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Magic Hour (2025 Film)
''Magic Hour'' is a 2025 American drama film, directed by Katie Aselton, from a screenplay by Aselton and Mark Duplass. It stars Aselton, Daveed Diggs, Brad Garrett, and Susan Sullivan. It had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 7, 2025. Premise A couple escape to the desert to navigate their relationship. Cast * Katie Aselton * Daveed Diggs * Brad Garrett * Susan Sullivan Production In April 2024, it was announced Katie Aselton and Daveed Diggs had joined the cast of the film, with Aselton directing from a screenplay she co-wrote alongside Mark Duplass. Duplass and Jay Duplass will serve as executive producers under their Duplass Brothers Productions banner. Release It had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 7, 2025. In June 2025, Greenwich Entertainment Greenwich Entertainment, founded in 2017, is an independent film distribution company specializing in narrative and documentary feature films. The company released Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Aselton
Kathryn Aselton (born October 1, 1978) is an American actress, film director and producer. She directed and co-starred in '' The Freebie'', which was shown in the non-competition "Next" category at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. She also starred in the FX sitcom ''The League'' for its seven-season run from 2009 to 2015, and in the first two seasons of FX's Marvel Comics X-Men drama '' Legion''. Early life Aselton was born in Milbridge, Maine. She competed in pageants in 1995, and was Miss Maine Teen USA 1995 and first runner-up at Miss Teen USA 1995. She graduated from Narraguagus High School in Harrington, Maine, in 1996. She attended Boston University School of Communications for two years before moving to Los Angeles to act, where she met her future husband, Mark Duplass. She then studied for two years at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Career In 2004, Aselton appeared in a short film titled ''Scrapple'' opposite Mark Duplass and his brother Jay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South By Southwest
South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and Convention (meeting), conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas. It began in 1987 and has continued growing in both scope and size every year. In 2017, the conference lasted for 10 days with the interactive track lasting for five days, music for seven days, and film for nine days. There was no in-person event in 2020 and 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Austin, Texas, COVID-19 pandemic in Austin; in both years there was a smaller online event instead. SXSW is run by the company SXSW, LLC, which organizes conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. In addition to SXSW, the company runs the conference SXSW EDU and the SXSW Sydney festival (from 2023, in Sydney, Australia) and co-runs North by Northeast in Toronto. Beginning in June 2025, the inaugural South by Southwest London, SXSW London will also take place. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Independent Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''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. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...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. It 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. She was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper# ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Duplass
Lawrence Jay Duplass Jr. (born March 7, 1973) is an American filmmaker, actor, and author widely known for his films ''The Puffy Chair'' (2005), ''Cyrus'' (2010), and '' Jeff, Who Lives at Home'' (2011), made in collaboration with his younger brother, Mark Duplass. Duplass starred in the Amazon Video comedy-drama series '' Transparent'' (2014–2019), and co-created the HBO comedy-drama series '' Togetherness'' (2015–16) and the HBO anthology series '' Room 104'' (2017–2020). Early life Duplass was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Cynthia (née Ernst) and Lawrence Duplass. He was raised in a Catholic family, and attended Jesuit High School. Duplass graduated from the University of Texas at Austin; he started a Masters of Fine Arts degree in film at UT but withdrew in the first few months to pursue independent film projects. His ancestry includes French Cajun, Italian, Ashkenazi Jewish, and German. Career Directing Duplass attributes much of his and his brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama (film And Television)
In film and television show, television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or docudrama, semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humour, humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police procedural, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, Drama (film and television)#Teen drama, teen drama, and comedy drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular Setting (narrative), setting or subject matter, or they combine a drama's otherwise serious tone with elements that encourage a broader range of Mood (literature), moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of Conflict (process), conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of Film industry, cinema or television that involve Fiction, fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwich Entertainment
Greenwich Entertainment, founded in 2017, is an independent film distribution company specializing in narrative and documentary feature films. The company released Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi’s Academy Award-Winning Documentary ''Free Solo,'' which grossed over $17M at the US box office, Andrew Slater’s '' Echo in the Canyon,'' which opened to the highest per-theater-average of any documentary in 2019, and '' Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice'' by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Filmography {, class="wikitable" , + !Film !Release date , - , ''Itzhak'' , March 9, 2018 , - , ''Mountain'' , May 11, 2018 , - , ''Westwood'' , June 8, 2018 , - , ''Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood'' , July 27, 2018 , - , '' The Bookshop'' , August 24, 2018 , - , '' Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable'' , September 19, 2018 , - , ''Free Solo'' , September 28, 2018 , - , '' The World Before Your Feet'' , November 21, 2018 , - , ''The Invisibles'' , January 25, 2019 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Duplass
Mark David Duplass (born December 7, 1976) is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and musician. With his brother Jay Duplass, he started the film production company Duplass Brothers Productions in 1996, for which they wrote and directed ''The Puffy Chair'' (2005), ''Baghead'' (2008), ''Cyrus (2010 film), Cyrus'' (2010), ''Jeff, Who Lives at Home'' (2011), and ''The Do-Deca-Pentathlon'' (2012). Duplass co-wrote and starred in the horror film ''Creep (2014 film), Creep'' (2014) and its sequel ''Creep 2'' (2017), as well as the television spin-off ''The Creep Tapes'' (2024). He co-wrote and co-produced the television anthology series ''Room 104'' (2017–2020). His other acting credits include ''Humpday'' (2009), ''The League'' (2009–2015), ''Greenberg (film), Greenberg'' (2010), ''Safety Not Guaranteed'' (2012), ''The One I Love (film), The One I Love'' (2014), ''The Lazarus Effect (2015 film), The Lazarus Effect'' (2015), ''Togetherness (TV series), Togetherness'' (2015–2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duplass Brothers Productions
Duplass Brothers Productions is an American independent film and television production company founded by Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass, two brothers who are also actors, directors, producers and writers. They have produced films such as ''The Puffy Chair'' (2005), ''Safety Not Guaranteed'' (2012), '' The One I Love'' (2014) and '' The Skeleton Twins'' (2014), and the HBO comedy-drama television series '' Togetherness'' (2015–2016) and '' Room 104'' (2017-2020). History Duplass Brothers Productions was founded in 1996, with the release of the first film by brothers Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass. The company originally produced low-budget mumblecore films, but has since expanded to studio projects. In 2015, the Duplass Brothers expanded into television with their first series '' Togetherness'', in which Mark also stars. In January 2015, Duplass Brothers Productions closed a four-picture deal with Netflix, involving financing from the company and, after a short theatrical run, the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyler Parkford
Tyler Davis Parkford is an American musician, best known as the keyboardist and vocalist for Los Angeles–based band Mini Mansions. He is also one half of the lounge pop duo Mister Goodnite, and a touring member of the British indie rock band Arctic Monkeys. Early life Parkford grew up in Long Beach, California. He studied classical piano as a child and later learned to play the guitar. He attended film school at the University of California, Santa Cruz. It was there that he met future bandmate Zach Dawes. Along with Queens of the Stone Age bassist Michael Shuman, the trio formed Mini Mansions in 2009. Career In 2013, Parkford teamed up with Drab Majesty’s Alex Nicolaou to form Mister Goodnite, a pop act that layers vocals over samples of retro pop, prog, and psych records. He described the concept behind the project as a man who dies and is doomed to spend eternity in purgatory as a lounge singer. Mister Goodnite's first mixtape, ''Songs About Love And Lack Thereof'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
