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Joe Roth
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Joseph E. Joe Roth is an American film executive, producer and film director. He co-founded Morgan Creek Productions in 1987 and was chairman of 20th Century Fox, Caravan Pictures, Roth was born in New York City, the son of Lawrence Roth, a foreman at a plastics plant, and Frances Roth. In 1959, Roths father volunteered his son to be a plaintiff in the ACLUs effort to abolish mandatory prayer in public schools, the case, filed in New York, wound its way through the system, finally reaching the U. S. Supreme Court in 1962. The Court ruled that such prayer was unconstitutional under the First Amendment, Roth attended Boston University, graduating in 1970 with a bachelors degree in communication. Over the course of his career, he has produced over 40 films, Roth, who was ranked 6th in Premiere Magazines 2003 Hollywood Power List, produced the 76th annual Academy Awards. Roth announced that in October 2007, when Revolutions distribution deal with Sony Pictures ends, Revolution Studios will close, on November 13,2007, Roth was introduced as the majority owner of a Seattle, Washington–based Major League Soccer franchise along with Paul Allen. Seattle Sounders FC—which calls CenturyLink Field home—began regular season play in 2009, on November 12,2015, Roth passed on majority ownership to Adrian Hanauer. He is married to Donna Arkoff whose father was movie producer Samuel Z. Arkoff and they reside in a mansion designed by architect Douglas Honnold for Irish production designer Cedric Gibbons and Mexican actress Dolores Del Rio in 1929 in Los Angeles, California. Joe Roth at the Internet Movie Database
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Chris Hemsworth
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Chris Hemsworth is an Australian actor. He is known for playing Kim Hyde in the Australian TV series Home and Away, the following year, Hemsworth had a supporting role in Sonys reboot of Ghostbusters. Hemsworth will reprise his role as George Kirk in the upcoming Star Trek sequel, Hemsworth was born in Melbourne, the son of Leonie, an English teacher, and Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counsellor. He is the middle of three boys, his brothers Luke and Liam are also actors and his maternal grandfather is a Dutch immigrant, and his other ancestry is English, Irish, Scottish, and German. He was raised both in Melbourne and in the Australian Outback in Bulman, Northern Territory and he has stated, My earliest memories were on the cattle stations up in the Outback, and then we moved back to Melbourne and then back out there and then back again. Certainly most of my childhood was in Melbourne but probably my most vivid memories were up there in Bulman with crocodiles and he attended high school at Heathmont College before his family again returned to the Northern Territory, and then moved a few years later to Phillip Island. In 2002, Hemsworth starred in two episodes of television series, Guinevere Jones as King Arthur. He also made an appearance in soap opera series Neighbours and one episode of Marshall Law, in 2004, Hemsworth auditioned for the Australian soap opera Home and Away role of Robbie Hunter, but did not receive the part. He was subsequently recalled for the part of Kim Hyde and moved to Sydney to join the cast and he left the cast of Home and Away on 3 July 2007. Hemsworth was a contestant on the season of Dancing with the Stars Australia. The season premiered on 26 September 2006, and after six weeks, in 2009, Hemsworth portrayed James T. Kirks father, George Kirk, in the opening scenes of J. J. Abrams film Star Trek. He played the character Kale in the thriller A Perfect Getaway the same year and he went on to play Sam in 2010s Ca$h, which was the first film he shot when he arrived in the United States. So I say, we need to get this guy in, in November 2010, The Hollywood Reporter named Hemsworth as one of the young male actors who are pushing – or being pushed onto the Hollywood A-List. Sony Pictures announced in 2011 that Hemsworth would star in the thriller Shadow Runner and he is best known for his role as the Marvel Comics superhero Thor in the 2011 Marvel Studios film Thor. He and castmate Tom Hiddleston, who ultimately played Loki, had auditioned for the role. Hemsworth reprised the role in the 2012 film The Avengers as one of the six superheroes sent to defend Earth from his adopted brother, Loki. He starred in the horror film The Cabin in the Woods and it led Hemsworth to audition for the role of Thor at Joss Whedons insistence. Also that year, Hemsworth starred opposite Kristen Stewart in the film Snow White and he also played Jed Eckert in the 2012 Red Dawn remake, a role he was cast in after MGM saw dailies footage of a scene from Cabin in the Woods
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Charlize Theron
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Charlize Theron is a South African and American actress and film producer. Theron became a U. S. citizen in 2007, while retaining her South African citizenship, in the late 2000s, she moved into the field of producing, both in television and film. In 2006, she produced the documentary East of Havana and she had producing credits on the films The Burning Plain and Dark Places, both of which she starred in. In 2012, she played Queen Ravenna in Snow White and the Huntsman and Meredith Vickers in Prometheus and she reprised her role of Queen Ravenna in the 2016 follow-up film The Huntsman, Winters War. In 2016, Time Magazine named her in the annual Time 100 most influential people list, Theron was born in Benoni, in the then-Transvaal Province of South Africa, the only child of Gerda Jacoba Aletta and Charles Jacobus Theron. Second Boer War figure Danie Theron was her great-great-uncle and she is from an Afrikaner family, and her ancestry includes Dutch, as well as French and German, her French forebears were early Huguenot settlers in South Africa. Theron is an Occitan surname pronounced in Afrikaans as and she grew up on her parents farm in Benoni, near Johannesburg. On 21 June 1991, Therons father, an alcoholic, physically attacked her mother, the shooting was legally adjudged to have been self-defence, and so her mother faced no charges. Theron attended Putfontein Primary School, a period during which she has said she was not fitting in, at thirteen, Theron was sent to boarding school and began her studies at the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg. Although Theron is fluent in English, her first language is Afrikaans, although seeing herself as a dancer, Theron at 16 won a one-year modelling contract at a local competition in Salerno and with her mother moved to Milan, Italy. After Theron spent a year modelling throughout Europe, she and her mother moved to the US, in New York, she attended the Joffrey Ballet School, where she trained as a ballet dancer until a knee injury closed this career path. As Theron recalled in 2008, I went to New York for three days to model, and then I spent a winter in New York in a windowless basement apartment. I was broke, I was taking class at the Joffrey Ballet, I realized I couldnt dance anymore, and I went into a major depression. My mom came over from South Africa and said, Either you figure out what to do next or you come home, at 19, Theron flew to Los Angeles, on a one-way ticket her mother bought for her, intending to work in the film industry. During the initial months there, she went to a Hollywood Boulevard bank to cash a cheque her mother had sent to help with the rent, when the teller refused to cash it, Theron engaged in a shouting match with him. Upon seeing this, talent agent John Crosby, waiting behind her, handed her his business card and subsequently introduced her to casting agents and she later fired him as her manager after he kept sending her scripts for films similar to Showgirls and Species. After several months in the city, she made her debut with a non-speaking role in the horror film Children of the Corn III. Her first speaking role was a supporting but significant and attention-garnering part as a hitwoman in 2 Days in the Valley
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Nick Frost
