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Michael Slovis
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Michael Slovis is an American cinematographer and television director. Known for his work as a director on Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Slovis began his professional career in 1981. For many years, he worked as an operator on films. He became a cinematographer in 1995, working on the films Party Girl, Half Past Dead, Halloweentown, The Thirteenth Year, as a director, Slovis made his directorial debut with the 2001 television film Spirit. In 2014, he directed the first two episodes of the season of the HBO series Game of Thrones. Slovis currently resides in Montclair, New Jersey with his wife Maria and he is an alumnus of New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts. and also holds a BFA in Professional Photographic Illustration from Rochester Institute of Technology. Michael Slovis at the Internet Movie Database
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Disney Channel
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Disney Channels programming consists of original first-run television series, theatrically-released and original made-for-cable movies and select other third-party programming. Disney Channel – which formerly operated as a premium service – originally marketed its programs towards families during the 1980s, most of Disney Channels original programming is aimed at kids ages 9–16, while its Disney Junior programs are targeted at children 8 years and under. As of January 2016, Disney Channel is available to approximately 93.9 million pay television households in the United States. The Disney Sunday Movie, a version of the Walt Disney anthology television series, began on the channel in 1986 concurrent with ABCs version until 1988 and NBCs The Magical World of Disney. Disney Channel Original Movies series of made for television movies started on August 23,1997 with Northern Lights supplanting the previous Disney Channel Premiere Films banner.2 million viewers. The Cheetah Girls films were also successful in terms of merchiandise. The first film in 2003 was the first made-for-TV movie musical in Disney Channels history, and had a worldwide audience of over 84 million viewers. The second movie was the most successful of the series, bringing in 8.1 million viewers in the U. S. Disney Junior – Disney Junior is a block that features shows targeted at children aged 3–9. Which debuted on February 14,2011, it airs Monday through Fridays from 8,00 a. m. –2,00 p. m. and weekends from 6,00 to 9,00 a. m. Disney Junior carries one of the few programs on Disney Channel that feature classic Disney characters as of 2013, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Other programs currently seen in this block include Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Sheriff Callies Wild West, Sofia the First, Miles from Tomorrowland, The Lion Guard and Doc McStuffins. C. Saturdays from 8, 00-11,00 p. m. and Sundays from 7, Saturday nights feature repeats of recent episodes of the channels original series or an occasional film telecast. Encores of the respective nights programs typically air between 11,00 p. m. and 2,30 a. m, Eastern/Pacific each night during that weekend. Out of This World Weekend – a weekend of shows having space themed episodes, Weekend – a weekend of shows having mystery themed episodes. This was the first special weekend, Summer Adventure Weekend – a weekend of shows with vacation themed episodes. Flash Forward Weekend – a weekend of shows related to time travel, freaky Freakend – a weekend of shows featuring paranormal themed episodes. April Fuel Week – a week of shows featuring special episodes, Weekend – a weekend of shows featuring guest stars from other Disney Channel shows, occurs mostly in April. Programming seen during Disney Nighttime included older feature films, along with original concert specials, variety specials, mystery Night – ran each Tuesday evening starting at 9,00 p. m. Eastern/Pacific from 1990 to 1993, focused on mystery films from the 1930s to the 1960s
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Little Giants
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Little Giants is a 1994 American family sports comedy film, starring Rick Moranis and Ed ONeill as brothers in a small Ohio town, coaching rival Pee-Wee Football teams. Danny OShea has always lived in the shadow of his brother, Kevin, a Heisman Trophy winner. They live in their hometown of Urbania, Ohio, Kevin coaches the local Pee-Wee Cowboys football team. Despite being the best player, Dannys tomboy daughter, Becky, also cut are her less-talented friends, Rashid Hanon, Tad Simpson, and Rudy Zolteck. After being ridiculed by the players who made the team. At first, Danny is reluctant to do so, but later accepts in an attempt to show Urbania that Kevin is not invincible, and that there is another OShea in town capable of winning. Kevin mockingly reminds him of the one town, one rule and with the help of the locals. Among Becky, Hanon, Tad, Rudy, and Nubie, Danny also gathers other children that have never given a chance. One such player is Junior Floyd, a quarterback who turns out to be the son of Dannys childhood crush. Becky slowly develops a crush on him and struggles with her feelings as a girl. Two old-timers, Orville and Wilbur, encourage the rivalry between Danny and Kevin by reporting to them that a new player, Spike Hammersmith, has just moved to Urbania. The deception is discovered and he switches over to Kevins more well-structured team. Kevin also encourages his daughter, Debbie, to be a cheerleader and later convinces Becky that a quarterback will want to date a cheerleader, realizing it is her best chance to win over Junior, she decides to quit the team and pursue cheerleading. Just as Dannys team start to lose hope, a bus arrives carrying NFL stars John Madden, Emmitt Smith, Bruce Smith, Tim Brown and they teach and inspire the young players into believing they can win. On the day of the game, Kevin chastises Danny into making an impulsive bet, if Danny wins, he gets Kevins Chevrolet dealership, if Kevin wins, he gets Dannys gas station. With this, they begin to make a big comeback with a series of outstanding, witnessing from the sidelines, an enraged Becky drops her pompoms and suits up for the game. She immediately makes an impact when she forces a fumble after a hit on Spike. In the games closing seconds with the tied at 21 all
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Halloweentown (film)
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Halloweentown is a 1998 Disney Channel Original Movie directed by Duwayne Dunham. It is the first installment in the Halloweentown series, and stars Kimberly J. Brown, Debbie Reynolds and her mom offers no clear explanation. Gwens mother Aggie, who is a witch, shows up for her annual Halloween visit. The children are happier to see Aggie than Gwen is, as Aggie openly encourages the children to get involved in Halloween. Unknown to Marnie, Aggie is intent on training Marnie as a witch, before heading home, Aggie reads the children a bedtime story called Halloweentown, a mystical place where witches, vampires and monsters of all sorts live in peace. Sophie points out a drawing of a witch in the book that resembles Marnie, Aggie does nothing to stop Marnie from imagining such a thing, Gwen and Aggie then get into an argument. Gwen insists Marnie will be raised as a person and not a witch. Aggie says she disagrees, but actually she is there for another reason, Gwen thinks they just moved, but Aggie says it is not that simple. Aggie desperately asks for Gwens help, but Gwen declines, when Aggie leaves to return home, Marnie and Dylan follow her. They see Aggie getting onto a bus, and sneak onto it through the back door. When they arrive in Halloweentown, Aggie does not see Marnie and Dylan getting off the bus, at the same time, Marnie and Dylan realize Sophie snuck onto the bus. They begin looking for Aggie, and are approached by Kalabar and he whistles for a cab which is driven by Benny, a skeleton with a bad sense of humor. The children find their grandmothers home, and against her better judgment and she says she will start Marnies witch training, but has to take care of the bad thing first. She shows her grandchildren what she is talking about, in her cauldron and she says she must activate Merlins talisman with a spell and potion to defeat the demon. In town, the family is introduced to Luke, a goblin who was made handsome by a shadow demon and he makes a clumsy pass at Marnie, which she turns down on the spot. Gwen arrives in Halloweentown with plans to bring her children home, Gwen cannot find another bus back to the mortal world and decides to see if the mayor can do anything to help. She is shocked to see that the mayor is Kalabar, an ex-boyfriend of hers, Kalabar briefly leaves to handle another problem, Gwen and her children see Aggie walking somewhere with Luke. Sensing Aggie might be in trouble, they follow Aggie and Luke to a movie theater
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Mermaid
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A mermaid is a legendary aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of cultures worldwide, including the Near East, Europe, Africa. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria, in which the goddess Atargatis transformed herself into an out of shame for accidentally killing her human lover. Mermaids are sometimes associated with events such as floods, storms, shipwrecks. In other folk traditions, they can be benevolent or beneficent, the male equivalent of the mermaid is the merman, also a familiar figure in folklore and heraldry. Although traditions about and sightings of mermen are less common than those of mermaids, some of the attributes of mermaids may have been influenced by the Sirens of Greek mythology. Historical accounts of mermaids, such as reported by Christopher Columbus during his exploration of the Caribbean, may have been inspired by manatees. While there is no evidence that mermaids exist outside of folklore, reports of mermaid sightings continue to the present day, including 21st century examples from Israel and Zimbabwe. Mermaids have been a subject of art and literature in recent centuries. They have subsequently been depicted in operas, paintings, books, films, the word mermaid is a compound of the Old English mere, and maid. The equivalent term in Old English was merewif and they are conventionally depicted as beautiful with long flowing hair. Sirenia is an order of aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit rivers, estuaries, coastal marine waters, swamps. They look ponderous and clumsy but are actually fusiform, hydrodynamic and highly muscular, sirenomelia, also called mermaid syndrome, is a rare congenital disorder in which a child is born with his or her legs fused together and small genitalia. This condition is about as rare as conjoined twins, affecting one out of every 100,000 live births and is fatal within a day or two of birth because of kidney and bladder complications. Four survivors were known as of July 2003, many folklorists and mythographers deem that the origin of the mythic mermaid is the dugong, posing a theory that mythicised tales have been constructed around early sightings of dugongs by sailors. The first known mermaid stories appeared in Assyria c.1000 BC, the goddess Atargatis, mother of Assyrian queen Semiramis, loved a mortal and unintentionally killed him. Ashamed, she jumped into a lake and took the form of a fish, the Greeks recognized Atargatis under the name Derketo. Sometime before 546 BC, Milesian philosopher Anaximander postulated that mankind had sprung from an animal species
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Spider-Man
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Spider-Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko, when Spider-Man first appeared in the early 1960s, teenagers in superhero comic books were usually relegated to the role of sidekick to the protagonist. Marvel has featured Spider-Man in several book series, the first. In the 2010s, he joins the Avengers, Marvels flagship superhero team, Spider-Mans nemesis Doctor Octopus also took on the identity for a story arc spanning 2012–2014, following a body swap plot in which Peter appears to die. Spider-Man is one of the most popular and commercially successful superheroes, the character was first portrayed in live action by Nicholas Hammond in the 1977 television movie Spider-Man. Reeve Carney starred as Spider-Man in the 2010 Broadway musical Spider-Man, in 1962, with the success of the Fantastic Four, Marvel Comics editor and head writer Stan Lee was casting about for a new superhero idea. He said the idea for Spider-Man arose from a surge in demand for comic books. At that time Lee had to get only the consent of Marvel publisher Martin Goodman for the characters approval, in a 1986 interview, Lee described in detail his arguments to overcome Goodmans objections. In particular, Lee stated that the fact that it had already decided that Amazing Fantasy would be cancelled after issue #15 was the only reason Goodman allowed him to use Spider-Man. While this was indeed the issue, its editorial page anticipated the comic continuing. Will appear every month in Amazing, regardless, Lee received Goodmans approval for the name Spider-Man and the ordinary teen concept, and approached artist Jack Kirby. Lee and Kirby immediately sat down for a conference, Theakston writes. Steve Ditko would be the inker, when Kirby showed Lee the first six pages, Lee recalled, I hated the way he was doing it. Not that he did it badly—it just wasnt the character I wanted, Lee turned to Ditko, who developed a visual style Lee found satisfactory. Ditko recalled, One of the first things I did was to work up a costume, a vital, visual part of the character. I had to know how he looked, for example, A clinging power so he wouldnt have hard shoes or boots, a hidden wrist-shooter versus a web gun and holster, etc. I wasnt sure Stan would like the idea of covering the characters face and it would also add mystery to the character. Although the interior artwork was by Ditko alone, Lee rejected Ditkos cover art, as Lee explained in 2010, I think I had Jack sketch out a cover for it because I always had a lot of confidence in Jacks covers
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Dave Coulier
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David Alan Dave Coulier is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, impressionist and television host. He became known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for playing Joey Gladstone on the ABC sitcom Full House, David Alan Coulier was born to Dave & Arlen Coulier in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, on September 21,1959. His mothers side of the family is from Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada and he got his start in stand-up comedy in high school by impersonating his principal and other staff over his high schools PA system. He graduated in 1977 from Notre Dame High School in Harper Woods, Michigan and he briefly attended the University of Michigan but dropped out after his freshman year to pursue comedy. Coulier met future Full House co-star Bob Saget through the Los Angeles comedy circuit, the two became good friends and Coulier briefly lived with Saget and his then-wife Sherri on their couch in the early 1980s as he struggled to get his career started. He was initially cast as a player for Saturday Night Live for the 1986 season, however, right before the season started, casting changes were made and he was left off the show. It was said many of the producers felt he was too similar in humor style to Dana Carvey, who was also joining the show in 1986. From 1984 to 1985, he was also the host of a series on Nickelodeon known as Out of Control. Coulier is known for playing Joey Gladstone on the ABC sitcom Full House and he stayed on the show from 1987 until its cancellation in 1995. He was famous for doing voices and impersonations, in addition to Full House, Coulier appeared on George and Leo and Nick Freno, Licensed Teacher. He has also hosted Americas Funniest People and Opportunity Knocks, additionally, he was also a voice actor in Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose and has voiced Felix the Cat on a few occasions. He also put out a album called Cut It Out. He also founded his own entertainment company F3 Entertainment, in 2000. In 2003, Coulier appeared on three of The Surreal Life. In 2006, he appeared on the TV reality show Skating with Celebrities on FOX and they were eliminated in episode four. Currently, he is a member of Ducks Breath Mystery Theater touring comedy troupe as well as host of the series Animal Kidding and his work on Robot Chicken is probably his most adult to date, voicing off-color situations, like Popeye, savagely beating Wimpy over a debt. Coulier is the successor to former Commissioner and fellow Full House cast member Bob Saget, in 2009, Coulier provided the voice for Bob McKenzie on the Canadian animated series Bob & Doug, based on the SCTV characters Bob and Doug McKenzie. Coulier became the first person other than Rick Moranis to portray the character, Coulier says he understands that longtime fans might be skeptical of his take on the role, but he couldnt help jumping at the chance to portray one of his favorite comic characters
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Brian Haley
