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Stephen Hilton
Stephen Hilton is an English composer, record producer, YouTuber & influencer. Filmography Hilton's work on movie scores consists of about 50 Hollywood features including franchises like ''Pirates of the Caribbean'', ''Madagascar'', ''The Fast and Furious'', ''Kung Fu Panda'', ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'', ''Megamind'', and four James Bond movies including ''The World Is Not Enough'' and ''Quantum of Solace''. Other credits include ''Ocean's 11'', '' 12'' and '' 13'', ''Moulin Rouge!'', '' Shaft'', ''Zoolander'', ''The Bone Collector'', ''Plunkett & Macleane'', ''Analyze That'', ''Buffalo Soldiers'' and Luc Besson's ''Kiss of the Dragon''. More recently, Hilton joined his wife, Internet celebrity Laura Clery, to form "Idiots Inc" – a digital media company, creating viral entertainment content and producing shows for TV / Digital and Commercials Hilton wrote the original scores for ''New Town Killers'', '' The Children'', '' Cherrybomb'', '' Salvage'', ''Third Star'', '' Swor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Definition The term is descended from Latin, ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together". The earliest use of the term in a musical context given by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' is from Thomas Morley's 1597 ''A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music'', where he says "Some wil be good descanters ..and yet wil be but bad composers". 'Composer' is a loose term that generally refers to any person who writes music. More specifically, it is often used to denote people who are composers by occupation, or those who in the tradition of Western classical music. Writers of exclusively or primarily songs may be called composers, but since the 20th century the terms 'songwriter' or ' singer-songwriter' are more often used, particularl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bone Collector
''The Bone Collector'' is a 1999 American crime thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. It was produced by Martin Bregman. The film is based on the 1997 crime novel of the same name written by Jeffery Deaver, concerning the tetraplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme. The film received mixed reviews, and earned about $150 million against a budget of $48 million. Plot In 1998 New York City, quadriplegic forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme is bed-bound after an accident that left him completely paralyzed from the neck down. Amelia Donaghy, a newly recruited patrol officer, discovers a mutilated corpse buried at a Civil War-era railroad bed. Due to clue-like objects found at the crime scene, Rhyme concludes that the scene was staged and subsequently teams up with an initially hesitant Amelia, impressed by her natural forensic instincts. The killer poses as a taxi driver and, before Rhyme and Amelia met, abducts married couple Alan and Linds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haywire (2011 Film)
''Haywire'' is a 2011 action thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas, and Michael Douglas. Carano, a mixed martial arts fighter, performs her own stunts in the film. The score is by DJ and composer David Holmes. The plot centers on Mallory Kane (Carano), a black ops operative who is betrayed by her employers and targeted for assassination in a conspiracy that she is forced to unravel. The film premiered on November 6, 2011 at the American Film Institute's AFI Fest and received a wide release on January 20, 2012 by Relativity Media. It had generally positive critical reception, with critics praising its action, choreography, performances and Soderbergh's direction, but with some criticism levied at newcomer Carano's performance. The film grossed $34.5 million. Plot At an Upstate New York diner, a woman named Mallory Kane meets an associate of hers named Aaron. The two have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Code 46
''Code 46'' is a 2003 British film directed by Michael Winterbottom, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, and starring Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton. Produced by BBC Films and Revolution Films, the film is a dystopian sci-fi love story, exploring the implications of current trends in biotechnology. The soundtrack was composed by David Holmes and Stephen Hilton under the name "Free Association". Filmed on location in Shanghai, Dubai and Rajasthan, with interiors done onstage in London, the mesh of foreign locations was chosen due to the juxtaposition of elements in these cities offering a believable futuristic setting. Plot In the future, the world is divided between those who live "inside", in high-density cities, and the underclass who live "outside." Access to the cities is highly restricted and regulated through the use of health documents, known as "papeles" in the global pidgin language of the day. William Geld, an insurance fraud investigator, is sent to Shanghai to inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Holmes (musician)
David Holmes (born 25 February 1969) is a Northern Irish musician and composer. He worked as a DJ before releasing several solo albums that have incorporated elements of trip hop, big beat, electronic and rock. In the late 1990s, he also began composing film scores, establishing a long-standing collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh that includes ''Out of Sight'' (1998) and the ''Ocean's'' trilogy. Holmes is currently a member of the band Unloved, whose music has been used extensively in the television series ''Killing Eve'', for which Holmes is also a composer. He has remixed songs for numerous artists and produced albums for Primal Scream. Career Holmes began DJing in Belfast from the age of 15. His first hit was the 1992 track "De Niro" as the Disco Evangelists, with Ashley Beedle and Lindsay Edwards (who later joined Tin Tin Out). In the early to mid-1990s, he ran two club nights in the Belfast Art College known as Sugar Sweet and Shake Yer Brain. Orbital wrote th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kill Command
''Kill Command'' (also known as ''Identify'') is a 2016 British science fiction action horror film written and directed by Steven Gomez, and starring Thure Lindhardt and Vanessa Kirby. The story focuses on a group of U.S. Marines attempting to survive after a training mission against warfare A.I. goes wrong. Plot In a technologically advanced near future, Katherine Mills, a cyborg working for Harbinger Corporation, discovers a reprogramming anomaly regarding a warfare A.I. system located at Harbinger I Training Facility, an undisclosed military training island. She meets with Captain Damien Bukes and his team consisting of Drifter, Robinson, Cutbill, Goodwin, Hackett, and Loftus – all of whom have been assigned to a two-day training mission at Harbinger I. Upon their arrival, the team notices global communications have been disabled, limiting them to local access only. They discover autonomously operating surveillance Unmanned aerial vehicle, drones monitoring them. The te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sword Of Vengeance (film)