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Nicholas John Nick Frost is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and author. He is best known for his work in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy of films, consisting of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The Worlds End, and he also appeared in Joe Cornishs film Attack the Block. He co-starred in the 2011 film Paul, which he co-wrote with frequent collaborator and he is also well known for his various roles in the sketch show Man Stroke Woman. Frost was born in Dagenham, Essex, the son of Tricia and John Frost, when he was ten, his sister died of an asthma attack aged 18. He attended Beal High School in Ilford, when Frost was 15 his parents business failed and they lost the family home. They moved in with neighbours where he witnessed his mother having a stroke due to the stress, Frost left school and took a job with a shipping company to support the family. He subsequently spent two years at a kibbutz in Israel and he met actor Simon Pegg while working as a waiter at a North London Mexican restaurant and the two became close friends and flatmates. Pegg and Jessica Hynes wrote a role for Frost in the cult comedy series Spaced that was partly based on Pegg. In 2001, Frost played a role in a one-off episode of Victoria Woods Acorn Antiques. In 2002, Frost wrote and presented the show Danger, a spoof of the outdoors survival genre in which SAS experts or the like demonstrated how to improvise solutions to dangerous problems. In the same year, Frost co-wrote and starred in The Sofa of Time with Matt King, in 2004, he appeared in Shaun of the Dead, a romantic zombie comedy, written by Simon Pegg and Spaced director Edgar Wright. In late 2005, Frost starred in the sketch show Man Stroke Woman on BBC Three. A second series of Man Stroke Woman aired on BBC Three in early 2007, in early 2006, Frost played Commander Henderson in two series of the BBC Two science fiction sitcom, Hyperdrive. Also in 2006, he acted in Kinky Boots, Frost had a small appearance in the British comedy Look Around You, a parody of 1970s/1980s technology parodying the format of shows like Tomorrows World. Frost and Pegg appeared in a second Pegg-Wright feature film called Hot Fuzz, Frost plays bumbling Constable Danny Butterman, who partners up with Peggs dynamic Nicholas Angel after the latter is transferred from the Metropolitan Police in London. The pair teamed up again for their self-penned 2011 science-fiction comedy film Paul, the two also starred in Steven Spielbergs The Adventures of Tintin, Secret of the Unicorn as Thomson and Thompson. Frost narrates the Channel 4 reality show Supernanny and he has made fleeting appearances in the Channel 4 surreal medical comedy series Green Wing as just a man in pub scenes. In 2013, Frost played the role of Andy Knightley in the third Pegg-Wright feature film called The Worlds End, in 2014, he played the eponymous character in the Sky Atlantic comedy, Mr. Sloane
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Sam Claflin
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Samuel George Sam Claflin is an English actor. He is known for portraying Finnick Odair in the The Hunger Games film series, Philip Swift in Pirates of the Caribbean, On Stranger Tides and Will Traynor in Me Before You. Sam Claflin was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, the third of four sons of Mark, an officer, and Sue Claflin. He has two brothers, Benjamin and Daniel, and a younger brother, Joseph, who is also an actor. He grew up in Norwich, Norfolk, as a child, he had an interest in football. He played throughout his childhood until he broke his ankle, an injury that he felt would prevent him from playing professionally, after some persuasion from his parents and a teacher with whom hed made an impression during his high school play at Costessey High School, he pursued acting. He was a member of the Norwich City School of Excellence, in 2003, he took up Performing Arts at Norwich City College, before going on to attend the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, from which he graduated in 2009. Claflin made his debut in 2010, when he appeared on the television miniseries The Pillars of the Earth as Richard. In March 2011, he was cast as Thomas in The Seventh Son, a adaptation of The Spooks Apprentice. For the film, he received a nomination in the 17th Empire Awards for Best Male Newcomer, in 2012, he appeared as Jack in the 6-episode series White Heat. Later that year, he played a role in the 2012 film Snow White. He received a nomination in the 2012 Teen Choice Awards for the category Best Movie Breakout, also in 2012, he was cast in the lead role in Hammer Films The Quiet Ones, which was filmed in mid-2013 and was released in April 2014. On 22 August 2012, Lionsgate announced that Claflin had been cast as Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games film series, starting with The Hunger Games, director of Catching Fire, Francis Lawrence, stated of Claflins performance during filming, Finnicks an interesting character. At first he feels like a bit of a flirt and theres a bit of sexual tension. Its one of the reasons I really hired him in the first place was that its where his character goes in the couple of stories. The film was released in November 2013 to general acclaim and Claflins portrayal of Finnick received positive reviews, Claflin reprised the role in The Hunger Games, Mockingjay – Part 1, released in November 2014, and Part 2, released in November 2015. In February 2013, it was announced that Claflin was cast as Alex in the adaptation of Cecelia Aherns novel Where Rainbows End, distributed as Love. The following month, he starred in the TV film Mary and Martha as Ben, in 2016, Claflin reprised his role as William, Snow Whites childhood friend, in several scenes of the sequel The Huntsman, Winters War
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Rob Brydon
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Robert Brydon Jones, MBE, known professionally as Rob Brydon, is a Welsh actor, comedian, radio and television presenter, singer and impressionist. Since 2009, Brydon has presented the BBC One comedy panel show Would I Lie to You and he played himself in Rob Brydons Annually Retentive, a satirical series about a fictional panel show, which ran on BBC Three from 2006 until 2007. Between 2010 and 2012, Brydon presented his own BBC Two late-night chat show called The Rob Brydon Show, since April 2014, Brydon has hosted the Saturday-night game show The Guess List for BBC One. Robert Brydon Jones was born on 3 May 1965 in Baglan, Port Talbot and his mother, Joy Jones, was a school teacher, and his father, Howard Jones, was a car dealer. He grew up in Baglan, with his younger brother Peter, Brydon was educated at two independent schools, St. Johns School in Porthcawl, which Eddie Izzard also attended, and Dumbarton House School in Swansea until the age of 14. This was followed by Porthcawl Comprehensive School, where he met Ruth Jones, while at Dumbarton, he once stole the lunch money of fellow pupil Catherine Zeta-Jones. Brydon has said that his childhood influences in comedy were Barry Humphries, Frankie Howerd. He has also said that he used to memorise entire sketches by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Brydon attended the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff. He left after a year, to join Radio Wales at the age of 20 and his early broadcasts included work as a disc jockey on BBC Radio Wales, when his Saturday morning shows included contributions from stand-up comedian Pete Park-Walker. Between 1992 and 1994, on Radio Wales he was the presenter of Rave, one of BBC Radio 5s youth magazine and music programmes. He developed his Marion and Geoff story from this, in 1994 and 1995 Brydon appeared in numerous episodes of the original Radio Wales version of the cult comedy Satellite City with Boyd Clack. Although he has stayed with radio as a performer on BBC Radio Five Lives The Treatment. He has stood in for Ken Bruce, one of the people whom he impersonates, on 1 April 2011 he appeared in Kens place on his show as an April Fools Day joke. Between September and October 2011, Brydon starred alongside Sir Kenneth Branagh in Francis Vebers play The Painkiller at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast and he will reprise his role with Branagh in March and April 2016 at the Garrick Theatre in Londons West End. Brydon was first known nationally as a voice artist and he provided several voices for the Discworld computer games and continuity announcements for BBC1. He voiced the character, Lewton, in the Discworld computer game Discworld Noir. For a brief period in the early 1990s Brydon was a presenter for the Home Shopping Network and he began to find small roles in several successful films and television series. In 2000 he made his mark in television comedy, with two series which he co-wrote and performed for the BBC, Human Remains, co-written by Julia Davis, since these series Brydon has developed a career path as a character actor, in both comedic and serious roles
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Jessica Chastain
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Jessica Michelle Chastain is an American actress and film producer. Born in a town near Sonoma, California, and raised in Sacramento. In 1998, she made her stage debut as Shakespeares Juliet. After studying acting at the Juilliard School, she was signed to a talent holding deal with the television producer John Wells and she was a recurring guest star in several television shows, including Law & Order, Trial by Jury. She also took on roles in the productions of Anton Chekhovs play The Cherry Orchard in 2004. Chastain made her debut in the drama Jolene, and gained wide recognition in 2011 for starring roles in half a dozen films, including the dramas Take Shelter. Her performance as a socialite in The Help earned her an Academy Award nomination. In 2012, she won a Golden Globe Award and received a second Oscar nomination for playing a CIA agent in the thriller Zero Dark Thirty, Chastain made her Broadway debut in a revival of The Heiress in the same year. Chastains accolades include two Academy Award and British Academy Film Award nominations and she is known to prepare extensively for her roles. Chastain is the founder of the production company Freckle Films, which was created to promote diversity in film and she is vocal about social issues such as gender and racial equality, and mental health. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012, Jessica Michelle Chastain was born on March 24,1977, in a small town near Sonoma, California. She is the daughter of Jerri Renee Hastey and her biological father is Michael Monasterio, a rock musician. Her parents were teenagers when she was born. Chastain is reluctant to discuss this aspect of her childhood. She has two sisters and two brothers and her sister Juliet committed suicide in 2003 following years of drug abuse. She was raised in Sacramento, California, by her mother and stepfather, Michael Hastey and she considers her stepfather to be one of the greatest people she knows, and has said that he was the first person to make her feel secure. She shares a bond with her maternal grandmother, Marilyn. As a student at the El Camino Fundamental High School in Sacramento and she was a loner and considered herself a misfit in school, eventually finding an outlet in the performing arts
