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Zero (2024 Film)
''Zero'' is a 2024 American action comedy film written and directed by Jean Luc Herbulot. It stars Hus Miller, Cam McHarg, Gary Dourdan, Roger Sallah, Moran Rosenblatt, and Willem Dafoe. The film premiered at the Sitges Film Festival on October 10, 2024, and it was released in the United States on April 11, 2025. Premise Two American strangers searching for purpose in the city of Dakar, Senegal, wake up with bombs strapped to their chests, counting down from ten hours. Cast * Hus Miller as #1 * Cam McHarg as #2 * Gary Dourdan as Daniel * Roger Sallah as Onaye * Moran Rosenblatt as India * Willem Dafoe as voice on the phone Production In July 2024, it was revealed that Jean Luc Herbulot had written and directed an action comedy film titled ''Zero''. Release ''Zero'' premiered at the Sitges Film Festival SITGES - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia () is an annual film festival held in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. It specializes in fantasy film, fantasy, Hor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Luc Herbulot
Jean Luc Herbulot (born in 1983 in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo) is a Congolese film director and screenwriter. Biography Herbulot started drawing and writing stories at an early age. His activities included writing, drawing, composing music, working on video games, and graphic design. In 2004, while studying editing as part of his multimedia studies in Paris, he directed his first short movie, titled ''Vierge(s)'', for which he also did the scriptwriting, storyboard, lighting, editing, and DVD release. Despite the amateur quality and the fact that the film was his first step in moviemaking, this project was quite successful at festivals and on the internet. Herbulot graduated as a multimedia project manager and started to work for TF1 as a graphic designer. Meanwhile, he created his own production company, which made music videos exclusively for independent artists, in order to maintain high creative standards for low-budget productions. In 2009, he co-produced and dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Dourdan
Gary Dourdan (born Gary Robert Durdin: December 11, 1966) is an American actor. He is known for portraying Warrick Brown on the television series '' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,'' Shazza Zulu on the television series ''A Different World'' and Mickey Monroe in crime thriller ''Righteous Villains''. Early life Dourdan was born Gary Robert Durdin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Sandy, a teacher and fashion designer, and Robert Durdin, an entrepreneur and agent for jazz musicians. Dourdan is the fourth of five children. When he was six, his 21-year-old brother Darryl died after falling from a balcony in Haiti while "doing research on the family lineage." The case remains unsolved. Career Dourdan played in several bands in New York City in the early 1990s and acted in regional theatre in the New York metropolitan area. He acted in music videos, including playing Janet Jackson's love interest in the video for her 1993 hit " Again," and had a cameo in the music video "Mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cam McHarg
Cam McHarg is an American actor and film director. Early life and career McHarg was born and raised in Everett, Washington. He attended Cascade High School. After serving a brief stint in the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion in the US Marine Corps, he went on to study at the Lee Strasberg Actors Workshop in Seattle. He then moved to Los Angeles to study acting as a work observer at The Actor's Studio under Mark Rydell and Martin Landau and later went on to work on stage in several dozen live theater productions. McHarg got his BFA in film from the Art Center College of Design, where he won the Gold Addy and Silver Telly Awards and was a shortlisted winner for the Cannes Young Director Award. His short films, "Kicking Sand in Your Face", "the end", and "Deer Season" screened on the international film festival circuit and garnered several awards. He was also named in the second edition of The Top 100 Independent Filmmakers in the World. McHarg was also the creator a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moran Rosenblatt
Moran Rosenblatt (; born ) is an Israeli film, television and theatre actress. Biography Moran Rosenblatt was born in Tel Aviv, and was raised in Tel Aviv city centre. At the age of six, her family moved to Tokhnit Lamed. She graduated secondary school at the Tichon Hadash. She studied at Eyal Cohen and Ruth Dytches' HaDerech Studio, and the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio. In 2016, she finished her screenwriting studies at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School. Career Rosenblatt won Best Actress at the Jerusalem Film Festival for her 2011 role in ''Lipstikka'' then in 2015, won the Best Actress Ophir Award for '' Wedding Doll''. She was cast in television series ''Fauda''. In 2021, she starred in the Netflix Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple lang ... series ''Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willem Dafoe
William James "Willem" Dafoe ( ; born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. Known for his prolific career portraying diverse roles in both mainstream and arthouse films, he is the recipient of various accolades including a Volpi Cup Award for Best Actor, with nominations for four Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, and four Golden Globe Awards. He received an Honorary Golden Bear in 2018. Born in Appleton, Wisconsin, Dafoe made his film debut with an uncredited role in '' Heaven's Gate'' (1980). He is known for collaborating with auteur filmmakers such as Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Lars von Trier, Julian Schnabel, Wes Anderson, and Robert Eggers. He received Academy Award nominations for playing a compassionate army Sergeant in the war drama ''Platoon'' (1986), Max Schreck in the mystery film ''Shadow of the Vampire'' (2000), a kindly motel manager in the coming of age film '' The Florida Project'' (2017), and Vincent van Gogh in the biopic ''At Eternity's Gate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James BKS
