She also starred in the HBO television show "Girls". She appeared in many movies such as "Gardens of the Night" (2008), "The Lookalike" (2014), "Life Partners" (2014), "Hot Tub Time Machine 2" (2015), "Don't Think Twice" (2016), "Brother Nature" (2016), "Life of the Party" (2018) and "Ibiza" (2018).
Keeping Up with the Joneses (movie)
Keeping Up with the Joneses is a 2016 American action comedy movie directed by Greg Mottola and written by Michael LeSieur. It stars Zach Galifianakis, Jon Hamm, Isla Fisher and Gal Gadot.
The movie is about a suburban couple (Galifianakis and Fisher) who begin to suspect their new neighbors (Hamm and Gadot) are secret agents. The movie was released on October 21, 2016 by 20th Century Fox, received got negative reviews and was a box office bomb, grossing $29 million against its $40 million budget.
Masterminds (2016 movie)
Masterminds is a 2016 American comedy movie which is based on the October 1997 Loomis Fargo Robbery in North Carolina. It is directed by Jared Hess and written by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer and Emily Spivey. It stars Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Jason Sudeikis.
It premiered in Los Angeles on September 26, 2016 and was theatrically released in the United States on September 30, 2016, by Relativity Media. The movie received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $30 million.
Adria Arjona
Adria Arjona Torres (born April 25, 1992) is a American-Guatemalan actress. She is best known for her role as Emily in the HBO television series "True Detective" (2015) and as Dani Silva in two episodes of the CBS television series "Person of Interest" (2014, 2015).
In 2018, she starred as Amanda in "Life of the Party". She also voices Ramirez in the video game "Fortnite".
Matt Walsh (comedian)
Matt Walsh (born October 13, 1964) is an American actor, comedian, movie director, and screenwriter. He is best known as a founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade sketch comedy troupe and for playing Mike McLintock on the HBO series "Veep".
The Boss (2016 movie)
The Boss is a 2016 American comedy movie directed by Ben Falcone and written by Falcone, Melissa McCarthy and Steve Mallory. The movie stars McCarthy, Kristen Bell, Ella Anderson, Tyler Labine, Kathy Bates, Annie Mumolo, Timothy Simons, and Peter Dinklage.
The movie is about a wealthy woman who, after being arrested and losing her fortune, uses her assistant's daughter's Dandelion Girls cookie sales to return to the top. The movie was released on April 8, 2016, by Universal Pictures. It made $78 million worldwide.
Ben Falcone
Benjamin Scott Falcone (born August 25, 1973) is an American actor, comedian and movie director. He is married to actress Melissa McCarthy, with whom he has two children.
Falcone appeared in small roles of McCarthy's movies "Bridesmaids", "Identity Thief", "The Heat", and Life of the Party and co-starred in "What to Expect When You're Expecting" and "Enough Said".
Falcone made his directorial debut in 2014 with "Tammy". He would go on to direct "The Boss" and "Life of the Party", all of which starred McCarthy.
Bridesmaids (2011 movie)
Bridesmaids is a 2011 American comedy movie directed by Paul Feig, written by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, and produced by Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel, and Clayton Townsend.
The plot is about Annie (Wiig), who suffers a series of misfortunes after being asked to serve as maid of honor for her best friend, Lillian, played by Maya Rudolph. Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper, and Wendi McLendon-Covey co-star as Lillian's bridesmaids, with Chris O'Dowd, Rebel Wilson, Matt Lucas, Michael Hitchcock, Jon Hamm, and Jill Clayburgh, in her final movie role, in supporting roles.
Upon its opening release in the United States and Canada on May 13, 2011, "Bridesmaids" was both critically and commercially successful. The movie made $26 million in its opening weekend, eventually made over $288 million worldwide. After the movie was made, many other women-only comedies were made due to the success.
The movie was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. On January 24, 2012, the movie was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Melissa McCarthy and Best Original Screenplay for Wiig and Mumolo.
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is an American fantasy movie directed by Lasse Hallström and written by Ashleigh Powell and Simon Beaufoy. It is based on E. T. A. Hoffmann's "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker". It is about a young girl who finds a Nutcracker doll among the family's gifts and is charged by her parents to take special care of it.
The movie stars Keira Knightley, Mackenzie Foy, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, Richard E. Grant, Miranda Hart and Eugenio Derbez with Misty Copeland.
It was released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 2, 2018 in Real D 3D and IMAX 3D. The movie received mainly negative reviews with a 34% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Ahmed Sofa
Ahmed Sofa (; 30 June 194328 July 2001) was a Bangladeshi writer and novelist.
Born in Chittagong, Sofa was educated at the University of Dhaka. He served many newspapers, and magazines as editors. A writer by occupation, Sofa wrote 18 non-fiction books, 8 novels, 4 collections of poems, 1 collection of short stories, and several books in other genres.
In "Buddhibrittir Natun Binyas" (A New Mode of Intellectualism, 1972), Sofa reminded the writers and artists of their true responsibility. In "Bangali Musalmaner Man" (The Mind of the Bengali Muslims, 1981), Sofa surveyed the history of Bengali Muslims to explain how their identity was formed, and how they might overcome the causes of their backwardness.
In "Gabhi Bittanta" (A Tale of a Cow, 1995), Sofa satirizes Bangladeshi university teachers engaged in party politics and corruption. "Pushpa Briksa ebang Bihanga Puran" (Tales of Flowers, Trees, and Birds, 1996) narrates Sofa's personal relation with birds, plants and nature.
Sofa is a very influential writer in Bangladesh. Sofa was criticized for his bohemian lifestyle. He was called rebel, mad and insolent
He was awarded Ekushe Padak posthumously by the Government of Bangladesh in 2002. Sofa rejected Lekhak Shibir Award in 1975, and Sa'dat Ali Akanda Award offered by Bangla Academy in 1993.
London Has Fallen
London Has Fallen is a 2016 American action thriller movie directed by Babak Najafi and written by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt, Chad St. John and Christian Gudegast. It is a sequel to Antoine Fuqua's 2013 movie "Olympus Has Fallen".
It stars Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman, with Alon Moni Aboutboul, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Jackie Earle Haley, Melissa Leo, Radha Mitchell, Sean O'Bryan, Waleed Zuaiter and Charlotte Riley in supporting roles.
DuPage County, Illinois
DuPage County () is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the population was 916,924, making it Illinois' second-most populous county. Its county seat is Wheaton.
DuPage County has become mostly developed and suburbanized. Residents of Hinsdale, Naperville, and Oak Brook include some of the richest people in the Midwest, and in 2010, "Midwest Living" voted Hinsdale the Midwest's second-richest town.
Oak Brook, Illinois
Oak Brook is a village in DuPage County with a small portion in Cook County in Illinois. The population was 7,883 at the 2010 census. It was made into a village in 1958.
Despicable Me 3
Despicable Me 3 is a 2017 American 3D computer-animated action comedy movie produced by Illumination Entertainment for Universal Pictures.
It is the third main installment, fourth overall movie in the "Despicable Me" movie series and the sequel to "Despicable Me 2" (2013). The movie is directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda, co-directed by Eric Guillon and written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio.