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Agent 077 From the Orient with Fury

Agent 077 From the Orient With Fury or Agent 077 Fury in the Orient or Agente 077 dall'oriente con furore or Fury on the Bosphorus is a 1965 Italian action spy adventure film of the Secret Agent 077 film series directed by Sergio Grieco.

Alien War

Alien War (now called Alien Wars) opened at its original home at the Arches Glasgow on 6 December 2008 and ran until 30 August 2009 in a modified format that is unrelated to the 20th Century Fox film series.

Anatole Taubman

Anatole Taubman (born 23 December 1970) is a Swiss actor, who has appeared in many films, such as a henchman in the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace and as the monk Remigius in the TV miniseries The Pillars of the Earth.

Andrea Allan

This included the Carry On films, Carry on Spying and Carry on Cowboy, as well as The Wrong Box with Dudley Moore, Spanish Fly with Leslie Phillips and Vampira with David Niven.

Andrew Hewitt

At Abbey Road and Air Studios he has performed on many film scores, for such conductors as John Williams and Howard Shore - including the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Doomsday, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Golden Compass and A Christmas Carol.

Autobot

In the Michael Bay live action films as well as in the CGI-animated series Transformers: Prime, the title Autobots is explained to be the short version of the title Autonomous Robotic Organisms.

Blake Neely

Neely has contributed to and been credited on dozens of film and TV projects over the years such as: Everwood (which earned him a 2003 Emmy Award nomination for the theme), on the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films, King Kong, The Last Samurai, The Great Buck Howard and many more.

Budweiser Frogs

The commercial was directed by Gore Verbinski, director of the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films.

Carol Hawkins

Hawkins is perhaps best known (and forever fondly remembered by many British males of a certain age) as a defining - if possibly reluctant - example of 1970s so-called "English crumpet", both for the role of Sharon Eversleigh and for her performances in two prime-period examples of the legendary Carry On film series: Carry On Abroad (1972), alongside Sally Geeson, and Carry On Behind (1975), alongside Sherrie Hewson.

Cassandra Harris

She appeared in The Greek Tycoon (1978), Rough Cut (1980), and the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only as the Countess Lisl von Schlaf, the ill-fated mistress of Milos Colombo (played by Israeli actor Topol).

Chakal

In 2002 the band reunited with Korg to play a few shows, and over the course of two years wrote material for a new album based on a screenplay written by Korg and inspired by George A. Romero's Living Dead film series.

Cúla 4

Cúla 4 has also dubbed some children's films into Irish including Harry Potter, Jungledyret Hugo, Free Willy.

Disney Universe

It features the ability to suit up as characters from multiple Disney franchises, including the full-length animated feature films like The Lion King, Pixar feature films like Monsters, Inc., live-action films like Pirates of the Caribbean and television series like The Muppet Show.

Drift: The Sideways Craze

The film was aired for four years by Discovery HD and is included as bonus content in Fast and The Furious Blu-ray Box Set.

Emilio Largo

With his status as SPECTRE's second in command, Largo and his appearance inspired Robert Wagner's Number Two in the Austin Powers films.

Fábio Lucindo

He also voiced Spider-Man (The Spectacular Spider-Man), Eric Forman in That 70s Show, Troy Bolton (played by Zac Efron from the High School Musical series) and Spyro the Dragon for the Skylanders series, which is the second reboot for the Spyro the Dragon video game franchise.

Gene Quintano

Gene Quintano is an American film actor, producer, writer and director best known for writing sequels to the hit film Police Academy and directing films such as Dollar for the Dead and Loaded Weapon 1, both starring Emilio Estevez.

George Allen Field

George Allen Field was used in the movie American Wedding, from the American Pie film series.

Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors

Warner Bros. filed a lawsuit against production company Mirchi Movies to stop the release of the film due to the similarity of its title to that of the Harry Potter film series.

Harry Potter action figures

This is a list of action figures produced by Mattel for the Harry Potter film series for films 1 through 4 and produced by NECA for films 5 through 8.