Lee-James Edjouma (born 18 November), better known by his stage name James BKS, is a French lyricist, a music composer and a producer of African hip hop. Career Early career Born in Paris, Edjouma's career started out in the US when he signed on Akon's label Konvict Muzik. It was around this time that he was working with famous artists such as R. City, T-Pain, and producing for Sean Combs, Snoop Dogg, Ja Rule, and Booba. He then decided to return to France to focus on his personal project. Music He is currently signed to Idris Elba’s London-based label, 7Wallace. He released three singles on the label, featuring Allan Kingdom, Reo Cragun, Ebenezer, Idris Elba, Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest), Little Simz and his father Manu Dibango. He also co-founded his own record label and music production company, Grown Kid, with his wife. His music has been aired several times on international radios most notably being playlisted on Annie Mac’s radio show on BBC 1Xtra. James BKS is also a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Well Go USA Entertainment
Well Go USA Entertainment is an American independent and international film distributor. It distributes films in a variety of genres, including action films, American indie films, and martial arts films, on all types of platforms, including in movie theaters, on DVDs and Blu-rays, and via video on demand (VOD). It is a major distributor of Asian action films in the United States. Well Go is located in Allen, Texas. Since 2014 and as of February 2025, Doris Pfardrescher and Dennis Walker (daughter and son of founder Annie Walker) were CEO and CFO/COO respectively. History Well Go Entertainment is a family-owned business whose origins were in distributing home entertainment content such as karaoke videos in the 1990s. The company was founded by Annie Walker in 1989, after she moved to North Texas from Taiwan with her family. After a stint working for Fendi Timepieces as a regional manager in Dallas, Walker started importing karaoke LaserDiscs from Taiwan. The company was inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sitges Film Festival
SITGES - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia () is an annual film festival held in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. It specializes in fantasy film, fantasy, Horror film, horror and Cult film, cult films. Established in 1968, the festival takes place every year, usually in early October, and is considered to be one of the world's top 3 largest and most prestigious genre film festivals, alongside Fantasia International Film Festival, Fantasia and Fantastic Fest. History The festival's origins lie in the International Week of Fantasy and Horror Movies, held in 1968. The 55th edition of the festival was held from 6 to 16 October 2022. It was the 22nd edition of the awards. Venues The main venue of the Sitges Film Festival is the Auditori (Auditorium), located in the Hotel Melià Sitges, which has a capacity of 1,380 seats. In the same building the Tramuntana Room provides space for journalists to gather each morning. As of 2023, other venues are: Cine El Retiro, Cine Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Comedy Film
The action comedy is a film genre that applies to action films where humor plays a much more central role. While early films feature stuntwork and humor, academic Cynthia King wrote that the genre only came into its own as a mainstay of the American action film genre in the 1980s when actors who had backgrounds in comedy such as Eddie Murphy began taking roles in action films. The genre approaches various narratives and styles such as buddy films, superhero films, and Hong Kong action cinema featuring various actors such as Jackie Chan. Action comedy has also been a recurring theme in television, with series such as '' The Dukes of Hazzard'' (1979–1985) and '' Peacemaker'' (2022). Film Academic Yvonne Tasker that most post-classical Hollywood action films are "more or less hybrids." Action films are set across multiple settings and spaces with no single defining landscape and can become complicated in categorization which is sometimes acknowledged through hybridized designator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dakar
Dakar ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Senegal, largest city of Senegal. The Departments of Senegal, department of Dakar has a population of 1,278,469, and the population of the Dakar metropolitan area was at 4.0 million in 2023. Dakar is situated on the Cap-Vert peninsula, the westernmost point of mainland Africa. Cap-Vert was colonized by the Portuguese people, Portuguese in the early 15th century. The Portuguese established a presence on the island of Gorée off the coast of Cap-Vert and used it as a base for the Atlantic slave trade. Kingdom of France, France took over the island in 1677. Following the abolition of the slave trade and French annexation of the mainland area in the 19th century, Dakar grew into a major regional port and a major city of the French colonial empire. In 1902, Dakar replaced Saint-Louis, Senegal, Saint-Louis as the capital of French West Africa. From 1959 to 1960, Dakar was the capital of the short-lived Mali Federation. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senegal
Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. It borders Mauritania to Mauritania–Senegal border, the north, Mali to Mali–Senegal border, the east, Guinea to Guinea–Senegal border, the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to Guinea-Bissau–Senegal border, the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country. It also shares a maritime border with Cape Verde. Senegal's capital is Dakar. Senegal is the westernmost country in the mainland of the Old World, or Afro-Eurasia. It owes its name to the Senegal River, which borders it to the east and north. The climate is typically Sahelian, though there is a wet season, rainy season. Senegal covers a land area of almost and has a population of around 18 million. The state is a Presidential system ... [...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] |
