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RJ Balaji

RJ Balaji, born Balaji Patturaj (1985), is a Tamil radio jockey, actor, writer, director, and cricket commentator; known for BIG FM's Cross Talk, the satires LKG and Mookuthi Amman, and the 2026 hit Karuppu with Suriya.

RJ Cyler

RJ Cyler (Ronald Cyler II, born 1995, Jacksonville, Florida) is an American actor known for Earl in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Billy the Blue Ranger in Power Rangers (2017), Scream, Rap Sh!t, Emergency, and RZA's One Spoon of Chocolate.

RJ Mitte

RJ Mitte (Roy Frank Mitte III, 1992-2026) was an American actor and disability rights advocate who played Walter "Flynn" White Jr. on Breaking Bad (2008-2013), won a 2014 SAG ensemble award and the 2013 Harold Russell Award, and led the Mitte Foundation.

RKO Pictures

RKO Pictures (Radio-Keith-Orpheum, RKO Radio Pictures) was the RCA-founded Hollywood major studio of 1928-1958, home of King Kong, Citizen Kane, and Astaire-Rogers musicals; its brand now belongs to Concord Originals.

Ro Laren

Ro Laren, Bajoran Starfleet officer in Star Trek played by Michelle Forbes; first franchise Bajoran, debuted TNG 1991 'Ensign Ro', defected to the Maquis in 'Preemptive Strike', returned as a Commander in Picard season 3.

Road (2002 film)

Road (रोड) is a 2002 Hindi road thriller directed by Rajat Mukherjee, produced by Ram Gopal Varma, starring Manoj Bajpayee, Vivek Oberoi, and Antara Mali; a hitchhiker kidnaps a eloping couple's bride on a Rajasthan highway.

Road House (1989 film)

Road House (1989) is a Rowdy Herrington action film starring Patrick Swayze as bouncer Dalton, hired to clean up the Double Deuce bar in Jasper, Missouri, against Ben Gazzara's Brad Wesley; a critical flop that became a cult classic, later remade in 2024.

Road House (2024 film)

Road House (2024) is Doug Liman's Amazon MGM remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze cult classic, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as ex-UFC bouncer Dalton and Conor McGregor; released streaming-only on Prime Video March 21, 2024 after a release dispute, it drew over 50 million viewers in two weekends.

Road House (franchise)

Road House franchise: American action films from Rowdy Herrington's 1989 Patrick Swayze cult classic about bouncer Dalton, through Doug Liman's 2024 Prime Video remake with Jake Gyllenhaal, plus competing sequels Road House 2 and Road House: Dylan and an R. Lance Hill rights lawsuit.

Road House 2 (upcoming film)

Road House 2 is the upcoming Amazon MGM sequel to the 2024 Road House remake, directed by Ilya Naishuller, written by Will Beall, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Dave Bautista, and Leila George, in post-production for Prime Video.

Road movie

Road movie: film genre in which protagonists journey by car or road, defined by movement, rebellion, escape, and transformation. Rooted in US cinema and the frontier ethos, consolidated by Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider, now a global genre.

Road Rules

Road Rules is an MTV reality series (1995–2007, 14 seasons) created by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray as a spin-off of The Real World, sending five or six strangers in an RV on missions for prizes; it seeded The Challenge.

Road to Avonlea

Road to Avonlea (also broadcast as Avonlea or Tales from Avonlea) is a Canadian family period drama series, 91 episodes on CBC 1990–1996, produced by Sullivan Entertainment with the Disney Channel, adapted from L.M. Montgomery's Story Girl books as a spin-off of Anne of Green Gables.

Road to Bali

Road to Bali (1952) is a Paramount musical comedy directed by Hal Walker, the sixth of seven Road to... films and the only one in Technicolor, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour as vaudevillians diving for treasure; it fell into the public domain after a failed copyright renewal.

