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Duncan Henderson
Duncan Scott Henderson (July 19, 1949 – June 21, 2022) was an American film producer, assistant director, and production manager. He produced the 2003 film '' Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'', which earned him an Academy Award nomination in the category Best Picture. Henderson had shared the nomination with Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and Peter Weir. In 2020, he received the Frank Capra Achievement Award. Henderson was born and raised in Culver City, California. He attended film school at the University of California, Los Angeles, and business school at the University of Southern California. He died of pancreatic cancer on June 21, 2022, at the age of 72. Filmography Producer *'' Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'' (2003) *''Poseidon'' (2006) *'' The Way Back'' (2010) *'' Oblivion'' (2013) *''Ben-Hur'' (2016) *'' Maleficent: Mistress of Evil'' (2019) *'' Space Jam: A New Legacy'' (2021) *'' Transformers: Rise of the Beasts'' (2023) Co-producer *'' Taki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in California, and has an enrollment of more than 49,000 students. The university is composed of one Liberal arts education, liberal arts school, the University of Southern California academics, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and 22 Undergraduate education, undergraduate, Graduate school, graduate, and professional schools, enrolling roughly 21,000 undergraduate and 28,500 Postgraduate education, post-graduate students from all fifty U.S. states and more than 115 countries. It is a member of the Association of American Universities, which it joined in 1969. USC sponsors a variety of intercollegiate sports and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Big Ten Conference. Members of USC's sports ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Blue Sea (1999 Film)
''Deep Blue Sea'' is a 1999 American science fiction horror film directed by Renny Harlin. It stars Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Rapaport, and LL Cool J. It is the first film of the film series of the same name. Set in an isolated underwater facility, the film follows a team of scientists and their research on mako sharks to help fight Alzheimer's disease. The situation plunges into chaos when multiple genetically engineered sharks go on a rampage and flood the facility. ''Deep Blue Sea'' had a production budget of $60 million and represented a test for Harlin, who had not made a commercially successful film since ''Cliffhanger'' in 1993. The film was primarily shot at Fox Baja Studios in Rosarito, Mexico, where the production team constructed sets above the large water tanks that had been built for James Cameron's 1997 film ''Titanic''. Although ''Deep Blue Sea'' features some shots of real sharks, most of the sharks used in the film were e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outbreak (1995 Film)
''Outbreak'' is a 1995 American medical disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by Laurence Dworet and Robert Roy Pool. The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland, and co-stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Spacey and Patrick Dempsey. The film focuses on an outbreak of Motaba, a fictional '' ebolavirus''- and '' orthomyxoviridae''-like virus, in Zaire, and later in a small town in California. It is set primarily in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as the fictional town of Cedar Creek, California. ''Outbreak'' plot speculates how far military and civilian agencies might go to contain the spread of a deadly, contagious disease. The film, released by Warner Bros. March 10, 1995, was a box-office success, and Spacey won two awards for his performance. A real-life outbreak of the Ebola virus was occurring in Zaire when the fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Program (1993 Film)
''The Program'' is a 1993 American sports drama (film and television), drama film starring James Caan, Halle Berry, Omar Epps, Craig Sheffer, Kristy Swanson, and Joey Lauren Adams. The film was directed by David S. Ward who has directed and written other Hollywood (film industry), Hollywood films such as the ''Major League (film), Major League'' series. The film touches on the season of the fictional Division I FBS (then IA) college football team, the Eastern State University (ESU) Timberwolves as they deal with the pressure to make a bowl game, alcohol and anabolic steroid abuse, receipt of improper benefits, and overall college life. It follows the trials of Coach Sam Winters (Caan), the Heisman Trophy candidate Joe Kane (Sheffer), the freshman running back Darnell Jefferson (Epps), their love interests (Berry and Swanson), and other team members. The film was released by Touchstone Pictures in September 1993. The film went on to gross over $20 million at the box office. The fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost In New York
Lost in New York may refer to: * '' Perdues dans New York'', a 1989 French film directed by Jean Rollin and titled in English as ''Lost In New York'' * '' Home Alone 2: Lost in New York'', a 1992 film starring Macaulay Culkin {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dying Young
