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Adelaide
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Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia. In June 2016, Adelaide had a resident population of 1,326,354 million. South Australia, with a total of 1, the demonym Adelaidean is used in reference to the city and its residents. Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges which surround the city. Adelaide stretches 20 km from the coast to the foothills, and 94 to 104 km from Gawler at its northern extent to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, Colonel William Light, one of Adelaides founding fathers, designed the city and chose its location close to the River Torrens, in the area originally inhabited by the Kaurna people. Lights design set out Adelaide in a layout, interspaced by wide boulevards and large public squares. Early Adelaide was shaped by prosperity and wealth—until the Second World War, it was Australias third-largest city and it has been noted for early examples of religious freedom, a commitment to political progressivism and civil liberties. It has been known as the City of Churches since the mid-19th century, as South Australias seat of government and commercial centre, Adelaide is the site of many governmental and financial institutions. Most of these are concentrated in the city centre along the boulevard of North Terrace, King William Street. Today, Adelaide is noted for its festivals and sporting events, its food and wine, its long beachfronts. It ranks highly in terms of liveability, being listed in the Top 10 of The Economist Intelligence Units Worlds Most Liveable Cities index in 2010,2011,2012 and 2015. It was also ranked the most liveable city in Australia by the Property Council of Australia in 2011,2012 and 2013, prior to its proclamation as a British settlement in 1836, the area around Adelaide was inhabited by the indigenous Kaurna Aboriginal nation. Kaurna culture and language was almost completely destroyed within a few decades of the European settlement of South Australia in 1836, however, extensive documentation by early missionaries and other researchers has enabled a modern revival of both language and culture. South Australia was officially proclaimed as a new British colony on 28 December 1836, the event is commemorated in South Australia as Proclamation Day. The site of the capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light. Adelaide was established as a colony of free immigrants, promising civil liberties and freedom from religious persecution. Wakefields idea was for the Government to survey and sell the land at a rate that would maintain land values high enough to be unaffordable for labourers and journeymen
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Australia
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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the worlds sixth-largest country by total area, the neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. Australias capital is Canberra, and its largest urban area is Sydney, for about 50,000 years before the first British settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who spoke languages classifiable into roughly 250 groups. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades, and by the 1850s most of the continent had been explored, on 1 January 1901, the six colonies federated, forming the Commonwealth of Australia. Australia has since maintained a liberal democratic political system that functions as a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy comprising six states. The population of 24 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard, Australia has the worlds 13th-largest economy and ninth-highest per capita income. With the second-highest human development index globally, the country highly in quality of life, health, education, economic freedom. The name Australia is derived from the Latin Terra Australis a name used for putative lands in the southern hemisphere since ancient times, the Dutch adjectival form Australische was used in a Dutch book in Batavia in 1638, to refer to the newly discovered lands to the south. On 12 December 1817, Macquarie recommended to the Colonial Office that it be formally adopted, in 1824, the Admiralty agreed that the continent should be known officially as Australia. The first official published use of the term Australia came with the 1830 publication of The Australia Directory and these first inhabitants may have been ancestors of modern Indigenous Australians. The Torres Strait Islanders, ethnically Melanesian, were originally horticulturists, the northern coasts and waters of Australia were visited sporadically by fishermen from Maritime Southeast Asia. The first recorded European sighting of the Australian mainland, and the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent, are attributed to the Dutch. The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutch navigator, Willem Janszoon. He sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula in early 1606, the Dutch charted the whole of the western and northern coastlines and named the island continent New Holland during the 17th century, but made no attempt at settlement. William Dampier, an English explorer and privateer, landed on the north-west coast of New Holland in 1688, in 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain. The first settlement led to the foundation of Sydney, and the exploration, a British settlement was established in Van Diemens Land, now known as Tasmania, in 1803, and it became a separate colony in 1825. The United Kingdom formally claimed the part of Western Australia in 1828. Separate colonies were carved from parts of New South Wales, South Australia in 1836, Victoria in 1851, the Northern Territory was founded in 1911 when it was excised from South Australia
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Hugo Weaving
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Hugo Wallace Weaving is a Nigerian-born English-Australian film and stage actor. Weavings first television role was in the 1984 Australian television series Bodyline, in film, he first rose to prominence for his performance as Martin in the Australian drama Proof. Weaving played Anthony Tick Belrose/Mitzi Del Bra in the comedy-drama The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and his roles as a voice actor include Rex in Babe, Noah in Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two, and Megatron in the Transformers film series. Weavings awards for acting include a Satellite Award, MTV Movie Award, while in England, he attended The Downs School, Wraxall, near Bristol, and Queen Elizabeths Hospital. His family moved back to Australia in 1976, where he attended Knox Grammar School in Sydney and he graduated from Sydneys National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1981. Weavings first television role was in the 1984 Australian television series Bodyline, Weaving appeared in the Australian miniseries The Dirtwater Dynasty in 1988 and as Geoffrey Chambers in the drama Barlow and Chambers, A Long Way From Home. He starred opposite Nicole Kidman in the 1989 film Bangkok Hilton, in 1991, Weaving received the Australian Film Institutes Best Actor award for his performance in the low-budget Proof. He appeared as Sir John in the 1993 Yahoo Serious comedy Reckless Kelly, in 1998, he received the Best Actor award from the Montreal Film Festival for his performance as a suspected serial killer in The Interview. Weaving played the enigmatic and evil–minded Agent Smith in the 1999 film The Matrix and he later reprised that role in the films 2003 sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. He was an actor in the cartoon film The Magic Pudding. He garnered additional acclaim in the role of half–elven lord Elrond in Peter Jacksons three-film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Weaving was the main actor in Andrew Kotatkos award-winning film Everything Goes. He starred as a heroin-addicted ex-rugby league player in the 2005 Australian indie film Little Fish, opposite Cate Blanchett. Weaving played the role as V in the 2006 film V for Vendetta, in which he was reunited with the Wachowskis, creators of The Matrix trilogy. Actor James Purefoy was originally signed to play the role, but was fired six weeks into filming over creative differences, Weaving reshot most of James Purefoys scenes as V apart from a couple of minor dialogue-free scenes early in the film. Stuntman David Leitch performed all of Vs stunts, Weaving reprised his role as Elrond for the video game The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-Earth II. He regularly appears in productions by the Sydney Theatre Company, in 2006, he worked with Cate Blanchett on a reprise of the STC production of Hedda Gabler in New York City. Weaving himself was unaware of the controversy and had accepted the role based on Michael Bays personal request, in a November 2008 Sun Herald interview, though Weaving reprised his role in two sequels, he does not have much personal investment in the Transformers films. In February 2010, Weaving revealed to The Age, Director Michael Bay talks to me on the phone and we were doing the voice for the second one and I still hadnt seen the first one
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BBC
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The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. It is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, the BBC is the worlds oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. It employs over 20,950 staff in total,16,672 of whom are in public sector broadcasting, the total number of staff is 35,402 when part-time, flexible, and fixed contract staff are included. The BBC is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its Agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament, and used to fund the BBCs radio, TV, britains first live public broadcast from the Marconi factory in Chelmsford took place in June 1920. It was sponsored by the Daily Mails Lord Northcliffe and featured the famous Australian Soprano Dame Nellie Melba, the Melba broadcast caught the peoples imagination and marked a turning point in the British publics attitude to radio. However, this public enthusiasm was not shared in official circles where such broadcasts were held to interfere with important military and civil communications. By late 1920, pressure from these quarters and uneasiness among the staff of the licensing authority, the General Post Office, was sufficient to lead to a ban on further Chelmsford broadcasts. But by 1922, the GPO had received nearly 100 broadcast licence requests, John Reith, a Scottish Calvinist, was appointed its General Manager in December 1922 a few weeks after the company made its first official broadcast. The company was to be financed by a royalty on the sale of BBC wireless receiving sets from approved manufacturers, to this day, the BBC aims to follow the Reithian directive to inform, educate and entertain. The financial arrangements soon proved inadequate, set sales were disappointing as amateurs made their own receivers and listeners bought rival unlicensed sets. By mid-1923, discussions between the GPO and the BBC had become deadlocked and the Postmaster-General commissioned a review of broadcasting by the Sykes Committee and this was to be followed by a simple 10 shillings licence fee with no royalty once the wireless manufactures protection expired. The BBCs broadcasting monopoly was made explicit for the duration of its current broadcast licence, the BBC was also banned from presenting news bulletins before 19.00, and required to source all news from external wire services. Mid-1925 found the future of broadcasting under further consideration, this time by the Crawford committee, by now the BBC under Reiths leadership had forged a consensus favouring a continuation of the unified broadcasting service, but more money was still required to finance rapid expansion. Wireless manufacturers were anxious to exit the loss making consortium with Reith keen that the BBC be seen as a service rather than a commercial enterprise. The recommendations of the Crawford Committee were published in March the following year and were still under consideration by the GPO when the 1926 general strike broke out in May. The strike temporarily interrupted newspaper production and with restrictions on news bulletins waived the BBC suddenly became the source of news for the duration of the crisis. The crisis placed the BBC in a delicate position, the Government was divided on how to handle the BBC but ended up trusting Reith, whose opposition to the strike mirrored the PMs own
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Out of the Blue (2008 TV series)
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Out of the Blue is an Australian serial drama commissioned by the BBC, produced by Australias Southern Star Entertainment. It began screening on BBC One on weekday afternoons on 28 April 2008, the programme attracted lower than desired ratings figures, prompting the broadcaster to shift it to its second channel BBC Two from 19 May 2008. The BBC eventually decided not to commission a series. An investigation follows as the attempts to discover which one of them was the killer. The BBC announced the commissioning of Out of the Blue on 30 November 2007 as a replacement for Neighbours, produced by John Edwards and Julie McGauran of production company Southern Star Entertainment, filming began in early 2008, with the BBC initially ordering 130 episodes. The show launched on 28 April in the UK, on 29 January 2008, Network Ten announced that they had gained the rights to air Out of the Blue in Australia. The show started airing on the network on 17 November 2008 at 10. 30pm, from January 2009, due to lower ratings compared to TEN Late News, it was moved to a weekly Sunday slot. Early on in 2009, Ten would air episodes that were classified M on a late Sunday night slot, the series made its Irish debut on 5 May 2008 on RTÉ One. Screening the show five days a week, RTÉ went on to overtake the UK and began to premiere individual episodes, the series has been airing all over Africa on the GO channel, a satellite TV channel. Five episodes are shown on Wednesday evenings, repeated at various times during the week, on 5 January 2009, the series started to air on NET5 in the Netherlands. The series is shown at 2pm, on the same day, Net 5 started to show Home and Away which airs twice a day at 2. 30pm and 6. 30pm. Nevertheless, the stated that the BBC hoped for the show to be a long-stay resident of the daytime schedule. Other early reviews were generally positive. The Daily Telegraph said that the show looked quite promising and described its murder mystery hook as quite neat, a reviewer for The Daily Mirror wrote, Oo-er. Meanwhile, The Guardian remarked upon the difference in style between Out of the Blue and Neighbours, writing, Au-ssies, stepping into Neighbours slot is something a little more grown up, with drink, gangs and even a murder. In November 2008, the shows Australian premiere attracted a response from critics. A review in The Australian criticised the programme for having clunky dialogue and over the top villains, however, The Daily Telegraph was more positive, predicting that the show would prove popular for Aussie soap fans who prefer their fare more grown-up than Neighbours. The shows UK premiere, which consisted of two episodes broadcast back-to-back, attracted 1. 2m viewers, the BBC described this performance as encouraging, but noted that it would take some time to consider whether viewers would accept the show in the long-term
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Indi Walker
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Indigo Indi Walker is a fictional character from the Australian Channel Seven soap opera Home and Away, played by Samara Weaving. She debuted on-screen during the episode broadcast on 30 July 2009, Weaving and her on-screen family initially appeared in 2009 for a guest stint, in 2010 they were written back into the serial on a permanent basis. Indis storylines have focused on her relationship with Romeo Smith. It was revealed in July that a new family would be introduced to Home and Away and it was announced that Out of the Blue actress Samara Weaving had been cast as Indigo. In September 2009, the Walker family departed Home and Away at the end of their storyline, in June 2010, it was announced that Indi, Sid and Dexter would make a permanent return to the soap after they proved popular with fans. Speaking of her return to the official Home and Away website, Weaving stated I have loved returning to Home and Away, it’s a fantastic place to work and I look forward to what’s next for Indi. Weaving later committed herself to a future with the serial stating she wanted to be around for years. Indi is initially described as never trusting anyone because she believes they are all liars, after an accident she is described as re-evaluating her life and has a new-found level of confidence and maturity. Weaving has described Indi as being very forward, not afraid to ask questions, the Daily Telegraph describe Indigo as being a tortured teenager. Richard Clune of The Sunday Telegraph describes her as a troubled teen. From her return in 2010, one of Indis first storylines was her relationship with Romeo Smith, Smith hinted at a romance between the pair before Weaving had appeared on-screen again. Whilst interviewed by TV Week Smith stated, Initially, Indi goes out of her way to see that hes okay - even though she doesnt know him and they have a lot in common, but he tells her hes not looking for romance. Their relationship as friends slowly develops into more and its what shes always wanted ever since she saw him, so its a kiss that makes her totally forget what shes saying and why she was angry at him in the first place. Weaving then stated the pair would not find love together quickly, Indigo responds well to the kiss, Indi definitely thinks that this is going to be a relationship, whereas Romeo has his doubts about it. In late 2010 it was revealed that Indi and Romeo would begin to drift apart, fellow character Ruby Buckton falls in love with Romeo, whilst breeds states that Ruby doesnt consider Indigos feelings because she sees him as her hero. Speaking in early 2011 Weaving stated that Indi was to face relationships drama stating, Ruby has her eyes on my boyfriend, so thats always cause for trouble, executive producer Cameron Welsh promised viewers that the storyline would play a big part of the serial in 2011. He also stated, Fans will definitely take sides on this one, luke Mitchell, Rebecca Breeds and Samara Weaving are having a great time with this storyline, and well see a new side to all of them as they face the consequences of their actions. After Romeos infidelity he decides that Indigo is whom he wants to be with Ruby tells Indi the truth, Weaving said that at this point Indigos knight in shining armour has been shattered as she thought he was the one person who wouldnt cheat, Indigo cannot understand the circumstances
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Home and Away
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Home and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was created by Alan Bateman and commenced broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988, the soap opera was initially going to be called Refuge, but the name was changed to the friendlier title of Home and Away once production began. The show premiered with a pilot episode. Since then, each subsequent episode has aired for a duration of twenty-two minutes and Home, in Australia, it is currently broadcast from Mondays to Thursdays at 7,00 pm. Home and Away follows the lives and loves of the residents in Summer Bay, Home and Away was not without controversy. During the first season alone, it featured several adult-themed storylines such as teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol addiction and drug overdose. A storyline, in particular concerning rape outraged the public and a protest erupted, the series has dealt with similar storylines over the years which have often exceeded its restricted time slot. Palm Beach in Sydneys Northern Beaches district has been used as the location for Summer Bay since 1988, the exterior scenes are filmed mainly at Palm Beach, while the interior scenes are filmed at the Australian Technology Park in Redfern. Home and Away has been sold to over eighty countries around the world and it is popular in the United Kingdom, and is one of the highest-rating shows on RTÉ Television in Ireland and TV2 in New Zealand. In Australia, Home and Away is the most awarded program at the Logie Awards, with a total of forty-six wins, including Best Drama Program. Some cast members have won other awards such as the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television, Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor. In 2015, Home and Away was inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame, after the Seven Network cancelled their soap opera Neighbours on 12 July 1985 due to low ratings, rival network Ten picked it up and turned it into a success. A couple of later, Sevens head of drama, Alan Bateman, became desperate to get back into the soap market. While on a trip to Kangaroo Point, New South Wales with his family, seeing the degree of conflict the influx of parentless children on a tight-knit community was having, Bateman came away with the idea for a new serial. He explained Nobody in the community wanted them to move in, suddenly I thought, there is my slice of life in a community. Bateman began outlining the storyline and set the serial in the town of Summer Bay. While Seven Network executives were unconvinced by the idea, audience research was positive, the soap opera was initially called Refuge, but the name was changed to the friendlier title of Home and Away once production began. Home and Away has since become the second-longest drama series in Australian television after Neighbours, the storyline featured a majority of the cast boarded onto a ferry boat for a night cruise, however, a massive storm ruined the celebrations, leading the boat to sink
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Maltese people
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The Maltese are an ethnic group indigenous to Malta, and identified with the Maltese language. Malta is an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, included within the ethnic group defined by the Maltese people are the Gozitans who inhabit Maltas sister island, Gozo. Malta has been inhabited from around 5200 BC, since the arrival of settlers from the island of Sicily. A significant prehistoric Neolithic culture marked by Megalithic structures, which date back to c.3600 BC, existed on the islands, as evidenced by the temples of Mnajdra, Ggantija, the Phoenicians colonized Malta between 800-700 BC, bringing their Semitic language and culture. After a period of Byzantine rule and a sack by the Vandals. The Muslim rule was ended by the Normans who conquered the island in 1091, the islands were completely re-Christianised by 1249. The islands were part of the Kingdom of Sicily until 1530, in 1530 Charles I of Spain gave the Maltese islands to the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in perpetual lease. The French under Napoleon took hold of the Maltese islands in 1798, as part of the Treaty of Paris Malta became a British colony, ultimately rejecting an attempted integration with the United Kingdom in 1956. Malta became independent on 21 September 1964, under its 1964 constitution Malta initially retained Queen Elizabeth II as Queen of Malta, with a Governor-General exercising executive authority on her behalf. On 13 December 1974 it became a republic within the Commonwealth, with the President as head of state, on 31 March 1979 Malta saw the withdrawal of the last British troops and the Royal Navy from Malta. This day is known as Freedom Day and Malta declared itself as a neutral, Malta joined the European Union on 1 May 2004 and joined the Eurozone on 1 January 2008. The earliest inhabitants of the Maltese Islands are believed to have crossed over from nearby Sicily sometime before 5000 BC. It has been subjected to the complex, historic processes that gave rise to the linguistic and ethnic admixture that defines who the people of Malta. Present-day Maltese culture is essentially Latin European with the recent British legacy also in evidence, in the early part of its history Malta was also exposed to Arab influences. The present-day legacy of this is rather than cultural. Maltese people speak the Maltese language, a Semitic language written in the Latin alphabet in its standard form, the language is descended from Siculo-Arabic, a dialect of Arabic spoken in Sicily. In the course of Maltas history, the language has adopted large amounts of vocabulary from Sicilian, Italian, English, the official languages of Malta are Maltese and English. Maltese became a language of Malta in 1934, replacing Italian
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Canberra Girls Grammar School
