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One Chance (film)
''One Chance'' is a 2013 British biographical film about opera singer and '' Britain's Got Talent'' winner Paul Potts, directed by David Frankel and written by Justin Zackham. It was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Cast * James Corden as Paul Potts * Alexandra Roach as Julz, Paul's wife * Mackenzie Crook as Braddon, Paul's coworker at The Carphone Warehouse * Valeria Bilello as Alessandra * Colm Meaney as Roland, Paul's father * Julie Walters as Yvonne, Paul's mother * Trystan Gravelle as Matthew, Paul's lifelong bully * Sion Tudor Owen as Choirmaster, Paul's mentor * Jemima Rooper as Hydrangea, Braddon's girlfriend * Alex Macqueen as Dr. Thorpe, Paul's emergency physician The film also features archival footage of Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Piers Morgan, and Ant & Dec from '' Britain's Got Talent''. Production Director David Frankel reduced his directing fee of US$6 million to US$1.2 million in exchan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Frankel
David Frankel (born April 2, 1959) is an American filmmaker. He directed '' The Devil Wears Prada'' (2006), '' Marley & Me'' (2008), '' Hope Springs'' (2012), '' Jerry & Marge Go Large'' (2022), and the first and fourth episodes of the Netflix miniseries '' Inventing Anna'' (2022). Biography Frankel was born to a Jewish family in New York City. He is the son of Tobia Simone (née Brown) and ''New York Times'' columnist Max Frankel. His younger brother is TV journalist Jon Frankel. He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for his 1996 short film '' Dear Diary'' and an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for the pilot episode of '' Entourage'' (2004), and has since directed the studio films '' The Devil Wears Prada'' (2006), '' Marley & Me'' (2008), and '' Hope Springs'' (2012). His birdwatching comedy '' The Big Year'', starring Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, JoBeth Williams, and Jack Black, was released in October 2011. He directed the 2022 film '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by Amazon. History Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis. In 1999, he started to post the Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. Along with the weekend grosses, he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules and other charts, such as all-time charts, international box office charts, genre charts, and actor and director charts. The site gradually expanded to include weekend charts goin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator, review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor Theatre, stage performance, the direct inspiration for the name from Duong, Lee, and Wang came from an equivalent scene in the 1992 Canadian film ''Léolo''. Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros. in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango Media, Fandango ticketing company. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. The site is influential among moviegoers, a third of whom say they consult it before going to the cinema in the U.S. ... [...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 Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade paper, and in 2010 switched to a weekly Wide-format printer, 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. The magazine also sponsors and hosts major industry events. History Foundation and early years ''The Hollywood Reporter'' was founded in 1930 by William R. Wilkerson, 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, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ant & Dec
Ant & Dec are a British television presenting duo consisting of Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly from Newcastle upon Tyne. After meeting as child actors on CBBC's drama ''Byker Grove'', they performed together as pop musicians PJ & Duncan, the names of their characters from the series. The duo have since pursued careers as television presenters, and currently host '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'', ''Britain's Got Talent'', and '' Limitless Win''. Previous hosting credits include '' SMTV Live'', '' CD:UK'', ''Friends Like These'', ''Pop Idol'', ''Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway'', '' PokerFace'', '' Wanna Bet?'', '' Push the Button'', '' Red or Black?'', and ''Text Santa''. They presented the annual Brit Awards in 2001, 2015 and 2016. In addition to presenting, the pair are actors and both had leading roles in the 2006 film '' Alien Autopsy''. They also have their own production company, Mitre Television. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Ant & Dec were named the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piers Morgan
Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (; O'Meara, born 30 March 1965) is an English journalist and media personality. He began his career in 1988 at the tabloid ''The Sun (United Kingdom), The Sun''. In 1994, at the age of 29, he was appointed editor of the ''News of the World'' by Rupert Murdoch, which made him the youngest editor of a British national newspaper in more than half a century. From 1995, Morgan edited the ''Daily Mirror'', but was fired in 2004. He was the editorial director of ''First News'' from 2006 to 2007. In 2014, Morgan became the first editor-at-large of the MailOnline website's American operation. As a television presenter, Morgan hosted the ITV (TV network), ITV talk show ''Piers Morgan's Life Stories'' (2009–2020), the CNN talk show ''Piers Morgan Live'' (2011–2014), and co-presented the ITV Breakfast programme Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme), ''Good Morning Britain'' (2015–2021) alongside Susanna Reid. He has been a judge on the television talen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Holden
Amanda Louise Holden (born 16 February 1971) is an English media personality, actress and singer. Since 2007, she has been a judge on the television talent competition show '' Britain's Got Talent'' on ITV. She also co-hosts the national ''Heart Breakfast'' radio show with Jamie Theakston on weekday mornings. Holden grew up in Bishop's Waltham and took an interest in acting and musical theatre while at school. She played the title role in the musical stage show ''Thoroughly Modern Millie'' in 2004, for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award. Her acting credits on television include '' The Grimleys'' (1998–2001), ''Kiss Me Kate'' (1999–2001), '' Cutting It'' (2002–2004), '' Wild at Heart'' (2006–2008), and ''Big Top'' (2009). Holden has also presented various television shows for ITV, including '' The Sun Military Awards'' (2009–2014), '' Superstar'' (2012), '' This Morning'' (2014–2015, 2017), ''Text Santa'' (2015), and '' Give a Pet a Home'' (20 ... [...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] |
Jemima Rooper
Jemima Rooper (born 24 October 1981) is an English actress. Having started as a child actress in television series, she has appeared in numerous film and theatre roles. Early life Born in Hammersmith, London, Rooper is the daughter of TV journalist Alison Rooper. She attended Redcliffe Gardens School in Chelsea and the Godolphin and Latymer School. While working on '' The Famous Five'', she passed eight GCSEs with A* and A grades. From there she went to MPW sixth form college where she got three A-grade A levels. Rooper bought her first home at the age of 19. Career Rooper expressed a wish to be an actress at the age of nine and contacted an agent. Her first professional roles were in the 1993 film '' The Higher Mortals'' and the 1994 film '' Willie's War''. In 1996, she appeared in all episodes as George in Enid Blyton's ''The Famous Five''. She said: After several small roles in British TV series, Jemima took the role of Nicki Sutton in the popular Channel 4 teenage s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trystan Gravelle
Trystan Gravelle (born 4 May 1981) is a Welsh theatre, film and television actor. Life and career Gravelle was born in the village of Trimsaran in Carmarthenshire. He attended Ysgol Gyfun Y Strade. He was a member of the Llanelli Youth Theatre between 1997 and 1999 before becoming a student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After graduation from RADA, Gravelle joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2010, he performed D. C. Moore's monologue Honest at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at Milne's Bar as part of the Assembly programme. In 2011, he appeared opposite Rhys Ifans and Vanessa Redgrave in the feature film ''Anonymous'', which contests the authorship of Shakespeare's plays, as Christopher Marlowe. Gravelle missed attending the film's London premiere due to starring in a London production of Mike Bartlett's National Theatre production '' 13''. In 2012, he joined the main cast of the ITV period drama series ''Mr Selfridge'' as Victor Colleano, assistant manager of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeria Bilello
Valeria Bilello (born 2 May 1982) is an Italian actress and model. Biography Valeria Bilello was born in Sciacca, in Sicily, Italy, on 2 May 1982, and grew up in Milan. During her high-school studies in foreign languages, she made her debut in showbiz, starting to model and shooting commercials. After her film studies in Milan in 2006, she shot the short film ''Attesa'', winner at the ''Festival Sguardi Altrove''. In 2008 she started her career as an actress, playing in the movie '' Giovanna's Father'', directed by Pupi Avati and presented at the ''Venice Film Festival''. In 2010, Academy Award winner Gabriele Salvatores chose her for the movie '' Happy Family'', for which she was awarded Best Actress at the ''Festival International du film de Boulogne-Billancourt''. Between 2011 and 2012, she played different roles: in ''Il giorno in più'' by Massimo Venier, in ''I soliti idioti'' by Enrico Lando, in ''Ti amo troppo per dirtelo'' by Marco Ponti and in ''Come non detto'' by Iva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carphone Warehouse
Carphone Warehouse is a mobile phone retailer based in London, United Kingdom. In August 2014 the company became a subsidiary of Currys plc (previously named "Dixons Carphone"), which was formed by the merger of its former parent Carphone Warehouse Group with Dixons Retail. Prior to this merger, Carphone Warehouse Group was listed on the London Stock Exchange, and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Following the closure of all stand-alone UK stores in April 2020, all remaining Carphone Warehouse UK outlets were within branches of Currys PC World. In April 2021, the Carphone Warehouse business in Ireland (including all stand-alone and co-located branches and the website) was closed with immediate effect. Currys continued to use the Carphone Warehouse brand in the United Kingdom, online and, until 2021, inside Currys stores. History Early years The company was co-founded in 1989 by Sir Charles Dunstone and Julian Brownlie, who put £6,000 into the company from their savin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
