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Trailers From Hell
''Trailers from Hell'' (branded as ''Trailers from Hell!'') is a web series in which filmmakers discuss and promote individual movies through commenting on their trailers. While the series emphasizes horror, science fiction, fantasy, cult, and exploitation cinema, films from a wide variety of genres have been covered. ''Trailers from Hell'' launched as a website in October 2007, as a collaborative project by film director Joe Dante, new media entrepreneur Jonas Hudson, graphic artist Charlie Largent, web developer Tom Edgar, and producer Elizabeth Stanley. It also premiered at SXSW in 2009. Kris Millsap, who joined the site in 2012 and later became a partner, oversees its digital direction and produces the companion podcast ''The Movies That Made Me''. Commentary Each trailer features commentary on the art, craft, and history of filmmaking, regarding both the trailer itself and the film it represents. Regular ''Trailers from Hell'' commentators, referred to as "gurus" on the series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Web Series
A web series (also known as webseries, short-form series, and web show) is a series of short scripted or non-scripted online videos, generally in episodic form, released on the Internet (i.e. World Wide Web), which first emerged in the late 1990s and became more prominent in the early 2000s. A single instance of a web series program can be called an episode or a webisode. The scale of a web series is small and a typical episode can be anywhere from three to fifteen minutes in length. Web series are distributed online on video sharing websites and apps, such as YouTube, Vimeo and TikTok, and can be watched on devices such as smartphones, tablets, desktops, laptops, and Smart TVs (or television sets connected to the Internet with a media streaming device). They can also be released on social media platforms. Because of the nature of the Internet, a web series may be interactive and immersive. Web series are classified as new media. Web series are different from streaming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Bendinger
Jessica Bendinger (born November 10, 1966) is an American screenwriter and novelist. Education Bendinger graduated from Columbia University in 1988. She is a classmate of screenwriter Andrew W. Marlowe. While at Columbia, Bendinger interned for the music magazine ''Spin (magazine), SPIN''. After graduation, she worked for MTV News. Career In 1991, Bendinger directed a music video for Queen Latifah's song "Fly Girl." The video was nominated for a Billboard Music Awards, ''Billboard'' Music Award. Bendinger has written several films, including 2000's ''Bring It On (film), Bring It On'', 2004's ''First Daughter (2004 film), First Daughter'' and 2006's ''Aquamarine (film), Aquamarine''. She was also a writer and creative consultant for ''Sex and the City'', as well as a producer of the 2005 film ''The Wedding Date'', starring Debra Messing. She wrote and directed ''Stick It'', released in April 2006 as her directorial debut. Bendinger is a former Model (person), model who worke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Garris
Mick Garris (born December 4, 1951) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist born in Santa Monica, California. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, as well as making Stephen King adaptations. Early life Garris was born in Santa Monica, California and raised in Van Nuys. Career He is known for his work in the horror genre. He has worked with Stephen King several times, such as directing the horror film '' Sleepwalkers'', written by King and starring Mädchen Amick and is the creator of the Showtime series '' Masters of Horror'' and the NBC series '' Fear Itself''. Garris won a 1986 Edgar Award for an episode he wrote for the Steven Spielberg-produced television series'' Amazing Stories''. Garris directed the FEARnet web series ''Post Mortem''. He contributes to the web series Trailers From Hell. Garris was also the co-screenwriter and executive producer of '' Hocus Pocus''. Garris directed the 2011 miniseries adaption of Stephen King St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Duke
William Henry Duke Jr. (born February 26, 1943) is an American actor, director, and producer. Known for his physically imposing frame, Duke works primarily in the action and crime drama genres often as a character related to law enforcement. As a director, he is known for his works dealing in the Black American experience, and has been called the "Godfather of African American Cinema." Duke began his career as a theatre actor, before making his film debut as aspiring revolutionary Abdullah Mohammed Akbar in the ensemble comedy Car Wash (film), ''Car Wash'' (1976). Frequently a character actor, he has starred opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in ''Commando (1985 film), Commando'' (1985) and ''Predator (film), Predator'' (1987), and has appeared in films like ''American Gigolo'' (1980), ''Bird on a Wire (film), Bird on a Wire'' (1990), ''Menace II Society'' (1993), ''Payback (1999 film), Payback'' (1999), ''X-Men: The Last Stand'' (2006), and ''Mandy (2018 film), Mandy'' (2018). In tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illeana Douglas
Illeana Hesselberg ( ; born July 25, 1961), known professionally as Illeana Douglas, is an American actress and filmmaker. She appeared in three episodes of '' Six Feet Under'', for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination as Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series and won the Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series award from OFTA, the Online Film & Television Association, and in the TV series '' Action'' opposite Jay Mohr, for which she won a Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. , she can be seen on Turner Classic Movies where she hosts specials focused on unheralded women directors from film history. Early life Douglas was born on July 25, 1961 in New Haven, Connecticut, the daughter of Joan Douglas (née Georgescu), a schoolteacher, and Gregory Hesselberg, a painter. Douglas's father was the son of Hollywood actor Melvyn Douglas and his wife, the artist Rosalind Hightower. Douglas had two older brothers, the late Stefan Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Dickerson
