The Glsen Respect Awards – Los Angeles took place on Friday at the Beverly Wilshire.
Octavia Spencer at The Glsen Respect Awards - Los Angeles
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Among those who attended the event were Glsen Executive Director Eliza Byard, Honorees Octavia Spencer (Inspiration Award), Apple CEO Tim Cook (Champion Award), the cast and producers of the Warner Bros. Television/The CW television series “Riverdale” including Madelaine Petsch (Gamechanger Award), and Amazon Studios Chief Jennifer Salke (accepting the Visionary Award on behalf of Amazon Studios), Elle Smith (Student Advocate of the Year); Presenters and additional special guests including Kalen Allen, Jonathan Bennett, Shannon Beveridge, Bruce Bozzi, Raymond Braun, Connor Franta, August Getty, Liv Hewson, Our Lady J, Jeffrey & Marilyn Katzenberg, Juan Ramon Law-Valdez, Chelsea Kane, Judith Light, Mary McCormack, Max Mutchnick & Erik Hyman, Melissa Peterman, Glen Powell, and Cammie Scott.
The Glsen Respect Awards, introduced in 2004 and held annually in Los Angeles and New York,...
Octavia Spencer at The Glsen Respect Awards - Los Angeles
Credit/Copyright: Getty Images
Among those who attended the event were Glsen Executive Director Eliza Byard, Honorees Octavia Spencer (Inspiration Award), Apple CEO Tim Cook (Champion Award), the cast and producers of the Warner Bros. Television/The CW television series “Riverdale” including Madelaine Petsch (Gamechanger Award), and Amazon Studios Chief Jennifer Salke (accepting the Visionary Award on behalf of Amazon Studios), Elle Smith (Student Advocate of the Year); Presenters and additional special guests including Kalen Allen, Jonathan Bennett, Shannon Beveridge, Bruce Bozzi, Raymond Braun, Connor Franta, August Getty, Liv Hewson, Our Lady J, Jeffrey & Marilyn Katzenberg, Juan Ramon Law-Valdez, Chelsea Kane, Judith Light, Mary McCormack, Max Mutchnick & Erik Hyman, Melissa Peterman, Glen Powell, and Cammie Scott.
The Glsen Respect Awards, introduced in 2004 and held annually in Los Angeles and New York,...
- 11/5/2019
- Look to the Stars
Glsen, the leading education organization working to create safe and inclusive K-12 schools for Lgbtq youth, is proud to announce that Elle Smith (they/them), a high school senior from Round Rock, Texas, will be honored as the 2019 Student Advocate of the Year at this year’s Glsen Respect Awards – Los Angeles.
Glsen’s Student Advocate of the Year Award honors an outstanding young person who has helped create a safe and inclusive learning environment for all students and has served as a voice of change in their school and community. Smith joins previously announced honorees Octavia Spencer (Inspiration Award), Apple CEO Tim Cook (Champion Award), the cast and producers of the Warner Bros. Television/The CW television series “Riverdale” (Gamechanger Award), and Amazon Studios Chief Jennifer Salke (accepting the Visionary Award on behalf of Amazon Studios). The Glsen Respect Awards – Los Angeles will take place on Friday, October 25 at the Beverly Wilshire.
Glsen’s Student Advocate of the Year Award honors an outstanding young person who has helped create a safe and inclusive learning environment for all students and has served as a voice of change in their school and community. Smith joins previously announced honorees Octavia Spencer (Inspiration Award), Apple CEO Tim Cook (Champion Award), the cast and producers of the Warner Bros. Television/The CW television series “Riverdale” (Gamechanger Award), and Amazon Studios Chief Jennifer Salke (accepting the Visionary Award on behalf of Amazon Studios). The Glsen Respect Awards – Los Angeles will take place on Friday, October 25 at the Beverly Wilshire.
