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Renfield (film)
''Renfield'' is an upcoming American comedy horror film directed by Chris McKay from a screenplay by Ryan Ridley, based on an original idea by Robert Kirkman featuring characters from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel ''Dracula''. It is a Reboot (fiction), reboot of Universal Pictures' Dracula (Universal film series), ''Dracula'' series. The film stars Nicholas Hoult as Renfield, the title character, alongside Nicolas Cage as Count Dracula, with Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, and Adrian Martinez (actor), Adrian Martinez in supporting roles. ''Renfield'' will premiere at the Overlook Film Festival on March 30, 2023, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on April 14, 2023, by Universal Pictures. Premise Count Dracula's lackey Renfield finds a new lease on life in modern-day New Orleans when he falls in love with Rebecca Quincy, a traffic cop. Cast * Nicholas Hoult as R. M. Renfield, the long-suffering servant of Dracula. * Nicolas Cage as Count Dracula, a legendary vampire and R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris McKay
Christopher McKay, also known as Chris Taylor (born November 11, 1973), is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing and editing three seasons of ''Robot Chicken'' and two seasons of ''Moral Orel''. He made his feature directorial debut with ''The Lego Batman Movie'' (2017). He directed the film ''The Tomorrow War'' (2021), and is attached to direct ''Renfield''. Early life and education McKay was born in Winter Park, Florida, but spent most of his childhood in Chicago, Illinois. Growing up, McKay was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock films and decided to pursue film. He shot his earliest work on his parents' Super 8 film camera. McKay attended Southern Illinois University for two years as a film student, and completed his degree at Columbia College Chicago. While studying in Chicago, McKay attended his first film shoot for the 1989 comedy ''Uncle Buck''. Career In his early career McKay worked at several video and equipment rental companies. After purchasing produ ... [...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] |
Alex Kurtzman
Alexander Hilary Kurtzman (born September 7, 1973) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his work on the ''Star Trek'' franchise since 2009, co-writing the scripts to ''Transformers (film), Transformers'' (2007), ''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' and ''Star Trek (film), Star Trek'' (2009), ''Star Trek Into Darkness'' (2013), and ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'' (2014) with his writing and producing partner Roberto Orci, and directing and co-writing ''The Mummy (2017 film), The Mummy'' (2017). He'd made his directorial debut with ''People Like Us (2012 film), People Like Us'' (2012), co-written by him, Orci, and Jody Lambert from a story by him. Kurtzman is known, alongside Orci, for frequently collaborating with Michael Bay and J.J. Abrams, as well as co-creating the more recent ''Star Trek'' shows, including ''Star Trek: Discovery'', ''Star Trek: Picard'', and ''Star Trek: Strange New Worlds''. Early life, family and education Kurtzman was born into a American Jews, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shared Universe
A shared universe or shared world is a fictional universe from a set of creative works where more than one writer (or other artist) independently contributes a work that can stand alone but fits into the joint development of the storyline, characters, or world of the overall project. It is common in genres like science fiction. It differs from collaborative writing in which multiple artists are working together on the same work and from crossovers where the works and characters are independent except for a single meeting. The term ''shared universe'' is also used within comics to reflect the overall milieu created by the comic book publisher in which characters, events, and premises from one product line appear in other product lines in a media franchise. A specific kind of shared universe that is published across a variety of media (such as novels and films), each of them contributing to the growth, history, and status of the setting is called an "imaginary entertainment enviro ... [...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] |
Miles Doleac
Miles Christopher Doleac (born November 26, 1975) is an American actor, director, writer and producer. He has had acting roles in several films and television shows since 2011 including ''Watchmen, Lovecraft Country, Treme, Sleepy Hollow, American Horror Story, Salem, Complications, Roots,'' and several episodes of the CW's ''Containment''. He also has acting roles in the films ''The Magnificent Seven'' and '' Don't Kill It.'' Doleac founded Historia films in 2014, the production company which produced ''The Historian'' (2014), ''The Hollow'' (2016), ''Demons'' (2017), ''Hallowed Ground'', ''The Dinner Party'', and ''Demigod''. He was the writer, director, producer and an actor on the first four films. Doleac co-wrote ''The Dinner Party'' and ''Demigod'' with Michael Donovan Horn. Early life and academic career Miles Christopher Doleac was born on November 26, 1975, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He attended the University of North Carolina School of Arts and graduated wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Scott Jones
