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James Wong (filmmaker)
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James Jim Wong is a Hong Kong-born American television producer, writer, and film director. He directed and wrote episodes of The X-Files and Millennium and he is the co-creator and co-writer, along with Glen Morgan of Space, Above and Beyond. He is also the founder of Hard Eight Pictures, in film he has directed Final Destination, Final Destination 3, The One, and the remakes of Willard, Dragonball Evolution, and Black Christmas, along with writing partner Glen Morgan. Wong was born in Hong Kong and moved to the United States along with his family at age 10 to San Diego, during his youth, he met his future writing partner Glen Morgan at El Cajon Valley High School. Later on, he went to Loyola Marymount University, joining a comedy improvisational group, originally seeking a major in engineering, he later switched to a film major after seeing Apocalypse Now at the Cinerama Dome. After graduating, he landed a job as an assistant to Sandy Howard, during this time, both Wong and Morgan wrote screenplays, eventually having one produced. With Morgan, he co-wrote The Boys Next Door, after this Wong became a story editor on the short-lived ABC crime drama Knightwatch. Later, with Morgan, Wong would work on many Stephen J. Cannell productions, including Wiseguy, The Commish, Wong and Morgan began working with Chris Carter on the science fiction/drama The X-Files, about two FBI agents investigating the paranormal, filmed in Vancouver. In 1995, Wong and Morgan were offered an $8 million, four-year contract deal with 20th Century Fox Television to write, as part of this deal, Morgan and Wong went on to create the short-lived series Space, Above and Beyond. They returned to The X-Files briefly in its fourth season when they wrote the horror episode Home, Wong also made his television directing debut with the conspiracy-themed Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, written by Morgan. Wong and Morgan also took on production and writing duties for Carters Millennium, later, they would go on to executive produce the short-lived NBC paranormal series The Others. In 2000, Wong directed Final Destination, a film he co-wrote with Glen Morgan, in late 2006, Wong and Morgans remake of Black Christmas was released, the script was by Wong and Morgan and the film was directed by Morgan. In 2009, Wong directed the movie adaptation of the Anime. The film showed poor ratings from various movie critic websites, James Wong at the Internet Movie Database James Wong Director Bio – Biography by Tribute James Wong Biography – Biography by Yahoo
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Stephen Chow
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Stephen Chow Sing-chi is a film director, actor, writer, film producer, and political adviser of the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference. Chow began his career as an actor on television after high school. He graduated from TVBs acting classes in 1982, Chow began to find some success with the childrens programme 430 Space Shuttle. In 1987, Chow entered into the industry through the film Final Justice. Chow shot to stardom in The Final Combat and All for the Winner, fight Back to School became Hong Kongs top-grossing film of all time. In 1994, he began directing films, starting with From Beijing with Love, in the later half of the 1990s, China began to warm to Stephen Chow movies. He became pop-culture phenomenon in China, in 2001 his film Shaolin Soccer grossed over US$50 million worldwide. In 2004, his film Kung Fu Hustle grossed over US$106 million all over the world, Chow won Best Director at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards and Best Picture of Imagine Film Festival and 20 international awards. Chows film CJ7 began filming in July 2006 in the eastern Chinese port of Ningbo, in August 2007 the film was given the title CJ7, a play on Chinas successful Shenzhou manned space missions—Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6. CJ7 became the film of all time in Malaysia. In 2013, Chows film Journey to the West, Conquering the Demons became the highest-grossing China film of all time, in 2016, he released a new film titled The Mermaid. It was released in China on 8 February 2016, on 19 February, it became the highest-grossing film of all time in China. The Mermaid released in Vietnam on 10 February 2016, on 14 March, it became the 3rd highest-grossing film of all time in Vietnam. On 31 March it became the 45th All Time Highest Grossing Movies International, now it is the All Time Highest Grossing Movie Asia. Stephen Chow became the ninth top-grossing Hollywood Director of 2016, Chow often casts relatively new young actresses to play opposite him, especially as romantic leads, and many of these actresses have gone on to have successful film or music careers of their own. Stephen Chow at the Internet Movie Database Stephen Chow at AllMovie
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Dragon Ball (manga)
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Dragon Ball is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama. Dragon Ball was initially inspired by the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West, along his journey, Goku makes several friends and battles a wide variety of villains, many of whom also seek the Dragon Balls. The Dragon Ball manga has been adapted into two series produced by Toei Animation, Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, which together were broadcast in Japan from 1986 to 1996. Additionally, the studio has developed 19 animated feature films and three specials, as well as two anime sequel series titled Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Super. As of November 2014, the franchise generated $5 billion in merchandise, since its release, Dragon Ball has become one of the most successful manga and anime series of all time. The mangas 42 volumes have sold over 156 million copies in Japan and more than 240 million copies worldwide, reviewers have praised the art, characterization, and humor of the story. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest manga series ever made, the anime, particularly Dragon Ball Z, is also highly popular in various countries and was arguably one of the most influential in boosting the popularity of Japanese animation in Western culture. Goku then undergoes rigorous training regimes under the martial arts master Kame-Sennin in order to fight in the Tenkaichi Budōkai, a monk named Kuririn becomes his training partner and rival, but they soon become best friends. After the tournament, Goku searches for the Dragon Ball his grandfather left him and almost single-handedly defeats the Red Ribbon Army, thereafter Goku reunites with his friends to defeat the fortuneteller Baba Uranais fighters and have her locate the last Dragon Ball to revive a friend killed by Taopaipai. At the Tenkaichi Budōkai three years later Goku and his allies oppose Kame-Sennins rival and Taopaipais brother, Tsuru-Sennin, and his students Tenshinhan, Kuririn is killed after the tournament and Goku tracks down and is defeated by his killer, Piccolo Daimao. The samurai Yajirobe takes Goku to the hermit Karin, where he receives healing, meanwhile, Piccolo fights Kame-Sennin and Chaozu, leading to both their deaths, and uses the Dragon Balls to regain his youth before destroying Shenlong. Goku then kills Piccolo Daimao, who, just before dying, Karin then directs Goku to Kami-sama, the original creator of the Dragon Balls, to restore Shenlong and revive his slain friends. Goku refuses to continue the mission, sides with Piccolo, in the afterlife Goku trains under the North Kaiō until he is revived by the Dragon Balls to save the Earth from the invading Nappa and Vegeta. In the battle Yamcha, Chaozu, Tenshinhan, and Piccolo are killed, the long battle with Freeza himself comes to a close when Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan of legends and defeats him. A group of Androids created by a member of the former Red Ribbon Army, Doctor Gero, appear three years later, seeking revenge against Goku. During this time, a life form called Cell also emerges and. After Goku sacrifices his own life to no avail, Gohan avenges his father by defeating Cell, seven years later, Goku, briefly revived for one day, and his allies are drawn into a fight against Majin Boo. After numerous battles, including destruction and re-creation of the Earth, Goku destroys Boo with a Genki-Dama, ten years later, at another Tenkaichi Budōkai, Goku meets Boos human reincarnation, Oob
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Akira Toriyama
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Akira Toriyama is a Japanese manga and game artist. He earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen or shōjo manga with Dr. Slump and it was adapted into a successful anime series, with a second anime created in 1997,13 years after the manga ended. His next series, Dragon Ball, would one of the most popular. Overseas, Dragon Balls anime adaptations have been more successful than the manga and are credited with boosting animes popularity in the Western world, Akira Toriyama was born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. He has recalled that when he was in school all of his classmates drew, imitating anime and manga. Toriyama has a love of cars and motorcycles, something he inherited from his father who used to race motorbikes, before becoming a manga artist, he worked at an advertising agency in Nagoya designing posters for three years. After quitting his previous job, Toriyama entered the industry by submitting a work to an amateur contest in a Jump magazine in order to win the prize money. While it did not win, Kazuhiko Torishima, who would become his editor, contacted him. His debut came later in 1978 with the story Wonder Island, however, he did not rise to popularity until the comedy series Dr. Slump, which was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1980 to 1984. It follows the adventures of a professor and his small. He began the series at age 25 while living at home with his parents, in 1981, Dr. Slump earned him the Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen or shōjo manga series of the year. A very successful anime adaptation aired on TV from 1981 to 1986, by 2008, the manga had sold over 35 million copies in Japan. In 1984, Weekly Shōnen Jump began serializing Toriyamas Dragon Ball, to date it has sold over 156 million copies in Japan alone, making it Shueishas second best-selling manga of all time. It began as an adventure/gag manga but later turned into a martial arts fighting series, Dragon Ball was one of the main reasons for the magazines circulation hitting a record high of 6.53 million copies. The series success encouraged Toriyama to continue working on it from 1984 to 1995, at the series end, Toriyama said that he asked everyone involved to let him end the manga, so he could take some new steps in life. During that 11-year period, he produced 519 chapters that were collected into 42 volumes, moreover, the success of the manga led to five anime adaptations, several animated movies, numerous video games, and mega-merchandising. The third anime adaptation, Dragon Ball GT, was not based on his manga, however, Toriyama was still involved in coming up with the name and designing the main cast. Although the fifth, Dragon Ball Super, is not based on the manga, Toriyama is credited with its story
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Justin Chatwin
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Justin Chatwin is a Canadian actor. He is also a TV actor known for his work on Shameless, prior to that, he had guest appearances on several television shows including Taken, Lost, and Orphan Black. Justin Chatwin was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia to Suzanne, an artist, and Brian and he did not initially want to be an actor, but a friend invited Chatwin to audition as an extra for the movie Josie and the Pussycats. He enjoyed the experience and ended up playing a fan, after that, his parents encouraged him to give up college and pursue an acting career. Chatwin found an agent immediately, and in 2001 began appearing in Canadian TV shows and he studied commerce at the University of British Columbia and took acting lessons in his spare time. He moved to Los Angeles in 2005 in search of new opportunities, until 2009, he lived in a small apartment with his roommate, actor Noel Fisher, who years later co-starred with him in Shameless. He has two sisters, Brieanne and Claire and his passions are film, photography, and adventure. He was an avid snowboarder when he lived in Canada, and is a fan of Chemical Brothers. Justin Chatwin made his debut in the musical comedy Josie. He gained recognition in 2004 for his role as Tyler McKay in the American miniseries Traffic, for his performance, Newsweek magazine dubbed Justin as the Actor to Watch. Following this success, was chosen to play Tom Cruises son in the summer blockbuster War of the Worlds, also in the 2005, he was seen in the independent black comedy The Chumscrubber alongside Jamie Bell, Carrie-Anne Moss and Lou Taylor Pucci. In the same year, he played the son of Kevin Nealons character in the Showtime comedy series Weeds, appearing only in the pilot, in 2007, The Invisible was released, a remake of the Swedish film Den Osynlige, which marked his first lead role. In 2009, Chatwin portrayed Goku in Dragonball Evolution, a big screen based on the Japanese Dragon Ball manga by Akira Toriyama. Chow Yun-fat, James Marsters and Jamie Chung co-starred in the film, then, he returned to Canada to shoot Funkytown alongside huge Canadian film stars like Patrick Huard and Paul Doucet. Later in 2009, he was cast as Jimmy Lishman in the Showtime pilot Shameless, opposite William H. Macy, the project was picked up and Chatwin was a series regular for 3 seasons. He returned for the season 4 finale and joined season 5 as a special guest star. R, martin, and a cameo in the upcoming action-comedy CHiPs with Dax Shepard, Michael Peña and Vincent DOnofrio. Also, in 2016, Justin returned to television with a role in CBS murder mystery summer series American Gothic alongside Megan Ketch, Antony Starr and Virginia Madsen. He also starred in BBCs Doctor Who 2016 Christmas special The Return of Doctor Mysterio playing a superhero named The Ghost and he played a supporting role opposite Kate Mara and Cody Arens
