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Cinnamon (2023 Film)
''Cinnamon'' is a 2023 American thriller film written and directed by Bryian Keith Montgomery Jr. and starring Hailey Kilgore, Pam Grier and Damon Wayans, in his first film role since 2011. Cast *Hailey Kilgore as Jodi Jackson *David Iacono as Eddie *Jeremie Harris as James Walker * Pam Grier as Mama *Damon Wayans as Wally Production In March 2022, it was announced that Kilgore, Iacono and Harris were cast in the film with production occurring in Atlanta. In April 2022, it was announced that Wayans and Grier were added to the cast. Release The film premiered at the Tribeca Festival in June 2023. It was released on Tubi on June 23, 2023. Reception The film has an 86% rating on 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 ... based on seven reviews. Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oz Scott
Osborne Scott (born September 16, 1949) is an American film director, television director, television producer and theatre director. He is most known for ''Mr. Boogedy'', the award-winning short film. Life and career Born in Hampton, Virginia, Scott attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and earned a MFA before he began his career in Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage. While at the Arena Stage, he managed the improvisational touring company The Living Stage. He then moved on to directing on and off Broadway plays including ''For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf'', which earned him a Drama Desk Award in 1977, in 1982 he also directed a television version. In 1981, he directed his first feature film, '' Bustin' Loose''. During the 1980s and 1990s, Scott directed several television series and television movies including ''Gimme a Break!'', ''Scarecrow and Mrs. King'', '' Crash Course'', '' New Attitude'', ''Civil Wars'', '' American Gothic'', '' Lois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hailey Kilgore
Hailey Frances Kilgore (born February 16, 1999) is an American actress and singer. Kilgore's breakthrough role was as Ti Moune in the Broadway theatre, Broadway revival of List of coming-of-age stories, coming-of-age One-act play, one-actMusical theatre, stage musical ''Once on This Island'', a performance for which the 19-year-old was nominated for the 72nd Tony Awards, 2018 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical, becoming one of the youngest nominees in the category. Early life and acting career Hailey Frances Kilgore was born in Humble, Texas. She was adopted at birth by Rebecca and Eric Kilgore of Portland, Oregon. Her family moved to the Portland suburb of Happy Valley, Oregon, Happy Valley when she was still in grade school. Kilgore began competing in pageants when she was 9. In 2012, Kilgore was named National American Miss Oregon Pre-Teen, and won the National NAM Spokesmodel competition. In 2015, she won the Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Grier
Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress and singer. Described by Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star (although, there are some who dispute that claim and believe Cheng Pei-pei actually holds that distinction), she achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action, blaxploitation and women in prison films for American International Pictures and New World Pictures. Her accolades include nominations for an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Satellite Award and a Saturn Award. Grier came to prominence with her titular roles in the films ''Coffy'' (1973) and '' Foxy Brown'' (1974); her other major films during this period included ''The Big Doll House'' (1971), ''Women in Cages'' (1971), ''The Big Bird Cage'' (1972), ''Black Mama, White Mama'' (1973), ''Scream Blacula Scream'' (1973), '' The Arena'' (1974), ''Sheba, Baby'' (1975), '' Bucktown'' (1975) and ''Friday Foster'' (1975). She portrayed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damon Wayans
Damon Kyle Wayans Sr. (; born September 4, 1960) is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. Wayans performed as a comedian and actor throughout the 1980s, including a year long stint on the sketch comedy series ''Saturday Night Live.'' His true breakthrough, however, came as writer and performer on FOX's sketch comedy show ''In Living Color'' from 1990 to 1992, his animated series ''Waynehead'' that ran on the Kids' WB block from 1996 to 1997, and his TV series '' Damon'' (1998). Since then, he has starred in a number of films and television shows, some of which he has co-produced or co-written, including ''Beverly Hills Cop'', ''The Last Boy Scout'', and ''Major Payne'' and the sitcom ''My Wife and Kids''. From 2016 to 2019, he starred as Roger Murtaugh in the television series ''Lethal Weapon''. He is a member of the Wayans family of entertainers. Early life Wayans was born in Harlem in New York City, the son of Elvira Alethia (Green), a homemaker, singer and soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Entertainment Studios
Fox Entertainment is an American production company owned by Fox Corporation. The company was formed in 2019 after The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of 21st Century Fox. The programming is created for the Fox Broadcasting Company, MyNetworkTV, and Tubi; Fox First Run serves as the syndication arm of the former, as well as a television distribution company for Fox Television Stations. History Fox Entertainment was formed in 2019 after Fox's former television studio, 20th Century Fox Television (among other assets), were acquired by Disney. On August 6, 2019, Fox Entertainment acquired animation studio Bento Box Entertainment. In April 2020, Fox Entertainment announced their partnership with Caffeine to bring the ''AniDom Beyond Show'', a recap show hosted by Andy Richter. Fox Entertainment planned to develop scripted and unscripted projects through a unit known as Sidecar, identifying and incubating programming for both Fox's broadcast network and third-party platfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village Roadshow Pictures