High School Musical cast discography

The discography of the cast of the American film series High School Musical—composed of Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman—consists of three soundtrack albums, one live album, five compilation albums, two remix albums, one extended play and fourteen singles.

Homelite Corporation

In addition, the XL-12 achieved infamous notoriety among horror film aficionados as being one of the chainsaws used by "Leatherface" in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre film series.

Horst Giese

He performed in some 50 films and television productions, and is known for his portrayals of Joseph Goebbels in several films, including in the five-part series Liberation, the two-part Bulgarian production Anvil or Hammer and in the Czechoslovak comedy Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea.

I Wish I Was James Bond

The song is about the spy James Bond from Ian Fleming's books and the James Bond movies and his world in general (girls, gadgets, 00 status, licence to kill and vodka martinis).

Insidious

Insidious (film series), a horror film series with both of the below films directed by James Wan

Jennifer Todd

Her credits include the three Austin Powers films, Boiler Room, Prime, Must Love Dogs, and Memento, for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for producing.

Jody Samson

Jody Samson (November 1, 1946 – December 27, 2008) was a knifemaker and bladesmith from Burbank, California who designed butterfly knives for Benchmade and the swords used in such movies as Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, First Knight, The Mask of Zorro, Blade, Blind Fury, Batman & Robin, Batman Forever, and Streets of Fire.

Josh Kirby... Time Warrior!

Time Warrior! is a film series in six installments produced by Charles Band's Moonbeam Entertainment in Association With The Kushner-Locke Company and released between 1995 and 1996, featuring the fictional character Josh Kirby played by Corbin Allred.

Kimmy Dora: Kambal sa Kiyeme

As of late 2013, It was confirmed that there will be a prequel for the first two movies of Kimmy Dora series entitled Kimmy Dora: Ang Kiyemeng Prequel which will be officially included in 2013 Metro Manila Film Festival.

Land of a Thousand Words

The video for the song, directed by Brumby Boylston and Chris Dooley of National Television is an homage to the James Bond film title sequences (in the style of Robert Brownjohn and Maurice Binder), featuring all of the band, and the credits for the music video itself.

Layla Anna-Lee

Layla is the face of OK! online, and has interviewed some of the cast of the Twilight movies, actor Harrison Ford, and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood.

Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen

Other reviews commented that the film is not about Chen Zhen, but a Hollywood-style superhero film; a combination of 007, Spider-Man, and Batman.

Lego Harry Potter: Years 5–7

The game covers a wide range of characters, as well as locations, of the last three books and four films.

Lionsgate Films

It focuses mainly on foreign and independent films and has distributed various commercially successful film series, including The Twilight Saga (partially), The Hunger Games, Saw and The Expendables.

Make Me Bad

The Alien-inspired music video is one of the most expensive videos Korn have ever filmed, and features actors Brigitte Nielsen, Udo Kier, Tatjana Patitz and Shannyn Sossamon.

The video (apparently inspired by the Alien movie series) was directed by Martin Weisz, and features actresses Brigitte Nielsen, Tatjana Patitz, Shannyn Sossamon, and actor Udo Kier.

Marion Ramsey

She was a regular on the series Cos but is best known for her role as the timid Officer Laverne Hooks in the Police Academy movies.

Muscle Heat

The action scenes were choreographed by two men from Jackie Chan's stunt team, Chan Man Chin (Rumble in the Bronx, Rush Hour), and Sam Won (Thunderbolt, Supercop).

NBC Saturday Night at the Movies

In 2009 and 2010, Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble purchased some Friday and Saturday night time on NBC and Fox to broadcast television films they produced such as The Jensen Project, though the ratings for these films were well below regular programming and like strategies pursued by Mattel with Nickelodeon with the Barbie series of films, mainly aired to sell those films on DVD in-store.

Ocean Software

In 1985, Ocean Software managed to secure the first movie licences, such as Rambo, Short Circuit and Cobra, as well as the TV show Miami Vice and RoboCop which spent about a year on the top of the charts.

Omen IV: The Awakening

Omen IV: The Awakening is a 1991 made-for-television film that serves as the fourth and final addition to the original The Omen series, directed by Jorge Montesi and Dominique Othenin-Girard.

