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WonderCon
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The convention will return to the Anaheim Convention Center in 2017. The convention was conceived by retailer John Barrett and originally held in the Oakland Convention Center, in 2003, it moved to San Franciscos Moscone Center. The shows original name was the Wonderful World of Comics Convention, the WonderCon logo was designed by Richard Bruning and Tim Zach. Retailer Joe Field and his partner Mike Friedrich owned and operated the convention for fifteen years, in 2001, they brokered a deal with the management team that runs the San Diego Comic-Con International to make it part of the Comic-Con International convention family. This gave the San Francisco show an audience and has made it a venue for previews and early screenings of major motion pictures. These have included Spider-Man 2 in 2004, Batman Begins and Fantastic Four in 2005, Superman Returns in 2006,300 in 2007, Watchmen in 2009, all of these events featured the stars of the films fielding questions from the audience. WonderCon had 34,000 attendees in 2009,39,000 in 2010, the show left the Bay Area after the 2011 con, because San Franciscos Moscone Center was being remodeled. The convention moved to Anaheim in 2012, and was rebranded WonderCon Anaheim, in 2016, a new convention started in the Bay Area, called the Silicon Valley Comic Con. WonderCon relocated from Anaheim to Los Angeles in 2016, and is now called WonderCon Los Angeles and was held March 25-27,2016 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, the 2017 edition of the convention returned to Anaheim and was held March 31-April 2,2017. While the main attraction of WonderCon has always been various retailers selling back issues of comic books and action figures, there is also an Artists Alley featuring mainly comic book artists selling artwork, signing books, and doing sketches, and mainstream celebrities signing autographed pictures. WonderCon hosted the Harvey Award ceremonies from 1997–1999, since 2007, academicians and comic industry professionals have held the Comics Arts Conference in conjunction with WonderCon. In addition, WonderCon features an event called Trailer Park, where trailers for upcoming films are shown, the WonderCon masquerade competition usually takes place on Saturday after the convention closes. Awards are given to those with the most creative performances, though anyone can participate, official website WonderCon feature on Sidewalks Entertainment WonderCon founders website
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Tacoma, Washington
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Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city in and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washingtons Puget Sound,32 miles southwest of Seattle,31 miles northeast of the capital, Olympia. The population was 198,397, according to the 2010 census, Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third largest in the state. Tacoma also serves as the center of activity for the South Sound region. Tacoma adopted its name after the nearby Mount Rainier, originally called Takhoma or Tahoma and it is locally known as the City of Destiny because the area was chosen to be the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the late 19th century. The decision of the railroad was influenced by Tacomas neighboring deep-water harbor, by connecting the bay with the railroad, Tacomas motto became When rails meet sails. Today, Commencement Bay serves the Port of Tacoma, a center of trade on the Pacific Coast. Like most central cities, Tacoma suffered a decline in the mid-20th century as a result of suburbanization. Neighborhoods such as the 6th Avenue District have become revitalized, tacoma-Pierce County has been named one of the most livable areas in the United States. In 2006, Tacoma was listed as one of the most walkable cities in the country and that same year, the womens magazine Self named Tacoma the Most Sexually Healthy City in the United States. In contrast, Tacoma was also ranked as the most stressed-out city in the country in a 2004 survey, Tacoma gained notoriety in 1940 for the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which earned the nickname Galloping Gertie. The city of Tacoma and surrounding areas were inhabited for thousands of years by American Indians, predominantly the Puyallup people, mcCarver, who named his project Tacoma City, derived from the indigenous name for the mountain. Tacoma was incorporated on November 12,1875, following the merger of Old Tacoma, the transcontinental link was effected in 1887, but the railroad built its depot on New Tacoma, two miles south of the Carr-McCarver development. The two communities together and joined. The population grew from 1,098 in 1880 to 36,006 in 1890, rudyard Kipling visited Tacoma in 1889 and said it was literally staggering under a boom of the boomiest. George Francis Train was a resident for a few years in the late 19th century, in 1890, he staged a global circumnavigation starting and ending in Tacoma to promote the city. A plaque in downtown Tacoma marks the start and finish line, in November 1885, white citizens led by then-mayor Jacob Weisbach expelled several hundred Chinese residents peacefully living in the city. The next day two Chinese settlements were burned to the ground, the discovery of gold in the Klondike in 1898 led Tacomas prominence in the region to be eclipsed by the booming development of Seattle
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West Hollywood, California
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West Hollywood, occasionally referred to locally as WeHo, is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Incorporated in 1984, it is home to the Sunset Strip, as of the 2010 census, its population was 34,399. It is considered one of the most prominent gay villages in the United States, the citys irregular boundary is featured in its logo, it was largely formed from the unincorporated Los Angeles County area that had not become part of the surrounding cities. West Hollywood benefits from a dense, compact urban form with small lots, mixed land use. According to Walkscore, a website that ranks cities based on walkability, commercial corridors include the nightlife and dining focused on the Sunset Strip, along Santa Monica Boulevard, and the Avenues of Art & Design along Robertson, Melrose, and Beverly Boulevard. Major intersecting streets typically provide amenities within walking distance of adjacent neighborhoods, West Hollywood has a Subtropical-semi-arid climate with year-round warm weather. The record high temperature of 111 °F was recorded September 26,1963, snow is rare in West Hollywood, with the last accumulation occurring in 1949. Rainfall is sparse, and falls mainly during winter months, around 5,000 of the indigenous inhabitants from the Tongva Indian tribe canoed out to greet Juan Cabrillo. The Tongva tribe was a nation of hunter-gatherers known for their reverence of dance, by 1771, these native people had been severely ravaged by diseases brought in by the Europeans from across wide oceans. The Spanish mission system changed the name to Gabrielinos, in reference to the Mission de San Gabriel. The Gabrielinos are believed to have burned the pitch for fuel, by 1780, what became the Sunset Strip was the major connecting road for El Pueblo de Los Angeles, and all ranches westward to the Pacific Ocean. This land passed through the hands of owners during the next one hundred years. Most of this area was part of the Rancho La Brea, Sherman became the location of the railroads main shops, railroad yards, and car barns. Many working-class employees of the railroad settled in this town and it was during this time that the city began to earn its reputation as a loosely regulated, liquor-friendly place for eccentric people wary of government interference. Despite several annexation attempts, the town elected not to part of the City of Los Angeles. For many years, the area that is now the city of West Hollywood was an area in the midst of Los Angeles. Because gambling was illegal in the city of Los Angeles, but still legal in Los Angeles County and these businesses were immune from the sometimes heavy-handed law-enforcement of the L. A. Some people connected with movie-making were attracted to this area of the County
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The O.C.
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O. C. is an abbreviation of Orange County. The series centers on Ryan Atwood, a troubled but tough young man from a home who is adopted by the wealthy and philanthropic Sandy. Ryan and his foster brother Seth, an awkward yet quick-witted teenager. Ryan and Seth spend much time navigating their relationships with girl-next-door Marissa Cooper, Seths childhood crush Summer Roberts, storylines deal with the culture clash between the idealistic Cohen family and the shallow, materialistic, and closed-minded community in which they reside. The series includes elements of postmodernism, and functions as a mixture of melodrama, the series premiered with high ratings and was one of the most popular new dramas of the 2003–2004 television season. It was widely referred to as a pop cultural phenomenon and received positive reception from critics. However, ratings declined as the show went on, the low ratings led to its cancellation in early 2007, even after an online petition that gained over 700,000 signatures. The O. C. has been broadcast in more than fifty countries worldwide, the series has also been released on DVD, as well as on iTunes. Season 1 focuses on Ryan Atwoods arrival in Newport Beach to live with Sandy and Kirsten Cohen, a major theme of the first season is the culture shock Ryan feels as he adjusts from a life of domestic abuse and poverty to living in a superficial high-class society. He quickly befriends and bonds with Seth Cohen, and begins to have a relationship with Marissa Cooper. Although coming from different backgrounds, Ryan soon discovers that he deals with similar issues to his new peers, such as self-identity conflict. The relationship between Ryan and Marissa flourishes when he supports her through her parents divorce, as the show progresses, Ryan takes a very protective role over Marissa, showing Ryan to be a much more stable, controlled person than originally portrayed. Meanwhile, Sandy Cohen frequently comes into conflict with Caleb Nichol, Kirstens father, the second season of The O. C. continues to follow the tumultuous romantic relationships between Ryan and Marissa, Seth and Summer, and Sandy and Kirsten. and evolve the characters. Ryans character begins to grow when he stands up to Lindsay and convinces her to him to contribute. They later become involved romantically, creating extreme complications and relational shifts amongst the now Cooper-Nichol family, the Bait Shop becomes a prominent social destination for the teenage characters. A number of recurring characters are introduced, such as D. J, Lindsay Gardner, Zach Stevens, and Alex Kelly, with whom the main characters form a variety of relationships. Ryans brother, Trey Atwood, gets out of jail and threatens to bring Ryans old life into his new one, Sandy and Kirsten also face new conflicts after drifting apart during the summer. Season 2 ends with Marissa shooting Trey after Ryan confronts him for attempting to sexually assault Marissa, Season 3 creates many dynamic changes with regards to relationships and power within the characters society
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Twilight (2008 film)
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Twilight is a 2008 American romantic fantasy film based on Stephenie Meyers popular novel of the same name. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, the film stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson and it is the first film in The Twilight Saga film series. This film focuses on the development of the relationship between Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, and the subsequent efforts of Edward and his family to keep Bella safe from a coven of evil vampires. The project was in development for three years at Paramount Pictures, during which time a screen adaptation that differed significantly from the novel was written. Summit Entertainment acquired the rights to the novel after three years of the projects stagnant development, Melissa Rosenberg wrote a new adaptation of the novel shortly before the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike and sought to be faithful to the novels storyline. Principal photography took 44 days and completed on May 2,2008, Twilight was theatrically released on November 21,2008, it grossed over US$393 million worldwide. It was released on DVD March 21,2009 and became the most purchased DVD of the year, the soundtrack was released on November 4,2008. Following the films success, New Moon and Eclipse, the two novels in the series, were produced as films the following year. Seventeen-year-old Isabella Bella Swan moves to Forks, a town on Washingtons Olympic Peninsula, to live with her father. Her mother, Renée, is remarried to a minor league baseball player, Bella makes several friends at her new high school, but she is intrigued by the mysterious and aloof Cullen siblings. Bella sits next to Edward Cullen in biology class on her first day of school, after a week of absence from school, Edward comes back and talks to Bella normally. A few days later, Bella is nearly struck by a van in the parking lot. Edward saves her by covering a distance of over 30 feet. He subsequently refuses to explain his actions to Bella and warns her against befriending him, after much research, Bella concludes that Edward is a vampire. He eventually confirms this but says he and the other Cullens only consume animal blood, the pair fall in love, and Edward introduces Bella to his vampire family. Carlisle Cullen, the patriarch, is a doctor working in Forks. His wife is Esme, and Alice, Jasper, Emmett, Edward and Bellas relationship is soon put in jeopardy, when three nomadic vampires—James, Victoria, and Laurent—arrive in Forks. James, a vampire with incredible hunting instincts, is instantly intrigued by Edwards protectiveness over a human
