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Genndy Tartakovsky
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Genndy Tartakovsky is a Russian American animator, director, storyboard artist, producer, and screenwriter. He is also known for co-creating Sym-Bionic Titan and directing the feature films Hotel Transylvania. Tartakovsky was born January 17,1970, in Moscow, to Jewish parents and his father, Boris, worked as a dentist for government officials and the Soviet Union national ice hockey team. His mother, Miriam, was an assistant principal at a school and he also has a brother, Alexander, who is two years older and currently a computer consultant in Chicago. Before coming to the United States, his family first moved to Italy, there, Tartakovsky says he was first drawn to art, inspired by a neighbors daughter. Tartakovsky later commented, I remember, I was horrible at it, for the life of me, I couldnt draw a circle. Tartakovskys family moved to the United States when he was seven due to concerns about the effect of antisemitism on their childrens lives, the family originally settled in Columbus, Ohio and later moved to Chicago. He was greatly influenced by the comics he found there, his first purchase was an issue of the Super Friends, Tartakovsky began attending Chicagos Eugene Field Elementary School in the third grade. School was hard for him because he felt that everyone recognized him as a foreigner and he went on to attend Chicagos prestigious Lane Technical College Prep High School, and says he never felt he fit in until he was a sophomore there. When he was 16, his father died of a heart attack and he felt that his father was very strict and was an old-fashioned man, but Genndys relationship with his father was very special to him. After the death of his father, Genndy and his moved to government-funded housing. To satisfy his ambitious family, Tartakovsky tried to take an advertising class, however, he signed up late and had little choice over his classes. At CalArts, Tartakovsky directed and animated two student films, one of became the basis for Dexters Laboratory. Reportedly, after two years at CalArts, Tartakovsky got a job in Spain on Batman, The Animated Series, there, he learned the trials of TV animation, labor intensive and cranking it out. While he was in Spain, his mother died of cancer, Craig McCracken acquired an art director job at Hanna-Barbera for the show 2 Stupid Dogs and recommended hiring Robert Renzetti and Tartakovsky as well. This was a turning point in Tartakovskys career. Hanna-Barbera let Tartakovsky, McCracken, Renzetti and Paul Rudish work in a trailer in the lot of the studio. Dexters Laboratory grew out of a student film with the title that he produced while at the California Institute of the Arts
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Adam Sandler
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Adam Richard Sandler is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, film producer, and musician. After becoming a Saturday Night Live cast member, Sandler went on to star in many Hollywood feature films that combined have grossed over $2 billion at the box office. He has ventured into more dramatic territory with his roles in Punch-Drunk Love, Spanglish, Reign Over Me, Sandler has released five comedy albums in his career. Theyre All Gonna Laugh at You. and What the Hell Happened to Me. are both certified double-platinum, in 1999, Sandler founded Happy Madison Productions. Sandler was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1966, to Judith Judy, a school teacher, and Stanley Sandler. His family is Jewish and descends from Russian and Israeli immigrants on both sides and he grew up in Manchester, New Hampshire after moving there at the age of six. He attended Manchester Central High School, as a teen, Sandler was in BBYO, a popular Jewish youth group. Sandler graduated from New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts in 1988, early in his career, Sandler played Theo Huxtables friend, Smitty in The Cosby Show and the Stud Boy or Trivia Delinquent in the MTV game show Remote Control. After his film debut Going Overboard in 1989, Sandler performed in comedy clubs and he was discovered by comedian Dennis Miller, who caught Sandlers act in Los Angeles and recommended him to Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels. Sandler told Conan OBrien on The Tonight Show that NBC fired him, in 1993, Adam Sandler appeared in the film Coneheads with Chris Farley, David Spade, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman, and Jane Curtin. In 1994, he co-starred in Airheads with Brendan Fraser and Steve Buscemi and he followed this film with Bulletproof, and the financially successful comedies Happy Gilmore and The Wedding Singer. He was initially cast in the bachelor-party-themed comedy/thriller Very Bad Things but had to back out due to his involvement in The Waterboy, although his earliest films did not receive critical praise, he started to receive more positive reviews, beginning with Punch-Drunk Love in 2002. Roger Eberts review of Punch-Drunk Love concluded that Sandler had been wasted in earlier films with poorly written scripts, Sandler has moved outside the genre of slapstick comedy to take on more serious parts such as the aforementioned Punch-Drunk Love, Spanglish and Reign Over Me. He played a father figure in Big Daddy. He returned to more dramatic fare with Mike Binders Reign Over Me and he starred with Kevin James in the film I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. Sandler headlined You Dont Mess with the Zohan, the film was written by Sandler, Judd Apatow, and Robert Smigel, it was directed by Dennis Dugan. It marked as Sandlers first family film and first film under the Walt Disney banner, in 2009, Sandler starred in Judd Apatows third directorial feature Funny People. The film was released on July 31,2009, Sandler appeared in Grown Ups, alongside Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade
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Andy Samberg
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Andrew David Andy Samberg is an American actor, filmmaker, musician and comedian. He is a member of the comedy group The Lonely Island and was a cast member on Saturday Night Live and he occasionally goes by the stage name Young Sandwich. He currently stars in the police sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2014. Samberg was born in Berkeley, California, as David A. J. Samberg and his mother, Marjorie Margi, is an elementary school teacher, and his father, Joe, is a photographer. He has two sisters, Johanna and Darrow and he is Jewish, his maternal grandfather, industrial psychologist and philanthropist Alfred J. Marrow, served as the executive chair of the American Jewish Congress. Samberg has described himself as not particularly religious and he is a third cousin of U. S. Senator Tammy Baldwin, as their grandfathers were first cousins. Samberg discovered Saturday Night Live as a child, while sneaking past his parents to watch professional wrestling on television and he was obsessed with the show and his devotion to comedy was frustrating to teachers who felt he was distracted from his schoolwork. Samberg graduated from Berkeley High School in 1996, where he interested in creative writing and has stated that were the ones that I put all my effort into. Thats what I cared about and thats what I ended up doing and he attended college at University of California, Santa Cruz for two years before transferring to New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts, where he graduated in 2000. Samberg majored in film, including the music video for James Kochalkas song Monkey vs. Robot as Monkey. He became a YouTube and internet star and made his own comedy videos with his two friends Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, when YouTube was created in 2005, the streaming of their videos became much more widespread over the internet. Samberg became a player on SNL in part because of the work he had done on their sketch comedy website TheLonelyIsland. com. Prior to joining its cast, Samberg was a member of the comedy troupe The Lonely Island, the trio began writing for Saturday Night Live in 2005 and released their debut album, Incredibad in 2009. Samberg appeared in theatrical films, commercials, music videos and hosted special events. In 2012, Samberg delivered the Class Day speech at Harvard University, and U. S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders as having an unkempt appearance, Is it just me or does Bernie Sanders always seem like his flight is delayed. Samberg starred in Sleater-Kinneys No Cities to Love video along with celebrities such as Fred Armisen, Ellen Page. On May 16,2016, Samberg and the Lonely Island performed their 2009 hit Im on a Boat with classroom instruments on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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Selena Gomez
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Selena Marie Gomez is an American actress and singer. Having appeared as a child in the television series Barney & Friends. Due to the success of the series, Gomez worked on films, television shows. Gomez also formed her own company in 2008, titled July Moon Productions, she serves as an executive producer on the Netflix original series 13 Reasons Why. She signed a contract with Hollywood Records in 2008 and subsequently formed her band Selena Gomez & the Scene the following year. The band released three albums by 2011. Gomez hoped to focus on her career by transitioning into film work, earning starring roles in films such as Ramona and Beezus. Gomez hoped to achieve a mature image with a role in the exploitation film Spring Breakers. The album debuted atop the Billboard 200 in the United States, Gomez embarked on her Stars Dance Tour, though it was later canceled due to personal and medical struggles. In 2014, Gomez fired her parents as her managers and signed with the WME, during this time, she signed a new recording contract with Interscope Records, releasing a compilation album as her fifth and final release through Hollywood Records. Gomez released her studio album, Revival, in October 2015. The album debuted at one on the Billboard 200, while the first three singles Good for You, Same Old Love and, Hands to Myself all topped the Mainstream Top 40 chart in the United States. She embarked on her worldwide Revival Tour in 2016, like her previous tour, Gomez is currently working on her third solo studio album. Outside of entertainment, Gomez released her own clothing line through Kmart in 2010 and she has worked with various charitable organizations for years and became a UNICEF ambassador at the age of seventeen. Since the start of her career, Gomez has gone on to sell over 7 million albums and 22 million singles worldwide, as of November 2016, Gomez is the most-followed Instagram user in the world. Selena Marie Gomez was born in Grand Prairie, Texas on July 22,1992, to Ricardo Joel Gomez, Gomez was named after Tejano singer and actress Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, who died in 1995. Her father is of Mexican descent while her mother, who was adopted, has some Italian ancestry, regarding her Hispanic heritage, Gomez has stated, My family does have Quinceañeras, and we go to the communion church. We do everything thats Catholic, but we dont really have anything traditional except go to the park and have barbecues on Sundays after church, Gomezs parents divorced when she was five years old, and she remained with her mother
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Kevin James
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Kevin George Knipfing, known professionally by his stage name Kevin James, is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, voice actor, and producer. He is best known for playing Doug Heffernan on the hit CBS sitcom The King of Queens. He is also known for his roles in films including Hitch, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Paul Blart, Mall Cop, Grown Ups, Zookeeper, Here Comes the Boom. Kevin James was born Kevin George Knipfing in Mineola, New York and he is the second son of Janet, a homemaker who also worked in a chiropractors office, and Joseph Valentine Knipfing Jr. who owned an insurance agency. He has a brother, Gary Joseph Knipfing, known as Gary Valentine, who is also a comedian and actor, Leslie works for James and helped raise money through charity events for retinitis pigmentosa, with which she is afflicted. James graduated from Ward Melville High School, while there, he reached the number one spot on the wrestling team, just ahead of friend and WWE star Mick Foley. Both wrestled at 145 lb weight class, a season-ending back injury to James resulted in Foley taking over the first string position. James began doing comedy in 1989, making his debut at the East Side Comedy Club on Long Island. James was listed at #89 on Comedy Centrals list of the 100 Greatest Stand-Up Comedians, James has also done his stand-up routine on Just for Laughs, an annual comedy festival in Montreal, Quebec. Later he was on commercials for Mazzios Italian Eatery, in 2001, James did his own stand-up special called Kevin James, Sweat the Small Stuff. He has also appeared as a musical guest on Just for Laughs, James first television job was in 1991 on The New Candid Camera, where he used his comedy timing and improvisation skills playing the actor that pulled the practical jokes on unsuspecting people. James appeared on television as the announcer for the MTV sports game show SandBlast from 1994 to 1996, James later moved to Los Angeles and befriended Ray Romano, and later guest-starred on a few episodes of Romanos hit CBS sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond. These appearances led to the development of his own sitcom, The King of Queens and his father-in-law, Arthur lives with them. For his work on the season, James was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2006. James stars in the sitcom Kevin Can Wait, which premiered on September 19,2016, James made his film debut in the 2005 romantic comedy Hitch, alongside Will Smith and Eva Mendes. In 2006, he co-starred with his Everybody Loves Raymond colleague Ray Romano in the comedy Grilled, James co-starred with Adam Sandler in the comedies I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, You Dont Mess with the Zohan, and Paul Blart, Mall Cop. In the latter film, his character patrolled the fictional West Orange Pavilion Mall, filmed at the Burlington Mall in Burlington, Massachusetts, on a Segway PT. The film opened as the #1 film in North America with a gross of $39 million, despite overwhelmingly negative reviews
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David Spade
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David Wayne Spade is an American actor, stand-up comedian, writer and television personality. He rose to fame in the 1990s as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and he also starred and co-starred in the films Tommy Boy, Black Sheep, Joe Dirt, Joe Dirt 2, Beautiful Loser, Grown Ups, and Grown Ups 2, among others. He has also been part of an ensemble cast of two long-running sitcoms, Just Shoot Me. and Rules of Engagement and he also starred as C. J. Barnes in the sitcom 8 Simple Rules. In animation, he voiced Kuzco in the 2000 film The Emperors New Groove and its direct-to-video sequel, Spade is known for a comedic style, in both his stand-up material and acting roles, that relies heavily on sarcasm and self-deprecation. Spade was born in Birmingham, Michigan and he is the son of Judith J. a writer and magazine editor, and Wayne M. Spade, a sales representative. His brothers are Bryan and Andy Spade, Andy Spade is an entrepreneur who, together with his wife Kate Spade, Spade and his family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, when David was four years old. His parents divorced soon thereafter, and he and his brothers were raised for the most part by their mother, Spade attended Saguaro High School and later Scottsdale Community College, before transferring to Arizona State University, where he earned his bachelors degree in business in 1986. He also was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, Spade performed standup at the universitys long-running sketch comedy show, Farce Side Comedy Hour, on numerous occasions. In the mid-80s he also did stand up in the Monday night comedy show at Greasy Tonys Pizza in Tempe, with the help of friend and fellow comedian Dennis Miller, he joined Saturday Night Live in 1988. By 1990, Spade was a regular cast member as well as writer, other characters include Christy Henderson from the Gap Girls, and Karl from the Karls Video sketches. He also did impressions of celebrities, including Brad Pitt. According to interviews with Spade, most of the material that he early in his time at SNL was given to Dana Carvey to perform on the show. Due to his relatively low rate, he was in danger of being fired as a performer. Referring to Murphys lack of box office success at the time, the crack led to audience boos, and made Murphy upset at both Spade and SNL for years afterwards. Though most of the cast left in 1995, Spade stayed the following year to help in the transition with the new cast and he then quit in 1996 citing burnout as the reason. Said Spade, When I leave, it will be to ease the pressure and you cant stay there forever – it kills you inside. It ages you in dog years and he returned to host an episode in 1998 and another in 2005. He appeared with fellow Saturday Night Live cast member and friend Chris Farley in two comedy films, Tommy Boy and Black Sheep
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Steve Buscemi
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Steven Vincent Steve Buscemi is an American actor and film director. He is also known for his appearances in films by the Coen brothers, Millers Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo. Buscemi provides the voice of Randall Boggs in the Monsters, Inc. franchise and he made his directorial debut in 1996, with Trees Lounge, in which he also starred. Other works include Animal Factory, Lonesome Jim and Interview and he has also directed numerous episodes of TV shows, including Homicide, Life on the Street, The Sopranos, Oz,30 Rock, and Nurse Jackie. He currently hosts the Emmy Award-winning AOL On comedy talk-show Park Bench, Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to John Buscemi, a sanitation worker and Korean War veteran, and Dorothy, who worked as a host at Howard Johnsons. Buscemis father was of Italian descent, his ancestors were from the town of Menfi in Sicily, Buscemis mother was of Irish, English, and Dutch ancestry. He has three brothers, Jon, Ken, and Michael and he graduated in 1975 from Valley Stream Central High School in Nassau County, New York, a school which he attended with actress Patricia Charbonneau. In high school, Buscemi wrestled for the varsity squad and participated in the drama troupe, Buscemis 1996 film Trees Lounge, in which he starred and served as screenwriter and director, is set in and was largely shot in his childhood village of Valley Stream. Buscemi briefly attended Nassau Community College before moving to Manhattan to enroll in the Lee Strasberg Institute, in 1980, Buscemi became a firefighter in New York City, after taking a civil service test in 1976 when he was 18. For four years, Buscemi served on FDNYs Engine Co.55 in Manhattans Little Italy, after 9/11, Buscemi returned to Engine 55 and for several days worked 12-hour shifts alongside other firefighters to sift through the rubble from the World Trade Center. In 2003, he gave a speech supporting higher wages for firefighters at a union rally, in 2014, he was appointed as an Honorary Battalion Chief of the FDNY. His film debut was the 1985 No Wave Cinema film The Way it Is, other early films include Parting Glances in 1986, Slaves of New York in 1988, and Tales from the Darkside, a 1990 film with three segments. Buscemi starred in the first segment, playing Bellingham, a student who orders a mummy and unleashes it on fellow college students played by Christian Slater. In 1990, Buscemi had a couple of additional crime roles and he played the henchman of Laurence Fishburne named Test Tube in Abel Ferraras King of New York. He also played Mink in the Coen Brothers Millers Crossing, although he had to audition twice for this role, it marked the first of five of the Coen Brothers films in which Buscemi appeared. In 1991, he played the bellboy, Chet, in the Coen Brothers film and his first lead role was in 1992, when he played Adolpho Rollo in Alexandre Rockwells In the Soup. Then he came to attention for playing Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantinos 1992 film, Reservoir Dogs. He also appeared in Tarantinos next film, Pulp Fiction, in which he acts as a waiter at the 1950s themed restaurant which Mrs. Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega attend
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Keegan-Michael Key
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Keegan-Michael Key is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He starred in the Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele and he spent six seasons as a cast member on MADtv and has made several guest appearances on Whose Line is it Anyway. In 2014, he starred in the first season of the FX series Fargo. He has had supporting roles in films, including Lets Be Cops, Tomorrowland. In 2015, Key appeared at the White House Correspondents Dinner as the character Luther, in 2016, he produced and starred in Keanu with his Key & Peele co-star Jordan Peele. Key was born in Southfield, Michigan, and raised in Detroit and he was adopted as a child by Patricia Walsh and Michael Key, both social workers. His biological and adoptive fathers are both African-American, and his biological and adoptive mothers are both Caucasian, he met his biological mother, Carrie Herr. In 1989, he graduated from Shrine Catholic High School in Royal Oak, Key attended the University of Detroit Mercy as an undergraduate and earned his Master of Fine Arts in Theater at Pennsylvania State University. While at the University of Detroit Mercy, he was a brother of Phi Kappa Theta and he later discovered the identity of his birth mother, and that he had two half-brothers who were both already deceased, one of them comic book writer Dwayne McDuffie. Key joined the cast of MADtv midway into the ninth season and he and Jordan Peele were cast against each other so that FOX could pick one black cast member, but both ended up being picked after demonstrating great comedic chemistry. Key played many characters on the show, one of his most famous characters is Coach Hines, a high school sports coach who frequently disrupts and threatens students and faculty members. On the penultimate episode of MADtv, Hines revealed that he is the long-lost heir to the Heinz Ketchup company, during seasons 9 and 10, Key appeared as Dr. Funkenstein in blaxploitation parodies, with Jordan Peele playing the monster. Key also portrayed various guests on Real **********ing Talk like the strong African Rollo Johnson and he often goes backstage as Eugene Struthers, an always-ecstatic water- or flower-delivery man who accosts celebrities. There is also Jovan Muskatelle, a man with a jheri curl. He interrupts live news broadcasts by a reporter, annoying him with rapid fire accounts of events that have happened frequently exclaiming It was crazy as hell and he also played female celebrities, including Phylicia Rashād, and Eva Longoria. Key and his former MADtv castmate Jordan Peele starred in their own Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele, which began airing on January 31,2012, and ran for five seasons until September 9,2015. Key and his comedy partner Jordan Peele starred in an episode of Epic Rap Battles of History, with Key playing Mahatma Gandhi, the pair then returned to Epic Rap Battles of History for the second time in the Muhammad Ali versus Michael Jordan battle, with Key portraying Jordan. The film titled Substitute Teacher was written by Rich Talarico and Alex Rubens who are co-producers on the show, Key was introduced by President Barack Obama at the 2015 White House Correspondents Dinner as Luther, Obamas Anger Translator, one of Keys characters from the show
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Molly Shannon
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Molly Helen Shannon is an American comic actress best known for her work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2001 and for starring in the films Superstar and Year of the Dog. More recently, she starred in NBCs Kath & Kim from 2008 to 2009, also for her voice roles in Igor and the Hotel Transylvania film series. Her performance in the 2016 comedy-drama Other People received widespread critical acclaim, Shannon was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, on September 16,1964, to an Irish American Catholic family. Her mother, Mary Margaret Peg, was a teacher, and her father, at age four, Shannon was involved in a car accident which killed her mother, younger sister, and cousin. Shannon attended St. Dominic School in Shaker Heights for grade school and she attended New York University, where she studied drama and graduated from NYUs Tisch School of the Arts in 1987. Before Saturday Night Live, Shannon had a career in movies. Shannons major break came in February 1995, when she was hired as a player on Saturday Night Live to replace Janeane Garofalo after Garofalo left mid-season due to creative differences. Shannon was one of the few cast members to be kept when Lorne Michaels overhauled his cast and writers for season 21. She appeared in a 1997 episode of Seinfeld entitled The Summer of George, where she played Sam, the co-worker who drove Elaine Benes crazy because she did not swing her arms while walking. In 1998, she played the role of Emily Sanderson in the film A Night at the Roxbury, featuring Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan who were also cast members of SNL at the time. In 1999 Shannon starred in Superstar, a film based on her most famous SNL character, Mary Katherine Gallagher. Shannon left SNL in 2001, surpassing Victoria Jackson as the shows longest-serving female cast member, in 2003, she appeared in the romantic comedy My Bosss Daughter and the television remake of The Music Man. In 2004 she starred in a short-lived Fox network television series Cracking Up with actor Jason Schwartzman and that same year, she guest starred in an episode of Scrubs and starred as Mrs. Baker in the film Good Boy. In 2006, Shannon was featured in the Sofia Coppola directed movie Marie Antoinette as Aunt Victoire, the next year, Shannon guest starred on ABCs Pushing Daisies, and appeared in the film Evan Almighty. Shannon also made a move to drama, appearing in the critically acclaimed film Year of the Dog in 2007. Shannon hosted Saturday Night Live on May 12,2007, making her the former female cast member to host. In 2008, Shannon starred as Kath in the American version of the hit Australian sitcom Kath & Kim. In early 2010, Shannon was cast in a role on the Fox television series Glee as Brenda Castle
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Fran Drescher
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Francine Joy Fran Drescher is an American film and television comedian, model, actress, producer, and activist. She is best known for her role as Fran Fine in the hit TV series The Nanny, and for her nasal voice and thick New York accent. Drescher made her debut with a small role in the 1977 blockbuster film Saturday Night Fever. She received further recognition for her performances in Jack and The Beautician, Divorced from writer and producer Peter Marc Jacobson, she currently lives in Malibu, California. On February 4,2014, Drescher made her Broadway debut in Cinderella as stepmother Madame, Drescher was born in Kew Gardens Hills, New York, the daughter of Sylvia, a bridal consultant, and Morty Drescher, a naval systems analyst. Her family is Jewish, from Southeast and Central Europe and her maternal great-grandmother Yetta was born in Focșani, Romania, and emigrated to the United States, while her fathers family came from Poland. She has a sister, Nadine. Drescher was a first runner-up for Miss New York Teenager in 1973 and she attended Hillcrest High School in Jamaica, Queens, where she met her future husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, whom she married in 1978, at age 21. Jacobson was Dreschers constant supporter in her show-business career, and he wrote, directed, Drescher graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1975, one of her classmates was comedian Ray Romano. Dreschers character Fran Fine from The Nanny and Romanos character Ray Barone from Everybody Loves Raymond met at a 20th high school reunion on an episode of The Nanny. Drescher and Jacobson attended Queens College, City University of New York and they then enrolled in cosmetology school. Dreschers first break was a role as the dancer Connie in the blockbuster movie Saturday Night Fever. A year later, she began to more attention in films such as American Hot Wax. She also took on a dramatic role in the 1981 Miloš Forman film. She also made an appearance in a episode of Whos the Boss. in 1985 as an interior decorator. She also had an appearance on Night Court as a schizophrenic who flips from a prude to a sexually minded woman, in 1991, Drescher co-starred on the short-lived CBS sitcom Princesses. In the early-to-mid 1990s, she voiced Peggy from The P Pals on PBS, Drescher and Jacobson created their own television show, The Nanny, in 1993. The show aired on CBS from 1993 to 1999, and Drescher became an instant star, Drescher appeared in Jack, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, The Beautician and the Beast and Picking Up the Pieces co-starring Woody Allen
