"Kevin Bacon filmography The following is the filmography for actor Kevin Bacon. His most notable roles have been in ""National Lampoon's Animal House"" (1978), ""Friday the 13th"" (1980), ""Diner"" (1982), ""Footloose"" (1984), ""Flatliners"" (1990), ""Tremors"" (1990), ""Wild Things"" (1998), ""JFK"" (1991), ""A Few Good Men"" (1992), ""The River Wild"" (1994), ""Murder in the First"" (1995), ""Apollo 13"" (1995), ""Stir of Echoes"" (1999), ""Hollow Man"" (2000), ""Trapped"" (2002), ""Mystic River"" (2003), ""The Woodsman"" (2004), ""Death Sentence"" (2007), ""Frost/Nixon"" (2008) and """" (2011). In 2009, he starred in the television movie ""Taking Chance"", for which he won a Golden Globe Award for"
"degenerates into a typical horror film."" At Metacritic, the film maintains a score of 24 out of 100 from 35 reviews. While some critics criticized the plot and acting, with some claiming it contains hallmarks of slasher films and misogynistic undertones, most critics praised the visual effects employed on making Kevin Bacon invisible, which earned the film a nomination at the 2001 Academy Awards. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of ""C"" on an A+ to F scale. Roger Ebert gave the film 2 stars out of 4, and complained that Verhoeven wasted potential by taking"
"digital model of the inside of Bacon's body, to create the ""transformation scene"" where Sebastian becomes invisible. New volume-rendering software was required just to replicate the inside of Bacon's body. The scene depicts Sebastian disappearing in stages; first, his skin, followed by his muscles, organs (including his lungs and heart) and finally, his skeleton. Bacon detailed the complications of his role in a diary he kept while filming and believed the ""sense of isolation, anger and suffering"" he felt while wearing the mask and body suit helped his performance. The scene of an invisible Sebastian raping a woman in a"
"The Invisible Man (2000 TV series) The Invisible Man (also shortened to ""The I-Man"" in Season 2) is a Sci-Fi American television series starring Vincent Ventresca, Paul Ben-Victor, Eddie Jones, Shannon Kenny and Michael McCafferty. It aired for two seasons, from June 9, 2000 to February 1, 2002. The plot revolves around Darien Fawkes (Ventresca), a thief facing life imprisonment who is recruited by a spy agency that is constantly short on funds, and given the power of invisibility via implantation of a special ""Quicksilver gland"" in his head. The gland allows Fawkes to secrete a light-bending substance called ""Quicksilver"""
"UK. The Region 1 release also features the episodes in widescreen 16/9, unlike the Region 2 one which had the episodes in full screen 4/3. The second season is not available on DVD. The Invisible Man (2000 TV series) The Invisible Man (also shortened to ""The I-Man"" in Season 2) is a Sci-Fi American television series starring Vincent Ventresca, Paul Ben-Victor, Eddie Jones, Shannon Kenny and Michael McCafferty. It aired for two seasons, from June 9, 2000 to February 1, 2002. The plot revolves around Darien Fawkes (Ventresca), a thief facing life imprisonment who is recruited by a spy agency"
"Fantasia 2000 Fantasia 2000 is a 1999 American animated film by Walt Disney Feature Animation and Walt Disney Pictures, and released by Buena Vista Pictures. Produced by Walt and Roy E. Disney (Walt Disney's final animated feature in the uncredited due to his death on December 15, 1966) and Donald W. Ernst, it is the 38th Disney animated feature film and the sequel to ""Fantasia"" (1940). Like its predecessor, ""Fantasia 2000"" consists of animated segments set to pieces of classical music. Celebrities including Steve Martin, Itzhak Perlman, Quincy Jones, Bette Midler, James Earl Jones, Penn & Teller, and Angela Lansbury"
"2000s in film The decade of the 2000s in film involved many significant developments in the film industries around the world, especially in the technology used. Building on developments in the 1990s, computers were used to create effects that would have previously been more expensive, from the subtle erasing of surrounding islands in ""Cast Away"" (leaving Tom Hanks' character stranded with no other land in sight) to the vast battle scenes such as those in ""Gladiator"", ""The Lord of the Rings"" trilogy, ""The Matrix Reloaded"" and ""300. In addition, film genres not known for their popular appeal in North America"
"films abounded, as did earthbound science fiction such as the ""Matrix"" trilogy. In 2005, the ""Star Wars"" saga was completed with the darkly themed """". Science-fiction also returned as a tool for political commentary in films such as ""A.I. Artificial Intelligence"", ""Minority Report"", ""Sunshine"", ""District 9"", ""Children of Men"", ""Serenity"", ""Sleep Dealer "", and ""Pandorum"". The 2000s also saw the release of ""Transformers"" (2007) and """" (2009), both of which resulted in worldwide box office success. In 2009, James Cameron's ""Avatar"" garnered worldwide box office success, and would later become the highest-grossing movie of all time. This movie was also"
