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Théodore Pellerin
Théodore Pellerin (, born June 13, 1997) is a Canadian film and television actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the 2018 film '' Family First (Chien de garde)'', for which he won the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards, and the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards. In 2021, he starred as Oliver Larsson in the Netflix film '' There's Someone Inside Your House''. He is the son of dancer and choreographer Marie Chouinard and painter Denis Pellerin. Career Pellerin has appeared in the films '' Endorphine'', ''Boost'', '' The Demons'', ''It's Only the End of the World'', '' The Beep Test'', '' Boy Erased'', '' Never Steady, Never Still'', '' Isla Blanca'', ''Genesis (Genèse)'', ''Ville Neuve'', and ''Never Rarely Sometimes Always''. Recently, he portrayed the pyramid scheme true believer Cody Bonar on the Showtime series ''On Becoming a God in Central Florida''. In August 2019, Pellerin was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Toronto International Film Festival
The 42nd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 7 to 17, 2017. There were fourteen programs, with the Vanguard and City to City programs both being retired from previous years, with the total number of films down by 20% from the 2016 edition. ''Borg/McEnroe'' directed by Janus Metz Pedersen opened the festival. According to a "fact sheet" released by the Festival before it began, this edition included 255 feature-length films and 84 short films. Of the feature films, 147 are claimed to be premiere, world premieres. The number of Canadian films at the festival (including International co-production, co-productions) was listed as 28 features and 29 shorts. Christopher Nolan's ''Dunkirk (2017 film), Dunkirk'' received a special IMAX 70 mm film, 70mm screening at the Cinesphere as part of the main film slate and the 50th anniversary of IMAX, making it the first Nolan film to appear at the festival since ''Following'', nineteen years earlier. Awards The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boost (film)
''Boost'' is a 2016 Canadian drama film written and directed by Darren Curtis. The film stars Nabil Rajo and Jahmil French as Hakeem and Anthony/"A-Mac", teenagers in the Park Extension neighbourhood of Montreal who work at Hakeem's uncle's car wash while simultaneously maintaining a sideline pursuit of passing on tips about valuable cars to the neighbourhood's gang of car thieves. One day, however, they decide to try their hands at undertaking an auto theft themselves. The film's cast also includes Fanny Mallette, Oluniké Adeliyi, Patrick Goyette, Théodore Pellerin and Juliette Gariépy. The film was originally written to be about characters of South Asian background, but was rewritten in a Black Canadian context when Rajo and French were cast as the leads. [...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] |
On Becoming A God In Central Florida
''On Becoming a God in Central Florida'' is an American dark comedy television series created by Robert Funke and Matt Lutsky that premiered on Showtime on August 25, 2019. The series stars Kirsten Dunst and is set in the early 1990s. In September 2019, the series was renewed for a second season. However, in October 2020, the renewal decision was reversed and the series was canceled after only one season and ten episodes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Plot Krystal Stubbs is a minimum-wage-earning water park employee in Greater Orlando who schemes her way up the ranks of Founders American Merchandise, a cultish, flag-waving, multi-billion-dollar multi-level marketing pyramid scheme that drove her family to ruin. Cast and characters Main * Kirsten Dunst as Krystal Stubbs * Théodore Pellerin as Cody Bonar * Mel Rodriguez as Ernie Gomes * Beth Ditto as Bets Gomes * Ted Levine as Obie Garbeau II Recurring * Usman Ally as Stan Van Grundegaard * Eric Allan Kramer as Carroll Wilkes * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Showtime (TV Network)
Showtime (also known as Paramount+ with Showtime) is an American pay television, premium television broadcaster, television network and the flagship property of Showtime Networks, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Showtime's programming includes original programming, original television program, television series produced exclusively for the linear network and developed for the co-owned Paramount+ streaming media, streaming service, Art release#Film, theatrically released and independent film, independent Feature film, motion pictures, documentary film, documentaries, and occasional stand-up comedy television special, specials, Television film, made-for-TV movies, and softcore pornography, softcore adult programming. Headquartered at Paramount Plaza in the northern part of New York City's Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway district, Showtime operates eight 24-hour, linear Multiplex (television)#Pay television multiplexes, multiplex channel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyramid Scheme
A pyramid scheme is a business model which, rather than earning money (or providing Return on investment, returns on investments) by sale of legitimate product (business), products to an end consumer, mainly earns money by recruiting new members with the promise of payments (or services). As the number of members multiplies, recruiting quickly becomes increasingly difficult until it is impossible, and therefore most of the newer recruits do not make a profit. As such, pyramid schemes are unsustainable. The unsustainable nature of pyramid schemes has led to most countries outlawing them as a form of fraud. Pyramid schemes have existed since at least the mid-to-late 19th century in different guises. Some multi-level marketing plans have been classified as pyramid schemes. Concept and basic models In a pyramid scheme, an organization compels individuals who wish to join to make a payment. In exchange, the organization promises its new members a share of the money taken from every ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
