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Gosford Park
''Gosford Park'' is a 2001 satirical black comedy mystery film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes. The film, which is influenced by Jean Renoir's French classic '' The Rules of the Game'', follows a party of wealthy Britons plus an American producer, and their servants, who gather for a shooting weekend at Gosford Park, an English country house. A murder occurs after a dinner party, and the film goes on to present the subsequent investigation from the servants' and guests' perspectives. The film stars an ensemble cast, which includes Eileen Atkins, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Charles Dance, Stephen Fry, Michael Gambon, Richard E. Grant, Derek Jacobi, Kelly Macdonald, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, Clive Owen, Ryan Phillippe, Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Emily Watson. The film is an international co-production of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Italy. Development on ''Gosford Park'' began in 1999, when Bob Balaban asked Altman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Altman
Robert Bernard Altman ( ; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer, producer. He is considered an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, known for directing subversive and satire, satirical films with overlapping dialogue and ensemble casts. Over his career he received several awards including an Academy Honorary Award, two British Academy Film Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for seven competitive Academy Awards. Altman was nominated for five Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Awards for Best Director for the war comedy ''M*A*S*H (film), M*A*S*H'' (1970), the musical film ''Nashville (film), Nashville'' (1975), the satire, Hollywood satire ''The Player (1992 film), The Player'' (1992), the dark comedy ''Short Cuts'' (1993), and the murder mystery ''Gosford Park'' (2001). He is also known for directing ''Brewster McCloud'' (1970), ''McCabe & Mrs. Miller'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Watson
Emily Margaret Watson (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. In 2002, she starred in productions of ''Twelfth Night'' and ''Uncle Vanya'' at the Donmar Warehouse, and was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress, Olivier Award for Best Actress for the latter. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as a newlywed in Lars von Trier's ''Breaking the Waves'' (1996) and for her portrayal of Jacqueline du Pré in Anand Tucker's ''Hilary and Jackie'' (1998). Watson's other films include ''The Boxer (1997 film), The Boxer'' (1997), ''Angela's Ashes (film), Angela's Ashes'' (1999), ''Gosford Park'' (2001), ''Punch-Drunk Love'' (2002), ''Red Dragon (2002 film), Red Dragon'' (2002), ''The Life and Death of Peter Sellers'' (2004), ''Corpse Bride'' (2005), ''Miss Potter'' (2006), ''Synecdoche, New York'' (2008), ''Oranges and Sunshine'' (2010), '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service has over 5,500 journalists working across its output including in 50 foreign news bureaus where more than 250 foreign correspondents are stationed. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Movie Database
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges range ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by Amazon. History Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis. In 1999, he started to post the Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. Along with the weekend grosses, he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules and other charts, such as all-time charts, international box office charts, genre charts, and actor and director charts. The site gradually expanded to include weekend charts goin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Film Festival
The BFI London Film Festival is an annual film festival held in London, England, in collaboration with the British Film Institute. Founded in 1957, the festival runs for two weeks every October. In 2016, the British Film Institute, BFI estimated that around 240 feature films and 150 short films from more than 70 countries are screened at the festival each year. History At a dinner party in 1953, at the home of film critic Dilys Powell of ''The Sunday Times'', attended by film administrator James Quinn (film administrator), James Quinn, guests discussed the lack of a film festival in London. Quinn went on to start the first London Film Festival, which took place at the new National Film Theatre (now renamed BFI Southbank) from 16 to 26 October 1957. The first festival screened 15–20 films that were already successful at other festivals, including Akira Kurosawa's ''Throne of Blood'' (which opened the festival), Satyajit Ray's ''Aparajito'', Andrzej Wajda's ''Kanał'', Luchin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medusa Distribuzione
Medusa Film S.p.A. is an Italian film production and distribution company owned by Mediaset. It is one of the top film producers and distributors in the country. History Medusa Distribuzione S.p.A. was founded by Felice Colaiacono and Franco Poccioni in 1964. Initially only focused on distribution, thanks to executive producer , in the 1970s the company began collaborating with other production companies, including Devon Film and Luciano Martino's , and co-produced successful genre films and comedies. In 1983, Poccioni became the sole administrator of the company. In July 1986, , a subsidiary of Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest, acquired a 49% ownership interest in Medusa. Two years later, in 1988, Reteitalia took full ownership of the company, however, the following year, Medusa was subsequently absorbed into . In 1995, Penta Film was dissolved and Medusa Film was restored. was appointed president, and the company resumed operations in 1996. In 1999, Medusa announced that it woul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entertainment Film Distributors