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Emmy Rossum
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Emmanuelle Grey Emmy Rossum is an American actress, director and singer-songwriter. She is known for her portrayal of Fiona Gallagher in the television series Shameless, Rossum has starred in movies including Songcatcher, An American Rhapsody, and Passionada. Her role in Mystic River garnered her wider recognition and she starred in the science-fiction film The Day After Tomorrow and received critical acclaim for her performance in the leading role of Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera. She has since starred in Poseidon, Dragonball, Evolution, Dare Beautiful Creatures, Before I Disappear, Youre Not You, in 2007, Rossum released her debut album, Inside Out. She also released a Christmas EP the same year, titled Carol of the Bells, in 2013, she released a follow up album called Sentimental Journey. Rossum was born in Manhattan, New York City and she is the only child of Cheryl Rossum, a single mother who worked as a corporate photographer. Her parents separated while her mother was pregnant, as of 2007, Rossums mother is Jewish and her father is Protestant. Rossum identifies as Jewish, and has stated that her mother instilled in her the Jewish code of ethics and she was named for her great-grandfather, whose first name was Emanuel, using the feminine spelling Emmanuelle. She is a relative, by marriage, of designer Vera Wang, upon singing Happy Birthday in all 12 keys, Rossum was welcomed to join the Metropolitan Opera Childrens Chorus by chorus director Elena Doria at seven. Over the course of five years, she sang onstage with the chorus and had the chance to perform with great singers such as Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. For anywhere from $5 to $10 a night, Rossum sang in six languages in 20 operas, including La bohème, Turandot, a Carnegie Hall presentation of La damnation de Faust and she also worked under the direction of Franco Zeffirelli in Carmen. Rossum joked in interviews that her talent and affinity for music developed because her mother always listened to classical music. By 12, Rossum had grown too big for childrens costumes, an increasing interest in pursuing acting led to taking classes with Flo Salant Greenberg of The New Actors Workshop in New York City. She also has worked with acting coach Terry Knickerbocker, Rossum attended the Spence School, a private school in Manhattan, for years, before dropping out to pursue career opportunities. She received her high school diploma at 15 years old via online extension courses offered by Stanford Universitys Education Program for Gifted Youth, Rossums television debut was in August 1997, as the original Abigail Williams in the daytime soap opera As the World Turns. She also had a guest role as Caroline Beels in Snoops, Rossum was nominated for a Young Artist Award in 1999 for Best Performance in a TV Movie for her work in the made-for-TV movie, Genius. She then portrayed a young Audrey Hepburn in the ABC television film, Rossum made her film debut at 13, in 2000s Songcatcher, as Deladis Slocumb, an Appalachian orphan. Debuting at the Sundance Film Festival, the won the Special Jury Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance
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Jamie Chung
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Jamie Jilynn Chung is an American actress, blogger, and former reality television personality. She is regarded by many as the Real World alumna with the most successful media career, Chung received critical acclaim for her lead performance in the independent drama film about domestic human trafficking, Eden. Since 2012, Chung has appeared in the role of Mulan in the ABC fantasy television series Once Upon a Time. An avid fashionista, she created the blog What the Chung. Jamie Chung was born and raised in San Francisco, California and she and her older sister are second-generation Korean Americans, raised by traditional parents who moved to the United States in 1980, and ran a hamburger restaurant. She was described by MTV as someone who tells it like it is, Chung was a cast member on The Real World, San Diego, the fourteenth season of MTVs long-running reality TV show, The Real World, which first aired in 2004. At the time she was selected to be on The Real World, San Diego and she was also described by her friends as not having the best taste in men. Chung and her teammates were victorious against the members of the Bad Asses in the final event. In 2008 she got her first major role, as the lead in the ABC Family miniseries Samurai Girl. Chung later went to star in the Disney Channel TV movie, Princess Protection Program which co-starred Demi Lovato and she appeared in 2010 film Grown Ups and had a supporting role in the 2012 martial arts film The Man with the Iron Fists. In 2011, she provided the voice of Aimi Yoshida in the video game X-Men and she also co-starred in Sin City, A Dame to Kill For, released in August 2014. Chung gained her first major film role in the 2012 film Premium Rush. That same year, she starred as the lead in the independent film Eden, since 2012, she has appeared in the recurring role of Mulan in the television series Once Upon a Time. In 2014, she provided the voice of GoGo Tomago in the animated Disney film Big Hero 6, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Chung and her then-fiance, Bryan Greenberg, co-starred together as a couple who meet in Hong Kong in the film Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong, Chung will reprise her role of GoGo Tomago in the upcoming Big Hero 6, The Series on Disney XD. In March 2016, Chung was cast as attorney Lana Harris, the female in the one-hour legal drama Mirandas Rights. Chung is a follower of the fashion industry who shares her experiences and advice related to food, travel and other related topics at her blog. Chung won the Female Stars of Tomorrow Award at the 2009 ShoWest industry trade show along with her Sorority Row castmates, in 2013, Chung moved to Manhattan
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Chow Yun-fat
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Chow Yun-fat, SBS, previously known as Donald Chow, is a Hong Kong actor. He mainly plays in films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor in Taiwan. In 2014, Chow was the second-highest earning actor in Hong Kong, earning HK$170 million, Chow was born in Lamma Island, Hong Kong, to a mother who was a cleaning lady and vegetable farmer, and a father who worked on a Shell Oil Company tanker. Chow grew up in a community on Lamma Island, in a house with no electricity. He woke up at dawn each morning to help his mother sell herbal jelly and Hakka tea-pudding on the streets and his family moved to Kowloon when he was ten. At seventeen, he left school to support the family by doing odd jobs including bellboy, postman, camera salesman. His life started to change when he responded to an advertisement and his actor-trainee application was accepted by TVB. He signed a contract with the studio and made his acting debut. Chow became a heartthrob and a face in soap operas that were exported internationally. Chow has been married twice, first in 1983, to Candice Yu, an actress from Asia Television, in 1986, Chow married Singaporean Jasmine Tan. The couple have no children, although Chow has a goddaughter, Celine Ng, when Chow appeared in the 1980 TV series The Bund on TVB, it did not take long for him to become a household name in Hong Kong. The series, about the rise and fall of a gangster in 1930s Shanghai, was a hit throughout Asia, although Chow continued his TV success, his goal was to become a big-screen actor. However, his ventures into low-budget films were disastrous. Success finally came when he teamed up with director John Woo in the 1986 gangster action-melodrama A Better Tomorrow, a Better Tomorrow won him his first Best Actor award at the Hong Kong Film Awards. It was the film in Hong Kong history at the time. Taking the opportunity, Chow quit TV entirely and he brought together his disparate personae in the 1989 film God of Gamblers, directed by the prolific Wong Jing, in which he was by turns suave charmer, a broad comedian and an action hero. The often tough demeanor and youthful appearance of Chow Yun-Fats characters has earned him the nickname Babyface Killer, the Los Angeles Times proclaimed Chow Yun-Fat the coolest actor in the world. In the mid 90s, Chow moved to Hollywood in an unsuccessful attempt to duplicate his success in Asia
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James Marsters
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James Wesley Marsters is an American actor and musician. Marsters appeared in a role in the 2007 movie P. S. He appeared as a character in the first season of the revival of Hawaii Five-0. Marsters was born in Greenville, California, the son of a United Methodist minister and he grew up with his brother, Paul, and sister, Susan, in Modesto, California. Dreaming about becoming an actor since he played Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh in fourth grade, Marsters joined the group at Grace M. Davis High School and acted in many plays. After graduation in 1980, Marsters studied at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria, California, in 1982 he moved to New York City to attend the Juilliard School, but left the program after two years. Marsters moved to Chicago, where his first professional acting role was Ferdinand in The Tempest at the Goodman Theatre in 1987, in this production, he was rolled onto the stage strapped naked to a wheel. He also appeared with well-known Chicago companies such as the Northlight and the Bailiwick and with his own group, in 1990, Marsters moved to Seattle and, with Liane Davidson and Greg Musick, formed the New Mercury Theatre. In this and other companies, Marsters was involved in a range of plays, including Teechers, Anouilhs Antigone, an original work based on the Dr. Seuss books. In 1992, Marsters got his first acting job on TV—on Northern Exposure and he has made guest appearances on television series such as Andromeda, as well as the independent films Chance, Winding Roads, and the 2005 USA Network movie Cool Money. In 1999, he had a role in the remake of House on Haunted Hill as a TV cameraman. It was his appearance as villain Spike on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer that attracted the attention of the general public, for the role, he put on a London accent and he received informal coaching from English co-star Anthony Stewart Head. Spike had been intended as a role by creator Joss Whedon. He made it clear he did not want the show to be taken over by another romantic vampire, Marsters told 411Mania, adding to Joss, vampires were supposed to be ugly, evil. When I was cast Joss did not imagine me to be popular, Spike was supposed to be dirty and evil, punk rock, the massive fan response prevented his character from being killed off, however, allowing him a presence throughout the second season. He thought he would not last as, being a vampire, he was restricted to night-time scenes, instead, Spike would last until the very end of the show and become a romantic partner for Buffy. After the conclusion of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Marsters carried Spike over to the Buffy spin-off show, Angel, also in a regular role. Marsters was asked to keep quiet about this, as his return was intended to be a surprise, in April 2004, following the end of Angel, Marsters had Spikes trademark bleached hair shaved off for charity live on television in On Air with Ryan Seacrest
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Randall Duk Kim
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Randall Duk Kim is a Korean-American stage, television and film actor. Kim was also the director and mainstay lead actor at the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Since he was eighteen, Kim has portrayed a variety of roles on the stage. He has spent most of his career in theatre and he also played the title role in Hamlet at the Guthrie Theatre in 1978-79. He played Kralaholme in the 1996 revival of The King and I on Broadway and he voiced Master Oogway in Kung Fu Panda. In 2008 he played Dashiell Kim in an episode of the television series Fringe and he also played Grandpa Gohan in the 2009 live action adaptation of Dragonball Evolution and a tattoo master in Ninja Assassin. Randall Duk Kim at the Internet Movie Database Randall Duk Kim at the Internet Broadway Database Randall Duk Kim at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
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Brian Tyler
