Kick-Ass (film)
Kick- Ass is a 2010 superhero black comedy film based on the by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. which was published by Marvel Comics.
The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn, who produced with Brad Pitt and co-wrote the screenplay with Jane Goldman.
The film was produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Its general release was on 25 March 2010 in the United Kingdom and on 16 April 2010 in the United States.
It is the first installment of the" Kick- Ass" film series.
It tells the story of an ordinary teenager, Dave Lizewski( Aaron Johnson), who sets out to become a real- life superhero, calling himself" Kick- Ass".
Dave gets caught up in a bigger fight when he meets Big Daddy( Nicolas Cage), a former cop who, in his quest to bring down the crime boss Frank D'Amico( Mark Strong) and his son Red Mist( Christopher Mintz- Plasse), has trained his eleven- year- old daughter( Chloë Grace Moretz) to be the ruthless vigilante Hit- Girl.
Despite having generated some controversy for its profanity and violence performed by a child," Kick- Ass" was well received by both critics and audiences.
In 2011 it won the Empire Award for Best British Film.
The film has gained a strong cult following since its release on DVD and Blu-ray.
A sequel, written and directed by Jeff Wadlow and produced by Vaughn, was released in August 2013, with Johnson, Mintz- Plasse, and Moretz reprising their roles.
In 2018, Vaughn announced his intentions to open up Marv Studios and reboot the series.
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
Orson Welles
George Orson Welles( May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer and producer who is remembered for his innovative work in radio, theatre and film.
He is considered one of the greatest film directors of all time.
While in his twenties Welles directed a number of high- profile stage productions for the Federal Theatre Project, including an adaptation of" Macbeth" with an entirely African American cast and the political musical" The Cradle Will Rock".
In 1937 he and John Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre, an independent repertory theatre company that presented a series of productions on Broadway through 1941, including" Caesar"( 1937), a Broadway adaptation of William Shakespeare's" Julius Caesar".
In 1938, his radio anthology series" The Mercury Theatre on the Air" gave Welles the platform to find international fame as the director and narrator of a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel" The War of the Worlds", which caused widespread panic because many listeners thought that an invasion by extraterrestrial beings was actually occurring.
Although some contemporary sources say these reports of panic were mostly false and overstated, they rocketed Welles to notoriety.
His first film was" Citizen Kane"( 1941), which is consistently ranked as one of the greatest films ever made, which he co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in as Charles Foster Kane.
Welles released twelve other features, the most acclaimed of which include" The Magnificent Ambersons"( 1942)," The Lady from Shanghai"( 1947)," Touch of Evil"( 1958)," The Trial"( 1962)," Chimes at Midnight"( 1966) and" F for Fake"( 1973).
Welles was an outsider to the studio system, and struggled for creative control on his projects early on with the major film studios in Hollywood and later in life with a variety of independent financiers across Europe, where he spent most of his career.
Many of his films were either heavily edited or remained unreleased.
Some, like" Touch of Evil", have been painstakingly re-edited from his notes.
With a development spanning almost 50 years, Welles's final film," The Other Side of the Wind", was released in 2018.
His distinctive directorial style featured layered and nonlinear narrative forms, uses of lighting such as chiaroscuro, unusual camera angles, sound techniques borrowed from radio, deep focus shots and long takes.
He has been praised as" the ultimate auteur".
Welles had three marriages, including one with Rita Hayworth, and three children.
Known for his baritone voice, Welles performed extensively across theatre, radio and film.
He was a lifelong magician noted for presenting troop variety shows in the war years.
In 2002 he was voted the greatest film director of all time in two British Film Institute polls among directors and critics.
He was also included in the list of the 50 greatest Hollywood actors of all time by The Telegraph UK.
Jeff Wadlow
Jeffrey Clark Wadlow( born March 2, 1976) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
He is best known for directing" Cry Wolf"( 2005)," Never Back Down"( 2008)," Kick- Ass 2"( 2013), and" Truth or Dare"( 2018).
Claude Weisz
Claude Weisz is a French film director born in Paris.
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.
Renzo Lucidi
Renzo Lucidi was an Italian film editor who worked on more than sixty films between 1940 and 1992.
He worked with Orson Welles several times, including editing" Mr. Arkadin"( 1955).
Mr. Arkadin
Mr. Arkadin( first released in Spain, 1955), known in Britain as Confidential Report, is a French- Spanish- Swiss coproduction film, written and directed by Orson Welles and shot in several Spanish locations, including Costa Brava, Segovia, Valladolid and Madrid.
Filming took place throughout Europe in 1954, and scenes shot outside Spain include locations in London, Munich, Paris, the French Riviera, and the Château de Chillon in Switzerland.
Kick-Ass 2 (film)
Kick- Ass 2( or simply referred to as K.A.2.) is a 2013 superhero black comedy film based on the second and third volumes of, both by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr., and is the sequel to the 2010 film" Kick- Ass".
The film was written and directed by Jeff Wadlow and co-produced by Matthew Vaughn, who directed the first film.
Aaron Taylor- Johnson, Christopher Mintz- Plasse and Chloë Grace Moretz reprise their roles from the first film as Dave Lizewski, Chris D'Amico, and Mindy Macready, respectively.
Other returning actors include Clark Duke, Yancy Butler, Garrett M. Brown, Lyndsy Fonseca and Sophie Wu. The film was shot in Canada and England in the second semester of 2012 and released on August 14, 2013, in the United Kingdom and Ireland and on August 16 in the United States.
Matthew Vaughn's production company Marv Films produced the film alongside Plan B Entertainment, Dentsu and Universal Pictures.
" Kick- Ass 2" earned$ 60.8 million on a$ 28 million budget.
On Rotten Tomatoes, critics deemed it inferior to its predecessor.
Hartley Lobban
Hartley W Lobban (9 May 1926 – 15 October 2004) was a Jamaican-born first-class cricketer who played 17 matches for Worcestershire in the early 1950s.

Question: Which film has the director born first, Mr. Arkadin or Kick-Ass 2 (Film)?
Answer: Mr. Arkadin