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The Asylum
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The Asylum is an American independent film company and distributor that focuses on producing low-budget, direct-to-video films. The company has produced titles that capitalize on productions by major studios, often using film titles and these titles have been dubbed mockbusters by the press. Its titles are distributed by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, GT Media and they are perhaps best known for creating the Sharknado franchise. As of 2009/2010, The Asylum have never made any losses from their film productions, the Asylum was founded by director David Michael Latt and former Village Roadshow executives David Rimawi and Sherri Strain in 1997. In 2005, the company produced an adaptation of H. G. Wells The War of the Worlds. In 2007, similarities between the titles and those of major studios were reported. For example, the film Transmorphers bears a number of similarities to the film Transformers, according to Latt, Im not trying to dupe anybody. Im just trying to get my films watched, other people do tie-ins all the time, they’re just better at being subtle about it. Another studio might make a giant robot movie that ties into the Transformers release, in 2008, 20th Century Fox threatened legal action against The Asylum over The Day the Earth Stopped, a film capitalizing on The Day the Earth Stood Still. Similarly in May 2012, Universal Pictures filed a lawsuit against The Asylum for their film American Battleship, claiming infringement on their movie, as a result, The Asylum changed their title to American Warships. The Asylum claimed its movie is legally sound because its hobbits are not based on the J. R. R. Tolkien creations, the lawsuit resulted in a temporary restraining order preventing The Asylum from releasing the film on its scheduled release date. In February 2015, The Asylum signed a deal with Cinedigm Corp. The Asylum has been producing Z Nation for the Syfy Network since late 2014, the show about a group that attempts to get the only known person with immunity to a zombie virus from New York to the last operating lab in California. According to show-runner Karl Shaefer, the show is intended to bring a sense of hope to the horror of the apocalypse, ratings for Z Nation have been unexpectedly high, about 1.6 million per episode, and has been renewed for a third season. The Asylums usual budget for a production is well under a million dollars. The Asylum has never lost money on a film, the companys productions have been called B movies and mockbusters. Latt prefers the term tie-ins to mockbusters, stating that The Asylums productions, even those that capitalize on major releases, Latt states that the company plans its productions around the word of mouth of the financial prospects of upcoming films. The Asylums films are released on video shortly before the theatrical release of a major studio film with similar themes or storylines
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Michael Gross (actor)
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Michael Edward Gross is an American television, movie and stage actor. He played both comedic and dramatic roles, such as Steven Keaton from the sitcom Family Ties and the graboid hunter Burt Gummer from the Tremors film franchise. Gross was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Virginia Ruth, an operator, and William Oscar Gross. Gross was raised Catholic and attended St. Francis Xavier school in Chicago in his early years and he attended high school at Kelvyn Park High School on the north side of Chicago. He received his degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago before attending Yale University for his Master of Fine Arts degree. His younger sister, Mary Gross, is a former Saturday Night Live cast member, Gross is known for his roles as Steven Keaton in the 1980s sitcom Family Ties and as Burt Gummer in the Tremors movies and subsequent TV series. He guest starred in an episode of the sitcom Night Court, in which he played a sexual predator of Markie Posts character, in 1988, he portrayed a murderous bank robber in the true life movie In the Line of Duty, The F. B. I. His other television credits include Boston Legal, How I Met Your Mother, Batman Beyond, ER, Parks and Recreation, Law & Order, from August 2008 to January 2009, Gross appeared on the CBS soap The Young and the Restless as River Baldwin. Gross had a cameo in 2000 on Spin City as a therapist to Michael J. Foxs character on Foxs final show as a regular on that program. In November 1979, Gross originated the role of Greta in the Broadway production of Martin Shermans Bent, Gross has been married to casting director Elza Bergeron since June 2,1984, and he is a stepfather to her two daughters. Gross is a passionate railfan with a collection of railroad antiques. He is also the spokesman for the Worlds Greatest Hobby campaign sponsored by the Model Railroad Industry Association that promotes the hobby of model railroading and he has also been a spokesperson for Operation Lifesaver, a campaign promoting safety at railroad grade crossings. Beginning in 2009, Gross is the celebrity spokesman for the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore and he is also a member of the Santa Fe Railway Historical Society. Gross and his Family Ties co-star Meredith Baxter, were born on the same day, Michael Gross at the Internet Movie Database Gross at the Internet Broadway Database Michael Gross at Internet Off-Broadway Database
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Christopher Atkins
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Christopher Atkins is an American actor, who became famous in his debut role with co-star Brooke Shields in the 1980 film The Blue Lagoon. Atkins was born in Rye, New York, to German Americans Donald Bomann, in high school, he was a lifeguard and sailing instructor, where he was discovered for The Blue Lagoon. He had no previous interest or experience in acting, but an agent he knew persuaded him to audition for The Blue Lagoon, a role he won over 2,000 other actors. In the film, he and co-star Brooke Shields played two teenage cousins who have lived together since they were marooned as children in a tropical paradise. The film grossed over $58 million with a production cost of $4.5 million and he went on to star with Kristy McNichol in The Pirate Movie, an update of Gilbert and Sullivans operetta The Pirates of Penzance. From that movie, he sang How Can I Live Without Her which peaked at #71 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1982. In A Night in Heaven, also starring Lesley Ann Warren, Atkins played Rick Monroe, for one season, Atkins had a recurring role as swimming instructor Peter Richards on the CBS prime time soap opera Dallas in which his character has an affair with Sue Ellen Ewing. Atkins has been the boy of many teen magazines and has appeared in several television commercials representing Coke. In the 1990s and 2000s, he appeared in the made-for-network and cable movies Fatal Charms, Project Shadowchaser III, other projects includef Caved In, Spiritual Warriors, 13th Child, The Employee of the Month, Tequila Express, Quigley and True Legends of the West. Comic roles include Mortuary Academy, Shoot and he reunited with Shields on her series Suddenly Susan as a fellow journalist who is uninterested in her, in 2007, he starred in the direct-to-DVD sci-fi movie 100 Million BC. In 2009, he appeared on VH1s Confessions of a Teen Idol, Atkins married Lynne Barron Weber, of Sydney, Australia on 25 May 1985, the couple had two children, a son, Grant Bomann and a daughter, Brittney Bomann. He owns a sports company and has patented a fishing lure. Atkins was nominated for a Golden Globe Awards for New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture – Male for The Blue Lagoon as well as Best Young Actor for the Young Artist Awards. He has also twice nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor. He is ranked Number 76 on VH1s 100 Greatest Teen Stars, Christopher Atkins on Facebook Christopher Atkins at the Internet Movie Database Christopher Atkins at AllMovie
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Greg Evigan
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Gregory Ralph Greg Evigan is an American actor known for the television series B. J. and the Bear, My Two Dads, P. S. Evigan was born in South Amboy, New Jersey, the son of Barbara Elizabeth, a homemaker, and Ralph Milan Evigan and he grew up in Sayreville, New Jersey, and attended Sayreville War Memorial High School, graduating in 1971. In 2007 he was inducted into the schools Alumni Hall of Fame for his contributions to the arts, Evigan is married to dancer Pamela C. His youngest daughter Briana is the actress in Step Up 2, The Streets and Step Up. Another daughter is actress Vanessa Lee Evigan, Vanessa was in the Christmas movie Holiday in Handcuffs, with Mario Lopez and Melissa Joan Hart. Evigans son Jason is the front man of an LA-based band called After Midnight Project, Evigan was a teen idol during the late 1970s and early 1980s. He auditioned for and landed roles in Jesus Christ Superstar and Grease, however, Evigan appeared in other productions as well. It was with B. J. and the Bear that Evigan reached pop-star status, in 1980 he posed bare-chested for a pin-up wall poster. A Year at the Top B. J. and the Bear as Billie Joe B. J. S, I Luv U as Cody Powell/Joey Paciorek Columbo, A Bird in the Hand as Harold McCain Melrose Place as Dr. Die
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Stephen Blackehart
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Stephen T. Blackehart is an American actor, author and producer. In addition to his work, Blackehart has acted in such TV series as Greys Anatomy, The Big Apple. He was a regular on the BBCs The Tromaville Cafe, where he originated the role of Felix and it was subsequently picked up for distribution by Troma and garnered DVD Talks distinction as a Collectors Series disc immediately upon its video release. It was also voted #2 by the editors of Amazon in their list of Best DVDs of the Year - Comedy, in 2008 and 2009, he produced hit comedy web series PG Porn and Humanzee. for filmmaker James Gunn. In November 2014, he published a collection of novellas entitled A Stranger to the Darklands and it has been reported that Blackehart was born as Stefano Brando and is the son of the late actor Marlon Brando, though he denies that he is any relation. Stephen Blackehart at the Internet Movie Database Stephen Blackehart at AllMovie
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Scorpions (band)
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Scorpions are a German rock band formed in 1965 in Hanover by Rudolf Schenker. Since the bands inception, its style has ranged from hard rock to heavy metal. The lineup from 1978–92 was the most successful incarnation of the group, and included singer Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker, Matthias Jabs, Francis Buchholz, and Herman Rarebell. The bands only constant member has been Schenker, although Meine has been the singer for all of the bands studio albums. During the mid-1970s, with guitarist Uli Jon Roth part of the line-up and their best-selling album Crazy World includes the song Wind of Change, a symbolic anthem of the political changes in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is one of the singles in the world with over fourteen million copies sold. Scorpions have sold over 100 million records in total and they have released 18 studio albums,27 compilation albums and 74 singles. Six of their singles have reached number one on the charts in different countries and their albums, singles, compilations and video releases have reached 200 times gold, platinum and multi-platinum status in different countries. Rolling Stone Magazine described the Scorpions as the heroes of heavy metal, the band was ranked number 46 on VH1s Greatest Artists of Hard Rock programme, with Rock You Like a Hurricane at number 18 on VH1s list of the 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs. Still Loving You ranked 22nd place among the greatest ballads, Scorpions have received prestigious awards such as three World Music Awards, a star on the Hollywood Rock wall, and a presence in the permanent exhibition of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2015 the group celebrated its 50th anniversary, Rudolf Schenker, the bands rhythm guitarist launched the band in 1965. At first, the band had beat influences and Schenker himself handled the vocals, things began to come together in 1970 when Schenkers younger brother Michael and vocalist Klaus Meine joined the band. In 1972 the group recorded and released their debut album Lonesome Crow, with Lothar Heimberg on bass, during the Lonesome Crow tour, Scorpions opened for upcoming British band UFO. Near the end of the tour, guitarist Michael Schenker accepted an offer of lead guitar for UFO, Uli Roth, a friend of Michaels, was then introduced to the band and he helped them to finish off the tour. The departure of Michael Schenker led to the breakup of the band. In 1973, Uli Roth, who had helped Scorpions complete the Lonesome Crow tour, was offered the role as lead guitarist, Rudolf Schenker eventually decided that he wanted to work with Roth, but did not want to resurrect the last Scorpions lineup. He attended some of Dawn Roads rehearsals and ultimately decided to join the band, Uli Roth and Buchholz persuaded Rudolf Schenker to invite Klaus Meine to join on vocals, which he soon did. In 1974, the new line-up of Scorpions released Fly to the Rainbow, the album proved to be more successful than Lonesome Crow and songs such as Speedys Coming and the title track established the bands sound
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Philadelphia Experiment
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The U. S. Navy destroyer escort USS Eldridge was claimed to have been rendered invisible to enemy devices. The story is understood to be a hoax. The U. S. Note, Several different and sometimes contradictory versions of the experiment have circulated over the years. The following synopsis recounts key story points common to most accounts, the Navy regarded this of military value and, by the same accounts, it sponsored the experiment. In this version, there were also related secret experiments in Nazi Germany to find anti-gravity, there are no reliable, attributable accounts, but in most accounts of the supposed experiment, the USS Eldridge was fitted with the required equipment at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Testing allegedly began in the summer of 1943, and it was successful to a limited extent. One test allegedly resulted in Eldridge being rendered nearly invisible, with witnesses reporting a greenish fog appearing in its place. Crew members supposedly complained of severe nausea afterwards, at that point, the experiment was allegedly altered at the request of the Navy, with the new objective being solely to render the USS Eldridge invisible to radar. None of these allegations have been independently substantiated, the conjecture then alleges that the equipment was not properly re-calibrated, but that in spite of this, the experiment was repeated on October 28,1943. This time, Eldridge not only became invisible, but she disappeared from the area in a flash of light and teleported to Norfolk, Virginia. It was also said that the warship went approximately ten minutes back in time, many versions of the tale include descriptions of serious side effects for the crew. Some crew members were said to have been fused to bulkheads while others suffered from mental disorders, some re-materialized inside out. It is also claimed that the crew may have been subjected to brainwashing. Upon his arrival, Jessup was surprised to learn that a copy of The Case for the UFO had been mailed to the ONR in a manila envelope marked Happy Easter. The book had been annotated in its margins, and an ONR officer asked Jessup if he had any idea as to who had done so. The ONR labelled the other two Mr. A. and Mr. B, the annotators refer to each other as Gypsies, and discuss two different types of people living in outer space. Their text contained non-standard use of capitalization and punctuation, and detailed a lengthy discussion of the merits of various elements of Jessups assumptions in the book and their oblique references to the Philadelphia Experiment suggested prior knowledge. Based on the style and subject matter, Jessup identified Mr. A. as Allende / Allen
