Calum Worthy, known for his role as Dez on the Disney Channel series "Austin & Ally" and "The Coppertop Flop Show", stars in what 2016 American social science fiction thriller about population control?
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The Thinning The Thinning is a 2016 American social science fiction thriller web film set in a dystopian future in which population control is enforced through a school aptitude test. Those who fail it are executed. Two high school students learn, to their horror, that the tests are rigged. They face many challenges and eventually make the ultimate sacrifice. The film stars Logan Paul, Peyton List, Lia Marie Johnson, Calum Worthy, Matthew Glave, Michael Traynor, and Ryan Newman.
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Calum Worthy Calum Worthy (born January 28, 1991) is a Canadian actor, writer and producer, known for his role as Dez on the Disney Channel series "Austin & Ally" and "The Coppertop Flop Show". He has won two Young Artist Awards in the Leading Young Actor category for his performances in the comedy film "National Lampoon's Thanksgiving Family Reunion" (2003) and the science fiction television series "Stormworld" (2009). He also won the Leading Actor award at the 2010 Leo Awards for his performance in "Stormworld".
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Central Intelligence Central Intelligence is a 2016 American action comedy film directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and written by Thurber, Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen. The film stars Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson as two old high school friends who team up to save America after one of them joins the CIA in order to save the world from a terrorist who has an intention to sell satellite codes.
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Shut In (2016 film) Shut In (classified under the name Oppression in France) is a 2016 French-Canadian psychological thriller horror drama film directed by Farren Blackburn, written by Christina Hodson, and starring Naomi Watts, Oliver Platt, Charlie Heaton, Jacob Tremblay, David Cubitt, and Clémentine Poidatz.
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Youth in Oregon Youth in Oregon is a 2016 American comedy-drama film directed by Joel David Moore. The film stars Frank Langella, Billy Crudup, Christina Applegate, Nicola Peltz, Mary Kay Place, and Josh Lucas.
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Jack Gibbs Jack Porter Gibbs (born August 26, 1927) is an American sociologist known for his work on social control theory and deterrence. In the early 1960s, he and Leonard Broom helped plan the founding of the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, which was founded in 1963. A 2015 book described Gibbs as "a giant of his time".
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The Stanford Prison Experiment (film) The Stanford Prison Experiment is a 2015 American thriller film directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez and written by Tim Talbott. The film stars Billy Crudup, Michael Angarano, Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Thirlby, and Nelsan Ellis. The plot tells the story of the 1971 Stanford prison experiment conducted at Stanford University under supervision of psychology professor Philip Zimbardo in which students play the role of a prisoner or a prison guard.
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Independence Day: Resurgence Independence Day: Resurgence is a 2016 American science fiction film written and directed by Roland Emmerich with co-writers Dean Devlin, Nicolas Wright, James A. Woods, and James Vanderbilt. A sequel to the 1996 film "Independence Day", it stars an ensemble cast featuring Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe, Jessie Usher, Travis Tope, William Fichtner, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Judd Hirsch, Brent Spiner, and Sela Ward.
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Humans (TV series) Humans (stylised as HUM∀NS) is a science fiction television series that debuted on 14 June 2015 on Channel 4 and AMC. Written by the British team Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley, based on the award-winning Swedish science fiction drama "Real Humans", the series explores the themes of artificial intelligence and robotics, focusing on the social, cultural, and psychological impact of the invention of anthropomorphic robots called "synths". The series is produced jointly by AMC in the United States, and Channel 4 and Kudos in Britain.
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An Insignificant Man An Insignificant Man an upcoming 2016 Hindi/English Indian political thriller directed by and and produced by filmmaker Anand Gandhi (known for his film "Ship of Theseus"), and is about the rise of anti-corruption protests in India and the formation and rise to power of the Aam Aadmi Party (Common Man's Party). The film received a standing ovation at its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and has gone on to have sold out screenings at major festival across the world including the BFI London Film Festival & Busan International Film Festival.
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Max Burkholder Max Henry Wolf Burkholder (born November 1, 1997) is an American actor most notable for his role of Max Braverman, who has Asperger syndrome, in the NBC comedic television drama "Parenthood". Prior to that, he became known as a voice actor for his roles as Chomper in "The Land Before Time", Roo on "My Friends Tigger & Pooh", and World in the "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" television movie "". In 2013, he appeared in "The Purge".