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Kathryn Hahn
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Kathryn Hahn is an American actress and comedian. She began her career on television playing Lily Lebowski in the NBC crime drama series Crossing Jordan, as lead actress, Hahn starred in the 2013 comedy-drama Afternoon Delight directed by Jill Soloway. In 2016, she starred in the comedy film Bad Moms and she also has appeared in a number of dramatic films, including Revolutionary Road, This Is Where I Leave You, Tomorrowland, The Visit, and Captain Fantastic. Hahn was born in Westchester, Illinois, the daughter of Karen and she has German, Irish, and English ancestry. Hahn grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio and attended Beaumont School and she attended Northwestern University, where she obtained a bachelors degree in theatre before attending Yale University. While attending Yale School of Drama, Hahn starred as Sally Bowles in Cabaret, hahns first appearance on a show was NBCs Hickory Hideout, a puppet show for children. While attending a theater festival she met an NBC casting director who introduced her to creator/producer Tim Kring, the series aired from 2001 to 2007. Hahn has said of meeting Kring, NBC and Tim Kring took a leap of faith in casting me. To be worked into a show that was in production and on the schedule, is a stroke of luck. On October 21,2008, TV Guide reported that Hahn signed a talent holding deal with Fox, in 2003, Hahn played supporting role opposite Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey in the romantic comedy film, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. The following year, she appeared in Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, anchorman, The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Around the Bend, and Wake Up, Ron Burgundy, The Lost Movie. On television, Hahn starred alongside Hank Azaria in the short-lived NBC comedy series, Free Agents and she had recurring roles on HBO shows Hung and Girls. From 2012 to 2015, she received praise for her role on the NBC comedy series, Parks and Recreation as Jennifer Barkley. She received a Critics Choice Television Award nomination for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series for her performance, in 2013, Hahn played her first leading role, in the comedy-drama film Afternoon Delight written and directed by Jill Soloway. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, for her role, she was nominated for a Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Breakthrough. Later that year, Hahn appeared opposite Jennifer Aniston in the box-office hit Were the Millers, and co-starred alongside Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. In 2014, she starred in the comedy film Bad Words opposite Jason Bateman, the ensemble comedy-drama This Is Where I Leave You, in 2014, Hahn was cast as Rabbi Raquel Fein in the Amazon Studios critically acclaimed dark comedy-drama, Transparent created by Jill Soloway. She received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination along with the cast, in 2015, she starred alongside Steve Coogan in the Showtime comedy-drama, Happyish
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Jim Gaffigan
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James Christopher Jim Gaffigan is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer. His humor largely revolves around fatherhood, observations, laziness, and he is also regarded as a clean comic, using little profanity in his routines. He has had several comedy specials, including Mr. Universe and Jim Gaffigan, Obsessed. His memoir, Dad Is Fat and his most recent book, Food and he co-created and starred in a TV Land television series based on his life called The Jim Gaffigan Show. He collaborates extensively with his wife, actress Jeannie Gaffigan, and they are Catholic, a topic that comes up in his comedy, and live in Manhattan, New York City. Gaffigan was born on July 7,1966 in Chesterton, Indiana and he is the youngest of six children and often jokes about growing up in a large family. His father, a banker, was the first in his family to attend college, however, at about the age of five, Jim announced that when he grew up, he wanted to be an actress. As a teenager, Jim watched Saturday Night Live and he attended La Lumiere School in La Porte, Indiana. He played varsity football at Georgetown and Purdue, after graduating, Gaffigan moved to New York to pursue comedy, a move that was inspired by his admiration for David Letterman. He found a job in advertising, and he would work during the day, however, his career began in earnest when a friend from the class dared him to take a stand-up seminar that required a live set at the end. He fell in love with stand-up, and began to play comedy clubs nightly—after his evening acting classes—until the wee hours of the morning and he was often found sleeping on the job, his boss had to wake him up to fire him. For the first seven years of his career, he tried various styles, ranging from comedy to impressions. Also, live comedy was in following its peak of the 1980s. However, after a successful stand-up routine on The Late Show with David Letterman, Gaffigans style is largely observational, and his principal topics relate to laziness, eating, and parenthood. He is famous for his Hot Pocket routine, which was inspired by a commercial he saw that he mistook for a Saturday Night Live sketch, Universe using the voice and saying Really, Hes using diarrhea jokes. He calls that voice his connection with the audience, in an interview with the Duluth News-Tribune, he explained that the voice was developed over time, beginning as a teenager when he would disarm people by talking for them in their presence. He also used it as a way to fend off hecklers earlier in his career and he cursed early in his career, and he added cursing to his comedy album Doing My Time, at the request of his label, in the hopes of drawing more teenagers. However, he has largely removed profanity from his routine, as he feels that his subject matter doesnt lend itself to cursing, Jim has appeared at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, Quebec numerous times
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Mel Brooks
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Melvin Brooks is an American filmmaker, comedian, actor, composer, and songwriter. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies, Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows. He became well known as part of the duo with Carl Reiner in the comedy skit The 2000 Year Old Man. He also created, with Buck Henry, the hit comedy series Get Smart. In middle age, Brooks became one of the most successful directors of the 1970s. His best-known films include The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World, Part I, Spaceballs and Robin Hood, Men in Tights. A musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers, ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007, in 2001, having previously won an Emmy, a Grammy and an Oscar, he joined a small list of EGOT winners with his Tony award for The Producers. Brooks was married to Oscar-winning actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until her death in 2005, Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28,1926, in Brooklyn, New York, to James and Kate Kaminsky, and grew up in Williamsburg. His fathers family were German Jews of Polish descent from the Free City of Danzig, his mothers family were Jews from Kiev and he had three older brothers, Irving, Lenny, and Bernie. Brooks father died of disease at 34 when Brooks was two years old. He has said of his fathers death, Theres an outrage there, I may be angry at God, or at the world, for that. And Im sure a lot of my comedy is based on anger, growing up in Williamsburg, I learned to clothe it in comedy to spare myself problems—like a punch in the face. Brooks was a small, sickly boy who often was bullied and teased by his classmates and he was taught by Buddy Rich how to play the drums and started earning money at it when he was 14. After the war, Brooks started working in various Borscht Belt resorts and nightclubs in the Catskill Mountains as a drummer, around this time, he changed his professional name to Mel Brooks after being confused with the Borscht Belt trumpet player Max Kaminsky. After a regular comic at one of the nightclubs was too sick to perform one night, Brooks started working as a comic, telling jokes. He also began acting in stock in Red Bank, New Jersey. He eventually worked his way up to the comically aggressive job of Tummler at Grossingers, Brooks found more rewarding work behind the scenes, becoming a comedy writer for television. In 1949 his friend Sid Caesar hired Brooks to write jokes for the NBC series The Admiral Broadway Revue, paying him $50 a week
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Mark Mothersbaugh
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Mark Allen Mothersbaugh is an American singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, author and visual artist. Mothersbaughs music career more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as co-founder, lead singer and keyboardist of the new wave band Devo, the band has maintained a cult following throughout its existence. Mothersbaugh is one of the composers of Devos music and made major lyrical contributions to the bands songs. He is one of two members who have been with Devo throughout its entire history. He also has had a career which has included four studio albums, Muzik for Insomniaks, Muzik for the Gallery, Joyeux Mutato. In 2004, he was honored with the Richard Kirk award at the BMI Film and TV Awards for his significant contributions to film, additionally, Mothersbaugh was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Kent State University in 2008. He has married twice and is the father of two adopted children, Mark Allen Mothersbaugh was born on May 18,1950, in Akron, Ohio. He is the son of Mary Margaret and Robert Mothersbaugh, Sr and he grew up with two younger brothers, Bob and Jim, and two sisters, Amy and Susan. His father appeared in early Devo films and fan events as the character General Boy and his brothers participated in the band, although Jims tenure was brief, Mothersbaugh attended Kent State University as an art student, where he met Devo co-founders Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis. This association culminated in 1973, when the trio started to play music as Devo, following the commercial failure of their sixth studio album Shout, Warner Bros. dropped Devo. Shortly after, claiming to feel creatively unfulfilled, drummer Alan Myers left the band, causing the band members to abandon the plans for a Shout video LP. In 1987, Devo reformed with new drummer David Kendrick, formerly of Sparks to replace Myers and their first project was a soundtrack for the flop horror film Slaughterhouse Rock, starring Toni Basil and they released the albums Total Devo and Smooth Noodle Maps, on Enigma. Devo had an out and played two shows in 1991 before breaking up. Around this time, members of Devo appeared in the film The Spirit of 76, following the split, Mark Mothersbaugh established Mutato Muzika, a commercial music production studio, along with Bob Mothersbaugh and Bob Casale. Mothersbaugh meant to further a career as a composer, Mothersbaugh gained considerable success in writing and producing music for television programs, video games cartoons, and movies. In 2006, Devo worked on a project with Disney known as Devo 2.0, a band of child performers was assembled and re-recorded Devo songs. Their debut album, a two disc CD/DVD combo entitled DEV2.0, was released on March 14,2006
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Sony Pictures Animation
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Sony Pictures Animation is an American animated film production and distribution company owned by Sony Pictures, founded in May 2002. It works closely with Sony Pictures Imageworks, which handles digital production, all theatrical releases are distributed worldwide by Columbia Pictures, and direct-to-video releases are distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. They are well known for the franchises Open Season, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Smurfs and Hotel Transylvania, in 2001, Sony Pictures considered selling off its visual effects facility Sony Pictures Imageworks. After failing to find a buyer, having been impressed with the CGI sequences created for Stuart Little 2. SPI was reconfigured to become an animation studio, astro Boy, which had been in development at Sony since 1997 as a live-action film, was set to be SPIs first all-CGI film. In May 2002, Sony Pictures Animation was established to develop characters, stories and movies, meanwhile, SPI produced two short films, the Academy Award-winning The ChubbChubbs. and Early Bloomer, as a result of testing its strengths and weakness in producing all-CG animation. Its first feature film was Open Season, released in September 2006 and its second feature film, Surfs Up was released in June 2007, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and won two Annie Awards. A motion-captured animated film, Neanderthals, written and produced by Jon Favreau, was cancelled sometime in 2008, the Smurfs was the studios first CGI/live-action hybrid and its most successful release. SPAs parent company Sony Pictures Entertainment has partnered in 2007 with Aardman Animations to finance, co-produce, together, they produced a computer-animated film, Arthur Christmas, and The Pirates. Band of Misfits, Sonys first stop-motion film, although made entirely by Aardman, sPAs latest releases are Hotel Transylvania 2, directed by Genndy Tartakovsky and released in September 2015, and the live-action/computer-animated film Goosebumps, released in October. SPA has since signed Tartakovsky to a deal with the studio to develop. It has many projects in development, including Kazorn and the Unicorn. Medusa, and a live-action/stop-motion film Superbago, on November 3,2014, the studio made a deal with Cartoon Hangover to create GO. Released films R Not produced, but released by Sony Pictures Animation under its label, official website Sony Pictures Animation at the Internet Movie Database Sony Pictures Animation at the Big Cartoon DataBase Corporate Facts