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Pandorum
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Pandorum is a German-British 2009 science fiction horror film, with elements of Lovecraftian horror, and survival adventure. The film was directed by Christian Alvart and produced by Robert Kulzer, Jeremy Bolt, Travis Milloy wrote the screenplay from a story by Milloy and Alvart. It stars Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster, filming began in Berlin in August 2008. Pandorum was released on 25 September 2009 in the United States, the film received mixed to negative reviews, but has gained a cult following over time. In 2174, the population has exceeded the carrying capacity of Earth. It carries 60,000 people on a 123-year trip to colonize an Earth-like planet named Tanis, the passengers are placed in hypersleep, with a rotating crew who take turn awakening from hypersleep each two years to maintain the ship. Eight years into the mission, the ship receives a transmission from Earth in multiple languages, good luck, God bless, and godspeed. Some unknown time later, two members of the crew, Corporal Bower and Lieutenant Payton, are awakened. Improper emergence from the hibernatory state leaves them both with partial amnesia, the ship is experiencing power surges caused by an unstable nuclear reactor, and they are unable to enter the bridge. While Payton stays behind to attempt to access the computer, Bower ventures into the seemingly abandoned ship using the ventilation system with the intention of stabilising the reactor. He begins to suffer from Pandorum, or Orbital Dysfunction Syndrome, Bower encounters Nadia, a geneticist, and Manh, an agriculturist, and they are attacked by a group of fast and vicious cannibalistic humanoids with a seemingly tribal culture. The trio flees into a chamber and finds a cook named Leland, who has been awake for years, living off the water leaking into the ship, the algae it creates. Meanwhile, Payton finds a man named Corporal Gallo, who claims that the ship is lost in space. He claimed that he killed his team in self-defense because they developed Pandorum after finding out that Earth mysteriously vanished, Leland gives food to Bowers group and shows them mural drawings depicting their true origin. According to the drawings, after Earth vanished following an unknown catastrophe, after killing his team, he begins to play God by awakening passengers and abusing them. Eventually, Gallo went back into hypersleep, leaving the descendants of the psychotics to evolve, after eating Lelands drug-laden food, the group falls asleep. When they wake up, Leland is preparing to kill and butcher them, Bower convinces him to let them fix the ships reactor, otherwise the ship will be destroyed, killing them all. Noticing the ships power has been recently, Leland agrees to free the group
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Never Back Down
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Never Back Down is a 2008 martial arts film starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, and Djimon Hounsou. The film is rated PG-13 for mature thematic material involving intense sequences of fighting/violence, some sexuality, partying, an unrated version called the Extended Beat Down Edition, featuring nudity and more blood, was released on DVD on July 29,2008. Jake Tyler has recently moved from Iowa to Orlando, Florida with his mother, Margret, originally, Jake does not wish to fight until Ryan taunts him about his father who died while driving drunk with Jake in the car. Jake is brutally defeated in the fight, causing Jake to feel depressed, but a classmate, Max Cooperman, who later becomes one of his best friends, introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the sport known as Mixed Martial Arts. He sees a star in Jake and asks that he meet with Jean Roqua and it is immediately apparent to Jake that MMA is not street fighting, but rather an art form he wants to master. Roqua agrees to take Jake as a pupil, but under the condition that Jake refrains from fighting outside of the gym which Jake agrees to, Baja attempts to apologize to Jake, but he does not sympathize with her and refuses to forgive her. Baja then confronts Ryan about the fight with Jake and proceeds to end their relationship when Ryan shows no remorse for the beating he gave him or his sadistic tendencies, Ryan begins to create a scene before the entire school but Jake tries to step in to defend Baja. After Ryan insults him again and leaves, Jake attends training with Roqua, still angry about the incident, he is unable to calm down and train effectively. Roqua asks Jake to leave so that he could cool off, after he and Max leave the gym, Jake gets into a brawl with a group of guys in a Hummer whom Jake easily disposes of while Max films. This video again circulates around the school raising Jakes social status, Ryan then proceeds to challenge Jake to compete in the Beatdown, an underground fighting tournament of which Ryan is the reigning champion. After having been banished from the gym by Roqua after his fight is discovered, Roqua agrees to allow Jake to train at his gym again, but does not take it easy on him anymore. He then prepares to compete in the Beatdown, while training with Roqua, Jake inquires why he lives in the gym. Jake discovers that Roqua is from Brazil and he is in exile because he believes he is the reason his brother, Joseph the favorite son, was killed, Jake apologizes to Baja for not listening when she first apologized and the two proceed to begin a relationship. Jake and Baja take Max to the hospital where Jake decides to fight, despite Bajas pleas against his decision, he states that doing nothing has consequences. Before he goes to the tournament, he has an argument with Roqua about his decision to fight. Roqua eventually assents and tells him to control the outcome of the fight, Jake arrives at the tournament where it is about to begin. After a mix-up where Jake and Ryan almost fight in the first round, Jake makes it to the semifinals in spite of an injury he received in the previous match due to a kick to the ribs. While Jake is recovering after the match, Baja sees him, after learning that Ryan was disqualified in his semifinal match, Jake forfeits, seeing no reason to continue
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Easy A
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Easy A is a 2010 American teen comedy film directed by Will Gluck, written by Bert V. Royal and starring Emma Stone, Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson, Thomas Haden Church, Dan Byrd, Amanda Bynes, Penn Badgley, Cam Gigandet, Lisa Kudrow, the screenplay was partially inspired by the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Shot at Screen Gems studios and in Ojai, California, the film was released on September 17,2010, received positive reviews and grossed $75 million worldwide. Olive Penderghast, a 17-year-old girl living in Ojai, California, instead, she hangs around the house all weekend listening to Natasha Bedingfields Pocketful of Sunshine, which is played by a greeting card she was sent. The following Monday, pressed by Rhiannon, Olive lies about losing her virginity to a college guy, Marianne Bryant, a prissy and strictly religious Christian at their school, overhears her telling the lie and soon it spreads like wildfire. The schools conservative church group run by Marianne decides Olive will be their next project, Olive confides the truth to her friend Brandon, and he explains how others bully him because of his homosexuality. He later asks Olive to pretend to sleep with him so that he will be accepted by everyone as a straight stud, Brandon convinces Olive to help him and they pretend to have sex at a party. After having a fight with Rhiannon over Olives new identity as a dirty skank and she begins to wear more provocative clothing and stitches a red A to everything she wears. Things get worse when Micah, Mariannes 20-year-old boyfriend, contracts chlamydia from sleeping with Mrs. Griffith, the school guidance counsellor, Olive agrees to lie to cover up the affair so that the marriage of her favorite teacher, Mr. Griffith, would be spared. Mariannes religious clique, which now includes Rhiannon, begins harassing Olive in order to get her to leave school, Todd then tells her that he does not believe the rumors because he remembers when she lied for him when he was not ready for his first kiss years ago. Mrs. Griffith also refuses to tell the truth and when Olive threatens to expose her, Mrs. Griffith rebuffs her, out of spite, Olive then immediately tells Mr. Griffith, who believes her and separates from Mrs. Griffith. After a friendly talk with her open-minded mother Rosemary, Olive comes up with a plan to get everything out in the open. She then does a song and dance number at a pep rally to get peoples attention to watch her via web cam. The various boys whose reputations Olive helped improve are also shown watching, later, Olive texts Rhiannon, apologizing for lying to her. When she is finishing up her web cast, Todd comes by riding a lawnmower and she signs off by saying she may lose her virginity to Todd, and proudly declares its nobodys goddamn business. She goes outside to meet him, they kiss and the two are shown riding off on the lawnmower, Royal claims to have written the entire screenplay, except for the last ten pages, in five days. Royals plan was to adapt three classic works into films and to set them at the high school, so that some characters would appear in multiple films. Besides The Scarlet Letter, which was the material for Easy A, Royal wanted to adapt Cyrano de Bergerac
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The Roommate
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The Roommate is a 2011 American psychological thriller directed by Christian E. Christiansen and starring Minka Kelly, Leighton Meester, Cam Gigandet, Danneel Harris, Matt Lanter, and Aly Michalka. It was theatrically released on February 4,2011, Sara Matthews is starting her freshman year of college. She meets Tracy, Stephen – her love interest, and Rebecca – her college roommate. The girls begin to bond and Rebecca learns that Sara had a sister, Emily, who died when Sara was nine, and an ex-boyfriend, Jason. As time goes on, Rebeccas obsession with Sara grows, which causes her to drive anyone who could come between them. Rebecca attacks Tracy in the shower, pinning her down and ripping out her belly-button ring, Tracy moves to another dorm, fearful of Rebecca. An old friend of Saras named Irene, who is a lesbian, Rebecca then kills Cuddles by putting her in the dryer. She then lies to Sara that the cat ran away, Rebecca then inflicts injuries upon herself and says she was assaulted by a thug. Sara feels bad for her and decides to spend the Thanksgiving with Rebecca, during her stay, Sara overhears a conversation between Rebecca and her father, hinting Rebecca has had trouble making friends in the past. Rebeccas mother mentions that Rebecca is supposed to be taking medication and she and Stephen later find a bottle of Zyprexa pills, used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. But the bottle is full, implying that Rebecca hasnt been taking the pills, Sara, worried about what would happen, decides to move in with Irene. Irene goes to a club where she sees Rebecca and they make out in the clubs bathroom and Irene, not knowing that Rebecca is Saras roommate, takes Rebecca back to her place. The following morning, Sara goes to Irenes apartment but shes not there, Rebecca gets Saras sisters name tattooed in the same place on her breast as Sara, saying that Sara can now think of Rebecca as her sister. A shocked Sara realizes that Rebecca is obsessed with her and packs all her things, except her sisters necklace, Jason arrives at Saras dorm and slips a note under her door, saying that he wants to see her. Rebecca reads the note, impersonates Sara with her sisters necklace and tattoo and she then goes to Jasons hotel room and stabs him to death. Later, Sara gets a text from Irene, saying she needs her right away, Sara informs Stephen she will be at Irenes place. When she gets there, she finds Irene gagged with her arms spread, Rebecca reveals that she was responsible for what happened to Tracy, Cuddles, Professor Roberts, and Jason and that she did it all to win Saras friendship. Rebecca wants to kill Irene in order to finally have Sara all to herself, Stephen arrives just in time to help stop Rebecca from pulling the trigger on Irene
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Priest (2011 film)