Ernest Roscoe Dickerson (born June 25, 1951) is an American director, cinematographer, and screenwriter of film, television, and music videos. As a cinematographer, Dickerson is known for his frequent collaborations with Spike Lee ever since they were classmates at the Tisch School of the Arts and worked together on Lee's 1983 master's degree thesis student film, '' Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads'', which ultimately won a Student Academy Award. Dickerson went on to shoot the Lee-directed films '' She's Gotta Have It'' (1986), ''School Daze'' (1988), '' Do the Right Thing'' (1989), '' Mo' Better Blues'' (1990), ''Jungle Fever'' (1991), and ''Malcolm X'' (1992). As a director, Dickerson is known for crime thriller and horror films such as ''Juice'' (1992), '' Demon Knight'' (1995), '' Bulletproof'' (1996), '' Bones'' (2001) and '' Never Die Alone'' (2004). He has also directed several episodes of acclaimed television series, including ''Once Upon a Time'', ''The Wire'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Del Valle
David Del Valle is a journalist, columnist, film historian, and radio and television commentator on horror, science-fiction, cult and fantasy films. Described by ''Entertainment Weekly'' as "Something of a cult celebrity himself," he was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards' Monster Kid Hall of Fame in 2016. Early life Del Valle began his love of horror movies early, beginning "when I was four, or five, or six years old. So the first movies I saw were the Universal horror films, with Lon Chaney Jr. as the Mummy, and Bela Lugosi as Dracula. And then I started watching the films of Vincent Price, especially at the drive-in, when I was in high school, because that’s what they showed, nothing but triple-feature horror movies. So as a kid, that was what I watched, as an escape from school…. And I’m sure my story resonates with a lot of people, because you start out with that genre when you’re a little boy. That’s the way that works." Education Del Valle attend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David DeCoteau
David DeCoteau (born January 5, 1962) is an American film director and producer. Early life David DeCoteau was born on January 5, 1962, in Portland, Oregon, where he was raised. DeCoteau was an only child and was adopted at birth. His father was of Native American heritage. DeCoteau's mother died of cancer when he was eight years old. As a teenager, DeCoteau developed a love for film, and worked as a theater projectionist beginning at age fifteen. Career He has worked professionally in the movie business since he was 18. He got his start through Roger Corman, who hired him in 1980 as a production assistant at New World Pictures. In 1986, DeCoteau directed and produced his first feature film for Charles Band. He is the founder of Rapid Heart Pictures, where his films include '' A Talking Cat!?!'' and the ''1313'' series. He has said of his working methods, "I always wanted to make what I could sell. So I just promised myself that I would not be set in my ways. If somebo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Davison (film Producer)
Jon Davison (born July 21, 1949) is an American film producer. Career Davison worked at New World Pictures in the 1970s. His producing credits include ''Airplane!'' (1980), ''RoboCop'' (1987), '' RoboCop 2'' (1990), ''Starship Troopers'' (1997), and ''The 6th Day'' (2000). Davison and animator Sally CruikshankDixon, Wheeler Winston, ed. ''Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-Century Cinema.'' Carbondale, Illinois Carbondale is a city in Jackson County, Illinois, United States, within the Southern Illinois region informally known as "Little Egypt". As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 25,083, making it the most po ... : Southern Illinois University Press, 2001, p. 209. were married March 17, 1984, and have a daughter, Dinah. Archive The moving image collection of Joe Dante and Jon Davison is held at the Academy Film Archive. The joint collection includes feature films, pre-production elements, and theatrical trailer reels. Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Cummings (filmmaker)
Jim Cummings (born October 31, 1986) is an American filmmaker, actor, and composer. He is known for writing, directing and starring in the 2016 short film '' Thunder Road'', which he extended into a 2018 feature film of the same name. He also wrote, directed and starred in '' The Wolf of Snow Hollow'' (2020), and '' The Beta Test'' (2021). He also starred in '' The Last Stop in Yuma County'' (2023). Early life and education Cummings is from New Orleans. He graduated from Emerson College in Boston in 2009. He relocated to Los Angeles following a divorce and worked as a producer for CollegeHumor. Career For his work in ''Thunder Road'' (2018), Cummings won the South by Southwest South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and Convention (meeting), conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas. It began in 1987 and has conti ... Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Coscarelli
Don Coscarelli Jr. (born February 17, 1954) is an American film director, film producer, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in horror films. His directing credits include the first four films in the Phantasm (franchise), ''Phantasm'' franchise, as well as ''The Beastmaster'' (1982) and ''Bubba Ho-Tep'' (2002). Biography Coscarelli was born to Italian settlers in Libya and raised in Southern California. Although his family was not connected with the motion picture business, he was fascinated with cameras and filmmaking at an early age. Long before he was old enough to attend film school, his short films, made with the help of neighborhood friends in his hometown of Los Alamitos, California, were winning prizes on television. At the age of 19, Coscarelli became the youngest director to have a feature film distributed by a major studio when he sold his independently produced drama ''Jim the World's Greatest'', to Universal Pictures. The film was the first co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Corman
Julie Ann Corman (born ) is an American film producer. She is the widow of film producer and director Roger Corman. Life and career Corman was born Julie Ann Halloran in 1942. In 1970, she married film director and producer, Roger Corman, with whom she would go on to have four children. Corman produced a series of "Night Nurses" films, including '' Night Call Nurses'' and '' Candy Stripe Nurses''. She went on to produce ''Moving Violation'', starring Kay Lenz and Eddie Albert; '' Crazy Mama'', directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Cloris Leachman, '' The Lady in Red'', written by John Sayles, starring Robert Conrad and Pamela Sue Martin; '' Saturday the 14th'', starring Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss and Jeffrey Tambor; and '' Da'', starring Barnard Hughes, based on the Tony Award-winning play. In 1984, Corman started her own company, Trinity Pictures, with which she has produced a number of family films, two of which are based on Newbery Award-winning novels: '' A Cry in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |