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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764
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Flag
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The signing of the
Mayflower Compact, 1620.
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The
Declaration of Independence: the
Committee of Five presenting their draft to the
Second Continental Congress in 1776
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Tom Holland (actor)
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Thomas Stanley Holland is an English actor and dancer. Holland was born in Kingston upon Thames, London, to Nicola Elizabeth, a photographer, and Dominic Holland, who is a comedian and author. He has three brothers, twins Sam and Harry, three years younger, the latter of whom appears in the 2013 film Diana, and Patrick and his paternal grandparents were born on the Isle of Man and Ireland. As of December 2012, he was attending The BRIT School for Performing Arts, Holland began dancing at a hip hop class at Nifty Feet Dance School in Wimbledon. His potential was spotted by choreographer Lynne Page when he performed with his school as part of the 2006 Richmond Dance Festival. After eight auditions and subsequent two years of training, on 28 June 2008, Holland made his West End debut in Billy Elliot the Musical as Michael and he gave his first performance in the title role on 8 September 2008, receiving positive notices. In September 2008, Holland appeared on the programme on channel FIVE. The following year, he was featured on ITV1 show The Feel Good Factor and he trained five British schoolboys for a dance routine he front for the final The Feel Good Factor show on 28 March 2009. On 8 March 2010, to mark the anniversary of Billy Elliot the Musical, four current Billy Elliots. Holland was chosen to be a lead at the show on 31 March 2010. Holland had been appearing on a basis as Billy in Billy Elliot the Musical. In 2011, Holland was cast in the British version of the animated film Arrietty and he provided a voice for the principal character Sho. Holland starred in The Impossible, directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, alongside Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2012, Holland was featured in Screen Internationals UK Stars of Tomorrow –2012 and was among the newcomers chosen for the inaugural British Academy of Film and Television Arts Breakthrough Brits in 2013. Holland played Isaac in How I Live Now, released in the U. K. on 4 October 2013, also in 2015, he appeared in BBC Twos TV series Wolf Hall, as Peer Gregory Cromwell. As of December 2016, Holland is currently in negotiations to co-star as Todd Hewitt in the adaptation of Patrick Nesss bestselling YA series Chaos Walking along with Daisy Ridley. In 2017, he star in The Current War as Samuel Insull. Billy Elliot the Musical casts Tom Holland at the Internet Movie Database Tom Holland on Twitter Tom Holland on Instagram media. gettyimages. com
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Holland in London, 31 March 2010
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Holland (center) performing at the 5th anniversary of Billy Elliot the Musical, 31 March 2010
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Captain America: Civil War
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Captain America, Civil War is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2011s Captain America, The First Avenger and 2014s Captain America, The Winter Soldier, and the thirteenth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, with a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, in Captain America, Civil War, disagreement over international oversight of the Avengers fractures them into opposing factions—one led by Steve Rogers and the other by Tony Stark. Following positive reactions to test screenings of The Winter Soldier, the Russo brothers were brought back to direct in early 2014, the films title and premise were revealed in October 2014, along with Downeys casting, additional cast members joined in the following months. Visual effects were provided by nearly 20 different studios during the post-production process, Captain America, Civil War held its world premiere in Los Angeles on April 12,2016, and was released in the United States on May 6,2016, in 3D and IMAX 3D. The film became a critical and commercial success, grossing over $1.1 billion worldwide, making it the film of 2016. In 1991, the brainwashed super-soldier James Bucky Barnes is dispatched from a Hydra base in Siberia to intercept an automobile carrying a case of super-soldier serum, Rumlow blows himself up, hoping to kill Rogers. When Maximoff throws the explosion into the sky with telekinesis, it damages a nearby building, killing several Wakandan humanitarian workers. U. S. Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross informs the Avengers that the United Nations is preparing to pass the Sokovia Accords, which will establish a UN panel to oversee and control the team. The Avengers are divided, Tony Stark supports oversight because of his role in Ultrons creation and Sokovias devastation, at a conference in Vienna where the Accords are to be ratified, a bomb kills King TChaka of Wakanda. Security footage indicates the bomber is Barnes, whom TChakas son, TChalla, informed by Sharon Carter of Barnes whereabouts and the authorities intentions to kill him, Rogers tries to bring in Barnes—his childhood friend and war comrade—himself. Rogers and Wilson track Barnes to Bucharest and attempt to protect him from TChalla and the authorities, Helmut Zemo tracks down and kills Barnes old Hydra handler, stealing a book containing the trigger words that activate Barnes brainwashing. Impersonating a psychiatrist sent to interview Barnes, Zemo recites the words to make Barnes obey him and he questions Barnes, then sends him on a rampage to cover his own escape. Rogers stops Barnes and sneaks him away, unwilling to wait for authorization to apprehend Zemo, Rogers and Wilson go rogue, and recruit Maximoff, Clint Barton, and Scott Lang to their cause. With Rosss permission, Stark assembles a team composed of Romanoff, TChalla, James Rhodes, Vision, Starks team intercepts Rogers group at Leipzig/Halle Airport, where they fight until Romanoff allows Rogers and Barnes to escape. The rest of Rogers team is captured and detained at the Raft prison, while Rhodes is partially paralyzed after being shot down by Vision. Stark discovers evidence that Barnes was framed by Zemo and convinces Wilson to give him Rogers destination, without informing Ross, Stark goes to the Siberian Hydra facility and strikes a truce with Rogers and Barnes, unaware they were secretly followed by TChalla. They find that the other super-soldiers have been killed by Zemo, enraged that Rogers kept this from him, Stark turns on them both, dismembering Barnes robotic arm
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Film set for Captain America: Civil War in
Downtown Atlanta.
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Official logo
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Saturn Awards
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The award was initially, and is still sometimes, loosely referred to as a Golden Scroll. The Saturn Awards were created in 1973 and are the oldest Award ceremony dedicated to science fiction, fantasy. The physical award is a representation of the planet Saturn, with its ring composed of film, the Saturn Awards are voted upon by members of the presenting Academy. The Academy is a organization with membership open to the public. Its members include filmmakers Jeff Rector, Rich Correll, Tom De Santo, Mark A. Altman and Irwin Keyes, among others. Although the Award still primarily focuses on films and television in the fiction, fantasy and horror categories. There are also awards for lifetime achievement in film production. The 42nd Saturn Awards were held on June 22,2016, in Burbank, the Saturn Awards are often criticized for having a broad and inconsistent definition of genres, as well as for nominating and awarding movies not related to sci-fi, fantasy or horror. Hugo Award Scream Awards Official website Saturn Awards 2009 at FEARnet Saturn Award at the Internet Movie Database
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The Saturn Award
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Film
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A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession, the process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. The word cinema, short for cinematography, is used to refer to the industry of films. Films were originally recorded onto plastic film through a photochemical process, the adoption of CGI-based special effects led to the use of digital intermediates. Most contemporary films are now fully digital through the process of production, distribution. Films recorded in a form traditionally included an analogous optical soundtrack. It runs along a portion of the film exclusively reserved for it and is not projected, Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures. They reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them, Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful medium for educating—or indoctrinating—citizens. The visual basis of film gives it a power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles to translate the dialog into the language of the viewer, some have criticized the film industrys glorification of violence and its potentially negative treatment of women. The individual images that make up a film are called frames, the perception of motion is due to a psychological effect called phi phenomenon. The name film originates from the fact that film has historically been the medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for a motion picture, including picture, picture show, moving picture, photoplay. The most common term in the United States is movie, while in Europe film is preferred. Terms for the field, in general, include the big screen, the screen, the movies, and cinema. In early years, the sheet was sometimes used instead of screen. Preceding film in origin by thousands of years, early plays and dances had elements common to film, scripts, sets, costumes, production, direction, actors, audiences, storyboards, much terminology later used in film theory and criticism apply, such as mise en scène. Owing to the lack of any technology for doing so, the moving images, the magic lantern, probably created by Christiaan Huygens in the 1650s, could be used to project animation, which was achieved by various types of mechanical slides
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A vintage Fox movietone motion picture camera
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The
Berlin Wintergarten theatre was the site of the first
cinema ever, with a short film presented by the
Skladanowsky brothers on 1 November 1895. The image depicts a July 1940
variety show.
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A shot from
Georges Méliès Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902), an early narrative film.
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This
16 mm spring-wound
Bolex "H16" Reflex camera is a popular entry level camera used in
film schools.
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Science fiction
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Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a literature of ideas. Science fiction is difficult to define, as it includes a range of subgenres and themes. Author and editor Damon Knight summed up the difficulty, saying science fiction is what we point to when we say it, a definition echoed by author Mark C. Glassy, who argues that the definition of science fiction is like the definition of pornography, you do not know what it is, in 1970 or 1971William Atheling Jr. According to science fiction writer Robert A, rod Serlings definition is fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, Science fiction is largely based on writing rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures. Science fiction elements include, A time setting in the future, in alternative timelines, a spatial setting or scenes in outer space, on other worlds, or on subterranean earth. Characters that include aliens, mutants, androids, or humanoid robots, futuristic or plausible technology such as ray guns, teleportation machines, and humanoid computers. Scientific principles that are new or that contradict accepted physical laws, for time travel, wormholes. New and different political or social systems, e. g. utopian, dystopian, post-scarcity, paranormal abilities such as mind control, telepathy, telekinesis Other universes or dimensions and travel between them. A product of the budding Age of Reason and the development of science itself. Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan considered Keplers work the first science fiction story and it depicts a journey to the Moon and how the Earths motion is seen from there. Later, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon, more examples appeared throughout the 19th century. Wells The War of the Worlds describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry and it is a seminal depiction of an alien invasion of Earth. In the late 19th century, the scientific romance was used in Britain to describe much of this fiction. This produced additional offshoots, such as the 1884 novella Flatland, the term would continue to be used into the early 20th century for writers such as Olaf Stapledon. In the early 20th century, pulp magazines helped develop a new generation of mainly American SF writers, influenced by Hugo Gernsback, the founder of Amazing Stories magazine. In 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs published A Princess of Mars, the first of his series of Barsoom novels, situated on Mars
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A futuristic setting is a common but not a necessary hallmark of science fiction. A common thread in science fiction is exploring the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations on people's lives.
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H. G. Wells
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Jules Verne
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Arthur C. Clarke
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Fantasy
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Fantasy is a fiction genre set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Most fantasy uses magic or other elements as a main plot element, theme. Magic and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds, in popular culture, the fantasy genre is predominantly of the medievalist form. In its broadest sense, however, fantasy works by many writers, artists, filmmakers. Fantasy is studied in a number of disciplines including English and other studies, cultural studies, comparative literature, history. The identifying trait of fantasy is the reliance on imagination to create narrative elements that do not have to rely on history or nature to be coherent. This differs from realistic fiction in that whereas realistic fiction has to attend to the history and natural laws of reality, an author applies his or her imagination to come up with characters, plots, and settings that are impossible in reality. Fantasy has often compared with science fiction and horror because they are the major categories of speculative fiction. Fantasy is distinguished from science fiction by the plausibility of the narrative elements, a science fiction narrative is unlikely, though seeming possible through logical scientific and/or technological extrapolation, whereas fantasy narratives do not need to be scientifically possible. The imagined elements of fantasy do not need an explanation to be narratively functional. Authors have to rely on the suspension of disbelief, an acceptance of the unbelievable or impossible for the sake of enjoyment. Despite both genres heavy reliance on the supernatural, fantasy and horror are distinguishable, horror primarily evokes fear through the protagonists weaknesses or inability to deal with the antagonists. Beginning perhaps with the earliest written documents, mythic and other elements that would come to define fantasy. MacDonald was an influence on both J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. The other major fantasy author of this era was William Morris, lord Dunsany established the genres popularity in both the novel and the short story form. Many popular mainstream authors also began to write fantasy at this time, including H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Indeed, juvenile fantasy was considered more acceptable than fantasy intended for adults, nathaniel Hawthorne wrote fantasy in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, intended for children, though works for adults only verged on fantasy. Political and social trends can affect a societys reception towards fantasy, in the early 20th century, the New Culture Movements enthusiasm for Westernization and science in China compelled them to condemn the fantastical shenmo genre of traditional Chinese literature
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Fairy tales and legends, such as
Dobrynya Nikitich 's rescue of Zabava Putyatichna from the dragon
Gorynych, have been an important source for fantasy.
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Many works are unclear as to the belief of the authors in the marvels they contain, as in the enchanted garden from the
Decameron.
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Horror film
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Horror film is a film genre that seeks to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on their fears. Inspired by literature from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Horror may also overlap with the fantasy, supernatural fiction and thriller genres, Horror films often deal with viewers nightmares, fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event. Another of his projects was 1898s La Caverne maudite. Japan made early forays into the genre with Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei. The era featured a slew of literary adaptations, with the works of Poe and Dante, in 1908, Selig Polyscope Company produced Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first filmed version of Frankenstein, the macabre nature of the source materials used made the films synonymous with the horror film genre. Before and during the Weimar Republic era, German Expressionist filmmakers would significantly influence later productions, the first vampire-themed movie, Nosferatu, was made during this period, though it was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stokers Dracula. Other European countries also, contributed to the genre during this period, though the word horror to describe the film genre would not be used until the 1930s, earlier American productions often relied on horror themes. Some notable examples include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Cat and the Canary, The Unknown, and The Man Who Laughs. Many of these films were considered dark melodramas because of their stock characters and emotion-heavy plots that focused on romance, violence, suspense. The trend of inserting an element of macabre into American pre-horror melodramas continued into the 1920s, directors known for relying on macabre in their films during the 1920s were Maurice Tourneur, Rex Ingram, and Tod Browning. Ingrams The Magician contains one of the first examples of a mad doctor and is said to have had a influence on James Whales version of Frankenstein. The Unholy Three is an example of Brownings use of macabre and unique style of morbidity, he remade the film in 1930 as a talkie, during the early period of talking pictures, Universal Pictures began a successful Gothic horror film series. Tod Brownings Dracula was quickly followed by James Whales Frankenstein and The Old Dark House, some of these films blended science fiction with Gothic horror, such as Whales The Invisible Man and featured a mad scientist, mirroring earlier German films. Frankenstein was the first in a series of remakes which lasted for years, the Mummy introduced Egyptology as a theme, Make-up artist Jack Pierce was responsible for the iconic image of the monster, and others in the series. Universals horror cycle continued into the 1940s with B-movies including The Wolf Man, the once controversial Freaks, based on the short story Spurs, was made by MGM, though the studio disowned the completed film, and it remained banned, in the UK, for thirty years
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A famous scene from one of the first notable horror films,
Nosferatu (1922)
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Lon Chaney, Sr. in
The Phantom of the Opera.
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Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster in
Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
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Christopher Lee starred in several British horror films of the era, shown here in 1958's
Dracula.
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Hugo Award
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The Hugo Awards are a set of awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. Organized and overseen by the World Science Fiction Society, the awards are given each year at the annual World Science Fiction Convention as the focus of the event. They were first given in 1953, at the 11th World Science Fiction Convention, the Hugo Awards have been termed as among the highest honors bestowed in science fiction and fantasy writing. Works that have won have been published in collections. The 2016 awards were presented at the 74th Worldcon, MidAmeriCon II, in Kansas City, United States, the 2017 Hugos will be presented at the 75th Worldcon, Worldcon 75, in Helsinki, Finland, on August 12,2017. For lists of winners and nominees for each category, see the list of categories below. The World Science Fiction Society gives out the Hugo Awards each year for the best science fiction or fantasy works, the award is named after Hugo Gernsback, who founded the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories and who is considered one of the fathers of the science fiction genre. Works are eligible for an award if they were published in English in the calendar year. There are no rules as to which works qualify as science fiction or fantasy. Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, the selection process is defined in the WSFS constitution as instant-runoff voting with five nominees per category, except in the case of a tie. The awards are split over more than a dozen categories, for each category of Hugo, the voter may rank No Award as one of their choices. Voters are instructed that they should do so if they feel that none of the nominees are worthy of the award, or if they feel the category should be abolished entirely. A vote for No Award other than as ones first choice signifies that the voter believes the nominee ranked higher than No Award are worthy of a Hugo in that category, while those ranked lower are not. The five works on the ballot for each category are the most-nominated by members that year, from 1953 to 1958 the awards did not include any recognition of runner-up novels, but since 1959 all of the candidates have been recorded. Worldcons are generally held near the start of September, and take place in a different city around the world each year, the idea of giving out awards at Worldcons was proposed by Harold Lynch for the 1953 convention. The idea was based on the Academy Awards, with the name Hugo being given by Robert A. Madle, the award trophy was created by Jack McKnight and Ben Jason in 1953, based on the design of hood ornaments of 1950s cars. It consisted of a rocket ship on a wooden base
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1991 Hugo Award rocket trophy
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David Hartwell,
Charles N. Brown, and
Connie Willis pose with the 2008 Hugo Awards
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Haley Joel Osment
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Haley Joel Osment is an American actor. Night Shyamalans thriller film The Sixth Sense, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and he subsequently appeared in leading roles in several high-profile Hollywood films, including Steven Spielbergs A. I. Artificial Intelligence and Mimi Leders Pay It Forward and he made his Broadway debut in 2008 in a short-lived revival of David Mamets play American Buffalo, starring John Leguizamo and Cedric the Entertainer. Osment is also known for his voice-roles of Sora and Vanitas in the Kingdom Hearts video games, as well as his recent roles in comedies such as Sex Ed. Osment was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Theresa, a teacher, and Michael Eugene Osment and he has one sibling, actress Emily Osment, who is almost four years his junior. Osments parents have described his childhood as a “good old-fashioned Southern upbringing” and his father said that when Osment was learning to speak, he deliberately avoided using baby talk when communicating with his son. Osment was a student at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada, as a child, he wrestled and played basketball, football, and golf. Osments acting career began at the age of four, when his mother took him to a new IKEA store, Osment put his name down and got called back for an audition. Asked to describe the biggest thing he had seen, Osment described an IMAX theater screen and won the part in a Pizza Hut TV commercial. The commercial launched his career, and later year he starred in the ABC TV sitcom Thunder Alley. His first feature role was as Forrest Gumps son, also named Forrest Gump. He also had a part in another 1994 film, Mixed Nuts. In addition, he made numerous guest appearances on shows, including The Larry Sanders Show, Walker, Texas Ranger, Touched by an Angel, Chicago Hope, The Pretender, Osment first achieved stardom in 1999, when he appeared in The Sixth Sense, co-starring Bruce Willis. For his portrayal of Cole Sear, a child, Osment won the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor. One of Osments lines in The Sixth Sense, I see dead people, became a catchphrase and is often repeated or parodied on television programs. The phrase is #44 on the American Film Institutes list of 100 Movie Quotes and he made three minor guest appearances on the animated TV series Family Guy in 2000 and 2001. The 2000 Academy Awards ceremony honored another future co-star, Kevin Spacey, the following year, he appeared in Steven Spielbergs Artificial Intelligence, A. I. cementing his stature as one of the leading young actors in Hollywood. This role earned him his second Saturn Award for Best Younger Actor, in reviewing the movie, critic Roger Ebert claimed that, Osment, who is onscreen in almost every scene, is one of the best actors now working
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Osment at the
2014 Toronto International Film Festival
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Osment in 2001
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Elijah Wood
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Elijah Jordan Wood is an American actor, voice actor, DJ, and producer. He made his debut with a minor part in Back to the Future Part II. Landing a succession of roles, he was critically acclaimed as a child actor by age nine. As a child, he starred in the films Radio Flyer, The Good Son, North and he began to take on teenage roles in the films The Ice Storm, Deep Impact and The Faculty. He is best known for his leading role as Frodo Baggins in Peter Jacksons epic film trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Since then, he has chosen varied roles in such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sin City, Green Street, Everything Is Illuminated. Wood provided the voice of Mumble in the animated musical films Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two. In 2005, he started his own label, Simian Records. He did the voice acting for Spyro in the Legend of Spyro trilogy, from 2011-14, Wood played the role of Ryan Newman in FXs dark comedy, Wilfred. As of late autumn 2016, he co-stars in the BBC America series Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency, Wood was born on January 28,1981 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the second of three children. His parents, Debbie and Warren Wood, operated a delicatessen, Wood is of Austrian, Danish, English, German, and Polish descent. He has a brother, Zachariah, who is a video game producer at Sony, and a younger sister, Hannah. At age seven, Wood began modeling in his hometown and took piano lessons, in elementary school, he appeared in The Sound of Music, followed by the title character in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He also served as boy in a Marion Creative Council production of See How They Run. In 1989, his parents sold their delicatessen and the family–without his father–moved to Los Angeles for Wood to pursue an acting career and his parents divorced when he was 15. Wood modeled and did local commercials and he got his first break in the video for Paula Abduls Forever Your Girl, directed by David Fincher. This was followed by a role in the TV film, Child in the Night. Playing Aidan Quinns son in Avalon and Tin Men garnered professional attention for Wood, a small part in Richard Geres Internal Affairs, was followed by the role of a boy who brings estranged couple Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson back together in Paradise
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Wood at 2014
Fantastic Fest
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Wood DJ'ing at the
box.com launch party in New York in 2012
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Wood in February 2006
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Kirsten Dunst
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Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress. She made her debut in Woody Allens short film Oedipus Wrecks for the anthology film New York Stories. At the age of twelve, Dunst gained widespread recognition as Claudia in Interview with the Vampire and she appeared in Little Women the same year and in Jumanji the following year. Dunst achieved fame for her portrayal of Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimis Spider-Man trilogy and she played the title role in Sofia Coppolas biographical film Marie Antoinette and starred in the comedy film How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. She won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival and she starred in the second season of the television series Fargo in 2015, playing the role of Peggy Blumquist, a slightly delusional and neurotic hairdresser. In 2001, Dunst made her debut in the film Get Over It. She also sang the jazz song After Youve Gone for the end credits of the film The Cats Meow, Dunst was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to Klaus Hermann Dunst and Inez Dunst. She has a brother, Christian. Her father worked as a medical services executive, and her mother worked for Lufthansa as an attendant and was an artist. Dunsts father is German, originally from Hamburg, and Dunsts mother was born in New Jersey, until the age of eleven, Dunst lived in Brick Township, New Jersey, where she attended Ranney School. In 1993, her parents separated, and she moved with her mother and brother to Los Angeles, California. In 1995, her mother filed for divorce, after graduating from Notre Dame in 2000, Dunst continued the acting career that she had begun. As a teenager, she found it difficult to deal with her rising fame, however, she later expressed that her mother always had the best intentions. When asked if she had any regrets about the way she spent her childhood, Dunst said, Well, its not a way to grow up. I have my stuff to work out, I dont think anybody can sit around and say, My life is more screwed up than yours. Dunst began her career when she was three years old as a fashion model in television commercials. She was signed with Ford Models and Elite Model Management, at the age of six, she made her feature film debut in a minor role in Woody Allens short film Oedipus Wrecks that was released as one-third of the anthology film New York Stories. Soon after, she co-starred with Tom Hanks in the comedy-drama The Bonfire of the Vanities, based on Tom Wolfes novel of the same name, where she played the daughter of Hanks character
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Dunst at the 2013 premiere of
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues in
Sydney, Australia
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Dunst at the
2006 Cannes Film Festival premiere of
Marie Antoinette
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Tobey Maguire
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Tobias Vincent Tobey Maguire is an American actor and producer. He began his career in the late 1980s and his first appearance in a feature film was a non-speaking part in The Wizard. He was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Awards, in 2012 he established his own production company, Material Pictures, and co-produced Good People that same year. In 2014 he produced and starred as Bobby Fischer in Pawn Sacrifice, Maguire was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Wendy, a secretary turned screenwriter and film producer, and Vincent Maguire, a construction worker and cook. He is of part Austrian and part Puerto Rican descent and his parents,18 and 20 years old, were unmarried at the time of his birth, the two married and subsequently divorced when Maguire was two. Maguire spent much of his moving from town to town, living with each parent. During his childhood, Maguire entertained the idea of becoming a chef and his mother offered him $100 to take a drama class instead, and he agreed. The transient nature of his school years began to take a toll on Maguire emotionally, instead, he pursued an acting career. By 2000, he had obtained his GED, noting that during his days, I was not doing school, I was showing up. Maguires first appearance in a film was in 1989s The Wizard. He plays one of Lucas Bartons goons and had no lines and he worked as a child actor in the early 1990s, often playing roles much younger than his chronological age, and as late as 2002 he was still playing teenagers while in his mid-20s. He appeared in a variety of commercials and TV and movie roles, working opposite such actors as Chuck Norris, Roseanne Barr, eventually, he was cast as the lead in the FOX TV series Great Scott. Which was cancelled five weeks later, during many of his auditions, Maguire found himself auditioning for roles opposite another rising actor, Leonardo DiCaprio. The pair quickly became friends and made a pact to help each other get parts in their movies/TV shows/other projects. For example, both auditioned for the part in the 1990 TV series based on the 1989 comedy Parenthood. DiCaprio was cast, and Maguire later got a guest role at least partly on DiCaprios recommendation, the same scenario played itself out during casting for the 1993 movie This Boys Life, DiCaprio got the main teen role and Maguire got a part as one of Tobys friends. By the mid-1990s, He was working steadily but was becoming involved in the hard-partying lifestyle of some of his fellow young actors. In 1995, he requested director Allan Moyle to release him from his part in the movie Empire Records, Moyle agreed, and all of Maguires scenes were deleted from the final film
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Maguire at the
2014 Toronto International Film Festival
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Maguire greets fans at
Spider-Man 3 premiere
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Maguire with his wife,
Jennifer Meyer
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Noah Hathaway
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Noah Leslie Hathaway is an American actor and a former teen idol. He is best known for his roles as Atreyu in the 1984 film The NeverEnding Story and his work in The Neverending Story made him particularly popular as a teen-aged celebrity in Europe. Hathaway was born in Los Angeles, California and he began appearing in commercials at age three, and later starred in several TV films and TV series. At the age of six he starred in Battlestar Galactica, portraying Boxey and his most memorable role was Atreyu in the 1984 film The NeverEnding Story. He received his second Young Artist Awards nomination and won the award for Best Younger Actor in the 12th Annual Saturn Awards. The role requires the character to ride a horse expertly, fly on the back of a dragon, struggle through a swamp, clamber over rocks, Hathaway observed, Well, what it was. Wolfgang Petersen was notorious for his actors doing their own stunts and his actors are always getting hurt, because he wanted. Audiences are very savvy, you can cut away and show the back of somebody, and everybody knows that, so he wants his actors to do as much as they can for the realism of the movie. Accidents happen and actors arent stuntmen, thats why they have stuntmen, because if someone gets hurt, theyre expendable. And some of the times, theyre just more careful, in 1986 Hathaway starred in Troll, as Harry Potter, Jr. and in the television movie Casebusters, as Jamie. Hathaway did not return to acting until 1994, in the film To Die, to Sleep, after a second hiatus as an actor, Hathaway returned in 2011 for the films Mondo Holocausto. as Ruggero Margheriti, and Sushi Girl as Fish. In 2016 Hathaway reprised his Neverending Story role for a Spotify commercial celebrating the 1980s, Hathaway attended school at Lycee Français de Los Angeles. He moved into dance instruction, teaching advanced jazz and street dance until an injury forced him to quit in 1989 at age eighteen. Trained in martial arts, Hathaway would later earn black belts in Tang Soo Do and Shotokan Karate, and also competed as a Muay Thai boxer, and learned American Kenpo from Dr. Jerry Erickson. Hathaway spent some of his time at the Willow Springs Raceway in Rosamond, California competing in motorcycle racing. He was on tour with WizardWorld Conventions and appeared at the Chicago and he appeared at the Supanova Pop Culture Expo in Sydney, Australia in June 2012. The Moving Picture Boy, An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell,1996, Noah Hathaway at the Internet Movie Database Noah Hathaways official website Note, This site is still listed as under construction as of April 2013. It does not appear to have updated since 2008
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Noah Hathaway at Supanova Pop Culture Expo Hits Sydney, Australia, in June 2012
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The NeverEnding Story (film)
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At the time of its release, it was the most expensive film produced outside the United States or the Soviet Union. The film was the first in The NeverEnding Story film series, ende called the film a gigantic melodrama of kitsch, commerce, plush and plastic. The film only adapts the first half of the book, the second half of the book would subsequently be used as the rough basis for the second film, The Next Chapter. The third film, Escape from Fantasia, features an original plot. Bastian Balthazar Bux is a shy and friendless bibliophile 10-year-old, teased by bullies from school, on his way to school, he hides from the bullies in a bookstore, interrupting the grumpy bookseller, Mr. Coreander. Bastian asks about one of the books he sees, but Mr. Coreander advises against it and his curiosity piqued, Bastian seizes the book, leaving a note promising to return it, and hides in the schools attic to read. The book describes the world of Fantasia slowly being devoured by a force called The Nothing. Fantasias ruler, the Childlike Empress, has fallen ill, and Atreyu is tasked to discover the cure, believing that once the Empress is well, Atreyu is given a medallion named the AURYN that can guide and protect him in the quest. As Atreyu sets out, the Nothing summons Gmork, a vicious and highly intelligent wolf-like creature, atreyus quest directs him to the advisor Morla the Ancient One in the Swamps of Sadness. Though the AURYN protects Atreyu, his beloved horse Artax is lost to the swamp, later, Atreyu is surprised by the sudden appearance of Morla, a giant turtle. Bastian, reading, is surprised and lets out a scream. Morla does not have the answers Atreyu seeks, but directs him to the Southern Oracle, Atreyu succumbs to exhaustion trying to escape the Swamps but is saved by the luckdragon Falkor. Falkor takes him to the home of two gnomes that live near the entrance to the Southern Oracle, the gnomes explain that Atreyu will face various trials before reaching the Oracle. Atreyu proceeds to enter the Oracle, and is perplexed when one second trial, Bastian throws the book aside, but after catching his breath, continues to read. Atreyu eventually meets the Southern Oracle who tells him the way to save the Empress is to find a human child to give her a new name. Atreyu and Falkor flee before the Nothing consumes the Southern Oracle, in flight, Atreyu is knocked from Falkors back into the Sea of Possibilities, losing the AURYN in the process. He wakes on the shore of the ruins, where he meets Rock Biter. Atreyu finds a series of paintings depicting his quest, Gmork reveals himself, having been lying in wait and explains that Fantasia represents humanitys imagination, and that the Nothing represents adult apathy and cynicism against it
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American release poster
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AURYN, based on the
Ouroboros, representing
infinity /
eternity. The original prop is now owned by
Steven Spielberg.
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List of The Neverending Story characters
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This article lists character information from the book The Neverending Story and the film adaptations of the same name. Bastian Balthazar Bux is the main protagonist of the story, Bastian is a shy and bookish boy around 12 years old who is neglected by his father, who is still mourning the sudden death of his wife. He is a dreamer, who is shunned by other children due to his immense imagination, during a visit to an antique bookstore, he steals a curious-looking book titled The Neverending Story, and upon reading it he finds himself literally drawn into the story. Halfway through the book, Bastian becomes a character in The Neverending Story and he is bestowed the magical amulet AURYN, which allows his wishes to be granted. As the story progresses, Bastian slowly loses his memories of the world as his wishes carry him throughout Fantastica. Deluded by the witch Xayide, Bastian moves to the Ivory Tower, the ceremony is interrupted by Atreyu, who is nearly killed by Bastian. Eventually, Bastian realizes that he is beginning to lose himself and he has been portrayed by five different actors,1984, Barret Oliver in The NeverEnding Story. 1990, Jonathan Brandis in The NeverEnding Story II, The Next Chapter,1994, Jason James Richter in The NeverEnding Story III. 1996, Christopher Bell provided the voice of the character in The Neverending Story animated series,2001, Mark Rendall in Tales from the Neverending Story Atreyu is the secondary protagonist of the story. He is the protagonist of the book that Bastian reads. To the readership, Atreyu is a character, existing fictionally. He is described as having green skin and blue hair and he is a young warrior from the Grassy Plains. His parents were killed by a Purple Buffalo soon after he was born and he is summoned by the Childlike Empress to save the land of Fantasia by finding a cure for her illness, and given AURYN, an amulet that makes whoever wears it the Childlike Empress herald. During the quest to find a cure, he meets Falkor the luckdragon, Atreyu features largely in the second half of the novel, as Bastian travels Fantasia far and wide as its savior. They quickly become friends, but as Bastian continues to use AURYN, he becomes arrogant, when Bastian has lost even his name, Atreyu and Falkor offer favorable testimony to the powers in AURYN, who allow Bastians return to the human world. With their friendship restored, Atreyu promises to finish the stories Bastian has begun in Fantastica, in the 1984 film version, the character of Atreyu is played by Noah Hathaway. His skin is not olive green as described in the book, though it was attempted to do this through makeup, as such, his people were called the Plains People instead of Greenskins. The character also makes a appearance in The NeverEnding Story II, The Next Chapter
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"Side view Falkor", an original prop used by
Bavaria Film Studios
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Gmork, as he appears in the 1984 motion picture.
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Drew Barrymore
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Drew Blythe Barrymore is an American actress, author, director, model and producer. She is a member of the Barrymore family of American stage and film actors, Barrymore began acting on television, and soon transitioned to film with roles in E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Irreconcilable Differences. Following a turbulent childhood that was marked by drug and alcohol abuse with two stints in rehab, she wrote her autobiography, Little Girl Lost and she appeared in a string of hit films, including Poison Ivy, Boys on the Side, Scream and Ever After. She has also co-starred with Adam Sandler in The Wedding Singer,50 First Dates, Other acting credits include Music and Lyrics, Hes Just Not That Into You, Going the Distance and Miss You Already. Barrymore won the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award for her portrayal of Little Edie in Grey Gardens, Barrymore currently stars with Timothy Olyphant in the Netflix comedy series Santa Clarita Diet. She was named an Ambassador Against Hunger for the UN World Food Programme, since then, she has donated over $1 million to the program. A recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Barrymore was born in Culver City, California, to actor John and Jaid, an aspiring actress. Barrymores mother was born in a displaced persons camp in Brannenburg, West Germany and her parents divorced in 1984, when she was nine years old. She is one of four children with a half-brother, John and her godfather is Steven Spielberg while her godmother is Anna Strasberg, Lee Strasbergs widow. Meanwhile, Barrymore is the god-daughter of director Steven Spielberg, Barrymore recounted in her 1989 autobiography, Little Girl Lost, early memories of her abusive father, who left the family when Barrymore was six months old. They never had anything resembling a significant relationship and seldom spoke to each other, Barrymore grew up on Poinsetta Place in West Hollywood until the age of 7, when she moved to Sherman Oaks. In her 2015 memoir Wildflower, she says she talks like a girl because she grew up in Sherman Oaks. She moved back to West Hollywood upon becoming emancipated at 14, Barrymore attended elementary school at Fountain Day School in West Hollywood and Country School. In the wake of her stardom, Barrymore endured a notoriously troubled childhood. Her nightlife and constant partying became a subject with the media. She was in rehab at the age of fourteen, where she spent eighteen months in an institution for the mentally ill, a suicide attempt, also at age fourteen, put her back in rehab, followed by a three-month stay with singer David Crosby and his wife. The stay was precipitated, Crosby said, because she needed to be some people that were committed to sobriety. Barrymore later described this period of her life in her autobiography, after a successful juvenile court petition for emancipation, she moved into her own apartment at the age of fifteen
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Barrymore at the
Blended Berlin premiere, May 2014
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Barrymore with President
Reagan, October 17, 1984
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Barrymore with
Corey Feldman at the 61st Academy Awards, March 29, 1989
Drew Barrymore
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Barrymore at the 2007
Tribeca Film Festival
18.
Firestarter (film)
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Firestarter is a 1984 American science fiction horror film based on Stephen Kings 1980 novel Firestarter. The plot concerns a girl who develops pyrokinesis and the secret government agency known as The Shop which seeks to control her. The film was directed by Mark L. Lester, and stars David Keith, Drew Barrymore, Martin Sheen, the film was shot in and around Wilmington, Chimney Rock, and Lake Lure, North Carolina. A miniseries follow-up to the film, entitled Rekindled, was released in 2002 on the Sci-Fi Channel. Andy McGee met his wife, Vicky Tomlinson, in college while they were earning money by participating in an experiment in which they were given a dose of a low-grade hallucinogen called LOT-6. The experiment grants them telepathic abilities, Vicky has the ability to read minds, and Andy can take over minds and make others do and believe what he wants, but the effort gives him nosebleeds. Andy and Vicky went on to get married, and they now have a daughter named Charlene Charlie McGee. Charlie can also see the near future, the government wants Charlie to harness her powerful ability as a weapon. Andy rescues Charlie from abduction by agents of the Shop by making the blind and for the next year. To protect themselves, Andy writes letters to newspapers. They need to rest and end up taken in by a farmer, Andy tells the farmer the truth so when the Shop arrives, he is ready to stand with them. However, he sees that there is no need since Charlie makes quick work of the agents who have invaded the quiet refuge they have found. They again are on the run, but Andy is weak from the use of his gift and they go to their secluded cabin to rest and prepare to finally go public with their story. Unfortunately, the head of the Shop, Captain Hollister, sends Agent John Rainbird to capture them, after capture, father and daughter are kept separated. Andy is medicated and subjected to tests, which show his powers have decreased, meanwhile, Rainbird takes on the role of John the friendly orderly to befriend Charlie and gain her trust to encourage her to submit to the tests. Charlies powers increase exponentially, and she demands to see her father as they promised. Andy is revealed to be faking the acceptance of his drugs, meaning that his powers have never decreased, then once alone on a walk far from the house, he uses his power to get information from Hollister and arrange to leave with Charlie that night. He slips Charlie a note and she immediately tells John about the escape, hes wanted to kill Charlie since first hearing about her and hides in the barn so he can kill her father as well
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Theatrical release poster
19.
A Nightmare on Elm Street
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A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven, and the first film of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. The film stars Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Robert Englund, the plot revolves around several teenagers who are stalked and killed in their dreams by Freddy Krueger. The teenagers are unaware of the cause of this strange phenomenon, Craven filmed A Nightmare on Elm Street on an estimated budget of $1.8 million, a sum the film earned back during its first week. The film went on to gross over $25 million at the United States box office, critics and film historians state that the films premise is the struggle to define the distinction between dreams and reality, manifested by the lives and dreams of the teens in the film. Critics today praise the films ability to transgress the boundaries between the imaginary and real, toying with audience perceptions, fifteen-year-old Tina Gray is stalked through a boiler room and attacked by a disfigured man wearing a blade-fixed glove. She awakens from the nightmare, but her mother points out four mysterious slashes in her nightgown, the following morning, Tina is consoled by her best friend Nancy Thompson and her boyfriend Glen Lantz. Later, Nancy and Glen sleep at Tinas following her mothers out-of-town departure, falling asleep, Tina sees the man and runs. Awakened by Tinas thrashing, Rod witnesses her being fatally slashed by an unseen force and he flees as Nancy and Glen find Tina, mistakenly blaming Rod. Nancy tells her father, Lieutenant Don Thompson, of Tinas death, the next day, Rod is arrested by Don, despite his pleas of innocence. At school, Nancy falls asleep in class and finds the man, calling himself Freddy Krueger, Nancy burns her arm on a pipe and then awakens. She notices the mark on her arm and is concerned. At home, Nancy falls asleep in the bathtub and nearly drowned by Freddy. Nancy goes to Rod, who tells her what happened to Tina, Nancy has Glen watch over her as she falls asleep. She tries to find Freddy and sees him preparing to kill Rod and he turns his attention on her, she runs and wakes up when her alarm clock goes off. Nancy and Glen go to the jail and discover Rod dead in his cell in an apparent suicide, at Rods funeral, Nancys parents become worried when she describes the man in her dreams. Her mother Marge takes her to a dream clinic, in her dream, Nancy is attacked again and grabs Freddys hat. When the staff wake her up, she has a gash in her arm, at home, Marge bars the windows and begins drinking heavily. She tells Nancy that Freddy was a child murderer released on a technicality, in a form of vigilante justice, the parents in the neighborhood burned him alive
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Theatrical release poster
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List of A Nightmare on Elm Street characters
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A demonic interpretation followed in Wes Cravens New Nightmare where Freddy Krueger attempted to break free from the films into the real world. Nearly a decade later, Freddy was involved in a crossover with Jason Voorhees of the Friday the 13th franchise in Freddy vs. Jason, Nancy Thompson survived his attacks in the original film and went on to appear in the third film Dream Warriors. He was finally killed off by his daughter Maggie Burroughs in Freddys Dead. His bladed glove is a tool instead of an item he crafted himself to commit his killings as in the original series of films. The series is notable for being the first on-screen acting role for both Johnny Depp and Patricia Arquette, both of whom went on to have successful, award-winning careers. Before the events of the first film, he participates in the murder of Fred Krueger after he was freed on a technicality following a series of acts of child murder, following this incident, he divorces Nancys mother. After Tina Grays brutal murder, Don, as a lieutenant in the Springwood police department, after Rods apparent suicide, Don continued to ignore Nancys claims about a resurrected Freddy Krueger, failing to come to her aid when she asks. After Nancys experience and the murder of her mother by Krueger, she and he realizes that Nancy was right about Freddys undead existence and realizes that Rod Lane did not kill Tina. He becomes an alcoholic and loses his job, when they reveal his corpse, Skeleton, Freddy comes to the real world and takes control of his bones. Freddy fights Don and impales him with the fin of a Cadillac. Freddy later poses as Don in-order to trick Nancy into dropping her guard, in the Nightmares on Elm Street comic miniseries it is revealed that since his death, Don has been trapped in Freddys realm experiencing constant torture. When Freddy enacts a plan to break through into the world, he forces Don to summon. Though Don does shoot her, the attempt fails as Nancy has become a similar in power to Freddy. Nancy forgives her father and uses her powers to him into the afterlife. He has an appearance in Wes Cravens New Nightmare. Due to a technicality he is released without charge and the parents of the murdered children take the law into their own hands. After his death, Freddy gains the ability to infiltrate and control dreams and uses it to stalk, despite being defeated several times, Freddy repeatedly resurrects himself and continues trying to kill children. Portrayed by Johnny Depp Appeared in, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddys Dead, The Final Nightmare Glen Lantz is a student at Springwood High and the boyfriend of Nancy Thompson
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Promotional image of several characters from the original A Nightmare on Elm Street film including a young
Johnny Depp in his first starring role. From top-left to bottom-right:
Jsu Garcia (as Nick Corri),
Amanda Wyss, Depp,
Heather Langenkamp and
Robert Englund
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A Nightmare on Elm Street was Johnny Depp's first film role.
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Dream Warriors was Patricia Arquette's first film
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Corey Feldman
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Corey Scott Feldman is an American actor and singer. Feldman is also the singer for the rock band Truth Movement. Feldman was born in Reseda, California, the son of musician Bob Feldman, Feldman was raised Jewish, and also holds beliefs in the paranormal. He has a sister, Mindy, a member of The New Mickey Mouse Club. Feldman started his career at the age of three, appearing in a McDonalds commercial. In his youth he appeared in over 100 television commercials and on 50 television series, including The Bad News Bears, Mork & Mindy, Eight is Enough, One Day at a Time and he debuted in the films Time After Time and Disneys The Fox and the Hound. In 1981, he appeared in NBCs musical comedy childrens special How to Eat Like a Child alongside other child stars Billy Jacoby. Feldman then went on to feature in several high-grossing movies in a row, the movies included Friday the 13th, The Final Chapter, Gremlins, The Goonies, and Stand By Me, the latter alongside River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, and Jerry OConnell. In 1987, Feldman appeared with Corey Haim in The Lost Boys, in which he played Edgar Frog, the Lost Boys marked the first onscreen pairing of Feldman and Haim, who became known as The Two Coreys. The pair went on to star in a string of films, including License to Drive, Feldman also did the voice of Donatello in the original live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. He continued working with his friend Corey Haim on independent films, including a sequel to their last mainstream film together, in 1996, Feldman directed his first and thus far only motion picture, a slapstick comedy called Busted where Haim played a leading role. This would be the last film that they would do as The Two Coreys, in the late 1990s, Feldman starred in the CBS series Dweebs and then released his second album, Still Searching for Soul, with his band Corey Feldmans Truth Movement. In 1996, Feldman appeared alongside his former Stand By Me co-star Jerry OConnell in the episode Electric Twister Acid Test of the Fox Network series Sliders, in 1999, Feldman appeared in New Found Glorys Hit or Miss music video as Officer Corey Feldman. In 1999, he made an appearance in the television series The Crow, in 2002, Feldman released a solo album, Former Child Actor, and promoted it with a second US tour. In 2003, he appeared in the first celebrity-driven reality series The Surreal Life on The WB, on the show, he publicly married Susie Sprague. The next year, he made a appearance in the film Dickie Roberts. He appeared in the Moby music video We Are All Made of Stars, demonic Toys which aired December 18,2004 on NBCUniversals Syfy network. In 2005, Feldman made his debut in the positively reviewed off-Broadway play Fatal Attraction, a Greek Tragedy
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Corey Feldman at the Sugar Cane Club in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 8, 2010
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Gremlins
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Gremlins is a 1984 American comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante and released by Warner Bros. The film is about a man who receives a strange creature called a mogwai as a pet. This story was continued with a sequel, Gremlins 2, The New Batch, unlike the lighter sequel, Gremlins opts for more black comedy, balanced against a Christmastime setting. Both films were the center of large merchandising campaigns, Steven Spielberg was the films executive producer and the screenplay was written by Chris Columbus. The film stars Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates, with Howie Mandel providing the voice of Gizmo, Gremlins was a commercial success and received positive reviews from critics. However, the film was heavily criticized for some of its more violent sequences. Randall Peltzer, an inventor, visits a Chinatown antique store in the hope to find a Christmas present for his son Billy. In the store, Randall encounters a small, furry creature called a mogwai, the owner Mr. Randall returns home to Kingston Falls where he gives the mogwai to Billy as a pet. Billy works in the bank, and fears his dog Barney will be put down by Mrs. Deagle. Randall names the mogwai “Gizmo” and Billy makes sure to treat him well, but when Billy’s friend Pete spills a glass of water over Gizmo, five more mogwai spawn from his back, a more troublemaking sort led by the aggressive Stripe. Billy shows one of the mogwai to his science teacher Mr. Hanson, spawning another mogwai. Stripe’s gang tricks Billy into feeding them after midnight by chewing out the power cord to his clock and transform into cocoons. Shortly after, their cocoons hatch and they emerge as mischievous, reptilian Gremlins that torture Gizmo and try to murder Billy’s mother, while Hanson is killed by his Gremlin. All of the Gremlins are killed except Stripe, who escapes to a local YMCA and jumps into a swimming pool, Billy tries to warn the police but they don’t believe him. Many people are injured or outright killed by the Gremlins’ rampage, including Mrs. Deagle, at the local bar, the Gremlins have fun until the barmaid Kate Beringer, Billy’s girlfriend, flashes them with a camera and escapes into the bank with Billy and Gizmo. While hiding, she reveals her father died in a chimney while dressed as Santa Claus, Billy and Kate discover the town has fallen silent and the Gremlins are watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in a theater. They set off an explosion, killing all the Gremlins except Stripe, Billy chases Stripe into a Montgomery Ward store, where Stripe climbs into a water fountain and tries to spawn more Gremlins. Gizmo arrives in a toy car and opens a skylight, exposing Stripe to extreme sunlight, Gizmo likewise believes so, having become attached to Billy
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Theatrical release poster by
John Alvin
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Statue of a Gremlin in the
National Museum of Cinema of
Turin,
Italy.
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the installment in the Indiana Jones franchise and a prequel to the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark. Executive producer and co-writer George Lucas decided to make the film a prequel as he did not want the Nazis to be the villains again, after three rejected plot devices, Lucas wrote a film treatment that resembled the films final storyline. The film was released to success but mixed reviews, which criticized its violence. However, critical opinion has improved since 1984, citing the films intensity, some of the films cast and crew, including Spielberg, retrospectively view the film in a negative light, partly due to the film being the darkest and most overtly violent Indiana Jones film. The film has also been the subject of controversy due to its portrayal of India, in 1935, Indiana Jones narrowly escapes the clutches of Lao Che, a crime boss in Shanghai, China. With his 11-year-old Chinese sidekick Short Round and the nightclub singer Willie Scott in tow, Indy flees Shanghai on an airplane that, unknown to them, is owned by Lao. While the three of sleep on the plane, the pilots parachute out, and they leave the plane to crash over the Himalayas while dumping its fuel. Indy, Shorty, and Willie discover this and narrowly manage to escape by jumping out of the plane on an inflatable raft, during the journey to Pankot, Indy hypothesizes that the stone may be one of the five fabled Sankara stones that promise fortune and glory. The trio receive a welcome from the Prime Minister of Pankot Palace. The visitors are allowed to stay the night as guests, during which they attend a lavish but grotesque banquet given by the young Maharaja, Chattar Lal rebuffs Indys questions about the villagers claims and his theory that the ancient Thuggee cult is responsible for their troubles. Later that night, Indy is attacked by an assassin, leading Indy, Willie and they discover a series of tunnels hidden behind a statue in Willies room and set out to explore them, overcoming a number of booby-traps along the way. The trio eventually reach a temple where the Thugs worship Kali with human sacrifice. They watch as the Thugs chain one of their victims in a cage and slowly lower him into a fire pit. They discover that the Thugs, led by their high priest Mola Ram, are in possession of three of the five Sankara stones, and have enslaved the children to mine for the two stones. As Indy tries to retrieve the stones, he, Willie, Indy is whipped and forced to drink a potion called the Blood of Kali, which places him in a trance-like state where he begins to mindlessly serve the Thugs. Willie, meanwhile, is kept as a sacrifice, while Shorty is put to work in the mines alongside the enslaved children. Shorty breaks free and escapes back into the temple where he burns Indy with a torch, after defeating Chattar Lal, Indy stops Willies cage and cranks it out of the pit just in time before it has a chance to enter the fire
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Theatrical release poster by
Drew Struzan
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Steven Spielberg and
Chandran Rutnam on a location in Sri Lanka during the filming of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
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Harrison Ford with
Chandran Rutnam on the set of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom which was shot in
Kandy,
Sri Lanka in 1983.