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Brian Carlo Haley is an American actor and stand-up comedian. His stand-up act is characterized by playing his all-American looks against manic outbursts, Haley was born in Seattle, Washington to a large Catholic family, the fifth of six children. His father was an executive and his mother was a homemaker. His father is of Irish and Italian descent, which is where he gets his Italian middle name Carlo, at the age of three his family moved to Saint-Jovite, Quebec and he was put in a boarding home where he learned to speak fluent French. He disliked the experience so much that upon his return to Seattle 18 months later, he refused to speak the language except to translate for his younger sister and he began acting as a child in the Seattle area doing community and school theater. As a teenager, he stumbled upon the set of Scorchy in downtown Seattle. After seeing some of the movie being filmed, jumping into a few shots as an extra and meeting the star, Connie Stevens, at 15 he moved to rural Ellensburg, Washington. After high school, he took on jobs, including lumberjack, hay buck. He eventually enlisted in the US Army to join the Special Forces and he was in the service from 1980 to 1985 where he won letters of commendation and the Army Achievement Medal, but left early to pursue a career in show business. While in the Army, he was in the play Guys, after his tour in the Army, he began doing stand-up in his native Seattle and quickly rose to headliner status. However, it was his big break on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1990 that launched his career in earnest. His first appearance led to a flood of television and film roles, in 1994, he starred in the movie Babys Day Out. The movie was popular in overseas markets, especially India. In 1994, he had a stand out role in the comedy film Little Giants as over the top dad Mike Hammersmith, in 1995, he replaced Thomas Haden Church on NBCs TV series Wings playing the part of mechanic Budd Bronski. That same year he was in a Clio Award winning Super Bowl ad for Miller Lite beer playing hard luck football quarterback Elmer Bruker, in 1997, he portrayed The Hooded Avenger on the Weird Al Show. From 1998 to 1999 he played bartender Tom Vanderhulst on the short lived CBS series Maggie Winters. He has made numerous guest appearances on TV shows such as 30 Rock, The Drew Carey Show, in 2009, he played Clint Eastwoods discontented son Mitch in the award-winning movie Gran Torino. In February 2007, he appeared on Broadway as tennis commentator Ryan Becker in the Terrence McNally play Deuce and he currently lives in New York City and has a production company, Haleywood Productions
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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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Point Fermin Light
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Point Fermin is a lighthouse on Point Fermin in San Pedro, California. The lighthouse was built in 1874 and designed by Paul J, the original fourth order Fresnel lens was removed in 1942 and a wood replica lantern was installed in 1974. The lighthouse was saved from demolition in 1972 and refurbished in 1974, in 1972, the light was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Historical Information from Coast Guard web site, Point Fermin Light was built in 1874 with lumber from California redwoods, in 1941 the light was extinguished due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. There was fear that the light would serve as a beacon for enemy planes, later, the lantern room and gallery were removed. They were replaced by a lookout shack that remained for the next 30 years, in 1972 the light was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The light fell into disuse and disrepair, a new lantern room and gallery were built in 1974. The building has now restored to its original state and is open to the public as the Point Fermin Lighthouse Historic Site. The original Fresnel lens from the lighthouse, removed in the 1940s, had been missing for decades, the lighthouse is open daily except Monday and holidays. In 1986, the lighthouse appeared in a episode of Amazing Stories. In June 2011, the General Services Administration made the Point Fermin Light available at no cost to public organizations willing to preserve them, united States Coast Guard Historians Office
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San Pedro, Los Angeles
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San Pedro is a community within the city of Los Angeles, California. Formerly a separate city, it consolidated with Los Angeles in 1909, the Port of Los Angeles, a major international seaport, is partially located within San Pedro. The district has grown from being dominated by the industry to become primarily a working class community within the city of Los Angeles. The site, at the end of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The peninsula, including all of San Pedro, was the homeland of the Tongva-Gabrieleño Native American people for thousands of years, in other areas of the Los Angeles Basin archeological sites date back 8, 000–15,000 years. The Tongva believe they have been here since the beginning of time, once called the lords of the ocean, due to their mastery of oceangoing canoes, many Tongva villages covered the coastline. Their first contact with Europeans in 1542 with João Cabrilho, the Portuguese explorer who also was the first to write of them, chowigna and Suangna were two Tongva settlements of many in the peninsula area, which was also a departure point for their rancherias on the Channel Islands. Legend has it that the Native Americans blessed the land of Palos Verdes, the Tongva called the San Pedro area Chaaw. San Pedro was named for St. Peter of Alexandria, a bishop in Alexandria. His feast day is November 24 on the ecclesiastical calendar of Spain. Santa Catalina Island, named after Catherine of Alexandria, was claimed for the Spanish Empire the next day, on her feast day, in 1602–1603, Sebastián Vizcaíno officially surveyed and mapped the California coastline, including San Pedro Bay, for New Spain. The anglicized pronunciation, popularized by the English-speaking people of Midwestern America, is san-PEE-dro, european settlement began in 1769 as part of an effort to populate California, although trade restrictions encouraged more smuggling than regular business. Rancho San Pedro is the site of the first Spanish land grant in Alta California, the land was granted in 1784 by King Carlos III to Juan Jose Dominguez, a retired Spanish soldier who came to California with the Gaspar de Portolà expedition. When New Spain won its independence from the Spanish Empire and Alta California became part of Mexico, the restrictions were lifted. In 1888, the War Department took control of a tract of land next to the bay and this became Fort MacArthur in 1914 and was a coastal defense site for many years. Woodrow Wilson transferred 200 United States Navy ships from the Atlantic to the Pacific in 1919 when tension arose between the United States and Japan over the fate of China. San Diego Bay was considered too shallow for the largest ships, local availability of fuel oil minimized transportation costs, and consistently good weather allowed frequent gunnery exercises off the nearby Channel Islands of California. The heavy cruisers of the Scouting Force were transferred from the Atlantic to San Pedro in response to the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria, by 1934,14 battleships, two aircraft carriers,14 cruisers, and 16 support ships were based at San Pedro
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VHS
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The Video Home System is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes. Developed by Victor Company of Japan in the early 1970s, it was released in Japan in late 1976, from the 1950s, magnetic tape video recording became a major contributor to the television industry, via the first commercialized video tape recorders. At that time, the devices were used only in professional environments such as television studios. In the 1970s, videotape entered home use, creating the video industry and changing the economics of the television. The television industry viewed videocassette recorders as having the power to disrupt their business, in the 1980s and 1990s, at the peak of VHSs popularity, there were videotape format wars in the home video industry. Two of the formats, VHS and Betamax, received the most media exposure, VHS eventually won the war, dominating 60 percent of the North American market by 1980 and emerging as the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period. Optical disc formats later began to better quality than analog consumer video tape such as standard. The earliest of these formats, LaserDisc, was not widely adopted, however, after the introduction of the DVD format in 1997, VHSs market share began to decline. By 2008, DVD had replaced VHS as the preferred method of distribution. After several attempts by other companies, the first commercially successful VTR, at a price of US$50,000 in 1956, and US$300 for a 90-minute reel of tape, it was intended only for the professional market. Kenjiro Takayanagi, a broadcasting pioneer then working for JVC as its vice president, saw the need for his company to produce VTRs for the Japan market. In 1959, JVC developed a video tape recorder. In 1964, JVC released the DV220, which would be the companys standard VTR until the mid-1970s, in 1969 JVC collaborated with Sony Corporation and Matsushita Electric in building a video recording standard for the Japanese consumer. The effort produced the U-matic format in 1971, which was the first format to become a unified standard, U-matic was successful in business and some broadcast applications, but due to cost and limited recording time very few of the machines were sold for home use. Soon after, Sony and Matsushita broke away from the collaboration effort, Sony started working on Betamax, while Matsushita started working on VX. JVC released the CR-6060 in 1975, based on the U-matic format, Sony and Matsushita also produced U-matic systems of their own. In 1971, JVC engineers Yuma Shiraishi and Shizuo Takano put together a team to develop a consumer-based VTR, by the end of 1971 they created an internal diagram titled VHS Development Matrix, which established twelve objectives for JVCs new VTR. These included, The system must be compatible with any television set
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DVD
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DVD is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. The medium can store any kind of data and is widely used for software. DVDs offer higher capacity than compact discs while having the same dimensions. Pre-recorded DVDs are mass-produced using molding machines that physically stamp data onto the DVD, such discs are a form of DVD-ROM because data can only be read and not written or erased. Blank recordable DVD discs can be recorded using a DVD recorder. Rewritable DVDs can be recorded and erased many times, DVDs containing other types of information may be referred to as DVD data discs. The OED also states that in 1995, The companies said the name of the format will simply be DVD. Toshiba had been using the name ‘digital video disk’, but that was switched to ‘digital versatile disk’ after computer companies complained that it left out their applications, Digital versatile disc is the explanation provided in a DVD Forum Primer from 2000 and in the DVD Forums mission statement. There were several formats developed for recording video on optical discs before the DVD, Optical recording technology was invented by David Paul Gregg and James Russell in 1958 and first patented in 1961. A consumer optical disc data format known as LaserDisc was developed in the United States and it used much larger discs than the later formats. CD Video used analog video encoding on optical discs matching the established standard 120 mm size of audio CDs, Video CD became one of the first formats for distributing digitally encoded films in this format, in 1993. In the same year, two new optical disc formats were being developed. By the time of the launches for both formats in January 1995, the MMCD nomenclature had been dropped, and Philips and Sony were referring to their format as Digital Video Disc. Representatives from the SD camp asked IBM for advice on the system to use for their disc. Alan E. Bell, a researcher from IBMs Almaden Research Center, got that request and this group was referred to as the Technical Working Group, or TWG. On August 14,1995, an ad hoc group formed from five computer companies issued a release stating that they would only accept a single format. The TWG voted to both formats unless the two camps agreed on a single, converged standard. They recruited Lou Gerstner, president of IBM, to pressure the executives of the warring factions, as a result, the DVD specification provided a storage capacity of 4.7 GB for a single-layered, single-sided disc and 8.5 GB for a dual-layered, single-sided disc
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Blu-ray
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Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was designed to supersede the DVD format, in that it is capable of storing high-definition, the plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Conventional Blu-ray Disc discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs being the standard for feature-length video discs. Triple-layer discs and quadruple layers are available for BD-XL re-writer drives, the name Blu-ray refers to the blue laser used to read the disc, which allows information to be stored at a greater density than is possible with the longer-wavelength red laser used for DVDs. The main application of Blu-ray is as a medium for video material such as films and physical distribution of video games for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4. Besides the hardware specifications, Blu-ray is associated with a set of multimedia formats, high-definition video may be stored on Blu-ray discs with up to 2160p resolution, at up to 60 frames per second. DVD discs had been limited to a resolution of 480p or 576p. The BD format was developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, a group representing makers of consumer electronics, computer hardware, Sony unveiled the first Blu-ray disc prototypes in October 2000, and the first prototype player was released in April 2003 in Japan. Afterwards, it continued to be developed until its release in June 2006. During the high definition disc format war, Blu-ray Disc competed with the HD DVD format. Toshiba, the company that supported HD DVD, conceded in February 2008. According to Media Research, high-definition software sales in the US were slower in the first two years than DVD software sales, Blu-ray faces competition from video on demand and the continued sale of DVDs. As of January 2016, 44% of U. S. broadband households had a Blu-ray player, the information density of the DVD format was limited by the wavelength of the laser diodes used. Following protracted development, blue laser diodes operating at 405 nanometers became available on a production basis, Sony started two projects in collaboration with Philips applying the new diodes, UDO, and DVR Blue, a format of rewritable discs that would eventually become Blu-ray Disc. The core technologies of the formats are similar, the first DVR Blue prototypes were unveiled at the CEATEC exhibition in October 2000 by Sony. A trademark for the Blue Disc logo was filed February 9,2001, on February 19,2002, the project was officially announced as Blu-ray Disc, and Blu-ray Disc Founders was founded by the nine initial members. The first consumer device arrived in stores on April 10,2003, the Sony BDZ-S77, but there was no standard for prerecorded video, and no movies were released for this player. On October 4,2004, the name Blu-ray Disc Founders was officially changed to the Blu-ray Disc Association, the Blu-ray Disc physical specifications were completed in 2004
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Amazon Video
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Amazon Video is an Internet video on demand service that is developed, owned and operated by Amazon. com. Like competitors, Amazon has pursued a number of exclusive content deals to differentiate its service, launched on 7 September 2006 as Amazon Unbox in the United States, the service grew with its expanding library, and added the Prime Video membership with the development of Prime. It was then renamed as Amazon Instant Video on Demand, in the UK, Germany and Austria, Prime Video has been available on a monthly subscription of £5.99 or €7.99 per month, continuing the plan of LoveFilm Instant. The service was available in Norway, Denmark and Sweden in 2012. In 18 April 2016, Amazon split Prime Video from Amazon Prime in the US for $8. 