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Natasha Lyonne
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Natasha Bianca Lyonne Braunstein, better known as Natasha Lyonne, is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Jessica in the American Pie series and her appearances in the films Everyone Says I Love You, Slums of Beverly Hills, But Im a Cheerleader, and Blade, Trinity. Lyonne was born in New York City, the daughter of Ivette Buchinger and Aaron Braunstein, a promoter, race car driver, and radio host. Lyonnes parents were both from Orthodox Jewish families, and she herself was raised Orthodox and her mother was born in Paris, France, to Hungarian Jewish parents who were Holocaust survivors. Lyonne sometimes darkly jokes that her family consists of my fathers side, Flatbush and her grandmother Ella came from a large family, but only she and her two sisters and two brothers survived, which Lyonne credits to their blonde hair and blue eyes. Lyonnes grandfather, Morris Buchinger, operated a company in Los Angeles. During the war, he hid in Budapest as a non-Jew working in a leather factory, Lyonne spent the first eight years of her life living in Great Neck, New York. Then she and her parents moved to Israel, where Lyonne spent a year and her parents divorced, and Lyonne and her older brother Adam returned to America with their mother. She was expelled for selling marijuana at school, Lyonne grew up on the Upper East Side, where she felt she was an outcast. Her mother then moved their family to Miami, where Lyonne graduated from Miami Country Day School. Lyonne was estranged from her father, who lived on the Upper West Side until his death in October 2014, Lyonne has said she is not close with her mother and has essentially lived independently of her family since age 16. As a young child, Lyonne was signed by the Ford Modeling Agency, at the age of six, she was cast as Opal on Pee-wees Playhouse, followed by film appearances in Heartburn, A Man Called Sarge, and Dennis the Menace. On working as a young child actor, Lyonne said. I don’t think they are bad people, even if they were ready to have children, it is kind of a wacky idea to put your child in business at six years old. Lyonnes other films include Detroit Rock City, Scary Movie 2, The Grey Zone, Kate and Leopold, Party Monster and she has also made television appearances on shows such as NBCs Will and Grace. In what is perhaps her most well known role, she appeared as Jessica in the American Pie film series. When she was 18 years old, Lyonne used the paycheck from her work on the Woody Allen film Everyone Says I Love You to buy an apartment near Gramercy Park. She attended New York University for a short time, studying film
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Fantasia International Film Festival
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Fantasia International Film Festival is a genre film festival that has been based mainly in Montreal since its founding in 1996. By virtue of the reputation developed over the last 15 years, the history of the Fantasia Festival has roots in the Asian Film scene in Montreal. Beginning in 1996 where it screened Asian films from Hong Kong and Anime from Japan, among the many North American premieres have included Ringu, Inglourious Basterds, Thirst, We Are What We Are, Visitor Q and Night Watch. The Creeping Garden was one of the films in the 2014 Festival. Fantasia 2012 featured the screenings of the films Toad Road, Doomsday Book, the anthology film V/H/S, Hidden in the Woods, Seediq Bale. Fantasia 2011 opened the 2011 edition of the festival with the Canadian Premiere of Red State, the festival also featured the presentation to John Landis of a lifetime Achievement award. The Canadian premiere of the new film, Burke and Hare also took place. Also notable was the premiere of the Swedish horror film Marianne which had been hailed as one of the great discoveries in genre cinema of 2011. The world premiere of Final Destination 5 was part of Fantasia 15, tickets went on sale on July 6,2010 at 1 pm. The Festival started on July 8,2010 running until July 28,2010 with 6 indoor screening venues, for 2010 a permanent blog was introduced to communicate with fans year-round. Fantasia 2008 The lineup will be announced on Thursday, June 26,2008, fanTasia 2007 The edition was held from July 5 to July 23,2007 at the Concordia University. In addition to the Hall hall and DeSeve hall, a screening room has been added at the D. B. Clarke Theatre. There were, however, no outdoor shows this year, Montreal film Flutter received the award for best Quebec short feature. FanTasia 2006 Fantsasias 10th anniversary and 10th edition, the 2006 edition, is the first to feature free outdoor shows, the outdoors shows are at Parc de la Paix and are free. Outdoor projections included films from the editions, Kamikaze Girls. The indoor shows use the same Concordia University facilities as since the move to Concordia, the outdoor shows are several kilometres away from the indoor shows. With the 10th anniversary, Fantasia is helping to launch an associated, Fantasia 2005 Fantasia is now 10 years old. However, this is the 9th edition of the festival, due to a year in 2002
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Marshall Allman
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Marshall Scot Allman is an American actor. He is known to audiences for his role as L. J. Burrows on Foxs successful television series. He is also known for playing Tommy Mickens on True Blood, Allman was born in Austin, Texas, brother of David Allman, and the son of Idanell and James Martin Allman, Jr. As he grew up he was talented in soccer and art, Allman played club and school soccer and is deeply interested in contemporary music. After graduating from Austin High School in 2002, he chose to pursue a career in Los Angeles over studying art in New York City. Allman is a Christian, and in an interview he stated, Allman married American actress Jamie Anne Allman, née Brown of Parsons, Kansas, on June 17,2006, in Austin, Texas. They have twins who were born on January 31,2013, in November 2009, Allman won the role of Tommy Mickens in the third season of True Blood. Allmans film credits include Shallow Ground, Little Black Book, Dishdogz, drowning by Crazy Town from the album Darkhorse,2002 Marshall Allman at the Internet Movie Database Marshall Allman at AllMovie Marshall Allman Online Fansite
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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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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