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James Newton Howard
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James Newton Howard is an American composer, conductor, music producer and musician. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, Emmy Award, and eight Academy Award nominations. He has collaborated with directors M. Night Shyamalan, having scored nine of his films since The Sixth Sense, James Newton Howard was born in Los Angeles. He came from a family, his grandmother was the Pittsburgh Symphonys concertmaster. Howard began studying music as a child, taking piano lessons at the age of four. He went on to attend the Thacher School in Ojai, California, after Howard left college, he joined a short-lived rock band, then worked for a couple of years as a session musician with artists including Diana Ross, Ringo Starr, and Harry Nilsson. In the early 70s, he described himself as being dirt poor and he joined Eltons band and toured with them as keyboardist during the late 70s and early 80s. He was part of the band that played Central Park, New York, in 1982, Howard was featured on Toto IV as the strings conductor and orchestrator for I Wont Hold You Back, Afraid of Love, and Lovers in the Night. A year later, he released the live album James Newton Howard and Friends, which featured Totos David Paich, Steve Porcaro, Jeff Porcaro, in 1983, Howard was co-producer, musician, and orchestrator of Riccardo Cocciantes album Sincerità. After briefly touring with Crosby, Stills and Nash, he took an opportunity brought to him by his manager to write a score for a small-time movie. This career move would lead to his becoming a film music composer. He conducted both his own and Paul Buckmasters arrangements during the half of the set, which focused on orchestrated performances of selected songs from the Elton John catalog. When delving into his history, twenty-five years after the death of his father. He later became a practicing Reconstructionist Jew, Howard scored the surprise blockbuster romantic comedy Pretty Woman and received his first Academy Award nomination for his score for Barbra Streisands drama The Prince of Tides. Night Shyamalans The Village, and Michael Clayton, in addition, Howard scored the Western epic Wyatt Earp, Kevin Costners Waterworld, and Primal Fear. His collaborations on songs for One Fine Day and Junior garnered Oscar nominations for Best Song and he has also scored three Disney animated feature films, Dinosaur, Atlantis, The Lost Empire and Treasure Planet. On October 14,2005 Howard replaced Howard Shore as composer for King Kong, the resultant score earned Howard his first Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score. His work on Michael Clayton earned him an Oscar nomination and he followed in 2008 with his eighth Oscar nomination for Edward Zwicks Defiance
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Universal Pictures
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Universal Pictures is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. The company was founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley and its studios are located in Universal City, California, and its corporate offices are located in New York City. Universal Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America and is one of Hollywoods Big Six studios. Universal Studios was founded by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, one story has Laemmle watching a box office for hours, counting patrons and calculating the days takings. Within weeks of his Chicago trip, Laemmle gave up dry goods to buy the first several nickelodeons, for Laemmle and other such entrepreneurs, the creation in 1908 of the Edison-backed Motion Picture Trust meant that exhibitors were expected to pay fees for Trust-produced films they showed. Soon, Laemmle and other disgruntled nickelodeon owners decided to avoid paying Edison by producing their own pictures, in June 1909, Laemmle started the Yankee Film Company with partners Abe Stern and Julius Stern. Laemmle broke with Edisons custom of refusing to give billing and screen credits to performers, by naming the movie stars, he attracted many of the leading players of the time, contributing to the creation of the star system. In 1910, he promoted Florence Lawrence, formerly known as The Biograph Girl, the Universal Film Manufacturing Company was incorporated in New York on April 30,1912. Laemmle, who emerged as president in July 1912, was the figure in the partnership with Dintenfass, Baumann, Kessel, Powers, Swanson, Horsley. Eventually all would be out by Laemmle. Following the westward trend of the industry, by the end of 1912 the company was focusing its efforts in the Hollywood area. On March 15,1915, Laemmle opened the worlds largest motion picture production facility, Universal City Studios, studio management became the third facet of Universals operations, with the studio incorporated as a distinct subsidiary organization. Unlike other movie moguls, Laemmle opened his studio to tourists, Universal became the largest studio in Hollywood, and remained so for a decade. However, it sought an audience mostly in towns, producing mostly inexpensive melodramas, westerns. In its early years Universal released three brands of feature films — Red Feather, low-budget programmers, Bluebird, more ambitious productions, and Jewel, their prestige motion pictures. Directors included Jack Conway, John Ford, Rex Ingram, Robert Z. Leonard, George Marshall and Lois Weber, despite Laemmles role as an innovator, he was an extremely cautious studio chief. Unlike rivals Adolph Zukor, William Fox, and Marcus Loew and he also financed all of his own films, refusing to take on debt. Character actor Lon Chaney became a card for Universal in the 1920s
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Hamburg
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Hamburg, officially Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, is the second largest city in Germany and the eighth largest city in the European Union. It is the second smallest German state by area and its population is over 1.7 million people, and the wider Hamburg Metropolitan Region covers more than 5.1 million inhabitants. The city is situated on the river Elbe, the official long name reflects Hamburgs history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, a city-state, and one of the 16 states of Germany. Before the 1871 Unification of Germany, it was a sovereign state. Prior to the changes in 1919, the civic republic was ruled by a class of hereditary grand burghers or Hanseaten. Though repeatedly destroyed by the Great Fire of Hamburg, the floods and military conflicts including WW2 bombing raids, the city managed to recover and emerge wealthier after each catastrophe. On the river Elbe, Hamburg is a port and a global service, media, logistics and industrial hub, with headquarters and facilities of Airbus, Blohm + Voss, Aurubis, Beiersdorf. The radio and television broadcaster NDR, Europes largest printing and publishing firm Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg has been an important financial centre for centuries, and is the seat of Germanys oldest stock exchange and the worlds second oldest bank, Berenberg Bank. The city is a fast expanding tourist destination for domestic and international visitors. It ranked 16th in the world for livability in 2015, the ensemble Speicherstadt and Kontorhausviertel was declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO in 2015. Hamburg is a major European science, research and education hub with several universities and institutes and its creative industries and major cultural venues include the renowned Elbphilharmonie and Laeisz concert halls, various art venues, music producers and artists. It is regarded as a haven for artists, gave birth to movements like Hamburger Schule. Hamburg is also known for theatres and a variety of musical shows. St. Paulis Reeperbahn is among the best known European entertainment districts, Hamburg is on the southern point of the Jutland Peninsula, between Continental Europe to the south and Scandinavia to the north, with the North Sea to the west and the Baltic Sea to the north-east. It is on the River Elbe at its confluence with the Alster, the city centre is around the Binnenalster and Außenalster, both formed by damming the River Alster to create lakes. The island of Neuwerk and two neighbouring islands Scharhörn and Nigehörn, in the Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park, are also part of Hamburg. The neighbourhoods of Neuenfelde, Cranz, Francop and Finkenwerder are part of the Altes Land region, neugraben-Fischbek has Hamburgs highest elevation, the Hasselbrack at 116.2 metres AMSL. Hamburg has a climate, influenced by its proximity to the coast