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Priest is a 2011 American post-apocalyptic dystopian sci-fi action horror film starring Paul Bettany as the title character. The film, directed by Scott Stewart, is based on the Korean comic of the same name by Hyung Min-woo. In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries, after the last Vampire War, a veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Churchs walled cities. When the Priests niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down and he is accompanied by the nieces boyfriend Hicks, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess. The film first entered development in 2005, when Screen Gems bought the script by Cory Goodman. In 2006 Andrew Douglas was attached to direct and Gerard Butler was attached to star and they were eventually replaced by Stewart and Bettany in 2009 and filming started in Los Angeles, California, later in the year. The film changed release dates numerous times throughout 2010 and 2011 and it was especially pushed back from 2010 to 2011 to convert the film from 2D to 3D. It was released in the United States and Canada on May 13,2011, a centuries long war between humans and vampires has devastated the planets surface and led to a theocracy under an organization called The Church. They constructed giant walled cities to protect mankind and developed a group of elite warriors, the majority of the vampires were killed, while the remainder were placed in reservations. With the war over, the Clergy disbanded the Priests, outside the walled cities, some humans seek out a living, free from the totalitarian control of the Church. Priest is approached by Hicks, the sheriff of Augustine, a free town, Priest learns that his brother and his wife, Shannon - Priests girlfriend before he entered the priesthood - were mortally wounded in a vampire attack, and Priests niece, Lucy, was kidnapped. Hicks asks for Priests help in rescuing Lucy, Priest asks the Clergy to reinstate his authority, but Church leader Monsignor Orelas does not believe the vampire story and refuses. Priest defiantly leaves the city and Orelas sends three Priests and a Priestess to bring him back. After a fierce battle, the pair discovers that most of the vampires have taken shelter in Sola Mira, Priestess joins them at Sola Mira, revealing a bond with Priest. The trio destroys a Hive Guardian vampire, then discover that the vampires have bred a new army, the other three Priests have arrived at Jericho just as night falls and an armored train arrives, unleashing hundreds of vampires upon the population. The vampires are led by a powerful and mysterious human wearing a black hat, when the three Priests reject Black Hats offer to join him, he kills them all. The next morning, Priest, Priestess and Hicks arrive in Jericho and discover the town empty, Priest and Priestess share an intimate moment where she makes her move, hoping that now that Shannon has died, he would no longer feel bound to her. Priest, who is not over Shannon, gently refuses
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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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Reckless (TV series)
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Reckless is an American legal drama television series directed by Catherine Hardwicke and written by Dana Stevens. The series stars Anna Wood, Cam Gigandet, Adam Rodríguez, Shawn Hatosy, Kim Wayans, Gregory Harrison, Michael Gladis and it premiered on CBS on June 29,2014. On October 9,2014, CBS canceled Reckless, falk Hentschel as Lee Annes husband, Arliss Fulton. Kelly Rutherford as Joyce Reed, a councilwoman in Charleston who is running for mayor against Knox, rick Gomez as Russ Waterman, a shady businessman who runs an underground counterfeit weapons ring in Charleston, and sells illegal weapons to the corrupt cops in the Charleston PD. David Keith as Terrys father, Pat, emily Baldoni as Nancy Davis, a local television news reporter in Charleston who briefly dated Roy. Linda Purl as Decaturs wife, Barbara, susan Walters as Decaturs mistress, Lindsay. In March 2013, Georgina Haig and Kim Wayans were the first to be cast as Lee Anne, Shawn Hatosy was cast next as Terry, a police detective in the Charleston PD. On May 12,2013, Reckless was picked up by CBS for an order with a series order coming shortly after. Shooting for the pilot began on March 22,2013, in Charleston, on Metacritic, the show holds a score of 46 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating mixed or average reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the show holds a rating of 46% based on 13 reviews, Reckless premiered to 3.99 million viewers and at 0.6 in the 18-49 demo. The least watched episode is the twelfth, Civil Wars, with 2.92 million viewers, the most watched episode to date is the eleventh, And So It Begins, with a series high of 4.68 million viewers. Beginning July 13, the show moved from 9,00 pm Sunday to 10,00 pm Sunday, the program premiered on Network Ten in Australia on October 8,2014, rating a very low 79,000 viewers. In Latin America the series premiered on Cinemax on August 5,2014, alibi have secured the airing rights in the United Kingdom, and it will begin airing the show from April 10,2015, at 9 p. m. Official website Reckless at the Internet Movie Database
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Audience (TV network)
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Audience is an American general entertainment television network that is owned by AT&T Inc. It features a mix of original and acquired series, specials, the network operates as a commercial-free service and broadcasts its programming without editing for content. It was originally exclusive to DirecTV, however, after AT&Ts acquisition of DirecTV it became available on AT&T U-verse. It is also available on streaming service DirecTV Now. The network launched on November 25,1999 as Freeview, a service on DirecTV channel 103 carrying a continuous loop of concerts, Freeview was part of all of the satellite providers subscription packages, starting with the Total Choice tier. In 2005, it was moved to channel 101 and was rebranded as the The 101 Network, following the rebrand, the channels schedule began to expand to include original programs. The channel was rebranded as Audience Network on June 1,2011 and it dropped Network from its name in 2016. Original series broadcast by Audience include, The Dan Patrick Show – a television simulcast of the weekday morning syndicated sports radio program, in May 2012, Audience announced its first original drama series, Rogue. Season 1 premiered October 8,2014 with ten episodes, an additional ten episodes aired beginning October 14,2015 and another ten in 2016. On May 25,2016, Audience Network announced it has picked up the rights to a 10-part limited series based on Stephen Kings novel Mr. Mercedes and it will be produced by David E. Kelley and star Brendan Gleeson. On May 25,2016, Audience Network announced it has picked up Ice from Antoine Fuqua and will star Donald Sutherland, Ray Winstone, on September 28,2016, Ron Livingston will star in Audiences comedy series Loudermilk from Peter Farrelly. On October 29,2016, Will Sasso joined the cast, in February 2017, Max Irons was cast in Condor. The first original program on the channel was CD USA, a pop music show reminiscent of the longtime favorite American Bandstand, the series aired Saturday evenings and ran throughout the weekend. The channel also aired the weekly recap program American Idol Extra on weekends throughout the 2006 season of American Idol after their original Thursday airings on Fox Reality, other former original programs have included the Championship Gaming Invitational, Championship Gaming Series, The FIZZ, and Project My World. Havoc on The 101 broadcast live web/phone text chats, with online chats sourced from the website Havoc. tv, over music videos, viewers could vote for which video they wanted to see next via those chats. The shows were produced by Lloyd Bryan Adams. Hometown Heroes, which was hosted by Joan Lunden, chronicled DirecTV customers who were heroes in their communities. Supreme Court of Comedy – a pseudo judge show that premiered in 2008, the plaintiffs and defendants seen in each episode are regular people with actual small claims court cases, however, the show has no legal standing and is meant for entertainment purposes only
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Auburn High School (Washington)
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Auburn High School, formerly Auburn Senior High School, is a public high school in Auburn, Washington, USA, founded in 1903. The school is situated on 18 acres of land in downtown Auburn and its campus includes the Auburn Performing Arts Center, the Auburn Swimming Pool, Auburn Memorial Stadium and the Administration Annex. Beginning with the 2014-2015 school year, staff and students move into the new Auburn High School located at 711 East Main Street in Auburn. The entire school, except the PAC and the autoshop building, Auburn offers Advanced Placement classes in biology, calculus, language and composition, literature and composition, Spanish, U. S. history, European history and U. S. politics and government. Three foreign languages are taught - French, Spanish, and Chinese- up to the 7/8 level. Auburn Senior High School has one of the oldest troupes in the International Thespian Society, dick Scobee, Space Shuttle Challenger astronaut Danny Shelton, NFL football player, drafted by the Cleveland Browns. After only two years in the SPSL 3A Auburn, along with Auburn Riverside, moved to back to 4A in fall 2008, Auburn became part of the SPSL-North, returning to the same league they left after 2005. Auburn joined the Olympic Division of the newly resurrected North Puget Sound League in 2016, sports offered at Auburn are, Auburn High School has a sports medicine program. An October 2007 video of cheerleader Cali Kaltschmidt being trampled by the team as she attempted to adjust the banner before they ran through during a game became a viral video. Kaltschmidt got a web redemption in one of Tosh.0
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Auburn, Washington
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Auburn is a city in King County and additionally Pierce County, Washington, United States, with the majority of spatial land area within King County. The population was 70,180 at the 2010 United States Census, Auburn is a suburb in the Seattle metropolitan area. Auburn is currently ranked the fourteenth largest city in the state of Washington, Auburn is bordered by the cities of Federal Way, Pacific, and Algona to the west, Sumner to the south, Kent to the north, and unincorporated King County to the east. The Muckleshoot Indian Reservation is in or near the city limits. At the time, the hotel in town was called the Slaughter House. In 1893, a group of settlers from Auburn, New York, moved to Slaughter. There are several locations in and around Auburn on the National, the city of Auburn, located 28 miles south of Seattle, Washington, was home to some of the earliest settlers in King County. Nestled in a river valley, Auburn has been both a farm community and a center of business and industry for more than 150 years. Auburn is located near the confluence of the Green and White rivers. The valley was originally the home of the Skopamish, Smalhkamish, the first white men in the region were explorers and traders who arrived in the 1830s. Settlers first came to the valley in the 1850s, in November, a military unit led by Lieutenant William Slaughter camped near what is now present-day Auburn. A new treaty was written which provided the establishment of the Muckleshoot reservation, the White River tribes collectively became known as the Muckleshoot tribe. White settlers, the Neely and Ballard families began returning to the area, in 1891, the town of Slaughter incorporated. Although many older citizens considered the name as a memorial. Within two years, the town was renamed Auburn, taken from the first line of Oliver Goldsmiths poem, The Deserted Village, Auburn had been a bustling center for hop farming until 1890 when the crops were destroyed by aphids. After that, the farms were mostly farms and berry farms. Nevertheless, flooding was still a problem for Auburn farmers up until the Howard A. Hanson Dam was opened in 1962, another impetus to Auburns growth was the railroad. The Northern Pacific Railways subsidiary the Northern Pacific and Puget Sound Shore Railroad opened a line from approximately Puyallup, Washington, through to Seattle, Washington, the Seattle-Tacoma Interurban line that allowed easy access to both cities starting in 1902
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Santa Monica College
