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San Diego Comic-Con
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San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International, San Diego and it is a four-day event held during the summer at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the opening of the event, there is a preview for professionals, exhibitors. Comic-Con International also produces two other conventions, WonderCon, held in Los Angeles, and the Alternative Press Expo and it is also the home of the Will Eisner Awards. In 2010, it filled the San Diego Convention Center to capacity with more than 130,000 attendees, the convention was founded in 1970 by Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk, and Greg Bear. Detroit, Michigan-born, comics fan Shel Dorf, had, in the mid-1960s, mounted the Detroit Triple-Fan Fairs, one of the first commercial comics-fan conventions. When he moved to San Diego, California, in 1970, he organized a convention on March 21,1970. Dorf went on to be associated with the convention as president or manager, variously, Alf co-chaired the first convention with Krueger and became chairman in 1971. Following the initial gathering, Dorfs first three-day San Diego comics convention, other locations in the conventions early years included the El Cortez Hotel, the University of California, San Diego, and Golden Hall, before being moved to the San Diego Convention Center in 1991. I was quietly walking the floor stunned and in awe of just how much bigger it really was, the convention is organized by a panel of 13 board members,16 to 20 full-time and part-time workers, and 80 volunteers who assist via committees. Comic Con International is an organization, and proceeds of the event go to funding it, as well as the Alternative Press Expo. The convention logo was designed by Richard Bruning and Josh Beatman in 1995, in September 2010, the convention announced that it would stay in San Diego through 2015. In 2015, working with Lionsgate, a channel was created to host Comic-Con related content. According to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, the convention has a regional economic impact of $162.8 million. Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, there are previews of upcoming feature films, like most comic-book conventions, Comic-Con features a large floorspace for exhibitors. These include media companies such as studios and TV networks, as well as comic-book dealers. And like most comics conventions, Comic-Con includes an area, as well as the Artists Alley where comics artists can sign autographs. Despite the name, artists alleys can include writers and even models, academics and comic industry professionals annually hold the Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con, presenting scholarly studies on comics as a medium
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Rhinebeck, New York
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Rhinebeck is a village in the town of Rhinebeck in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The population was 2,657 at the 2010 census and it is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area. The village of Rhinebeck is the community in the town. The postal ZIP code is 12572, U. S. Route 9 passes through the village. European settlement in the Rhinebeck area dates to 1686, when a group of Dutch crossed the river from Kingston, later, Henry Beekman obtained a patent for the land and saw a need for development to begin. He brought into the area Casper Landsman, a miller, and William Traphagen, in 1703, the New York colonial assembly approved money for the construction of the Kings Highway, later known as the Albany Post Road and today most of Route 9. Three years later Traphagen bought a tract of land in Beekmans patent where the Kings Highway intersected the Sepasco Indian Trail and he built a house and tavern on the trail a short distance west of the Kings Highway. This was the beginning of Rhinebeck, the village grew with the new arrivals. New trades established themselves, and in 1733 the Reformed Dutch Church was built and its first building was on the site of its current one at Mill and South streets. In 1766 the beginnings of the current Beekman Inn were erected and it has remained in operation as a hotel ever since. In the mid-1770s, a soldier named Richard Montgomery moved from Knights Bridge into the Rhinebeck village with his new wife. He had just begun to settle into life as a farmer when the American Revolution began, after being elected to the New York Provincial Congress, he was commissioned a general in the Continental Army, and died at the end of 1775 in the Battle of Quebec. After independence, the continued to grow. The town of Rhinebeck, which contains the village, was organized in 1788, the current Dutch Reformed Church was built in 1802, making it the oldest church in the village. The current route of East Market Street was laid out the year during construction of the Ulster-Saulsbury Turnpike. George Washington visited in 1796, dining at Bogarduss, the second Traphagen Tavern, during the 1804 gubernatorial election, both Aaron Burr and Morgan Lewis used taverns in Rhinebeck as campaign headquarters. The village was incorporated in 1834, ten years later, Alexander Jackson built the Henry Delamater House at 44 Montgomery Street. It still stands today, one of the best examples of the use of the Gothic Revival style in American residential architecture
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Eric Roberts
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Eric Anthony Roberts is an American actor. His career began with a performance in King of the Gypsies. His second Golden Globe nomination came for his portrayal of Paul Snider in Star 80, followed by Globe, in a career spanning almost forty years, Roberts has performed in over 200 films, including Raggedy Man, The Pope of Greenwich Village, The Specialist, Cecil B. Demented, National Security, The Dark Knight, The Expendables and his sisters Julia Roberts and Lisa Roberts Gillan, and daughter Emma Roberts, also have acting careers. In 1963, they co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia and they ran a childrens acting school in Decatur, Georgia while they were expecting Julia. Roberts mother became a secretary and real estate agent, and his father. Roberts younger siblings, Julia Roberts and Lisa Roberts Gillan, are also actors, Roberts parents filed for divorce in 1971 and it was finalized early in 1972. Eric stayed with his father Walter in Atlanta, estranged from his sisters, Walter died of cancer in March 1977. Lisa, Julia and Betty moved to Smyrna, Georgia, after the divorce, in 1972, Betty married Michael Motes, and had a daughter with him in 1976, Nancy Motes, who died February 9,2014, at age 37, of an apparent drug overdose. Motes was abusive and often unemployed, in 1983, Betty divorced Motes, citing cruelty and stating that marrying him was the biggest mistake of her life. Roberts is of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, Roberts got his start on the now-defunct NBC daytime soap opera Another World originating the role of Ted Bancroft from February 14,1977, to June 17,1977. Roberts received Golden Globe Award nominations for his starring roles in King of the Gypsies. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1985 for his role as the escaped convict Buck in the film Runaway Train, in 1987, he won the Theatre World Award for his Broadway debut performance in Burn This. He also had supporting roles in the films Final Analysis, The Specialist. He played the Archangel Michael in The Prophecy II, in 1996, he appeared in the Doctor Who Television film in the role of the Master. When SFX listed previous Masters in Doctor Who, the said of Roberts. In a darkly comic touch, the wife of Roberts human character. He also co-starred in the 1996 television mini-series version of In Cold Blood, in the role of Perry Smith and he starred opposite John Ritter in the movie Tripfall in 1998
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Julia Roberts
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Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress and producer. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman and she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie nomination for her performance in the HBO television film The Normal Heart. Roberts was the actress in the world throughout most of the 1990s. Her fee for 1990s Pretty Woman was US$300,000, in 2003, as of 2007 Robertss net worth was estimated to be US$140 million. She has been named one of People magazines 50 Most Beautiful People in the World eleven times, Roberts was born on October 28,1967, in Smyrna, Georgia, to Betty Lou Bredemus and Walter Grady Roberts. She is of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German and her father was a Baptist, her mother a Roman Catholic, and she was raised Catholic. Her older brother, Eric Roberts, from whom she was estranged until 2004, sister Lisa Roberts Gillan, Robertss parents, one-time actors and playwrights, met while performing theatrical productions for the armed forces. They later co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop in Atlanta and they ran a childrens acting school in Decatur, Georgia, while they were expecting Julia. The children of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King attended the school, as a thank-you for his service, Mrs. King paid Mrs. Robertss hospital bill when Julia was born. Robertss mother filed for divorce in 1971, the divorce was finalized in early 1972, from 1972, Roberts lived in Smyrna, Georgia, where she attended Fitzhugh Lee Elementary School, Griffin Middle School, and Campbell High School. In 1972, her mother married Michael Motes, who was abusive and often unemployed, the couple had a daughter, Nancy Motes, who died at 37 on February 9,2014, of an apparent drug overdose. The marriage ended in 1983, with Betty Lou divorcing Motes on cruelty grounds, Robertss own father died of cancer when she was ten. Roberts wanted to be a veterinarian as a child and she also played the clarinet in her school band. After graduating from Smyrnas Campbell High School, she attended Georgia State University and she later headed to New York City to pursue a career in acting. Once there, she signed with the Click Modeling Agency and enrolled in acting classes, Roberts made her first big screen appearance in the film Satisfaction, alongside Liam Neeson and Justine Bateman, as a band member looking for a summer gig. She had previously performed a role opposite her brother, Eric, in Blood Red, filmed in 1987. Her first television appearance was as a rape victim in the initial season of the series Crime Story with Dennis Farina, in the episode titled The Survivor. Her first critical success with moviegoers was her performance in the independent film Mystic Pizza in 1988, that same year, she had a role in the fourth-season finale of Miami Vice
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Blow (film)
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Blow is a 2001 American biographical crime film about the American cocaine smuggler George Jung, directed by Ted Demme. David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porters 1993 book Blow, How a Small Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and it is based on the real-life stories of George Jung, Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder Rivas, and the Medellín Cartel. The films title comes from a term for cocaine. Blow was the theatrical film directed by Demme to be released in his lifetime. The film opens to a young George Jung and his parents Fred and Ermine of Weymouth, when George is ten years old, Fred files for bankruptcy and loses everything, but tries to make George realize that money is not important. As an adult, George moves to Los Angeles with his friend Tuna, they meet Barbara, a stewardess, who introduces them to Derek Foreal. With Dereks help, George and Tuna make a lot of money, kevin Dulli, a college student back in Boston, visits them and tells them of the enormous market—and demand—for pot in Boston. With Barbaras help, they start bringing the drugs to Boston, as the demand grows, they decide to start buying the drugs directly from Mexico with the help of Santiago Sanchez, a Mexican drug lord. But two years later, George is caught in Chicago trying to import 660 pounds of marijuana and is sentenced to two years. After unsuccessfully trying to plead his innocence, George skips bail to take care of Barbara, who is suffering from and her death marks the disbanding of the group of friends, even his friend, Tuna, flees their vacation home in Mexico and is never seen again. While hiding from the authorities, George visits his parents back in New England, while he is having a heart-to-heart talk with his father, Georges mother calls the police, who come and arrest him. George is now sentenced to 26 months in a prison in Danbury. His cellmate Diego Delgado has contacts in the Medellín cocaine cartel, upon his release from prison, George violates his parole conditions and heads down to Cartagena, Colombia to meet up with Diego. They meet with cartel officer Cesar Rosa to negotiate the terms for smuggling 15 kilograms to establish good faith, as the smuggling operation grows, Diego gets arrested, leaving George to find a way to sell 50 kg and get the money in time. George reconnects with Derek in California, and the two successfully sell all 50 kg in 36 hours, amassing a $1.35 million profit. George is then whisked off to Medellín, Colombia, where he meets the groups leader, Pablo Escobar. With the help of main middleman Derek, the pair becomes Escobars top US importer, at Diegos wedding, George meets Cesars fiancée Mirtha and marries her. However, Diego resents George for keeping Dereks identity secret and pressures George to reveal his connection, George eventually discovers that Diego has betrayed him by cutting him out of the connection with Derek
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Nickelodeon
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Nickelodeon is an American basic cable and satellite television network launched on December 1,1977, and is owned by Viacom through Viacom Media Networks and based in New York City. It is primarily aimed at children and adolescents aged 7–18 while its weekday morning edutainment programs are targeted at children ages 2–6. As of July 2015, Nickelodeon is available to approximately 93.7 million pay television households in the US, the name of the channel comes from the first five cent movie theaters called nickelodeons. Nickelodeons history dates back to December 1,1977, when Warner Cable Communications launched the first two-way interactive cable system, QUBE, in Columbus, Ohio. Its C-3 cable channel carried Pinwheel daily from 7,00 a. m. to 9,00 p. m. Eastern Time, Nickelodeon launched on April 1,1979, initially distributed to Warner Cable systems via satellite on the RCA Satcom-1 transponder. Originally commercial-free, advertising was introduced in January 1984, the channel also airs reruns of select original series that are no longer in production, as well as occasional original made-for-TV movies. The channel also aired special editions of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee. The channel occasionally airs feature films produced by the networks Nickelodeon Movies film production division, although the film division bears the Nickelodeon brand name, the cable channel does not have access to most of the movies produced by its film unit. Nick Jr. – Nickelodeon currently programs shows targeted at preschool-age children on Monday through Fridays from 8,30 am-3,00 pm Eastern, the block primarily targets audiences of preschool age as Nickelodeons usual audience of school-age children are in school during the blocks designated time period. Programs currently seen in this block include Blaze and the Monster Machines, Team Umizoomi, Bubble Guppies, PAW Patrol, Max & Ruby, Saturday morning block - a morning block of primarily animated series from 9 am-12,30 pm Eastern and Pacific Time. It launched on September 22,2012, as Gotta See Saturday Mornings, recent episodes of certain original series may air when no new episodes are scheduled to air that week. The schedule features series such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Bunsen Is a Beast, ALVINNN. nicks New Saturday Night – a primetime live-action block airing from 8-10pm Eastern and Pacific Time. It launched on September 22,2012, as Gotta See Saturday Nights, recent episodes of certain original series may air when no new episodes are scheduled to air that week. The schedule features The Thundermans and Henry Danger, premieres of the networks original made-for-cable movies also occasionally air during the primetime block, usually in the form of premiere showings. SNICK – SNICK was the networks first dedicated Saturday primetime block that aired from 8,00 to 10,00 p. m. Eastern, geared toward pre-teens and teenagers, it debuted on August 15,1992. The block featured mainly live-action series, although it featured animated series. SNICK was discontinued on August 28,2004, and was replaced the following week by a Saturday night edition of the TEENick block and it was hosted by Stick Stickly, a Mr. Bill-like popsicle stick character. The block was replaced for the summer of 1999 by Henry, the Stick Stickly character was later revived for The 90s Are All That on TeenNick, which debuted in 2011
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Unfabulous
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Unfabulous is an American teen sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon. The series is about a middle school student and teenager named Addie Singer. The series ended on December 16,2007, with the season being the final season. Reruns of the ended on Nickelodeon on June 2008. The show aired reruns on The N but ended in late 2009, the show then returned to TeenNick on October 11,2011, and lasted until April 2,2012. The show returned to the again on December 3,2012 but was pulled once again in 2015. Currently it is aired on Popgirl and Nickelodeon Canada, all the episodes are narrated by Addie, and are told in flashbacks. Like Seinfeld, the titles all start with the article The. The shows theme song is performed by Jill Sobule, who writes the songs. Unfabulouss main character is a teenager named Addie Singer, who writes songs about her life in middle school and her best friends are Geena Fabiano, who is interested in fashion and designs her own clothes, and the environmentally committed school basketball player Zack Carter-Schwartz. They all attend Rocky Road Middle School in an unspecified East Coast city, however, in episode 34 The Birthday when Addie receives a letter from when she was 7 years old the address is listed as Pinecrest, PA. Addies older brother Ben works at Juice, a smoothie bar where Addie and her friends often hang out after school. Throughout the first season, Addie obsesses about her crush on Jake Behari, for the majority of the second season, however, Addie is dating Randy Klein. They break up towards the end of the season and Addie realizes that she still likes Jake, the made-for-TV movie Unfabulous, The Perfect Moment focused on Addie and Jake getting together although Jake will be gone for the rest of the summer in Canada. In the third season, Addie and Jake finally begin dating and Geena, Emma Roberts as the 13-year-old main character Addie Singer. Chelsea Tavares as Cranberry, Maris best friend, dustin Ingram as Duane Oglivy Mary Lou as Mary Ferry Raja Fenske as Jake Behari Bianca Collins as Patti Perez Sarah Hester as Jen Stevenson-Bens girlfriend and co-worker at Juice. The episode aired in November 2004, a few months after both of the series began, along with the start of the second season in September 2005, Nickelodeon also began selling different types of Unfabulous-related merchandise, beginning with the album Unfabulous and More. Two more books were released in February 2006, Starstruck and Jinxed, before the launch of the third season, a video game based on the show was released for the Game Boy Advance by THQ on September 25,2006
