"Mean Machine (film) Mean Machine is a 2001 British sports comedy film directed by Barry Skolnick. It stars former footballer Vinnie Jones. The film is an adaptation of the 1974 American film ""The Longest Yard"", featuring association football rather than American football. It also reunites most of the cast who have starred in the Guy Ritchie blockbusters ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"" and ""Snatch"". Danny ""The Mean Machine"" Meehan is a retired footballer and former captain of the England national football team, who was banned from football for life for fixing a match they played against Germany. After a"
"Matthew Vaughn Matthew Allard de Vere Drummond (born Matthew Allard Robert Vaughn; 7 March 1971) is an English film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for producing such films as ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"" (1998) and ""Snatch"" (2000) and directing the films ""Layer Cake"" (2004), ""Stardust"" (2007), ""Kick-Ass"" (2010), """" (2011), """" (2014), and its sequel """" (2017). Vaughn was born in London. He had thought that he was the child of an affair between his mother, Kathy Ceaton (died 20 July 2013), and American actor Robert Vaughn. A paternity investigation subsequently identified his father as"
"production of Ritchie's second film production following his 1995 short ""The Hard Case"", which Styler had seen and decided that co-funding the project would be a worthwhile opportunity. The production of the film, ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"", was completed in about eight months. Released in Great Britain in 1998 to positive reviews, it became an international success. It starred Nick Moran and also introduced actors Jason Statham, Jason Flemyng and Dexter Fletcher to worldwide audiences, while launching a new acting career for former footballer Vinnie Jones. Ritchie was introduced to Madonna, whom he would later wed, when the"
"After learning about Statham's past as a black market salesman, Ritchie cast him to play the role of ""Bacon"" in his 1998 crime comedy thriller ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"". The movie was well received by both critics and audiences, and helped put Statham in the public eye. For his role in the film he was paid £5,000 ($6,937). Statham's second collaboration with Ritchie came in the 2000 film ""Snatch"", playing the role of ""Turkish"". Cast alongside popular actors Brad Pitt, Dennis Farina, and Benicio del Toro, and with the movie earning more than $80 million in box-office revenue."
"at the London Olympians and at Valley Trojans. Stephen Marcus Stephen Marcus (born Stephen Mark Scott; 18 June 1962) is a British actor, best known for his role as Nick the Greek in the film ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"". Marcus became an actor in 1984 after three years of training at Arts Educational Schools in London; he spent the first six months of his career touring throughout London's parks and schools in ""Robin Hood & The Tree Trick"", which was quickly followed by his first film role as Moose in the cult film ""My Beautiful Laundrette"". After a"
"Stephen Marcus Stephen Marcus (born Stephen Mark Scott; 18 June 1962) is a British actor, best known for his role as Nick the Greek in the film ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"". Marcus became an actor in 1984 after three years of training at Arts Educational Schools in London; he spent the first six months of his career touring throughout London's parks and schools in ""Robin Hood & The Tree Trick"", which was quickly followed by his first film role as Moose in the cult film ""My Beautiful Laundrette"". After a few years working in theatre, commercials and supporting"
"between 1957 and 1965. He once scored to knock Fulham, then in the First Division, out of the FA Cup. Frank Harper Frank Harper (born 12 December 1962) is an English actor and film producer. He is best known for his ""hard man"" roles, such as ""Billy Bright"" in ""The Football Factory"" (2004) and ""Dog"" in ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"" (1998). Frank Harper had an early interest in acting and appeared in a play based around football supporters, at the Albany Theatre in Deptford, while he was still at school. He appeared as a white nationalist in ""South"
"the Promotional Department of Sacramento's KMAX-TV, producing short films and television spots. In 1998 he won some cult and critical acclaim for his film ""Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane"" which premiered in September 1997 at the New York Independent Feature Film Market and later at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. He directed the 2002 Detroit-set thriller ""Narc"", starring Ray Liotta and Jason Patric. Following ""Narc"", he directed an entry in the BMW Films titled ""Ticker"" starring Clive Owen and Don Cheadle. At one point he was solicited to direct """", produced by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner (who also executive"