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Santa Monica College is a two-year, public community college located in Santa Monica, California, United States. The UPN TV show The Parkers was based in this college from 1999 -2004, Santa Monica College was first opened in 1929 as Santa Monica Junior College. Santa Monica College is ranked number one among Californias junior colleges in transfers to the University of California, University of Southern California, the Santa Monica College Arts Mentor Program provides certain students in the fine and applied arts with graduate-level training by professionals in their specialized fields. The program was designed for individuals whose talents exceed the scope of the traditional curriculum at the College. Santa Monica College offers a variety of certificate programs, including accounting, fashion design, office information systems. The college also offers logistics and supply chain programs at AAS, Santa Monica College is also the home of KCRW, a leading public radio station, broadcasting throughout the Los Angeles and Orange County area with an estimated 450,000 listeners. The station is the broadcast home of Morning Becomes Eclectic, in 2012 Santa Monica College received national attention due to a controversial plan to create a two-tier system of education in which more popular courses would be offered at higher costs. Protests at a meeting immediately following the plans proposal led to several students being pepper sprayed. A report on the event resulted in an officers dismissal, the report also faulted several members of the protest for provoking officers. Some people exclaimed We got pepper sprayed, on April 23,2013, a bomb threat caused the College Fair on campus to be evacuated. On May 4,2013, an SMC student, Tian Lu and this was the first time in the colleges 84-year history that a student committed suicide on campus. On May 16,2013, an SMC student threatened to shoot up the school, the threat turned out to be harmless, and the student was apprehended at the psychological services department. Several blocks northeast of campus, near the intersection of Pico and Cloverfield Boulevards, arriving at the southeast corner of the campus at 20th and Pearl Streets, he shot a passing driver, killing him, and critically injured his daughter, who later died. After leaving the vehicle, the gunman shot and killed a woman collecting recyclables outside the schools library. The suspect then entered the library, where he was said to have fired 70 rounds before he was shot by police. The school was locked down and police evacuated some students as they looked for a second suspect. Russ Holzhauer reported on scene about the state, No. The gunman was identified as John Samir Zawarhi,23
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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CSI, Crime Scene Investigation is a procedural forensics crime drama television series that premiered on CBS October 6,2000. The series, starring William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Laurence Fishburne, Ted Danson, the series concluded on September 27,2015, after 15 seasons, with a feature-length finale titled Immortality. The team is led by Gil Grissom, a socially-awkward forensic entomologist. Grissoms second-in-command, Catherine Willows, is a mother with a cops instinct. Born and raised in Vegas, Catherine was a stripper before being recruited into law enforcement, following Grissoms departure during the ninth season of the series, Catherine is promoted to Supervisor. After overseeing the training of new investigator Raymond Langston, Willows is replaced by D. B, Russell, and recruited to the FBI shortly thereafter. Russell is a man, a keen forensic botanist and a veteran of the Seattle Crime Lab. In the series season, Russell is reunited with his former partner Julie Finlay. During the 1990s, Anthony Zuiker caught producer Jerry Bruckheimers attention after writing his first movie script, Zuiker was convinced that there was a series in the concept, Bruckheimer agreed and arranged a meeting with the head of Touchstone Pictures. The studios head at the time liked the script and presented it to ABC, NBC and Fox executives. The head of development at CBS saw potential in the script, and the network had a pay-or-play contract with actor William Petersen. The networks executives liked the pilot so much that they decided to include it in their 2000 schedule immediately, airing on Fridays after The Fugitive. Initially it was thought that CSI would benefit from The Fugitive, which was expected to be a hit, formerly a co-production with the now-defunct Alliance Atlantis Communications, that companys interest was later bought by the investment firm GS Capital Partners, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs. CBS acquired AACs international distribution rights to the program, though the non-US DVD distribution rights did not change, the series is currently in syndication, and reruns are broadcast in the U. S. on the Spike and TV Land cable networks. The show has aired in reruns on the USA Network since January 14,2011, the CSI catalog has been exclusive to the whole NBC Universal portfolio since September 2014. Occasionally, the cast would still shoot on location in Las Vegas, other California locations include Verdugo Hills High School, UCLAs Royce Hall, Pasadena City Hall, and California State University, Los Angeles. While shooting took place primarily at Universal Studios in Universal City, California, CSIs theme song was, since season one, Who Are You, written by Pete Townshend with vocals by lead singer Roger Daltrey of The Who. In certain countries, to music licensing fees, a unique theme was used instead
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The Young and the Restless
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The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, first broadcast on March 26,1973, The Young and the Restless was originally broadcast as half-hour episodes, five times a week. The show expanded to one-hour episodes on February 4,1980, in 2006, the series began airing encore episodes weeknights on SOAPnet until 2013, when Y&R moved to TVGN. Pop still airs the episodes on weeknights, starting July 1,2013. The series is syndicated internationally. The Young and the Restless originally focused on two families, the wealthy Brooks family and the working class Foster family. After a series of recasts and departures in the early 1980s, all the characters except Jill Foster. Bell replaced them with the new families, the Abbotts. Over the years, other such as the Newmans, Winters. Despite these changes, one storyline that has endured through almost the entire run is the feud between Jill Abbott and Katherine Chancellor, the longest rivalry on any American soap opera. Since its debut, The Young and the Restless has won nine Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series and it is also currently the highest-rated daytime drama on American television. As of 2008, it had appeared at the top of the weekly Nielsen ratings in that category for more than 1,000 weeks since 1988. As of December 12,2013, according to Nielsen ratings, The Young, on January 15,2014, the series was in the middle of its final year of its 2010 contract, and was renewed by CBS through 2017. Y&R is also a show to the Bells other soap opera The Bold. To compete with the youthful ABC soap operas, All My Children, One Life to Live, William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell created The Young and the Restless in 1972 for the network under the working title, The Innocent Years. We were confronted with the very disturbing reality that young America had lost much of its innocence, innocence as we had known and lived it all our lives had, in so many respects, ceased to exist. They changed the title of the series to The Young and the Restless because they felt it reflected the youth, the Young and the Restless began airing on March 26,1973, replacing the canceled soap opera, Where the Heart Is. Bell worked as writer from the debut of the series until his retirement in 1998
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Jack & Bobby
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Jack & Bobby is an American drama series that aired on The WB network from September 12,2004 to May 11,2005. It starred Christine Lahti, Logan Lerman, Matt Long, Jessica Paré, the series chronicled the present day teenage years of two brothers, one of whom would become President of the United States from 2041 to 2049. The series was created by Greg Berlanti, Vanessa Taylor, Steven A. Cohen, on May 17,2005, The WB announced it would not renew Jack & Bobby for a second season. The 22 episode series has aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation network. The series finale was re-aired as part of a Warner Bros. 50th anniversary celebration on the TV Land cable network on June 11,2005, following this airing, the series has never been rebroadcast on American television. com
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Kevin Volchok
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Kevin Volchok is a fictional character on the FOX television series The O. C. portrayed by Cam Gigandet. The name Kevin Volchok was taken from Endeavors agent of the same name, Volchok is Johnny Harper’s top rival for a surfing sponsorship though they used to be close friends. Later, Johnny catches his girlfriend, Casey, cheating on him with Volchok, later, Johnny decides to confront Volchok at the beach, but before a fight can ensue, Ryan Atwood intervenes and ends up punching Volchok in the face. That punch lands Ryan another enemy for the rest of the season, Ryan ends up at the pier seemingly ready to fight him but breaks a glass bottle and tells Volchok that he had better be prepared to die or kill him. Volchok is not seen again until after Johnny’s death, which he takes badly, Marissa, empathizing with this change and the need for closure, begins a casual relationship with him. In the meantime, while Ryan pursues a relationship with Sadie Campbell, Johnny’s cousin, eventually Volchok and Marissa develop a casual romantic relationship first fueled by Marissa’s growing distance from her friends and Volchok’s desire to anger Ryan. The relationship evolves into something serious, with Volchok once falling asleep watching The Sound of Music while trying to get to know Marissa better, then Marissa catches Volchok cheating on her at prom, which ends their relationship. He also steals the post-prom party money, a few dollars, from Taylor. Ryan shows up at Volchoks place, and a fight breaks out between the two. Volchok has the hand and is going to finish Ryan off with a cigarette holder. Realizing that he was in the position with older brother Trey. As Volchok smashes Ryans face with the weapon, Ryan blocks it, Ryan repeatedly bashes Volchok in the face with his fist, beating him nearly to death before realizing his previous fight with Trey ended in a similar situation, which prompts Ryan to stop. He takes Volchok to a hospital, and Volchok says he was jumped. Volchok assures Ryan that this isnt over, Marissa refuses to become involved with him again, and blackmailing Ryan doesnt encourage her to talk to him, let alone get back together with him. Upon her last refusal to speak with him, Volchok decides to follow them, as Ryan drives Marissa to the airport, a drunken Volchok decides to convince them to pull over by ramming his car into theirs, but Ryan does not pull over. Eventually, Volchok pushes them over a ridge, and their car rolls in a ditch, Marissa then dies of her injuries in Ryans arms. Volchok escapes south to Mexico but Ryan tracks him down to Ensenada with the help of Marissas mother Julie Cooper, when Ryan goes to Mexico, he is unable to find Volchock. Seth locates him through a contact and attempts to him into turning himself in
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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf
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Marissa Cooper
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Marissa Cooper is a fictional character on the FOX television series The O. C. portrayed by Mischa Barton. Marissa was among the core four characters on The O. C. until her death in the season three finale, The Graduates. She is a privileged California native born into a wealthy family, throughout The O. C. s storyline, Marissa is introduced to new characters who influence her perspective on life and her personality. Marissa Cooper is characterized as the privileged yet troubled girl next door and her designer-label-packed wardrobe masks her turbulent mood swings and hard-partying ways. Although Marissa is tall, thin and pretty, she is not much else and she is afforded all the privileges of a Newport lifestyle, yet she fails to show any interest or engagement with the world around her. Like many of her peers, she is distant from her mother. As a result, she, like her sister Kaitlin, often rebelled against her mother and she is closer to her father, whom she stated was the last thing keeping sane through the tumult of the first two seasons. Throughout the series, Marissa is rarely shown participating in clubs, the only interests she demonstrates with any regularity are romance and risky behavior, which in her case often go together. Marissas risky behavior was a factor in her relationship with Ryan Atwood. Marissa is introduced as a rich, beautiful socialite in Newport Beach, California and she is a troubled person before the series begins, with a history of substance abuse and rebellious behavior. This is evident from a scene in the pilot where she is left on her front door by her friends, the backstory on her friendship with Summer Roberts showcases it as a powerful bond, forged during second grade. One of her deepest connections, the friendship is an element on the show for three seasons. The show significantly focuses on Marissas on-and-off again relationship with Ryan Atwood as well, Marissas sexuality has been debated by viewers of the series. When she hooked up with bad girl Alex Kelly, the two entering into a relationship, her heterosexual identity became the source of speculation. Fans questioned whether Marissa was actually bisexual or just bi-curious, the question became one of the top queries that viewers wanted The O. C. creator Josh Schwartz to answer. Others cited Marissas relationship with Alex as a cynical sweeps attempt, critic L. Brent Bozell III especially elaborated on this. Schwartz insisted that the relationship between Marissa and Alex was not a stunt, and that Marissa developed real feelings for Alex. Within the series, Marissa refers casually to Alex as her ex-girlfriend, the executives did, however, cite her relationship with Alex as an important one, and one that was successful with viewers