- 10/18/2019
- Look to the Stars
Author: Zehra Phelan
The newest Lara Croft actress, Alicia Vikander, has signed up to star in Morten Tyldum’s (The Imitation Game, Passengers) psychological thriller The Marsh King’s Daughter.
The feature is based on the best-selling novel by Karen Dionne, Vikander will play a woman living a seemingly ordinary life but us hiding a dark secret within that her father is the infamous ‘Marsh King’ – a man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years.
After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, she is forced to face her demons when her father unexpectedly escapes from prison.
The script has been adapted by Elle Smith and Mark L. Smith (“The Revenant”). The Marsh King’s Daughter” is produced by Black Bear Pictures’ Teddy Schwarzman, who is also financing the film, and Keith Redmon of Anonymous Content, along with Tyldum and Smith. Anonymous Content’s...
The newest Lara Croft actress, Alicia Vikander, has signed up to star in Morten Tyldum’s (The Imitation Game, Passengers) psychological thriller The Marsh King’s Daughter.
The feature is based on the best-selling novel by Karen Dionne, Vikander will play a woman living a seemingly ordinary life but us hiding a dark secret within that her father is the infamous ‘Marsh King’ – a man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years.
After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, she is forced to face her demons when her father unexpectedly escapes from prison.
The script has been adapted by Elle Smith and Mark L. Smith (“The Revenant”). The Marsh King’s Daughter” is produced by Black Bear Pictures’ Teddy Schwarzman, who is also financing the film, and Keith Redmon of Anonymous Content, along with Tyldum and Smith. Anonymous Content’s...
- 2/13/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Alicia Vikander is such a talented young actress and her career in Hollywood has exploded since she starred in Ex Machina. The next film that we'll see her in is the awesome looking new adaptation of Tomb Raider. She now has a new film project to jump on board called The Marsh King's Daughter.
The film will be an adaptation of the novel by Karen Dionne. The script for the film was written by Elle Smith and Mark L. Smith (The Revenant) and this is the story description, for what seems like an intense thriller:
Helena Pelletier has a loving husband, two beautiful daughters, and a business that fills her days. But she also has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Helena, born two years after the abduction,...
The film will be an adaptation of the novel by Karen Dionne. The script for the film was written by Elle Smith and Mark L. Smith (The Revenant) and this is the story description, for what seems like an intense thriller:
Helena Pelletier has a loving husband, two beautiful daughters, and a business that fills her days. But she also has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Helena, born two years after the abduction,...
- 2/13/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
After raiding some tombs as Lara Croft for Roar Uthaug's Tomb Raider, Alicia Vikander will star in the Morten Tyldum-directed dramatic thriller The Marsh King's Daughter. Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Karen Dionne, the Black Bear pictures flick will be scripted for the big screen by Elle Smith and Mark L. Smith (The Revenant). Deadline, who exclusively reported the news... Read More...
- 2/12/2018
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander is set to take the lead role in Morten Tyldum's adaptation of Karen Dionne's The Marsh King’s Daughter dramatic thriller.
Black Bear Pictures is financing the book-to-movie adaptation, reteaming Tyldum and Teddy Schwarzman after their box-office success with The Imitation Game. The Marsh King's Daughter portrays a woman who risks everything to find her dangerous father, who shaped her past and threatens to steal her future.
Elle Smith and Mark L. Smith adapted novel for the movie adaptation, which is set to be produced in summer 2018. Producer credits are shared by Schwarzman, Keith Redmon,...
Black Bear Pictures is financing the book-to-movie adaptation, reteaming Tyldum and Teddy Schwarzman after their box-office success with The Imitation Game. The Marsh King's Daughter portrays a woman who risks everything to find her dangerous father, who shaped her past and threatens to steal her future.
Elle Smith and Mark L. Smith adapted novel for the movie adaptation, which is set to be produced in summer 2018. Producer credits are shared by Schwarzman, Keith Redmon,...
- 2/12/2018
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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