Meet Ellen Alexander, a Russian model/singer set in the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles. She has been travelling since the age of 14 years old, realizing her dream of success Stateside. Now seeing the US as her home, she travels the world for her career, notably having worked in the US and the UK. It has been all go since her arrival, but now she has another project in sight. Because why stop at just one goal?
She started off her early days of modelling being her father’s muse, the scientist and avid photographer took photos of his daughter, which helped kick start her modelling career. She went on to doing national commercial shoots or on television. Nowadays, she’s travelling all over for all sorts of shoots – her favorite being editorial campaigns for fashion publications. You may have seen her on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar Vietnam, FHM, Playboy and Maxim Belgium and France but to name a few! Despite the long hours and loneliness from travelling, Ellen is more motivated than ever about her present and future projects.
She has had a successful career in television, having featured in many TV series such as Law of the Lawless, Poor Anastasia,White Famous, A Mother’s Sacrifice and My Husband’s Deadly Past. She has also turned her hand to producing, having produced and starred in The100Jokes, showing her versatility within the entertainment industry.
Her parents are prestigious second generation of scientists back in Russia, and she strived to be different from them. Her grandfather was even a significant figure within the Russian space industry. Despite that history, she was proud to make her own way in life.
After an economics degree that her parents wished her to do, she soon realized that her real wish was to work in the entertainment industry. Although modelling didn’t necessarily impact negatively her self-image, she is very careful to stay down to Earth and natural. She is determined to stay grounded, something so important in a busy industry. In fact, despite all the fashion campaigns she has shot for, she’s most relaxed in comfortable and casual clothing – you won’t see her dressed up just to head to the shops!
Ellen’s enthusiasm for the entertainment industry shines through, and her approach to her work life is refreshing. She is determined to have fun, love what she does, and to no longer dedicate time to projects that aren’t for her. We have all spent too much time worrying, or working on things that don’t deserve an ounce of our dedication – Ellen realized this very early on in her adult life and it has since become her mantra.
Next on her to-do list? Music. At a very early age, her passion for music begun, singing in a choir in Russia and writing poetry. Today, she is slowly but surely releasing her own music. She is also a talented songwriter and producer, writing all of her own songs and creating remixes. Although she still wants to continue her modelling career, she wants to show her versatility. Her sound? A genre to match each mood – EDM, ballads, tropical house… you’ll soon find a firm favorite amongst her track list.
Keep your eyes pealed for this lady, she means business! And her music won’t leave your playlists!
Ellen’s new music video to her song “Shadows” has recently premiered and is available for everyone to enjoy on Youtube:
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Dan Smith is probably best known for his writing skill, which was adapted into news articles. He earned degree in Literature from Chicago University. He published his first book while an English instructor. After that he published 8 books in his career. He has more than six years’ experience in publication. And now he works as a writer of news on Apsters Media website which is related to news analysis from entertainment and technology industry.
The box office for Wicked hits a significant milestone worldwide as it gets ready to surpass Godzilla x Kong and Kung Fu Panda 4.
Wicked is still doing well despite recent box office releases that have caused significant disappointment. The most recent Wizard of Oz musical was too good for the Spider-Man villain and the Tolkien adaption to compete with Kraven the Hunter and The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim in the same week. Wicked has already exceeded its $145 million budget following a record-breaking first weekend that raked in over $160 million globally.
It has achieved even more success this past weekend. Variety said that after making $359 million domestically, the musical adaption made over $524 million internationally. It is currently on track to surpass Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and Kung Fu Panda 4, which brought in $547.6 million and $571.1 million, respectively. Having significantly outperformed Grease’s $188.62 million total, it is also officially the highest-grossing Broadway adaption in domestic box office history.
