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To All The Boys I've Loved Before
''To All the Boys I've Loved Before'' is a 2014 young adult romance novel by American author Jenny Han, first published by Simon & Schuster and released on April 15, 2014. Han was inspired to write the book based on her own habit of writing love letters to boys she had crushes on as a teenager. The novel was followed by two sequels, '' P.S. I Still Love You'', released on May 26, 2015, and '' Always and Forever, Lara Jean'', released on May 2, 2017. A film adaptation of the book was released on Netflix in 2018. Its plot is similar to the original book with a few changes. Plot Lara Jean Song Covey is a sixteen-year-old half-Korean American girl living in Virginia. She is extremely close to her older sister Margot and younger sister Kitty. Lara Jean keeps love letters to all the boys she has ever loved in a teal hatbox given to her by her late mother, who died after an accidental fall when Lara Jean was just 9. There are 5 boys: Margot's boyfriend Josh Sanderson, a boy named Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Han
Jenny Han (born September 3, 1980) is an American author, screenwriter, executive producer, and showrunner. She is best known for writing '' The Summer I Turned Pretty'' trilogy, which she adapted into a TV series for Prime Video. She also wrote the '' To All the Boys'' trilogy which was adapted into a Netflix film series. Early life and education Han was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, to Korean-American parents. She graduated from Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for Government and International Studies in 1998, then attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2006, she received her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at The New School. Career Author Han wrote her first book, the children's novel ''Shug'', while she was in college. ''Shug'' was published in 2006 and is about Annemarie Wilcox, a twelve-year-old trying to navigate the perils of junior high school. Her next project was a young adult romance trilogy about a girl's coming-of-age d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. It is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. She was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper# ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS Interactive
Paramount Streaming (formerly CBS Digital Media, CBS Interactive, and ViacomCBS Streaming) is a division of Paramount Global that oversees the company's video streaming technology and direct-to-consumer services; including Pluto TV and Paramount+. It was founded in 2005, and Tom Ryan is the company's president and CEO. History As CBS Digital Media and CBS Interactive The company was founded in 2005 as CBS Digital Media. In 2007, CBS Digital Media rebranded as CBS Interactive. On May 30, 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for £140 million (US$280 million). On June 30, 2008, CNET Networks was acquired by CBS and the assets were merged into CBS Interactive, including Metacritic, GameSpot, TV.com, and Movietome. On March 15, 2012, it was announced that CBS Interactive acquired video game-based website Giant Bomb and comic book-based website Comic Vine from Whiskey Media, who sold off their other remaining websites to BermanBraun. This occasion marked the retu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fandango Media
Fandango Media, LLC is an American Box office, ticketing company that sells Ticket (admission), movie tickets via its website and its mobile app. It also owns Fandango at Home (formerly owned by Walmart and originally known as Vudu), a streaming digital video store and streaming service, as well as Rotten Tomatoes, which provides television and streaming media information. It is a joint venture between NBCUniversal (a division of Comcast) and Warner Bros. Discovery (formerly WarnerMedia). History In 2000, James Michael Cline, with Art Levitt, founded Fandango. In 2003, Fandango secured $15 million in funding from venture capitalists Technology Crossover Ventures. Fandango was privately held. Then-owners included exhibition chains (Loews Cineplex Entertainment, Regal Cinemas, Carmike Cinemas, Cinemark Theatres, General Cinema Theatres, Edwards Theatres and Century Theatres) and venture capital firms (''Accretive Technology Partners'' and ''General Atlantic Partners''). On April 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator, review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor Theatre, stage performance, the direct inspiration for the name from Duong, Lee, and Wang came from an equivalent scene in the 1992 Canadian film ''Léolo''. Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros. in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango Media, Fandango ticketing company. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. The site is influential among moviegoers, a third of whom say they consult it before going to the cinema in the U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouver
Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Metro Vancouver area had a population of 2.6million in 2021, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada#List, third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over , and the fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City). Vancouver is one of the most Ethnic origins of people in Canada, ethnically and Languages of Canada, linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of its residents are not native English speakers, 47.8 percent are native speakers of nei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Corbett