Steffy Forrester

In 2010, it was announced that Wood would take a brief break from the program to film the fifth installment in the Final Destination film series, Final Destination 5.

Takashi Shimura

Outside of his career working with Kurosawa, Shimura is probably best known for his roles in several Japanese monster films, including the scientist Kyohei Yamane in the first two Godzilla films (and the first to reprise the role before Raymond Burr in the English form of Godzilla and Megumi Odaka in the Heisei Godzilla films).

The Amityville Curse

The Amityville Curse is the fifth installment to the Amityville Horror saga and was directed by Tom Berry, it stars Kim Coates, Cassandra Gava and Jan Rubes.

The Charge at Feather River

The movie is most notable for originating the name of the "Wilhelm scream", a sound effect used in the Star Wars film series, as well as countless other movies including Indiana Jones (franchise), Disney cartoons and The Lord of the Rings (film series).

Toyota Supra

Some of the most notable appearances include the Grand Theft Auto, Gran Turismo, Forza Motorsport, Need for Speed, and Midnight Club series of video games and The Fast and the Furious film series.


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Ace Ventura, Jr.: Pet Detective

Ace Ventura Jr: Pet Detective (also known as Ace Ventura Jr. and Ace Ventura 3) is a 2009 telefilm, and the third installment in the Ace Ventura film series.

Arthur Hammerstein

He also was the producer of the film The Lottery Bride (1930), and made an appearance as himself in an episode of the film series Popular Science in 1949.

Ashley Williams

Ash Williams (Ashley J. Williams), a character in the Evil Dead film series

Candace Hutson

Candace Hutson (born June 23, 1981) is an American actress best known as the voice of Cera the Triceratops in The Land Before Time film series from the first film to The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists.

Carry On Spying

Albert R. Broccoli, the producer of the James Bond film series, objected to the character name "James Bind agent 006½" (intended for Charles Hawtrey) and threatened legal action.

Daedalus Howell

With collaborator Jerry Rapp, Howell wrote and directed the R&H Educational Film Series, a four-part parody of American "social guidance films" of the 1950s.

Dallas Chamber Symphony

On February 26, 2013, as part of its film series, the DCS Premiered a new all-strings film score to the silent-film horror classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, starring Conrad Veidt.

Daniel Haller

Among many other credits, Haller designed the deceptively opulent sets for nearly all of Roger Corman's critically acclaimed Edgar Allan Poe film series, including House of Usher (1960) and The Pit and the Pendulum (1961).

Delitto in Formula Uno

It is the tenth chapter in the Nico Giraldi film series starred by Tomas Milian.

El indio

These comic roles would later give inspiration to María Elena Velasco's La India María film series.

Ernest Cline

Cline, a huge fan of the Back to the Future film series, owns a 1982 DeLorean DMC-12 sports car that has been modified to look like the time-travelling vehicle from the films.

Ernest Goes to School

This motion picture is also the only film in the Ernest film series not to be directed by John R. Cherry III.

Filiz Akın

She married director Türker İnanoğlu and they had a son İlker İnanoğlu who would go on to become a prominent child actor, appearing with Akın in the Yumurcak film series.

Galeazzo Maria Sforza

In the short film series, Assassin's Creed: Lineage (a live-action short film set in the Assassin's Creed videogame franchise), the Duke's assassination is depicted with some liberties, with the protagonist Giovanni Auditore arriving only in time to see Lampugnani stab Sforza in the abdomen.

Geoff Love

Big Bond Movie Themes (1975) featuring a selection of instrumental versions of music and songs from the James Bond film series from Dr. No up to The Man with the Golden Gun (including Burt Bacharach's Casino Royale from the 1967 spoof Bond film) has since become one of Love's most sought after MFP albums.

Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong

It is about a battle between the namesake characters from two other film series, Gingerdead Man and Evil Bong.

Global Film Initiative

In 2004, it entered into a partnership with First Run Features for distribution of all films in the Global Lens Film Series, and in 2006 it moved its offices from the West Village of New York to the Potrero Hill district of San Francisco, California (USA).