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Canberra Girls Grammar School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school predominantly for girls, located in Deakin, a suburb of Canberra, the capital of Australia. It has an enrolment policy and caters for approximately 1,600 students, with co-education from Early Learning to Year 2. Boarding facilities are available on the Senior Campus for up to 95 students in Years 7 to 12, CGGS is also licensed to offer the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme and Diploma Programme. St Gabriels School was established with nine students in 1926, as a day and boarding school for girls, by the Church of England religious order and it catered for the small but growing community in what was designated as the new Federal capital. From 1926 to early 1928, the Old Rectory of St John the Baptist Church, the rectory was known as Glebe House, and was close to the city. In May 1927, the day before the opening of Parliament House, the school officially moved into its new site in 1928. In 1933, the school was renamed Canberra Church of England Girls Grammar School, CCEGGS was nearly closed down during the Great Depression, and sold some of its land in order to remain solvent. A boom period in the 1970s saw the school expand, with the Junior School moving to a new Campus in Grey Street, Deakin, today the junior school remains on a separate campus within the suburb. In 2001, the name changed again, this time to its current form Canberra Girls Grammar School. In 2004, CGGS opened an Early Learning Centre catering for 3 to 5 year olds on its Junior School campus, Canberra Girls Grammar School is located over two campuses in the inner Canberra suburb of Deakin, within view of Australias Parliament House. The Schools most recent additions include a music centre with an adjoining 1, in the senior campus a new administration block, drive through and entrance was built in 2011 and a new award-winning science wing completed in 2012. Canberra Girls Grammar School was authorized to offer the International Baccalaureate World School Diploma Programme on 21 July 2010, the school was also authorized to offer the Primary Years Programme on 15 September 2011. The junior school curriculum is based upon the New South Wales Department of Education Board of Studies syllabus and it also has many co-curricular studies. Students in the school are prepared for the ACT Year 12 Certificate. A high percentage of students who graduate with a Year 12 Certificate also obtain an ATAR, in 2007, of the 150 students awarded a Year 12 certificate, 91% were awarded Tertiary Education Statements. Also that year, the median ATAR gained by students was 86 compared with the average of students all across ACT colleges of 79. Students from Canberra Girls Grammar School had the second highest median ATAR of the ACT colleges that year, 92% of students from the school who were awarded Tertiary Education Statements in 2007 scored over 65 for their ATAR compared with 79% of all ACT students. Students in Years 11 and 12 are also given the option to study the International Baccalaureate instead of the BSSS curriculum, as with most Australian schools, Canberra Girls Grammar School utilises a house system for activities and competitions
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1st AACTA Awards
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The ceremony was televised on the Nine Network. The Academy presented awards for achievements in film, and announced the nominees at the AACTA Awards Luncheon. These awards will serve as a continuum to the Australian Film Institute Awards, a gold statuette was created by Australian sculptor Ron Gomboc, which depicts a human silhouette based on the shape of the Southern Cross constellation. The president of the awards is Australian actor Geoffrey Rush, works entered between 7 October 2010 and 2 November 2011 for films, and 5 May 2010 and 24 May 2011 for short films and documentaries were eligible for awards. The films were showcased at the inaugural Festival of Film from 6 October –14 November in Sydney and Melbourne, for the general public, and for Academy and AFI members to view and judge. The first nominees were announced on 30 August 2011, for non-feature film categories, Best Feature Length Documentary, Best Short Animation, round one voting for feature film categories commenced on 2 November and ended on 16 November. Following the announcement of the nominees on 30 November, round two voting commenced to determine the winners in each category, and ended on 14 December 2011. Foreign films were recognised at the AACTA International Awards ceremony. The nominees were announced at the AACTA Awards Luncheon on 15 January 2011, in conjunction with the Australia Week Black Tie Gala, and this marks the first time in ten years since the awards have been presented in Sydney, which had been held in Melbourne previously. The awards date has been shifted from its usual November/December date, to January,2012, the awards ceremony was broadcast by the Nine Network. During the AACTA Awards luncheon, special awards were handed out to individuals for their contribution to the Australian screen industry. The Longford Lyell Award, an achievement award, was presented to Don McAlpine. The Outstanding Achievement in Television Screen Craft award was given to production designer Herbert Pinter, winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Official website
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Ash vs Evil Dead
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Ash vs Evil Dead is an American comedy horror television series developed by Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, and Tom Spezialy for the Starz network. It is set in Raimis Evil Dead universe, with Bruce Campbell reprising his role as Ash Williams, ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo, and Lucy Lawless also star. The series is produced by Campbell, Raimi, Craig DiGregorio, and Robert Tapert. The series premiered on October 31,2015, three days before the series premiere, Starz renewed it for a second season, which premiered on October 2,2016. On October 7,2016, while at the New York Comic Con Starz announced that the series had been renewed for a third season, the series is set approximately 30 years after the first three Evil Dead films, and serves as a sequel to that trilogy. Ash Williams works at the Value Stop as a stock boy. Also working at the store is his friend Pablo and the object of Pablos affections, Kelly. Ash has seemingly done very little with his life returning from 1300 AD at the end of Army of Darkness. However, Ash must soon renounce his comfortable existence and become a once more by taking up arms. Pablo and Kelly decide to join him on his quest to save humanity, Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, Ash has changed in the 30 years since Army of Darkness. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Campbell stated, Ash has survivors guilt and you could have a heyday with his PTSD. He doesnt want to talk about it, and hell lie about that stump on his hand to impress the ladies and this is a guy whos got some issues. But, hes the guy you want in the next to you. Ash has attempted destroy the Necronomicon on multiple occasions, unable to be rid of the book, he instead becomes its defacto caretaker. In season two, it is revealed that Ash had returned to his hometown of Elk Grove, Michigan, after the events of the films. The people of Elk Grove refused to believe his stories of Deadites, and instead accused him of murdering his friends and his sister in the cabin, shunned him, ray Santiago as Pablo Simon Bolivar, A co-worker who becomes Ashs loyal sidekick. Pablo believes that Ash is a hero, and calls him El Jefe as a mark of respect. Santiago describes his character as an El Jefe in-training and he was raised by his uncle, a shaman, who told him stories of an evil power which can only be defeated by El Jefe
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Bonds (clothing)
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Pacific Brands Underwear Group, known under its core brand Bonds, is an Australian manufacturer and importer of mens, womens and childrens underwear and clothing, and a subsidiary of Pacific Brands. The head office is located at 115 Cotham Rd in Kew, Bonds is the number 1 underwear brand in Australia, and a popular mid-range clothing brand there and in the United Kingdom. Its trademark Chesty Bond is recognised by many Australians as a national icon, Bonds was established in 1915 by George Allan Bond, an American who came to Australia in the early twentieth century. He started importing womens hosiery and gloves, in 1917 he began manufacturing hosiery in Redfern, Sydney. In 1918 he moved to Camperdown and began also making underwear, in 1932, Bond built Australia’s first cotton spinning mill at Wentworthville in western Sydney. This particular section of Wentworthville was soon renamed Pendle Hill in honour of his Scottish family origins, to facilitate easy access to Bonds Spinning Mills for employees, a railway station and eventually a whole new suburb were created. The company went into liquidation in 1929 and a public company, in 1970 the company merged with Coats Paton Pty Ltd. In 1987 the company was taken over by Pacific Dunlop, and it was sold in 2001 to form a separate entity. At that time also the mill was closed. In 2004 Pacific Brands Limited was listed as a company on the Australian Stock Exchange. In 2006, Bonds manufactured 40% of its goods in Australia at three sites in New South Wales, Cessnock, Unanderra and Wentworthville, the factories produced nearly 17 million garments a year and employed 295 full-time staff. The company also has relationships with a number of independent manufacturers in China, Pacific Brands cut 1850 jobs and ceased manufacturing in Australia by September 2010 to reduce manufacturing costs. On 28 April 2016 Pacific Brands entered into an agreement with Hanesbrands for the acquisition of 100% of the company, the best known of Bonds brands is the Chesty Bond singlet, marketed using the iconic character of the same name. Apart from singlets, Bonds also markets a variety of underwear and sleepwear garments including boxers, briefs and trunk styles of underwear for men, light tees and polo shirts. The product line for women is more extensive, offering sports and maternity wear alongside casual clothing, there is also a range of apparel for children and infants, including singlets, underwear and sleepwear. Pat Rafter appears in numerous Bonds television ads, and represents some products, in 2015, Australian rapper Iggy Azalea also signed on to be the face of the BONDS100 campaign for the companys 100th birthday
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Steven Yeun
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Steven Yeun /ˈjʌn/ is a South Korean-born American actor. He is known for his role as Glenn Rhee on AMCs horror drama television series The Walking Dead, Yeun has also appeared in many short and feature films, and has done video game and cartoon voiceovers. Yeun was born in Seoul, South Korea, to South Korean parents Je and his father was an architect in South Korea before moving his family to Regina, Saskatchewan, and later to Michigan. Yeun was raised in Troy, Michigan in a Christian household, yeuns parents began calling him Steven after meeting a doctor in America by that name. His parents owned a beauty-supply stores in Detroit, Yeun received a bachelors degree in psychology with a concentration in neuroscience from Kalamazoo College in 2005. At Kalamazoo, he met Jordan Klepper through Kleppers sister and later followed him to Chicago to join Second City, yeuns interest in acting and improv came during his freshman year at Kalamazoo, when he watched the colleges improv group, Monkapult. He auditioned for Monkapult, but was rejected before successfully joining the group during his sophomore year. Yeun revealed to his parents that he planned to pursue a career in Chicago instead of enrolling in law school or medical school. His parents, while unhappy with the decision, were supportive, according to Yeun, Yeun moved to Chicago in 2005, living in the citys Lincoln Square with his brother. Shortly after graduation, he joined Stir Friday Night, a comedy group composed of Asian-American members. He joined The Second City in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles in October 2009, yeuns biggest role to date was Glenn Rhee on The Walking Dead, an AMC television horror drama based on the comic book series of the same name. The drama is the highest rated series in television history. The series has received positive reviews from professional television critics. Yeun left the show in 2016 after his character Glenn was killed off in the seventh season, Yeun is an investor of The Bun Shop, a Korean-Mediterranean fusion restaurant in Koreatown, Los Angeles, owned by his younger brother Brian Yeun and business partner James Seok. Steven speaks some Korean, but is not fully fluent and he married photographer Joana Pak on December 3,2016. In December 2016, media revealed that Yeun and his wife were expecting their first child. Their son, Jude Malcolm Yeun, was born on March 17,2017, Steven Yeun at the Internet Movie Database Steven Yeun on Twitter Steven Yeun on Facebook
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Martin McDonagh