"October 2015 Moran fronts his own Frank Sinatra tribute band, often appearing at London's Cafe De Paris and various charity events. In Moran's spare time he practices karate. Nick Moran Nick Moran (born 23 December 1968) is an English actor, writer, producer and director, best known for his role as Eddy the card sharp in ""Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels"". He appeared as Scabior in ""Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1"" and ""Part 2"". Moran was born in the East End of London, to a hairdresser mother and an Automobile Association worker father. He grew up"
"Frank Harper Frank Harper (born 12 December 1962) is an English actor and film producer. He is best known for his ""hard man"" roles, such as ""Billy Bright"" in ""The Football Factory"" (2004) and ""Dog"" in ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"" (1998). Frank Harper had an early interest in acting and appeared in a play based around football supporters, at the Albany Theatre in Deptford, while he was still at school. He appeared as a white nationalist in ""South West 9"", and as the bank robber in Harry Enfield's film ""Kevin & Perry Go Large"". He was featured in"
"1991 and was sold three years later to Paragon Entertainment, a Canadian corporation. Afterwards, Harrison sued O'Brien for $25 million for fraud and negligence, resulting in an $11.6 million judgement in 1996. In 1994, the company was acquired by the Canadian company Paragon Entertainment, which restarted production under the HandMade name. The company's most notable release of that era was ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"" (1998). In 1999 Patrick Meehan and Cartier Investments acquired HandMade from Paragon. In June 2006 the Equator Group plc acquired Handmade Holdings Limited, and in November of that year Sequence Film Limited (a film"
"Nick Moran Nick Moran (born 23 December 1968) is an English actor, writer, producer and director, best known for his role as Eddy the card sharp in ""Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels"". He appeared as Scabior in ""Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1"" and ""Part 2"". Moran was born in the East End of London, to a hairdresser mother and an Automobile Association worker father. He grew up on the South Oxhey council estate near Watford and the Greater London boundary. Moran first hit film appearance was in 1990 alongside Roger Daltrey and Chesney Hawkes, in"
"Jon Poll Jon Poll (born 1958) is an American film director, editor and producer, best known for his directorial debut with the 2007 film ""Charlie Bartlett"". Poll is the one of three sons of the late film producer, Martin Poll. He graduated from the University of Southern California's film school in 1981 before becoming a film editor. Between 1982 and 2004, he worked in the editing rooms of eighteen films, including ""Weeds"" (1987), ""Fire Birds"" (1990), ""Cabin Boy"" (1994), """" (1999), ""Meet the Parents"" (2000), ""Austin Powers in Goldmember"" (2002), ""Scary Movie 3"" (2003) and ""Meet the Fockers"" (2004). He"
"soundtrack for the film was issued on her Maverick Records label. In 2000 Ritchie won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. Ritchie created and produced a spin-off television series called ""Lock, Stock..."". Ritchie's second feature film, ""Snatch"", was released in 2000. Originally known as ""Diamonds"", it was another caper comedy, this time backed by a major studio with a cast featuring such major Hollywood names as Brad Pitt, Benicio del Toro and Dennis Farina, along with the returning Statham and Vinnie Jones. Similar to ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"" in featuring"
"Joe Carnahan Joseph Aaron Carnahan (born May 9, 1969) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, producer and actor best known for his films ""Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane"", ""Narc"", ""Smokin' Aces"", ""The A-Team"", and ""The Grey"". He also writes and directed some episodes for the NBC television series ""The Blacklist"". He is the brother of screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan and producer Leah Carnahan. Carnahan was raised in Michigan and Northern California. He attended college at San Francisco State University but later transferred to California State University, Sacramento, and earned his B.A. in Filmography there. Carnahan eventually became employed in"
"tone and a sense of balance."" Jon Favreau Jonathan Kolia Favreau (; born October 19, 1966) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. As an actor, he is known for roles in films such as ""Rudy"" (1993), ""Swingers"" (1996) (which he also wrote), ""Very Bad Things"" (1998), ""The Break-Up"" (2006), ""Friends"" (1994-2004), ""Couples Retreat"" (2009), and ""Chef"" (2014) (which he also directed). He has additionally directed the films ""Elf"" (2003), """" (2005), ""Iron Man"" (2008), ""Iron Man 2"" (2010), ""Cowboys & Aliens"" (2011), and ""The Jungle Book"" (2016), and served as an executive producer on ""The Avengers"" (2012), ""Iron"
"that he is in negotiations with the studio to helm the project. On 25 May 2002, Vaughn married German model Claudia Schiffer in Suffolk. The couple have three children: son Caspar Matthew de Vere (born 30 January 2003) and daughters Clementine Poppy (born 11 November 2004) and Cosima Violet (born 14 May 2010). The couple have homes in Notting Hill, and own Coldham Hall, Stanningfield, Suffolk. Matthew Vaughn Matthew Allard de Vere Drummond (born Matthew Allard Robert Vaughn; 7 March 1971) is an English film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for producing such films as ""Lock, Stock"
