Search results
Jordan Peele is an actor, comedian and filmmaker. He is known for his duo sketch group Key & Peele with Keegan-Michael Key. He has also directed Get Out (2017), Us (2019), and Nope (2022).
YearTitleActorWriter2024YesNo2020NoNo2020–23NoNo2019–20YesYes7 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Nope. 2022 2h 10m R. 6.8 (281K) Rate. 77 Metascore. The residents of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery. Director Jordan Peele Stars Daniel Kaluuya Keke Palmer Brandon Perea. 2. Key and Peele. 2012–2015 55 eps TV-14. 8.3 (26K) Rate. TV Series.
- (26.4K)
- TV-14
Jordan Peele is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning director, writer, actor, producer, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions. Peele's first feature film, "Get Out," was a critically acclaimed blockbuster, recognized with four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.
- January 1, 1
- 1.71 m
- New York City, New York, USA
Candyman is a 2021 supernatural horror film directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, and DaCosta.
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Themes and Interpretations
- Reception
- Further Reading
- External Links
26-year-old Chris Washington, a black photographer, travels to upstate New Yorkfor a weekend getaway to meet the family of his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage. He has uncomfortable conversations with her parents, Dean, a neurosurgeon, and Missy, a psychiatrist. Her brother Jeremy arrives and tells embarrassing stories about his sister at dinner. Ch...
Development
Get Out is the directorial debut of Jordan Peele, who had previously worked in comedy, including the sketch show Key & Peele. He felt the horror and comedy genres are similar in that "so much of it is pacing, so much of it [hinges on] reveals", and that comedy gave him "something of a training" for the film. The Stepford Wives (1975) provided inspiration, about which Peele said, "it's a horror movie but has a satirical premise."As the film deals with racism, Peele has stated that the story is...
Casting
The lead actors, Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams, were cast in November 2015, with other roles cast between December 2015 and February 2016. Kaluuya was cast based on the strength of his performance in Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits". "That party sequence is why I really wanted to do this film, because I've been to that party," Kaluuya told the Los Angeles Times. "He [Chris] feels like an everyman. He's kind of like J. Cole. Chris is that guy that everyone knows, who has bee...
Filming
Principal photography began on February 16, 2016. Shooting took place in Fairhope, Alabama, for three weeks, followed by Barton Academy and in the Ashland Place Historic District in midtown Mobile, Alabama. The exterior and interior of the house was filmed just south of Fairhope.Principal photography lasted 23 days. Although this movie was filmed in Alabama, Jordan Peele has stressed that the story is not supposed to be understood as taking place in Alabama or anywhere in the South. During a...
Get Out has been described as critical of post-racial America, the concept of "colorblindness", and neoliberalism. Lanre Bakare in The Guardian notes, "The villains here aren't southern rednecks or neo-Nazi skinheads, or the so-called 'alt-right'. They're middle-class white liberals. [...] The thing Get Outdoes so well—and the thing that will rankl...
Box office
Get Out grossed $176 million in the United States and Canada and $79.4 million in other territories for a worldwide gross of $255.5 million, against a production budget of $4.5 million. Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be $124.8 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues, making it the 10th most profitable release of 2017. Vulture described Get Out's 5.3 multiple(total divided by opening weekend gross) as "staggering". In North America, Get Out was r...
Critical response
On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 98% based on 403 reviews, and an average rating of 8.30/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Funny, scary, and thought-provoking, Get Out seamlessly weaves its trenchant social critiques into a brilliantly effective and entertaining horror/comedy thrill ride." The film was the highest rated wide release of 2017 on the site. On Metacritic, the film has an average weighted score of 85 out of 100, based on...
Accolades
At the 90th Academy Awards, the film earned four nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actor for Daniel Kaluuya. Peele became the third person (after Warren Beatty and James L. Brooks) to earn Best Picture, Director and Screenplay nominations for a debut film, and the first African-American winner for Best Original Screenplay (and fourth overall nominated, after John Singleton, Spike Lee, and Suzanne de Passe). It also became the 6th horror film to be no...
Liao, Shannon (January 27, 2018). "Get Out now has its own online class about black horror". The Verge. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
Official website at the Wayback Machine(archived February 25, 2017)Get Out at IMDbGet Out at the TCM Movie DatabaseGet Out at AllMovieGet Out: Directed by Jordan Peele. With Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford. A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.
People also ask
What is The Boogeyman in Stephen King's movie?
Did Jordan Peele change the ending of 'get out'?
Is Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' a new horror movie?
Does Jordan Peele have a 'Candyman' star?
Jan 31, 2023 · The story centers on a fragile man named Lester Billings who believes that his three young children have been murdered by a supernatural entity he calls The Boogeyman.