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List Of American Films Of 2019 ...
This is a list of American films released in 2019. Box office The highest-grossing American films released in 2019, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows: January–March April–June July–September October–December See also * List of 2019 box office number-one films in the United States * 2019 in the United States References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:American films of 2019 Films American 2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 In Film
2019 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, critics' lists of the best films of 2019, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and movie programming. Evaluation of the year In his article highlighting the best movies of 2019, Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' said, "It's the year of apocalyptic cinema of the highest order, the year in which three of our best filmmakers have responded with vast ambition, invention, and inspiration to the crises at hand, including the threats to American democracy, the catastrophic menaces arising from global warming, the corrosive cruelty of ethnic hatreds and nationalist prejudices, and the poisonous overconcentration of money and power. At the same time, it's a year of inside-movies practicalities, of special attention to the business at hand, because of the structural threats to the movie business from new and powerful players. The major crisis specific to cinema outleaps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escape Room (2019 Film)
''Escape Room'' is a 2019 American psychological horror film directed by Adam Robitel and written by Bragi F. Schut and Maria Melnik. The film stars Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Tyler Labine, Nik Dodani, Jay Ellis, and Yorick van Wageningen, and follows a group of people who are sent to navigate a series of deadly escape rooms. Development of the film began in August 2017, then under the title ''The Maze'', and the casting process commenced. Filming took place in South Africa in late 2017 through January 2018. ''Escape Room'' was released in the United States on January 4, 2019, by Sony Pictures Entertainment, and grossed over $155million worldwide. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the atmosphere and cast, but criticized the familiar plot and its failure to take full advantage of its premise. A sequel, '' Escape Room: Tournament of Champions'', was released on July 16, 2021. Plot Six people from varied backgrounds are presented with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jen McGowan
Jen McGowan is an American filmmaker. At the 2014 South by Southwest Film Festival, McGowan won the Gamechanger Award for ''Kelly & Cal'', her first feature film. McGowan is the creator of filmpowered.com, an international skill-sharing, networking and job resource for professional women in film and television. Career Jen McGowan began her career as a filmmaker when she received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. There she studied film and trained as an actor at the Atlantic Theater Company with David Mamet, William H. Macy, and Sam Shepard. During this period, McGowan worked with New York companies such as RSA/Black Dog, A Band Apart, Killer Films, and Propaganda. She worked on independent feature films, including the Oscar-winning '' Boys Don't Cry''. McGowan received a grant from The Caucus Foundation for her thesis film, ''Confessions of a Late Bloomer'', which began its festival run at the Tribeca Film Festival. McGowan then directed the short film ''Touch'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IFC Films
IFC Films is an American film production and distribution company based in New York. It is an offshoot of IFC owned by AMC Networks. It distributes mainly independent films under its own name, select foreign films and documentaries under its Sundance Selects label and genre films under its IFC Midnight label. It operates the IFC Center. History The IFC Films division has a predecessor film label, Next Wave Films, designed to release movies, which was in operation from 1997 to 2002, when it was shut down and folded into IFC themselves. IFC also launched a film company, IFC Productions, which set up operation in March 1997 to produce their own feature film projects. On January 18, 1999, IFC launched a film label Agenda 2000, which set up their own film projects, which have their world premiere on IFC. On September 26, 2000, IFC launched its own feature film unit, branded IFC Films, to be headed by Bob Berney, who went on to have jobs at Newmarket Films, and later founder of Pic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rust Creek
''Rust Creek'' is a 2018 American crime thriller film directed by Jen McGowan and written by Julie Lipson. It is based on an original story by Julie Lipson and Stu Pollard. Hermione Corfield stars as a college student who becomes lost while on a road trip and is hunted by criminals who believe her to be a witness to their crimes. It premiered at the 2018 Bentonville Film Festival and was released theatrically on January 4, 2019. Plot Sawyer Scott, a senior at Centre College, receives an offer for a job interview in Washington, DC. Embarrassed that she may not get the job, Sawyer skips Thanksgiving with her family to travel to the interview without telling anyone about her plans. After encountering holiday traffic on I-64, she takes an alternate route but finds it partly closed off. Traveling even deeper into the Appalachian forest, Sawyer eventually turns around but is spotted by brothers Hollister and Buck, who are burying a body. Concerned she might have seen them, the bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorick Van Wageningen
Yorick van Wageningen (born 16 April 1964) is a Dutch actor who has performed in Dutch and American films, including ''The Chronicles of Riddick'' and the 2011 remake of ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo''. Life and career Van Wageningen was born in Baarn. After acting in several Dutch plays, movies, and television series, van Wageningen was asked to come to Hollywood to appear in Steven Spielberg's ''Minority Report''. Due to problems with his visa, he was unable to work on that movie, but thereafter acted in a number of American movies, achieving a breakthrough with his role in ''The Chronicles of Riddick''. Back in the Netherlands, he starred in ''Winter in Wartime'', based on a Dutch novel about World War II. In 2011, he appeared in ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' along with Daniel Craig, in the role of Nils Bjurman, the sexually abusive guardian of Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). He garnered praise in the Dutch press for his portrayal of Ronnie, an Amsterdam gangster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nik Dodani
