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Steve Franks
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Steve Franks is an American screenwriter and musician based in Orange County, California. He devised the story for the 1999 comedy Big Daddy and wrote the screenplay with Tim Herlihy, Franks graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. He also attended a program at Loyola Marymount University. Franks also created the USA Network original series Psych, and created the band The Friendly Indians, Steve Franks at the Internet Movie Database Steve Franks bio at the USA Network
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Adam Sandler
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Adam Richard Sandler is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, film producer, and musician. After becoming a Saturday Night Live cast member, Sandler went on to star in many Hollywood feature films that combined have grossed over $2 billion at the box office. He has ventured into more dramatic territory with his roles in Punch-Drunk Love, Spanglish, Reign Over Me, Sandler has released five comedy albums in his career. Theyre All Gonna Laugh at You. and What the Hell Happened to Me. are both certified double-platinum, in 1999, Sandler founded Happy Madison Productions. Sandler was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1966, to Judith Judy, a school teacher, and Stanley Sandler. His family is Jewish and descends from Russian and Israeli immigrants on both sides and he grew up in Manchester, New Hampshire after moving there at the age of six. He attended Manchester Central High School, as a teen, Sandler was in BBYO, a popular Jewish youth group. Sandler graduated from New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts in 1988, early in his career, Sandler played Theo Huxtables friend, Smitty in The Cosby Show and the Stud Boy or Trivia Delinquent in the MTV game show Remote Control. After his film debut Going Overboard in 1989, Sandler performed in comedy clubs and he was discovered by comedian Dennis Miller, who caught Sandlers act in Los Angeles and recommended him to Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels. Sandler told Conan OBrien on The Tonight Show that NBC fired him, in 1993, Adam Sandler appeared in the film Coneheads with Chris Farley, David Spade, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman, and Jane Curtin. In 1994, he co-starred in Airheads with Brendan Fraser and Steve Buscemi and he followed this film with Bulletproof, and the financially successful comedies Happy Gilmore and The Wedding Singer. He was initially cast in the bachelor-party-themed comedy/thriller Very Bad Things but had to back out due to his involvement in The Waterboy, although his earliest films did not receive critical praise, he started to receive more positive reviews, beginning with Punch-Drunk Love in 2002. Roger Eberts review of Punch-Drunk Love concluded that Sandler had been wasted in earlier films with poorly written scripts, Sandler has moved outside the genre of slapstick comedy to take on more serious parts such as the aforementioned Punch-Drunk Love, Spanglish and Reign Over Me. He played a father figure in Big Daddy. He returned to more dramatic fare with Mike Binders Reign Over Me and he starred with Kevin James in the film I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. Sandler headlined You Dont Mess with the Zohan, the film was written by Sandler, Judd Apatow, and Robert Smigel, it was directed by Dennis Dugan. It marked as Sandlers first family film and first film under the Walt Disney banner, in 2009, Sandler starred in Judd Apatows third directorial feature Funny People. The film was released on July 31,2009, Sandler appeared in Grown Ups, alongside Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade
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Joey Lauren Adams
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Joey Lauren Adams is an American actress and director who has appeared in more than 40 films. She began her career in 1977 with a small role in Exorcist II. From there she began to find larger roles, in 1991, she appeared in Top of the Heap, the 100th episode of Married. With Children, and subsequently starred in its short-lived spinoff, in 1993, Adams landed her first major film role as Simone in Richard Linklaters Dazed and Confused. The same year, she appeared in the Saturday Night Live spinoff film Coneheads as one of Connie Coneheads friends, two years later, Adams appeared in Mallrats, written and directed by Kevin Smith. The two started dating during the films post-production, and their relationship provided the inspiration for Smiths next film, the relationship did not last long but ended on friendly terms. Meanwhile, in 1996, while Smith was finalizing the script for Chasing Amy, Adams was cast in the slapstick comedy Bio-Dome, Adams played the role of Monique, Bud Macintoshs girlfriend. In 1997s Chasing Amy, Adams played the role of Alyssa Jones. Later, Smith would describe Chasing Amy as a sort of penance/valentine, in addition to her acting work on the film, Adams wrote and performed the song Alive for the films soundtrack. From there, Adams was originally slated to play the lead in Smiths next film, 1999s Dogma. In both of these appearances, Adams reprises the Alyssa Jones role and her post-Smith projects included playing a spunky veterinarians assistant who falls in love with a single father in 1998s A Cool, Dry Place. The following year, Adams appeared in her first big-budget Hollywood release and she then went on to appear in many smaller films, including Beautiful and In the Shadows. In 2005, she had a guest role in an episode of the TV series Veronica Mars, also in 2006, Adams released her directorial debut film, Come Early Morning, starring Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Donovan, Diane Ladd, Tim Blake Nelson and Laura Prepon. The film, shot on location in Little Rock, Arkansas, was selected for the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, in 2006, she, along with Lian Lunson and Nicole Holofcener, was awarded the Women in Film Dorothy Arzner Directors Award. On November 24,2009, Interscope Records released Adams directorial debut for a video entitled Belle of the Boulevard by Dashboard Confessional. Adams returned to TV in March 2010, on the Showtime series The United States of Tara and she appeared in six episodes as Pammy, a barmaid who falls for Buck, one of the title characters alternate personalities. Regarding her unique voice she has commented, Its not a normal voice and it doesnt fit into peoples preconceptions about what a womans voice should sound like. My mom doesnt think I have a voice, though
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Jon Stewart
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Jon Stewart is an American comedian, writer, producer, director, actor, media critic, and former television host. He was the host of The Daily Show, a news program on Comedy Central. Stewart started as a comedian, but branched into television as host of Short Attention Span Theater for Comedy Central. He went on to host his own show on MTV, The Jon Stewart Show and he has also had several film roles as an actor, but has done few cinematic projects since becoming the host of The Daily Show in 1999. He was also a writer and co-executive producer of the show, after Stewart joined, The Daily Show steadily gained popularity and critical acclaim, and his work won 22 Primetime Emmy Awards. Stewart has gained acclaim as an acerbic, satirical critic of personality-driven media shows, in particular those of the U. S. media networks such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. Critics say Stewart benefits from a standard, he critiques other news shows from the safe. Stewart agrees, saying that neither his nor his channel purports to be anything other than satire. In spite of its self-professed entertainment mandate, The Daily Show has been nominated for news, Stewart hosted the 78th and 80th Academy Awards. He is the co-author of America, A Citizens Guide to Democracy Inaction, which was one of the books in the U. S. in 2004. Stewarts final show aired on August 6,2015, Stewarts family is Jewish, and emigrated to the U. S. from Poland, Ukraine and Belarus, one of his grandfathers was born in Manzhouli. Stewart is the second of four sons, with older brother Lawrence and younger brothers Dan, Stewarts parents divorced when Stewart was eleven years old, and Stewart was apparently largely estranged from his father. Because of his relationship with his father, which in 2015 he described as still complicated, he dropped his surname and began using his middle name. Stewart stated, There was a thought of using my mothers maiden name, yet people always view through the prism of ethnic identity. He had his surname changed to Stewart in 2001. Stewart and his brother Lawrence, who was previously the Chief Operating Officer of NYSE Euronext, grew up in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, according to Stewart, he was subjected to anti-Semitic bullying as a child. He describes himself in school as very into Eugene Debs. Stewart grew up in the era of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal and his first job was working at a Woolworths at which his brother Lawrence worked, and jokingly describes being fired by Lawrence as one of the scarring events of his youth
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Rob Schneider
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Robert Michael Rob Schneider is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director. Schneider was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in the suburb of Pacifica. His parents are Pilar, a kindergarten teacher and ex-school board president, and Marvin Schneider. His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic, Schneiders maternal grandmother was a Filipina who met and married his grandfather, a white American army private, while he was stationed in the Philippines. His mixed background is a theme in his comedy acts. His older brother, John, is a producer, Schneider graduated from Terra Nova High School in 1982. Schneider started his comedy career while still in high school, opening for San Francisco favorites Head On. After high school, he played Bay Area nightclubs such as the Holy City Zoo and The Other Cafe, after opening a show by comedian Dennis Miller in 1987, Schneider won a slot on HBOs 13th Annual Young Comedians special, which was hosted by Miller. Schneiders