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Jennifer Westfeldt
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Westfeldt was born in Guilford, Connecticut, the daughter of Constance Connie, a therapist, and Patrick McLoskey Westfeldt, Jr. an electrical engineer. She graduated from Guilford High School and attended Yale University, where she sang with the a cappella group Redhot & Blue, Westfeldt started her career as a New York-based theater actor, and has starred in over 25 Off-Broadway and regional productions. She first came to Hollywood in 1997 and that year, she co-wrote and starred in an Off-Broadway play with Heather Juergensen called Lipschtick, The Story of Two Women Seeking The Perfect Shade that caught the attention of Hollywood studios. It was optioned by Radar Pictures and made into Kissing Jessica Stein, in which Westfeldt, in 2002, Westfeldt starred as Jessica in Kissing Jessica Stein. The film was a version of one of the sketches Westfeldt. In 2004, Westfeldt starred opposite Paul Schneider in the film How to Lose Your Lover. Westfeldt wrote, produced, and starred alongside Chris Messina in Ira & Abby, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2006, in 2011, she wrote, produced, starred and made her directorial debut in Friends with Kids. The cast included Westfeldts boyfriend, Jon Hamm, the film was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011, and was released by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions in March 2012. Westfeldt was cast in a regular role for Two Guys, a Girl. In 2001 she was featured in three episodes of Judging Amy, in 2007, she was cast as the lead of ABCs Notes from the Underbelly, directed and executive produced by Barry Sonnenfeld. Notes ran for two seasons on ABC and her recent television credits include memorable arcs on ABCs hit Greys Anatomy, as well as starring in the TV movie Before You Say I Do opposite David Sutcliffe. Additional television credits include appearances in The Gene Pool, Dante, Hack, Snoops, in 2010, she was a guest star on Numb3rs and the show 24. She first appeared in the first four episodes of season eight and she provided the voice of Kit Luntayne in the Martha Speaks episodes Cora. Westfeldt has starred in over 25 Off-Broadway and regional productions and she made her 2004 Broadway debut in a revival of Wonderful Town. Her performance won her a Theatre World Award, a Drama League Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut, in 1997, Westfeldt began a relationship with actor Jon Hamm. They owned homes in Los Angeles and the Upper West Side in New York, what we have is much deeper and we both know that. To me, people get married when theyre ready to have kids, in April 2009, Hamm and Westfeldt formed their own production company, Points West Pictures. Hamm and Westfeldt are advocates of animal rescue and have adopted a mixed breed dog named Cora from the Much Love Animal Shelter in California, in September 2015, Hamm and Westfeldt announced they were ending their relationship
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Jennifer Westfeldt and Jon Hamm (2008)
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Riza Aziz
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Riza Aziz is a film producer, the co-founder and chairman of Red Granite Pictures, a Los Angeles-based film production company, and one of the leading Hollywood producers. Riza holds a BS degree in Government & Economics and an MS in Politics from the London School of Economics and he is also a registered authorized person with the UK Financial Services Authority. In 2010, with producing partner Joey McFarland, Aziz co-founded Red Granite Pictures, scott Cooper of Crazy Heart directed the feature which was released on December 6,2013. Aziz followed up Out of the Furnace with the anticipated film The Wolf of Wall Street. The Wolf of Wall Street is based upon Jordan Belforts best-selling novel of the name and was adapted into a screenplay by Terence Winter. The film starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Jonah Hill, the film was released on December 25,2013. The film is banned in his country, Malaysia. Also in 2013, Aziz completed production on Horns, a thriller starring Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple. The film is based on the novel by Joe Hill and was released in 2014 by Dimension-RADiUS. Aziz is also a producer on the sequel Dumb and Dumber To, directed by Pete, Paramount Pictures and Azizs production company Red Granite Pictures in association with Gary Sanchez Productions also produced the Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg comedy Daddys Home. Red Granite Pictures co-produced and co-financed the film, which Paramount Pictures distributed worldwide, Azizs development slate includes The Brigands of Rattleborge and The General. The Brigands of Rattleborge, blacklists number 1 script of 2006, is a revenge story. In 2011, Variety named Aziz to their list of Top 10 Producers to Watch, Riza Aziz is a stepson of the 6th Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak. As of September 2015 the US Department of Justice was investigating property transactions carried out by Aziz, on 20 July 2016, Riza Aziz was named in FBIs 1MDB lawsuit. Tens of millions of dollars in funds diverted from 1MDB were used to produce the 2013 Martin Scorsese film The Wolf of Wall Street, Riza Aziz at the Internet Movie Database Riza Aziz Official Website
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Dumb and Dumber To Premiere
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Jake Kasdan
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Jacob Jake Kasdan is an American television and film director and occasional actor. Kasdan was born and raised in a secular Jewish family in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Meg, a writer and his younger brother, Jon Kasdan, also works in the film and television industry as an actor and writer. Jake Kasdan is married to singer/songwriter Inara George of The Bird, Kasdan has directed six theatrical films, Zero Effect, Orange County, The TV Set, Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story, Bad Teacher and Sex Tape. He has also worked in television, most notably with Judd Apatow, as a producer and director on Freaks and Geeks. He has also directed stage productions. He is attached to direct John Grisham novel Calico Joe to a film adaption. In 2006, Kasdan received his first Golden Globe nomination for Walk Hard in the Best Original Song category, as a child, he made several appearances in his fathers movies such as The Big Chill and Silverado. In February 2015, Fox announced it had greenlit a pilot for the comedy The Grinder to be directed by Kasdan and starring Rob Lowe
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Kasdan at Paleyfest 2012
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Jon Hamm
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Jonathan Daniel Jon Hamm is an American actor, director, and television producer best known for playing advertising executive Don Draper for the AMC television drama series, Mad Men. For much of the mid-1990s, he lived in Los Angeles, making appearances in television series Providence, The Division, What About Brian, during 2000, he made his feature movie debut in the space adventure movie Space Cowboys. The next year, he had a role in the independent comedy. He gained wide recognition when Mad Men began broadcast during July 2007 and he directed two episodes of the show. During 2008, Hamm appeared in a remake of the science fiction movie The Day The Earth Stood Still and his first leading movie role was in the 2010 independent thriller Stolen. He also had supporting roles in the movies The Town, Sucker Punch, Hamm has received 16 Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performances in Mad Men,30 Rock, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. His other television credits include featuring in the Sky Arts series A Young Doctors Notebook and guest roles in Parks and Recreation and Wet Hot American Summer, First Day of Camp. He provided his voice to the animated movie Shrek Forever After during 2010, Hamm was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Deborah and Daniel Hamm. His father managed a family trucking company, and his mother was a secretary and he is of German, English, and Irish descent, his surname originates with German immigrants. Hamms parents divorced when he was two old, and he lived in Missouri in Creve Coeur with his mother until her death from colon cancer. Hamm then lived with his father and his first acting role was as Winnie the Pooh for first grade. At 16, he was cast as Judas for the play Godspell and he attended John Burroughs School, a private school in Ladue, where he was a member of the football, baseball, and swim teams. During this time, he dated future actress Sarah Clarke and his father died when Jon was 20. After graduation during 1989, Hamm enrolled at the University of Texas, there, Hamm was arrested for participating with a violent hazing incident that occurred during November 1990, involving another student, Mark Sanders. Sanders was beaten with a paddle and a broom, while Hamm was leading him around the fraternity house, the incident resulted in the fraternity being ended on campus. Hamm completed the terms of a deferred adjudication, and the charges were dismissed during August 1995, Hamm then enrolled at the University of Missouri. At Missouri he answered an advertisement from a company seeking players for a production of A Midsummer Nights Dream, auditioned. Other roles followed, such as Leon Czolgosz in Assassins, after graduating during 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, Hamm returned to his high school to teach eighth-grade acting
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At Paley Center in 2014
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Hamm in November 2008
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Hamm with former partner
Jennifer Westfeldt at the
60th Primetime Emmy Awards, 2008
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Hamm on the set of
The Town in September 2009.
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Adam Scott (actor)
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Adam Paul Scott is an American actor, comedian, director, screenwriter, producer, and podcaster. He is best known for his role as Ben Wyatt in the NBC sitcom Parks and he has also appeared as Derek in the film Step Brothers, and Henry Pollard in the Starz sitcom Party Down. Scott was born in Santa Cruz, California, the son of Anne and he is of Sicilian descent on his mother’s side. He has two siblings, Shannon and David. Scott has said that David looks like me but is far more cerebral and inherited the intellect of our parents and he graduated from Harbor High School and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, California. Scotts name appears next to Jon Hamms name in the film Anchorman in one of the broadcasts credits and he played Ted Hendricks, Walter Mittys detestable corporate boss, in the 2013 remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Scott appeared in the films Our Idiot Brother as Jeremy and Bachelorette and he also starred as Jason Fryman in Friends with Kids. The film itself received positive reviews, and he won two awards at two separate film festivals. He starred in the film Passenger Side, released on DVD on October 26,2010, premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. In 2015, he worked as producer on, and portrayed Alex in, the comedy film The Overnight. On television, he appeared as Griff Hawkins in the series Boy Meets World and Josh on Party of Five, as well as Davids love interest, Ben Cooper and he played Palek on the HBO drama Tell Me You Love Me. Scott played a cocaine-addicted, delirious baseball front office representative in the first, from 2009 to 2010 he appeared on the Starz network show Party Down. His role in Party Down earned him an Entertainment Weekly Ewwy nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 2009 and he appeared as a guest star along with Rob Lowe in the second season before becoming a main character for the remainder of the series. The shows seventh and final season concluded in February 2015, Scott has appeared in the Adult Swim comedy Childrens Hospital. Scott has also appeared in the Comedy Central television show Nick Swardsons Pretend Time and he has appeared in a series of commercials for ESPNs Sunday Night Baseball. In 2017, Scott appeared in HBOs Big Little Lies, Scott is the co-host and co-creator of the Earwolf podcast U Talkin U2 To Me. with Scott Aukerman. Scott has also been a guest on podcasts, including Comedy Bang. How Did This Get Made. and Kevin Pollaks Chat Show, Adam Scott married Naomi Sablan, now Naomi Scott, in 2005
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Scott at the
2011 Toronto International Film Festival
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Kristen Wiig
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Kristen Carroll Wiig is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer. She is known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, and such films as Bridesmaids, The Martian, Wiig was born in Canandaigua, New York, and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Rochester, New York. Wiig attended the University of Arizona, where she majored in Fine Art and she later relocated to Los Angeles, where she broke into comedy as a member of the improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings and made her television debut in 2003. Wiig joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2005 and the year she co-starred in the Christmas comedy film Unaccompanied Minors. Wiig received seven consecutive Emmy Awards nominations and has been nominated for an Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production for her work on Despicable Me 2. She was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role as Cynthia Morehouse in the miniseries The Spoils of Babylon. Wiig was born August 22,1973 in Canandaigua, New York, the daughter of Jon Wiig, who ran a marina in Western New York, and Laurie. Her father has Norwegian and Irish ancestry and her mother is of English and Scottish descent, the name Wiig comes from the area of Sogn og Fjordane in Norway. Wiig moved with her family to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at the age of three, and attended Nitrauer Elementary School and Manheim Township Middle School until eighth grade and she left for her first try at college and, not finding what she wanted, returned to Rochester. She attended community college and did a three-month outdoor-living program and she had no performing ambitions at this time. Wiig attended the University of Arizona, majoring in Art, when she took an acting class in college to fulfill a course requirement, the teacher suggested she continue to act. She expected to start out a job at a plastic surgery clinic drawing pictures of peoples postsurgery bodies, kristen relocated to Los Angeles to act while working odd jobs to support herself. She performed with Empty Stage Comedy Theatre and with The Groundlings and she felt improv was a better fit than acting, and being a part of the comedy group improved her skills. In 2003, she appeared in the Spike TV show The Joe Schmo Show, a spoof of reality television, in which she played Dr. Pat, while at The Groundlings, Wiigs manager encouraged her to submit an audition tape to Saturday Night Live. Wiig debuted on SNL shortly into season 31, on November 12,2005 and she survived an SNL budget cut, becoming a full member of the repertory cast at the beginning of season 32 in 2006 and until 2012. Wiig was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Saturday Night Live. In December 2009, she headlined in the Christmas special SNL Presents, A Very Gilly Christmas, Wiig was featured in Entertainment Weeklys list of 15 Great Performances for her various impersonations on Saturday Night Live and in EWs list of the 25 Funniest Women in Hollywood. As of 2011, she voiced Lola Bunny in the series The Looney Tunes Show and her final performance as a cast member on Saturday Night Live was season 37, episode 22, which aired on May 19,2012
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Wiig presenting
Welcome to Me at the
2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 5, 2014
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Maya Rudolph
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Maya Khabira Rudolph is an American actress, comedian, and singer. After becoming a member of The Groundlings improv troupe in the late 1990s, Rudolph joined the NBC television series Saturday Night Live and she then ventured into film, appearing in 50 First Dates and A Prairie Home Companion. Since leaving Saturday Night Live, Rudolph has appeared in Grown Ups, Bridesmaids, Grown Ups 2 and she has also lent her voice to the animated films Shrek the Third and Big Hero 6. In addition to her appearances, Rudolph also starred as Ava Alexander on the NBC sitcom Up All Night from 2011 to 2012. Rudolph was born in Gainesville, Florida, the daughter of soul singer-songwriter Minnie Riperton and composer, songwriter and her father is an Ashkenazi Jew, and her mother was African-American. Her paternal grandfather was Sidney Rudolph, a philanthropist who owned all of the Wendys and Rudys restaurants in Miami-Dade County. Rudolphs parents moved to Los Angeles, California when she and her brother Marc were very young, near the end of the song Lovin You, Riperton can be heard singing Maya over and over again. Riperton incorporated this into her performance of the song on The Midnight Special, Riperton died on July 12,1979, at age 31, from breast cancer. Rudolphs godmother was R&B singer Teena Marie, rudolphs musical talents were frequently employed on Saturday Night Live. Friend Will Forte substituted for her during that episode and her ability to change her looks and her command of many accents also led to her playing an unusually wide range of ethnicities on the show, often with only a change of wigs. As Nooni Schoener, Rudolph, along with Fred Armisen, created a couple from an unspecified Scandinavian country, Rudolph was also able to play male characters such as Scott Joplin, Justin Guarini, and Mario Vazquez. Her final episode as a cast member was on November 3,2007, with host Brian Williams and musical guest Feist and she returned on October 25,2008, in a featured guest appearance as Michelle Obama and sang a duet with Kenan Thompson about Amy Poehlers newborn. She then also appeared in the 2008 Christmas episode, where she reprised her role in the sketch Bronx Beat and she also appeared in two sketches in the 2008–09 season finale with Will Ferrell. She appeared in a Weekend Update Thursday sketch during the fall 2009–10 season as Oprah Winfrey speaking on behalf of Chicagos bid for the 2016 Olympics and she also appeared on the show in May 2010 to perform in skits including The Manuel Ortiz Show with Betty White. She returned to Saturday Night Live for the season 36 premiere, hosted by Amy Poehler, performing the Bronx Beat sketch, on February 18,2012 she returned to Saturday Night Live as a host for the first time and reprised her roles in sketches such as Bronx Beat. She once again returned to SNL on December 19,2015 for the Christmas episode hosted by Tina Fey and she appeared once more on the 41st season finale as Dilma Rousseff on Weekend Update. Rudolphs characters on the show have included Attorney Glenda Goodwin and Megan from the Wake Up, recurring characters In addition to her work on Saturday Night Live, Rudolph has appeared on other television shows, including the CBS medical drama series City of Angels and Chicago Hope. She had small parts in Chuck & Buck, Gattaca, As Good as It Gets, Duplex and Duets and her first prominent film role came in 2006 with A Prairie Home Companion
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Rudolph in 2012
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Soul singer
Minnie Riperton, Rudolph's mother
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Megan Fox
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Megan Denise Fox is an American actress and model. She began her career in 2001, with several minor television and film roles. In 2004, she made her debut with a role in the teen comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. In 2007, she co-starred as Mikaela Banes, the love interest of Shia LaBeoufs character, in the action film Transformers. Fox reprised her role in the 2009 sequel, Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen, later in 2009, she starred as the eponymous lead in the black comedy horror film Jennifers Body. Fox is also considered one of the female sex symbols and has appeared in magazines such as Maxim, Rolling Stone. Fox was born on May 16,1986 in Oak Ridge and her parents are Gloria Darlene and Franklin Thomas Fox. Foxs father, an officer, and her mother divorced when Fox was three years old. Her mother later remarried, and Fox and her sister were raised by her mother and her stepfather and she was raised very strictly Pentecostal, but later attended Catholic school for 12 years. Foxs parents divorced when she was young and she said that the two were very strict and that she was not allowed to have a boyfriend or invite friends to her house. She lived with her mother until she made enough money to support herself, Fox began her training in dance and drama at age five, in Kingston, Tennessee. She attended a class at the community center there and was involved in Kingston Elementary Schools chorus. At 10 years of age, after moving to St. Petersburg, Florida, when she was 13 years old, Fox began modeling after winning several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head, South Carolina. At age 17, she tested out of school via correspondence in order to move to Los Angeles, Fox has spoken extensively of her time in education, that in middle school she was bullied, consequently she ate lunch in the bathroom to avoid being pelted with ketchup packets. She said that the problem was not her looks, but that she had gotten along better with boys. I’ve had only one great girlfriend my whole life, in the same interview, she mentions that she hated school and has never been a big believer in formal education and that the education I was getting seemed irrelevant. So, I was sort of checked out on part of it. At 15, Fox made her debut in the 2001 film Holiday in the Sun, as spoiled heiress Brianna Wallace and rival of Alex Stewart
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Fox at a Special Event Screening of
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
Sydney,
Australia in September 2014.
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Fox at
Jennifer's Body screening at the
2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Fox with
Friends with Kids co-stars
Jennifer Westfeldt,
Adam Scott, and
Jon Hamm at the 2011
Toronto International Film Festival.
