Fan Favorite Bill Skarsgård is No. 1
Breakout Star of 2017 and It is the No. 1 Movie of 2017 as
Determined by IMDbPro Data on the Page Views of IMDb's More Than
250 Million Monthly Visitors Worldwide
Previous IMDb STARmeter Award Recipients
Include Sam Rockwell, Tatiana Maslany, Brie Larson, Felicity Jones,
Peter Dinklage and Miles Teller
Col Needham, Founder and CEO of IMDb, the world's most popular
and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content,
presented Bill Skarsgård (It, Castle Rock) with the IMDb “Fan
Favorite” STARmeter Award today in The IMDb Studio at the 2018
Sundance Film Festival. Bill Skarsgård was recently named IMDb’s
No. 1 Breakout Star and No. 5 Top Star of 2017, and his film It
ranked No. 1 on IMDb’s Top 10 Movies of 2017 list as determined by
IMDbPro STARmeter and MOVIEmeter rankings, which are based on the
actual page views of IMDb’s more than 250 million monthly unique
visitors. Skarsgård stars in Assassination Nation, which makes its
world premiere in the Midnight section of the Sundance Film
Festival tonight.
This press release features multimedia. View
the full release here:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180122005575/en/
Bill Skarsgård receives the IMDb “Fan
Favorite” STARmeter Award from Col Needham, Founder and CEO of
IMDb, in The IMDb Studio at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
(Photo: Business Wire)
“I’m very glad fans weren’t scared off by my portrayal of
Pennywise in It and are turning to IMDb to learn more about my
other projects, including Assassination Nation,” said Skarsgård.
“Thanks to all the fans who made 2017 a very fun and exciting year
for me, and to the fans and IMDb for this award. I’ll be sure to
add this to my page next time I log in!”
“Bill Skarsgård took on an iconic — and nightmare-inducing —
role in last year’s It and helped propel the film’s record-breaking
success,” said Needham. “IMDb’s hundreds of millions of users
around the world wanted to know more about the actor behind the
creepy clown make-up, catapulting Bill to the top of our IMDbPro
STARmeter chart. Bill joins an elite group of previous IMDb
STARmeter Award recipients including Brie Larson, Felicity Jones
and Sam Rockwell, and I have no doubt that Bill will continue to
enchant audiences for years to come.”
The presentation of the STARmeter Award to Skarsgård builds on
IMDb’s tradition of giving the STARmeter Award at the Sundance Film
Festival to a top performer on IMDb’s year-end Top 10 lists, which
are determined by IMDbPro data on the page views of IMDb’s hundreds
of millions of visitors worldwide. The recipient of the IMDb
STARmeter Award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival was Peter
Dinklage, star of Game of Thrones, IMDb’s No. 1 show of 2017 and
each of the past five years based on IMDbPro data. In 2016, the
IMDb STARmeter Award was presented to Bryce Dallas Howard, IMDb's
No. 1 Breakout Star of 2015 as determined by IMDbPro STARmeter
data. IMDb most recently presented STARmeter Awards to Sam
Rockwell, Tatiana Maslany and Sverrir Gudnason at the 2017 Toronto
International Film Festival. Other previous IMDb STARmeter Award
recipients include Brie Larson, Felicity Jones, Olivia Wilde and
Miles Teller.
“IMDbPro’s STARmeter charts have a proven history of accurately
predicting emerging stars who are about to break through, including
previous No. 1 Breakout Stars of the year Millie Bobby Brown
(2016), Bryce Dallas Howard (2015) and Margot Robbie (2014),” said
Matt Kumin, Head of IMDbPro. “Our STARmeter Awards, weekly
STARmeter rankings, year-end lists and other tools that are
available to IMDbPro members inform and empower them with the
information they need to make smart business decisions.”
Assassination Nation, from director and screenwriter Sam
Levinson and producers David S. Goyer, Anita Gou, Kevin Turen,
Aaron L. Gilbert and Matthew J. Malek, is described as the
“one-thousand-percent true story about how the quiet, all-American
town of Salem, absolutely lost its mind.” In addition to Bill
Skårsgard, the cast includes Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse, Hari
Nef, Abra and Bella Thorne.
Fans can follow IMDb’s exclusive 2018 Sundance Film Festival
coverage by visiting http://www.imdb.com/sundance, Facebook
(https://www.facebook.com/imdb), Instagram
(https://www.instagram.com/imdb/), YouTube
(https://www.youtube.com/imdb) and Snapchat
(https://www.snapchat.com/add/imdblive) or checking out #IMDbStudio
on Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/imdb). IMDb’s original coverage
of the 2018 Festival will be accessible by IMDb users worldwide via
IMDb’s website, mobile apps and social media followers. IMDbPro
members on the go can quickly and easily access the leading
resource for entertainment industry professionals by downloading
the new IMDbPro app for iPhone.