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Fantasy film
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Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered a form of speculative fiction alongside science fiction films and horror films, Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary. Several sub-categories of fantasy films can be identified, although the delineations between these subgenres, much as in literature, are somewhat fluid. The most common fantasy subgenres depicted in movies are High Fantasy and Sword, both categories typically employ quasi-medieval settings, wizards, magical creatures and other elements commonly associated with fantasy stories. High Fantasy films tend to feature a more richly developed fantasy world, often, they feature a hero of humble origins and a clear distinction between good and evil set against each other in an epic struggle. Many scholars cite J. R. R, to some, the term Sword and Sandal has pejorative connotations, designating a film with a low-quality script, bad acting and poor production values. Another important subgenre of films that has become more popular in recent years is contemporary fantasy. Such films feature magical effects or supernatural occurrences happening in the world of today. Fantasy films set in the afterlife, called Bangsian Fantasy, are less common, other uncommon subgenres include Historical Fantasy and Romantic Fantasy, although 2003s Pirates of the Caribbean, The Curse of the Black Pearl successfully incorporated elements of both. As noted above, superhero movies and fairy tale films might each be considered subgenres of fantasy films, as a cinematic genre, fantasy has traditionally not been regarded as highly as the related genre of science fiction film. Since the late 1990s, however, the genre has gained new respectability in a way, tolkiens The Lord of the Rings and J. K. Jacksons The Lord of the Rings trilogy is due to its ambitious scope, serious tone. These pictures achieved phenomenal commercial and critical success, and the installment of the trilogy became the first fantasy film ever to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Harry Potter series has been a financial success, has achieved critical acclaim. Following the success of ventures, Hollywood studios have greenlighted additional big-budget productions in the genre. These have included adaptations of the first, second, and third books in C. S and this is in contrast to science fiction films, which are often released during the northern hemisphere summer. The huge commercial success of these pictures may indicate a change in Hollywoods approach to fantasy film releases. Fantasy films have a history almost as old as the medium itself, however, fantasy films were relatively few and far between until the 1980s, when high-tech filmmaking techniques and increased audience interest caused the genre to flourish
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Snow White and the Huntsman
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Snow White and the Huntsman is a 2012 American dark fantasy film based on the German fairy tale Snow White compiled by the Brothers Grimm. In the films retelling of the tale, Snow White grows up imprisoned by her stepmother, Queen Ravenna. After Snow White escapes into the forest, Ravenna tells Eric, after the Huntsman shifts his loyalty to Snow White, Ravenna disguises herself as William and tempts Snow White into eating a poisoned apple. The film is the debut of Rupert Sanders, and was written by Evan Daugherty, John Lee Hancock. The film received two Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects and Best Costume Design at the 85th Academy Awards and it was a success at the box office, earning $396.6 million worldwide against a $170 million budget. While admiring a rose blooming in the winter, Queen Eleanor of the kingdom of Tabor pricks her finger on one of its thorns, Queen Eleanor gives birth to her daughter Snow White, but soon after falls ill and dies. After her death, Snow Whites father, King Magnus, upon rescuing their prisoner Ravenna, he becomes enchanted with her beauty and marries her. Ravenna, is in fact a powerful sorceress and the Dark Armys master, on their wedding night, Magnus, enchanted, throws Ravenna into the bed and proceeds to make love. Ravenna confesses there was a king much like Magnus that spoiled her, during foreplay, she declares she cannot be a weak queen and kills Magnus. Queen Ravenna orders Finn to bring her Snow Whites heart, but she escapes into the Dark Forest, Queen Ravenna makes a bargain with Eric the Huntsman, a widower and drunkard, to capture Snow White, promising to bring his wife back to life in exchange. The Huntsman tracks down Snow White, but when Finn reveals that Queen Ravenna does not actually have the power to do what she promised, when the Huntsman catches up with her, she promises him gold if he will escort her to Duke Hammonds castle. Meanwhile, Finn gathers another band of men to find her, William leaves the castle on his own to find her, joining Finns band as a bowman. The Huntsman and Snow White leave the Dark Forest, where she saves his life by charming a huge troll that attacks them, while there, the Huntsman learns Snow Whites true identity, and initially leaves her in the care of the women. He soon returns when he sees the village being burned down by Finns men, Snow White and the Huntsman evade them and eventually meet a band of eight dwarves named Beith, Muir, Quert, Coll, Duir, Gort, Nion, and Gus. The blind Muir perceives that Snow White is the daughter of the king. The Huntsman battles Finn and eventually kills him, and William reveals himself, however, Gus is killed when he sacrifices himself to take an arrow meant for Snow White. William joins the group which continues the journey to Hammonds castle, halfway to Duke Hammonds castle, Queen Ravenna disguises herself as William and tempts Snow White into eating a poisoned apple, but is forced to flee when the Huntsman and William discover her. William kisses Snow White, whom he believes to be dead and she is taken to Hammonds castle
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Snow White
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Snow White is a fictional character and a main character from Walt Disney Productions first animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The character of Snow White was derived from a tale known from many countries in Europe. Snow White is the first Disney Princess and the first fictional character with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Snow White first appears in the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, after many years, the Queens Magic Mirror confirms Snow White as being the fairest of them all, which causes the Queen to cast Snow White out and send a huntsman to kill her. But when he refuses to do so because she means no harm, Snow White stumbles upon the home of the Seven Dwarfs, who happily aid her. When the dwarfs are away the hag arrives at the cottage and offers Snow White the poisoned apple. Snow White bites into the apple and falls into a coma, the dwarfs discovering what had happened track down the Queen, a short fight ensues and the Queen is killed. Believing her dead too, the build a open grave for Snow White to rest on. Time passes and the Prince comes across Snow White, saddened by her apparent death, he kisses her, causing her to awaken. As the Seven Dwarfs dance with joy, Snow White and the Prince go off to live together, Snow White is a princess, and the fairest in the land. She is described by her stepmothers Magic Mirror as having hair as black as ebony, lips as red as the rose and her voice is also the inspiration for that of Minerva Mink in Animaniacs. Along with yellow shoes, a red cape, and a red bow in her hair, Snow White is innocent, kind, gentle, sweet, and cheerful. Her generous, trusting and helpful nature can cause her trouble, as people might take advantage of it, such as her vain. Although she is sensitive and soft-spoken, she can be energetic and stern, Snow White is motherly, compassionate and delights in keeping house for the lovable Seven Dwarfs while she waits to meet her beloved prince again. With her kindness and ethereal beauty, Snow White charms every creature in the kingdom except the Queen and she also shows great resilience and an inner strength against adversity. Animators initial sketches for Snow Whites character, some of which bore a resemblance to Betty Boop, did not meet Walt Disneys expectations, as they were too cartoonish. This was a challenge Luske and co-animator Les Clark had previously asked to explore while developing the character of Persephone for the Silly Symphonies animated short The Goddess of Spring. Of that project, Les Clark later remarked, Im sure Walt was thinking ahead to Snow White, Snow White and the Queen were refined by Grim Natwick and Norm Ferguson, who would often override Walt Disneys instructions
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Brothers Grimm
