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Coup (film)
''Coup!'' is a 2023 American comedy/thriller written and directed by Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman and starring Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Magnussen, and Sarah Gadon. It premiered in the Giornate degli Autori section of the 80th Venice International Film Festival. Sarsgaard and Magnussen serve as executive producers of the film. It is Schuman’s feature directorial debut and Stark’s third feature as a director. Cast *Peter Sarsgaard as Floyd Monk *Billy Magnussen as Jay *Sarah Gadon as Julie *Skye P. Marshall as Mrs. Tidwell *Callum Vinson as Tom *Willa Dunn as Molly *Faran Tahir as Kaan *Kristine Nielsen as Mrs. McMurray *Fisher Stevens as Upton Sinclair Production In November 2022, it was announced that Sarsgaard, Magnussen, Gadon, Marshall, Tahir, Nielsen and Stevens would appear in the film. In February 2023, it was announced that filming wrapped in New Jersey. Reception The film has an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Stark
Austin Stark (born May 31, 1979) is an American film director, writer, and producer best known for films highlighting social issues, from mental illness in Infinitely Polar Bear to his latest medical drama The God Committee. Stark made his writing and directorial debut with '' The Runner'' (2015), a political drama that follows a Louisiana congressman in the aftermath of the 2010 BP Oil Spill. The movie stars Nicolas Cage, Sarah Paulson, Connie Nielsen, and Peter Fonda. It was released in theaters nationwide on August 7, 2015 by Alchemy. His film, Infinitely Polar Bear was nominated for the 73rd Golden Globe Awards under the category Best Actor - comedy. Stark's most recent film is The God Committee, a medical thriller touching upon the subject of organ transplant. The film both written and directed by him premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and was released theatrically by Vertical Entertainment in July 2021. Austin is one of the founding partners of Paper Street F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Levy
Brian Levy is an American film producer and literary manager at talent management firm Entertainment 360. Levy produces feature films, television series and documentaries. He executive produced '' Lost Transmissions'' starring Juno Temple and Simon Pegg, ''Fear and Loathing in Aspen'', '' 30 Minutes or Less'' starring Jesse Eisenberg and Danny McBride, and documentaries Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records and Meet Me in the Bathroom. Career Previously, Levy ran the management division of Pulse Films, a subsidiary of Vice Media. In 2020, Levy became a literary manager at Management 360 and an executive at Entertainment 360. Film Production Currently Levy alongside Jamie Neely, Thomas Benski, and Sam Bridger are in production on a documentary film called Meet Me in the Bathroom, an adaptation of Lizzy Goodman's novel Meet Me in the Bathroom. Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern are directing the film. In 2014, Levy was an executive producer on Revenge of the Green Dragons working ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Sarsgaard
John Peter Sarsgaard (; born March 7, 1971) is an American actor. His first feature role was in '' Dead Man Walking'' in 1995. He then appeared in the 1998 independent films ''Another Day in Paradise'' and ''Desert Blue''. That same year, Sarsgaard received a substantial role in '' The Man in the Iron Mask'' (1998), playing Raoul, the ill-fated son of Athos. Sarsgaard later achieved critical recognition when he was cast in '' Boys Don't Cry'' (1999) as John Lotter. He landed his first leading role in the 2001 film ''The Center of the World''. For his portrayal of Charles Lane in '' Shattered Glass'', Sarsgaard received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. Sarsgaard has appeared in an eclectic range of films, including '' Garden State'', '' Kinsey'' (both 2004), '' Jarhead'' (2005), ''Elegy'' (2008), ''An Education'' (2009), '' Lovelace'' (2013), '' Night Moves'' (2013), ''Blue Jasmine'' (2013), '' Black Mass'' (2015), '' Jackie'' (2016), and ''The Lost Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Magnussen
William Gregory Magnussen (born April 20, 1985) is an American actor. He has been featured in the films ''Into the Woods'' (2014), ''Birth of the Dragon'' (2016), '' Game Night'' (2018), and '' Aladdin'' (2019), and has had supporting television roles in ''Get Shorty'' (2017) and ''Maniac'' (2018). In 2021, Magnussen starred in the sci-fi series '' Made for Love'' on HBO Max and appeared in the films ''The Many Saints of Newark'' and ''No Time to Die''. He has starred in Broadway and off-Broadway theater productions, including 2013's ''Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike'', for which he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Early life Magnussen was born in Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, the son of Daina, an aerobics instructor, and Greg Magnussen, a professional bodybuilder and kickboxer. He has two younger brothers. His maternal grandparents were Soviet Lithuanian immigrants. He is of Norwegian and Lithuanian descent. He grew up in Quee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Gadon
Sarah Lynn Gadon (born April 4, 1987) is a Canadian actress. She began her acting career guest-starring in a number of television series, such as ''Are You Afraid of the Dark?'' (1999), '' Mutant X'' (2002), and ''Dark Oracle'' (2004). She also worked as a voice actress on various television productions. Gadon gained recognition for her roles in David Cronenberg's films '' A Dangerous Method'' (2011), '' Cosmopolis'' (2012), and ''Maps to the Stars'' (2014). She also starred in Denis Villeneuve's thriller ''Enemy'' (2013), the period drama '' Belle'' (2013), and the action horror film ''Dracula Untold'' (2014). In 2015, Gadon co-starred in the supernatural thriller ''The 9th Life of Louis Drax'' and portrayed a young Elizabeth II in the comedy ''A Royal Night Out''. The following year, she starred as Sadie Dunhill in the Hulu miniseries '' 11.22.63'', an adaptation of Stephen King's novel '' 11/22/63''. In 2017, Gadon played the lead role of Grace Marks in the CBC miniseries '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
80th Venice International Film Festival
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giornate Degli Autori
The Giornate degli Autori or simply the Giornate, formerly also known in English as Venice Days, is an independent film festival section held in parallel to and in association with the Venice Film Festival. It is modeled on the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films o .... Anac and 100autori are engaged to support and promote the Giornate. It was founded in 2004 by Giorgio Gosetti. The Giornate' goal, similarly to that of the Directors' Fortnight's, is to balance the star studded main event more sensational approach with drawing attention to high quality authors' cinema, specifically the one that represents innovative, original and independent take on moviemaking. With Villa Degli Autori as its center hub and headquarters during t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faran Tahir
Faran Haroon Tahir (born February 16, 1963) is a Pakistani-American actor. Tahir was born in Los Angeles to an artistic family. His parents were actor Naeem Tahir and radio host Yasmeen Tahir and his grandparents were writers Imtiaz Ali Taj and Hijab Imtiaz Ali. Tahir went on to graduate from theatre programs at the University of California, Berkeley and the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. Tahir made his television debut as a desk clerk on ''Midnight Caller'' in 1989. He made his film debut as Nathoo in The Walt Disney Company, Disney's 1994 The Jungle Book (1994 film), live-action version of ''The Jungle Book''. He has gone on to star in a variety of roles, such as Raza in ''Iron Man (2008 film), Iron Man'' (2008), Captain Robau in ''Star Trek (film), Star Trek'' (2009), and President Patel in Elysium (film), ''Elysium'' (2013). In 2016, he played the titular role of ''Othello'' in a production by the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristine Nielsen
Kristine E. Nielsen (born May 28, 1955) is an American actress known for her work on Broadway and Off-Broadway. Nielsen was nominated for the 2013 Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her performance as Sonia in ''Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike'' and the 2019 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in '' Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus.'' Personal life Nielsen grew up in the Washington, D.C. and Bethesda, Maryland areas, the daughter of Homer Nielsen (1912-2005), who was born in the Philippines, and Eloise (née Gerard) Nielsen (1918-2009). Her mother, a Democrat, worked in government, at one point for president Jimmy Carter, and her father was a U.S Navy captain. The family spent summers at Cape Cod.Soloski, Alexis"Theater Special. Kristine Nielsen Delights in Durang"''The New York Times'', May 8, 2013 Her sister was Karen (Nielsen) Grammaticas (1951-2007), wife of Dr. Andrew Grammaticas. Her paternal grandfather was Harold Nielsen (18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fisher Stevens
Fisher Stevens (born Steven Fisher; November 27, 1963) is an American actor, director, producer and writer. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Ben in ''Short Circuit'' and ''Short Circuit 2'', Chuck Fishman on the 1990s television series ''Early Edition'', and villainous computer genius Eugene "The Plague" Belford in ''Hackers''. He portrays Marvin Gerard on NBC’s ''The Blacklist''. His most recent successes include winning the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for '' The Cove'' and the 2008 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature for '' Crazy Love''. In addition, he has directed the documentary '' Before the Flood'', which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and by National Geographic on October 21, 2016. He stars as Hugo Baker on the HBO satirical drama series '' Succession''. Early life Stevens was born Steven Fisher in 1963 in Chicago, the son of Sally, a painter and AIDS activist, and Norman Fisher, a furniture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel, ''The Jungle'', which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published ''The Brass Check'', a muck-raking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the "free press" in the United States. Four years after publication of ''The Brass Check'', the first code of ethics for journ ... [...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] |
