Sentences with phrase «of eccentric billionaire»

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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.»

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.