Kevin Norwood Bacon ( born July 8, 1958 ) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, The River Wild, Murder in the First, Apollo 13, Hollow Man, Stir of Echoes, Trapped, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Death Sentence, Frost / Nixon, X-Men: First Class and Tremors.

Additionally his film work includes the role of Dr. Hank McCoy ( also known as the Beast ) in X-Men: The Last Stand, and he was the voice of Snowball in the live-action film adaptation of the George Orwell book Animal Farm.

* X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a 2009 action film, prequel to the X-Men film trilogy.

Additionally, a simulated version made a brief appearance in the beginning of the 2006 film, X-Men: The Last Stand.

* Sentinels appeared in an early draft of the first X-Men film, wherein Henry Peter Gyrich and Bolivar Trask attacked the X-Men with the Sentinels, but this treatment didn't make it past the concept stage.

Sentinels were planned for inclusion in the second X-Men film, X2, but they did not appear onscreen ( although Project Wideawake is mentioned on a computer readout screen ).

Another notable reference is in the third X-Men film, when asked by Callisto: " If you're so proud of being a mutant, then where's your mark?

Perhaps the most explicit reference to the Holocaust in the film series would be in the prequel film X-Men: First Class, in which a fourteen year old Magneto suffers Nazi human experimentation during his time in the camps and witnesses his mother's death by gunshot.

In the 2000 X-Men film, Kelly exclaims, " We must know who these mutants are and what they can do ," even brandishing a " list " of known mutants ( a reference to Senator Joseph McCarthy's list of Communist Party USA members who were working in the government ).

* In the second film, X2: X-Men United, Jean Grey's powers have been evolving since the Liberty Island incident in the first movie.

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In February 2008, 20th Century Fox announced Schreiber would play the mutant supervillain, Sabretooth in the Marvel Comics film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, released on May 1, 2009.

* Bryan Singer ( born 1965 ), film director, for such films as Public Access, Apt Pupil, X-Men, X2, Superman Returns and Valkyrie.

Alongside Angel, he was also working on a series of other projects such as Buffy, Fray, Astonishing X-Men and Firefly, which would later also lead to the film Serenity.

In the 2003 film X2: X-Men United, The Edifice scene from Why Man Creates is playing in the background on computer monitors near the beginning of the film when several of the X-Men are gathered in a museum.

Mason and Howard, in order to give the film more of an American feel, came up with the idea of inserting newly-shot footage of newscaster Eric Carter, a UN reporter who spends much of the time commenting on the action from the UN Headquarters via an International Communication Satellite ( ICS ) broadcast, and Arnold Johnson, the head of the Museum of Natural History in New York, who tries to explain Godzilla's origin and his and Kong's motivations.

* A key plot element of the 1994 science fiction film Without Warning involves an alien race having intercepted Voyager and relaying part of the UN Secretary-General's message back to Earth.

The only film actually shot on location in the UN headquarters is The Interpreter ( 2005 ), filmed with the consent of the Secretary-General, although some scenes in the political documentary film U. N. Me were surreptitiously filmed inside the building without permission.

When he was unable to obtain permission to film in the UN Headquarters, director Alfred Hitchcock covertly filmed Cary Grant arriving for the 1959 feature North by Northwest.

A UN forensic team found fifteen recently deceased bodies in a six-yard trial trench dug at a grave site and performed an autopsy on three of them, concluding that they had been the victims of homicide, the cause of death being consistent with suffocation, as described by the eyewitness reports featured in Doran's film.

In July 2007, Jude Law and Jeremy Gilley were in Afghanistan over a period of 10 days to document peace commitments and activities there for an upcoming film and for marking the UN International Day of Peace.

Accompanied by UNICEF Representative Catherine Mbengue, they travelled and filmed in dangerous areas of eastern Afghanistan with a film crew, interviewing children, government ministers, community leaders and UN officials.

In recognition of the international convention that underpins the Scottish Refugee Council ’ s work, the charity produced a short film, Courage: 60 years of the UN Refugee Convention.

Other one-off projects have included: a Peace Pack, a resource kit for anti-nuclear-weapons campaigners ; a book to mark the end of the UN Decade for Women in 1985 and a television film for the UK's Channel 4 about women and food production in Africa ( Man-Made Famine ).

* Guerreros ( 2002 ), a Spanish film about UN Peacekeeping soldiers caught in the middle of the war in Kosovo

The campaigners released a film to mark the United Nations World Autism Awareness Day with British peer the Baroness Uddin in the House of Lords. Open Every Door, written by the award winning Sri Lanka-born singer and songwriter, Nimal Mendis, was aired on the UN World Autism Awareness Day by CNN.

* The film has a scene where there is a demonstration against Zuwanie at the UN ; one of the anti-Zuwanie demonstrators is holding a poster with the open-handed symbol of the main opposition party in Zimbabwe: the Movement for Democratic Change.

" The film talks about an African president going to the United Nations and our president is going to the UN next week so the connection is so obvious ," he said.