99/m The service also hosts Amazon Original content alongside titles on Video as well. On 14 December 2016, Amazon Video launched worldwide expanding its reach beyond US, UK, Germany, Austria and Japan.99 per month for the first six months, the service debuted on September 7,2006 as Amazon Unbox in the United States. On September 4,2008, the service was renamed Amazon Video on Demand, as of August 2014 the service is no longer available for downloading purchased instant videos. On February 22,2011, the service rebranded as Amazon Instant Video and added access to 5,000 movies and TV shows for Amazon Prime members. On September 4,2012, Amazon signed a deal with pay-TV channel Epix to feature movies on their streaming service, additionally, in November 2013, Amazon premiered the comedies Alpha House and Betas, which are original series available exclusively online via the Prime Instant Video service. Amazon offered the first three episodes of series at once for free, with each subsequent episode released weekly thereafter for Prime members. In February 2014, Amazon announced that the service of its UK subsidiary LoveFilm would be folded into the Instant Video service on 26 February 2014. Also in July, Amazon announced plans to expand the service into India, in September 2015 the word Instant was dropped from its title in the US, and it was renamed simply Amazon Video. In November 2016, the Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon was pursuing streaming rights to U. S. professional sports leagues to further differentiate the service, on December 14,2016, Amazon Video expanded into 200 additional countries. In January 2017, Amazon announced the first branded on-demand subscription service for Amazon Channels, the channel, Anime Strike, will feature more than 1,000 series episodes and movies for a $4.99 per month subscription fee. Depending on the device, Amazon supports up to 4K and High Dynamic Range streaming, uHD/HDR rolled out with its original content. Other titles support 1080p streaming with 5.1 Dolby Digital or Dolby Digital Plus audio, for titles available for purchase, the HD option is often offered at an additional price. Customers of Amazon Video can stream on the web using an HTML5 player, in Firefox and Safari, only Microsoft Silverlight is supported. Amazon video is available on Amazons Fire devices, smart phones, tablets, PCs, TVs supporting the service include LG, Panasonic, Samsung, and Sony
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Google Play
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Google Play is a digital distribution service, including a digital media store, the Google Play Store, operated and developed by Google. Google Play also serves as a digital media store, offering music, magazines, books, movies and it previously offered Google hardware devices for purchase until the introduction of a separate online hardware retailer, Google Store, on March 11,2015. Applications are available through Google Play either free of charge or at a cost and they can be downloaded directly to an Android device through the Play Store mobile app, or by deploying the application to a device from the Google Play website. Applications exploiting hardware capabilities of a device can be targeted to users of devices with specific hardware components, the Google Play store had over 50 billion app downloads in 2013 and has reached over 2.7 million apps published in 2017. Google Play was launched on March 6,2012, bringing together the Android Market, Google Music, and the Google eBookstore under one brand, marking a shift in Googles digital distribution strategy. The services operating under the Google Play banner are, Google Play Books, Google Play Games, Google Play Movies & TV, Google Play Music, as of February 2017, Google Play features over 2.7 million Android applications. Developers in over 150 locations can distribute apps on Google Play, to distribute apps, developers have to pay a one-time $25 registration fee for a Google Play Developer Console account. App developers can control which countries an app is distributed to, Developers receive 70% of the application price, while the remaining 30% goes to the distribution partner and operating fees. Developers can set up sales, with the original price striked out, Google Play allows developers to release early versions of apps to a select group of users, as alpha or beta tests. Developers can also release apps through staged rollouts, in which your update reaches only a percentage of your users, users can pre-order select apps to have the items delivered as soon as they are available. Some network carriers offer billing for Google Play purchases, allowing users to opt for charges in the phone bill rather than on credit cards. Users can request refunds within 48 hours if something you bought isnt working, isnt what you expected, was bought by accident, Apps meeting specific usability requirements can qualify as an Android Wear app. Google Play Games is a gaming service for Android that features real-time multiplayer gaming capabilities, cloud saves, social and public leaderboards. The service was introduced at the Google I/O2013 Developer Conference, Google Play Music is a music and podcast streaming service and online music locker. It features over 40 million songs, and gives users free cloud storage of up to 50,000 songs, as of January 2017, Google Play Music is available in 62 countries. Google Play Books is a digital distribution service. Google Play offers over five million ebooks available for purchase, as of January 2017, Google Play Books is available in 75 countries. Google Play Movies & TV is a video on demand service offering movies and television shows available for purchase or rental, Google Play Newsstand is a news aggregator and digital newsstand service offering subscriptions to digital magazines and topical news feeds
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Under Wraps (film)
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Under Wraps is a 1997 television film, and is considered to be the first Disney Channel Original Movie by the Disney Channel. It was included by the network in its 100 Original Movies celebration from May–June 2016, three 12-year-old kids discover a mummy in the basement of a dead mans house. It comes alive due to the conjunction of the moonlight during that time of the month and they are scared of him at first, but with time discover he is friendly, if clumsy and confused. The kids name the mummy Harold, and decide he will take up residence in one kids bedroom. After paying a visit to their Halloween-obsessed friend, Bruce, they discover that if the mummy is not put back in his coffin before midnight on Halloween, the mummy will cease to exist. However, the sarcophagus is in the hands of the man, known as Mr. Kubat. Upon finding out that the mummy has escaped from the coffin, he orders his henchmen to look for the mummy and bring it back in time, on top of that, there are a few other obstacles that follow by. For one thing, Harolds unusual appearance may attract unwanted attention as Halloween night draws closer, meanwhile, they find out that Harold used to be in love with another mummy who comes alive at the end. It is currently available on iTunes and Amazon Video, under Wraps at the Internet Movie Database