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Media Rights Capital
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Media Rights Capital is an American independent film and television studio founded by Mordecai Wiczyk and Asif Satchu. MRC specializes in the creation of premium content and it has full in-house development, physical production, legal, finance and corporate development teams. MRC has distributed its films through many major domestic and international distributors in the industry, mRC’s investors include Guggenheim Partners, AT&T, WPP Group, Goldman Sachs and ABRY Partners. Paramount Pictures Sony Pictures Entertainment Twentieth Century Fox Universal Pictures Warner Bros. distributed by Universal Pictures, elysium, a science fiction project written and directed by Neill Blomkamp and starring Matt Damon, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga and Jodie Foster, distributed by TriStar Pictures. Ted, co-written, directed by and co-starring Seth MacFarlane and stars Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis, the Adjustment Bureau, written and directed by George Nolfi, distributed by Universal Pictures. Devil, produced by M. Night Shyamalan and directed by Drew and John Dowdle, the Box, written and directed by Richard Kelly and starring Cameron Diaz, distributed by Warner Bros. The Invention of Lying, co-written, co-directed by and starring Ricky Gervais, Pictures Shorts, written and directed by Robert Rodriguez, distributed by Warner Bros. Brüno, co-written by and starring Sacha Baron Cohen and directed by Larry Charles, babel, Oscar award winner and multiple nominee, distributed by Paramount Vantage. Upcoming The One Percent - Cable drama created and written by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. Nicolás Giacobone and Armando Bó, ordered straight to series by Starz. Counterpart - Sci-fi thriller series created and written by Justin Marks, directed by Morten Tyldum, the series will air on Starz. Ozark - Drama series created and written by Bill Dubuque and directed by, Super Sad True Love Story - Series based on the novel Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart, who is co-writing the series with Karl Gajdusek. Ben Stiller will direct the series, which is being developed at Showtime, the Stranger Untitled Robert Eggers Project Current House of Cards for Netflix, four seasons,52 episodes made. Blunt Talk for Starz, one season,10 episodes made, previous The Ricky Gervais Show for HBO, three seasons,39 episodes. The Life & Times of Tim for HBO, three seasons,30 episodes, shaq Vs. for ABC, two seasons,10 episodes. Rita Rocks for Lifetime, two seasons,40 episodes, krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire for Comedy Central, one season,6 episodes. Surviving Suburbia for ABC, one season,13 episodes, the Goode Family for ABC, one season,13 episodes. Easy Money for The CW, one season,8 episodes, Valentine for The CW, one season,8 episodes. In Harms Way for The CW, one season,10 episodes,5 unaired, Media Rights Capital was also responsible for programming the CWs Sunday-night lineup during the 2008–2009 season through a time-leasing arrangement
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Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group
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Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. is an American entertainment company that produces, acquires and distributes filmed entertainment through multiple platforms. It operates as a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc. which is the parent company for both the music and motion picture businesses of Sony Corporation, based in Culver City, California, it encompasses Sonys motion picture, television production and distribution units. Its group sales in the fiscal year 2015 has been reported to be of $8.3 billion, Sony Pictures film franchises include Spider-Man, Men in Black, Underworld, Resident Evil, and Robert Langdon. Sony Pictures is one of Hollywoods major film studios and a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, on September 1,1987, The Coca-Cola Company announced plans to spin-off its assets of Columbia Pictures, which it had owned since 1982. Under this arrangement, Coca-Cola would sell its entertainment assets to TriStar Pictures, Tri-Star would be renamed to Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc. with Coca-Cola owning 49%, its shareholders owning 31%, and Tri-Stars shareholders owning 20%. A new company was formed in early 1988 with the Tri-Star name to take over the studios operations, on September 28,1989, Sony obtained an option to purchase all of The Coca-Cola Companys stock in CPE for $27 per share. This was all led by Norio Ohga, who was the president, the hiring of Guber and Peters by Sony to run Columbia was conflicted by a previous contract the producers had signed at Warner Bros. Time Warners chairman, Steve Ross, threatened Sony with a lawsuit for breach of contract, the lawsuit would be subsequently dropped when Sony sold half-interest in Columbia House and cable distribution rights to Columbias feature films, TV movies, and miniseries to Warner Bros. Said agreement also saw Columbia sell its 35% interest in the Burbank Studios, on November 8,1989, Sony completed the acquisition by a short-form merger of its wholly owned subsidiary Sony Columbia Acquisition Corporation into CPE under Delaware law. Sony also completed a tender offer for shares of stock of the Guber-Peters Entertainment Company on November 6,1989. The acquisition cost Sony $4.9 billion and was backed by five major Japanese banks Mitsui, Tokyo, Fuji, Mitsubishi, the company was renamed Sony Pictures Entertainment on August 7,1991. On June 4,2008, SPEs wholly owned group 2JS Productions B. V. acquired Dutch production company 2waytraffic N. V. famous for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. and You Are What You Eat for £114.3 million. In 2011, the Sony Pictures computer network was breached and approximately one million user accounts associated with the SonyPictures. com website were leaked. On November 21,2013, SPE and Sony Entertainments CEO Michael Lynton announced that SPE will shift emphasis from movies to television by cutting its 2014 film slate, on January 22,2014, SPE folded its technology unit into its various cores of its businesses. On February 6,2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment, through their legal name Columbia TriStar Warner Filmes de Portugal Ltda. announced that they close their offices in Portugal on March 31. On November 20,2015, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced that they will release Ultra HD Blu-ray releases, the first set will be in early 2016 and will include film and television content. In November 2014, the Sony Pictures computer network was compromised by a group of hackers named Guardians of Peace, disabling many computers. Later the same week, five of Sony Pictures movies were leaked, including some not yet released, as well as confidential data about 47,000 current and former Sony employees
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Amazon Prime
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Amazon Prime is a paid subscription service offered by Amazon. com that gives users access to free shipping, streaming items and other benefits for a monthly or yearly fee. In March 2014, Amazon announced an increase in the membership fee for Amazon Prime. Shortly after this change, Amazon announced Prime Music, a service members can get unlimited, ad-free streaming of over a million songs. In November 2014, Amazon added Prime Photos, which allows unlimited photo storage in the users Amazon Drive, Amazon also began offering free same-day delivery to Prime members in 14 United States metropolitan areas in May 2015. In April 2015, Amazon started a partnership with Audi. This project is available on the Munich area to some Audi connected car users. On July 15,2015, to commemorate its 20th birthday, Amazon celebrated Amazon Prime Day, on July 13,2016, Amazon Prime said customers placed 60 percent more orders worldwide on Prime Day. In December 2015, Amazon stated that tens of millions of people are Amazon Prime members, Amazon Prime added 3 million members during the third week of December 2015. Among the programming involved in the program are Showtime, Starz, Lifetime Movie Club, Smithsonian Earth. In January 2016, Amazon Prime reached 54 million members according to a report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, in September 2016, Amazon launched a restaurant delivery for Prime members in London. It was reported delivery fee on all orders is free for Prime members with an order of £15.00. In December 2016, Amazon began offering prime membership for a monthly, instead of yearly fee, in December 2016, Amazon announced Wickedly Prime, a private-label line of food and beverages available to Prime members. Prime Music is a Spotify/Google Play Music competitor that offer a library of millions of songs to Amazon Prime members at no added cost, the service debuted on September 7,2006 as Amazon Unbox in the United States. On September 4,2008, the service was renamed Amazon Video on Demand, the Unbox name still refers to the local program, which as of August 2014 is no longer available for downloading purchased instant videos. On February 22,2011, the service rebranded as Amazon Instant Video and added access to 5,000 movies,25,000 daily essential products are available with this delivery service. In February 2015, the service was extended to all of Manhattan. By mid-2016, it had expanded in the United States to include parts of Chicago, Miami, Baltimore, Dallas, Atlanta, Austin, Nashville, San Antonio. Outside of the United States, it has expanded to London, Birmingham, newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Milan, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid and Tokyo
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3D film
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A three-dimensional stereoscopic film is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception, hence adding a third dimension. The most common approach to the production of 3D films is derived from stereoscopic photography, 3D films are not limited to theatrical releases, television broadcasts and direct-to-video films have also incorporated similar methods, especially since the advent of 3D television and Blu-ray 3D. 3D films became more and more throughout the 2000s, culminating in the unprecedented success of 3D presentations of Avatar in December 2009. The stereoscopic era of motion pictures began in the late 1890s when British film pioneer William Friese-Greene filed a patent for a 3D film process, in his patent, two films were projected side by side on screen. The viewer looked through a stereoscope to converge the two images, because of the obtrusive mechanics behind this method, theatrical use was not practical. Frederic Eugene Ives patented his stereo camera rig in 1900, the camera had two lenses coupled together 1¾ inches apart. On June 10,1915, Edwin S. Porter and William E. Waddell presented tests to an audience at the Astor Theater in New York City. However, according to Adolph Zukor in his 1953 autobiography The Public Is Never Wrong, My 50 Years in the Motion Picture Industry, nothing was produced in this process after these tests. The earliest confirmed 3D film shown to an audience was The Power of Love. The camera rig was a product of the producer, Harry K. Fairall. Whether Fairall used colored filters on the ports or whether he used tinted prints is unknown. After a preview for exhibitors and press in New York City, the film dropped out of sight, apparently not booked by exhibitors, and is now considered lost. Kelley then struck a deal with Samuel Roxy Rothafel to premiere the first in his series of Plasticon shorts entitled Movies of the Future at the Rivoli Theater in New York City. Also in December 1922, Laurens Hammond premiered his Teleview system, Teleview was the first alternating-frame 3D system seen by the public. Using left-eye and right-eye prints and two interlocked projectors, left and right frames were alternately projected, each pair being shown three times to suppress flicker. Viewing devices attached to the armrests of the seats had rotary shutters that operated synchronously with the projector shutters, producing a clean. The show ran for weeks, apparently doing good business as a novelty. In 1922, Frederic Eugene Ives and Jacob Leventhal began releasing their first stereoscopic shorts made over a three-year period, the first film, entitled Plastigrams, was distributed nationally by Educational Pictures in the red-and-blue anaglyph format
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Computer animation