appearance on the HBO special led to a position as a writer for the late night NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, Schneider was hired at Saturday Night Live in 1988. Schneider swiftly graduated from writer and featured player to full cast member, from 1990 to 1994 at SNL, he played such roles as Tiny Elvis and Orgasm Guy. Schneider is featured in the video release The Bad Boys of Saturday Night Live, along with colleagues Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, the Richmeister, an office worker who annoys people by giving them nicknames as they make copies. He also appeared in a part on the TV series Coach. In 1996, he co-starred in the NBC sit-com Men Behaving Badly, the U. S. version ran for two seasons. Schneider starred in the 1999 feature film Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo, the latter movie was not well received by critics or moviegoers, and as a result, Schneider won a 2005 Worst Actor Razzie Award for his role in the film. In 2006, Schneider co-starred in the family comedy The Benchwarmers. Other film roles include Schneiders appearance with Jim Hensons Muppets in the 1999 film Muppets from Space, Schneiders directorial debut, the comedy Big Stan, was released in some overseas markets during the fall of 2008, with a U. S. release in early 2009. In the film, he starred as a con artist who is arrested for perpetrating real-estate scams and he is sentenced to prison, so he takes a crash-course in martial arts to survive incarceration. Schneider has also appeared in numerous comedies starring his SNL comrade Adam Sandler, the comedic characters Schneider plays in these films include an overly enthusiastic Cajun man who proclaims the catch-phrase, You can do it
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Cole Sprouse
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Dylan Thomas Sprouse and Cole Mitchell Sprouse are American actors. They are twins and are referred to as the Sprouse brothers or Sprouse Bros and their first major theatrical film role was in the 1999 comedy, Big Daddy, in which they co-starred with Adam Sandler. They later appeared in television sitcoms and starred in the straight-to-DVD films I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. From 2005 until 2008, they starred in the Disney Channel sitcom The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, as a result of the series success, the media has termed them heartthrobs and overwhelming draws among preteen and teen audiences. The following year, the brothers launched a franchise known as the Sprouse Bros brand, the majority of the Sprouses franchise ended in 2008, except for their clothing line. The Suite Life of Zack & Cody was retooled in 2008 as The Suite Life on Deck, in which the brothers reprised their roles as Zack, the Suite Life on Deck went on to become the most-watched tween/childrens television show in 2008 and 2009. The show ended in May 2011 and they also starred in The Suite Life Movie, which aired in March of the same year. They began cultivating an image by starring in the independent theatrical suspense film The Kings of Appletown in 2009. Dylan and Cole were two of the wealthiest children alive in 2007, and in 2010, the Sprouse brothers were the highest-paid teenage Disney television actors, MSN reported by the end of the 2000s that the twin brothers became the richest teenage twins in the world. In 2010, the brothers were accepted to New York University and they deferred admission for one year, and attended the university from 2011 to 2015. Both Cole and Dylan have confirmed they wish to pursue acting post-university, Dylan was named after Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, and Cole is named after jazz singer and pianist Nat King Cole. Dylan is 15 minutes older than Cole, the boys moved back to the United States four months after their birth to their parents native Long Beach, California. Some of the money Dylan and Cole earned by acting was used to buy a house in Calabasas, California, the Sprouses began acting at the age of eight months following a suggestion from their grandmother, Jonine Booth Wright, who was a drama teacher and actress. The twins first appeared in a commercial for diapers, switching on-screen time every few seconds, as with many twins, the two have often played the same role, due to child labor laws in California restricting the amount of time children can be filmed in a day. Casting twins in a single role thus allows more time for the character to be filmed, beginning at eight months old, the two played a single character, Patrick Kelly, on the ABC series Grace Under Fire. In 1999, the boys appeared in their first major film, Big Daddy, in which they shared the role of a five-year-old boy named Julian who is adopted by Adam Sandlers character. Though the film received mixed reviews, the two were nominated for awards for their role in the film. However, they did not win any, the same year, the boys also had a minor role in the thriller The Astronauts Wife
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Dylan Sprouse