"Paul Thomas Anderson Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970), also referred to as P. T. Anderson or PTA, is an American filmmaker. In 1993, he wrote and directed a short film, ""Cigarettes & Coffee,"" on a budget of $20,000. An alumnus of the Sundance Institute, Anderson directed his first feature film ""Hard Eight"" (1996), which is set in Reno, Nevada. Anderson achieved critical and commercial success with his film ""Boogie Nights"" (1997), set during the Golden Age of Porn in the 1970s and 1980s. His third film, ""Magnolia"" (1999), follows the interconnected lives of several characters over a day"
"""Buddy's Song"" (1990). He then went on to star with Britpack waifs Hans Matheson and Samantha Morton in a Coky Giedroyc short, ""The Future Lasts a Long Time"" (1996). In ""Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels"" (1998), he shared the screen with Jason Statham, Dexter Fletcher, Jason Flemyng, Vinnie Jones and British rocker Sting, who played the role of his father, JD. Moran co-starred with John Hurt in ""New Blood"" (1999), and also starred with Joseph Fiennes, Sadie Frost and Tara FitzGerald in ""Rancid Aluminium"" (2000). In 2001, he played the role of Aramis in ""The Musketeer"", a film loosely"
"company. He is the father of Paul Mastroianni, who is also pursuing a career in filmmaking. Armand Mastroianni Armand Mastroianni (born August 1, 1948 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American film director and producer. Armand Mastroianni's directorial debut was the 1980 horror film ""He Knows You're Alone"" which was also the screen debut of actor Tom Hanks. He has directed some studio films such as ""The Celestine Prophecy"", the bulk of his career has mainly been focused on directing television films, such as ""The Ring,"" ""First Daughter,"" ""One of Her Own"", and Robin Cook's ""Invasion,"" and television dramas, such"
"album, produced and engineered by Playford and released in 1995 on the better-funded FFRR Records. Lauded by critics, the album was one of the first drum & bass titles to achieve mainstream success, going on to be one of the best-selling drum & bass albums of its time. Moving Shadow maintained its status as one of the highest-profile drum and bass labels with the next crop of producers, signing names like Dom and Roland, Aquasky, Calyx and EZ Rollers in 1996 and 1997. EZ Rollers saw their music featured in the film ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"", though its"
"Ralph Brown also stars as local gangland boss Miami Vice. ""Lock, Stock..."" was Ginger Productions' first commission for television. The series prominently featured the use of the rhyming slang of London's East End, making it harder for some viewers to comprehend. In Australia, the series first aired in 2001 on ABC. In Portugal, the series first aired in 2005 on cable channel SIC Radical. In Germany, the series first aired on cable channel RTL Crime in 2011, under the title Bube, Dame, König, grAS (which in turn, is the German translation of ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels""). A soundtrack"
"Tim Burton Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator. He is known for his dark, gothic, and eccentric horror and fantasy films such as ""Beetlejuice"" (1988), ""Edward Scissorhands"" (1990), ""The Nightmare Before Christmas"" (1993), ""Ed Wood"" (1994), ""Sleepy Hollow"" (1999), ""Corpse Bride"" (2005), """" (2007), ""Dark Shadows"" (2012), and ""Frankenweenie"" (2012). He is also known for blockbusters such as the adventure comedy ""Pee-wee's Big Adventure"" (1985), the superhero films ""Batman"" (1989) and its first sequel ""Batman Returns"" (1992), the sci-fi film ""Planet of the Apes"" (2001), the fantasy drama ""Big"
"Mark L. Lester Mark L. Lester (born November 26, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is known as a prolific director of cult films including the disco musical ""Roller Boogie"", the vigilante thriller film ""Class of 1984"", the Stephen King-adaptation ""Firestarter"" (1984), the Arnold Schwarzenegger action film ""Commando"" (1985), and the action-comedy ""Armed and Dangerous"" (1986), starring John Candy, Eugene Levy, and Meg Ryan. After his debut in 1970 with the film ""Twilight of the Mayas"", Lester quickly became a prolific B-movie director, initially making his mark with a trio of road movies designed for the"
"a changing society is also brought out in ""For Queen and Country"" (1989). ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"" (1998) again explores gangsterism, with change represented by amateur white collar criminals. Conflict arises between them and old firm criminals, immigrant gangsters and a group of less than honest friends, raised in the East End. Romantic encounters with a multi-cultural erotic frisson, set in Limehouse's Chinatown, are the theme of ""Broken Blossoms"" (1919), derived from a story in Thomas Burke's ""Limehouse Nights"" and ""Piccadilly"" (1929) starring Anna May Wong as an alluring Chinese nightclub performer. Limehouse is also the scene of"