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United States Navy SEALs
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The United States Navys Sea, Air, and Land Teams, commonly abbreviated as the Navy SEALs, are the U. S. Navys primary special operations force and a component of the Naval Special Warfare Command. Among the SEALs main functions are conducting small-unit maritime military operations that originate from, and return to, the SEALs are trained to operate in all environments for which they are named. As of 2016, all active SEALs are currently male and members of the U. S. Navy, the CIAs highly secretive and elite Special Operations Group recruits operators from SEAL Teams, with joint operations going back to the MACV-SOG during the Vietnam War. This cooperation still exists today, as evidenced by military operations in Iraq, the modern day U. S. Navy SEALs can trace their roots to World War II. The United States Navy recognized the need for the reconnaissance of landing beaches. As a result, the Amphibious Scout and Raider School was established in 1942 at Fort Pierce, Florida. The Scouts and Raiders were formed in September of that year, just nine months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, from the Observer Group, a joint U. S. Army-Marine-Navy unit. The Scouts and Raiders mission was to identify and reconnoiter the objective beach, maintain a position on the designated beach prior to a landing, and guide the assault waves to the landing beach. The first group included Phil H. Bucklew, the Father of Naval Special Warfare, commissioned in October 1942, this group saw combat in November 1942 during Operation Torch on the North African coast. Scouts and Raiders also supported landings in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, Normandy, a second group of Scouts and Raiders, code-named Special Service Unit No. 1, was established on 7 July 1943, as a joint, the first mission, in September 1943, was at Finschhafen in Papua New Guinea. Later operations were at Gasmata, Arawe, Cape Gloucester, conflicts arose over operational matters, and all non-Navy personnel were reassigned. The 7th Amphibious Scouts conducted operations in the Pacific for the duration of the conflict, the third and final Scouts and Raiders organization operated in China. Scouts and Raiders were deployed to fight with the Sino-American Cooperative Organization, to help bolster the work of SACO, Admiral Ernest J. King ordered that 120 officers and 900 men be trained for Amphibious Raider at the Scout and Raider school at Fort Pierce, Florida. They formed the core of what was envisioned as a guerrilla organization of Americans and Chinese operating from coastal waters, lakes and rivers employing small steamboats. While most Amphibious Raider forces remained at Camp Knox in Calcutta, in September 1942,17 Navy salvage personnel arrived at ATB Little Creek, VA for a week long course in demolitions, explosive cable cutting and commando raiding techniques. On November 10,1942, the first combat demolition unit successfully cut cable and this enabled the USS Dallas to traverse the water and insert U. S. Rangers who captured the Port Lyautey airdrome, on 6 June 1943, LCDR Kauffman established Naval Combat Demolition Unit training at Fort Pierce
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Time travel
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Some ancient myths depict skipping forward in time. The Buddhist Pāli Canon mentions the relativity of time, in the period of our century, one hundred years, only a single day, twenty four hours would have passed for them. The Japanese tale of Urashima Tarō, first described in the Nihongi tells of a fisherman named Urashima Taro who visits an undersea palace. After three days, he returns home to his village and finds himself 300 years in the future, where he has forgotten, his house is in ruins. Early science-fiction stories feature characters who sleep for years and awaken in a changed society. Among them LAn 2440, rêve sil en fût jamais by Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, prolonged sleep, like the more familiar time machine, is used as a means of time travel in these stories. Decades-long and centuries-long sleep is featured in ancient myths. Like forward time travel, backward time travel has an uncertain origin, the narrator rides to ancient Greece on a hippogriff, meets Aristotle, and goes on a voyage with Alexander the Great before returning to the 19th century. While the narrator waits under a tree for a coach to take him out of Newcastle and he encounters the Venerable Bede in a monastery and explains to him the developments of the coming centuries. However, the story never makes it clear whether these events are real or a dream, charles Dickenss A Christmas Carol has early depictions of time travel in both directions, as the protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge, is transported to Christmases past and future. However, these might be interpreted as visions rather than as time travel because Scrooge experiences the time periods as a rather than as a participant. A clearer example of time travel is found in the popular 1861 book Paris avant les hommes by the French botanist and geologist Pierre Boitard. This may have been the first story to feature an alternate history created as a result of time travel. Early time machines One of the first stories to feature time travel by means of a machine is The Clock that Went Backward by Edward Page Mitchell, however, the mechanism borders on fantasy. An unusual clock, when wound, runs backwards and transports people nearby back in time, the author does not explain the origin or properties of the clock. Enrique Gaspar y Rimbaus El Anacronópete may have been the first story to feature a vessel engineered to travel through time, H. G. Wellss The Time Machine popularized the concept of time travel by mechanical means. In technical papers, physicists generally avoid the language of moving or traveling through time. Movement normally refers only to a change in position as the time coordinate is varied
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Laurasia
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Laurasia was the more northern of two supercontinents that formed part of the Pangaea supercontinent around 335 to 175 million years ago. It separated from Gondwana 215 to 175 Mya during the breakup of Pangaea, the name combines the names of Laurentia, the name given to the North American craton, and Eurasia. To avoid confusion with the Mesozoic continent, this is referred to as Proto-Laurasia and it is believed that Laurasia did not break up again before it recombined with the southern continents to form the late Precambrian supercontinent of Pannotia, which remained until the early Cambrian. Laurasia was assembled, then broken up, due to the actions of plate tectonics, continental drift, and seafloor spreading. By the Devonian, North China was located near the Arctic Circle, no evidence, though, exists for any large-scale Carboniferous glaciation of the northern continents. Siberia moved southwards and joined with Kazakhstania, a continental region believed today to have been created during the Silurian by extensive volcanism. North China became, as it drifted southwards from near-Arctic latitudes, around 200 million years ago, Pangaea started to break up. Between eastern North America and northwest Africa, a new ocean formed - the Atlantic Ocean, though Greenland, the separation of Europe and Greenland occurred around 55 million years ago. Laurasia finally divided into the continents after which it is named, alexander du Toit Alfred Wegener Avalonia
