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Steven A. Adelson | |
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| Occupation(s) | Film director, television director |
| Years active | 2008–present |
Steven A. Adelson is an American film director and television director.
Besides directing, Adelson worked as a camera operator on the films Jingle All the Way , The Players Club , the Christopher Nolan films Insomnia , Batman Begins , among others. He is alumnus of Syracuse University. [1]
George Cooper Stevens was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. He received two Academy Awards and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1953.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a series of stealth action-adventure video games, the first of which was released in 2002, and their tie-in novels that were endorsed by Tom Clancy. The series follows Sam Fisher, a highly trained agent of a fictional black-ops sub-division within the NSA, dubbed "Third Echelon", as he overcomes his adversaries. Levels are created using Unreal Engine and emphasize light and darkness as gameplay elements. The series has been positively received, and was once considered to be one of Ubisoft's flagship franchises. The series had sold 19 million units by 2008. No further installments have been released since 2013. A remake of the first game was announced in December 2021.
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Adelson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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