Entertainment Film Distributors Limited is a British distributor of independent films in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was founded by Michael L. Green and is currently run by his son Nigel Green. The company has released many BAFTA and Oscar-winning films including ''The Departed'', ''Million Dollar Baby'', ''Gosford Park'', ''Brokeback Mountain'' and '' The Artist''. History Michael L. Green was a veteran producer/distributor involved in the film industry since the 1930s when he was a teenager. In 1972, he founded Variety, a prolific film distributor. On 10 November 1977, Green closed Variety and with his two sons, Nigel and Trevor, formed Entertainment Film Distributors (and later its video arm, Entertainment in Video), which served as one of the leading forces in UK distribution. Michael L. Green died on 17 June 2003 at the age of 84 and Trevor Green died on 30 April 2020 at the age of 66. Their first big success was ''Teen Wolf'' (1985) starring Michael J. Fox. Enterta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medusa Film
Medusa Film S.p.A. is an Italian film production and distribution company owned by Mediaset. It is one of the top film producers and distributors in the country. History Medusa Distribuzione S.p.A. was founded by Felice Colaiacono and Franco Poccioni in 1964. Initially only focused on distribution, thanks to executive producer , in the 1970s the company began collaborating with other production companies, including Devon Film and Luciano Martino's , and co-produced successful genre films and comedies. In 1983, Poccioni became the sole administrator of the company. In July 1986, , a subsidiary of Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest, acquired a 49% ownership interest in Medusa. Two years later, in 1988, Reteitalia took full ownership of the company, however, the following year, Medusa was subsequently absorbed into . In 1995, Penta Film was dissolved and Medusa Film was restored. was appointed president, and the company resumed operations in 1996. In 1999, Medusa announced that it wou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Film Council
The UK Film Council (UKFC) was a non-departmental public body set up in 2000 to develop and promote the film industry in the UK. It was constituted as a private company limited by guarantee, owned by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and governed by a board of 15 directors. It was funded from various sources including The National Lottery. John Woodward was the Chief Executive Officer of the UKFC. In June 2008, the company had 90 full-time members of staff. It distributed more than £160m of lottery money to over 900 films.''The Guardian'', 26 July 2010UK Film Council axed/ref> Lord Puttnam described the council as "a layer of strategic glue that's helped bind the many parts of our disparate industry together." On 26 July 2010, the government announced that the council would be abolished. Although one of the parties elected into that government had, for some months, promised a ''bonfire of the Quangos'', Woodward said that the decision had been taken with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capitol Films
Capitol Films was a British film production and distribution company (number 02392790), incorporated on 6 June 1989 and dissolved on 7 May 2013. In January 2006 it was sold to American Mobius Pictures, owned by entrepreneur and film producer David Bergstein, who placed it at the hub of his Pegasus Studios. In early 2010, David Bergstein's appointment as director for the British company was terminated and the company was placed in receivership. In October 2010 the US branch of the company was forced into bankruptcy, and in January 2012 a group of creditors filed a proposal with a federal bankruptcy court in Los Angeles to take over and liquidate five companies formerly controlled by David Bergstein, among them Capitol Films. Capitol Films was involved in the production of some fifty films, among them '' Radio Inside'' (1994), '' A Good Man in Africa'' (1994), '' Death and the Maiden'' (1994), ''Wilde'' (1997), ''Dancing at Lughnasa'' (1998), ''Gosford Park'' (2001), ''Elvis Has L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Focus Features
Focus Features LLC is an American independent film production and distribution company, owned by Comcast as a unit of Universal Pictures, which is itself a unit of Comcast's division NBCUniversal. Focus Features distributes independent and foreign films in the United States and internationally. In November 2018, ''The Hollywood Reporter'' named Focus Features "Distributor of the Year" for its success behind the year's breakout documentary film '' Won't You Be My Neighbor?'' and Spike Lee's ''BlacKkKlansman''. The studio's most successful film to date is ''Downton Abbey'', which garnered $194.3 million at the worldwide box office. Focus Features' films have earned numerous awards nominations, including a total of 175 Academy Award nominations and 35 wins across various categories. However, they are also the distributor with the most Best Picture losses, out of 17 nominations as of 2025. History Focus Features was formed in 2002 by James Schamus and David Linde and formed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