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Mischa Barton
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Mischa Anne Barton is a British-American film, television, and stage actress, and occasional fashion model. She began her career on the stage, appearing in Tony Kushners Slavs. She made her debut with a guest appearance on the American soap opera All My Children. She then voiced a character on the Nickelodeon cartoon series KaBlam and her first major film role was as the protagonist of Lawn Dogs, an acclaimed drama co-starring Sam Rockwell. She continued acting, appearing in major box office such as the romantic comedy, Notting Hill and M. Night Shyamalans psychological thriller. She also starred in the acclaimed indie crime drama Pups. Barton later appeared in the independent drama, Lost and Delirious and guest-starred as Evan Rachel Woods girlfriend on ABCs Once and she is known for her role as Marissa Cooper in the Fox television series The O. C. for which she received two Teen Choice Awards. The role catapulted Barton into mainstream fame, and Entertainment Weekly named her the It Girl of 2003, Barton has since appeared in the comedy remake St Trinians, the Richard Attenborough-directed drama Closing the Ring and Assassination of a High School President. She returned to television, starring in the short-lived Ashton Kutcher-produced CW series, The Beautiful Life, in 2012, she returned to the stage, performing in the Irish production of Steel Magnolias. Barton was born in Hammersmith, London, to an Irish mother, Nuala, a photographer, and an English father, Paul Marsden Barton, Bartons grandfather on her mothers side was an Irish language professor at the University of Belfast. She has two sisters, younger Hania Barton and elder Zoe, a barrister in London, Barton has stated that she briefly attended St. Pauls Girls School in Hammersmith, but her fathers work took the family to New York City when Barton was five years old. In 2006, ten days after her birthday, she became a naturalised citizen of the United States. She has retained her British citizenship and she has stated, I like people to discern that Im an English-Irish girl who grew up in New York City and who moved around a lot with her dads job. Barton began acting at the age of eight, co-starring in the Off-Broadway premiere of the 1994 play, vincent Canby of The New York Times praised Bartons so fine and chillingly authoritative performance. New York magazine also praised her as a little girl. She appeared in several other Off-Broadway productions, taking a role in James Lapines Twelve Dreams alongside Marisa Tomei at Lincoln Center. Canby again praised Barton, noting that she has a sweet gravity as the doomed Emma, in 1996 Barton had a supporting role in Catherine Butterfields Where the Truth Lies which opened at New Yorks Irish Repertory Theatre. The New York Times also remarked that the child actresses Brittany Boyd and Mischa Barton are already smart enough not to overplay the naivete
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Summit Entertainment
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Summit Entertainment LLC is an American film production and distribution company. It is owned by Lionsgate and is headquartered in Santa Monica, Summit Entertainment was founded in 1991 by film producers Bernd Eichinger, Arnon Milchan, and Andrew G. Vajna, to handle film sales in foreign countries. Summit later expanded and was launched in 1993 by Patrick Wachsberger, Bob Hayward and David Garrett under the name Summit Entertainment LP as a production, distribution, by 1995 they were producing and co-financing films, and by 1997 they started fully financing films. Among the companys early successes was American Pie, which Summit distributed outside of English-speaking territories, in 2007, it became an independent film production company, Summit Entertainment, with the addition of Rob Friedman, a former executive at Paramount Pictures. Summit Entertainments films are distributed theatrically and on home video in Spain. In the spring of 2009, Summit released Knowing, the second movie to open #1 at the box office. In June 2010 Summit released the film of the Twilight series, The Twilight Saga. It broke a midnight screening record of over $30 million and set a one-day Wednesday record of $68.5 million and it became the first movie in the series to cross the $300 million mark domestically. In 2008, Summit Entertainment ranked in eighth place among the studios, with a gross of $226.5 million, in 2009, Summit ranked 7th among studios with a gross of $482.5 million. In September 2008, merger talks between Summit Entertainment and Lionsgate were the subject of speculation, but no deal was finalized at that time. On January 13,2012, Lionsgate acquired Summit Entertainment for $412.5 million, list of Summit Entertainment films Lionsgate Smith v. Summit Entertainment LLC Official website Summit Entertainment at the Internet Movie Database Reuters Story
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Vampire
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A vampire is a being from folklore who subsists by feeding on the life essence of the living. In European folklore, vampires were undead beings that often visited loved ones and they wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from todays gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 19th century. This increased level of vampire superstition in Europe led to mass hysteria and in some cases resulted in corpses actually being staked and people being accused of vampirism. In modern times, however, the vampire is generally held to be a fictitious entity, porphyria was also linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but has since been largely discredited. However, it is Bram Stokers 1897 novel Dracula which is remembered as the vampire novel. The success of this book spawned a distinctive vampire genre, still popular in the 21st century, with books, films, the vampire has since become a dominant figure in the horror genre. Vampires had already discussed in French and German literature. After Austria gained control of northern Serbia and Oltenia with the Treaty of Passarowitz in 1718, officials noted the practice of exhuming bodies. These reports, prepared between 1725 and 1732, received widespread publicity, among the proposed proto-Slavic forms are *ǫpyrь and *ǫpirь. Another, less widespread theory, is that the Slavic languages have borrowed the word from a Turkic term for witch. Czech linguist Václav Machek proposes Slovak verb vrepiť sa, or its hypothetical anagram vperiť sa as an etymological background, and thus translates upír as someone who thrusts, bites. An early use of the Old Russian word is in the anti-pagan treatise Word of Saint Grigoriy, dated variously to the 11th–13th centuries, the notion of vampirism has existed for millennia. Cultures such as the Mesopotamians, Hebrews, Ancient Greeks, and Romans had tales of demons and spirits which are considered precursors to modern vampires. In most cases, vampires are revenants of evil beings, suicide victims, or witches, belief in such legends became so pervasive that in some areas it caused mass hysteria and even public executions of people believed to be vampires. It is difficult to make a single, definitive description of the folkloric vampire, vampires were usually reported as bloated in appearance, and ruddy, purplish, or dark in colour, these characteristics were often attributed to the recent drinking of blood. Indeed, blood was often seen seeping from the mouth and nose when one was seen in its shroud or coffin and its left eye was often open. It would be clad in the linen shroud it was buried in, and its teeth, hair, although vampires were generally described as undead, some folktales spoke of them as living beings. The causes of vampiric generation were many and varied in original folklore, in Slavic and Chinese traditions, any corpse that was jumped over by an animal, particularly a dog or a cat, was feared to become one of the undead
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Twilight (novel series)
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Twilight is a series of four vampire-themed fantasy romance novels by American author Stephenie Meyer. The series is primarily from Bellas point of view, with the epilogue of Eclipse and Part II of Breaking Dawn being told from the viewpoint of character Jacob Black. The unpublished Midnight Sun is a retelling of the first book, Twilight, the Twilight Saga, The Official Illustrated Guide, a definitive encyclopedic reference with nearly 100 full color illustrations, was released in bookstores on April 12,2011. Since the release of the first novel, Twilight, in 2005, in November 2011, the series had sold over 120 million copies worldwide with translations into at least 38 different languages around the globe. The books have made into The Twilight Saga series of motion pictures by Summit Entertainment. The film adaptations of the first three books were released in 2008,2009, and 2010 respectively, the fourth book is adapted into two full-length films—the first film being released in November 2011, and the second film in November 2012. Bella Swan moves from Phoenix, Arizona to live with her father in Forks, Washington to allow her mother to travel with her new husband, after moving to Forks, Bella finds herself involuntarily drawn to a mysterious, handsome boy, Edward Cullen. She eventually learns that he is a member of a family which drinks animal blood rather than human blood. Edward and Bella fall in love, while James, a vampire from another coven, is drawn to hunt down Bella. Edward and the other Cullens defend Bella and she escapes to Phoenix, where she is tricked into confronting James, who tries to kill her. She is seriously wounded, but Edward rescues her and they return to Forks, Edward and his family leave Forks because he believes he is endangering Bellas life. Bella goes into a depression until she develops a friendship with Jacob Black. Jacob and the wolves in his tribe must protect her from Victoria. Due to a misunderstanding, Edward believes Bella is dead, Edward decides to commit suicide in Volterra, Italy, but is stopped by Bella, who is accompanied by Edwards sister, Alice. They meet with the Volturi, a vampire coven, and are released only on the condition that Bella be turned into a vampire in the near future. Bella and Edward are reunited, and she and the Cullens return to Forks, Victoria has created an army of newborn vampires to battle the Cullen family and murder Bella for revenge. Meanwhile, Bella is compelled to choose between her relationship with Edward and her friendship with Jacob, Edwards vampire family and Jacobs werewolf pack join forces to successfully destroy Victoria and her vampire army. In the end, Bella chooses Edwards love over Jacobs friendship, Bella and Edward are married, but their honeymoon is cut short when Bella discovers that she is pregnant
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Stephenie Meyer
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Stephenie Meyer is an American young adult fiction writer and film producer, best known for her vampire romance series Twilight. The Twilight novels have gained recognition and sold over 100 million copies. Meyer was the author of 2008 and 2009 in America, having sold over 29 million books in 2008. Twilight was the book of 2008 in US bookstores. Her annual earnings exceeded $50 million, in 2010, Forbes ranked her as the No.59 most powerful celebrity with annual earnings of $40 million. Stephenie Meyer was born in Hartford, Connecticut as the second of six children to Stephen and she was raised in Phoenix, Arizona with five siblings, Seth, Emily, Jacob, Paul, and Heidi. Meyer attended Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, where her former English teacher remembered her as bright and she attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where she received a BA in English in 1997. Meyer met her husband, Christian, when she was 4 years old in Arizona, Christian Meyer, formerly an auditor, has now retired to take care of the children. Meyer is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she has stated that she is straight-laced about her beliefs, Meyer had no experience as a writer of any kind and had never even written a short story before Twilight. Before becoming an author, Meyers only professional work was as a receptionist in a property company, Meyer says that the idea for Twilight came to her in a dream on June 2,2003. The dream was about a girl and a vampire who was in love with her. Based on this dream, Meyer wrote the draft of what became Chapter 13 of the book, in a matter of three months she had transformed her dream into a complete novel, though she never intended to publish Twilight and was writing for her own enjoyment. Her sisters response to the book was enthusiastic and she persuaded Meyer to send the manuscript to literary agencies, of the 15 letters she wrote, five went unanswered, nine brought rejections, and the last was a positive response from Jodi Reamer of Writers House. Eight publishers competed for the rights to publish Twilight in a 2003 auction, by November, Meyer had signed a $750,000 three-book deal with Little, Brown and Company. Twilight was published in 2005 with a print run of 75,000 copies and it reached No.5 on the New York Times Best Seller list for Childrens Chapter Books within a month of its release, and later rose to #1. Foreign rights to the novel were sold to over 26 countries, the novel was named the Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Editors Choice. Following the success of Twilight, Meyer expanded the story into a series with three books, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. In total, it spent over 50 weeks on the list, after the release of Eclipse, the first three Twilight books spent a combined 143 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list
