"own private army with which it can back up its demands. The Guild uses its Heighliners to transport troops from the various homeworlds to Arrakis. Later in the game,they become evil, building an ""Emperor Worm"" through which they hope to rule the Universe. Depending on which House you use, and whether or not you win or lose, the campaign end cutscenes are different. Spacing Guild The Spacing Guild is an organization in Frank Herbert's science fiction ""Dune"" universe. With its monopoly on interstellar travel and banking, the power of the Guild is balanced against that of the Padishah Emperor as"
"Transporter (franchise) Transporter (French: Le Transporteur) is an English-language French action film franchise, comprising four films released between 2002 and 2015, and a television series. Jason Statham plays Frank Martin in the first three movies, a professional freelance courier driver for hire. Statham himself is an accomplished martial artist, allowing him to do all the combat scenes involving Frank Martin himself. This permits the films' signature Hong Kong-style fight scenes, choreographed by Corey Yuen. Chris Vance portrays Frank Martin in the and Ed Skrein portrays Frank Martin in the fourth film, a reboot. Frank Martin (Jason Statham) is a highly"
"The Transporter The Transporter (French: Le Transporteur) is a 2002 English-language French action film directed by Corey Yuen and Louis Leterrier (who is credited as artistic director on the project), and written by Luc Besson, who was inspired by BMW Films' ""The Hire"" series. The film stars Jason Statham as Frank Martin, a driver for hire – a mercenary ""transporter"" who will deliver anything, anywhere – no questions asked – for the right price. It also stars Shu Qi as Lai Kwai. It is the first installment in the ""Transporter"" franchise, succeeded by two sequels, ""Transporter 2"" and ""Transporter 3"","
"Space Truckers Space Truckers is a 1996 American-British-Irish comic science fiction film directed by Stuart Gordon and starring Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar and Charles Dance. It was filmed at Ardmore Studios, County Wicklow, Ireland. The story concerns John Canyon, one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Bad times have forced him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without asking questions. During the flight, the cargo turns out to be a multitude of virtually unstoppable killer robots. At a corporation's base on the Neptunian moon Triton, mercenaries are setting up a defense perimeter to try to hold off"
"The Transporter Refueled The Transporter Refueled (French: Le Transporteur : Héritage) is a 2015 action film directed by Camille Delamarre and written by Bill Collage, Adam Cooper, and Luc Besson. It is the fourth film in the ""Transporter"" franchise, a reboot to the previous films, and the first film to be distributed by EuropaCorp in North America, but features a new cast, with Ed Skrein replacing Jason Statham as the title role of Frank Martin. It is the first installment of a planned ""Transporter"" reboot trilogy. It was also the only film in the franchise that did not feature François"
"trucks. He then steals a small airplane and parachutes onto one of the trucks. After a lengthy fight, Frank manages to kill Bettencourt and some of his henchmen, only to be ambushed by Kwai once he gets out of the truck. However, Frank is saved when Lai reluctantly shoots her father. Afterwards, Tarconi arrives with the police, and they rescue the people trapped inside the two containers. ""The Transporter"" premiered in 2,573 theaters. With a production budget of $20.5 million, it grossed $25,296,447 in the United States and a total of $43,928,932 worldwide. The film was cut to receive a"
"In Transit (2008 film) In Transit (originally titled In Tranzit) is a 2008 Russian-British drama film based on the true story of German prisoners of war in a Soviet work camp after World War II. The film was directed by Tom Roberts, and stars Thomas Kretschmann, Daniel Brühl, Vera Farmiga, and John Malkovich. The film was released in Russian cinemas on 4 March 2008 and in the United Kingdom on 31 May 2010. In the winter of 1946, in Leningrad, a group of German prisoners of war are sent to a female transit camp by the cruel Russian Colonel Pavlov"
"The Commuter (film) The Commuter is a 2018 action thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and written by Byron Willinger, Philip de Blasi and Ryan Engle. The film stars Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks, and Sam Neill. It follows a man who is unwittingly recruited into a murder conspiracy after meeting a mysterious woman while on his daily train commute. The film premiered in New York City on January 8, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on January 12, 2018, by Lionsgate, and on January 19, 2018 in the United Kingdom by StudioCanal; it"