''Never Rarely Sometimes Always'' is a 2020 drama film written and directed by Eliza Hittman. It stars Sidney Flanigan (in her acting debut), Talia Ryder, Théodore Pellerin, Ryan Eggold, and Sharon Van Etten. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2020. It was also selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize. The film was released in the United States on March 13, 2020, by Focus Features. It received widespread acclaim from critics, with praise for Flanigan's performance and Hittman's direction and screenplay. Plot Seventeen-year-old Autumn Callahan suspects she is pregnant and goes to a crisis pregnancy center. At the center, she takes a drugstore test that confirms she is pregnant. She is told she is 10 weeks along, given literature on adoption, and shown an anti-abortion video. After learning that she cannot get an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ville Neuve
''Ville Neuve'' is a Canadian animated drama film, directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrière and released in 2018. Using traditional animation, ink on paper animation, the film stars Robert Lalonde and Johanne-Marie Tremblay as Joseph and Emma, a divorced couple who reconnect during the 1995 Quebec referendum campaign. The cast also includes Théodore Pellerin, Gildor Roy and Paul Ahmarani. The film's screenplay was adapted in part from Raymond Carver's short story "Chef's House"."'Ville Neuve': Film Review , Venice 2018" ''The Hollywood Reporter'', September 6, 2018. The film premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival in September 2018, and had its Canadian premiere at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. It went into general theatrical release in 2019.< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genesis (2018 Canadian Film)
''Genesis'' () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Philippe Lesage and released in 2018. The film stars Théodore Pellerin and Noée Abita as Guillaume Bonnet and Charlotte, teenage half-siblings simultaneously struggling with romance; Charlotte is in a relationship with Maxime (Pier-Luc Funk), but is reeling from his proposal that they change to an open relationship, while Guillaume is a student at an all-boys boarding school who is developing a romantic and sexual attraction to his classmate Nicolas (Jules Roy Sicotte). The cast also includes Paul Ahmarani, Rose-Marie Perreault, Jean-Simon Leduc, Amaryllis Tremblay and Mylène Mackay. The film also includes a segment which shifts to focus on the story of Félix (Édouard Tremblay-Grenier), the lead character of Lesage's 2015 film ''The Demons (2015 film), The Demons (Les Démons)''. The film premiered at the Locarno Festival in the International Competition. Awards The film has won numerous awards including the Golden Wolf a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isla Blanca (film)
''Isla Blanca'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jeanne Leblanc and released in 2018.Charles-Henri Ramond"Isla Blanca – Film de Jeanne Leblanc" ''Films du Québec'', February 22, 2018. The film stars Charlotte Aubin as Mathilde, a young woman returning home to visit her family for the first time since running away from home several years earlier. The cast also includes Judith Baribeau as her mother Françoise, Luc Picard as her father Pierre, and Théodore Pellerin as her brother Émile. The film premiered at the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma in 2018, and was broadcast on television by Ici Radio-Canada Télé in April 2019. Aubin received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Actress at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never Steady, Never Still
''Never Steady, Never Still'' is a Canadian drama film, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. The full-length directorial debut of Kathleen Hepburn, the film is a family drama which stars Shirley Henderson as Judy, a woman struggling with the advancing symptoms of Parkinson's disease while her son Jamie (Théodore Pellerin) is struggling to come to terms with his identity. The film is an expansion of Hepburn's earlier short film of the same title, which starred Tina Hedman as Judy and Dylan Playfair as Jamie and is partially based on Hepburn's own experiences with her mother's Parkinson's. Hepburn also wrote the screenplay for the film. Plot Judy and her husband Ed live with their 18-year-old son Jamie in a remote, isolated community at the edge of Stuart Lake, British Columbia. Judy has suffered from Parkinson's disease for 19 of the 23 years she and Ed have been married, with Ed acting as her supportive caregiver, helping her to complete basic tasks s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boy Erased
''Boy Erased'' is a 2018 American biographical drama film based on Garrard Conley's 2016 memoir of the same name. It was written and directed by Joel Edgerton, who also produced with Kerry Kohansky Roberts and Steve Golin. The film stars Lucas Hedges as Jared Eamons, a fictionalized version of Conley, the closeted gay son of Baptist parents (portrayed by Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe), who is forced to take part in a conversion therapy program. Edgerton, Joe Alwyn, Xavier Dolan, Troye Sivan, Cherry Jones, and Flea also appear in supporting roles. ''Boy Erased'' premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 1, 2018, and also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film was theatrically released in the United States on November 2, 2018, by Focus Features and grossed over $12 million worldwide. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who mostly praised the performances of the cast, and received various award nominations, including two G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