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Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images. The more general term computer-generated imagery encompasses both static scenes and dynamic images, while computer animation refers to the moving images. Modern computer animation usually uses 3D computer graphics, although 2D computer graphics are used for stylistic, low bandwidth. Sometimes, the target of the animation is the computer itself, Computer animation is essentially a digital successor to the stop motion techniques used in traditional animation with 3D models and frame-by-frame animation of 2D illustrations. It can also allow a single graphic artist to such content without the use of actors, expensive set pieces. To create the illusion of movement, an image is displayed on the monitor and repeatedly replaced by a new image that is similar to it. This technique is identical to how the illusion of movement is achieved with television and motion pictures, for 3D animations, objects are built on the computer monitor and 3D figures are rigged with a virtual skeleton. For 2D figure animations, separate objects and separate transparent layers are used with or without that virtual skeleton, then the limbs, eyes, mouth, clothes, etc. of the figure are moved by the animator on key frames. The differences in appearance between key frames are calculated by the computer in a process known as tweening or morphing. For 3D animations, all frames must be rendered after the modeling is complete, for 2D vector animations, the rendering process is the key frame illustration process, while tweened frames are rendered as needed. For pre-recorded presentations, the frames are transferred to a different format or medium. The frames may also be rendered in real time as they are presented to the end-user audience, low bandwidth animations transmitted via the internet often use software on the end-users computer to render in real time as an alternative to streaming or pre-loaded high bandwidth animations. To trick the eye and the brain into thinking they are seeing a moving object. With rates above 75-120 frames per second, no improvement in realism or smoothness is perceivable due to the way the eye, at rates below 12 frames per second, most people can detect jerkiness associated with the drawing of new images that detracts from the illusion of realistic movement. Conventional hand-drawn cartoon animation often uses 15 frames per second in order to save on the number of drawings needed, to produce more realistic imagery, computer animation demands higher frame rates. Films seen in theaters in the United States run at 24 frames per second, for high resolution, adapters are used. Early digital computer animation was developed at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1960s by Edward E. Zajac, Frank W. Sinden, other digital animation was also practiced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. An early step in the history of animation was the sequel to the 1973 film Westworld
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Hotel Transylvania (franchise)
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The Hotel Transylvania franchise consists of two theatrical films produced by Sony Pictures Animation and distributed by Columbia Pictures, and several video games. A third theatrical film and a series are in development. Hotel Transylvania was released on September 28,2012, and is about Count Dracula and they meet a human named Johnny, who Mavis instantly loves and eventually dates, despite Draculas attempts to keep Johnny away from his daughter. Hotel Transylvania 2 was released on September 25,2015, and is about Mavis and Johnny, Mavis thinks Hotel Transylvania isnt the right place to raise Dennis and wants to raise him in Transylvania. When Dracula is disappointed that Dennis does not have any vampire abilities, in November 2015, Sony Pictures Animation announced that Hotel Transylvania 3 will be released on September 21,2018. Despite previously leaving the series to other projects, Genndy Tartakovsky will return as director for this installment. The third film will be about Dracula unwittingly falling for Ericka, a television series based on the film is scheduled to begin in 2017. Developed and produced by Nelvana Limited, in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Pictures Television will handle distribution in the United States, while Nelvana will distribute the series outside the United States. It will air on Disney Channel worldwide, goodnight Mr. Foot is a traditionally animated short film based on Hotel Transylvania, featuring Bigfoot from the film. Premiering in time for Halloween, on October 26,2012, as Sony Pictures Animations first traditionally animated film, it was written and directed by Genndy Tartakovsky himself, who also animated the short with the help of Rough Draft Studios. Animated in the style of Bob Clampett, Tex Avery and Chuck Jones, Bigfoot was voiced by Corey Burton while the Witch Maid was voiced by Rose Abdoo. Both voice actors provided voices in Hotel Transylvania. Taking place before the events of Hotel Transylvania, the short stars Bigfoot, puppy is an upcoming animated short film based on Hotel Transylvania, featuring Dennis from Hotel Transylvania 2. The film is directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, and will be shown in theaters alongside The Emoji Movie, the film will be set in the hotel, as Dennis gets a pet, and the hotel learns to cope with it. Note, A gray cell indicates character did not appear in that medium, the game allows players to create their own Hotel Transylvania, where they must take care of the hotels guests. Another video game, titled Hotel Transylvania, developed by WayForward and published by GameMill Entertainment, was released on September 18,2012, for Nintendo DS, the game was also released in the Nintendo eShop in North America on November 15,2012. A mobile game, titled Hotel Transylvania Dash, developed by Sony Pictures Consumer Products Inc. and PlayFirst, was released to iTunes App Store on September 20,2012. The game is a variation of Hotel Dash mobile game and features the art and characters. BooClips. com
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Hotel Transylvania 2
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Hotel Transylvania 2 is a 2015 American 3D computer animated fantasy-comedy film. Produced by Sony Pictures Animation, it was animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks, Hotel Transylvania 2 takes place seven years after the first film, with the hotel now open to human guests. Mavis and Johnny have a son named Dennis, whose lack of any vampire abilities worries his grandfather Dracula. When Mavis and Johnny go on a visit to Johnnys parents, soon, things turn upside-down when Draculas old-school human-hating father Vlad unexpectedly visits the hotel. The film was released on September 25,2015, by Columbia Pictures and was a box office success, a third film, titled Hotel Transylvania 3, is scheduled to be released on July 13,2018. Seven years after the first film, Mavis and her new fiancé Johnny are finally married, with the approval of her father Dracula, and the world becomes aware of the existence of monsters. Mavis later reveals to Drac that she is pregnant and a later, she gives birth to a baby boy named Dennis. Nearing his fifth birthday, Dennis has yet to grow his fangs, noticing the dangers of Transylvania, Mavis starts to consider raising Dennis where Johnny grew up, much to Dracs disapproval. Drac tells Johnny to bring Mavis to California to visit his parents, Mike and Linda, but to make sure to keep her distracted so that she will not move, leaving Drac to babysit Dennis. Drac enlists his friends, Frank, Wayne the Werewolf, Griffin the Invisible Man, Murray the Mummy and Blobby the Blob to help train Dennis to become a monster, to no avail. Drac takes Dennis to his summer camp, Camp Winnepacaca, where he learned to hone his vampire abilities. Drac stubbornly believes Dennis is a late fanger, so he hurls Dennis from a tall, Dennis does not transform, and Dracula has to fly and rescue him at the last second. The stunt is filmed by the campers and uploaded to the Internet, Mavis angrily transforms into a bat to fly her and Johnny back to Transylvania. Drac and his friends reach the hotel a couple of seconds after Mavis and she confronts her father for putting Dennis in grave danger and his inability to accept that he is human. She states she will move out of the hotel after Dennis fifth birthday the following Wednesday, Drac hangs his head with deep guilt. Mavis invites Vlad, her grandfather and Dracs father, to Dennis birthday party, as Vlad is much worse than he was when it comes to humans, Drac tells Johnny to have the human party-goers disguise themselves as monsters. Vlad receives the invitation and arrives with his monstrous bat-like servant Bela to meet his great-grandson for the first time, Drac confronts his father about how humans are different now. Mavis becomes upset with her grandfathers behavior and while the family argues, Dennis sadly flees the hotel and enters the forest with Winnie in tow and they are attacked by Bela, who mistakes Dennis for a human
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Cruise ship
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Transportation is not the only purpose of cruising, particularly on cruises that return passengers to their originating port, with the ports of call usually in a specified region of a continent. There are even cruises to nowhere or nowhere voyages where the ship makes 2–3 night round trips without any ports of call, by contrast, dedicated transport oriented ocean liners do line voyages and typically transport passengers from one point to another, rather than on round trips. The gradual evolution of passenger ship design from ocean liners to cruise ships has seen passenger cabins shifted from inside the hull to the superstructure with private verandas, the distinction between ocean liners and cruise ships has blurred, particularly with respect to deployment. Larger cruise ships have also engaged in longer trips such as transoceanic voyages which may not return to the port for months. Some former ocean liners operate as cruise ships, such as Marco Polo, the only dedicated transatlantic ocean liner in operation as a liner of December 2013 is Queen Mary 2 of the Cunard fleet. The industrys rapid growth has seen nine or more newly built ships catering to a North American clientele added every year since 2001, smaller markets, such as the Asia-Pacific region, are generally serviced by older ships. These are displaced by new ships in the growth areas. The worlds largest cruise ship is currently Royal Caribbean Internationals Harmony of the Seas beating her sister ships by about 2.15 meters, the birth of leisure cruising began with the formation of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company in 1822. The company started out as a line with routes between England and the Iberian Peninsula, adopting the name Peninsular Steam Navigation Company. It won its first contract to deliver mail in 1837, in 1840, it began mail delivery to Alexandria, Egypt, via Gibraltar and Malta. The company was incorporated by Royal Charter the same year, becoming the Peninsular, P&O first introduced passenger cruising services in 1844, advertising sea tours to destinations such as Gibraltar, Malta and Athens, sailing from Southampton. The forerunner of modern cruise holidays, these voyages were the first of their kind, the company later introduced round trips to destinations such as Alexandria and Constantinople. It underwent a period of expansion in the latter half of the 19th century, commissioning larger. Some sources mention Francesco I, flying the flag of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and she was built in 1831 and sailed from Naples in early June 1833, preceded by an advertising campaign. The cruise ship was boarded by nobles, authorities, and royal princes from all over Europe, however, it was restricted to the aristocracy of Europe and was not a commercial endeavour. Christian Wilhelm Allers published an account of it as Backschisch. The first vessel built exclusively for cruising, was Prinzessin Victoria Luise of Germany, designed by Albert Ballin. The ship was completed in 1900, the practice of luxury cruising made steady inroads on the more established market for transatlantic crossings
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Abraham Van Helsing
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Professor Abraham Van Helsing is a fictional character and the main protagonist from the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. Van Helsing is an aged Dutch doctor with a range of interests and accomplishments, partly attested by the string of letters that follows his name, MD. Etc, etc, indicating a wealth of experience, education, the character is best known throughout his many adaptations as a vampire hunter and the archenemy of Count Dracula. In the novel, Van Helsing is called in by his student, Dr. John Seward. Van Helsings friendship with Seward is based in part upon a prior event in which Van Helsing suffered a grievous wound. It is Van Helsing who first realizes that Lucy is the victim of a vampire, according to Leonard Wolfs annotations to the novel, Van Helsing had a son who died. Van Helsing says that his son, had he lived, would have had an appearance to another character. Consequently, Van Helsing developed a fondness for Holmwood. Van Helsings wife went insane after their sons death, but as a Catholic, Van Helsing is one of the few characters in the novel who is fully physically described in one place. In chapter 14, Mina describes him as, a man of medium height, strongly built, with his shoulders set back over a broad, deep chest, the poise of the head strikes me at once as indicative of thought and power. The head is noble, well-sized, broad, and large behind the ears, big, dark blue eyes are set widely apart, and are quick and tender or stern with the mans moods. Van Helsings personality is described by John Seward, his student, thus, He is a seemingly arbitrary man. He is a philosopher and a metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day, and he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind. In the novel Van Helsing is described with what is apparently a foreign accent, in that his English is broken. Adaptations of the novel have tended to play up Van Helsings role as the vampire professional-expert, the novel, however, gives no support for such interpretations. Dr. Seward requests Van Helsings assistance simply because Lucys affliction has him baffled, indeed, Van Helsing takes too much time to recognise Lucys illness, and seems to have no practical knowledge about vampires. Until her funeral, he tells no one his theory of Lucys death, Count Dracula, having acquired ownership of Englands Carfax estate through solicitor Jonathan Harker, moved to the estate and began menacing England. His victims included Lucy Westenra, who is on holiday in Whitby, the aristocratic girl has suitors such as John Seward, Arthur Holmwood, and Quincey Morris, and has a best friend in Mina Murray, Jonathan Harkers fiancée