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Fox, at the Seventh Annual Hollywood
Life magazine "Breakthrough of the Year" Awards, December 9, 2007
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Edward Burns
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Burns directed movies such as The Brothers McMullen, Shes the One, Sidewalks of New York, Purple Violets, and The Fitzgerald Family Christmas. He also starred as Bugsy Siegel in the TNT crime drama series Mob City, Burns was born in Woodside, Queens, New York, the son of Molly, a federal agency manager, and Edward J. Burns, a public relations spokesman and police officer. He was raised a Roman Catholic, Burns is the second of three children in a family of Irish, and a small amount of Swedish, descent. He was raised in Valley Stream, New York, on Long Island and he briefly attended Chaminade High School before transferring to Hewlett High School. After high school, Burns attended, from 1987 to 1992, SUNY Oneonta, University at Albany, Burns got his start in the film industry right after college as a production assistant on the Oliver Stone film, The Doors. Once he completed the film, he was able to get a copy to Robert Redford after an ET junket interview for Quiz Show at the Rhiga Royal Hotel in Manhattan. In 1996, Burns wrote, directed and starred in the ensemble drama Shes The One with Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz and Amanda Peet, Burns is also known for his acting work on movies such as Saving Private Ryan, Life or Something Like It, and Confidence. Looking for Kitty, which Burns wrote, directed and starred in, was shot with a hand-held $3,000 digital Panasonic AG-DVX100 camera with a Mini35 adapter. The films entire budget was $200,000 and was filmed in New York City with a tiny crew and his film Purple Violets premiered exclusively on iTunes on November 20,2007. Burns began a string of guest appearances on the HBO original series Entourage midway through season 3, in Entourage Burns plays himself and is writing a new TV series in which Johnny Drama is able to land a part. In 2007, Burns announced plans to partner with Virgin Comics to create a series entitled Dock Walloper, Burns plans to use the comic series as a springboard to a film of the same story. In March 2009, The Lynch Pin, a series of starring, written. The ten episodes are available to view online as of August 2009. With the modest success of Purple Violets, Burns was considering taking a studio directing assignment to make money, after reading a few scripts and taking a few meetings, he chose to remain a writer/director. He then wrote Nice Guy Johnny and shot it quickly, on the RED One camera, Nice Guy Johnny premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2010. To coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Tribeca Film Festival in 2011, Burns wrote a movie, following a model similar to Nice Guy Johnny, Newlyweds was shot on the Canon 5D, with an even smaller crew, for $9000 in 12 days. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2011 as the closing night film and he claimed on Twitter that the $9,000 budget broke out to 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. In 2013 Burns starred as real-life gangster Bugsy Siegel in Frank Darabonts miniseries, in 2012, Burns set up a screenwriting contest with the web startup Scripped for a crowdsourced screenplay which he intended to help get produced
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Burns at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival
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The 88
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The 88 were an American pop rock band from Los Angeles, California. The group consisted of Keith Slettedahl, Adam Merrin, Anthony Zimmitti, meeting in high school in Calabasas, California, Adam Merrin and Keith Slettedahl formed the band in 2002. The bands popularity grew from high-profile song placements in video games, films, commercials, from 2010 to 2012, the band toured and recorded with the Kinks leader Ray Davies, serving as his opening act and backing Davies for his set. The band performed with Davies at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 2011, other acts The 88 have performed with include Elliott Smith, The Smashing Pumpkins, The B-52s, Elvis Costello, Black Francis, The Zombies, and The Flaming Lips. In 2012, the band co-scored the Jennifer Westfeldt film Friends with Kids and their track At Least It Was Here is the opening theme song to the television series Community. In 2010, the band acted as the act and back up band for Ray Davies on his American tour. For the next two years, the band performed with Davies, including performances at Londons Royal Albert Hall, the 88 performed with Davies and Elvis Costello at Clive Daviss pre-Grammy party in 2012. The band recorded with Davies at Konk Studios in London on Davies duets album See My Friends, the 88 played on Long Way From Home by Lucinda Williams and Till the End of the Day by Alex Chilton, as well as recording a version of David Watts with Davies. The band did a tour for See My Friends with Davies including performances on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The 88 wrote and performed At Least It Was Here, the song for the television series Community. The band was featured on the How I Met Your Mother episode Best Prom Ever. The band co-scored the 2012 film Friends with Kids, the 88 appear on the soundtrack to the 2012 film The Lorax. Keith Slettedahl – vocals/guitar Adam Merrin – piano/keyboards Todd OKeefe – bass guitar Anthony Zimmitti – drums Albums Kind of Light EMK/Mootron Records Over and Over EMK/Mootron Records Not Only
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The 88 live in concert, 2009
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Red Granite Pictures
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Red Granite Pictures is an American film production and distribution company, co-founded by Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland in 2010. As producer Aziz and McFarland serve as co-Chairmen and producing partners, the company was formed in 2010 but formally announced its executive team in May 2011 at the Cannes Film Festival. Red Granite’s slate of films represent more than $825 million in box office revenue. Red Granite Pictures made its debut with Friends with Kids, a comedy written. The film stars Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott and it was released on December 6,2013 by Relativity Media. Red Granite Pictures next released the anticipated film The Wolf of Wall Street on December 25,2013. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Jon Favreau, the Wolf of Wall Street is based on the memoir of the same name by stockbroker Jordan Belfort. Red Granite Pictures then produced Horns and Dumb and Dumber To and it was released October 31,2014 by Dimension-RADiUS. Dumb and Dumber To is an American buddy comedy film co-written and directed by Bobby Farrelly and it is a sequel to the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber. The film stars Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Laurie Holden, Rob Riggle and it was released on November 14,2014 by Universal Pictures and opened as number one at the box office. Paramount Pictures and Red Granite Pictures in association with Gary Sanchez Productions released the Will Ferrell, Red Granite Pictures co-produced and co-financed the film, which Paramount Pictures distributed worldwide. Daddys Home opened as number two at the box office, becoming Red Granites highest grossing opening weekend and its highest grossing domestic film, Red Granites development slate moving forward includes The General, a gritty look at the story of George Washington, and an untitled psychological horror film. The producers of the hit movie Dumb and Dumber claimed Red Granite Pictures had squeezed them out of producing the upcoming sequel, on July 18,2014, a request for dismissal was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and the case was officially settled. The announcement of the settlement lists the plaintiffs as executive producers, the plaintiffs said in a statement, “We apologize for naming Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland as individual defendants rather than just Red Granite. ”Red Granite Pictures has been caught up in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal. Red Granite Pictures, which has the Malaysian prime ministers stepson, Riza Aziz, as its co-founder and chairman, denies any wrongdoing
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Red Granite Pictures
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Lions Gate Entertainment
