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Daniel Diemer
Daniel Diemer (born 21 June 1996) is a Canadian actor, best known for his role as Paul Munsky in Netflix's film ''The Half of It'', directed by Alice Wu. Prior to starring in the movie, he played smaller roles in ''The Man in the High Castle'' and '' Sacred Lies''. Early life Daniel Diemer was born in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia. His father, Greg Diemer, works as a tennis coach and businessman. He has a younger brother, Aaron Diemer. During his youth, he worked eight different part time jobs, from coaching ping pong, picking blueberries, to low-level accounting work. When he was 12, he wrote and published a children's book. At the age of 5, he started playing soccer and dreamed of becoming an athlete, going as far as playing internationally at the age of 12. He stopped playing because he "grew up like crazy and lost the speed." Not wanting to give up on sports, he turned to tennis. He played at the provincial level and wanted to seek university scholarship, before he suffered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brentwood Bay, British Columbia
Brentwood Bay is a small village in the municipality of Central Saanich, on the Saanich Peninsula Saanich Peninsula ( str, W̱SÁNEĆ) is located north of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is bounded by Saanich Inlet on the west, Satellite Channel on the north, the small Colburne Passage on the northeast, and Haro Strait on the east. The ... in British Columbia, Canada. It lies north of the city of Victoria, British Columbia, Victoria, east of the community of Willis Point, British Columbia, Willis Point, and south of the town of Sidney, British Columbia, Sidney. Situated on the Saanich Inlet and the Tod Inlet, it includes the Butchart Gardens, the Victoria Butterfly Gardens and the Brentwood Bay Lodge & Spa. Brentwood Bay also includes a BC Ferries dock which connects to Mill Bay, British Columbia, Mill Bay. The region also plays host to various wineries and restaurants, and also features hiking and a variety of wildlife iGowlland Tod Provincial Park Brentwood Bay is part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camosun College
Camosun College is a public college located in Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The college has two campuses, Lansdowne and Interurban, with a total enrollment of around 14,000 students (including Professional Studies and Industry Training) in 2022/23. Camosun College also provides contract training for local business; research, innovation and prototyping services for industry; and trained co-op students for employers. The Lansdowne campus provides University transfer and access programs, as well as career, technical and vocational programs in the fields of the arts, sciences, business, Indigenous studies, dental hygiene and dental assistant programs. The Interurban campus delivers programs in access, business, trades, technologies, sport and exercise education, and health and human services. The college also hosts a student paper, ''The Nexus''. The enabling legislation is the ''College and Institute Act''. Student body In 2022/23, Camosun had more than 14,000 full-time a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netflix
Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a film and television series library through distribution deals as well as its own productions, known as Netflix Originals. As of September 2022, Netflix had 222 million subscribers worldwide, including 73.3 million in the United States and Canada; 73.0 million in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 39.6 million in Latin America and 34.8 million in the Asia-Pacific region. It is available worldwide aside from Mainland China, Syria, North Korea, and Russia. Netflix has played a prominent role in independent film distribution, and it is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). Netflix can be accessed via web browsers or via application software installed on smart TVs, set-top boxes connected to televisions, tablet computers, smartph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Half Of It
''The Half of It'' is a 2020 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Alice Wu. It stars Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, and Alexxis Lemire, with Enrique Murciano, Wolfgang Novogratz, Catherine Curtin, Becky Ann Baker, and Collin Chou in supporting roles. Teenager Ellie Chu agrees to write a love letter for a jock while falling for his crush. Netflix released the film on May 1, 2020, to positive reviews. The film received the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. The film is a modern loose retelling of the 1897 play ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' in which teenage Ellie Chu begins writing love letters on behalf of the inarticulate Paul Munsky to his crush, Aster Flores. Plot Friendless student Ellie Chu lives in the remote town of Squahamish, where she makes extra money writing homework papers for her fellow students. She lives with her widower father and performs most of his duties as station master and signalman. She is appro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Wu
Alice Wu (; born April 21, 1970) is an American film director and screenwriter, known for her films '' Saving Face'' (2004) and ''The Half of It'' (2020). Both of her films feature Chinese-American main characters and explore the lives of intellectual, lesbian characters. A number of production companies offered to buy the script for ''Saving Face'', but Wu opted not to sell it in order to uphold an authentic portrayal of the Taiwanese-American community. ''Saving Face'' and Wu's impact on the industry have paved the way for greater Asian representation in the film industry today. Her work has inspired Asian-American actresses such as Awkwafina and Lana Condor. Early life Alice Wu was born in San Jose, California to parents who were immigrants from Taiwan. Her family eventually moved to Los Altos, California, where she graduated from Los Altos High School in 1986. She enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the age of 16. She later transferred to Stanford Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man In The High Castle (TV Series)
''The Man in the High Castle'' is an American dystopian alternate history television series created for streaming service Amazon Prime Video, depicting a parallel universe where the Axis powers of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan rule the world after their victory in World War II. It was created by Frank Spotnitz and is produced by Amazon Studios, Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions (with Scott serving as executive producer), Headline Pictures, Electric Shepherd Productions, and Big Light Productions. The series is based on Philip K. Dick's 1962 novel of the same name. In a parallel universe, Germany and Japan have divided the United States into the Greater Nazi Reich in the east, with New York City as its regional capital, and the Japanese Pacific States to the west, with San Francisco as the capital. These territories are separated by a neutral zone that encompasses the Rocky Mountains. The series starts in 1962 and follows characters whose destinies intertwine when th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacred Lies
