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Happythankyoumoreplease
''Happythankyoumoreplease'' is a 2010 comedy-drama film written and directed by Josh Radnor in his directorial debut. The film features Radnor, Malin Åkerman, Kate Mara, Zoe Kazan, Michael Algieri, Pablo Schreiber, and Tony Hale, in the story of a group of young New Yorkers, struggling to balance love, friendship, and their encroaching adulthoods. ''Happythankyoumoreplease'' premiered at the 26th Sundance Film Festival in 2010, where it won the Audience Award and was further nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. On March 4, 2011 it was released in theatres throughout Los Angeles and New York. Plot A story of relationships, ''Happythankyoumoreplease'' deals with the struggles facing several pairs trying to find their way in the big city. The film centers on Sam (Radnor), a writer who is trying (unsuccessfully) to get his first novel attempt into print, and Rasheen (Algieri), a foster care child, whom Sam meets when Rasheen is abandoned on the subway. The film also involves Sam's b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malin Åkerman
Malin Maria Åkerman (born 12 May 1978) is a Swedish actress. In the early 2000s, she had several small television and film parts in both Canadian and American productions, including '' The Utopian Society'' (2003) and ''Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle'' (2004). Following a supporting role on the HBO mockumentary sitcom '' The Comeback'' (2005), she gained her first co-starring roles in the romantic comedy films '' The Heartbreak Kid'' (2007) and '' 27 Dresses'' (2008). She had an uncredited role in the science fiction film, ''The Invasion'' (2007). She played the female lead in ''Watchmen'' (2009) as Silk Spectre II, a role for which she was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2009, Åkerman had supporting and starring roles in the romantic comedies '' The Proposal'' and '' Couples Retreat''. From 2010 to 2016, she starred on the Adult Swim comedy series '' Childrens Hospital''. In 2012, she co-starred in the comedy '' Wanderlust'' and the musical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Jenkins
Richard Dale Jenkins (born May 4, 1947) is an American actor who is well known for his portrayal of deceased patriarch Nathaniel Fisher on the HBO funeral drama series '' Six Feet Under'' (2001–2005). He began his career in theater at the Trinity Repertory Company and made his film debut in 1974. He has worked steadily in film and television since the 1980s, mostly in supporting roles. He is also known for his roles in the films ''Burn After Reading'' (2008), '' Step Brothers'' (2008), '' Let Me In'' (2010), ''Jack Reacher'' (2012), '' The Cabin in the Woods'' (2012), ''The Shape of Water'' (2017), '' The Last Shift'' (2020), and '' The Humans'' (2021). Jenkins was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the drama film '' The Visitor'' (2007). He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for the limited drama series '' Olive Kitteridge'' (2014). For his performance in the fantasy drama film ''The Shape of Water'' (2017), he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Mara
Kate Rooney Mara ( ; born February 27, 1983) is an American actress. She is known for work in television, playing reporter Zoe Barnes in the Netflix political drama '' House of Cards'' (2013–2014; 2016), computer analyst Shari Rothenberg in the Fox thriller series '' 24'' (2006), wronged mistress Hayden McClaine in the FX miniseries '' American Horror Story: Murder House'' (2011), Patty Bowes in the first season of the FX drag ball culture drama series '' Pose'' (2018) and Claire Wilson, a teacher who begins an illicit relationship with an underage student, in the FX on Hulu miniseries '' A Teacher'' (2020), for the last of which she received an Independent Spirit nomination for Best New Scripted Series as an executive producer. She made her film debut in '' Random Hearts'' (1999). She has since appeared in ''Brokeback Mountain'' (2005), '' We Are Marshall'' (2006), '' Shooter'' (2007), '' Transsiberian'' (2008), '' Stone of Destiny'' (2008), '' The Open Road'' (2009), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Sawyer Entertainment
Haven Entertainment, founded in 2006 as Tom Sawyer Entertainment is a film production and management company founded by Rachel Miller and Jesse Hara. Haven produced ''happythankyoumoreplease'', the US Audience Award winner at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Miller is an agent who represented Josephine Angelini's '' Starcrossed''. Following the 2008 writers strike, Tom Sawyer shifted and began to develop books before adapting them to the big screen. In 2012, Tom Sawyer merged with Picture Machine and the new company is known as Haven Entertainment. Films * Happythankyoumoreplease, 2010 * Liberal Arts Liberal arts education (from Latin "free" and "art or principled practice") is the traditional academic course in Western higher education. ''Liberal arts'' takes the term '' art'' in the sense of a learned skill rather than specifically th ..., 2012 References External links * Film production companies of the United States {{US-film-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gen Art
Gen Art is an arts and entertainment organization that showcases emerging fashion designers, filmmakers, musicians and visual artists. It has produced over 100 events annually, which included fashion shows, film premieres and screenings, live music and art receptions and tours. Gen Art's offices are located in New York City and Los Angeles and since 2014, the company has been headed up by Keri Ingvarsson and a small team of private investors. Previous offices have included San Francisco, Miami and Chicago. On February 21, 2011, Gen Art announced it would return with the 16th Annual Gen Art Film Festival in New York City. Gen Art has since then announced its "Fresh Faces in Fashion Show" during New York Fashion Week 2011, which will feature the designers Ann Yee, ace & jig, Sunghee Bang, Eighteenth, Jennifer Chun, William Okopo, Baron Wells, Collina Strada, Falconiere, Osborn, and Wool and the Gang. History Gen Art began as a non-profit company, called Generational Arts Limited, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myriad Pictures