Nik Dodani (born December 19, 1993) is an American actor, writer, and comedian known for his roles as Zahid in the Netflix comedy-drama series ''Atypical'', and Pat Patel in the revival of the popular CBS sitcom ''Murphy Brown''. He also starred in the 2019 thriller ''Escape Room'' and the 2021 film adaptation of ''Dear Evan Hansen''. He made his Broadway debut as Ogie in Waitress from October 19 to November 27, 2021. Career Acting In addition to Netflix's ''Atypical'' and CBS's ''Murphy Brown,'' Dodani has appeared in Netflix's ''Trinkets'', TBS's ''Angie Tribeca'', Comedy Central's ''Idiotsitter'', Freeform's ''Kevin from Work'', and NBC's ''The Player''. He also appeared in the Ben Stiller-produced Netflix film ''Alex Strangelove'', Joshua Leonard's independent film ''Dark Was the Night'' opposite Marisa Tomei and Charlie Plummer, and the Sony Pictures thriller ''Escape Room''. In February 2020, he joined the cast of Hannah Marks' feature film ''Mark, Mary & Some Other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Ellis
Wendell Ramone "Jay" Ellis Jr. (born December 27, 1981) is an American actor. In 2013, Ellis received his first major role on BET's series ''The Game (American TV series), The Game''. He is a main cast member on HBO's series ''Insecure (TV series), Insecure'', which premiered in 2016. He had a lead role in the horror film ''Escape Room (2019 film), Escape Room'' (2019), as the secondary antagonist, and appeared in ''Top Gun: Maverick.'' Early life and education Wendell Ramone Ellis Jr. was born on December 27, 1981, in Sumter, South Carolina. His father worked for the United States Air Force, Air Force, while his mother, Paula Bryant-Ellis, worked as a finance executive. He is the only child of the family. He went to 12 schools in 13 years, before attending Concordia University (Oregon), Concordia University in Oregon, where he played basketball. Career Ellis worked as a public relations intern for the Portland Trail Blazers during their infamous "Jail Blazers" era. After compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyler Labine
Tyler Sean Labine (born April 29, 1978) is a Canadian-American actor and comedian. He is best known for starring in the television series ''Breaker High'', ''Invasion'', ''Reaper'', '' Deadbeat'' and as Dr. Iggy Frome, head of psychiatry, in the NBC medical drama ''New Amsterdam'', and the film '' Tucker & Dale vs Evil''. Life and career Labine was born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, but grew up in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. He is the brother of actors Kyle Labine and Cameron Labine. He played the role of Dave Groves in ''Invasion'', and Bert "Sock" Wysocki in ''Reaper'', and Dale in the comedy-horror film '' Tucker & Dale vs Evil''. He played the lead character in the 2010 Fox comedy series ''Sons of Tucson'', but the show was cancelled after 4 episodes (the remaining 9 episodes that were shot aired that summer). He also played Jimmy Mortimor Farrell on YTV's ''Breaker High'' from 1997 to 1998. In 2011, he co-starred in the CBS comedy '' Mad Love'' as Larry Munsch. He starred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Ann Woll
Deborah Ann Woll (born February 7, 1985) is an American actress and model. Woll played Jessica Hamby in the HBO drama series ''True Blood'' (2008–2014), which earned her a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She subsequently starred as Karen Page in the Marvel series '' Daredevil'' (2015–2018), '' The Defenders'' (2017), and ''The Punisher'' (2017–2019). Her film roles include ''Mother's Day'' (2010), '' Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You'' (2011), '' Catch .44'' (2011), ''Ruby Sparks'' (2012), '' Meet Me in Montenegro'' (2014), ''The Automatic Hate'' (2015), and the commercially-successful ''Escape Room'' (2019) and its 2021 sequel. Early life Deborah Ann Woll was born in New York City, on February 7, 1985. Her father is an architect and her mother, Cathy Woll, is a teacher at the Berkeley Carroll School. She is of Irish and German descent. She attended the Packer Collegiate Institute, and received a BFA from USC School of Dramatic Arts at the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logan Miller
Logan Miller (born ) is an American actor. He is known for starring in the Disney XD sitcom ''I'm in the Band'' and he has also voiced Nova / Sam Alexander in the animated series ''Ultimate Spider-Man''. In films, he has starred in ''A Dog's Purpose'', ''Love, Simon'', and ''Escape Room''. Life and career Miller was born in Englewood, Colorado, and was raised in New Mexico, Minnesota, and Dallas, Texas. In 2009, he began starring as Tripp Campbell in the Disney XD sitcom ''I'm in the Band''. ''The Dallas Morning News'', November 7, 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-15. He also played teenage Connor Mead, the younger version of |
Taylor Russell
Taylor Russell McKenzie (born July 18, 1994) is a Canadian actress. She has starred in the Netflix science fiction series ''Lost in Space'' (2018–2021). In film, she has starred in the critically acclaimed drama ''Waves'' (2019), for which she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, and the horror film ''Escape Room'' (2019) and its 2021 sequel. For starring as a cannibalistic teenager in the road film ''Bones and All'' (2022), Russell won the Marcello Mastroianni Award. Early life Taylor Russell McKenzie was born on July 18, 1994 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and was raised in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal. Russell, who was born to a black father and a white mother, is biracial, and grew up mostly with her mother's side of the family. She recalled that growing up she felt unaccepted by her peers due to the color of her skin. Her parents struggled financially, and were constantly on the move, uprooting their lives sixteen different time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
