A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Born:
May 8, 1981
Blake Leibel (born May 8, 1981) is a former Canadian comic book creator, graphic novelist and screenwriter residing in Los Angeles. He was born to two notable Canadian families. His father, Lorne Leibel, is a prominent Toronto real estate mogul and Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame inductee. His mother was Alros Products heiress Eleanor Chitel Leibel. He was also a World Champion Gamer: Half Life 1998-2000, and Online Multiplayer World champion for HL: Opposing Force. In May 2016, L.A. Sherriffs arrested Leibel on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend. On June 20, 2018, he was convicted of first degree murder, mayhem, aggravated mayhem, and torture with special circumstances, in the grisly murder of his fiancée, Iana Kasian, who was also the mother of their newborn daughter. On June 26, 2018, he was sentenced to life without parole. The crime is chronicled on the true crime series Death by Fame (S2:E3).
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.