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Michael Angelo Covino
Michael Angelo Covino (born 1984) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He has produced, written, directed, and starred in '' The Climb'' (2019) and ''Splitsville'' (2025). Early life Covino graduated from Occidental College. Career Covino is a frequent collaborator with friend Kyle Marvin, with the two serving as producers on ''Kicks'' by Justin Tipping and ''Hunter Gatherer'' by Josh Locy, and working on commercials and music videos. The two run the production company ''Watch This Ready''. In 2018, Covino directed, starred, and co-wrote alongside Marvin, ''The Climb'' a short film, focusing on a friendship between two lifelong friends, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The short was later expanded into a feature-length film film of the same name, financed by Topic Studios. '' The Climb'' had its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section, where it was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics. It s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Cannes Film Festival
The 78th annual Cannes Film Festival took place from 13 to 24 May 2025. French actress Juliette Binoche served as jury president for the main competition. Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film ''It Was Just an Accident.'' The official double poster for the festival featuring actress Anouk Aimée and actor Jean-Louis Trintignant in the movie ''A Man and a Woman'' (1966) by Claude Lelouch, winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, 19th Cannes Film Festival, was designed by Hartland Villa. French actor Laurent Lafitte served as host for the opening and closing ceremonies. During the festival, two Honorary Palme d'Or were awarded: the first was awarded to Robert De Niro during the festival's opening ceremony, and the second was awarded on short notice to Denzel Washington before the world premiere of ''Highest 2 Lowest''. One day after the announcement of the ACID (Cannes), ACID official selection, Palestini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telluride Film Festival
The Telluride Film Festival (TFF) is a film festival held annually in Telluride, Colorado, during Labor Day, Labor Day weekend (the first Monday in September). The 51st Telluride Film Festival, 51st edition took place on August 30–September 2, 2024. History First held on 30 August 1974, the festival, hosted at the Sheridan Opera House, was founded by Bill and Stella Pence, Tom Luddy, and James Card of Eastman-Kodak Film Preserve . It is operated by the National Film Preserve. In 2010, TFF partnered with UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. This partnership created FilmLab which was a program that focuses on the art and industry of filmmaking. This program is custom-designed for ten selected filmmaker graduates from University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA. The partnership was further extended in 2012, the two partners created a mutually curated film program on UCLA's Westwood, Los Angeles, Westwood campus. In 2013 the festival celebrated its 40th anniversary with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riff Raff (2024 Film)
''Riff Raff'' is a 2024 American crime comedy film directed by Dito Montiel, written by John Pollono, and starring Jennifer Coolidge, Gabrielle Union, Pete Davidson, Ed Harris, and Bill Murray. The film premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. It was released on February 28, 2025, by Roadside Attractions and Grindstone Entertainment Group. Synopsis The life of a former criminal is thrown into turmoil when his old family appear for a long-awaited reckoning. Cast Production Producers are Canopy Media Partners' Noah Rothman and Signature Films' Marc Goldberg and Sarah Gabriel. In May 2023, Dustin Hoffman, Jennifer Coolidge, Gabrielle Union, and Brian Cox were cast in the film. In November 2023, Ed Harris, Lewis Pullman, Miles J. Harvey, and Pete Davidson joined the cast, with Harris replacing Cox. In December 2023, it was revealed that Bill Murray had joined the cast replacing Hoffman. In May 2024, it was revealed that Emanuela Postacchini joined the cast. Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newsweek
''Newsweek'' is an American weekly news magazine based in New York City. Founded as a weekly print magazine in 1933, it was widely distributed during the 20th century and has had many notable editors-in-chief. It is currently co-owned by Dev Pragad, the president and chief executive officer (CEO), and Johnathan Davis, who sits on the board; each owns 50% of the company. In August 2010, revenue decline prompted Graham Holdings, the Washington Post Company to sell ''Newsweek'' to the audio pioneer Sidney Harman for one US dollar and an assumption of the magazine's liabilities. Later that year, ''Newsweek'' merged with the news and opinion website ''The Daily Beast'', forming The Newsweek Daily Beast Company, later called ''NewsBeast''. ''Newsweek'' was jointly owned by the estate of Harman and the company IAC (company), IAC. ''Newsweek'' continued to experience financial difficulties, leading to the suspension of print publication at the end of 2012. In 2013, IBT Media acquired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Greengrass
