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Downhill (2020 Film)
''Downhill'' is a 2020 American black comedy, black comedy-drama film directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, who also co-wrote the script with Jesse Armstrong. The film is a remake of ''Force Majeure (film), Force Majeure'' (2014) by Swedish director Ruben Östlund. It stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell as a married couple going through a rough patch after a near-death encounter during a family ski outing. ''Downhill'' had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2020, and was theatrically released on February 14, 2020, by Searchlight Pictures, the first feature film to be released under the studio's new name following The Walt Disney Company's Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, acquisition of 21st Century Fox. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $9 million worldwide. Plot After believing they were about to die in an avalanche during a family ski vacation in Ischgl, Austria, a married couple begin to reevaluate their live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nat Faxon
Nathaniel Wales Faxon (born October 11, 1975) is an American actor and comedian. A frequent presence on comedic films and TV series, he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing ''The Descendants'' (2011). He starred in the Fox comedy series '' Ben and Kate'' (2012–2013) and the FX comedy series ''Married'' (2014–2015), and voices Elfo in the Netflix adult animated television series ''Disenchantment'' (2018–2023). He also co-wrote and co-directed '' The Way, Way Back'' (2013) and '' Downhill'' (2020) with writing partner Jim Rash. Early life Faxon's early years were spent in the seaside community of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, where he attended the Brookwood School. He later graduated from the Holderness School near Plymouth, New Hampshire, and then Hamilton College in 1997. Career Acting Faxon is an alumnus of the Los Angeles-based improvisational and sketch comedy troupe The Groundlings, where he began performing in 2001. He may be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16, 1923, as an animation studio, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Oliver Disney as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio; it later operated under the names Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before adopting its current name in 1986. In 1928, Disney established itself as a leader in the animation industry with the short film ''Steamboat Willie.'' The film used synchronized sound to become the first post-produced sound cartoon, and popularized Mickey Mouse, who became Disney's mascot and corporate icon. After becoming a success by the early 1940s, Disney diversified into live-action films, television, and theme parks in the 1950s. However, following Walt Disney's death in 1966, the company's profits, especially in the animation sector, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Berruti
Giulio Berruti (born 27 September 1984) is an Italian actor, known for his roles in ''Monte Carlo'' (2011), '' Walking on Sunshine'' (2014), and the '' Gabriel's Inferno'' movie series. Life and career Berruti was born in Rome, Italy, to ophthalmologist Giuseppe Berruti of Moncalvo and lawyer Francesca Romana Reggiani. He has an older brother, Gian Luca Berruti, lieutenant colonel of the Guardia di Finanza. After obtaining a scientific high school diploma and a professional dental technician diploma, Berruti attended the University of Rome Tor Vergata School of Dentistry, and graduated in Dentistry and dental prosthesis in 2010. He subsequently undertook the specialization in Orthodontics and achieved it in 2015. Berruti, who is 190 cm tall, had a fashion model career while in school, walking runways and participating in several fashion campaigns, for about three years since 1998. In 2003, he made his debut with a small role in the film ''The Lizzie McGuire Movie''. He bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Grey
Julian Grey is an American actor. He appeared in ''The Matrix Resurrections'' (2021) as Brandon, the teenage son of Tiffany (Carrie-Anne Moss). He also played Abe, the youngest son of Adam (David Duchovny), in Blumhouse’s '' The Craft: Legacy'' (2020), and portrayed Finn, the son of characters played by Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Searchlight Pictures' dark comedy '' Downhill''. On television, Grey has appeared in AMCs ''Fear the Walking Dead'' (2023), Netflix's award-winning limited series '' Godless'' (2017), and Fox's ''Wayward Pines'' (2016). Background Grey was born in Los Angeles, California, to a German father and an American mother. He holds both German and American citizenship. He has a twin sister, an older brother, and an older half-sister. Career Grey made his professional acting debut at the age of 10 in a 2016 episode of the Fox supernatural series ''Wayward Pines'' opposite Melissa Leo. Later that year, he was cast in a recurring role in the Netflix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Macqueen
Alexander Tulloch Macqueen (born 30 November 1973) is an English actor and writer. He has appeared on television, film, and radio in the UK in productions such as ''Holby City'', ''Doctor Who,'' '' Hut 33'', '' Peep Show'', ''The Thick of It'', '' Keeping Mum'', '' Fate: The Winx Saga'', and ''The Inbetweeners''. He also guest-starred in '' The Durrells'' in series 4. Early life and education Alexander Tulloch Macqueen was born on 30 November 1973 in Epsom, Surrey. He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, from 1990 to 1992 and left to receive a first in English literature at Collingwood College at Durham University. He went on to study for a M.Phil at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating in 1998. Career Macqueen played sarcastic consultant anaesthetist Keith Greene in 75 episodes of ''Holby City'' between May 2005 and July 2010. He appeared as the Rt Hon Julius Nicholson, Lord Nicholson of Arnage, the bawdy and persistently peckish "blue-skies advisor" to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristofer Hivju
