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Megamind: The Button of Doom
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Megamind, The Button of Doom is a 2011 animated short film released on DVD/Blu-ray with Megamind on February 25,2011, starring Will Ferrell and David Cross. All of their items get sold, as for the De-Gun it gets sold to a boy named Damien, who accidentally uses it on his mother and turns her into a cube. Megamind tells Damien to soak the cube in water to get her back to normal, after the auction is over, Megamind reveals a suit he created that contains all of Metro Mans powers, which he will wear to protect Metro City. Minion finds a seemingly harmless button that had not had been sold. Not knowing what the button does, Megamind pushes the button, and it reveals a giant robot called the Mega-Megamind, the robot thinks that Megamind is Metro Man, and starts attacking him. Megamind fights the robot with his new powers, but is defeated and he and Minion hide in the Invisible Car. Megamind decides that they should live in the car from then on, Megamind plans to lure the Mega-Megamind to a spot where the Death Ray shoots. However, Minion realizes that he cannot activate the Death Ray because the buttons were broken. He then tries to find the Death Ray remote control, but Megamind does not remember what the remote looks like, Megamind, trying to hide, eventually is found by the Mega-Megamind. Minion finally finds the remote and activates the Death Ray. Megamind and the Spiderbot get off the robot, using the robots wrist-mounted shooter just before the robot explodes, Megamind then re-hydrates the parents with a glass of water to ensure that the children will face punishment for their actions, much to the childrens dismay. The short ends with Megamind and Minion seeing a signal in the sky, official website Megamind, The Button of Doom at The Big Cartoon DataBase Megamind, The Button of Doom at the Internet Movie Database
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DVD cover
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Tom McGrath (animator)
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He has portrayed Skipper in every Madagascar installment, being the only voice actor to do so. He has also worked as an actor on other DreamWorks animated features like Flushed Away in 2006. He also stepped in on Flushed Away to help make improvements prior to its release, McGrath was born and raised in Lynnwood, Washington. He studied Industrial Design at the University of Washington and graduated from the Character Animation program at Cal Arts. McGrath made his directing debut as the co-director, writer and co-creator of Madagascar. He also reprised his role as Skipper and co-directed and co-wrote the sequel, Madagascar and he worked on The Penguins of Madagascar, a Madagascar spin-off TV series, as the voice of Skipper, and directed the DreamWorks animated feature Megamind, released in November 2010. Tom McGrath at the Internet Movie Database
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Tom McGrath at the 2010
San Diego Comic-Con International.
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Will Ferrell
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John William Will Ferrell is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. The two also founded the comedy website Funny or Die in 2007, Other films roles include Elf, Old School, Blades of Glory, and the animated films Megamind and The Lego Movie. He received an Emmy Award nomination for his work on Saturday Night Live and he was also named the best comedian of 2015 in the British GQ Men of the Year awards. Ferrell received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 26,2015. Ferrell was born in Irvine, California, to Betty Kay, a teacher who taught at Old Mill School elementary school and Santa Ana College and his parents were both natives of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, and moved to California in 1964. Ferrells ancestry includes English, German, and Irish and he has a younger brother named Patrick. When he was eight years old, his parents divorced, Ferrell said of the divorce, I was the type of kid who would say, Hey, look at the bright side. The divorce was amicable and both parents were committed to their children, the biggest problem was his fathers line of work. As a person in business, his paychecks were never steady. Growing up in this environment made Ferrell not want to go into show business, will first attended school at Turtle Rock Elementary and later attended Rancho San Joaquin Middle School, both in Irvine. He attended University High School in Irvine, and was a kicker for the varsity football team. He was also on the team and captain of the basketball team. Ferrell called third grade a pivotal year and he realized he could make his classmates laugh if he pretended to smash his head against the wall, or if he tripped and fell on purpose, and said it was a great way to make friends. He said the dullness of Irvine contributed to the growth of his humor, Growing up in suburbia, in safe, master-planned Irvine and my main form of entertainment was cracking my friends up and exploring new ways of being funny. I didnt have to have the survival mode instinct like other comics, for me, I grew up in Mayberry, and the humor broke the boredom. And there was a lot to make fun of, in his senior year of high school, Ferrell and a friend would perform comedy skits over the schools intercom system, with cooperation from the principal, the two had to write their own material. Ferrell also performed comedic skits in the talent shows. He won the Best Personality superlative voted by his classmates and he enrolled at the University of Southern California, where he studied Sports Broadcasting and joined the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
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Ferrell in 2013
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Ferrell at the premiere of
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, December 2007
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Will Ferrell dressed as Megamind at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International
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Ferrell at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con with Mark Wahlberg
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Tina Fey
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Elizabeth Stamatina Tina Fey is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer. She is also known for writing and co-starring in the film Mean Girls, as well as appearing in such films as Baby Mama, Date Night, Muppets Most Wanted. Fey broke into comedy as a player in the Chicago-based improvisational comedy group The Second City. She then joined SNL as a writer, later becoming head writer, in 2004, she co-starred in and wrote the screenplay for Mean Girls, which was adapted from the 2002 self-help book Queen Bees and Wannabes. After leaving SNL in 2006, she created the television series 30 Rock for Broadway Video, in the series, Fey portrays the head writer of a fictional sketch comedy series. In 2008, she starred in the comedy film Baby Mama, Fey next appeared in the 2010 comedy film Date Night and the animated film Megamind. In 2015, she created and produced the television series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, originally for NBC and her other films include Sisters and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Fey has received nine Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four Writers Guild of America Awards and her autobiography Bossypants topped The New York Times Best Seller list for five weeks. In 2008, the Associated Press gave Fey the AP Entertainer of the Year award for her portrayal of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in a guest appearance on SNL. In 2010, Fey was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, on January 13,2013, Fey hosted the 70th Golden Globe Awards with her long-time friend and fellow comedian, Amy Poehler, to critical acclaim. The duo hosted again the two years, generating the highest ratings for the annual ceremony in a decade and receiving similar acclaim. Fey was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, an inner ring suburb of Philadelphia and her mother, Zenobia Jeanne, is a brokerage employee. Her father, Donald Henry Fey, was a university grant proposal-writer and she has a brother, Peter, who is eight years older. Feys mother, who was born in Piraeus, is the daughter of Greek immigrants, Vasiliki Kourelakou, Feys maternal grandmother, left Petrina on her own, arriving in the United States in February 1921. According to a genealogical DNA test arranged by the television series Finding Your Roots, Feys ancestry is 94% European, 3% Middle Eastern, Fey was exposed to comedy early, I remember my parents sneaking me in to see Young Frankenstein. We would also watch Saturday Night Live, or Monty Python and my dad would let us stay up late to watch The Honeymooners. We were not allowed to watch The Flintstones though, my dad hated it because it ripped off The Honeymooners, I actually have a very low level of Flintstones knowledge for someone my age. At age 11, Fey read Joe Franklins Seventy Years of Great Film Comedians for a project about comedy
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Fey at the
Muppets Most Wanted premiere in 2014.
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Fey filming an
episode of
30 Rock at
Rockefeller Center in October 2007
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Fey (left) with
Amy Poehler (right) at the premiere of
Baby Mama in New York, April 23, 2008
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Fey holding a copy of
Bossypants, published in April 2011.
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Jonah Hill
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Jonah Hill Feldstein, better known as Jonah Hill, is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and comedian. Hill ranked 28th on Forbes magazines ranking of worlds highest paid actors from June 2014 to June 2015, as a screenwriter, he contributed to the stories of 21 Jump Street,22 Jump Street and Sausage Party, all of which he also starred in. Jonah Hill Feldstein was born on December 20,1983 in Los Angeles, the son of Sharon Lyn, a designer and fashion stylist, and Richard Feldstein. He has a sister, Beanie Feldstein, who is an actress, and a brother, Jordan Feldstein and his parents were originally from Long Island, New York, and the family vacationed in the Catskills. After graduating from school, Hill attended Bard College, The New School. Hill is Jewish, and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, in college, Hill began writing his own plays and performing them in the Black and White bar in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. His plays developed a following and helped him realize that his true desire was to act in films. Hill was befriended by Dustin Hoffmans children, Rebecca and Jake, the elder Hoffman asked him to audition for a role in I Heart Huckabees, in which Hill made his film debut. On television, Hill played the RA Guy on the first season of the Oxygen Network sitcom Campus Ladies and he guest-starred in an episode of Clark and Michael. His first leading role was in the Apatow-produced comedy Superbad, Hill starred in the film alongside Michael Cera, in roles based on the films writers, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The film is cited as the film that launched the careers of the two actors. He followed it with a role as Dewey Coxs grown-up brother, Nate Cox, in Walk Hard. Instead, he hosted the March 15,2008, show and he turned down a role as one of the three principle comedic actors in the The Hangover so he could work with directors Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass in Cyrus. Hill was in negotiations for a part in Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen as Sam Witwickys sidekick and he guest-starred in an episode of Reno 911. Which aired on April 1,2009 and he next starred in Judd Apatows third directorial feature, Funny People, which also starred Adam Sandler, Eric Bana and Seth Rogen. He was a producer of the 2009 Sacha Baron Cohen mockumentary Brüno. He guest starred on an episode of The Simpsons called Pranks and Greens, in July 2011, Hill appeared at ESPNs ESPY awards sporting a much slimmer physique. He stated he had lost 40 pounds, in November 2011, Hill, along with Sam Worthington and Dwight Howard, starred in commercials for the video game Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 3, making his first appearance with his new look
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Hill at the
Toronto International Film Festival 2011.
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Hill at 2010
San Diego Comic Con International
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Hill at a screening for
This Is the End in June 2013
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David Cross
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Cross was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Barry and Susi, the former of whom emigrated from Leeds, England. Six months after his birth, Cross family moved to Florida, after additional moves to New York and Connecticut, the family settled back in Roswell, Georgia, where Cross remained for nearly a decade. Cross and his family were evicted from their home while living in Georgia and he spent some time living in motels and at friends homes while growing up. He has two sisters and once bailed his youngest sibling out of jail, at age 17, Cross began performing stand-up comedy. The day after he graduated from Northside High School in Atlanta, lacking a plan, he drifted, working briefly for a lawn care company on Long Island. Later, he enrolled at Emerson College in Boston and he would drop out after only a semester, but during his time there, Cross joined This is Pathetic, a college sketch group, where he met John Ennis. In the summer of 1985, the two aspiring actors took a trip to Los Angeles, although this did not significantly further their acting careers. In Boston, Cross began to perform more regularly. From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, Boston had a comedy scene. He recalls that it was a loud-, dumb-, pandering-, racist-, in 1990, a new comedy scene began to emerge at the famous comedy club chain called Catch a Rising Star. Alongside Janeane Garofalo, Louis C. K. and other comics, Cross formed the sketch comedy group Cross Comedy with 12 other performers, and they put on a new show every week. They were known for playing tricks on the audience, such as introducing fake comics or planting fake hecklers, Cross became increasingly focused on his comedy work. Cross performed at the comedy club Un-Cabaret in Los Angeles. Cross also starred in the Joe Frank program Jam, produced in 1999 and has recently worked with Joe Frank on radio shows for KCRWs Unfictional. Cross stand-up comedy blends political commentary and satire, in 1999, he performed a one-hour comedy special, The Pride Is Back, on HBO. He has released three recordings, Shut Up You Fucking Baby and its Not Funny, and Bigger and Blackerer. Cross stand up material was featured in Comedy Centrals animated series Shorties Watchin Shorties, in 2004, Shut Up You Fucking Baby. was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. In 2003, he released his first tour film Let America Laugh and was named #85 on Comedy Centrals list of the 100 greatest stand-ups of all time and he appears on Un-Cabaret compilation albums, including Freak Weather Feels Different and The Good, the Bad and the Drugly
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Cross at the
Arrested Development 2011 reunion
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Cross at the 2007 Plug Awards
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Cross at the 2009
Brooklyn Book Festival
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Brad Pitt
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William Bradley Brad Pitt in Shawnee Oklahoma. He is an American actor and producer and he has received multiple awards and nominations including an Academy Award as producer under his own company Plan B Entertainment. Pitt first gained recognition as a hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise. His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with the dramas A River Runs Through It and Legends of the Fall, Pitt starred in the cult film Fight Club and the heist film Oceans Eleven and its sequels, Oceans Twelve and Oceans Thirteen. As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry, as well as the worlds most attractive man and his personal life is also the subject of wide publicity. Divorced from actress Jennifer Aniston, to whom he was married for five years and they have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally. In September 2016, Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt, William Bradley Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to William Bill Alvin Pitt, manager of a trucking company, and Jane Etta, a school counsellor. The family soon moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he lived together with his siblings, Douglas. Pitt has described Springfield as Mark Twain country, Jesse James country, having grown up with a lot of hills, Pitt attended Kickapoo High School, where he was a member of the golf, swimming and tennis teams. He participated in the schools Key and Forensics clubs, in school debates, following his graduation from high school, Pitt enrolled in the University of Missouri in 1982, majoring in journalism with a focus on advertising. As graduation approached, Pitt did not feel ready to settle down and he loved films—a portal into different worlds for me—and, since films were not made in Missouri, he decided to go to where they were made. Two weeks before earning his degree, Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles, while struggling to establish himself in Los Angeles, Pitt took lessons from acting coach Roy London. Pitts acting career began in 1987, with uncredited parts in the films No Way Out, No Mans Land and his television debut came in May 1987 with a two-episode role on the NBC soap opera Another World. In November of the same year Pitt had a guest appearance on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains and he appeared in four episodes of the CBS primetime series Dallas between December 1987 and February 1988 as Randy, the boyfriend of Charlie Wade. Later in 1988, Pitt made a guest appearance on the Fox police drama 21 Jump Street, in the same year, the Yugoslavian–U. S. Co-production The Dark Side of the Sun gave Pitt his first leading film role, the film was shelved at the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence, and was not released until 1997. He made guest appearances on television series Head of the Class, Freddys Nightmares, Thirtysomething, and Growing Pains. Pitt was cast as Billy Canton, an addict who takes advantage of a young runaway in the 1990 NBC television movie Too Young to Die. the story of an abused teenager sentenced to death for a murder
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Pitt at the premiere of
Fury in Washington D.C, October 2014
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Pitt at the 2007
Palm Springs International Film Festival
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Pitt,
George Clooney,
Matt Damon,
Andy García,
Julia Roberts, cast of
Ocean's Eleven and director
Steven Soderbergh in December 2001
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Pitt in 2001
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Hans Zimmer
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Hans Florian Zimmer is a German composer and record producer. Since the 1980s, he has composed music for over 150 films, Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States. He is the head of the music division at DreamWorks studios and works with other composers through the company that he founded, Remote Control Productions. His studio in Santa Monica, California has a range of computer equipment and keyboards. Zimmers works are notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements and he has received four Grammy Awards, three Classical BRIT Awards, two Golden Globes, and an Academy Award. He was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, Zimmer was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. As a young child, he lived in Königstein-Falkenstein, where he played the piano at home but had piano lessons only briefly as he disliked the discipline of formal lessons and he moved to London as a teenager, where he attended Hurtwood House school. In an interview with Mashable in February 2013, he said of his parents My mother was very musical, basically a musician and my father was an engineer and an inventor. In an interview with the German television station ZDF in 2006, he commented, My father died when I was just a child, and I escaped somehow into the music and music has been my best friend. In a speech at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival, Zimmer stated that he is Jewish, Zimmer began his career playing keyboards and synthesizers in the 1970s, with the band Krakatoa. He worked with the Buggles, a new band formed in London in 1977 with Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes. Zimmer can be seen briefly in the Buggles music video for the 1979 song Video Killed the Radio Star, after working with the Buggles, he started to work for the Italian group Krisma, a new wave band formed in 1976 with Maurizio Arcieri and Christina Moser. He was a featured synthesist for Krisma’s third album, Cathode Mamma and he has also worked with the band Helden. Both Zimmer and Cann, were invited to be part of the Spanish group Mecano for a performance in Segovia in 1984. Two songs from this concert were included in the Mecano, En Concierto album released in 1985 only in Spain, in 1985, he contributed to the Shriekback album Oil & Gold. While living in London, Zimmer wrote advertising jingles for Air-Edel Associates, in the 1980s, Zimmer partnered with Stanley Myers, a prolific film composer who wrote the scores for over sixty films. Zimmer and Myers co–founded the London–based Lillie Yard recording studio, together, Myers and Zimmer worked on fusing the traditional orchestral sound with electronic instruments. Some of the films on which Zimmer and Myers worked are Moonlighting, Success is the Best Revenge, Insignificance, Zimmers first solo score was Terminal Exposure for director Nico Mastorakis in 1987, for which he also wrote the songs
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Hans Zimmer receiving his star at the
Hollywood Walk of Fame (2010)
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Hans Zimmer in 2008
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Zimmer's Star on the "Boulevard der Stars" in
Berlin
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DreamWorks Animation
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DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. is an American animation studio that is a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast. It is based in Glendale, California and produces animated feature films, television programs, DreamWorks Animation currently maintains its Glendale campus, as well as satellite studios in India and China. On August 22,2016, NBCUniversal acquired DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 billion, as of January 2017, its feature films have grossed $13.83 billion worldwide, with a $419.2 million average gross per film. Shrek 2 is among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time, although the studio also made traditionally animated films in the past, as well as stop-motion co-production with Aardman Animations, all of their films now use computer animation. The studio has received three Academy Awards, as well as 22 Emmy and numerous Annie Awards, and multiple Golden Globe & BAFTA nominations, in recent years, the animation studio has acquired and created new divisions in an effort to diversify beyond the high-risk movie business. To build the talent base, Spielberg brought over artists from his London-based studio, Amblimation, some of Amblimations artists came to DreamWorks in 1995, when the studios last feature was completed, with the rest doing so following the studios closure in 1997. In 1995, DreamWorks signed a deal with Pacific Data Images to form subsidiary PDI. This new unit would produce computer-generated feature films, beginning with Antz in 1998, in the same year DreamWorks SKG produced The Prince of Egypt, which used both CGI technology and traditional animation techniques. In 1997, DreamWorks partnered with Aardman Animations, a British stop-motion animation studio, to co-produce and distribute Chicken Run, two years later they extended the deal for an additional four films. With Aardman doing stop-motion, they covered all three styles, besides traditional and computer animation. This partnership had DreamWorks participating in the production of films in Bristol. Three years later, DreamWorks SKG created DreamWorks Animation, a new division that would regularly produce both types of animated feature films. The same year DW acquired majority interest in PDI, and reformed it into PDI/DreamWorks, in 2001, Shrek was released and went on to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. Due to the success of CGI animated films, DWA decided the year to exit hand-drawn animation business after the next two of total four hand-drawn films. Beginning with Shrek 2, all released films, other than some co-produced with Aardman, were expected to be produced with CGI, the releases of Shrek 2 and Shark Tale also made DWA the first studio to produce two CGI animated features in a single year. The animation division was spun off into a publicly traded company named DreamWorks Animation SKG, Katzenberg headed the new division, while Spielberg and Geffen remained on board as investors and consultants. DWA also inherited interests in PDI/DreamWorks and they made an agreement with their former parent to distribute all of their films until they deliver twelve new films, or December 12,2010, whichever came last. On January 31,2006, DWA entered into an agreement with Paramount Pictures
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Entrance to DreamWorks Animation campus in Glendale
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2004–present logo
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Pacific Data Images
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Pacific Data Images was an American computer animation production company that was bought by DreamWorks SKG in 2000. It was renamed PDI/DreamWorks and was half of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. the public company formed by merging PDI, founded in 1980 by Carl Rosendah, PDI was one of the pioneers of the computer animation. PDI was founded in 1980 by Carl Rosendahl with a loan of $25,000 from his father and he was joined in 1981 by Richard Chuang and in 1982 by Glenn Entis. Richard and Glenn wrote the foundation of the computer animation software that was to be used for the next two decades. They started work on 3D software at the end of 1981, the initial goal of the company was Entertainment using 3D computer animation. By the time PDI reached its 25th anniversary in 2005, it had completed over 1000 projects, in January 2015 DreamWorks announced they were shutting down the studio. The first computer at PDI was a DEC PDP 11/44 with 128 kilobytes of memory and this was a lot of memory given that the computer had only 64 kilobytes of address space. It had a 20 megabyte disk, attached to this was a $65,000 framebuffer which had a resolution of 512×512 and was 32 bits deep. The first 3D image rendered at PDI was done on March 12,1982, the image was simply a 4 by 4 by 4 grid of spheres of varying colors. The spheres were not polygonal, they were rendered and were fully anti-aliased. The resulting image was 512 by 480 by 24 which took 2 minutes to render, the PDP-11 was soon replaced by a DEC VAX-11/780 and later PDI shifted to another superminicomputer called the Ridge32. This machine was 2–4 times faster than the VAX-11/780 at a fraction of the cost, all of these tools were written in C and deployed on a variety of machines running various flavors of Unix. The initial investment to start the company was $250,000 and its original offices were in Sunnyvale, California working out of a garage owned by Carls father. PDI moved to its first real offices in 1985, to its offices in 1995. The growth of the company was financed solely through profit, the company was run as an open book, monthly financial reviews were shared with the entire company, and a detailed monthly financial report was released. Money was never out of the company which maintained a 7% investment in R&D. PDI was debt-free when acquired by DreamWorks in 2000. This was quite an accomplishment for a low margin business with a lot of risk. PDIs first client was Rede Globo, Brazils largest TV network and this gave PDI the major client they needed to fund the building of most of the early software
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PDI's founder Carl Rosendahl in 2009
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Former PDI/DreamWorks headquarters at Redwood City's Pacific Shores Center before the company moved in 2012 to larger facilities in another building in the same office complex.
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Paramount Pictures
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Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and these fortunate few would become the first movie stars. Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company and Pathé, followed by the Nordisk Film company. It is the last major film studio headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company, hungarian-born founder, Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time. By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success and its first film was Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth, which starred Sarah Bernhardt. That same year, another aspiring producer, Jesse L. Lasky, opened his Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, the Lasky company hired as their first employee a stage director with virtually no film experience, Cecil B. DeMille, who would find a site in Hollywood, near Los Angeles, for his first feature film. Hodkinson and actor, director, producer Hobart Bosworth had started production of a series of Jack London movies, Paramount was the first successful nationwide distributor, until this time, films were sold on a statewide or regional basis which had proved costly to film producers. Also, Famous Players and Lasky were privately owned while Paramount was a corporation, in 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky Company, and Paramount. Zukor and Lasky bought Hodkinson out of Paramount, and merged the three companies into one, with only the exhibitor-owned First National as a rival, Famous Players-Lasky and its Paramount Pictures soon dominated the business. It was this system that gave Paramount a leading position in the 1920s and 1930s, the driving force behind Paramounts rise was Zukor. In 1926, Zukor hired independent producer B. P. Schulberg and they purchased the Robert Brunton Studios, a 26-acre facility at 5451 Marathon Street for US$1 million. In 1927, Famous Players-Lasky took the name Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, three years later, because of the importance of the Publix Theatres, it became Paramount Publix Corporation. In 1928, Paramount began releasing Inkwell Imps, animated cartoons produced by Max, the Fleischers, veterans in the animation industry, were among the few animation producers capable of challenging the prominence of Walt Disney. The Paramount newsreel series Paramount News ran from 1927 to 1957, Paramount was also one of the first Hollywood studios to release what were known at that time as talkies, and in 1929, released their first musical, Innocents of Paris
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Logo used as of 2012
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Paramount Pictures logo, based on a design by founder
William Wadsworth Hodkinson, from 1917 to 1967.
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Lasky's original studio, a.k.a.: "The Barn"; as it appeared in the mid-1920s. The Taft building, built in 1923, is visible in the background.
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The original Paramount logo seen on its 1930s films and
Popeye shorts.
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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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Fairall in 1922
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Fairall's 3D camera
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Audience wearing special glasses watch a 3D "stereoscopic film" at the Telekinema on the South Bank in London during the
Festival of Britain 1951.
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Shooting of the film
Hidden Universe 3D with
IMAX camera.
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Superhero film
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Most superhero movies are based on superhero comics. Almost immediately after superheroes rose to prominence in comic books, they were adapted into Saturday film serials aimed at children, serials such as Adventures of Captain Marvel, Batman, The Phantom, Captain America, and Superman followed. Another early superhero film was Ōgon Bat, a Japanese film starring Sonny Chiba based on the 1930 Kamishibai superhero Ōgon Bat, other successful entries emerged throughout the 1980s, from Richard Lesters Superman II and Paul Verhoevens Robocop to Tim Burtons Batman. Marvel Comics Captain America did not have a release and Roger Cormans The Fantastic Four was released neither theatrically nor on home video. Alex Proyas The Crow became the first independent comics superhero film that established a franchise, the success of The Crow catalyzed the release of a film version of Spawn, Image Comics leading character. The success of the darker Image Comics characters shifted the direction of comic book movies, Marvel soon released their films to become franchises, Men in Black and Blade. After Marvel bought Malibu Comics, Marvel and Columbia Pictures released the Men in Black film, the film became the first Marvel property to win an Oscar and the then highest-grossing comic book adaptation until the release of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man in 2002. Blade was also a mix of a traditional action film as well as darker superhero film with the title character having superpowers as well as carrying an arsenal of weaponry. The success of Blade began Marvels film success, and set the stage for further comic film adaptations. The success of the X-Men TV series had made 20th Century Fox license the rights in 1994. After the success of Men in Black in 1997, Columbia Pictures licensed the rights of Spider-Man in 1999. 20th Century Foxs X-Men became a franchise by its surprise hit. Later, one of the largest blockbusters of all time was released with Sam Raimis Spider-Man. One, Krrish 3, several non-action film oriented superhero films were released in the 2000s with varying ranges of success. Brad Birds The Incredibles for Pixar was a critically acclaimed digitally-animated family oriented superhero film, other hybrids include Sky High and Zoom which were fusions of the superhero and family film genres, My Super Ex-Girlfriend a combination of superhero film and a romantic comedy. Some series from the current and previous decades were also re-released, such as Superman II, bryan Singers Superman Returns is unique due to the fact that it is a sequel to the first two Superman films, yet also a reboot to the third and fourth films. The 2010s has generally continued the success of superhero films seen in the previous decade. In 2010, Matthew Vaughns adaption of Kick-Ass was released, followed by Iron Man 2 a month later,2011 releases included The Green Hornet, Green Lantern, and X-Men, First Class. Following references to the Avengers Initiative in the Iron Man films and The Incredible Hulk, Marvel released Thor on May 6,2011, followed by Captain America, the Avengers broke the box office record as the highest-grossing superhero film of all time
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Actor
Christopher Reeve, who played the eponymous character in the 1970s and 1980s
Superman films.
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Hugh Jackman, who has played
Wolverine in seven
X-Men films, remains the actor who has appeared as a single superhero the most times in film history.
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The cast of
The Avengers (2012), the most commercially successful superhero film
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Russia
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Russia, also officially the Russian Federation, is a country in Eurasia. The European western part of the country is more populated and urbanised than the eastern. Russias capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world, other urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a range of environments. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, the East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, in 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus ultimately disintegrated into a number of states, most of the Rus lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion. The Soviet Union played a role in the Allied victory in World War II. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the worlds first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the second largest economy, largest standing military in the world. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic, the Russian economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russias extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the producers of oil. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has been characterised as a potential superpower. The name Russia is derived from Rus, a state populated mostly by the East Slavs. However, this name became more prominent in the later history, and the country typically was called by its inhabitants Русская Земля. In order to distinguish this state from other states derived from it, it is denoted as Kievan Rus by modern historiography, an old Latin version of the name Rus was Ruthenia, mostly applied to the western and southern regions of Rus that were adjacent to Catholic Europe. The current name of the country, Россия, comes from the Byzantine Greek designation of the Kievan Rus, the standard way to refer to citizens of Russia is Russians in English and rossiyane in Russian. There are two Russian words which are translated into English as Russians
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Kievan Rus' in the 11th century
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Flag
Russia
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The
Baptism of Kievans, by
Klavdy Lebedev
Russia
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Sergius of Radonezh blessing
Dmitry Donskoy in
Trinity Sergius Lavra, before the
Battle of Kulikovo, depicted in a painting by
Ernst Lissner
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IMAX 3D
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IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of cinema projection standards developed in Canada by Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr, and William C. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size, since 2002, some feature films have been converted into IMAX format for displaying in IMAX theatres and some have also been partially shot in IMAX. IMAX is the most widely used system for special-venue film presentations, as of June 2016, there were 1,102 IMAX theatres in 69 countries. The desire to increase the impact of film has a long history. In 1929, Fox introduced Fox Grandeur, the first 70 mm film format, in the 1950s, the potential of 35 mm film to provide wider projected images was explored in the processes of CinemaScope and VistaVision, following multi-projector systems such as Cinerama. While impressive, Cinerama was difficult to install, during Expo 67 in Montreal, the National Film Board of Canadas In the Labyrinth and Fergusons Man and the Polar Regions both used multi-projector, multi-screen systems. Each encountered technical difficulties led them to found a company called Multiscreen. As it became clear that a single, large-screen image had more impact than multiple smaller ones and was a viable product direction. An IMAX 3D theatre also is in operation near the former Expo 67 site at the Montreal Science Centre in the Port of Old Montreal, tiger Child, the first IMAX film, was demonstrated at Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan. The first permanent IMAX installation was built at the Cinesphere theatre at Ontario Place in Toronto and it debuted in May 1971, showing the film North of Superior. The installation is still in place, however, Ontario Place is on hiatus for redevelopment, during Expo 74 in Spokane, Washington, an IMAX screen that measured 27 m ×20 m was featured in the US Pavilion. It became the first IMAX Theatre to not be partnered with any brand of movie theaters. About five million visitors viewed the screen, which covered the total visual field when looking directly forward. This created a sensation of motion in most viewers, and motion sickness in some, much to the dismay of the majority of Spokane and the disapproval of the IMAX Corporation itself, it will be demolished because of its inability to project films digitally. An IMAX 3D & Digital theater was built in Spokane. However, its screen-size is less than half that of the original, due to protests, the IMAX Corporation has been able to remodel the area with the city, and turn the U. S. Pavilion itself into the first permanent outdoor IMAX screen, the first permanent IMAX Dome installation, the Eugene Heikoff and Marilyn Jacobs Heikoff Dome Theatre at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, opened in San Diegos Balboa Park in 1973, the first permanent IMAX 3D theatre was built in Vancouver, British Columbia for Transitions at Expo 86, and was in use until September 30,2009
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Audiences view a film using 3D glasses.
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Logo for IMAX used since 1970.
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An IMAX cinema camera, displayed at the National Media Museum, Bradford, U.K.
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The 15 kW
Xenon short-arc lamp used in IMAX projectors.
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San Diego Comic-Con International
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San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International, San Diego and it is a four-day event held during the summer at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the opening of the event, there is a preview for professionals, exhibitors. Comic-Con International also produces two other conventions, WonderCon, held in Los Angeles, and the Alternative Press Expo and it is also the home of the Will Eisner Awards. In 2010, it filled the San Diego Convention Center to capacity with more than 130,000 attendees, the convention was founded in 1970 by Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk, and Greg Bear. Detroit, Michigan-born, comics fan Shel Dorf, had, in the mid-1960s, mounted the Detroit Triple-Fan Fairs, one of the first commercial comics-fan conventions. When he moved to San Diego, California, in 1970, he organized a convention on March 21,1970. Dorf went on to be associated with the convention as president or manager, variously, Alf co-chaired the first convention with Krueger and became chairman in 1971. Following the initial gathering, Dorfs first three-day San Diego comics convention, other locations in the conventions early years included the El Cortez Hotel, the University of California, San Diego, and Golden Hall, before being moved to the San Diego Convention Center in 1991. I was quietly walking the floor stunned and in awe of just how much bigger it really was, the convention is organized by a panel of 13 board members,16 to 20 full-time and part-time workers, and 80 volunteers who assist via committees. Comic Con International is an organization, and proceeds of the event go to funding it, as well as the Alternative Press Expo. The convention logo was designed by Richard Bruning and Josh Beatman in 1995, in September 2010, the convention announced that it would stay in San Diego through 2015. In 2015, working with Lionsgate, a channel was created to host Comic-Con related content. According to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, the convention has a regional economic impact of $162.8 million. Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, there are previews of upcoming feature films, like most comic-book conventions, Comic-Con features a large floorspace for exhibitors. These include media companies such as studios and TV networks, as well as comic-book dealers. And like most comics conventions, Comic-Con includes an area, as well as the Artists Alley where comics artists can sign autographs. Despite the name, artists alleys can include writers and even models, academics and comic industry professionals annually hold the Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con, presenting scholarly studies on comics as a medium
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Signs outside Hall H
San Diego Comic-Con International
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Comic-Con International: San Diego: Creator
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Comic Con crowds in 2011 as seen from a helicopter – Panorama.
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Comic-Con crowd inside the second floor of the convention center in 2011 awaiting the exhibition hall to open.
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Supervillain
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A supervillain is a variant of the villainous stock character archetype commonly found in American comic books, sometimes possessing superhuman abilities. A supervillain is the antithesis of a superhero, Supervillains are often used as foils to present a daunting challenge to a superhero. Other traits may include megalomania and possession of considerable resources to further their aims, many supervillains share some typical characteristics of real world dictators, gangsters, and terrorists, with aspirations of world domination or universal leadership. Some notable examples of female supervillains are Catwoman, Mystique, Harley Quinn, Talia al Ghul, Supervillains are sometimes members of supervillain groups, such as the Sinister Six, the Suicide Squad, the Brotherhood of Mutants, the Injustice League, and the Masters of Evil. The dictionary definition of supervillain at Wiktionary Media related to Supervillains at Wikimedia Commons
Supervillain
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Supervillains from the 1966 film
Batman, a film adaptation of the comic books based on
Batman and the 1960s
television show of the same name.
Supervillain
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New York Comic Con 2014 - A fan dressed as
General Zod
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Superhero
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A female superhero is sometimes called a superheroine. Fiction centered on characters, especially in American comic books since the 1930s, is known as superhero fiction. By most definitions, characters do not require actual supernatural or superhuman powers or phenomena to be deemed superheroes, some superheroes use their powers to counter daily crime while also combating threats against humanity from supervillains, who are their criminal counterparts. Often at least one of these supervillains will be the superheros archenemy, some long-running superheroes such as Iron Man, Captain America, Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and Spider-Man have a rogues gallery of many villains. The word superhero dates to at least 1917, antecedents of the archetype include such folkloric heroes as Robin Hood, who adventured in distinctive clothing. The 1903 play The Scarlet Pimpernel and its spinoffs popularized the idea of a masked avenger, during the 1940s there were many superheroes, and only a few of these were female. The Flash, Green Lantern and Blue Beetle debuted in this era, most of the other female costumed crime-fighters during this era lacked superpowers. The most iconic comic book superheroine, who debuted during the Golden Age, is Wonder Woman, inspired by the Amazons of Greek mythology, she was created by psychologist William Moulton Marston, with help and inspiration from his wife Elizabeth and their mutual lover Olive Byrne. Wonder Womans first appearance was in All Star Comics #8, published by All-American Publications, in 1952, Osamu Tezukas manga Tetsuwan Atom was published. The series focused upon a robot boy built by a scientist to replace his deceased son, the 1950s saw the Silver Age of Comics. During this era DC introduced the likes of Batwoman in 1956, Supergirl, Miss Arrowette,1958 saw the debut of superhero Moonlight Mask on Japanese television. In 1963, Astro Boy was adapted into a highly influential anime television series, Phantom Agents in 1964 focused on ninjas working for the Japanese government and would be the foundation for Sentai-type series. Another important event was the debut of Mazinger Z by Go Nagai, Go Nagai also wrote the manga Cutey Honey in 1973, although the Magical Girl genre already existed, Nagais manga introduced Transformation sequences that would become a staple of Magical Girl media. The dark Skull Man manga would later get a television adaptation, the protagonist was redesigned resemble a grasshopper, becoming the renowned first masked hero of the Kamen Rider series. Kamen Rider is a motorcycle riding hero in an insect-like costume, both major publishers began introducing new superheroines with a more distinct feminist theme as part of their origin stories or character development. Examples include Big Barda, Power Girl, and the Huntress by DC comics, and from Marvel, the second Black Widow, Shanna the She-Devil, and The Cat. In 1975 Shotaro Ishinomoris Himitsu Sentai Gorenger debuted on what is now TV Asahi, it brought the concepts of multi-colored teams, in 1978, Toei adapted Spider-Man into a live-action series. In subsequent decades, popular characters like Dazzler, She-Hulk, Elektra, Catwoman, Witchblade, Spider-Girl, Batgirl, volume 4 of the X-Men comic book series featured an all-female team as part of the Marvel NOW. branding initiative in 2013
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BlackHood
Superhero
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Flame 002
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Publisher
Standard Comics '
America's Best Comics vol. 3, #1 (issue #7; Oct. 1943), a typical example of a
World War II -era
Golden Age comic, featuring superheroes battling contemporaneous, cartoon-stereotype depictions of the three
Axis powers leaders. Cover art by
Alex Schomburg.
Superhero
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Firefly archie
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Lex Luthor
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Alexander Joseph Lex Luthor is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Lex Luthor first appeared in Action Comics #23 and has endured as the archenemy of Superman. The character is a wealthy, power-mad American business magnate, engineer, philanthropist to the city of Metropolis, given his high status as a supervillain, he also comes into conflict with Batman and other superheroes in the DC Universe. Lex Luthor has traditionally lacked superpowers or an identity and typically appears with a bald head. He periodically wears his Warsuit, a battle suit giving him enhanced strength, flight. Lex Luthor is the owner of a corporation called LexCorp, with Mercy Graves as his personal assistant, Luthor has carefully crafted his public persona in order to avoid suspicion and arrest. He is well known for his philanthropy, donating vast sums of money to Metropolis over the years, funding parks, foundations, and charities. The character was ranked 4th on IGNs list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time, Luthor is one of a few genre-crossing villains whose adventures take place in a world in which the ordinary laws of nature are slightly suspended. In his first appearance, Action Comics #23, Luthor is depicted as a genius and is referred to only by his surname. He resides in a city suspended by a dirigible and plots to provoke a war between two European nations. Lois Lane and Clark Kent investigate, which results in Lois being kidnapped, Luthor battles Superman with a green ray but Luthor is ultimately defeated by him, and Lois is rescued. Superman destroys Luthors dirigible with him still on it, implying Luthor may have died, Luthor returns in Superman #4 and steals a weapon from the U. S. Army that is capable of causing earthquakes. Superman battles and defeats Luthor, and the device is destroyed by Superman. The scientist who made the device commits suicide to prevent its reinvention. In a story in the issue, Luthor is also shown to have created a city on the sunken Lost Continent of Pacifo and to have recreated prehistoric monsters. Superman thwarts his plans, and Luthor appears to have killed by the dinosaurs he created. Luthor returns in Superman #5 with a plan to place hypnotic gas in the offices of influential people and he intends to throw the nation into a depression with the help of corrupt financier Moseley, but the story ends with Superman defeating him. Luthors obsessive hatred of Superman came later in the characters development, in Luthors earliest appearances, he is shown as a middle-aged man with a full head of red hair
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Action Comics #23 (1940) is Lex Luthor's first appearance. Art by Joe Shuster.
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Art by
Pete Woods
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The Man of Steel #4 (1986). Cover art by
John Byrne.
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Supergirl/Team Luthor Special #1. Cover art by Kerry Gammill.
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Brainiac (comics)
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Brainiac is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of Superman. Brainiac is typically depicted as an extraterrestrial android and he is one of Supermans primary enemies, and is responsible for shrinking and stealing Kandor, the capital city of Supermans home planet Krypton. Due to multiple revisions of DCs continuity, several variations of Brainiac have appeared, most incarnations of Brainiac depict him as a green-skinned being in humanoid form. He is bald, with a set of linked electrode-like objects protruding from his skull, the characters name appears to be a portmanteau of the word brain and the initialism ENIAC, the name of an early computer. In 2009, Brainiac was ranked as IGNs 17th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time, Brainiac first appeared in Action Comics #242, and was created by Otto Binder and Al Plastino. He is originally only for his having shrunk the bottle city of Kandor, for having a shrinking ray. In subsequent appearances in early period, Brainiac is used mostly as a plot device rather than as a featured villain of the month. Brainiacs next appearance is mostly behind the scenes, when he tries to kill Lois Lane and Lana Lang, prompting Superman to give Lois, but the villain remains unseen except as a plot twist at the end of the story. Superman soon defeats Brainiac and sends him off into the distant past, in Superboy #106, Superman as a baby meets Brainiac and it is explained that Brainiac looks the same as he has a 200-year life span. It is revealed that he came from a planet called Bryak and after a voyage in space and he intends to get people from other planets to repopulate Bryak, and he will rule them. Brainiacs legacy was revealed in Action Comics #276, in a Legion of Super-Heroes back-up story and this story introduced a green-skinned, blond-haired teenager named Querl Dox, or Brainiac 5, who claimed to be Brainiacs 30th century descendant. Unlike his ancestor, Brainiac 5 used his intellect for the forces of good and joined the Legion alongside Supergirl. His home planet was given variously as Bryak, Yod or Colu. This was never referred to again. In Superman #167, it was retconned that Brainiac was a created by the Computer Tyrants of Colu as a spy for them to invade other worlds. Brainiacs distinctive gridwork of red diodes across his head are also explained and he was created with visible electric terminals of his sensory nerves that he cannot function without. Luthor discovers that the Computers could have him a twelfth-level intellect, but gave him a tenth-level. However Brainiac tricks Luthor by making a device that hypnotizes Luthor, explaining the 1961 introduction of Brainiacs descendant Brainiac 5, his biological disguise included an adopted son, a young Coluan boy who was given the name Brainiac 2. The boy, whose name was Vril Dox, went on to lead a revolt against the Computer Tyrants, Brainiac sees a monument to this when he returns to Colu
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Brainiac battling
Superman. Promotional art for
Superman vol. 2, #219, by
Ed Benes.
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Brainiac with his descendant
Brainiac 8, as they discuss his use of organics. Art by Matthew Clark.
Brainiac (comics)
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Brainiac in Superman: The Animated Series and in
Superman: Brainiac Attacks.
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Brainiac combined with Luthor.
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Jor-El
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Jor-El is a fictional character appearing in titles published by DC Comics. A Kryptonian, Jor-El is Supermans biological father, the husband of Lara, and he foresaw the planets fate but was unable to convince his colleagues in time to save the inhabitants. Jor-El was able to save his infant son Kal-El by sending him in a homemade spaceship towards Earth just moments before Krypton exploded, after constructing his Fortress of Solitude, Superman honored his deceased biological parents with a statue of Jor-El and Lara holding up a globe of Krypton. Physically, Jor-El is usually portrayed as resembling his son Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman. Created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, Jor-El first appeared in a comic strip in 1939 with Superman. Shuster and Siegel, Supermans creators, first introduced a character named Jor-L in 1936, Jor-El was first referred to indirectly in Action Comics #1 in 1938, which only mentioned a scientist who sends his son to Earth. He made his first full-fledged appearance in the Superman newspaper comic strip in 1939 and his name first appeared as being spelled Jor-el in the Superman novel The Adventures of Superman written by George Lowther. Later comic books capitalized the E in El, Jor-Els first appearance in an actual comic book was in More Fun Comics #101. However, Jor-El was the father of the Silver Age version of Superman, a retelling of Supermans origin story in 1948 first delved into detail about Jor-El. However, his formal and more familiar Silver Age aspects were firmly established starting in the late 1950s, over the course of the next several decades, there was a definitive summarization in the miniseries World of Krypton in 1979. This device got him a seat on the Science Council, Kryptons ruling body and he lived in Kryptons major city of Kryptonopolis. Even before Jor-Els birth, the El family was renowned across Krypton for its various contributions to Kryptonian society. Jor-El had two brothers, Zor-El, who lived in Argo City and eventually became the father of Kara Zor-El, alias Supergirl, and a twin brother named Nim-El. In several stories, Jor-Els father was established as Jor-El I, Jor-El eventually met and married Lara, the daughter of Lor-Van and a young astronaut in Kryptons fledgling space program, the two had an infant son, Kal-El. When Krypton began experiencing a series of earthquakes, Jor-El investigated, however, the Council was dismissive of Jor-Els findings and refused to comply with his plan. Some even accused him of treachery, trying to cause chaos so he could take over, around the time he discovered his homeworlds impending doom, Jor-El met his own son Kal-El without realizing it. There were supporters of Jor-Els theory, but when a ship was constructed to evacuate them, frustrated, Jor-El continued his work on space travel on his own, hoping to build a spacecraft to save his own family. This work included launching several smaller test rockets, one of these included the family dog
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The latest incarnation of Jor-El, as featured on Superman #0 (2013). Art by
Kenneth Rocafort.
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Marlon Brando as Jor-El, with Kal-El played by Lee Quigley.
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Tom Welling as young Jor-El in
Smallville in the show's third season episode "Relic".
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Julian Sands as Jor-El in the ninth season
Smallville episode "Kandor".
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Marlon Brando
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Marlon Brando, Jr. was an American actor, film director and activist. He is credited with bringing realism to film acting and he helped to popularize the Stanislavski system of acting, studying with Stella Adler in the 1940s. Julius Caesar, The Wild One, Reflections in a Golden Eye, Last Tango in Paris, Brando was also an activist for many causes, notably the Civil Rights Movement and various Native American movements. Brando received Academy Award nominations for playing Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata, Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewiczs 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeares Julius Caesar, and Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara, an adaption of James Micheners 1954 novel. Brando was included in a list of Top Ten Money Making Stars three times in the 1950s, coming in at number 10 in 1954, number 6 in 1955, the 1960s proved to be a fallow decade for Brando. The Godfather was then one of the most commercially successful films of all time, Brando took a four-year hiatus before appearing in The Missouri Breaks. After this, he was content with being a highly paid actor in cameo roles, such as in Superman and The Formula. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Brando was paid a record $3.7 million and 11. 75% of the profits for 13 days work on Superman. Brando was ranked by the American Film Institute as the fourth-greatest movie star among male movie stars whose screen debuts occurred in or before 1950. He was one of three professional actors, along with Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe, named in 1999 by Time magazine as one of its 100 Most Important People of the Century. He died of respiratory failure on July 1,2004, at age 80, Brando was born on April 3,1924, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Marlon Brando, Sr. a pesticide and chemical feed manufacturer, and Dorothy Julia. Brando had two sisters, Jocelyn Brando and Frances. His ancestry included German, Dutch, English, and Irish and his patrilineal immigrant ancestor, Johann Wilhelm Brandau, arrived in New York in the early 1700s from the Palatinate in Germany. Brando was raised a Christian Scientist, however, she was an alcoholic and often had to be brought home from Chicago bars by her husband. In his autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me, Brando expressed sadness when writing about his mother, dodie and Brandos father eventually joined Alcoholics Anonymous. Brando harbored far more enmity for his father, stating, I was his namesake and he enjoyed telling me I couldnt do anything right. He had a habit of telling me I would never amount to anything, Brandos parents moved to Evanston, Illinois, when his fathers work took him to Chicago, but separated when Brando was 11 years old. His mother took the three children to Santa Ana, California, where they lived with her mother, in 1937, Brandos parents reconciled and moved together to Libertyville, Illinois, a small town north of Chicago
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Brando in 1948.
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A 24-year-old Marlon Brando on the set of the Broadway production of
A Streetcar Named Desire, 1948.
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Brando as
Emiliano Zapata in a trailer for the 1952 film Viva Zapata!
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Marlon Brando with
Eva Marie Saint in the trailer for
On the Waterfront (1954)
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Superman (1978 film)
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Superman is a 1978 superhero film directed by Richard Donner and based on the DC Comics character of the same name. The film is a British, Swiss, Panamanian and American joint venture, Film Export A. G. Dovemead Limited and International Film Productions. Superman stars Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Glenn Ford, Phyllis Thaxter, Jackie Cooper, Trevor Howard, Marc McClure, Terence Stamp, Valerie Perrine, and Ned Beatty. The film depicts Supermans origin, including his infancy as Kal-El of Krypton, Disguised as reporter Clark Kent, he adopts a mild-mannered disposition in Metropolis and develops a romance with Lois Lane, while battling the villainous Lex Luthor. Several directors, most notably Guy Hamilton, and screenwriters, were associated with the project before Richard Donner was hired to direct, Tom Mankiewicz was drafted in to rewrite the script and was given a creative consultant credit. It was decided to film both Superman and its sequel Superman II simultaneously, with principal photography beginning in March 1977 and ending in October 1978. Tensions arose between Donner and the producers, and a decision was made to stop filming the sequel, of which 75 percent had already been completed, and finish the first film. It was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Film Editing, Best Music, and Best Sound Mixing, groundbreaking in its use of special effects and science fiction/fantasy storytelling, the films legacy presaged the mainstream popularity of Hollywoods superhero film franchises. On the planet Krypton, using evidence provided by scientist Jor-El, the Council sentences attempted insurrectionists General Zod, Ursa, for this, Zod swears revenge on Jor-El and his family. Jor-El, despite his eminence, is unable to convince the Council that Krypton will soon be destroyed when its red supergiant sun goes supernova. To save his infant son, Kal-El, Jor-El launches a spacecraft containing him toward Earth, shortly after the launch, Kryptons sun explodes, destroying the planet. The ship crash lands on Earth near Smallville, Kansas, Kal-El, who is now three years old, is found by Jonathan and Martha Kent, who are astonished when he is able to lift their truck. They take him to their farm and raise him as their own, at 18, soon after Jonathans death due to a heart attack, Clark hears a psychic call and discovers a glowing crystal in the remains of his spacecraft. It compels him to travel to the Arctic, where the crystal builds the Fortress of Solitude, inside, a holographic vision of Jor-El appears and explains Clarks origins, educating him on his powers and responsibilities. He meets and develops a romantic attraction to co-worker Lois Lane. Clark also rescues Air Force One after a strike destroys the port outboard engine. He visits Lois at her home the night and takes her for a flight over the city. Meanwhile, criminal genius Lex Luthor has developed a plan to make a fortune in real estate by buying large amounts of barren desert land, after learning that the U. S Army and U. S
Superman (1978 film)
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Theatrical release poster by
Bob Peak
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Publicity still emulating screen shot.
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Actual screen shot for comparison. Suit has greenish hue, for use with blue-screen effects.
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Alice Cooper
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Alice Cooper is an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spans over five decades. He has drawn equally from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre, the band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies. Furnier adopted the name as his own name in the 1970s. In 2011, he released Welcome 2 My Nightmare, his 19th album as a solo artist, in 2011, the original Alice Cooper band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Cooper is known for his social and witty persona offstage, with The Rolling Stone Album Guide calling him the worlds most beloved heavy metal entertainer. Away from music, Cooper is an actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and, since 2004. Cooper was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Ella Mae and his father was a preacher in The Church of Jesus Christ headquartered in Monongahela, Pennsylvania. He has English, Huguenot French, Irish, Scottish, and he was named after his uncle, Vincent Collier Furnier, and the writer Damon Runyon. His paternal grandfather, Thurman Sylvester Furnier, was an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ, Cooper was active in his church at the ages of 11 and 12. While growing up in Detroit, Cooper attended Washington Elementary School, in 1964, 16-year-old Furnier was eager to participate in the local annual Lettermans talent show, so he gathered fellow cross-country teammates to form a group for the show. Because they did not know how to play any instruments at the time, they dressed up like the Beatles and mimed their performance to Beatles songs. As a result of winning the talent show and loving the experience of being onstage and they soon renamed themselves The Spiders, featuring Furnier on vocals, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, John Tatum on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and John Speer on drums. Musically, the group was inspired by such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Kinks, the Doors. For the next year the band performed regularly around the Phoenix area with a huge black spiders web as their backdrop, in 1965, the Spiders recorded their first single, Why Dont You Love Me, with Furnier learning the harmonica for the song. The singles B-side track was the Marvin Gaye Tamla Records hit Hitch Hike, the single was recorded at Copper State Recording Studio and issued by local micro-imprint Santa Cruz Records. By 1967, the band had begun to make regular trips to Los Angeles to play shows. They soon renamed themselves Nazz and released the single Wonder Whos Lovin Her Now, backed with future Alice Cooper track Lay Down and Die, around this time, drummer John Speer was replaced by Neal Smith. By the end of the year, the band had relocated to Los Angeles, in 1968, the band learned that Todd Rundgren also had a band called Nazz, and found themselves in need of another stage name
Alice Cooper
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Cooper in
Glendale, Arizona in 2013.
Alice Cooper
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The group in 1973.
Alice Cooper
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Cooper (second from right) laughs at Mae West's words after the opening of her last movie in 1978.
Alice Cooper
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Cooper in 1978.
25.
Lois Lane
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Lois Lane is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, she first appeared in Action Comics #1, Lois is a reporter for the Metropolis newspaper, the Daily Planet, an award-winning journalist and the primary love interest of Superman. Her physical appearance was based on Joanne Carter, a model hired by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. For her character, Siegel was inspired by actress Glenda Farrell, Siegel took her name from actress Lola Lane. She was also influenced by the real-life journalist Nellie Bly, depictions of the character have varied spanning the comics and other media adaptations. The original Golden Age version of Lois Lane, as well as versions of her from the 1970s onwards, portrays Lois as a tough-as-nails journalist and intellectually equal to Superman. During the Silver Age of Comics, she was the star of Supermans Girl Friend, Lois Lane, beginning in 2015, she stars as the protagonist in the young adult novel series, Lois Lane, by writer Gwenda Bond. Lois is among the female comic book characters. She has appeared in various Superman media adaptations, Actress Noel Neill first portrayed Lois Lane in the 1940s Superman film series and late reprise her role in the 1950s television series Adventures of Superman. Margot Kidder played the character in four Superman films in the 1970s and 80s, Teri Hatcher portrayed her in the 1990s television series Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman and Erica Durance in the 00s series, Smallville. In the 2006 film Superman Returns, she was played by Kate Bosworth, the character was most recently portrayed by actress Amy Adams in the films Man of Steel and Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice. Lois Lane was one of the first female comic book characters introduced in the superhero comics, Lois is the daughter of Ella and Sam Lane. In earlier comics, her parents were farmers in a town called Pittsdale and she has one younger sibling, her sister Lucy Lane. Lois is a journalist for the Daily Planet, one of the best investigative reporters, in some stories, she has been shown obtaining superpowers and becoming a superhero. Some of her superhero identities are Superwoman and Red Tornado of Earth 2, aspects of Lois personality have varied over the years, depending on the comic book writers handling of the character and American social attitudes toward women at the time. In most incarnations, Lois has been depicted as a smart, determined, strong-willed and her physical appearance has varied over the years, depending either on contemporary fashion, or media adaptations. Traditionally in the comics, the character has shown with black hair, however, from the late 1980s through the 90s. In other media, shes been shown with blonde hair on the television series Smallville
Lois Lane
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The Earth-Two Lois Lane and Superman, from the cover of Action Comics #484 (June 1978). Art by
José Luis García-López and
Dick Giordano.
Lois Lane
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Art by
Gary Frank
Lois Lane
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Superman and Lois, from the cover of
Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #53 (November 1964). Art by
Kurt Schaffenberger.
Lois Lane
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Lois Lane as she appeared in
Bruce Timm 's
Superman: The Animated Series,
Justice League, and
Justice League Unlimited.
26.
Hal Jordan
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Hal Jordan, known as Green Lantern, is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created in 1959 by writer John Broome and artist Gil Kane, Hal Jordan is a reinvention of a previous character called Green Lantern that had appeared in 1940s comic books as the character Alan Scott. Hal Jordan is a member and occasionally leader of the police force called the Green Lantern Corps. He fights evil across the Universe with a ring that grants him a variety of superpowers, Hal Jordan ranked 7th on IGNs in the Top 100 Comic Book Heroes in 2011. In 2013, Hal Jordan placed 4th on IGNs Top 25 Heroes of DC Comics, after achieving great success in 1956 in reviving the Golden Age character The Flash, DC editor Julius Schwartz looked toward recreating the Green Lantern from the Golden Age of Comic Books. Like The Flash, Schwartz wanted this new character to have a different secret identity, origin, a long time science-fiction fan and literary agent, Schwartz wanted a more sci-fi based Green Lantern, as opposed to the mystical powers of Alan Scott, the original 1940s Green Lantern. He enlisted writer John Broome and artist Gil Kane, who in 1959 would reintroduce Green Lantern to the world in Showcase #22 by creating Hal Jordan, the character was a success, and it was quickly decided to follow up his three-issue run on Showcase with a self-titled series. Green Lantern #1 began in July–August 1960 and would continue until #84 in April–May 1972 and this creative team was responsible for introducing many of the major characters in Hal Jordans life. First was Carol Ferris, Jordans love interest and she was in charge of Ferris Aircraft, and as such, Hals boss. While she preferred Green Lantern to Hal Jordan, she took a role in trying to win him over. Although she gave Jordan some attention, her job and company always came first, second was Jordans best friend, Tom Kalmaku, who was both Hals mechanic and the chronicler of his super-hero adventures, after succeeding in working out his identity. An Inuit from Alaska, Toms nickname was Pie or Pieface, unlike Chop-Chop, Tom was a competent and intelligent character with a well-rounded personality, not a stereotypical buffoon. Despite the unfortunate nickname, Tom Kalmaku was among the first minority characters to be portrayed in this manner, Schwartz and company also allowed Jordan to have a family, which was another rare thing at this time in superhero comics. While he did not have a wife or children of his own, a reporter, Sue Williams, suspected Jim of being Green Lantern due to his appearance and his reputation of being scatterbrained. Starting in issue #17, Gardner Fox joined the book to share writing duties with John Broome, the quartet of Schwartz, Broome, Fox, and Kane remained the core creative team until 1970. Starting with issue #76, Dennis ONeil took over scripting and Neal Adams, ONeil and Adams had already begun preparation for the classic run in the form of their re-workings of another DC superhero, the archer Green Arrow. The first of these socially motivated Green Lantern/Green Arrow stories was written with Gil Kane slated to be the artist, in Snowbirds Dont Fly issues #85 and #86, it is revealed that Green Arrows ward, Speedy, is addicted to heroin. Speedy overcomes his addiction with the help of the Black Canary and this story prompted a massive public reaction, including a congratulatory letter from the mayor of New York, John Lindsay
Hal Jordan
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Hal Jordan as Green Lantern Art by
Alex Ross
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Cover to Showcase #22 (October 1959), the first appearance of Hal Jordan. Art by
Gil Kane.
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Three panels ushering in the O'Neil/Adams run in Green Lantern #76.
Hal Jordan
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Hal Jordan becomes Parallax.
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John Stewart (comics)
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John Stewart, known as Green Lantern, is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics and was the first African-American superhero to appear in DC Comics. The character was created by Dennis ONeil and Neal Adams, John Stewart debuted in Green Lantern vol.2 #87 when artist Neal Adams came up with the idea of a substitute Green Lantern. The character was DCs first black superhero, John Stewart has become a major recurring character in the Green Lantern mythos within the DC Universe. He became the character of Green Lantern vol.2 from issues #182 through #200. He continued to star in the book when the changed to The Green Lantern Corps from issue #201 to #224. He would continue to make key appearances in Action Comics Weekly after The Green Lantern Corps cancellation and he starred in the comic Green Lantern, Mosaic, which DC spun out of Green Lantern vol. 3, with a storyline titled Mosaic. DC published 18 issues of the ongoing Green Lantern, Mosaic title between June 1992 and November 1993, John Stewart was featured as one of the lead characters on the television cartoon Justice League from 2001 until 2004. He continued to appear as a character on the shows 2004–2006 sequel. In 2011, John Stewart starred in the New 52 relaunch of Green Lantern Corps alongside Guy Gardner, Green Lantern Corps was replaced by Green Lantern, The Lost Army, which also stars John Stewart as the lead. Jordans opinion was that Stewart’s first mission began badly and his assignment was to protect a racist politician, and Stewart, while averting an accident, took advantage of the situation to embarrass Jordan in the process. When an assassin shoots at the politician, Stewart does not intervene with Jordan in response to the attack, when Jordan confronts Stewart about his actions, Stewart explains that the politician had staged the attack for political advantage. Jordan then concludes that Stewart was an excellent recruit and has proven his worth, for some time, Stewart occasionally filled in as Green Lantern when Jordan was unavailable, including some missions of the Justice League. After Jordan gave up being Green Lantern in the 1980s, the Guardians selected Stewart for full-time duty, Stewart filled that role for some years. During that period he worked as an architect at Ferris Aircraft Company, battled many Green Lantern villains, John was trained in usage of his power ring by Katma Tui, the Green Lantern of the planet Korugar. The duo went on adventures together and eventually fell in love. Kat and John went on to serve within the Green Lantern Corps of Earth alongside Hal Jordan, Arisia, Kilowog, Salaak, and other alien Green Lanterns, during which time they were married. After John’s ring was rendered powerless through the schemes of Sinestro, First, he was falsely accused of killing Carol Ferris, Star Sapphire’s alter ego, and then falsely accused of theft by South Nambia
John Stewart (comics)
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Promotional art for Green Lantern (vol. 3) #156, by
Ariel Olivetti.
John Stewart (comics)
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First appearance in Green Lantern vol. 2, # 87. Cover art by
Neal Adams.
John Stewart (comics)
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John Stewart as the mortal Guardian of the Universe, Master Builder
John Stewart (comics)
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John Stewart talking with
Future Static in
Justice League Unlimited.
28.
Green Lantern Corps
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The Green Lantern Corps is the name of a fictional intergalactic military/police force appearing in comics published by DC Comics. They patrol the farthest reaches of the DC Universe at the behest of the Guardians, according to DC continuity, the Green Lantern Corps has been in existence for three billion years, surviving multiple conflicts both internal and foreign. Currently operating divided as pairs amongst the 3600 “sectors” of the universe, there are 7202 members, each Green Lantern is given a power ring, a weapon granting the use of incredible abilities that are directed by the wearers own willpower. In 1959, during a revival of the popularity of comics in America. Schwartzs new conception of Green Lantern had a different name, costume, and origin story, the group is first mentioned in Showcase #22 when a dying Green Lantern passes on his ring to Hal Jordan. Over the years, writers have introduced a large cast of Green Lanterns in both supporting and starring roles, the Guardians of the Universe are one of several races that originated on the planet Maltus and were among the first intelligent life forms in the universe. At this time they were short greyish blue humanoids with black hair and they became scientists and thinkers, experimenting on the worlds around them. In a pivotal moment billions of years ago, a Maltusian named Krona used time-bending technology to observe the beginning of the universe, however, this experiment unleashed disaster upon all existence. Originally, the experiment splintered the universe into the multiverse and created the evil anti-matter universe, following the retroactive destruction of the Multiverse, it was revealed that Krona flooded the beginning of the universe with entropy causing it to be born old. The male Maltusians argued about how to deal with the situation, One group decided to dedicate their eternal existences to contain evil, this group fractured into the Guardians of the Universe and the Controllers. The females, however, saw no need to involve themselves and, since the Oans were by then immortal and had no more need to reproduce, left their mates and became known as the Zamarons. Relocating to the planet Oa at the center of the universe, during this period they slowly evolved into their current appearance. A Green Lanterns only weakness is the energy of fear. In their first attempt to enforce their will and guard against all menaces, at first serving faithfully to enforce order, in time the Manhunters came to resent their servitude and the moral restrictions the Guardians decreed of them. They were also found to be inherently flawed due to their inability to recognize or feel emotions and they rebelled against the Guardians and fought a millennia-long war that culminated with an attack on the planet Oa. The Guardians overcame their android servants, stripped them of their power, eventually, the surviving Manhunters formed their own robotic society and pursued their own interpretation of their original mission. In the Martian Manhunter series, the Guardians first get the idea for a police force from the Martians own Manhunters. They offer the Martian race the opportunity to be that force, the Martians turn it down, but the Guardians take the name for the androids
Green Lantern Corps
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The Green Lantern Corps. Art by
Alex Ross.
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The New Corps: Kyle Rayner, Magaan Van'n Intraktus, Hammeroon, Anya Savenlovich, Garl Rathbone, and Sool. The cover of Green Lantern: The New Corps #1 (1999). Art by Scot Eaton.
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Oa's defensive systems
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The Corpse in action
29.
Wisdom
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Wisdom or sapience is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense, and insight. This implies a possession of knowledge, or the seeking of knowledge to apply to the given circumstance and it often requires control of ones emotional reactions so that the universal principle of reason prevails to determine ones action. In short, wisdom is a disposition to find the truth coupled with a judgement as to what actions should be taken. Charles Haddon Spurgeon defined wisdom as the use of knowledge. Robert I. Sutton and Andrew Hargadon defined the attitude of wisdom as acting with knowledge while doubting what one knows as was said by Lucy of the North. The ancient Greeks considered wisdom to be an important virtue of Petross the Great, personified as the goddesses Metis, Athena is said to have sprung from the head of Zeus. She was portrayed as strong, fair, merciful, and chaste, to Socrates and Plato, philosophy was literally the love of Wisdom. Aristotle, in his Metaphysics, defined wisdom as the understanding of causes, i. e. knowing why things are a certain way, the ancient Romans also valued wisdom. It was personified in Minerva, or Pallas and she also represents skillful knowledge and the virtues, especially chastity. Her symbol was the owl which is still a representation of wisdom. She was said to be born from Jupiters forehead, Wisdom is also important within Christianity. Jesus emphasised by Petross the wise, Paul the Apostle, in his first epistle to the Corinthians, argued that there is both secular and divine wisdom, urging Christians to pursue the latter. Prudence, which is related to wisdom, became one of the four cardinal virtues of Catholicism. The Christian philosopher Thomas Aquinas considered wisdom to be the father of all virtues, in the Inuit tradition, developing wisdom was one of the aims of teaching. An Inuit Elder said that a person became wise when they could see what needed to be done and do it successfully without being told what to do. In many cultures, the name for third molars, which are the last teeth to grow, is linked with wisdom. Public schools in the US have an approach to character education, eighteenth century philosophers such as Benjamin Franklin, referred to this as training wisdom and virtue. Traditionally, schools share the responsibility to build character and wisdom along with parents and he teaches that new knowledge and technological know-how increase our power to act which, without wisdom, may cause human suffering and death as well as human benefit
Wisdom
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Personification of wisdom (in
Greek, Σοφία or
Sophia) at the
Celsus Library in
Ephesus,
Turkey.
Wisdom
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Truth and Wisdom assist History in writing by
Jacob de Wit, 1754
30.
Robot Monster
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The production company was Three Dimension Pictures, Inc. The film was distributed by Astor Pictures, Robot Monster tells the story of Moon robot Ro-Mans mission to Earth to destroy humanity. He manages to kill all but eight survivors, who have become immune to his death ray, Ro-Man runs afoul of the Great Guidance, his leader, when he becomes attracted to the human Alice. She is the eldest daughter of a surviving scientist, and he refuses to harm her, the Great Guidance must now finish what the Moon robot started. Evil Moon robot Ro-Man Extension XJ-2, referred to as just Ro-Man, has destroyed all human life on Earth with a Calcinator death ray. The survivors are an older scientist, his wife, his two daughters, his young son Johnny, his assistant, and two pilots that shortly take off in a spaceship for an orbiting space platform. All eight have now developed an immunity to Ro-Mans death ray, Ro-Man must complete the destruction of all humans, even if it means his physically killing them one by one, before his mission to subjugate the Earth is complete. After fruitless negotiations, Ro-Man, with a laser in hand, destroys the spaceship headed for the orbiting platform and he later strangles the youngest daughter, Carla, and tosses the assistant scientist, Roy, to his death over a cliff. Ro-Mans mission is waylaid, though, when he develops an attraction to Alice. He refuses to eliminate her, forcing the leader, the Great Guidance. The Great Guidance then attempts to finish the genocide by releasing prehistoric dinosaurs, but Johnny is alive, having just awoken from a concussion-induced fever dream. Up to now, all that has happened has just been his nightmare and his parents, who had been looking for him, rejoice and take him home. Suddenly, Ro-Man, his arms raised in a threatening manner, twenty-five-year-old writer/director Tucker made Robot Monster in four days for an estimated $16,000. Except for a few scenes at a house in Los Angeles and a site near Dodger Stadium, most footage was filmed outdoors in Bronson Canyon. Principal photography on Robot Monster wrapped on March 23,1953, nightclub comic Slick Slavin reportedly filmed an opening prologue for the movie. Robot Monster is similar in its plot to Invaders from Mars, both films contain a young boy stumbling upon an alien invasion who is captured as he struggles to save his family and himself. As the alien commences the final destruction of Earth, the boy awakens to find it was all a dream, Robot Monster was shot and projected in dual-strip, polarized 3D. The stereoscopic photography in the film is considered by critics to be of a high quality
Robot Monster
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Theatrical release poster
31.
Clark Kent
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Clark Joseph Kent is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, he debuted in Action Comics #1 and serves as the civilian, over the decades there has been considerable debate as to which personality the character identifies with most. From his first introduction in 1938 to the mid-1980s, Clark Kent was seen mostly as a disguise for Superman and this was the view in most comics and other media such as movie serials and TV and radio. In 1986, during John Byrnes revamping of the character, Clark Kent became more emphasized, different takes persist in the present, with the character typically depicted as being clumsy and mild-mannered. Another, perhaps more likely possibility, is that Jerry Siegel pulled from his own love of pulp heroes Doc Clark Savage and this idea was notably stated in the book Men of Tomorrow, Geeks, Gangsters, and the Rise of the American Comic Book. He is also cousin to Kara Zo-El, also known as Supergirl, Clarks middle name is given variously as either Joseph, Jerome or Jonathan, all being allusions to creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. In the earliest Superman comics, Clark Kents primary purpose was to fulfill the perceived dramatic requirement that a costumed superhero cannot remain on duty all the time. Clark thus acted as more than a front for Supermans activities. He sees his job as a journalist as an extension of his Superman responsibilities—bringing truth to the forefront and he believes that everybody has the right to know what is going on in the world, regardless of who is involved. To deflect suspicion that he is Superman, Clark Kent adopted a passive and introverted personality with conservative mannerisms, a higher-pitched voice. This personality is described as mild-mannered, perhaps most famously by the opening narration of Max Fleischers Superman animated theatrical shorts. These traits extended into Clarks wardrobe, which consists of a bland-colored business suit, a red necktie, black-rimmed glasses, combed-back hair. Fellow reporter Lois Lane became the object of Clarks/Supermans romantic affection, Lois affection for Superman and her rejection of Clarks clumsy advances have been a recurring theme in Superman comics, as well as in movies and on television. Superman usually stores his Clark Kent clothing compressed in a secret pouch within his cape, in the Pre-Crisis Superman comic book, Clark appears in occasional back-up stories called The Private Life of Clark Kent, wherein he solves problems subtly as Clark without changing into Superman. The feature was shown in the Superman Family title. Adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent from the Kansas town of Smallville, Clark was raised with the values of a typical rural American town, most continuities state that the Kents never had biological children of their own and were usually depicted as middle-aged or elderly when they found Clark. In the Silver Age comics continuity, Clarks superpowers manifested upon his landing on Earth and he learned to master them. He subsequently developed Clarks timid demeanor as a means of ensuring no one would suspect any connection between the two alter-egos
Clark Kent
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Superman (vol. 1) #296 (February 1976). Art by
Curt Swan.
32.
Elvis Presley
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Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is referred to as the King of Rock and Roll. Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis and his music career began there in 1954, when he recorded a song with producer Sam Phillips at Sun Records. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was a popularizer of rockabilly. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, Presleys first RCA single, Heartbreak Hotel, was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. He was regarded as the figure of rock and roll after a series of successful network television appearances. In November 1956, Presley made his debut in Love Me Tender. In 1958, he was drafted into military service, in 1973, Presley featured in the first globally broadcast concert via satellite, Aloha from Hawaii. Several years of drug abuse severely damaged his health. Presley is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century and he won three Grammys, also receiving the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame. Presley was born on January 8,1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, to Gladys Love and Vernon Elvis Presley, Jesse Garon Presley, his identical twin brother, was delivered stillborn 35 minutes before his own birth. Thus, as a child, Presley became close to both parents and formed an especially close bond with his mother. The family attended an Assembly of God, where he found his musical inspiration. Although he was in conflict with the Pentecostal church in his later years, rev. Rex Humbard officiated at his funeral, as Presley had been an admirer of Humbards ministry. Presleys ancestry was primarily a Western European mix, including Scots-Irish, Scottish, German, gladyss great-great-grandmother, Morning Dove White, was possibly a Cherokee Native American. Gladys was regarded by relatives and friends as the dominant member of the small family, Vernon moved from one odd job to the next, evincing little ambition. The family often relied on help from neighbors and government food assistance, the Presleys survived the F5 tornado in the 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak. In 1938, they lost their home after Vernon was found guilty of kiting a check written by the landowner, Orville S. Bean and he was jailed for eight months, and Gladys and Elvis moved in with relatives
Elvis Presley
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Presley in a publicity photograph for the 1957 film
Jailhouse Rock
Elvis Presley
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Presley's birthplace in
Tupelo, Mississippi
Elvis Presley
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Presley in a
Sun Records promotional photograph, 1954
Elvis Presley
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The "iconic cover" of
Presley's 1956 debut album featuring a photo taken July 31, 1955, in Tampa, Florida
33.
J. K. Simmons
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Jonathan Kimble J. K. Simmons is an American actor and voice actor. In television, he is known for playing Dr. Emil Skoda on the NBC series Law & Order, neo-Nazi Vernon Schillinger on the HBO prison-drama Oz and his film roles include J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimis Spider-Man trilogy and music instructor Terence Fletcher in 2014s Whiplash. He is also known for voicing Cave Johnson in the video game Portal 2, Tenzin in The Legend of Korra, Stanford Pines in Gravity Falls, Kai in Kung Fu Panda 3, and Mayor Lionheart in Zootopia. Simmons also reprised his role as J. Jonah Jameson in various Marvel animated series and he has also appeared in a series of television commercials for Farmers Insurance. Jonathan Kimble Simmons was born on January 9,1955 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, the son of Patricia, an administrator, and Donald William Simmons, in 1965, when he was 10 years old, his family moved to Worthington, Ohio. In 1973, when he was 18, they moved to Missoula, Montana, the younger Simmons graduated from the University of Montana in 1978 with a music degree. During his tenure, he was part of the music-oriented fraternity Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Later, Simmons moved to Seattle and became a member of the Seattle Repertory Theatre, on Broadway, Simmons played Benny Southstreet in the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls. In 1994 he sang roles in the Wagner opera satire. He also played the role of Jigger in a revival of Carousel with the Houston Grand Opera and he also stars as Ralph Earnhardt, the father of race-car driver Dale Earnhardt, in 3, The Dale Earnhardt Story. He plays Will Pope, Assistant Chief of the LAPD, in the series The Closer. In an interesting precursor to his joining the Law & Order cast as Skoda, Simmons appeared in Homicide, Life on the Street, portraying a criminal in a Law & Order cross-over episode. Other roles include that of a general in the television sitcom Arrested Development. He played B. R. in the film Thank You for Smoking and has been praised for his performance in Juno as Mac McGuff, in all three of Sam Raimis Spider-Man films, Simmons played J. Jonah Jameson, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Daily Bugle. In 2008, he played a CIA superior in Burn After Reading and he also appeared in I Love You, Man. Simmons starred in films produced or directed by his friend Jason Reitman, including Thank You for Smoking, Juno, Up in the Air. In 2013, he had a role as Mr. Jervis in Reitmans film Labor Day. He voices Tenzin, an Airbending master and the son of Aang and Katara and he starred as blind lawyer Mel Fisher in Growing Up Fisher
J. K. Simmons
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Simmons at the 15th Annual
Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2009
J. K. Simmons
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Simmons at the 2007
Toronto International Film Festival
34.
Ben Stiller
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Benjamin Edward Meara Ben Stiller is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is the son of comedians and actors Jerry Stiller. After beginning his career with a play, Stiller wrote several mockumentaries, and was offered his own show entitled The Ben Stiller Show. Having previously acted in television, he began acting in films, in addition, he has had multiple cameos in music videos, television shows, and films. Stiller is a member of a group of comedic actors colloquially known as the Frat Pack and his films have grossed more than $2.6 billion in Canada and the United States, with an average of $79 million per film. Throughout his career, he has received awards and honors, including an Emmy Award, multiple MTV Movie Awards. Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller was born on November 30,1965 in New York City and his father, comedian and actor Jerry Stiller, is from a Jewish family that emigrated from Poland and Galicia in Eastern Europe. His mother, actress/comedian Anne Meara, who was from an Irish Catholic background, while the family was never very religious, they celebrated both Hanukkah and Christmas, and Stiller had a Bar Mitzvah. His parents frequently took him on the sets of their appearances and he considered his childhood unusual, stating In some ways, it was a show-business upbringing—a lot of traveling, a lot of late nights—not what youd call traditional. His elder sister, Amy, has appeared in many of his productions, including Reality Bites, DodgeBall, A True Underdog Story, Stiller displayed an early interest in filmmaking and made Super 8 movies with his sister and friends. At nine years old, he made his debut as a guest on his mothers short-lived television series. In the late 1970s, he performed with the New York City troupe NYCs First All Childrens Theater, playing roles, including the title role in Clever Jack. After being inspired by the television show Second City Television while in high school, during his high school years, he was also the drummer of the punk band Capital Punishment, which released a studio album named Roadkill in 1982. Stiller attended The Cathedral School of St. John the Divine and he started performing on the cabaret circuit as opening act to the cabaret siren Jadin Wong. Stiller then enrolled as a student at the University of California. After nine months, Stiller left school to move back to New York City and he made his way through acting classes, auditioning and trying to find an agent. When he was approximately 15, Stiller obtained a part with one line on the television soap opera Guiding Light. He was later cast in a role in the 1986 Broadway revival of John Guares The House of Blue Leaves, alongside John Mahoney, during its run, Stiller produced a satirical mockumentary whose principal was fellow actor Mahoney
Ben Stiller
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Stiller at the RTL-Spendenmarathon in 2014
Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller
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Stiller signing autographs before a screening for
Tropic Thunder at
Camp Pendleton on August 3, 2008.
Ben Stiller
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Stiller in 2010
35.
Justin Theroux
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Justin Paul Theroux is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his work with film director David Lynch and he appeared in Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire. He is also known as a screenwriter for such as Tropic Thunder, Iron Man 2, Rock of Ages. Since 2014, he has starred in the HBO series The Leftovers, Theroux was born in Washington, D. C. His mother, Phyllis Grissim-Theroux, is a journalist and author who worked for The Washington Post and his father is of half French-Canadian and half Italian descent. Through his mother, Theroux is a great-great-grandson of financier, banker, hollins, and of music critic and author Gustav Kobbé. Theroux attended Lafayette Elementary School, Annunciation School, and the Field School and he first started acting while in high school at the Buxton School, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He graduated from Bennington College in 1993 with a B. A. in visual arts, Theroux made his film debut in 1996 in Mary Harrons I Shot Andy Warhol. He has also performed in more films such as American Psycho. He appeared in the versions of the cult television shows Strangers With Candy. He starred in David Lynchs films Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire, in 2003, he was featured in a music video for the British band Muse for their song Hysteria. Theroux also has appeared on television, having starred in The District and appeared on episodes of such as Alias, Ally McBeal, Sex and the City. In 2006, he directed his first film, Dedication, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, a fan of the band Deerhoof, Theroux chose them to score Dedication. Theroux also had roles in two films at the festival, Broken English and The Ten, in which he played Jesus Christ alongside Gretchen Mol. Theroux co-wrote the Ben Stiller-directed Oscar-nominated film Tropic Thunder, and also appeared in the behind-the-scenes mockumentary Tropic Thunder, in 2008, Theroux played John Hancock in the HBO miniseries John Adams. In 2009, Theroux made up part of the voice cast for Call of Duty and he also played Justin in Parks and Recreation. Theroux wrote the screenplay for the 2010 film Iron Man 2, following Therouxs work on Tropic Thunder, actor Robert Downey Jr. recommended Theroux as a screenwriter to the films director, Jon Favreau. Theroux returned to acting in the film Your Highness, as Leezar and he starred in the 2012 comedy Wanderlust, playing the leader of a hippie commune
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Theroux at the 2008
Tribeca Film Festival
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The stars and director of the film
Mulholland Drive at the 2001
Cannes Film Festival. Left to right: actor
Naomi Watts, director
David Lynch, and actors
Laura Harring and Justin Theroux
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Christopher Knights
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Christopher Knights is an English voice actor, film editor and camera operator best known for providing the voice of Private the Penguin in Madagascar. He worked on several DreamWorks films Shrek, Shrek 2, Shrek the Third and he started his filming career at Amblimation studios and worked on Were Back. When he joined DreamWorks he not only started his editing career and he worked on the Shrek series as an associate editor and voice of the Three Blind Mice and Thelonious, Lord Farquads Henchman. He worked many times with another English cameraman and voice actor, Private the Penguin Madagascar 3, Europes Most Wanted. Private the Penguin Shrek Forever After, Private the Penguin Madagascar, Escape 2 Africa. Private the Penguin Shrek the Third, Blind Mice / Heckler / Evil Tree #2 / Guard #2 Flushed Away. Fat Barry the Rat / Market Trader The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper, Private the Penguin / Pedistain Shrek 2. Blind Mouse / Thelonious Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party, thelonius / Blind Mouse Megamind Shrek Forever After Shrek the Third Madagascar Shrek 2 Shrek 4-D Shrek The Prince of Egypt Balto Were Back. A Dinosaurs Story Christopher Knights at the Internet Movie Database
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Robert Downey, Jr.
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Robert John Downey Jr. is an American actor. His career has included critical and popular success in his youth, followed by a period of abuse and legal troubles. For three consecutive years from 2012 to 2015, Downey has topped the Forbes list of Hollywoods highest-paid actors, making an estimated $80 million in earnings between June 2014 and June 2015. He starred as the character in the 1992 film Chaplin. This earned him a Golden Globe Award and his character was written out when Downey was fired after two drug arrests in late 2000 and early 2001. After his last stay in a drug treatment program, Downey achieved sobriety. Each of these films has grossed over $500 million at the box office worldwide, four of these—The Avengers, Avengers, Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3 and Captain America, Downey Jr. has also played the title character in Guy Ritchies Sherlock Holmes and its sequel. Downey was born in Manhattan, New York, the younger of two children and his father, Robert Downey Sr. is an actor and filmmaker, while his mother, Elsie Ann, was an actress who appeared in Downey Sr. s films. Downeys father is of half Lithuanian Jewish, one-quarter Hungarian Jewish, and one-quarter Irish descent, while Downeys mother had Scottish, German, Downey and his older sister Allyson grew up in Greenwich Village. As a child, Downey was surrounded by drugs and his father, a drug addict, allowed Downey to use marijuana at age six, an incident which his father has said he now regrets. Eventually, Downey began spending every night abusing alcohol and making a phone calls in pursuit of drugs. During his childhood Downey had minor roles in his fathers films and he made his acting debut at the age of five, playing a sick puppy in the absurdist comedy Pound, and then at seven appeared in the surrealist Greasers Palace. At the age of ten, he was living in England and he attended the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in upstate New York as a teenager. When his parents divorced in 1978, Downey moved to California with his father, Downey and Kiefer Sutherland, who shared the screen in the 1988 drama 1969, were roommates for three years when he first moved to Hollywood to pursue his career in acting. Downey began building upon theater roles, including in the short-lived off-Broadway musical American Passion at the Joyce Theater in 1983, rolling Stone magazine named Downey the worst SNL cast member in its entire run, stating that the Downey Fail sums up everything that makes SNL great. That same year, Downey had a dramatic acting breakthrough when he played James Spaders sidekick in Tuff Turf and he was considered for the role of Duckie in John Hughes film Pretty in Pink, but his first lead role was with Molly Ringwald in The Pick-up Artist. Because of these and other coming-of-age films Downey did during the 1980s, in 1987, Downey played Julian Wells, a drug-addicted rich boy whose life rapidly spirals out of his control, in the film version of the Bret Easton Ellis novel Less Than Zero. In 1992, he starred as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin, a role for which he prepared extensively, learning how to play the violin and he had a personal coach in order to help him imitate Chaplins posture and way of carrying himself
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Downey at the 2014
San Diego Comic Con International
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Downey at the premiere of
Air America, 1990
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With
Rachel McAdams promoting
Sherlock Holmes at the 2009
San Diego Comic-Con International.
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With the cast of
The Avengers,
Joss Whedon and
Kevin Feige at the 2010
San Diego Comic-Con International.
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Guillermo del Toro
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Guillermo del Toro Gómez is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, and novelist. He was originally chosen by Peter Jackson to direct The Hobbit films, Del Toros work is characterised by a strong connection to fairy tales and horror, with an effort to infuse visual or poetic beauty. He has a fascination with monsters, which he considers symbols of great power. He is also friends with fellow Mexican directors Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu, Del Toro was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He was raised in a strict Catholic household, Del Toro studied at the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Cinematográficos, in Guadalajara. When del Toro was about eight years old, he began experimenting with his fathers Super 8 camera, making films with Planet of the Apes toys. One short focused on a serial killer potato with ambitions of world domination, it murdered del Toros mother and brothers before stepping outside and being crushed by a car. Del Toro made about 10 short films before his first feature, including one titled Matilde and he also wrote four and directed five episodes of the cult series La Hora Marcada, along with other Mexican filmmakers such as Emmanuel Lubezki and Alfonso Cuarón. Del Toro studied special effects and make-up with special-effects artist Dick Smith and he spent 10 years as a special-effects make-up designer and formed his own company, Necropia. He also co-founded the Guadalajara International Film Festival, later in his directing career, he formed his own production company, the Tequila Gang. In 1997, at the age of 33, Guillermo was given a $30 million budget from Miramax Films to shoot another film, during this time, his father, automotive entrepreneur Federico del Toro, was kidnapped in Guadalajara. Although Federico was eventually released safely, due to economic pressure from his captors. The event prompted del Toro, his parents, and his siblings to move abroad, in an interview with Time magazine, he said this about the kidnapping of his father, Every day, every week, something happens that reminds me that I am an involuntary exile. These two films, The Devils Backbone and Pans Labyrinth, are among his most critically acclaimed works and they share similar settings, protagonists and themes with the 1973 Spanish film The Spirit of the Beehive, widely considered to be the finest Spanish film of the 1970s. Del Toro views the horror genre as political, explaining, Much like fairy tales. One is pro-institution, which is the most reprehensible type of tale, Dont wander into the woods. The other type of fairy tale is completely anarchic and antiestablishment and he is close friends with two other prominent and critically praised Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu. The three often influence each others directorial decisions, and have been interviewed together by Charlie Rose, Cuarón was one of the producers of Pans Labyrinth, while Iñárritu assisted in editing the film
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Del Toro at the 2014
San Diego Comic Con International
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Del Toro promoting his first feature film,
Cronos, which was released in 1993
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Guillermo del Toro
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At the
Legendary Comics panel at the 2012
New York Comic Con. Left to right: emcee
Chris Hardwick,
Bob Schreck,
Matt Wagner,
Grant Morrison, Del Toro and
Travis Beacham.
39.
Megamind: Music from the Motion Picture
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Megamind, Music from the Motion Picture is a soundtrack to the 2010 film of the same name, released by Lakeshore Records and composed by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe. It is released on November 2,2010 in the United States, Megamind, Music from the Motion Picture received generally positive reviews from most music critics. Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfes background music for Megamind employs an orchestra to large effect. When the mood is adventurous, it is very adventurous, when its sad, its very sad and this is scoring that hits the listener over the head repeatedly. Similarly, the few pop songs that have been inserted in among the orchestral cues seem to have obvious purposes, how many times has George Thorogood & the Destroyers Bad to the Bone been used in a movie. Well, the first instance seems to have been Christine in 1983, but its Zimmer and Balfes ever-busy music that dominates here, and it must at least keep up with the cartoon characters on the screen. Kimberly Lynn Workman of Fandomania noted that the film is interspersed with the music are well-known tracks from famous artists. Lovin You by Minnie Riperton is a song originally was meant to convey the feeling of being in love. Over the years, as its used in soundtracks, it has also brought a humorous slant to the characters relationships. I expect nothing less from the use of it here. Alone Again Naturally by Gilbert OSullivan has always made me snap my fingers, I have to admit that Ive always had a soft spot for not only Elvis Presley, but the Junkie XL Remix of A Little Less Conversation. I was very pleased that it was included on this soundtrack because the world is a place with a dose of Elvis. To end the tracks, we get Bad to the Bone by George Thorogood & the Destroyers. Its a self-proclamation that fits right in with this movie, richard Buxton of Tracksounds stated, To assume that a score that deceives expectations and opts for a scheme different to that of the regular hero vs. villain tale is a failure would be wrong. Its also gratifying to see Lorne Balfe emerge into spotlight as a composer in his own right after spending years in the background manipulating Hans Zimmers synthesizers and it will be interesting to see where he goes from here. Its not teeming with originality, but worth a listen to hear Zimmer leave his comfort zone, all music composed by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe, except as noted
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Megamind: Music from the Motion Picture
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Lakeshore Records
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Lakeshore Records is the independent music division of Lakeshore Entertainment. They started out as WILL Records, will Records were started by Skip Williamson in the early 1990s. As WILL Records they released albums by such as Grandaddy In 2000. Will Records and Lakeshore Entertainment partnered to form Lakeshore Records, Lakeshore Records has released soundtracks to many films, such as Napoleon Dynamite and Little Miss Sunshine. Official Lakeshore Records site Soundtrack. net Allmusic Official website Lakeshore Records at the Internet Movie Database
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41.
Blu-ray Disc
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Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was designed to supersede the DVD format, in that it is capable of storing high-definition, the plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Conventional Blu-ray Disc discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs being the standard for feature-length video discs. Triple-layer discs and quadruple layers are available for BD-XL re-writer drives, the name Blu-ray refers to the blue laser used to read the disc, which allows information to be stored at a greater density than is possible with the longer-wavelength red laser used for DVDs. The main application of Blu-ray is as a medium for video material such as films and physical distribution of video games for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4. Besides the hardware specifications, Blu-ray is associated with a set of multimedia formats, high-definition video may be stored on Blu-ray discs with up to 2160p resolution, at up to 60 frames per second. DVD discs had been limited to a resolution of 480p or 576p. The BD format was developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, a group representing makers of consumer electronics, computer hardware, Sony unveiled the first Blu-ray disc prototypes in October 2000, and the first prototype player was released in April 2003 in Japan. Afterwards, it continued to be developed until its release in June 2006. During the high definition disc format war, Blu-ray Disc competed with the HD DVD format. Toshiba, the company that supported HD DVD, conceded in February 2008. According to Media Research, high-definition software sales in the US were slower in the first two years than DVD software sales, Blu-ray faces competition from video on demand and the continued sale of DVDs. As of January 2016, 44% of U. S. broadband households had a Blu-ray player, the information density of the DVD format was limited by the wavelength of the laser diodes used. Following protracted development, blue laser diodes operating at 405 nanometers became available on a production basis, Sony started two projects in collaboration with Philips applying the new diodes, UDO, and DVR Blue, a format of rewritable discs that would eventually become Blu-ray Disc. The core technologies of the formats are similar, the first DVR Blue prototypes were unveiled at the CEATEC exhibition in October 2000 by Sony. A trademark for the Blue Disc logo was filed February 9,2001, on February 19,2002, the project was officially announced as Blu-ray Disc, and Blu-ray Disc Founders was founded by the nine initial members. The first consumer device arrived in stores on April 10,2003, the Sony BDZ-S77, but there was no standard for prerecorded video, and no movies were released for this player. On October 4,2004, the name Blu-ray Disc Founders was officially changed to the Blu-ray Disc Association, the Blu-ray Disc physical specifications were completed in 2004
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A blank rewritable Blu-ray Disc (
BD-RE).
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100 GB BDXL Triple layer disc made by
Sharp
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Ultra HD Blu-ray
42.
Nickelodeon (TV channel)
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Nickelodeon is an American basic cable and satellite television network launched on December 1,1977, and is owned by Viacom through Viacom Media Networks and based in New York City. It is primarily aimed at children and adolescents aged 7–18 while its weekday morning edutainment programs are targeted at children ages 2–6. As of July 2015, Nickelodeon is available to approximately 93.7 million pay television households in the US, the name of the channel comes from the first five cent movie theaters called nickelodeons. Nickelodeons history dates back to December 1,1977, when Warner Cable Communications launched the first two-way interactive cable system, QUBE, in Columbus, Ohio. Its C-3 cable channel carried Pinwheel daily from 7,00 a. m. to 9,00 p. m. Eastern Time, Nickelodeon launched on April 1,1979, initially distributed to Warner Cable systems via satellite on the RCA Satcom-1 transponder. Originally commercial-free, advertising was introduced in January 1984, the channel also airs reruns of select original series that are no longer in production, as well as occasional original made-for-TV movies. The channel also aired special editions of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee. The channel occasionally airs feature films produced by the networks Nickelodeon Movies film production division, although the film division bears the Nickelodeon brand name, the cable channel does not have access to most of the movies produced by its film unit. Nick Jr. – Nickelodeon currently programs shows targeted at preschool-age children on Monday through Fridays from 8,30 am-3,00 pm Eastern, the block primarily targets audiences of preschool age as Nickelodeons usual audience of school-age children are in school during the blocks designated time period. Programs currently seen in this block include Blaze and the Monster Machines, Team Umizoomi, Bubble Guppies, PAW Patrol, Max & Ruby, Saturday morning block - a morning block of primarily animated series from 9 am-12,30 pm Eastern and Pacific Time. It launched on September 22,2012, as Gotta See Saturday Mornings, recent episodes of certain original series may air when no new episodes are scheduled to air that week. The schedule features series such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Bunsen Is a Beast, ALVINNN. nicks New Saturday Night – a primetime live-action block airing from 8-10pm Eastern and Pacific Time. It launched on September 22,2012, as Gotta See Saturday Nights, recent episodes of certain original series may air when no new episodes are scheduled to air that week. The schedule features The Thundermans and Henry Danger, premieres of the networks original made-for-cable movies also occasionally air during the primetime block, usually in the form of premiere showings. SNICK – SNICK was the networks first dedicated Saturday primetime block that aired from 8,00 to 10,00 p. m. Eastern, geared toward pre-teens and teenagers, it debuted on August 15,1992. The block featured mainly live-action series, although it featured animated series. SNICK was discontinued on August 28,2004, and was replaced the following week by a Saturday night edition of the TEENick block and it was hosted by Stick Stickly, a Mr. Bill-like popsicle stick character. The block was replaced for the summer of 1999 by Henry, the Stick Stickly character was later revived for The 90s Are All That on TeenNick, which debuted in 2011
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Nickelodeon Studios as viewed from the
Hard Rock Cafe in March 2004 before it moved.
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Nickelodeon
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An attempt at the
Guinness record for the world's largest picnic, sponsored by Nickelodeon in
Petah Tikva,
Israel.
43.
How to Train Your Dragon (film)
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It stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T. J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, the story takes place in a mythical Viking world where a young Viking teenager named Hiccup aspires to follow his tribes tradition of becoming a dragon slayer. After finally capturing his first dragon, and with his chance at last of gaining the acceptance, he finds that he no longer wants to kill the dragon. The film was released March 26,2010, and was a critical and commercial success, earning acclaim from critics and audiences. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score at the 83rd Academy Awards, the movie also won ten Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature. A sequel, How to Train Your Dragon 2, was released on June 13,2014, much like its predecessor, the sequel was also universally acclaimed and became a box office success. A second sequel, How to Train Your Dragon 3 is to be released on March 1,2019, the films success has also inspired other merchandise, including a video game and a television series. The island of Berk is a remote Viking village, from which dragons periodically steal livestock, during one attack, Hiccup believes he has shot down a Night Fury, an extremely rare and dangerous dragon. Hiccup later finds it in the forest trapped in his bolas, Stoick assembles a fleet to find the dragons nest, leaving Hiccup in a dragon-fighting class taught by Gobber. Hiccup returns to the forest to find the Night Fury still there, Hiccup gradually tames the dragon and gives it the name Toothless, for its retractable teeth. Hiccup makes a harness and prosthetic fin that allows him to guide the dragon in free flight, by studying Toothless behavior, Hiccup becomes proficient in subduing the captive dragons during training. Stoicks fleet arrives home unsuccessful, but he is cheered by Hiccups unexpected success, Toothless unexpectedly takes the pair to the dragons nest where they discover a gargantuan dragon named the Red Death,2 which eats the smaller dragons unless they bring it stolen livestock. Back at the village, Hiccup subdues a captive dragon in his final training test in front of his instead of killing it. Toothless attempts to protect Hiccup in the panic but is instead captured by the Vikings. Hiccup accidentally reveals to Stoick that Toothless is capable of locating the dragons nest, Stoick disowns his son and sets off for the nest with Toothless chained to the lead ship as a guide. The Vikings expel most of the dragons but are overwhelmed by the Red Death until Hiccup, Astrid and their fellow pupils fly in riding the training dragons from the academy and provide cover fire. Hiccup almost drowns trying to break Toothless free from a sinking ship, Toothless and Hiccup destroy the Red Death but Hiccup is injured in the fight. Hiccup regains consciousness on Berk where his foot has been replaced by a prosthetic, and the Vikings
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Theatrical release poster
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Early production concept artwork of "Toothless" and "Hiccup".
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Tangled
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Tangled is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated musical fantasy-comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Loosely based on the German fairy tale Rapunzel in the collection of tales published by the Brothers Grimm. Featuring the voices of Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi, the tells the story of a lost. Against her mothers wishes, she accepts the aid of an intruder to take her out into the world which she has never seen. Before the films release, its title was changed from Rapunzel to Tangled, composer Alan Menken, who had worked on prior Disney animated features, returned to score Tangled. Tangled premiered at the El Capitan Theatre on November 14,2010, the film was well received by critics and audiences alike. The film earned $591 million in box office revenue, $200 million of which was earned in the United States. The film was nominated for a number of awards, including Best Original Song at the 83rd Academy Awards, the film was released on Blu-ray and DVD on March 29,2011, a short film, Tangled Ever After, was released later in 2012. A television series premiered in 2017, long ago, a drop of sunlight became a golden flower capable of healing illness, decay, and injury. Hundreds of years later, the flower is used by Mother Gothel to retain her youth, until soldiers from nearby kingdom, Corona. Shortly afterwards, the Queen gives birth to Princess Rapunzel, while attempting to recover the flower, Gothel discovers that Rapunzels hair contains the flowers healing properties, and that cutting her hair destroys its power. Gothel takes the baby and raises her as her own daughter in an isolated tower, once a year, the King and Queen release sky lanterns on Rapunzels birthday, hoping for their daughters return. On the eve of her 18th birthday, Rapunzel requests to leave the tower and discover the source of the lanterns, meanwhile, thief Flynn Rider steals Rapunzels crown from the kingdom and inadvertently discovers the tower after ditching his allies, the Stabbington brothers. Rapunzel captures Flynn and discovers the crown, but is unaware of its significance, Rapunzel plans to take Flynn to Gothel to prove she can take care of herself, but Gothel becomes angry. Rapunzel then asks for a paint that will take Gothel three days round trip to obtain and return, and Gothel accepts. Rapunzel convinces a reluctant Flynn to escort her to see the lanterns in exchange for the crown, Flynn takes Rapunzel to the Snuggly Duckling, a pub filled with the frightening people Gothel warned Rapunzel about, but who instead are charmed by Rapunzels innocence. Royal soldiers led by one of the armys lead horses, Maximus. Rapunzel and Flynn escape but are trapped in a flooding cave
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Theatrical release poster
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The Swing by
Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
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A concept rendering of Rapunzel by Lisa Keene, demonstrating the "luscious golden hair" Keane wanted.
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Tangled: Original Soundtrack
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Toy Story 3
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Toy Story 3 is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated comedy-drama film, the third installment in the Toy Story series, and the sequel to Toy Story 2. It was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures, the film was released in theaters June 18,2010, and played worldwide from June through October in the Disney Digital 3-D, RealD, and IMAX 3D formats. Toy Story 3 was the first film to be released theatrically with Dolby Surround 7.1 sound, the plot focuses on the toys Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and their friends dealing with an uncertain future as their owner, Andy, prepares to leave for college. Like its predecessors, Toy Story 3 received critical acclaim upon release and it became the second Pixar film and third animated film overall to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. The film received four more Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound Editing, Best Animated Feature, a sequel, Toy Story 4, directed by Lasseter is scheduled to be released on June 21,2019. 17-year-old Andy is about to leave for college, and his toys have not been played with for years and he intends to take only Woody with him, and puts Buzz Lightyear, Jessie and the other toys in a trash bag to be stored in the attic. Andys mother mistakenly takes the bag to the curb for garbage pickup, the toys escape and, believing Andy intended to throw them away, decide to climb into a donation box with Barbie bound for Sunnyside Daycare. Woody follows them, but is unable to convince them of the mistake, Andys toys are welcomed by the other toys at Sunnyside, and are given a tour of the seemingly idyllic play-setting by Lots-O-Huggin Bear, Big Baby, and Ken. The toys choose to stay, except Woody, who attempts to return to Andy and she takes Woody home and plays with him along with her other toys, which are well-treated. Meanwhile, at Sunnyside, a group of toddlers plays roughly with Andys toys, Buzz seeks out Lotso to request to have them moved to the older childrens room, but Lotso refuses. At the same time, Mrs. Potato Head, through an eye she inadvertently left in Andys room, however, before they can leave, Andys toys are imprisoned by Lotsos gang, guarded by Buzz, whom Lotso switched to Demo Mode. At Bonnies house, a toy clown named Chuckles explains to Woody that he, Lotso, when the toys were accidentally left behind by Daisys family during a trip, they made their way back to her house, only to find that Lotso had been replaced. Woody returns to Sunnyside and learns from a Chatter Telephone toy that there is one way out of the daycare. Woody and Andys other toys execute their plan but accidentally reset Buzz to Spanish mode instead of his old persona, Buzz promptly allies himself with Woody and falls in love with Jessie. The toys reach a dumpster, but are cornered by Lotso, as a garbage truck approaches, Woody reveals what he learned about Lotso and tosses Daisys ownership tag, which Chuckles had kept, to Big Baby. Lotso destroys the tag and says that toys are meant to be discarded, as the toys try to leave, Lotso pulls Woody into the dumpster just as the truck collects the trash. The rest of Andys toys fall into the back of the truck while trying to rescue him, the truck deposits the toys at a landfill, where they find themselves on a conveyor belt leading to an incinerator. Woody and Buzz help Lotso reach an emergency button, only for Lotso to abandon them
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Theatrical release poster
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Kristen Schaal and Jeff Garlin, who attended the Toy Story 3 panel at the 2010
WonderCon, joined the cast as Trixie and Buttercup, respectively.
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Promotional art for
Circle 7 's Toy Story 3, displaying the storyline of the
recalled Buzz Lightyears.
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Lee Unkrich, pictured at the Toy Story 3 panel at WonderCon 2010 in April 2010, was the full-time director for the film.
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Shrek Forever After
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Shrek Forever After is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated fantasy comedy-drama film. It is the installment in the Shrek series, produced by DreamWorks Animation. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews, John Cleese reprise their previous roles, taking place after Shrek the Third, Shrek is now a family man and beloved among the local villagers. Yearning for the days when he was feared, he makes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin, to restore his existence, Shrek has to regain Fionas love and kiss her before the sun rises, or he will disappear forever. The film premiered on April 21,2010 at the Tribeca Film Festival and it was also released in 3D and IMAX 3D formats. The film was the #1 film in the United States and Canada for three weeks and grossed a worldwide total of $752 million. Additionally, Shrek Forever After is DreamWorks Animations second highest-grossing film at the box office. Shrek has grown tired of being a family man and celebrity among the local villagers. When he takes his family to Far Far Away to celebrate his childrens first birthday, Shrek encounters Rumpelstiltskin, who seizes his chance, having observed Shreks angry outburst. He follows Shrek and arranges for Shrek to appear to save his life and he gives Shrek a day to live like a real ogre, in exchange for a day from his childhood that he would not remember being erased to thank him. Shrek signs the contract and appears in a reality where the events starting from Fionas rescue are irrelevant. Now feared by villagers, he takes the opportunity to cause some lighthearted mischief until he finds WANTED posters for Fiona and his home deserted and he is kidnapped by witches and taken to Rumpel, now the King of Far Far Away, which has become derelict and run down. Upon inquiry, Rumpel reveals that he took away the day Shrek was born, therefore, Shrek never saved Fiona or met Donkey, and consequently Rumpel was able to get King Harold and Queen Lillian to sign their kingdom away, making them both disappear. When the day ends, Shrek will disappear as well, Shrek escapes Rumpels castle with Donkey. Initially terrified of Shrek, Donkey decides to trust him after seeing Shrek cry over his erased history, after Shrek explains the situation, Donkey helps him find a hidden exit clause, the contract can be nullified by true loves kiss. They soon encounter a band of ogres who are resisting Rumpel, the ogres are led by a still-cursed Fiona who, after escaping from the tower where she was held captive, keeps the retired and overweight Puss in Boots as a pet. Shrek does everything he can to gain Fionas love, but she is too busy preparing an ambush on Rumpel and she is also bitterly cynical and disillusioned about the power of true love and throws herself into planning Rumpels capture. While sparring with her, Fiona begins to like Shrek, Puss encourages him to continue pursuing Fiona
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Theatrical release poster
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Mike Myers,
Eddie Murphy,
Cameron Diaz,
Antonio Banderas and
Walt Dohrn at the premiere of the film at the 2010
Tribeca Film Festival.
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Despicable Me
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Despicable Me is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated comedy film from Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment that was released on July 9,2010 in the United States. It is Illumination Entertainments first film, the film was animated by the French animation studio Mac Guff, which was later acquired by Illumination Entertainment. It was directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud as their debut film. The film stars the voice of Steve Carell as Gru, a supervillain who adopts three girls from an orphanage, and the voice of Jason Segel as Vector, a rival of Gru who steals the Great Pyramid of Giza. When Gru learns of Vectors heist, he plans an even greater heist, to shrink, the film earned positive reviews from critics, and grossed over $543 million worldwide, against a budget of $69 million. It launched the Despicable Me franchise with a series of films, including the sequel Despicable Me 2 in 2013, another sequel, Despicable Me 3, is scheduled for release in 2017. Gru attempts to break into Vectors fortress to get the shrink ray back, however, he notices three orphan girls, Margo, Edith, and Agnes, who are able to easily walk into the base because they are selling cookies. Gru disguises himself as a dentist and adopts the girls from Miss Hatties Home for Girls, however, Gru has difficulty nurturing them properly due to their rambunctiousness, their ballet classes, and his own ineptitude as a parent. Eventually, Gru and the girls arrive at Vectors fortress and Gru manages to steal the shrink ray. The girls then suggest a day at a park, Gru agrees, believing he can abandon the girls there. He is then dragged around the park for the day. Later, Gru contacts Mr. Perkins via video chat, stating that he finally has the shrink ray in his possession, Margo, Edith, and Agnes interrupt the meeting, and Perkins announces that he has lost confidence in Gru and will no longer fund his operations. As Gru tells the Minions he can no longer pay them for their services, the Minions then hand over their own savings, too. Gru, inspired, sacrifices parts of his lair to construct a spacecraft, Gru plans to steal the Moon when it is nearest the Earth, but this ends up being the same day as the girls ballet recital. Gru becomes conflicted, and Dr. Nefario, seeing the recital as interfering with the plan, at the same time, Mr. Perkins informs Vector of Grus possession of the shrink ray and the adoption of the three girls, encouraging Vector to take action. Gru successfully shrinks and steals the Moon, and rushes back to Earth to attend the recital - finding a note from Vector. After arriving at Vectors headquarters, Gru readily gives up the Moon, but Vector reneges on the deal, flying off with the girls and the Moon, much to Grus anger. Meanwhile, Dr. Nefario discovers that the effects of the ray are temporary, the bigger the objects original size
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Theatrical release poster
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The Incredibles
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The Incredibles is a 2004 American computer-animated superhero film written and directed by Brad Bird, produced by Pixar Animation Studios, and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film follows a family of superheroes who is forced to hide their powers, Mr. Bird, who was Pixars first outside director, developed the film as an extension of 1960s comic books and spy films from his boyhood and personal family life. He pitched the film to Pixar after the box office disappointment of his first feature, The Iron Giant, the animation team was tasked with animating an all-human cast, which required creating new technology to animate detailed human anatomy, clothing and realistic skin and hair. Michael Giacchino composed the orchestral score. The film premiered on October 27,2004, at the BFI London Film Festival and had its release in the United States on November 5,2004. The film performed well at the box office, grossing $633 million worldwide during its theatrical run. The Incredibles was met with critical acclaim, garnering high marks from professional critics. The film received the 2004 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature and it became the first entirely animated film to win the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. A sequel, The Incredibles 2, is scheduled for release on June 15,2018, public opinion turns against humans with superpowers – called Supers – due to peripheral damage caused by their crime-fighting activities. After several lawsuits, they are forced into civilian relocation programs by the government, fifteen years later, Bob and Helen Parr, formerly known as Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl, and their children Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack live as a suburban family. Bob is dissatisfied with life and his white-collar job, longing for the glory days. Sometimes, Bob and his old friend Lucius Best – formerly known as Frozone – perform vigilante work without their wives knowledge during the night, one day, Bob loses his temper because his supervisor refuses to let him stop a mugging, causing him to be dismissed. Arriving on Nomanisan, Bob is able to find and destroy the Omnidroid by tricking it into ripping out its own power source. Bob is rejuvenated by being able to use his powers freely, improving his attitude and relationship with his family, he begins rigorous training while waiting for more work from Mirage. Discovering a tear in his suit, Bob visits superhero costume designer Edna Mode, who decides to make him and his whole family suits, unbeknownst to Helen and the kids. Leaving for Nomanisan once again, Bob discovers that Mirage is working for Buddy Pine, Bob sneaks into Syndromes island base and finds his computer. He discovers that Syndrome has lured countless retired superheroes to their deaths, meanwhile, Helen visits Edna, learns what Bob has been up to, and activates a homing beacon Edna built into the suits to find him, inadvertently causing Bob to be discovered and captured. Helen borrows an airplane to head for Nomanisan, but finds Violet and Dash have stowed away wearing their own suits, Syndrome picks up Helens radio transmissions and shoots down the plane
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Theatrical release poster
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Craig T. Nelson signing a Mr. Incredible poster at the film's screening on the
USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
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Brad Bird wrote and directed the film.
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Syndrome was listed at No. 64 in
Wizard 's top 100 villains.
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