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Ram Bergman
Ram Bergman () is an Israeli film producer. He is known for producing ''Brick'' (2005), '' The Brothers Bloom'' (2008), '' Looper'' (2012), '' Star Wars: The Last Jedi'' (2017), and ''Knives Out'' (2019), all of which were written and directed by Rian Johnson. Bergman received an Achievement in Film Award at the 2018 Israel Film Festival and was nominated for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures for ''Knives Out'' at the 2020 Producers Guild of America Awards. Early life Bergman was born and raised in Rishon LeZion, Israel, to a Jewish family. Career Bergman first began producing films during his early 20s, having moved from his native Rishon LeZion in Israel to initially New York and then Los Angeles, in 1991. He had no formal training, just a passion for the film industry and a willingness to keep at it. He worked as a valet, while also “trying to figure out how to make movies” and within the year he was producing his first film, learning his trade w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rishon LeZion
Rishon LeZion ( , "First to Zion") is a city in Israel, located along the central Israeli coastal plain south of Tel Aviv. It is part of the Gush Dan metropolitan area. Founded in 1882 by Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire who were part of the First Aliyah, it was the first settlement founded in Israel by the New Yishuv and the second Jewish farm settlement established in Ottoman Syria in the 19th century, after Petah Tikva. As of 2017, it was the fourth-largest city in Israel, with a population of . The city is a member of Forum 15, which is an association of fiscally autonomous cities in Israel that do not depend on national balancing or development grants. Etymology The name Rishon LeZion is derived from a verse from the Tanakh: "First to Zion are they, and I shall give herald to Jerusalem" ( Isaiah 41:27) and literally translates as "First to Zion". History Ottoman period (1882–1900) Rishon LeZion was founded on 31 July 1882, by ten Hovevei Zion pione ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media Rights Capital
MRC II Distribution Company, L.P., doing business as MRC (formerly Media Rights Capital), is an American film and television production company founded by Mordecai (Modi) Wiczyk and Asif Satchu in 2006. Based in West Hollywood, California, the company funds and produces film and television programming. The company's divisions include MRC Film, MRC Non-Fiction, and MRC Television. In 2018, the company merged with Todd Boehly's media assets under Valence Media, with the company as a whole taking on the MRC name in 2020; this included Dick Clark Productions (briefly known as MRC Live & Alternative), audience data firm Luminate (the former Nielsen SoundScan), and the entertainment industry publications ''Billboard'' and ''The Hollywood Reporter''. Boehly (through Eldridge Industries) re-acquired most of these assets in August 2022. Productions by the company have included the Netflix series '' House of Cards'' and '' Ozark,'' and the films '' Babel'', '' Brüno'', '' Ted'', ''22 J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seeking Justice
''Seeking Justice'' (also known as ''Justice'', and formerly titled ''The Hungry Rabbit Jumps'') is a 2011 action thriller film starring Nicolas Cage, January Jones and Guy Pearce directed by Roger Donaldson and produced by Tobey Maguire, Ram Bergman and James D. Stern. Filming took place in New Orleans. The first trailer was released in September 2011. Plot Will Gerard is a humble high school English teacher in New Orleans. His wife Laura is a cellist who plays in a local orchestra. After a performance one evening, Laura is beaten and brutally raped by a stranger named Hodge. Will rushes to the hospital to see Laura. There, a stranger who calls himself Simon tells Will that he represents an organization that deals with criminals who have evaded the justice system, and that Hodge, who had raped three other women before, had been paroled shortly before his attack on Laura. Simon offers to have someone make Hodge pay for Laura's rape, in exchange for a favor from Will to be determ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunraku (film)
''Bunraku'' is a 2010 martial-arts action film written and directed by Guy Moshe, based on a story by Boaz Davidson. The film stars Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Ron Perlman, Kevin McKidd, and Gackt and follows a young drifter in his quest for revenge. The title ''Bunraku'' is derived from a 400-year-old form of Japanese puppet theater, a style of storytelling that uses -tall puppets with highly detailed heads, each operated by several puppeteers who blend into the background wearing black robes and hoods. The classic tale is re-imagined in a world that mixes skewed reality with shadow-play fantasy. Its themes draw heavily on samurai and Western films.Theatrical Titles, Bunraku , IM Global LLC ''Bunraku'' premiered as an official selection of the Midnight Madness section at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chameleon (2010 Film)
''The Chameleon'' is a 2010 drama film directed by Jean-Paul Salomé, who co-wrote the screenplay with Natalie Carter. The film is based upon the true story of Frédéric Bourdin who impersonated a missing child named Nicholas Barclay in San Antonio, Texas, in the 1990s. Much of the true story was incorporated into the film although the years have been altered and the location was moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Plot A young man (Marc-André Grondin) in France shaves off all his body hair and turns himself in to the police. The man claims to be a 16-year-old boy from Louisiana named Nicholas Mark Randall, who had been missing for four years. His story is that he was kidnapped by a child prostitution ring in France who physically altered his appearance. He is reunited with his family who immediately have their suspicions regarding his story. His mother (Ellen Barkin) and half brother Brendan (Nick Stahl) do not seem to accept him, and many questions are open regarding whether ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Relative Strangers
''Relative Strangers'' is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Greg Glienna. Plot Thirty-four-year-old psychologist Richard Clayton's parents reveal to him that he was adopted. He then sets out to find out who his biological parents are, but disaster ensues when it turns out that his parents, Frank and Agnes Menure, are crude, lower class carnies. They follow him home and cause chaos to his normal life. Cast * Danny DeVito as Frank Menure * Kathy Bates as Agnes Menure * Ron Livingston as Richard Clayton / Menure * Neve Campbell as Ellen Minnola * Beverly D'Angelo as Angela Minnola * Bob Odenkirk as Mitch Clayton * Edward Herrmann as Doug Clayton * Christine Baranski as Arleen Clayton * Martin Mull as Jeffry Morton * Michael McKean as Ken Hyman * M. C. Gainey as Spicer * Star Jones as Holly Davis * Tracey Walter as Toupee Salesman * Christa Campbell as Carnival Girl * Triple H and Dave Bautista David Michael Bautista Jr. (born January 18, 1969) is an American acto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conversations With Other Women
''Conversations with Other Women'' is a 2005 romantic drama film directed by Hans Canosa, written by Gabrielle Zevin, starring Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter. The film won Best Actress for Bonham Carter at the 2005 Tokyo International Film Festival. Plot At a wedding reception in New York, a man in his late thirties ( Eckhart) approaches a bridesmaid ( Bonham Carter) of about the same age, and offers her a glass of champagne. As conversation ensues, they begin to flirt. Witty small talk about such topics as the wedding party and their own past relationships gradually reveals to the viewing film audience that they are not strangers, but in fact were previously husband and wife. A series of flashback scenes shows much younger versions of the two of them together at the start of their relationship. Despite both having significant others (22-year-old Sarah the dancer and Geoffrey the cardiologist, respectively, both absent), the couple go upstairs to her hotel room togeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nomad (2005 Film)
''Nomad: The Warrior'' () is a 2005 Kazakh historical epic film written and co-produced by Rustam Ibragimbekov and directed by Sergei Bodrov and Ivan Passer. It was released on March 16, 2007, in North America, distributed by The Weinstein Company. Two versions of the film were shot: one in Kazakh by Temenov for distribution in Kazakhstan and one in English by Passer and Bodrov for distribution worldwide. The government of Kazakhstan invested $40 million in the film production, making it the most expensive Kazakh film ever made. The film was Kazakhstan's official entry for Best Foreign Language Film for the 79th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. It was also the last film that Passer directed before his death in 2020. Plot ''Nomad'' is a historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan. The film is a fictionalized account of the youth and coming-of-age of Ablai Khan, a Khan of the Kazakh Horde, as he grows and fights to defend the fortress at Hazrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heartbreak Hospital
''Heartbreak Hospital'' is a 2002 American thriller comedy film directed by Ruedi Gerber and starring Patricia Clarkson. It is based on the novel of the same name by Henry Slesar. Cast *Chelsea Altman as Neely *Patricia Clarkson as Lottie *Diane Venora as Sunday *John Shea as Milo *Demián Bichir as Tonio Reception The film has a 25% rating on Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator, review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee .... References External links * * {{rotten-tomatoes, heartbreak_hospital 2002 comedy films 2002 films 2002 thriller films 2000s comedy thriller films American comedy thriller films Films based on American novels Films produced by Ram Bergman 2000s English-language films 2000s American films English-language comedy thriller films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kill Me Later
''Kill Me Later'' is a 2001 film directed by Dana Lustig and starring Selma Blair, Max Beesley, Brendan Fehr, Keegan Connor Tracy and Lochlyn Munro. Synopsis Blair plays Shawn, a loan officer at a bank who is having an affair with the bank’s married vice-president. After discovering that his wife is pregnant, Shawn has a meltdown and goes to the roof to kill herself. At the same time, bank robbers hijack an armored car. When the police arrive to stop Shawn from jumping, one of the bank robbers (Thompson) accidentally gets caught. The cops thwart the robbery, but one of the robbers, Charlie Anders (Beesley), takes Shawn hostage at gunpoint. They make a deal: she will help him escape if he promises to kill her afterwards. Production A large number of filter effects, shutter effects, and jump cuts are used to make long dialogue scenes (particularly between the two cops and between the two lovers) more visually interesting. The audio itself on both is done as a single long t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dancing At The Blue Iguana
''Dancing at the Blue Iguana'' is a 2000 American erotic drama film, directed by Michael Radford, about the lives of strippers at a strip club in Los Angeles, California's San Fernando Valley. The film was based on an improvisational workshop involving the lead actors. It explores the intersecting lives of five exotic dancers who work at the Blue Iguana and the difficulties in their lives. The film was released on September 14, 2000, at the Toronto International Film Festival. Plot Angel (Daryl Hannah) wishes for a baby of her own or a foster child to take care of, but her messy, dysfunctional existence makes this an impossible dream. Jo (Jennifer Tilly) is pregnant, wants an abortion, and can barely contain her rage at the world, which is useful in her moonlighting as a dominatrix. Jasmine (Sandra Oh) writes beautiful poetry on the side and finally finds a boyfriend. She reveals to him that she is a stripper, and he maintains that he can accept that. However, once he sees her d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stranger Than Fiction (2000 Film)
''Stranger Than Fiction'' is a 2000 comedy-thriller film directed by Eric Bross and starring Mackenzie Astin. Plot While waiting for their flight in a bar of an airport, the writer Donovan Miller tells the story of his best-seller to a stranger to kill time. In Salt Lake City; Violet Madison, Austin Walker, Emma Scarlett and Jared Roth are good friends. After going together to a bar, Jared comes wounded to Austin's apartment in the late night and confesses that he is gay and has just killed a man in his apartment. He asks his friends to help him to vanish with the body of the victim. The group agrees, and after many incidents, Violet stresses, jeopardizing the group. When Violet is found, having hanged herself in her house, many secrets are disclosed. Cast * Mackenzie Astin as Jared Roth * Todd Field as Austin Walker / Donovan Miller * Dina Meyer as Emma Scarlett * Natasha Gregson Wagner as Violet Madison * Michael Flynn as Nick * Steve O'Neill as Porter * Scott Subiono as Homel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