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List of Indiana Jones characters
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This is a list of characters in the Indiana Jones series. Indiana is a nickname he adopted from childhood, it was the name of his pet dog, wearing a fedora and armed with a revolver and a whip, Indiana is regularly confronted by villains, booby traps, and snakes, of which he is deathly afraid. Actors who have portrayed Indiana at different ages include River Phoenix, Corey Carrier, Sean Patrick Flanery, Satipo is a guide accompanying Indy in the temple in the films opening. He follows behind him through the traps on the way in. When Indy and Satipo reach a pit on the way out, Satipo makes it over with Indys whip, Indy throws over the fertility idol to Satipo, who offered to throw him his whip for it, but he betrays Indy, dropping the whip and fleeing. In his haste, he forgot to mind the wall trap he had witnessed Indy test and is killed, Indiana makes it out. He appears in the video game Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine in the secret level Return to Peru and his name is based in a Peruvian town and county, Satipo in Satipo County in Junín State. Jock Lindsey is an American freelance pilot, Jock cut his teeth as a stunt pilot performing in Midwest airshows and relocated to Venezuela after a rumored flight-related tragedy. He frequently was hired by Jones to fly the archaeologist to remote parts of the world, easygoing and affable, Jock butted heads with Indiana on only one subject, his pet snake Reggie. According to the novelization of Raiders of the Lost Ark written by Campbell Black, Jock is Scottish, the Jock Lindseys Hangar Bar cocktail lounge at Disney Springs says he settled down in central Florida in 1938. Barranca is the other Peruvian guide who turns against Indiana, when Barranca draws a revolver, Indy uses his famous bullwhip and wraps the whip around the gun. The gun is yanked from Barrancas hand and lands in a stream, Barranca then runs away but is later killed with poisonous darts by the Hovitos tribe. In the early script of the film, written by Lawrence Kasdan, when Barranca pulls his gun out on Jones, the archaeologist uses his whip to make Barranca shoot himself, but the script was scrapped. Like Satipo, his name is based on a Peruvian town and county, Barranca, Barranca Ward, Barranca County, Dr. René Emile Belloq is the main antagonist in Raiders of the Lost Ark. He is a French archaeologist who takes credit for Indianas findings by following his exploits, in the films opening, Belloq and the Hovitos tribesmen force Indiana to hand over a fertility idol he has braved numerous booby traps to obtain. Belloq aids the Nazis in finding the Ark of the Covenant, the spirits within the Ark kill Belloq and the Nazis when it is opened, allowing Indiana to take the Ark back to the United States government. At one point in the film, Belloq says to Indy that they are much alike. The novelization of the movie reveals Belloq became Indianas foe at graduate school, another encounter in 1934 is detailed, when Indiana spends months preparing a dig in Rub al Khali, only to arrive and discover Belloq has excavated the region
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Toht (left) and Belloq
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Marcus Brody
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Willie (right) and Short Round (left) inspect Pankot Palace's cuisine
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Mola Ram holding a human heart
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D.A.R.Y.L.
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D. A. R. Y. L. is a 1985 American science fiction film which was written by David Ambrose, Allan Scott and Jeffrey Ellis. It was directed by Simon Wincer and stars Barret Oliver, Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Danny Corkill, the original music score was composed by Marvin Hamlisch. The movie was filmed at Pinewood Studios and in Orlando, Florida and Dillsboro, Daryl is an experiment in Artificial Intelligence, created by the government. Although physically indistinguishable from an ordinary boy, his brain is actually a supersophisticated microcomputer with several unique capabilities. These include exceptional reflexes, superhuman multitasking ability, and the ability to other computer systems. Experiment was funded by the military, with the intention of producing a super-soldier, one of the original scientists has misgivings about the experiment and decides to free Daryl, but is killed in the process. Daryl is found by a couple and taken to an orphanage. He does not remember who or what he is and he is also introduced to the neighbors of the Richardsons, Howie and Elaine Fox and their children Sherie and Turtle. As Daryl was raised in isolation, his skills are quite limited. His friend Turtle, a vulgar and obnoxious ten-year-old, helps him develop social skills. However, just as the Richardsons have truly begun to form a bond with Daryl, their happiness is shattered when the Government finds. Once there, his memory is restored and he is debriefed on the lessons he learned during his time with the Richardsons, notable lessons include his decision to strike out at a baseball game, because under certain conditions, error was more efficient than maximum performance. And his subjective preference for chocolate over vanilla ice cream, because Daryl has revealed a capacity for human emotions, the D. A. R. Y. L. Experiment is considered a failure by the military and the decision is made that the project be terminated, Dr. Stewart, one of Daryls designers, decides to free Daryl so he can return to the Richardson family. When asked by the military to justify her complicity, Dr. Lamb offers a reformulation of the Turing Test, General, when you cant tell the difference anymore. Implying that she is no longer certain that Daryl is not human, however, when passing two police roadblocks, Dr. Stewart is mortally wounded by a police officer. With his dying words, he assures Daryl that he is indeed a real person, continuing his escape, Daryl steals an SR-71 Blackbird from a nearby airbase. After being told that plane will be blown up mid-flight by the U. S. A. F, using a self-destruct mechanism, Daryl ejects at the last moment, faking his own destruction
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Theatrical release poster
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Fairuza Balk
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Fairuza Balk is an American film actress. She made her film debut as Dorothy Gale in Disneys 1985 film Return to Oz. Balk also made appearances in Valmont, The Craft, The Island of Dr. Moreau, American History X, The Waterboy, Almost Famous, Balk was born as Fairuza Alejandra Feldthouse in Point Reyes, California. Until age two, Balk lived in Cloverdale, California with her mother and they then moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she began acting at age six. They moved from London to Paris for another role and they remained there for six months before returning to Vancouver. Balk moved to Los Angeles as a woman upon signing to act in The Craft. Fairuzas mother, Cathryn Balk, has studied, performed, and taught the ethnic and traditional forms of many countries such as Egypt, Turkey, Morocco. Her father, Solomon Feldthouse, was one of the members of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Kaleidoscope. He was born in Pingree, Idaho and between the ages of 6 and 10, he lived in Turkey where he learned Greek, Turkish, Balk has stated that her father is of Romani and Cherokee ancestry, and that her mother is of Irish and French descent. Balks debut role was in a film titled The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. While in London, Balk was cast by Walt Disney Productions to star as Dorothy Gale in Return to Oz, the unofficial sequel to MGMs 1939 musical The Wizard of Oz. This role led to other, minor roles, including that of Mildred Hubble in The Worst Witch, by 1989 she was back in Vancouver, where she attended high school. However, she decided to take correspondence courses instead and went back to Hollywood. In 1992 she was awarded an Independent Spirit Award as best actress for her performance in the Allison Anders film Gas Food Lodging. In 1996, she appeared in a role in The Craft, in which her character formed a teenage coven with characters portrayed by Neve Campbell, Rachel True. Since The Craft, Balk has continued to find roles, primarily dark ones, in 1996 she co-starred in The Island of Dr Moreau with Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer and David Thewlis. Since 2000, she has appeared in over a dozen films and she has also done voice work for animated films, TV shows and video games, including Justice League, Family Guy, Grand Theft Auto, Vice City and Lords of EverQuest. The 2007 documentary Return To Oz, The Joy That Got Away was dedicated to her, in 2010, Balk released the single Stormwinds under the artist title Armed Love Militia
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Fairuza Balk, January 2006
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Return to Oz
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Return to Oz is a 1985 fantasy adventure film directed and written by Walter Murch, an editor and sound designer, co-written by Gill Dennis and produced by Paul Maslansky. It stars Nicol Williamson as the rock creature Nome King, Jean Marsh as Princess Mombi, Piper Laurie as Aunt Em, Matt Clark as Uncle Henry and introduces Fairuza Balk as Dorothy Gale. It is loosely based on L. Frank Baums Oz novels, mainly The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz, yet is set six months after the events of the first novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz took place. Although it is not a sequel to the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, The Wizard of Oz, it does borrow a few elements from it. Upon her second arrival, Dorothy, alongside her pet chicken Billina, befriend a group of new companions, including Tik-Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead, together they set out on a quest to save Oz and restore it to its former glory. Murch was interested in making another Oz story, while Disney had a long failed history of producing an adaptation of Baums novels dating back to the 1930s. Disney bought the rights to his novels in the 1950s, after Return to Oz, Disney lost the film rights to the Oz novels, and they were subsequently reverted to the public domain. However, Return to Oz performed well outside the U. S and is considered by fans as a faithful adaptation of the book series than the 1939 classic. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects, in October 1899, six months after returning home from the Land of Oz, Dorothy Gale is melancholic. Her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry take her to Dr. Worley, known for his electrotherapy treatments, during a thunderstorm, the lab suffers a blackout and Dorothy is saved by a mysterious girl. They escape with Nurse Wilson in pursuit, and fall into a river, Dorothy clambers aboard a chicken coop, but the other girl appears to have vanished underwater. Upon awakening, Dorothy finds herself back in Oz with her chicken Billina and they find the Emerald City in ruins and its citizens turned to stone. Pursued by Wheelers, Dorothy and Billina hide in a room accessed by a glyph key Billina earlier had found and they meet a mechanical man, Tik-Tok, who explains that King Scarecrow has been captured by the Nome King, who is responsible for the Emerald Citys destruction. The three visit princess Mombi in hopes of getting information, but she is working with the Nome King. Dorothy, Billina, and Tik-Tok meet Jack Pumpkinhead, who explains he was brought to life via Mombis Powder of Life. Dorothy uses the Powder of Life to vivify the Gump, the head of an animal whose body they put together using two sofas, palm leaves, a broom, and rope. Using the Gump as transport, the escapes and flies across the Deadly Desert to reach the Nome Kings mountain. In his underground domain, the Nome King tells Dorothy that the Scarecrow stole the emeralds from him to build the Emerald City and he does not listen when Dorothy protests that the emeralds preceded the Scarecrow at the city
