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Jim Hosking
Jim Hosking is a British film director. His first short film, ''Little Clumps of Hair'', premiered on BBC Three. His short film ''Renegades'' premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. He directed the segment "G is for Grandad" for the film ''ABCs of Death 2'' in 2014. His first feature film ''The Greasy Strangler'' premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 22 January 2016. It went on to win The Discovery Award at the British Independent Film Awards 2017, British Independent Film Awards 2016. It also won Best Comedy at the Empire (film magazine), Empire Film Awards 2017. His second feature film ''An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn'' premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 20 January 2018. He co-wrote and directed the show Tropical Cop Tales which premiered on 1 February 2019 on Adult Swim in the US. He is represented for Film and TV by the Independent Talent Group in the UK, and by United Talent Agency in the US. Filmography Feature films Short films Tele ...
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Film Director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking. The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended a film school. Directors use different approaches. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue, while others control every aspect and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely. Some directors also write thei ...
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BBC Three
BBC Three is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was first launched on 9 February 2003 with programmes targeting 16 to 34-year-olds, covering all genres including animation, comedy, current affairs, and drama series. The television channel closed down in 2016 and was replaced by an online-only BBC Three streaming channel. After six years of being online, BBC Three returned to linear television on 1 February 2022. It broadcasts every day from 19:00 to around 04:00, timesharing with CBBC (which starts at 07:00). BBC Three is the BBC's youth-orientated television channel, its remit to provide "innovative programming" to a target audience of viewers between 16 and 34 years old, leveraging technology as well as new talent. Unlike its commercial rivals, 90% of BBC Three's output originated from the United Kingdom. Notable exceptions were '' Family Guy'' and ''American Dad'' (both of them originating in the United States). It an ...
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Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,660 attending in 2016. It takes place each January in Park City, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah; and at the Sundance Resort (a ski resort near Provo, Utah), and acts as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature films and short films, and a group of out-of-competition sections, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Sundance Kids, From the Collection, Premieres, and Documentary Premieres. History 1978: Utah/US Film Festival Sundance began in Salt Lake City in August 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to attract more filmmakers to Utah. It was founded by Sterl ...
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ABCs Of Death 2
''ABCs of Death 2'' is a 2014 American comedy horror anthology film produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League. It contains 26 different shorts, each by different directors spanning various countries. It is a sequel to the 2012 film ''The ABCs of Death''. Directors featured include Jim Hosking, Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, the Soska sisters, Julian Barrett, Rodney Ascher, Kristina Buožytė, Larry Fessenden, Navot Papushado, Aharon Keshales, Bill Plympton, and Vincenzo Natali. The film received a much more positive response than its predecessor. A second sequel, '' ABCs of Death 2.5'', was released in late 2016. Plot Like the first film, the sequel is divided into 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free rein in choosing a word to create a story involving death. The varieties of death range from accidents to murders. A contest was held for the role of the 26th director. The winner was m ...
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The Greasy Strangler
''The Greasy Strangler'' is a 2016 American black comedy horror film directed by Jim Hosking, and written by Hosking and Toby Harvard. The film stars Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar, Elizabeth De Razzo, Gil Gex, Abdoulaye NGom and Holland MacFallister. The film was released on October 7, 2016 by FilmRise. Plot Big Ronnie, a Pathological lying, pathological liar who fabricates stories about disco groups like Bee Gees, the Bee Gees, runs a disco-themed walking location tour in his town, alongside his son Big Brayden, who aspires to be a Science fantasy, space fantasy author. Ronnie allows Brayden to live with him on the condition that Brayden prepares excessively greasy food for him. Ronnie asserts that Brayden drove his mother away, though truthfully, she left Ronnie for a man named Ricky Prickles. At night, Ronnie completely covers himself in grease and strangles residents of the town, soon becoming dubbed "The Greasy Strangler." After his killings, he cleans himself of the grea ...
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British Independent Film Awards 2017
The 20th British Independent Film Awards nominations were announced on 1 November 2017. Awards and nominations Best British Independent Film *''God's Own Country'' *''The Death of Stalin'' *''I Am Not a Witch'' *''Lady Macbeth'' *''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'' Best Director * Rungano Nyoni - ''I Am Not a Witch'' *Armando Iannucci - ''The Death of Stalin'' * Francis Lee - ''God's Own Country'' *Martin McDonagh - ''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'' * William Oldroyd - ''Lady Macbeth'' Best Actress *Florence Pugh - ''Lady Macbeth'' *Emily Beecham - ''Daphne'' *Frances McDormand - ''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'' * Margaret Mulubwa - ''I Am Not a Witch'' *Ruth Wilson - '' Dark River'' Best Actor *Josh O'Connor - ''God's Own Country'' *Jamie Bell - ''Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool'' *Paddy Considine - ''Journeyman'' * Johnny Harris - ''Jawbone'' * Alec Secareanu - ''God's Own Country'' Best Supporting Actress *Patricia Clarkson - '' The ...
