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Alex McAulay
Alex McAulay (born January 20, 1977) is an American film director and novelist. McAulay is best known for writing and directing the thriller films ''Don't Tell a Soul'' and ''A House on the Bayou''. Career McAulay is a former indie rock musician who recorded five albums under the pseudonym Charles Douglas, featuring Maureen Tucker from The Velvet Underground on drums and Joey Santiago from The Pixies on guitars. McAulay has also written four novels, published by Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster. He also wrote and co-produced the film ''Flower'' starring Zoey Deutch, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017. McAulay then directed, wrote and co-produced the thriller film ''Don't Tell a Soul'', starring Jack Dylan Grazer, Fionn Whitehead and Rainn Wilson, which was a selection of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and premiered at the Deauville Film Festival in 2020 and was released by Saban Films and Lionsgate Films in January 2021. McAulay also wrote, directed, and co-executi ...
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Seattle
Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The Seattle metropolitan area's population is 4.02 million, making it the 15th-largest in the United States. Its growth rate of 21.1% between 2010 and 2020 makes it one of the nation's fastest-growing large cities. Seattle is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington. It is the northernmost major city in the United States, located about south of the Canadian border. A major gateway for trade with East Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling . The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequ ...
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Fionn Whitehead
Fionn Whitehead (; born 18 July 1997) is an English actor. He portrayed the lead role in the 2017 film '' Dunkirk'' and the 2018 film '' Black Mirror: Bandersnatch''. His first acting credit was in the 2016 ITV miniseries '' Him''. Life Whitehead was born on 1997. He was born in Richmond, London, to jazz musicians Tim and Linda Whitehead. He was named after Irish folk legend Fionn mac Cumhaill. Whitehead has two older 2 sisters, Maisie, a performance artist and Hattie, a singer, and one older brother, Sonny. Whitehead was raised "in an artistic household". Growing up, he aspired to be either a guitarist or a breakdancer. He began acting at the Orange Tree Theatre when he was 13 years old. Later he went to Orleans Park School. He then went to Richmond College and entered the National Youth Theatre's summer course. By 2015, he was an aspiring actor working at a coffee shop in Waterloo, London. Career In 2016, Whitehead starred in the British miniseries '' Him''. He also acte ...
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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- ...
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Paramount Home Entertainment (formerly Paramount Home Media Distribution, and originally Paramount Home Video) is the home video distribution arm of Paramount Pictures, a division of Paramount Global. The division oversees PPC's home entertainment and transactional digital distribution activities worldwide. The division is responsible for the sales, marketing and distribution of home entertainment content on behalf of Paramount Pictures, Paramount Players, Paramount Animation, Paramount Television Studios, CBS, Paramount Media Networks (Showtime, MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, BET, and Comedy Central), Paramount+, and applicable licensing and servicing of certain pre-2010 DreamWorks Pictures, Miramax, pre-2005 Dimension Films titles, and DreamWorks Animation films from 2006 to 2012, as well as select IFC Films titles and Saban Films titles. PHE additionally manages global licensing of studio content and transactional distribution across worldwide digital distribution platforms including ...
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Epix
Epix (pronounced ''epics'' and stylized as P) is an American premium cable and satellite television network owned by the Epix Entertainment LLC subsidiary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), a subsidiary of Amazon's MGM Holdings, Inc. The channel's programming consists of recent and older theatrically released motion pictures, original television series, documentaries, and music and comedy specials. Launched in the United States in October 2009, Epix is led by Michael Wright. Since he joined the network in November 2017, Epix has announced many new series including ''Godfather of Harlem'' starring Forest Whitaker, '' Pennyworth'', the origin story of Batman's butler Alfred, ''Perpetual Grace, LTD'' starring Ben Kingsley and Jimmi Simpson, '' Deep State,'' unscripted series ''Unprotected Sets'' executive produced by Wanda Sykes and the return of '' The Contender''. Epix and, depending on the carriage of any of the latter services, its three multiplex channels are sold by most traditi ...
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Blumhouse Productions
Blumhouse Productions (; also known as BH Productions or simply BH) is an American film and television production company founded in 2000 by Jason Blum. It is known mainly for producing horror films, such as ''Paranormal Activity'', ''Insidious'', ''The Purge'', ''Split'', ''Get Out'', ''Happy Death Day'', '' Halloween'', '' Us'', ''The Invisible Man'', '' Freaky'' and ''The Black Phone''. It has also produced drama films, such as ''Whiplash'' and ''BlacKkKlansman'', which both earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture. ''Get Out'' and ''BlacKkKlansman'' won Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, respectively. It has worked with directors such as Leigh Whannell, Jordan Peele, Scott Derrickson, Christopher Landon, James Wan, Mike Flanagan, James DeMonaco, Damien Chazelle, and M. Night Shyamalan. Most of Blumhouse's theatrically-released films since 2014 are owned and distributed by Universal Pictures as part of a 10-year ...