''Sacred Lies'' is an American drama streaming television series based on the novel ''The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly'' by Stephanie Oakes that premiered on July 27, 2018 on Facebook Watch. The series was created by Raelle Tucker and stars Elena Kampouris, Kevin Carroll, Kiana Madeira, Toby Huss, and Ryan Robbins. Its second season premiered on February 20, 2020 under the title ''Sacred Lies: The Singing Bones''. On June 15, 2020, the first two seasons were acquired by Peacock. Premise ''Sacred Lies'' (Season 1) follows "a handless teen who escapes from a cult and finds herself in juvenile detention, suspected of knowing who killed her cult leader." Cast and characters Main * Elena Kampouris as Minnow Bly, a young teenage girl and former member of the Kevinian cult. She emerges from the woods of Lolo National Forest after 12 years, now missing both of her hands. She is sent to the Missoula Youth Correctional Facility after attacking a schizophrenic teenage boy. Zoë Noelle Baker p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazen (film)
''Brazen'' is a 2022 American thriller film directed by Monika Mitchell. It is based on Nora Roberts' 1988 novel ''Brazen Virtue''. The film stars Alyssa Milano, Sam Page, and Matthew Finlan. ''Brazen'' was released on January 13, 2022, by Netflix. Plot Well-known murder mystery novelist Grace Miller gets an urgent message from her sister Kathleen, who she hasn't seen for five years, to come help her. Literally catching the first flight available, she arrives very quickly. They haven't talked about why she'd left her rich and powerful husband Jonathan Breezewood, and Kathleen is living in their childhood home in Washington D.C.. She'd wanted a divorce from the misogynist, but he refused and her pill addiction prevented her from taking their young son Kevin. Now clean, she's teaching high school English and drama and needs Grace's support in her fight for full custody. As the sisters co-own the house, Kathleen asks to mortgage her half. And she vaguely mentions she's looking i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supercell (film)
''Supercell'' is a 2023 American disaster action film directed by Herbert James Winterstern from a screenplay that he wrote with Anna Elizabeth James. It stars Skeet Ulrich, Anne Heche, Daniel Diemer, Jordan Kristine Seamón and Alec Baldwin. It was released in theaters and video on demand on March 17, 2023. Plot A young man lives up to his parents' legacy to witness and chase storms with his friends and family out to save him. Cast * Skeet Ulrich as Roy * Anne Heche as Quinn * Daniel Diemer as William * Jordan Kristine Seamón as Harper * Alec Baldwin as Zane * Anjul Nigam as Ramesh * Michael Klingher as Chuck * Jane Lind as May * Richard Gunn as Bill * Praya Lundberg as Amy Production Principal photography occurred in Moultrie, Georgia in June 2021, as well as Lavina, Montana and Hardin, Montana in May 2021. Release ''Supercell'' was released simultaneously in theaters and video on-demand on March 17, 2023, by Saban Films Saban Capital Group LLC is an American in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thug (film)
''Thug'' is an upcoming American crime thriller film written by Tony Gayton, directed by Hans Petter Moland and starring Liam Neeson who plays a brooding aging gangster. Cast *Liam Neeson * Ron Perlman *Yolonda Ross * Daniel Diemer *Levon Panek *Ghia Truesdale *Tom Kemp *Bruce Busta Soscia *Ryan Homchick *Josh Drennen *William Xifaras *Javier Molina *Kayla Kohla *Omar Moustafa Ghonim *Kris Eivers Production Filming occurred in Winthrop, Massachusetts in October 2022. Filming also occurred in Allston Allston is an officially recognized neighborhood within the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was named after the American painter and poet Washington Allston. It comprises the land covered by the zip code 02134. For the most pa ... earlier that same month. Filming also took place in Norwood, Massachusetts in November 2022. References External links * {{Hans Petter Moland Upcoming films Films shot in Boston Films shot in Massachusetts Films produced b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Summer (TV Series)
''Black Summer'' is an American streaming television series created by Karl Schaefer and John Hyams. It is a spinoff of ''Z Nation''. The first season, consisting of eight episodes, was released on Netflix on April 11, 2019. The series is produced by The Asylum, the same production company behind ''Z Nation'', and is written and directed primarily by Hyams, with Abram Cox writing and directing additional episodes. Jaime King stars in the lead role as Rose, a mother who is separated from her daughter during the earliest and deadliest days of a zombie apocalypse. The series garnered moderate approval from critics. Many of the filming locations are around and within Calgary, Alberta. In November 2019, Netflix renewed the series for an eight-episode second season, which was released on June 17, 2021. Plot Six weeks after the start of the zombie apocalypse, Rose (Jaime King) is separated from her daughter, Anna, and she embarks on a harrowing journey to find her. Thrust alongside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Midnight Club (TV Series)
''The Midnight Club'' is an American horror mystery-thriller streaming television series created by Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong, with Flanagan serving as showrunner, lead writer and executive producer. The series is set in a hospice and follows eight terminally ill young adults who form "the Midnight Club", meeting up each night to tell each other scary tales; it features an overarching story while also frequently depicting those tales on-screen. Although mostly based on the 1994 novel ''The Midnight Club'' by Christopher Pike, the series also adapts short stories from "27" other Pike books, featured in the "Midnight Club" tales themselves. The series stars Iman Benson, Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, William Chris Sumpter, and Sauriyan Sapkota as the eight Midnight Club members, alongside Heather Langenkamp, Zach Gilford, Matt Biedel, and Samantha Sloyan as older adults working at or living near the hospice; in addition to their main characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