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Minor characters in Twilight
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Isabella Marie Bella Swan is the fictional protagonist of the Twilight series, written by Stephenie Meyer. The Twilight series is narrated from Bellas point of view. In Twilight, Bella moves to her fathers home in Forks, Washington, meets the mysterious Cullen family, however, she soon discovers that the family is a coven of vampires. Bella expresses a desire to become a vampire herself, against Edwards wishes, in the second novel, New Moon, Edward and the other Cullens leave Forks in an effort to keep Bella safe from the vampire world. Jacob Black, a member of the Quileute tribe who is also a shape shifter taking a form, comforts the distraught. She comes to care for Jacob, though less than she loves Edward, in Eclipse, Bella becomes engaged to Edward, and they marry in Breaking Dawn. Edward then transforms Bella into a vampire after she dies giving birth to their daughter. Bella has the ability to shield her mind, which she had as a human, once she is transformed into a vampire, her ability is enhanced to the point she can also expand her shield to protect others from mind control. Kristen Stewart plays Bella in the Twilight film series, Edward Cullen is a major character, implicated in all of the Twilight Saga films and books. As shown in Twilight, he only did so because Edwards dying mother, Elizabeth, a member of the Olympic Coven, Edward only drinks animal blood and has the special ability to read minds. He falls in love with Bella soon after she arrives in Forks. Edward knows that he could kill Bella easily, a fact that torments him so much that, in the book New Moon and he returned because he realized he cannot live without her. Edward marries Bella in Breaking Dawn and they have a daughter, robert Pattinson plays Edward in the Twilight film series. Jacob Black is Bellas best friend and he is a Quileute Native American and a werewolf. In Twilight, Jacob plays the role of a forgotten childhood friend of Bellas. In an attempt to more about Cullens, Bella flirts with Jacob. After Edward leaves Bella in New Moon, she spends much of her time with Jacob, though she only considers him a friend, Jacob falls in love with Bella. Taylor Lautner plays Jacob in the Twilight film series, Carlisle Cullen is Esme Cullens husband and the adoptive father of Edward, Emmett and Alice Cullen, as well as Rosalie and Jasper Hale
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2009 MTV Movie Awards
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The 2009 MTV Movie Awards were presented on Sunday, May 31,2009, at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. Andy Samberg served as host for the 18th annual ceremony, Baron Cohen was dressed as an angel, and he was wearing only a jockstrap underneath his costume. In mid-flight, he was lowered upside-down from the rafters after an apparent problem with his wire harness and this caused him to land directly on top of Eminem in such a way that Baron Cohens fully exposed buttocks area was positioned directly in Eminems face. An apparently incensed Eminem angrily shouted You serious, and then Get this motherf**ker off me. Demanded that his bodyguards and members of D12 remove Baron Cohen from atop him and it was later found out that the pair had staged the stunt and had practiced. Eminem jokingly said Weve got everyone believing that it mistakenly happened, I laughed for about 3 hours after the show. Baron Cohen then announced the winner while still hanging from harness wires above the audience. It has since revealed that the entire incident was a pre-arranged stunt of which Eminem was aware. The show’s head writer Scott Aukerman, who was hired by host Andy Samberg, said, Yes, thats all anyone wants to talk about, so lets get it out of the way. They rehearsed it at dress and yes, it went as far as it did on the show then. Various reports said Baron Cohen was fully clothed during the rehearsal, heath Ledgers performance as The Joker in The Dark Knight earned the late actor a posthumous award for Best Villain. Kiefer Sutherland jokingly broke down in tears while presenting the MTV Generation Award to Ben Stiller
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Robert Pattinson
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Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson is an English actor, producer, model, and musician. Pattinson started his career by playing Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Twilight brought Pattinson worldwide fame, and established him among the highest paid, in 2009, he portrayed Salvador Dalí in Little Ashes. That same year, a film, Robsessed, about the actors fame. He appeared as a young man in Remember Me and also starred in a romantic drama. His performance as a tough, cold-hearted and calculating billionaire in David Cronenbergs Cosmopolis, Pattinson started his career as a model at the age of 12. In 2013 Dior Homme signed him as the face of their Fragrances, in 2016, he also became the first brand ambassador of their Menswear collection. Pattinson composes and plays his own music and he has sang songs for Twilight film series and the 2008 independent comedy-drama film How to Be. He became ambassador of the latter in 2015 to help raise awareness of it. He is also a member of International Medical Corps and has promoted and shared details about cancer through PSAs to raise awareness about the disease and his father, Richard, imported vintage cars from the United States, and his mother, Clare, worked for a modelling agency. Pattinson has two sisters, Victoria and singer Elizabeth Lizzy Pattinson. Growing up in Barnes, London, he attended Tower House School until he was 12 and he became involved in amateur theatre at the Barnes Theatre Company. He auditioned and was cast in a role in Guys. He next auditioned for Thornton Wilders Our Town, and was cast as George Gibbs and he also appeared in Anything Goes and Macbeth. He caught the attention of an agent in a production of Tess of the dUrbervilles. In May 2005, he was scheduled to appear in the UK premiere of The Woman Before at the Royal Court Theatre, later that year he played Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. For this role he was named that years British Star of Tomorrow by The Times and had more than once been hailed as the next Jude Law. In 2006, Pattinson appeared in The Haunted Airman a psychological thriller, aired on BBC Four on 31 October, the Stage praised his performance by saying that played the airman of the title with a perfect combination of youthful terror and world weary cynicism
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Young Hollywood Awards
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The award ceremonies also honor rising and promising young aged performers in Hollywood. The award ceremony features a high number of celebrities and musical performers such as Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber. New artists such as Black Cards and Brazzabelle have also performed, the Young Hollywood Awards was started in 1999. 2013 Young Hollywood Awards 2014 Young Hollywood Awards Official website
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Screen Gems
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The label currently specializes in genre films, namely horror. The name was used in 1933, when Columbia Pictures acquired a stake in Charles Mintzs animation studio. The name was derived from an early Columbia Pictures slogan, Gems of the Screen, itself a takeoff on the song Columbia, for an entire decade, Charles Mintz distributed his Krazy Kat, Scrappy, and Color Rhapsody animated film shorts through Columbia Pictures. When Mintz became indebted to Columbia in 1939, he ended up selling his studio to them, Mintzs production manager became the studio head, but was shortly replaced by Mintzs brother-in-law, George Winkler. Columbia then decided to house by ousting the bulk of the staff. After Tashlins short stay came Dave Fleischer, formerly of the Fleischer Studios, animators, directors, and writers at the series included people such as Art Davis, Sid Marcus, Bob Wickersham, and during its latter period, Bob Clampett. Like most studios, the Screen Gems studio had several established characters on their roster and these included Flippity and Flop, Willoughby Wren, and Tito and His Burrito. However, the most successful characters the studio had were The Fox and the Crow, a duo of a refined Fox. Screen Gems was, in an attempt to keep costs low, the final black-and-white Screen Gems shorts appeared in 1946, over three years after the second-longest holdouts. During that same year, the studio shut its doors for good, the Screen Gems cartoons were only moderately successful in comparison to those of Disney, Warner Bros. and MGM. Pioneer was later reorganized as Screen Gems, the studio started its new business in New York on April 15,1949. By 1951, Screen Gems became a television studio by producing and syndicating several popular shows. By 1952, the studio had produced a series of about 100 film-record coordinated releases for television under the brand TV Disk Jockey Toons in which the films synchronize perfectly with the records. On December 10,1956, Screen Gems expanded into television syndication by acquiring Hygo Television Films and its affiliated company United Television Films, Hygo Television Films was founded in 1951 by Jerome Hyams, who also acquired United Television Films in 1955 that was founded by Archie Mayers. Earlier on August 2,1957, they acquired syndication rights to Shock. A package of Universal horror films, which was successful in reviving that genre. The name Screen Gems, at the time, was used to hide the fact that the studio was entering television production and distribution. Many film studios saw television as a threat to their business, however, Columbia was one of a few studios who branched out to television under a pseudonym to conceal the true ownership of the television arm
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The Unborn (2009 film)
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The Unborn is a 2009 American supernatural horror film written and directed by David S. Goyer. The film stars Odette Yustman as a woman who is tormented by a dybbuk. The dybbuk seeks to use her death as a gateway to physical existence, the film is produced by Michael Bay and his production company Platinum Dunes. It was released in American theaters on January 9,2009, Casey Beldon has nightmarish hallucinations of strange-looking dogs in the neighbourhood and an evil child with bright blue eyes following her around. While babysitting Matty, her neighbors son, she finds him showing his infant sibling its reflection in a mirror, Matty attacks Casey, smashing the mirror on her head, and tells her, Jumby wants to be born now. She puts him to bed and leaves in shock, Caseys friend Romy tells her of a superstition that newborns should not see their reflections in the mirror for at least a year because otherwise they will die soon. Caseys eyes begin to change color, a doctor if she is a twin, and explains the change as tetragametic chimerism and heterochromia. Her neighbors infant dies, supporting the superstition, Caseys father admits that she had a twin brother years ago who died while he was in the womb when her umbilical cord strangled him, and whom he and Caseys mother had nicknamed Jumby. She begins to suspect that the spirit is haunting her and that is the soul of her dead twin wanting to be born so it can enter the world of the living as evil. Casey meets Sofi Kozma—whom she later learns is her grandmother—who explains that as a child she had a brother who died during Nazi experiments in Auschwitz during World War II. A dybbuk brought the brother back to life to use as a portal into the world of the living, Kozma killed her twin to stop the spirit, and now it haunts her family for revenge, which is why Caseys mother became insane and committed suicide. Sendak does not believe Caseys story until he sees a dog with its head twisted upside down in his synagogue, the dybbuk kills Kozma and, soon after, Romy. Casey and her boyfriend Mark—who both see the spirit after it kills Romy—realize that it is getting stronger, Sendak, Mark, Episcopal priest Arthur Wyndham, and other volunteers begin the exorcism, but the dybbuk attacks them and several are wounded or killed. The spirit, having possessed the priest, chases Casey and Mark, Mark knocks Wyndham unconscious but gets possessed. Casey stabs Mark in the neck with the amulet, Sendak arrives and he, the rite draws the dybbuk out of the human world, but Mark falls and dies during the separation. Casey mourns her boyfriend but still wonders why the dybbuk became suddenly active in her life now and she takes a pregnancy test, and learns that she is pregnant by Mark, with twins. Casey later learns she had a twin that died in the womb, meagan Good as Romy Marshall, Caseys superstitious and loyal best friend. Romy is amongst those targeted by the dybbuk to effectively weaken Casey to make her vulnerable, gary Oldman as Rabbi Joseph Sendak, A rabbi who Casey confides in to stop the spirit
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Leighton Meester
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Leighton Marissa Meester is an American actress, singer-songwriter and model. She is mostly known for her role as Blair Waldorf in the drama series Gossip Girl. She has also appeared in the films Killer Movie, Country Strong, The Roommate, Monte Carlo, The Oranges, Meester made her Broadway debut in Of Mice and Men. In addition to acting, Meester has also ventured into music, in 2009, she featured on Cobra Starships Good Girls Go Bad which charted on the Billboard Hot 100, and released her first single Somebody to Love under Universal Republic. Her second single Your Loves a Drug was released in 2011, Meester has also recorded songs for various soundtracks. Her debut album, Heartstrings, was released in 2014. She has also modeled, having been the face of such as Jimmy Choo, Herbal Essences. Meester was born in Florida to Constance and Douglas Meester, and lived most of her life in New York City and her ancestry includes German, Dutch, English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh. Her father works for a company and her mother is a writer. At the time of her birth, her mother was serving time in a prison for her involvement in a drug ring that smuggled marijuana from Jamaica to the United States. She has a brother, Alexander, who is eight years younger, in 2009, Meester joked, Look, I couldve turned out a lot worse. In 2011, Meester sued her mother for alleged financial misconduct, Meester grew up in Marco Island, Florida, where she participated in productions at a local playhouse. When she was 11 years old, Meester and her mother moved to New York City and she also booked commercials for Tamagotchi and Clearasil, and modelled for Limited Too alongside Amanda Seyfried. Meester made her acting debut as a murder victims friend on an episode of Law & Order. At 14, Meester moved to Los Angeles, wanting more stable work and she then transferred to a small private school and graduated a year early. She then appeared in Tarzan, which ran for eight episodes. Meester started to book guest roles in series such as Crossing Jordan,8 Simple Rules, 7th Heaven, Veronica Mars,24. In 2005, she was cast in a role on the series Surface as Savannah Barnett
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Minka Kelly
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Minka Dumont Kelly is an American actress. She is most known for her roles in the TV series Friday Night Lights, Parenthood and she is also known for her role in The Roommate. She appeared in the 2013 film The Butler as Jackie Kennedy, Kelly was born in Los Angeles, California. She is the child of former Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay and the late Maureen Dumont Kelly. Kelly and her mother moved to various communities before settling in Chicago by the time Kelly was in high school. She has French and Irish ancestry, after graduating from Valley High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kelly returned to Los Angeles. She ultimately decided against the procedure, leading to her being fired and that exposure to the medical field prompted her to attend school for a year to become a surgeons assistant, afterward, she worked as a scrub technician. During the four years she spent in that vocation she continued auditioning for film, in 2003, Kelly made her acting debut as an extra in the short film The Turbo Charged Prelude for 2 Fast 2 Furious, a six-minute introduction to the action film 2 Fast 2 Furious. This was followed by a guest appearance on Cracking Up and she has since appeared in a number of television shows such as Entourage, Drake & Josh and American Dreams. In 2005, Kelly landed a recurring role on The WB comedy series What I Like About You. In April 2006, Kelly was cast as a regular on the NBC drama Friday Night Lights. The show, based on the school football movie of the same name. Kelly played the role of school student and cheerleader Lyla Garrity. In preparation for her role as a cheerleader she trained with the Pflugerville High School cheerleading squad, the series premiered on October 3,2006, with Kelly receiving praise for her performance with The New York Times calling her performance heartbreaking. At the end of the third season Kelly left the series as her character left for college. In 2006, Kelly starred in the slasher film The Pumpkin Karver. In 2007, she reunited with Friday Night Lights creator Peter Berg in the film The Kingdom in a role as Ms. Ross alongside Jamie Foxx. In 2009, she made a cameo in the film,500 Days of Summer
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The Experiment (2010 film)
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The film is a remake of the 2001 German film Das Experiment, which was directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. Volunteers arrive for a study led by Dr. Archaleta in which participants will be divided into groups acting as prison guards. Among them is Travis, a proud anti-war protestor, and Michael Barris, after interviews measuring responses to various scenes of violence are conducted, a chosen 26 are driven to an isolated building set up as a prison and split into 6 guards and 20 prisoners. Travis is assigned to be a prisoner, Barris as a guard, basic rules are outlined, prisoners must eat, and fully consume,3 meals a day, there will be 30 minutes of rec daily, prisoners must remain within designated areas. The guards in turn must ensure prisoners obey the rules, Archaleta stresses that the experiment will end immediately at the first sign of violence or quitting. If they manage to follow the rules for two weeks, each man will be paid $14,000, Travis shares his cell with Benjy, a graphic novelist, and Nix, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood. Barris, concerned that some of the guards, particularly Chase, may be capable of violence, instead, the guards grow more forceful in order to make prisoners follow the rules. Barris becomes more and more sadistic, despite increasing abuse from the guards, Travis remains defiant. Realizing Travis is influencing prisoner dissent, Barris decides to humiliate him, under Barris lead Travis is abducted, head shaved, and urinated upon. The red light does not come on, and Barris takes this as a sign that his actions were commensurate and he reassures the guards theyre behaving appropriately. When fellow guard Bosch dissents, Barris pressures him by reminding that quitting early will forfeit payment, Travis discovers that Benjy, who is taken ill, had concealed his diabetes, thinking he could manage the condition himself. When Travis pleads for Bosche to intervene, Bosche tries to help by locating Benjys insulin, Barris, to Travis surprise, gives Benjy his insulin, but later takes revenge by massing all other guards to beat Bosche severely, who is then left among the prison population. Barris also orders Travis to clean the prison toilets as punishment for his defiant attitude, Travis taunts Barris, saying he should use his $14,000 for psychological treatment. The guards respond by shoving Travis head into the toilet, nearly drowning him, one morning while being humiliated during roll call, Travis removes his prison shirt as a sign that the experiment should end, and is followed by the other prisoners. Travis jumps up to one of the cameras and demands that the group be let go, but is dragged to the floor by the guards, when Benjy tries to defend Travis, Barris hits Benjy hard on the head with his baton, leaving him twitching on the floor. Guards throw Travis into an old boiler pipe overnight, attack remaining prisoners, while locked in the dark boiler, Travis realizes theres a hidden infrared camera watching him, even there, and as his despondence turns to anger he manages to get out. He interrupts the rape of a prisoner by Chase, knocks him out, upon finding Benjy chained up and left to die, Travis leads an assault against the guards, chasing them through the building. Even as the rest of the try to lift the shutters to escape
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Cher
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Cher is an American singer and actress. Commonly referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she is described as embodying female autonomy in a male-dominated industry. Cher gained popularity in 1965 as one-half of the folk rock husband-wife duo Sonny & Cher after their song I Got You Babe reached number one on the American and she began her solo career simultaneously, releasing in 1966 her first million-seller song, Bang Bang. She became a personality in the 1970s with her shows The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, watched by over 30 million viewers weekly during its three-year run. She emerged as a trendsetter by wearing elaborate outfits on her television shows. While working on television, she established herself as a solo artist with the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves, Half-Breed, and Dark Lady. After her divorce from Sonny Bono in 1975, Cher launched a comeback in 1979 with the disco-oriented album Take Me Home and earned $300,000 a week for her 1980–82 residency show in Las Vegas. In 1982, Cher made her Broadway debut in the play Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean and starred in the film adaptation of the same title. She subsequently earned critical acclaim for her performances in such as Silkwood, Mask. She then revived her career by recording the rock-inflected albums Cher, Heart of Stone. She reached a new peak in 1998 with the album Believe. It also features the use of Auto-Tune, also known as the Cher effect. Her 2002–2005 Living Proof, The Farewell Tour became one of the concert tours of all time. In 2008, she signed a $180 million deal to headline the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for three years, after seven years of absence, she returned to film in the 2010 musical Burlesque. Chers first studio album in 12 years, Closer to the Truth, Cher has won a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and a special CFDA Fashion Award, among several other honors. Throughout her career, she has sold 100 million records worldwide and she is the only artist to date to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in each decade from the 1960s to the 2010s. Outside of her music and acting, she is noted for her views, philanthropic endeavors and social activism, including LGBT rights. Cher was born Cherilyn Sarkisian in El Centro, California, on May 20,1946, Chers father was rarely home when she was an infant, and her parents divorced when Cher was ten months old
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Christina Aguilera
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Christina María Aguilera is an American singer, songwriter, actress and television personality. Born in Staten Island, New York and raised in Rochester and Wexford, Pennsylvania, she appeared on the television series Star Search, after recording Reflection, the theme for Disneys 1998 film Mulan, Aguilera signed with RCA Records. She rose to prominence with her 1999 self-titled debut album spawned the Billboard Hot 100 number one singles, Genie in a Bottle, What a Girl Wants. The following year, Aguilera released two albums, the Spanish-language album Mi Reflejo and the holiday album My Kind of Christmas. She assumed creative control for her studio album, Stripped, which produced Dirrty, Beautiful. Aguileras fifth studio album, Back to Basics, debuted at one on the album charts of ten countries and spawned the tracks Aint No Other Man. In 2010, Aguilera released her studio album Bionic and starred in the film Burlesque. The following year, she debuted as a coach on the reality television series The Voice. Her seventh studio album, Lotus, was released in 2012, Aguilera has also been featured on several successful collaborations during her career, including Lady Marmalade, Moves like Jagger, and Say Something. Aguilera has been recognized as a pop icon and earned the title Pop Princess in her early years and her work has earned her five Grammy Awards, one Latin Grammy Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She has sold over 17.9 million albums in the United States as of 2014 and 50 million albums worldwide as of 2015. In 2009, she ranked at number 58 on Rolling Stones list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, thereby becoming the youngest and the only artist under 30 to be named. Billboard recognized her as the 20th most successful artist of the 2000s, aside from her work in the entertainment industry, Aguilera is involved in charitable activities through human rights, world issues, and her work as a UN ambassador for the World Food Programme. Christina María Aguilera was born in Staten Island, New York, on December 18,1980, to Shelly Loraine, a musician, and Fausto Xavier Aguilera and her father is Ecuadorian, while her mother has German, Irish, Welsh, and Dutch ancestry. Her family moved frequently because of her fathers service, and lived in places including New Jersey, Texas, New York. Aguilera and her mother alleged that her father was physically and emotionally abusive, claims which he denied, Aguilera used music as a form of escape from her turbulent household. Following her parents divorce when she was six years old, Aguilera, her younger sister Rachel, after several years of being estranged, Aguilera expressed interest in reconciling with her father in 2012. Growing up, Aguilera, known locally as the girl with the big voice, aspired to be a singer, singing in local talent shows
