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Bad Words (film)
''Bad Words'' is a 2013 American black comedy film directed by Jason Bateman and written by Andrew Dodge. Marking Bateman's feature film directorial debut, the film stars Bateman as a middle-aged eighth grade dropout who enters the National Golden Quill Spelling Bee through a loophole. It also stars Kathryn Hahn, Rohan Chand, Ben Falcone, Philip Baker Hall, and Allison Janney. Dodge's screenplay for ''Bad Words'' was featured on the 2011 Black List and was shortly thereafter picked up by Bateman. In the original script, the story was set at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, but the name was changed to a fictional bee since the filmmakers did not expect Scripps to allow the use of their name in the film. After two other actors declined to play the main character, Bateman decided to take on the role himself, and cast the other roles by a combination of contacting friends and open casting calls. Filming took place in Los Angeles at the end of 2012. The film premiered at the 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Bateman
Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor, director and producer known for his roles of Michael Bluth in the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox/Netflix sitcom ''Arrested Development (TV series), Arrested Development'' and of Marty Byrde in the Netflix crime drama series ''Ozark (TV series), Ozark'' (2017–2022). He has received several awards including a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Satellite Award. He began acting on television in the early 1980s on the NBC drama series ''Little House on the Prairie (TV series), Little House on the Prairie''. He has starred in the films ''Teen Wolf Too'' (1987), ''Necessary Roughness (film), Necessary Roughness'' (1991), ''Dodgeball (film), Dodgeball'' (2004), ''Juno (film), Juno'' (2007), ''Hancock (film), Hancock'' (2008), ''Up in the Air (2009 film), Up in the Air'', ''Couples Retreat'', ''Extract (film), Extract'' (all 2009), ''The Switch (2010 film), The Switch'' (2010), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scripps National Spelling Bee
The Scripps National Spelling Bee (formerly the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee and commonly called the National Spelling Bee) is an annual spelling bee held in the United States. The bee is run on a not-for-profit basis by The E. W. Scripps Company and is held at a hotel or convention center in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area during the week following Memorial Day weekend. Since 2011, it has been held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center hotel in National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, just outside Washington D.C. It was previously held at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington D.C. from 1996 to 2010. Although most of its participants are from the U.S., students from countries such as The Bahamas, Canada, the People's Republic of China, India, Ghana, Japan, Jamaica, Mexico, and New Zealand have also competed in recent years. Historically, the competition has been open to, and remains open to, the winners of sponsored regional spelling bees in the U. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penske Business Media
Penske Media Corporation (PMC) () is an American digital media, publishing, and information services company based in Los Angeles and New York City. It publishes more than 20 digital and print brands, including ''Variety'', ''Rolling Stone'', '' WWD'', ''Deadline Hollywood'', ''Billboard'', ''Boy Genius Report'', Robb Report, ''Artforum'', ''ARTNews'', and others. PMC's Chairman and CEO since founding is Jay Penske. History Founding and early years of Penske Media Penske Media Corporation was founded by Jay Penske in 2003. It began as an affinity marketing and internet services company called Velocity Services, Inc. The company acquired the Mail.com domain and was renamed to the Mail.com Media Corporation (MMC). By 2008, the company owned digital entertainment properties like OnCars.com, Hollywoodlife.com, ''Movieline'', and MailTimes in addition to operating the Mail.com portal and email service. In mid-2008, the company received a $35 million growth equity round of financing ... [...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] |
The Black List (survey)
The Black List is an annual survey of the "most-liked" motion picture screenplays not yet produced. It has been published every year since 2005 on the second Friday of December by Franklin Leonard, a development executive who subsequently worked at Universal Pictures and Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment. The website states that these are not necessarily "the best" screenplays, but rather "the most liked", since it is based on a survey of studio and production company executives. Of the more than 1,000 screenplays ''The Black List'' has included since 2005, 440 have been produced as theatrical films, including '' Argo'', '' American Hustle'', '' Juno'', ''The King's Speech'', ''Slumdog Millionaire'', ''Spotlight'', '' The Revenant'', ''The Descendants'', and '' Hell or High Water''. The produced films have together grossed over $30 billion, and been nominated for 241 Academy Awards and 205 Golden Globe Awards, winning 50 and 40 respectively. As of the 92nd Academy Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madison Hu