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Count Dracula
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Count Dracula is the title character of Bram Stokers 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula. He is considered to be both the prototypical and the vampire in subsequent works of fiction. He is also depicted in the novel to be the origin of werewolf legends, some aspects of the character are believed to have been inspired by the 15th-century Wallachian Prince Vlad III the Impaler, who was also known as Dracula. Other character aspects have been added or altered in subsequent popular fictional works, the character has subsequently appeared frequently in popular culture, from films to animated media to breakfast cereals. Bram Stokers novel takes the form of a tale, in which Count Draculas characteristics, powers, abilities and weaknesses are narrated by multiple narrators. Count Dracula is an undead, centuries-old vampire, and a Transylvanian nobleman who claims to be a Székely descended from Attila the Hun and he inhabits a decaying castle in the Carpathian Mountains near the Borgo Pass. Unlike the vampires of Eastern European folklore, which are portrayed as repulsive, corpse-like creatures, details of his early life are obscure, but it is mentioned he was in life a most wonderful man. Which latter was the highest development of the knowledge of his time. He had a mighty brain, a learning beyond compare, there was no branch of knowledge of his time that he did not essay. He studied the arts at the academy of Scholomance in the Carpathian Mountains, overlooking the town of Sibiu and has a deep knowledge of alchemy. Taking up arms, as befitting his rank and status as a voivode, according to his nemesis Abraham Van Helsing, He must indeed have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier of Turkey-land. In Draculas Guest, the narrative follows an unnamed Englishman traveller as he wanders around Munich before leaving for Transylvania and it is Walpurgis Night and the young Englishman foolishly leaves his hotel, in spite of the coachmans warnings, and wanders through a dense forest alone. Along the way, he feels that he is being watched by a tall, the short story climaxes in an old graveyard, where the Englishman encounters a sleeping female vampire called Countess Dolingen in a marble tomb with a large iron stake driven into it. This malevolent and beautiful vampire awakens from her marble bier to conjure a snowstorm before being struck by lightning and returning to her eternal prison, however, the Englishmans troubles are not quite over, as he is dragged away by an unseen force and rendered unconscious. He awakens to find a wolf lying on his chest and licking at his throat, however. When the Englishman is finally back to his hotel, a telegram awaits him from his expectant host Dracula, with a warning about dangers from snow and wolves. As the Dracula novel begins in the late 19th century, Dracula acts on a plan for world domination. He summons Jonathan Harker, a newly qualified English solicitor, to legal support for a real estate transaction overseen by Harkers employer
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Frankenstein's monster
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Frankensteins monster, sometimes known as Frankenstein, is a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelleys 1818 novel Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus. Shelleys title thus compares the monsters creator, Victor Frankenstein, to the mythological character Prometheus, although nameless in Shelleys novel, the creature is often referred to by his creators surname, Frankenstein. In Shelleys Gothic story, Victor Frankenstein builds the creature in his laboratory through an ambiguous method consisting of chemistry, Shelley describes the monster as 8-foot-tall, hideously ugly, but sensitive and emotional. The monster attempts to fit into society but is shunned. According to the scholar Joseph Carroll, the monster occupies a territory between the characteristics that typically define protagonists and antagonists. Mary Shelleys original novel never ascribes an actual name to the monster, although when speaking to his creator, Victor Frankenstein, Victor refers to the monster as creature, fiend, spectre, the demon, wretch, devil, thing, being, and ogre. It has become common vernacular to refer to the creature by the name Frankenstein, as in Shelleys story, the monsters namelessness became a central part of the stage adaptations in London and Paris during the decades after the novels first appearance. In 1823, Shelley herself attended a performance of Presumption, the first successful adaptation of her novel. The play bill amused me extremely, for in the list of dramatis personae came _________, by Mr T. Cooke and this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good. Within a decade of publication, the name of the used to refer to the monster. The story was adapted for the stage in 1927 by Peggy Webling, however, the monster has no name in the Universal film series starring Boris Karloff during the 1930s, which was largely based upon Weblings play. The 1931 Universal film treated the monsters identity in a way as Shelleys novel, in the opening credits. Nevertheless, the creature soon enough became best known in the imagination as Frankenstein. This usage is considered erroneous, but usage commentators regard the monster sense of Frankenstein as well-established. Thumbing through a book of the works of William Shakespeare, the monster chooses Proteus from The Two Gentlemen of Verona, as told by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein builds the creature in his laboratory through an ambiguously described scientific method consisting of chemistry and alchemy. Frankenstein is disgusted by his creation, however, and flees from it in horror, frightened, and unaware of his own identity, the monster wanders through the wilderness. He finds brief solace beside a remote cottage inhabited by a family of peasants, eavesdropping, the creature familiarizes himself with their lives and learns to speak, whereby he becomes eloquent, educated, and well-mannered. The creature eventually introduces himself to the blind father, who treats him with kindness
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Victor Frankenstein
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Victor Frankenstein is the title character of Mary Shelleys 1818 novel Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus. The character of Frankenstein was born in Naples and raised in Geneva and he was the son of Alphonse Frankenstein and Caroline Beaufort, who died of scarlet fever when Frankenstein was 17. He describes his ancestry thus, I am by birth a Genevese and my ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics, and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation. Frankenstein has two younger brothers—William, the youngest, and Ernest, the middle child, Frankenstein falls in love with Elizabeth Lavenza, who became his adoptive sister and, eventually, his fiancée. As a boy, Frankenstein is interested in the works of such as Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus. Assembling a humanoid creature through means, Frankenstein successfully brings it to life. He flees his creation, who disappears and swears revenge on his creator, when William is found murdered, Frankenstein knows instantly that his creation is the killer, but says nothing. The creature approaches Frankenstein and begs him to create a companion for him. Frankenstein agrees, but ultimately destroys this creation, aghast at the idea of a race of monsters. Enraged, the creature swears revenge, he kills Henry Clerval, Frankensteins best friend, the creature keeps his promise by strangling Elizabeth on her matrimonial bed. That same night, Frankensteins father dies of grief, with nothing else left to live for, Frankenstein dedicates his life to destroying the creature. Frankenstein pursues the fiend or Demon to the Arctic with the intent of destroying it, he fails in his mission, as he falls through an ice floe. He is rescued by a ship undergoing an expedition to the North Pole, while many subsequent film adaptations have portrayed Frankenstein as the prototypical mad scientist, the novel portrayed him as a tragic figure. Percy Shelley, Marys husband, served as an influence for the character. Victor was a pen name of Percy Shelleys, as in the collection of poetry he wrote with his sister Elizabeth, Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire. As stated in the novel, Frankensteins family is one of the most distinguished of the Genevese republic and his ancestors were counselors, Percy had a sister named Elizabeth, Frankenstein had an adopted sister, named Elizabeth. On 22 February 1815, Mary Shelley delivered a baby two months premature, the child died two weeks later, soon after, Percy left with Claire, Marys stepsister, with whom he was having an affair. The question of Frankensteins responsibility to the creature – in some ways like that of a parent to a child – is one of the themes of the book
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Werewolf
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Early sources for belief in lycanthropy are Petronius and Gervase of Tilbury. From the early period, werewolf beliefs also spread to the New World with colonialism. Belief in werewolves developed in parallel to the belief in witches, in the course of the Late Middle Ages, during the early period, accusations of lycanthropy were mixed with accusations of wolf-riding or wolf-charming. The case of Peter Stumpp led to a significant peak in both interest in and persecution of supposed werewolves, primarily in French-speaking and German-speaking Europe, the trappings of horror literature in the 20th century became part of the horror and fantasy genre of modern pop culture. The word werewolf continues a late Old English werwulf, a compound of were man, the only Old High German testimony is in the form of a given name, Weriuuolf, although an early Middle High German werwolf is found in Burchard of Worms and Berthold of Regensburg. The word or concept does not occur in medieval German poetry or fiction, Middle Latin gerulphus Anglo-Norman garwalf, Old Frankish *wariwulf. Old Norse had the cognate varúlfur, but because of the importance of werewolves in Norse mythology. In modern Scandinavian also kveldulf evening-wolf, presumably after the name of Kveldulf Bjalfason, use of lycanthropy for supposed shape-shifting is much later, introduced ca. Slavic uses the term vlko-dlak, literally wolf-skin, paralleling the Old Norse ulfhéðinn, however, the word is not attested in the medieval period. The Slavic term was loaned into modern Greek as Vrykolakas, baltic has related terms, Lithuanian vilkolakis and vilkatas, Latvian vilkatis and vilkacis. The name vurdalak for the Slavic vampire is a due to Alexander Pushkin. Tolstoy in his novella The Family of the Vourdalak, Greek λυκάνθρωπος and Germanic werewulf are parallel inasmuch as the concept of a shapeshifter becoming a wolf is expressed by means of a compound wolf-man or man-wolf. Their underlying common origin can be traced back to Proto-Indo-European mythology and this is reflected in Iron Age Europe in the Tierkrieger depictions from the Germanic sphere, among others. The standard comparative overview of this aspect of Indo-European mythology is McCone, such transformations of men into wolves in pagan cult were associated with the devil from the early medieval perspective. In his Man into Wolf, Robert Eisler tried to cast the Indo-European tribal names meaning wolf or wolf-men in terms of the European transition from fruit gathering to predatory hunting, a few references to men changing into wolves are found in Ancient Greek literature and mythology. In the second century BC, the Greek geographer Pausanias related the story of Lycaon, in accounts by the Bibliotheca and Ovid, Lycaon serves human flesh to Zeus, wanting to know if he is really a god. Lycaons transformation, therefore, is punishment for a crime, considered variously as murder, cannibalism, Ovid also relates stories of men who roamed the woods of Arcadia in the form of wolves. In addition to Ovid, other Roman writers also mentioned lycanthropy, virgil wrote of human beings transforming into wolves
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Bride of Frankenstein (character)
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The Bride of Frankenstein is a fictional character briefly mentioned in the novel, Frankenstein, and officially introduced in the film, Bride of Frankenstein. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein is tempted by his monsters proposal to create a creature so that the monster can have a mate. He promises that if Victor grants his request, he and his mate will vanish into the wilderness of South America, fearing for his family, Victor reluctantly agrees and travels to England to do his work. He destroys the female creature after he sees his first creation looking through the window. The monster witnesses this and vows to be with Victor on his wedding night. True to his word, the monster murders Frankensteins new wife Elizabeth, Henry initially balks at the idea, but Pretorius threatens to expose him to the authorities as the creator of the Monster. Henry eventually agrees to help his mentor when the monster kidnaps Henrys wife Elizabeth, Henry returns to his tower laboratory where in spite of himself, he grows excited by his work. After being assured of Elizabeths safety, Henry completes the Brides body, a storm rages as final preparations are made to bring the Bride to life. Her bandage-wrapped body is raised through the roof, lightning strikes a kite sending electricity through the Bride. They remove her bandages and help her to stand, Pretorius then declares it The Bride of Frankenstein. The excited Monster sees his mate and reaches out to her, when the monster quotes friend to it, the Bride screams in horror at the sight of him. When the Monster tries to advance on her, the Bride screams again as the Monster quotes She hate me, as Elizabeth races to Henrys side, the Monster rampages through the laboratory and puts his hand on a lever. When Henry tells Elizabeth that he cant leave his creation, the Monster tells Henry, to Pretorius and the Bride, he says You stay. While Henry and Elizabeth flee, the Monster sheds a tear as the Bride hisses, the following film Son of Frankenstein reveals that the monster survives the explosion while the fates of Pretorius and the Bride are unknown. He considered Brigitte Helm and Phyllis Brooks before deciding on Elsa Lanchester, Lanchester, who had accompanied husband Charles Laughton to Hollywood, had met with only moderate success at that point. Lanchester had returned alone to London when Whale contacted her to offer her the dual role, Lanchester modeled the Brides hissing on the hissing of swans. She gave herself a sore throat while filming the hissing sequence, a version of the character appears in the 1985 film The Bride, played by Jennifer Beals. A version of the character appears in the 1994 film Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, in this version, Victor attempts to revive his wife Elizabeth after being killed by the Monster
