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GM Holden Ltd is an automaker that operates in Australia, based in Port Melbourne, Victoria. The company was founded in 1856 as a saddlery manufacturer. In 1908 it moved into the automotive field, before becoming a subsidiary of the U.S.-based General Motors (GM) automotive group in 1931. After becoming a subsidiary of GM, the company was named General Motors-Holden's Ltd, becoming Holden Ltd in 1998, with the current name adopted in 2005.
Holden has taken charge of GM's vehicle operations in Australasia, and on their behalf, held partial ownership of GM Daewoo in South Korea between 2002 and 2009. Holden has offered a broad range of locally produced vehicles, supplemented by imported GM models. Holden has offered badge engineered Chevrolet, Nissan, Suzuki, Toyota, and Vauxhall Motors models in sharing arrangements, with GM Korea, Opel and Isuzu-sourced models sold currently. Holden is also responsible for the distribution of the Opel brand in Australasia.
All Australian-built Holden vehicles are manufactured at Elizabeth in South Australia, and engines are produced at the Fishermans Bend plant in Port Melbourne, Victoria. Historically, production or assembly plants were operated in all mainland states of Australia, with GM's New Zealand subsidiary Holden New Zealand operating a plant until 1990. The consolidation of car production at Elizabeth was completed in 1988, but some assembly operations continued at Dandenong until 1996.
Amanda Louise Holden (born 16 February 1971) is a British actress and presenter. Among her roles are Mia Bevan in Cutting It, Sarah Trevanion in Wild at Heart, and the title role in Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award. Since 2007, Holden has been a judge on Britain's Got Talent.
She is married to record producer Chris Hughes. Her marriage to Family Fortunes presenter Les Dennis ended in divorce in 2003.
Holden was born in Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire to Judith Mary Harrison and Naval petty officer Frank Holden. Her parents split up when she was four and she was brought up in the village of Waltham Chase, by Harrison and stepfather Leslie Drew Collister. She joined the Bishop's Waltham Little Theatre Company when she was nine, and credits Angie Blackford as influential in her early stage career. When she was 16 the family moved to Bournemouth and ran a small B&B while Amanda herself studied Drama and English literature A levels with Terry Clarke and Charles Lamb at the Jellicoe Theatre, now part of Bournemouth and Poole College. She successfully auditioned for the independent drama school Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in the Wood Green area of North London when she was 18, graduating in July 1994.
Actors: Stephen Anthony Bailey (actor), Travis L. Cook (director), Brian Iliescu (editor), Brian Iliescu (producer), Rachel Cox (writer), Rachel Cox (writer), Eric Swanson (composer), Rachel Cox (actress), Leslie Carson (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Larry Miller (actor), Jessica Alba (actress), Garry Marshall (actor), Rance Howard (actor), Joe Mantegna (actor), Paul Williams (actor), Patrick Dempsey (actor), Taylor Lautner (actor), Hector Elizondo (actor), Bradley Cooper (actor), Ashton Kutcher (actor), Jamie Foxx (actor), George Lopez (actor), Jessica Biel (actress), Kathy Bates (actress),
Plot: More than a dozen Angelenos navigate Valentine's Day from early morning until midnight. Three couples awake together, but each relationship will sputter; are any worth saving? A grade-school boy wants flowers for his first true love; two high school seniors plan first-time sex at noon; a TV sports reporter gets the assignment to find romance in LA; a star quarterback contemplates his future; two strangers meet on a plane; grandparents, together for years, face a crisis; and, an "I Hate Valentine's Day" dinner beckons the lonely and the lied to. Can Cupid finish his work by midnight?
Keywords: advice, agent, airplane, airport, apostrophe-in-title, army-captain, babysitter, bare-chested-male, best-friend, best-friends-in-loveActors: Travis Miller (producer), Travis Miller (editor), Travis Miller (director), Travis Miller (writer), Travis Miller (producer), Chris Burchette (actor), Adam Anderson (actor), Rory Forinash (actor), Keith Brown (actor), Tara Gering (actress), Cathy Grissom (actress), Cathy Grissom (actress), Cole Campbell (composer), Denim Pettite (actor), Becca Manion (actress),
Plot: How far would you go for love? Holden will soon find out the answer to that question as he reaches to the depths of insanity for that one true love. "Bloodstained Romance" is a chilling love story told through the eyes of a killer, and has been deemed "undeniably realistic and extremely creepy".
Keywords: bloodstained, bondage, bullwhip, love, obsessionActors: David Bianchi (actor), Alan Blumenfeld (actor), Michael Giannantonio (producer), Michael Giannantonio (editor), Steve Wargo (actor), Steve Wargo (producer), Steve Wargo (producer), Christina Jo'Leigh (actress), Alonso Parra (producer), Michael Phenicie (actor), Christina Hall (miscellaneous crew), Jim Gulliford (actor), Jim Blanchette (actor), John Voight (producer), Chloe Snyder (actress),
Plot: Candy a small time hustle, flees to Arizona to have Big Jimmy lift the hit put on her by Big jimmy's son back in Chicago. Big Jimmy has Alzheimer's and the Hitman is anticipating her every move. Falling in love is the only thing that won't help her. but, hey, everyone deserves a shot at love, even con artists, junkies, gangsters and dentists
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: John Edel (actor), H.T. Altman (actor), Ben Coler (actor), Nick Fevola (composer), Michael Johnson (actor), Johnny Fuerst (actor), Jesse M.X. Gangl (writer), Jesse M.X. Gangl (producer), Jesse M.X. Gangl (director), Tim Moore (actor), Joseph Courtemanche (actor), Aaron Johnson (actor), Matthew Gangl (producer), Ricky Schmidt (actor), Andy Winters (actor),
Plot: It is nine years since William the Conqueror defeated the Saxons at the Battle of Hastings and claimed the English crown, but it is war and revolt that rule England in 1075. Saxon nobles incite rebellion while foreign armies look for their own gains in a divided country. For Holden, the bitterness still runs too deep when his thegn calls the Saxon fyrd to fight for their Norman king. Holden and his brother Eldin must serve their country's conqueror as they face battle led by the wrathful bishop Geoffrey de Montbray. The wounds of 1066 have not healed, and the future of a nation is threatened by the ever-present past. The conquest of England is still incomplete.
Keywords: norman, saxonActors: Krista Kelloway (actress), Greg Russell Tiderington (writer), Greg Russell Tiderington (actor), Greg Russell Tiderington (producer), Greg Russell Tiderington (producer), Shawn Buffington (composer), Shawn Buffington (actor), Shawn Buffington (director), Shawn Buffington (producer), Shawn Buffington (writer), Shawn Buffington (editor), Andrew Mondia (actor), Andrew Mondia (actor), Lexie Huber (actress), Lexie Huber (actress),
Plot: A French conductor tells 4 different stories with his music taking place each season. The first one autumn on Halloween of a traveller escaping from his past but reveals deadly encounters, the second one winter close to Christmas of an evil demon spirit killing bad people that are members at a crazy Reverend's church, the third spring on Easter Sunday of a monster from the underworld returns to right a wrong in a past life who was actually married to a woman that is seeing someone else, the fourth an final one is suimmer of a women living her life for the first time as a vampire.
Keywords: anthologyActors: Cassandra Barbour (miscellaneous crew), Jim Filippone (actor), John Ottman (composer), Dakota Fanning (actress), Andrew Airlie (actor), Kevin Bacon (actor), Hanno Huth (producer), Mark Canton (producer), Charlize Theron (actress), Courtney Love (actress), Pruitt Taylor Vince (actor), Garry Chalk (actor), Colleen Camp (actress), Danny Ho (miscellaneous crew), Jason Crosby (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: When their daughter is abducted and taken for ransom by a gang of serial kidnappers, a young doctor and his wife find themselves held hostage while a 24-hour plan to extort their money is set into motion. Now, with time running out and the health of their asthmatic daughter at serious risk, they find themselves in a life-and-death race against the clock as the "perfect crime" begins spiraling towards an unthinkable, terrifying and deadly conclusion.
Keywords: abuse, airplane, ambulance, anti-villain, asthma, asthma-attack, attacked-with-a-knife, auto-theft, bank, bare-chested-maleActors: Sean Young (actress), John Saxon (actor), Ron Perlman (actor), Steven Williams (actor), Edward Albert (actor), Stephen Niver (miscellaneous crew), Lonnie Ramati (miscellaneous crew), William Bassett (actor), Phil Smoot (producer), Josh Muscatine (editor), Gordon Michaels (actor), Dana Barron (producer), Dana Barron (actress), David Reynolds (actor), Larry Gershman (producer),
Plot: When Jake, a security guard in a small hotel, inadvertently helps out a beautiful burglar, he becomes a primary suspect and is quickly fired. Jake decides to track down the burglar himself and retrieve the stolen property.
Keywords: diamond, double-cross, fake-death, female-thief, heist, jewel, jewel-theft, jewel-thief, nipples-visible-through-clothing, pantiesActors: Bengt Blomgren (actor), Torsten Wahlund (actor), Barbro Hiort af Ornäs (actress), Olof Thunberg (actor), Claes Ljungmark (actor), Sven Wollter (actor), Stefan Nilsson (composer), Sven-Bertil Taube (actor), Pierre Lindstedt (actor), Chatarina Larsson (actress), Karin Sundvall (costume designer), Jonas Falk (actor), Donald Högberg (actor), Anita Ekström (actress), Sigurd Hallman (editor),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller,Actors: Sam Kydd (actor), Barry Foster (actor), John Horsley (actor), Lionel Jeffries (actor), Richard Attenborough (actor), Joss Ambler (actor), Fred Griffiths (actor), Eddie Byrne (actor), Meredith Edwards (actor), Winston Churchill (actor), Kenneth Cope (actor), Bernard Cribbins (actor), Sean Barrett (actor), Lloyd Lamble (actor), Patrick Allen (actor),
Plot: Two stories in one - an easygoing British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others are less willing.
Keywords: based-on-novel, based-on-play, beach, dunkirk, ealing, france, operation-dynamo, strafing, world-war-two