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Dylan Thomas Sprouse and Cole Mitchell Sprouse are American actors. They are twins and are referred to as the Sprouse brothers or Sprouse Bros and their first major theatrical film role was in the 1999 comedy, Big Daddy, in which they co-starred with Adam Sandler. They later appeared in television sitcoms and starred in the straight-to-DVD films I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. From 2005 until 2008, they starred in the Disney Channel sitcom The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, as a result of the series success, the media has termed them heartthrobs and overwhelming draws among preteen and teen audiences. The following year, the brothers launched a franchise known as the Sprouse Bros brand, the majority of the Sprouses franchise ended in 2008, except for their clothing line. The Suite Life of Zack & Cody was retooled in 2008 as The Suite Life on Deck, in which the brothers reprised their roles as Zack, the Suite Life on Deck went on to become the most-watched tween/childrens television show in 2008 and 2009. The show ended in May 2011 and they also starred in The Suite Life Movie, which aired in March of the same year. They began cultivating an image by starring in the independent theatrical suspense film The Kings of Appletown in 2009. Dylan and Cole were two of the wealthiest children alive in 2007, and in 2010, the Sprouse brothers were the highest-paid teenage Disney television actors, MSN reported by the end of the 2000s that the twin brothers became the richest teenage twins in the world. In 2010, the brothers were accepted to New York University and they deferred admission for one year, and attended the university from 2011 to 2015. Both Cole and Dylan have confirmed they wish to pursue acting post-university, Dylan was named after Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, and Cole is named after jazz singer and pianist Nat King Cole. Dylan is 15 minutes older than Cole, the boys moved back to the United States four months after their birth to their parents native Long Beach, California. Some of the money Dylan and Cole earned by acting was used to buy a house in Calabasas, California, the Sprouses began acting at the age of eight months following a suggestion from their grandmother, Jonine Booth Wright, who was a drama teacher and actress. The twins first appeared in a commercial for diapers, switching on-screen time every few seconds, as with many twins, the two have often played the same role, due to child labor laws in California restricting the amount of time children can be filmed in a day. Casting twins in a single role thus allows more time for the character to be filmed, beginning at eight months old, the two played a single character, Patrick Kelly, on the ABC series Grace Under Fire. In 1999, the boys appeared in their first major film, Big Daddy, in which they shared the role of a five-year-old boy named Julian who is adopted by Adam Sandlers character. Though the film received mixed reviews, the two were nominated for awards for their role in the film. However, they did not win any, the same year, the boys also had a minor role in the thriller The Astronauts Wife
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Leslie Mann
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Mann was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in Newport Beach. She was raised by her mother, an estate agent who had married three times. Mann has stated of her father, My dad is. I dont really have one, I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him. She has two siblings and three older step-brothers and her maternal grandmother, Sadie Viola Heljä Räsänen, was the daughter of Finnish immigrants. Mann has said that she was shy, kind of pent-up during her youth. She graduated from Corona del Mar High School, and studied acting at the Joanne Baron / D. W. Brown Studio and she attended college and studied communications, but dropped out before graduating. Mann began her career at 18 appearing in a number of television commercials, in 2007, Mann starred alongside Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd in Judd Apatows comedy Knocked Up, which grossed more than $218 million worldwide. Manns performance in the film garnered her rave reviews as well as a Best Supporting Actress nomination from the Chicago Film Critics Association, in 2009, Mann reunited with her Big Daddy co-star Adam Sandler and Knocked Up co-star Seth Rogen for Apatows Funny People. This film was named to many of the top ten lists including The New Yorker. That same year, Mann also starred in Burr Steers successful comedy 17 Again opposite Zac Efron and Matthew Perry and she was also seen in the indie hit I Love You Phillip Morris alongside Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. Mann also starred alongside Elizabeth Banks in the film What Was I Thinking, based upon the book by Barbara Davilman and Liz Dubelman which was filmed in 2009 but never released. In 2011, Mann starred opposite Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman in David Dobkins comedy The Change-Up, Mann continued her voice performance work in 2012 with her role in ParaNorman, an animated 3D, stop-motion film from writer/director Chris Butler. In December 2012, Mann appeared opposite Paul Rudd in Judd Apatows This Is 40, the movie reunited the trio from the film, with Mann and Rudd reprising their characters. The film was written and