Toa Fraser, born in Britain in 1975, of a Fijian father and a British mother, is a playwright and film director, his second film was Dean Spanley, a British comedy drama film, released in what year, with fantastic elements, from Miramax, Atlantic Film Group (UK) and General Film Corporation (NZ)?
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Toa Fraser Toa Fraser, born in Britain in 1975, of a Fijian father and a British mother, is a playwright and film director. His first feature film, "No. 2", starring Ruby Dee won the Audience Award (World Dramatic) at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. His second, "Dean Spanley", starring Sam Neill, Jeremy Northam and Peter O'Toole, premiered in September 2008. His third film "Giselle" was selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. His fourth, "The Dead Lands", a Maori action-adventure film, was released in 2014.
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Dean Spanley Dean Spanley is a 2008 British comedy drama film, with fantastic elements, from Miramax, Atlantic Film Group (UK) and General Film Corporation (NZ), directed by Fijian New Zealander Toa Fraser. Set in Edwardian England, the film is based on an Alan Sharp adaptation of Irish author Lord Dunsany's 1936 novella "My Talks with Dean Spanley". It stars Sam Neill as the Dean, Jeremy Northam and Peter O'Toole as Fisk Junior and Fisk Senior respectively and Bryan Brown as Wrather.
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Dawn of the Mummy Dawn of the Mummy is a 1981 horror film directed by Frank Agrama, who also served as writer and producer on the film. While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic.
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Go to Hell!! Go to Hell!! is a 1997 Australian adult animated comedy film directed, written, produced, and animated entirely by Ray Nowland, making it one of the only feature-length films animated by a single person. The film re-imagines history in a world where God is actually an alien called "G.D.", who wiped out the dinosaurs and replaced them with apes from his own planet (which eventually evolve into humans), with the Devil being G.D.'s son (called "Little Red"), who appears throughout history in an attempt to thwart G.D.'s plans.
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The Point, Milton Keynes The Point is an entertainment complex in Central Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. When it opened in 1985, it included the UK's first multiplex cinema. The front part of the building has a distinctive mirrored crystal ziggurat shape, framed by external steel beams at each corner, joined at the apex. Originally it had red neon lights connecting the apexes at each side, so that it looked like a pyramid at night.
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Michael Klinger (producer) Michael Klinger (1 November 1920 – 15 September 1989) was a British film producer and distributor. After Tony Tenser, then a publicist became his business partner, the two men created the Compton cinema chain and distribution company and financed "Repulsion" (1965) and "Cul-de-sac" (1966) both directed by Roman Polanski. After their association ended, Klinger produced "Get Carter" (1971), starring Michael Caine, and "Gold" (1974), with Roger Moore in the lead, and was the executive producer of the 'Confessions' series of sex comedies with Robin Askwith.
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Aria (film) Aria is a 1987 British anthology film produced by Don Boyd from Virgin Group's visual section consisting of ten short films by a variety of directors. It was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
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Focus Group Holdings Limited Focus Group Holdings Limited ("Focus Group"; ), is a company formed by Andy Lau Tak-wah, a popular Hong Kong actor and singer. It is managed by a professional and experienced team. Focus Group is essentially engaged in the films business and artiste management business.
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Hinterland (film) Hinterland is a feature film written, directed, produced and starring Harry Macqueen. The film was released in UK to critical acclaim on 27 February 2015. It was nominated Best UK Feature at Raindance Film Festival 2014 and Best Debut at the Beijing Film Festival 2015. It was released by Soda Pictures.
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Greg Broadmore Greg Broadmore is a concept designer, artist, writer and sculptor based in Wellington, New Zealand. He is the creator of Dr Grordbort’s, and has worked as a designer, artist and writer at "The Lord of the Rings" film franchise director Peter Jackson’s award-winning special effects and prop company, Weta Workshop since 2002. He was the lead concept designer on District 9 and a concept designer and sculptor on King Kong, and The Adventures of Tintin. Broadmore was also one of the illustrators and concept writers for Weta Workshop’s first publication, “The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island.
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Ade Solanke Adeola "Ade" Solanke is an award-winning British-Nigerian playwright and screenwriter. She is best known for her debut stage play, "Pandora's Box", which was produced at the Arcola Theatre in 2012, and was nominated as Best New Play in the Off West End Theatre Awards. Her other writing credits include the award-winning BBC Radio drama series "Westway" and the Nigerian feature film "Dazzling Mirage" (2014). She is the founder and creative director of the company Spora Stories, whose aim is to "create original drama for stage and screen, telling the dynamic stories of the African diaspora." Solanke has previously worked as an arts journalist and in radio and television, and in 1988 set up Tama Communications, offering a writing and publicity service, whose clients included the BBC, the Arts Council and the Midland Bank.
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Anglo-Amalgamated Anglo-Amalgamated Productions was a British film production company, run by Nat Cohen and Stuart Levy, which operated from 1945 until roughly 1971 (after which it was absorbed into EMI Films). Low-budget and second features, often produced at Merton Park Studios, formed much of its output. It was the UK distributor of many films by American International Pictures.
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The Good Father The Good Father is a 1985 British film directed by Mike Newell and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Fanny Viner, Simon Callow, Joanne Whalley, and Michael Byrne. It is loosely based on Peter Prince's novel of the same name. It marked the first credited appearance in a feature film of Stephen Fry. The movie was produced for British television but received a theatrical release in the US.
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Maurice Dean Wint Maurice Dean Wint (born 1 May 1964) is a British-born Canadian actor who has starred in several films and television shows.
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Peter Jackson Sir Peter Robert Jackson {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is best known as the director, writer, and producer of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy (2001–03) and "The Hobbit" trilogy (2012–14), both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. Other notable films include the critically lauded drama "Heavenly Creatures" (1994), the mockumentary "Forgotten Silver" (1995), the horror comedy "The Frighteners" (1996), the epic monster remake film "King Kong" (2005), and the supernatural drama film "The Lovely Bones" (2009). He also produced "District 9" (2009), "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn" (2011), and the documentary "West of Memphis" (2012).
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Contemporary Films Contemporary Films is the oldest independent film distribution company in the UK. It was founded by Charles Cooper (1910–2001) in 1951. It brought to UK cinemas many acclaimed films from countries around the world, including works by such famous directors as Andrzej Wajda, Milos Forman, Ingmar Bergman, Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson, Sergei Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky, Werner Herzog, Satyajit Ray, Yasujirō Ozu, Nagisa Oshima, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Luis Bunuel. It continues to distribute films to cinemas and TV, and videos and DVDs to the general public, as well as supplying footage to programme-makers.
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Merchants of Venus Merchants of Venus is a romantic comedy film starring British actors Michael York and Prunella Gee. It was written and directed by Len Richmond, writer of the award-winning British comedy series "Agony" and the less successful "Split Ends". The film was released in the US in March 1998 and was given a straight to DVD release in the UK on 1 September 2001, renamed as A Dirty Little Business. In some countries, it was released under the title "Good Vibrations".
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Tony Guilfoyle Tony Guilfoyle (born March 30 1960) is an English actor. He was born in Washford, Somerset, England, of Irish parents Mary Josephine Guilfoyle (née Cullinan) and James (Jimmy) Guilfoyle. He is best known for his recurring role as the accident-prone Father Larry Duff in TV comedy "Father Ted". In theatre he is better known for his long collaboration with the Quebecois theatre director Robert Lepage and his company Ex Machina. Included in this association are Kindertoten Lieder Lincoln Centre NY and world tour, The Geometry Of Miracles performed at The Royal National Theatre and world wide, The Dragons Trilogy performed at the Barbican Theatre London and internationally plus their latest collaboration Cartes (Cards/ Pique) which played at the Roundhouse in London and then internationally. This last production is still touring the world and will eventually be part of a tetralogy Four shows covering the four suits of the playing cards. His other theatre credits are numerous and varied from Shopping And F**cking for the Royal Court Theatre in the West End to The Iceman Cometh at the Almeida Theatre in London with Kevin Spacey. It encompasses political, experimental theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company ( Hanif Kureshi's play Outskirts)
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The Pleasure Principle (film) The Pleasure Principle is a 1992 British comedy film directed by David Cohen and starring Peter Firth, Haydn Gwynne and Lysette Anthony. The screenplay concerns a modern-day Don Juan who enjoys relationships with several different women, but is still bemused by the mysteries of the opposite sex.
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Michael Bay Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American filmmaker known for directing and producing big-budget, high-concept action films characterized by fast cutting, stylistic visuals and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions. The films he has produced and directed, which include "Armageddon" (1998), "Pearl Harbor" (2001) and the "Transformers" film series (2007–present), have grossed over US$ worldwide, making him one of the most commercially successful directors in history. He is co-founder of commercial production house The Institute, a.k.a. The Institute for the Development of Enhanced Perceptual Awareness. He co-owns Platinum Dunes, a production house which has remade horror movies including "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (2003), "The Amityville Horror" (2005), "The Hitcher" (2007), "Friday the 13th" (2009) and "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (2010).
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Allied Film Makers Allied Film Makers was a short lived British production company formed in November 1959 which produced several films. Producer Sydney Box came up the idea of forming a consortium of filmmakers who would distribute films that the filmmakers made. Box had to drop out of the company owing to illness but four partnerships agreed to join: Basil Dearden and Michael Relph; Jack Hawkins; Richard Attenborough and Bryan Forbes; and Hawkins brother. Guy Green later joined the Forbes-Attenborough group. Each group put up £5,000 and Rank Organisation guaranteed distribution.
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Jonathan Elsom Jonathan Elsom (born 22 September 1938) is a New Zealand-born television actor, writer, sculptor and artist. He appeared in many British and Australian television series and films, which include "The Troubleshooters", "The Avengers", "The Saint", "The Adventures of Don Quick", "Z-Cars", "Crown Court", "Worzel Gummidge Down Under", "The Feds", "Review with Myles Barlow" and others.