Sentences with phrase «eccentric billionaire halliday»

A secretive company backed by an eccentric billionaire taps into sensitive data gathered by a University of Cambridge researcher.

If you're an eccentric billionaire, MYT will build you a kit for $ 10,000.

To that end Pope acts as Treasurer of Americans Coming Together, a wealthy political action committee infused with millions of dollars from eccentric billionaire George Soros.

[Translate] By Thor Benson TRUTHDIG Jerry Lin / Shutterstock Elon Musk is not the kind of eccentric billionaire who proposes...

The game is set in the hidden, underwater city of Rapture, which was established by an eccentric billionaire as a refuge away from the «parasites,» similar in concept to Galt's Gulch in Atlas Shrugged.

Each village visited makes you hope that an eccentric billionaire will build a replica and invite you to run around and enjoy yourself.

The re-imagining of this classic, medium - sized map features an authentic Roman villa that has been «recreated by a modern - day eccentric billionaire,» where a classic map structure mixes with the new gameplay mechanics of Black Ops III.

The industry has always been volatile, but it has never before been so controlled by one eccentric billionaire.

Now, with the help of an eccentric billionaire, he has the chance to create a «perfect little world» - to study what would happen when ten children are raised collectively, without knowing who their biological parents are.

Although the two are attracted to one another, their ties to the eccentric billionaire draw them into a bizarre world where their values and lives are forever changed.

The eccentric billionaire Nathan has a technologically advanced mountain resort and somehow, despite its brilliance, it becomes a rather creepy location for this story.

Ex Machina is a very clever film boasting three superb performances from Gleeson, Oscar Isaac as the eccentric billionaire, and Alicia Vikander as Ava.

Danny Trejo returns as ex-Federale agent MACHETE, who is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man — he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet.

In this weirdly wonderful sci - fi story, eccentric billionaire techie Oscar Issac hires fellow Force Awakens star Domhall Gleeson to examine his new female robot (The Danish Girl's Alicia Vikander) to test the extent of her artificial intelligence.

In MACHETE KILLS, Danny Trejo returns as ex-Federale agent MACHETE, who is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man — he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet.

For those unfamiliar, the film centers on Machete's (Danny Trejo) quest to stop an eccentric billionaire arms...

It's been fifteen years since we last saw Warren Beatty on screen — and eighteen years since he was last behind the camera — but the Hollywood legend is set to make his return this year with Rules Don't Apply, which will see him starring as the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and EW has the -LSB-...]

Eccentric billionaire Halliday is no longer with us.

Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a coder at a Google - like company called Bluebook, wins an employee lottery to spend a week with CEO Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac), an eccentric billionaire genius who lives in a remote, high - tech house on a mountain estate, the better to conduct his mind - blowing experiments without scrutiny.

There, he gets kidnapped by Lexie's husband, a willowy - maned reclusive and eccentric billionaire, Simon Kestral (Sam Elliott), who has self - funded plans to conduct an underground semiconductor experiment to locate «the god particle.»

The man turns out to be none other than eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, although Melvin doesn't really believe it at the time, especially when he has to lend him some money on the end of their journey together.

Rules Don't Apply, which Beatty also wrote and co-produced, is a dramedy revolving around the romantic entanglements of an ingenue actress (played by Lily Collins) and a driver (played by the new Han Solo, Alden Ehrenreich), both of whom are employed by eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes (played by Beatty).

Critics Consensus: With a rich sense of period detail, The Aviator succeeds thanks to typically assured direction from Martin Scorsese and a strong performance from Leonardo DiCaprio, who charts Howard Hughes» descent from eccentric billionaire to reclusive madman.

Critic Consensus: With a rich sense of period detail, The Aviator succeeds thanks to typically assured direction from Martin Scorsese and a strong performance from Leonardo DiCaprio, who charts Howard Hughes» descent from eccentric billionaire to reclusive madman.

Among the latter are a treasured colleague (William Fichtner) who helps her transmit and receive radio signals and whose name, Kent Clark, irrelevantly suggests an inverted Superman; a bad father (read: villain) and former mentor (Tom Skerritt) who briefly becomes her boss, then her competitor, and who kowtows shamelessly to the power structure; a religious scholar named Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey) who gives her a Cracker Jack compass, virtually repeats her father's tag line («If there wasn't anyone else out there [in the cosmos], it'd be an awful waste of space»), and goes to bed with her; and an eccentric billionaire (John Hurt) who lives on a well - appointed plane (recalling Jules Verne's Captain Nemo) and comes up with the funding.

«In Machete Kills, Danny Trejo returns as ex-Federale agent Machete, who is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man — he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer (Mel Gibson) who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet.

In theaters October 11, «Danny Trejo returns as ex-Federale agent Machete, who is recruited by the President of the United States (Charlie Sheen) for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man — he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer (Mel Gibson) who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet.»

An assistant to eccentric billionaire John Catsimatidis — the supermarket mogul who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for New York City mayor in 2013 — sent a quasi-anonymous email poll asking New Yorkers their thoughts on Mayor Bill de Blasio and his potential rivals, a possible prelude to a second try at Gracie Mansion for the businessman.

Christian Bale's list of famous characters is a long one, and now, add (another) eccentric billionaire to the list.

And whereas in the past eccentric billionaires looking for new ways to part with their money would usually fall prey to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, leading movie studios to become uniquely proficient in separating the wealthy from their cash, now they are falling victim to a not - so - new allure: influence.

Not exact matches

But unlike most Silicon Valley billionaires, Mr. Thiel openly supports a wide array of eccentric philanthropic and social efforts aimed at radically altering life as we know it.

Well, it might be more accurate to say Beatty sort of stars in Rules Don't Apply, his long - anticipated movie about Howard Hughes, the eccentric, obsessive billionaire who, among other things, was a big - budget Hollywood tycoon in the 1920s, while also making history for his investments into aviation.

When the game's eccentric, Steve Jobs - style billionaire creator dies, he offers up his fortune as the prize in an elaborate treasure hunt.

Gambit finds Firth as Harry Deane, a mild - mannered, put - upon art curator who works for the eccentric, smug and thoroughly annoying billionaire Lionel Shabander (Rickman).

The eccentric Marty has been hand - picked by the Motch brothers (John Lithgow and Dan Aykroyd), billionaire industrialists with ties to China.

Oscar Isaac, rapidly becoming one of the most magnetic actors on the planet, plays Nathan Bateman, a reclusive, genius billionaire tech guru with a shaved head, the long beard of an eccentric relief pitcher and a disarming passive - aggressive personality.

Crook was well used to dealing with vagrants — he used to delight in annoying Rolls - Royce by paying one to sit on their London Motor Show stand — but even he was surprised when a lady arrived that afternoon with a suitcase of money from her boss, the eccentric Australian billionaire who liked to test the mettle of upmarket establishments by stumbling into their premises dressed as a tramp.

Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal has everything: peculiar billionaires, a once - adored startup turned monolith, a political mercenary who resembles a Bond villain and his shadowy psychographic profiling firm, an eccentric whistleblower, millions of profiles worth of leaked Facebook data, Steve Bannon, the Mercers, and — crucially — Donald Trump, and the results of the 2016 presidential election.

Though FF appears to be a robust American car company with hundreds of employees, interviews with former employees indicate much of what goes on at the company is dictated by Jia Yueting, the eccentric Chinese billionaire who approached Sampson in 2014 about building an electric car that could best Tesla.