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Stepfather II
''Stepfather II'' (also known as ''Stepfather II: Make Room for Daddy'') is a 1989 American psychological thriller film directed by Jeff Burr and written by John Auerbach. It is a sequel to '' The Stepfather'' (1987) and stars Terry O'Quinn as the title character. The cast includes Meg Foster, Caroline Williams, and Jonathan Brandis. ''Stepfather II'' received a limited theatrical release on November 3, 1989, and grossed $1.5 million at the box office. It received negative reviews from film critics. A sequel, ''Stepfather III'', was released in 1992. Plot After surviving being shot and stabbed at the end of the previous film, Jerry Blake is institutionalized in Puget Sound, Washington. Blake has meetings with his psychiatrist. Having gained his trust he kills the psychiatrist and a guard. He dons the guard's uniform to help him escape. Arriving at a train depot, Blake kills and robs a traveling salesman for his car and money. Blake checks into a hotel, alters his appearance, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stepfather III
''Stepfather III'' (also known as ''Stepfather III: Father's Day'') is a 1992 American thriller film directed and written by Guy Magar. It stars Robert Wightman, Priscilla Barnes, David Tom, and Season Hubley. It is the second sequel to 1987 film '' The Stepfather'' and a follow up to 1989 film ''Stepfather II.'' The film follows a serial killer seeking out another family to become a part of, using plastic surgery to disguise himself from the authorities. Unlike the previous two installments, ''Stepfather III'' was released made-for-television and Terry O'Quinn does not star in the titular role. Plot Having survived the stab wounds he sustained in Palm Meadows, Los Angeles at the end of the previous film, Gene Clifford (Robert Wightman) escapes from the same institution in Puget Sound, Washington he was placed in four years ago. He seeks out a back alley plastic surgeon ( Mario Roccuzzo) to alter his appearance, using no anesthesia. After a few days, Gene kills the doctor by sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Burr
Jeff Burr (July 18, 1963) is an American film director, writer, and producer best known for his work in horror sequels, such as ''Stepfather II'', '' The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III'', ''Puppet Master 4'' and '' 5'', and '' Pumpkinhead II''. Early life Jeff Burr was born in Aurora, Ohio, in 1963. He grew up in rural Dalton, Georgia, where he avidly read horror fanzines like ''Castle of Frankenstein'', ''The Monster Times'', and ''Famous Monsters'', and eventually began making his own Super-8 films. Burr attended the University of Southern California (USC) (with R. A. Mihailoff who played Leatherface in ''Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III''). He and fellow director Kevin Meyer dropped out of USC after his third year to finish their American civil war drama ''Divided We Fall'', which premiered in 1982 and won some acclaim at festivals around the world. Though ''Divided We Fall'' was a drama, Burr would spend most of his subsequent film career working in the Horror ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of enslaved Africans who are from the United States. While some Black immigrants or their children may also come to identify as African-American, the majority of first generation immigrants do not, preferring to identify with their nation of origin. African Americans constitute the second largest racial group in the U.S. after White Americans, as well as the third largest ethnic group after Hispanic and Latino Americans. Most African Americans are descendants of enslaved people within the boundaries of the present United States. On average, African Americans are of West/ Central African with some European descent; some also have Native American and other ancestry. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, African immigrants generally do not s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance Atlantis
Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. (commonly known as Alliance Atlantis and commonly shortened to simply Alliance or Atlantis and formerly traded as TSX:AAC) was a Canadian media company that operated primarily as a specialty service operator in Canada. Alliance Atlantis also had offices in Halifax, Los Angeles, London, Dublin, Madrid, Barcelona, Shannon, and Sydney. Alliance Atlantis was a merger of two companies: Atlantis Communications (founded in 1978), and Alliance Communications (founded in 1985). Both companies merged in 1998. The company ceased to exist in 2007 as the broadcasting division acquired by Canwest Global Communications and an affiliate of Goldman Sachs in 2007, with the motion picture division was then spun off and operated independently as Alliance Films, headquartered in Montreal (subsequently sold to Entertainment One), and the international television distribution division is now owned by Echo Bridge Entertainment. All of the former Alliance Atlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miramax Films
Miramax, LLC, also known as Miramax Films, is an American film and television production and distribution company founded on December 19, 1979, by brothers Harvey Weinstein, Harvey and Bob Weinstein, and based in Los Angeles, California. It was initially a leading producer and distributor of independent films until it became the first company to be acquired by The Walt Disney Company on June 30, 1993. In 2010, the leadership of Disney saw Miramax to be redundant in their directions and on December 3 sold it to Filmyard Holdings, a joint venture of Colony NorthStar, Tutor-Saliba Corporation and Qatar Investment Authority. On March 2, 2016, the company was in turn sold to the beIN Media Group, who then agreed to sell a 49% stake in the company to ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global) on December 20, 2019. It was completed on April 3, 2020, and its stake in Miramax got placed under the umbrella of its film division, Paramount Pictures. History Independent era (1979–1993) The compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cineplex Odeon
Cineplex Inc. (formerly Cineplex Galaxy) is a Canadian movie theatre and family entertainment centre chain headquartered in Toronto. The company was formed in 2003 via the acquisition of Loews Cineplex's Canadian operations (which included the assets of the former Cineplex Odeon chain) by Onex Corporation and Oaktree Capital Management, and its subsequent merger with Onex's Galaxy Entertainment—a chain of cinemas that was established in 1999 by former Cineplex Odeon executives, and operated primarily in smaller markets. The company subsequently acquired Famous Players from National Amusements in 2005, went public in 2011, and acquired Empire Theatres' operations in Atlantic Canada and parts of Ontario in 2013. In December 2019, Cineplex agreed to be acquired by British exhibitor Cineworld Group for $2.8 billion, pending regulatory and shareholder approval, but Cineworld abandoned the sale in June 2020 due to unspecified breaches of the sale terms. The company operates cin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HBO Video
Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO) is an American multinational media and entertainment company operating as a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. Founded by Charles Dolan and based out of WarnerMedia's former corporate headquarters at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in the West Side of Manhattan, its main properties include its namesake pay television network Home Box Office (HBO), sister service Cinemax, HBO Films, and the international HBO Go streaming service. (A secondary HBO-branded service, HBO Max, is operated under sister subsidiary Warner Bros. Discovery Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment, which shares principal management with Home Box Office, Inc.) It has also licensed or maintained ownership interests in international versions of HBO and Cinemax, most of which are managed by Home Box Office, Inc. through sister division Warner Bros. Discovery International. The company has achieved several pioneering innovations in the cable television industry, including its satell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Weinstein
Robert Weinstein (born October 18, 1954) is an American film producer. He is the founder and head of Dimension Films, former co-chairman of Miramax Films and The Weinstein Company, all of which he co-founded with his older brother, Harvey. He has focused on making action and horror films. Early life Weinstein was born in Flushing, Queens, in New York City. He was raised in an Ashkenazi Jewish family. His parents were Max Weinstein, a diamond cutter, and Miriam ('' née'' Postel). He grew up with his older brother, Harvey Weinstein, in a housing co-op named Electchester in New York City. and attended John Bowne High School like his older brother. Career Bob, his brother Harvey Weinstein, and Corky Burger independently produced rock concerts as Harvey & Corky Productions in Buffalo through most of the 1970s. Both Weinstein brothers had grown up with a passion for movies, and they nurtured a desire to enter the film industry. In the late 1970s, using profits from their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein (; born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer and convicted sex offender. He and his brother, Bob Weinstein, co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films including ''Sex, Lies, and Videotape'' (1989); ''The Crying Game'' (1992); ''Pulp Fiction'' (1994); ''Heavenly Creatures'' (1994); '' Flirting with Disaster'' (1996); and ''Shakespeare in Love'' (1998). Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing ''Shakespeare in Love'' and also won seven Tony Awards for plays and musicals including '' The Producers'', ''Billy Elliot the Musical'', and '' August: Osage County''. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded The Weinstein Company, a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017. In October 2017, following sexual abuse allegations dating back to the late 1970s, Weinstein was dismissed from his company and expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Test Screening
A test screening is a preview screening of a movie or television show before its general release to gauge audience reaction. Preview audiences are selected from a cross-section of the population and are usually asked to complete a questionnaire or provide feedback in some form. Harold Lloyd is credited with inventing the concept, having used it as early as 1928. Test screenings have been recommended for starting filmmakers "even if a film festival is fast approaching". Notable examples and outcomes of test screenings In 2004, Roger Ebert, the late reviewer for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', wrote that test screenings by filmmakers are "valid" to get an idea of an audience response to a rough cut. But "too often, however, studio executives use preview screenings as a weapon to enforce their views on directors, and countless movies have had stupid happy endings tacked on after such screenings." Ebert writes that Billy Wilder dropped the first reel from ''Sunset Boulevard'' after a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Gray (actor)
Robert Gray (February 10, 1945 – October 31, 2013) was an American actor. Biography He began his career with minor roles in TV-series such as ''The Incredible Hulk'' and ''The Dukes of Hazzard''. In the John Carpenter-directed miniseries ''Elvis'' (1979), he played Elvis Presley's best friend Red West. He also had a recurring role as "Cliff Willoughby" in the TV-series ''Harper Valley PTA''. He had supporting roles in a few obscure movies like '' UFOria'' (1985) and ''Omega Syndrome'' (1986). His movie-credits also include minor roles in ''The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension'' (1984), '' Hamburger: The Motion Picture'' (1986), '' Armed and Dangerous'' (1986), and ''Innerspace ''Innerspace'' is a 1987 American science fiction comedy film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Michael Finnell. Steven Spielberg served as executive producer. It was inspired by the 1966 science fiction film ''Fantastic Voyage''. It sta ...'' (1987), which also marked h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Brown (actor)
''Mama's Family'' is an American sitcom television series starring Vicki Lawrence as Mama (Thelma Harper). The series is a spin-off of a recurring series of comedy sketches called " The Family" featured on ''The Carol Burnett Show'' (1967–78) and '' Carol Burnett & Company'' (1979). The sketches led to the television film ''Eunice'', and finally the television series. ''Mama's Family'' aired on NBC, debuting on January 22, 1983. After several timeslot changes and a subsequent drop in ratings, the network canceled the series; the final episode of this two-season NBC incarnation of the series aired on April 7, 1984. NBC broadcast reruns until September 1985, which unexpectedly performed well in ratings. Two years after its cancellation, original series producer Joe Hamilton Productions (JHP) revived ''Mama's Family'' for new episodes in first-run syndication on local stations across the United States. The reincarnation, produced by JHP and distributed by Lorimar-Telepictures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