Madison Hu (born June 2, 2002) is an American actress. She is known for playing the role of Frankie Wong on the Disney Channel series ''Bizaardvark'', and for her previous recurring role as Marci on the Disney Channel series '' Best Friends Whenever''. Early life Hu was born in Longview, Texas, the daughter of Chinese immigrants. She has an older brother who was born in China. Hu moved to Southern California, where she started to work as an actress. Career Hu started her career as a child actress. By about age six, Hu already had a manager in the entertainment industry. Hu's first notable role was on the Disney Channel series '' Best Friends Whenever'', playing the recurring character Marci. She was later cast in the leading role as Frankie in the Disney Channel series ''Bizaardvark''. Following her role on ''Bizaardvark'', it was announced that she had been cast in the science fiction film '' Voyagers''; the film was released in April 2021. In April 2021, it was announced that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethan Dizon
Ethan C. Dizon is an American actor, best known for playing Pete in ''The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete''. His most recent role was the character Brian "Tiny" McKeever, Peter Parker's classmate in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films '' Spider-Man: Homecoming'' and '' Avengers: Infinity War''. Early life Ethan C. Dizon was born in 2002 in Los Angeles, California, to an American mother of Chinese descent and a Filipino father. He is the great-grandson of well-known World War II veteran and U.S. postmaster Lim Poon Lee, and the grand-nephew of Chinese actress Chow Kwun-Ling. His mother is actress Corinne Chooey, and his two younger brothers are also actors. Career In 2008, Dizon made his acting debut in the CBS comedy series ''How I Met Your Mother''. He played a guest role in the series '''Til Death'' in 2009, and in the medical drama ''Grey's Anatomy'' in 2012. He also played the title role in the short film ''Paulie''. In 2013, Dizon starred as Pete in the drama ''The In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Witting
Steve Witting is an American actor and director. He first found fame while starring in the 1980s comedy series ''The Hogan Family, Valerie'' (1987) as Jason Bateman's nerdy friend Bert. He has since gone on to star in several other TV series and films, including ''Batman Returns'' (1992), ''Hoffa (film), Hoffa'' (1992) and ''Shutter Island (film), Shutter Island'' (2010). He made his directorial debut in 1991 when he directed an episode of ''Step by Step (TV series), Step by Step'' (1991). Witting also played the main role in a full motion video game for the Sega Mega CD called ''Wirehead (video game), Wirehead''. He played a role in ''The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film), The Wolf of Wall Street''. Witting began acting by joining Richmond Hill High School (Queens, New York), Richmond Hill High School drama club in Queens where he was encouraged by Alfred Christie, a teacher who ran Hampton Playhouse in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. In 1977, Witting, who was 17 at the time, moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Stephenson (actor)
Robert J. Stephenson (born May 18, 1967) is an American film and television actor, film producer and screenwriter who is probably best known as Sheriff Jimmy Taylor on the CBS TV series '' Jericho''. Life Stephenson was born in Oxnard, California. He attended college at University of California at Santa Barbara. He starred as a lazy man in the video for the song, " Lazy" by English music group X-Press 2 sung by the American singer David Byrne of Talking Heads, which reached number 2 in the United Kingdom, number 1 on the U.S. Dance Charts and number 1 in Syria in 2002. Along with fellow actor and good friend Tom Hanks he shares a love of the English Premier League team Aston Villa. Filmography Actor Producer *''The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys'' (2002) *'' Thumbsucker'' (2005) Screenwriter *''Southlander ''Southlander'' (also known as ''Southlander: Diary of a Desperate Musician'') is a 2001 American independent film by Steve Hanft and Ross Harris. Origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anjul Nigam
Anjul Nigam (born December 15, 1965) is an Indian-born American actor, producer, and writer. Early life and education Nigam was born in Kanpur, India. He is a graduate of Cheshire High School in Cheshire, Connecticut and the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Career He is known for his recurring role as "Dr. Raj, the Psychiatric doctor" on the ABC medical drama ''Grey's Anatomy'', as a producer/writer/actor in the film ''Growing Up Smith'' and a producer of the film '' Louisiana Caviar''. He appeared as one of the supporting leads in the CBS/Hallmark Hall of Fame movie ''Back When We Were Grownups'' along with Faye Dunaway, Peter Fonda, Jack Palance and Blythe Danner and directed by Ron Underwood. Nigam was one of four leads in 20th Century Fox's ''The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest'' for director Mick Jackson and producers Harold Ramis and Trevor Albert. Nigam co-starred with Bill Murray and James Spader in the Universal/StudioCanal feature comedy ''Spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Belcher
Patricia Belcher (born 1954) is an American film, stage and television actress, known for her roles as Ms. Dabney in the Disney Channel sitcom ''Good Luck Charlie'', and as United States Attorney Caroline Julian in the FOX crime procedural comedy-drama series ''Bones''. In film, she is known for starring in '' Jeepers Creepers'' (2001), ''500 Days of Summer'' (2009), '' Bad Words'' (2013), '' Kajillionaire'' (2020), and ''Gatlopp'' (2022). Life and career Belcher was born in Helena, Montana. She is partly of African-American descent. Prior to becoming an actress, Belcher was a contestant on ''Jeopardy!'' losing to then attorney Ron Black in one of his 5 games. She studied acting under the guidance of many drama teachers, including the Oscar-nominated actress, Beah Richards. Belcher is known for playing judges, doctors, nurses, government officials, and other authority figures, often to comic effect. She has made many appearances in films and television series including ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