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Empire (film Magazine)
''Empire'' is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Verlagsgruppe, Bauer Consumer Media. The first issue was published in May 1989. History David Hepworth of Emap, the publisher of British music magazines ''Q magazine, Q'' and ''Smash Hits'', among other titles, came up with the idea to publish a magazine similar to ''Q'', but for films. They recruited ''Smash Hits'' editor Barry McIlheney to edit the new magazine, with Hepworth as Editorial Director. Hepworth produced a one-page document of what he wanted to achieve. Among them, they planned to review and rate every film that was released in the cinema in the United Kingdom. It also said that "''Empire'' believes that movies can sometimes be art, but they should always be fun." The first edition (June/July 1989) was published in May 1989 with Dennis Quaid and Winona Ryder on the front cover from the film ''Great Balls of Fire! (film), Great Balls of Fire!''. The first issue reached its target of 50,000 copies sold ...
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An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn
''An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn'' is a 2018 crime comedy film directed by Jim Hosking, starring Aubrey Plaza, Emile Hirsch, Jemaine Clement, Matt Berry, and Craig Robinson. Plot Lulu Danger is a waitress in a coffee shop managed by her husband, Shane, in a small town. One evening while watching television, Lulu sees an advertisement for a mysterious, upcoming live show to be held at the town's hotel called ''An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn; For One Magical Night Only''. She recognizes Beverly from photos she keeps hidden in a dresser drawer and gets excited. Meanwhile, Shane becomes incensed when he learns that Lulu's brother, Adjay, has more money than him and that he keeps his life's savings in a lockbox at his spice store. With the help of his dimwitted employees, Carl and Tyrone, Shane steals the lockbox, though Adjay quickly recognizes him as the culprit. Later, at the laundromat, decrying his situation, Adjay meets a drifter named Colin who offers to retrieve the l ...
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Tropical Cop Tales
''Tropical Cop Tales'' is an American comedy television series created by Jim Hosking and Toby Harvard for Adult Swim. The show revolves around two burned-out city cops, Keymarion "Primetime" Weeyums and Demetrius "Meechie" Franks, who have both relocated to an unnamed small tropical town for a relaxing end to their careers, but soon find out the town is not at all relaxing. The series is produced by Alive and Kicking, Inc. A pilot for the series was ordered and scenes were previewed on the Adult Swim streaming series ''Development Meeting'' hosted by company vice presidents Walter Newman and Cameron Tang. On June 27, 2018, Adult Swim announced the series would have its regular premiere on July 29, 2018. On May 24, 2020, Adult Swim canceled ''Tropical Cop Tales'' following the first season. The series was not picked up for a second season. Cast * Dominique Witten as Primetime Weeyums *Ted Ferguson as Meechie Franks *Carl Solomon as Captain Solomon *Gil Gex as Dame Edith Ezold * ...
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Adult Swim
Adult Swim (AS; stylized as [adult swim] and often abbreviated as [as]) is an American adult-oriented night-time cable television Television channel, channel that shares channel space with the basic cable network Cartoon Network and is programmed by its in-house production studio, Williams Street. It is part of American media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery. Adult Swim runs nightly from 9 p.m. – 6 a.m. Eastern Time Zone, ET/Pacific Time Zone, PT. Debuting in 2001, Adult Swim served as the nighttime identity of Cartoon Network, and it was established as alternative programming during late night hours when Cartoon Network's primary target audience would normally be sleeping. By 2005, Adult Swim would be granted its own separate Nielsen ratings report from Cartoon Network due to its targeting a different audience. The block features stylistically varied animated and live-action shows, including original programming, broadcast syndication, syndicated series, anime, and short fi ...
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Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year or annus is the orbital period of a planetary body, for example, the Earth, moving in its orbit around the Sun. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by change in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter. In tropical and subtropical regions, several geographical sectors do not present defined seasons; but in the seasonal tropics, the annual wet and dry seasons are recognized and tracked. A calendar year is an approximation of the number of days of the Earth's orbital period, as counted in a given calendar. The Gregorian calendar, or modern calendar, presents its calendar year to be either a common year of 365 days or a leap year of 366 days, as do the Julian calendars. For the Gregorian calendar, the average length of the calendar year (the ...
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