Brandon Scott Jones (born June 6, 1984) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for his role as Captain Isaac Higgintoot in the CBS series '' Ghosts'' and as Donny in the Warner Bros./Netflix film '' Isn't It Romantic''. Life and career Jones was born in Bel Air, Maryland, and studied at the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts in New York City. He is a regular performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York and Los Angeles. In 2015, Jones was named one of Comedy Central’s Comics to Watch. In 2021, he received his breakthrough role as Captain Isaac Higgintoot on the supernatural sitcom '' Ghosts'' on CBS, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series The Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series is one of the award categories presented annually by the Critics' Choice Television Awards (BTJA) to recognize the work done by television actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Williams
Caroline Williams is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her role as Stretch in ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' film series. Her other film roles include ''Alamo Bay'' (1985), ''The Legend of Billie Jean'' (1985), ''Stepfather II'' (1989), ''Days of Thunder'' (1990), ''Leprechaun 3'' (1995),'' How the Grinch Stole Christmas'' (2000), '' Halloween II'' (2009), and '' Hatchet 3'' (2013). Williams has made guest appearances on several television series such as ''Hunter'' (1987), ''Murder, She Wrote'' (1992), '' ER'' (1996), ''Suddenly Susan'' (1996), ''Sabrina, the Teenage Witch'' (1997), ''The District'' (2003), and ''Grey's Anatomy'' (2010). Life and career Williams made her film debut in the 1975 film ''Smile''. A decade later, she starred in ''Alamo Bay'' and ''The Legend of Billie Jean''. In 1986, Williams had small roles in ''Thompson's Last Run'' and '' Getting Even'' before portraying Vanita "Stretch" Brock in ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2''. In 1989 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bess Rous
Bess Rous is an American actress. On television, she was featured as a series regular on the first season of the TNT crime drama '' Murder in the First'' (2014) and the Yahoo! Screen science fiction comedy ''Other Space'' (2015). She also appeared in the 2016 reboot of ''Ghostbusters''. Early life and education Rous was born in Short Hills, New Jersey. Before pursuing a career in acting, she was a competitive ice dancer for 14 years and trained at the University of Delaware's Ice Skating Science Development Center in Newark, Delaware when she was 15. She graduated from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University with a BFA in Acting and also holds a certificate from the London Academy of Theatre. Career Rous' first onscreen role was a guest appearance on the series ''Third Watch'' in 2004. This was followed by further guest spots on series such as ''Law & Order'', ''Mad Men'', ''Gossip Girl'', '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', ''The Mentalist'', and '' Blue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shohreh Aghdashloo
Shohreh Aghdashloo ( fa, شهره آغداشلو, ; née Vaziri-Tabar (); 11 May 1952) is an Iranian and American actress. Following numerous starring roles on the stage, she made her film debut in ''Chess of the Wind'' (1976). Her next two films '' The Report'' (1977) and '' Sooteh Delan'' (1977) garnered critical acclaim and established Aghdashloo as one of Iran's leading ladies, although the films were banned in Iran itself. Aghdashloo moved to England during the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and then to the United States, subsequently becoming a U.S. citizen. After several years playing small roles in television and film, her performance in '' House of Sand and Fog'' (2003) brought her several film critics' awards and a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other film appearances include '' The Exorcism of Emily Rose'' (2005), '' X-Men: The Last Stand'' and ''The Nativity Story'' (both 2006), ''The Odd Life of Timothy Green'' (2013) and ''Star Trek Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Orleans
New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans Merriam-Webster. ; french: La Nouvelle-Orléans , es, Nueva Orleans) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 according to the 2020 U.S. census, it is the List of municipalities in Louisiana, most populous city in Louisiana and the twelfth-most populous city in the southeastern United States. Serving as a List of ports in the United States, major port, New Orleans is considered an economic and commercial hub for the broader Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast region of the United States. New Orleans is world-renowned for its Music of New Orleans, distinctive music, Louisiana Creole cuisine, Creole cuisine, New Orleans English, uniq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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