Gus Meins

Meins first became notable as the director of a number of silent short subjects film series, including the Buster Brown comedies of the 1920s.

Howling VI: The Freaks

It does bear some similarities with the novel The Howling III: Echoes in both the freak show aspect and its sympathetic view of the werewolf, something otherwise only seen in the film series during Marsupials.

Johan Falk

Johan Falk is a Swedish film series about a fictional police officer named Johan Falk, played by Jakob Eklund.

Julia Dreyfus

Julie Dreyfus, French actress famous for her role in the film series Kill Bill

Lance Kinsey

Kinsey has appeared in television, film, and theatre productions, but is probably best known to audiences as Proctor, the supercilious sidekick of Commandant Mauser and Captain Harris in the Police Academy film series.

Lawrence Blair

He wrote, co-produced and starred in the five film series documentary called Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey which highlights a 10 year exploration of Indonesian Islands, an adventure of Lawrence and his brother Lorne.

Lee Marvin vs. Derek Jeter

Jenna tells Liz that she wants to accompany her to her singles activities as her wingman since she is up for a role in National Lampoon's Van Wilder's Wingman, Incorporated, a reference to the National Lampoon's Van Wilder film series.

Madame Aema 11

It was the eleventh and final entry in the Madame Aema series, the longest-running film series in Korean cinema.

Madame Aema 7

It was the seventh entry in the Madame Aema series, the longest-running film series in Korean cinema.

Madame Aema 8

It was the eighth entry in the Madame Aema series, the longest-running film series in Korean cinema.

Madame Aema 9

It was the ninth in the Madame Aema series, the longest-running film series in Korean cinema.

Marion Byron

From there she was hired by Hal Roach to co-star in short subjects with Max Davidson, Edgar Kennedy, and Charley Chase, but most significantly with Anita Garvin, where tiny (5') Marion was teamed with 6' Anita for a brief (3 film) series as a "female Laurel & Hardy" in 1928–1929.

Morelia International Film Festival

Film series, outdoor screenings, conferences, round tables and exhibitions in Morelia, Pátzcuaro and Mexico City complete FICM’s year-round activities.

Number One Spot

The song heavily samples "Soul Bossa Nova" by Quincy Jones, which was used as the theme in the Austin Powers film series; Austin Powers references play major parts in "Number One Spot" and its video.

Oroz

Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz, the 1984 entry in the Brazilian comedy film series Os Trapalhões

Sai Gwa-Pau

Sai Gwa-pau was well known for his comic roles and in particular his role (牙擦苏) in the film series based on the exploits of Wong Fei-hung.

Seasoned Players

Seasoned Players is an award winning porn film series directed and produced by Tom Byron.

Serbian Brotherhood

- The Danish film series Pusher, features a Serbian gang based on the Serbian Brotherhood.

The Christmas That Almost Wasn't

The Christmas That Almost Wasn't is a 1966 film that stars Rossano Brazzi and Paul Tripp, and was originally released by Childhood Productions Inc., and re-released at theaters in 1970 as part of the "MGM Children's Matinees" film series.

The Isle of Pingo Pongo

Additionally, it was recently viewed with other films part of the Censored Eleven at the TCM Film Festival in Hollywood on April 24, 2010 as part of a classic film series, presented by Donald Bogle.

The Punisher in film

After an unsuccessful script of Punisher 2, the film series was then rebooted again in 2008 with the film Punisher: War Zone starring Ray Stevenson.

Trois

Two further films were produced in the film series, Pandora's Box and The Escort.

University of Albuquerque

Fictitiously, the University of Albuquerque was still open and housed a renowned basketball program in the High School Musical film series (2006–2008), specifically High School Musical 2 and High School Musical 3: Senior Year.

Visionaries

Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems, an Australian documentary film series broadcast in 1989, 1990, and 1993

Wilna Hervey

In 1919, she was cast in the role of "The Powerful Katrinka" in The Toonerville Trolley silent film series based on Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Folks comic strip, which was produced by Siegmund Lubin's Betzwood Motion Picture Studios in Pennsylvania.