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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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Channing Tatum
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Channing Matthew Tatum is an American actor, dancer, and former stripper. Tatum made his debut in the drama film Coach Carter. His breakthrough role was in the 2006 dance film Step Up and he is known for his portrayal of the character Duke in the 2009 action film G. I. Joe, The Rise of Cobra and its 2013 sequel G. I, Joe films received negative reviews from critics, they were commercially successful, grossing more than $300 million at the box office. Tatum is also known for his role in Magic Mike. He appeared in films as Dear John and The Vow and his other films include Shes the Man, The Dilemma, White House Down, the drama Foxcatcher, The Hateful Eight and Hail, Caesar. Tatum was born in Cullman, Alabama, the son of Kay, a worker, and Glenn Tatum. He has a sister named Paige and he is mostly of English ancestry. His family moved to the Pascagoula, Mississippi area when he was six and he grew up in the bayous near the Mississippi River, where he lived in a rural setting. Tatum has discussed having dealt with attention deficit disorder and dyslexia while growing up, athletic while growing up, he played football, soccer, track, baseball, and performing martial arts, he has said that girls were always biggest distraction in school. As a child, he practiced wuzuquan kung fu, Tatum spent most of his teenage years in the Tampa area, and initially attended Gaither High School. He later attended Glenville State College in Glenville, West Virginia on a football scholarship and he returned home and started working odd jobs. US Weekly reported that around this time Tatum left his job as a roofer and began working as a stripper at a local nightclub, in 2010, he told an Australian newspaper that he wanted to make a movie about his experiences as a stripper. That idea led to the movie Magic Mike, Tatum moved to Miami, where he was discovered by a model talent scout. In 2000, Tatum was first cast as a dancer in Ricky Martins She Bangs music video, after an audition in Orlando, Florida and his experience in the fashion industry began as a model working for noted clients such as Armani and Abercrombie & Fitch. He soon moved into television commercials, landing spots for Mountain Dew. He subsequently signed with Page 305, an agency in Miami. He was cast by Al David for Vogue magazine and soon appeared in campaigns for Abercrombie & Fitch, Nautica, Dolce & Gabbana, American Eagle Outfitters
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Magic Mike XXL
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Magic Mike XXL is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by Gregory Jacobs, written by Reid Carolin and starring Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Kevin Nash and Joe Manganiello. A sequel to 2012s Magic Mike, the film was released on July 1,2015, received mixed reviews from critics, three years after abandoning his life as a stripper, Mike is running his own furniture business. He receives a call from Tarzan who informs Mike that Dallas is gone, believing that his former boss has died, Mike drives to a hotel only to find that his friends, the remaining Kings of Tampa, are enjoying themselves at a pool party. Later, while trying to work, Mike overhears a song he used to strip to, reinvigorated, Mike decides to join them on their trip. Driving in a van owned by Tito and Tobias, they decide to make their first stop at Mad Marys. To prove to Richie that hes willing to commit to the trip, the others join him soon after. They then head down to a beach where Mike attempts to resolve his issues with Ken, Mike also meets a photographer named Zoe who tells him that shes headed for New York. They flirt but Mike decides not to pursue her, back on the road, Mike suggests that they change their routine. They stop at a gas station where he coerces Richie into trying to make the cashier smile with an improvised striptease which he successfully does and this inspires the others to abandon their old routines. Soon afterwards, Tobias, under the influence of MDMA, passes out while driving, everyone is left unscathed aside from Tobias who gets a concussion. In the hospital the group begins to lose morale, and contemplate packing up, Mike then reveals that his furniture business isnt going that well, and that hes no longer dating Brooke after she rejected his marriage proposal. The group decides to continue on, in search of a new emcee, Mike brings the group to a Savannah strip club owned by Rome whom Mike has a history with. Despite proving to her that his skills havent deteriorated, hes unsuccessful in getting her to help them, however, she does give them a ride to their next stop by having Andre, a rapper/singer who works at the club, drive them there. The group arrives at a mansion, Tito tells them that he knows the girl who lives there and that shes expecting them. They walk in through the door but are greeted by the girls mother, Nancys teasing of the group initially makes them feel awkward but as the night goes on, the mood lightens. During this time, Mike meets Zoe again, Zoe confesses that she was hired by another photographer as his assistant solely so he could try to get with her, despite being married. Mike urges her to come to the convention to regain her smile, after sleeping with Richie, Nancy allows the group to drive her ex-husbands car to Myrtle Beach. When they arrive, they are surprised to see Rome, Rome, after having a change of heart, agrees to be their emcee
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Harvard College
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Harvard College is the undergraduate liberal arts college of Harvard University. Founded in 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest institution of learning in the United States. The school came into existence in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony—though without a single building, in 1638, the college became home for North Americas first known printing press, carried by the ship John of London. Three years later, the college was renamed in honor of deceased Charlestown minister John Harvard who had bequeathed to the school his entire library, Harvards first instructor was schoolmaster Nathaniel Eaton, in 1639, he also became its first instructor to be dismissed, for overstrict discipline. The schools first students were graduated in 1642, in 1665, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck from the Wampanoag … did graduate from Harvard, the first Indian to do so in the colonial period. The colleges of Englands Oxford and Cambridge Universities are communities within the university, each an association of scholars sharing room. The Indian College was active from 1640 to no later than 1693, the body known as The President and Fellows of Harvard College retains its traditional name despite having governance of the entire University. Radcliffe College originally paid Harvard faculty to repeat their lectures for women students, since the 1970s, Harvard has been responsible for undergraduate governance matters for women, women were still formally admitted to and graduated from Radcliffe until a final merger in 1999. About 2,000 students are admitted each year, representing between five and ten percent of those applying, of those admitted, approximately three-quarters choose to attend and these figures make Harvard perhaps the most selective and sought-after college in the world. Midway through the year, most undergraduates join one of fifty standard fields of concentration. Joint concentrations and special concentrations are also possible, a smaller number receive the Scientiarum Baccalaureus. There are also special programs, such as a five-year program leading to both a Harvard undergraduate degree and a Master of Arts from the New England Conservatory of Music. In 2012, dozens of students were disciplined for cheating on an exam in one course. The university instituted a code beginning in the fall of 2015. The total annual cost of attendance, including tuition and room and board, under financial aid guidelines adopted in 2012, families with incomes below $65,000 no longer pay anything for their children to attend, including room and board. Families with incomes between $65,000 to $150,000 pay no more than 10% of their annual income, grants total 88% of Harvards aid for undergraduate students, with aid also provided by loans and work-study. Each house is presided over by a senior-faculty Faculty Dean, while its Allston Burr Resident Dean supervises undergraduates day-to-day academic, many tutors reside in the House, as do the Faculty Dean and Resident Dean. The way in which students come to live in particular Houses has changed greatly over time, under the original draft system, Masters negotiated privately over the assignment of rising sophomores considered most—or least—promising
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Magic Mike
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Magic Mike is a 2012 American drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, and Matthew McConaughey. The plot revolves around Adam, a 19-year-old who enters the world of stripping, guided by Mike Lane. The film is based on the experiences of Tatum, who was an 18-year-old stripper in San Francisco. Magic Mike was filmed in locations around west central Florida. The film premiered as the film for the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival on June 24,2012, and was widely released by Warner Bros. on June 29,2012. A sequel, Magic Mike XXL directed by Gregory Jacobs, was released on July 1,2015, Mike soon meets 19-year-old Adam, a recent college dropout looking for a construction job. Mike takes Adam under his wing and encourages him to begin stripping at Xquisite, Mike is introduced to Adams sister Brooke. Despite his on-and-off relationship with a woman named Joanna, Mike finds himself attracted to Brooke, Adam falls further into the excessive lifestyle of the Xquisite dancers, using drugs and having sexual encounters with many clients. The bank declines his loan application and Mike realizes that he has to stay in the business to continue to pay his bills. Adam begins using drugs regularly, and Mike notices more of Adams reckless behavior, a few days later, Mike and Adam perform for a private party at a sorority house where Adam brings the package of drugs with him. At the party, Adam gives a young woman an ecstasy pill causing a brawl between Adam and the womans boyfriend, Mike and Adam are forced to flee without the drugs, which Adam says were worth $1,000. They also do not collect their payment, which infuriates Dallas, after the next nights show, Mike and Adam take drugs and go to a club. Adam vomits and passes out, Brooke finds him on Mikes floor the next morning, Brooke angrily confronts Mike about his lifestyle, and ends her friendship with him. Tobias and his suppliers break into Mikes house looking for Adam, Mike gives up most of his life savings to pay Adams debt in full. Later, before the final performance at Xquisite, Mike decides he has had enough. Knowing that Dallas has no loyalty to any of them and is driven by greed, after realizing Mike is not coming back, Dallas promotes Adam to replace Mike as lead dancer. Mike drives to Brookes apartment and tells her he has quit stripping and she has learned what he did for Adam, and she invites him to join her for breakfast. She playfully asks what they can do until morning, and then kisses him, Channing Tatum as Michael Magic Mike Lane, a male stripper who performs at Xquisite
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National Library of the Czech Republic
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The National Library of the Czech Republic is the central library of the Czech Republic. It is directed by the Ministry of Culture, the librarys main building is located in the historical Clementinum building in Prague, where approximately half of its books are kept. The other half of the collection is stored in the district of Hostivař, the National Library is the biggest library in the Czech Republic, in its funds there are around 6 million documents. The library has around 60,000 registered readers, as well as Czech texts, the library also stores older material from Turkey, Iran and India. The library also houses books for Charles University in Prague, the library won international recognition in 2005 as it received the inaugural Jikji Prize from UNESCO via the Memory of the World Programme for its efforts in digitising old texts. The project, which commenced in 1992, involved the digitisation of 1,700 documents in its first 13 years, the most precious medieval manuscripts preserved in the National Library are the Codex Vyssegradensis and the Passional of Abbes Kunigunde. In 2006 the Czech parliament approved funding for the construction of a new building on Letna plain. In March 2007, following a request for tender, Czech architect Jan Kaplický was selected by a jury to undertake the project, later in 2007 the project was delayed following objections regarding its proposed location from government officials including Prague Mayor Pavel Bém and President Václav Klaus. Later in 2008, Minister of Culture Václav Jehlička announced the end of the project, the library was affected by the 2002 European floods, with some documents moved to upper levels to avoid the excess water. Over 4,000 books were removed from the library in July 2011 following flooding in parts of the main building, there was a fire at the library in December 2012, but nobody was injured in the event. List of national and state libraries Official website
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Ghostbusters (franchise)
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Ghostbusters is a supernatural comedy franchise created in 1984. Its first installment was the film Ghostbusters, released on June 8,1984 and it centers on a group of eccentric New York City parapsychologists who investigate and capture ghosts for a living. For the film, the licensed action figures, novelizations. After the initial success, they released material in other fields such as comic books, video games, television series. Aykroyd came up with Ghostbusters after reading an article about quantum physics and parapsychology in the American Society of Psychical Research Journal, Aykroyd thought, Lets redo one of those old ghost comedies, but lets use the research thats being done today. Even at that time, there was plausible research that could point to a device that could capture ectoplasm or materialization, also, the Ghostbusters wore SWAT-like outfits and used Proton Packs to fight the ghosts, Ghostbusters storyboards show them wearing riot squad–type helmets with movable transparent visors. The original draft of the written by Aykroyd was very large. Aykroyd pitched his story to director and producer Reitman, who liked the basic idea, Aykroyd and Ramis initially wrote the script with roles written especially for Belushi, Eddie Murphy and John Candy. The extent of Murrays improvisation while delivering his lines is debated, the role was taken by Rick Moranis, portraying Louis as a geek. Gozer was originally going to appear in the form of Ivo Shandor as a slender, in the end, the role was played by Yugoslavian model Slavitza Jovan, whose Eastern European accented voice was later dubbed over by Paddi Edwardss. Winston Zeddemore was written with Eddie Murphy in mind, but he had to decline the role as he was filming Beverly Hills Cop at the same time. When Murphy had the role, Zeddemore was going to be hired much earlier in the film, when Ernie Hudson took over, it was decided that he be brought in later to indicate how the Ghostbusters were struggling to keep up with the outbreak of ghosts. In order to light the set for Gozers temple and create the physical effects for the set, other stages needed to be shut down. The Biltmore Hotel was chosen because the large lobby allowed for a shot of the Ghostbusters in complete gear for the first time. Dana Barrett and Louis Tullys apartments were constructed across two stages and were actually on the side of their doors in the hallway, an unusual move in film-making. A problem arose during filming when it was discovered that a show was produced in 1975 by Filmation for CBS called The Ghost Busters, for the test screening of Ghostbusters, half of the ghost effects were missing, not yet having been completed by the production team. The audience response was enthusiastic, and the ghost elements were completed for the official theatrical release shortly thereafter. Ghostbusters, the first film in the series, is a 1984 sci-fi comedy film about three eccentric New York City parapsychologists, after they are fired from Columbia University, they start their own business investigating and capturing ghosts
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Earth Made of Glass (film)
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Earth Made of Glass is a 2010 American documentary film, directed by Deborah Scranton, about the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Filming occurred in Rwanda and France and it premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, in the World Documentary Competition, on April 26,2010. Earth Made of Glass aired on HBO TV in April 2011, the film won a Peabody Award in 2012. The influence of French military interference in Rwanda plus the Belgian occupation are explained, meanwhile, survivor Jean-Pierre Sagahutu, whose family had died during the violence, seeks to track down the man who had murdered them. Sagahutu eventually finds the culprit and decides what to do next, the public reception to the film was generally positive. The group Rotten Tomatoes has not rated the film
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Stop-Loss (film)
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It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by MTV Films. While it garnered mixed to positive reviews, it earned less than half of its $25 million production budget at the box office, U. S. Army Staff Sergeant Brandon King leads a squad stationed in Tikrit during the Iraq War. The film begins with footage from the tour of the squad, while on duty at a checkpoint, the squad hears gunshots, after which a car speeds past filled with insurgents, one of whom fires an AK-47 at them. Kings men jump into their Humvees and follow the insurgents into an alley, when the soldiers get out of their vehicles, the insurgents ambush them from rooftops. As the firefight ensues, a rocket propelled grenade is discharged, destroying one of the Humvees, shortly after, another RPG is discharged, exploding an Iraqi vehicle. Squad member PFC Tommy Burgess is unfortunately near the vehicle when the RPG is discharged but another soldier, rico Rodriguez, dives on Burgess and saves him. This is at the expense of severely wounding Pvt, shortly after, fellow squad member Paul Preacher Colston, a close friend of Tommy, is shot in the neck and jaw in front of Tommy, and is killed instantly. Later, when Staff Sergeant King enters a house to help injured long-time friend, Steve Shriver, he discovers that he had accidentally killed several Iraqi civilians by throwing a grenade to kill an insurgent in a room, unaware of any civilians present in the area. Brandon is visibly shocked and the ends with three soldiers killed. Upon returning to their Texas hometown of Brazos, Brandon and Steve are decorated with the Bronze Star, Senator takes Brandon aside after the ceremony and offers to help Brandon in any way he can. That night, Steve shows the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and he gets drunk and digs a foxhole in his front yard, and strikes his fiancée Michelle in the face. When Brandon comes over to check on Steve, he is unable to get through to him, Tommy drives over drunk after his wife has kicked him out. The next day, Brandon suggests that they all go to the ranch, the men pass the time by drinking and watching Tommy shoot his wedding gifts, after their friend Shorty reads the cards. Upon hearing the commotion, a hungover Steve awakens and shoots the cards to silence them, the next day, Brandon, Tommy and Steve report to their military base. He refuses to comply and goes AWOL, becoming a deserter, Michelle sympathizes with Brandons refusal and offers to travel with him to Washington, D. C. to see the Senator who offered to assist Brandon earlier. During a multi-day drive to Washington, D. C, Brandon calls the Senators office and is told that because he is now a fugitive, the Senator is not interested in seeing him. After Michelle phones Steve to tell him of their location, he arrives in uniform to take Brandon back. Brandon refuses to return and Michelle is furious with Steve for re-enlisting, Brandon and Michelle finally reach New York City and meet with the lawyer, who gives Brandon forged papers and a passport which would allow him to flee to Canada in exchange for payment of $1000
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White House Down
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The films screenplay is by James Vanderbilt, and it stars Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx, with Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Woods, Jason Clarke, Joey King, and Richard Jenkins in supporting roles. The film was released on June 28,2013 and grossed $206 million worldwide, President of the United States James Sawyer generates controversy over a proposed peace treaty between the allied nations to remove military forces from the Middle East. Divorced US Capitol Police officer John Cale is currently assigned to Speaker of the House Eli Raphelson after saving his nephews life during a tour in Afghanistan. Disguised as a janitor, a man detonates a bomb at the center of the US Capitol building, causing the White House to be on lockdown. Finnerty is sent to escort the Speaker to a command center in the Pentagon. Cale manages to escape to go find his daughter, who was separated from him during the tour, retiring Head of the Presidential Detail Martin Walker escorts Sawyer and his detail to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. Once they gain access, Walker kills his detail, revealing himself to be the leader of the attack on the White House. He wants vengeance against Sawyer after a black ops mission resulted in the death of his son. Cale kills a mercenary, takes his gun and radio, Walker and Stenz bring in Skip Tyler to hack into the defense system, but still require Sawyer to activate the nuclear football. One of the mercenaries, Carl Killick, catches Emily recording a video of the mercenaries and takes her hostage, Cale and Sawyer contact the command structure, which uses Emilys video to discover the identities of the mercenaries, who used to work for various government agencies. Cale and Sawyer try to escape via a tunnel but find the exit gate rigged with explosives and they are forced into the garage and escape in the presidential limo, which is attacked by Stenz and flips into the White House pool. After Sawyer and Cale are presumed dead in an explosion, Hammond is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. Cale and Sawyer are still alive and learn that Hammond ordered an aerial incursion to take back the White House, having already learned of Emily from the video, Stenz takes her to Walker in the Oval Office. Tyler finishes hacking into NORAD and launches a missile to shoot down Air Force One, killing Hammond, Raphelson is sworn in as the 48th President of the United States and orders an air strike on the White House. Sawyer surrenders himself to Walker to save Emily, Walker attempts to force Sawyer to use the football to launch the nuclear missiles against the various cities in Iran, which will result in retaliation by many countries. Sawyer refuses at first, while Cale sets various rooms on fire as a diversion, down in the tunnels, Tyler accidentally detonates the explosives, killing him. After killing most of the mercenaries and freeing the hostages, Cale confronts Stenz. Sawyer attacks Walker, who uses Sawyers handprint to activate the football before apparently executing him, Walker locks Irans targets, but before he can initiate the launch, Cale kills him