What the Box Office Success of Wicked Means
Musicals and animated blockbusters are regaining their position at the box office after ten years of action film supremacy. Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4 have taken first and third place for the entire year, while Moana 2 and Wicked are the top films this weekend. With a $1.3 billion box office total, Deadpool & Wolverine is still in second place, but it’s probably the only action film to stay in the top five globally. Dune: Part Two may lose its position when Mufasa: The Lion King is released the following week:
Title
Domestic
Worldwide
Inside Out 2
$653 million
$1.7 billion
Deadpool & Wolverine
$637 million
$1.3 billion
Despicable Me 4
$360 million
$970 million
Moana 2
$338 million
$717 million
Dune: Part Two
$282 million
$714 million
This pattern is probably due to the fact that, other from Deadpool & Wolverine, neither DC nor Marvel have released any successful films this year. With Joker: Folie à Deux, DC tried to duplicate its $1 billion triumph, but it only made $200 million globally. With the exception of Wicked, every film in the top 10 global releases for 2024 has been a sequel, creating a distinct market. Based on a Broadway musical and The Wizard of Oz, Wicked is not a completely original film, but its box office performance does demonstrate that non-sequels may be successful in theaters in today IP-driven landscape.
Todd Haynes was planning to cast Danny Ramirez and Joaquin Phoenix in a gay romance movie. However, Phoenix left the untitled production five days before Guadalajara, Mexico, filming got underway.
At the Academy Museum Gala on Saturday night in Los Angeles, Ramirez told Variety’s Marc Malkin, “It’s definitely disappointing.” “If anything,” he continued, “If anything, it just gave me more inspiration to keep driving, keep pushing, and knowing that I’m on the right path and approaching the work the right way. So that’s what I’m excited about.”
The movie, which depended on Phoenix’s casting, was in danger after it was revealed in August that he had quit the production, according to sources. Two guys in love in the 1930s who escape Los Angeles and travel to Mexico were the main subject of the NC-17-rated movie.
“It’s definitely a very complicated situation,” Ramirez stated. “The audition process was extensive, and so what I walked away with that was just the artistic validation of throwing down opposite of [Phoenix] in this chemistry read… There was a moment that I was like, ‘Oh, I’ve arrived as a performer.’”
“The most recent update is ‘hopefully.’” Ramirez said in response to a question about whether the movie is still in development with filmmaker Haynes.
Although David Schwimmer admits his “career would have taken a very different trajectory” if he had been the lead in the 1997 movie, he doesn’t regret declining Men in Black.
The actor said, “That’s not why I turned it down,” in response to a question on a recent episode of the podcast Origins With Cush Jumbo regarding whether he rejected down the successful franchise because it conflicted with his Friends filming schedule. Rather, he decided to become a feature film director.
Schwimmer said, “[It] was a brutal decision.” the actor chuckles. “I had just finished filming The Pallbearer, my first film with Gwyneth Paltrow, and there were high expectations of that, which didn’t come true (Laughs). It was kind of a bomb, but there were high expectations, and the studio, which was Miramax, wanted to lock me into a three-picture deal at a fixed price, and I said I would do that if I got to direct my first movie.”
After months of talks, the intelligence actor said that they had come to an agreement whereby he “would act in three more movies for them” in exchange for allowing him to “direct my entire theater company in the first film,” Since You’ve Been Gone from 1998. The film was told through the perspective of a doctor who was severely beaten up by a fellow graduate on graduation day, humiliating him and setting the stage for a ten-year class reunion.
“All these unknown actors but I was going to put them on the map, basically. I was going to let everyone discover the talent of this amazing company,” Schwimmer said, “We found this amazing script, and we were developing it. We started pre-production. All my best friends in the world in my theater company quit their jobs so they could be in this film over the summer, which was going to be a six-week shoot in Chicago.”
However, Schwimmer had to make a tough decision about his career because the production for his directing debut happened to coincide with the filming of Men in Black.
The Six Days Seven Nights actor recalls, “We’re in pre-production, hired the whole crew, everything’s going and that’s when I was offered Men in Black.” “It was a direct conflict with this. My summer window from Friends was four months. I had a four-month hiatus and Men in Black was going to shoot exactly when I was going to direct this film with my company. And of course, it was an amazing opportunity. However, my theater company and that relationship with all those people would probably have ended. I don’t think it would have recovered.”
Schwimmer stated that he is unsure if “he made the right choice,” but he firmly feels that in these kinds of circumstances “you have to follow your gut, you have to follow your heart.”
“Look, I’m really aware, whatever 20 years later maybe more, [Men in Black] would have made me a movie star,” he continued. “If you look at the success of that film and that franchise, my career would have taken a very different trajectory.”
In the end, Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith played the key parts in the Men in Black franchise.