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Todd Traina
Todd Traina is an American film producer and the founder of Red Rover Films in 2007. In 2007 Traina was named by ''Daily Variety'' as one of its "10 Producers to Watch." ''My Suicide'', a quirky low-budget dark comedy released in 2009 which Traina produced, won a Crystal Bear at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, among other prizes. Traina was named to the board of the San Francisco Film Society in 2009. Personal life Traina was born the son of shipping executive and art collector John Traina and Dede Wilsey, a San Francisco socialite. Traina's stepmother is the romance novelist Danielle Steel. Film career Fresh from college, Traina began his career in the film industry in 1991 as a production assistant on television movie-of-the-week adaptations of his stepmother's novels. He turned independent producer two years later. His first complete film was ''Stanley's Gig,'' which he sold to the Starz Network and released in 2000. Traina has compared being a producer to being a wedding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Suicide
''Archie's Final Project'' (also known by its original title ''My Suicide'') is a 2009 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by David Lee Miller and written by Miller, Eric J. Adams, and Gabriel Sunday, who also served as second unit director, additional camera operator, and music editor along with starring in, co-editing, and co-producing the film. It won the best feature film prize for the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival's youth film section Generation 14plus. Music producers Jimmy Iovine and Polly Anthony and actor Harold Ramis served as executive producers, It received a limited theatrical release in the United States on September 23, 2011, and was released to home media on December 6, 2011. Premise Archibald Holden Buster "Archie" Williams (Gabriel Sunday) begins his film (rife with cutaway gags and Archie imitating famous movie quotes) by discussing his upbringing in a typical upper-middle-class suburb, and lamenting that he is a porn-addicted virgin. Whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of the "Film festival#Notable festivals, Big Three" alongside the Venice Film Festival in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival in France. Tens of thousands of visitors attend each year. About 400 films are shown at multiple venues across Berlin, mostly in and around Potsdamer Platz. They are screened in nine sections across cinematic genres, with around twenty films competing for the festival's top awards in the Competition section. The major awards, called the Golden Bear and #Awards, Silver Bears, are decided on by the international jury, chaired by an internationally recognisable cinema personality. This jury and other specialised Berlinale juries also give many other awards, and in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dede Wilsey
Diane Buchanan "Dede" Wilsey is a San Francisco socialite, Republican Party donor, and philanthropist. She is the widow and heir of the San Francisco dairy and real estate businessman Al Wilsey, and the Chair Emerita of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Early life and background Wilsey was born Diane Dow Buchanan in 1944. Her father, Wiley T. Buchanan, Jr., was the U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg and Austria and the White House Chief of Protocol during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower. Her maternal great-grandfather, Herbert Henry Dow, was the founder of Dow Chemical. Buchanan enjoyed a privileged childhood in which she summered at her family's estate, Beaulieu House in Newport, Rhode Island, or in the south of France, a member of a social circle that included royalty and heads of government. When she made her debut, while a student at Connecticut College, Town & Country Magazine featured her on its cover. Personal life In 1965, in a match opposed by her father, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danielle Steel
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer, best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling author alive and the fourth-bestselling fiction author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold. As of 2021, she has written 190 books, including over 140 novels. Based in California for most of her career, Steel has produced several books a year, often juggling up to five projects at once. All of her novels have been bestsellers, including those issued in hardback, despite "a resounding lack of critical acclaim" (''Publishers Weekly''). Her books often involve rich families facing a crisis, threatened by dark elements such as prison, fraud, blackmail and suicide. Steel has also published children's fiction and poetry, as well as creating a foundation that funds mental illness related organizations. Her books have been translated into 43 languages, with 22 adapted for television, including two that have received Golden G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morning (film)
''Morning'' is a 2010 American drama film written by, directed by and starring Leland Orser. The film also stars Jeanne Tripplehorn, Laura Linney and Elliott Gould. It is Orser's directorial debut. It is also based on Orser's 2007 short film of the same name. Cast *Jeanne Tripplehorn as Alice Munroe *Leland Orser as Mark Munroe *Laura Linney as Dr. Goodman *Julie White as Mary *Gina Morelli as Lluvia *Kyle Chandler as Businessman *Elliott Gould as Male Dr. Goodman *Charlie McDermott as Jesse *Jason Ritter as Hotel Receptionist *Ewan Chung as Cosmetics Salesman *Katie Traina as Young Mother Tracy *Sawyer Ellis White as Boy *Lydia Blanco as Sales Clerk *Ellis Williams as Bartender *Susan Dalian as Nurse *Birdie Num Num as Dog Production ''Morning'' was filmed in 21 days. Reception The film has a 45% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Andrew Frisicano of ''Time Out Time-out, Time Out, or timeout may refer to: Time * Time-out (sport), in various sports, a break in play, called by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Romantics (film)
''The Romantics'' is a 2010 American romantic comedy film based on the novel of the same name by Galt Niederhoffer, who also wrote the screenplay and directed the film. Plot A group of seven college friends, who called themselves The Romantics (because of a shared interest in the Romantic Era), reunite after six years when two of them, Lila and Tom, are planning to marry. Before he got involved with Lila, Tom was in a serious relationship with Laura (the two relationships overlapped). Laura is a bridesmaid at the wedding, and having a hard time disguising her emotional upset and disappointment over how things worked out. While the other friends joke, amiably bicker, and erotically cavort, Lila and Tom deal with their uncertainties over the impending nuptials, while Laura, much more restrained and buttoned down than the others, tries to talk Tom out of going through with it. The night before the wedding, they have an intense conversation, where he tells her that their romance was e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Water Transit