"The uncensored fight footage as well as a longer car chase scene was only featured as deleted scenes on the US DVD release. Also the deleted footage included the killing of the doctor. A 2008 sequel, entitled ""Transporter 3"", was released in the U.S. on November 26, 2008. The film follows Frank Martin as he returns to France. It is the only film in the ""Transporter"" trilogy to be distributed by Lionsgate in the US. Transporter 2 Transporter 2 (French: Le Transporteur 2) is a 2005 French action thriller film directed by Louis Leterrier and written by Robert Mark Kamen"
"part of ""The Transporter Collection"", which featured the first two films in the series. A Blu-ray format was released on November 14, 2006. ""The Transporter"" received mixed reviews. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 54% based on reviews from 127 critics, with an average rating of 5.6 out of 10, with the site's consensus: """"The Transporter"" delivers the action at the expense of coherent storytelling."" At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 51 based on 27 reviews, indicating ""mixed"
"score of 7.0 out of 10, saying, ""The shadow of Jason Statham loomed large over this reboot, but Ed Skrein nails it, meaning the franchise is in safe hands."" The Transporter Refueled The Transporter Refueled (French: Le Transporteur : Héritage) is a 2015 action film directed by Camille Delamarre and written by Bill Collage, Adam Cooper, and Luc Besson. It is the fourth film in the ""Transporter"" franchise, a reboot to the previous films, and the first film to be distributed by EuropaCorp in North America, but features a new cast, with Ed Skrein replacing Jason Statham as the title"
"Transporter 2 Transporter 2 (French: Le Transporteur 2) is a 2005 French action thriller film directed by Louis Leterrier and written by Robert Mark Kamen and co-producer Luc Besson. It is a sequel to ""The Transporter"" (2002), and stars Jason Statham, Alessandro Gassman, Amber Valletta, Kate Nauta, François Berléand, Matthew Modine, and Jason Flemyng. Both Statham and Berléand reprise their roles as Frank Martin and Inspector Tarconi, respectively. In the story, Frank chauffeurs a young boy from Miami, Florida, who is soon kidnapped and tries to rescue him. The film is followed by ""Transporter 3"" which was released in 2008."
"Streamers (film) Streamers is a 1983 film adapted by David Rabe from his play of the same name. The film was directed by Robert Altman and produced by Robert Michael Geisler and John Roberdeau (""The Thin Red Line""). The cast includes David Alan Grier as Roger, Mitchell Lichtenstein as Richie, Matthew Modine as Billy, Michael Wright as Carlyle, George Dzundza as Cokes, and Guy Boyd as Rooney. The entire cast was named Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. The film was screened out of competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. Four young soldiers waiting to be shipped to"
"was released on Blu-ray by Olive Films on 24 January 2017. Wagon Tracks Wagon Tracks is a 1919 American Western film written by C. Gardner Sullivan, produced by Thomas H. Ince and William S. Hart, and directed by Lambert Hillyer. Upon its release, the ""Los Angeles Times"" described it as Hollywood's greatest desert epic. The film's plot centers on Buckskin Hamilton (played by William S. Hart), a desert guide in the mold of Kit Carson. The film is set in the Gold Rush year of 1850. Buckskin rides to Westport Landing to meet a steamer from St. Louis. The steamer"
"have traveled more than , about the same driving distance as from Miami to Seattle. The crawler-transporters have featured in television and movies. In a season three episode of ""Dirty Jobs"", host Mike Rowe helps workers maintain a crawler-transporter and takes the vehicle for a short drive. The crawler was also seen in the 1995 film ""Apollo 13"" and the 2011 film """". Similar vehicles appeared in the 2013 film ""Pacific Rim"", used for transporting and launching Jaegers. In the ""Fallout 3"" video game add-on pack ""Broken Steel"", the US government survivors, The Enclave, have a mobile base built on"
"Truckers (1992 TV series) Truckers is a stop motion animated series, an adaptation of the first book of Terry Pratchett's ""The Nome Trilogy"", produced in the United Kingdom by Cosgrove Hall for TV, then released on VHS, though edited together into a feature-length film. Cosgrove Hall had plans to produce follow-ups for the remaining two books in the series, but these plans were shelved due to a change of management in the early 1990s. The series consisted of 13 ten-minute episodes. Masklin the Nome and his companions flee their unsustainable motorway-verge home and discover a race of Nomes living in"
"film was theatrically released in the UK in March 2018, by Dreamchasers Film Ltd. For protagonists Scott (Richard Mason) and Sid (Tom Blyth), one meeting could change their lives. Narrated by a hopeful Scott and Sid, the duo recounts their story to a fascinated taxi driver and the story unfolds in flashbacks. As schoolboys growing up in York, the pair were isolated, underachieving and a little lost. While Scott was an uncontainable and frantic youth, Sid was a more reserved and awkward teen. Both were weighed down by their chaotic lives; Scott, an unloved foster child, was expelled from multiple"