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Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. doing business as Lionsgate, is an American, Canadian-domiciled entertainment & media company. The company was formed on July 10,1997, in Vancouver, British Columbia and it owns a variety of subsidiaries such as the American film production company Summit Entertainment, and Debmar-Mercury, a television syndication company acquired by Lionsgate in 2006. Giustra had recently retired as CEO from Yorkton, an investment bank, Giustra then merged Lionsgate with Toronto Stock Exchange listed Beringer Gold Corp. to take the company public. Beringers mining assets were sold off. Lionsgate then began a series of acquisitions to get into the film industry, the company bought a number of small production facilities and distributors, starting with Montreal-based Cinépix Film Properties and North Shore Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mandalay Television was acquired by Lionsgate from Peter Guber for a 4% Lionsgate stake, in 1998, Lionsgate helped Guber form Mandalay Pictures with a 45% investment in Mandalay. Lionsgate followed that up with a June purchase of International Movie Group, Inc. a bankrupt film distributor previously invested in by Guber and Yorktown Securities, iMGs CEO Peter Strauss became president of Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc. Lionsgates U. S. film & TV production & distribution subsidiary, Lions Gate Media subsidiary was also formed to produce for television. Completing its first year of operation, Lionsgate had revenue of $42.2 million with loss of $397,000, the company share price dropped to a low of $1.40. This limited the ability to make acquisitions via stock swaps. Lionsgate instead made its acquisition of Termite Art Productions, a reality-based television production company. Lionsgate created US based Avalanche Films and acquired half of Sterling Home Entertainment, again, Lionsgate registered losses in its second year of $9.3 million on revenues of $78.3 million with most of the losses were from its stake in Mandalay Pictures. Thus in the summer, Lionsgate placed its studios up for sale with no buyers, TV operations were changed to non-network hourlong series over riskier network shows and ended its relationship with Mandalay Television. The corporation sought out more capital and cash with a filing of a prospectus for the sale of preferred stock and common stock warrants. This led to Feltheimer taking over as CEO from Giustra thus the passed over Doroniuk left the company, Feltheimer increased film making including several $1 million films at Avalanche. However, Federgreen still remains one of the owners of the company and is extremely involved in the making of all their major movies. In June, Lionsgate acquired Trimark Holdings, Inc. for approximately $50 million in stock, Lionsgate continued making acquisitions during the decade to boost distribution and its film library. On December 15,2003, Lionsgate acquired Artisan Entertainment for $220 million, in 2004, Erik Nelson reacquired Termite Art and renamed it to Creative Differences
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The 2005-present logo
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Roadside Attractions
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Lionsgate bought a portion of Roadside in 2007. All pictures were distributed by Roadside, unless said otherwise, official website Online Press Site Roadside Attractions at the Internet Movie Database Roadside Attractionss channel on YouTube
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Roadside Attractions
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Toronto International Film Festival
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The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Year-round, TIFF Bell Lightbox offers screenings, lectures, discussions, festivals, workshops, industry support, TIFF Bell Lightbox is located on the north west corner of King Street and John Street in downtown Toronto. In 2015,397 films from 71 countries were screened at 28 screens in downtown Toronto venues, welcoming an estimated 480,000 attendees, TIFF starts the Thursday night after Labour Day and lasts for eleven days. Founded in 1976, TIFF is now one of the most prestigious events of its kind in the world, in 1998, Variety magazine acknowledged that TIFF is second only to Cannes in terms of high-profile pics, stars and market activity. In 2007, TIME noted that TIFF had grown from its place as the most influential film festival to the most influential film festival. This is partially the result of TIFFs ability and reputation for generating Oscar buzz, the Toronto International Festival’s Grolsch People’s Choice Award — which is based on popular vote by Festival filmgoers — has emerged as a beacon of awards-season success. Founded by Bill Marshall, Dusty Cohl and Henk Van der Kolk and that first year,35,000 filmgoers watched 127 films from 30 countries presented in ten programmes. Piers Handling has been the director and CEO since 1994. TIFF was once centred on the Yorkville neighbourhood, but the Toronto Entertainment District later gained a level of prominence. TIFF is known for the celebrity buzz it brings to the area with international media setting up near its restaurants and stores for photos and interviews with the stars. In 2010, TIFF opened its permanent headquarters, TIFF Bell Lightbox, TIFF has grown, steadily adding initiatives throughout the years. TIFF Cinematheque and the Film Reference Library opened in 1990, the TIFF Kids International Film Festival launched in 1998. Film Circuit began exhibiting independent and Canadian films in under-serviced cities across Canada in 1994, the festival was founded in 1976 at the Windsor Arms Hotel by Bill Marshall, Henk Van der Kolk and Dusty Cohl. Beginning as a collection of the films from film festivals around the world. Ironically, however, Hollywood studios withdrew their submissions from TIFF due to concerns that Toronto audiences would be too parochial for their products, in 1994, the decision was made to replace the name Festival of Festivals with Toronto International Film Festival. From 1994 to 2009, the organization running TIFF was named Toronto International Film Festival Group. In 2009, the umbrella organization TIFFG was renamed to TIFF, in 2001, Perspective Canada, the programme that had focused on Canadian films since 1984, was replaced by two programmes, Canada First. A forum for Canadian filmmakers presenting their first feature-length work, featuring eight to 15 films, and Short Cuts Canada, in 2004, TIFF was featured as the site of murder mystery in the film Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, a comedy film starring Martin Short
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The festival is headquartered at TIFF Bell Lightbox, which opened in 2010.
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TIFF box office at the
Manulife Centre in 2006
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Romantic comedy film
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Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is a movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily. Another definition states that its primary distinguishing feature is a plot in which two sympathetic and well-matched lovers are united or reconciled. Romantic comedy films are a genre of comedy films as well as of romance films. However a romantic comedy is classified as a film with two genres not a new genre. Some television series can also be classified as romantic comedies, a wedding-bells, fairy-tale-style happy ending is practically mandatory. The basic plot of a comedy is that two characters meet, part ways due to an argument or other obstacle, then ultimately reunite. Sometimes the two meet and become involved initially, then must confront challenges to their union. Sometimes they are hesitant to become involved because they believe that they do not like each other, because one of them already has a partner. However, the screenwriters leave clues that suggest that the characters are, in fact, attracted to each other, the protagonists often separate or seek time apart to sort out their feelings or deal with the external obstacles to their being together. While the two protagonists are separated, one or both of them realizes that they are ideal for each other, or that they are in love with each other. Then, after one of the two makes some effort to find the other person and declare their love, or through an astonishing coincidental encounter. Then, perhaps with some comic friction or awkwardness, they declare their love for each other, the couple does not, however, have to marry, or live together happily ever after. The ending of a comedy is meant to affirm the primary importance of the love relationship in its protagonists lives. There are many variations on this basic plotline, sometimes, instead of the two lead characters ending up in each others arms, another love match will be made between one of the principal characters and a secondary character. Alternatively, the film may be a rumination on the impossibility of love, the basic format of a romantic comedy film can be found in much earlier sources, such as Shakespeare plays like Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Nights Dream. Some comedy films, such as Knocked Up, combine themes of romantic comedies and stoner comedies, often known as bromance, such films usually use sexual elements which bring the two characters together. Films in this genre include American Pie 2 and even Wedding Crashers, romantic comedies have begun to spread out of their conventional and traditional structure into other territory
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Marilyn Monroe and
Tom Ewell in
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Kathryn Grayson in Seven Sweethearts (1942), a musical romantic comedy film
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Mary Astor and
Joel McCrea in
The Palm Beach Story, a screwball romantic comedy
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Kelly Bishop