Additional insight into trending movies, TV shows and
entertainment industry professionals is available to IMDbPro
(http://www.imdbpro.com) members through tools including its
exclusive STARmeter and MOVIEmeter rankings, which are updated
weekly on both the IMDbPro site and its recently launched iPhone
app. IMDbPro, a membership-based service, includes comprehensive
information and tools designed to help entertainment industry
professionals achieve success throughout all stages of their
career. IMDbPro offers members the following: detailed contact and
representation information; tools to manage and showcase their IMDb
profile, including the ability to select their primary images and
the credits they are best “known for”; exclusive STARmeter and
MOVIEmeter rankings determined by page views on IMDb; a casting
service to post breakdowns and apply to roles; the new IMDbPro app
for iPhone and more. The IMDbPro app empowers members with a
convenient way to search the profiles of more than 4 million
people, access the latest industry news, get contact and
representation details for more than 300,000 industry professionals
and tap through to call or email directly from an iPhone. The app
leverages other IMDbPro member-only benefits, including the ability
to explore more than 25,000 in-development titles for film and TV.
The IMDbPro app is exclusively available for use by IMDbPro members
and can be downloaded for free in the App Store. To become a member
today, visit www.imdbpro.com.
About IMDb
IMDb is the world’s most popular and authoritative source for
movie, TV and celebrity content. The IMDb consumer site
(www.imdb.com) is the #1 movie website in the world with a combined
web and mobile audience of more than 250 million unique monthly
visitors. IMDb offers a searchable database of more than 250
million data items including more than 4 million movies, TV and
entertainment programs and more than 8 million cast and crew
members. Consumers rely on the information IMDb provides —
including local movie showtimes, ticketing, trailers, critic and
user reviews, personalized recommendations, photo galleries,
entertainment news, quotes, trivia, box-office data, editorial
feature sections and a universal Watchlist – when deciding what to
watch and where to watch it. IMDb’s portfolio of leading
entertainment apps (http://www.imdb.com/apps/) includes its popular
“Movies & TV” app for iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire, Android
phones, Android tablets and its mobile-optimized website. To date,
there have been more than 150 million downloads of IMDb’s mobile
apps worldwide. IMDb's X-Ray for Movies & TV Shows
(www.imdb.com/x-ray) is a feature that revolutionizes the viewing
experience by bringing the power of IMDb directly to Kindle Fire
HD, Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. IMDb’s Facebook page
(https://www.facebook.com/imdb) and official Twitter account
(https://twitter.com/imdb) are followed by more than 12 million
passionate entertainment fans. IMDbPro (http://www.imdbpro.com) is
the essential resource for entertainment industry professionals.
This membership-based service includes comprehensive information
and tools that are designed to help entertainment industry
professionals achieve success throughout all stages of their
career. IMDbPro offers members the following: detailed contact and
representation information; IMDb profile management tools;
exclusive STARmeter rankings that are determined by page views on
IMDb; a casting service to post breakdowns and apply to roles, a
mobile optimized website and more. Additionally, IMDb owns and
operates Withoutabox (http://www.withoutabox.com), the premier
submission service for film festivals and filmmakers, and Box
Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com), the leading online
source of box-office data. IMDb.com is operated by IMDb.com, Inc.,
a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)
(http://www.amazon.com). To learn more, go to:
http://www.imdb.com/press.
About Bill Skarsgård
Bill Skarsgård was born on August 9, 1990 in Vällingby, Sweden.
He is an actor, known for It (2017), Allegiant (2016) and Atomic
Blonde (2017).
About Assassination Nation
Assassination Nation, from director and screenwriter Sam
Levinson and producers David S. Goyer, Anita Gou, Kevin Turen,
Aaron L. Gilbert and Matthew J. Malek, is a one-thousand-percent
true story about how the quiet, all-American town of Salem,
absolutely lost its mind. The cast includes Odessa Young, Suki
Waterhouse, Hari Nef, Abra, Bill Skårsgard and Bella Thorne. The
film made its world premiere on Sunday, January 21, in the Midnight
section of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
View source
version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180122005575/en/
IMDbCasey De La Rosa(310) 573-0632caserosa@imdb.com
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN)
Historical Stock Chart
From Aug 2024 to Sep 2024
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN)
Historical Stock Chart
From Sep 2023 to Sep 2024