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Population control Population control is the practice of artificially altering the size of any population. It typically refers to the act of limiting the size of an animal population so that it remains manageable, as opposed to the act of protecting a species from excessive rates of extinction, which is referred to as conservation biology.
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Lavalantula Lavalantula is an American 2015 science fiction horror thriller television film directed by Mike Mendez and starring Steve Guttenberg, Nia Peeples and Patrick Renna. It premiered on Syfy on July 25, 2015.
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I.T. (film) I.T. is a 2016 thriller film directed by John Moore and written by Dan Kay and William Wisher. It stars Pierce Brosnan, James Frecheville, Anna Friel, Stefanie Scott and Michael Nyqvist and was produced by David T. Friendly and Beau St. Clair, who was Brosnan's producing partner at the production company Irish DreamTime before her death. The film was released on September 23, 2016, with a limited release and on video on demand.
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The Purge: Election Year The Purge: Election Year is a 2016 American dystopian action horror film written and directed by James DeMonaco and starring Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell and Mykelti Williamson. It is the sequel to 2014's "" and is the third installment in "The Purge" franchise.
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Containment (TV series) Containment is an American limited series, based on the Belgian TV series "Cordon". The show was officially ordered as a series by The CW on May 7, 2015, and aired from April 19 through July 19, 2016. The series follows an epidemic that breaks out in Atlanta, leaving a section of the city cordoned off under quarantine and those stuck on the inside fighting for their lives. Major themes in the series are love, loss, and duty.
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Virtual Revolution Virtual Revolution is a 2016 indie science fiction film directed and written by Guy-Roger Duvert, and starring Mike Dopud, Jane Badler, Jochen Hägele and Maximilien Poullein.The film is set in dystopian Neo Paris in which people have embraced virtual reality completely.
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Dimension 404 Dimension 404 is an American science fiction black comedy drama anthology series created by Dez Dolly and Will Campos, and co-created by Dan Johnson and David Welch. It began airing on April 4, 2017 on the streaming service Hulu. The series is produced by RocketJump and Lionsgate Television, with each episode being its own self-contained television film. The series is heavily inspired by "The Twilight Zone" and "The Outer Limits". Its name is taken from the 1950s radio program Dimension X with 404 added on the end to signify its content is based on the internet generation. The number 404 is a reference to the HTTP status code signifying an error due to a webpage not being found.
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Exposed (2016 film) Exposed (originally titled "Daughter of God") is a 2016 American thriller film, written and directed by Gee Malik Linton (credited as Declan Dale), at his directorial debut. The film stars Ana de Armas, Keanu Reeves, Christopher McDonald, Big Daddy Kane, and Mira Sorvino. The film was released in a limited release and through video on demand on January 22, 2016, by Lionsgate Premiere.
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Black Mass (film) Black Mass is a 2015 American biographical crime drama film directed by Scott Cooper and written by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth, based on the 2001 book "Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob" by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill. The film has an ensemble cast including Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kevin Bacon, Jesse Plemons, Peter Sarsgaard, Rory Cochrane, Adam Scott, Dakota Johnson and Corey Stoll.
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Fattitude Fattitude is a (2016) documentary film by Lindsey Averill and Viridiana Lieberman. The movie is about fat discrimination and its main obective is to make the general public more aware of the prejudice that fat people experience. The movie propagates the fat acceptance movement—a social movement that seeks to change anti-fat bias in social attitudes. The film was financed by running a successful crowdfunding campaign at the website Kickstarter in which 1,073 backers pledged $44,140 to help bring this project to life.
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Transpecos (film) Transpecos is a 2016 American thriller film directed by Greg Kwedar, and written by Kwedar and Clint Bentley. The film stars Johnny Simmons, Gabriel Luna, and Clifton Collins, Jr. as border patrol agents who encounter a Mexican drug cartel. The film premiered at South by Southwest on March 13, 2016. The film was released on September 9, 2016, in a limited release and through video on demand by Samuel Goldwyn Films.