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Their first collection of folk tales, Childrens and Household Tales, was published in 1812. The brothers spent their formative years in the German town of Hanau and their fathers death in 1796 caused great poverty for the family and affected the brothers for many years after. They both attended the University of Marburg where they developed a curiosity about German folklore, which grew into a dedication to collecting German folk tales. The rise of romanticism during the 19th century revived interest in folk stories. With the goal of researching a scholarly treatise on folk tales, between 1812 and 1857, their first collection was revised and republished many times, growing from 86 stories to more than 200. The popularity of the Grimms best folk tales has endured well, Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm was born on 4 January 1785 and his brother Wilhelm Carl Grimm on 24 February 1786. They were the second- and third-eldest surviving siblings in a family of nine children, in 1791, the family moved to the countryside town of Steinau, when Philipp was employed there as district magistrate. The family became prominent members of the community, residing in a home surrounded by fields. Biographer Jack Zipes writes that the brothers were happy in Steinau, the children were educated at home by private tutors, receiving strict instruction as Lutherans that instilled in both a lifelong religious faith. In 1796, Philipp Grimm died of pneumonia, plunging his family into poverty, Dorothea depended on financial support from her father and sister, first lady-in-waiting at the court of William I, Elector of Hesse. Jacob was the eldest living son, and he was forced at age 11 to assume adult responsibilities for the two years. The two boys adhered to the advice of their grandfather, who continually exhorted them to be industrious, the brothers left Steinau and their family in 1798 to attend the Friedrichsgymnasium in Kassel, which had been arranged and paid for by their aunt. By then, they were without a provider, forcing them to rely entirely on each other. The two brothers differed in temperament, Jacob was introspective and Wilhelm was outgoing, sharing a strong work ethic, they excelled in their studies. In Kassel, they became aware of their inferior social status relative to high-born students who received more attention. Still, each brother graduated at the head of his class, Jacob in 1803, after graduation from the Friedrichsgymnasium, the brothers attended the University of Marburg. The university was small with about 200 students and there they became aware that students of lower social status were not treated equally. They were disqualified from admission because of their standing and had to request dispensation to study law
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The Snow Queen
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The Snow Queen is an original fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The tale was first published 21 December 1844 in New Fairy Tales, the story centres on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by Gerda and her friend, Kai. The story is one of Andersens longest and most highly acclaimed stories and it is regularly included in selected tales and collections of his work and is frequently reprinted in illustrated storybook editions for children. The magic mirror fails to reflect the good and beautiful aspects of people and things, there was only one way to get it out. Years later, a little boy Kai and a little girl Gerda live next door to other in the garrets of buildings with adjoining roofs in a large city. One could get from ones home to the others just by stepping over the gutters of each building, the two families grow vegetables and roses in window boxes placed on the gutters. Gerda and Kai have a garden to play in, and they become devoted to each other as playmates. Kais grandmother tells the children about the Snow Queen, who is ruler over the snow bees — snowflakes that look like bees, as bees have a queen, so do the snow bees, and she is seen where the snowflakes cluster the most. Looking out of his window one winter, Kai sees the Snow Queen. Kai draws back in fear from the window, by the following spring, Gerda has learned a song that she sings to Kai, Roses flower in the vale, there we hear Child Jesus tale. Because roses adorn the window box garden, the sight of roses always reminds Gerda of her love for Kai, on a pleasant summer day, splinters of the troll-mirror get into Kais heart and eyes while he and Gerda are looking at a picture book in their window-box garden. He destroys their window-box garden, he makes fun of his grandmother, the only beautiful and perfect things to him now are the tiny snowflakes that he sees through a magnifying glass. Outside the city she reveals herself to Kai and kisses him twice, once to him from the cold, and a second time to make him forget about Gerda and his family. She takes Kai in her sleigh to her palace, the people of the city conclude that Kai died in the nearby river. Gerda, heartbroken, goes out to look for him and questions everyone and she offers her new red shoes to the river in exchange for Kai, by not taking the gift at first, the river lets her know that Kai did not drown. Gerda next visits an old sorceress with a garden of eternal summer. However, a later, whilst playing in the garden, Gerda sees a rose on the sorceresss hat, then remembers Kai. Gerdas warm tears raise one bush above the ground, and it tells her that it could see all the dead while it was under the earth, Gerda flees and meets a crow, who tells her that Kai is in the princesss palace
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Hans Christian Andersen
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Hans Christian Andersen (/ˈhɑːnz ˈkrɪstʃən ˈændərsən/, Danish, often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersens popularity is not limited to children, his stories, called eventyr in Danish, express themes that transcend age and nationality. Some of his most famous fairy tales include The Emperors New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, The Nightingale, The Snow Queen, The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina and his stories have inspired ballets, animated and live-action films and plays. Hans Christian Andersen was born in the town of Odense, Denmark, Andersens father, also Hans, considered himself related to nobility. His paternal grandmother had told his father that their family had in the past belonged to a social class. A persistent theory suggests that Andersen was a son of King Christian VIII. Andersens father, who had received an education, introduced Andersen to literature. Andersens mother, Anne Marie Andersdatter, was uneducated and worked as a washerwoman following his fathers death in 1816, she remarried in 1818. Andersen was sent to a school for poor children where he received a basic education and was forced to support himself, working as an apprentice for a weaver and, later. At 14, he moved to Copenhagen to seek employment as an actor, having an excellent soprano voice, he was accepted into the Royal Danish Theatre, but his voice soon changed. A colleague at the theatre told him that he considered Andersen a poet, taking the suggestion seriously, Andersen began to focus on writing. Jonas Collin, director of the Royal Danish Theatre, felt a great affection for Andersen and sent him to a school in Slagelse. Andersen had already published his first story, The Ghost at Palnatokes Grave, though not a keen pupil, he also attended school at Elsinore until 1827. He later said his years in school were the darkest and most bitter of his life, at one school, he lived at his schoolmasters home. There he was abused and was told that it was to improve his character and he later said the faculty had discouraged him from writing in general, causing him to enter a state of depression. A very early fairy tale by Andersen, called The Tallow Candle, was discovered in a Danish archive in October 2012, the story, written in the 1820s, was about a candle who did not feel appreciated. It was written while Andersen was still in school and dedicated to a benefactor, in 1829, Andersen enjoyed considerable success with the short story A Journey on Foot from Holmens Canal to the East Point of Amager. Its protagonist meets characters ranging from Saint Peter to a talking cat, Andersen followed this success with a theatrical piece, Love on St. Nicholas Church Tower, and a short volume of poems
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Queen (Snow White)