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The Blob
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The film co-stars Earl Rowe and Olin Howland. 28-year-old Steve McQueen made his film debut in the lead role playing a teenager. The film was released by Paramount Pictures on a bill with I Married a Monster from Outer Space. The storyline concerns a growing, corrosive alien amoeba that crashes to Earth from outer space inside a meteorite, Steve decides to look for it. An old man living nearby finds it first, when he pokes the meteorite with a stick, it breaks open, and the small jelly-like blob inside attaches itself to his hand. In pain and unable to scrape or shake it loose, the old man runs onto the road, Steve and Jane take him to Doctor Hallen. Doctor Hallen is about to leave for a conference, but anesthetizes the man and sends Steve. Hallen decides he must amputate the mans arm since it is being consumed by the growing Blob, before he can, however, the Blob completely consumes the old man, then Hallens nurse, and finally the doctor himself, all the while increasing in size. Steve and Jane return to the office in time for Steve to witness the doctors death and they go to the police station and return to the house with Lieutenant Dave and Sergeant Bert. However, there is no sign of the creature or its victims, Steve and Jane are taken home by their parents, but they later sneak out. In the meantime, the Blob consumes a mechanic at a repair shop, the Blob grows in size every time it consumes something. At the Colonial Theater, which is showing a screening of Daughter of Horror, Steve recruits Tony. When Steve notices that his fathers grocery store is unlocked, he, the janitor is nowhere to be seen. Then the couple are cornered by the Blob, they seek refuge in the walk-in freezer, the Blob oozes in under the door, but retreats. Steve and Jane gather their friends and set off the towns fire, the townspeople and police still refuse to believe Steve. Meanwhile, the Blob enters the Colonial Theater and engulfs the projectionist before oozing into the auditorium consuming a number of the audience, Steve is finally vindicated when screaming people flee from the theater. Janes young brother, Danny, fires at the Blob with his cap gun before running into the nearby diner, Jane, Danny, and Steve become trapped in that diner, along with the manager and a waitress. The Blob—now an enormous red mass from the people it has consumed—engulfs the diner
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Chrissy Teigen
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Christine Chrissy Teigen is an American model. She made her debut in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2010 and, alongside Nina Agdal and Lily Aldridge and she co-hosts Lip Sync Battle with LL Cool J on Spike TV and joined the lifestyle panel talk show FABLife. Teigen was born in Delta, Utah and her father is of Norwegian descent, and her mother is Thai. Teigens father worked as an electrician, and the family moved often, after living in Hawaii, Idaho, and Snohomish, Washington, the family settled in Huntington Beach, California, when Teigen was a teenager. She was discovered by a photographer working in a surf shop. She is represented worldwide by IMG Models in New York and she became an IGN Babe in 2004 and a substitute model on Deal or No Deal for 2006–2007. In July 2007, she appeared on the cover of Maxims calendar. She has also served as a recurring guest host and contributor on E. TMZ, MTV, FUSE/MSG, and Extra with Mario Lopez, in spring 2013, she was host of the reality competition show, Model Employee on VH1. Teigen appeared in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in 2010, and was named Rookie of the Year and her friend and fellow model Brooklyn Decker had introduced her to the people at Sports Illustrated to cast her. She was also a part of the 2011,2012,2013 and 2014 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issues, in 2014, she appeared on the 50th anniversary cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue with Nina Agdal and Lily Aldridge. In addition to Sports Illustrated, Teigen has appeared on the cover of Ocean Drive magazine, Cosmopolitan, other side projects include designing a capsule collection with swimwear designer DiNeila Brazil and appearing as a featured character in the 2011 EA Sports video game Need For Speed, The Run. When not working in the world of modeling, Teigen is a cook. She is the author of the blog, sodelushious. com and she was also featured on an additional Cooking Channel special in February 2013, titled Chrissy Teigens Hungry, detailing her wedding menu tasting with then-fiancé John Legend. Teigen recently filmed a Cooking Channel special titled Cookies and Cocktails, in 2012, Teigen was named Spike TVs Our New Girlfriend. In 2013, Teigen appeared in her husband John Legends music video for the song All Of Me, in April 2014, Teigen appeared on an Inside Amy Schumer sketch playing a fictionalized version of herself as a relationship counselor. Teigen appears as a judge on the new MTV2 cooking show Snack-Off, in January 2015, Teigen appeared as a guest star on The Mindy Project as the girlfriend of the man to whom Mindy lost her virginity. In April 2015, Teigen became a co-host on Spike TVs Lip Sync Battle alongside LL Cool J. Teigen also co-hosted the Billboard Music Awards with Ludacris and she is the food stylist on Tyra Banks lifestyle talk show FABLife. On February 23,2016, Teigens cookbook Cravings was released, Teigen married singer John Legend on September 14,2013, in Como, Italy
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Joe Jonas
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Joseph Adam Joe Jonas is an American singer and actor. Jonas first rose to fame as a member of the pop-rock band Jonas Brothers, along with his brothers Kevin, the bands debut album, Its About Time, was a commercial failure following a limited release. The group signed with Hollywood Records, and in 2007 released their eponymous studio album. The album went on to be a success for the group. The group became involved with the Disney Channel and later made their film debut in the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock. The film and its soundtrack became a hit for the network. Their third studio album, A Little Bit Longer, became their first to top the Billboard 200, the albums lead single became a top five hit in the United States. Their fourth studio album, Lines, Vines and Trying Times became their second to top the charts in the United States. The brothers also starred in two of their Disney Channel series from 2009 to 2010, being JONAS L. A. and Jonas Brothers, in 2010, the group starred in Camp Rock 2, The Final Jam, reprising their roles from the original film. Joe release his debut studio album, Fastlife, in 2011, with the singles See No More. The following year, it was confirmed that the Jonas Brothers would be reuniting and the studio album was entitled V. But, in 2013, the Jonas ended the band. Following his departure from the band, Jonas began working as a songwriter for various artists and he began working on a new musical project for himself, though was unsure whether it would be his second studio album or a new project for a band. He ultimately decided to form a new band, DNCE, which made their debut with the single Cake by the Ocean, joseph Adam Jonas was born in Casa Grande, Arizona on August 15,1989. He is the son of Denise and Paul Kevin Jonas, Jonas father is a songwriter, musician, and former ordained minister at an Assemblies of God church while his mother is a former sign language teacher and singer. Joe has a brother, Kevin Jonas, and two younger brothers - Nick Jonas and Frankie Jonas. Growing up in a Christian family, Jonas has spoken on his religious beliefs by saying I believe in God, and thats a personal relationship that I have, in 2002, Joe appeared in Baz Luhrmanns production of La bohème. In 2005, Joe, Kevin, and Nick recorded Please Be Mine, upon hearing the song, the Columbia Records president Steve Greenberg decided to sign the brothers as a group. They considered naming their group Sons of Jonas before settling on the name Jonas Brothers, while working on their debut studio album, the band toured throughout 2005 with artists such as Jump5, Kelly Clarkson, Jesse McCartney, the Backstreet Boys, and The Click Five among others
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Kraken
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The Kraken is a legendary sea monster of giant size that is said to dwell off the coasts of Norway and Greenland. The sheer size and fearsome appearance attributed to the kraken have made it a common ocean-dwelling monster in various fictional works, 1752-1753 The English word kraken is taken from Norwegian. In Norwegian Kraken is the form of krake, a word designating an unhealthy animal or something twisted. In modern German, Krake means octopus, but can refer to the legendary kraken. There is a fish that is unmentioned, which it is scarcely advisable to speak about on account of its size. Most often in our tongue we call it hafgufa, nor can I conclusively speak about its length in ells, because the times he has shown before men, he has appeared more like land than like a fish. Then too, neither would it do for other fish if the hafgufa were of such a number as other whales, on account of their vastness, and how much subsistence that they need. But as soon as its stomach and mouth is full, then it locks together its jaws and has the fish all caught and enclosed, the creature was excluded from later editions. Kraken were also described by Erik Pontoppidan, bishop of Bergen. However, Pontoppidan also described the potential of the giant beast, it is said that if were to lay hold of the largest man-of-war. According to Pontoppidan, Norwegian fishermen often took the risk of trying to fish over kraken, Pontoppidan also proposed that a specimen of the monster, perhaps a young and careless one, was washed ashore and died at Alstahaug in 1680. By 1755, Pontoppidans description of the kraken had been translated into English and his excrements nurture in the following an army of lesser fish, and for this reason, fishermen plumb after his resting place. Could one doubt that this is the Leviathan of Job, montfort claimed that the first type, the kraken octopus, had been described by Norwegian sailors and American whalers, as well as ancient writers such as Pliny the Elder. The much larger type, the colossal octopus, was reported to have attacked a sailing vessel from Saint-Malo. Montfort later dared more sensational claims, the kraken is also depicted to have spikes on its suckers. In the earliest descriptions, however, the creatures were more crab-like than octopus-like, some traits of kraken resemble undersea volcanic activity occurring in the Iceland region, including bubbles of water, sudden, dangerous currents, and appearance of new islets. The legend of the kraken continues to the present day, with numerous existing in popular culture, including film, literature, television, video games. Narrator Ishmael adds, There seems some ground to imagine that the great Kraken of Bishop Pontoppodan may ultimately resolve itself into Squid, Pontoppidans description influenced Jules Vernes depiction of the famous giant squid in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea from 1870
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TheWrap
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TheWrap is an entertainment and media news website founded by Sharon Waxman in 2009. According to CBS Market Watch, Waxman raised $500,000 for The Wrap News, as a portal site covering entertainment and media. A second round of financing was closed in 2010, by 2013, TheWrap. com had grown into a site with 30 employees. It also convenes an annual conference attended by leaders in entertainment, media, TheWrap competes with other Hollywood news sites, with its most direct competition as of 2014 being Deadline. com
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Austin Powers (film series)