directed by Judd Apatow, and included their two daughters in the cast, in contrast to Knocked Up, This Is 40 centered squarely on Manns character and her family. An early response on Manns performance from Elle Magazine states that doesnt just walk off with scenes—she steals the show, Mann was nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy by the Broadcast Film Critics Association for This Is 40. In 2013, Mann was in Sofia Coppolas The Bling Ring with Emma Watson, inspired by actual events, the film follows a group of fame-obsessed L. A. teenagers who burgled celebrity homes by tracking their whereabouts on the internet. In 2014, Mann narrated Women in Comedy, an episode of season 2 of Makers, Mann and Apatow have two daughters, Iris and Maude, who both appeared in the films Knocked Up, Funny People, and This Is 40 as the children of Manns characters. Mann and Apatow are both supporters of the non-profit organization 826LA, which focuses on encouraging the writing skills of disadvantaged youth
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Columbia Pictures
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The studio was founded in 1918 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Jacks best friend Joe Brandt, released its first feature film in August 1922. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name in 1924, and went public two years later and its name is derived from Columbia, a national personification of the United States, which is used as the studios logo. In its early years, it was a player in Hollywood. With Capra and others, Columbia became one of the homes of the screwball comedy. In the 1930s, Columbias major contract stars were Jean Arthur, in the 1940s, Rita Hayworth became the studios premier star and propelled their fortunes into the late 1950s. Rosalind Russell, Glenn Ford, and William Holden also became major stars at the studio, in 1982, the studio was purchased by The Coca-Cola Company, and launched TriStar Pictures as a joint venture with HBO and CBS. Five years later, Coca-Cola spun off Columbia, which was sold to Tri-Star, after a brief period of independence with Coca-Cola maintaining a financial interest, the combined studio was acquired by Sony in 1989. It is one of the film studios in the world. It was one of the so-called Little Three among the eight major film studios of Hollywoods Golden Age, Brandt was president of CBC Film Sales, handling sales, marketing and distribution from New York along with Jack Cohn, while Harry Cohn ran production in Hollywood. The studios early productions were short subjects, Screen Snapshots, the Hall Room Boys. The start-up CBC leased space in a Poverty Row studio on Hollywoods famously low-rent Gower Street, among Hollywoods elite, the studios small-time reputation led some to joke that CBC stood for Corned Beef and Cabbage. Brandt eventually tired of dealing with the Cohn brothers, and sold his stake to Harry Cohn. In an effort to improve its image, the Cohn brothers renamed the company Columbia Pictures Corporation on January 10,1924, Cohn remained head of production as well, thus concentrating enormous power in his hands. He would run Columbia for the next 34 years, the second-longest tenure of any studio chief, even in an industry rife with nepotism, Columbia was particularly notorious for having a number of Harry and Jacks relatives in high positions. Humorist Robert Benchley called it the Pine Tree Studio, because it has so many Cohns, Columbias product line consisted mostly of moderately budgeted features and short subjects including comedies, sports films, various serials, and cartoons. Columbia gradually moved into the production of higher-budget fare, eventually joining the tier of Hollywood studios along with United Artists. Like United Artists and Universal, Columbia was an integrated company. It controlled production and distribution, it did not own any theaters, helping Columbias climb was the arrival of an ambitious director, Frank Capra
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Dylan and Cole Sprouse
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Dylan Thomas Sprouse and Cole Mitchell Sprouse are American actors. They are twins and are referred to as the Sprouse brothers or Sprouse Bros and their first major theatrical film role was in the 1999 comedy, Big Daddy, in which they co-starred with Adam Sandler. They later appeared in television sitcoms and starred in the straight-to-DVD films I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. From 2005 until 2008, they starred in the Disney Channel sitcom The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, as a result of the series success, the media has termed them heartthrobs and overwhelming draws among preteen and teen audiences. The following year, the brothers launched a franchise known as the Sprouse Bros brand, the majority of the Sprouses franchise ended in 2008, except for their clothing line. The Suite Life of Zack & Cody was retooled in 2008 as The Suite Life on Deck, in which the brothers reprised their roles as Zack, the Suite Life on Deck went on to become the most-watched tween/childrens television show in 2008 and 2009. The show ended in May 2011 and they also starred in The Suite Life Movie, which aired in March of the same year. They