''Black Water Transit'' is an unreleased 2009 American crime drama film based on the novel of the same name by Carsten Stroud. It is directed by Tony Kaye and stars an ensemble cast including Laurence Fishburne and Karl Urban. Premise In post-Katrina New Orleans, shipping executive Jack Vermillion (Fishburne) finds himself getting more than he bargained for after agreeing to help feds expose smuggler and all-around bad seed Earl Pike (Urban). Cast *Laurence Fishburne as Jack Vermillion *Karl Urban as Earl Pike *Brittany Snow as Sardoonah *Aisha Tyler as Casey Spandau *Stephen Dorff as Nicky *Alex Sol as Jimmy Rock *Beverly D'Angelo as Valeriana Schick *Bill Cobbs as Frank Vermillion *Evan Ross as Gary Vermillion *Leslie Easterbrook as Bet Tannen At various points in the film's development, Bruce Willis, Vin Diesel, and Samuel L. Jackson were attached to star. Production Bruce Willis and Arnold Rifkin had initially produced the film under their Cheyenne Enterprises banner at Rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Train (2009 Film)
''Night Train'' is a 2009 direct-to-video mystery thriller film produced by Rifkin-Eberts Productions and stars Danny Glover, Leelee Sobieski, Steve Zahn and Matthias Schweighöfer. It pays homage to a variety of classic suspense films such as '' Strangers on a Train'' (1951), ''The Lady Vanishes'' (1938), and '' The Maltese Falcon'' (1941), though the plot bears only passing resemblance to any of them. The film did not appear in theaters and was released on DVD for US markets in July 2009. Plot One Christmas night, a man runs through a forest carrying something. A nearly deserted train pulls into a station, and two conductors get out, take a stretch, and kill time as no one seems to board. Just as the train is about to depart, the running man calls out, runs to the train, and seems to want to board. He does not speak and, assuming that perhaps he does not know English, the conductors let him on with the intention of getting his money later. He joins two of the only five passenge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood And Bone
''Blood and Bone'' is a 2009 American direct-to-DVD martial arts film directed by Ben Ramsey and written by Michael Andrews. The film stars Michael Jai White, Eamonn Walker and Julian Sands, and features martial artist Matt Mullins, former professional wrestler Ernest "The Cat" Miller, MMA fighters Bob Sapp, Kimbo Slice, Maurice Smith, and Gina Carano. Plot Fresh out of prison, highly skilled martial artist and ex-marine Isaiah Bone (Michael Jai White) moves to Los Angeles, where underground fights are being held. One night, after watching a match involving local champion Hammerman, Bone makes a deal with promoter Pinball to get him into the fight scene for 20% of his earnings; 40% if Pinball puts his own money on the line. On that same night, Bone encounters mob boss James and his girlfriend Angela Soto. Bone enters his first underground fight and quickly defeats his opponent with only two kicks. Pinball explains to Bone that Angela was previously married, but James set up he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stag Night
:''Stag night is the UK, Canadian, Irish, Australian and New Zealand term for a Bachelor party.'' ''Stag Night'' is a 2008 American horror film written and directed by Peter A. Dowling and starring Kip Pardue, Vinessa Shaw, and Breckin Meyer. The plot follows four men from a bachelor party along with two strippers who become trapped in an abandoned platform in the New York City Subway, where they witness a murder. Plot Four men on a bachelor party in New York ride the subway and, along with two strippers from the club, accidentally get off at a station that closed down in the 1970s. Trapped in the tunnels beneath New York, they witness the murder of a transit cop by three transients and find themselves on the run for their lives. Cast * Kip Pardue as Mike * Vinessa Shaw as Brita * Breckin Meyer as Tony * Scott Adkins as Carl * Karl Geary as Joe * Sarah Barrand as Michele * Rachel Oliva as Claire * Luca Bercovici as Tunnel Rat #1 * Genadii Gancheva as Tunnel Rat #2 * Radoslav Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timber Falls
''Timber Falls'' is a 2007 American horror film directed by Tony Giglio and starring Josh Randall and Brianna Brown. In Brazil it was released with the title ''Wrong Turn 2''. In Mexico it was released with the title ''Wrong Turn 3''. Plot The film begins with a couple (Sarah and James) held captive and tortured in a dark dungeon. After Sarah frees herself from her binding, James tells her to run and he gets killed. Sarah runs away from a disfigured man in a black trench coat (Deacon) with a double blade sickle. When Sarah reaches the edge of a cliff, with nowhere to run, she jumps off and dies as she hits the ground. The following scene shows another couple—Sheryl (Brianna Brown) and Mike (Josh Randall)—going on a hiking trip for the week. The park ranger advises them to either take the Willow Creek or the Donner Trail, but when they're hesitating which way to go, they meet a seemingly friendly woman (Ida) who recommends to them the Timber Falls Trail, which they ultima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What We Do Is Secret (film)
''What We Do Is Secret'' is a 2007 American biographical film about Darby Crash, singer of the late-1970s Los Angeles punk rock band the Germs. It was directed by Rodger Grossman, who wrote the screenplay based on a story he had written with Michelle Baer Ghaffari, a friend of Crash's and co-producer of the film. Shane West stars as Crash, while Rick Gonzalez, Bijou Phillips, and Noah Segan respectively portray Germs members Pat Smear, Lorna Doom, and Don Bolles. The film follows the formation and career of the Germs, focusing on Crash's mysterious "five-year plan", his homosexual relationship with Rob Henley (played by Ashton Holmes), and his experimentation with heroin, culminating in his December 1980 suicide. It is titled after the first track on the Germs' 1979 album '' (GI)''. The film was in development for almost nine years due to changes in production staff and adjustments in casting. Grossman conducted numerous interviews as research, and cast West, who he felt "did ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
