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Good Universe
Good Universe is an American film production company founded by Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane. History In Spring 2012, Good Universe was launched as longtime partners Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane transitioned out of Lionsgate, where Drake served as the president of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group and Kahane as the president of Mandate Pictures. The company launched at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The company used films from the development list of films it obtained from both Mandate Pictures, with a partnership from Lionsgate in order to help distribute the studio's movies, and had to expand the existing Ghost House Pictures label. On March 5, 2014, it signed a pact with production company Point Grey Pictures, led by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg in order to set up a joint venture to produce comedy movies. On February 6, 2017, Fede Alvarez partnered with the company to set up Bad Hombre, which will produce films about the sci-fi and horror genres. On September 2, 2015, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company, or daughter company is a company (law), company completely or partially owned or controlled by another company, called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the subsidiary company. Unlike regional branches or divisions, subsidiaries are considered to be distinct entities from their parent companies; they are required to follow the laws of where they are incorporated, and they maintain their own executive leadership. Two or more subsidiaries primarily controlled by same entity/group are considered to be sister companies of each other. Subsidiaries are a common feature of modern business, and most multinational corporations organize their operations via the creation and purchase of subsidiary companies. Examples of holding companies are Berkshire Hathaway, Jefferies Financial Group, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Citigroup, which have subsidiaries involved in many different Industry (e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes
''The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes'' is a dystopian young adult action-adventure novel written by the American author Suzanne Collins. It is a prequel to the original ''The Hunger Games'' trilogy, set 64 years before the events of the first novel. It was released on May 19, 2020, by Scholastic, with an audiobook of the novel, read by the American actor Santino Fontana, released simultaneously. The book had a virtual launch due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A film adaptation by Lionsgate, '' The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes'', was released on November 17, 2023. Plot To help revive the televised Hunger Games' declining viewership, 24 Capitol Academy students are chosen to mentor tributes for the upcoming 10th Hunger Games and new features are added to the Games, such as tribute interviews and gifts that sponsors supply to the tributes. Eighteen-year-old Coriolanus "Coryo" Snow hopes to win a prize to pay his way to the university and return the Snow family's pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Boys (film)
''Good Boys'' is a 2019 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Gene Stupnitsky, in his List of directorial debuts#2019, directorial debut, and written by Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg. It stars Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams, and Brady Noon. The film follows three naive sixth graders who ditch school to replace a broken drone and prep for their kisses after being invited to a major party – but things go epically awry. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg produced the film through their Point Grey Pictures company. The film premiered at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, on March 11, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 16, 2019, by Universal Pictures. It received generally positive reviews and was a box-office success, grossing $111 million worldwide on a $20 million budget. Plot Best friends Max, Lucas, and Thor enter sixth grade facing their own personal dilemmas: Max has a crush on his classmate Brixlee, Lucas learns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grudge (2020 Film)
''The Grudge'', titled on its home media release as ''The Grudge: The Untold Chapter'', is a 2019 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Nicolas Pesce. A soft reboot of the American ''The Grudge'' film series, based on the 2002 Japanese horror film '' Ju-On: The Grudge'', the film takes place before and during the events of the 2004 film and its two sequels '' The Grudge 2'' and '' The Grudge 3''. The film stars Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho, Betty Gilpin, Lin Shaye, and Jacki Weaver, following a police officer who investigates several murders that are seemingly connected to a single house. A fourth American ''The Grudge'' film was announced in 2011. In March 2014, it was announced a soft reboot was in the works, with Jeff Buhler set to write the script. In July 2017, filmmaker Nicolas Pesce was hired for rewrites based on Buhler's script and to direct the film. On a budget of $12–14 million, filming took place from May to June 2018. ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desperados (film)
''Desperados'' is a 2020 American comedy film directed by LP, from a screenplay by Ellen Rapoport. It stars Nasim Pedrad, Lamorne Morris, Robbie Amell, Anna Camp, Heather Graham and Sarah Burns, and follows a group of friends who travel to Mexico in an effort to delete an email one of them sent to the man she has been dating for only a month. The film was released on July 3, 2020, by Netflix, and received generally negative reviews from critics, who called it "predictable ndunfunny". Plot Wesley Darya is struggling to find a job and a partner and desperately wants to settle down. Immediately after leaving a blind date with a man named Sean, she meets Jared, a charming and attractive man who came to her aid after she tripped and fell on the sidewalk. Drawn to his looks and desperate to date him, Wesley starts to hide her true self to make the relationship work. After dating for a month, Jared and Wesley finally have sex. When he does not contact her for five days, she becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal 1440 Entertainment