Village Roadshow Pictures is the American subsidiary of the Australian co-producer and co-financier of major Hollywood motion pictures established in 1986. It is a division under Village Roadshow Entertainment Group (VREG), which in turn is owned by Australian media company Village Roadshow. It has produced over 100 films since its establishment in 1986 including, as co-productions with Warner Bros., ''The Matrix'' series, the ''Sherlock Holmes'' series, the ''Happy Feet'' series, the '' Ocean’s'' series, ''The Lego Movie'' and '' Joker''. The films in the Village Roadshow library have achieved 34 number one U.S. box office openings and received 50 Academy Award nominations, 19 Academy Awards and six Golden Globe Awards. Village Roadshow Pictures self-distributes its film entertainment through affiliates in several territories around the world, including Australia, New Zealand and Singapore (the latter through Golden Village). J.P. Morgan Chase and Rabobank International pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tubi
Tubi is an American over-the-top content platform and ad-supported streaming service owned by Fox Corporation. The service was launched on April 1, 2014, and is based in Los Angeles, California. In January 2021, Tubi reached 33 million monthly active users. As of January 2022, Tubi has 51 million monthly active users. History Tubi was founded by Farhad Massoudi and Thomas Ahn Hicks of AdRise in San Francisco, launching in 2014 as a free service. In May 2017, they raised US$20 million in a round of funding from Jump Capital, Danhua Capital, Cota Capital, and Foundation Capital. In June 2019, Tubi announced that it had over 20 million active monthly users, and later in September, the company reported that users had streamed 132 million hours of content. In September 2020, the company reported 33 million monthly users. In 2019, CEO Farhad Massoudi announced that Tubi would nearly double its 2018 spending on licensed content, close to US$100 million. In February 2019, Tubi signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Iacono
David Iacono (born June 20, 2002) is an American actor and model. On television, he is best known for his role in the Amazon Prime series ''The Summer I Turned Pretty'' (2022–2023). His films include ''Cinnamon'' (2023). Early life and education Iacono is from Brooklyn, New York. He is of Italian and Puerto Rican descent. He attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School. He went to school with fellow ''The Summer I Turned Pretty'' star Lola Tung. In 2020, Iacono mentioned wanting to study Filmmaking at the School of Visual Arts. Career Iacono was a child model for print magazines and commercials. At six years old, he made his feature film debut in the crime horror '' Choose'', which premiered in 2011. He went on to appear in the 2014 comedy-drama film ''St. Vincent''. He made his television debut in 2015 with appearances in the NBC drama '' The Slap'' and the HBO miniseries ''Show Me a Hero''. After a number of small guest roles, Iacono had his first major television roles in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremie Harris
Jeremie Harris is an American actor. He is primarily known for his portrayal of Ptonomy Wallace in FX (TV channel), FX's ''Legion (TV series), Legion''. Biography Jeremie Harris grew up in New Rochelle where he had ambitions to become a basketball player. He gave up on this dream when he "didn’t become 6’6″ and have a 40-inch vertical". He interned at Def Jam Recordings where he earned his living by putting up posters. He was caught by police when he began sniping other posters. He was let go with a warning and quit due to the music industries' "cutthroat business". He decided to try acting while learning business at New York University and came close to earning a role in the movie ''Sky High (2005 film), Sky High''. Following some acting roles at NYU, he dropped out and attended Juilliard instead. His mother, an immigrant from Dominica, did not approve of his decision, but thirty minutes later changed her mind. He has since appeared in major projects such as ''A Walk Among t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribeca Festival
The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by Tribeca Productions. It takes place each spring in New York City, showcasing a diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive programming. Tribeca was founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff in 2002 to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of Lower Manhattan following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Until 2020, the festival was known as the Tribeca Film Festival. Each year, the festival hosts over 600 screenings with approximately 150,000 attendees, and awards independent artists in 23 juried competitive categories. History The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro, and Craig Hatkoff, in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the Tribeca neighborhood in Lower Manhattan. The inaugural festival launched after 120 days of planning with the h ... [...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] |
Films Shot In Atlanta
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