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Other versions of the Queen appear in Snow White derivative works, and the character has also become an archetype for unrelated works of fiction. The Queen is Snow Whites evil and vindictive stepmother who is obsessed with being the fairest in the land, the young princess Snow White makes her jealous, so the Queen concocts several plans to kill Snow White through the use of witchcraft. A driving force in the story is the Queens Magic Mirror, in the traditional resolution of the story, the Queen is grotesquely executed for her crimes. The tale is a lesson for young children warning against narcissism and she is often regarded as the most interesting character in Snow White and has been extensively analyzed and evaluated by literature scholars and psychologists. Various other versions of the Queen appear in subsequent adaptations and continuations of the fairy tale, including novels. In these, the Queen is often re-imagined and sometimes portrayed more sympathetically, such as being morally conflicted, or suffering from madness, in the revisionist stories, she can even become an antihero or a tragic hero. In some instances, she serves as the protagonist or narrator of the story, one particularly notable version is Disneys version. The Queen has also become an archetype that inspired several characters featured in the works that are not directly based on the original tale, the Queen is a very beautiful but proud and arrogant woman who is secretly dabbling in dark arts. When the Kings first wife, the Good Queen passes away, the Kings new and second wife is a very beautiful but a wicked and vain woman who becomes the new and second Queen, and Snow Whites stepmother. She owns a magic mirror, which one day informs her that her young stepdaughter, after deciding to eliminate Snow White, the Queen orders her huntsman to take the princess into the forest and kill her. The Queen tells him to bring back Snow Whites lungs and liver, however, the huntsman takes pity on Snow White, and instead, brings the Queen the lungs and liver of a boar. The Queen then eats what she believes are Snow Whites organs, while questioning her mirror, the Queen discovers that Snow White has survived. Intending to kill Snow White herself, she uses witchcraft to prepare poison and she visits the dwarfs house and sells Snow White laces for a corset that she laces too tight in an attempt to asphyxiate the girl. When that fails, the Queen returns, as a different old woman, when the comb fails to kill Snow White, the Queen again visits Snow White, this time disguised as a farmers wife, and gives Snow White a poisoned apple. Sara Maitland wrote that we do not tell this part of the story any more, we say it is too cruel, therefore, many revisions of the fairy tale often change the gruesome classic ending in order to make it seem less violent. In some versions, instead of dying, the Queen is even just merely prevented from committing further wrongdoings. Already the first English translation of the Grimms tale, written by Edgar Taylor in 1823, has the Queen choke on her own envy upon the sight of Snow White alive. The Queens origins can be traced to the character of Silver-Tree, according to Kenny Klein, the enchantress Ceridwen of the Welsh mythology was the quintissential evil stepmother, the origin of that character in the two tales of Snow White and Cinderella
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Magic Mirror (Snow White)
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The Magic Mirror is a mystical object that is featured in the story of Snow White. The Magic Mirror is owned by the Evil Queen and has been depicted in different versions as either a mirror or a mirror on the wall. Every morning, the Evil Queen asked the Magic Mirror the question Magic mirror in my hand, the mirror always replies, My Queen, you are the fairest in the land. The Queen is always pleased with that, because the magic mirror never lies, but Snow White is a thousand times more beautiful than you. This resulted in the Evil Queen enlisting a huntsman to kill Snow White and bring her Snow Whites lungs, the mirror replies, My Queen, you are the fairest here so true. But Snow White beyond the mountains at the seven Dwarfs is a thousand times more beautiful than you and this caused the Evil Queen to disguise herself as different women to kill Snow White. But the young Queen is a thousand times fairer than you, the Evil Queen learned too late at the wedding that the young queen in question was Snow White which eventually leads to the Queens death which varied per version. After the death of Maria Sophias birth mother in 1738, her father Philipp Christoph von und zu Erthal remarried, Claudia Elisabeth von Reichenstein, the stepmother, was domineering and greatly favored the children from her first marriage. The Queens iconic mirror, referred to as “The Talking Mirror, ” can still be viewed today at Spessart Museum in the Lohr Castle, the mirror was likely a gift from Philipp Christoph to Claudia Elisabeth. It was a product of the Lohr Mirror Manufacture, the mirror “talked” predominantly in aphorisms. The upper right corner of “The Talking Mirror” contains a reference to self-love. Moreover, mirrors from Lohr were so worked that they were accorded the reputation of “always speaking the truth”. They became a favorite gift at European crown and aristocratic courts, the Magic Mirror appeared in Disneys Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs voiced by Moroni Olsen. The Magic Mirror contained an imprisoned spirit who is referred to as the Slave in the Magic Mirror, in his first appearance in the film, the Evil Queen would consult with the Magic Mirror to ask who the fairest of one all was. The Magic Mirror always told the Evil Queen that she was the fairest one of all, when asked who the fairest of all is, the spirit replies that, while the Queen is beautiful, a fairer being exists. When the Queen angrily asks for the name, the spirit describes her. The Queen then orders her Huntsman to kill Snow White and bring her back her heart, when the Evil Queen asks the Magic Mirror who the fairest of them all was later that evening, the Magic Mirror told her that Snow White was the fairest of them all. The Magic Mirror appeared in Disneys House of Mouse voiced by Tony Jay and it was seen in the lobby of the club
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Seven Dwarfs
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The Seven Dwarfs are a group of seven dwarfs that appear in the fairy tale Snow White and others. The Seven Dwarfs are a group of seven dwarfs that live in a tiny cottage, Snow White happened upon their house after being told by the Huntsman to flee from the Queens kingdom. The Seven Dwarfs returned home and immediately noticed someone had sneaked in, during their loud discussion, they discovered the sleeping Snow White. She woke up and explained to them what happened and they warn her to be careful when alone at home, and to not let anyone in while they are delving in the mountains. When the Queen dresses as a seller and gives Snow White a poisoned comb. The Queen then appears disguised as a wife and gives Snow White a poisoned apple. This time, the Seven Dwarfs are unable to revive the girl, because they cant find the source of Snow Whites poor health and, assuming that she is dead, they place her in a glass coffin. After some time has passed, a Prince traveling through the land sees Snow White where he strides to her coffin, and instantly falls in love with her upon being enchanted by her beauty. The Seven Dwarfs let him take the coffin, and as his servants carry the coffin away, they stumble on some roots, the following is a list of names of the Seven Dwarfs from multiple versions of the Snow White story. There are many adaptations to the story of Snow White, including animation, film, books, plays and this is a listing of the Seven Dwarfs names based on release date. The original Snow White story, written by the Brothers Grimm, Snow White & the Huntsman and Once Upon a Time feature eight dwarfs, while the 1991 animated Snow White only featured six. The 7D Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy The 80s sitcom The Charmings contained one of the dwarfs, the T. V. series Once Upon a Time uses the same names as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. There is also an 8th dwarf called Stealthy, and a 9th honorary dwarf called Tiny, Tiny was actually a Giant in the series before being cursed by Cora at which time, he became human sized. Dopey - Dopey is the dwarf who does not have a beard. He is clumsy and mute, with Happy explaining that he has never tried to speak. He is like Gideon the Cat in Pinocchio and the character as the circus elephant Dumbo. Bashful - Bashful is very shy and sweet and he is also described as cute. He also has a rosy blushy face and a shy smile
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Goblin
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A goblin is a monstrous creature from European folklore, first attested in stories from the Middle Ages. They are ascribed various and conflicting abilities, temperaments and appearances depending on the story and country of origin and they are almost always small and grotesque, mischievous or outright evil, and greedy, especially for gold and jewelry. They often have magical abilities similar to a fairy or demon, similar creatures include brownies, dwarves, gnomes, imps, and kobolds. Alternative spellings include gobblin, gobeline, gobling, goblyn, and it may be related both to German kobold and to Medieval Latin cabalus, or *gobalus, itself from Greek κόβαλος, rogue, knave, imp, goblin. Moreover, these names are not from Normandy, where the word gobelin. German Kobold contains the Germanic root kov- which means originally a hollow in the earth, the word is probably related to Dial. Norman gobe hollow in a cliff, with simple suffix -lin or double suffixation -el-in The Welsh coblyn, a Pukwudgie is a type of Goblin from Wamponoag folklore as well as Cryptozoology A Redcap is a type of Goblin who dyes its hat in Human Blood in Anglo-Scottish border folklore. Kallikantzaros are Goblins from Southeastern European and Anatolian folklore, hobgoblins are Friendly Trickster Goblins from English, Scottish, and Pilgrim folklore and literature. The Benevolent Goblin, from Gesta Romanorum The Erlking is a malevolent goblin from German legend, the Goblin Pony, from The Grey Fairy Book The Goblins at the Bath House, from A Book of Ghosts