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Carcharodontosaurus
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The genus Carcharodontosaurus is named after the shark genus Carcharodon ), and σαυρος, meaning lizard. Carcharodontosaurus were carnivores, with enormous jaws and long, serrated teeth up to eight inches long, a skull length of about 1.6 meters has been restored for C. saharicus, and the skull of C. iguidensis is reported to have been about the same size. Currently, the largest known skull belongs to another huge carcharodontosaurid dinosaur. Gregory S. Paul estimates Carcharodontosaurus iguidensis at 10 m and 4 t, in 2001, Hans C. E. Larsson published a description of the inner ear and endocranium of Carcharodontosaurus saharicus. Starting from the portion of the brain closest to the tip of the snout is the forebrain. The midbrain is angled downwards at a 45 degree angle and towards the rear of the animal and this is followed by the hind brain, which is roughly parallel to the forebrain and forms a roughly 40 degree angle with the midbrain. Overall, the brain of C. saharicus would have similar to that of a related dinosaur. Larsson found that the ratio of the cerebrum to the volume of the overall in Carcharodontosaurus was typical for a non-avian reptile. Carcharodontosaurus also had a large optic nerve, the three semicircular canals of the inner ear of Carcharodontosaurus saharicus, when viewed from the side, had a subtriangular outline. This subtriangular inner ear configuration is present in Allosaurus, lizards, turtles, the semi-circular canals themselves were actually very linear, which explains the pointed silhouette. In life, the lobe of the brain would have projected into the area surrounded by the semicircular canals, just like in other non-avian theropods, birds. The following cladogram after Apesteguía et al,2016, shows the placement of Carcharodontosaurus within Carcharodontosauridae. SGM-Din 1, a Carcharodontosaurus saharicus skull, has a circular puncture wound in the nasal, student Identifies Enormous New Dinosaur December 72007 from the Science daily Discovery Channel Videos, Monsters Resurrected, Biggest Killer Dino
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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The Land That Time Forgot (2009 film)
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The Land That Time Forgot is a 2009 science fiction film by independent American film studio The Asylum. The film is an adaptation of the 1918 Edgar Rice Burroughs novel of the name. The film takes place in the present, when two newlywed couples are enjoying a charter boat cruise through the Caribbean, passing through a bizarre storm, they emerge off the shore of the mysterious island of Caprona. The island, which seems to exist within a void inside the Bermuda Triangle, is full of anachronistic inhabitants, including dinosaurs. The newlyweds, along with the boats captain and the Germans, must battle a variety of obstacles to escape the island. At first the plan is to rescue a woman named Karen from the Germans and then take their boat away, eventually, the captain convinces the Germans to work together to get off the island. They are able to free the U-Boat and make diesel fuel from oil on the island, unfortunately, Frost is left behind as he cant get to the sub in time and his wife Karen joins him on the island again. The sub gets away, but it is if it ever returned to civilization. Frost writes down his story and puts in a thermos and throws it in the ocean and he and Karen have found a life on the island and Karen is pregnant. The Land That Time Forgot received mixed reviews critics and audiences. Theres no approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes but the Want-To-See score is currently 38%. As with many recent Asylum films, this might be considered a low budget mockbuster, however, critics and audiences have cited this film to be better than Land of the Lost. The Land That Time Forgot - A1975 film starring Doug McClure The Land That Time Forgot - The 1918 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, princess of Mars - another film by The Asylum based on books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, released in the same year. War of the Worlds 2, The Next Wave - Another Asylum film starring and directed by C. Thomas Howell, who also appeared in the previous film H. G. Wells War of the Worlds
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Snakes on a Train
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Snakes on a Train is a 2006 direct-to-video action horror film released by The Asylum as a mockbuster on August 15,2006. Many aspects of the film are inspired by the film Snakes on a Plane, although taking the same basic idea from Snakes on a Plane, the background story of how the snakes end up on the train is completely different. In the movie, a woman has put under a Mayan curse which causes snake eggs to hatch inside her belly. In order to recover the lost pieces of herself, she must travel to Los Angeles where a powerful Mayan shaman can lift the curse and she takes the snakes along with her in small jars. While on the train, bandits attack her, allowing the snakes to escape, eventually, and inexplicably, she herself transforms into a gigantic snake and swallows the moving train whole. Six passengers manage to escape unharmed, and one of them performs a ritual which causes her to vanish. However, one girl is shown to have been unknowingly bitten, day as Conductor Al Galvex as Julio Jay Costelo as Juan Jason S. While looking for international distributors at Cannes, a group of Japanese investors saw the films poster, in response, Rimawi had his crew in Los Angeles add the aforementioned scene to the film to make the Japanese audiences happy. The film has received negative reviews. When reviewed by Variety magazine, it was described neither undiscriminating action fans nor connoisseurs of high camp will find much bite in this latest direct-to-video product from The Asylum. Scott Foy, reviewing the film for Dread Central, asked how the hell do you produce a rip-off this dispirited, list of killer snake films Official site Snakes on a Train at the Internet Movie Database Snakes on a Train at AllMovie Snakes on a Train at Rotten Tomatoes
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Death Racers
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Death Racers is an American B movie directed by Roy Knyrim. Released direct-to-video on September 16,2008, the stars the hip hop group Insane Clown Posse. In the year 2030, a war breaks out in the United States. In a final attempt to order, the president declares martial law. In 2033, a prison camp known as the Red Zone is built in a desolate city that soon holds over one million insane. The United States is declared safe, a dangerous criminal known as the Reaper has been extracting sarin, which he plans to spill into the nations water supply. One of the prisoners, FX secretly films the Reaper with a Wi-Fi digital camera as he discusses these plans, the team is given a customized 1995 town car. Homeland Security, consisting of Colonel Bob and Captain Rudy Jackson, formerly honored, the team is given a vintage 1943 Willys MB. Vaginamyte, consisting of Double-Dee Destruction and Queen B, two serial killers who seduced and murdered over 72 male and female victims, the team is given a yellow Lotus with a black widow spider design. Although the groups music has been banned, it continues to retain a strong fanbase, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope are given an ice cream truck customized with a meat grinder, machine guns and all the bling-bling these two Detroit locals could find. The race is televised live, hosted by anchors Harvey Winkler and Jennifer Ramirez, Black offers the teams gathering points for killing loose prisoners, promising freedom to the team that brings back the Reaper—dead or alive. When Insane Clown Posses truck gets a flat tire, a fight ensues between the teams and loose criminals, in the distance, Violent J witnesses an explosion. The teams investigate, finding the burning Homeland Security jeep with two corpses inside, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope find FX filming the race. He tells them there will be an ambush at their first destination. Each of the work together to surprise and kill the ambushers. Metal Machine Man, under the order of the Reaper, kills FX, the teams fix their cars before dispatching. Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope arrive at the Reapers lair, believing the Reaper died in the explosion, Bob and Rudy retrieve his severed hand and leave in Insane Clown Posses truck. Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope emerge from the rubble, because Violent J is injured, Shaggy 2 Dope goes after Bob and Rudy alone