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Lia McHugh
Lia Ryan McHugh (born November 2005) is an American actress. She has roles in ''Totem (film), Totem'' (2017), ''The Lodge (film), The Lodge'', and ''Into the Dark (TV series), Into the Dark'' (both 2019). She portrayed Sprite (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Sprite in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film ''Eternals (film), Eternals'' (2021). Early life McHugh was born in November 2005 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, into an acting family. She has three older siblings—Flynn, Logan and Shea—and a younger sibling, Gavin, who has cerebral palsy. Gavin is also an actor and plays Christopher Diaz in the drama series ''9-1-1 (TV series), 9-1-1.'' Career McHugh has spent the majority of her career appearing in horror projects; ''A Haunting'', ''Totem (film), Totem'', ''Along Came the Devil'', ''The Lodge (film), The Lodge'', ''Into the Dark (TV series), Into the Dark'', and ''A House on the Bayou''. She portrayed Sprite (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Sprite in the Marvel Cinematic Univer ...
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Jacob Lofland
Jacob Seth Lofland (born July 30, 1996) is an American actor best known for his role as Neckbone in the film ''Mud'' and for his role as Aris in '' Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials'' and '' Maze Runner: The Death Cure''. Life and career Lofland was born in Briggsville, Arkansas, the son of Billy and Debra Lofland. He began his film career playing Neckbone in Jeff Nichols' ''Mud'', with Matthew McConaughey and Tye Sheridan. The director wanted to find a young actor locally for the part, and had casting notices placed in regional newspapers. Coming across one of them, Lofland's mother recognized that her son fit every adjective of Neck's personality description, as well as bringing the boating and cycle riding experience for which Nichols was looking. Lofland sent in an application, and was called in to read for the casting director in Little Rock. Less than three weeks after his mother saw the open casting call in the paper, Lofland took his first plane flight to Austin to auditio ...
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Angela Sarafyan
Angela Sarafyan ( hy, Անժելա Սարաֆյան; June 30, 1983), sometimes credited as Angela Sarafian, is an Armenian-American actress. She has appeared as a guest star in several television series and has acted in the feature films: ''Kabluey'' (2007), ''On the Doll'' (2007), '' A Beautiful Life'' (2008), ''The Informers'' (2008), ''A Good Old Fashioned Orgy'' (2011), ''Lost & Found in Armenia'' (2012), and ''Reminiscence'' (2021). Sarafyan earned supporting roles in blockbuster films such as '' The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2'' (2012). Since 2016, she has portrayed Clementine Pennyfeather on the HBO series ''Westworld''. Personal life Sarafyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia, which was then a part of the Armenian SSR, Soviet Union. When she was four, she moved with her parents to the United States, settling in Los Angeles. Her father, Grigor Sarafyan, is an actor, and her mother is a painter. She studied ballet and played piano as a child. She attended Francisco ...
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Paul Schneider (actor)
Paul Andrew Schneider (born March 16, 1976) is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Mark Brendanawicz on the first two seasons of the NBC sitcom ''Parks and Recreation'' and Dick Liddil in ''The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford''. He won a Best Actor in a Narrative Feature award at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival for his performance in '' Goodbye to All That'' and the Best Supporting Actor Award from the National Society of Film Critics for his performance as Charles Armitage Brown in '' Bright Star''. Early life Schneider was born in Oakland, California, and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Career In 2000, Schneider made his film debut in David Gordon Green's ''George Washington'' and starred in Green's '' All the Real Girls''. As research for his role as Jesse Baylor in '' Elizabethtown'', director Cameron Crowe suggested that Schneider tour with the band My Mo ...
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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 ...
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Lionsgate Films
Lionsgate Films (formerly known as Cinépix Film Properties) is an American film production and film distribution studio, headquartered in Santa Monica and founded in Canada, and is the flagship division of Lionsgate Entertainment. It is the largest and most successful mini-major film studio in North America. It focuses on foreign and independent films and has distributed various commercially successful film franchises, including ''The Hunger Games'', ''Rambo'', '' Divergent'', ''The Punisher'', ''John Wick'', ''Saw'', ''Madea'', ''Blair Witch'', '' Now You See Me'', ''Hostel'', '' The Expendables'', ''Sinister'', '' The Twilight Saga'' and '' Step Up.'' History Cinépix Cinépix was founded by John Dunning and Andre Link in 1962. Cinépix, based in Montreal, was a Canadian independent motion picture company that released English- and French-language films in Canada and the United States. Initially a distribution company, Cinépix's first production was the 1969 erotic drama ' ...
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