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Randy Orton
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Randal Keith Randy Orton is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand and is the current WWE Champion in his ninth reign. Orton is a professional wrestler, his grandfather Bob Orton, Sr. his father Cowboy Bob Orton. Before being promoted to the main World Wrestling Federation roster, Orton trained in and he was then sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling, where he held the OVW Hardcore Championship twice. Orton became a member of the stable Evolution shortly after his WWE debut and he also acquired the moniker The Legend Killer during a storyline where he began disrespecting and then physically attacking WWE Hall of Famers and wrestling veterans. At age 24, he became the youngest person ever to hold the World Heavyweight Championship, with this win, he departed from Evolution and a feud with his former stablemates began. In 2006, Orton joined forces with Edge in a tag team known as Rated-RKO, together, they held the World Tag Team Championship. After Rated-RKO disbanded in mid-2007, Orton gained two WWE Championship reigns in one night, when at 27 he became the youngest two-time WWE Champion and he formed the group The Legacy with Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase in 2008. It disbanded in 2010 and Orton returned to singles competition, from 2013 to 2015, Orton was aligned with The Authority, who named him the face of the WWE. In late 2016 he joined The Wyatt Family, winning the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship with stablemates Bray Wyatt, overall, Orton has won 16 total championships in WWE. Orton was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Elaine and Bob Orton and he is the grandson of Bob Orton, Sr. and the nephew of wrestler-turned-musician Barry Orton. He has a brother named Nate, who is a stand-up comedian. Orton attended Hazelwood Central High School, where he was an amateur wrestler, after graduating from high school in 1998, Orton enlisted with the United States Marine Corps. At the base, he received a bad conduct discharge in 1999 after going AWOL on two occasions and disobeying an order from a commanding officer. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, he was tried and convicted under a special court-martial, there, he was trained by both the promotion and his father, Bob Orton Jr. He wrestled for the promotion for one month, where he performed with such as Ace Strange. Orton also refereed a few matches with World Organized Wrestling, a promotion where his uncle Barry Orton worked. In 2001, Orton signed a deal with the then World Wrestling Federation and was sent to its territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling in Louisville, Kentucky
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John Cena
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John Felix Anthony Cena Jr. is an American professional wrestler, rapper, actor, and reality television show host. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand, Cena started his professional wrestling career in 1999 with Ultimate Pro Wrestling and won the UPW Heavyweight Championship the following year. Cena signed a contract with the World Wrestling Federation in 2001. From a generic character in 2002, Cena morphed into a rapper for the period of 2002–2004. Cena later transitioned to his current character, which he describes as a goody-two shoes Superman, in 2012, IGN described Cena as WWEs franchise player since 2005 and WWE credited Cena as being the face of WWE in 2015 since 2004. Industry veterans John Layfield, Paul Heyman and Kurt Angle have called Cena the greatest WWE star of all time. Throughout his WWE career, Cena has won 25 championships, with 16 reigns as a world champion and he is also a five-time United States Champion, and four-time world tag team champion. Furthermore, he is a Money in the Bank ladder match winner, a two-time Royal Rumble winner, Cena has the fourth-highest number of combined days as WWE Champion, behind Bruno Sammartino, Bob Backlund, and Hulk Hogan. He has also headlined WWEs flagship event, WrestleMania, on five different occasions over the course of his career, as of 2016, John Cena is WWEs highest-paid wrestler. Cena has also made appearances on shows including Manhunt, Deal or No Deal, MADtv, Saturday Night Live, Punkd, Psych. He was also a contestant on Fast Cars and Superstars, The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race, Cena is also the host of American Grit on Fox. Cena is involved in philanthropic causes, most notably with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. He has granted the most wishes in Make-A-Wish history, Cena was born on April 23,1977 in West Newbury, Massachusetts, to Carol and John Cena, Sr. He is the second oldest of five brothers, Dan, Matt, Steve and his maternal grandfather was baseball player Tony Lupien. His father is of Italian descent, while his mother has English, Cena originally attended Central Catholic High School in Lawrence, Massachusetts, before transferring to Cushing Academy, a private prep boarding school. After graduating from Cushing Academy, Cena attended Springfield College in Springfield, in college, Cena was a NCAA Division III All-American center on the college football team, wearing the number 54, which is still used on some of his WWE merchandise. He graduated from Springfield in 1998 with a degree in physiology, after which he pursued a career in bodybuilding. Cena started training to become a wrestler in 1999 at Ultimate Pro Wrestlings California-based Ultimate University operated by Rick Bassman
