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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 Howling Death is a 2022 American action film directed by David Twohy and produced by David Fincher from a story by him and Twohy. It was written by Matt Reeves and edited by James Wan, and is the first installment in the Chronicles of Mister Wolf film series. The film stars Alexander Skarsgård, Emma Stone, John Krasinski, Tyrese Gibson, David Morse, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Rooker, and Laurence Fishburne. The Howling Death was released on October 11th, 2022, to generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for the direction, visual style, music, cinematography, action sequences, story, depiction of the wilderness, and Skarsgård's performance, but the script, violence and runtime were criticized. The film was a box-office success, grossing $819 million against a production budget of $178 million, advertisement costs of $200 million, and a break-even point of $150 million. Its success prompted Twohy to proceed with planned sequels, and the first sequel, The Chronicles of Mister Wolf, was released 2 years later.