began cultivating an image by starring in the independent theatrical suspense film The Kings of Appletown in 2009. Dylan and Cole were two of the wealthiest children alive in 2007, and in 2010, the Sprouse brothers were the highest-paid teenage Disney television actors, MSN reported by the end of the 2000s that the twin brothers became the richest teenage twins in the world. In 2010, the brothers were accepted to New York University and they deferred admission for one year, and attended the university from 2011 to 2015. Both Cole and Dylan have confirmed they wish to pursue acting post-university, Dylan was named after Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, and Cole is named after jazz singer and pianist Nat King Cole. Dylan is 15 minutes older than Cole, the boys moved back to the United States four months after their birth to their parents native Long Beach, California. Some of the money Dylan and Cole earned by acting was used to buy a house in Calabasas, California, the Sprouses began acting at the age of eight months following a suggestion from their grandmother, Jonine Booth Wright, who was a drama teacher and actress. The twins first appeared in a commercial for diapers, switching on-screen time every few seconds, as with many twins, the two have often played the same role, due to child labor laws in California restricting the amount of time children can be filmed in a day. Casting twins in a single role thus allows more time for the character to be filmed, beginning at eight months old, the two played a single character, Patrick Kelly, on the ABC series Grace Under Fire. In 1999, the boys appeared in their first major film, Big Daddy, in which they shared the role of a five-year-old boy named Julian who is adopted by Adam Sandlers character. Though the film received mixed reviews, the two were nominated for awards for their role in the film. However, they did not win any, the same year, the boys also had a minor role in the thriller The Astronauts Wife
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Robert Simonds
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Robert Bruce Simonds, Jr. is an American film producer and the Chairman and CEO of movie studio STX Entertainment. Simonds has also produced a number of cult films, including The Wedding Singer, Joe Dirt, Half Baked. To this extent, throughout his hands-on producing career Simonds had the single best studio track record for profitability on his films, Simonds was born in Phoenix, Arizona, the son of Robert Bruce Simonds, Sr. a businessman. He and his wife Anne live in Los Angeles with their son, in March 2014 Simonds announced the formation of STX Entertainment. Debt is provided by a consortium of banks including JP Morgan, Bank of America, the studio financed and distributed actor Joel Edgertons directorial debut, The Gift, a thriller from Jason Blums Blumhouse. The film stars Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall and Edgerton, who wrote the script. Released in August 2015, the received a 93% score on Rotten Tomatoes. In January 2015, the studio announced a premium television output deal
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Happy Madison Productions
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Happy Madison Productions is an American film and television production company founded in 1996 by Adam Sandler which is best known for its comedy films. Happy Madison takes its name from the films Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison, the elderly man depicted in the logo is Sandlers late father, Stanley. The 1998 films The Waterboy and The Wedding Singer helped jump start Sandlers movie career and he produced The Waterboy and co-wrote the script with Tim Herlihy. The company used to have a subsidiary, Madison 23 Productions, the only production under Madison 23 was Reign Over Me, starring Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle. This studio company on the trailer of Funny People and the poster and trailer for Reign Over Me is also known as Mr. Madison Productions, however, after the financial failure of Reign Over Me, the Madison 23 label was shut down. Happy Madisons most recent releases are The Ridiculous 6 and The Do Over, Happy Madisons films have, for the most part, received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics. The production company has put out three films considered to be some of the worst ever made, NOTE, Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes scores are out of 100. Rules of Engagement The Gong Show with Dave Attell Nick Swardsons Pretend Time Breaking In The Goldbergs Imaginary Mary Real Genius Nick Swardson – Party Nick Swardson – Seriously, Happy Madison page on Sandlers website Happy Madison at the Internet Movie Database
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Hotel Transylvania 2