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200 mph
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200 mph is an auto racing action film by The Asylum, released direct-to-DVD April 26,2011. It is a mockbuster of the 2011 Universal Pictures film Fast Five, but to win, hell need to modify his trusty 1988 Mazda RX-7/Nissan 240sx -- with help from a mechanic Kelly -- to get the maximum performance out of his machinery. Only Jaz Martin, Anna Maria DeMara, Darren Thomas, the film was slated for release on April 26,2011. During production, the Mazda RX-7 used as Rick Merchants car was stolen, the RX-7 belonged to award-winning professional drifter Justin Pawlak. The vehicle was inside a 26-foot enclosed Aztex trailer, attached to Pawlaks Chevrolet 2500HD, the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 26,2011. It was also available for Video On Demand on cable and other websites including iTunes, Amazon, Zune. Some foreign releases had different titles to the film. In Greece it is released as 300 hlm, while in France the title is instead Fast Drive, the film was released a month later, May 26,2011, on Netflixs instant streaming. In less than 24 hours, the shot up within the top 5 of the Top 50 Most Popular streaming titles. The list is generated by unofficial Netflix companion website, Instant Watcher. Com, the film has received mixed critic reviews, and mostly negative user reviews. H. Perry Horton of Asylum films centric blog Committed gave the film a review, especially praising the performances of lead actors Jaz Martin. He also praises the film for having a lot of heart for a flick, more heart, in fact, than most of the F&F films. Christopher Armstead of Film Critics United describes the film as tolerable as far as films released by The Asylum and he cites bad acting from the cast, but singles out the performances of actors Darren Thomas, Paul Logan, and Tommy Nash as exceptions. Armstead states that the movie wasn’t all that bad all things considered, the car racing scenes, minus the CGI cutaways, were far better than I expected them to be. Trevor Anderson of Movie Mavericks gave the film a mixed review, the negative aspects cited include unnecessary cursing and nudity, and the CGI. The review however, was mostly positive praising director Cole McKay for good acting from the actors, the actor described as the one that shines the brightest is Tommy Nash, even though only being in the movie for the first fifteen minutes. The film gained a rating of 2. 1/10 on IMDB due to poor special effects, plot, quality of production. One of the biggest complaints about this film, being that it is a film aimed at car enthusiasts, is the extremely poor continuity
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American Warships
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American Warships is a science fiction action film by The Asylum, that premiered on the Syfy Channel on May 15,2012. In the tradition of The Asylums film catalog, the film is a mockbuster of the Hasbro/Universal Pictures film Battleship, originally the film was titled American Battleship, but Universal later involved The Asylum in a copyright lawsuit over the film due to its resemblance to their film. As a result of the controversy, the name of the film was changed to American Warships, USS Iowa is on its final voyage before being decommissioned and turning into a floating museum. When USS Enterprise is attacked and destroyed by a mysterious force, the captain of Iowa chases an invisible ship, which they discover to be an alien force waging war on Earth. Only the crew of this last American battleship, stands in their way, during the fight, in Washington, D. C. McKrakens diplomatic efforts attempt to buy Iowa time to proof of the alien incursion. American Warships at The Asylum American Warships at the Internet Movie Database
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Mercenaries (2014 film)
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Mercenaries is a 2014 action film starring Kristanna Loken, Brigitte Nielsen, Vivica A. Fox, Cynthia Rothrock, Zoë Bell, and Nicole Bilderback. In the tradition of The Asylums film catalog, Mercenaries is a mockbuster of The Expendables 3, during a visit to Kazakhstan the daughter of the U. S. President is captured by a female warlord and held for ransom. The CIA creates a team to rescue her from Ulrikas base, the team Kendall puts together were all serving time in U. S. prisons but are offered full pardons for taking part in the operation. With the help of a girl the four-woman team gain access to The Citadel. Mercenaries received overwhelmingly negative reviews critics, with its dialogue. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 0%, on IMDb, it was given 3,7 out of 10 stars, based on 1,589 reviews. Official site at The Asylum Mercenaries at the Internet Movie Database
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King of the Lost World
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King of the Lost World is a 2005 film produced by The Asylum. Hence, King of the Lost World is a mockbuster of said film, a plane crashes in a remote jungle. Many survive, but the front end of the plane and the cockpit are nowhere to be found, the only way to seek help is to find the cockpit and radio a message. Ed Malone climbs a hill and sees the cockpit about a mile distant. A group decide to leave the plane to search for the radio, John Roxton leads the group through the jungle. The remaining survivors stay at the site in case a plane passes by. The group arrives at the fuselage to learn that its not part of the plane crashed in. In addition, the radio and critical instruments have been stripped and removed and they are startled by the arrival of Lieutenant Colonel Challenger, who managed to travel alone to the downed plane, carrying a briefcase he doesnt seem to want to part with. The group continues to look for the cockpit with some individuals being killed or lost along the way, Challenger tries to rig a missile as a signal gun, but fails. The group finds a cavern for shelter that night, and are attacked by giant scorpions, John and Tianka are killed, while a desperate Ed, Challenger, Rita, Dana, and Natalie flee for safety. As they escape from the stream, they are captured by natives living on a plateau and it is learned that the natives have been stripping the planes to avoid outsiders. The natives are discovered to be survivors from a long ago. Dana and Natalie are brainwashed into joining them, while Ed is chosen as the sacrifice, however, the sacrificial ceremony fails when a giant ape attacks, and Dana saves Ed. They meet up with Challenger and Rita, then spot military jets overhead, moving in to attack the giant ape, Challenger is killed by a native, leaving Ed alone to fight the ape. Ed detonates a bomb from a crashed plane and successfully kills the ape, but also destroys their cockpit, trapping Ed, Rita. They contemplate dying, to which Ed tersely replies, Not today before kissing Rita, in the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, it was made clear that Ed Malone was Irish. In this film he is American, in the novel, the character of Professor Challenger was a misanthropic scientist. In this film, he is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force, the character of Professor Summerlee is now a woman named Rita Summerlee
