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Mustafa Shakir
Mustafa Shakir (born August 21, 1976) is an American actor known for his portrayal as Bushmaster in ''Marvel's Luke Cage'', Big Mike in ''The Deuce'' and Jet Black in ''Cowboy Bebop'' (2021). Biography and career Shakir was born in North Carolina and grew up in Harlem. He attended The New School and graduated in 2001. Before acting, Shakir was a barber. Shakir earned one of the lead roles in the short lived ''Quarry'' and made a guest appearance on '' Timeless''. He had previously auditioned for the roles of Black Lightning in the eponymous television show and M'Baku in ''Black Panther'', but failed to acquire either role. He was cast as John McIver/Bushmaster, in the second season of ''Luke Cage''. In 2021 he starred in the Netflix live-action adaptation of '' Cowboy Bebop'' as Jet Black which was cancelled after one season. Shakir is a strict vegan Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal product—particularly in diet—and an associated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Carolina
North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and South Carolina to the south, and Tennessee to the west. In the 2020 census, the state had a population of 10,439,388. Raleigh is the state's capital and Charlotte is its largest city. The Charlotte metropolitan area, with a population of 2,595,027 in 2020, is the most-populous metropolitan area in North Carolina, the 21st-most populous in the United States, and the largest banking center in the nation after New York City. The Raleigh-Durham-Cary combined statistical area is the second-largest metropolitan area in the state and 32nd-most populous in the United States, with a population of 2,043,867 in 2020, and is home to the largest research park in the United States, Research Triangle Park. The earliest evidence of human occupation i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netflix
Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a film and television series library through distribution deals as well as its own productions, known as Netflix Originals. As of September 2022, Netflix had 222 million subscribers worldwide, including 73.3 million in the United States and Canada; 73.0 million in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 39.6 million in Latin America and 34.8 million in the Asia-Pacific region. It is available worldwide aside from Mainland China, Syria, North Korea, and Russia. Netflix has played a prominent role in independent film distribution, and it is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). Netflix can be accessed via web browsers or via application software installed on smart TVs, set-top boxes connected to televisions, tablet computers, smartph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TheWrap
''TheWrap'' is an American online news website covering the business of entertainment and media via digital, print and live events. It was founded by journalist Sharon Waxman Sharon I. Waxman (born c.1963) is an American author, journalist, and blogger who has been a correspondent for '' The Washington Post'' and '' The New York Times'', and founded the Hollywood and media business news site ''TheWrap'' in early 2009. ... in 2009. Awards ''TheWrap'' has won awards for its journalism, including best website in 2018 for a news organization exclusive to the internet at the L.A. Press Club's SoCal Journalism Awards and best entertainment website in 2018 at the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism (NAEJ) awards. In 2016, the L.A. Press Club's NAEJ gave the site its top prizes for feature photography and Sharon Waxman's WaxWord blog, as well as second place for Best Entertainment Website and Entertainment Publication. The site was named the best online news site in both 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assassin (2023 Film)
''Assassin'' is a 2023 American science fiction action film starring Nomzamo Mbatha, Dominic Purcell and Bruce Willis (in his final film role). It was directed by Jesse Atlas, in his feature film directorial debut, written by Aaron Wolfe, and is based on Atlas and Wolfe's short film ''Let Them Die Like Lovers''. ''Assassin'' was released by Saban Films in select theaters and VOD on March 31, 2023. Plot A private military operation, led by Valmora, invents futuristic microchip tech that enables the mind of an agent to inhabit the body of another person to carry out covert, deadly missions. But when Agent Sebastian is killed during a secret mission, his wife, Alexa, must take his place in an attempt to bring the man responsible to justice. Cast * Nomzamo Mbatha as Alexa * Bruce Willis as Valmora * Dominic Purcell as Adrian * Andy Allo as Mali * Mustafa Shakir as Sebastian * Fernanda Andrade as Olivia * Eugenia Kuzmina as Trainer * Hannah Quinlivan as Special Agent Productio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emancipation (2022 Film)
''Emancipation'' is a 2022 American historical action thriller film set in Louisiana in the 1860s after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to end most slavery in the US. The film was directed by Antoine Fuqua and co-produced by Will Smith, who stars as a runaway slave headed for Baton Rouge. He must survive the swamps while being chased by slave catchers and their dogs. Written by William N. Collage, the biographical film is loosely based on a possibly conglomerated story of the lives of either or both of two formerly enslaved Black men named Gordon and "Whipped Peter". That story was made famous by the photograph of a man's bare back heavily scourged from an overseer's whippings, published worldwide as magazine illustrations in 1863, and gave the abolitionist movement proof of the cruelty of slavery. Ben Foster stars as a ruthless slave hunter and Charmaine Bingwa as an enslaved wife and mother. The film employs an artistic desaturated color pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hide And Seek (2021 Film)
''Hide and Seek'' is an American horror-thriller film written and directed by Joel David Moore. It is a remake of the 2013 Korean film of the same name. The film stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jacinda Barrett, Joe Pantoliano and Mustafa Shakir. It premiered theatrically and on video on demand platforms on November 19, 2021. Cast * Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Noah Blackwell * Jacinda Barrett as Samantha Blackwell * Joe Pantoliano as Collin Carmichael * Mustafa Shakir Mustafa Shakir (born August 21, 1976) is an American actor known for his portrayal as Bushmaster in '' Marvel's Luke Cage'', Big Mike in ''The Deuce'' and Jet Black in ''Cowboy Bebop'' (2021). Biography and career Shakir was born in North Ca ... as Frankie Pascarillo Production In December 13, 2017, was announced that an English remake of the Korean film of the same name would be adapted and directed by Moore. Saban Films acquired North American, UK and Irish rights in the Spring of 2021 giving the film a limited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pretenders (2018 Film)
''The Pretenders'' is a 2018 American drama film directed by James Franco from a screenplay by Josh Boone. It stars Jack Kilmer, Jane Levy, Shameik Moore, Juno Temple, Brian Cox, Dennis Quaid and Franco. It had its world premiere at the Torino Film Festival on November 24, 2018. It was released on September 27, 2019, by Cleopatra Entertainment. Cast * Jack Kilmer as Terry * Jane Levy as Catherine * Shameik Moore as Phil * Juno Temple as Victoria * Brian Cox as Henry * Dennis Quaid as Joe * James Franco as Maxwell * Mustafa Shakir as Mr. Stanish * Danielle Burgess as Madeline * Antoni Porowski as Antoni * Jacqueline Honulik as Kim * Tyler Alvarez as Doug Production In November 2016, it was announced James Franco would direct the film, from a screenplay by Josh Boone, with Franco, Jack Kilmer, Shameik Moore, Jane Levy, Brian Cox and Juno Temple joining the cast of the film. Vince Jolivette, Jay Davis, Shaun Sanghani, Jordan Yale Levine, Scott Levenson and Katie Leary ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brawl In Cell Block 99
''Brawl in Cell Block 99'' is a 2017 American neo-noir prison action thriller film directed and written by S. Craig Zahler and starring Vince Vaughn with Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson, Udo Kier, Marc Blucas, and Tom Guiry. The story follows Bradley Thomas, a drug mule who must kill a man held in a maximum security prison to rescue his pregnant wife from a vengeful drug lord. Zahler wrote the script of ''Brawl in Cell Block 99'' after watching several prison films, coming up with different elements to add to the genre. Zahler cast Vaughn for his consistency and authenticity, in a break from the comedic roles that Vaughn usually plays. Vaughn exercised and underwent training for the film's action and fighting sequences. Filming took place in Staten Island, New York City, between August and October 2016 under a production budget of $4 million. The film premiered at the 74th Venice International Film Festival, and was released in theaters, digital HD, and video on demand in Oct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Play (film)
''Double Play'' is a 2017 drama film directed by Ernest Dickerson. It is based on Curaçaoan author Frank Martinus Arion's internationally acclaimed Dutch-language novel ''Dubbelspel''. The title ''Double Play'' refers to a move in dominoes where a player can play a final domino on either end of the snake, earning that team double points. Plot Ostrik, now a grown man working as a doctor in the Netherlands, returns to his childhood home on the island of Curaçao and recalls his experiences with his family and neighbors there during a time of colonial unrest in the 1970s. Each Sunday his father Bubu would play dominoes with his friends while discussing a variety of issues as Ostrik would observe. After chasing bus drivers away from an important location for taxi cabs, Bubu becomes the likely choice for president of a newly formed taxi cab union. That Sunday the union meeting for the election is scheduled to be held at his house but the drivers witness Bubu experiencing a day-long los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cavern (2005 Film)
''The Cavern'' (originally released as ''WIthIN'') is a 2005 horror film directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. Plot The film is set in the Kyzylkum Desert, Kazakhstan. The opening scenes of the movie sets up the various alliances and tensions between a group of cavers. Five of them - Bailey, Gannon, Domingo, Miranda, and Ori - are part of a team who have caved together for a number of years, making their living from exploring and photographing new caves and reporting back to the world what they find there. Also involved in this trip are two Kazakh natives, Vlad and Slava, who the band have hired as guides, and Ambrose, who is researching for a book on caving. It can also be said that there is a ghost with the group - that of Rachel, a member of the team who died on an expedition in Peru two years prior, and whose story is told in flashback as the movie goes on. The men are killed one by one by a mysterious creature, and just as the two women find the escape route, they are captured. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marci X
''Marci X'' is a 2003 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin, written by Paul Rudnick, and starring Lisa Kudrow as Jewish-American Princess Marci Feld, who has to take control of a hip-hop record label, as well as the controversial rapper Dr. S, played by Damon Wayans. The film was released on August 22, 2003, by Paramount Pictures. ''Marci X'' received negative reviews and was a box office flop, grossing $1.7 million worldwide against a $20 million budget. Plot Marci Feld, a spoiled Jewish-American princess, is forced to take control of her father Ben's hardcore rap label Felony Assault when he suffers a stress-induced heart attack due to the controversy surrounding the label's release of "Shoot Ya' Teacha" by Dr. S. To rescue her father's plummeting stock, Marci attempts to tone down the rapper's bad-boy image. Over time, the unlikely pair falls in love just as conservative senator Mary Ellen Spinkle vows to banish Dr. S and his offensive lyrics from the airw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down To Earth (2001 Film)
''Down to Earth'' is a 2001 American fantasy comedy film directed by Chris and Paul Weitz and written by Chris Rock, Lance Crouther, Ali LeRoi and Louis C.K. It is the third film based on Harry Segall's stageplay ''Heaven Can Wait'', preceded by '' Here Comes Mr. Jordan'' (1941) and '' Heaven Can Wait'' (1978). The film stars Chris Rock as Lance Barton, a comedian who is killed before his time on Earth is through. He is given another chance to continue his life, but in the body of a rich middle-aged white man. The film was released on 16 February 2001, and grossed $71 million against its $30 million budget. Plot Lance Barton is a struggling comedian who is quite funny and confident in his personality, but is unable to bring his talent across in front of an audience. After being booed off stage one night, he hears about an opportunity from his manager, Whitney Daniels at the Apollo Theater, which is having a farewell show due to its imminent closing. He is hoping to get a chanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