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Bishop created the role of Sheila in A Chorus Line, for which she won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. She also starred as Fanny Flowers in the ABC Family short-lived comedy-drama series Bunheads, Bishop was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Jane Lenore and Lawrence Boden Bishop. She grew up in Denver, Colorado, where she trained to be a dancer, attending American Ballet Theatres Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. At eighteen, she headed to New York City and landed her first job dancing in a ballet company at Radio City Music Hall. Bishop continued to dance in Las Vegas, summer stock and on television until she was cast in 1967 in Golden Rainbow, bishops big break came when she was cast as the sexy, hard-edged Sheila in the Broadway production of A Chorus Line. Her performance earned her the 1976 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress as well as the 1976 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical. She also acted in the Broadway productions of Six Degrees of Separation, Neil Simons Proposals and it wasnt long before she was cast opposite Jill Clayburgh in Paul Mazurskys big-screen drama An Unmarried Woman. Bishop went on to play a mom to high-profile stars in features, Howard Sterns in the Betty Thomas-directed comedy Private Parts, additional feature credits include Ich und Er, Queens Logic, Café Society, Miami Rhapsody and Blue Moon. On television, Bishop starred in the Mike Nichols The Thorns opposite Tony Roberts and she played Lisa Ann Walters mother on My Wildest Dreams. She has guest-starred on Kate & Allie, Law & Order, Law & Order, Special Victims Unit, from 2000 to 2007, Bishop starred in the CW Television Network series Gilmore Girls as wealthy New England matriarch Emily Gilmore, mother of Lorelai and grandmother of Rory. Bishop was in Becky Shaw at the Second Stage Theatre in 2008 and she then performed briefly in the 2011 revival of Anything Goes alongside Sutton Foster and Joel Grey. She replaced Jessica Walter in the role of Evangeline Harcourt, Bishop co-starred as Fanny Flowers on the ABC Family program Amy Sherman-Palladinos Bunheads, in which she reunited with Sutton Foster. The show was canceled after one season and she returned to the role of Emily Gilmore in the miniseries Gilmore Girls, A Year in the Life on Netflix. Bishop resides in South Orange, New Jersey, where she lives with her husband, Kelly Bishop at AllMovie Kelly Bishop at the Internet Broadway Database Kelly Bishop at Internet Off-Broadway Database Kelly Bishop at the Internet Movie Database Kelly Bishop cast bio on The CW
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Bishop at the ATX TV Festival 2015 for the TV show
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John Lutz
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John Lutz is an American actor, comedian, and screenwriter. He is best known for playing J. D. Lutz on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, in 2014, he joined the writing staff of the NBC late-night talk show Late Night with Seth Meyers. Lutz was born in Pipestone, Minnesota, the son of a Lutheran minister and he grew up in suburban Chicago, Illinois and Detroit, Michigan. He has two brothers, Jeremy, a teacher in North Carolina, Joel, and a sister. He attended Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana, where he was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, majoring in psychology and he performed in university theatre productions during his last three semesters on campus. Lutz began his career as a writer-performer with Chicagos ImprovOlympic. He was hired at NBCs Saturday Night Live in February 2004 after spending three years touring with Second City, NBC flew him in first-class to New York for a face-to-face interview with Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of the sketch comedy show. During this time, he has appeared in small roles on SNL. Lutz played the role of J. D. Lutz on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock until the series completion in January 2013. His character was a comedy writer for the show-within-a-show. Lutz makes frequent appearances in the long-running hit improv show ASSSSCAT3000 at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City. Starting in November 2010, Lutz has been performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York with fellow 30 Rock star Scott Adsit in the improv show John. He and Scott perform long-form improv with a suggestion from an audience member. The show has very successful and is still running as of January 2015. On October 17,2011, he appeared in an episode of The Good Wife, Lutz is married to Saturday Night Live contributor and 30 Rock co-star Sue Galloway. John Lutz at the Internet Movie Database
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Lutz in 2007
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Mad Men (TV series)
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Mad Men is an American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner and produced by Lionsgate Television. The series premiered on July 19,2007, on the cable network AMC, after seven seasons and 92 episodes, Mad Mens final episode aired on May 17,2015. According to the pilot, the phrase Mad men was a slang term coined in the 1950s by advertisers working on Madison Avenue to refer to themselves. The plot focuses on the business of the agencies as well as the lives of the characters, regularly depicting the changing moods. Season one begins in March 1960 and moves through November 1970 by the conclusion of season seven, throughout its run, Mad Men received widespread critical acclaim for its writing, acting, and historical authenticity, it has won many awards, including 16 Emmys and five Golden Globes. The show was also the first basic cable series to receive the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series and it is widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time. In 2000, while working as a writer for Becker. Television producer David Chase recruited Weiner to work as a writer on his HBO series The Sopranos after reading the script in 2002. It was lively, and it had something new to say, here was someone who had written a story about advertising in the 1960s, and was looking at recent American history through that prism. Weiner and his representatives at Industry Entertainment and ICM tried to sell the script to HBO and Showtime. The Sopranos was completing its final season then, and the network happened to be getting into the market for new series programming. Weiner listed Alfred Hitchcock as an influence on the visual style of the series. He also was influenced by director Wong Kar-wai in the music, mise en scène and he also says that Mad Men would have been some sort of crisp, soapy version of The West Wing if not for The Sopranos. Tim Hunter, the director of a half-dozen episodes from the shows first two seasons, called Mad Men a very well-run show and he said, They have a lot of production meetings during pre-production. The day the script comes in we all meet for a first page turn, then theres a tone meeting a few days later where Matt tells us how he envisions it. And then theres a full crew production meeting where Matt again tells us how he envisions it. The pilot episode was shot at Silvercup Studios and various locations around New York City and it is available in high definition for showing on AMC HD and on video-on-demand services available from various cable affiliates. Each episode had a budget between US$2–2.5 million, though the episodes budget was over $3 million
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Mad Men Season 5 core cast from left to right: Christina Hendricks, John Slattery, Jared Harris, Vincent Kartheiser, Jon Hamm, Robert Morse, Elisabeth Moss
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Principal photography
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Principal photography is the phase of film production in which the movie is filmed, with actors on set and cameras rolling, as distinct from pre-production and post-production. Its start generally marks a point of no return for the financiers, feature films usually have insurance in place by the time principal photography begins. The death of a star before completing all planned takes. For example, sets are notoriously flammable, and most older studios feature water towers for that reason, furthermore, professional-quality movie cameras are normally rented as needed, and most camera houses will not allow rentals of their equipment without proof of insurance. Once a film concludes principal photography, it is said to have wrapped, in these circumstances, additional material may have to be shot. If the material has already been shot once, or is substantial, the process is referred to as a re-shoot, learning materials related to Filmmaking at Wikiversity Media related to Filmmaking at Wikimedia Commons
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Film production on location in
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Brian Newman
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Brian Newman is an American jazz musician, singer, and trumpet player. He is most known for his numerous performances with Lady Gaga, Newman currently holds a residency at the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City and is married to American burlesque performer Angie Pontani. Brian Newman was born on June 10,1981 and raised in Mentor and Concord Township in Cleveland and he told his mother at age twelve that he wanted to grow up to be a New York City jazz musician. Brian began playing at age nine and made his debut at age 14. He is a 1999 graduate of Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin High School and currently lives in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Concerning his youth in Cleveland, Newman stated, Thats one thing Cleveland, Newman attended the University of Cincinnatis College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio. Newman is married to Miss Exotic World 2008, burlesque dancer Angie Pontani and their marriage was covered extensively by the New York City media including a full color spread in the New York Daily News. Along with other graduates from Cincinnatis College-Conservatory of Music, Brian began performing in venues across New York City including the Oak Room at the Plaza Hotel, Newman has also performed trumpet for Tony Bennett and Mark Murphy. When he first arrived in New York, Newman served bar, Newmans music was featured in the 2011 film, Friends With Kids. While in New York City, Newman befriended Lady Gagas then boyfriend, Luc Carl, Newman has performed with Gaga on her A Very Gaga Thanksgiving special, The Today Show, the MTV Video Music Awards, and BBC Radio. Newman arranged and appeared on Lady Gagas jazz album with Tony Bennett, Gaga has also made random surprise appearances at Newmans gigs throughout the city which have been covered by major media outlets including MTV, VH1, E. and The New York Post. Newmans trumpet performance with Gaga can also be heard on the A Very Gaga Holiday EP and on the track Just Another Day, from her 2016 album Joanne
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Brian in New York City
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by Senh Duong and since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, in February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcasts Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, since 2007, the websites editor-in-chief has been Matt Atchity. The name, Rotten Tomatoes, derives from the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a stage performance. From early 2008 to September 2010, Current Television aired the weekly The Rotten Tomatoes Show, featuring hosts, a shorter segment was incorporated into the weekly show, InfoMania, which ended in 2011. In September 2013, the website introduced TV Zone, a section for reviewing scripted TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12,1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U. S. As a fan of Jackie Chans, Duong was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chans movies as they were being published in the United States, the first movie whose reviews were featured on Rotten Tomatoes was Your Friends & Neighbors. The website was an success, receiving mentions by Netscape, Yahoo. and USA Today within the first week of its launch. They officially launched it on April 1,2000, in June 2004, IGN Entertainment acquired rottentomatoes. com for an undisclosed sum. In September 2005, IGN was bought by News Corps Fox Interactive Media, in January 2010, IGN sold the website to Flixster. The combined reach of both companies is 30 million unique visitors a month across all different platforms, according to the companies, in May 2011, Flixster was acquired by Warner Bros. In early 2009, Current Television launched the version of the web review site. It was hosted by Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox and written by Mark Ganek, the show aired every Thursday at 10,30 EST on the Current TV network. The last episode aired on September 16,2010 and it returned as a much shorter segment of InfoMania, a satirical news show that ended in 2011. By late 2009, the website was designed to enable Rotten Tomatoes users to create, one group, The Golden Oyster Awards, accepted votes of members for different awards, as if in parallel to the better-known Oscars or Golden Globes. When Flixster bought the company, they disbanded the groups, announcing, in the meantime, please use the Forums to continue your conversations about your favorite movie topics. As of February 2011, new community features have been added, for example, users can no longer sort films by fresh ratings from rotten ratings, and vice versa
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Metacritic
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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products, music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged, Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source, a color of Green, Yellow or Red summarizes the critics recommendations and therefore the general appeal of the product to reviewers and, to a lesser extent, the public. It is regarded as the game industrys foremost review aggregator. Metacritics scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to the critics fame, stature, and volume of reviews. Metacritic was launched in July 1999 by Marc Doyle, his sister Julie Doyle Roberts, rotten Tomatoes was already compiling movie reviews, but Doyle, Roberts, and Dietz saw an opportunity to cover a broader range of media. They sold Metacritic to CNET in 2005, CNET and Metacritic are now owned by the CBS Corporation. Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal wrote in September 2004, Mr. Doyle,36, is now a product manager at CNET. Speaking of video games, Doyle said, A site like ours helps people cut through. unobjective promotional language and he added that the review process was not taken as seriously when unconnected magazines and websites provided reviews in isolation. In August 2010, the appearance was revamped, reaction from users was overwhelmingly negative. Certain publications are given more significance because of their stature, games Editor Marc Doyle was interviewed by Keith Stuart of The Guardian to get a look behind the metascoring process. Stuart wrote, the phenomenon, namely Metacritic and GameRankings, have become an enormously important element of online games journalism over the past few years. The ranging of metascores is, Metacritic is regarded as the foremost online review site for the video game industry. Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal has written that Metacritic influence the sales of games and he explains its influence as coming from the higher cost of buying video games than music or movie tickets. Many executives say that low scores can hurt the sales potential. He claimed that a number of businesses and financial analysts use Metacritic as an early indicator of a games potential sales and, by extension. In 2004, Jason Hall of Warner Bros. began including quality metrics in contracts with partners licensing its movies for games, if a product does not at least achieve a specific score, some deals require the publisher to pay higher royalties. In 2008, Microsoft began using Metacritic averages to de-list underperforming Xbox Live Arcade games and these are the top 10 individual games with the highest scores on the site as of 2 April 2017
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The New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation, following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a newspaper of record. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition, the papers motto, All the News Thats Fit to Print, appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T, some other early investors of the company were Edwin B. Morgan and Edward B. We do not believe that everything in Society is either right or exactly wrong, —what is good we desire to preserve and improve, —what is evil, to exterminate. In 1852, the started a western division, The Times of California that arrived whenever a mail boat got to California. However, when local California newspapers came into prominence, the effort failed, the newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857. It dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s, One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials it published alone. At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, in 1869, Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher. Tweed offered The New York Times five million dollars to not publish the story, in the 1880s, The New York Times transitioned gradually from editorially supporting Republican Party candidates to becoming more politically independent and analytical. In 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential campaign, while this move cost The New York Times readership among its more progressive and Republican readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years. However, the newspaper was financially crippled by the Panic of 1893, the paper slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under the guidance of Ochs. Under Ochs guidance, continuing and expanding upon the Henry Raymond tradition, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, in 1910, the first air delivery of The New York Times to Philadelphia began. The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible, airplane Edition was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. In the 1940s, the extended its breadth and reach. The crossword began appearing regularly in 1942, and the section in 1946
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Cover of The New York Times (November 15, 2012), with the headline story reporting on
Operation Pillar of Defense.