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Pirates of Treasure Island
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Pirates of Treasure Island is a 2006 American comedy-drama film produced by The Asylum, loosely adaptated from Robert Louis Stevensons novel Treasure Island. The story opens on Skeleton Island, an island somewhere in the Falkland Islands chain. The group is attacked by insects, and retreats back to the ship. In the chaos, Long John has one of his legs torn off by a giant beetle, in the United States in 1782, Jim Hawkins is the owner of the Admiral Benbow Inn, but has grown tired of a life of monotony and seeks adventure. One of his customers, Billy Bones, dies in his inn, after gaining the help of Dr. Jim and Livesey recruit Long John Silver, now using the alias of Barbecue, to act as ships cook, with Long John providing the rest of the ships crew. Long John plans to stage a mutiny upon arriving at Skeleton Island, however, Hawkins is discovered, along with Anne Bonny, who had followed Jim from the inn, and gives him protection from Long John. On reaching Skeleton Island, the Hispanola is hijacked by Silver, with Smollette, Livesey, with the help of marooned mariner Ben Gunn, Jim and Anne Bonney escape, and race to beat Long John and the pirates to the treasure
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30,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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30,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 2007 film that is a modern update on the classic book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It stars Lorenzo Lamas as Lt. Aronnaux and Sean Lawlor as the misanthropic Captain Nemo and it also stars Natalie Stone, Kerry Washington, and Kim Little. The film is the first by The Asylum to be based on a Jules Verne novel, in this modern retelling of the classic science-fiction tale, Captain Nemo uses his high-tech submarine to wreak vengeance on the surface world. This version takes place in the present day and it begins with the USS Scotia following strange radar traces near the Mariana Trench. The sub runs into trouble and is lost, though not before getting off a rescue beacon, the USS Abraham Lincoln finds the beacon and calls in the Aquanaut to assist in this deep-sea rescue. The Aquanaut, captained by Lt. Arronaux, has been developing a water-to-air converter that is thought to be useful in this sort of mission, command of the mission is, unfortunately, taken from Arronaux and given to Lt. Cmdr. Conceil who is presented as a ball-buster in contrast to Arronauxs confident, the equipment loss leads to the crew passing out for lack of oxygen. They come to on board the Nautilus and meet an apparently charming Captain Nemo and it soon becomes clear that the good captain is a bit unhinged and tending towards megalomania. The Aquanauts crew is imprisoned and brought out to be attached to a brainwashing machine, Arronaux escaped his escort to the holding pens and is loose to try and pull everyone out. He finds nuclear missiles from the Scotia in the process and he is found and aided by Cooper, another abducted sailor. The crew is able to make it back to their ship in an escape attempt and they find and board the Scotia, finding that Nemo lied and much of the Scotias crew is still alive. Having reprogrammed the remote device Nemo had planted on the Aquanaut, the backlash scuttles the larger ship and it crashes into the underwater city of Lemuria, presumably with total losses. The Scotia is able to contact the Abraham Lincoln and the remainder of the rescue gets underway, conseil shows Arronaux stolen plans of Nemos ship
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The 7 Adventures of Sinbad
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The 7 Adventures of Sinbad is a 2010 American film by The Asylum. As a mockbuster, it attempts to capitalise on Prince of Persia, The Sands of Time, the film follows an early version of Sinbad the Sailor, who must undertake seven tasks to halt an impending disaster that threatens to create an El Niño. Adrian Sinbad is a owner of an oil company. He and a group of people sail to the Bay of Bengal after learning that his oil rig had been sunk by a band of pirates. The boat becomes trapped in a waterspout and Sinbad refuses to go back, the boat gets abducted above the sea and he is marooned ashore. Sinbad battles a Hatzegopterx and meets up with his crew, Gemma, Whitaker, Mehrak the pirate captain. Sinbad also encounters Loa, a native warrior living on the island, the island suddenly experiences a violent earthquake, and the group then jumps on a log, which is actually the back of a large but harmless sea creature. They are later bombarded by a flock of flying reptiles. Meanwhile, Simon, the headmaster of Sinbads company, takes over while Sinbad is missing, the group manage to fight off a Roc and flee the swarm, but a crew member is injured by another Roc. They depart to a cave, which houses a strong-fisted Yowie. Whitaker tries to identify the creature, but is injured by it, Sinbad knocks the Yowie off its feet, causing it to break its spine. As dusk falls, the men are paralyzed by some seals, Loa and Gemma prepare to kill the Seals when night comes, so that they can avoid getting paralyzed by looking into their eyes. Gemma is paralyzed and eaten by a Seal, Loa wards off the Seals with a torch as they are preparing to eat the men, and Sinbad distracts their Bull by throwing seal flesh into the water. Later, Sinbad and his companions enter a village where all those who are stranded join. Loa knows her father was the leader of the village, and he dislikes foreigners, causing Sinbad, Mehrak, Atash is stabbed by one of them after Mehrak refuses to kill him. Sinbad tries to convince the people that he knows a way to escape, Loa tries to convince the man that the men were his friends and a fight is started between those who want to be free and those who want to be invited. Mehrak is attacked and fights gallantly, seeing the man solve the conflict, Sinbad and Loa are banished from the village. Sinbad knows that he must retrieve otherworldly crystals in an underground tunnel, in order to escape the island and lower himself down, he collects a crystal and kills a Sandfish blocking the path with fire
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Almighty Thor
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Almighty Thor is a fantasy-adventure action film produced by The Asylum, which premiered on the Syfy cable network on May 7,2011 and was released on DVD on May 10,2011 in the United States. The film is directed by Christopher Ray and is a mockbuster coinciding with the release of the Marvel Studios/Paramount Pictures film Thor, the film has been met with a largely negative response from critics. Loosely inspired by Norse mythology, the film follows the young warrior Thor in his battle against Loki, when the demon god Loki wipes off the city of Valhalla to steal the Hammer of Invincibility, only the young hero Thor can recover the cities from evil. When Thors father and older brother are killed in a attempt to retrieve the hammer from Loki. When Thor is about to be defeated, he must forge his own fate to save the city and reclaim the Hammer of invincibility from Loki once, reviewing the film for The A. V. Almighty Thor was just one giant headache of a film. The movie was shown as part of the German TV show Die schlechtesten Filme aller Zeiten in its third season, Almighty Thor at The Asylum Almighty Thor at the Internet Movie Database Cody Deal Interview for Almighty Thor February 2011 Interview with Cody Deal
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Fourplay (film)
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Fourplay is a romantic comedy film released in 2001. Fourplay follows the romantically entwined lives of a TV writer, producer, actress, ben Greene is an American comic writer who comes to Britain to write for a show, Telford Gate. The star of the show, Carly Matthews-Portland is married to the producer, Carly decides to help Greene, by setting him up on a date with a French makeup artist, Fiona Delgrazia. As the movie progresses, the lives of the couples get more entwined, the critic at scoopy. net gave the film a D suggesting it would not even appeal to fans of the genre. Fourplay at AllMovie Londinium at the Internet Movie Database
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Number 1 Cheerleader Camp
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#1 Cheerleader Camp is a 2010 sex comedy film by The Asylum, directed by Mark Quod and starring Jay Gillespie, Erica Duke, Seth Cassell, Harmony Blossom, Meranda B and Charlene Tilton. Two horny college guys get summer jobs at a camp for the summer. Friendly and naive Michael is mistaken for a homosexual, world class jerk Andy is addicted to masturbation and also tries to hook up with a different girl every night. Michael and Andy help out head cheerleader Sophie form her own cheerleading team, a group of strippers end up becoming cheerleaders after Michael and Andy have a run-in with them at a local gentlemens club. A college scholarship is offered to the group of cheerleaders that wins the team competition
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MILF (film)
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MILF is a 2010 sex comedy film by The Asylum. The film borrows elements from American Pie and Revenge of the Nerds, after failing romantically with girls their own age, a group of nerdy male college students discover the excitement of hooking up with sexy older women, often referred to as MILFs. Lifelong best friends Brandon and Anthony as well as their geek/gamer friends Nate, however, when Brandon falls for Anthony’s sexually active mother, the guys whole scheme begins to fall apart. It received only a 16% approval on Rotten Tomatoes, the websites critics said, there is no plot development, horrible acting, bad writing, annoying characters, random sex scenes and the overall plot did not make sense. It tries to be like American Pie, but is just a horrible, popMatters ran a mostly supportive review giving the film six of ten stars. Critic Bill Gibron commented, MILF may not be the most endemic example of this company’s product and he also wrote, It may not be laugh out loud funny, but is constantly keeps you smiling. MILF at The Asylum MILF at the Internet Movie Database
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Barely Legal (film)
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Barely Legal is a 2011 sex comedy film by The Asylum, directed by Jose Montesinos and starring Jeneta St. Clair, Lisa Younger and Melissa Johnston. Sue, Cheryl and Lexi are three college freshmen who have been best friends since they were born on the same day and they do something special every year for their birthday, but on their eighteenth, they set out to lose their virginity. They throw a large party at Sues house hoping to pop their cherries before the day. But they find that losing their virginity is easier said than done as all three of them embark on a series of raunchy and hilarious quests to do so, Cheryl sets out to make it with her long-term boyfriend Jake. Next, Cheryl tries to make her jealous by hooking up with a friendly college guy, named Eric. Lexi tries to find a certain J. J. who gave her pleasure on the previous day. She sets out to him any way she can by coming onto every guy she meets with the first name of J, from Jeremy to Jake. The naive and religious Sue first tries to seduce her Bible study classmate Chris, dejected, Sue becomes hooked on masturbation as she sets to pleasure herself with everything that vibrates in her house, from vibrators, vacuum handles, remote controllers to electric toothbrushes. At the end of the party, none of the three girls lose their virginity despite having sexual encounters with various persons, animals and objects, deciding that it was not meant to be, they leave the house and go their separate ways. However, Lexi discovers that J. J. is actually her old high school classmate, named Johanna, realizing that she might really be a repressed lesbian, Lexi decides that she does not need sex with men, and immediately consummates her romance with Johanna. After finally breaking up with her boyfriend, Cheryl drives to the house of her party guy Eric to plead with him for a second chance. Eric accepts Cheryls apology and agrees to keep in touch as he leaves to go back to college, when the guy introduces himself as Jesús, Sue sees it as a sign from God. Jesús asks Sue if she would like a ride on his motorcycle to their church, official website Barely Legal at the Internet Movie Database
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The Apocalypse (2007 film)
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The Apocalypse is a 2007 American direct-to-DVD disaster film produced by The Asylum and released via its Faith Films label. It has heavy similarity to the 1998 films Armageddon and Deep Impact, however the storyline is drastically different, the film takes place in the United States in what is presumably the present day. A large, colossal asteroid the size of Texas is heading towards the Earth, jason and Ashley eventually realize that it is not advanced technology that is required to find their child or divert the asteroid but faith in religion. The daughter is reunited with her father, just at the time the asteroid is about to hit. They tell each other that they see each other soon. The Apocalypse was originally written as a disaster film. It was rewritten to include faith-based elements, and The Asylum created the Faith Films label to distribute it,2012 Doomsday, another Asylum film with a similar plot. H. G. Wells War of the Worlds, an earlier Asylum film also starring Rhett Giles, the Apocalypse at Faith Films The Apocalypse at The Asylum The Apocalypse at the Internet Movie Database
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I Am Omega
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I Am Omega, stylized as I Am Ωmega, is a 2007 direct-to-DVD American doomsday film produced by The Asylum and starring Mark Dacascos. The film is an adaptation of the novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. The movie was released as a mockbuster to capitalize on the release of the theatrical film I Am Legend of the same year. The film takes place in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, which is overrun by zombie-like, Renchard has been forced to live in a daily struggle for survival against the mutants. One day, Renchard is contacted via webcam by Brianna, another survivor who was stranded in L. A. while trying to find Antioch and she asks Renchard to help her, but Renchard, who has placed time bombs at strategic points around the city, refuses. Two men claiming to be from Antioch arrive at his home seeking his aid, although initially unpersuaded by their argument that Brianna carries the cure to the virus in her blood, Renchard is forced to cooperate under gunpoint. With 24 hours before the bombs are set to detonate, he leads the men into the city and they must find and free Brianna before the mutants or the bombs can destroy them. After Renchard and Brianna flee the city and Mike is killed in the sewers, Vincent shoots Renchard and he tells Renchard he did it because he liked the world the way it was and leaves him to die. After Renchard recovers his strength, he hotwires a car and chases after Vincent to save Brianna, after finding them, Renchard kills Vincent, who was attempting to rape and kill Brianna. The bombs explode, and they head to Antioch to make a cure. However, it is revealed that a zombie has survived the explosion. Critics had few good things to say about the film, matt Bradshaw said, The film starts off with a modest amount of promise, but when the story veers away from the film its aping things quickly go down hill. The San Diego Union Tribune said satirically that the film is The long-awaited prequel to Animal House, film Critics United said that As far as flicks from The Asylum go, I am Omega is their best one yet, at least of the ones I’ve seen. For a little while at least