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Brian Tyler is an American composer, conductor, arranger, producer, musician, and songwriter, who has composed scores for film, television and video games. For his work as a composer, he has won multiple awards, including 23 BMI Film Music Award for Best Film Music and ASCAP Awards. As of May 2015, his films have grossed $9.5 billion worldwide which puts him in to the top 10 highest-grossing film composers of all time in the category of worldwide box office. Tyler has scored 3 of the top 10 films of all time in global box office, Tyler was born and raised in Orange County, California. His grandfather was Academy Award-winning art director Walter H. Tyler, one of his first major influences was his pianist grandmother. He holds a degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. Growing up, he himself to play at least 30 different types of musical instruments, including drums, piano, guitar, bass, cello, world percussion, synthesizer, charango. Tyler began scoring features shortly after graduating from Harvard, robert Kraft, who was impressed by Tylers music, encouraged him to pursue a career in film scoring. He began his career by composing the score for the independent film Bartender. The following year, he and Red Elvises composed the score for Six-String Samurai. Tylers breakthrough came in 2001, after composing for Frailty and his work on Last Call earned him an induction into the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Starting in 2003, he working on big-budget films, including Timeline, Godsend, The Greatest Game Ever Played. His score for The Fast and the Furious, Tokyo Drift hit #1 on the iTunes soundtrack sales charts, the track Summon the Worms was used as a leader for the French show Peking Express, and in the first leaked promotional reel for The Golden Compass. In 2007, he was hired to compose for Partition, where he had to integrate Indian and he conducted the orchestral portion of the score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony in Los Angeles. On September 5,2011, Tyler announced that he was currently in talks for scoring the 2011 remake of Highlander, as well as episodes for the animated series Transformers. He went on to four episodes of the series. The track went on to peak at #2 on the iTunes hip-hop singles charts and has sold over 500,000 copies, on October 12,2016, he was hired to write and compose the musical score for the 2017 action-adventure film XXX, Return of Xander Cage. He has also contributed to the soundtrack as Madsonik in a collaboration with Tom Morello, official website Brian Tyler at the Internet Movie Database
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Robert McLachlan (cinematographer)
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Robert McLachlan is a Canadian cinematographer. A successful cyclist in his youth, McLachlan quit the sport to take up cinematography, mcLachlans style on this series led to several industry awards and briefly became popular in the medium, as well as leading him directly to future work on Game of Thrones. He founded the production company Omni Film Productions in the 1970s. In his youth, McLachlan was an avid cyclist, accrediting this to the fact that his home town Vancouver was not cold enough for ponds to freeze over to ice hockey on. During his teenage years, he trained upwards of six hours a day, McLachlan was also motivated by his father, who was an avid photographer. An early school assignment to create a Super 8 film project, for which he received an A grade, McLachlan studied fine art at the University of British Columbia for a year, before changing courses to attend classes at Simon Fraser Universitys film department. McLachlans education focussed on the style of John Grierson, however. Having graduated, McLachlan and Michael Chechik founded the production company Omni Film Productions in 1979, McLachlan would later sell his stake in Omni, but remains proud of their documentary work. McLachlan found success on the Fox television series Millennium, earning awards for his work on the show. He was head-hunted for the series by its creator Chris Carter, McLachlan was initially offered a position shooting Carters other active series, The X-Files, then in its third season, but was unable to start work in time. McLachlan has noted that this style became popular after the series broadcast. Having worked on Millennium with director David Nutter, McLachlan was able to parley this connection into a role on the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, McLachlan has been nominated for, and won, several awards over the course of his career. He has been nominated four times for the American Society of Cinematographers awards and he has also won several Canadian Society of Cinematographers awards, including wins for the films Willard and Impolite, as well as for several episodes of Millennium and The Lone Gunmen. McLean, James, Henriksen, Lance, Spotnitz, Frank, Carter, chamberlain, Adam, Dixon, Brian A. eds. Official website Robert McLachlan at the Internet Movie Database
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20th Century Fox
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios and is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, the studio was formerly owned by News Corporation. 20th Century Fox is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2015, 20th Century Fox celebrated its 80th anniversary as a studio. Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, the studios biggest star, Will Rogers, died in a plane crash weeks after the merger. Its leading female star, Janet Gaynor, was fading in popularity and promising leading men James Dunn, at first, it was expected that the new company was originally to be called Fox-20th Century, even though 20th Century was the senior partner in the merger. However, 20th Century brought more to the bargaining table besides Schenck and Zanuck, the new company, 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, began trading on May 31,1935, the hyphen was dropped in 1985. Schenck became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, while Kent remained as President, Zanuck became Vice President in Charge of Production, replacing Foxs longtime production chief Winfield Sheehan. The company established a training school. The contracts included an option for renewal for as long as seven years. For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have founded in 1915. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary, however, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915. The companys films retained the 20th Century Pictures searchlight logo on their credits as well as its opening fanfare. Also on the Fox payroll he found two players who he built up into the studios leading assets, Alice Faye and seven-year-old Shirley Temple, favoring popular biographies and musicals, Zanuck built Fox back to profitability. Thanks to record attendance during World War II, Fox overtook RKO, while Zanuck went off for eighteen months war service, junior partner William Goetz kept profits high by going for light entertainment. The studios—indeed the industrys—biggest star was creamy blonde Betty Grable, in 1942, Spyros Skouras succeeded Kent as president of the studio. Together with Zanuck, who returned in 1943, they intended to make Foxs output more serious-minded. During the next few years, with pictures like The Razors Edge, Wilson, Gentlemans Agreement, The Snake Pit, Boomerang, and Pinky, Zanuck established a reputation for provocative, adult films. Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books such as Ben Ames Williams Leave Her to Heaven, starring Gene Tierney and they also made the 1958 film version of South Pacific
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Action film
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Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist or protagonists end up in a series of challenges that typically include violence, extended fighting, physical feats, and frantic chases. Advancements in CGI have made it cheaper and easier to create action sequences, while action has long been a recurring component in films, the action film genre began to develop in the 1970s along with the increase of stunts and special effects. The genre is associated with the thriller and adventure film genres. Some historians consider The Great Train Robbery to be the first action film, during the 1920s and 1930s, action-based films were often swashbuckling adventure films in which actors, such as Douglas Fairbanks, wielded swords in period pieces or Westerns. The 1940s and 1950s saw action in a new form through war, the film, along with a war-adventure called The Guns of Navarone, inspired producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman to invest in their own spy-adventure, based on the novels of Ian Fleming. The long-running success of the James Bond films or series introduced a staple of the action film. Such larger-than-life characters were a veritable “one-man army”, able to dispatch villainous masterminds after cutting through their disposable henchmen in increasingly creative ways, such heroes are ready with one-liners, puns, and dry quips. The Bond films also used fast cutting, car chases, fist fights, a variety of weapons and gadgets, Dirty Harry essentially lifted its star, Clint Eastwood, out of his cowboy typecasting, and framed him as the archetypal hero of the urban action film. In many countries, restrictions on language, adult content, and violence had loosened up, in the 1970s, martial-arts films from Hong Kong became popular with Western audiences and inspired big budget films such as Bruce Lees Enter the Dragon. Chuck Norris blended martial arts with cops and robbers in films such as Good Guys Wear Black, from Japan, Sonny Chiba starred in his first martial arts movie in 1973 called the Karate Kiba. His breakthrough international hit was The Street Fighter series, which established him as the reigning Japanese martial arts actor in international cinema and he also played the role of Mas Oyama in Champion of Death, Karate Bearfighter, and Karate for Life. Chibas action films were not only bounded by martial arts, but also action thriller, jidaigeki, in the 1980s Hollywood produced many big budget action blockbusters with actors such as Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lorenzo Lamas, Michael Dudikoff, Charles Bronson and Bruce Willis. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas paid their homage to the Bond-inspired style with Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 1982, veteran actor Nick Nolte and rising comedian Eddie Murphy broke box office records with the action-comedy 48 Hrs. credited as the first buddy-cop movie. That same year, Sylvester Stallone starred in First Blood, the first installment in the Rambo film series made the character John Rambo a pop culture icon. 1984 saw the beginning of the Terminator starring Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger and this story provides one of the grittiest roles for a woman in action and Hamilton was required to put in extensive effort to develop a strong physique. The 1988 film, Die Hard, was influential on the development of the action genre. In the film, Bruce Willis plays a New York police detective who becomes embroiled in a terrorist take-over of a Los Angeles office building high-rise. The film set a pattern for a host of imitators, like Under Siege and Sudden Death, by the end of the 1980s, the influence of the successful action film could be felt in almost every genre
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Fantasy film
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Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered a form of speculative fiction alongside science fiction films and horror films, Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary. Several sub-categories of fantasy films can be identified, although the delineations between these subgenres, much as in literature, are somewhat fluid. The most common fantasy subgenres depicted in movies are High Fantasy and Sword, both categories typically employ quasi-medieval settings, wizards, magical creatures and other elements commonly associated with fantasy stories. High Fantasy films tend to feature a more richly developed fantasy world, often, they feature a hero of humble origins and a clear distinction between good and evil set against each other in an epic struggle. Many scholars cite J. R. R, to some, the term Sword and Sandal has pejorative connotations, designating a film with a low-quality script, bad acting and poor production values. Another important subgenre of films that has become more popular in recent years is contemporary fantasy. Such films feature magical effects or supernatural occurrences happening in the world of today. Fantasy films set in the afterlife, called Bangsian Fantasy, are less common, other uncommon subgenres include Historical Fantasy and Romantic Fantasy, although 2003s Pirates of the Caribbean, The Curse of the Black Pearl successfully incorporated elements of both. As noted above, superhero movies and fairy tale films might each be considered subgenres of fantasy films, as a cinematic genre, fantasy has traditionally not been regarded as highly as the related genre of science fiction film. Since the late 1990s, however, the genre has gained new respectability in a way, tolkiens The Lord of the Rings and J. K. Jacksons The Lord of the Rings trilogy is due to its ambitious scope, serious tone. These pictures achieved phenomenal commercial and critical success, and the installment of the trilogy became the first fantasy film ever to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Harry Potter series has been a financial success, has achieved critical acclaim. Following the success of ventures, Hollywood studios have greenlighted additional big-budget productions in the genre. These have included adaptations of the first, second, and third books in C. S and this is in contrast to science fiction films, which are often released during the northern hemisphere summer. The huge commercial success of these pictures may indicate a change in Hollywoods approach to fantasy film releases. Fantasy films have a history almost as old as the medium itself, however, fantasy films were relatively few and far between until the 1980s, when high-tech filmmaking techniques and increased audience interest caused the genre to flourish
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Joon Park
