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Universal Soldier (series)
''Universal Soldier'' is a series of science fiction action films. The franchise began in 1992 with '' Universal Soldier'' and as of 2012 comprises six entries. The films centered on the character of Luc Deveraux (played first by Jean-Claude Van Damme and then by Matt Battaglia) until '' Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning'', which focuses on a new protagonist named John (played by Scott Adkins). Film and television critic Matt Zoller Seitz stated that the ''Universal Soldier'' franchise "is a rare series that takes more creative risks as it goes along". Films ''Universal Soldier'' (1992) Directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Richard Rothstein, Christopher Leitch, and Dean Devlin, it stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, and Ally Walker. In the first installment of the franchise, American soldier Luc Deveraux (Van Damme) finds that his superior officer, Andrew Scott (Lundgren), has turned violently deranged, and the two fight to the death during the Vietnam War. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Soldier (1992 Film)
''Universal Soldier'' is a 1992 American military science-fiction action film directed by Roland Emmerich, produced by Allen Shapiro, Craig Baumgarten, and Joel B. Michaels, and written by Richard Rothstein (screenwriter), Richard Rothstein, Christopher Leitch, and Dean Devlin. The film tells the story of Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a former U.S. Army soldier who was killed in the Vietnam War in 1969, and returned to life following a secret military project called the "Universal Soldier" program. However, he finds out about his past, though his memory was erased, and escapes alongside a young TV journalist (Ally Walker). Along the way, they have to deal with the return of his archenemy, Sgt. Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren), who had lost his sanity in the Vietnam War, and became a psychotic megalomaniac, intent on killing him and leading the Universal Soldiers. ''Universal Soldier'' was released by TriStar Pictures on July 10, 1992. The film has a 35% approval rating on Rott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Woolnough
Jeff Woolnough is a Canadian Film director, film and television director. His career began in the early 1990s and has won numerous awards directing multiple episodes of a variety of television series. His most prolific work has been with ''The Expanse (TV series), The Expanse'' and ''Vikings (TV series), Vikings'', for which he directed ten episodes of each. Directing credits * His long-form (non-episodic) television work has included the miniseries ''Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story'' (winner Best TV Movie/Miniseries) and ''Wrath of Grapes: The Don Cherry Story Part 2'' and the made-for-TV films ''Jack (2013 film), Jack'' (a biopic of Jack Layton, winner Best TV Movie/Miniseries) and ''Céline (2008 film), Céline'' (a biopic of Céline Dion). Woolnough also directed two direct-to-video sequels to the film ''Universal Soldier (1992 film), Universal Soldier'', entitled ''Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms and ''Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business ''. Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolco
Carolco Pictures, Inc. was an American independent film studio that existed from 1976 to 1995, founded by Mario Kassar and Andrew G. Vajna. Kassar and Vajna ran Carolco together until 1989, when Vajna left to form Cinergi Pictures. Carolco hit its peak in the 1980s and early 1990s, with blockbuster successes including the first three films of the ''Rambo'' franchise, '' Total Recall'', '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', ''Basic Instinct'', '' Universal Soldier'', ''Cliffhanger'' and '' Stargate''. Nevertheless, the company was losing money overall and required a corporate restructuring in 1992. The 1995 film ''Cutthroat Island'', intended to be a comeback for the studio, instead lost $147 million and brought the company to an end. History Early years The company was founded through the partnership of two film investors, Mario Kassar and Andrew Vajna. The two were hailed by ''Newsweek'' as some of the most successful independent producers. By the age of 25, Vajna went from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The north was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist states, while the south was United States in the Vietnam War, supported by the United States and other anti-communism, anti-communist Free World Military Forces, allies. The war is widely considered to be a Cold War-era proxy war. It lasted almost 20 years, with direct U.S. involvement ending in 1973. The conflict also spilled over into neighboring states, exacerbating the Laotian Civil War and the Cambodian Civil War, which ended with all three countries becoming communist states by 1975. After the French 1954 Geneva Conference, military withdrawal from Indochina in 1954 – following their defeat in the First Indochina War – the Viet Minh to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ally Walker
Allene Damian "Ally" Walker (born August 25, 1961) is an American actress. She made her television debut in the NBC daytime soap opera '' Santa Barbara'' (1988) before landing the leading roles on the short-lived dramas '' True Blue'' (1989–1990), and '' Moon Over Miami'' (1993). During the 1990s, Walker had roles in films such as '' Universal Soldier'' (1992), ''Singles'' (1992), '' When the Bough Breaks'' (1994), '' While You Were Sleeping'' (1995), ''Kazaam'' (1996), and ''Happy, Texas'' (1999). From 1996 to 1999, she played the leading role of Doctor Samantha Waters in the NBC crime drama series '' Profiler'', for which she received Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television nomination. She returned to television with a role in the HBO drama series '' Tell Me You Love Me'' (2007), and later played villainous Agent June Stahl in the FX crime drama, ''Sons of Anarchy'' (2008–2010). Walker also had the leading role in the short-lived Lifetime police drama series '' The Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolph Lundgren
Hans Lundgren (, ; born 3 November 1957), better known as Dolph Lundgren, is a Swedish actor, filmmaker and martial artist. His breakthrough came in 1985, when he starred in ''Rocky IV'' as the imposing Soviet boxer Ivan Drago. Since then, Lundgren has starred in more than 80 films,all of them in the action genre. Lundgren received a degree in chemical engineering from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in the early 1980s and a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney in 1982. He holds the rank of 4th ''dan'' black belt in Kyokushin karate and was European champion in 1980–81. While in Sydney, he became a bodyguard for Jamaican singer Grace Jones and began a relationship with her. He received a Fulbright scholarship to MIT and moved to Boston. Jones convinced him to leave the university and move to New York City to be with her and begin acting, where, after a short stint as a model and bouncer at the Manhattan nightclub The Limelight, Lundgr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Ostrovsky
Victor John Ostrovsky (born 28 November 1949) is an author and a former katsa (case officer) for the Israeli Mossad. He authored two nonfiction books about his service with the Mossad: ''By Way of Deception'', a #1 ''New York Times'' bestseller in 1990, and '' The Other Side of Deception'' several years later. Family Ostrovsky's mother, a gymnastics teacher by trade, was born in Mandatory Palestine to Haim and Esther Margolin, (his grandparents) who fled Russia in 1912 and settled in Palestine where Haim served as Auditor General of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), and Esther volunteered to the British Army (ATS), as truck driver during World War II, and later joined the Haganah to fight for Israel's independence from the British mandate rule. Ostrovsky's father was a Canadian-born Jew who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II as a tail gunner on a Lancaster bomber, taking part in more than 20 missions over Germany. His plane was shot down over Germany, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courtney Solomon
Courtney Solomon (born September 1,1970) is a writer, director, producer, and entrepreneur from Toronto, Ontario. He has been involved with production, marketing and distribution of over 80 movies. Life and career At 19, he formed Sweetpea Entertainment to acquire the film rights to "Dungeons & Dragons". ''Dungeons & Dragons'' became his first producing and directing project, the film was a box office disappointment Courtney Solomon as owner of Sweetpea Entertainment, was looking to acquire the media rights to a science-fiction property which could be adapted into a television series or an MMORPG, and in 1996 in exchange for the equity position and media rights to '' Traveller'', Sweetpea advanced the money to get Imperium Games started as a company to be dedicated solely to ''Traveller''. He later formed After Dark Films to produce horror, thriller and action titles. He launched it with '' An American Haunting'', which he wrote, produced and directed, a story based on Tenness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Diamant
Moshe Diamant is an American film producer A film producer is a person who oversees film production. Either employed by a production company or working independently, producers plan and coordinate various aspects of film production, such as selecting the script, coordinating writing, di .... He is best known for having started Trans World Entertainment (TWE) in 1983. Filmography (Producer) He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted. Film ;Miscellaneous crew ;As writer ;Thanks Television References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Diamant, Moshe American film producers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Damon
Mark Damon (born April 22, 1933) is an American film actor and Film producer, producer. He became noted for roles in films like Roger Corman's House of Usher (film), ''House of Usher'', before moving to Italy and becoming a notable Western (genre), Western star and member of the 1960s Dolce vita, La, Dolce Vita set of actors and actresses in Rome. After starring in over 50 films in the United States and Europe, he quit acting and reinvented himself as a film producer and pioneer of the foreign sales business in the 1970s, and became one of Hollywood's most prolific producers. Early life Mark Damon was born Alan Harris in Chicago, the son of a grocer. His family was Jewish, and their surname had originally been "Herscovitz". Damon moved to Los Angeles at a young age where he attended Fairfax High School (Los Angeles), Fairfax High School. As a senior in high school, he was scouted as an actor by Groucho Marx, but chose to attend dental school at UCLA. He soon switched to the UCL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hyams
John Hyams is an American screenwriter, director and cinematographer, best known for his involvement in the '' Universal Soldier'' series, for which he has directed two installments. Hyams is the son of director Peter Hyams. Career Hyams graduated from Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts, becoming a noted painter and sculptor exhibiting and selling work in New York and Los Angeles. He became known in Hollywood in 1997 after writing, producing, and directing the critically acclaimed ''One Dog Day''. The film debuted at the Taos Talking Picture Film Festival. After that, Hyams directed several documentaries, most notably '' The Smashing Machine'', which follows the life of fighter Mark Kerr. Hyams also directed several episodes of ABC Television's '' NYPD Blue''. In 2009, Hyams took over the '' Universal Soldier'' franchise, directing the film '' Regeneration'', starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren. It was shot mostly in Bulgaria Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