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Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus
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Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus is a 2009 American-British monster/disaster film distributed by The Asylum, released on May 19,2009, in the United States and on August 7,2009, in the United Kingdom. It was directed by Ace Hannah and stars singer Deborah Gibson, the film is about the hunt for two prehistoric sea monsters causing mayhem and carnage at sea, and is the first installment in the Mega Shark series of films. Off the coast of Alaska, oceanographer Emma MacNeil is studying the migration patterns of whales aboard an experimental submarine she took without permission from her employer. Meanwhile, a helicopter drops experimental sonar transmitters into the water, causing a pod of whales to go out of control. In the chaos, the helicopter crashes into the glacier, MacNeil narrowly avoids destruction as, unknown to her, a giant shark and octopus are freed. Some time later, a platform off the coast of Japan is attacked by the octopus. After returning to Point Dume, California, MacNeil investigates the corpse of a beached whale covered with bloody wounds. Her employer Dick Richie believes them to be from a tanker propeller, later, she extracts what appears to be a shark’s tooth from one of the wounds. Elsewhere, the shark leaps tens of thousands of feet into the air from the ocean and attacks a commercial aircraft. A review board convenes and fires MacNeil from the institute for stealing the submarine. The duo is visited by Dr. Seiji Shimada, a Japanese scientist trying to determine what attacked the drilling platform, the three review a videotape recorded during MacNeil’s submarine voyage, finding images of both the megalodon and a gigantic octopus. MacNeil reflects on the ice caps melting due to man-made global warming. Meanwhile, a U. S. naval destroyer engages the megalodon, MacNeil, Sanders, and Shimada are arrested by a team of soldiers and taken to government official Allan Baxter, a rude and racist man who demands their help in destroying the creatures. The three agree to help, in exchange for the government trying to capture the creatures for study rather than destroy them. While working at a laboratory to develop a method for luring the creatures, MacNeil. The incident makes them realize they can attract the creatures using chemicals, MacNeil and Sanders agree to place a trap for the shark in San Francisco Bay, while Shimada returns to Tokyo to attract the octopus. MacNeil and Sanders barely escape the shark after placing the trap with a mini-submarine, the plan fails, however, when the shark destroys another destroyer sent by Baxter. The shark then resurfaces and bites off a portion of the Golden Gate Bridge
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Megafault
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MegaFault is a 2009 television disaster film by The Asylum, directed by David Michael Latt, starring Brittany Murphy, Justin Hartley, Eriq Lasalle, Tamala Jones, Paul Logan and Bruce Davison. It is one of the last films to feature Brittany Murphy, in West Virginia, Charles Boomer Baxter is setting mountain-top depletion explosives. He detonates the TNT, and an earthquake devastates the area. A few hours later government seismologist Dr. Amy Lane arrives at the quakes epicenter and she realizes that the quake has opened a deep fault running through the center of North America, ending at the San Andreas Fault. Any further instability will cause massive earthquakes and tsunamis, devastating Los Angeles, San Francisco and other cities all around the Pacific Ocean, Dr. Lane and Boomer chase just behind the expanding crack in the Earths crust, developing a plan to stop the next quake. They decide to use a satellite orbiting above the continent which can trigger earthquakes and they fire it off when they reach the Grand Canyon, thinking that when the new fault hits the canyon it will be forced to turn south into the Gulf of Mexico. When the fault crosses with the canyon, they fire the satellite at the canyon, instead of heading south, the fault travels north, towards the Yellowstone Caldera. They realize that if the fault crosses the caldera it will erupt and they decide to set explosives to block the faults path. Later, when it reaches the park, Boomer detonates the explosives, causing the fault to stop just short of the volcano, in the end, an orbiting shot of the United States shows a giant, miles-wide canyon across most of the continent. It was all shot in the Quad Cities, Davenport, Iowa, the soundtrack featured include Victoria Mazze, Chris Ridenhour, and The Divine Madness. It premiered on October 10,2009 on the Syfy channel and was released on DVD on November 24,2009 and it premiered on December 10,2010 in the UK on Sky Movies Premiere. MegaFault at the Internet Movie Database AgonyBooth. com recap of MegaFault
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Airline Disaster
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Airline Disaster is a disaster film by The Asylum directed by John J. Willis III and starring Meredith Baxter, Scott Valentine, Lindsey McKeon and Jay Beyers. The made-for-television film was broadcast in 2010 and released to media in 2011. On a maiden flight with Coastal Airlines, the Starquest airliner program introduces the most sophisticated and enjoyable flying experience to date, special Agent Gina Vitale is on the flight to protect Franklin, who is also the Presidents brother. At Franklins house, two thugs break in, kill the housekeeper and abduct his wife and children, a group of group of 10 neo-Nazis, who have sneaked guns onto the flight, force their way into the cockpit, killing the navigator. Agent Vitale makes it into the hold and is able to contact her home base. Robert Stevens, the leader of the assault, forces the pilot to contact his sister, President Harriet Franklin, a group of Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor fighters tail the hijacked airliner, but one of them is destroyed in a fuel dump. When the autopilot malfunctions, the airliner plunges to the earth before pulling out of the dive just above a city, willie brings a flight attendant to the cargo hold, but encounters Vitale, who kills him. Other terrorists shoot a flight attendant, thinking she is the sky marshal, when the President does not release the brothers, Robert shoots another flight attendant. Just when the airliner goes out of control, the President realizes she must make a momentous decision, finally acting to protect the passengers, the Sky Marshal is killed, but Vitale shoots the terrorists and takes back control of the Starquest. With the Franklin family rescued, the President resorts to an attempt to down the aircraft. Using a new and unpredictable satellite-based laser results in taking out one of the trailing F-22 Raptors and she tells her brother to do the only thing left, pilot the Starquest to a water landing on the Potomac River, at Chesapeake Bay. John Willis III made his debut after a lengthy career as an cinematographer, electrician, gaffer. Airline Disaster was released domestically on DVD on May 3,2011, the DVD came with a behind-the-scenes film. On its release on Blu-ray, in an indictment of Airline Disaster, reviewer Martin Liebman. Disaster aptly describes this mind-boggling junk heap of a movie thats awful even by The Asylums low standards, the 9/11 Commission Report, a similar film also by The Asylum Airline Disaster at the Internet Movie Database Airline Disaster at The Asylum
