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Thelma (2024 Film)
''Thelma'' is a 2024 American comedy-drama film written, directed, and edited by Josh Margolin. The film stars June Squibb as a woman who falls victim to a phone scam, and sets out to find the perpetrators with the help of her grandson (Fred Hechinger) and friend (Richard Roundtree, in his final role). Clark Gregg, Parker Posey, and Malcolm McDowell also star. ''Thelma'' premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2024, and was released in the United States by Magnolia Pictures on June 21, 2024. The film received positive reviews and was named one of the top ten independent films of 2024 by the National Board of Review. Thelma Post is the actual name of Margolin's grandmother who was the target of a phone scam. In that case her family intervened before the scam was completed, but it inspired Margolin to write the screenplay. The real life Thelma Post is shown mid-credits sitting in a car and saying the lines from the final scene of the movie in which she discus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Squibb
June Louise Squibb (born November 6, 1929) is an American actress. She began her career by making her Broadway (theatre), Broadway debut in the musical ''Gypsy (musical), Gypsy'' (1959). Her film debut was in Woody Allen's romantic comedy ''Alice (1990 film), Alice'' (1990). She later had supporting roles in the films ''The Age of Innocence (1993 film), The Age of Innocence'' (1993), ''In & Out (film), In & Out'' (1997), ''Meet Joe Black'' (1998), ''About Schmidt'' (2002), and ''Far from Heaven'' (2002). For her role in Alexander Payne's road film ''Nebraska (film), Nebraska'' (2013), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Squibb starred in her first leading role in the action comedy film ''Thelma (2024 film), Thelma'' (2024). She also voiced roles in the animated films ''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' (2018), ''Toy Story 4'' (2019), ''Soul (2020 film), ''Soul'''' (2020), and ''Inside Out 2'' (2024). Early and personal life Squibb was born in Vandalia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruben Rabasa
Ruben Rabasa is a Cuban-born American actor and comedian best known for his roles in ''I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson'' and '' Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania''. His appearance in the Netflix variety series shot him to fame after 50 years in acting. Rabasa parlayed his newfound celebrity into projects including a one-man show. Filmography Film * ''Thelma'' (2024) – Winston * ''Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania'' (2023) – Café Owner * ''Father of the Bride'' (2022) – Tío Walter * ''Jack and Jill'' (2011) – Bathroom Attendant * ''The Lost City'' (2005) – Pizzi * ''Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach'' (1988) – Julio * '' Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise'' (1987) – Maintenance Man * ''Amigos'' (1985) – Ramón Television * ''I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson'' (2019) – Focus Group Man #1 * ''This Is Us'' (2019) – Eduardo * ''Criminal Minds'' (2011) – Jimmy Mercado * '' Wrecked'' (2016) – Yolonzo * ''Agents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Astra Awards
The Astra Awards (formerly known as the Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Awards and the Hollywood Critics Association Awards) is an annual awards ceremony hosted by the Hollywood Creative Alliance to recognize achievements in the entertainment industry. These awards span categories in film, television, and digital media, honoring technical and creative excellence. History In December 2023, the Hollywood Critics Association was renamed the Hollywood Creative Alliance, and its awards were rebranded as the Astra Awards. This change, approved by the advisory committee on November 17, 2023, led to the renaming of the HCA Film Awards, HCA TV Awards, and HCA Creative Arts Awards to the Astra Film Awards, the Astra TV Awards, and the Astra Creative Arts Awards, respectively. The 7th Astra Film Awards took place on January 6, 2024, at the The Biltmore Los Angeles, Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, as the first ceremony to be held under the new name. It was produced by Content.23 Med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provincetown International Film Festival
The Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) is an annual film festival founded in 1999 and held on Cape Cod in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The festival presents American and international narrative features, documentaries and short films for five days in June of each year. The festival is a program of the Provincetown Film Society, the non-profit parent organization which also operates the year-round Waters Edge Cinema (formerly known as Whaler's Wharf Cinema), a year-round Provincetown movie theater presenting what it considers the best in current independent and international cinema. The festival hosts films and panel discussions and incorporates the cultural, historic, and artistic character of Provincetown: with its thriving art colony, its large gay and lesbian population, its original Native American and Portuguese heritage, and its congenial scenic setting. In keeping with its mission, the festival often presents films about countercultural figures, such as Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarasota Film Festival
The Sarasota Film Festival is a film festival located in Sarasota, Florida and held in April. Its mission is "to celebrate the art of filmmaking and the contribution of filmmakers by hosting an international film festival and developing year-long programs for the economic, educational, and cultural benefit of our community". History Following the demise of the Sarasota French Film Festival in 1996, John Welch began researching and planning an independent film festival. He hired Jody Kielbasa as Executive Director and the first "mini-festival", featuring eight independent films, six actors and a gala fundraiser was held in January 1999. The county controversially funded the festival double what it requested, for a total of $50,000. The investment was defended as good for tourism. In 2002, the '' St. Petersburg Times'' highlighted the festival's potential for marketing and distribution, and, in 2003, '' Variety'' called the festival "one of the edgier, more interesting entrants on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleveland International Film Festival
The Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) is an annual film festival based in Cleveland, Ohio. CIFF is the largest film festival in Ohio and among the longest-running in the United States. The festival is held at Playhouse Square, the largest performing arts center in the United States outside of New York City. In 2023, '' MovieMaker'' included the festival on its list of the "25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World". CIFF is also an Academy Award-qualifying festival for short films. History Not to be confused with the Cleveland Film Festival which ran from 1948 to 1956 and honored sponsored films with "Oscars,", the CIFF had its inaugural festival in 1977 with seven feature films over eight weeks at the Cedar Lee Theatre in Cleveland Heights. In 1991, the festival relocated to Tower City Cinemas in Downtown Cleveland. At points during its nearly five-decade run, the festival has also put on additional programming and events at other local venues, including the Akron Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniels (directors)
Daniel Kwan (born February 10, 1988) and Daniel Scheinert (born June 7, 1987), known collectively as the Daniels, are an American filmmaking duo. They began their career as directors of music videos, including ones for "Houdini (Foster the People song), Houdini" (2012) by Foster the People and "Turn Down for What" (2013) by DJ Snake and Lil Jon, both of which earned them Grammy Award nominations. They wrote and directed the absurdist comedy-dramas ''Swiss Army Man'' (2016) and ''Everything Everywhere All at Once'' (2022). The latter became A24's highest-grossing film, and won the duo many awards, including Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director, and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay. Careers Music videos Kwan and Scheinert met while studying film at Emerson College in Boston. Kwan graduated in 2010 and Scheinert graduated in 2009. They went to college with Sunita Mani, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lance Oppenheim
Lance Oppenheim (born January 26, 1996) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and producer. His work blends nonfiction storytelling with heightened, cinematic formalism. Oppenheim has received critical acclaim for his films '' Some Kind of Heaven'' (2020) and '' Spermworld'' (2024). He is also known for creating the HBO documentary series ''Ren Faire'' (2024). Life Oppenheim was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the son of attorneys Roy and Ellen Oppenheim, and raised in Southwest Ranches, Florida. He attended Pine Crest School from 2010 to 2014. He graduated from Harvard University in 2019 with a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies. At Harvard, Oppenheim studied under filmmakers Ross McElwee, Robb Moss, and Guy Maddin, and lived in Adams House. Career In high school, Oppenheim directed several short documentaries, one of which PBS distributed nationwide. He sent documentary pitches to the ''New York Times'' Op-Docs' open submission portal, documenting "crazy things hap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Feig
Paul Feig (; born September 17, 1962) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for directing films such as '' Bridesmaids'' (2011), '' The Heat'' (2013), '' Spy'' (2015), ''Ghostbusters'' (2016), '' A Simple Favor'' (2018), and '' Last Christmas'' (2019). He often collaborates with actress Melissa McCarthy. Feig created the comedy series ''Freaks and Geeks'' (1999–2000) and '' Other Space'' (2015). He has also directed several episodes of ''Arrested Development'', '' Nurse Jackie'', ''Mad Men'', ''The Office'', '' Parks and Recreation'', ''30 Rock'', and ''Weeds''. He received nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards for writing on ''Freaks and Geeks'', and two for producing and directing on ''The Office''. His most notable acting roles were as Bobby Wynn in the sitcom '' The Jackie Thomas Show'' (1992–1993), Tim the Camp Counselor in the comedy film '' Heavyweights'' (1995), and Mr. Eugene Pool on the sitcom ''Sabrina the Teenage Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Fremon Craig
Kelly Fremon Craig (born May 28, 1980) is an American screenwriter, producer, and film director. She is known for writing and directing the 2016 coming-of-age dramedy ''The Edge of Seventeen'' and the 2023 adaptation of Judy Blume's classic middle-grade novel, '' Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.'' Early life Fremon Craig was born in Whittier, California and graduated from UC Irvine with an English degree. When she was 13, she watched a lot of MTV, which sparked her interest in music videos. She stated that music videos were "like little short films". Spoken word poetry was what Fremon Craig initially began writing. Career 2000s Fremon Craig started out by writing sketch comedy and spoken word poetry in college, then landed an internship in the film division of Immortal Entertainment, where she read her first film script and began to pursue screenwriting. She developed several screenplays during the 2000s, including a modern high school retelling of '' Cyrano de Berger ... [...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] |
The Exorcism (film)
''The Exorcism'' is a 2024 American supernatural horror film starring Russell Crowe as Anthony Miller, an actor whose deteriorating mental state on a horror movie set causes his daughter (Ryan Simpkins) to suspect either his former addictions or a more sinister cause. It is directed by Joshua John Miller, from a script he co-wrote with M. A. Fortin. The film also stars Sam Worthington, Chloe Bailey, Adam Goldberg, Adrian Pasdar, and David Hyde Pierce. Vertical released ''The Exorcism'' in theaters in the United States on June 21, 2024, and digital platforms on July 9, 2024. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $12.6 million worldwide. Plot In New York City, Tom, an actor playing a priest in a supernatural horror film called ''The Georgetown Project'' (resembling ''The Exorcist''), is inspecting the set alone when he is mysteriously killed by a supernatural force. Peter, the film’s demanding director, taps aging, alcoholic actor Anthony Miller to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
