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Rob Marshall (born October 17, 1960) is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and four-time Emmy winner whose most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award Best Picture winner Chicago. Marshall was born in Madison, Wisconsin and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He debuted in the film industry with the Emmy Award-wining TV adaptation of the musical Annie by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin. After that he went on to direct the much anticipated adaptation of the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago in 2002 for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. His next feature film was the drama Memoirs of a Geisha based on the best-selling book of the same name by Arthur Golden starring Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh and Ken Watanabe. The film went on to win three Academy Awards and gross $162,242,962 at the worldwide box office. In 2009, Marshall directed Nine, an adaptation of the hit Broadway production with the same name starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren and Penélope Cruz, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Marshall then went on to direct Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth chapter of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean film series starring Johnny Depp, Ian McShane, Penélope Cruz and Geoffrey Rush, which is set to open on May 20, 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Marshall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Galactic Outlaws is a 2024 American epic science fiction action film written, co-produced and directed by Neill Blomkamp, based on the novel of the same name by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole. It is a sequel to the 2022 film Legionnaire and the second installment in the Galaxy's Edge film series. The film stars Vin Diesel, Liv Tyler, Matt Damon, Jordana Brewster, Keanu Reeves, Tika Sumpter, James Marsden, Tyrese Gibson, Eva Green, and Morgan Freeman. The film had its world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on May 23rd, 2024, and was released on June 2nd; the film received very positive reviews, with praise for its performances, story, direction, action sequences, score, visual effects, cinematography, and emotional weight, as well as the darker and more mature themes compared to the first film. The film was a box-office success, grossing over $781 million worldwide against a break-even point of $223 million. A sequel, Kill Team, was released 2 years later.