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Unfabulous and More
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Unfabulous and More is the debut studio album by Emma Roberts and is the soundtrack for the TV series Unfabulous. The album contains songs from the shows first season, as well as new songs. The tracks I Wanna Be and Dummy were both released as singles, the song Mexican Wrestler, which was sung by Emma in the episode The 66th Day, was originally on Jill Sobules 2000 album Pink Pearl. This album has released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions. I Wanna Be Punch Rocker –2,33 Say Goodbye to Jr
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Nancy Drew (2007 film)
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Nancy Drew is a 2007 American neo-noir mystery comedy film loosely based on the popular series of mystery novels about the titular teen detective. It stars Emma Roberts as Nancy Drew, Max Thieriot as Ned, Kay Panabaker as George, set in Los Angeles, it was directed by Andrew Fleming. Critics reactions were mixed, with the thought of it being refreshing. The film grossed $30,666,930 worldwide on a $20 million budget, however, unbeknownst to Carson, Nancy chose their California house because of its famously unsolved mystery of the death of Dehlia Draycott. Nancy struggles to fit in at her new school, only befriending a younger boy and she wears 50s outfits and wears penny loafers. After discovering many clues, she begins sleuthing behind her dads back, Nancy eventually finds Draycotts lost child, Jane Brighton, who turns out to be the sole beneficiary of Draycotts will, which has disappeared. Nancy contacts her fathers associate, Dashiel Biedermeyer, the lawyer of the Draycott estate. Meanwhile, as a birthday present, Ned Nickerson visits from River Heights. Corky becomes jealous of Nancy and Neds close relationship and tries his best to get Nancys attention, Nancy begins experiencing worsening attacks against her as she learns that someone does not want her to solve the case. One afternoon, a tearful Jane arrives on Nancys doorstep and announces that her daughter has taken away from her. While watching a Dehlia Draycott film, Nancy realizes that Draycott must have hidden her will in a prop from one of her movies, after retrieving it, Nancy is kidnapped by the villains henchmen. Nancy escapes with the will but gets into a car crash and her father arrives and demands to know what is going on. After explaining her sleuthing, Biedermeyer offers them a home so he can finalize the legacy to Jane. Nancy concludes that Biedermeyer was Dehlia Draycotts supposed love who stands to lose if the will goes to Jane. However, when he questions Nancy about the will, she manages to jump out of the car, Nancy escapes, but is once again cornered. Leshing arrives and knocks the henchmen unconscious as Nancy reveals that she secretly recorded Biedermeyers confession, while the police arrive to arrest Biedermeyer, Nancy reveals to Leshing that Jane is his daughter. The will is restored to Jane, who is able to get her daughter back, back at River Heights, Nancy visits Ned as he repairs her car and they share a kiss. Afterwards, Mr. Drew comes out to tell Nancy that she has a phone call for a new mystery in Scotland
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Wild Child (film)
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Wild Child is a 2008 British-French-American teen comedy film starring Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer and Georgia King. Wild Child is Natasha Richardsons last on-screen film appearance, when her father arrives on the scene, he announces that he is sending her to a boarding school in England. Arriving at the school, Abbey Mount, Poppy meets the headmistress Mrs. Poppys entire suitcase is left out in the rain and she meets the Matron and orders her to wash, dry and iron all her clothes. This lands her entire dormitory of four girls with three Sundays detention, leaving her with no friends and her dorm mates expressing their hate to her. She is miserable in her new life, feeling that she does not fit in as an outsider, after a small fight with Harriet in gym class, Poppy is called to the Headmistress Office, where she is given a punishment, read a book. Revealing that the mobile phones, confiscated earlier on, were always intended to be decoys. However, when Ruby sees Poppys message, she is disgusted and it is revealed that Poppys boyfriend, after Poppy reveals that her mother died several years ago in a car accident, her roommates decide to help her get expelled so that she can return home. Together they carry out several pranks which gradually bring them closer together, when none of their plans work, they decide to seduce the headmistresss son, Freddie, who is strictly forbidden from fraternizing with any of the girls. She dances with Freddy at the dance, much to Harriets dismay. This prompts Freddie to take the girl outside for air. The next day, Poppy discovers her talent for lacrosse and whips the schools team into shape, on the date, Poppy finds herself falling for Freddie. They kiss before returning to school, entering her room, Poppy finds her roommates reading an email supposedly sent by herself, expressing that she thinks all of her new friends are losers. She then finds that Freddie has been sent an email and is thereafter ignored by all of her friends. With no one else to turn to, Poppy sneaks down to the cooks room, Ruby, however, accidentally reveals how much she dislikes Poppy and the fact that she is seeing Poppys boyfriend. Feeling even more alone, Poppy starts playing with her lighter, hearing footsteps, she quickly puts out the fire and runs off. A few minutes later, she looks out her window to see a fire, when they find that Drippy is missing, Poppy runs into the burning school to rescue her. After the fire is put out, Freddie finds her lighter and gives it back to her, just as she realizes that she no longer wants to leave, Poppy goes to the headmistress and confesses. Afterwards, she finds a portrait of her mother in the 1976 Abbey Mount lacrosse team, while Poppy waits for the Honour Court to decide if she should be expelled, Freddie finds her crying and becomes convinced that the fire was an accident
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Hotel for Dogs (film)
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Hotel for Dogs is a 2009 American family comedy film based on Lois Duncans 1971 novel of the same name. The movie, directed by Thor Freudenthal, was adapted by Bob Schooley, the picture stars Jake T. Austin, Emma Roberts, Troy Gentile, Kyla Pratt, Johnny Simmons, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle. It tells the story of two orphans, Andi and Bruce, who attempt to hide their dog at an hotel after their strict new guardians tell them that pets are forbidden at their home. They also take in other dogs to avoid the dogs being taken away by two cold hearted animal pound workers and police officers, shooting began in November 2007 and filming took place entirely in the cities of Los Angeles and Universal City, California. The dogs in the film were trained for months before shooting. Nearly 80 boys auditioned for the role of Bruce before Austin was ultimately selected, the film was released in the United States on January 16,2009, and grossed approximately $17 million in its opening weekend in 3,271 theaters. In Central City, Louisiana, orphans Andi and Bruce rip off a pawn shop owner in order to buy food to feed their dog, Friday. When the two demand to know where their children have been, Bernie covers for them, telling them that it was his fault they were late. Despite his sympathy for the two siblings, he warns them they are playing a game by deliberately getting into trouble in order to escape Carl. Their conduct could cause them to be placed in foster homes. Friday returns home during the visit and Bruce quickly bustles Bernie out the door, the next morning, Andi and Bruce are horrified to find that Friday snuck downstairs and is dangerously close to being discovered by Lois. After a close call, Andi and Bruce rush Friday upstairs to their bedroom and this time Friday is caught by Animal Control. Desperate and worried, Andi and Bruce go into a pet shop to ask if anybody has seen him. They meet Dave and Heather, who advise them to check the Pound, the learn that Friday is indeed in the Pound but cannot be claimed without their parents present. Andi pays for Fridays return and suggests to Bruce that they find him a new home, theyre walking home when they discover a gang of youths breaking into an abandoned hotel. The gang flees when the police arrive, Andi urges Bruce to hide in the hotel rather than be discovered at the scene. They look for Friday, who has begun to explore the hotel. They find a tiny Boston Terrier and an English Mastiff and name them Georgia, confident the three dogs will get along, Andi and Bruce leave Friday at the hotel for the night
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Valentine's Day (2010 film)