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Martin McDonagh is a playwright, screenwriter and film director, born and brought up in London to Irish parents. He has been described as one of the most important living playwrights in Ireland, McDonagh was born in Camberwell, London to Irish parents. His mother and his father moved back to Galway, leaving McDonagh. Separated into two trilogies, McDonaghs first six plays are located in and around County Galway, where he spent his holidays as a child. The first is set in Leenane, a village on the west coast of Ireland. McDonaghs first non-Irish play The Pillowman is set in a totalitarian state and premiered at the Royal National Theatre in 2003. A Behanding in Spokane is McDonaghs first play that is set in the United States, lead actor Christopher Walken was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance as a killer looking for the hand he lost in his youth. McDonagh also penned two prize-winning radio plays, one of which is The Tale of the Wolf and the Woodcutter, in February 2010, an announcement revealed that McDonagh was working on a new stage musical with composer Tom Waits and director Robert Wilson. The play was received on its opening night in Galway in 1996 and was then produced Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company in 1998. The play transferred to Broadway in April 1998 and received a Tony Award for Best Play nomination, a Skull in Connemara A Connemara man is employed to exhume skeletons in an overcrowded graveyard and he encounters the wife whom he was once accused of killing. The play premiered in 1997 at Town Hall Theatre, Galway, the play was presented at the Royal Court Theatre, and made its US premiere at the A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle, Washington in July to August 2000. The play ran Off-Broadway in January to May 2001 at the Gramercy Theatre, the Lonesome West Two brothers bicker in the aftermath of the supposedly accidental fatal shooting of their father. The play ran on Broadway in 1999 and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Play in 1999, the Cripple of Inishmaan A dark comedy in which a crippled teenager schemes to attain a role in Man of Aran. The play opened in 1997 at the Royal National Theatre in London and it opened in April 1998 Off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, with Ruaidhri Conroy in the title role on both occasions. Also in 1998, Frederick Koehler played the role in the Geffen Playhouse production in Los Angeles. In December 2008, The Cripple of Inishmaan was produced Off-Broadway by the Atlantic Theater Company, in conjunction with The Druid Theatre Company of Galway, Ireland. The Lieutenant of Inishmore A dark comedy in which the leader of an INLA splinter group discovers that his best friend. The play was produced Off-Broadway in February 2006 by the Atlantic Theater Company and it transferred to Broadway in May 2006 and received a 2006 Tony Award nomination for Best Play
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Charlie Puth
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Charles Otto Charlie Puth Jr. is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Puths initial exposure came through the success of his song videos uploaded to YouTube. He subsequently gained wider recognition for multiple releases, including his debut single Marvin Gaye. The song topped charts in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, Puth wrote, co-produced, and performed with Wiz Khalifa on the song See You Again, included in the Furious 7 soundtrack as a tribute to the late Paul Walker. Puth was born December 2,1991, in Rumson, New Jersey, the son of Debra, a teacher, who also wrote commercials for HBO, and Charles Puth. His father is Catholic and his mother is Jewish and he has two younger siblings, twins Stephen and Mikaela. As a two-year-old, Puths right eyebrow was permanently scarred in a nearly fatal dog-bite incident, Puth has perfect pitch, a rare auditory phenomenon that enables him to identify or recreate music, without a reference note. His mother introduced him to music and began teaching him the piano at age 4. He started studying jazz at age 10 and participated in a youth jazz ensemble at Count Basie Theatres Cool School in Red Bank. He was hired by The Count Basie Theatre to play in a Charlie Brown production, in grade six, he went door to door selling a Christmas album called Have a Merry Charlie Christmas that he had recorded and produced, making $600 in sales. He attended the Holy Cross School, Rumson, and Forrestdale Middle School, during his seventh grade to senior years, he attended Manhattan School of Music Pre-College as a jazz piano major and a classical studies minor. Puth graduated in 2013 from the Berklee College of Music, where he majored in music production, in September 2009, he started his own YouTube channel, entitled Charlies Vlogs, posting comedy videos and acoustic covers. In 2010, Puth released the video of his first song. On December 10, he released his extended play, The Otto Tunes. In 2011, he won a video competition sponsored by Perez Hilton. In the same year Ellen DeGeneres announced that she had signed Puth and Luther to her label, eleveneleven, Puth had performed the song on the show. In December 2012 he released a single, Break Again. The music video was released days later, on January 25,2012, Puth and Luther performed the song and Lady Antebellums Need You Now on The Ellen DeGeneres Show
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Showtime (TV network)
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The Showtime brand is used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to the group of eight multiplex channels in the United States. As of July 2015, Showtimes programming is available to approximately 28.693 million television households in the United States, the channel and its corresponding networks are headquartered at Paramount Plaza on the northern end of New York Citys Broadway district. The following week on July 8, Showtime launched on Viacom Cablevisions system in Dublin, California, the first program and television special to be broadcast on Showtime was Celebration, a concert special featuring performances by Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd and ABBA. By the end of its first year on the air, Showtime had a total of 55,000 subscribers nationwide. On March 7,1978, Showtime became a nationally distributed service after it was uplinked to satellite, turning it into a competitor with HBO, in 1979, Viacom sold a 50% ownership interest in Showtime to the TelePrompTer Corporation. On July 4,1981, Showtime adopted a 24-hour programming schedule,1982 saw the premiere of Showtimes first made-for-cable movie Falcons Gold and its first original series and childrens program Faerie Tale Theatre. The three companies announced their agreement in principle to acquire interests in TMC on November 11,1982. Subsequently, in late December of that year, the U. S. Department of Justice launched a preliminary inquiry into the proposed partnership. On January 7,1983, Viacom International added itself as a partner, under the revised proposal, the four studios would each own a 22. 58% stake in the two networks, with American Express owning a 9. 68% minority interest. In addition, the consortium would appoint a management team separate from those employed by the two channels – which would continue to operate as separate services – to operate the joint venture, on August 10,1985, after Time Inc. and cable provider Tele-Communications Inc. The subsidiary was renamed Showtime Networks, Inc. in 1988, also in 1988, the company formed Showtime Event Television as a pay-per-view distributor of special event programming. In 1990, Showtime ventured into acquiring and premiering independent films exclusively for the channel as part of the 30-Minute Movie short film anthology series. One of its first premieres,12,01 PM, was nominated for an Academy Award, in the years that followed, Showtime expanded its acquisitions into the realm of feature-length fare, including the Adrian Lyne-directed 1997 remake of Lolita. In 2000, Showtime launched Showtime Interactive 24.7, a service that provided DVD-style interaction of its entertainment offerings. On June 14,2005, Viacom decided to separate itself into two companies, both of which would be controlled by Viacom parent National Amusements, amid stagnation of the stock price. A new company assumed the Viacom name kept Paramount Pictures, the MTV Networks and BET Networks cable divisions. Showtime broadcasts its primary and multiplex channels on both Eastern and Pacific Time Zone schedules and this planned extension to the multiplex did not come to fruition – although a third multiplex service, Showtime 3, would make its debut in 1996. Three additional themed channels made their debut in March 2001, Showtime Family Zone, Showtime Next, Showtime Family Zone, Showtime Next and Showtime Women do not have distribution by most pay television providers as extensive as the other Showtime multiplex channels
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Natalie Dormer
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Natalie Dormer is an English actress. Born and brought up in Berkshire, she was educated at Chiltern Edge Secondary School and Reading Blue Coat School and her first professional acting role was in the Shakespeare comedy The Comedy of Errors in 2003. She made her debut in Lasse Hallstroms romantic film Casanova. In 2012, her performance in After Miss Julie at the Young Vic garnered her widespread critical acclaim. Dormer garnered international attention for her performance of Margaery Tyrell on the HBO series Game of Thrones, Dormer was born in Reading, Berkshire. She is of part Norwegian ancestry and is half Welsh, Dormer attended Chiltern Edge Secondary School before moving to Reading Blue Coat School, historically an independent boys school that admits girls in the sixth form. She grew up with her stepfather, mother, sister Samantha and she has said that she was the victim of bullying while at school, but still to this day cant place why. At school, Dormer was head girl, a first class student, vice-captain of the netball team. During her school years, Dormer trained in dance at the Allenova School of Dancing, Dormer decided she would audition for drama schools and decided to train at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Six months after graduating from Webber Douglas, Dormer won the role of Victoria in Casanova and this was her film debut and it was released in 2005. The director, Lasse Hallström, was so impressed with Dormers comedic timing that he had the script writer expand her part, on the strength of her audition for the role and her performance, she secured a three-film deal with Touchstone Pictures, which was never exercised. In 2005, Dormer had a part in Distant Shores. After the filming of Casanova, Dormer was out of work for ten months and she was attached to an independent film which kept being delayed because of financial problems. Taken off the circuit, Dormer waitressed and worked in data entry to support herself. She has said that her being out of work for so long was the best lesson I could have had in the first 12 months of my career. In 2007 and 2008, Dormer played Anne Boleyn in the first two seasons of The Tudors, for which she received positive reviews. Robert Abele of LA Weekly wrote, Natalie Dormer presents a painterly exquisiteness and her enigmatic, time-halting loveliness is a boon for The Tudors, and damn near worth losing your head over. Her departure from The Tudors leaves a tremendous void, in 2008, Dormer played Moira Nicholson in Agatha Christies Marple, Why Didnt They Ask Evans. and appeared in a number of films such as Fence Walker and City of Life
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Yael Stone
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Yael Stone is an Australian actress. She has worked extensively in Australian theatre and has won two Sydney Theatre Awards, outside of Australian theatre, she is best known for her portrayal of Lorna Morello in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. Stone was born and raised in Sydney, the daughter of Judy, a nurse, and Harry Stone and her father was born in Czechoslovakia, to Holocaust survivor parents. Yaels father is from a Jewish family, and her converted to Judaism. Her brother, Jake Stone, was the singer of the band Bluejuice. Her sister, Elana Stone, is also a musician, Stone attended the Newtown High School of the Performing Arts and the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Stone began acting as a child, with roles in the film Me Myself I and she worked primarily in theatre, at the 2008 Sydney Theatre Awards, she won the awards for Best Newcomer and Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Kid. She also worked in television, including supporting roles in All Saints, from 2010 to 2011, she appeared in The Diary of a Madman, a role for which she was again nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Sydney Theatre Awards. Stone moved to New York permanently in December 2011 and co-founded an experimental theatre company, after four months in New York, she was cast in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, a show set in a womens prison. She reprised her role in the second season, and was billed as a series regular in the third season. She has also appeared on the web series High Maintenance, in 2012, Stone married Australian actor Dan Spielman, with whom she lives in New York City. Yael Stone at the Internet Movie Database
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The Sydney Morning Herald
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The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia, the newspaper is published six days a week. It is available at outlets in Sydney, regional New South Wales, Canberra, the Sydney Morning Herald includes a variety of supplements, including the magazines Good Weekend, and Sunday Life. By February 2016, average circulation had fallen to 104,000, similarWeb rates the site as the fifth most visited news website in Australia and as the 42nd newspapers website globally, attracting more than 15 million visitors per month. In 1931 a Centenary Supplement was published, the original four-page weekly had a print run of 750. In 1840, the newspaper began to publish daily, in 1841, an Englishman named John Fairfax purchased the operation, renaming it The Sydney Morning Herald the following year. Fairfax, whose family were to control the newspaper for almost 150 years, based his editorial policies upon principles of candour, honesty and we have no wish to mislead, no interest to gratify by unsparing abuse or indiscriminate approbation. During the decade 1890, Donald Murray worked there, the SMH was late to the trend of printing news rather than just advertising on the front page, doing so from 15 April 1944. Of the countrys metropolitan dailies, only The West Australian was later in making the switch, in 1949, the newspaper launched a Sunday edition, The Sunday Herald. Four years later, this was merged with the newly acquired Sun newspaper to create The Sun-Herald, in 1995, the company launched the newspapers web edition smh. com. au. The site has grown to include interactive and multimedia features beyond the content in the print edition. Around the same time, the organisation moved from Jones Street to new offices at Darling Park and built a new printing press at Chullora, the SMH has since moved with other Sydney Fairfax divisions to a building at Darling Island. In May 2007, Fairfax Media announced it would be moving from a format to the smaller compact or tabloid-size, in the footsteps of The Times. Fairfax Media dumped these plans later in the year, however, in June 2012, Fairfax Media again announced it planned to shift both broadsheet newspapers to tabloid size, in March 2013. Fairfax also announced it would cut staff across the group by 1,900 over three years and erect paywalls around the papers websites. The subscription type is to be a model, limiting readers to a number of free stories per month, with a payment required for further access. In July 2013 it was announced that the SMHs news director, Darren Goodsir, would become Editor-in-Chief, on 22 February 2014, the final Saturday edition was produced in broadsheet format with this too converted to compact format on 1 March 2014. Ahead of the decommissioning of the plant at Chullora in June 2014
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Yahoo7
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Yahoo7 is a 50-50 partnership between global internet company, Yahoo. and Australian entertainment and television broadcasting company, Seven West Media. Yahoo7 is a web portal, providing email, online news and lifestyle content, as well as weather, travel, Yahoo. s services originally came to Australia in 1997 with Yahoo. Australia launching on 1 September that year, Seven Media Group founded i7 in September 2000 as their online service. In October 2001, Seven partnered with service provider AOL. I7 was replaced by Sevens new website, Seven. com. au, Yahoo7 was founded in January 2006 as a cross-media entity which would expand the content distribution networks of both internet-centric Yahoo and broadcast corporation Seven Media Group. Branding with Seven West Medias red 7, Yahoo7 replaced Yahoo. s Australian and New Zealand websites which had been in operation since September 1997, taking on the majority of Sevens online operations in the process. In December 2006, Yahoo7 expanded its presence in New Zealand by partnering with Telecom New Zealand to establish Yahoo. Xtra, the venture was rebranded as Yahoo. New Zealand in April 2011 after Telecom sold its 49% share back to Yahoo7, in recent years, Yahoo7 has made a series of high-profile online acquisitions to supplement its core search and marketing businesses. The company purchased Australian sports tipping site OzTips in mid-2010 and acquired Australian group buying site Spreets for $40m in early 2011, Spreets saw its membership increase by 140 per cent to 1. 18m since the acquisition. In January 2010, Yahoo7 launched PLUS7, an online portal for viewers to stream select TV shows with locked commercials. The free service allows users to watch a range of content on demand, full length episodes from Channel Seven, 7mate. The service has been compared to the ABC’s iView which performs a similar function, the PLUS7 was released for Android and iOS in 2013. PLUS7 is now available on desktop, mobile and tablet devices as well as other platforms including Fetch TV, Xbox, PlayStation, Yahoo7 also hosts a localised version of its Yahoo. Communication and search as well as other search services such as Yahoo7 Answers. From its creation in 2006 until late-2014, Yahoo7 used an identical to the common purple logo of the time, with the addition of the Seven Network logo. This logo was replaced with the updated Yahoo, logo introduced to the United States in 2013, but included the Seven Network logo
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CityNews
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CityNews is the title of news and current affairs programming on the City television network in Canada. The newscast was broadcast in Toronto as CityPulse for the first time as an episode on September 28,1975. The first episode of CityPulse aired on September 12,1977, on August 1,2005, the last newscast to use the CityPulse title aired and it was renamed CityNews the next day. Its main innovation in television news was to have its reporters play a more participatory role in their stories, by the mid-1980s, the newscasts style, pioneered by Moses Znaimer, was promoted as a format for local news shows to copy around North America. Until 1987, the anchors on CityPulse sat behind a desk in a dark studio with two orange-red-black striped beams and a television set between the two anchors. CityPulse at Six was anchored by Gord Martineau and Dini Petty for much of the years from 1980 to 1987, Weather presenters in that era include CHUM Radio veteran Jay Nelson, Brian Hill, Greg Rist, and David Onley. Sports anchors included Jim McKenny, Russ Salzberg, John Saunders, Debbie Van Kiekebelt, CityPulse Tonight, known as CityPulse News at 10 prior to 1981, was anchored by Bill Cameron, later by Gord Martineau, and then Anne Mroczkowski. In 1987, Mroczkowski moved to the show to co-anchor with Martineau. J. D. Roberts began his news anchoring career as anchor of CityPulse Tonight after several years as an entertainment reporter and MuchMusic video jockey. On May 4,1987, CityPulse moved into another set back at 299 Queen Street West in Toronto. By March 2008, CityNews Toronto was struggling in the ratings, coming in third after CTV, on January 21,2008, CityNews at 5 debuted, drawing a scant 1% share of the Toronto market at 5 p. m. The application was approved on December 10,2008, the new station was in direct competition with CP24 when it was launched in October 2008 as CityNews Channel. In December 2008, Citytv laid off employees, including the entire CityNews Entertainment unit. Entertainment reporters Larysa Harapyn and Liz West were released, and entertainment stories are now read by the anchors, in September 2009, Citytv moved into its current newsroom at 33 Dundas Street East in downtown Toronto. On January 19,2010, CityNews at Noon, CityOnline and CityNews at Five were cancelled as part of layoffs, many long-time CityNews on-air personalities, including Anne Mroczkowski and Laura DiBattista, were let go. Citytv Toronto reinstated the 6 and 11 p. m. newscasts on Saturday and Sunday evenings on March 5,2011, with Pam Seatle anchoring the 6 p. m. newscast, and Melanie Ng anchoring at 11 p. m. On September 5,2011 Citytv Toronto also reinstated CityNews at Five with anchors Francis DSouza, Tom Hayes, the following day on September 6,2011, Breakfast Television on all five of Citytvs owned-and-operated stations expanded to three-and-a-half hours, from 5, 30-9 a. m. Avery Haines then left CityNews at Five to start a segment called The Inside Story that features on Tuesdays and Thursdays on CityNews at Six
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The Advertiser (Adelaide)
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The Advertiser is a conservative, daily tabloid-format newspaper published in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. First published as a broadsheet named The South Australian Advertiser on 12 July 1858, a Sunday edition exists under the name of the Sunday Mail. The Advertiser is a publication of News Corp Australia, the head office of The Advertiser has relocated from a former premises in King William Street, to a new office complex, known as Keith Murdoch House at 31 Waymouth Street. The Adelaide Times ceased publication on May 9,1858, the South Australian Advertiser was published from 12 July 1858 to 22 March 1889. The original owners were Barrow and Charles Henry Goode, in 1863 the company started an afternoon newspaper The Express as a competitor to The Telegraph, an evening paper independent of both The Advertiser and The Register. The company was re-formed, effective 9 September 1864, with additional shareholders Philip Henry Burden, John Baker, Captain Scott, James Counsell, Thomas Graves and some others. Burden, secretary of the company, died in 1864, and Barrow, whose wife had died in 1856, married his widow in 1865, thus owning together a quarter of the company. In December,1866, the syndicate bought the afternoon Adelaide daily, the Telegraph, at auction, and incorporated it with The Express as The Express and Telegraph. It continued from 1889 as The Advertiser J. H. Barrow died on 22 August 1874, in 1879 a new firm was created, consisting of Thomas King, Fred Burden, and John Langdon Bonython. In July,1884, Thomas King dropped out, and the firm of Burden & Bonython was formed to run the paper, Burden retired, and sold his share to John Langdon Bonython, who from 1893 to 1929 was the sole proprietor of The Advertiser. As well as being a newspaper editor, he also supported the movement towards the Federation of Australia. The Canberra suburb of Bonython, and the now abolished South Australian electoral division of Bonython, were named in his honour, on Langdon Bonythons retirement, his son John Lavington Bonython, also Mayor and later Lord Mayor of Adelaide, became editor. The Herald and Weekly Times took a stake in The Advertiser in 1929. Through the 20th century, The Advertiser was the morning broadsheet, on the death of Sir Keith Murdoch in 1952, ownership of The News passed to his son Rupert, who subsequently established News Limited and News Corporation. In 1931 The Advertiser took over its competitor, the South Australian Register and The Chronicle. It is based upon a profound pride and belief in South Australia, on 24 October 1953 the company launched the Sunday Advertiser in direct competition to News Limiteds Sunday Mail, but failed to outreach its rival, though no doubt affecting its profitability. The Sunday Advertiser had introduced color graphics on the comics page and this was dropped shortly after joint publication commenced. When Murdoch acquired The Herald and Weekly Times in 1987, he acquired the remaining 48. 7% share of The Advertiser
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TV Week
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TV Week is an Australian magazine, issued weekly, first published as a Melbourne-only publication in December 1957, and bearing a strong affiliation to television station Channel Nine GTV. The publication is still publishing weekly, in its current format it previews upcoming storylines for popular television programs, particularly soap operas, dramas and reality shows airing in Australia, and reports on some musical acts. As well as featuring interviews and a weekly program guide with highlights. The first issue to be published covered the week 5–11 December 1957, with popular GTV-9 performers Geoff Corke, in 1958, the title was shortened to TV Week and circulation expanded to Sydney, then the only other TV market in Australia, in June. At the close of that year, Melbourne readers of TV Week were invited to vote for their favourite TV personalities and programmes, graham Kennedy and Panda Lisner from GTVs In Melbourne Tonight were voted Melbournes most popular TV personalities. Kennedy then named the awards the Logies, after the inventor of the first working television system, rival publication Television Preview, produced by the Television Owners Club of Australia, was launched in 1957. By June 1958, TV Week had a competitor, TV News, published by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, TV Week added a Sydney edition in July 1958 and continued to expand publication as television launched in other capital cities and regional areas across Australia. It was thought that four titles in the market was unsustainable, so ACP entered into a co-publishing deal with the ABC. By the end of the year, Television Preview was incorporated into TV Week, TV Week introduced colour internal pages in 1962, moving to gloss colour covers and internal pages in 1967. As a final stage, the magazine doubled size from A5 to A4 in July 1968. In 1980, TV Week merged with rival publications TV Times, in 2002, Packer effectively bought TV Week out of the joint venture. A legal battle over the custody of the magazines Logie Awards followed as both Australian Consolidated Press and Pacific Publications claimed ownership, Pacific wanted to use the Logies to promote their new rival TV listing Whats On Weekly. Packer won the battle and the Logies remain connected to TV Week, in 2013, TV Week received criticism from former Neighbours actress Kym Valentine for not giving Neighbours as much coverage as their long-time rival, Home and Away. Valentine tweeted to TV Week, saying, Why dont you give Neighbours as much coverage as Home, the fans are asking for it. TV Week Soap Extra was an Australian fortnightly television magazine that was published on a Thursday and it was a sister magazine to TV Week and was originally launched in January 2014 as a one-off special. The magazine featured exclusive teasers and first-look photos of upcoming storylines, reviews, the final issue of Soap Extra was released on 29 October 2015. Following the magazines closure, all of their coverage for soap operas moved back to TV Week, on 14 July 2014, Bauer Media confirmed that they would be launching TV Week Soap Extra as a fortnightly magazine dedicated to the storylines of Australian and overseas soaps and dramas. The decision came after Bauer Media had identified a gap in the market for a magazine that covered television soaps
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ABC Online
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ABC Online is the brand name in Australia for the online services of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, managed by ABC Innovation. It covers a large network of websites including those for ABC News, television, radio, ABC Online is one of Australias largest and most-visited web sites, according to Alexa the eleventh-most popular in the country. It currently contains over 5 million pages, the ABC established its original Multimedia Unit in 1995, to manage the Corporations website. Although the unit at first relied upon funding allocation to the Corporations television and radio operations, the ABC provided live, online election coverage for the first time in 1996, and limited news content began to be provided in 1997. ABC Online became a part of ABC New Media and Digital Services when the Multimedia division was renamed and changed to a division similar to Television or Radio. Broadband news services were introduced in 2001, in 2008, Crikey reported that certain ABC Online mobile sites in development were planned to carry commercial advertising. Screenshots, developed in-house, of an ABC Grandstand sport page include advertising for two private companies, Media Watch later revealed that the websites were to be operated by ABC Commercial and distinguished from the main, advertising-free, mobile website by a distinct logo
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Mail Online
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MailOnline is the website of the Daily Mail, a newspaper in the United Kingdom, and of its sister paper The Mail on Sunday. MailOnline is a division of DMG Media, part of Associated Newspapers Ltd, launched in 2003, MailOnline was made into a separately managed site in 2006 under the editorship of Martin Clarke. It is now the most visited English-language newspaper website in the world, the website has an international readership, featuring separate home pages for the UK, USA, India and Australia. It is known for its sidebar of shame, a box listing celebrity misdemeanours, one that makes up its facts to the detriment of its readers after it published an untrue story about his fiancées family. The website reached 199.4 million unique visitors in December 2014, up from 189.52 million in January 2014 and 128.59 million in May 2013. According to ComScore, MailOnline recorded 100.5 million visitors across desktop computers, smartphones, in July 2014 it recorded 134 million users. Almost 70% of its traffic comes from outside the UK, mostly from the United States, the Daily Mail print newspaper has no presence there, but has aggressively targeted the country with its online offering, branded as the Daily Mail rather than MailOnline. In January 2014 it paid over £1m to the Charleston Daily Mail for the name www. dailymail. com in order to increase its attractiveness to US advertisers. In January 2014, it was ranked the eighth most-visited news website in Australia, globally the site was forecast to reach £60m in advertising sales in the year to September 2014, up 49%. £35m has been invested in creating the site, the site has introduced sponsored articles, with a guarantee of 450,000 page views at a cost of £65,000 per article. MailOnline features a mixture of international news, and carries mainly UK-focused coverage of sport, personal finance, travel, celebrity news, science. As of September 2014, it employs 615 people, including 406 editorial staff, MailOnline articles tend to be dominated by pictures rather than long-form journalism. A major component of the website is its entertainment news, often featuring celebrities such as Kim Kardashian or members of the British Royal Family such as the Duchess of Cambridge. It is estimated that 25% of the traffic received by the website is purely to access the entertainment, the website allows users to create accounts in order to comment on articles, and also allows anyone to express anonymous approval or disapproval of comments made. The site also publishes statistics about this activity, the house rules state that the monitors usually remove inappropriate content in full, although they do reserve the right to edit comments. The site also does not allow comments on articles for legal or editorial reasons. September 2009, Geek. com reported that a story posted in MailOnline about a panel made from human hair was a hoax. Engineer Edward Craig Hyatt stated that it was not possible to use human hair in any configuration to generate electricity when exposed to light
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The Hollywood Reporter
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Headquartered in Los Angeles, THR is part of the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a group of properties that includes Billboard and SpinMedia. It is owned by Eldridge Industries, a company owned by an executive of its previous owner. Under Janice Min, a faltering THR was relaunched in 2010 as a weekly print magazine with a revamped, continuously updated website, as well as mobile. THR was founded in 1930 by William R, billy Wilkerson as Hollywoods first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3,1930, and featured Wilkersons front-page Tradeviews column, the newspaper appeared Monday to Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, then Monday to Friday from 1940. Wilkerson ran the THR until his death in September 1962, although his final column appeared 18 months prior, from the late 1930s, Wilkerson used THR to push the view that the industry was a communist stronghold. In particular, he opposed the screenplay writers trade union, the Screen Writers Guild, in 1946 the Guild considered creating an American Authors Authority to hold copyright for writers, instead of ownership passing to the studios. Wilkerson devoted his Tradeviews column to the issue on July 29,1946 and he went to confession before publishing it, knowing the damage it would cause, but was apparently encouraged by the priest to go ahead with it. The column contained the first industry names, including Dalton Trumbo and Howard Koch, on became the Hollywood blacklist. Eight of the 11 people Wilkerson named were among the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted after hearings in 1947 by the House Un-American Activities Committee. In 1997 THR reporter David Robb wrote a story about the newspapers involvement, for the blacklists 65th anniversary in 2012, the THR published a lengthy investigative piece about Wilkersons role, by reporters Gary Baum and Daniel Miller. The same edition carried an apology from Wilkersons son, W. R. Wilkerson III and he wrote that his father had been motivated by revenge for his thwarted ambition to own a studio. Wilkersons wife, Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, took over as publisher and she sold the paper on April 11,1988, to Affiliated Publications, parent company of Billboard Publications, for $26.7 million. Robert J. Dowling became THR president in 1988 and editor-in-chief, Dowling brought in Alex Ben Block as editor in 1990, and editorial quality of both news and specials steadily improved. Block and Teri Ritzer dampened much of the coverage and cronyism that had infected the paper under Wilkerson. After Block left, former editor at Variety, Anita Busch, was brought in as editor between 1999 and 2001. Busch was credited with making the paper competitive with Variety, tony Uphoff assumed the publisher position in November 2005. Uphoff was replaced in October 2006 by John Kilcullen, the publisher of Billboard, Kilcullen was a defendant in Billboards infamous dildo lawsuit, in which he was accused of race discrimination and sexual harassment
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Variety (magazine)
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Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation. The last daily printed edition was put out on March 19,2013, Variety originally reported on theater and vaudeville. Variety has been published since December 16,1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City, on January 19,1907, Variety published what is considered the first film review in history. In 1933, Sime Silverman launched Daily Variety, based in Hollywood, Sime Silverman had passed on the editorship of the Weekly Variety to Abel Green as his replacement in 1931, he remained as publisher until his death in 1933 soon after launching the Daily. His son Sidne Silverman, known as Skigie, succeeded him as publisher of both publications, both Sidne and his wife, stage actress Marie Saxon, died of tuberculosis. Their only son Syd Silverman, born 1932, was the heir to what was then Variety Inc. Young Syds legal guardian Harold Erichs oversaw Variety Inc. until 1956, after that date Syd Silverman was publisher of both the Weekly Variety in New York and the Daily Variety in Hollywood, until the sale of both papers in 1987 to the Cahners Corp. In L. A. the Daily was edited by Tom Pryor from 1959 until 1988, for twenty years its editor-in-chief was Peter Bart, originally only of the weekly New York edition, with Michael Silverman running the Daily in Hollywood. Bart had worked previously at Paramount Pictures and The New York Times, in April 2009, Bart moved to the position of vice president and editorial director, characterized online as Boffo No More, Bart Up and Out at Variety. From mid 2009 to 2013, Timothy M. Gray oversaw the publication as Editor-in-Chief, after over 30 years of various reporter, in October 2014, Eller and Wallenstein were upped to Co-Editors in Chief, with Littleton continuing to oversee the trades television coverage. This dissemination comes in the form of columns, news stories, images, video, Cahners Publishing purchased Variety from the Silverman family in 1987. On December 7,1988, Barts predecessor, Roger Watkins, proposed, upon its launch, the new-look Variety measured one inch shorter with a washed-out color on the front. In October 2012, Reed Business Information, the periodicals owner, PMC is the owner of Deadline. com, which since the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike has been considered Varietys largest competitor in online showbiz news. In October,2012, Jay Penske announced that the paywall would come down, the print publication would stay. A significant portion of the advertising revenue comes during the film-award season leading up to the Academy Awards. During this Awards Season, large numbers of colorful, full-page For Your Consideration advertisements inflate the size of Variety to double or triple its usual page count, paid circulation for the weekly Variety magazine in 2013 was 40,000. Each copy of each Variety issue is read by an average of three people, with a total readership of 120,000. Variety. com has 17 million unique monthly visitors, Variety is a weekly entertainment publication with a broad coverage of movies, television, theater, music and technology, written for entertainment executives
