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Intelligent Creatures
Intelligent Creatures (IC) is a motion picture visual effects company located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. History IC was founded on March 30, 2001 by current CEO Lon Molnar, a graduate of the Vancouver Film School, Michael Hatton, Raymond Gieringer, and Wendy Lanning, and commenced production in 2002. The company was created in response to the demands of the visual effects industry, at a time when there was a shortage of visual effects vendors in Toronto. Location IC's studio is located in the east end of Toronto, in close proximity to Pinewood Toronto Studios and Cinespace Film Studios. A satellite office is located in North Bay, Ontario. Projects IC has worked with film studios such as Warner Bros., Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia Pictures, New Line Cinema, Paramount, and 20th Century Studios. The company has worked on films such as Zack Snyder's ''Watchmen'' (for which it designed Dave Gibbon's character Rorschach), Darren Aronofsky's '' The Fountain'', and Alejandro GonzĂ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Gibbon
Dave may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Dave'' (film), a 1993 film starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver * ''Dave'' (musical), a 2018 stage musical adaptation of the 1993 film * ''Dave'' (TV series), a 2020 American comedy series * "Dave" (''Lost''), an episode of ''Lost'' * Dave, a digital television channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland now rebranded as U&Dave People * Dave (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Dave (surname), a common Gujarati surname * Dave (American rapper), aka David Jolicoeur (1967–2023), of the hip hop group De La Soul * Dave (artist) (born 1969), Swiss artist * Dave (rapper) (born 1998), English rapper from London * Dave (singer) (born 1944), Dutch-born French singer Software * Dave (company), a digital banking service * DAvE (Infineon), a C-language software development tool * Thursby DAVE, a Windows file and printer sharing for Macs Other uses * Dave (Belgium), a town in Belgium * Damping and Vibrations Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colossal (film)
''Colossal'' is a 2016 science fiction film, science fiction black comedy film directed and written by Nacho Vigalondo. The film stars Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Dan Stevens, Austin Stowell, and Tim Blake Nelson. The film follows an unemployed writer who unwittingly manifests Kaiju, a giant creature in Seoul while struggling with alcoholism and an abusively controlling colleague. The film was an international co-production between producers in Canada, Spain, the United States, and South Korea. Anne Hathaway signed onto the project in May 2015, which was described as "''Godzilla (franchise), Godzilla'' meets ''Lost in Translation (film), Lost in Translation''". Prior to the start of filming, Toho brought a lawsuit against Voltage Pictures, the film's producers, for unauthorized usage of Godzilla's image. However, a settlement was reached in October 2015. Principal photography began on October 18, 2015, and primarily took place in and around Vancouver, British Columbia, finishin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Witch (2015 Film)
''The Witch'' (stylized as ''The VVitch'', and subtitled ''A New-England Folktale'') is a 2015 folk horror film written and directed by Robert Eggers in his feature directorial debut. It stars Anya Taylor-Joy in her feature film debut, alongside Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, and Lucas Dawson. Set in 1630s New England, the narrative follows a Puritan family who are preyed upon by an evil force in the woods beyond their farm. In fear and desperation, they turn upon one another. An international co-production of the United States and Canada, the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2015, and was widely released by A24 on February 19, 2016. It was a critical and financial success, grossing $40 million against a $4 million budget, and is considered by some to be one of the best horror films of the 2010s. Plot In 1630s New England, English settler William and his family—his wife Katherine, teenage daughter Thomasin, preteen so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Has Fallen
''London Has Fallen'' is a 2016 political action thriller film directed by Babak Najafi and written by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt, Chad St. John, and Christian Gudegast. It is the second installment in the ''Has Fallen'' film series, the sequel to ''Olympus Has Fallen'' (2013) and stars Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, and Morgan Freeman, with Alon Moni Aboutboul, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Jackie Earle Haley, Melissa Leo, Radha Mitchell, Sean O'Bryan, Waleed Zuaiter, and Charlotte Riley in supporting roles. In the film, Secret Service agent Mike Banning must protect United States President Benjamin Asher from terrorists who orchestrated a threat against the G7 during the British Prime Minister's funeral in London. Filming began in London on October 24, 2014. A Christmas break started in November with filming resuming in February 2015. The film was released in the United States by Focus Features under their recently revived Gramercy Pictures label on Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curiosity (TV Series)
''Curiosity'' is an American documentary television series that premiered on August 7, 2011, on the Discovery Channel. Each episode focuses on one question in science, technology, and society (e.g., why the sank) and, for the first season, features a different celebrity host. Stephen Hawking hosted the premiere episode titled "Did God Create the Universe?", which aired simultaneously on seven Discovery Communications networks: Discovery Channel, TLC, Discovery Fit and Health, Animal Planet, Science, Investigation Discovery, and Destination America. Season one consists of 16 episodes. Curiosity: The Questions of Our Life The development of "Curiosity: The Questions of Our Life", was announced in September 2009. It was to answer questions and mysteries in fields like space, biology, geology, medicine, physics, technology, nature, archaeology, history, and the human mind. It was considered as a groundbreaking series for Discovery like the BBC's ''Planet Earth'' and ''Life''. Ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel, known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery, is an American cable channel that is best known for its ongoing reality television shows and promotion of pseudoscience. It initially provided documentary television programming focused primarily on popular science, technology, and history, but by the 2010s had become increasingly dominated by programs that were reality television shows, promoted conspiracy theories, or advocated junk science. It is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav. , Discovery Channel was the third most widely distributed subscription channel in the United States, behind now-sibling channel TBS and the Weather Channel; it is available in 409 million households worldwide, through its U.S. flagship channel and its various owned or licensed television channels internationally. , Discovery Channel is available to approximately 71,000,000 pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visual Effects Society
The Visual Effects Society (VES) is an entertainment industry organization representing visual effects practitioners including artists, animators, technologists, model makers, educators, studio leaders, supervisors, PR/marketing specialists and producers in film, television, commercials, music videos, and video games. It has about 5,000 members in 50 countries. Since 2002 it has produced the Visual Effects Society Awards which honor the best work of the previous year in various categories. The VES List of the Most Influential Visual Effects films In 2007, the Visual Effects Society unveiled their list of the 50 most influential films in visual effects. Due to ties, there were actually 51 films in the list. The films were: *1. ''Star Wars'' (1977) *2. ''Blade Runner'' (1982) *3. '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'' (1968) *(tie) ''The Matrix'' (1999) *5. ''Jurassic Park'' (1993) *6. ''Tron'' (1982) *7. ''King Kong'' (1933) *8. ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' (1977) *9. '' Alien'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending partly through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to its east. It covers about , and is the county seat and most pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