Myriad Pictures is an independent entertainment company in Santa Monica, California founded in 1999 and specializing in production, financing and worldwide distribution of feature films and television programming. History President and CEO Kirk D'Amico opened the company in 1999 and has built a diverse library of art house and mainstream programming. In 2009, Myriad supported the Academy Award campaign for director Bruno Barreto’s '' Last Stop 174'', which was Brazil’s Official Selection to the 2009 Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Myriad’s library includes; '' Kinsey'', starring Liam Neeson; '' The Good Girl'', starring Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhaal;'' Little Fish'', starring Cate Blanchett; '' Factory Girl'', starring Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce; ''Death Defying Acts'', starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy Pearce; '' Serious Moonlight'', starring Meg Ryan, Tim Hutton and Kristen Bell; '' Not Forgotten'', starring Simon Baker and P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. The site is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. Finke was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times'' as being worth "millions of dollars", as well as p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park City, Utah
Park City is a city in Utah, United States. The vast majority is in Summit County, and it extends into Wasatch County. It is considered to be part of the Wasatch Back. The city is southeast of downtown Salt Lake City and from Salt Lake City's east edge of Sugar House along Interstate 80. The population was 8,396 at the 2020 census. On average, the tourist population greatly exceeds the number of permanent residents. After a population decline following the shutdown of the area's mining industry, the city rebounded during the 1980s and 1990s through an expansion of its tourism business. the city brings in a yearly average of $529.8 million to the Utah Economy as a tourist hot spot, $80 million of which is attributed to the Sundance Film Festival. The city has two major ski resorts: Deer Valley Resort and Park City Mountain Resort (combined with Canyons Village at Park City) and one minor resort: Woodward Park City (an action sports training and fun center). Both Deer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Radnor
Joshua Thomas Radnor (born July 29, 1974) is an American actor, filmmaker, author, and musician. He is best known for portraying Ted Mosby on the popular and Emmy Award–winning CBS sitcom ''How I Met Your Mother''. He made his writing and directorial debut with the 2010 comedy drama film '' Happythankyoumoreplease'', for which he won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. In 2012, he wrote, directed and starred in his second film, '' Liberal Arts'', which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, Radnor portrayed Isaac in the Broadway play '' Disgraced'', which was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. He then starred as Dr. Jedediah Foster on the PBS American Civil War drama series '' Mercy Street'', Lou Mazzuchelli in the musical series '' Rise'', and as Lonny Flash in ''Hunters''. Early life and education Radnor was born in Columbus, Ohio to a Jewish family, the son of Carol Radnor (née Hirsch), a hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hollywood Reporter
''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade paper, and in 2010 switched to a weekly large-format print magazine with a revamped website. As of 2020, the day-to-day operations of the company are handled by Penske Media Corporation through a joint venture with Eldridge Industries. History Early years; 1930–1987 ''The Hollywood Reporter'' was founded in 1930 by William R. "Billy" Wilkerson (1890–1962) as Hollywood's first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3, 1930, and featured Wilkerson's front-page "Tradeviews" column, which became influential. The newspaper appeared Monday-to-Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, then Monday-to-Friday from 1940. Wilkerson used caustic articles and gossip to generate publicity and got noticed by the studio bosses in New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily News (New York)
The New York ''Daily News'', officially titled the ''Daily News'', is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, NJ. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson as the ''Illustrated Daily News''. It was the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid format. It reached its peak circulation in 1947, at 2.4 million copies a day. As of 2019 it was the eleventh-highest circulated newspaper in the United States. Today's ''Daily News'' is not connected to the earlier ''New York Daily News'', which shut down in 1906. The ''Daily News'' is owned by parent company Tribune Publishing. This company was acquired by Alden Global Capital, which operates its media properties through Digital First Media, in May 2021. After the Alden acquisition, alone among the newspapers acquired from Tribune Publishing, the ''Daily News'' property was spun off into a separate subsidiary called Daily News Enterprises. History ''Illustrated Daily News'' The ''Illustrated Daily News'' was founded by Pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
