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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.
The Blood Wolf is a 2026 American action film directed by David Twohy and produced by Guillermo del Toro from story by him and Twohy. It is a back-to-back sequel to The Phantom's Edge and the fourth installment in the Chronicles of Mister Wolf film series, Nad initially, the conclusion. The film stars Alexander Skarsgård, Emma Stone, John Krasinski, Tyrese Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Hiddleston, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Laurence Fishburne reprising their roles, alongside Morena Baccarin, James McAvoy, and Jeff Goldblum. In the film, Marcus Black (Skarsgård) has settled down with his his wife, Dakota (Stone) and their daughter, but his archenemy, Virginia Walker (Weaver) continues roaming the forest to hunt him. He teams up with Gabriel O'Hara, who survived being killed by Walker, as well as Larry Kress (Fishburne) and Mark Quinn (Gibson) to defeat her. The film premiered in Los Angeles on December 18th, 2026; releasing 4 days later, it grossed $2.191 billion worldwide and became the highest-grossing release of the series. Upon release, The Blood Wolf was met with universal acclaim, with praise for its visual style, musical score, direction, action sequences, the darker tone, story, performances (particularly Skarsgård, Stone, Krasinski, and Weaver), themes, and emotional weight. A direct sequel entitled The Howling Death: New Blood will revive the series in 2029.