and Goblins The Goblins Turned to Stone. King Gobb Mill Goblins appear in Norwegian folklore, Goblins are featured in the Hans Christian Andersen Fairy tales, The Elf Mound, The Goblin and the Grocer, and The Goblin and the Woman. Many Asian lagyt creatures have been likened to, or translated as and they are especially important mythical creatures in Korean folklore. They usually appear in childrens books, in Bangladesh, Santal people belief in Gudrobonga which is very similar to goblins. The Gap of Goeblin, a hole and underground tunnel in Mortain, cow is an old Scots word for Goblin, while cad means nasty. Dens and lairs refers to goblin homes, the Goblins, a comedy play by Sir John Suckling The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton is a short story by Charles Dickens where goblins torment a gravedigger for being cruel on Christmas. Goblin Market, a poem by Christina Rossetti The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald depicts the Goblins as grotesque humanoids, vulnerable to sunlight, song, and pressure on their feet. Davy and the Goblin by Charles E. Carryl J. R. R. Tolkien generally used the terms goblin and orc synonymously in The Hobbit and these works, featuring goblins of almost-human stature, generally informed the depiction of goblins in later fiction and games. Thompson adds that, in The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien has abandoned all pretence at depicting goblins in a comic light, Goblins are also present as the first tier creature in the Orc faction in Heroes of Might and Magic V, Tribes of the East. Goblins are recurring enemies in the Final Fantasy franchise, where they usually appear near the beginning of each game
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Sheridan Smith
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Sheridan Smith, OBE is an English actress, singer and dancer. Smith came to prominence on television for her roles in comedy shows Two Pints of Lager and she went on to star in television dramas like Mrs Biggs, The 7.39 and Cilla. Her film credits include Tower Block, Quartet, Powder Room, Smith made her West End debut in a National Youth Music Theatre production of Bugsy Malone and has performed in musicals Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, Legally Blonde and Funny Girl. In 2017, she was nominated for the Best Actress in a Musical award for her work in Funny Girl, Smith was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama. Smith was born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, the daughter of Colin and Marilyn Smith and she studied dance at the Joyce Mason School of Dancing from an early age. She later attended South Axholme Community School, where she received the highest possible grade in GCSE performing arts and she completed further education at John Leggott College in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. Her great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Doubleday, was a banjo player in Yorkshire. From 1999 to 2000, Smith played Emma in The Royle Family and she played Janet in the long-running series Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps from 2001 until her departure from the show in 2009. In February 2003, she appeared in Immediate Care, an episode of The Royal, where she played the part of Francesca Wheeler, a teenage girl who was suffering from leukemia. In 2004, she made a appearance in Mile High as Suzy. She also featured in The Comic Strips 2005 episode Sex Actually as Angie, Smith played Cleo Martin in Love Soup and starred as Michelle, a hypocritical nutritionist, in three series of the sitcom Grownups. She has also appeared on The Lenny Henry Show as M. E. Westmocott, in the 2009 Two Pints of Lager Comic Relief special, which crossed over with Grownups, she played her characters from both series. Smith has also appeared in a number of shows including the BBCs Eyes Down, in which she played Sandy. She featured as Rudi in the second and third series of the BBC Three sitcom Gavin & Stacey and she guest starred in the Christmas 2008 episode of Lark Rise to Candleford. Since 2009, she has played Joey Ross in special episodes of Jonathan Creek, namely The Grinning Man, The Judas Tree. She played Brandy in the series of Benidorm. During 2010, Smith acted as a mentor to the contestants of the BBC show Over the Rainbow, sky Arts Chekhov Comedy Shorts also featured Smith in 2010 when she starred as Natasha in The Proposal. She appeared in the 2011 film Hysteria, about the invention of the vibrator, for the factual hospital series Bizarre ER, she took over narration duties from Freema Agyeman
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Sophie Cookson
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Sophie Louise L Cookson is an English actress. She played Grace Mohune in the 2013 television film Moonfleet and Roxy in Kingsman and she is also co-starring in Lee Tamahoris historical film Emperor. Cookson was raised in Sussex and is a 2013 graduate of the Oxford School of Drama, sophie Cookson at the Internet Movie Database
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Colin Morgan
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Morgan made his West End theatre debut in 2007 to critical acclaim as the title character in DBC Pierres Vernon God Little. In addition to his role in the fantasy-adventure television programme Merlin, Morgan has appeared in The Catherine Tate Show, Doctor Who, Quirke, The Fall, Humans, and The Living. Film roles include Parked, Island, Testament of Youth, Legend, The Laughing King and he will be starring as the lead character Paul Ashton in Waiting for You, a British coming-of-age feature set in France and England. He will also play the role of Lord Alfred Bosie Douglas in the Oscar Wilde biopic The Happy Prince, next, he will be portraying the central role of the Irish revolutionary mastermind Seán Mac Diarmada in the Easter Rising centenary commemoration film The Rising. In the same year, Morgan won Broadway World West End Awards Best Featured Actor in a New Production of a Play for his performance as Ariel in The Tempest. In July 2008, Screen International named Morgan as a Star of Tomorrow, in October 2013, he was ranked in the No.1 spot in BuzzFeeds The 17 Rising British Actors Most Likely To Do A Cumberbatch. In August 2015, Indiewires entertainment blog The Playlist included him in their list On The Rise 2015,20 Actors To Watch, Morgan was born in Armagh, Northern Ireland, the son of Bernard, a painter and decorator, and Bernadette, a nurse. He is the younger of two brothers, he and his brother Neil were raised Roman Catholic and his childhood was spent in the long shadow of The Troubles. Fortunately, Morgan has said he found a way to get involved in drama in any way I could, I joined the local amateur dramatic society, and I still have such fond memories of those times. He really believed in me and really fueled my passion, and that’s all it takes sometimes, I think, just one person to believe in you. McGee gave Morgan the encouragement he needed to attempt a career as a professional actor, in 1997, at the age of eleven, Morgan began studies at Integrated College Dungannon, winning the Denis Rooney Associates Cup for best overall student in Year 10. Morgan starred in college productions including the renowned Surgical Sensations at St. Senapods. The winner was to receive a contract and also represent Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest. He didnt make it, but was quoted as saying, Its not the end of the world, im going to try and make it on stage one day. For two years, Morgan commuted several hours every day between Armagh and Belfast because the latter was the closest city that had a college that offered drama as a subject. He was awarded a National Diploma in Performing Arts from the Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education in 2004. After winning a spot at the prestigious Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, Morgans performance was critically acclaimed and used as assessment for his final grade. In November 2010, the Belfast Metropolitan College honoured Morgan with an Award of Distinction for his contribution to the Arts
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Kristen Stewart