Paul Greengrass (born 13 August 1955) is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter and former journalist. One of his early films, '' Bloody Sunday'' (2002), won the Golden Bear at 52nd Berlin International Film Festival. Other films Greengrass has directed include three entries of the '' Bourne'' action-thriller film series: '' The Bourne Supremacy'' (2004), '' The Bourne Ultimatum'' (2007) and '' Jason Bourne'' (2016). He also directed '' United 93'' (2006), for which Greengrass won the BAFTA Award for Best Director and received an Academy Award for Best Director nomination; as well as ''Green Zone'' (2010) and '' Captain Phillips'' (2013). In 2004, he co-wrote and produced the film ''Omagh'', which won the Single Drama award from the British Academy Television Awards. In 2007, Greengrass co-founded Directors UK, a professional organisation of British filmmakers, and was its first president until 2014. He ranked 28 on ''EW''s The 50 Smartest People in Hollywoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News Of The World (film)
''News of the World'' is a 2020 American Western film co-written and directed by Paul Greengrass, based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Paulette Jiles, and starring Tom Hanks and introducing Helena Zengel in her international film debut. The film follows an aging Civil War veteran who must return a young girl who was taken in by the Kiowa, and raised as one of them, to her last remaining family. ''News of the World'' was released theatrically by Universal Pictures in the United States on December 25, 2020, and grossed $12 million. Internationally, the film was released by Netflix in other territories on February 10, 2021. It received positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances of Hanks and Zengel, as well as the cinematography, musical score, and Greengrass's direction. At the 93rd Academy Awards, the film received nominations for Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, and Best Sound. Zengel received nominations for Bes ... [...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] |
Neon (company)
NEON Rated, LLC, trade name, doing business as Neon (stylized in all caps), is an American independent film Filmmaking#Production, production and film distribution, distribution company founded in 2017 by CEO Tom Quinn and Tim League, who also was the co-founder of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain. As of 2019, League is no longer involved with daily operations for the company. Its first film, ''Colossal (film), Colossal'', was released in 2017. The company became known for distributing such notable films as ''I, Tonya'' (2017), ''Parasite (2019 film), Parasite'' (2019), ''Portrait of a Lady on Fire'' (2019), ''Palm Springs (2020 film), Palm Springs'' (2020), ''Flee (film), Flee'' (2021), ''Spencer (film), Spencer'' (2021), ''The Worst Person in the World (film), The Worst Person in the World'' (2021), ''Triangle of Sadness'' (2022), ''Anatomy of a Fall'' (2023), ''Anora'' (2024), ''Longlegs'' (2024), ''The Seed of the Sacred Fig'' (2024), and ''The Monkey (film), The Monkey'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adria Arjona
Adria Arjona Torres (; born April 25, 1992) is an American actress. She played Dorothy Gale in the Oz book adaptation ''Emerald City'' (2017), Anathema Device in ''Good Omens'' (2019), and Bix Caleen in '' Andor'' (2022–2025). She has starred in '' Father of the Bride'' (2022), ''Hit Man'' (2023), and ''Blink Twice'' (2024) with supporting roles in ''Pacific Rim Uprising'' (2018), '' Life of the Party'' (2018), ''Triple Frontier'' (2019), ''6 Underground'' (2019) and ''Morbius'' (2022). Early life Arjona was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and lived in Mexico City until she was twelve. Her mother, Leslie Torres, is Puerto Rican, and her father, Ricardo Arjona, is a Guatemalan singer-songwriter. Arjona reflected on her heritage during an interview with ''The New York Times'': "There's a big debate on the internet over whether I'm Puerto Rican or Guatemalan, and I'm very much both". When she was a child, her father took her along on his tours, and she traveled often. At age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dakota Johnson
Dakota Mayi Johnson (born October 4, 1989) is an American actress. Her accolades include an Independent Spirit Award and a nomination for a British Academy Film Award. The daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, Johnson made her film debut at age ten with a minor role in '' Crazy in Alabama'' (1999), directed by her then-stepfather Antonio Banderas, and also starring her mother. After graduating from high school, she began auditioning for roles and had a minor part in ''The Social Network'' (2010). Johnson had her breakthrough playing the lead role in the erotic ''Fifty Shades'' film series (2015–2018). In 2016, she received a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination and was featured in a ''Forbes'' 30 Under 30 list. Johnson's profile grew with roles in the crime drama '' Black Mass'' (2015), the drama '' A Bigger Splash'' (2015), the romantic comedy '' How to Be Single'' (2016), the horror film '' Suspiria'' (2018), the thriller '' Bad Times at the El Royale'' (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Soon after, it spread to other areas of Asia, and COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory, then worldwide in early 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020, and assessed the outbreak as having become a pandemic on 11 March. COVID-19 symptoms range from asymptomatic to deadly, but most commonly include fever, sore throat, nocturnal cough, and fatigue. Transmission of COVID-19, Transmission of the virus is often airborne transmission, through airborne particles. Mutations have variants of SARS-CoV-2, produced many strains (variants) with varying degrees of infectivity and virulence. COVID-19 vaccines were developed rapidly and deplo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
