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A Quiet Place (film Series)
''A Quiet Place'' is a series of American horror films written, produced and directed by John Krasinski. Consisting of two films, the series is set in an apocalyptic world inhabited by blind extraterrestrial monsters with an acute sense of hearing. Beginning with the 2018 film ''A Quiet Place'', the franchise was expanded upon in the 2020 sequel ''A Quiet Place Part II''. The franchise will continue with ''A Quiet Place Part III'', a spin-off/prequel film titled '' A Quiet Place: Day One'', and a video game set within the same fictional universe currently in development. Films ''A Quiet Place'' (2018) ''A Quiet Place'' is a 2018 American horror film directed by and starring John Krasinski. Written by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and Krasinski, the plot revolves around a father (Krasinski) and a mother (Emily Blunt) who struggle to survive and raise their children in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind monsters with an acute sense of hearing. Krasinski and Blunt were cast in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Beck
Scott Beck (born October 22, 1984) is an American writer, director, and producer. He was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Bettendorf, Iowa. Beck co-writes and co-directs with filmmaking partner Bryan Woods. Together they co-wrote '' A Quiet Place'', in addition to writing and directing '' Nightlight'', ''Haunt'', and '' 65''. Career While attending the University of Iowa, Beck and his partner Bryan Woods founded Bluebox Limited Films, and together made the film '' University Heights''. The pair secured a development deal with MTV Films after winning MTVU's Best Film on Campus competition with the film. In 2015, Beck and Woods wrote and directed '' Nightlight'', released by Lionsgate. In 2016, Beck and Woods sold their original screenplay for '' A Quiet Place'' to Paramount Pictures. The film stars Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, the latter of who also directed and co-wrote the script. ''A Quiet Place'' was released in April 2018 to critical acclaim; it has a Ro ... [...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] |
Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. The site is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. Finke was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times'' as being worth "millions of dollars", as well as part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of , the pandemic had caused more than cases and confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history. COVID-19 symptoms range from undetectable to deadly, but most commonly include fever, dry cough, and fatigue. Severe illness is more likely in elderly patients and those with certain underlying medical conditions. COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''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. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century. At its peak, it had more than 6,000 media subscribers. Since the first of several sales and staff cutbacks in 1982, and the 1999 sale of its broadcast client list to its main U.S. rival, the Associated Press, UPI has concentrated on smaller information-market niches. History Formally named United Press Associations for incorporation and legal purposes, but publicly known and identified as United Press or UP, the news agency was created by the 1907 uniting of three smaller news syndicates by the Midwest newspaper publisher E. W. Scripps. It was headed by Hugh Baillie (1890–1966) from 1935 to 1955. At the time of his retirement, UP had 2,900 clients in the United States, and 1,500 abroad. In 1958, it became United Press Intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 million visitors annually. It houses internationally renowned performing arts organizations including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Ballet, and the Juilliard School. History Planning A consortium of civic leaders and others, led by and under the initiative of philanthropist John D. Rockefeller III, built Lincoln Center as part of the "Lincoln Square Renewal Project" during Robert Moses's program of New York's urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s."Rockefeller Philanthropy: Lincoln Center" ( |
Djimon Hounsou
Djimon Gaston Hounsou (; ; born April 24, 1964) is a Beninese-American actor and model. He began his career appearing in music videos. He made his film debut in '' Without You I'm Nothing'' (1990) and earned widespread recognition for his role as Cinqué in the Steven Spielberg film '' Amistad'' (1997). He gained further recognition for his roles in ''Gladiator'' (2000), '' In America'' (2003), and ''Blood Diamond'' (2006), receiving Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominations for both the latter films. He also played an antagonist in ''Furious 7'' (2015). He has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He plays an important role as well in the French film ''Forces spéciales'' (2011). In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he portrays Korath the Pursuer in ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' (2014), '' Captain Marvel'' (2019) and the second episode of '' What If...?'' (2021). In the DC Extended Universe, he appears as the Fisherman King in ''Aquama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy (; born 25 May 1976) is an Irish actor. Originally the lead singer, guitarist, and lyricist of the rock band The Sons of Mr. Green Genes, he turned down a record deal in the late 1990s and began acting on stage and in short and independent films. His first notable film credits include Jim in the zombie horror ''28 Days Later'' (2002), the dark comedy ''Intermission'' (2003), and the action thriller '' Red Eye'' (2005). He played a transgender Irish woman in the comedy-drama ''Breakfast on Pluto'' (2005), which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. Murphy is also known for his collaborations with director Christopher Nolan, playing the Scarecrow in ''The Dark Knight Trilogy'' of superhero films (2005–2012) and appearing in the sci-fi action thriller ''Inception'' (2010), the war drama ''Dunkirk'' (2017), and starring in the upcoming biopic '' Oppenheimer'' (2023) as the titular physicist. Other films in whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Jupe
Noah Jupe (born ) is a British actor. He is known for his roles in the television series ''The Night Manager'' (2016); the dark comedy film ''Suburbicon'' (2017); the drama film ''Wonder'' (2017); the horror film ''A Quiet Place'' (2018) and its sequel ''A Quiet Place Part II'' (2021); the sports drama film ''Ford v Ferrari'' (2019); the drama film '' Honey Boy'' (2019), for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male; and the miniseries ''The Undoing'' (2020). Early life Noah Jupe was born to filmmaker Chris Jupe and actress Katy Cavanagh. He has a younger sister and a younger brother. Career Jupe started his acting career in 2015 by appearing in the television series ''Penny Dreadful'' and ''Downton Abbey''. Later in 2016, he played a significant role in the spy thriller series ''The Night Manager''. In 2016, he also played a significant role in the series ''Houdini & Doyle''. In 2017, he started his career in films, with his first major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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