"his first work filmed in 35mm. ""Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes"" (1998, co-directed with Bruno Stagnaro) followed. The film was well received at the various film festivals where it screened. In 1996, Caetano won a Media Arts Fellowship, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City. Caetano also directs television commercial and programs. In 2005, Caetano returned to Uruguay to shoot the mini-series ""Uruguayos Campeones"" for television. Film critic Manohla Dargis, writing for the ""Los Angeles Times,"" calls Caetano ""a leading figure in the new Argentine cinema."" She notes that Caetano's first feature, the 1998 release of ""Pizza, Beer, Cigarettes,"""
"Tommy Hilfiger, and Levis in various advertising campaigns. Statham's past professional history working in market stalls inspired his casting in the Guy Ritchie crime films ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"" (1998) and ""Snatch"" (2000). The commercial success of these films led him to star as Frank Martin in ""The Transporter"" trilogy (2002–08). After starring in a variety of heist and thriller films such as ""The Italian Job"" (2003), ""Crank"" (2006), ""War"" (2007), ""The Bank Job"" (2008), ""The Mechanic"" (2011), ""Spy"" (2015), and """" (2016), he established himself as a leading actor in Hollywood. He would find further commercial success"
"Floyd Mutrux Floyd Mutrux (born June 21, 1941) is an American stage and film director, writer, producer, and screenwriter. He began his work in Hollywood as an uncredited writer for ""Two-Lane Blacktop"" (1971). His career continued with ""The Christian Licorice Store"" (1971; writer/producer), ""Dusty and Sweets McGee"" (1971; writer, producer and director) and ""Freebie and the Bean"" (1974; story and executive producer). He wrote and directed ""Aloha, Bobby and Rose"" (1975) and ""The Hollywood Knights"" (1980). Mutrux also directed ""American Hot Wax"" (1978). His later work includes ""Dick Tracy"" (1990; executive producer), ""American Me"" (1992; writer/executive producer), ""Blood In Blood"
"not have to go from craftsman to craftsman to get it finished. ""Lock Stock & Barrel"" is a book dealing with the restoration and repair of antique firearms, in two volumes. Lock, stock, and barrel is also referenced in the title of the British crime film ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"" (1998), as well as in the TV film ""Lock, Stock and Barrel"" (1971). Officer Lockstock and Officer Barrel are two characters from ""Urinetown: the Musical"". Another musical that used it was the animated musical ""The Nightmare Before Christmas"" by Tim Burton featured three infamous children, the 'Trick or"
"as ""A moving film about parentage with an exceptional performance from Colin Holt at its centre"". Mark Jenkin Mark Jenkin is a British filmmaker, film editor and screenwriter based in Cornwall. Mark Jenkin first came to notice when he won the Frank Copplestone First Time Director Award at The Celtic Film & Television Festival in 2002 for his debut film Golden Burn. He followed this success with numerous award-winning documentaries, shorts and low-budget feature films including The Man Who Needed a Traffic Light, The Rabbit and The Lobsterman, a documentary on the life of Cornish playwright Nick Darke. His 2007"
"classify as geniuses"". In his acceptance speech for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, Ben Affleck said ""Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is like Orson Welles."" As of 2016, Anderson is the only person to win all three director prizes from the three major international film festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Venice). Paul Thomas Anderson Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970), also referred to as P. T. Anderson or PTA, is an American filmmaker. In 1993, he wrote and directed a short film, ""Cigarettes & Coffee,"" on a budget of $20,000. An alumnus of the Sundance Institute, Anderson directed"
"published: ""Stop The Ride I Want to Get Off"", ""Raving Lunacy"", ""Dodgy Dave's Little Black Book"", ""The Ride's Back On"", ""F**k the Ride"", and ""Heroes & Villains"". He starred in and produced his own film, Hell To Pay, and took on the leading role of Mad Dave opposite Manish Patel in low-budget British film Triads, Yardies and Onion Bhajees. However, Courtney is probably best known for organising the security at gangster Ronnie Kray's funeral in 1995. Courtney has claimed to be the inspiration for Vinnie Jones's debt-collecting hard man in the movie ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"". Largely making"
"with directors and support even less commercially oriented projects such as Moodysson's ""A Hole in My Heart"" and ""Container"". Moodysson is an outspoken advocate of left-wing and feminist politics and at the same time a deeply committed Christian. He has three children with his wife, graphic novelist Coco Moodysson. Lukas Moodysson Karl Frederik Lukas Moodysson () (born 17 January 1969) is a Swedish novelist, short story writer and film director. First coming to prominence as an ambitious poet in the 1980s, he had his big domestic and international breakthrough directing the 1998 romantic film ""Show Me Love"". He has since"