Showing posts with label Mark Strong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Strong. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)


"Manners maketh the man."


Directed by Matthew Vaughn
Produced by Adam Bohling, David Reid, Matthew Vaughn
Screenplay by Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn
Based on "The Secret Service" by Mark Millar, Dave Gibbons
Starring: Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Strong, Taron Egerton, Michael Caine, Mark Hamill
Music by Henry Jackman, Matthew Margeson
Cinematography: George Richmond
Edited by Eddie Hamilton, Jon Harris
Production companies: Marv Films, Shangri-La Entertainment, TSG Entertainment
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date: 29 January 2015 (United Kingdom)
Running time: 129 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Budget: $81 million
Box office: $413.3 million



"Kingsman: The Secret Service" is an action adventure comedy film directed by Matthew Vaughn, and based on the comic book "The Secret Service", created by Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar. The story is about a spy organization which recruits an unrefined, but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program, just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Zero Dark Thirty (2012)


"For ten years one woman never stopped searching for the most wanted man in history"



Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Produced by Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Megan Ellison
Written by Mark Boal
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Ehle, Mark Strong, Kyle Chandler, Édgar Ramírez, James Gandolfini
Music by Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography: Greig Fraser
Edited by Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg
Production company: Annapurna Pictures
Distributed by Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures
Release date: 4 January 2013 (Spain)
Running time: 157 minutes
Country: United State
Budget: $40 million
Box office: $138.8 million

"Zero Dark Thirty" is a historical thriller drama film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. It shows a chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.

Saturday, March 21, 2015

Before I Go to Sleep (2014)



Directed by Rowan Joffé
Produced by Avi Lerner, Liza Marshall, Mark Gill, Matthew O'Toole, Ridley Scott
Written by Rowan Joffé
Based on "Before I Go to Sleep" by S. J. Watson
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Mark Strong, Colin Firth, Anne-Marie Duff
Music by Edward Shearmur
Cinematography: Ben Davis
Edited by Melanie Oliver
Production company: StudioCanal, Millennium Films, Scott Free Productions, Film i Väst
Distributed by Clarius Entertainment
Release date: 4 September 2014 (New Zealand)
Running time: 92 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Box office: $15,060,457

"Before I Go to Sleep" is a mystery thriller film written and directed by Rowan Joffé adapted from S. J. Watson's novel of the same name. The story is about a woman who wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. But one day, she starts to understand that not everything in her life is the truth.

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

The Way Back (2010)


"We've All Been There."


Directed by Peter Weir
Produced by Peter Weir, Joni Levin, Duncan Henderson, Nigel Sinclair, Scott Rudin
Screenplay by Peter Weir, Keith Clarke
Based on "The Long Walk" by Sławomir Rawicz
Starring: Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Saoirse Ronan, Colin Farrell
Music by Burkhard Dallwitz
Cinematography: Russell Boyd
Edited by Lee Smith
Production company: National Geographic Films, Spitfire Pictures, Imagenation Abu Dhabi, Film Fund Luxembourg
Distributed by Newmarket Films, Exclusive Film Distribution, Meteor Pictures
Release date: 26 November 2010 (Norway)
Country:  Bulgaria, India, Morocco, Australia
Running time: 127 minutes
Budget: $30 million
Box office: $20,348,249

"The Way Back" is an adventure drama history film directed by Peter Weir abd inspired by "The Long Walk" (1956), the memoir by former Polish POW Sławomir Rawicz, who escaped from a Soviet Gulag. During World War II, after the Soviet invasion of Poland, young Polish military officer Janusz Wieszczek is held as a POW and interrogated by the NKVD. The Soviets, unable to get him to say he is a spy, take into custody his wife from whom they extort a statement condemning him. He is sentenced to 20 years in a Gulag labour camp deep in Siberia.There Janusz meets those with whom he later plans an escape: an American engineer Mr. Smith, an actor Khabarov, a hardened Russian criminal Valka, a Polish artist Tomasz, a Latvian priest Voss, a Pole suffering from night blindness Kazik and a Yugoslavian accountant Zoran. Khabarov secretly tells Janusz that he is planning to escape south to Mongolia, passing Lake Baikal. Mr. Smith cautions Janusz that it is Khabarov's way to discuss escape plans with newcomers, to maintain his morale, but nothing will come of it. At times Janusz seems to hallucinate the front door of a country home and adjoing window ledge, which holds plants and a rock he attempts to reach for. Janusz follows through with the escape with Mr. Smith, Valka, Voss, Tomasz, Zoran, and Kazik during a severe snowstorm that covers their tracks. However, will all of them get home?

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Kick-Ass (2010)


"A new breed of superheroes will be revealed."


Directed by Matthew Vaughn
Produced by Matthew Vaughn, Brad Pitt, Kris Thykier, Adam Bohling, Tarquin Pack, David Reid
Screenplay by Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn
Based on "Kick-Ass" by Mark Millar, John Romita, Jr.
Starring: Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloë Grace Moretz, Mark Strong, Nicolas Cage
Music by John Murphy, Henry Jackman, Marius de Vries, Ilan Eshkeri
Cinematography: Ben Davis
Edited by Pietro Scalia, Jon Harris, Eddie Hamilton
Distributed by Universal Pictures (United Kingdom), Lionsgate (United States)
Release date: 26 March 2010(United Kingdom)
Running time: 117 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, United States

"Kick-Ass" is a superhero action comedy romance film based on the comic book of the same name, which is written by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr., and directed by Matthew Vaughn. The story is about an ordinary guy, Dave, with an extraordinary desire: he wants to be a real-life superhero and help people. So he purchases a bodysuit and, after making some modifications, starts to make his dream come true. But Dave even doesn't imagine how it's difficult to be a hero and what will happen to him in the near future...