Dinner in America (2020)

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Wikidata Q83726515, film, IMDb tt9058654, TMDB 653664: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Kyle Gallner: 2 lines people ×2

  1. people (people): Dinner in America → Kyle Gallner. After the first DP and cast fell away, the replacement DP, who was working with Kyle in Romania, told Kyle about the project, which is how Kyle came back to the script.
    “I found a new DP, and he was working with Kyle in, like, Romania on a project, and he was like, hey, there's this movie that I'm attached to.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:07:24 · Adam Rehmeier (0.90 sure it was them)

Carolina Caroline: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (scoring approach): Carolina Caroline → Dinner in America. Each of Rehmeier's films pairs a score against a different music world: EDM against punk in Dinner in America, pretty score against pop in Snack Shack, synth score against country here.
    “dinner in America had this sort of EDM, big thing against the punk aesthetic.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:13:19 · Adam Rehmeier (0.70 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

people (2)

  1. people (casting): Dinner in America → Kyle Gallner. Rehmeier cast Gallner off a single photo after the project fell apart; Gallner then found the script that had been in his inbox for 2.5 years.
    “I would cast anybody off of a single image if it showed me their soul.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:06:47 · Adam Rehmeier (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Dinner in America → Kyle Gallner. After the first DP and cast fell away, the replacement DP, who was working with Kyle in Romania, told Kyle about the project, which is how Kyle came back to the script.
    “I found a new DP, and he was working with Kyle in, like, Romania on a project, and he was like, hey, there's this movie that I'm attached to.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:07:24 · Adam Rehmeier (0.90 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (scoring approach): Carolina Caroline → Dinner in America. Each of Rehmeier's films pairs a score against a different music world: EDM against punk in Dinner in America, pretty score against pop in Snack Shack, synth score against country here.
    “dinner in America had this sort of EDM, big thing against the punk aesthetic.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:13:19 · Adam Rehmeier (0.70 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Dinner in America: Kyle Gallner had been sent the script 2.5 years earlier and ignored it; when it fell apart and a new DP mentioned it, he found it in his inbox.
    “He read it and like the next day we're talking on the phone.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:08:01 · Adam Rehmeier (0.80 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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