"Transporter 3 Transporter 3 (French: Le Transporteur 3) is a 2008 French action film, It is the third and final installment in the original trilogy of the ""Transporter"" franchise. Both Jason Statham and François Berléand reprise their roles, as Frank Martin and Inspector Tarconi, respectively. The first film in the series to be directed by Olivier Megaton, it continues the story of Frank Martin, a professional ""transporter"" who has returned to France to continue his low-key business of delivering packages without question. A ship arrives, carrying toxic chemicals that have killed two of its crew members. Frank Martin and Inspector"
"Goon: Last of the Enforcers Goon: Last of the Enforcers is a 2017 sports comedy film directed by Jay Baruchel in his directorial debut and written by Baruchel and Jesse Chabot. A sequel to ""Goon"" (2011), the film stars Seann William Scott, Baruchel, Liev Schreiber, Alison Pill, Elisha Cuthbert, Wyatt Russell, Marc-André Grondin and Kim Coates. Principal photography began in Toronto on June 22, 2015. The film was released in Canada on March 17, 2017 and on September 1, 2017 in the United States. During a pro hockey lockout, Doug ""The Thug"" Glatt's (Seann William Scott) team, the Halifax Highlanders,"
"as the suitcase lands on his limousine's roof, killing him. With Saggs dead and Earth safe, Mike, Cindy, John and Cindy's mother blast off in their brand new rig. ""Space Truckers"" was poorly received by critics, with the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes rating the film at 8%, based on 12 reviews. Space Truckers Space Truckers is a 1996 American-British-Irish comic science fiction film directed by Stuart Gordon and starring Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar and Charles Dance. It was filmed at Ardmore Studios, County Wicklow, Ireland. The story concerns John Canyon, one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs."
"Monster Trucks (film) Monster Trucks is a 2016 American action comedy film produced by Paramount Animation, Nickelodeon Movies and Disruption Entertainment for Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Chris Wedge and written by Derek Connolly, from a story by Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger and Matthew Robinson. The film stars Lucas Till, Jane Levy, Amy Ryan, Rob Lowe, Danny Glover, Barry Pepper and Holt McCallany, and follows a high schooler who finds an escaped monster living in his truck. Principal photography of the film began on April 4, 2014, in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. It was released by Paramount Pictures in"
"for the most part."" By way of contrast, another critic, Don Groves, saw the film as ""almost totally devoid of tension, marred by slack pacing, thinly developed characters and banal dialogue."" In Transit (2008 film) In Transit (originally titled In Tranzit) is a 2008 Russian-British drama film based on the true story of German prisoners of war in a Soviet work camp after World War II. The film was directed by Tom Roberts, and stars Thomas Kretschmann, Daniel Brühl, Vera Farmiga, and John Malkovich. The film was released in Russian cinemas on 4 March 2008 and in the United Kingdom"
"Angier to destroy it. Borden's wife, Sarah, is driven to suicide by Borden's contradictory personality. In London, Angier debuts the Real Transported Man using Tesla's machine: the machine creates a clone Angier on the other side of the theatre, while the first Angier drops into a tank below the stage and drowns. Borden sneaks backstage and witnesses one of the Angiers drown. He is discovered by Angier's stage engineer, Cutter. Unable to explain Angier's death, Borden is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. In prison, Borden is visited by an agent of Lord Caldlow, who offers to care"
"The Wheeler Dealers The Wheeler Dealers (a.k.a. Separate Beds in the UK) is a 1963 romantic comedy film from Metro Goldwyn Mayer, produced by Martin Ransohoff, directed by Arthur Hiller, that stars James Garner and Lee Remick, and co-stars Phil Harris, Chill Wills, Jim Backus, and Patricia Crowley. The film's screenplay was written by George Goodman and Ira Wallach, based on Goodman's 1959 novel of the same name. Garner was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Molly Thatcher (Lee Remick) is a stockbroker languishing in a company run by male chauvinist"
"with EuropaCorp and China's Fundamental Films co-producing and distributing the titles. The films will likely be budgeted between €25 million and €30 million each and at least one will be shot in China. Luc Besson will co-finance, distribute, produce and write all the films. The franchise was rebooted after negotiations with Jason Statham fell through. EuropaCorp wanted Statham to sign a three contract deal, without revealing the script first. English actor Ed Skrein replaced Statham as Frank Martin in the fourth installment of the series. In March 2015, the title was changed from ""The Transporter Legacy"" to ""The Transporter Refueled""."
