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Maven Pictures
Maven Screen Media is an American film production company founded by Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray as Maven Pictures in 2011. It is based in New York City. Collaborations and deals In February 2016, it was announced that Freckle Films has linked a first look overhead deal with Maven Pictures. Maven will provide development funds and cover overhead costs to acquire IP for Freckle and Maven to jointly produce. In July 2020, it was announced that Maven Pictures had been renamed Maven Screen Media. In August 2020, the company received an investment from the UK Creative Content Enterprise Investment Scheme, EIS Fund, as it looks to focus more on UK film, television and digital projects. Filmography *''Girl Most Likely'' (2012) *''Filth (film), Filth'' (2013) *''Black Nativity (film), Black Nativity'' (2013) *''10,000 Saints'' (2015) *''American Honey (film), American Honey'' (2016) *''Novitiate (film), Novitiate'' (2017) *''Freak Show (film), Freak Show'' (2017) *''Kings (2017 film) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trudie Styler
Trudie Styler (born 6 January 1954) is an English actress and film producer. Early life and family Styler was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, the daughter of Pauline and Harry Styler, a farmer and factory worker. When Styler was two years old, she was hit by a van. She received severe facial injuries that left her badly scarred and required several plastic surgery operations up until the age of 18. Her classmates nicknamed her "scarface", which caused her to feel for many years that she was "not a very attractive person". She attended North Bromsgrove High School, where one of her teachers was the singer-songwriter Clifford T. Ward. Acting career Styler trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and went on to appear in various period BBC productions. She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, in which she played multiple major roles. Her theatre credits also include ''The Vagina Monologues'', ''Twin Spirits'', and ''The Seagull''. She has appeared in many British te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wildling (film)
''Wildling'' is a 2018 American horror-fantasy film directed by Fritz Böhm and starring Liv Tyler, Bel Powley, Brad Dourif, Collin Kelly-Sordelet, Mike Faist, and James LeGros. The screenplay was co-written by Böhm and Florian Eder. The plot follows Anna, a blossoming teenager who uncovers the dark secret behind her traumatic childhood. The film premiered at South by Southwest on March 10, 2018 and has received favorable reviews. It was released in the United States in select theaters and on video on demand on April 13, 2018, by IFC Films under their IFC Midnight brand. Plot Anna spends her childhood confined in an attic bedroom by the man she believes is her father. He tells her that a child-eating monster called the Wildling roams the woods. When Anna reaches puberty, "Daddy" begins giving Anna daily injections of leuprorelin to prevent her body from maturing, explaining that he is treating her "illness." Anna suffers terrible side effects from the injections and asks "Daddy" t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Companies Based In New York City
A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared goals. Companies take various forms, such as: * voluntary associations, which may include nonprofit organizations * business entities, whose aim is generating profit * financial entities and banks * programs or educational institutions A company can be created as a legal person so that the company itself has limited liability as members perform or fail to discharge their duty according to the publicly declared incorporation, or published policy. When a company closes, it may need to be liquidated to avoid further legal obligations. Companies may associate and collectively register themselves as new companies; the resulting entities are often known as corporate groups. Meanings and definitions A company can be defined as an "artificial per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Miranda Barry
James Barry (born Margaret Anne Bulkley (or Bulkeley), – 25 July 1865) was a military surgeon in the British Army. Originally from the city of Cork in Ireland, Barry obtained a medical degree from the University of Edinburgh Medical School, then served first in Cape Town, South Africa, and subsequently in many parts of the British Empire. Before retirement, Barry had risen to the rank of Inspector General (equivalent to Brigadier) in charge of military hospitals, the second-highest medical office in the British Army. Barry not only improved conditions for wounded soldiers, but also the conditions of the native inhabitants, and performed the first recorded caesarean section by a European in Africa in which both the mother and child survived the operation. Although Barry's entire adult life was lived as a man, Barry was named Margaret Anne at birth and was known as female in childhood. Barry lived as a man in both public and private life, at least in part in order to be acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Weisz
Rachel Hannah Weisz (; born 7 March 1970 ) is an English actress. She is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Rachel Weisz, various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a BAFTA Award. Weisz began acting in British stage and television in the early 1990s, and made her film debut in ''Death Machine'' (1994). She won a Critics' Circle Theatre Award for her role in the 1994 revival of Noël Coward's play ''Design for Living'' and she went on to appear in the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' drama ''Suddenly, Last Summer''. Her film breakthrough came with her starring role as List of The Mummy characters#Evelyn Carnahan, Evelyn Carnahan in the Hollywood action films ''The Mummy (1999 film), The Mummy'' (1999) and ''The Mummy Returns'' (2001). Weisz went on to star in several films of the 2000s, including ''Enemy at the Gates'' (2001), ''About a Boy (film), About a Boy'' (2002), ''Constantine (film), Const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Marble
Alice Marble (September 28, 1913 – December 13, 1990) was an American tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam championships between 1936 and 1940: five in singles, six in women's doubles, and seven in mixed doubles. She was ranked world No. 1 in 1939. Early life Born in the small town of Beckwourth, California, Marble moved with her family at the age of five to San Francisco. A tomboy, she played seven sports at San Francisco Polytechnic High School, including basketball and baseball, but her brother persuaded her to try tennis. She quickly mastered the game, playing in Golden Gate Park, and by age 15, won several California junior tournaments. Tennis career At the U.S. Championships, Marble won the singles title in 1936 and from 1938 to 1940, the women's doubles title with Sarah Palfrey Cooke from 1937 to 1940, and the mixed doubles title with Gene Mako in 1936, Don Budge in 1938, Harry Hopman in 1939, and Bobby Riggs in 1940. At Wimbledon, Marble won the singles title in 1939; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Cooke