''Dying Young'' is a 1991 American romance film directed by Joel Schumacher. It is based on a novel of the same name by Marti Leimbach, and stars Julia Roberts and Campbell Scott with Vincent D'Onofrio, Colleen Dewhurst, David Selby, and Ellen Burstyn. The original music score was composed by James Newton Howard, with the main song "Theme from Dying Young" performed by American saxophonist Kenny G. Plot Hilary O'Neil is a beautiful, outgoing yet cautious young woman with little luck in work or love. Having recently parted ways with her boyfriend when she caught him cheating, Hilary lives with her eccentric mother. One day, Hilary answers an ad in a newspaper for a nurse only to find herself being escorted out before the interview starts. Victor Geddes is a well-educated, rich, and shy 28-year-old battling leukemia. As his health worsens progressively, and despite his father's protests, Victor hires Hilary to be his live-in caretaker while undergoing a traumatic chemotherapy c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Card (film)
''Green Card'' is a 1990 American romantic comedy film written, produced, and directed by Peter Weir and starring Gérard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell. The screenplay focuses on an American woman who enters into a marriage of convenience with a Frenchman so he can obtain a green card and remain in the United States. Depardieu won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Plot Brontë Parrish, a horticulturalist and an environmentalist, enters into a Green Card marriage with Georges Fauré, an undocumented immigrant from France, so he may stay in the United States. In turn, Brontë uses her fake marriage credentials to rent the apartment of her dreams. After moving in, and in order to explain her spouse's absence, she tells the doorman and neighbors he is conducting musical research in Africa. Contacted by the Immigration and Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taking Care Of Business (film)
''Taking Care of Business'' (released theatrically in the United Kingdom as ''Filofax'') is a 1990 American comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring James Belushi and Charles Grodin. It is named after the song of the same name by Randy Bachman, recorded by the Canadian rock group Bachman–Turner Overdrive. The film is also known for being the first screenplay work written by J. J. Abrams, who later went on to make several blockbuster films, including '' Super 8'' and '' Star Wars: The Force Awakens''. The film follows a work-obsessed businessman who loses his Filofax, which is found by a recent prison escapee, who assumes his identity, moves into his home and proceeds to mess up his business dealings. Plot Convicted car thief and passionate Chicago Cubs fan, Jimmy Dworski (Belushi) wins tickets to the World Series. Unfortunately, he still has a couple of days left to serve in prison, and the warden, Frank Toolman (Héctor Elizondo), will not let him leave and come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rise Of The Beasts
''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts'' is a 2023 American science fiction action film based on Hasbro's ''Transformers'' toy line, and primarily influenced by its ''Beast Wars'' sub-franchise. It is the seventh installment in the ''Transformers'' film series, serving as a sequel to ''Bumblebee'' (2018). The film is directed by Steven Caple Jr. from a screenplay by Joby Harold, Darnell Metayer, Josh Peters, Erich Hoeber, and Jon Hoeber, based on a story by Harold. Michael Bay again serves as producer. It stars Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback, as well as the voice talents of Ron Perlman, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, Pete Davidson, Liza Koshy, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Colman Domingo, Cristo Fernández, Tongayi Chirisa, and returning franchise regulars Peter Cullen, John DiMaggio, and David Sobolov. Set in 1994, the film follows ex-military electronics expert Noah Diaz and artifact researcher Elena Wallace as they help the Autobots and the Maximals protect an artifact known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A New Legacy
''Space Jam: A New Legacy'' (also known as ''Space Jam 2'') is a 2021 American live-action animated sports comedy film produced by Warner Animation Group, Proximity Media, and The SpringHill Company, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was directed by Malcolm D. Lee from a screenplay by Juel Taylor, Tony Rettenmaier, Keenan Coogler, Terence Nance, Jesse Gordon, and Celeste Ballard, and a story by Taylor, Rettenmaier, Coogler, and Nance. It serves as a standalone sequel to ''Space Jam'' (1996) and is the first theatrically released film to feature the ''Looney Tunes'' characters since '' Looney Tunes: Back in Action'' (2003). The film stars basketball player LeBron James as a fictional version of himself; Don Cheadle, Khris Davis, Sonequa Martin-Green, and Cedric Joe star in live-action roles, while Jeff Bergman, Eric Bauza, and Zendaya headline the ''Looney Tunes'' voice cast. The film follows James enlisting the Looney Tunes' aid to win a basketball game in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