''Sword of Vengeance'' (Serbian: ''Mač osvete'') is a 2014 British-Serbian historical action film directed by Jim Weedon, his first feature film, and starring Stanley Weber, Annabelle Wallis, and Ed Skrein. Weedon's action sequences, and the overall look of the film, were inspired by samurai films. While the action sequences and Weber's performance were reasonably well received by critics, most felt the film's dialogue and overall story were subpar, with the caveat that aficionados of the genre would appreciate it far more. Synopsis In Northern England, about 1089, some twenty years after the genocidal "Harrowing" (the Harrying of the North ordered by William the Conqueror to quell a series of rebellions), a former slave and Norman princeling has taken the name Shadow Walker (Stanley Weber) upon returning to his father's former lands. There the earl Durant (Karel Roden) rules as a despot with his equally cruel sons Lord Artus (Gianni Giardinelli) and Lord Romain (Edward Akrout) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Third Star
''Third Star'' is a 2010 British drama film directed by Hattie Dalton and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, JJ Feild, Tom Burke, Adam Robertson, and Hugh Bonneville.Reynolds, Simon (2011)Trailer: Benedict Cumberbatch's 'Third Star', Digital Spy, 6 May 2011, retrieved 2011-07-22Citron, Cynthia (2011)Movie review: 'Third Star' worth the climb", ''Santa Monica Daily Press'', 7 July 2011, retrieved 2011-07-22 It premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival in June 2010, where it was shown as the closing film, and was released in the United Kingdom on 20 May 2011. Plot After celebrating his 29th and - as everyone including himself knows - last birthday, James, a young man terminally ill with cancer, sets out on a last hiking trip with his three best friends, Davy, Bill and Miles. Their destination is James's favourite beach at Barafundle Bay, on the Pembrokeshire coast. Davy is a kind, loyal and responsible soul who has been unemployed and helping James's family take care of him for qui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvage (2009 Film)
''Salvage'' is a 2009 British horror film directed by Lawrence Gough, produced by Julie Lau and written by Colin O'Donnell and Alan Patterson. The film stars Neve McIntosh, Shaun Dooley and Linzey Cocker as residents in a suburban street who find themselves isolated from the outside world following an emergency. The film was one of three produced in Liverpool to celebrate the city's status as EU City of Culture in 2008, and was filmed on the set of former soap opera ''Brookside''. It was produced on a minimal budget, and was the last time the Brookside set was used for filming purposes before it was sold to a private developer. Neve McIntosh won two Best Actress awards for her role in the film. Plot On Christmas Eve morning, a paperboy delivers newspapers in a cul-de-sac. Hearing a row between an Indian couple, he peers through the window, but is spotted and chased away by the man, Mr Sharma ( Shahid Ahmed). He flees into the woods behind the street, but is killed by an unkno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherrybomb (film)
''Cherrybomb'' is a 2009 British drama film directed by Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn. It stars Rupert Grint, Kimberley Nixon, Robert Sheehan and James Nesbitt. Filming began on location in Belfast on 7 July 2008, and lasted four weeks. The film includes nudity, drinking, drugs, shop-lifting and car theft. It was released to DVD on 23 August 2010 in the United Kingdom. It premiered in the United States in September 2009 at the Los Angeles Irish Film Festival. The film's theme song is "Cherry Bomb" by The Runaways. ''Cherrybomb'' premiered at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival, but was initially unable to find a distributor. An online campaign by Grint's fans was credited with helping to secure a deal for distribution in the United Kingdom. Plot Malachy McKinny is a straight-A teenager working at the Titanic Leisureplex, a sports training complex owned and run by Dave. His best friend is Luke, a drug dealer living with his drug-addicted father. The two boys find thems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Children (2008 Film)
''The Children'' is a 2008 British horror thriller film set around the New Year holiday directed by Tom Shankland, based on a story by Paul Andrew Williams and starring Eva Birthistle and Hannah Tointon. The story centers around an evil virus that turns all children into blood-thirsty monsters during a Christmas vacation. The film premiered on 5 December 2008 and received positive reviews from critics. Plot Elaine and Jonah are travelling with their two children, Miranda and Paulie, along with Casey (Elaine’s teenage daughter from a previous relationship), to spend the Christmas holidays and New Year with Elaine's older sister, Chloe. Chloe, her husband Robbie, and their two children, Nicky and Leah, welcome their visitors. Outside the house, Paulie vomits near the bushes, which his mother believes is due to being carsick. As the night progresses, Nicky and Leah also begin to show symptoms of an illness. Leah coughs up some black bile, where strange forms of bacteria is seen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Town Killers
''New Town Killers'' is a British drama film written and directed by Richard Jobson (television presenter), Richard Jobson, starring James Anthony Pearson and Dougray Scott. ''New Town Killers'' follows two business men, portrayed by Dougray Scott and Alastair Mackenzie, who play macabre cat and mouse games with people from the fringes of society. The film was an official selection for both London Film Festival, The Times BFI London Film Festival, 2008 and International Thessaloniki Film Festival, The International Thessaloniki Film Festival, 2008. Plot Two private bankers, Alistair (Scott) and Jamie (Mackenzie), who have the world at their feet get their kicks from playing a twelve-hour game of hunt, hide and seek with people from the margins of society. Their next target is Sean Macdonald (Pearson) a parentless teenager who lives with his sister on a housing estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh. She's in debt, he's going nowhere fast. Sean agrees to play for cash. He soon rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