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment LLC (UPHE) is the home video distribution division of Universal Pictures, an American film studio owned by NBCUniversal, the entertainment unit of Comcast. UPHE is the home video distributor for all of the Universal Pictures film library, the Focus Features film library, most of the 1929–1949 Paramount film library held by EMKA, Ltd., and shows from the NBCUniversal Syndication Studios library (NBC, E!, Syfy, USA Network, and Oxygen). The division also had distribution deals with United Artists Releasing, The Film Arcade, Aviron Pictures, STX Entertainment (save for films from EuropaCorp Films USA, which Lionsgate holds the video rights to), Mattel Creations (for the long-running ''Barbie'' direct-to-video film series), 101 Studios, Sovereign Films, Open Road Films, Briarcliff Entertainment, Pinnacle Peak Pictures, Picturehouse, Blumhouse Tilt, Neon and Bleecker Street (until 2021), Funimation (in the United States and Canada; until 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titmouse, Inc
Titmouse, Inc. (also known as Titmouse Animation or simply Titmouse; formerly known as Titmouse Productions) is an American animation studio based in Los Angeles, California founded in May 3, 2000 that develops and produces animated television programming, feature films, music videos, title sequences, commercials, and short films. The name is derived of the titmouse, which serves as the company's mascot. History Founder and CEO Chris Prynoski began working at MTV in New York on shows such as ''Daria'', ''Beavis and Butt-Head'', and his own creation, ''Downtown'', which was nominated for a primetime Emmy Award. In the early 2000s, Prynoski opened a small T-shirt company with his wife, Shannon Prynoski. However, upon getting more requests for cartoons than for T-shirts, they decided to abandon screen-printing in favor of animation. The Prynoskis moved to California, and opened the revamped Titmouse, Inc., an animation studio. Antonio Canobbio, who had worked with Chris Prynosk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netflix Animation
Netflix Animation (also known as Netflix Animation Studios) is an American animation studio and a subsidiary of Netflix, Inc. It was founded in March 2018 and based in Los Angeles, California. The studio is best known for producing and developing animated television programs and animated feature films which are all hosted on the Netflix streaming service. History When Netflix began to produce original animated content in 2013, all of them were produced by third-party companies, mostly DreamWorks Animation Television. However, in November 2018, it was announced that Netflix was developing original animated projects in-house including '' Klaus'' and '' Kid Cosmic''. In 2019, Netflix Animation expanded operations and leased offices in Burbank and Hollywood for animation, television and film production. The company acquired Australian animation/visual effects studio Animal Logic Animal Logic (also known as Animal Logic VFX) is an Australian visual effects and computer animat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlo The Alligator Boy
''Arlo the Alligator Boy'' is a 2021 American animated musical film directed by Ryan Crego in his directorial debut. The film is led by Michael J. Woodard and Mary Lambert in their debut acting roles as Arlo and Bertie respectively. The film premiered on Netflix on April 16, 2021, and received positive reviews from critics. The film was followed by a streaming television series titled '' I Heart Arlo'' in August 2021. Plot Arlo Beauregard, a boy who is half-human and half-alligator, is placed in a sewage drain under New York City shortly after his birth, where he is taken by a stream of water into the ocean. Arriving in a swamp, Arlo is adopted and raised by a woman named Edmée. As a teenager, Arlo wishes to interact with other people but fears his alligator appearance will not be accepted by society. Edmée gives him his birth wristband on his fifteenth birthday and reveals to Arlo that he is from New York, and unaware that he was actually abandoned, Arlo decides to travel t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screen Gems
Screen Gems is an American film production company owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate, Sony Group Corporation. ''Screen Gems'' has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation, initially as a cartoon studio, then a television studio, and later on as a film studio. ''Screen Gems'' currently serves as a Sony’s film production division that specializes in genre films, mainly horror. Screen Gems is currently one of the five live-action labels of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, alongside Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, and 3000 Pictures. Animation studio (1921–1949) Early years (1921–1933) When producer Pat Sullivan came to Harry Warner to sign a contract with him on his and Otto Messmer's series Felix the Cat, he declined and instead told his soon-to-be former secretary Margaret J. Winkler that she should form her own company and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stage 6 Films
Stage 6 Films, Inc. is an American film division of Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions that acquires and produces feature films to be released either theatrically, on demand, or through streaming services. Once a film is finished, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions will decide if the film will be released theatrically or on a different platform. Founded in 2007, the film division takes its name from the location of its main office, the Stage 6 building at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California (originally an actual sound stage used for such films as '' The Wizard of Oz''). Filmography 2000s 2010s 2020s Upcoming Undated films International distribution Stage 6 occasionally also acquires international rights to films, be it worldwide excluding the United States and/or Canada, or in major territories such as the United Kingdom and Australia. Given below is a list of films (also seen on Stage 6 Films' official website) distributed internationall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Breathe 2
''Don't Breathe 2'' is a 2021 American horror thriller film directed by Rodo Sayagues, who co-wrote it with Fede Álvarez. It is the sequel to ''Don't Breathe'' (2016) and a second installment in the ''Don't Breathe'' franchise. The film stars Stephen Lang, reprising his role as Norman Nordstrom, with Brendan Sexton III and Madelyn Grace in supporting roles. After the critical and commercial success of the first film, talks for a sequel began in November 2016, with Álvarez then set to return as the film's director. In January 2020, the project was green-lit, with Sayagues replacing Álvarez as director and Lang reprising his role. Principal photography began in August 2020, in Belgrade, Serbia, and wrapped in October. ''Don't Breathe 2'' was released in the United States on August 13, 2021, by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film grossed over $53 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics. Plot Eight years after the events of the first film, blind Navy SEAL vete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |