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Neil Landau
Neil Landau is an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and director. His film and television credits include the teen comedy ''Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead'', ''Melrose Place'', ''The Magnificent Seven'', ''Doogie Howser, M.D.'', ''The Secret World of Alex Mack'' and MTV's ''Undressed''. Neil has also worked internationally as both co-head-writer and executive script consultant on television and film projects for Sony Pictures Television International (in Russia), Freemantle Media (in Australia), and Intereconomia (in Spain). Career He has developed numerous one-hour drama TV pilots for several studios and networks including Warner Bros., Touchstone, CBS, ABC Family, and Lifetime, and has written movies for Universal Pictures, Disney, Columbia Pictures, and 20th Century Fox. He rewrote ''Tad, The Lost Explorer'', an animated feature based on the popular “Tadeo Jones” comic books for El Toro and Paramount. He would then help write both of the film's sequels' Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder (as in a wheelwright or cartwright). The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form—a play. (The homophone with "write" is coincidental.) The first recorded use of the term "playwright" is from 1605, 73 years before the first written record of the term "dramatist". It appears to have been first used in a pejorative sense by Ben Jonson to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre. Jonson uses the word in his Epigram 49, which is thought to refer to John Marston: :''Epigram XLIX — On Playwright'' :PLAYWRIGHT me reads, and still my verses damns, :He says I want the tongue of epigrams ; :I have no salt, no bawdry he doth mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tad, The Lost Explorer
''Tad, the Lost Explorer'' (Spanish: ''Las aventuras de Tadeo Jones'') is a 2012 Spanish 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Enrique Gato. The film is a spinoff of Gato's 2004 short film, ''Tadeo Jones'' and its sequel '' Tadeo Jones and the Basement of Doom'', and while technically based on the shorts, the film was mainly adapted from the Spanish graphic novel ''Tadeo and the Secret of the Toactlum'', illustrated and co-written by Juan López Fernández (Jan) and written by Javier Barreira, Gorka Magallón, and Enrique Gato. The film was adapted and written by Javier Barreira, Gorka Magallón, Ignacio del Moral, Jordi Gasull and Neil Landau. The film's music was composed by Zacarías M. de la Riva. The English cast features the voices of Kerry Shale, Ariel Winter, Bruce Mackinnon, Mac McDonald, Liza Ross, Cheech Marin and Adam James. The film was produced by Telecinco Cinema, El Toro Picture, Lightbox Entertainment, Ikiru Films, Telefónica Producciones, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tad, The Lost Explorer And The Emerald Tablet
''Tad, the Lost Explorer and the Emerald Tablet'' ( es, Tadeo Jones 3. La tabla esmeralda, links=no), released in the UK as ''Tad the Lost Explorer and the Curse of the Mummy'', and in Australia as ''Tad the Explorer: The Mummy Adventure ''is a 2022 Spanish 3rd and final computer-animated comedy film directed by Enrique Gato and written by Josep Gatell and Manuel Burque. It is a follow-up to ''Tad, the Lost Explorer'' and '' Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas''. Plot Clumsy archaeologist Tadeo ('Tad') breaks a sarcophagus and sets on a spell endangering his friends, and so they embark on an adventure that takes them to places such as Mexico, Paris, and Chicago. Voice cast Spanish track English * Trevor White as Tad Stones * Alex Kelly as Sara * Joseph Balderrama as Mummy Production The film is a Telecinco Cinema, Lightbox Animation Studios, Ikiru Films, Anangu Grup and La Tadeopelícula AIE production, and it had the participation of Mediaset España ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tad The Lost Explorer And The Secret Of King Midas
''Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas'' ( es, Tadeo Jones 2: El secreto del Rey Midas; released outside of the UK and US as ''Tad Jones: The Hero Returns'' and ''Tad 2: The Secret of King Midas'' among other titles) is a 2017 Spanish 3D animated adventure comedy film co-directed by Enrique Gato (who directed the first film) and David Alonso. Produced by Ikiru Films, Telecinco Cinema, El Toro Pictures, Lightbox Entertainment and Telefónica Studios, it is a sequel to ''Tad, The Lost Explorer'' (2012).Hopewell, John (12 June 2017Jordi Gasull on ‘Tadeo Jones 2,’ One of Spain’s Biggest New Animation Bets ''Variety''. Retrieved 13 May 2021. The film had its world premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on 13 June 2017 and was theatrically released on 25 August 2017 in Spain by Paramount Pictures,and was also released in the UK on February 9, 2018 It had a worldwide gross of $35 million against a budget of €9 million ($11.8 million) making i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheep And Wolves
''Sheep and Wolves'' (russian: Волки и овцы: бе-е-е-зумное превращение, lit=Wolves and Sheep: Cra-a-a-zy Transformation, translit=Volki i ovtsy. Be-e-e-zumnoe prevrashchenie) is a 2016 Russian computer-animated fantasy comedy film, directed by Andrey Galat and Maxim Volkov. The original story, Wizart Animation's first, contains elements of the fairy tale ''The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats'' and the concepts of a wolf in sheep's clothing. It is about a carefree wolf who likes to hunt sheep, but one day finds that he has been magically transformed into a sheep himself. The film was directed by Andrey Galat and Maksim Volkov, with Wizart and CTB Film Company as joint production partners. Although critical reactions were mostly positive in its native country, the film received generally negative reviews elsewhere, with the script, plot, characterizations and lore being heavily criticized; though the animation received some praise. It won the Golden U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capture The Flag (film)
''Capture the Flag'' (also known as ''Atrapa la Bandera'' in Spanish) is a 2015 Spanish computer-animated science-fiction adventure comedy film directed by Enrique Gato and written by Patxi Amezcua. Produced by 4 Cats Pictures and animated by Lightbox Entertainment, the film was distributed worldwide by Paramount Pictures, which was a milestone for Spanish cinema, as this was the first time a major Hollywood studio acquired and agreed to distribute two Spanish animated films worldwide (Not just one, like most other films), with the other one being Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas. The film takes place in the present alternate times of the year 2015, and the storyline is about Mike Goldwing, a 12-year-old surfer who embarks on a journey with his friends to disrupt a billionaire's plan to destroy the American flag planted on the Moon. The film received some mixed reviews from few American critics and was well-received by most Spanish critics and audiences. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tad, The Lost Explorer