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Valentines Day is a 2010 American romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall. The screenplay and the story were written by Katherine Fugate, Abby Kohn, while the film received negative reviews, it was a major box office success. The film follows a group of related characters and their struggles with love on Valentines Day, florist Reed Bennett wakes up and proposes to his girlfriend Morley Clarkson, who accepts. However, Reed’s closest friends, Alfonso Rodriguez and Julia Fitzpatrick, arent surprised when Morley suddenly changes her mind, on a flight to Los Angeles, Kate Hazeltine, a captain in the U. S. Army on a one-day leave, befriends Holden Wilson. Kate is travelling a distance to get back home only for a short time. When the plane lands and Kate has to wait hours for the taxi, Julia, an elementary school teacher, has fallen in love with Dr. Harrison Copeland, but does not know that he is married to Pamela. Harrison tells her that he needs to go to San Francisco for a trip, on his way, he stops by at Reeds flowershop. Wanting to surprise him and despite Reeds warnings, Julia flies to San Francisco, Julia finds out that he is married and finds him at a local restaurant. Dressed as a waitress, Julia makes a scene at the restaurant, one of Julia’s students, Edison, orders flowers from Reed, to be sent to his teacher. Julia suggests to Edison to give the flowers to a girl named Rani in his class who has a crush on him after telling Edison the meaning of love, edisons babysitter Grace Smart is planning to lose her virginity to her boyfriend Alex Franklin. The planned encounter goes awry when Graces mother discovers a naked Alex in Graces room, edison’s grandparents, Edgar and Estelle Paddington are facing the troubles of a long marriage. Estelle admits to Edgar about an affair she had one of his business partners long ago. Although she is sorry, Edgar is very upset. Grace’s high school friends, Willy Harrington and Felicia Miller, are experiencing the freshness of new love, sean Jackson, a closeted gay professional football player, is contemplating the end of his career with his publicist Kara Monahan and his agent Paula Thomas. Substituting for Paulas absent secretary is one of the firms receptionists, Liz Curran, Jason is shocked when Liz turns out to be moonlighting as a phone sex operator. Liz explains that she is doing this because she has a $100,000 student loan to pay off. Jason is upset, but eventually reconciles with her after seeing Edgar forgive Estelle, sean finally comes out on national television, and Holden, Seans lover, goes back to him. Kate arrives home late at night to greet not her supposed boyfriend, Willy drops Felicia off at home after a date and they kiss
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It's Kind of a Funny Story (film)
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Its Kind of a Funny Story is a 2010 comedy-drama film written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, an adaptation of Ned Vizzinis 2006 novel of the same name. The film stars Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts and it was released in the United States on October 8,2010 and received generally positive reviews. After contemplating suicide by jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge, 16-year-old Craig Gilner decides to go to the hospital to seek help, Craig tells Dr. Mahmoud that he needs immediate help to which Dr. Mahmoud registers Craig for a one-week stay in the hospitals psychiatric floor. At first, Craig is uncertain if he made the choice to stay, mostly due to the fact that his friends might find out when he misses school, especially Nia, his crush. He is placed in the ward with a few other teenagers because the teenage ward is undergoing renovations. Craig is introduced to Bobby, a patient who claims he is only there on vacation. During a group discussion, Craig learns that Bobby is stressed about an interview in hopes of moving to a group home. When Bobby states that all he will have to wear for the interview is the sweater that he is wearing, Craig offers Bobby one of his dads dress shirts to wear. Craigs kind offer to Bobby is witnessed by Noelle, another patient who is in for self-harm. She is impressed by Craig and leaves him a note to meet with her that night, later, Craig and Noelle attend a painting session for the patients. Craig paints a picture of a city map which he describes as like my own brain. Throughout his stay, Craig forms close bonds with various patients, including Bobby, Bobby reveals to Craig that he is a father of a little girl and that he is actually in the ward for attempting to commit suicide six times. As Craig tries to help Bobby with his problems, Bobby, in return, one night, Nia suddenly stops by to visit Craig, revealing that she and Aaron have broken up. Craig asks Nia to his room, where she tries to seduce him, however, the two are caught by Craigs roommate Muqtada, an older patient who has not left the room during his stay. As Nia runs out of the room, Craig chases her and calls out that he loves her, upset, Noelle storms off leaving behind a self-portrait that she had planned to give Craig. Craig eventually wins Noelles forgiveness, and the pair out of the ward in scrubs and run around the hospital. There, while Craig is trying to work up the courage to ask her out, Noelle takes the initiative and asks him. That night, Craig arranges with one of the staff for a party, promising to pay the cost, so the patients can say goodbye to him and Bobby
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The Art of Getting By
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The Art of Getting By is a 2011 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano, Elizabeth Reaser, Sam Robards, Rita Wilson and Blair Underwood. It is the first feature by writer-director Gavin Wiesen, the film premiered under the title Homework at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. George is a high school student with a penchant for drawing and skipping class. He has a view of the world which is why he never does homework. His academic delinquency puts him on academic probation, one day while on the school roof he encounters another classmate, Sally, smoking. When a teacher appears, George pulls out a cigarette and takes the fall for Sally, on career day, George meets a young artist, Dustin, and finds him inspiring. He brings Sally with him to visit Dustin at his studio in Brooklyn, Sally invites George to a New Years Eve party. At the party, she dances with an ex-boyfriend and George gets drunk, goes outside, throws up, Sally finds him there and takes him to her place, putting him to bed on a pull-out next to her bed. They grow close and George gets more involved in school, on Valentines Day, the two go out to dinner and Sally starts asking questions what he thinks of her. George is evasive, and she asks him if hell have sex with her, Sally backtracks and claims she was kidding. He remains withdrawn and begs off early and he refuses to take Sallys calls and avoids her. One day Sally runs into Dustin in the street and after a while the two of them start a relationship, George who is troubled by this stops doing homework and is again sent to the principals office. The principal gives George two choices, he can be expelled, or he can make up all of the homework he has missed all year. George is confronted by his mother and stepfather at home, the stepfather attacks him and George knocks him down before taking off. He goes to Sallys place and, in the hallway, he kisses her, Sally kisses back but breaks away. Dustin is there in her apartment, the next morning, George finds his mother in the park. She tells him shes divorcing Georges stepfather, George consoles her and begins to rethink his situation with Sally. At school he decides to make up his assignments and collects them and his art teacher tells him he wants only one project, but that it must be honest and real
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Lymelife
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The film stars Alec Baldwin, Rory Culkin, and Emma Roberts. Martin Scorsese served as an executive producer, the film debuted at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, in September 2008 and won the International Federation of Film Critics Award. After its theatrical release in 2009, writer director Derick Martini was nominated for a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director, 15-year-old Scott Bartlett is a gentle boy, radically different from his blustery father Mickey and mother Brenda. An outbreak of Lyme disease, as well as the accompanying paranoia, when the Bartletts neighbor, Charlie Bragg, is diagnosed with the illness, Charlie is unable to work and his wife Melissa must keep the income flowing herself. She is hired by Mickey, a friendly favor motivated by lust, mickeys history of philandering is one of the many things upsetting Brenda. Scott has been in love with the Braggs one year-older daughter Adrianna for all his life, Charlie spends days hiding in his basement, while his wife believes he is in Manhattan on job interviews. He is obsessed with hunting deer, Scott and Charlie have a good relationship, one of the only ones Charlie is able to maintain throughout his illness. Things heat up when Jimmy, Scotts older brother, comes home from the army on their moms birthday, Brenda leaves early from Jimmys going-away party when it is clear that there is a relationship between Mickey and Melissa. Jimmy and Mickey have a confrontation, Scott learns of the affair and confronts his mother. Adrianna helps him through this, but shuns him after a rumor spread from a lie he tells a friend, Brenda kicks Mickey out of the house and is once again able to act the role of an effective parent. Charlie also confronts Mickey after he witnesses the affair, when his wife finds out that he has been letting her earn the familys keep. Scott and Adrianna reconnect and lose their virginity to each other, Brenda lets Mickey spend the night at their house but on the couch. The movie ends with a gunshot and it is not clear whether Charlie shot a deer, himself, Mickey, etc. It was during this period that Steven met his first true love, Adrianna and this relationship is the basis of the love story between Rory Culkin and Emma Roberts in the film. In early 2005, the film was plagued with insufficient funds and was shut down on the eve of principal photography, the funds to make the film were not raised until 2008. Despite the 3-year hiatus, nearly the original cast made time in their schedules to participate in the film. The total budget for the film was $1.5 million, the shooting schedule was a scant 22 days, made only more difficult to complete due to the directors insistence on using older, larger and heavier anamorphic lenses. The role of Mickey Bartlett was written specifically for Alec Baldwin, Martini is frequently quoted as having seen a younger Baldwins portrayal of Stanley Kowalski on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire, and it being an eye opening experience for him
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4.3.2.1.
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It was released on 2 June 2010. The story focuses on four 19-year-old friends, Joanne, Cassandra, Shannon and they all meet one other at a diner, where they see Dillon and Smoothy. Unbeknownst to Dillon, Shannon has a crush on him, as the police turn up, Dillon and Smoothy run off and Dillon accidentally drops a stolen diamond into Cassandras bag. The four girls then walk out and go their separate ways home, first, the story focuses on Shannon, she walks into her home just as her mother is leaving her father. She loses her temper and runs away, going to Jos home, Jo calls Shannon over to the supermarket where she works, but tells her to leave as soon as she arrives. When she refuses, Dillon kisses Jo, upsetting Shannon, whom he asked out earlier in the day, so she grabs a Pringles tube from the shop and runs away. After getting drunk at a bar, she goes to a tunnel where she sprays graffiti on the wall, is attacked by a gang and then taken in by Kelly, Shannon realizes that Kelly seems to be looking for the Pringles. This is later confirmed when she finds out that she is searching for 15 diamonds, one is already in Cassandras bag and the rest are in the can that fell out of Shannons bag in the tunnel. She escapes by knocking Kelly out with the bathroom door and she finds the diamonds by going back to where she was attacked, and leaves a message informing Jo about them. Later, Shannon tracks down her mother and accuses her of not caring about her and her story ends with her holding the diamonds above a bridge, suggesting she is about to commit suicide. Jo, Cassandra and Kerrys appear to threaten Shannon into handing the diamonds over, second, the story moves onto Cassandra, who visits New York City to meet up with Brett, whom she has met on the internet and audition for a piano school. She has sex with Brett and in the morning all her possessions gone except for her handbag. She also finds a letter that Shannon has been looking for and she mails it to Kerrys house to deliver it to Shannon. She goes to Bretts house to find that Brett is a stalker who hacked into Cassandras computer, Cassandra forces her way into an impromptu audition with Jago Larofsky and wins a place at his school. She then leaves to go home to London, telling Jo she knows where Shannon is, third, the story of Kerrys is explored. After witnessing her brother Manuel receive a package with instructions from Dillon and Smoothy, Kerrys and her girlfriend Jas break into Cassandras flat, Manuel locks them in the panic room, returns the package to Dillon and Smoothy as instructed and throws a party. When the two escape from the panic room, they angrily force everyone out of the flat. Kerrys goes home and finds Shannons mothers letter that Cassandra had sent her, after making amends with her father, she steals Manuels new car to find Shannon and stuffs him into the trunk, but when he tries to attack her, she crashes the car into Jos shop
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Scream 4
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Scream 4 is a 2011 American slasher film and the fourth and final installment in the Scream series. The plot involves Sidney Prescott returning to Woodsboro after ten years, as soon as she arrives, Ghostface once again begins killing students from Woodsboro High. Originally, the series was intended to be a trilogy, filming took place in and around Ann Arbor, Michigan, in June 2010 to September 2010, with re-shoots in early 2011. Scream 4 was released on April 15,2011 and grossed $97 million against its $40 million budget and it received mixed reviews from critics although many noted it as an improvement over Scream 3. On the fifteenth anniversary of the original Woodsboro murders, high school students Jenny Randall and Marnie Cooper are attacked, the following day, Sidney Prescott returns to Woodsboro to promote her new book, Out of Darkness, with her publicist Rebecca Walters. After evidence is found in Sidneys rental car, Sidney becomes a suspect in the murders, Sidneys teenage cousin Jill, who is dealing with the betrayal of her ex-boyfriend, Trevor Sheldon, gets a threatening phone call from Ghostface. She and her friends Olivia Morris and Kirby Reed, are questioned about their calls by Dewey Riley, meanwhile, Deweys wife, Gale Weathers-Riley, is struggling with writers block. She gives up the writing and decides to investigate the murder instead, Sidney stays with her aunt Kate Roberts. Later that night, Olivia, who lives next door to Jill, is attacked and killed by Ghostface as Jill, Sidney and Jill rush in to save Olivia, but the killer injures them and gets away. Sidney and Jill are taken to the hospital, later, in the hospitals parking garage, Ghostface murders Rebecca. Gale, trying to solve the murders, enlists the help of two high school movie fanatics Charlie Walker and Robbie Mercer, who explain that the killer is using the rules of movie remakes to murder. Charlie concludes that the killer will strike at a party being held that night. Gale goes to the party to investigate, Ghostface attacks and stabs her but flees when Dewey arrives. Dewey takes her to the hospital, at Jills house, Sidney discovers that the policemen assigned to guard the house are dead. She also discovers that Jill has left the house and gone to Kirbys, Sidney goes down to tell Kate, but the killer appears and chases her and Kate. In the ensuing attempt to keep Ghostface from entering the house, after Deputy Judy Hicks arrives, Sidney rushes to Kirbys house to save Jill on her own. Jill, Kirby, Charlie, Robbie, and Trevor are at Kirbys house when Ghostface appears and stabs, Kirby is forced to answer horror movie trivia to save Charlie, who is tied up outside. Sidney goes upstairs to find Jill, promising to return to Kirby, after Kirby answers Ghostfaces questions, she goes outside to untie Charlie, believing that she has won the game
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Adult World
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Adult World is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Scott Coffey and written by Andy Cochran. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2013 and stars Emma Roberts, Evan Peters, the film was released in a limited release and through video on demand on February 14,2014 by IFC Films. Recent college graduate Amy believes shes destined to be a great poet, pressed by her parents to earn a living, she takes a job at a small sex shop, Adult World, where she works with the manager, Alex. When her car is stolen, her parents discover that she had canceled the cars theft insurance to afford submission fees for poetry journals and she briefly moves in with a coworker, transwoman Rubia, before finding her own apartment. She meets one of her poets, Rat Billings. After some cajoling, Billings reads her poetry and offers to feature her work in an anthology he is working on, one night, she gets drunk and makes a clumsy attempt to seduce him, but he rebuffs her advances. Alex fires Amy after she fails to catch a shoplifter, angered and she soon discovers that she misses Alex, however, and realizes that she has feelings for him. She apologizes to him and asks for her job back, Alex rehires her, and they begin hanging out. At Amys birthday party, Billings gives her a copy of the anthology he featured her work in—Shit Poems. Furious and humiliated, she confronts him and calls him a has-been and she goes home and tries to commit suicide by asphyxiating herself with a plastic bag, but changes her mind at the last second. The next day, she makes peace with Billings, he tells her that she needs to do more living before she can fulfill her potential as a writer, later, she sleeps with Alex, and they become a couple. She finds out she has published in an erotica magazine that she submitted prose to as a joke. She and Alex go to a party together to celebrate, the film ends with Amy reading Shit Poems with a smile on her face. In the epilogue, next to the credits, she becomes a well-known poet, Rat is reading a poetry magazine with her picture on the cover and then she arranges her first poetry book on a shelf in a bookstore to be more prominently shown. Principal photography took place three and a half weeks in February and March 2012 in Syracuse, New York. Local landmarks such as Syracuse University, the Carrier Dome, Little Italy, Clinton Square, canadian singer-songwriter Dan Boeckner contributed many of the songs in the film, along with music by his bands Handsome Furs and Divine Fits. The film had its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 18,2013. Shortly after the premiere, it was announced IFC Films had acquired rights to the film
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We're the Millers
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Were the Millers is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. The films screenplay was written by Bob Fisher, Steve Faber, Sean Anders and it stars Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts, Will Poulter, Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn, Molly Quinn and Ed Helms. The plot follows a small-time pot dealer who convinces his neighbors to create a fake family, the film was released on August 7,2013 by New Line Cinema through Warner Bros. It grossed $270 million worldwide during its run, against a $37 million budget. The film was nominated for four Peoples Choice Awards, and six MTV Movie Awards, a sequel is currently in development, with Adam Sztykiel set to write the script. A low-level marijuana dealer named David Clark, who lives in Denver, is robbed of his money and stash, after David is brought to him, Gurdlinger forces David to smuggle a smidge of marijuana from Mexico as a solution to clear his debt. When the Millers reach the compound, they find out that the amount of marijuana they were picking up is not a smidge but actually two tons. Because of the load of the marijuana on the RV that they are driving. A family they had encountered at the border, the Fitzgeralds, consisting of Don, Edith, on the trip to the shop, David learns that Don Fitzgerald is a DEA agent after finding his badge and gun in the glove compartment. The marijuana turns out to be stolen from Pablo Chacons cartel where Gurdlinger had David pose as an agent of Chacon and they immediately tell Chacon that they are not a real family and that they did not know they were stealing from him. Rose is given a chance to prove that she is a stripper by dancing, due to Kennys erratic driving, the RV veers off the highway and a tarantula, hiding in a bowl of fruit, crawls up Kennys leg and bites his testicle. Kenny has an allergic reaction to the bite, and the Millers head to the hospital near a carnival for the 4th of July. This further delays the delivery of the contraband, during their wait, David and Rose begin to bond and Rose reveals her real name to be Sarah. The two of them scold Casey for leaving with a boy, which leaves Casey feeling amused and happy for the attention she didnt receive from her actual. David renegotiates with Gurdlinger for a fee of $500,000 on the condition that it arrives that night, when Kenny is finally released from the hospital, David rushes him to the RV in a wheelchair and accidentally tips him over. In the ensuing argument, David inadvertently reveals how much he is getting paid, Casey, Sarah, and Kenny are left in disgust by the revelation, and so David leaves them at the local carnival. Shortly after leaving, David regrets abandoning them after hearing Waterfalls by TLC on the radio, before being sexually harassed, Casey tells Scotty about how she felt like she was actually part of a real family. David then arrives at the carnival, begging them to back with him
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Palo Alto (2013 film)
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Palo Alto is a 2013 American drama film written and directed by Gia Coppola, based on James Francos short story collection Palo Alto. Franco stars, along with Emma Roberts, Jack Kilmer, Nat Wolff, Jack Kilmers father, Val Kilmer, stars as Stewart, Emma Robertss stepdad. Teddy and his best friend Fred are two stoner teenagers, April is at soccer practice when her friends laugh about their coach Mr. B having a crush on April. Mr. B asks April if she can babysit his son Michael, Fred and Teddy walk back to their car talking about what they would do if they got in a drunk driving accident. Teddy says he would drive away if it was his crush. At a party, Teddy invites April to the graveyard with him, the two hold hands as they run to the graveyard. April carves a heart into the tree and the two bond and they head back to the party and drink alcohol with all the other guests. Teddy goes outside to throw up when Emily takes him to the bathroom to get mouthwash, April sees Teddy and Emily head upstairs and gets jealous. April starts talking to Ivan, who tries to flirt with her, Teddy and Emily kiss and she gives him a blowjob. Teddy goes outside to have a cigarette but gets upset when he sees April kissing Ivan and he and Fred leave the party and get into a car accident. Teddy quickly drives away but blames Fred for the accident as he spoke about it earlier, a police officer arrives at Teddys house and arrests him for driving under the influence. April sits by the pool with her friends Chrissy and Shauna, Chrissy tells the girls that Emily gave Teddy a blowjob and April gets upset. Teddy and his family are at the courthouse as he is put on probation for twelve months, Emily and her friend sit watching Fred play basketball. Fred later goes back to Emilys house and they have sex, while Teddy is doing community service at the library, Fred comes to visit him and draws a penis in a childrens book, Teddy later gets in trouble for both this and carving Aprils name into a bench. April goes over to Mr. Bs house for help with her History paper and he kisses her and confesses his feelings for her. Later that night Teddy and Fred cut down a tree—the one April carved a heart in—with a chainsaw, the next day, Fred goes over to Emilys house. He admits that they went to a house and got Emily naked in the bed so everyone could have sex with her. April goes to Mr. Bs house again after he ignored her at soccer practice and she says she doesnt want to see him anymore but he claims that he loves her and wants to be with her
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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf
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Scream Queens (2015 TV series)
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Scream Queens is an American comedy horror television series created for Fox by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan and produced by Murphy, Falchuk, Brennan, and Alexis Martin Woodall. The series premiered on September 22,2015, the series is produced by 20th Century Fox Television, Ryan Murphy Productions, Brad Falchuck Teley-vision, and Prospect Films. The first season takes place at the fictional Wallace University, being produced in New Orleans, one of the sororities, Kappa Kappa Tau, becomes plagued by a serial killer, who uses the universitys Red Devil mascot as a disguise. On January 15,2016, Fox renewed the series for a second season, the first season focuses on the Kappa Kappa Tau sorority at Wallace University, led by Chanel Oberlin and her fellow Chanels #3 and #5, that is threatened by Dean Cathy Munsch. Events reignite a 20-year-old murder mystery, with the reemergence of the killer dressed as the Red Devil mascot. The second season shows Cathy Munsch having started a hospital after leaving the university business and she has taken an acquitted Chanel, Libby, and Sadie under her wing after the real Red Devil killer came clean. While handling different medical cases, Cathy and the Chanels end up encountering a new killer called the Green Meanie. The series will be produced by Murphy, Falchuk, Brennan. The series premiered in September 2015, Murphy has stated that every episode a cast member will be killed off, saying, Its very much like Ten Little Indians. Theres a real tune-in factor because its like, Whos going to be picked off this week, and also who is the killer. Every episode, you get clues as to who the killer is going to be, unlike American Horror Story, which completely reboots, this has some of the continuity in that some of the characters and some of the relationships continue into a new world. The first seasons killer will not be revealed until the final episode, Murphy has announced that the second season will feature three Halloween episodes. Falchuk shared insight on the making of who the killer would be, saying. We talked through what is it — Who is the killer, — so we would always know going forward. In that process, weve had moments where were like, What if instead of this person, then we talk it through, and weve always come back to our original plan. The answer always has to be no, because we know how fans are and they make big charts about who the killer is, and then someone figures it out. I think theres great fun in the whodunnit, but its also, by the end of episode one, somebodys going to figure it out, because thats what people do. I dont think itll take anything away from anything, Falchuk talked at length about the decision making processes as to who will die in each episode, Its harder casting and directing actors you know youre going to have to kill off
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FX (TV channel)
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FX is an American basic cable and satellite television channel launched on June 1,1994, based in Los Angeles, California and owned by 21st Century Fox through FX Networks, LLC. FXs programming primarily includes original drama and comedy series, and reruns of theatrical films, as of July 2015, FX is available to approximately 94,006,000 pay television households in the United States. In addition to the flagship U. S. network, the FX name is licensed to a number of related pay television channels in various countries around the world, FX, originally stylized as fX, launched on June 1,1994. Broadcasting from an apartment in Manhattans Flatiron District, fX was one of the first forays into large-scale interactive television. FX had two taglines during this period, TV Made Fresh Daily and The Worlds First Living Television Network, the live shows were each mostly focused on one broad topic. Shows included Personal fX, The Pet Department, Under Scrutiny with Jane Wallace, other notable fX personalities included Karyn Bryant and Orlando Jones, who were panelists on Sound fX. The channel prided itself on its interactivity with viewers, FX, in 1994, was an early adopter of the internet, embracing e-mail and the World Wide Web as methods of feedback. Select viewers were allowed to spend a day at the apartment, the first incarnation of fX was not available on Time Warner Cable, one of the major cable systems in New York City, where its programming originated. TWC would not carry the channel until September 2001, the live shows gradually disappeared one by one until only Personal fX remained. Breakfast Time was moved to the Fox network and renamed Fox After Breakfast in mid-1996 and it underwent several format changes, but never found a substantial audience and was canceled less than a year later. By the time that all programming was dropped, the channel focused entirely on its classic television shows until its relaunch in mid-1997. Personal fX remained on the refocused FX until May 1,1998, FX vacated the apartment in the summer of 1998 and the channels operations were streamlined with the other Fox-owned cable channels. In early 1997, fX was relaunched as FX, Fox Gone Cable, during the first few years after its relaunch, FX was known for little else than airing reruns of such Fox shows as The X-Files and Married. With Children, as well as 20th Century Fox-produced shows such as M*A*S*H, the channel also added Major League Baseball games to its lineup at that time, and eventually expanded its sports programming to include NASCAR races in 2001. In the summer of 1998, FX debuted three original series, Bobcats Big Ass Show, Instant Comedy with the Groundlings and Penn & Tellers Sin City Spectacular, all three series were cancelled the following year. Soon after its relaunch, the Fox Gone Cable tagline was dropped, by 1999, new original programs were added with the debut of shows such as Son of the Beach and The X Show. Beginning in 2002, the channel emerged as a force in original cable programming, gaining both acclaim and notoriety for edgy dramas. That year, FX debuted the police drama The Shield, which became a breakout hit, both shows were lauded by critics, and achieved equal success with viewers
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American Horror Story
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American Horror Story is an American anthology horror television series created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Some plot elements of season are loosely inspired by true events. The second season, subtitled Asylum, takes place in Massachusetts during the year 1964 and follows the stories of the patients and staff of an institution for the criminally insane. The third season, subtitled Coven, takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana, during the year 2013, the fourth season, subtitled Freak Show, takes place in Jupiter, Florida, during the year 1952 and centers around one of the few remaining American freak shows. The fifth season, subtitled Hotel, takes place in Los Angeles during the year 2015 and focuses on the staff and guests of a supernatural hotel. The sixth season, subtitled Roanoke, takes place in Roanoke, North Carolina, during the year 2016, the only actors to appear in all iterations of the show so far are Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson and Lily Rabe. The series is broadcast on the television channel FX in the United States. On November 10,2015, the show was renewed for a sixth season, on October 4,2016, the series was renewed for a seventh season. On January 12,2017, the series was renewed for an eighth and ninth season, additionally, Kathy Bates and Lady Gaga won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, respectively, for their performances. The series draws consistently high ratings for the FX network, with its first season being the biggest new cable series of 2011. The Harmons move into a mansion and soon encounter the homes former residents. Ben and Vivien try to rekindle their relationship, as Violet, suffering from depression, the Langdons and Larry frequently influence the Harmons lives, as the family discovers that the home is haunted by the ghosts of anyone who has ever died on the property. The season is set in the modern day, with flashbacks to the 1920s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s. The story takes place in 1964 and follows the patients, doctors, the wardens who run the institution include the stern Sister Jude, her protégé Sister Mary Eunice, and the founder of the institution, Monsignor Timothy Howard. The doctors charged with treating the patients at the asylum include psychiatrist Dr. Oliver Thredson, briarcliffs inhabitants are routinely subject to supernatural and scientific influences, including demonic possession and extraterrestrial abduction. The season primarily takes place throughout the 1960s with flashbacks to the 1940s, the story takes place in 2013 and follows the descendants of the witches who survived the Salem Witch Trials, who are nearly extinct and are in danger once again. Those who share this genetic affliction are being subjected to strange, a mysterious all-girls boarding school has opened in New Orleans to protect and house young women who carry this unique bloodline, and keep them from the dangers of the outside world. Fionas daughter, Cordelia, teaches at the school and welcomes its newest student, Zoe Benson, who harbors her own harrowing secret, other themes include witchcraft, voodoo, racism, death, and family, such as the relationships between mothers and daughters
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2010 Toronto International Film Festival
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The 35th annual Toronto International Film Festival, was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 9 and September 19,2010. The opening night gala presented Score, A Hockey Musical, a Canadian comedy-drama musical film, last Night closed the festival on September 19. 2010 TIFF included 258 feature films, down from 264 in 2009, however, the number of short films at the 2010 festival increased to 81, making the total number of films 339, five more than in 2009. Of the feature films, TIFF claims that 112 are world premieres,24 are international premieres, and 98 are North American premieres
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Johnny Depp
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John Christopher Johnny Depp II is an American actor, producer, and musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor and he rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol. He has collaborated on nine films with director, producer, Depp is regarded as one of the worlds biggest film stars. Films featuring Depp have grossed over $3.2 billion at the United States box office, Depp has been nominated for major acting awards, including three nominations for Academy Award for Best Actor. He has been listed in the 2012 Guinness World Records as the highest paid actor, Depp was inducted as a Disney Legend in 2015. Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, the youngest of four children of Betty Sue Palmer, a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, Depp is of mostly English ancestry, with some ancestors from elsewhere in Europe. He is descended from a French Huguenot immigrant, Pierre Deppe or Dieppe, Depp is a 20th cousin of Elizabeth II. Depp moved frequently during his childhood and he and his siblings lived in more than 20 different places, eventually settling in Miramar, Florida in 1970. Depps parents divorced in 1978 when he was 15 and his mother married Robert Palmer, whom Depp has called an inspiration to me. With the gift of a guitar from his mother when he was 12, a year after his parents divorce, he dropped out of high school to become a rock musician. He attempted to go back to two weeks later, but the principal told him to follow his dream of being a musician. He played with The Kids, a band that enjoyed modest local success, the Kids set out together for Los Angeles in pursuit of a record deal, changing their name to Six Gun Method, but the group split up before signing a record deal. Depp subsequently collaborated with the band Rock City Angels and co-wrote their song Mary, on December 20,1983, Depp married Lori Anne Allison, the sister of his bands bass player and singer. During their marriage she worked as a makeup artist while he worked a variety of odd jobs and his wife introduced him to actor Nicolas Cage, who advised him to pursue an acting career. Depp and his wife divorced in 1985, Depps first film role was in the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street, in which he played the boyfriend of heroine Nancy Thompson and one of Freddy Kruegers victims. After a starring role in the comedy Private Resort, Depp was cast in the role of the skating drama Thrashin by the films director. Instead, Depp appeared in a supporting role as a Vietnamese-speaking private in Oliver Stones Vietnam War drama Platoon. He accepted this role to work with actor Frederic Forrest, who inspired him, despite his success, Depp felt that the series forced into the role of product
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George Jung
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George Jacob Jung, nicknamed Boston George and El Americano, is a former drug trafficker and smuggler who was a major player in the cocaine trade in the United States in the 1970s and early 1980s. Jung was a part of the Medellín Cartel, which was responsible for up to 90 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States and he specialized in the smuggling of cocaine from Colombia on a large scale. His life story was portrayed in the biopic Blow, starring Johnny Depp, Jung was released from prison on June 2,2014, after serving nearly 20 years for drug-smuggling. On December 6,2016 Jung was arrested and booked in Sacramento County jail for violating his parole and he is not eligible for bail considering his record, and is awaiting a court date. Jung blames his manager for the violation, George Jung was born to Frederick and Ermine Jung in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Though Jung did not excel academically, he was a football player and was described by his classmates as a natural leader. His first arrest was by a police officer, for solicitation of prostitution. After graduating in 1961 from Weymouth High School, Jung went to the University of Southern Mississippi and he studied for a degree in advertising but never completed his studies. Jung began recreationally using marijuana and sold a portion of everything he bought to break even, in 1967, after meeting with a childhood friend, Jung realized the enormous profit potential represented by smuggling the cannabis he bought in California back to New England. Jung initially had his stewardess girlfriend transport the drugs in her suitcases on flights, in search of even greater profits, he expanded his operation to flying the drugs in from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, using airplanes stolen from private airports on Cape Cod and professional pilots. At the height of this enterprise, Jung and his associates were reportedly making $250,000 a month and this ended in 1974, when Jung was arrested in Chicago for smuggling 660 pounds of marijuana. He had been staying at the Playboy Club, where he was to meet a connection who would pick up the marijuana, the connection was arrested for heroin smuggling, however, and informed the authorities about Jung to get a reduced sentence. After arguing with the judge about the purpose of sending a man to prison for crossing a line with a bunch of plants, Jung was sent to the Federal Correctional Institution. When Jung and Lehder were released, they went into business together and their plan was to fly hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Pablo Escobars Colombian ranch to the U. S. and Jungs California connection, Richard Barile, would take it from there. Jung had a security man who would accompany him to the exchanges, where Jung would give the man the keys to a car and half the cocaine, a day or two later, they would meet again and exchange keys to cars. Though only the man, Jung made millions off the operation. He came up with the idea to steal single-engine airplanes for his transportation and charge $10,000 per kilogram, with five planes going from Colombia to California and this translated into $15 million per run for Jung. In the 1970s Jung was earning 3 to $5 million per day, to avoid 60 percent surcharges, as well as a need to launder his earnings, he kept his money in the national bank of Panama
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Short film
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A short film, is a cinema format, denoting any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. The term featurette originally applied to a longer than a short subject. The increasingly rare term short subject means approximately the same thing and it is an industry term which carries more of an assumption that the film is shown as part of a presentation along with a feature film. Short is an abbreviation for either term, Short films are often screened at local, national, or international film festivals and made by independent filmmakers for non profit, either with a low budget or no budget at all. They are usually funded by grants, non profit organizations. Short films are used by filmmakers to gain experience or prove their talent in order to gain funding for future films from private investors, entertainment companies. Longer and shorter films coexisted with similar popularity throughout the days of film. However, comedy films were produced in large numbers compared to lengthy features such as D. W. Griffiths The Birth of a Nation. By the 1920s, a ticket purchased a varied program including a feature and several supporting works from such as second feature, short comedy, 5–10 minute cartoon, travelogue. Short comedies were popular, and typically came in a serial or series. Even though there was no set release schedule, these series could be considered somewhat like a modern TV sitcom – lower in status than feature films. Animated cartoons came principally as short subjects, in the 1930s, the distribution system changed in many countries owing to the Great Depression. Instead of the cinema owner assembling a program of their own choice, the studios sold a package centered on a main and supporting feature, with the rise of the double feature, two reel shorts went into decline as a commercial category. Hal Roach, for example, moved Laurel and Hardy full-time into feature films after 1935, by the mid-1950s, with the rise of television, the commercial live-action short was virtually dead, The Three Stooges being the last major series of 2-reelers, ending in 1959. Short films had become a medium for student, independent and specialty work, cartoon shorts had a longer life, due in part to the implementation of lower-cost limited animation techniques, but also declined in this period. Warner Bros. one of the most prolific of the golden era, the Pink Panther was the last regular theatrical cartoon short series, having begun in 1964 and ended in 1980. By the 1960s, the market for animated shorts had largely shifted to television, a few animated shorts continue within mainstream commercial distribution. For instance, Pixar has screened a short along with each of its feature films during its theatrical run since 1995
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America's Sweethearts