Road to Boston (보스턴 1947)

Road to Boston (1947 보스톤) is Kang Je-gyu's 2023 Korean biographical drama about Son Kee-jung, Nam Seung-ryong, and Suh Yun-bok, whose 1947 Boston Marathon win (2:25:39) was the first by an Asian runner; 1.03 million admissions.

Road to Kingdom: Ace of Ace

Road to Kingdom: Ace of Ace (로드 투 킹덤: Ace of Ace) is Mnet's 2024 K-pop boy group survival show, second in the Road to Kingdom series, with seven groups, a two-track Team and Ace Ranking, and Cravity as winner.

Road to Morocco

Road to Morocco (1942) is Paramount's third Road picture, directed by David Butler, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, with songs by Van Heusen and Burke including Moonlight Becomes You; two Oscar nominations and a 1996 National Film Registry selection.

Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie (ロード・トゥ・ニンジャ ナルト・ザ・ムービー)

Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie (ロード・トゥ・ニンジャ ナルト・ザ・ムービー) is the ninth Naruto film, a 2012 Hayato Date anime with story and designs by Masashi Kishimoto, in which Tobi traps Naruto and Sakura in an alternate reality.

Road to Paloma

Road to Paloma (2014) is Jason Momoa's directorial debut, a 91-minute American road drama in which he stars as Robert Wolf, a Mojave man fleeing the FBI after avenging his mother's murder, co-written with Mollohan and Hirschbein and distributed by WWE Studios and Anchor Bay.

Road to Perdition

Road to Perdition is a 2002 American crime drama directed by Sam Mendes and starring Tom Hanks as a Depression-era mob enforcer fleeing with his son.

Road to Singapore

Road to Singapore (1940) is a Paramount comedy directed by Victor Schertzinger, the first of seven Road to films starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, and the top-grossing film of 1940.

Road to Success (灿如繁星)

Road to Success (灿如繁星), formerly 狭路, is a 2026 iQIYI Chinese youth sports drama adapted from Chang Er's novel, starring Yu Shuxin and Chen Jingke as a psychology PhD and coach reviving a school football team.

Road to Utopia

Road to Utopia (1946) is the fourth Road to... comedy from Paramount, directed by Hal Walker, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour as Klondike gold rush vaudevillians; filmed 1943-44, released 1946, Oscar-nominated screenplay, narrated by Robert Benchley.

Road Trip

Road Trip is a 2000 American comedy film directed by Todd Phillips, about a college student racing from Ithaca to Austin to intercept a mailed sex tape.

Roadies (TV series)

Roadies (TV series) covers the 2016 Showtime comedy-drama by Cameron Crowe about the Staton-House Band road crew, and MTV Roadies, the Indian adventure reality show running since 2003.

Roadkill (2012 TV series)

Roadkill is an American automotive reality series (2012-2024, 13 seasons, 167 episodes) hosted by HOT ROD editors David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan, launched on the Motor Trend YouTube channel and canceled in November 2024.

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain is Morgan Neville's 2021 Focus Features documentary on chef Anthony Bourdain, praised by critics but known for its undisclosed AI recreation of Bourdain's voice in three lines.

Roadside Romeo

Roadside Romeo (2008) is an Indian computer-animated musical comedy, the first co-production of Yash Raj Films and Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Jugal Hansraj, voiced by Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, and Jaaved Jaaferi, and winner of the National Film Award for Best Animation Film.

Roan Curtis

Roan Curtis (born 1997, Vancouver) is a Canadian actress known for Young Kate Mularkey on Firefly Lane and as Olivia Quinn in Hope Valley: 1874, with early credits in Smallville, Supernatural, Shut Eye, The Magicians, and films 1922 and Before I Fall.

Roar (2022 TV series)

Roar (2022 TV series): Apple TV+ anthology adapting Cecelia Ahern's 2018 short story collection, created by GLOW's Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch; eight feminist fables starring Nicole Kidman, premiered April 15, 2022, one season, ended.