Olivia Kate Cooke (born 27 December 1993) is an English actress. In television, she has starred as Emma Decody in the thriller '' Bates Motel'' (2013–2017), Becky Sharp in the period drama '' Vanity Fair'' (2018), and Alicent Hightower in the fantasy drama ''House of the Dragon'' (2022–present). In film, Cooke has starred in the horror film ''Ouija'' (2014), the comedy-drama film ''Me and Earl and the Dying Girl'' (2015), the thriller ''Thoroughbreds'' (2017), the science fiction film ''Ready Player One'' (2018), and the drama ''Sound of Metal'' (2020). Early life Olivia Kate Cooke was born on 27 December 1993 in Oldham, Greater Manchester, to sales representative Lindsay Wilde and retired police officer John Cooke. Her parents divorced when she was a child, and she and her sister lived with their mother. She started acting when she was eight years old at the Oldham Theatre Workshop, an after-school drama programme in her hometown. She attended Royton and Crompton Acad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golda (film)
''Golda'' is an upcoming American-British biographical drama film directed by Guy Nattiv from a screenplay by Nicholas Martin. It depicts the life of Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel, particularly during the Yom Kippur War. It will have its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2023. Cast * Helen Mirren as Golda Meir * Camille Cottin as Lou Kaddar * Rami Heuberger as Moshe Dayan * Lior Ashkenazi as David Elazar * Dominic Mafham as Haim Bar Lev * Ellie Piercy * Ed Stoppard * Rotem Keinan * Dvir Benedek * Ben Caplan * Kit Rakusen * Emma Davies * Liev Schreiber as Henry Kissinger Production In April 2021, it was announced Helen Mirren had joined the cast of the film, with Guy Nattiv set to direct from a screenplay by Nicholas Martin. In November 2021, Camille Cottin, Rami Heuberger, Lior Ashkenaz, Ellie Piercy, Ed Stoppard, Rotem Keinan, Dvir Benedek, Dominic Mafham, Ben Caplan, Kit Rakusen and Emma Davies joined the cast of the film. In Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infinite Storm
''Infinite Storm'' is a 2022 American drama adventure film directed by Małgorzata Szumowska, co-directed by Michał Englert, and with a screenplay by Josh Rollins, based on the article ''High Places: Footprints in the Snow Lead to an Emotional Rescue'' by Ty Gagne. The film stars Naomi Watts, Billy Howle, Denis O'Hare, Parker Sawyers and Eliot Sumner. ''Infinite Storm'' was released in the United States on March 25, 2022, by Bleecker Street. The film received mixed reviews from critics. Plot Pam Bales is a search and rescue volunteer who sets off one fateful morning on a hike taking her to the top of Mount Washington. All of a sudden a fierce storm sets in but she sees tracks in the snow of someone wearing only sneakers. She comes across a strange-acting, incoherent man she calls "John" and the two begin a dangerous trek down the mountain to safety, facing many obstacles along the way and almost drowning at one point. During this time, Pam has various "flashbacks" regarding he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
With/In
''With/In'' is a 2021 American anthological drama film that revolves around themes of confinement and isolation. The film was released in two volumes at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 13 and 14, 2021. Filmmakers and cast ''Volume 1'' ''Volume 2'' Production At the end of July 2020 it was announced that Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, Sanaa Lathan, Rebecca Hall, Chris Cooper, Alessandro Nivola, Emily Mortimer, Rosie Perez, and Debra Winger are part of the star cast of the film ''With/In'', a film anthology that revolves around themes of confinement and isolation. During post-production the film was split into two parts. Release The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by TriBeCa Productions, Tribeca Productions. It takes place each spring in New York City, showcasing a diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive progra ... on June 13 and 14, 2021. Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Night (2021 Film)
''Silent Night'' is a 2021 apocalyptic Christmas black comedy film written and directed by Camille Griffin. The film stars Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Roman Griffin Davis, Annabelle Wallis, Lily-Rose Depp, Sope Dirisu, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Lucy Punch, and Rufus Jones. The film features a group of friends who reunite for one final Christmas right before an ambiguous apocalypse will wipe all of humanity out. ''Silent Night'' had its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival on 16 September 2021, and was released on 3 December 2021 in the United Kingdom by Altitude Film Distribution and in the United States by AMC+ / RLJE Films. Plot Married couple Nell and Simon host a yearly Christmas dinner at their country estate for their former school friends and their spouses. This Christmas is a special occasion with everyone dressing in formal wear and the children being allowed to swear. It is gradually revealed that because of an imminent environmental catas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Mouthful Of Air (film)
''A Mouthful of Air'' is a 2021 American psychological drama film written, directed and produced by Amy Koppelman, based on her 2003 novel of the same name. It stars Amanda Seyfried, Finn Wittrock, Jennifer Carpenter, Michael Gaston, Amy Irving, and Paul Giamatti. It was released on October 29, 2021 by Stage 6 Films. Plot On the eve of her baby son's first birthday, Julie Davis survives a suicide attempt. In the following weeks of her recovery, she tries to show gratitude for the positive things in life, but continues to suffer ongoing anxiety. Julie's discovery that she is pregnant for a second time forces her to face the traumas of her upbringing. Cast * Amanda Seyfried as Julie Davis **Cate Elefante as young Julie Davis * Finn Wittrock as Ethan Davis *Amy Irving as Bobbi Davis *Jennifer Carpenter as Lucy *Paul Giamatti as Dr. Sylvester * Britt Robertson as Rachel Davis *Eliot Sumner as Doughnuts *Alysia Reiner as Pam * Michael Gaston as Ron * Josh Hamilton as Dr. Salzma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