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Theatrical release poster by
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Dorothy Gale
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Dorothy Gale is the fictional protagonist of many of the Oz novels by the American author L. Frank Baum. Her best friend is Ozs ruler Princess Ozma, Dorothy first appears in Baums classic childrens novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and reappears in most of its sequels. In addition, she is the character in various adaptations, notably the classic 1939 movie adaptation of the book. In later books, Oz steadily becomes more familiar to her than her homeland of Kansas, Dorothys best friend Princess Ozma officially makes her a princess of Oz later in the book series. An influence on the creation of Dorothy appears to be the Alice books of Lewis Carroll, Dorothys character was probably named after Baums own niece, Dorothy Louise Gage, who died in infancy. Baums wife was very attached to her and was grieved by her death. Elements of Dorothy Gales character are derived from Matilda Joslyn Gage. Dorothy Gage is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Bloomington, Illinois, Dorothys last name is never mentioned in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz or The Marvelous Land of Oz, the first two Oz books. It is disclosed in the third book Ozma of Oz, the last name of Gale was originally mentioned in Baums script for the 1902 Broadway stage version of The Wizard of Oz, in which it was originally a setup for a punning joke. In the Oz books, Dorothy is an orphan raised by her aunt, whether Aunt Em or Uncle Henry is Dorothys blood relative remains unclear. Uncle Henry makes reference to Dorothys mother in The Emerald City of Oz, in many of the Oz books, Dorothy is the main heroine of the story. She is often seen with her best friend and the ruler of Oz and she brazenly rebuffs Princess Langwideres threat to take her head for her collection — Well, I blieve you wont. This aspect of her character was lessened by her companionship of Ozma, in whom Baum placed the greater level of wisdom. Dorothy has several pets, including her white/pink/purple kitten, Eureka. Popular in crossword puzzles is Dorothys cow, Imogene, from the 1902 stage version, eric Shanowers novel, The Giant Garden of Oz, features a cow named Imogene. She becomes princess of Oz and Ozmas companion essentially marrying the queen, in Jack Snows The Magical Mimics in Oz, Ozma places Dorothy on the throne of Oz while she is away visiting Queen Lurlines fairy band. The magic of Oz keeps Dorothy young, in The Lost King of Oz, a Wish Way carries Dorothy to a film set in Hollywood, California. She begins to age rapidly to her late 20s, making up for at least some of the years that have already passed
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Dorothy Gale holds the charmed silver shoes--illustration by
W. W. Denslow (1900)
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Dorothy Gale, Uncle Henry and Aunt Em on the Kansas farm--illustration by W.W. Denslow for the first edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).
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Dorothy Gale, as depicted by
John R. Neill. Neill's version of Dorothy has been highly criticized for looking too fashion forward and glamorous, as Dorothy is supposed to be just a little orphan girl from early 1900s Kansas. But Neill's illustration of Dorothy is usually cited by fans of the book series as the way they see and interpret the character.
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Judy Garland from the trailer for the 1939 film
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The Goonies
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The Goonies is a 1985 American adventure comedy film directed by Richard Donner, who produced with Harvey Bernhard. The screenplay was written by Chris Columbus from a story by executive producer Steven Spielberg, during the entire adventure, they are chased by a family of criminals, who also want the treasure for themselves. Warner Bros. released it on June 7,1985, in the United States, the film grossed $61.5 million worldwide and has become a cult film. Facing foreclosure of their homes in the Goon Docks area of Astoria, Oregon to a country club. The Goonies include optimist Mikey Walsh, his brother, Brand, the inventive Data, the talkative Mouth. While rummaging through the Walshes attic, they come across a 1632 doubloon, evading Brand for one last adventure together, the kids find themselves at a derelict restaurant near the coast, which coincides with the doubloon and the map. They encounter the Fratellis, a family of criminals hiding out at the restaurant, Mikey convinces Brand to return to the restaurant to explore after the Fratellis leave, discovering that the criminals are running a counterfeiting operation. As the Fratellis return, the finds a tunnel beneath the restaurant and hides in there. They explore the tunnel and find the remains of an explorer, who also searched for the treasure. Evading various booby traps, set up by Willy, they find themselves under an old wishing well. The kids have a chance to be pulled out of the tunnel by Andys obnoxious boyfriend Troy, whose family owns the country club, but Mikey convinces the group to continue on their journey. Meanwhile, Chunk, who has escaped the restaurant, tries to flag down passing cars. When the Fratellis threaten to shred his hands with a blender, a terrified Chunk reveals not only where his friends are. The Fratellis tie Chunk to a chair and lock him in the basement next to Sloth, while the Fratellis pursue both the Goonies and the treasure, Chunk befriends Sloth, and Sloth is able to break their bonds, they form a third party headed into the tunnel. Mikey and the others discover the Fratellis on their trail, and they ultimately find an enclosed grotto and Willys pirate ship, the Inferno, which has been sealed in the cave for centuries. They explore the ship, finding a hoard of treasure in front of the remains of Willy. As they leave, however, the Fratellis have already caught up with them and they make them drop the treasure before threatening to kill them by forcing them to walk the plank, when suddenly Sloth and Chunk arrive. Sloth, angered by how the other Fratellis have treated him in the past, easily subdues them and helps the rest of the Goonies to escape the boat
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Theatrical release poster by
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The old Clatsop County Jail, scene of the Fratelli jail break. The site is now home to the
Oregon Film Museum.
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Much of the filming was done on location in
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Weird Science (film)
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Weird Science is a 1985 American teen comic science fiction film written and directed by John Hughes and starring Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and Kelly Le Brock. The title song was written and performed by American new wave band Oingo Boingo, as of 2013, a remake of Weird Science was in development at Universal Studios, with Joel Silver returning as producer and Michael Bacall attached as screenwriter. Nerdy social outcasts Gary Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly are publicly humiliated by Ian and Max for swooning over their girlfriends Deb and Hilly. Dejected and disappointed at their direction in life and wanting more, Gary convinces the uptight Wyatt that they need a boost of popularity in order to get their crushes away from Ian and Max. After hooking electrodes to a doll and hacking into a government computer system for power, a power surge creates Lisa. Promptly, she conjures up a Cadillac convertible to take the boys out to a bar, using her powers to manipulate people into believing Gary, the boys come up with the name Lisa based upon a failed romantic experience of Gary. They return home drunk and happen upon Chet, Wyatts mean older brother, Lisa agrees to keep herself hidden from him, but realizes that Gary and Wyatt, while extremely sweet are very uptight and need to unwind. Despite Wyatts protests, Lisa insists that the party happen anyway in order to loosen the boys up and she goes to meet Garys parents, Al and Lucy, who, to Garys embarrassment, are shocked and dismayed at the things she says and her frank manner. After she pulls a gun on them, she alters their memories so that Lucy forgets about the conflict, however, meanwhile, Wyatts grandparents arrive and confront Lisa about the party, but she freezes them and hides them in a cupboard. Upstairs in Wyatts bedroom, Ian and Max convince Gary and Wyatt to recreate the events that created Lisa, Lisa resolves that the boys need a challenge to boost their confidence and has a gang of mutant bikers invade the party, causing chaos and sending the boys running. The bikers take Deb and Hilly hostage, and Wyatt and Gary decide they need to save them and they confront the bikers with a new boost of confidence to force them to back down. After they leave peacefully, Gary accidentally fires the gun, which is now real, Lisa tells the boys to escort the girls home while she talks to Chet alone. Returning home, they discover Chet, now transformed into a giant, talking turd, Lisa assures them that Chet will return to normal, and realizing that her work is done and that they dont need her anymore, she kisses both Gary and Wyatt before dematerializing and vanishing. Sometime later at their school, a gym class of sweaty. It is revealed to be Lisa who tells the class to Drop and give me twenty, causing all the boys in the class to faint and she turns to the camera and smiles knowingly. The film is now regarded as a cult classic, the film was successful at the box office with a gross of $23,834,048 in North America and $15,100,000 in other territories, totaling $38,934,048 worldwide. The films theme song, Weird Science, was performed by Oingo Boingo, following the same basic plot as the film, the series starred Vanessa Angel as Lisa, Michael Manasseri as Wyatt, John Mallory Asher as Gary, and Lee Tergesen as Chet. As of 2013, Universal Studios was planning to make a Weird Science remake with original producer Joel Silver returning to produce the film and with screenwriter Michael Bacall writing the film
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Theatrical release poster by
Tom Jung
