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Sand Castle (film)
''Sand Castle'' is a 2017 American war drama film directed by Fernando Coimbra and written by Chris Roessner. The film stars Nicholas Hoult, Henry Cavill, Logan Marshall-Green, Tommy Flanagan, Glen Powell, Beau Knapp, and Neil Brown Jr. The film centers on Matt Ocre, a young soldier in the United States Army, who is tasked with restoring water to a village in Iraq. It is inspired by Roessner's experience as a soldier in the Iraq War. It was released on April 21, 2017 on Netflix. Plot At the beginning of the 2003 Iraq War, Private Matt Ocre, a young civil affairs soldier with the Army Reserve slams his hand in the door of a Humvee in an attempt to get sent home. Narration reveals that he enlisted in July 2001, in order to get money for college. Some time later, he is seen with a cast on his arm, his attempt having been unsuccessful. His cast gets cut off just in time to be sent to Baghdad. During the battle, Ocre spots a sniper and Sergeant Dylan Chutsky calls in a helicopt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Coimbra
Fernando Coimbra is a Brazilian film director, known for directing '' A Wolf at the Door'' (2013) and ''Sand Castle'' (2017). For the former film, Coimbra was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director is one of the annual Directors Guild of America Awards given by Directors Guild of America. It was first awarded at the 68th Direct ... in 2015. References External links * Living people Brazilian film directors Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{Brazil-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Army Reserve
The United States Army Reserve (USAR) is a Military reserve force, reserve force of the United States Army. Together, the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard constitute the Army element of the reserve components of the United States Armed Forces. Since July 2020, the Chief of the United States Army Reserve is Lieutenant general (United States), Lieutenant General Jody J. Daniels. The senior enlisted leader of the Army Reserve is Command Sergeant Major Andrew J. Lombardo. History Origins On 23 April 1908 Congress created the Medical Reserve Corps, the official predecessor of the Army Reserve. After World War I, under the National Defense Act of 1920, Congress reorganized the U.S. land forces by authorizing a Regular Army (United States), Regular Army, a National Guard and an Organized Reserve (Officers Reserve Corps and Enlisted Reserve Corps) of unrestricted size, which later became the Army Reserve. This organization provided a peacetime pool of trained Reserve officers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Evans (actor)
Luke George Evans (born 15 April 1979) is a Welsh actor and singer. He began his career on the stage, performing in many of London's West End productions such as ''Rent'', ''Miss Saigon'', and '' Piaf'' before making his film breakthrough in the '' Clash of the Titans'' 2010 remake. Following his debut, Evans was cast in such action and thriller films as ''Immortals'' (2011), ''The Raven'' (2012), and the re-imagined ''The Three Musketeers'' (2011). In 2013, Evans starred as the antagonist Owen Shaw in the blockbuster ''Fast & Furious 6'', and also played Bard the Bowman in Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Hobbit''. Evans also portrayed the vampire Dracula in the character's 2014 film origin story, ''Dracula Untold''. Evans portrayed Gaston in Disney's live-action adaptation of ''Beauty and the Beast'' (2017), psychologist William Moulton Marston in the biographical drama ''Professor Marston and the Wonder Women'' (2017), and the Coachman in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Kebbell
Tobias Alistair Patrick Kebbell''Births, Marriages & Deaths: Toby is married to Arielle Wyatt. They got married in 2020 and they have one child together. Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.''; at ancestry.com (born 9 July 1982) is an English film, television and stage actor. He is known for his roles in films such as '' Dead Man's Shoes'' (2004), ''Control'' (2007), ''RocknRolla'' (2008), '' Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time'' (2010), ''War Horse'' (2011), ''Wrath of the Titans'' (2012), ''Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'' (2014), ''Fantastic Four'' (2015), ''Warcraft'' (2016), ''A Monster Calls'' (2016), '' Ben-Hur'' (2016), and ''Gold'' (2016). He is also known for his work in the ''Black Mirror'' episode "The Entire History of You" (2011) and starred in the second film of the MonsterVerse film series, '' Kong: Skull Island'' (2017) and the Apple TV+ series ''Servant'' (2019–present). Early life Kebbell, the fourth of five children, was born in Pontefract, Yorkshire, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UMedia
Umedia (formerly stylized uMedia) is an international film group based in Brussels, with offices in London, Paris, Los Angeles, and Vancouver. History Nadia Khamlichi, Adrian Politowski and Jeremy Burdek created the Motion Investment Group in 2004 in Brussels. They set up the offices in the basement rooms of one of their friends' grandmothers. Their plan was to set up a fund using Belgium's tax shelter provisions for visiting productions. In 2010, the group rebranded as uMedia, with business divisions of "uFund (fundraising), uFilm (production and investment), uDream (distribution) and uFX (visual effects)." In 2011, its website reported it had staffed 75 employees, co-produced and financed 120 films, raised and invested 156 million euros. One of the film group's most notable financing at that time was for the 2011 film '' The Artist''. In 2013, Umedia expanded its operations to Los Angeles. In 2014, Burdek resigned. In 2016, Umedia set up an office in Vancouver. In 2019, Khaml ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black List (survey)
The Black List is an annual survey methodology, survey of the "most-liked" motion picture screenplays not yet produced. It has been published every year since 2005 on the second Friday of December by Franklin Leonard, a development executive who subsequently worked at Universal Studios, Universal Pictures and Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment. The website states that these are not necessarily "the best" screenplays, but rather "the most liked", since it is based on a survey of film studio, studio and production company executives. Of the more than 1,000 screenplays ''The Black List'' has included since 2005, 440 have been produced as theatrical films, including ''Argo (2012 film), Argo'', ''American Hustle'', ''Juno (film), Juno'', ''The King's Speech'', ''Slumdog Millionaire'', ''Spotlight (film), Spotlight'', ''The Revenant (2015 film), The Revenant'', ''The Descendants'', and ''Hell or High Water (film), Hell or High Water''. The produced films have together grossed over $3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunni Triangle