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CM Punk
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Punk began his professional wrestling career on the American independent circuit, primarily with Ring of Honor until 2005, when he signed with World Wrestling Entertainment. Throughout his career, he won championships, including the WWE Championship twice. In WWE, Punk was also a one-time World Tag Team Champion, throughout his career, Punk consistently portrayed the character of an outspoken, sharp-tongued, anti-establishment, straight edge iconoclast. Most of the straight edge principles he portrayed, such as not drinking alcohol or not taking drugs, are his real life views. Depending on his alignment as a hero or villain, he emphasized different aspects of the straight edge culture to garner the desired audience reaction. After retiring from wrestling in 2014, Punk pursued a career in mixed martial arts and was signed by the UFC in December of that year. His first professional fight took place on September 10,2016, at UFC203 against Mickey Gall, Brooks was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in nearby Lockport, Illinois. He is one of five children, his father was an engineer, Brooks father struggled with alcoholism which inspired him to become straight edge from an early age. He attended Lockport Township High School, Brooks first venture into wrestling was a stint in a backyard wrestling federation called the Lunatic Wrestling Federation with his friends and brother Mike Brooks in the mid-late 1990s. He first started using the ring name CM Punk when he was put into a tag team named The Chick Magnets with CM Venom after another performer skipped out on the card. Unlike his friends, Punk genuinely wanted to be a wrestler, as part of the training, he wrestled at Steel Domain Wrestling in St. Paul, Minnesota. It was in the Steel Domain that he met Scott Colton, Punk and Cabana became best friends and spent most of their early career together working in the same independent promotions, as both opponents and tag team partners. In the independents, along with fellow Steel Domain graduates Colt Cabana, Chucke E. Smooth, Adam Pearce, Punks home promotion for his early career was considered to be the Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South. J. Styles, Cabana and even Eddie Guerrero in matches for the heavyweight championship, Punks feud with Hero included a 55-minute TLC match, a 93-minute two out of three falls match, and several 60-minute time limit draws. Punks matches with Cabana led him to being hired by the Ring of Honor promotion, from February 2003 until May 2004, Punk refused to wrestle for IWA Mid-South, explaining this as a protest to Ian Rottens mistreatment of Chris Hero in the company. Hero, however, has stated he believes there were other reasons, eventually Punk returned to IWA Mid-South and continued to perform as a wrestler and commentator for them until 2005 when he was signed to World Wrestling Entertainment. His last appearance in IWA Mid-South was on July 2,2005 in which he competed in a 60-minute time limit draw against Delirious. Initially, Punk joined Ring of Honor as a face, and their rivalry was rooted in Punks straight-edge lifestyle, with him likening Raven to his alcoholic father, it lasted most of 2003 and was considered one of ROHs top feuds of the year
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Chris Jericho
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Jericho is known for his over-the-top, rockstar persona. He also found success while performing for international promotions in countries such as Canada, Japan. He is also the ninth Triple Crown Champion, as well as the fourth Grand Slam Champion in WWE history, Jericho is a six-time world champion, having won the WWF Championship once, the WCW/World Championship twice, and WWEs World Heavyweight Championship three times. He is also a record nine-time Intercontinental Champion, beating out four other contenders in a 2013 WWE fan poll to determine the greatest champion in history with a landslide 63% of the vote. Jericho has headlined multiple pay-per-view events during his time with the company, baltimore Sun writer Kevin Eck wrote that Jericho has proved to be one of best all-around performers in the business, particularly regarded as one of the very best talkers. Outside of professional wrestling, Jericho became the lead vocalist of the band Fozzy in 1999, Jericho also competed in the 2011 series of Dancing With the Stars, lasting until the sixth week. Prior to this, he hosted the ABC game show Downfall, Irvine was born in Manhasset, New