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Bill Skarsgård Receives the IMDb STARmeter Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Col Needham, Founder and CEO of IMDb, the world's most popular and
authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content, presented Bill
Skarsgård (It, Castle Rock) with the IMDb "Fan
Favorite" STARmeter Award today in The IMDb Studio at the 2018 Sundance
Film Festival. Bill Skarsgård was recently named IMDb's No.
1 Breakout Star and No. 5 Top Star of 2017, and his film It
ranked No. 1 on IMDb's Top
10 Movies of 2017 list as determined by IMDbPro STARmeter and
MOVIEmeter rankings, which are based on the actual page views of IMDb's
more than 250 million monthly unique visitors. Skarsgård stars in Assassination
Nation, which makes its world premiere in the Midnight section
of the Sundance Film Festival tonight.
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Bill Skarsgård receives the IMDb "Fan Favorite" STARmeter Award from Col Needham, Founder and CEO of IMDb, in The IMDb Studio at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. (Photo: Business Wire)
"I'm very glad fans weren't scared off by my portrayal of Pennywise in It
and are turning to IMDb to learn more about my other projects, including Assassination
Nation," said Skarsgård. "Thanks to all the fans who made 2017 a
very fun and exciting year for me, and to the fans and IMDb for this
award. I'll be sure to add this to my page next time I log in!"
"Bill Skarsgård took on an iconic - and nightmare-inducing - role in
last year's It and helped propel the film's record-breaking
success," said Needham. "IMDb's hundreds of millions of users around the
world wanted to know more about the actor behind the creepy clown
make-up, catapulting Bill to the top of our IMDbPro STARmeter chart.
Bill joins an elite group of previous IMDb STARmeter Award recipients
including Brie Larson, Felicity Jones and Sam Rockwell, and I have no
doubt that Bill will continue to enchant audiences for years to come."
The presentation of the STARmeter Award to Skarsgård builds on IMDb's
tradition of giving the STARmeter Award at the Sundance Film Festival to
a top performer on IMDb's year-end Top 10 lists, which are determined by
IMDbPro data on the page views of IMDb's hundreds of millions of
visitors worldwide. The recipient of the IMDb STARmeter Award at the
2017 Sundance Film Festival was Peter Dinklage, star of Game of
Thrones, IMDb's No. 1 show of 2017 and each of the past five years
based on IMDbPro data. In 2016, the IMDb STARmeter Award was presented
to Bryce Dallas Howard, IMDb's No. 1 Breakout Star of 2015 as determined
by IMDbPro STARmeter data. IMDb most recently presented STARmeter Awards
to Sam Rockwell, Tatiana Maslany and Sverrir Gudnason at the 2017
Toronto International Film Festival. Other previous IMDb STARmeter Award
recipients include Brie Larson, Felicity Jones, Olivia Wilde and Miles
Teller.
"IMDbPro's STARmeter charts have a proven history of accurately
predicting emerging stars who are about to break through, including
previous No. 1 Breakout Stars of the year Millie Bobby Brown (2016),
Bryce Dallas Howard (2015) and Margot Robbie (2014)," said Matt Kumin,
Head of IMDbPro. "Our STARmeter Awards, weekly STARmeter rankings,
year-end lists and other tools that are available to IMDbPro members
inform and empower them with the information they need to make smart
business decisions."
Assassination Nation, from director and screenwriter Sam Levinson
and producers David S. Goyer, Anita Gou, Kevin Turen, Aaron L. Gilbert
and Matthew J. Malek, is described as the "one-thousand-percent true
story about how the quiet, all-American town of Salem, absolutely lost
its mind." In addition to Bill Skårsgard, the cast includes Odessa
Young, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef, Abra and Bella Thorne.
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IMDb's original coverage of the 2018 Festival will be accessible by IMDb
users worldwide via IMDb's website, mobile apps and social media
followers. IMDbPro members on the go can quickly and easily access the
leading resource for entertainment industry professionals by downloading
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app for iPhone.
Additional insight into trending movies, TV shows and entertainment
industry professionals is available to IMDbPro (http://www.imdbpro.com)
members through tools including its exclusive STARmeter and MOVIEmeter
rankings, which are updated weekly on both the IMDbPro site and its
recently launched iPhone
app. IMDbPro, a membership-based service, includes comprehensive
information and tools designed to help entertainment industry
professionals achieve success throughout all stages of their career.
IMDbPro offers members the following: detailed contact and
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credits they are best "known for"; exclusive STARmeter and MOVIEmeter
rankings determined by page views on IMDb; a casting service to post
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The IMDbPro app empowers members with a convenient way to search the
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membership-based service includes comprehensive information and tools
that are designed to help entertainment industry professionals achieve
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and apply to roles, a mobile optimized website and more. Additionally,
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About Bill Skarsgård
Bill Skarsgård was born on August 9, 1990 in Vällingby, Sweden. He is an
actor, known for It (2017), Allegiant (2016) and Atomic
Blonde (2017).
About Assassination Nation
Assassination Nation, from director and screenwriter Sam Levinson
and producers David S. Goyer, Anita Gou, Kevin Turen, Aaron L. Gilbert
and Matthew J. Malek, is a one-thousand-percent true story about how the
quiet, all-American town of Salem, absolutely lost its mind. The cast
includes Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef, Abra, Bill Skårsgard
and Bella Thorne. The film made its world premiere on Sunday, January
21, in the Midnight section of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

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