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In April 2016, Peele announced on Late Night with Seth Meyers that he'd eloped with wife Chelsea Peretti, a comedian and star of television's Brooklyn Nine-Nine. According to Peretti's Instagram, the wedding ceremony was witnessed by their dog. |
Peretti told Entertainment Weekly that she and Peele "met on the Internet, on Twitter." They began dating in 2012 and announced their engagement via Twitter in November 2015. The couple had a baby boy, Beaumont Gino Peele, on July 1, 2017, in Los Angeles. |
Peele was born to a white mother, Lucinda Williams, and a black father. His father, who passed away in 1999, exited Peele's life when Peele was about six, and he grew up on New York City's Upper West Side in a single-parent household. When a young Peele appeared on the ABC special "Kids Ask President Clinton ... |
Peele has admitted that being biracial often made him feel like an outsider, such as when he had to place himself in the racial category of "other" when taking standardized tests (he began selecting "African American" as he grew older). Some of his classmates didn't believe his mother was white, and growing up he ... |
Fresh off his Oscar win in March 2018, Peele revealed he would be reteaming with his old comedy partner Keegan-Michael Key for a stop-motion animated feature titled Wendell and Wild. In addition to providing voice work alongside Key, Peele would co-write the film with director Harry Selick, known for his work on such a... |
Additionally, Peele intends to address other societal issues by creating more "social thrillers" in the vein of Get Out. He has said he hasn't ruled out making a Get Out sequel, as long as he feels he can improve on the original movie. |
For Peele, it's better to focus on his own projects; for example, he turned down the opportunity to direct a live-action version of Akira. He told Blumhouse.com, "The real question for me is: Do I want to do pre-existing material, or do I want to do original content? At the end of the day, I want to do original st... |
With his production company Monkeypaw Productions, Peele is also trying to share stories from underrepresented populations. He signed on as an executive producer for the Twilight Zone reboot that debuted on CBS All Access in April 2019 and produced director Spike Lee's BlackKklansman (2018), based on the real-life... |
Other projects Peele is working on include Lovecraft Country for HBO (a combination of Jim Crow racism and supernatural horrors) and a TV series about a group hunting Nazis in 1970s America. |
Before he turned to directing with Get Out, Peele was best known for the Comedy Central show he co-created and starred in with Key: Key & Peele. The series featured sketches about topics that included race, racism, homophobia and gender, many of which had viewers laughing while also making them think. The show won two ... |
One recurring Key & Peele segment combined Peele's spot-on Obama impersonation with Key's role as Obama's "Anger Translator" Luther; another popular sketch saw Peele transform into a demanding woman called Meegan. Besides being a hit on Comedy Central, Key and Peele sketches reached more than a billion t... |
Peele and Key first met in Chicago in 2003, when they were both doing improv, and worked together on the Fox sketch show Mad TV from 2003 to 2009. The pair also shared the screen in Keanu (2016), a movie Peele co-wrote. |
Peele has been a voice actor on numerous shows, including Bob's Burgers, Big Mouth and Rick and Morty; he has also voiced characters for films like Captain Underpants (2017). |
Alongside Key, Peele guest starred as an FBI agent on the TV show Fargo in 2014. |
Peele was disappointed when he landed a slot on Saturday Night Live to impersonate Barack Obama, only to have to turn the job down as he was still under contract with Mad TV. |
When Was Jordan Peele Born? |
Jordan Haworth Peele was born on February 21, 1979, in New York City. |
Growing up, Peele attended New York City's P.S. 87 and the Calhoun School. He also performed with the TADA! Youth Theater. |
Peele started at Sarah Lawrence College with the intention of becoming a puppeteer. However, performing improv while at school led to his dropping out in order to pursue a career in comedy. |
Peele found success with the improv groups Boom Chicago, based in Amsterdam, and Chicago's Second City before moving onto television. |
Peele became a fan of horror movies as a child, with favorites such as Gremlins (1984) and The Shining (1980) (Get Out contains an Easter egg reference to the number 237, the haunted room from The Shining). Peele also loved 1980s fantasy movies such as Labyrinth and The NeverEnding Story. |
Working in improv and comedy let Peele develop a sense of timing that helped him succeed as a director. And he feels the different parts of his career have inherent connections, saying in a 2016 interview with Forbes, "As with comedy, I feel like horror and the thriller genre is a way, one of the few ways, that we can ... |
Peele is also determined to build on his past success. In 2017 he told ET, "This is just the beginning of what I want to do with the horror genre and social thrillers. I’m dedicating my life to putting out crazy, weird horror films." |
Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson joined Hollywood's list of power families this past weekend as 20th Century Fox's "The Simpsons Movie" conquered the North American boxoffice with a final tally of $74 million. Debuting in 3,922 theaters nationwide, the traditionally animated film posted a per-theater average... |
Despite — or maybe because of — an 18-year run as a TV series on the Fox network, the Simpson clan, originally created by cartoonist Matt Groening, drew upon a solid fan base. CinemaScore's sampling of the opening-weekend audience found that the movie attracted an audience that tilted male (63%) and younger than 25 (59... |
The Simpsons easily dominated the frame. The romantic comedy "No Reservations," from Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow and Castle Rock, made a bid for older, female filmgoers. The PG-rated "Reservations," an adaptation of Sandra Nettelbeck's German film "Mostly Martha," checked in in the weekend's fifth slot. Dir... |
"I Know Who Killed Me," an R-rated thriller, didn't pick up any traction from the fact that it was frequently mentioned in press reports last week when its star, Lindsay Lohan, was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence and cocaine possession. A TriStar Pictures title released by Sony Pictures, the movie... |
MGM's release of the culture clash comedy "Who's Your Caddy?" the weekend's final new wide release, squeezed into the 10th slot. The PG-13 "Caddy," the first release from Our Stories Films, a joint venture between BET founder Robert Johnson and the Weinstein Co., scored $2.8 million in 1,019 theaters. |
Powered by "The Simpsons," the frame saw a boxoffice surge over the comparable weekend last year, when "Miami Vice" launched to the tune of $25.7 million to take the top slot away from holdover "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest." The 108 films tracked this weekend by The Hollywood Reporter grossed a collectiv... |
In their second weekend, both Universal Pictures' comedy "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" and New Line Cinema's musical "Hairspray" held up well. In the second slot, "Chuck," dropping just 44%, grossed $19.1 million, bringing its domestic cume to $71.7 million. In the fourth position, "Hairspray" fell only 42%, gr... |
In its third weekend, Warners' "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" collected an additional $17.7 million as its domestic purse grew to $242.4 million. |
In limited release, MGM moved the military survival tale "Rescue Dawn," directed by Werner Herzog, into 500 theaters, where it pulled in $1.7 million, bringing its tally to nearly $3 million. |
Fox Searchlight sent its "Sunshine," director Danny Boyle's yarn about a space craft sent to save the dying sun, into 461 theaters, where it captured $1.3 million, raising its total gross to $1.6 million. |
Michael Moore's documentary "Sicko," which the Weinstein Co. is releasing through Lionsgate, found an additional $1.2 million. Its domestic gross to date stood at just a shade under $21.5 million as the film stands on the verge of surpassing Moore's own "Bowling for Columbine." |
In a note out Wednesday morning, analyst Martin Yang of Oppenheimer reiterated a Perform rating on shares of OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OVTI) without providing a price target. |
"OVTI reported better-than-expected F2Q15 revenues/EPS of $394M/$0.60, beating the Street's $378M/$0.51E and our $374M/$0.49E. F3Q15 guidance is below consensus. Management gave no update regarding HCM's proposed acquisition. Our caution toward a weak F2H15 deepens as smartphone products are negatively affected by marg... |
Results: Total revenues declined 3% Q/Q and 1% Y/Y. OVTI shipped 246M units, down 1% Q/Q and up 4% Y/Y; ASP dropped 4% Y/Y to $1.60 due to competition. Gross margin stayed strong, up 30 bps Q/Q to 22%. Obsolete inventory had a net impact of $4.9M. Mobile phone sales were 68% of total. |
Positives: CMOS sensors for auto market kept showing strong momentum y/y, now accounting for 6% of total sales. Security product also saw robust growth supported by transition from VGA to HD. OVTI's own stacked die CMOS line "PureCel-S" was launched in F2Q15 to compete on the high-end. |
Negatives: a few headwinds will keep negatively impacting seasonally weaker F2H15: 1) shrinking revenues from Apple, 2) inventory issues in China due to 4G transition, and 3) margin headwinds due to new product launch. |
Guidance and Model Changes: F3Q15 revenues/non-GAAP EPS are guided at $275-305M and $0.22-0.38. We lower our FY15 and FY16 revenues/EPS from $1,419M/$1.88 and $1,420/$1.45 to $1,359/$1.88 and $1,320/$1.12 based on more intensive competition and margin pressure. |
Yang will stay sidelined until multiple headwinds play out in F2H15, seeing increased volatility given OmniVision's exposure to Chinese customers. He reiterated his near-term negative bias on the entire smartphone supply chain. |
The Czech Christian Democrats’ campaign for the EU elections got off to a rocky start earlier this month after it included a controversial line about immigration in its party programme. |
The centre-right party (KDU-CSL), pro-Europeans and part of the governing coalition, presented its programme for the elections with a traditional agenda: united Europe, social-market economy, care for families. |
But it was the very last sentence of the short manifesto that brought the party into the spotlight. |
It focused on immigration, a hot potato theme that features in the domestic campaigns of many of the member states ahead of the May EU vote. |
“We don’t want Europe full of inadaptable immigrants who burn cars on the city outskirts, deal drugs and bring radical Islamism with them,” the programme read. |
The line made it to Facebook where most users of the social network thought it came from the far-right anti-immigrant Usvit (the Dawn) party. |
When it became clear the sentence was part of the Christians democrats’ programme, mainstream media took up the issue. |
When confronted with the text, Pavel Svoboda, heading the euro-deputy list for the KDU-CSL, said it had been “taken out of context”. |
However, there was no other context except that lone sentence. In addition, there is no domestic debate on radical Islamism. There are very few Muslims in the Czech Republic - the 10-million strong country has just one mosque. |
The party then explained that its European programme was “mistakenly published” on its website in its “working version”. In the end, the party said the topic was formulated in a very “unlucky way” and the sentence was deleted from the programme. |
Svoboda maintains the KDU-CSL wanted to present its migration strategy in a “constructive and broader European” context but it was all “misunderstood”. |
He denied that the rising anti-immigrant sentiment in the Czech Republic – from which Usvit is largely benefitting – played a role in how the vexed sentenced was formulated. |
Around the same time as the controversy was playing out, a major polling agency unveiled a survey showing that the majority of Czechs thinks there are “too many” foreigners in the country. |
This is despite the fact that the Czech Republic is one of the most ethnically homogenous states in Europe with fewer than 4 percent of the population being non-Czechs. |
Despite rising animosity towards the country's minority Roma population – or perhaps precisely because of it – there is now a record number of Roma running in the Czech EU elections. |
Czech MEP Libor Roucek has just learnt a hard lesson about the true distance between Brussels and Prague, finding himself so far down his party's list that he is unlikely to return to the European Parliament. |
Pollsters say populist politics could get 10 percent of the votes in the EU elections, with the anti-Roma Usvit scooping the lion's share. |
If a stranger landed in the Czech Republic's EU election campaign, they would think the past 10 years of EU membership was a national disaster. |
Czech President Milos Zeman is unabashedly pro-Russian, embarassing the government which is following the general EU line on Russia. |
Bellator MMA on Monday unveiled plans to hold events on back-to-back days at the Winstar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. |
The friends, family and fans of Benson Henderson would have been better off looking the other way. |
Sherdog.com's live Bellator 153 coverage kicks off at 7 p.m. ET. Also, watch a free live stream of the undercard HERE. |
This week the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change met in Copenhagen to approve a report that crystallizes the work of three previous panels. |
That work — from 938 scientists, vetted by 3,697 scientific, government, industry and non-governmental reviewers — shows that humans caused more than half of the observed increase in global temperature from 1951-2010, and we face irreversible, and potentially catastrophic, changes to global climate if we do not take ac... |
It is thus time for Canada to take the lead on fighting climate change. We are lagging behind other developed nations in meeting our international obligations to implement effective mitigation. |
Climate change is happening, and it offers many opportunities for innovative policy, technology and development in Canada to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Such actions will contribute to environmental and human wellbeing, at home and abroad. |
Canadians can be proud of the many outstanding initiatives at provincial and municipal levels, from Ontario’s withdrawal from coal-fired power plants to Vancouver’s concrete plan to become the world’s greenest city by 2020. |
This working group focuses on mitigation and provides a clear assessment of a number of potential routes to sustainability (including energy supply and use, primary production, and societal changes), along with their costs and benefits. Strikingly, a majority of those routes to sustainability are feasible, affordable, ... |
As an interdisciplinary initiative of more than 55 Canadian researchers working on sustainability, the Sustainable Canada Dialogues project wishes to highlight the importance of the IPCC process. A co-ordinated response to climate change is becoming ever more urgent, and ignoring it now will only increase the damage an... |
The world is beginning to take notice. The report notes that the proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions that are subject to regulation has increased by nearly 50% since 2007. However, Canada’s emissions continue to climb, in spite of our Arctic and sub-Arctic regions being some of the fastest-warming places on E... |
The Sustainable Canada Dialogues is in the final stages of developing a pathway of sustainability solutions that will make a real difference to the global environment and Canadian society — with positive or only transient negative impacts on the economy. |
Climate change needs to be clearly addressed during the 2015 federal election, and we are striving to provide evidence-based information to Canadian voters. We look forward to contributing positive, Canada-focused, proposals to this discussion. |
Each IPCC report, including the report worked on this week, comes with a summary for policy-makers. These summaries provide a coherent and meaningful explanation of climate change issues both for policymakers and voters. |
We are striving to provide evidence-based information to Canadian voters so that climate action can be a key issue in their decision-making. We believe it is essential that all political parties seriously consider this report as they formulate their election-year platforms. |
Brent Sinclair, an associate professor in the department of biology at Western University, is writing on behalf of Sustainable Canada Dialogues. |
Just when you thought you had heard it all when it comes to Easter treats this year Lidl rolls out one more surprise. Hot cross bun WINE. |
And judging by the latest edition to the Easter selection the mouthwatering treats don't stop there. |
Lidl has upped its game and it's latest launch is made for hot cross bun fans. |
The popular supermarket has introduced a sweet, vegan wine into its spring drinks collection and it's designed to be the perfect seasonal tipple. |
According to experts, the Moscatel Reserva de Familia, is reminiscent of the traditional spiced and sweet buns thanks to its rich complexity and notes of raisin and fig. |
And best part of all, the wine will only set you back £6.99. |
Richard Bampfield, Lidl’s Master of Wine, says “This rare Spanish wine from the historic Malaga region boasts unique aromas of raisins and sweet spice, very much like that of the cinnamon and nutmeg flavours in hot cross buns. |
Lidl’s Moscatel Reserva de Familia is the perfect Easter treat to stock up on ahead of the long bank holiday weekend. |
The £6.99 wine is in stores now, forming part of its Spring Wine Tour. |
If you fancy eating a hot cross bun while you sip one too, Aldi has added some interesting options to its range this year. There are four new buns in the retailer's Specially Selected line, including the delicious-sounding Rhubarb & Custard flavoured buns. |
The Delhi high court on Tuesday refused to entertain a public interest litigation seeking a ban on burqas and other face veils in public places due to security threat to the capital, saying it is not a public interest matter. |
A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangeeta Dhingra Sehgal dismissed the plea saying, "If it is a policy decision, the government will take care of it. How can we entertain it under Article 226 (power of high courts to issue certain writs). |
"We cannot interfere in this writ petition. The same is dismissed. It is not an issue which deserves consideration by this court under the Article. It is not a matter of public interest." |
The plea sought a ban on wearing face veils including burqas, helmets, hoods etc at public places like transport, government buildings and heritage sites in the capital on the ground of threat from terror activities. |
The plea, filed by Sardar Ravi Ranjan Singh, alleged, "The use of face coverings and wearing of full body cover like the burqa is a serious security issue and citizens are put to constant risk and fear in the capital which is in violation of Article 21(protection of life and personal liberty) of the Constitution of Ind... |
It said, "There is a rapid growth in terrorist activities and that the perpetrators of these criminal acts show no respect to burqa and ruthlessly use it as an instrument to carry out 'fidayeen' attacks." |
The petitioner also referred to the recent attacks in Uri in Jammu and Kashmir and said public safety and the government offices in the capital are at constant risk. |
"Face veils, burqas can be used to prevent identification at border check-posts etc. Further, criminals and extremists can use burqas to skip checking at police posts and barricades," the PIL which made Centre, Delhi government and National Security Council as parties, said. |
The burkini is just a bathing suit! |
Cycling is considered an individual sport. It's almost always solo cyclists -- as teams put every bit as much time into race preparation and group tactics as their counterparts in other sports. And just like in the more-publicized team sports -- despite the best-laid plans -- some of the most exciting moments are impro... |
Team High Road's Kim Anderson proved that during the women's Elite I race at the Merco Credit Union Cycling Classic's Downtown Grand Prix on Saturday. |
In order to keep the 40-lap, 32-mile race a little more interesting, race officials hand out cash prizes called prims -- usually $50 to $100 -- to various lap leaders. |
So with $100 on the line early in the race, Anderson chose to make a run. |
Fahlin -- a 19-year-old from Sweden -- won the race with a powerful sprint down the home stretch, but Anderson's hard work wasn't lost on her. |
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