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The Austin Powers series is a series of three American action-comedy films, Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me and Austin Powers in Goldmember. The films were directed by Jay Roach, produced, written by, the character represents an archetype of 1960s Swinging London, with his advocacy for free love, his use of obscure impressions and his clothing style. Contrary to the handsome, super-smooth leading men of the James Bond genre, Austin Powers is not conventionally attractive, in the first film, Austin and Dr. Evil are awakened after being cryogenically frozen for 30 years. Continuing to incorporate elements of the 1960s and 1970s, the second and third films feature time travel as a plot device. A proposed fourth film, Austin Powers 4, has reportedly been in development since 2005, Myers himself has stated in interviews that the idea for Austin Powers came to him one night while driving home from ice hockey practice. Hearing the song The Look of Love by Burt Bacharach on his car radio, and conceived the character who would become Austin Powers. The first phrase he thought the character might say was Do I make you horny. which later did indeed become a phrase for the character. An important inspiration for the series is British super spy James Bond, Myers said of Bond, I cant even tell you how huge it was in our house. Thats really why I wanted to do Austin Powers, Austin Powers is out of pure love for James Bond. Though Myers is Canadian by birth, his parents are natives of Liverpool, England, Austin Powers is everything I watched. My parents were from Liverpool, and theres no one more English than an Englishman who no longer lives there, every molecule of British culture that came across the Atlantic was tasted and worshipped. Other obviously-apparent influences are The Beatles films, The Monkees television series, James Bondage, list indicator A dark grey cell indicates the character did not appear in the film. Austin Powers, Welcome to My Underground Lair, despite announcing plans for a thirteen episode season, HBO ultimately shelved the project. In October 2005, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Mike Myers discussed the possibility of studio sources moving forward with a fourth film, were all circling and talking to each other. So if you balanced how much of it was Austin with Dr. Evil, in May 2007, at the Shrek the Third première, Mike Myers announced that a fourth Austin Powers film was planned, but that it would focus more on Dr. Evil rather than Austin. He also said that hed start work on it after he started work on The Love Guru, in February 2008, it was announced that Jay Roach would return as director. In April 2008, it was reported that Gisele Bündchen had been offered a role in the film. In June 2008, in an interview, when asked about another Austin Powers film, Myers stated, I have an idea, and again its one of those things that will emerge or it wont
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Samurai Jack
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Samurai Jack is an American science fiction-action animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network. The series follows Jack, an unnamed samurai sent through time to a future ruled by the tyrannical shape-shifting demon Aku. Jack quests to travel back in time and defeat Aku before he can take over the world. The series premiered on August 10,2001, with a TV movie called The Premiere Movie, before ending in its season on September 25,2004. A revival was produced twelve years later, giving the fifth and final season that concludes the series, All episodes of Samurai Jack are directed by Tartakovsky, usually in collaboration with others. The series has garnered acclaim, and won four Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Animated Program, as well as six Annie Awards. Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape-shifting Master of Darkness, but a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, now the fool seeks to return to the past, and undo the future that is Aku. A few years later, Aku escapes, and the Emperor sends away his son to travel the world and train so he can return, the samurai prince arrives in a dystopian, retro-futuristic Earth ruled by Aku. The first people he encounters in the future call him Jack as a form of slang and his given name is never mentioned. Most episodes depict Jack overcoming various obstacles in his quest to travel back to his own time, each time Jack nears the end of his quest, his chance slips away, forcing him to continue his journey. The retro-futuristic world is inhabited by robots, extraterrestrials, monsters, Aku has brought aliens from other planets to inhabit Earth, while destroying the habitability of the alien planets. Mythologies, supernatural forces and demonic enemies make regular appearances, yet do not seem to stand out among the technologically-advanced inhabitants, episodes range from dark and epic to light-hearted and comical, and usually contain little dialogue. Stories instead rely on their visuals, cinematic elements, and pacing, since Jack usually fights robots, monsters, and aliens, the fights can be intense while avoiding blood and gore. Aku often confronts Jack directly, through his minions and bounty-hunters, while he fails to kill Jack, his attempts to thwart Jacks return to his original time are successful. In one attempt, Jack is led to a portal to the past, the guardian is about to crush Jack when the portal starts to flicker and glow, to which the guardian reacts by sparing Jack. The guardian states that it is not yet time for Jack to return to the past, in his travels Jack encounters a wandering Scotsman, who carries a magic sword of his own and has had one leg replaced by a machine gun. The two men form a friendship and develop respect for one another, though Jacks reticence contrasts sharply with the Scotsmans boisterous manner, the Scotsman has considerable skill with his sword, consequently, the two pose a formidable threat to the enemies they face together
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Chevy Chase
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Cornelius Crane Chevy Chase is an American actor, writer, comedian and producer. Born into a prominent New York family, he worked a plethora of jobs before moving into comedy. He immediately became a key cast member in the season of Saturday Night Live. He has hosted the Academy Awards twice and briefly had his own talk show. Chase was born in Lower Manhattan, New York, and was raised in Woodstock and his father, Edward Tinsley Ned Chase, was a prominent Manhattan book editor and magazine writer. His maternal grandmother, Cathalene, was a singer who performed several times at Carnegie Hall. Chase was named for his adoptive grandfather Cornelius, while the nickname Chevy was bestowed by his grandmother, as a descendant of the Scottish Clan Douglas, the name seemed appropriate to her. Chase is a 14th-generation New Yorker, and was listed in the Social Register at an early age, according to his brother John, once told me that people who defined themselves in terms of their ancestry were like potatoes – the best parts of them were underground. He disdained the pretension of my mothers side of the family, as embodied by her mother, as a child, Chase vacationed at Castle Hill, the Cranes summer estate in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Chases parents divorced when he was four, his father remarried into the Folgers coffee family and he has stated that he grew up in an upper middle class environment and that his adoptive maternal grandfather did not bequeath any assets to Chases mother when he died. In a 2007 biography, Chase stated that he was physically and psychologically abused as a child by his mother and stepfather, both his parents died in 2005. Chase attended Riverdale Country School before being expelled and he ultimately graduated from the Stockbridge School in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He then attended Haverford College during the 1962–63 term, where he was noted for slapstick comedy, Chase transferred to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where he studied a pre-med curriculum and graduated in 1967 with a BA in English. Chase did not enter medical school, which meant he would be subject to the military draft, Chase played drums with the college band The Leather Canary, headed by school friends Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. Chase has called the group a bad jazz band, Becker and he played drums and keyboards for a rock band called Chamaeleon Church, which recorded one album for MGM Records before disbanding in 1969. Chase was a member of an underground comedy ensemble called Channel One which he co-founded in 1967. He also wrote a spoof on Mission, Impossible for Mad Magazine in 1970 and was a writer for the short-lived Smothers Brothers TV show comeback in the spring of 1975. Chase made the move to comedy as a career by 1973, when he became a cast member of The National Lampoon Radio Hour
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PlayStation 4
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The PlayStation 4 is a home video game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It competes with Nintendos Wii U and Microsofts Xbox One, as part of the generation of video game consoles.84 teraflops. The consoles controller was redesigned and improved over the PlayStation 3, with improved buttons and analog sticks. Heightened demand also helped Sony top global console sales, by the end of 2016, more than 53 million consoles have been sold worldwide, with more than 57 million shipped. All models, including the original sold in 2013, support HDR10 high-dynamic-range color, according to lead architect Mark Cerny, development of Sonys fourth video game console began as early as 2008. Less than two earlier, the PlayStation 3 had launched after months of delays due to issues with production. The delay placed Sony almost a year behind Microsofts Xbox 360, PlayStation Europe CEO Jim Ryan said Sony wanted to avoid repeating the same mistake with PS3s successor. In designing the system, Sony worked with software developer Bungie, in 2012, Sony began shipping development kits to game developers, consisting of a modified PC running the AMD Accelerated Processing Unit chipset. These development kits were known as Orbis, in early 2013, Sony announced that an event known as PlayStation Meeting 2013 would be held in New York City, U. S. on February 20,2013, to cover the future of PlayStation. Sony officially announced the PlayStation 4 at the event and it revealed details about the consoles hardware and discussed some of the new features it will introduce. Sony also showed off real-time footage of games in development, as well as some technical demonstrations, the design of the console was unveiled in June 2013 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, and the initial recommended retail prices of $399, €399, and £349 given. The console was released on November 15,2013 in the United States and Canada, by the end of 2013, the PS4 was launched in more European, Asian and South American countries The PS4 released in Japan at ¥39,980 on February 22,2014. Sony finalized a deal with the Chinese government in May 2014 to sell its products in mainland China, and the PS4 will be the first product to be released. Kazuo Hirai, chief officer of Sony, said in May, The Chinese market. I think that we will be able to replicate the kind of success we have had with PS4 in other parts of the world in China. In September 2015, Sony reduced the price of the PS4 in Japan to ¥34,980, with similar price drops in other Southeast Asian markets. The first official sub £300 PS4 bundle was the £299.99 Uncharted Nathan Drake Collection 500GB, released in the UK on October 9,2015, a 1TB £329.99 version was offered at the same time. On October 9,2015, the first official cut of the PS4 in North America was announced
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Xbox One
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The Xbox One is a home video game console developed by Microsoft. It is the first Xbox game console to be released in China, Microsoft marketed the device as an all-in-one entertainment system. The Xbox One mainly competes against consoles such as Sonys PlayStation 4, the console optionally includes a redesigned Kinect sensor, marketed as the Kinect 2.0, providing improved motion tracking and voice recognition for use in its graphical user interface and games. The Xbox One offers the ability for users to record and share clips from gameplay or live-stream directly to Twitch, Ustream, the consoles controller was redesigned over the Xbox 360s, with a redesigned body, D-pad and triggers capable of delivering directional haptic feedback. The Xbox One received mostly positive reception for its refined design, multimedia features. Its original user interface was panned for being nonintuitive, although changes made to it and its Kinect received praise for its improved motion-tracking accuracy, its face recognition logins, and its voice commands. A redesigned model known as Xbox One S was released in August 2016, it has a design, native support for 4K video playback and upscaling. It was praised for its size, its on-screen visual improvements, and its lack of an external power supply. Xbox One is the successor to Xbox 360, Microsofts previous video game console, over the years, the 360 had received a number of small hardware revisions to reduce the units size and improve its reliability. Initial hardware for the 360s successor, commonly referred to by the industry as the Xbox 720, was reportedly under development as early as May 2011, the official developer kit was codenamed Durango, and appeared to be available to developers by mid-2012. The console was unveiled under the name Xbox One on May 21,2013 in a press conference designed to cover the units broad multimedia. A second press event for the console was held during E32013, at that time, Microsoft announced that the console would be released in 21 different markets on November 22,2013, but this was later amended down to 13. The change, which pushed the date for the other eight markets to 2014, was attributed to unforeseen complexity in localizing the devices voice recognition capabilities. Later, in September 2014, the Xbox One was released in 26 markets, including remaining markets in Europe, the Japanese market, from the first announcement to the actual launch of the product, Microsoft made some significant changes to the console. These policies were reversed in June 2013, at the time of the security breach, Microsoft was in the development stage for its next-generation gaming system. Between 2011 and 2013, the hackers spent hundreds of hours searching through Microsofts network copying log-in credentials, source code, technical specifications, Group members say they were driven by an immense curiosity about Microsofts then-unreleased Xbox One console and associated software. The original Xbox Ones exterior casing consists of a two-tone liquid black finish, with finished in a matte grey. The matte side of the top of the consists of a large air vent
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