"becomes invisible for a second time, before triggering an overload and destroying the apparatus. But it appears that after all the process is unstable, and he becomes only briefly visible before turning permanently invisible; he cannot return to his visible state any longer, and the serum is ineffective. He goes to his friend, Dr. Nick Maggio (Henry Darrow), a skilled plastic surgeon who creates a disguise for him in the form of a face mask and a pair of gloves using a special material called Dermaplex that has the same properties as human skin, which enable Westin to appear in"
"many spinoffs using the idea of an ""invisible man"" that were largely unrelated to Wells' original story. Rains portrayed the Invisible Man (Dr. Jack Griffin) mostly only as a disembodied voice. Rains is only shown clearly for a brief time at the end of the film, spending most of his on-screen time covered by bandages. In 2008, ""The Invisible Man"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."" On a snowy night, a mysterious stranger, his face swathed in bandages and his eyes obscured by"
"Dream"" – Clint Mansell Fight Club Fight Club Fight Club Björk – ""Dancer in the Dark"" Online Film Critics Society Awards 2000 The 4th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 2000, were given on 2 January 2001. Almost Famous Darren Aronofsky – ""Requiem for a Dream"" Tom Hanks – ""Cast Away"" Ellen Burstyn – ""Requiem for a Dream"" Benicio del Toro – ""Traffic"" <br> Philip Seymour Hoffman – ""Almost Famous"" Kate Hudson – ""Almost Famous"" ""Almost Famous"" – Cameron Crowe Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon The Filth and the Fury ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" – Peter"
"yet no one in the movie had a small personal communication device. Some technologies portrayed as common in the film which had not materialized in the 2000s include commonplace civilian space travel, space stations with hotels, Moon colonization, suspended animation of humans, practical nuclear propulsion in spacecraft and strong artificial intelligence of the kind displayed by Hal. There are corporate logos and entities in the film that either didn't exist, no longer exist, or were broken up by anti-trust lawsuits. Still others changed their business model or represent countries that no longer exist. The British Broadcasting Corporation never expanded to"
"subsequently shelved and has yet to see the light of day, though fans hope it will leak. Promotional copies of the album were never made available. In 2000, she returned to acting, playing the role of Lucy Westerman in the horror film ""Dracula 2000"" with Gerard Butler playing the part of Dracula. She also starred as herself in the spoof film ""Da Hip Hop Witch"" with Eminem in 2000. She had a cameo in the film ""Rock Star"" in 2001. In addition, in 2001 she appeared in the romantic comedy film ""Get Over It"", with Kirsten Dunst and Sisqó. She"
"""X-Men"" (2000) became a film franchise by its surprise hit, and M. Night Shyamalan's ""Unbreakable"" (2000) also succeeded and added an element of more urban realism to the genre. Later, one of the largest blockbusters of all time was released with Sam Raimi's ""Spider-Man"" (2002). With high ticket and DVD sales, several new superhero films were released every year in the 2000s, including ""Daredevil"" (2003), ""The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"" (2003), ""Hulk"" (2003), ""Catwoman"" (2004), ""Hellboy"" (2004), ""The Punisher"" (2004), the semi-animated ""Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow"" (2004), ""Batman Begins"" (2005), ""Fantastic Four"" (2005), ""Ghost Rider"" (2007), ""Transformers"""
"Invincible (2001 TV film) Invincible is a 2001 American fantasy/martial arts film starring Billy Zane. Os travels the world to find these warriors – these ""elements"" – who will be known by the fact that they are all protectors. He must hurry before the Shadow Men find them. Ray Jackson, the representation of the element of Fire, is a young, brash, African-American soldier recently dishonorably discharged from the US Army. Michael Fu, the representation of Water, is a Chinese bodyguard assigned to protect a witness in a high-profile case. Serena Blue, the representation of Air (Metal in the Chinese Elements),"
"Unbreakable (film) Unbreakable is a 2000 American superhero thriller film written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, alongside Robin Wright, Spencer Treat Clark and Charlayne Woodard. It is the first installment in the ""Unbreakable"" series. In ""Unbreakable"", a security guard named David Dunn survives a horrific train crash. After the incident, with the help of a disabled comic art gallery owner named Elijah Price, he learns that he possesses superhuman powers. The film follows Dunn trying to explore and confront his powers and his life thus far while trying to navigate"
"X2000 X2000 is a 1998 short film directed by François Ozon. A naked man (Bruno Slagmulder) wakes up in a luxury loft, which is a residential building in an unidentified European city, after a particularly wild New Year's Eve party of the year 2000. He finds a naked woman (Denise Aron-Schropfer) in his bed, and obviously he does not recognize or remember her. He walks naked through the apartment and discovers a pair of partygoers – two young boys, identical twins (Lionel Le Guevellou and Olivier Le Guevellou), in a sleeping bag, hugging each other. He looks out the window"
