Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Charades Boards J.-P. Valkeapaa’s Spain-Set Finnish Crime Film ‘Hit Big’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comElsa Keslassy International CorrespondentCharades (“Petrov’s Flu,””Diamantino”) has come on board “Hit Big”, a dark humor-laced crime film set in Spain and directed by critically acclaimed Finnish filmmaker, Jukka-Pekka Valkeapaa (“They Have Escaped”).
Currently in post, the film is being presented at the work-in-progress sidebar of Goteborg Festival’s Nordic Film Market. On the ground in Goteborg is Daniel Kuitunen, who is producing the movie through his Helsinki-based banner Komeetta. “Hit Big” revolves around Marjaleena, a 60 year-old boozed-up former beauty pageant who left Finland for Spain’s Costa del Sol where she runs Bar Belle, once a popular spot of Finnish tourists, with her handyman Mikko.
One day, they hear that Marjaleena’s husband, Worm, will be released after twenty years in prison and is planning a dream life with his cell-mate lover thanks to the stashed proceeds of a major heist.
Feeling betrayed, Marjaleena sets off to get her share of the millions. The colorful cast is headlined by Johannes Holopainen (“Heavy Trip”), Outi Mäenpää (“Beyond”), Ilkka Heiskanen (“Hiljaisuus”), and Pääru Oja, who was named a EFP Shooting Star at the Berlinale in 2020, among others. “Hit Big” will mark Valkeapaa’s follow up to “Dogs Don’t Wear Pants” which world premiered at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight in 2019.
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