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Stanley Tucci
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Stanley Tucci is an American character actor, writer, producer and film director. Tucci was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Lovely Bones and he won two Emmy Awards for his performances in Winchell and Monk. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, for The One and his parents, both of Italian descent, had roots in Calabria. He is the oldest of three children, his sister is actress Christine Tucci, screenwriter Joseph Tropiano is a cousin. During the early 1970s, the family spent a year living in Florence and he attended John Jay High School, and SUNY Purchase, where he majored in acting and graduated in 1982. Among his classmates at SUNY Purchase was fellow acting student, Ving Rhames and it was Tucci who gave Rhames the nickname by which he is now known, Ving. His film debut was in Prizzis Honor and he performed at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1991 in a Molière play. Tucci is known for his work in such as The Pelican Brief, Beethoven, Kiss of Death, Road to Perdition and Big Night. Big Night, which he starred in, co-wrote with his cousin Joseph Tropiano, the film also featured his sister Christine and their mother, who wrote a cookbook for the film. It won him and Tropiano the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and he has been nominated three times for Golden Globes, and won twice – for his title role in Winchell, and for his supporting role as Adolf Eichmann in Conspiracy, both for HBO films. He also received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Winchell and he was nominated for Broadways Tony Award as Best Actor in a Play for his role as Johnny in the 2002 revival of Terrence McNallys Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. In 2004, Caedmon Audio released an audiobook of Tucci reading Kurt Vonneguts 1973 novel Breakfast of Champions, in July 2006, Tucci made an appearance on the USA Network TV series Monk, in a performance that earned him a 2007 Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor – Comedy Series. Tuccis TV series, the medical drama 3 lbs. debuted on CBS on November 14,2006 and he provides the voiceover in the AT&T Wireless Raising the Bar marketing campaign. In 2007, he had a role in medical drama ER. To prepare for the role, he consulted with retired FBI profiler John Douglas, the following year, Tucci directed a revival of the Ken Ludwig play Lend Me a Tenor on Broadway, starring Tony Shalhoub. Tucci played Dr. Abraham Erskine in 2011s Captain America, The First Avenger, in 2014, he portrayed the comedic Joshua Joyce in Transformers, Age of Extinction, a role he is set to reprise in its sequel The Last Knight. Tucci was co-owner of the Finch Tavern restaurant in Croton Falls and his cookbook, The Tucci Cookbook, was released in Autumn 2012. On September 24,2013, Variety and Entertainment Weekly reported that Tucci will guest voice-star in the adult animated series American Dad
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Trespass (2011 film)
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Trespass is a 2011 American crime thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher. The film stars Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman as a married couple taken hostage by extortionists, shooting on the project began in Shreveport, Louisiana, on August 30,2010. The film premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival in September, the film was given a Video On Demand release and theatrical limited release in the United States on October 14,2011. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc just a few weeks later on November 1,2011, Sarah appears bored with life as a housewife and yearns for more in her marriage while Kyle seems to harbor a hidden aversion towards his wife. Just as Kyle is about to leave for a business transaction, Sarah, meanwhile, recognizes Jonah through his mask. Unbeknownst to Elias, Sarah secretly steals the syringe from him during this conversation, having left her party in disgust, Avery returns home and, after a brief chase, is also captured and taken to her parents. Elias appeals to Kyle, claiming that he needs money to pay for a kidney transplantation for his dying mother, Sarah catches Elias off-guard and holds him hostage with the syringe. Forced into a Mexican standoff, the compromise by letting Avery escape in exchange for Kyle opening the safe. He does so, revealing it to be completely empty, Kyle explains that he is actually bankrupt and has no money, his house and all of his possessions were bought on loaned credit. Enraged, Elias breaks Kyles hand and instead demands material compensation by taking Sarahs prized diamond necklace, however, Kyle reveals that this too is a fake cubic zirconia replica and is completely worthless. Ty recaptures Avery from outside and brings her back into the house, Kyle volunteers for his own kidney to be taken instead of his daughters, but Elias reveals that it was a ploy and that he hated his mother, who is already dead. Ty grows impatient after receiving a call and commands Elias to hurry up. The thieves then separate the Miller family, with Kyle and Avery being tied up and guarded in the living room, Jonah states to Sarah that he still loves her and promises that she and Avery will be left unhurt. Meanwhile, Kyle uses a lighter to burn both his own and Averys binds, they attempt an escape and set off the security system. Kyle ends up in a struggle with Ty, and, despite Tys superior strength and fighting skills, Kyle manages to inject a portion of the chemicals into his arm. Thinking that Ty is dead, Elias shoots Kyle in the leg and reveals his true motives, shortly after being given a job to sell $180,000 worth of cocaine, Elias and Petal were carjacked at gunpoint and all of their shipments were promptly stolen. Faced with threats of retribution, Elias was then forced to commit a heist to pay off his debt, Jonah, who had previously seen the Miller residence, suggested it as a place to rob. Avery attempts to run out of the house again but is caught by Jonah, under the threat of her parents being killed, she is forced to answer a call from the security company and successfully convinces them to call off the police
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Krav Maga
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Krav Maga is known for its focus on real-world situations and its extreme efficiency and brutal counter-attacks. In the late 1940s, following his migration to Israel, he began to provide lessons on combat training to what was to become the IDF. From the outset, the concept of Krav Maga was to take the most simple and practical techniques of other fighting styles. Techniques from Jiu-jitsu were introduced by IDF instructor Eli Avikzar, Krav Maga has a philosophy emphasizing aggression, and simultaneous defensive and offensive maneuvers. Krav Maga has been used by the Israel Defense Forces special forces units, security apparatus, closely related variations have been developed and adopted by Israeli law enforcement and intelligence organizations. There are several organizations teaching variations of Krav Maga internationally such as the British SAS, the name in Hebrew can be translated as contact combat. The root word krav means combat and maga means contact, Krav Maga encourages students to avoid confrontation. If this is impossible or unsafe, it promotes finishing a fight as quickly and aggressively as possible. Attacks are aimed at the most vulnerable parts of the body, students learn to defend against all variety of attacks and are taught to counter in the quickest and most efficient way. Using simple and easily repeatable strikes and it may also cover ways to deal with physical and verbal methods to avoid violence whenever possible. Imre Lichtenfeld was born in 1910 in Budapest, Hungary and grew up in Bratislava, Lichtenfeld became active in a wide range of sports, including gymnastics, wrestling, and boxing. In 1928, Lichtenfeld won the Slovak Youth Wrestling Championship, and that same year, he also won the national boxing championship and an international gymnastics championship. During the ensuing decade, Imis athletic activities focused mainly on wrestling, in the mid-1930s, anti-Semitic riots began to threaten the Jews of Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. It was then that he started to re-evaluate his ideas about fighting and started developing the skills and techniques that would eventually become Krav Maga. Having become a thorn in the side of the equally anti-Semitic local authorities, Lichtenfeld left his home, with his family and friends in 1940, after making his way to Israel, Lichtenfeld joined Israel’s pre-state Haganah paramilitary organization to protect Jewish refugees from Arabs. In 1944 Lichtenfeld began training fighters in his areas of expertise, physical fitness, swimming, wrestling, use of the knife, during this period, Lichtenfeld trained several elite units of the Haganah including Palmach and the Pal-Yam, as well as groups of police officers. In 1948, when the State of Israel was founded and the IDF was formed, Lichtenfeld became Chief Instructor for Physical Fitness and he served in the IDF for about 20 years, during which time he developed and refined his unique method for self-defense and hand-to-hand combat. Self-defense was not a new concept, since nearly all martial arts had developed some form of techniques in their quest for tournament or sport dominance
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Who's Your Caddy?
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Whos Your Caddy. is a 2007 comedy film directed by Don Michael Paul, and starring Big Boi, Lil Wayne, Andy Milonakis, Faizon Love, Terry Crews, Tony Cox, Jeffrey Jones, and Jesper Parnevik. It is the first film produced by Robert L. Johnsons Our Stories Films studio and it was released on July 27,2007, in the United States and was released on DVD on November 27,2007. C-Note purchases property that contains land from the 17th hole and bribes the country club for a membership in exchange for his land, the rest of the movie’s plot revolves around the club members and their efforts to get C-Note kicked out, while he disrupts the club’s atmosphere. Big Boi as Christopher C-Note Hawkins Chase A. A, JJ Jackson Cam Gigandet as Mick Chase Tatum as Kidd Clean Susan Ward as Mrs. In particular, many critics have deemed this film a terrible rip-off of Caddyshack, overall, it is ranked a Rotten rating of 6% on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus calling the film unoriginal, unfunny, and just plain forgettable. However, former U. S. president Bill Clinton loves the film, the film was nominated for a Golden Raspberry awards in the fields of Worst Remake or Rip-off, but lost to I Know Who Killed Me. The two guests stated that during their dinner with the president, Clinton stated that he loves comedies. The movie grossed US$2.76 million in its first week at the box office, the film performed poorly at the box office earning only $5,713,425 in total. Whos Your Caddy. at the Internet Movie Database Whos Your Caddy. at Rotten Tomatoes Whos Your Caddy. at AllMovie Whos Your Caddy. at Box Office Mojo
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MTV Movie Award for Best Fight
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The MTV Movie Award for Best Fight is an award presented to actors and characters for quality fight scenes in films at the MTV Movie Awards, a ceremony established in 1992. Honors in several categories are awarded by MTV at the annual ceremonies, the MTV Movie Award for Best Fight was first presented in 1996 to Adam Sandler and Bob Barker for their fight in Happy Gilmore. Uma Thurman won the award in 2004 and 2005 for her fights against Chiaki Kuriyama and Daryl Hannah in Kill Bill, Volume 1 and Volume 2, in 2008 and 2009 Cam Gigandet was presented with the honor for his fights in Never Back Down and Twilight. Robert Pattinson has also won the award twice, for his appearances in The Twilight Saga films, Twilight in 2009 and The Twilight Saga, jackie Chan has won the Best Fight honor once from four nominations. Jet Li and Chris Tucker have each received three nominations, and Brad Pitt and Hugh Jackman have each been nominated twice