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Kristen Jaymes Stewart is an American actress and model. Born in Los Angeles to parents working in business, Stewart began her acting career in 1997 with uncredited roles. She gained notice in 2002 for playing Jodie Fosters daughter in the thriller Panic Room and she went on to star in Speak, Catch That Kid, Zathura, and Into The Wild, for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She received widespread recognition in 2008 for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga film series, Stewart has appeared in a wide variety of films, including Adventureland, The Runaways, Snow White and the Huntsman, On the Road, Camp X-Ray, Still Alice and Equals. She won the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2010 and was awarded the Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Actress in 2011 for Welcome to the Rileys. She starred in Personal Shopper, written for her by director Olivier Assayras, Stewart was listed as the highest-earning female actress in the Vanity Fair Hollywood Top Earners List of 2010, with an estimated earning of $28.5 million. In 2011, she was named number one on Forbes list of Hollywoods Best Actors for the Buck, Forbes also named her as the highest paid actress in 2012, with total earnings of $34.5 million. She is the face of Chanel and Balenciaga fashion brands, Stewart was born and raised in Los Angeles. Both of her parents work in the entertainment industry and her father, John Stewart, is a stage manager and television producer who has worked for Fox and currently works on Comedy Central show @midnight. Her mother, Jules Mann-Stewart, is originally from Maroochydore, Queensland and she is a script supervisor and has also directed a film, the 2012 prison drama K-11. She has a brother, Cameron B. Stewart, and two adopted brothers, Dana and Taylor, Stewart attended local schools until the seventh grade. As she became involved in acting, she continued her education by correspondence until completing high school. As she grew up with a family who worked behind the camera, Stewart thought she would become a screenwriter/director and she recalled, I never wanted to be the center of attention — I wasnt that I want to be famous, I want to be an actor kid. I never sought out acting, but I always practiced my autograph because I love pens, Id write my name on everything. She began acting at 8, after an agent saw her perform in her elementary schools Christmas play, after auditioning for a year, Stewart gained her first role with a small, nonspeaking part in the Disney Channel TV-movie The Thirteenth Year. Her next film was The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, where she played the ring toss girl and she also appeared in the independent film The Safety of Objects, as the tomboy daughter of a troubled single mother. Stewart also played a tomboy, diabetic daughter of a mother in the film Panic Room
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Liam Neeson
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Liam John Neeson, OBE, is an actor from Northern Ireland. In 1976, he joined the Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast for two years and he then acted in the Arthurian film, Excalibur. Between 1982 and 1987, Neeson starred in five films, most notably alongside Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in The Bounty and Robert De Niro and he landed a leading role alongside Patrick Swayze in Next of Kin. He rose to prominence when he starred in the role in Steven Spielbergs 1993 Oscar winner Schindlers List. Empire magazine ranked Neeson among both the 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History and The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time. Neeson was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, the son of Katherine Kitty Neeson, a cook, and Bernard Barney Neeson and he was raised as a Roman Catholic and was named Liam after the local priest. He said growing up as a Catholic in a predominately Protestant town made him cautious, the third of four siblings, he has three sisters, Elizabeth, Bernadette and Rosaleen. At age nine, Neeson began boxing lessons at the All Saints Youth Club, Neeson first stepped on stage at age 11 after his English teacher offered him the lead role in a school play, which he accepted because the girl he was attracted to was starring in it. He continued to act in school productions over the following years, Neesons interest in acting and decision to become an actor was also influenced by minister Ian Paisley, into whose Free Presbyterian church Neeson would sneak. Neeson has said of Paisley, He had a magnificent presence and it was acting, but it was also great acting and stirring too. In 1971, Neeson was enrolled as a physics and computer science student at Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, at Queens, he discovered a talent for football and was spotted by Seán Thomas at Bohemian F. C. There was a trial in Dublin and Neeson played one game as a substitute against Shamrock Rovers F. C. After leaving the university, Neeson returned to Ballymena where he worked in a variety of casual jobs and he also attended teacher training college for two years in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, before again returning to his hometown. In 1976, Neeson joined the Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast where he performed for two years and he got his first film experience in 1977, playing Jesus Christ and Evangelist in the religious film Pilgrims Progress. Neeson moved to Dublin in 1978 after he was offered a part in Ron Hutchinsons Says I, Says He and he acted in several other Project productions and joined the Abbey Theatre. In 1980, filmmaker John Boorman saw him on stage as Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men and offered him the role of Sir Gawain in the Arthurian film, Excalibur. After Excalibur, Neeson moved to London, where he continued working on stage, in small budget films and he lived with the actress Helen Mirren at this time, whom he met working on Excalibur. Between 1982 and 1987, Neeson starred in five films, most notably alongside Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in 1984s The Bounty and Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons in 1986s The Mission
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Rupert Sanders
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Rupert Miles Sanders is an English film director. Sanders was born in Westminster, London, the eldest son of Thalia, Sanders has directed numerous television advertisements, including one for Halo 3, ODST, which won him two Golden Lions at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. Sanders first feature film was Snow White and the Huntsman, which was released in the US in early June 2012, the films budget was $170 million, including an eight-figure marketing expenditure, and it earned $20.3 million on its opening day in the US. To date, the film has grossed $396,592,829 at the box office and he also directed a film adaptation of science fiction manga franchise Ghost in the Shell, with Avi Arad and Steven Paul producing and Scarlett Johansson starring in the main role. Sanders married model and fellow Brit Liberty Ross, sister of Oscar-winning composer Atticus Ross and they moved to Los Angeles to further Sanders career. Together they have two children, daughter Skyla and son Tennyson, in July 2012, Us Weekly published photos of Sanders cheating on Ross with actress Kristen Stewart, prompting Sanders and Stewart to issue separate public apologies. Ross subsequently filed for divorce from Sanders in January 2013, seeking joint custody, spousal support, the divorce was finalized on 30 May 2014. Snow White and the Huntsman - Director Ghost in the Shell - Director Rupert Sanders at the Internet Movie Database
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Frank Darabont
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Frank Árpád Darabont is a French-Hungarian-American film director, screenwriter and producer who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In his early career he was primarily a screenwriter for films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Dream Warriors, The Blob. As a director he is known for his adaptations of Stephen King novels such as The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile. Darabont also developed and executive produced the first season and part of the season of the AMC horror series The Walking Dead. Darabont was born in a camp in 1959 in Montbéliard, Doubs. His parents fled Hungary after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, when he was still an infant, his family moved to the United States, settling in Chicago. When Darabont was five the family moved to Los Angeles, Darabont was inspired to pursue a career in film after seeing the George Lucas film THX1138 in his youth. Darabont graduated from Hollywood High School in 1977 and did not attend college and his first job after finishing school was working at the famed Hollywood Egyptian Theater at the concession stand and as a seat finder, watching movies for free. He claims he got his skills from endless hours of writing at a desk on a typewriter in his free time. Darabont became involved in filmmaking by becoming an assistant on such films as Hell Night, The Seduction. Darabont sold his first screenplay titled Black Cat Run in 1986, the two were only given two weeks to rewrite the script and managed to do it in ten days. The success of their A Nightmare on Elm Street film allowed them to produce the first script they had originally written, The Blob. Darabont was now a writer for hire and went on to write The Fly II, an early draft of The Rocketeer. Darabont made his debut with Buried Alive, a television movie with a $2,000,000 budget that aired on the USA Network in 1990. Darabont followed with a run as writer for George Lucass television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Darabont made good on the deal with Stephen King by writing and directing The Shawshank Redemption, rob Reiner, who had previously adapted another King novella, The Body, into the movie Stand by Me offered Darabont $2.5 million in an attempt to write and direct Shawshank. He planned to cast Tom Cruise in the part of Andy, Darabont seriously considered and liked Reiners vision, but he ultimately decided it was his chance to do something really great by directing the film himself. The film gained traction after its Academy Award nominations, becoming the most rented film of 1995 and it has been voted number one on IMDbs user-generated Top 250 since 2008