John Joseph Corbett Jr. (born May 9, 1961) is an American actor and country music singer. On television, he is best known for his roles as Chris Stevens on ''Northern Exposure'' (1990–1995), Aidan Shaw on ''Sex and the City'' (2000–2003), Max Gregson on '' United States of Tara'' (2009–2011), and Seth Holt on '' Parenthood'' (2011–2015). In film, he is known for roles in the ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding'' franchise, '' Raising Helen'' (2004), '' The Messengers'' (2007), ''Sex and the City 2'' (2010), '' Ramona & Beezus'' (2010), and the '' To All the Boys'' film trilogy (2018–2021). In addition to acting, Corbett has pursued a career in country music, releasing the studio albums '' John Corbett'' (2006) and ''Leaving Nothin' Behind'' (2013) with the former reaching number 45 on the ''Billboard'' Country Albums chart. Early life Corbett was raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, U.S. He grew up in an apartment block near the Ohio River with his mother and stepfather, bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Broussard
Isaiah Israel Broussard (; born August 22, 1994) is an American actor. He made his film debut in the comedy-drama '' Flipped'', and is known for his roles in the crime film ''The Bling Ring'' (2013), the drama '' Perfect High'' (2015), the thriller '' H8RZ'' (2015), the comedy ''Good Kids'' (2016), the slasher film ''Happy Death Day'' (2017) as well as its 2019 sequel '' Happy Death Day 2U'', and the teen romance film '' To All the Boys I've Loved Before'' (2018). Early life Isaiah Israel Adams was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, to Angela (née Clapp), a Mary Kay cosmetics consultant, and Lawrence Clayton Adams (1957–1999), who died when Broussard was four. He was raised in nearby Saucier by his mother and stepfather, Gil Broussard, a computer programmer, who later adopted him and his older sister. He has one younger half-brother from his mother's remarriage. Career Broussard began his career with small roles as Garrett Einbinder in the comedy-drama '' Flipped'' (2010) and Josh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Centineo
Noah Gregory Centineo ( ; born May 9, 1996) is an American actor. He began his career performing on television, featuring in ''Austin & Ally'' (2011–2012) on Disney Channel and had a main role in the television series '' The Fosters'' from 2015 to 2018. He achieved wider recognition by starring in the Netflix romantic comedy films ''To All the Boys'' franchise (2018–2021), '' Sierra Burgess Is a Loser'' (2018), and '' The Perfect Date'' (2019). Centineo has since played Atom Smasher in the superhero film '' Black Adam'' (2022) and the title role in the Netflix spy-adventure series '' The Recruit'' (2022–2025). Off-screen, he is a co-founder of the charity Favored Nations. Early life Noah Gregory Centineo was born in Miami, Florida, and raised in Boca Raton. He is of Italian and Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent. He has an older sister. He attended BAK Middle School of the Arts and then Boca Raton Community High School for ninth and tenth grade, and played soccer t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Cathcart
Anna Cathcart (born June 16, 2003) is a Canadian actress who gained widespread recognition for playing Kitty Song-Covey in Netflix's ''To All the Boys'' film series (2018–2021) and in the character’s own spin-off show ''XO, Kitty'' (2023−present). She began her career as a child actress, starring as Agent Olympia in the PBS Kids/TVOKids series ''Odd Squad'' (2016–2019) for which she won a Canadian Screen Award. Cathcart then played Dizzy Tremaine in the Disney Channel films ''Descendants 2'' (2017) and ''Descendants 3'' (2019) and played the titular role in the Brat web series '' Zoe Valentine'' (2019). Early life and education Anna Cathcart was born on June 16, 2003 in Richmond, BC. She is of Chinese and Irish descent, and has an older sister. She graduated high school in 2021, and has described her school experience as "like having two full-time jobs at once". On the set of ''Odd Squad'', she and her castmates were tutored in two-hour blocks. Cathcart attends the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janel Parrish
Janel Meilani Parrish (born October 30, 1988) is an American actress and singer. She starred as Mona Vanderwaal in the mystery-drama television series ''Pretty Little Liars'' (2010–2017) and its spin-off ''Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists'' (2019), and as Margot Covey in the To All the Boys I've Loved Before (film series), ''To All the Boys'' film series (2018–2021). She also portrayed Cosette, Young Cosette in the Broadway theatre, Broadway production of ''Les Misérables (musical), Les Misérables'' (1996), and Jade in the teen comedy film ''Bratz (film), Bratz'' (2007). She finished in third place on the tenth season of Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox's ''The Masked Singer (American TV series), The Masked Singer'' in 2023. Early life Parrish was born in Kaneohe, Hawaii, Kāne'ohe, Honolulu, Hawaii, and raised in Honolulu and, in her teens, California. Her mother Joanne (née Mew) is of Han Chinese descent, and her father Mark Parrish, is of German, Irish, and English d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
