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Skeletons In The Closet (film)
''Skeletons in the Closet'' is a 2024 American horror film directed by Asif Akbar and starring Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding Jr. Plot Haunted by a malevolent spirit since childhood, a desperate mother allows herself to become possessed in order to save the life of her terminally ill daughter. Cast *Terrence Howard as Mark * Cuba Gooding Jr. as Andres *Clifton Powell as Father Francisco * Valery M. Ortiz as Valentina *Udo Kier as Luc *Sally Kirkland Sally Kirkland Jr. (born October 31, 1941) is an American actress and producer. A former member of Andy Warhol's The Factory and an active member in 1960s New York avant-garde theater, she has appeared in more than 250 film and television produ ... as Madam Futura * Louis Mandylor as Santeros Production Lance Kawas was initially to have helmed the film; he left the project due to creative differences and was replaced by Asif Akbar. Filming began in Las Vegas in February 2022. On March 25, 2022, it was announced that filming h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koji Steven Sakai
Koji Steven Sakai is an American screenwriter and producer. He has written the screenplay for ''The People I've Slept With'' (2009), a romantic comedy film directed by Quentin Lee and starring Karin Anna Cheung and Archie Kao as well as Wilson Cruz, Lynn Chen, Randall Park, James Shigeta and more. He also served as a producer for that film. In addition, Sakai, along with Naoko Ihara Witmer, has co-written the screenplay for a horror film entitled ''The Haunted Highway'' (2006) which was directed by Junichi Suzuki; it was distributed by Lions Gate DVD in 2005. In 2013, he wrote and produced the "first Asian American serial killer film" entitled ''Chink'', starring Jason Tobin, Eugenia Yuan, Tzi Ma and more, which was directed by Stanley Yung and produced by Quentin Lee. For ''Chink'', lead actor Jason Tobin won a Special Jury Prize for Best Actor or "Breakout Performance" at the 2013 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. In June 2012, Sakai's screenplay ''Romeo, Juliet & Rosaline ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terrence Howard
Terrence Dashon Howard (born March 11, 1969) is an American actor performing on film and television. He has received a Screen Actors Guild Awards, Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for an Academy Awards, Academy Award, a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Award, and two Independent Spirit Awards. Howard made his film debut in a minor role in the buddy comedy ''Who's the Man?'' (1993). In 1995 he had a minor role in ''Mr. Holland's Opus''. He later was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as a pimp and drug dealer in ''Hustle & Flow'' (2005). He played James Rhodes (Marvel Cinematic Universe), James "Rhodey" Rhodes in the first Marvel Cinematic Universe film ''Iron Man (2008 film), Iron Man'' (2008). He played Quentin Spivey in the films ''The Best Man (1999 film), The Best Man'' (1999) and ''The Best Man Holiday'' (2013) and the miniseries ''The Best Man: The Final Chapters'' (2022). On television, he portrayed Jackie Jackson in ''The Jacks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuba Gooding Jr
Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. His accolades include an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. Gooding's breakthrough was in the film ''Boyz n the Hood'' (1991). He went on to appear in the films ''A Few Good Men'' (1992), '' Judgment Night'' (1993),'' Lightning Jack'' (1994), and ''Jerry Maguire'' (1996). For playing a football star in the latter, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He went on to star in the films ''As Good as It Gets'' (1997), '' Men of Honor'' (2000), ''Pearl Harbor'' (2001), '' Snow Dogs ''(2002), ''Radio'' (2003), ''Norbit'' (2007), '' Linewatch'' (2008), '' Gifted Hands'' (2009), in which he played Dr. Ben Carson. Alongside these projects, he also had voice-over roles in the animated films '' Home on the Range'' (2004) and '' The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends'' (2007). After appearing in '' Red Tails'' (2012), and '' The Butler'' (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SM Supermalls
SM Supermalls, or simply SM, is a chain of shopping malls owned by the Philippines-based SM Prime. , it has a total of 96 malls (88 in the Philippines and 8 in China). It also has 9 malls under construction (7 in the Philippines and 2 in China). It was formerly known as Shoemart. History SM Supermalls was pioneered by Henry Sy, a Chinese-Filipino businessman whose roots traces back to Fujian. Sy opened his first shoe store in Quiapo in 1948 and later the first store under the Shoemart (SM) name in 1958 along Carriedo. In 1972, Shoemart turned into a full-line department store. In 1985, the company ventured into the supermarket and home appliance store business. It opened the first "Supermall" in the same year named SM North EDSA in Quezon City. SM expanded abroad with the opening of its first branch in China in 2001. The mall is SM City Xiamen in Fujian. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company's revenue was down nearly 50% in 2020, though it claims to have maintained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SM Prime
SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (SMPH) is a Filipino integrated property developer and a public subsidiary of SM Investments Corporation. It was incorporated on January 6, 1994, to develop, conduct, operate, and maintain the SM commercial shopping centers and all businesses related thereto, such as the lease of commercial spaces within the compound of shopping centers. It went public on July 5, 1994, and subsequently grew to become the largest company listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange in terms of revenue. The company's main sources of revenues primarily include rental income from mall and food courts, as well as from cinema ticket sales and amusement income. History The roots of SM date back to the 1950s when entrepreneur Henry Sy, Sr. established a shoe store at Carriedo Street in Quiapo, Manila. His store was established as ShoeMart, which was originally located at Carlos Palanca Sr. Street. His aggressive and adamant strategy helped him gain large profits within a few years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by Amazon. History Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis. In 1999, he started to post the Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. Along with the weekend grosses, he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules and other charts, such as all-time charts, international box office charts, genre charts, and actor and director charts. The site gradually expanded to include weekend charts goin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror Film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit physical or psychological fear in its viewers. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with Transgressive art, transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements of the genre include Monster movie, monsters, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, apocalyptic events, and Religion, religious or Folk horror, folk beliefs. Horror films have existed History of horror films, since the early 20th century. Early Inspirations predating film include folklore; the religious beliefs and superstitions of different cultures; and the Gothic fiction, Gothic and Horror fiction, horror literature of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley. From its origins in silent films and German expressionist cinema, German Expressionism, horror became a codified genre only after the release of Dracula (1931 English-language film), ''Dracula'' (1931). Many sub-genres emerged in subsequent decades, including body horror, comed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clifton Powell
Clifton Powell (born March 16, 1956) is an American actor who primarily plays supporting roles in films, such as in '' Ray'' (2004), for which he received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture nomination. Career Powell has appeared in more than one hundred films, beginning in the 1980s. His credits include ''Menace II Society'' (1993), ''Dead Presidents'' (1995), '' Why Do Fools Fall in Love'' (1998), ''Rush Hour'' (1998), '' Next Friday'' (2000), and its 2002 sequel, '' Friday After Next'', ''Woman Thou Art Loosed'' (2004), and '' Ray'' (2004). He played Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1999 television film '' Selma, Lord, Selma''. Powell also has had many supporting roles in smaller direct-to-video films in 2000s and 2010s. On television, Powell had the recurring roles on '' Roc'', '' South Central'', and ''Army Wives'', and well as guest-starred on '' In the Heat of the Night'', ''Murder, She Wrote'', ''NYPD Blue'', '' CSI: Crime Scene Inves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valery Ortiz
Valery Milagros Ortiz (born August 1, 1984) is a Puerto Rican actress and model. She has appeared in various television series including ''South of Nowhere'' (2005–2008), ''Diary of a Single Mom'' (2009–2011), '' Hit the Floor'' (2013–2016) and ''Gabby Duran & the Unsittables'' (2019–2021). Ortiz has also appeared in films including ''Date Movie'' (2006), ''Dumbbells'' (2014) and ''Thriller'' (2018). Early life Ortiz was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in Orlando, Florida. Passionate to become a "ballerina" and she explored her dancing talents after receiving a scholarship to ''The Southern Ballet Theater Performing Art Centre'' in Orlando. She continued dancing but eased out of it in middle school as her interest in theatre and acting grew. She worked in Orlando as an extra on the Universal Studios backlot. Following in her older brother's footsteps, she was accepted into the Dr. Phillips High School performing arts magnet program. After four years of study, O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Udo Kier
Udo Kierspe (born 14 October 1944), known professionally as Udo Kier, is a German actor. Known primarily as a character actor, he has appeared in more than 220 films in both leading and supporting roles throughout Europe and the Americas. He has collaborated with acclaimed filmmakers such as Lars von Trier, Gus Van Sant, Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Walerian Borowczyk, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Dario Argento, Tom Shadyac, Charles Matton, Guy Maddin, Alexander Payne, and Paul Morrissey. Early life Kier was born in Cologne near the end of World War II. The hospital where he was born was bombed by the invading Allied forces moments after his birth, and he and his mother had to be dug out of the rubble. Kier grew up without a father. In his youth, he was an altar boy and Cantor (church), cantor. He moved to London, England, at the age of 18 to learn English. Career In 1966, Kier was cast in the lead role for the film ''Road to St. Tropez''. An early starring role in ''And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Kirkland
Sally Kirkland Jr. (born October 31, 1941) is an American actress and producer. A former member of Andy Warhol's The Factory and an active member in 1960s New York avant-garde theater, she has appeared in more than 250 film and television productions during her 60-year career. Kirkland is the daughter of fashion editor of ''Life'' magazine and '' Vogue'', Sally Kirkland. Kirkland garnered widespread critical acclaim for her eponymous performance as a former popular actress in the independent comedy-drama '' Anna'' (1987), which earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film. She also earned a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for her performance in the horror film '' The Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Mandylor
Louis Mandylor (born Elias Theodosopoulos; 13 September 1966) is an Australian film and television actor. Mandylor is best known for playing Nikos "Nick" Portokalos in the ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding'' franchise (2002-2023). Early life Mandylor was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the son of Greek immigrants. He is the younger brother of fellow actor Costas Mandylor. He and his brother took a shorter version of their mother's last name, citing their paternal last name as being too long. He played for Heidelberg United FC (Megas Alexandros) in their 1988 State League championship team. He also played five National League games in 1989 and scored one goal. During his football career, he was also boxing in Melbourne, winning 14 fights with 4 losses. He then emigrated to the United States to originally pursue a boxing career and then subsequently an acting career. Career Mandylor played Nick Portokalos in ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding'' (2002); he reprised the role in its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
