Showing posts with label director. Show all posts
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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Titanic film in 1997

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Titanic is the 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, co-produced, written, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the dipping of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, associate of different social classes who fall in love on board the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyag. Creation on the film began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the real Titanic wreck. The recent scenes were shot on board the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, which Cameron had use as a foundation when filming the actual wreck. A rebuilding of the Titanic was built at Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, and scale models and computer-generate imagery were also used to reconstruct the sinking.

Titanic was an enormous serious and commercial success. It was selected for fourteen Academy Awards, eventually winning eleven, with Best Picture and Best Director. It become the maximum grossing film of all time, with a worldwide gross of over $1.8 billion the first film to attain the billion dollar mark and remain so for twelve years awaiting Cameron's after that directorial effort, Avatar, surpassed it in 2010. Titanic is also rank as the sixth top epic film of all time in AFI's 10 Top 10 by the American Film Institute. The film is due for dramatic re-release in 2012 after Cameron complete its conversion into 3-D.

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Director

James Cameron

Producer

James Cameron, Jon Landau

Written by

James Cameron

Starring

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bernard Hill

Music by

James Horner

Editing by

James Cameron, Conrad Buff IV, Richard A. Harris

Studio

20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Lightstorm Entertainment

Release date(s)

December 19, 1997

Running time

194 minutes

Country

United States

Language

English

Budget

$200 million

Gross revenue

$1,843,201,268

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Jodie Foster - American producer, film director and actress

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Jodie Foster is famous an American producer, film director and actress. Foster begin acting in profitable at three years old, and her first important role came in the 1976 film Taxi Driver as the preteen prostitute, Iris, for which she got a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Also that year, she star in the religious group film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. She got a Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989 for playing a rape survivor in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a sequential killer. This presentation received international acclaim and her second Academy Award for Best Actress.

She conventional her fourth Academy Award nomination for playing a hermit in Nell (1994). Other famous films contain Maverick (1994), Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Brave One (2007), and Nim's Island (2008).Foster's films have span a wide multiplicity of genres, from family films to horror. She has also got three Bafta Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a People's Choice Award, and has received two Emmy suggestions.

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Birth Name

Alicia Christian Foster

Date Of Birth

November 19, 1962

Place Of Birth

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation

Actress, producer, director

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Chris Rock - comedian, screenwriter , actor, television producer, film producer and director

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Chris Rock is an American famous comedian, screenwriter , actor, television producer, film producer and director. He was chosen in the US as the 5th furthermost stand-up comedian of all time by Comedy Central. He was also selected in the UK as the 9th furthermost stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups in 2007, and another time in the updated 2010 list as the 8th greatest stand-up comic. In November 2006, the entertainment news website TMZ.com statement that Rock was filing for divorce after almost ten years of marriage to Malaak. Two weeks later, however, TMZ report that Rock had not file divorce papers, and that it show that the couple had been capable to work out their differences and stay together.

Rocks out a report to the press denouncing them as "untrue rumors and lies". In 2007, freelance reporter and former actress Kali Bowyer filed a paternity suit beside Chris Rock, claim he was the father of her son, and in require of hospitalization. DNA testing confirmd that Rock was not the child's father. In 2008, Rock's family history was outline on the PBS series African American Lives 2. A DNA test showed that he is fall from the Udeme public of northern Cameroon and that he is 20% Caucasian.

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Birth name

Christopher Julius Rock III

Date Of Birth

February 7, 1965

Place Of Birth

Andrews, South Carolina, U.S

Medium

Stand-up comedy, television, film

Genres

Black humor, musical comedy, observational comedy, political satire, satire

Spouse

Malaak Compton-Rock

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Al Pacino - American film and stage actor and director

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Al Pacino is American film and stage actor and director. He is mainly famed for playing mobsters including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy and Tony Montana in Scarface, though he has also appeared some times on the other side of the law as a police officer, detective and a lawyer. His role as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992 after getting seven previous Oscar nominations.

He complete his feature film debut in the 1969 film Me, Natalie in a minor supporting role, before playing the foremost role in the 1971 drama The Panic in Needle Park. Pacino made his major breakthrough when he was known the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather in 1972, which get him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Other Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor was for Dick Tracy and Glengarry Glen Ross. Oscar nominations for Best Actor include The Godfather Part II, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, the court room drama. And Justice for All and smell of a Woman.

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Birth Name

Alfredo James Pacino

Date Of Birth

April 25, 1940

Place Of Birth

New York City, New York, U.S.

Occupation

Actor, director, screenwriter, producer

Partner

Jan Tarrant, Beverly D'Angelo

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