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Kristian Bruun
Charles Kristian Bonnycastle Bruun (born October 25, 1979) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles in ''Orphan Black'' and ''Murdoch Mysteries''. Life and career Bruun was born on October 25, 1979, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he was raised. He attended Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania from 1994 to 1997, followed by Queen's University at Kingston, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario for a B.A. in drama, graduating in 2001. He also studied at the George Brown Theatre School in Toronto and with David Rotenberg (author), David Rotenberg at the Professional Actors Lab. His first screen role was in the film ''Good Morning Tomorrow'' in 2003, playing a bartender. He went on to take other roles including a Lead Officer in ''Nikita (TV series), Nikita'', Stu in ''Blood Pressure (film), Blood Pressure'' and Alec in ''Play the Film''. He had an ongoing role in ''Murdoch Mysteries'', playing Constable Slugger Jackson from 2012 to 2017, for seasons 6 throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How To Plan An Orgy In A Small Town
''How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town'' is a 2015 Canadian sex comedy film directed by Jeremy Lalonde. Plot The film stars Jewel Staite as Cassie Cranston, a newspaper sex columnist returning to her hometown for her mother's funeral, for the first time since being slut-shamed by her high school classmates who caught her trying to lose her virginity.'How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town': Slamdance Review '''', February 11, 2016. In trouble with her publisher because many of the sex stories she has written about were actually fictional, and with her former friends and neighbours because she has often written about the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan For Mayor
''Dan for Mayor'' is a Canadian television sitcom starring Fred Ewanuick that debuted on March 1, 2010 on CTV and The Comedy Network. It premiered the same night as ''Hiccups'', a show created by ''Corner Gas'' star Brent Butt that also features fellow ''Corner Gas'' alumna Nancy Robertson. On June 7, 2010, both ''Dan for Mayor'' and ''Hiccups'' were renewed for a second season. The second season premiered on June 5, 2011. Neither show was renewed for a third season. Premise The series stars Ewanuick as Dan Phillips, a slacker in his early 30s, who finds himself running for mayor of Wessex, a fictional city in Ontario, in the 2010 municipal elections, after a chance comment to his ex-girlfriend. When his opponent, incumbent mayor Bud, is hit by a bus and killed, Dan becomes the only mayoral candidate whereupon he reopens the candidacy for a fair race. In the show's second season, Dan takes office as the city's new mayor, finding himself woefully unprepared for the job. The ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miniseries
A miniseries or mini-series is a television series that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes. "Limited series" is another more recent US term which is sometimes used interchangeably. , the popularity of miniseries format has increased in both streaming services and broadcast television. The term " serial" is used in the United Kingdom and in other Commonwealth nations to describe a show that has an ongoing narrative plotline, while "series" is used for a set of episodes in a similar way that "season" is used in North America. Definitions A miniseries is distinguished from an ongoing television series; the latter does not usually have a predetermined number of episodes and may continue for several years. Before the term was coined in the US in the early 1970s, the ongoing episodic form was always called a " serial", just as a novel appearing in episodes in successive editions of magazines or newspapers is called a serial. In Britain, miniseries are often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Savage Tales Of Summer Vale (2011)
''Dark Rising'' is a sword and sorcery adult-oriented franchise of two made-for-television films, a twelve-episode television miniseries and another five-episode television miniseries, from the husband and wife team of Andrew Cymek and Brigitte Kingsley. The franchise is written by creator Cymek, produced by Kingsley and adapted for film and television by executive producer Mihkel Harilaid. The original film in the series, ''Dark Rising: Bring Your Battle Axe'' (2007), introduced lead character Summer Vale, played by Kingsley through the entire series of films. The series continued with the television series ''Dark Rising: The Savage Tales of Summer Vale'' (2011), the television film ''Dark Rising: Summer Strikes Back'' (2011) and the five-episode television series ''Dark Rising: Warrior of Worlds'' (2014). The franchise is a joint production of Harilaid's Black Walk Films and Cymek's Defiant Empire Films. Synopsis There are two Earths: our Earth and Dark Earth. Dark Earth is a wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Covert Affairs Episodes
'' Covert Affairs'' is an American spy drama created by Matt Corman and Chris Ord, which originally aired on the USA Network. Piper Perabo and Christopher Gorham star as Annie Walker and Auggie Anderson, two CIA agents working together on missions all around the world with the help of their bosses, Joan (Kari Matchett) and Arthur ( Peter Gallagher), and associate Jai (Sendhil Ramamurthy). Annie must also deal with her home life and her sister Danielle (Anne Dudek). The first season of this one-hour drama premiered on Tuesday, July 13, 2010, following ''White Collar'', and ended on September 14, 2010. The show was renewed for a second season on August 19, 2010; the second season started airing on June 7, 2011. New episodes aired until August 9, and the last six aired from November 1 until December 6, 2011. The show was renewed for a third season, which began on July 10, 2012, and consists of 16 episodes. On September 25, 2012, the show was renewed for a 16-episode fourth season, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Covert Affairs