* Zimbabwe's government also linked the film to efforts by Australia and New Zealand to have Mugabe indicted by the UN Security Council for trial before the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity.

The film centres on the pending visit of the President of Matobo to address the UN in New York ; Broome's parents and sister have been killed earlier by a land mine leading to their farm, and soon her brother is murdered in Matobo.

Namely, before the film reached theatres, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was put under UN sanctions, thus depriving local theatres of Hollywood blockbusters.

A famous black ski run featured in the film starts at the summit and leads down to the Engetal below Birg.

In the 2006 film The Sentinel, an assassination attempt takes place at a Group of Eight summit meeting in Toronto's city hall.

In this aspect, the film succeeds in delivering the atmosphere of the loss of hopes for peace after the failure of the Camp David summit between Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat and the renewed intensity of the conflict since.

The expedition film, Fellowship of the Andes, premiered in New York City 28th Oct 2006. In 2007, was the speaker at Lehigh University's spring commencement ceremony on May 21. In 2009, he was a speaker at the Presidential Youth Inaugural Conference on January 19. In 2009, he was a speaker at the Babson College spring commencement ceremony on May 16 where he was also awarded a PhD in Humane Letters. In 2010, he led a group of 11 wounded veterans to the summit of Mt.

The 1977 film The Crater Lake Monster had many scenes filmed on Palomar Mountain, including scenes shot at the summit restaurant, but not the scenes of the monster in a lake.

* A version of the waltz is heard when Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson and Madam Simza find her brother at a peace summit held at Switzerland in the 2011 film, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, directed by Guy Ritchie.

The film focused on unemployment and poverty in post-World War I Austria and was praised by critics as " the summit of Fejos ' art in Europe ... too often ignored by the critics.

Partly thanks to the film, partly through the persistent use of the events in political debate, the Ådalen shootings are still well known in Sweden, and are sometimes referred to in connection with violent clashes between demonstrators and police, such as the protests during the EU summit in Gothenburg 2001.

Spem in alium accompanies the film Touching the Void, and reaches a climax when Yates and Simpson reach the summit of the mountain.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

At a Braveheart Convention in 1997, held in Stirling the day after the Scottish Devolution vote and attended by 200 delegates from around the world, Braveheart author Randall Wallace, Seoras Wallace of the Wallace Clan, Scottish historian David Ross and Bláithín FitzGerald from Ireland gave lectures on various aspects of the film.

In the early years of cinema, melodrama held sway, as the transition from silent cinema's pantomime left film with a more presentational manner.

The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).

The first North American high film festival was the Columbus International Film & Video Festival, also known as The Chris Awards, held in 1953.

While the Expresión en Corto International Film Festival is the largest competitive film festival in Mexico, specializing in emerging talents, and is held each year during the last week of July in the two colonial cities of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato.

Italian film production held up during the war, with long features already established as the main form.

The American industry, or " Hollywood ", as it was becoming known after its new geographical center in California, gained the position it has held, more or less, ever since: film factory for the world, exporting its product to most countries on earth and controlling the market in many of them.

From the outset, this new republic held that film would be the most ideal propaganda tool for the Soviet Union because of its widespread popularity among the established citizenry of the new land ; Vladimir Lenin, in fact, declared it the most important medium for educating the masses in the ways, means and successes of Communism, a position which was later echoed by Joseph Stalin.

In January, 1952, Capra was requested by the U. S. Ambassador to India to represent the U. S. film industry at the International Film Festival to be held in India.

The critic, Leonard Maltin, names Glen or Glenda as " possibly the worst movie ever made ," a dubious honor previously held by another Wood film, Plan 9 from Outer Space.

It also made a brief appearance in the 1977 film Jabberwocky where it was being held by King Bruno the Questionable ( the latter film was directed by Terry Gilliam, starred Michael Palin, and featured a cameo by Terry Jones, all members of Monty Python ).

Cinderfella was postponed for a Christmas 1960 release, and Paramount, needing a quickie feature film for its summer 1960 schedule, held Lewis to his contract to produce one.

The film continues to cause controversy ; in February 2007 the Church of St Thomas the Martyr in Newcastle upon Tyne held a public screening in the church itself, with song-sheets, organ accompaniment, stewards in costume and false beards for female members of the audience ( alluding to an early scene where a group of women disguise themselves as men so that they are able to take part in a stoning ).

" Zukor agreed ; he held the film back from distribution for a year.

It became the highest grossing Bollywood film in Hindi cinema history after its theatrical run and held the record for 7 years till the release of Gadar: Ek Prem Katha ( 2001 ).

Wood served as writer, production manager, casting agent, and even held up cue cards on this low-budget film, although he did not direct.

Krantz reports that " few years after the film was made, Patterson received a written letter from a man in Thailand who assured him a Sasquatch was being held in a Buddhist monastery.

Following Pearl Harbor, officials grew apprehensive that the film could project an unduly negative image of the US internationally, and although a prestige opening was held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1942, the film was never authorized for general release.