"""2001"" was the unbeatable film that in a sense killed the science fiction genre. Similarly, film critic Michel Ciment in his essay ""Odyssey of Stanley Kubrick"" stated, ""Kubrick has conceived a film which in one stroke has made the whole science fiction cinema obsolete."" However, others credit ""2001"" with opening up a market for films such as ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"", ""Alien"", ""Blade Runner"" and ""Contact""; proving that big-budget ""serious"" science-fiction films can be commercially successful, and establishing the ""sci-fi blockbuster"" as a Hollywood staple. Science magazine ""Discover""s blogger Stephen Cass, discussing the considerable impact of the film"
"biblical storyline -- and that was diluted in the first attempt. But Lord willing, we are going to see this thing made into the movie that it should be, and that all the world sees it before the real Rapture comes. As of October 1, 2010, the rights to the ""Left Behind"" film series have officially been reclaimed by Cloud Ten Pictures. The series was rebooted with a 2014 film, which has also been poorly received. Left Behind: The Movie Left Behind is a 2000 Canadian-American religious science fiction film directed by Vic Sarin and starring Kirk Cameron, Brad Johnson,"
"an invisible man and doing nothing more than having him go berserk. While ultimately feeling that the film is merely a slasher film with a science gimmick, Ebert praised the special effects, calling them ""intriguing"" and ""astonishing"". A fake review attributed to David Manning was revealed in late 2001 as a hoax, created by Sony to fake publicity for the film. Verhoeven was not happy with the movie. In 2013, he remarked to ""The Hollywood Reporter,"" ""I decided after ""Hollow Man"", this is a movie, the first movie that I made that I thought I should not have made. It"
"Gambit's cameo was actually shot, but the footage was not used in the final cut. Beast's scene was to show Dr. Hank McCoy transforming into his notable blue fur while Marrow was to be seen lying on a ground in New York City. Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris, the film's writers, cameo in scenes of Wolverine's Weapon X flashbacks as surgeons. The financial and critical success of ""X-Men"" persuaded 20th Century Fox to immediately commission a sequel. Starting in November 2000,<ref name=""second/uncanny"">""The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men: Making X2"" Documentary, 2003, 20th Century Fox</ref> Bryan Singer researched various storylines (one"
"Unspeakable (2000 film) Unspeakable is a 2000 exploitation film written and directed by Chad Ferrin and starring Roger Garcia, Tina Birchfield, and Timothy Muskatell. On his way home from a party, James Fhelleps is involved a car crash that kills his daughter Heather, and leaves his wife Alice disfigured, paralyzed and catatonic. While James aimlessly wanders the city, Alice is cared for by Barry, a coprophilic physical therapist who sexually abuses her. One day, James gives a prostitute named Emmy Bruzze a lift to her house, where James experiences a psychotic break when Emmy tries to seduce him, resulting in"
"remains loyal to the League, infiltrating Moriarty's base and working out how best to destroy it. During the raid on Moriarty's lair, Moriarty's own invisible man is shot by Allan Quatermain while threatening Tom Sawyer. At the film's conclusion, the plans are lost through a hole in the ice when Moriarty is shot, while Skinner decides to remain with the League, now consisting of Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, Henry Jekyll, and Tom Sawyer. Kevin J. Anderson's later book ""The Martian War"" reuses the name Hawley Griffin for the Invisible Man. Griffin makes a brief cameo in Kim Newman's ""Anno Dracula"""
"nomination in the category Best Special Effects. In the documentary, ""Ted Newson's 100 Years of Horror"" (1996), Price recalls that the undressing of the scarecrow scene took several hours to shoot, for only three minutes of on screen time. The transparent effect was done with black velvet covering the actor. Sir Geoffrey Radcliffe (Vincent Price) is sentenced to death for the murder of his brother Michael, a crime he did not commit. Dr. Frank Griffin, the brother of the original invisible man (named John instead of Jack), injects the prisoner with an invisibility drug. As Radcliffe's execution nears, he suddenly"
"have returned to the use of nonlinear narrative repeatedly, including Steven Soderbergh in ""Schizopolis"" (1996), ""Out of Sight"" (1998), ""The Limey"" (1999), ""Full Frontal"" (2002), ""Solaris"" (2002), and ""Che"" (2008); and Christopher Nolan in ""Following"" (1998), ""Memento"" (2000), ""Batman Begins"" (2005), ""The Prestige"" (2006), ""Inception"" (2010), ""The Dark Knight Rises"" (2012), and ""Dunkirk"" (2017). ""Memento"", with its fragmentation and reverse chronology, has been described as characteristic of moving towards postmodernism in contemporary cinema. Another example would be Terrence Malick's acclaimed ""The Tree of Life"" (2011). The element of reverse chronology was explored further in Gaspar Noé's 2002 film ""Irréversible"". Noé's"