''Covert Affairs'' is an American action drama television series filmed in Toronto, Canada, starring Piper Perabo and Christopher Gorham that premiered on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. On January 6, 2015, USA Network canceled ''Covert Affairs'' after five seasons. Plot overview A young CIA trainee, Annie Walker, is sent to work in the Domestic Protection Division (DPD) as a field agent. August "Auggie" Anderson, a blind tech operative, is Annie's guide in her new life. In the beginning, Annie's cover story is that she works in Acquisitions at the Smithsonian Museum but she is later let go. As of the fourth season, her new cover is that of a glamorous and well-connected importer/exporter, with expensive tastes and dealings that may not always be legal. The series traces Annie's evolution from a wide-eyed young operative who fetches coffee for her co-workers to a hardened spy who does not balk at enhanced interrogation. This change in tone is also seen in the opening credits, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Film
A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie or TV film/movie, is a feature-length film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for initial showing in movie theaters, and direct-to-video films made for initial release on home video formats. In certain cases, such films may also be referred to and shown as a miniseries, which typically indicates a film that has been divided into multiple parts or a series that contains a predetermined, limited number of episodes. Origins and history Precursors of "television movies" include ''Talk Faster, Mister'', which aired on WABD (now WNYW) in New York City on December 18, 1944, and was produced by RKO Pictures, and the 1957 ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'', based on the poem by Robert Browning, and starring Van Johnson, one of the first filmed "family musicals" made directly for television. That film was made in Technicolor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slash/Back
''Slash/Back'' is a 2022 Canadian Inuit science fiction film directed by Nyla Innuksuk in her feature debut from a screenplay by Innuksuk and Ryan Cavan. It premiered at the 2022 South by Southwest Festival in Texas. Cast Production The concept for ''Slash/Back'' was first presented at the 2018 Frontières Co-Pro Market in Montréal, followed by the 2019 Frontières Finance and Packaging Forum in Helsinki and then the Marché du Film at the Cannes Film Festival, after which point Sierra/Affinity boarded the project as an international distributor. Principal photography took place on location on Baffin Island in summer 2019. It became the first production to film in the Inuit hamlet of Pangnirtung. The area was already experiencing a housing shortage so production flew in fifty beds and set up accommodation for the crews in two local schools. Acting workshops were setup to find local girls to star in the film. Release A first look still was revealed in March 2021. ''Sla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eat Wheaties!
''Eat Wheaties!'' is a 2020 Canadian comedy film written and directed by Scott Abramovitch, and produced by Abramovitch and David J. Phillips.Gabriel Sigler"Tony Hale plays a schlub obsessed with Elizabeth Banks in the sweet and quirky ‘Eat Wheaties!’" ''Bad Feeling'', September 29, 2020. Premise An adaptation of Michael Kun's 2003 novel ''The Locklear Letters'' updated for the social media era, the film stars Tony Hale as Sid Straw, a man who becomes co-chair of the University of Pennsylvania planning committee for his college reunion, only to become obsessed with proving that he was friends with actress Elizabeth Banks in their student days.Lou Harry"Heartland 2020: Eat Wheaties!" ''Midwest Film Journal'', October 6, 2020. Cast Release The film premiered on September 25, 2020 at the Calgary International Film Festival, and had its American premiere at the Heartland Film Festival in October 2020 where it was the Opening Night film and won the Humor And Humanity Award. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tammy's Always Dying
''Tammy's Always Dying'' is a 2019 Canadian black comedy film directed by Amy Jo Johnson and written by Joanne Sarazen. It stars Felicity Huffman, Anastasia Phillips, Jessica Greco, Clark Johnson, Lauren Holly, Aaron Ashmore and Kristian Bruun. It had its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival on September 5, 2019. It received generally positive reviews from critics, particularly for Huffman's and Phillips' performances. It was released through video on demand on May 1, 2020 by Quiver Distribution. Plot When Tammy, a self-destructive woman who has a dysfunctional relationship with her daughter Catherine, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Catherine invites a television producer to document her process of caring for her mother in an attempt to profit from their misfortune. However, she finds her plans complicated by Tammy's persistent refusal to actually die. Cast * Felicity Huffman as Tammy MacDonald * Anastasia Phillips as Catherine MacDonald * Clark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ready Or Not (2019 Film)
''Ready or Not'' is a 2019 American black comedy horror film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett and written by Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy. It stars Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien (actor), Mark O'Brien, Henry Czerny, and Andie MacDowell. It follows Grace (Weaving), a newlywed who is hunted by her spouse's wealthy Satan-worshipping family as part of a wedding night ritual. Preparations began in November 2017 when Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett, members of the Radio Silence (collective), Radio Silence filmmaking collective, were hired as directors. After setting an initial release date, casting occurred from August to October 2018. Principal photography began later that month and concluded in November, in locations in and around Toronto, Canada and the surrounding Ontario area. It premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival on July 27, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 21, 2019, by Fox Searchlight Picture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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