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After Louie
''After Louie'' is a 2018 American romantic drama film written by Vincent Gagliostro and Anthony Johnston, directed by Gagliostro and starring Alan Cumming and Zachary Booth. Cast *Alan Cumming as Sam Cooper *Zachary Booth as Braeden Devries *Sarita Choudhury as Maggie *Patrick Breen as Jeffrey *Wilson Cruz as Mateo *David Drake as William Wilson *Anthony Johnston as Lukas *Justin Vivian Bond as Rhona *Everett Quinton as Julian *Lucas Caleb Rooney as Mark *John Thomas Waite as Patrick *Joey Arias as Jai Release In March 2018, it was announced that Freestyle Digital Media acquired the rights to the film, which was released on March 30, 2018. Reception The film has a 75% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on twelve reviews. Ken Jaworowski of ''The New York Times'' gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Some stronger filmmaking would be welcome, sure, but ''After Louie'' has an honesty that’s often just as valuable." David Rooney of ''The Hollywood Reporter'' gave the film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming (born 27 January 1965) is a British actor. His London stage appearances include ''Hamlet'', the Maniac in ''Accidental Death of an Anarchist'' (for which he received an Olivier Award), the lead in '' Bent'', The National Theatre of Scotland's ''The Bacchae'' and Samuel Beckett's ''Endgame'' at The Old Vic, opposite Daniel Radcliffe. On Broadway, he has appeared in ''The Threepenny Opera'', as the master of ceremonies in ''Cabaret'' (for which he won a Tony Award), ''Design for Living'', and a one-man adaptation of ''Macbeth''. Cumming's film roles include his performances in '' Emma'', ''GoldenEye'' and as Nightcrawler in '' X2'' (X-Men 2), Loki in ''Son of the Mask'', and as Fegan Floop in the ''Spy Kids'' trilogy. Cumming also appeared on ''The Good Wife'', for which he was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Satellite Award. Cumming starred in the 2018–2019 CBS TV series ''Instinct''. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zachary Booth
Zachary Booth (born 1983) is an American actor. He appeared in several productions with the Peterborough Players in Peterborough, New Hampshire, before starring in The N's ''What Goes On'' and on FX's ''Damages''. Booth is a 2004 BFA graduate of the University of Michigan. Career Booth had supporting roles in the films ''Assassination of a High School President'' alongside Mischa Barton, and ''The Marc Pease Experience'' with Ben Stiller. In 2009 he had a role in the Ang Lee film ''Taking Woodstock'' as a member of a hippie naturist group. In fall/winter of 2008 Booth co-starred alongside Tony award winners Victoria Clark and Michelle Park and Tony nominee Jonathan Groff in ''Prayer for My Enemy'', a new play by Craig Lucas at the Off-Broadway theater Playwrights Horizons in New York City. During the same year, he played the role of Gary in ''Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist''. In September 2010 he starred in the New York production of the new Edward Albee play ''Me, Myself & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freestyle Digital Media
Freestyle Releasing, LLC is an independent film distributor based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2004, specializing in releasing films theatrically. Unlike most distributors, Freestyle Releasing does not put up any prints and advertising money for its releases, leaving advertising costs to production companies. History Freestyle Releasing was founded in 2004 by Susan Jackson, Mark Borde and Mike Doban, formerly at United Artists Theaters. By January 2006, Jackson started the DVD label Freestyle Home Entertainment as an adjunct for additional leeway in its deal making. The company booked ''Winter Passing'' and ''Find Me Guilty'' for Yari Film Group in 2006. Jackson and Borde in 2010 formed Freestyle Digital Media, a film aggregator for the video on demand market. By May 2011, Doban left to be chief operating officer at Sycamore Entertainment Group, a film prints and advertising (P&A) financing firm. Jackson died in October 2014. In October 2015 Byron Allen's Entertainmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarita Choudhury
Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury (born 18 August 1966) is a British actress, known for her role as Mina in the Mira Nair-directed feature film ''Mississippi Masala'' (1991). Choudhury has played roles in American and international films and television shows such as in '' Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love'' (1996), ''A Perfect Murder'' (1998), '' 3 A.M.'' (2001), and the John Cassavetes remake '' Gloria'' (1999). In 2002, she starred in '' Just a Kiss''. She played a lesbian virgin in Spike Lee's ''She Hate Me'' (2004) and acted as Anna Ran in ''Lady in the Water'', a 2006 thriller by M. Night Shyamalan. She also played Egeria in '' The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2'' (2015) and co-starred with Tom Hanks in the 2016 film ''A Hologram for the King''. In 2021, Choudhury joined the cast of HBO Max's ''Sex and the City'' revival television series '' And Just Like That...''. Early life Choudhury was born in Blackheath, London, England, and is of half Indian and half English descent. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Breen