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Americas Sweethearts is a 2001 American romantic comedy film directed by Joe Roth and written by Billy Crystal and Peter Tolan. It stars Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, John Cusack and Catherine Zeta-Jones, with Hank Azaria, Stanley Tucci, Seth Green, Alan Arkin, film publicist Lee Phillips is tasked with promoting a film featuring movie stars Gwen Harrison and Eddie Thomas. His job is complicated by the fact that the director of the film, Hal Weidmann, refuses to show him a cut of the film. To promote the film, Lee decides to focus on the two stars, Gwen and Eddie, once known as Americas Sweethearts, unfortunately, they are now going through an ugly split. As a result of Gwens affair with Hector, Eddie has a breakdown and is at a New Age retreat. Lee decides that his best chance to promote the film is to reunite the couple and he tries to get them to attend the junket, playing on Gwens ego by telling her she will look better to the press and her fans if she attends. Lee bribes the retreat owner with a car to convince Eddie to come, Gwens sister and personal assistant, Kiki, and Gwens lover are also involved. When Eddie sees Kiki at the junket she has lost weight and is now physically attractive, as the junket begins, Eddie and Gwen are forced together as well as Kiki and Hector. Gwen encourages Kiki to be her go-between with Eddie so she can have some time with Hector. Eddie and Kiki begin to warm to each other, at first, Gwen is oblivious, but eventually discovers Kikis feelings for Eddie. Out of her own desire to maintain her career by convincing the press that they are trying to reconcile and she succeeds in hurting Kikis feeling and causing her to eat again. However, Gwens behavior enrages Eddie who always seen past her for the person she is and he admits to Lee that hes in love with Kiki and has always liked her for the person she is inside and out. Realizing this along with how unhappy Eddie was with Gwen, Lee encourages him to tell Kiki, when the film is shown, the press, cast and crew discover that Weidmann junked the script, he made a reality movie, composed of footage shot making the film. The footage shows Gwen as self-centered, conniving and manipulative, Eddie is seen as a decent man who becomes paranoid as he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Gwen and Hector are the antagonists, Eddie is the protagonist, the cast and crew--particularly Gwen--are offended by the direction that Weidmann went with instead of sticking to the movie script and demands an explanation. Eddie is the only cast member pleased with Weidmanns direction and wants to work with him again, because of praise from the press, the studio is forced to release the film. Gwen tries to salvage the situation by announcing that she is reconciling with Eddie, however, he sees past it and openly admits that hes done with her. Eddie mentions their relationship was a mistake and declares his love for Kiki and she reciprocates and stands up to Gwen for the first time
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Espionage
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Espionage is the obtaining of information considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage can be committed by an individual or a spy ring, in the service of a government or a company, the practice is inherently clandestine, as it is by definition unwelcome and in many cases illegal and punishable by law. Espionage is a subset of intelligence gathering, which includes espionage as well as information gathering from public sources, Espionage is often part of an institutional effort by a government or commercial concern. However, the term is associated with state spying on potential or actual enemies primarily for military purposes. Spying involving corporations is known as industrial espionage, one of the most effective ways to gather data and information about the enemy is by infiltrating the enemys ranks. This is the job of the spy, Spies can bring back all sorts of information concerning the size and strength of enemy forces. They can also find dissidents within the forces and influence them to defect. In times of crisis, spies can also be used to steal technology, counterintelligence operatives can feed false information to enemy spies, protecting important domestic secrets, and preventing attempts at subversion. Nearly every country has strict laws concerning espionage, and the penalty for being caught is often severe. However, the benefits that can be gained through espionage are generally great enough that most governments, events involving espionage are well documented throughout history. The Old Testament of the Christian Bible, which is based primarily on the Hebrew Bible, speaks about Joshua and Caleb, the ancient writings of Chinese and Indian military strategists such as Sun-Tzu and Chanakya contain information on deception and subversion. Chanakyas student Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Maurya Empire in India, made use of assassinations, spies and secret agents, the ancient Egyptians had a thoroughly developed system for the acquisition of intelligence, and the Hebrews used spies as well, as in the story of Rahab. Spies were also prevalent in the Greek and Roman empires, during the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongols relied heavily on espionage in their conquests in Asia and Europe. Feudal Japan often used ninjas to gather intelligence, aztecs used Pochtecas, people in charge of commerce, as spies and diplomats, and had diplomatic immunity. Many modern espionage methods were established by Francis Walsingham in Elizabethan England, in 1585, Mary, Queen of Scots was placed in the custody of Sir Amias Paulet, who was instructed to open and read all of Marys clandestine correspondence. In a successful attempt to expose her, Walsingham arranged a single exception, Mary was misled into thinking these secret letters were secure, while in reality they were deciphered and read by Walsinghams agents. He succeeded in intercepting letters that indicated a conspiracy to displace Elizabeth I with Mary, in foreign intelligence, Walsinghams extensive network of intelligencers, who passed on general news as well as secrets, spanned Europe and the Mediterranean. While foreign intelligence was a part of the principal secretarys activities, Walsingham brought to it flair and ambition
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Young Artist Award
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The 1st Youth In Film Awards ceremony was held in October 1979, at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Hollywood to honor outstanding young performers of the 1978/1979 season. The 38th Annual Young Artist Awards ceremony, honoring young performers of 2016, was held at the Alex Theatre in Los Angeles, the scholarship program is funded exclusively by donations including contribution from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The Young Artist Awards are presented annually by the Young Artist Association, originally known as the Youth In Film Awards for the first twenty years, the name was officially changed to the Young Artist Awards for the 21st annual awards ceremony in March 2000. Originally held in the autumn in its years, the awards ceremony has traditionally taken place in the spring for more than 20 years. The original Youth In Film Award was a statuette was similar to a miniature Oscar, a gilded figure of a man holding a laurel wreath instead of a sword and standing upon a relatively large trophy style base. The current Young Artist Award statuette, is a figure displaying a Five-pointed star above its head, candidates considered for nomination must be between the ages of 5 and 21 and are usually submitted for consideration by producers or by the young artists agent and/or manager. Submissions are traditionally due by the end of January to mid-February and nominees are announced about one month later at an annual nomination ceremony, winners are selected by members of the Young Artist Association. Today, the Young Artist Association has a board of over 125 members composed of journalists, agents. Winners are selected by ballot of all associated with the Young Artist Association as well as former nominees. The various Young Artist Awards categories have evolved extensively since the first awards were presented, after the ceremony is the annual banquet dinner and then dancing with live musical entertainment often provided by talented young musical artists of the day. The first Youth In Film Awards were presented in October 1979 at a ceremony held at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Hollywood. Subsequent venues over the years have included the Ambassador Hotels Coconut Grove, the Globe Theater, the Beverly Garland Hotel and the Sportsmens Lodge
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Drake & Josh
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Drake & Josh is an American television sitcom created by Dan Schneider for Nickelodeon. The series follows the lives of two boys with opposite personalities, Drake Parker and Josh Nichols, who become stepbrothers. Both actors previously appeared in The Amanda Show along with Nancy Sullivan, miranda Cosgrove plays Megan, Drakes mischievous younger sister, and Jonathan Goldstein plays Walter, Joshs father. The series opening song, Found a Way, is written by Drake Bell and Backhouse Mike. The series ran from January 11,2004, to September 16,2007 and it also had two TV films, Drake & Josh Go Hollywood and Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh. The series is focused on a pair of stepbrothers who have opposite personalities, the boys are often involved in comedic misadventures and obstacles while also handling teenage situations such as school, dating, and popularity. A notable running joke on the series is the presence of parodies of various brands, TV shows, Films. Such parodies include Mountain Fizz, a parody of Mountain Dew, the GameSphere, a parody of the Nintendo GameCube and the Gary Coleman Grill, the boys are left at home in San Diego, California after Audrey and Walter go on a ten-day cruise. Drake and Josh are told to take Megan to the airport so she can visit her friend in Denver, Colorado, Drake and Josh go to Hollywood to get Megan back, end up stopping a multibillion-dollar heist, and booking a guest-spot for Drake on TRL. The TV film aired on January 6,2006, according to TV Guide and it currently holds a 78% on Rotten Tomatoes. A new Drake & Josh TV film tentatively entitled Drake & Josh, Best Christmas Ever began production in July 2008, the title was later changed to Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh. Creator Dan Schneider returned as producer, with Marjorie Cohn. While the boys are not enjoying their time, Audrey and Walter are feeling worse on their vacation because they have to stay in a hut while in a hurricane, the TV film was broadcast in HD format, unlike the previous TV film Drake & Josh Go Hollywood. It also featured Henry Winkler and MMA fighter Kimbo Slice, the premiere of Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh broke the record of most viewers for the premiere of a Nickelodeon film with 9.10 million viewers, a title previously held by iGo to Japan. Despite the strong ratings, the film is the lowest-reviewed of the two Drake & Josh films, currently holding a 70% on Rotten Tomatoes, U. S. 8/10 on TV. com, and a high 7. 6/10 from reviews on IMDb. According to creator Dan Schneider, Drake & Josh had its highest ratings in its final season, to this day, Drake & Josh has widely been considered one of Nickelodeons best live-action shows, if not one of the best Nickelodeon shows of all time. Drake & Josh has had singles and a soundtrack. The music releases are shown below, two video games based on Drake & Josh have been released on the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS
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