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First published issue of New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851.
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The Times Square Building, The New York Times ' publishing headquarters, 1913–2007
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The New York Times newsroom, 1942
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The New York Times Company
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The New York Times Company is an American media company which publishes its namesake, The New York Times. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. has served as chairman since 1997 and it is headquartered in Manhattan, New York. The company was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones in New York City, the company moved into the cable channel industry purchasing a 40% interest in the Popcorn Channel, a theatrical movie preview and local movie times, in November 1994. The company completed its purchase of The Washington Posts 50 percent interest in the International Herald Tribune for US$65 million on January 1,2003, on March 18,2005, the company acquired About. com, an online provider of consumer information for US$410 million. In 2005, the company reported revenues of US$3.4 billion to its investors, the Times, on August 25,2006, acquired Baseline StudioSystems, an online database and research service on the film and television industries for US$35 million. The company announced that it had finalized the sale of its Broadcast Media Group on May 7,2007, for approximately $575 million. On July 14,2009, the announced that WQXR was to be sold to WNYC. This US$45 million transaction, which involved Univision Radios WCAA moving to the 96.3 FM frequency from 105.9 FM, ended the Times 65-year-long ownership of the station. On December 27,2011, The Boston Globe reported that the company would sell its Regional Media Group to Halifax Media Holdings LLC, owners of The Daytona Beach News-Journal, the Boston Globe and The Telegram & Gazette of Worcester were not part of the sale. In 2011, the Times sold Baseline StudioSystems back to its owners, Laurie S. Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein. Facing falling revenue from print advertising in its publication in 2011, The New York Times. As of 2012, it has been successful, garnering several hundred thousand subscriptions. In 2013, the New York Times Company sold The Boston Globe and other New England media properties to John W. Henry, according to the Times Company, the move was made in order to focus more on its core brands. Alongside its namesake newspaper, the company owns the International New York Times. Since 1967, the company has listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NYT. In 2015, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim became the top New York Times stockholder, at the April 2005 board meeting, Class B shareholders elected nine of the fourteen directors of the company. The company sponsors a series of national and local awards designed to highlight the achievements of individuals, in 2007, it inaugurated its first Nonprofit Excellence Award, awarded to four organizations for the excellence of their management practices. Only nonprofits in New York City, Long Island, or Westchester were eligible, jointly with the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the American Library Association, The New York Times Company sponsors an award to honor librarians for service to their communities
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The New York Times Building
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The New York Times Company
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2008 I Love My Librarian award recipients Linda Allen and Margaret "Gigi" Lincoln talk with
Janet Robinson in
The New York Times Building.
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Box Office Mojo
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Box Office Mojo is a website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, founded in 1999. In 2008, Box Office Mojo was bought by the Internet Movie Database, the website is widely used within the film industry as a source of data. From 2002–11, Box Office Mojo had forums popular with film fans, on October 10,2014, the websites URL was redirected to Amazons IMDB. com website for one day, but the website returned the following day without explanation. Brandon Gray began the site in 1999, in 2002, Gray partnered with Sean Saulsbury and grew the site to nearly two million readers. In July 2008, the company was purchased by Amazon. com through its subsidiary, Box Office Mojo had forums with more than 16,500 registered users. On November 2,2011 the forums were closed along with any user accounts. Tracking is still very closely to the day by day, actual tabulation of distributors. The site also creates an overall chart, combining all box office returns from around the world, excluding the United States. The overall weekend chart currently tracks the Top 40 films as well as approximately fifty additional films with no ranking, the site additionally has yearly and all time features for its various territories. Box Office Mojo was as of June 2009 reporting limited data from overseas and is work on improvements, most of the international charts have not been updated since November 2014. On October 10,2014, all traffic to Box Office Mojo was redirected to IMDbs box office page, queries about the closure to IMDb and Amazon representatives were met with no response. Neither Brandon Gray, who founded the website but left several years ago after its sale to Amazon, nor Ray Subers, on Ray Subers Twitter account, he revealed the websites return, but also stated he would not answer any questions pertaining to closure. Subers subsequently left the website seven months later
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Box Office Mojo homepage
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The Hollywood Reporter
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Headquartered in Los Angeles, THR is part of the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a group of properties that includes Billboard and SpinMedia. It is owned by Eldridge Industries, a company owned by an executive of its previous owner. Under Janice Min, a faltering THR was relaunched in 2010 as a weekly print magazine with a revamped, continuously updated website, as well as mobile. THR was founded in 1930 by William R, billy Wilkerson as Hollywoods first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3,1930, and featured Wilkersons front-page Tradeviews column, the newspaper appeared Monday to Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, then Monday to Friday from 1940. Wilkerson ran the THR until his death in September 1962, although his final column appeared 18 months prior, from the late 1930s, Wilkerson used THR to push the view that the industry was a communist stronghold. In particular, he opposed the screenplay writers trade union, the Screen Writers Guild, in 1946 the Guild considered creating an American Authors Authority to hold copyright for writers, instead of ownership passing to the studios. Wilkerson devoted his Tradeviews column to the issue on July 29,1946 and he went to confession before publishing it, knowing the damage it would cause, but was apparently encouraged by the priest to go ahead with it. The column contained the first industry names, including Dalton Trumbo and Howard Koch, on became the Hollywood blacklist. Eight of the 11 people Wilkerson named were among the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted after hearings in 1947 by the House Un-American Activities Committee. In 1997 THR reporter David Robb wrote a story about the newspapers involvement, for the blacklists 65th anniversary in 2012, the THR published a lengthy investigative piece about Wilkersons role, by reporters Gary Baum and Daniel Miller. The same edition carried an apology from Wilkersons son, W. R. Wilkerson III and he wrote that his father had been motivated by revenge for his thwarted ambition to own a studio. Wilkersons wife, Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, took over as publisher and she sold the paper on April 11,1988, to Affiliated Publications, parent company of Billboard Publications, for $26.7 million. Robert J. Dowling became THR president in 1988 and editor-in-chief, Dowling brought in Alex Ben Block as editor in 1990, and editorial quality of both news and specials steadily improved. Block and Teri Ritzer dampened much of the coverage and cronyism that had infected the paper under Wilkerson. After Block left, former editor at Variety, Anita Busch, was brought in as editor between 1999 and 2001. Busch was credited with making the paper competitive with Variety, tony Uphoff assumed the publisher position in November 2005. Uphoff was replaced in October 2006 by John Kilcullen, the publisher of Billboard, Kilcullen was a defendant in Billboards infamous dildo lawsuit, in which he was accused of race discrimination and sexual harassment
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Dwayne Johnson on the June 2014 cover