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Joon Park is a Korean-American singer, actor and leader of the Korean pop group g. o. d. He was born on July 20,1969 and graduated from La Quinta High School in Westminster, California and attended California State University, during his days with g. o. d, he served as the groups leader-rapper. He made an appearance in Fated to Love You as himself in 2014 He was raised in Southern California and he had a lot of hobbies which consisted of surfing, skateboarding, water polo, drawing, martial arts, body building, dancing, rapping-singing, etc. During and after his years he was a graphic designer with his talented drawing background. In 1997 through his sisters contacts in Korea, he packed up and moved to Seoul and he wanted to mix Korean Music with a twist of western culture so in 1999 he gathered the members of his group g. o. d through numerous auditions. The first member he recruited was his cousin Danny Ahn, and then Dannys friend Son Hoyoung, Park was cast for a Beer commercial OB Lager which was a complete success in which he held the title of Lagerman. He landed his first role as himself on a SBS sitcom called Soon Poon San Boo In Kua as Song Hye Gyos Boyfriend, Park then teamed up with Korean Pop Star/Producer Park Jin Young and then shortly thereafter the last member Kim Tae-woo joined the group through auditions. And then the song released was a dance song titled Kwan Chal which also was a hit. In 2006 the group decided to take a break as the lead vocalist of the group Kim Tae-woo was required to perform his military duty. He is also set to star in the Friday Night Lights spin-off film, on May 4,2015, Park Joon Hyung’s agency, Sidus HQ, told OSEN that Park Joon Hyung would be getting married. His reps revealed that he had been dating a civil citizen, on June 26 of the same year, Park Joon Hyung married his wife, who is currently working as a flight attendant. Joon Park at the Internet Movie Database Joon Park on Facebook
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Piccolo Daimao
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The Dragon Ball manga series features an extensive cast of characters created by Akira Toriyama. The series takes place in a universe, the same as Toriyamas previous series Dr. During the course of the story, he encounters allies such as Bulma, Kuririn, and Trunks, rivals such as Tenshinhan, Piccolo, and Vegeta, and enemies such as Freeza, Cell, and Majin Boo. The mangas anime and film adaptations feature some original characters not created by Toriyama, while many of the characters are humans with superhuman strength and/or supernatural abilities, the cast also includes anthropomorphic animals and extraterrestrial lifeforms. The series also includes depictions of the afterlife, where characters are gods that govern the universe. However, in 2003 he elaborated saying he added the tail because his editor told him without it Goku had no distinguishing features, even though this was probably a joke, he went ahead and did it. Toriyama later stated that the tail was a pain to draw, hence why he had it get cut off early on, and that he never thought of making Goku an alien until Vegeta appeared. Going against the convention that the strongest characters should be the largest in terms of physical size. The reason there are many characters is simply that he finds it easier to make them look different if they are animals rather than humans. For the female characters, Toriyama created women he deemed beautiful and sexy and he did however state that he has trouble drawing females and this is the reason there are very few women in Dragon Ball. Additional characters and martial arts tournaments were added to give the manga a greater emphasis on fighting, knowing readers would expect Goku to win the tournaments, Toriyama had him lose the first two while continuing to plan an eventual victory. When having fights in the manga, he had the go to a place where nobody lived to avoid difficulties in drawing destroyed buildings. Toriyama came up with the Red Ribbon Army, particularly its Muscle Tower, from the video game Spartan X, in which enemies tend to appear very fast. He said he created Piccolo Daimao because all his villains up to that point had something likeable about them, the Ginyu Force and their poses were influenced from the sentai and tokusatsu television shows he watched with his children. Toriyama created Androids 17 and 18 after Kazuhiko Torishima, his editor, was disappointed with Androids 19 and 20 as villains. When Torishima belittled them as well, he then created Cell, Cell was also altered due to outside opinion, being given the ability to transform when Toriyamas then-current editor, Yū Kondō, said he was ugly. Toriyama also designed some characters that are exclusive to the movies, such as Bojack, Broly, Tapion and Minoshia. Many of Dragon Balls characters have names that are puns, in order to advance the story quickly, he introduced Gokus signature flying cloud, then gave most fighters the ability to fly, and later granted Goku teleportation
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Ian Whyte (actor)
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Ian Whyte is a Welsh actor, stuntman and former professional basketball player. Whyte began his career a professional player for the Newcastle Eagles. After his retirement from basketball he began his career as a stuntman. Whyte is best known for portraying Predators in the movies Alien vs. Predator and Aliens vs. Predator, Whyte portrayed one of the Engineer aliens seen in Ridley Scotts 2012 science fiction film, Prometheus. In 2010 Whyte played Sheikh Sulieman in Clash of the Titans, for these roles he was unrecognisable under make-up and computer effects. In season 2, he also had a role as Ser Gregor Clegane. In season season 5 and season 6 Whyte portrayed the giant Wun Wun, Whyte was born in Bangor, North Wales. Whyte is married to Amy, a development manager for the Gordon Brown Law Firm. Ian Whyte at the Internet Movie Database Interview with Ian Whyte at AvPGalaxy. net Interview with Ian Whyte at AvPGalaxy. net Basketball stats of Ian Whyte at britball. com
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Mai (Dragon Ball)
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The Dragon Ball manga series features an extensive cast of characters created by Akira Toriyama. The series takes place in a universe, the same as Toriyamas previous series Dr. During the course of the story, he encounters allies such as Bulma, Kuririn, and Trunks, rivals such as Tenshinhan, Piccolo, and Vegeta, and enemies such as Freeza, Cell, and Majin Boo. The mangas anime and film adaptations feature some original characters not created by Toriyama, while many of the characters are humans with superhuman strength and/or supernatural abilities, the cast also includes anthropomorphic animals and extraterrestrial lifeforms. The series also includes depictions of the afterlife, where characters are gods that govern the universe. However, in 2003 he elaborated saying he added the tail because his editor told him without it Goku had no distinguishing features, even though this was probably a joke, he went ahead and did it. Toriyama later stated that the tail was a pain to draw, hence why he had it get cut off early on, and that he never thought of making Goku an alien until Vegeta appeared. Going against the convention that the strongest characters should be the largest in terms of physical size. The reason there are many characters is simply that he finds it easier to make them look different if they are animals rather than humans. For the female characters, Toriyama created women he deemed beautiful and sexy and he did however state that he has trouble drawing females and this is the reason there are very few women in Dragon Ball. Additional characters and martial arts tournaments were added to give the manga a greater emphasis on fighting, knowing readers would expect Goku to win the tournaments, Toriyama had him lose the first two while continuing to plan an eventual victory. When having fights in the manga, he had the go to a place where nobody lived to avoid difficulties in drawing destroyed buildings. Toriyama came up with the Red Ribbon Army, particularly its Muscle Tower, from the video game Spartan X, in which enemies tend to appear very fast. He said he created Piccolo Daimao because all his villains up to that point had something likeable about them, the Ginyu Force and their poses were influenced from the sentai and tokusatsu television shows he watched with his children. Toriyama created Androids 17 and 18 after Kazuhiko Torishima, his editor, was disappointed with Androids 19 and 20 as villains. When Torishima belittled them as well, he then created Cell, Cell was also altered due to outside opinion, being given the ability to transform when Toriyamas then-current editor, Yū Kondō, said he was ugly. Toriyama also designed some characters that are exclusive to the movies, such as Bojack, Broly, Tapion and Minoshia. Many of Dragon Balls characters have names that are puns, in order to advance the story quickly, he introduced Gokus signature flying cloud, then gave most fighters the ability to fly, and later granted Goku teleportation
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Goku
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Son Goku is a fictional character and main protagonist of the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. He is based on Sun Wukong, a character in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. He meets Bulma and joins her on a journey to find the wish-granting Dragon Balls, as Goku grows up, he becomes the Earths mightiest warrior and protects his adopted home planet from those who seek to harm it. Goku is depicted as carefree, cheerful and friendly when at ease, as the protagonist, Goku appears in most of the episodes, films, television specials and OVAs of the mangas anime adaptations, as well as many of the franchises video games. Due to the international popularity, Goku has become one of the most recognizable. Outside the Dragon Ball franchise, Goku has made appearances in Toriyamas self-parody series Neko Majin Z, has been the subject of other parodies. Gokus critical reception has been positive and he is often considered to be one of the greatest manga. Goku first appears in Dragon Ball as a child adopted by the hermit Gohan. Before the series begins, he accidentally and unknowingly kills Gohan on a full-moon night when he temporarily transforms into the mighty Ōzaru after staring at a full moon. However, Goku loses the ability when his friends cut off his tail, living alone with an item known as a Dragon Ball which he keeps as a memento of Gohan, Goku befriends a teenage girl named Bulma. He joins her to find the seven Dragon Balls, which and they encounter the desert bandit Yamcha and two shapeshifters named Oolong and Puar, who also join their quest. Goku is later trained by the martial artist Kame-Sennin, alongside a Shaolin monk named Kuririn and it is Kame-Sennin who gives Goku the magic cloud Kintoun, which becomes Gokus primary source of flight travel across the world. Gokus first shown martial arts attack as a child is Jan ken, as a child, he also wields the Nyoi-bō, a magic staff that extends and retracts on command, given to him by his late grandfather. However, Gokus signature attack is the Kamehameha, which he learned from Kame-Sennin, the Kamehameha is a concentration of Ki, released as a concussive beam. Kame-Sennin spent about 50 years developing and perfecting the technique, but, as a child, Goku is able to understand, after training with the Earths god, Kami, Goku learns to fly by virtue of the technique Bukū-jutsu and uses the Kintoun less frequently for flight travel. After becoming the champion of the 21st and 22nd tournaments, Goku finally wins in the 23rd with Piccolos defeat. Five years later, Goku meets his older brother Raditz. Goku comes from a race of extraterrestrials called Saiyans, himself having been sent from their planet to prepare Earth for sale on the intergalactic market by destroying all its life
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Grandpa Gohan
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The Dragon Ball manga series features an extensive cast of characters created by Akira Toriyama. The series takes place in a universe, the same as Toriyamas previous series Dr. During the course of the story, he encounters allies such as Bulma, Kuririn, and Trunks, rivals such as Tenshinhan, Piccolo, and Vegeta, and enemies such as Freeza, Cell, and Majin Boo. The mangas anime and film adaptations feature some original characters not created by Toriyama, while many of the characters are humans with superhuman strength and/or supernatural abilities, the cast also includes anthropomorphic animals and extraterrestrial lifeforms. The series also includes depictions of the afterlife, where characters are gods that govern the universe. However, in 2003 he elaborated saying he added the tail because his editor told him without it Goku had no distinguishing features, even though this was probably a joke, he went ahead and did it. Toriyama later stated that the tail was a pain to draw, hence why he had it get cut off early on, and that he never thought of making Goku an alien until Vegeta appeared. Going against the convention that the strongest characters should be the largest in terms of physical size. The reason there are many characters is simply that he finds it easier to make them look different if they are animals rather than humans. For the female characters, Toriyama created women he deemed beautiful and sexy and he did however state that he has trouble drawing females and this is the reason there are very few women in Dragon Ball. Additional characters and martial arts tournaments were added to give the manga a greater emphasis on fighting, knowing readers would expect Goku to win the tournaments, Toriyama had him lose the first two while continuing to plan an eventual victory. When having fights in the manga, he had the go to a place where nobody lived to avoid difficulties in drawing destroyed buildings. Toriyama came up with the Red Ribbon Army, particularly its Muscle Tower, from the video game Spartan X, in which enemies tend to appear very fast. He said he created Piccolo Daimao because all his villains up to that point had something likeable about them, the Ginyu Force and their poses were influenced from the sentai and tokusatsu television shows he watched with his children. Toriyama created Androids 17 and 18 after Kazuhiko Torishima, his editor, was disappointed with Androids 19 and 20 as villains. When Torishima belittled them as well, he then created Cell, Cell was also altered due to outside opinion, being given the ability to transform when Toriyamas then-current editor, Yū Kondō, said he was ugly. Toriyama also designed some characters that are exclusive to the movies, such as Bojack, Broly, Tapion and Minoshia. Many of Dragon Balls characters have names that are puns, in order to advance the story quickly, he introduced Gokus signature flying cloud, then gave most fighters the ability to fly, and later granted Goku teleportation