The Sunni Triangle is a densely populated region of Iraq to the north and west of Baghdad inhabited mostly by Sunni Muslim Arabs. The roughly triangular area's points are usually said to lie near Baghdad (the southeast point), Ramadi (the southwest point) and Tikrit (the north point). Each side is approximately 125 kilometers (80 miles) long. The area also contains the cities of Samarra and Fallujah. The area was a center of strong support for former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's government; from the 1970s on, many government workers, politicians, and military leaders came from the area. Saddam was born just outside Tikrit. After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the area became a focus of armed Sunni opposition to Coalition Provisional Authority rule. On December 13, 2003, Saddam Hussein was captured in a raid on the village of ad-Dawr about south of Tikrit. The term "Sunni triangle" was used intermittently from the 1970s among academic Iraq specialists, usually to differentiate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nabil Elouahabi
Nabil Elouahabi (born 6 February 1975), often credited as Nabil Elouhabi, is a British- Moroccan actor, known for his role as Tariq Larousi in ''EastEnders'' from 2003 to 2005, as Rashid "Gary" Mahmoon in " Strangers on the Shore" (the 2002 Christmas Special of ''Only Fools and Horses'') and as Mr. Mustapha in the Netflix series ''Top Boy'' in 2011 and 2013. Career Nabil made his acting debut in an episode of the BBC medical drama series ''Casualty'' in 1998. He went on to have roles in several television series such as '' Attachments'', ''Only Fools and Horses'' and ''In This World''. He also appeared in films such as ''Ali G Indahouse'' (2002) and '' The Sum of All Fears'' (2002). In 2003 he won the role of Tariq Larousi in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''. In 2005 he was axed from the soap after his character, along with his on-screen family, the Ferreiras, proved to be unpopular with audiences. Since leaving ''EastEnders'' he has appeared in ''Holby City'' and has played re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navid Negahban
Navid Negahban ( fa, نوید نگهبان; born June 2, 1968) is an Iranian-American actor. He has appeared on '' 24'', ''Homeland'', ''Mistresses'' and as Amahl Farouk / Shadow King in the second and third seasons of FX's ''Legion''. He has also starred as The Sultan in the live-action remake of ''Aladdin''. Early life Negahban was born in Mashhad, Iran. He took a liking to the theater when he was eight years old, while provoking laughter from a large audience by portraying an old man on stage. He left Iran in 1985 when he was 17 for Turkey and then Germany, where he spent eight years. In Germany, he worked for a theater company, and then in 1993 he moved to the United States. He is fluent in English, German and Persian. He also began learning French for his role on ''Legion''. Career He has appeared in ''The Shield'', ''The West Wing'', ''Lost'', and ''CSI: Miami''. He has collaborated twice with Iranian-American actress Necar Zadegan, once in '' 24'', where her on-screen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Spruell
Sam Spruell (born 1 January 1977) is a British actor. He is best known for playing villainous roles in film and television including Oleg Malankov in ''Taken 3'', Finn in ''Snow White and the Huntsman'' and Swarm in '' Doctor Who: Flux''. He also appeared in a small role as a military contractor in the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture winner ''The Hurt Locker''. Career His film credits include ''The Hurt Locker'' (2008), '' Defiance'' (2008), '' Elizabeth: The Golden Age'' (2007), ''London to Brighton'' (2006), ''To Kill a King'' (2003) and '' K-19: The Widowmaker'' (2002). Spruell played hit man Jack "The Hat" McVitie in the 2015 film ''Legend'', which told the story of the Kray twins. His television roles include the recurring cameo of Jason Belling in '' Spooks'' (2007 in Episode 6.9 and 2004 in '' Project Friendly Fire'') and the recurring role of Wilkes in ''P.O.W.'' (2003). In 2012, Spruell had a starring role in the film '' Snow White & the Huntsman'', playing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Improvised Explosive Device
An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional military explosives, such as an artillery shell, attached to a detonating mechanism. IEDs are commonly used as roadside bombs, or homemade bombs. IEDs are generally done in these terrorism operations or in asymmetric unconventional warfare by insurgent guerrillas or commando forces in a theatre of operations. In the Iraq War (2003–2011), insurgents used IEDs extensively against U.S.-led forces and, by the end of 2007, IEDs were responsible for approximately 63% of coalition deaths in Iraq. They were also used in Afghanistan by insurgent groups, and caused over 66% of coalition casualties in the 2001–2021 Afghanistan War. IEDs were also used frequently by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka during the Sri Lankan Civil War. Background An IED is a bomb fabricated in an improvised manner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Army Corps Of Engineers
, colors = , anniversaries = 16 June (Organization Day) , battles = , battles_label = Wars , website = , commander1 = LTG Scott A. Spellmon , commander1_label = Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers , commander2 = MGbr>Richard J. Heitkamp, commander2_label = Deputy Chief of Engineers and Deputy Commanding General , commander3 = MGKimberly M. Colloton, commander3_label = Deputy Commanding General for Military and International Operations , commander4 = MGbr>William H. Graham, commander4_label = Deputy Commanding General for Civil and Emergency Operations , commander5 = COLbr>James J. Handura, commander5_label = Chief of Staff for the U.S. Army Corps of Engi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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