''Tad, the Lost Explorer'' (Spanish: ''Las aventuras de Tadeo Jones'') is a 2012 Spanish 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Enrique Gato. The film is a spinoff of Gato's 2004 short film, ''Tadeo Jones'' and its sequel '' Tadeo Jones and the Basement of Doom'', and while technically based on the shorts, the film was mainly adapted from the Spanish graphic novel ''Tadeo and the Secret of the Toactlum'', illustrated and co-written by Juan López Fernández (Jan) and written by Javier Barreira, Gorka Magallón, and Enrique Gato. The film was adapted and written by Javier Barreira, Gorka Magallón, Ignacio del Moral, Jordi Gasull and Neil Landau. The film's music was composed by Zacarías M. de la Riva. The English cast features the voices of Kerry Shale, Ariel Winter, Bruce Mackinnon, Mac McDonald, Liza Ross, Cheech Marin and Adam James. The film was produced by Telecinco Cinema, El Toro Picture, Lightbox Entertainment, Ikiru Films, Telefónica Producciones, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Young And The Restless
''The Young and the Restless'' (often abbreviated as ''Y&R'') is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in fictional Genoa City (not the real-life similarly-named Genoa City, Wisconsin). First broadcast on March 26, 1973, ''The Young and the Restless'' was originally broadcast as half-hour episodes, five times a week. The show expanded to one-hour episodes on February 4, 1980. In 2006, the series began airing previous episodes weeknights on SOAPnet until 2013, when it moved to TVGN (now Pop). As of July 1, 2013, Pop still airs previous episodes on weeknights. The series is also syndicated internationally. ''The Young and the Restless'' originally focused on two core families: the wealthy Brooks family and the working class Foster family. After a series of recasts and departures in the early 1980s, all the original characters except Jill Foster Abbott were written out. Bell replaced them with new core families, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twice In A Lifetime (TV Series)
''Twice in a Lifetime'' is a Canadian mystery/drama series that originally aired from 1999 to 2001. Created by Steve Sohmer, the series aired on CTV in Canada and PAX in the United States. Plot The series follows an aspiring angel who for some reason, will not enter heaven, but is assigned to guide someone who has died prematurely. The prematurely deceased, played by the episode guest stars, may choose from the afterlife to correct something that went wrong earlier in their life. The key concept to the series was that each episode featured a different guest star in the leading role, while the series regulars played a supporting role. Episodes are centered on an individual who had reached the end of their life in one timeline, and due to circumstances seen by their advocate and judge, is then given 3 days to travel into their past, and without revealing their true identity, convince their younger self to make a different choice at a pivotal point to effect a different outcome for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara Ison
Tara Ison (born 1964) is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She is the author of three novels: ''Rockaway'' (Soft Skull Press, 2013), ''The List'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, Scribner, 2007), and ''A Child out of Alcatraz'' (Faber & Faber, 1997), which was a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A collection of essays, ''Reeling Through Life: How I Learned To Live, Love & Die at the Movies'', was published by Soft Skull Press in January 2015, and was the winner of the 2015 PEN Southwest Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her short story collection, ''Ball'', was published by Soft Skull Press in Fall 2015. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 2020 in support of a short story collection tentatively titled "The Meat Bee," after her 2018 story published in ''Tin House''. Work Ison received her MFA in Fiction & Literature from Bennington College, where she was a student of Rick Moody. Institutions she has taught creative writing and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goddard College
Goddard College is a progressive education private liberal arts low-residency college with three locations in the United States: Plainfield, Vermont; Port Townsend, Washington; and Seattle, Washington. The college offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs. With predecessor institutions dating to 1863, Goddard College was founded in 1938 as an experimental and non-traditional educational institution based on the idea of John Dewey that experience and education are intricately linked. Goddard College uses an intensive low-residency model. First developed for Goddard's MFA in Creative Writing Program, Goddard College operated a mix of residential, low-residency, and distance-learning programs starting in 1963. When it closed its Residential Undergraduate Program in 2002, it switched to a system of 100% low-residency programs. In most of these, each student designs a unique curriculum. The college uses a student self-directed, mentored system in which faculty make narrativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USC School Of Cinematic Arts
The University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) houses seven academic divisions: Film & Television Production; Cinema & Media Studies; John C. Hench Division of Animation + Digital Arts; John Wells Division of Writing for Screen & Television; Interactive Media & Games; Media Arts + Practice; Peter Stark Producing Program. The USC School of Cinematic Arts is led by dean Elizabeth Monk Daley, who holds the Steven J. Ross/Time Warner Chair and is the longest-serving dean at the University of Southern California, having led the cinema school since 1991. History When Douglas Fairbanks became the first president of the nascent Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1927, one of the more innovative items on his agenda was that the academy should have a “training school”. As Fairbanks and his enablers reasoned that training in the cinematic arts should be seen as a legitimate academic discipline at major universities, given the same degree consideratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