York. His father, ice hockey player Ted Irvine, had relocated there to play for the New York Rangers, when his father retired, they moved back to Winnipeg, Manitoba. In addition to Hart, Irvine also cited Ricky The Dragon Steamboat and he also took a course in creative communication at Red River Community College in Winnipeg, where he graduated with top honors. At age 19, he entered the Hart Brothers School of Wrestling and he was trained by Ed Langley and local Calgary wrestler Brad Young. The pair then worked as a tag team, initially called Sudden Impact and he took the name Jericho from an album, Walls of Jericho, by German power metal band, Helloween. Jericho and Storm worked for Tony Condello in the tours of Northern Manitoba with Adam Copeland, Jason Reso, the pair also wrestled in Calgarys Canadian National Wrestling Alliance and Canadian Rocky Mountain Wrestling. In 1991, Jericho and Storm started touring in Japan for Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling as Sudden Impact, where he befriended Ricky Fuji, who also trained under Stu Hart. In CMLL, Jericho took on Silver King, Negro Casas, after leaving Mexico, Jericho wrestled in Hamburg, Germany for six weeks as part of a tournament run by Rene Lasartesse. In late 1994, Jericho began competing regularly in Japan for Genichiro Tenryus Wrestling, in November 1994, Último Dragón defeated him for the NWA World Middleweight Championship, which he had won while wrestling in Mexico. In March 1995, Jericho lost to Gedo in the final of a tournament to crown the inaugural WAR International Junior Heavyweight Championship and he defeated Gedo for the championship in June 1995, losing it to Último Dragón the next month. In December 1995, Jericho competed in the second Super J-Cup tournament, in 1996, Jericho joined the villain stable Fuyuki-Gun with Hiromichi Fuyuki, Gedo, and Jado, adopting the name Lion Do. The stable was nicknamed Team No Respect for its members brash mannerisms, in February 1996, Jericho and Gedo won a tournament for the newly created International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, defeating Lance Storm and Yuji Yasuraoka in the final
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Dean Ambrose
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He was also the 2016 Money in the Bank ladder match winner and successfully cashed in his contract to become WWE World Heavyweight Champion. From 2011, Ambrose competed in WWE developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling, before joining the WWE main roster in 2012 as a member of the The Shield with Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins. Ambrose has headlined multiple pay-per-view events for WWE and made his debut in the WWE Studios production 12 Rounds 3. Ambrose is also known for his work on the independent circuit as Jon Moxley between 2004 and 2011, using the ring name Jon Moxley, he made his debut in June 2004. Less than a year into his career, Moxley teamed up with Jimmy Turner as Necessary Roughness and they beat Foreign Intelligence for the title on August 19,2005, but were stripped of the championship for unknown reasons the same day. In 2006, Moxley started challenging for the HWA Heavyweight Championship and he assembled a stable called The Crew which over time had wrestlers like Sami Callihan, Dick Rick, Eric Darkside, and Pepper Parks. On May 9,2006, he beat Pepper Parks to win the HWA Heavyweight Championship, Moxley regained the HWA Heavyweight Championship on December 30, by again defeating Parks. Three days later, on January 2,2007, he lost the title to Brian Jennings, Moxley returned to the tag team division when he teamed up with his former trainer Cody Hawk. On June 12,2007, Moxley and Hawk defeated Tack, Moxley and Hawks reign only lasted four days as Andre Heart and Richard Phillips, collectively known as GP Code, beat them for the title. Moxley continued to work in the tag team division for the rest of 2007 through early 2010, in 2009, Moxley started teaming up with rival King Vu in a team known as Royal Violence. They captured the HWA Tag Team Championship twice while teaming together, the first time they captured the title was on October 14, when they beat the Kosher Klub. They held the title until December 2 when they were beaten by The Irish Airborne, just over two weeks later, Royal Violence regained the HWA Tag Team Championships as they beat Irish Airborne on December 19. While still one half of the HWA Tag Team Champions with King Vu, on January 6,2010, he successfully cashed in his Pick Your Poison title shot against Aaron Williams. King Vu then turned on Moxley, costing them the HWA Tag Team Championship, on February 24, the Noble Bloods defeated Royal Violence for the titles. On July 14, Moxley lost the HWA Heavyweight Championship to Gerome Phillips, Moxley wondered why Jacobs attacked him, then both proceeded to have a war of words with each other in the back. On August 21 at IPW 9th Anniversary, Reign of the Insane, on October 2 at Shocktoberfest, Moxley defeated Drake Younger in a three stages of Insanity match to successfully retain the IPW World Heavyweight Championship. On January 1,2011 at Showdown in Naptown, Moxley lost the IPW World Heavyweight Championship to Jimmy Jacobs in a dog collar match due to referee stoppage, on June 6,2009, Moxley was a participant in Combat Zone Wrestling s Tournament of Death VIII. In the first round, Moxley defeated Brain Damage in a Dining Death match, but lost to Nick FN Gage in a triple threat fans bring the weapons match, also including Scotty Vortekz, in the semi-finals