"... To call this film shit is an insult to fragrant brown logs everywhere."" Dracula 3000 Dracula 3000, also titled Dracula 3000: Infinite Darkness, is a television horror movie released in 2004 that brings Bram Stoker's fictional vampire Count Dracula into outer space in the distant 30th century. Despite its name, it is not a direct sequel to ""Dracula 2000"". In the year 3000, the space salvage ship ""Mother III"" happens upon the derelict transport ""Demeter"". Captain Van Helsing (Casper Van Dien) and his crew board the abandoned ship. They explore the bridge and find the corpse of the ""Demeter's"""
"water. Visual effects supervisor Craig Hayes then replaced Bacon with a digital clone to form an outline of his performance. To make the clone appear more like Bacon, information about ""every aspect"" of his body was recorded and the entirety of his body, including his genitals, was scanned into a computer. This special-effect performance ensured Hayes a nomination to an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, but he lost it to ""Gladiator"". Inspired after his daughter bought him books on the subject of écorchés at La Specola in Florence, Verhoeven enlisted special effects supervisor Scott Anderson to create a three-dimensional"
"professional movie critics who were willing to view and critique it. No critics reviews are listed on Rotten Tomatoes, and viewers rate it an average of 2.7 of 5 stars. Unspeakable (2002 film) Unspeakable is a horror film directed by Thomas J. Wright. It was written by physician Pavan Grover who also stars in it. Produced in 2002, it was released in 2003. Among the other performers who appear in the film are Dina Meyer (one of the main characters), Dennis Hopper, Jeff Fahey, Lance Henriksen, and Michelle Wolff. A scientist (Meyer) uses technology to peer into the minds of"
"achieve the effects of Sebastian being invisible, Bacon was digitally removed from the footage and each scene was shot twice: once with the actors and once without, for the background to be able to be seen through Sebastian's body. The crew used a motion-control camera, to ensure the same movements were achieved and the shots were then composited in post-production. For scenes where Sebastian was outlined in smoke, water and blood, Bacon wore a latex body suit, face mask, contact lenses and a dental plate all of one color; green was used for blood, blue for smoke, and black for"
"to create false imagery to deceive his enemies. Connor, who has lived with his adopted son John for years with the belief that he is the final Immortal, must return to New York and finish the job he started back in 1985. Along the way, he finds a new love, Dr. Alex Johnson (Deborah Unger). The movie was a box office bomb. Critics claim that it was little more than a carbon copy of the first film. """", released on September 1, 2000, was an attempt to merge characters from both the original film and from the . The story"
"to be saved"". His next film, ""Murder in the First"", earned him the Broadcast Film Critic's Association Award in 1995, the same year that he starred in the blockbuster hit ""Apollo 13"". Bacon played a trademark dark role once again in ""Sleepers"" (1996). This part starkly contrasted with his appearance in the lighthearted romantic comedy, ""Picture Perfect"" (1997). Bacon made his debut as a director with the television film ""Losing Chase"" (1996), which was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, and won one. Bacon again resurrected his oddball mystique that year as a mentally-challenged houseguest in ""Digging to China"" and"
"Kevin Bacon Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor and musician. His films include musical-drama film ""Footloose"" (1984), the controversial historical conspiracy legal thriller ""JFK"" (1991), the legal drama ""A Few Good Men"" (1992), the historical docudrama ""Apollo 13"" (1995), and the mystery drama ""Mystic River"" (2003). Bacon is also known for taking on darker roles such as that of a sadistic guard in ""Sleepers"" (1996) and troubled former child abuser in a critically acclaimed performance in ""The Woodsman"" (2004). He is equally prolific on television, having starred in the Fox drama series ""The Following"" (2013–2015)."
"builds a crepuscular alternate history story whose aim is to explain on a historical and psychoanalytical level why all European super-heroes disappeared from popular culture and European collective memory with World War II. Jess Nevins has produced a series of annotations for each volume which are available online (see links) and have also been expanded into book form: A film adaptation was released in 2003, also by the name ""The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"". The film stars Sean Connery, who plays Allan Quatermain, and features Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, Rodney Skinner aka ""An"" Invisible Man (the rights could not be"