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Chi-Chi (Dragon Ball)
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The Dragon Ball manga series features an extensive cast of characters created by Akira Toriyama. The series takes place in a universe, the same as Toriyamas previous series Dr. During the course of the story, he encounters allies such as Bulma, Kuririn, and Trunks, rivals such as Tenshinhan, Piccolo, and Vegeta, and enemies such as Freeza, Cell, and Majin Boo. The mangas anime and film adaptations feature some original characters not created by Toriyama, while many of the characters are humans with superhuman strength and/or supernatural abilities, the cast also includes anthropomorphic animals and extraterrestrial lifeforms. The series also includes depictions of the afterlife, where characters are gods that govern the universe. However, in 2003 he elaborated saying he added the tail because his editor told him without it Goku had no distinguishing features, even though this was probably a joke, he went ahead and did it. Toriyama later stated that the tail was a pain to draw, hence why he had it get cut off early on, and that he never thought of making Goku an alien until Vegeta appeared. Going against the convention that the strongest characters should be the largest in terms of physical size. The reason there are many characters is simply that he finds it easier to make them look different if they are animals rather than humans. For the female characters, Toriyama created women he deemed beautiful and sexy and he did however state that he has trouble drawing females and this is the reason there are very few women in Dragon Ball. Additional characters and martial arts tournaments were added to give the manga a greater emphasis on fighting, knowing readers would expect Goku to win the tournaments, Toriyama had him lose the first two while continuing to plan an eventual victory. When having fights in the manga, he had the go to a place where nobody lived to avoid difficulties in drawing destroyed buildings. Toriyama came up with the Red Ribbon Army, particularly its Muscle Tower, from the video game Spartan X, in which enemies tend to appear very fast. He said he created Piccolo Daimao because all his villains up to that point had something likeable about them, the Ginyu Force and their poses were influenced from the sentai and tokusatsu television shows he watched with his children. Toriyama created Androids 17 and 18 after Kazuhiko Torishima, his editor, was disappointed with Androids 19 and 20 as villains. When Torishima belittled them as well, he then created Cell, Cell was also altered due to outside opinion, being given the ability to transform when Toriyamas then-current editor, Yū Kondō, said he was ugly. Toriyama also designed some characters that are exclusive to the movies, such as Bojack, Broly, Tapion and Minoshia. Many of Dragon Balls characters have names that are puns, in order to advance the story quickly, he introduced Gokus signature flying cloud, then gave most fighters the ability to fly, and later granted Goku teleportation
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Master Roshi
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The Dragon Ball manga series features an extensive cast of characters created by Akira Toriyama. The series takes place in a universe, the same as Toriyamas previous series Dr. During the course of the story, he encounters allies such as Bulma, Kuririn, and Trunks, rivals such as Tenshinhan, Piccolo, and Vegeta, and enemies such as Freeza, Cell, and Majin Boo. The mangas anime and film adaptations feature some original characters not created by Toriyama, while many of the characters are humans with superhuman strength and/or supernatural abilities, the cast also includes anthropomorphic animals and extraterrestrial lifeforms. The series also includes depictions of the afterlife, where characters are gods that govern the universe. However, in 2003 he elaborated saying he added the tail because his editor told him without it Goku had no distinguishing features, even though this was probably a joke, he went ahead and did it. Toriyama later stated that the tail was a pain to draw, hence why he had it get cut off early on, and that he never thought of making Goku an alien until Vegeta appeared. Going against the convention that the strongest characters should be the largest in terms of physical size. The reason there are many characters is simply that he finds it easier to make them look different if they are animals rather than humans. For the female characters, Toriyama created women he deemed beautiful and sexy and he did however state that he has trouble drawing females and this is the reason there are very few women in Dragon Ball. Additional characters and martial arts tournaments were added to give the manga a greater emphasis on fighting, knowing readers would expect Goku to win the tournaments, Toriyama had him lose the first two while continuing to plan an eventual victory. When having fights in the manga, he had the go to a place where nobody lived to avoid difficulties in drawing destroyed buildings. Toriyama came up with the Red Ribbon Army, particularly its Muscle Tower, from the video game Spartan X, in which enemies tend to appear very fast. He said he created Piccolo Daimao because all his villains up to that point had something likeable about them, the Ginyu Force and their poses were influenced from the sentai and tokusatsu television shows he watched with his children. Toriyama created Androids 17 and 18 after Kazuhiko Torishima, his editor, was disappointed with Androids 19 and 20 as villains. When Torishima belittled them as well, he then created Cell, Cell was also altered due to outside opinion, being given the ability to transform when Toriyamas then-current editor, Yū Kondō, said he was ugly. Toriyama also designed some characters that are exclusive to the movies, such as Bojack, Broly, Tapion and Minoshia. Many of Dragon Balls characters have names that are puns, in order to advance the story quickly, he introduced Gokus signature flying cloud, then gave most fighters the ability to fly, and later granted Goku teleportation
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Bulma
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Bulma is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. Bulma is the daughter of Dr. Briefs, the founder of Capsule Corporation, being the daughter of a brilliant scientist, Bulma is also a scientific genius, as well as an inventor and engineer. Bulma is loosely based on the character Xuanzang from the Chinese classic novel Journey to the West, in my case, I feel that it isn’t good to insert too much narration. I suppose Goku and Bulma are representative of that and he further added that as a child, Goku doesn’t know anything, so without Bulma, he’d be a character who didn’t say anything. The author also claimed that when the series started, his editor at the time, Kazuhiko Torishima, wanted Bulma, Bulmas appearance in the series is not as consistent as the other characters as she quite often changes her hair style and clothing being fashion-conscious. Her hair is depicted in a shade of fuchsia, although in the first chapter. When asked about the first time Bulmas hair style changed, Toriyama said it was to show three years had passed and because he personally liked girls with short hair. She sometimes wears clothing with either her name on it or the Capsule Corporation logo and her name Buruma is the Japanese pronunciation of bloomer, a type of gym shorts worn by Japanese girls at school. As with most characters in the Dragon Ball series, Bulmas name is consistent with those of the rest of her family, all of Bulmas family members are named after underclothing of some sort. Her fathers name is Dr. Briefs, while her son and daughter are named Trunks and her mother is never named in the series, being referred to only as Bulmas Mother. However, when asked in 2004 what name he would if he were to name her mother, Toriyama suggested Panchi. Toriyama stated in an interview that Bulmas family has a laissez-faire attitude, Bulma is the second character to be introduced in the Dragon Ball series. In the early part of the story, she is a teenager and the inventor of the Dragon Radar, Bulma was hoping to use the Dragon Balls to wish for the perfect boyfriend. While searching for a nearby Dragon Ball, she runs into Goku and she finds out Goku inherited the four-star Dragon Ball from his adoptive father Grandpa Son Gohan. Because of Gokus love for the ball and his belief that his Grandpas spirit lives in the ball, Bulma then asks him to loan it for her in exchange of taking him in her travels. At that point, they team up to find the remainder of the balls, after five years of peace, an evil menace comes to the Earth. It is Gokus elder brother, an extraterrestrial Saiyan, named Raditz, after Goku and Piccolo kill him, Bulma takes the Scouter from Raditz, and fixes it to find the power levels of people in human numbers. During the subsequent battle against Vegeta and Nappa, Yamcha, Tenshinhan, Chaozu and Piccolo are killed and because Piccolo dies, the Dragon Balls are rendered useless
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Qi
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In traditional Chinese culture, qì or chi is an active principle forming part of any living thing. Qi literally translates as breath, air, or gas, and figuratively as material energy, life force, Qi is the central underlying principle in traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts. Some elements of the concept of qi can be found in the energy when used in the context of various esoteric forms of spirituality. Notions in the West of energeia, élan vital, or vitalism are purported to be similar, despite widespread belief in the reality of qi, it is a non-scientific, unverifiable concept. The logograph 氣 is read with two Chinese pronunciations, the usual qì 氣 air, vital energy and the rare archaic xì 氣 to present food, pronunciations of 氣 in Sino-Xenic borrowings include, Japanese language ki, Korean language gi, and Vietnamese language khi. Reconstructions of the Middle Chinese pronunciation of 氣, standardized to IPA transcription, include, /kʰe̯iH/, /kʰĭəiH/, /kʰiəiH/, /kʰɨjH/, reconstructions of the Old Chinese pronunciation of 氣, standardized to IPA transcription, include, /*kʰɯds/, and /*C. qʰəp-s/. In addition, qì 炁 is an uncommon character especially used in writing Daoist talismans, historically, the word qì was generally written as 气 until the Han dynasty, when it was replaced by the 氣 graph clarified with mǐ 米 rice indicating steam. These oracle, bronze, and seal scripts graphs for qì 气 air, breath, etc. were anciently used as a loan character to write qǐ 乞 plead for, beg, ask. The regular script character qì 氣 is unusual because qì 气 is both the air radical and the phonetic, with mǐ 米 rice semantically indicating steam, vapor. This qì 气 air/gas radical, which was used in a few native Chinese characters like yīnyūn 氤氲 thick mist/smoke, was used to create new scientific characters for gaseous chemical elements. Some examples are based on pronunciations in European languages, fú 氟 fluorine and nǎi 氖 neon, others are based on semantics, qīng 氫 hydrogen and lǜ 氯 chlorine. Qi was an early Chinese loanword in English, romanized as, ki in Church Romanization in the century, chi in Wade–Giles in the mid-19th century. An early form of the idea comes from the writings of the Chinese philosopher Mencius, historically, the Huangdi Neijing/The Yellow Emperors Classic of Medicine is credited with first establishing the pathways through which qi circulates in the human body. The ancient Chinese described it as life force and they believed qi permeated everything and linked their surroundings together. They likened it to the flow of energy around and through the body, forming a cohesive, by understanding its rhythm and flow they believed they could guide exercises and treatments to provide stability and longevity. Although the concept of qi has been important within many Chinese philosophies, until China came into contact with Western scientific and philosophical ideas, they had not categorized all things in terms of matter and energy. Qi and li were fundamental categories similar to matter and energy, yuán qì is a notion of innate or pre-natal qi to distinguish it from acquired qi that a person may develop over the course of their lifetime. The earliest texts that speak of qi give some indications of how the concept developed, the philosopher Mo Di used the word qi to refer to noxious vapors that would in due time arise from a corpse were it not buried at a sufficient depth
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Solar eclipse
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As seen from the Earth, a solar eclipse is a type of eclipse that occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun. This can happen only at new moon when the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from Earth in an alignment referred to as syzygy, in a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon. In partial and annular eclipses, only part of the Sun is obscured, if the Moon were in a perfectly circular orbit, a little closer to the Earth, and in the same orbital plane, there would be total solar eclipses every month. However, the Moons orbit is inclined at more than 5 degrees to the Earths orbit around the Sun, Earths orbit is called the ecliptic plane as the Moons orbit must cross this plane in order for an eclipse to occur. In addition, the Moons actual orbit is elliptical, often taking it far away from Earth that its apparent size is not large enough to block the Sun totally. The orbital planes cross each other at a line of nodes resulting in at least two, and up to five, solar eclipses occurring each year, no more than two of which can be total eclipses. However, total solar eclipses are rare at any particular location because totality exists only along a path on the Earths surface traced by the Moons shadow or umbra. An eclipse is a natural phenomenon, nevertheless, in some ancient and modern cultures, solar eclipses have been attributed to supernatural causes or regarded as bad omens. A total solar eclipse can be frightening to people who are unaware of its explanation, as the Sun seems to disappear during the day. People referred to as eclipse chasers or umbraphiles will travel to locations to observe or witness predicted central solar eclipses. For the date of the next eclipse see the section Recent, during any one eclipse, totality occurs at best only in a narrow track on the surface of Earth. An annular eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are exactly in line with the Earth, hence the Sun appears as a very bright ring, or annulus, surrounding the dark disk of the Moon. A hybrid eclipse shifts between a total and annular eclipse, at certain points on the surface of Earth, it appears as a total eclipse, whereas at other points it appears as annular. A partial eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are not exactly in line with the Earth and this phenomenon can usually be seen from a large part of the Earth outside of the track of an annular or total eclipse. However, some eclipses can only be seen as an eclipse, because the umbra passes above the Earths polar regions. Partial eclipses are virtually unnoticeable in terms of the suns brightness, even at 99%, it would be no darker than civil twilight. Of course, partial eclipses can be observed if one is viewing the sun through a darkening filter, the Suns distance from Earth is about 400 times the Moons distance, and the Suns diameter is about 400 times the Moons diameter. Because these ratios are approximately the same, the Sun and the Moon as seen from Earth appear to be approximately the same size, about 0.5 degree of arc in angular measure
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Yamcha
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Yamcha is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. He is eventually depicted as being reformed, becoming an ally of Gokus, Yamcha is voiced by Tōru Furuya in all Japanese media. In the English versions, he is voiced by Ted Cole, Yamcha has received mixed reviews since his inception, he has been praised as being a fun character, but criticized as an outclassed fighter later in the series. When Toriyama decided to create Dragon Ball, he used Chinese author Wu Chengens Journey to the West as a prototype for his own series, Yamcha took the role of Sha Wujing. His name is a pun on a form of Chinese cuisine called yum cha, a prototype for Yamcha was Gojō, the river monster, from Toriyamas one-shot series Dragon Boy. Yamchas design appearance stays relatively the same for the majority of the series, although his clothes, during the Android arc, Android 19s scanner reads that Yamcha is 183 centimeters tall and weighs 68 kilograms. The first kanji Yamcha has on his clothes is 樂, which stands for happy or music, after training with Kame-Sennin, he takes the turtle kanji 亀 as a sign of respect. Later, after training with Kaiō-sama, he wears both Kame and Kaiō kanji. He wears them the opposite way Goku did, Kame on the back, Kaiō on the chest, except in Dragon Ball Z, The Tree of Might where he wears the Kaiō kanji on the back and Kame on the chest. Yamcha enters the series ambushing Goku, Bulma, and Oolong as they are traveling through his territory and attempts to rob them of their money and he also becomes a student under Kame-Sennin and loses a long-held fear of women through his relationship with Bulma. Yamcha also enters the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai along with Goku, but loses in the first round of tournament, to Jackie Chun, Tenshinhan. Later, Yamcha is killed along with Tenshinhan, Chaozu, and he is killed when a Saibaiman grabs onto him and self-destructs. Yamcha goes on to train with Kaiō-sama in the afterlife just as Goku did, growing greatly in power. He is later returned to life from a wish to Porunga and continues to live at Capsule Corp with Bulma and, after the two finally end their relationship, she and Vegeta enter a long-term relationship. During the Android arc, Yamcha is the first to encounter Android #19 and #20 and he is revived by a Senzu bean and takes the heart-diseased Goku home to get his medicine after the Super Saiyan loses to #19. Yamcha later joins the others in the Cell Games and teams up with Tenshinhan to protect the weakened Goku from the Cell Juniors, following Cells defeat at the hands of Son Gohan and Gokus death, Yamcha and the others return to their peaceful lives. In the alternate timeline of the Cell arc, like most of the heroes, Yamcha was killed in the encounter with the Androids. By the time of the 25th Tenkaichi Budokai, Yamcha has given up fighting and goes with the others to be a spectator and also meet Goku, who is given a single day to return from death
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Mutaito
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The Dragon Ball manga series features an extensive cast of characters created by Akira Toriyama. The series takes place in a universe, the same as Toriyamas previous series Dr. During the course of the story, he encounters allies such as Bulma, Kuririn, and Trunks, rivals such as Tenshinhan, Piccolo, and Vegeta, and enemies such as Freeza, Cell, and Majin Boo. The mangas anime and film adaptations feature some original characters not created by Toriyama, while many of the characters are humans with superhuman strength and/or supernatural abilities, the cast also includes anthropomorphic animals and extraterrestrial lifeforms. The series also includes depictions of the afterlife, where characters are gods that govern the universe. However, in 2003 he elaborated saying he added the tail because his editor told him without it Goku had no distinguishing features, even though this was probably a joke, he went ahead and did it. Toriyama later stated that the tail was a pain to draw, hence why he had it get cut off early on, and that he never thought of making Goku an alien until Vegeta appeared. Going against the convention that the strongest characters should be the largest in terms of physical size. The reason there are many characters is simply that he finds it easier to make them look different if they are animals rather than humans. For the female characters, Toriyama created women he deemed beautiful and sexy and he did however state that he has trouble drawing females and this is the reason there are very few women in Dragon Ball. Additional characters and martial arts tournaments were added to give the manga a greater emphasis on fighting, knowing readers would expect Goku to win the tournaments, Toriyama had him lose the first two while continuing to plan an eventual victory. When having fights in the manga, he had the go to a place where nobody lived to avoid difficulties in drawing destroyed buildings. Toriyama came up with the Red Ribbon Army, particularly its Muscle Tower, from the video game Spartan X, in which enemies tend to appear very fast. He said he created Piccolo Daimao because all his villains up to that point had something likeable about them, the Ginyu Force and their poses were influenced from the sentai and tokusatsu television shows he watched with his children. Toriyama created Androids 17 and 18 after Kazuhiko Torishima, his editor, was disappointed with Androids 19 and 20 as villains. When Torishima belittled them as well, he then created Cell, Cell was also altered due to outside opinion, being given the ability to transform when Toriyamas then-current editor, Yū Kondō, said he was ugly. Toriyama also designed some characters that are exclusive to the movies, such as Bojack, Broly, Tapion and Minoshia. Many of Dragon Balls characters have names that are puns, in order to advance the story quickly, he introduced Gokus signature flying cloud, then gave most fighters the ability to fly, and later granted Goku teleportation
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Ernie Hudson
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Earnest Lee Ernie Hudson is an American character actor. Hudson was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan and his mother, Maggie Donald, died of tuberculosis when he was two months old. He was subsequently raised by his grandmother, Arrana Donald. Hudson joined the United States Marine Corps straight from High School and he became the resident playwright at Concept East, the oldest black theatre company in the U. S. He enrolled at Wayne State University to further develop his writing and acting skills and he established the Actors Ensemble Theatre where he and other talented young black writers directed and appeared in their own works. Later, he enrolled and subsequently graduated from Yale School of Drama, in an interview with Belief. net, Hudson stated that he is a practicing Christian, but does not believe that one church is the right one. One of Hudsons early films was in Penitentiary II in 1982 starring Leon Isaac Kennedy and he landed various guest roles on TV shows such as The Dukes of Hazzard and The A-Team. He was on the TV series Fantasy Island in an episode as a voodoo man named Jamu. Hudson gained fame playing Winston Zeddemore, who enlists with the Ghostbusters in the 1984 feature film Ghostbusters and he also auditioned to reprise the role for the animated series, The Real Ghostbusters, but it was given to Arsenio Hall. He had a supporting role as the mentally challenged Solomon in The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. Hudson was cast as Warden Leo Glynn on HBOs series Oz, in Oz, his son Ernie Hudson Jr. co-starred with him as Muslim inmate Hamid Khan. Hudson also appears as the character Munro in Congo and in the 1994 film The Crow as Police Sergeant Albrecht and he switched gears when he played a preacher opening the eyes of a small town prejudice in the 1950s in Stranger in the Kingdom. He is also known for his role as Harry McDonald, the FBI superior of Sandra Bullocks character in the feature film Miss Congeniality and he appears in the Stargate SG-1 TV episode Ethon as Pernaux. Hudson also appeared as Reggie in the film The Basketball Diaries, in 2006 he appeared in the TV Movie The Ron Clark Story as Principal Turner. In 2008, he began a role as Dr. Fields in The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Hudson also had a role on the final season of Law & Order as Lt. Anita Van Burens boyfriend. In 2011, he played Stuart Owens in Torchwood, Miracle Day, beginning in 2015, Hudson was cast in a recurring role as Jacob, an organic farmer who is the romantic interest for Frankie Bergstein in the series Grace and Frankie. Hudson appeared in the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, playing Bill Jenkins, the uncle of Leslie Jones lead character Pattie Tolan
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Dragon Ball
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Dragon Ball is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama. Dragon Ball was initially inspired by the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West, along his journey, Goku makes several friends and battles a wide variety of villains, many of whom also seek the Dragon Balls. The Dragon Ball manga has been adapted into two series produced by Toei Animation, Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, which together were broadcast in Japan from 1986 to 1996. Additionally, the studio has developed 19 animated feature films and three specials, as well as two anime sequel series titled Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Super. As of November 2014, the franchise generated $5 billion in merchandise, since its release, Dragon Ball has become one of the most successful manga and anime series of all time. The mangas 42 volumes have sold over 156 million copies in Japan and more than 240 million copies worldwide, reviewers have praised the art, characterization, and humor of the story. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest manga series ever made, the anime, particularly Dragon Ball Z, is also highly popular in various countries and was arguably one of the most influential in boosting the popularity of Japanese animation in Western culture. Goku then undergoes rigorous training regimes under the martial arts master Kame-Sennin in order to fight in the Tenkaichi Budōkai, a monk named Kuririn becomes his training partner and rival, but they soon become best friends. After the tournament, Goku searches for the Dragon Ball his grandfather left him and almost single-handedly defeats the Red Ribbon Army, thereafter Goku reunites with his friends to defeat the fortuneteller Baba Uranais fighters and have her locate the last Dragon Ball to revive a friend killed by Taopaipai. At the Tenkaichi Budōkai three years later Goku and his allies oppose Kame-Sennins rival and Taopaipais brother, Tsuru-Sennin, and his students Tenshinhan, Kuririn is killed after the tournament and Goku tracks down and is defeated by his killer, Piccolo Daimao. The samurai Yajirobe takes Goku to the hermit Karin, where he receives healing, meanwhile, Piccolo fights Kame-Sennin and Chaozu, leading to both their deaths, and uses the Dragon Balls to regain his youth before destroying Shenlong. Goku then kills Piccolo Daimao, who, just before dying, Karin then directs Goku to Kami-sama, the original creator of the Dragon Balls, to restore Shenlong and revive his slain friends. Goku refuses to continue the mission, sides with Piccolo, in the afterlife Goku trains under the North Kaiō until he is revived by the Dragon Balls to save the Earth from the invading Nappa and Vegeta. In the battle Yamcha, Chaozu, Tenshinhan, and Piccolo are killed, the long battle with Freeza himself comes to a close when Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan of legends and defeats him. A group of Androids created by a member of the former Red Ribbon Army, Doctor Gero, appear three years later, seeking revenge against Goku. During this time, a life form called Cell also emerges and. After Goku sacrifices his own life to no avail, Gohan avenges his father by defeating Cell, seven years later, Goku, briefly revived for one day, and his allies are drawn into a fight against Majin Boo. After numerous battles, including destruction and re-creation of the Earth, Goku destroys Boo with a Genki-Dama, ten years later, at another Tenkaichi Budōkai, Goku meets Boos human reincarnation, Oob
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Robert Rodriguez
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Robert Anthony Rodriguez is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in Mexico and his home state, Rodriguez directed the 1992 action film El Mariachi, which was a commercial success after grossing $2 million against a budget of $7,000. The film spawned two sequels known collectively as the Mexico Trilogy, Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico and he directed From Dusk till Dawn in 1996 and developed its television adaptation series. Rodriguez co-directed the 2005 neo-noir crime thriller anthology Sin City and the 2014 sequel, Sin City, Rodriguez also directed the Spy Kids films, The Faculty, as well as The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, Planet Terror, and Machete. He is a friend and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, who founded the production company A Band Apart, in December 2013, Rodriguez launched his own cable television channel, El Rey. Rodríguez was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Mexican-American parents Rebecca, a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodríguez and he began his interest in film at age eleven, when his father bought one of the first VCRs, which came with a camera. While attending St. Anthony High School Seminary in San Antonio, in high school, he met Carlos Gallardo, they both shot films on video throughout high school and college. Rodriguez went to the College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin, not having grades high enough to be accepted into the schools film program, he created a daily comic strip entitled Los Hooligans. Many of the characters were based on his siblings – in particular, one of his sisters, the comic ran for three years in the student newspaper The Daily Texan, while Rodríguez continued to make short films. Rodríguez shot action and horror films on video and edited on two VCRs. In late 1990, his entry in a film contest earned him a spot in the universitys film program. There he made the award-winning 16 mm short Bedhead, the film chronicles the amusing misadventures of a young girl whose older brother sports an incredibly tangled mess of hair which she detests. Even at this stage, Rodríguezs trademark style began to emerge, quick cuts, intense zooms. Bedhead was recognized for excellence in the Black Maria Film Festival and it was selected by Film/Video Curator Sally Berger, for the Black Maria 20th-anniversary retrospective at MoMA in 2006. The short film Bedhead attracted enough attention to him to seriously attempt a career as a filmmaker. Rodriquez won the Audience Award for this film at the Sundance Film Festival in 1993 and its promotion still advertised it as the movie made for $7,000. Rodríguez described his experiences making the film in his book Rebel Without a Crew, Desperado, was a sequel to El Mariachi that starred Antonio Banderas and introduced Salma Hayek to American audiences. Rodriguez has also worked with Kevin Williamson, on the horror film The Faculty, in 2001, Rodríguez enjoyed his first Hollywood hit with Spy Kids, which went on to become a movie franchise
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Zack Snyder
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Zachary Edward Zack Snyder is an American filmmaker, best known for his action and science fiction films. Snyder made his film debut with the 2004 remake of the horror film Dawn of the Dead. He also co-wrote the screenplays for 300, Sucker Punch and 300, Snyder is the co-founder of Cruel and Unusual Films, a production company he established in 2004, alongside his wife Deborah Snyder and producing partner Wesley Coller. Snyder was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and raised in Riverside and his mother, Marsha Manley, was a painter and a photography teacher at Daycroft School, which Snyder later attended. His father, Charles Edward Ed Snyder, worked as an executive recruiter and he was raised as a Christian Scientist. Snyder attended Camp Owatonna in Harrison, Maine, during the months as a child. Snyders mother inspired him to painting a year after high school at Heatherley School of Fine Art in England. Afterward, Snyder attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Snyder went on to shoot, as a director and as a cinematographer, television commercials for such clients as the automobile companies Audi, BMW, Subaru and Nissan, amongst others. Other commercial work has been for clients including Nike, Reebok and his Warner Bros. film Watchmen was released on March 6,2009 and grossed $185 million worldwide. His follow-up project/animation debut titled Legend of the Guardians, The Owls of GaHoole was released on September 24,2010, Snyder produced, co-wrote, and directed Sucker Punch, which was released on March 25,2011. The film, based on a written by Snyder and Steve Shibuya, was about a young woman in a mental hospital who fantasizes of escape with her fellow inmates. He directed 2013s Man of Steel for Warner Bros, a reboot of the Superman franchise. He will direct a remake of the 1969 film The Illustrated Man. He also wants to direct a segment for an upcoming Heavy Metal 3, during Comic Con 2013, Snyder announced that Batman and Superman would share the screen in Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice, released in 2016. Cavill reprised his role as Superman, and Ben Affleck played Batman, in April 2014, Snyder was announced by Warner Bros. to direct the Justice League film after finishing Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice. As of March 2016, Snyder is working on The Last Photograph and he is also working on an adaptation of the 1943 novel The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. A minute-long shot from 300 shows King Leonidas slaughtering his enemies, Snyder lives in Pasadena with his second wife, producer Deborah Snyder. The couple first met in 1996, and married on September 25,2004 at the St. Bartholomews Episcopal Church in Manhattan, the four eldest are from a marriage to Denise Weber that ended in divorce
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TV Guide
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In 1948, he printed New York City area listings magazine The TeleVision Guide. Silent film star Gloria Swanson, who then starred of the variety series The Gloria Swanson Hour. Wagner later began publishing regional editions of The TeleVision Guide for New England, five years later, he sold the editions to Walter Annenberg, who folded it into his publishing and broadcasting company Triangle Publications, but remained as a consultant for the magazine until 1963. The national TV Guides first issue was released on April 3,1953. The inaugural cover featured a photograph of Lucille Balls newborn son Desi Arnaz, Jr. with a photo of Ball placed in the top corner under the issues headline. The magazine was published in digest size, which remained its printed format for 52 years. The launch as a magazine with local listings in April 1953 became an almost instant success, with TV Guide becoming the most read. The initial cost of issue was 15¢ per copy. In addition to subscriptions, TV Guide was sold at the counters of grocery stores nationwide. Until the 1980s, the pieces included in each issue were promoted in a television commercial. Over the decades, the shape of the TV Guide logo has changed to reflect the modernization of the television screen, at first, the logo had various colored backgrounds until the familiar red background became the standard in the 1960s with occasional changes used for special editions. The magazine was first based in an office in downtown Philadelphia, before moving to more spacious national headquarters in Radnor. The color section was sent to regional printers to be wrapped around the local listing sections. It was under Triangles ownership of WFIL-TV that Dick Clark and American Bandstand came to popularity, most listing entries in the log included program genres after the programs title, while its running time was listed in the synopses. Originally, the majority of programs listed in the log each issue featured brief synopses, except for local and national newscasts, in addition, black-and-white ads for programs scheduled to air on broadcast stations – and later, cable channels – during prime time were included within the listings. A regular feature of the section was Close-Up, which provided expanded reviews of select programs airing each day. The advent of television would become hard on TV Guide. Channels that were listed also differed, depending on the edition, as the years went on, more cable channels were added into the listings of each edition
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Telecinco
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Telecinco is a Spanish commercial television channel operated by Mediaset España Comunicación. Launched in 1990 as Tele 5, it was the fifth of the terrestrial television channels. In 1997, Tele 5 was rebranded as Telecinco, dropping the logo seen in other Mediaset channel logos. In 2014, Telecinco was the most viewed channel in Spain with a share of 14, Telecinco is a general channel catering for all audiences. It shows popular films, series, entertainment shows, the channel is also known for its reality shows, having produced a number of popular series in the last decade, Gran Hermano, Supervivientes, Hotel Glam, Operación Triunfo, amongst others. Reality shows feed many of the other programmes such as the morning show El Programa de Ana Rosa, the afternoon and famous show Sálvame. All of these experienced a substantial ratings boost thanks to the Reality Effect. Telecinco had digitalised their production facilities and it allowed them to broadcast their channels in up to Spanish and original language, stereo sound, interactive services and high-definition television
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Ron Perlman
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Ronald N. Ron Perlman is an American actor and voice actor. His mother, Dorothy, was an employee, and his father, Bertram Bert Perlman, was a jazz drummer. Perlman said in 1988, It was not a bad childhood, I was terribly overweight as a young kid, and it was sort of a low self image. He cited this experience as one thing that attracts him to roles where he portrays these sorts of deformed people who are very endearing, Perlman is of Hungarian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent. His parents are Jewish, and he had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, Perlman attended George Washington High School and Lehman College in 1971, which did not have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre available at that time. He has said that he and his father were close and that it was his father, after seeing Perlman in a college production of Guys and Dolls. Perlman later said, So, he gave me permission to be an actor, Perlman attended the University of Minnesota, where he graduated with a masters degree in theater arts in 1973. Perlman started his career as a actor, appearing in various productions. Annaud later revealed that when he contacted Perlman to ask him about playing Salvatore in The Name of the Rose and this earned him a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series in 1989. He went on to roles in many films and television series throughout the 1980s and 1990s as well as the 2000s. His appearances in television series include Highlander, The Series, The Outer Limits, The Magnificent Seven, and Hand of God and he played his first leading film role in 1995, when he played One in Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caros French-language The City of Lost Children. In 2003, Perlman starred in a commercial for Stella Artois beer and this commercial, which was called Devils Island, won a Silver Award at the 2003 British Advertising Awards. He got another leading role in 2004 when he played the title role in the comic book adaptation Hellboy. Perlman reprised his role as Hellboy in the straight to DVD animated features Hellboy, Sword of Storms and Hellboy, Blood and Iron as well as Hellboy II, The Golden Army, released on July 11,2008. In 2008, Perlman joined the cast of the TV show Sons of Anarchy on FX playing Clay Morrow, Perlman is known for playing roles that require extensive make-up, some to the point where his entire body is covered or his face requires full facial prosthetics. Moreau where he plays a half man/half animal, Star Trek, Nemesis in which he is the Reman viceroy. He even gave his Beauty and The Beast co-star Armin Shimerman advice when Shimerman was going to be in full-facial prosthetics guest-starring as a Ferengi on Star Trek, The Next Generation. Perlman also has a career as a voice actor in addition to his onscreen acting, having portrayed characters in numerous video games
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army
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Hellboy II, The Golden Army is a 2008 American fantasy superhero film based on the fictional character Hellboy created by Mike Mignola. The movie was written and directed by Guillermo del Toro and is a sequel to the 2004 film Hellboy, Ron Perlman reprises his starring role as the eponymous character. The Golden Army was released by Universal Pictures, unlike the first film, which featured a darker, gothic atmosphere, Hellboy II features a fantasy atmosphere. The film grossed over $160 million, against a budget of $85 million and it received positive reviews from critics, which praised the fantasy atmosphere in the film, as well as Perlman and the other casts acting performances. After defeat of the magical creatures forces, the master of the goblin blacksmiths offers to build a mechanical army for the elven King Balor. Encouraged by his son Prince Nuada, Balor orders the building of this Golden Army, the humans are devastated by the army. Balor is ridden with guilt and forms a truce with the humans, Man will keep his cities, Nuada does not agree with the truce and leaves in exile. The magical crown controlling the army is broken into three pieces, one going to the humans and the two kept by the elves. In the present, Nuada declares war on humanity and he collects the first piece of the crown from an auction, killing everyone at the site by unleashing tooth fairies, and kills his father for the second piece. His twin sister, Princess Nuala, escapes with the final piece, meanwhile, Hellboy is having issues with his girlfriend Liz, and trouble accepting that their organization, the B. P. R. D. Investigating the auction slaughter, Hellboy allows himself to be revealed to the world, in the commotion, Abe Sapien discovers Liz is pregnant, she swears him to secrecy as she ponders keeping the child. Furious at Hellboys actions, the Bureaus superiors send a new B. P. R. D, agent, the ectoplasmic medium Johann Krauss, to take command. With Krauss in charge, the tracks the tooth fairies to the troll market. Abe stumbles onto Nuala, who has obtained a map leading to the Golden Army, protection following an attack by Nuadas sidekick, the troll Wink, and an elemental forest god, both of which Hellboy kills. During the fight, Hellboy is questioned by Nuada whether it is right to fight for the humans when he too is considered a monster, Nuada tracks his sister to B. P. R. D. Headquarters using their magical bond, which causes them to share wounds, sensing her brothers arrival, Nuala attempts to destroy the map and hides the final crown piece in one of Abes books. Nuada critically wounds Hellboy with his spear, promising Nuala in exchange for the crown piece. Unable to remove the shard, Liz, Abe and Krauss take Hellboy to the Golden Armys location in the Giants Causeway, County Antrim
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Anime
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Anime is Japanese hand-drawn or computer animation. The word is the pronunciation of animation in Japanese, where this term references all animation. Arguably, the abstract approach to the words meaning may open up the possibility of anime produced in countries other than Japan. For simplicity, many Westerners strictly view anime as a Japanese animation product, some scholars suggest defining anime as specifically or quintessentially Japanese may be related to a new form of orientalism. The earliest commercial Japanese animation dates to 1917, and Japanese anime production has continued to increase steadily. Anime is distributed theatrically, by way of television broadcasts, directly to home media and it is classified into numerous genres targeting diverse broad and niche audiences. Anime is an art form with distinctive production methods and techniques that have been adapted over time in response to emergent technologies. It consists of an ideal story-telling mechanism, combining art, characterization, cinematography. The production of anime focuses less on the animation of movement and more on the realism of settings as well as the use of effects, including panning, zooming. Being hand-drawn, anime is separated from reality by a gap of fiction that provides an ideal path for escapism that audiences can immerse themselves into with relative ease. Diverse art styles are used and character proportions and features can be quite varied, the anime industry consists of over 430 production studios, including major names like Studio Ghibli, Gainax, and Toei Animation. Despite comprising only a fraction of Japans domestic film market, anime makes up a majority of Japanese DVD sales and it has also seen international success after the rise of English-dubbed programming. This rise in popularity has resulted in non-Japanese productions using the anime art style. Anime is an art form, specifically animation, that all genres found in cinema. In Japanese, the term refers to all forms of animation from around the world. In English, anime is more used to denote a Japanese-style animated film or television entertainment or as a style of animation created in Japan. The etymology of the anime is disputed. The English term animation is written in Japanese katakana as アニメーション and is アニメ in its shortened form, in English, anime—when used as a common noun—normally functions as a mass noun
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Zhang Yuqi
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Zhang Yuqi, also known as Kitty Zhang Yuqi, is a Chinese actress. Her first major role was in 2008s CJ7, which brought her media attention, Zhang was born in Dezhou, Shandong province. She left Shandong at the age of 15 to attend acting school in Shanghai, Zhang appeared in a minor, uncredited role in the 2007 film The Longest Night in Shanghai. Stephen Chow first noticed her in an advertisement for Kentucky Fried Chicken, the role brought her her first major media attention, and because of Chows tradition of starring alongside new actresses who later gain other major roles, Zhang has been called one of the 星女郎. After CJ7, Zhang appeared in the Japanese film Shaolin Girl and had a role in the Chinese film All About Women. Chow considered casting her in Dragonball Evolution, but the role was given to another actress. Zhang also acted in the Stephen Fung film Jump, in 2016, she had one of the lead roles in Chows The Mermaid. Zhang has appeared in Elle and other magazines, in June 2009 she was a guest of honor at the Montblanc Arts Patronage Awards ceremony. Zhang Yuqi and Wang Quanan had a romance in 2011. But Zhang has announced they were divorced on July 2,2015, Zhang Yuqi at the Internet Movie Database Zhang Yuqi on Baidu Baike Zhang Yuqi interview
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CJ7
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CJ7 is a 2008 Hong Kong-Chinese science fiction comedy drama co-written, co-produced, starring, and directed by Stephen Chow. It was released on 31 January 2008 in Hong Kong and it was also released on 14 March 2008 in the United States. In August 2007 the film was given the title CJ7, a play on Chinas successful Shenzhou manned space missions—Shenzhou 5 and it was previously known by a series of working titles—Alien, Yangtze River VII, Long River 7 and most notably, A Hope. CJ7 was filmed in Ningbo, in the Zhejiang province of China, Chow Ti is a poor construction worker. He lives in a demolished house with his nine-year-old son. Ti is eager to save money so he can continue sending his son to private school, however, Dicky is often bullied by other children and chided by his teachers at school. One day, while at a department store, Dicky begs his father to buy him a robotic toy called CJ1. Ti cannot afford it, and the situation ends badly when Ti spanks the stubborn Dicky in front of other customers, Dicky finds comfort in Ms. Yuen, his schoolteacher, who is passing by. That night, Ti visits the junkyard where he picks up home appliances and clothes for Dicky. He finds a green orb and takes it home, telling Dicky that it is a new toy. He is hesitant at first, but later accepts it, the following evening, the green orb transforms into a cuddly alien creature that befriends Dicky. After playing with the alien, he names the alien CJ7 and he dreams that the alien will help him gain popularity and good grades at school. When a group of students see the alien with Dicky they forcibly take it and try to cut it, at last they try to use a drill and Dicky jumps on them. Dicky tries to hit one of the students but a fat boy stops him who in turn is stopped by Maggie and they are then punished for fighting. When the teacher, Mr. Cao left, CJ7 comes out from hiding and Dicky gets it to perform tricks for the other students, Dicky thanked Johnny, the leader of the group of students, for not letting Mr. Cao know about CJ7. They shake hands and agree to not letting the adults know about it, at the construction site Ti shows everyone Dickys test paper in which he scored a 100. His boss tells him that Dicky changed the marks from a 10 to a 100 and is a cheater, then Ti threatens his boss that if he continues saying his son cheated he will hit him. This results in a fight leads to Ti running off while his boss shouts after him that he is fired
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Principal photography
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Principal photography is the phase of film production in which the movie is filmed, with actors on set and cameras rolling, as distinct from pre-production and post-production. Its start generally marks a point of no return for the financiers, feature films usually have insurance in place by the time principal photography begins. The death of a star before completing all planned takes. For example, sets are notoriously flammable, and most older studios feature water towers for that reason, furthermore, professional-quality movie cameras are normally rented as needed, and most camera houses will not allow rentals of their equipment without proof of insurance. Once a film concludes principal photography, it is said to have wrapped, in these circumstances, additional material may have to be shot. If the material has already been shot once, or is substantial, the process is referred to as a re-shoot, learning materials related to Filmmaking at Wikiversity Media related to Filmmaking at Wikimedia Commons
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Durango
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Durango, officially Free and Sovereign State of Durango, is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, compose the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is located in Northwest Mexico, with a population of 1,632,934, it has Mexicos second-lowest population density, after Baja California Sur. The city of Victoria de Durango is the capital, named after the first president of Mexico. Sedentary life began in Durango around 500 B. C. in response to population growth, the exceptions were the Acaxee, Humas, and Xiximes who were constantly at war but always on the look-out for final settlements in the region of the Quebradas. On the east bank of the state a longitudinal zone can be found, the Indios Laguneros traveled interchangeably between this area, they were characterized by their rebellious attitude, instability, religious customs and for being hunters and gatherers. These Natives of which so little was recorded were the first inhabitants of the region long before they were exterminated by the Spanish colonists, today, only a few remain of the Tepehuanos, Huicholes, Coras and Tarahumara tribes. By around 200–300 A. D. Durango along with the central zone of present-day Mexico was inhabited by sedentary groups that were link to the cultures located further south. The state was connected by a commercial network that linked it to areas as north as New Mexico. Spanish explorer Francisco de Ibarra, the first to colonize Durango, on July 8,1563, he founded the capital city and named it Durango for the town Durango, Biscay, Spain. Additionally many of the soldiers who came on the expedition of Captain Francisco de Ibarra, in 1552 Spanish Captain Ginés Vázquez del Mercado discovered one of the worlds richest iron-ore deposits which was named after him, present-day Cerro de Mercado. Gradually, in the decades, the Franciscans followed by the Jesuits began the evangelization of Nueva Vizcaya. The establishment of garrisons in Northern Mexico provided security to the people immersed in isolation, the new routes enjoined the military camps and thus emerged the Courier of the Provinces, a government scheme adopted by the Spanish monarchs in 1767. The new territory began to split in the colonial period, the first to emerge was the Sinaloa Province, which then included the areas known today as Sonora and Arizona. At the time that Porfirio Díaz was at the head of the Republic, Durango also experienced local dictatorships such as that of Governor Juan Manuel Flores, esteban Fernandez, who also became governor, was reelected in 1908 after his four-year term only to leave in 1911. Durango played an important role in the Mexican Revolution. On November 21,1910, Duranguense military personnel Jesús Agustín Castro and Oreste Pereyra, the splitting of the territories continued with the government of Enrique R. At the half century, the educational crusade began which bestowed upon Durango colleges of education such as Instituto Tecnológico de Durango. The latter was based on the historical Instituto Juarez, which dates back to the eighteenth century and this was a late colonization for the Spanish, due mostly to heavy resistance by the indigenous population