Joseph Patrick Breen (born October 26, 1960) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director. Early life Breen was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 26, 1960. Career He has acted primarily on TV but has also appeared in numerous films, as well as on Broadway and Off Broadway. In 2010, he starred on Broadway in ''Next Fall''. He is currently playing Andrew Munsey, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, on the CBS drama '' Madam Secretary''. He voiced all the characters in Britt Allcroft's television series ''Magic Adventures of Mumfie'', and was originally hired to voice Splatter and Dodge in ''Thomas and the Magic Railroad'', but the roles were instead recast to Neil Crone and Kevin Frank. Breen appeared regularly in Netflix's adaptation of ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'', which premiered in 2017. Personal life In a July 2012 interview with ''Metro Weekly'' Patrick Breen stated, "I identify as one of the LGBT people" and agreed with the interviewer who refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilson Cruz
Wilson Cruz (born Wilson Echevarría; December 27, 1973) is an American actor known for playing Rickie Vasquez on ''My So-Called Life'', Angel in the Broadway tour production of ''Rent (musical), Rent'', Hugh Culber, Dr. Hugh Culber on ''Star Trek: Discovery'', and the recurring character Junito on ''Noah's Arc (TV series), Noah's Arc''. As a Homosexuality, gay man of Afro-Puerto Rican ancestry, he has served as an advocate for gay youth, especially gay youth of color. Early life Cruz was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents born in Puerto Rico. His family eventually moved to Rialto, California, where he attended Eisenhower High School (Rialto, California), Eisenhower High School, graduating in 1991. At age 19, Cruz coming out, came out to his parents as gay, first to his mother and then his father. While his mother was initially hurt and shocked, she eventually accepted the news. His father, however, threw him out of the house, and Cruz spent the next few months living in his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Drake (actor)
David Drake (born June 27, 1963) is an American playwright, stage director, actor and author. He is best known as the author and original performer of ''The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me'', for which he received a ''Village Voice'' Obie Award, a 1994 Drama-Logue Award for "Outstanding Solo Performance," and a Robbie Stevens Frontiers Magazine Award for the same. Nominations include a 1994 LA Weekly Theater Award and a Lambda Literary Award nomination for "Best New Play of 1994" (published by Random House, Anchor Books). Biography Born as David Drakula in Edgewood, Maryland, and raised in Baltimore, he later began going by the name David Drake. He has Romanian roots. Drake has contributed articles to the ''The Advocate (LGBT magazine), Advocate'', ''TheaterWeek'', and ''Details (magazine), Details''. One of the longest one-actor plays in Off Broadway history, ''Larry Kramer'' has received over thirty productions in nearly a dozen countries, and the published version was nominated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Vivian Bond
Justin Vivian Bond (born May 9, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Described as "the best cabaret artist of heir!-- MOS:GENDERID --> generation" and a "tornado of art and activism", they first achieved prominence under the pseudonym of Kiki DuRane in the stage duo Kiki and Herb, an act born out of a collaboration with long-time co-star Kenny Mellman. With a musical voice self-described as "kind of woody and full with a lot of vibration", Bond is a Tony-nominated (2007) performer who has received GLAAD (2000), Obie (2001), Bessie (2004), Ethyl (2007), and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists (2012) awards. Bond is transgender. Early life Bond grew up in Hagerstown, Maryland. As "a trans kid in a small town", Bond recalls feeling "I wasn't being accepted for who I was, but at the time I didn't even have the words to express who I was." Meanwhile, they were taking voice lessons and singing in church and in the local community theatre. Bond studied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Arias
Joey Arias is an American artist based in New York City, best known for work as a performance artist, cabaret singer, and drag artist, but also as a published author, comedian, stage persona and film actor. He also goes by the names Joseph Arias and Joe Arias. 1970s and 1980s After high school he sang with the rock band Purlie, which had a 1973 single on Capitol Records, and then had a stint with improvisational comedy group the Groundlings. In 1976 he and his best friend Kim Hastreiter - who would later co-found ''Paper'' magazine - drove across country in a pickup truck and moved to New York City. Arias eventually got a job at the Fiorucci designer clothing store. He and other store staff like Vincent Gallo, performed (danced and modeled clothes) in the shop windows. While working at the store he became friends with alternative musician Klaus Nomi, for whom he sang backup vocals and designed sets and costumes. On December 15, 1979, Nomi and Arias appeared on ''Saturday Nigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American 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 stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film ''Léolo'' (1992). 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. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...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. History Early years; 1930–1987 ''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, then Monday-to-Friday from 1940. Wilkerson used caustic articles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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