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The Big Bang (2011 Film)
''The Big Bang'' is a 2011 American action thriller film written by Erik Jendresen and directed by Tony Krantz, starring Antonio Banderas and Sienna Guillory. Synopsis Ned Cruz (Antonio Banderas) is a Los Angeles private investigator trying to find Lexie Persimmon (Sienna Guillory). The reclusive and eccentric billionaire Simon Kestral (Sam Elliott) is obsessed with finding " the god particle" by recreating the exact situation in which the universe may have formed. As the mystery unravels, Ned becomes unsure about whether Lexie actually exists. The film makes many references to particle physics and famous scientists. The character Fay Neman's name is a reference to physicist Richard Feynman. Plot Detectives Poley (William Fichtner), Frizer (Thomas Kretschmann), and Skeres (Delroy Lindo) are interrogating Ned Cruz (Antonio Banderas), a Los Angeles private investigator, who tells them that five years earlier, Russian mobster Skinny Faddeev gave $30 million in blood diamonds as an ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Krantz
Tony Krantz (born June 16, 1959) is an American film and television producer, writer, and director. Krantz started his career in the American entertainment industry as an agent, spending 15 years at Creative Artists Agency (CAA). He started there as a mailroom trainee and rose to eventually run the primetime television department, where he personally packaged the television series '' ER'', ''Twin Peaks,'' ''Beverly Hills, 90210'', ''Melrose Place'' and ''The West Wing'', among many others. He also put together the movies ''The Doors'' and '' Wild at Heart''. Under his leadership at CAA, there were 32 shows on the primetime lineup that the agency represented when Krantz left to start the next part of his career. Krantz transitioned into producing television, and was one of three founders of Imagine Television, serving as its Co-Chairman and CEO. There he produced '' Felicity'', '' Sports Night'', ''The PJs'', '' 24'' and the movie ''Mulholland Drive''. Krantz left Imagine in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fichtner
William Edward Fichtner (born November 27, 1956) is an American actor. He is known for his television roles as Sheriff Tom Underlay on ''Invasion'', Alexander Mahone on ''Prison Break'', Carl Hickman on ''Crossing Lines'', and Adam Janikowski on '' Mom''. His film appearances include ''Heat'', ''Contact'', ''Armageddon'', '' The Perfect Storm'', '' Go'', ''Crash'', '' Black Hawk Down'', and ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''. Early life Fichtner was born on Mitchel Air Force Base on Long Island and raised in Cheektowaga, New York, a suburb of Buffalo. He is the son of Patricia A. (née Steitz) and William Frederick Fichtner. He has German ancestry. He graduated from Maryvale High School in 1974. After graduating from Farmingdale State College in 1976 with an associate degree in criminal justice, he attended the College at Brockport, State University of New York and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice in 1978. He then studied at the American Academy of Dramatic A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fandango Media
Fandango Media, LLC is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website as well as through their mobile app, as well as a provider of television and streaming media information through its subsidiary Rotten Tomatoes. History On April 11, 2007, Comcast acquired Fandango, with plans to integrate it into a new entertainment website called "Fancast.com," set to launch the summer of 2007. In June 2008, the domain Movies.com was acquired from Disney. In March 2012, Fandango announced a partnership with Yahoo! Movies, making Fandango the official online and mobile ticketer for registered users of the Yahoo! service. That October, Paul Yanover was named President of Fandango. Fandango made its first international acquisition in September 2015 when it bought the Brazilian ticketing company Ingresso, which provides ticketing to a variety of Brazilian entertainment events, including the biannual Rock in Rio festival. On January 29, 2016, Fandango announced it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film ''Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Marlowe
William Marlowe (25 July 1930 – 31 January 2003) was a British theatre, television and film actor. He served in the Fleet Air Arm and hoped for a career as a writer before training as an actor at RADA. He was cast in '' A Family at War'' (1970–72), as Harry Mailer in the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Mind of Evil'' (1971), as Sir Guy of Gisbourne in '' The Legend of Robin Hood'' (1975), as Brian Kettle in ''Rooms'' (1977), and as DCI Bill Russell in ''The Gentle Touch'' (1980–84). He appeared twice in ''Doctor Who'' (as Mailer in ''The Mind of Evil'' (1971) and as Lester in ''Revenge of the Cybermen'' (1975). His guest star roles include '' Special Branch'' (1974), '' Barlow'' (1975), '' Breakaway'' (1980), ''Callan'' (1972) and '' Catch Hand'' (1964). Later he played Chief Supt. Thomas in '' The Chief'' (1990). He was married to actress Linda Marlowe (née Bathurst) from 1958 until 1967, to actress Catherine Schell from 1968 until 1977, and to Kismet Delgado (née Shahani), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Mader
Rebecca Leigh Mader (born 24 April 1977) is an English actress, best known for her roles as Charlotte Lewis in the ABC series ''Lost'', and as Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West, on ABC's ''Once Upon a Time'', for which she garnered critical acclaim. Life and career Mader was born in 1977 in Cambridge, England. She worked as a model in New York City for a year, appearing in adverts for L'Oréal, Colgate and Wella Hair. She began her television career on the ABC daytime soap operas ''All My Children'' as Morgan Gordon, and ''One Life to Live'' as Margaret Cochran. She also appeared on the soap opera ''Guiding Light'' in 2003. Mader has made a number of guest appearances on television shows. In 2006, she had a series regular role on the short-lived Fox legal drama ''Justice''. In 2008, Mader began starring as anthropologist Charlotte Lewis on ABC series ''Lost''. She appeared in the show from 2008 to 2009 and in two episodes in 2010. In 2011, she had a recurring role on ''No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Duke
William Henry Duke Jr. (born February 26, 1943) is an American actor and film director. Known for his physically imposing frame, Duke works primarily in the action and crime drama genres often as a character related to law enforcement. Frequently a character actor, he has starred opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in ''Commando'' and ''Predator'', and has appeared in films like ''American Gigolo'', ''No Man's Land'', '' Bird on a Wire'', ''Menace II Society'', ''Exit Wounds'', ''Payback'', '' X-Men: The Last Stand'', and ''Mandy''. In television, he is best known as Agent Percy Odell in ''Black Lightning''. He has directed episodes of numerous television series including ''Cagney & Lacey'', ''Dallas'', ''Hill Street Blues'', ''Miami Vice'', ''The Twilight Zone,'' and ''American Playhouse''. He has also directed the crime films ''Deep Cover'' and '' A Rage in Harlem'', for which he was nominated for a Palme d'Or, as well as the comedy ''Sister Act 2''. Early life and education Duke w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg (previously Snoop Doggy Dogg and briefly Snoop Lion), is an American rapper. His fame dates back to 1992 when he featured on Dr. Dre's debut solo single, "Deep Cover", and then on Dre's debut solo album, ''The Chronic''. Broadus has since sold over 23 million albums in the United States and 35 million albums worldwide. His accolades include an American Music Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and 17 nominations at the Grammy Awards. Broadus' debut solo album, ''Doggystyle,'' produced by Dr. Dre, was released by Death Row Records in November 1993, and debuted at number one on the popular albums chart, the ''Billboard'' 200, and on '' Billboard''s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Selling 800,000 copies in its first week, ''Doggystyle'' was certified quadruple-platinum in 1994 and featured the singles " What's My Name?" and "Gin and Juice". In 1994, Death Row Records released a soundtrack, by Broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Van Der Beek
James William Van Der Beek (; born March 8, 1977) is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Dawson Leery in the WB series ''Dawson's Creek'' and Johnny "Mox" Moxon in '' Varsity Blues'' (1999). He played a fictionalized version of himself on the cult ABC sitcom '' Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23'', starred in '' CSI: Cyber'' as FBI Special Agent Elijah Mundo, and as Matt Bromley on the FX drama '' Pose''. Early life and stage career Van Der Beek was born in Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut, son of Melinda (née Weber) (1950-2020), a former dancer and gymnastics teacher, and husband James William Van Der Beek, a cellular phone company executive and former professional baseball pitcher. He is partly of Dutch ancestry; his last name translates to " from the creek". Van Der Beek played the role of Reuben in his middle school production of ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat''. At the age of 15, he asked his mother to take him into New York Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bungalow
A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is either single-story or has a second story built into a sloping roof (usually with dormer windows), and may be surrounded by wide verandas. The first house in England that was classified as a bungalow was built in 1869. In America it was initially used as a vacation architecture, and was most popular between 1900 and 1918, especially with the Arts and Crafts movement. The term bungalow is derived from the word and used elliptically to mean "a house in the Bengal style." Design considerations Bungalows are very convenient for the homeowner in that all living areas are on a single-story and there are no stairs between living areas. A bungalow is well suited to persons with impaired mobility, such as the elderly or those in wheelchairs. Neighborhoods of only bungalows offer more privacy than similar neighborhoods with two-story houses. As bungalows are one or one and a half stories, strategically planted trees and shrubs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmi Simpson
Jimmi Simpson (born November 21, 1975) is an American actor. He is best known for his work on television, which includes recurring roles as Liam McPoyle on ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'' (2005–2013), Lyle the Intern on ''The Late Show with David Letterman'' (2008–09), Mary Lightly on '' Psych'' (2009–13), Lloyd Lowery on '' Breakout Kings'' (2011–13), Jack Spaniel on '' The Newsroom'' (2014), Gavin Orsay on ''House of Cards'' (2014–15), and the younger William on ''Westworld'' (2016–2020). For the last role, he received a nomination for the 2018 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. In 2022, he starred in a television series adaptation of ''The Man Who Fell to Earth''. Simpson also starred as Soldier on SundanceTV's ''Hap and Leonard'' (2016), Detective Russell Poole on USA's '' Unsolved'' (2018), and James Schaeler on ePix's ''Perpetual Grace, LTD'' (2019). He received a nomination for the 2018 British Academy Television Award fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Maillet
Robert Maillet (born October 26, 1969) is a Canadian actor and retired professional wrestler. He is known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) from 1997 to 1999, where he performed under the ring name Kurrgan and was a member of The Truth Commission and The Oddities. He is also known for his roles in films such as ''300'' (2007), ''Sherlock Holmes'' (2009), ''Immortals'' (2011), ''Pacific Rim'' (2013), '' Brick Mansions'' (2014), ''Hercules'' (2014), and ''Deadpool 2'' (2018). Early life Maillet was born in Georgetown, Ontario near Toronto and Mississauga. Less than a year later, his family moved to Ste-Marie-de-Kent, New Brunswick, a French-Acadian village where he grew up. Professional wrestling career He began wrestling as the Acadian Giant in the early 90s. Maillet made an initial appearance in the WWF on November 11, 1991 when he wrestled as The Cajun Giant, defeating Bob Bradley in a dark match at a television taping in Utica, NY. He worked for Super Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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