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W (magazine)
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W is a monthly American fashion magazine published by Condé Nast, who purchased original owner Fairchild Publications in 1999. It was created in 1971 by the publisher of sister magazine Womens Wear Daily, the magazine is an oversize format – ten inches wide and thirteen inches tall. Stefano Tonchi is the editor of W, Lucy Kriz is the vice president, W magazine has a reader base of nearly half a million,469,000 of which are annual subscribers. 80 percent of the readers are female and have an average household income of $135,840. Often the subject of controversy, W magazine has featured stories, in July 2005, W produced a 60-page Steven Klein portfolio of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt entitled Domestic Bliss. Other controversial issues include Steven Meisels shoot entitled Asexual Revolution, in male and female models are depicted in gender-bending styles. In addition, Tom Fords racy shoot with Steven Klein and the article on sexuality in fashion came as a shock to some loyal readers. During the interview, Ford is quoted as saying Ive always been about pansexuality, whether Im sleeping with girls or not at this point in my life, the clothes have often been androgynous, which is very much my standard of beauty. Steven Klein also was the photographer for the photo shoot featured in the August 2007 issue, showcasing David. Bruce Weber produced a 60-page tribute to New Orleans in the April 2008 issue, most of Ws most memorable covers are featured on the W Classics page on the magazines website. W is also known for its coverage of American and European society, in 2011, Steven Meisel created controversy again by promoting fake advertisements throughout the November issue of the magazine. In 2013, Meisel shoot RuPauls Drag Race Season 3/NY Socialite Carmen Carrera in an editorial called Show girl, in 2013, the magazine started combining the January/December and June/July issues so as to free up money to invest in the magazines digital brand. Citrano later challenged this claim by Moore by offering $5,000 to charity, if Moore could prove that the photo she provided was the original photo from the shoot
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Deadline Hollywood
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Deadline. com, official name Deadline Hollywood, and previously known as news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily, is an online magazine founded by Nikki Finke in 2006. Owned by Jay Penske since 2009, it is a brand of the Penske Media Corporation, the site is updated several times a day, with the infotainment industry as its focus. Finke began writing her LA Weekly column Deadline Hollywood in June 2002, in 2009, she sold DHD to Mail. com Media for a reported seven-figure payday, under an agreement by which she would hire an additional writer but remain the sites editor. In September 2009, the URL was changed to deadline. com, in November 2013, Finke left Deadline after a year-long disagreement between herself and Penske, who had bought Variety, a competing trade magazine and website. In 2010, Nikki Finke hired Variety reporter Mike Fleming Jr. Finke remained the editor of Deadline Hollywood, official website About Deadline. com at PMC
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Gosford Park
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Gosford Park is a 2001 British mystery film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes. The story follows a party of wealthy Britons and an American, and their servants, who gather for a weekend at Gosford Park. A murder occurs after a party, and the film goes on to present the subsequent investigation from the servants and guests perspectives. Development on Gosford Park began in 1999, when Bob Balaban asked Altman if they could develop a film together, Balaban suggested an Agatha Christie-style whodunit and introduced Altman to Julian Fellowes, with whom Balaban had been working on a different project. The film went into production in March 2001, and began filming at Shepperton Studios with a budget of $19.8 million. Gosford Park premiered on 7 November 2001 at the London Film Festival and it received a limited release across cinemas in the United States in December 2001, before being widely released in January 2002 by USA Films. It was released in February 2002 in the United Kingdom, the film was successful at the box office, grossing over $87 million in cinemas worldwide, making it Altmans second most successful film after MASH. Widely acclaimed by critics, it received awards and nominations, including seven Academy Award nominations. In November 1932, Constance, Countess of Trentham, and her ladys maid, on the way, they encounter actor Ivor Novello, American film producer Morris Weissman and Weissmans valet, Henry Denton, who are also attending the hunting party. At the house, they are greeted by Lady Trenthams niece, Lady Sylvia McCordle, her husband Sir William McCordle, the other guests include Lady Sylvias sisters, Louisa, Lady Stockbridge and Lady Lavinia Meredith and their husbands, Raymond, Lord Stockbridge and Commander Anthony Meredith. Also in attendance are the Honourable Freddie Nesbitt and his wife, Mabel, Isobels suitor, Lord Rupert Standish, the servants hall is divided by a strict social hierarchy, dominated by the head housekeeper, Mrs. Wilson. She maintains a relationship with the head cook, Mrs. Croft. The head housemaid, Elsie, takes a kindly interest in the naive Mary, Sir William is an extremely rich industrialist, and much of the company are dependent on him in one way or another. Commander Meredith is in on the verge of bankruptcy and is outraged when Sir William announces he intends to withdraw his investment in Merediths latest business venture, Lady Sylvia reveals to her aunt that William may stop paying Lady Trenthams allowance. Freddie Nesbitt was having an affair with Sir Williams daughter Isobel, likewise, Rupert Standish is trying to romance Isobel for her money. Lady Sylvia makes an assignation with Mr Weissmans valet, Henry Denton, for 1am that night, the next morning the men go out early on a pheasant shoot, and Sir William is slightly injured by a stray birdshot. Later, the join the gentlemen for an outdoor luncheon on the estate grounds. Dinner that evening is tense and sombre, as the conversation progresses, tempers flare and Lady Sylvia attacks Sir William, implying that he was a First World War profiteer
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Chicago (2002 film)
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Chicago is a 2002 American musical crime comedy film based on the musical of the same name, exploring the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age. The film stars Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger and Richard Gere, Chicago centers on Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart, two murderesses who find themselves in jail together awaiting trial in 1920s Chicago. Velma, a vaudevillian, and Roxie, a housewife, fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows. Directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall, and adapted by screenwriter Bill Condon, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, Chicago won six Academy Awards in 2003, the film was critically lauded, and was the first musical to win Best Picture since Oliver. In 1924, Roxie Hart sees star Velma Kelly perform at a Chicago theater, wanting stardom for herself, she begins an affair with Fred Casely, who claims to know the manager. After the show, Velma is arrested for killing her husband Charlie and sister Veronica, a month later, Casely admits to Roxie that he has no showbiz connections and just wanted her body. She convinces her husband, Amos, to take the blame, as Amos confesses to the detective, Roxie fantasizes that she is singing a song devoted to her husband. However, when the detective brings up evidence that Roxie and Casely were having an affair, Amos recants, ambitious District Attorney Harrison announces he will seek the death penalty. At Cook County Jail, Roxie is sent to Murderess Row, Roxie meets her idol Velma, but her friendship is rudely rebuffed. She learns the backstories of the women there, including Velma Kelly. On Mortons advice, Roxie engages Velmas lawyer, the brilliant Billy Flynn, the press believe the story, praised by the public as a tragic heroine, Roxie becomes an overnight sensation. Meanwhile, Kitty Baxter, a heiress, is arrested for murdering her husband. To Velmas surprise, Roxie quickly steals back the fame by claiming to be pregnant. Amos is ignored by the press, and Flynn, to create sympathy for Roxie, convinces him that the child is Caselys. Roxie over-confidently fires Flynn, believing she can now win on her own, however, when Katalin Helinszki, a Hungarian woman from Murderess Row is hanged, she realizes the gravity of the situation and rehires Flynn. Roxies trial begins, and Billy turns it into a spectacle with the help of the sensationalist newspaper reporters. Billy discredits witnesses, manipulates evidence, and even stages a public reconciliation between Amos and Roxie when she says the child is his. The trial seems to be going Roxies way until Velma appears with Roxies diary, Billy discredits the diary, implying that Harrison was the one who planted the evidence
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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It is the third and final installment in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, following The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, preceding The Hobbit film trilogy. Released on 17 December 2003, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King received rave reviews and universal acclaim, the film was the highest-grossing film of 2003 and, by the end of its theatrical run, the second highest-grossing film in history. As of January 2017, it is the fourteenth highest-grossing film of all time, at the 76th Academy Awards, it won all 11 Academy Awards for which it was nominated, therefore holding the record for highest Oscar sweep. The wins included the awards for Best Picture, the first and only time a film has done so, it was also the second sequel to win a Best Picture Oscar. The film jointly holds the record for the largest number of Academy Awards won with Ben-Hur, the film has been re-released twice, in 2011 and 2017. Gandalf leads Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and King Théoden to Isengard where they reunite with Merry, with Saruman defeated, Gandalf retrieves Sarumans palantír. Pippin later steals a glance into the seeing-stone, and suffers an attack from Sauron himself. Gandalf deduces that Sauron will attack Gondors capital Minas Tirith and he rides there to warn them, taking Pippin with him because Sauron believes Pippin is the ring bearer. The hobbits begin climbing a precarious stair carved in the face that will take them into Mordor via a secret way. But having overheard Gollums plot to regain the Ring, Sam keeps an eye on him. Saurons army strikes and overwhelms the city of Osgiliath, forcing Faramir, while helping Théoden gather his forces, Aragorn is approached by Elrond who informs him Arwen is dying. Following a vision of her son, she refused to leave Middle Earth, Elrond gives Aragorn the sword Andúril, Isildurs sword Narsil reforged, so he can reclaim his birthright while gaining reinforcements from the Dead Men of Dunharrow. Joined by Legolas and Gimli, Aragorn travels to the Paths of the Dead, Faramir is gravely wounded after a futile effort to retake Osgiliath, and believing his son to be dead, Denethor falls into madness. Gandalf is left to command the city defences against the Orc army led by Gothmog, but as Gothmogs forces eventually force their way into the city, Denethor attempts to kill himself and Faramir on a pyre. Pippin alerts Gandalf and they save Faramir, but Denethor leaps to his death from the top of Minas Tirith just before Théoden and the Rohirrim arrive. Initially, the Rohirrim have the advantage at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, though Théodens niece Éowyn, having posed as a male soldier, battles and slays the Witch-King with Merrys help, Théoden dies of his wounds. Aragorn arrives with the Army of the Dead, they overcome the Orcs, Aragorn and the other captains of Men decide to lead all who can march upon the Black Gate as a distraction, so Frodo and Sam can get to Mount Doom. Gollum disposes of the last of the food, blaming Sam
