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Screen Media Films
Screen Media Ventures, LLC was an American-Canadian distribution company founded in 2001 and owned by Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment since 2017 alongside its subsidiary Popcornflix. In 2008, Screen Media selected The Creative Coalition as its exclusive nonprofit partner in launching the Spotlight Initiative. The partnership permits the pursuit of active outreach efforts for issues showcased in Screen Media produced and distributed motion pictures. While the Spotlight Initiative serves as a strategic business component that will create unique marketing, branding, and advertising opportunities as well as value for mass marketers, it also enhances America's cultural connection to the stories and social agendas of our times.'''' On April 23, 2024, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment announced a $636.6 million loss in 2023, and warned that without any options to generate additional financing, the company may be forced to liquidate or pause operations, and seek a potential ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screen Media
Screen Media Ventures, LLC was an American-Canadian distribution company founded in 2001 and owned by Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment since 2017 alongside its subsidiary Popcornflix. In 2008, Screen Media selected The Creative Coalition as its exclusive nonprofit partner in launching the Spotlight Initiative. The partnership permits the pursuit of active outreach efforts for issues showcased in Screen Media produced and distributed motion pictures. While the Spotlight Initiative serves as a strategic business component that will create unique marketing, branding, and advertising opportunities as well as value for mass marketers, it also enhances America's cultural connection to the stories and social agendas of our times.'''' On April 23, 2024, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment announced a $636.6 million loss in 2023, and warned that without any options to generate additional financing, the company may be forced to liquidate or pause operations, and seek a potential ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Bedfellows (2004 Film)
''Strange Bedfellows'' is a 2004 Australian film directed by Dean Murphy and starring Paul Hogan and Michael Caton as heterosexual men who pass themselves off as a gay couple in order to get financial benefits from the government. A stage musical based on the film ran at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne. Plot In the small Australian town of Yackandandah, Vince owns the local cinema and several other businesses, and is having trouble paying his taxes because his ex-wife got everything. The news of a new tax benefit for homosexual couples gives Vince an idea: he and best friend Ralph, a mechanic, can claim to be a couple and receive the benefits. Two complications develop: because of a careless mail delivery person, the postmaster sees their application for benefits and tells one person, and soon the whole town knows. Also, the national government is sending an investigator to make sure the men's relationship is legitimate. Vince and Ralph take lessons in passing as gay from hair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Mission (film)
''La Mission'' is a 2009 drama film starring Benjamin Bratt and Jeremy Ray Valdez. It is written and directed by Peter Bratt (Benjamin's brother). The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and screened at various festivals, including the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Palm Springs International Film Festival. It received a limited release beginning April 9, 2010. Premise Che Rivera is a formerly incarcerated person living in the Mission District of San Francisco. A recovering alcoholic and bus driver by day, Che is respected throughout the Mission barrio for his masculinity and toughness. His hobby of building beautiful lowrider cars also makes him a beloved figure in the community. Che has raised his only son Jesse, a studious teenager, on his own since the death of his wife. Che faces challenges to his personal values when he discovers Jesse is gay. Cast Production Writer-director Peter Bratt said among the challenging aspects of the film's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweatshop (film)
''Sweatshop'' is a 2009 American horror film directed by Stacy Davidson and starring Ashley Kay, Melanie Donihoo, and Peyton Wetzel. It follows a group of early aged adults who are stalked and viciously murdered by a humongous welder with an equally massive sledgehammer and his two women followers after breaking into an abandoned factory to throw a rave in order to make profits off pimping out their friends. Plot A young woman wakes up nude on the floor of a seemingly abandoned building, she is visibly petrified and begins to run away as she hears guttural noises. As she does so a security guard enters the building calling out for trespassers. He draws his gun as he hears the same guttural voices and accidentally shoots the scared woman as she runs toward him and she falls to the floor dead. A group of friends pull up outside the same building and break in and quickly begin searching around. They talk about using the building for an illegal rave and say they thought their friends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confessions Of A Sociopathic Social Climber
''Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber'' (also known as ''The Social Climber'') is a 2005 American romantic comedy television film directed by Dana Lustig, based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Adèle Lang. It premiered on Oxygen on March 12, 2005, and stars Jennifer Love Hewitt as 28-year-old Katya, an advertising executive more concerned with being a well-known socialite than being a good person. It co-stars Colin Ferguson, James Kirk, Dan Roebuck, Sonja Bennett, and Joey Lawrence. Plot Katya Livingston is an ad exec living in San Francisco. Her accountant goes to prison and advises her to keep a journal of all of her expenses as she is sure to be audited. Katya is vain and selfish, trying to keep up with society by wearing designer knock offs and trying to get into all of the hottest clubs. She is best friends with Eliza: a well meaning do-gooder, Ferguson: a gay male escort with self-esteem issues and a long list of ex-boyfriends, and Frangiapani: a woman that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tender Hook
''The Tender Hook'' is a 2008 Australian film noir directed by Jonathan Ogilvie and starring Hugo Weaving, Rose Byrne and Matthew Le Nevez. The film was retitled ''The Boxer and the Bombshell'' for its North American DVD release. Plot synopsis The film tells the story of a love triangle set in a stylised version of Sydney's criminal/boxing underworld in the 1920s. The story is about Iris' rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her English con man, lover, McHeath, and Art an honest, young boxer. Within the flawed moral landscape each character struggles to establish their sovereignty. Cast *Hugo Weaving as McHeath *Rose Byrne as Iris * Matt Le Nevez as Art Walker *Pia Miranda as Daisy *Luke Carroll as Alby "Othello" O'Shea *John Batchelor as Ronnie *Tyler Coppin as Donnie Production ''The Tender Hook'' is the second feature by writer/director Jonathan Ogilvie, and stars Hugo Weaving, Rose Byrne, and Matt Le Nevez. Producers are Michelle Harrison and John Brous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The City Of Your Final Destination
''The City of Your Final Destination'' is a 2009 American romantic drama film directed by James Ivory and starring Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Omar Metwally, Hiroyuki Sanada and Norma Aleandro. It was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and based on the eponymous novel by Peter Cameron (novelist), Peter Cameron. The film is the first Merchant Ivory Productions, Merchant Ivory film production without the participation of producer Ismail Merchant and composer Richard Robbins (composer), Richard Robbins. As of 2024, it is also the last narrative feature film directed by Ivory to date. Synopsis Graduate student Omar Razaghi (Omar Metwally) wishes to write a biography on obscure writer Jules Gund, who died years before. Omar must travel to Uruguay to persuade the Gund family to authorize the biography. Cast * Omar Metwally as Omar Razaghi * Anthony Hopkins as Adam Gund ** Nicholas Blandullo as Young Adam * Alexandra Maria Lara as Deirdre Rothemund (Deirdre MacAr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dog Gone (2008 Film)
''Dog Gone'' (also known as ''Diamond Dog Caper'') is a 2008 American comedy film directed by Mark Stouffer and starring Luke Benward, French Stewart, Brittany Curran, and Kevin Farley. The film revolves around a young boy who rescues and hides a golden retriever carrying a fortune in stolen diamonds from a band of thugs. Plot When Owen (Luke Benward) and his distracted older sister, Lilly ( Brittany Curran), are alone and their parents are away, Owen delivers the paper while being bullied by a school bully named Dexter and his gang (who harass Owen by throwing his bike, newspapers and pants off a bridge), and spends afternoons in a forest hideaway making inventions and spinning tall tales about a "Mad Man of the Mountain" in which he claims to be a scary man who used to work in a circus freak show but later moved to live in the mountains to be free. He encounters three thugs named Blackie (French Stewart), Bud (Kevin Farley) and Arty (Kelly Perine) who have a mistreated dog and O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smother (film)
''Smother'' is a 2008 comedy film co-written and directed by Vince Di Meglio and starring Diane Keaton as a mother who is over-attached to her adult son, played by Dax Shepard. The film aired on Lifetime in 2009. Plot Noah Cooper (Dax Shepard), a therapist, gets fired from the office where he has worked for many years. When he arrives home he finds his wife's cousin, Myron Stubbs, ( Mike White) has moved in. Later that evening his mother, Marilyn (Diane Keaton) also arrives with her dogs and asks whether she can stay. Even though Noah is displeased, he allows Marilyn to stay. He discovers his mother has left his father, suspecting that he had an affair. He and Marilyn get hired at a carpet store, but because of Marilyn's stupid tasks both of them get fired. Meanwhile, his relationship with his wife, Clare (Liv Tyler) deteriorates and she subsequently leaves. Marilyn spies her husband and they have an encounter. Her husband, Gene (Ken Howard) confesses that he cheated on her t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spy School
''Spy School'' (known internationally as ''Doubting Thomas'' or ''Lies and Spies'') is a 2008 American comedy-drama film, released on March 1, 2008. Even though it was a 2008 release, it was first filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the summer of 2005. The film stars Forrest Landis and AnnaSophia Robb as the lead characters. The movie focuses on the adventures of Thomas Miller, in his efforts to save the President's daughter from being kidnapped. Plot A twelve-year-old boy named Thomas Miller is a school troublemaker. He gets into fights, causes distractions in class, and tells lies. At the beginning of the movie, Thomas is seen fighting another student until Principal Hampton intervenes. He is next seen in class with Mrs. Bleckner, where he is assigned detention for goofing off. While in detention, Mrs. Bleckner leaves to finish her nails and hair. Thomas sneaks out and goes to the library to read and talk with other students instead. On his way to the library, he overhears ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |