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Guy Ritchie
Set in London, it tells the story of a crew of gangsters, a rock star and some powerful players, all connected to each other throughout the film. It stars Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Mark Strong, Idris Elba, Tom Hardy, and Toby Kebbell. '' RocknRolla'' was released on 5 September 2008 in the United Kingdom, reaching number one at the UK box office in its first week of release.
Ritchie has worked multiple times with Vinnie Jones, Jason Statham, Jason Flemyng, Alan Ford, Geoff Bell, Mark Strong, Jude Law, Eddie Marsan, Jared Harris, Charlie Hunnam, Josh Hartnett, and Hugh Grant.
Mark Strong
British actor (born 1963)
'''Marco Giuseppe Salussolia''' (born 5 August 1963), better known by his stage name '''Mark Strong''', is an English actor, best known for his film roles such as Prince Septimus in '' Stardust'' (2007), Archibald in ''RocknRolla'' (2008), Lord Henry Blackwood in ''Sherlock Holmes'' (2009), Frank D'Amico in '' Kick-Ass'' (2010), Jim Prideaux in '' Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'' (2011), Sinestro in '' Green Lantern'' (2011), George in '' Zero Dark Thirty'' (2012), Major General Stewart Menzies in '' The Imitation Game'' (2014), Merlin in ''Kingsman: The Secret Service'' (2014) and ''Kingsman: The Golden Circle'' (2017), Dr. Thaddeus Sivana in '' Shazam!'' (2019), and John in ''Cruella'' (2021).
That same year, Strong co-starred in the historical drama film '' The Imitation Game'' as MI6 chief Stewart Menzies.
The Imitation Game
Attendees of the screening at Los Altos Hills, California included Silicon Valley's top executives, such as FacebookCOOSheryl Sandberg, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Airbnb's Nathan Blecharczyk, and Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.
Quentin Tarantino
In 2020, Tarantino named David Fincher's film '' The Social Network'' his favorite movie of the 2010s.
David Fincher
American film director
Fincher directed the 2010 film '' The Social Network'', a biographical drama about Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg and his legal battles.
Mark Zuckerberg
American internet entrepreneur and founder of Facebook
Instead of forming a charitable corporation to donate the value of the stock to, as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and other billionaires have done, Zuckerberg and Chan chose to use the structure of a limited liability company (LLC).
Guy Ritchie
The production of crime comedy heist ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'' was completed in about eight months. Starring Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Jason Flemyng and Dexter Fletcher, the film exposed them to worldwide audiences, and launched the acting career of former footballer Vinnie Jones.
Dexter Fletcher
English actor and director
He has also starred in the films ''Caravaggio'' (1986), '' The Rachel Papers'' (1989), ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'' (1998), '' Layer Cake'' (2004), AffirmFilm's ''Solomon'' as Rehoboam and Universal's '' Doom''.
Solomon
* In Neal Stephenson's three-volume ''The Baroque Cycle'', 17th-century alchemists like Isaac Newton believe that Solomon created a kind of "heavier" gold with mystical properties and that it was cached in the Solomon Islands where it was accidentally discovered by the crew of a wayward Spanish galleon.
Neal Stephenson
American speculative fiction writer
Stephenson's writing is influential in technology circles. Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, John Carmack, and Peter Thiel are all fans of his work.
Guy Ritchie
After Ritchie's first project on a short film, ''The Hard Case'' (1995), in 1998, Ritchie met Matthew Vaughn, nephew of Peter Morton, co-founder of the Hard Rock Cafe chain.
Claudia Schiffer
German model (born 1970)
In 1993, at a Berlin celebrity gala, Schiffer met the American magician David Copperfield when he brought her on stage to participate in a mind reading act and in his flying illusion, and they became engaged in January 1994.