"Transformers: The Last Knight Transformers: The Last Knight is a 2017 American science-fiction action film based on the Transformers toy line. It is the fifth installment of the live-action ""Transformers"" film series and a sequel to 2014's """". Like its predecessors, the film is directed by Michael Bay, and features Mark Wahlberg returning from ""Age of Extinction"", with Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, and Glenn Morshower reprising their roles from the first three films, as well as Laura Haddock, Isabela Moner, Jerrod Carmichael, Santiago Cabrera, and Sir Anthony Hopkins all joining the cast. Bay stated this would be his final film"
"singing sons of the Kissel family on the wagon train. The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Lewis Taylor, which was later made into a short-running television series on ABC from September 1963 through March 1964, featuring Kurt Russell as Jaimie, Dan O'Herlihy as his father, ""Doc"" Sardius McPheeters, and Michael Witney and Charles Bronson as the wagon masters, Buck Coulter and Linc Murdock, respectively. Taylor's realistic novel—despite the Tom-Sawyer-like protagonist and narrator, it is aimed at an adult audience and contains episodes that would have kept it off"
"The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Lewis Taylor, which was later made into a short-running television series on ABC from September 1963 through March 1964, featuring Kurt Russell as Jaimie, Dan O'Herlihy as his father, ""Doc"" Sardius McPheeters, and Michael Witney and Charles Bronson as the wagon masters, Buck Coulter and Linc Murdock, respectively. Taylor's realistic novel—despite the Tom-Sawyer-like protagonist and narrator, it is aimed at an adult audience and contains episodes that would have kept it off any school list at the time—was published in 1958 and"
"as a reluctant hero. He is portrayed as a former Special Forces operative who was a team leader of a search and destroy unit. His military background includes operations ""in and out of"" Lebanon, Syria and Sudan. He retires from this after becoming fatigued and disenchanted with his superior officers. In simple terms, he got tired of seeing his best efforts turned to nothing by the same people paying him to do the job. So he puts his skills to action as a private driver for hire. Transporter (franchise) Transporter (French: Le Transporteur) is an English-language French action film franchise,"
"the film's prospects, but Schwarzenegger dropping out proved to be an insurmountable obstacle to getting the movie made. NASA's two crawler-transporters—large diesel-powered transport devices used since 1965 to carry heavy launch loads to the launch site, including fully assembled spacecraft from the Apollo, Skylab, and Shuttle eras—are also nicknamed ""Hans"" and ""Franz"" after the duo. In the popular MMO, ""World of Warcraft"", Hans'gar and Franzok are twin brothers in the Blackrock Foundry raid. With a throwback to the Saturday Night Live characters, Franzok can be heard yelling ""Hear me now and believe me later!"" Hans and Franz Hans and Franz"
"Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport is the 2000 Academy Award-winning Warner Bros. documentary feature film about the remarkable British rescue operation, known as the Kindertransport, which saved the lives of over 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia by transporting them via train, boat, and plane to England. These children, or ""Kinder"" in German, were taken into foster homes and hostels in Britain, expecting eventually to be reunited with their parents. The majority of them never saw their families again. Written and directed by Mark"
"Deep"", for Sony Pictures Entertainment. However, on June 3, 2015, TheWrap reported that Leterrier had exited the film due to creative differences and the reduction of the previously told budget. Louis Leterrier Louis Leterrier (born June 17, 1973) is a French film director whose films include the first two ""Transporter"" films, ""Unleashed"" (2005), ""The Incredible Hulk"" (2008), ""Clash of the Titans"" (2010) and ""Now You See Me"" (2013). Leterrier was born in Paris, the son of director François Leterrier and costume designer Catherine Leterrier (née Fabius). He is the nephew of politician Laurent Fabius and antiquarian François Fabius. He was"
"stainless steel exterior with red and white trim and featured interior luggage racks, were promoted as ""Airporters."" The Airporters supplanted the Blue Birds, except during rush hour when extra cars were needed. In 1970, ten additional Airporters were purchased, numbered as 171–180. With the purchase of the Tokyu cars in 1985, all Airporters and Blue Birds were retired. The Red Line is prominently featured in the final scenes of the film ""Proximity"", starring Rob Lowe and James Coburn. The finale involves a hostage on a Red Line train and a gunfight and chase scene through the Tower City station. Red"