Kristofer Hivju (; born 7 December 1978) is a Norwegian actor. He is best known for playing the roles of Tormund Giantsbane in the HBO fantasy series ''Game of Thrones'' and Connor Rhodes in '' The Fate of the Furious''. Early life Hivju was born in Oslo, Norway. He attended the Danish subdivision of the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in Aarhus and graduated in 2004. Career He began of his career and starred in the television series, such as ''Fox Grønland'' and ''Seks som oss'', in the 2008 film '' Manhunt'', and plays at the Grusomhetens Teater and Trøndelag Teater, as well as written scripts for the short films ''Closework'' from 2005 and ''Flax'' from 2008. In several instances, he portrays Viking King Olav II in Norwegian-produced documentary film ''Olav'', and also appeared in ''From Hate to Hope''. In 2013–2019, Hivju had the role of Tormund Giantsbane in American fantasy series ''Game of Thrones'' by HBO. His first appearance was in the first episo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zach Woods
Zach Woods (born September 25, 1984) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his roles as a series regular for three seasons as Gabe Lewis on the NBC sitcom '' The Office'', as Jared Dunn on the HBO comedy series ''Silicon Valley'', as Zach Harper on the USA Network sitcom '' Playing House'', and as Matt Spencer on the HBO comedy show '' Avenue 5''. He also recurred on the HBO series '' Veep'' as Ed Webster, and starred as billionaire Edgar D. Minnows in the Apple TV+ murder mystery series '' The Afterparty''. Early life Woods was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He is Jewish. The family surname had originally been Widensky. His father, Jonathan, is a psychiatrist who specializes in clinical therapy, and his mother, Lisa, is a nurse practitioner. Woods is a middle child; he has an older brother and younger sister. In 1997 and 1998, he attended summer camp at Interlochen Center for the Arts. He grew up in Yardley, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Pennsbury High Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoë Chao
Zoë Carroll Chao (born September 19, 1985) is an American television and stage actress and screenwriter, principally known for her roles as Isobel in ''Strangers'' and Zoë in '' The Afterparty''. Early life Chao was born in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Her mother has Irish and English ancestry, while her father is of Chinese descent. Her paternal grandmother immigrated from China to Michigan. Chao has stated that she grew up in a family of visual artists. After graduating from the Wheeler School in 2004, she received her BA in art history from Brown University and her MFA from the graduate acting program at UCSD. Career Chao has participated in theatre productions, including La Jolla Playhouse's ''Sideways'', ''Surf Report'', and WoW Festivals' ''Our Town,'' and Ensemble Theatre Company's ''Amadeus''. In 2016, she appeared in the Off Broadway play ''Friend Art'' at Second Stage. She has worked with directors Christopher Guest, Les Waters, Ping Chong and Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miranda Otto
Miranda Otto (born 16 December 1967) is an Australian actress. She is the daughter of actors Barry Otto, Barry and Lindsay Otto and the paternal half-sister of actress Gracie Otto. Otto began her acting career in 1986 at age 18 and appeared in a variety of independent and major studio films in Australia. She made her major film debut in ''Emma's War (film), Emma's War'' in 1987 in which she played a teenager who moves to Australia's bush country during World War II."The Right Stage of Life" ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. 26 September 2005; retrieved 8 April 2007. After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian films, Otto gained Hollywood's attention during the 1990s after appearing in supporting roles in the films ''The Thin Red Line (1998 film), The Thin Red Line'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city and state. Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of and has Austrians, a population of around 9 million. The area of today's Austria has been inhabited since at least the Paleolithic, Paleolithic period. Around 400 BC, it was inhabited by the Celts and then annexed by the Roman Empire, Romans in the late 1st century BC. Christianization in the region began in the 4th and 5th centuries, during the late Western Roman Empire, Roman period, followed by the arrival of numerous Germanic tribes during the Migration Period. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ischgl
Ischgl () is a town in the Paznaun valley in the Austrian state of Tyrol. Its ski resort is connected with that of Samnaun across the border in Switzerland to form one of the largest in the Alps. Ischgl was a major hotspot in 2020 of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. Ski resort Ischgl is located on the Austrian side of one of the world's largest ski areas. Its (length includes the pistes in Samnaun, Switzerland) of groomed pistes are served by over 45 mechanical lifts including Aerial tramway, cable cars, Gondola lift, gondolas, Detachable chairlift, detachable chair lifts and some T-bar lift, T-bars. Three ropeways give access to the ski area from the village: the Pardatschgratbahn, the Fimbabahn & the Silvrettabahn. Only the Fimbabahn and the Silvrettabahn have middle stations. Many of the lifts converge at Idalp, where there is a restaurant. The area above Idalp offers wide, easy pistes and a snow park. Other parts of the Ischgl area, towards Höllboden and Paznauner Thaya, of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