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WrestleMania XIX
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WrestleMania XIX was the nineteenth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment. It was presented by Snickers Cruncher and took place on March 30,2003, at Safeco Field in Seattle, the event was the first WrestleMania held in the state of Washington. A record-breaking 54,097 fans from all fifty states and numerous countries from around the world at Safeco Field resulted in a gate attendance grossing US$2.76 million. WrestleMania XIX was the first WrestleMania to be promoted under the WWE name and it was a joint-promotion pay-per-view event, featuring performers from the Raw and SmackDown. The tagline for WrestleMania XIX was Dare to Dream, the official theme song for the event was Crack Addict by Limp Bizkit. Limp Bizkit performed the song live, as well as Rollin during The Undertakers entrance. The main match on the SmackDown, brand was Kurt Angle versus Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship, which Lesnar won by pinfall after executing an F5. The predominant match on the Raw brand was for the World Heavyweight Championship between Triple H and Booker T, which Triple H won by pinfall after performing a Pedigree. Other matches on the undercard included Shawn Michaels versus Chris Jericho, a documentary entitled The Mania of WrestleMania was filmed live during the event and released the following year. It was the first sole production from WWE Films, in December, at Armageddon, Kurt Angle won the WWE Championship against The Big Show with Brock Lesnars help. The next month at No Way Out, Lesnar and Benoit defeated Team Angle in a handicap match, edge was supposed to team up with Lesnar & Benoit against Team Angle but was attacked backstage and it was announced he couldnt participate in the match. On the March 6 episode of SmackDown, Lesnar defeated Paul Heyman in a steel cage match to earn a championship match against Angle the next week. Angle defeated Lesnar to retain the WWE Title, before the match began, Kurt, who was praying in the corner, switched with his brother Eric. Lesnar then came out and the match began, shortly after the match began, Benjamin and Haas came to the ring and distracted Lesnar, which gave Eric time to switch back with Kurt. As Lesnar regained his focus, Kurt was able to pin him with a package for the win. On the February 20 episode of SmackDown, the next night on Raw, The Rock returned to Raw in a 20-man Battle royal to determine the opponent for the World Heavyweight Championship. On that night, Rock, with Bischoffs approval, announced that hed pick his own opponent for later that night, which turned out to be The Hurricane, in hopes for Rock to gain an easy victory. However, Austin walked toward the ring, which distracted Rock, allowing Hurricane to Roll up Rock into a successful pinfall, on the March 24, and final episode of Raw before WrestleMania, Austin was banned from the arena that night
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WWE Championship
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The WWE Championship is a world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the SmackDown brand. It is one of two titles in the WWE, alongside the WWE Universal Championship that was created for the Raw brand as a result of the 2016 WWE draft. The title is held by Randy Orton, who is in his ninth reign. The inaugural champion was Buddy Rogers, since its inception, the title has undergone many name changes due to company name changes and title unifications. From its inception until 2001, it was promoted as WWEs sole primary championship, an additional world title, the WCW Championship, was added after the then-World Wrestling Federations purchase of World Championship Wrestling in early 2001. The titles were unified as the Undisputed Championship. After the first brand extension in 2002 and the promotion becoming the WWE, the championship exclusive to SmackDown. ECW became a brand in 2006, adding the ECW World Heavyweight Championship. Over the course of the first brand extension, the WWE Championship switched between brands, usually as a result of the annual draft, the ECW Championship was deactivated in 2010, and the World Heavyweight Championship was unified with the WWE Championship in 2013. The championship was again the world title of WWE until the reintroduction of the brand extension in 2016. The title was introduced in 1963 with Buddy Rogers becoming the first champion, however, its origin is attributed to events that began in the National Wrestling Alliance, which had various territorial member promotions. In the 1950s, Capitol Wrestling Corporation was a member of the NWA and by 1963, during this time, Buddy Rogers held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship until January 24, when Lou Thesz defeated Rogers for the championship in a one fall match. After several years, the WWWF became affiliated with the NWA once again, although the full name appeared on the championship belts until 1998, the name was often abbreviated to WWF Championship, which became its official name in 1998. In 1991, World Championship Wrestling, a member of the NWA, in 1993, WCW seceded from the NWA and grew to become a rival promotion to the WWF. Both organizations grew into prominence and were eventually involved in a television ratings war. Near the end of the war, WCW began a financial decline. As a result of the purchase, the WWF acquired, among other assets, thus, there were two world titles in the WWF, the original WWF Championship and the WCW Championship, which was eventually renamed to the World Championship. In December 2001, the two championships were unified at Vengeance, at the event, Stone Cold Steve Austin defeated Kurt Angle to retain the WWF Championship, while Chris Jericho defeated The Rock for the World Championship
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12 Rounds (film)
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12 Rounds is a 2009 American action film directed by Renny Harlin and produced by WWE Studios. The cast is led by John Cena, alongside Aidan Gillen, Steve Harris, Gonzalo Menendez, Brian J. White, Ashley Scott, the film was released on March 27,2009 in United States theaters. A sting operation to capture arms dealer Miles Jackson goes awry when the FBIs inside man double crosses them, Miles rendezvouses with his girlfriend Erica Kessen, who has a getaway car. Officers Danny Fisher and Hank Carver are dispatched to help the FBI and they look at Jacksons record and see a surveillance video of him dancing with Kessen. An encounter with them at a traffic light leads to her death, one year later, Fisher gets a phone call from Jackson, who has escaped from prison. Fisher runs outside the house looking for Jackson, and Fishers car and house explode, after he recovers, Jackson says he is launching a game of revenge called 12 Rounds. The house, the car, and Phil, the plumber who came to fix a pipe were Round 1, Molly Porter, Fisher’s girlfriend is kidnapped by Jackson for Round 2. Carver has a lead on the man who helped kidnap Molly Porter, FBI Special Agents George Aiken and Ray Santiago work with them to get Porter back. For Round 5 one of the security boxes is a bomb, Fisher discovers and disposes of the bomb. The other box contains a hotel room key. The room is raided and found empty, for Round 6, Fisher follows a series of clues to a bus where he finds Porter on board, wearing a bomb underneath her jacket. He is handcuffed to a bar and is given an envelope with a number as the clue to the next round. The Feds try to get Jackson but he escapes with Porter, when Fisher is freed, he tells the Feds about the bomb. Carver shows up and tells Fisher he has located Jacksons henchman, in Round 7 Fisher has to find the correct cell phone number that disarms bombs placed in different locations. Jackson answers and tells him that his call disabled Streetcar 907s brakes, Fisher and Santiago slam their car into the transformer, shutting off electricity for the whole neighborhood. They run along the streetcar, clearing out of the way until it can slow to a halt. A mine planted by Jackson kills Carver and Deluso, Jackson says that Porters bomb can only be disarmed by Fishers fingerprint. He tells Fisher to pay a visit to Erica Kessen, so Fisher, Santiago, another detective, Chuck Jansen calls Fisher to tell him that the numbers in the envelope were rigged to the streetcar. Jackson had cameras monitoring the elevator shaft and set off the five seconds early
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The Scorpion King
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The Scorpion King is a 2002 American period action-war film directed by Chuck Russell, starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Kelly Hu, Grant Heslov, and Michael Clarke Duncan. It is a spin-off to The Mummy Returns and follows the story of Mathayus, the events of The Scorpion King take place 5,000 years before those in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, and reveal Mathayus origins and his rise to power as the Scorpion King. The name is a reference to a king of the Protodynastic Period of Egypt. Before the time of the pyramids, a horde from the East invades the ancient world, led by the ruthless Memnon and his many victories come from the help of a sorcerer who predicts the outcomes of battles, leaving only a few free tribes to oppose him. The Akkadians manage to sneak into Memnons camp, but are ambushed by Memnons guards, having been tipped off by Takmet who killed his own father and defected to Memnons side. Jesup and Rama are hit by arrows, but Mathayus manages to sneak into the sorcerers tent, Mathayus is ambushed and meets Memnon himself, who brutally executes Jesup in front of him, and is about to kill Mathayus