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Sideways
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Sideways is a 2004 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne and written by Jim Taylor and Payne. Sandra Oh and Virginia Madsen also star, Payne and Taylor won multiple awards for their screenplay. The principal actors and actresses received accolades for their performances, Sideways won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and was nominated for four other awards including Best Picture. The film premiered at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival on September 13,2004 and was released in the United States on October 22,2004. In the wine country, the pair visit Miles favorite restaurant, The Hitching Post II, and meet Maya, Jack senses that Maya is interested in Miles, who downplays his friends intuition, and tells Jack that Maya is married. Jack tells Maya that Miles manuscript has been accepted for publication, later, at a tasting in a local winery, they meet an attractive wine pourer named Stephanie, who is also acquainted with Maya. Jack is immediately attracted to Stephanie and arranges a date, to include Miles and Maya. During the date, Miles gets drunk and telephones Vicki, his ex-wife and they return to Stephanies home, where Jack and Stephanie immediately adjourn to her bedroom for sex, while Miles and Maya connect through their mutual interest in wine. Miles tells Maya about his book, and Maya says she is finishing a degree in horticulture so she can leave serving. Miles makes a pass at Maya, which she rejects. They leave separately, but not before he gives her a copy of his manuscript, after spending the day together, Miles and Maya return to her apartment and have sex. The next day, Miles lets it slip that Jack is to be married, disgusted with the dishonesty, Maya dumps Miles and later tells Stephanie who, furious and devastated to learn shes been used, hits Jack repeatedly and breaks his nose using her motorcycle helmet. On finding out his manuscript has been rejected again, Miles drinks heavily, and when the server cuts him off, he ends up drinking from the spit bucket, but Jack eases him out of the room in time. That night, with Stephanie gone, Jack hooks up with another waitress named Cammi, hours later, Jack shows up back at the motel room he shares with Miles – naked and confessing that Cammis husband came home early while she and Jack were having sex. Jack explains he was forced to flee without his clothes and wallet, Jack convinces Miles to drive him back to Cammis house and sneak inside, where he discovers Cammi and her husband having sex. Miles spies Jacks wallet, grabs it and runs from the house, barely escaping Cammis irate husband, to explain the broken nose and cover up the infidelity to his fiancée, Jack runs Miles convertible into a tree, giving the appearance they had been in an accident. The pair return to the home of Jacks fiancée, where he is welcomed with open arms, following the wedding ceremony, Miles runs into his ex-wife Vicki and meets her new husband. After learning that she is pregnant, Miles accepts that he will never get Vicki back
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Crash (2004 film)
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Crash is a 2004 American ensemble drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis. The film is about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles, a self-described passion piece for Haggis, Crash was inspired by a real-life incident, in which his Porsche was carjacked in 1991 outside a video store on Wilshire Boulevard. The film differs from other films about racism in its rather impartial approach to the issue. Rather than separating the characters into victims and offenders, victims of racism are often shown to be prejudiced themselves in different contexts, also, racist remarks and actions are often shown to stem from ignorance and misconception rather than malice. Matt Dillon was particularly praised for his performance and received Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, additionally, the cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. It was also nominated for nine BAFTA awards, and won two, for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Thandie Newton, today The film begins with commentary by passenger Detective Graham Waters, who has suffered a car accident with his partner Ria. He mentions that the citizens of Los Angeles have lost their sense of touch, Ria and the driver of the other car, Kim Lee, exchange racially charged insults. When Waters exits the car, he arrives at a police investigation crime scene concerning the discovery of a dead kid. Yesterday While purchasing a revolver at a gun store, Farhad, a Persian shop owner, the gun store owner grows impatient and degrades the two of them by referring to Farhad as Osama. Farhad asserts that he is an American citizen, but the store owner continues exchanging racially stereotypical insults at Farhad and has the security guard escort him out of the store, Dorri demands the store owner to give her the gun or give her back the money. After the store gives the gun to Dorri, she asks for the ones in the red box. The store owner asks why, but Dorri does not answer, Anthony and Peter carjack the married couple as they are about to enter their Lincoln Navigator. Later, at the Cabot house, Hispanic locksmith Daniel Ruiz is changing their locks when Jean notices his tattoos. She loudly complains to Rick about having been carjacked and now having to endure a Hispanic man changing their locks, having overheard this, Daniel leaves the keys on Jeans kitchen counter. Detectives Waters and Ria arrive at the scene of a shooting between two drivers, the surviving shooter is a white male, identified as an undercover police officer. The dead shooter, a male, is revealed also to be an undercover police officer. There is an amount of cash found in the black officers trunk. This is the time the white officer has shot and killed a black man
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Little Miss Sunshine
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Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American comedy-drama road film and the directorial debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by first-time writer Michael Arndt, the film stars Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin and Alan Arkin, and was produced by Big Beach Films on a budget of US$8 million. Filming began on June 6,2005 and took place over 30 days in Arizona, the film had a limited release in the United States on July 26,2006, and later expanded to a wider release starting on August 18. Little Miss Sunshine had a box office gross of $100.5 million. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and it also won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature and received numerous other accolades. Sheryl Hoover is a mother of two living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her brother, Frank, who is gay and a scholar of Proust, is living at home with the family after having attempted suicide. Sheryls husband Richard is a Type A personality striving to build a career as a motivational speaker, Dwayne, Sheryls son from a previous marriage, is a Nietzsche-reading teenager who has taken a vow of silence until he can accomplish his dream of becoming a test pilot. Richards foulmouthed father, Edwin, recently evicted from a retirement home for snorting heroin, Olive, the daughter of Richard and Sheryl and the youngest of the Hoover family, is an aspiring beauty queen who is coached by Edwin. Olive learns she has qualified for the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant that is being held in Redondo Beach and her parents and Edwin, who has been coaching her, want to support her, and Frank and Dwayne cannot be left alone, so the whole family goes. Because they have money, they go on an 800-mile road trip in their yellow Volkswagen Type 2. Family tensions play out on the highway and at stops along the way, later on, the vans horn starts honking unceasingly by itself. Throughout the road trip, the family suffers numerous personal setbacks, Richard loses an important contract that would have jump-started his motivational business. Frank encounters the ex-boyfriend who, in leaving him for a rival, had prompted his suicide attempt. Edwin dies from an overdose, resulting in the family smuggling the body out of a hospital. The climax takes place at the beauty pageant, after a frantic race against the clock the family arrives at the hotel, and are curtly told by a pageant organizer that they are a couple minutes past the deadline. A sympathetic hired hand instead offers to register Olive on his own time, as Olive prepares for the pageant, the family sees Olives competition, slim, hypersexualized pre-teen girls with teased hair and capped teeth. They wear lip gloss, adult-like swimsuits, and glamorous evening wear while performing highly elaborate dance numbers with great panache and it quickly becomes apparent that Olive is a mere amateur by comparison
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Hairspray (2007 film)
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Hairspray is a 2007 musical romantic comedy film based on the 2002 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on John Waters 1988 comedy film of the same name. Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, the film follows the pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad as she pursues stardom as a dancer on a local TV show and rallies against racial segregation. The film began development in 2004, and Dixon reworked Meehan, in 2005, Shankman agreed to direct the film. Composer/lyricist Marc Shaiman and lyricist Scott Wittman reworked their songs from the Broadway musical for the films soundtrack, recording sessions for the films songs and soundtrack took place in Los Angeles, California in the United States. Hairspray premiered on July 13,2007 at the Mann Village Theater and was released on July 20,2007 in the United States, available in a variety of formats, Hairsprays Region 1 home video release took place on November 20,2007. Tracy Turnblad is a high school student living in Baltimore. Along with her classmate Penny Pingleton, Tracy frequently watches The Corny Collins Show, the teenagers featured on the show attend Tracy and Pennys school, among them Amber von Tussle and her boyfriend Link Larkin, the lead male dancer. Amber’s mother, Velma, manages WYZT and makes sure Amber is prominently featured, Collins and the dancers on the show are white, and Velma only allows African-American kids on the show once a month on Negro Day, hosted by R&B disc jockey Motormouth Maybelle. One day, one of the dancers on the show takes a leave of absence, Tracy attends, but Velma turns her down for her overweight physique and for supporting integration. Tracy is sent to detention for skipping school and discovers the Negro Day kids practicing in the detention room, Tracy befriends Seaweed, the students best dancer and Motormouth Maybelles son, who teaches Tracy several dance moves. As Tracy leaves detention, she bumps into Link and dreams of a life with him. At a record hop, Tracy’s moves attract the attention of Collins, Tracy becomes one of Cornys most popular dancers, threatening Ambers chances of winning the shows yearly Miss Teenage Hairspray pageant and her relationship with Link, as he grows fonder of Tracy. Mr. Pinky suggests that Tracy be the spokesgirl for his Hefty Hideaway boutique, Tracy persuades her agoraphobic mother, Edna, to accompany her to the boutique as her agent. Tracy introduces Seaweed to Penny, and the two are smitten, later, when Tracy and Link are in detention, Seaweed invites the girls and Link to follow him and his sister Little Inez to a party at Maybelles store. Edna finds Tracy there and tries taking her home, but Maybelle convinces her to stay, at the party, Maybelle informs everyone that Velma has canceled Negro Day and Tracy suggests that they march for integration. Edna returns to her husband Wilburs shop, but Velma gets there first, after accusing Wilbur of infidelity, Edna forbids Tracy to be on the show. She changes her mind after she and Wilbur reconcile, the next morning, Tracy sneaks out of the house to join the protest, which is halted by a police roadblock. The protesters engage in a brawl, while Tracy runs to the Pingletons home, Pennys mother, Prudence, catches Tracy and calls the police before tying her daughter to her bed
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