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Hotel Transylvania 2 is a 2015 American 3D computer animated fantasy-comedy film. Produced by Sony Pictures Animation, it was animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks, Hotel Transylvania 2 takes place seven years after the first film, with the hotel now open to human guests. Mavis and Johnny have a son named Dennis, whose lack of any vampire abilities worries his grandfather Dracula. When Mavis and Johnny go on a visit to Johnnys parents, soon, things turn upside-down when Draculas old-school human-hating father Vlad unexpectedly visits the hotel. The film was released on September 25,2015, by Columbia Pictures and was a box office success, a third film, titled Hotel Transylvania 3, is scheduled to be released on July 13,2018. Seven years after the first film, Mavis and her new fiancé Johnny are finally married, with the approval of her father Dracula, and the world becomes aware of the existence of monsters. Mavis later reveals to Drac that she is pregnant and a later, she gives birth to a baby boy named Dennis. Nearing his fifth birthday, Dennis has yet to grow his fangs, noticing the dangers of Transylvania, Mavis starts to consider raising Dennis where Johnny grew up, much to Dracs disapproval. Drac tells Johnny to bring Mavis to California to visit his parents, Mike and Linda, but to make sure to keep her distracted so that she will not move, leaving Drac to babysit Dennis. Drac enlists his friends, Frank, Wayne the Werewolf, Griffin the Invisible Man, Murray the Mummy and Blobby the Blob to help train Dennis to become a monster, to no avail. Drac takes Dennis to his summer camp, Camp Winnepacaca, where he learned to hone his vampire abilities. Drac stubbornly believes Dennis is a late fanger, so he hurls Dennis from a tall, Dennis does not transform, and Dracula has to fly and rescue him at the last second. The stunt is filmed by the campers and uploaded to the Internet, Mavis angrily transforms into a bat to fly her and Johnny back to Transylvania. Drac and his friends reach the hotel a couple of seconds after Mavis and she confronts her father for putting Dennis in grave danger and his inability to accept that he is human. She states she will move out of the hotel after Dennis fifth birthday the following Wednesday, Drac hangs his head with deep guilt. Mavis invites Vlad, her grandfather and Dracs father, to Dennis birthday party, as Vlad is much worse than he was when it comes to humans, Drac tells Johnny to have the human party-goers disguise themselves as monsters. Vlad receives the invitation and arrives with his monstrous bat-like servant Bela to meet his great-grandson for the first time, Drac confronts his father about how humans are different now. Mavis becomes upset with her grandfathers behavior and while the family argues, Dennis sadly flees the hotel and enters the forest with Winnie in tow and they are attacked by Bela, who mistakes Dennis for a human
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Law degree
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A law degree is an academic degree conferred for studies in law. Such degrees are generally preparation for careers, but while their curricula may be reviewed by legal authority. The first academic degrees were all law degrees- and the first law degrees were doctorates, the foundations of the first universities in Europe were the glossators of the 11th century, which were schools of law. The first European university, that of Bologna, was founded as a school of law by four famous legal scholars in the 12th century who were students of the school in that city. It is from history that it is said that the first academic title of doctor applied to scholars of law. The degree and title were not applied to scholars of other disciplines until the 13th century, the rising of the doctor of philosophy to its present level is a modern novelty. At its origins, a doctorate was simply a qualification for a guild—that of teaching law, the University of Bologna served as the model for other law schools of the medieval age. In the medieval Islamic madrasahs, there was a doctorate in the Islamic law of the Sharia, the type of law degree conferred differs according to the jurisdiction. Some examples include, Bacharel em Direito or Bacharel em Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais, the abbreviation for Bachelor is Bel. Bachelor of Laws also referred to as a B. A. in Law or an LL. B. in the United Kingdom, Master of Laws in the United Kingdom and various current or former Commonwealth countries. Also referred to as an LL. M. from its Latin name and it is an advanced academic degree pursued by those holding a professional law degree or a degree in a relevant field. Laurea di Dottore in Giurisprudenza for graduates before the Bologna Process reforms, or Laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza after the Bologna Process reforms, in Italy. It is a masters degree, however all graduates of Italian universities. Erstes Juristisches Staatsexamen is the equivalent to the law degree, since the part is the German equivalent to the Bar exam in the U. S. At some universities you either become a Lizentiat des Rechts, a Magister iuris or a Diplom-Jurist, Juris Doctor in the United States and Japan. It is a doctorate degree. Legum Doctor is in some jurisdictions the highest academic degree in law and is equivalent to a Ph. D. Doctor of Juridical Science is a research doctorate in law awarded mostly in the United States and Canada. Lizentiat der Rechtswissenschaften / Licence en droit until 2004 and Master of Law since 2004 in Switzerland and it is a masters level degree
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