too. Cassandra, however, tells Memnon that the gods wish Mathayus to survive the night, Memnon has Mathayus buried to his neck in the desert to be devoured by fire ants at dawn, but he manages to escape with help from a horse thief, Arpid. Deciding to finish his mission and avenge his brother, Mathayus sneaks into Memnons stronghold, Gomorrah and he briefly meets Memnons court magician, Philos, who hides him and then directs him to the courtyard where Memnon is training. Mathayus only barely manages to escape Gomorrah, abducting Cassandra along the way, Cassandra tries to escape from Mathayus and even tells him that she has been Memnons prisoner since she was a child. Sympathetic, Mathayus allows her the choice of leaving, but warns her of worse dangers, with his dying breaths, Thorak manages to stab Mathayus in the leg with a scorpion blood-laced arrow. Cassandra, however, uses her magic to save Mathayus life, as an insult and a warning, Mathayus sends Thoraks blood-stained pendant to Memnon. Mathayus, Arpid and Cassandra then run into Philos, who had managed to flee from Memnons palace and has perfected an explosive powder he was working on. However, they are ambushed by the rebels, now under the rule of Balthazar, though Mathayus defeats Balthazar in a fight and earns his grudging respect and sanctuary, Cassandra has a vision of Memnon and his army slaughtering the entire rebel camp. Furthermore, she informs Mathayus that if he faces Memnon, he will most likely die from being shot, the next morning, however, Cassandra returns to Memnon in order to stall him and possibly kill him. The battle rages on until Mathayus is shot by a guard as in Cassandras vision, Memnon is consumed by the flames as he falls to his death. With the battle over, the remnants of Memnons army bow before Mathayus, who by their law is their new king, in the aftermath, Mathayus and Balthazar share a good-natured farewell as the latter returns to his own kingdom. Cassandra tells Mathayus that she sees a period of peace and prosperity coming, undeterred, Mathayus decides that they will make their own destiny. Metacritic gave the film an average score of 45 based on 30 reviews
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The Condemned
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The Condemned is a 2007 American action film written and directed by Scott Wiper. The film stars Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones, Robert Mammone, Tory Mussett, Madeleine West, the film centers on ten convicts who are forced to fight each other to the death as part of an illegal game which is being broadcast to the public. The Condemned was filmed in Queensland, fight choreography was coordinated by Richard Norton, who also stunt doubles for Jones on some scenes. A sequel titled The Condemned 2 starring Randy Orton was released in 2015, the film was produced by WWE Films and distributed by Lionsgate on April 27,2007. Jack Conrad is awaiting execution in a corrupt Salvadoran prison and he is purchased by a wealthy television producer and transported to a deserted island in the South Pacific along with nine other condemned criminals similarly purchased from prisons around the world. They are offered the opportunity to avoid punishment and win back their freedom by fighting to the death in an illegal game to be filmed. A bomb is placed on the ankle of every contestant, each featuring a 30-hour countdown timer, the winner will have the bomb removed and be given their freedom as well as a pocket full of cash as the prize. Ian Breckel, the producer, is aiming for online ratings that equal or beat the latest Super Bowl reception of 40 million television viewers, as the broadcast progresses, FBI agents discover Conrads real identity as Jack Riley after a tip from one of Conrads former classmates. Conrad is discovered to be a former Delta Force operative who was captured on a Black ops mission to El Salvador after bombing a building controlled by drug dealers. Conrads girlfriend Sarah becomes aware of the situation and watches the show at the bar she works at as it unfolds. Ewan McStarley and Saiga team up to remove the competition, while Yasantwa uses her wiles to trick others to their death. After seeing the shows broadcast tower before the show, Conrad infiltrates the tower and calls Sarah, after the other seven contestants have died, Conrad is left alone against McStarley and Saiga. He stabs Saiga, and McStarley flees, eventually, a helicopter drops a shotgun down to McStarley, who uses it to hunt down Conrad. After Conrad falls into a stream, McStarley runs into the cameraman and his armed guard dressed in suits while searching for Conrad. When McStarley and Conrad meet again, Conrad ends up rolling over a cliff, Conrad is presumed dead by the fall, and McStarley is declared the winner. As McStarley is being driven to the tower to collect his prize. After he meets McStarley and de-activates his bomb, he tells him that he not receive his prize money. Breckel and McStarley fixed the game in his favor in exchange for his freedom, McStarley takes an MP5 from one of the guards, and kills the tech team in the building, one by one, even though they truthfully did not know that Breckel was abandoning them all
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC is the home video distribution arm of the 20th Century Fox film studio. It was established in 1977 as Magnetic Video and was known as 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox Video and FoxVideo. CBS/Fox became FoxVideo in 1991, alternating with the CBS/Fox name until 1998 and it was renamed as 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment in 1995, alternating with the FoxVideo name until 1998. They serve as a UK distributor for Pathé movies and their library for home media releases. Fox also distributed Yari Film Group DVD titles in North America, TCFHE also distributes MGM and United Artists titles since MGM ended their home video agreement with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. They also distribute titles from Relativity Media, EuropaCorp U. S. Foxs best selling DVD titles are currently the various box sets of The Simpsons. They also once served as the U. S and they also distributed HIT Entertainment releases in 2006 until 2008 when video distribution moved to Lionsgate Home Entertainment, then Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. In late 2006, the company began releasing its titles on Blu-ray
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Action film
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Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist or protagonists end up in a series of challenges that typically include violence, extended fighting, physical feats, and frantic chases. Advancements in CGI have made it cheaper and easier to create action sequences, while action has long been a recurring component in films, the action film genre began to develop in the 1970s along with the increase of stunts and special effects. The genre is associated with the thriller and adventure film genres. Some historians consider The Great Train Robbery to be the first action film, during the 1920s and 1930s, action-based films were often swashbuckling adventure films in which actors, such as Douglas Fairbanks, wielded swords in period pieces or Westerns. The 1940s and 1950s saw action in a new form through war, the film, along with a war-adventure called The Guns of Navarone, inspired producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman to invest in their own spy-adventure, based on the novels of Ian Fleming. The long-running success of the James Bond films or series introduced a staple of the action film. Such larger-than-life characters were a veritable “one-man army”, able to dispatch villainous masterminds after cutting through their disposable henchmen in increasingly creative ways, such heroes are ready with one-liners, puns, and dry quips. The Bond films also used fast cutting, car chases, fist fights, a variety of weapons and gadgets, Dirty Harry essentially lifted its star, Clint Eastwood, out of his cowboy typecasting, and framed him as the archetypal hero of the urban action film. In many countries, restrictions on language, adult content, and violence had loosened up, in the 1970s, martial-arts films from Hong Kong became popular with Western audiences and inspired big budget films such as Bruce Lees Enter the Dragon. Chuck Norris blended martial arts with cops and robbers in films such as Good Guys Wear Black, from Japan, Sonny Chiba starred in his first martial arts movie in 1973 called the Karate Kiba. His breakthrough international hit was The Street Fighter series, which established him as the reigning Japanese martial arts actor in international cinema and he also played the role of Mas Oyama in Champion of Death, Karate Bearfighter, and Karate for Life. Chibas action films were not only bounded by martial arts, but also action thriller, jidaigeki, in the 1980s Hollywood produced many big budget action blockbusters with actors such as Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lorenzo Lamas, Michael Dudikoff, Charles Bronson and Bruce Willis. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas paid their homage to the Bond-inspired style with Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 1982, veteran actor Nick Nolte and rising comedian Eddie Murphy broke box office records with the action-comedy 48 Hrs. credited as the first buddy-cop movie. That same year, Sylvester Stallone starred in First Blood, the first installment in the Rambo film series made the character John Rambo a pop culture icon. 1984 saw the beginning of the Terminator starring Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger and this story provides one of the grittiest roles for a woman in action and Hamilton was required to put in extensive effort to develop a strong physique. The 1988 film, Die Hard, was influential on the development of the action genre. In the film, Bruce Willis plays a New York police detective who becomes embroiled in a terrorist take-over of a Los Angeles office building high-rise. The film set a pattern for a host of imitators, like Under Siege and Sudden Death, by the end of the 1980s, the influence of the successful action film could be felt in almost every genre
