannes Film Festival. Kruger became known for her roles in film as Helen in the epic war film ''Troy'' (2004), Dr. Abigail Chase in the heist film ''National Treasure'' (2004) and its 2007 sequel, Bridget von Hammersmark in Quentin Tarantino's war film ''Inglourious Basterds'' (2009), and Gina in the psychological thriller film ''Unknown'' (2011). She also starred as Detective Sonya Cross in the FX crime drama series '' The Bridge'' (2013–14). In 2017, she made her German-language debut in Fatih Akin's '' In the Fade'', for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. In 2014, she was made an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Early life Diane Heidkrüger was born on 15 July 1976. She was brought up Catholic and attended Catholic school. She has stated that one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez ( ; ''Juarez City''. ) is the most populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It is commonly referred to as Juárez and was known as El Paso del Norte (''The Pass of the North'') until 1888. Juárez is the seat of the Juárez Municipality with an estimated population of 1.5 million people. It lies on the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) river, south of El Paso, Texas, United States. Together with the surrounding areas, the cities form El Paso–Juárez, the second largest binational metropolitan area on the Mexico–U.S. border (after San Diego–Tijuana), with a combined population of over 2.7 million people. Four international points of entry connect Ciudad Juárez and El Paso: the Bridge of the Americas, the Ysleta–Zaragoza International Bridge, the Paso del Norte Bridge, and the Stanton Street Bridge. Combined, these bridges allowed 22,958,472 crossings in 2008, making Ciudad Juárez a major point of entry and transportation into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Paso
El Paso (; "the pass") is a city in and the seat of El Paso County in the western corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the 23rd-largest city in the U.S., the sixth-largest city in Texas, and the second-largest city in the Southwestern United States behind Phoenix, Arizona. The city is also the second-largest majority-Hispanic city in the U.S., with 81% of its population being Hispanic. Its metropolitan statistical area covers all of El Paso and Hudspeth counties in Texas, and had a population of 868,859 in 2020. El Paso has consistently been ranked as one of the safest large cities in America. El Paso stands on the Rio Grande across the Mexico–United States border from Ciudad Juárez, the most-populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua with over 1.5 million people. The Las Cruces area, in the neighboring U.S. state of New Mexico, has a population of 219,561. On the U.S. side, the El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bridge (Danish/Swedish TV Series)
''The Bridge'' ( da, Broen ; ) is a Nordic noir crime television series created and written by Hans Rosenfeldt. A joint creative and financed production between Sweden's Sveriges Television and Denmark's DR (broadcaster), Danmarks Radio, it has been shown in more than 100 countries. The first season begins with the discovery of a dead body exactly on the Denmark–Sweden border, the centre of the Øresund Bridge, which links Malmö with Copenhagen, necessitating a joint investigation. Sofia Helin, as the Swedish police detective Saga Norén, stars in all four seasons. In the first and second, her Danish counterpart, Martin Rohde, is played by Kim Bodnia, and in the third and fourth Henrik Sabroe by Thure Lindhardt. The first season was broadcast on Swedish SVT1 and Danish DR1 during the autumn of 2011, and on the United Kingdom's BBC Four the following spring. The second season aired in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland during the autumn of 2013, and in the UK in ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elwood Reid
Brian "Elwood" Reid (born December 19, 1966) is an American novelist, short-story writer and television screenwriter. Early life Reid was born in Cleveland, Ohio in a working-class area. Reid played college football for the Michigan Wolverines from 1985 to 1986 on a football scholarship. A great influence on him was American novelist Elmore Leonard. When he died in August, 2013, Reid, who considered Leonard to be a major influence, extended condolences to Leonard on Twitter and praised him as being "one of the greats". Prose Novels *''D.B.'' ( Doubleday, 2004; Anchor Books, paperback, 2005) *''Midnight Sun'' (Doubleday, 2000; Anchor Books, paperback, 2002) *''If I Don't Six'' (Doubleday, 1998) Short story collections *''What Salmon Know'' (Doubleday, 1999) Television *''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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