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Andover (film)
''Andover'' is a 2017 American science fiction romantic comedy film written and directed by Scott Perlman and starring Jonathan Silverman, Jennifer Finnigan, and Scout Taylor-Compton. The film had a limited theatrical release on May 4 in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Chicago and was released on Blu-ray, DVD, and video-on-demand in the United States on July 17, 2018. Plot A genetics professor's wife dies in a fire at her glass blowing studio, but he finds her brush with a few of her hairs in it. He and his grad student assistant make a clone of her, but there are problems. He keeps trying with slight changes to her environment. He becomes so obsessed with trying to make the perfect match that he doesn't realize that his assistant has fallen in love with him. Also, the life insurance adjuster isn't convinced that she really is dead. The lab assistant then tries to clone the professor so she can have the person she loves, but he is unresponsive to her overtures. The professor final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Perlman (filmmaker)
Scott Perlman is an American writer, director, and producer best known for the 2018 film ''Andover'', his directorial début. Career Perlman wrote and directed ''Andover,'' winner of Best Feature and the Audience Choice Award at the Orlando Film Festival, he created the iTVFest Best Overall TV show ''Going to Pot'', and produced the Lower Great Lakes Emmy Awards winning Fox Sports 1 hour special ''Make 'em Forget''. Perlman co-wrote ''Kate & Edith'' which won the Gold Prize for best sitcom at the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards is an annual writing competition founded in 2003 with the stated mission to discover and promote up-and-coming screenwriters from around the world. The contest is judged by Hollywood producers, developmen .... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Perlman, Scott Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American directors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Krinsky
Scott Krinsky (born November 24, 1968) is an American actor and comic best known for his role as Jeffrey "Jeff" Barnes on the hit TV series ''Chuck'' and his role as Darryl on ''The O.C.'' He was born in Washington, D.C., in 1968 and attended Sherwood High School (Sandy Springs, Maryland), Class of 1986. Then attended Salisbury University Salisbury University is a public university in Salisbury, Maryland. Founded in 1925, Salisbury is a member of the University System of Maryland, with a fall 2016 enrollment of 8,748. Salisbury University offers 42 distinct undergraduate and 14 ..., where he majored in communication and broadcast journalism. He has also attended The Epicurean School of Culinary Arts in Los Angeles. In addition to being an actor, he is a writer and a stand-up comedian who performs at The Comedy Store and Improv in Los Angeles. Filmography Films Television References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Krinsky, Scott 1968 births American male tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Science Fiction Film Festival
The Boston Science-Fiction Film Festival hosted its 47th-anniversary festival in February of 2022, making it the 2nd oldest independent genre film festival in the US. The festival takes place each year in February, the week ending on President's Day in the Greater Boston area and draws a dedicated crowd every year. It showcases over 100 science fiction features and short films, from all over the world. It culminates with a 24-hour movie marathon of classic, new, and schlock films. History Beginnings The ‘Thon began back in 1976 at the Orson Welles Cinema in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was designed to complement the Boskone, the Boston Science Fiction Convention, playing in Boston that same weekend. Sunday, February 15, 1976, was the inaugural program. It featured "This Island Earth", "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "The War of the Worlds", " Things to Come", "The Thing from Another World","Them!" and "Zardoz". Tickets for the 14 feature film event cost $4.75 with a complimen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Jersey Film Festival
The New Jersey Film Festival is New Jersey's largest continuing public film series devoted to "experimental, offbeat and influential cinema". It is held in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It was started in 1981 and is hosted by Albert Gabriel Nigrin. The Festival began in 1982. Key personnel Albert Gabriel Nigrin Albert Gabriel Nigrin (born circa 1959.) is a Cinema Studies Lecturer at Rutgers University, and the Executive Director and Curator of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, a non-profit organization which screens and promotes independent, experimental and artistic cinema in New Jersey via the New Jersey Film Festivals, and the United States Super 8mm Film + DigitalVideo Festival. Nigrin was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, and has a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts/Film and Video and a Master of Arts in French Literature from Rutgers University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts from Binghamton University. Nigrin has received fellowships from the National Endowm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orlando Film Festival
The Orlando Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Orlando, Florida, for independent filmmakers to showcase their work. The festival attracts upwards of 1,000 entries from filmmakers in more than 30 countries every year. History The festival is open to film of all lengths and genres, including experimental, narrative, animation, documentary and genre hybrids. Past celebrity attendees are Marcia Gay Harden (2006), Joe Pantoliano (2007), Olympia Dukakis, Haley Joel Osment and Alison Brie Alison Brie Schermerhorn (born December 29, 1982) is an American actress. Her breakthrough came with the role of Trudy Campbell in the drama series '' Mad Men'' (2007–2015), which won her a Screen Actors Guild Award. She gained recognition fo ... (2010). The 2015 festival ran from 21 to 25 October and began with the 45-minute documentary about the rise to prominence of the Orlando City Soccer Club. References Experimental film festivals Film festivals in Florida Festiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival
Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, also known as Cinéfest and Cinéfest Sudbury is an annual film festival in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada,"Cinefest provides cultural landmark". ''Sudbury Star'', September 16, 1999. held over nine days each September. It is one of the largest film festivals in Canada."Out of the slag heaps comes the anti-festival". ''Toronto Star'', September 18, 1991. First held in 1989, Cinéfest quickly became a popular destination for Canadian filmmakers. Unlike the larger film festivals in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, Cinéfest offers filmmakers a chance to gain exposure among more typical film audiences in a city which, at the time of the festival's launch in 1989, had never previously had any regular venues for screening independent, international, and non-mainstream films. Cinéfest presents an annual program of over 135 films, both domestic and international, often screened for both English and French language audiences. Cinéfest i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andover, Massachusetts
Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It was settled in 1642 and incorporated in 1646."Andover" in ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th ed., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 387. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,569. It is located north of Boston and south of Lawrence. Part of the town comprises the census-designated place of Andover. It is twinned with its namesake: Andover, Hampshire, England. History Native Americans inhabited what is now northeastern Massachusetts for thousands of years prior to European colonization of the Americas. At the time of European arrival, Massachusett and Naumkeag people inhabited the area south of the Merrimack River and Pennacooks inhabited the area to the north. The Massachusett referred to the area that would later be renamed Andover as ''Cochichawick''. Cochichawick was transferred to English Settlers on May 16th, 1649 by the Sagamore of the Massachusett, Cutshamache. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arizona Cardinals
The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Cardinals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division, and play their home games at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, a suburb northwest of Phoenix. The team was established in Chicago in 1898 as the Morgan Athletic Club, and joined the NFL as a charter member on September 17, 1920. The Cardinals are the oldest continuously run professional football franchise in the United States, as well as one of only two NFL charter member franchises still in operation since the league's founding, the other also from Chicago, the Chicago Bears (the Green Bay Packers were an independent team and did not join the NFL until a year after its creation in 1921). The team moved to St. Louis in and played there until . The team in St. Louis was commonly referred to as the "Football Cardinals", the "Gridbirds" or the "Big Red" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Bears
The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago. The Bears compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) North division. The Bears have won nine NFL Championships, including one Super Bowl, and hold the NFL record for the most enshrinees in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the most retired jersey numbers. The Bears have also recorded the second-most victories of any NFL franchise, only behind the Green Bay Packers. The franchise was founded in Decatur, Illinois, on September 20, 1919 and became professional on September 17, 1920, and moved to Chicago in 1921. It is one of only two remaining franchises from the NFL's founding in 1920, along with the Arizona Cardinals, which was originally also in Chicago. The team played home games at Wrigley Field on Chicago's North Side through the 1970 season; they now play at Soldier Field on the Near South Side, adjacent to Lake Michigan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Maguire
''Jerry Maguire'' is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama sports film written, produced, and directed by Cameron Crowe; it stars Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger, and Regina King. Produced in part by James L. Brooks, it was inspired by an experience sports agent Leigh Steinberg (who acted as technical consultant for the film) had with client Tim McDonald during the 1993 NFL season when free agency was introduced to the league. The film was also partly inspired by a 28-page memo written at Disney in 1991 by Jeffrey Katzenberg. It was released in North American theaters on December 13, 1996, produced by Gracie Films, and distributed by TriStar Pictures. The film received generally favorable reviews from critics, who praised its performances and screenplay. It was also a financial success, grossing more than $273 million worldwide against its $50 million budget. It was the ninth-highest-grossing film of 1996. It notably spawned a large number of catch phr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Lipnicki
Jonathan William Lipnicki (born October 22, 1990) is an American actor who is known for his roles as a child actor. He has appeared in films such as ''Jerry Maguire'' (1996), ''Stuart Little (film), Stuart Little'' (1999) and its 2002 sequel ''Stuart Little 2'', ''The Little Vampire (film), The Little Vampire'' (2000), ''Like Mike'' (2002), and ''Broil'' (2020). He also starred in the television series ''Dawson's Creek'' on The WB and ''Meego (TV series), Meego'' on CBS. Early life Jonathan William Lipnicki was born on October 22, 1990, in Westlake Village, California, to Joseph Lipnicki and Rhonda Rosen. He has an older sister, Alexis. His family is American Jews, Jewish. He was educated at Agoura High School, a public secondary school in the city of Agoura Hills, California, Agoura Hills in Los Angeles County, California. Career Lipnicki made his film debut in ''Jerry Maguire'' as the son of Renée Zellweger's character. He subsequently appeared on ''The Single Guy'', ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