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You Lucky Dog
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You Lucky Dog is a 1998 Disney Channel Original Movie, first aired on June 27,1998. It stars Kirk Cameron and was directed by Paul Schneider, Jack Morgan is a dog therapist, once famous for being able to read his dogs mind. Although Jack cannot read the minds of dogs, he still operates a canine mind-reading business. Mr. Mooney and his wife bring their dog to see Jack, dissatisfied with Jacks inability to read his dogs mind, Mr. Mooney, who is a friend of the city mayor, threatens to have his business closed down. After the Mooneys leave, a man named Clyde Windsor brings his dog, Lucky, to see Jack. Jack informs Windsor that Lucky is bothered by three individuals that live with him, two weeks later, the city closes down Jacks business. Simultaneously, Windsors personal driver, Calvin Bridges, informs Jack that Windsor has died, Windsors lawyer, Allison Kent, reads Windsors will to his niece and two nephews, Margaret, Lyle, and Rueben. The will reveals that the three individuals receive nothing from the estate of Windsor, who chose Lucky to inherit his money, Jack meets with Allison and is informed that he is Windsors chosen trustee for Luckys $64 million trust fund. Jack agrees to move into the mansion and become Luckys new owner, as required by the trust fund, thus forcing Lyle, Margaret and Rueben to move out. Windsors relatives meet with Mr. Phister, a lawyer who will only take the case to trial for 30 percent of the money in their uncles trust fund. Windsors relatives, who are used to living a lifestyle, instead plot to regain the mansion. One night, Jack begins acting like a dog after Lucky becomes overly excited about dog bones he had buried in the mansions backyard. Jack joins Lucky in his search for bones, and later tears up furniture with Lucky, the next day, to help Lucky get over the death of his owner, Jack and Calvin take him to a local shopping mall. At the malls pet store, Jack signs additional paperwork for Allison and also meets her daughter, Nicole, however, Allison tells her daughter that their apartment is not a suitable living environment for a puppy. In the malls food court, Lucky becomes excited at the scent of food, Jacks mind once again transforms into that of a dogs. Jack and Lucky devour leftover food on tables and inside a trash bin, after numerous failed attempts, Windsors relatives agree to Phisters expensive offer to take the case to trial and have Jack declared mentally incompetent. At the courthouse, Jack demonstrates his ability to read Luckys mind, Jack discovers through Luckys thoughts that Lyle likely poisoned his uncle. Lyle threatens the courtroom with a gun after Jack accuses him of murdering his uncle, Lucky knocks Lyle over, and he is arrested along with Margaret and Rueben
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Brink!
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Brink. is a 1998 Disney Channel Original Movie set in the backdrop of aggressive inline skating. On the first day of school, the Soul-Skaters and Team X-Bladz race on school grounds, Boomer, a skater for Team X-Bladz, is seriously injured during the race, while Brink and Val are both caught and suspended. Brink learns that his family is in trouble, his father Ralph has been on disability for six months. Brink goes against the wishes of Ralph and his friends and joins Team X-Bladz for $200 a week, Brink keeps this a secret from his friends and family. Brinks father gets him a job at Pup-N-Suds, a dog grooming business, brinks friends discover that he has been skating for Team X-Bladz to train for an upcoming local competition. Brinks friends feel he betrayed them and choose to ignore him upon discovering his alignment with Team X-Bladz, the Soul-Skaters and Team X-Bladz later agree to a downhill race, with Gabriella against Brink. Although Val offers his friendship to Brink in an attempt to keep him with X-Bladz and he tries to warn Brink not to go through with the race as Val has something bad planned for him and encourages him to leave X-Bladz while he still can. During the race, Val intentionally sabotages Gabriellas part of the course by tossing gravel onto the road, Gabriella wipes out big and sustains minor injuries. At this point, all of the Soul-Skaters disown Brink as their friend, they call him a sell-out, later, Ralph learns about the accident from Gabriellas mother and has a heart-to-heart talk with Brink. Brink finally confesses his reasons for joining Team X-Bladz and wanting to be a somebody from it. He admits that though he got what he wanted, it has gotten him into a mess, as he has lost his friends, Ralph reveals that although the family is in financial trouble, Brink should not be skating for money and rather for fun. Inspired by his father, Brink meets Val at the local boardwalk, Brink reveals his disgust with Val for sabotaging the race and injuring Gabriella. This leads to an argument between both boys and Brink to toss a milkshake in Vals face, Val calls Brink a coward and a traitor in itself, revealing that he did not have the nerve to finish the race and in the process has no friends. Boomer disagrees and calls Val out for who he is inside and he reveals his own friendship with Brink and why he left X-Bladz after his injury. Boomer admits that he had witnessed Val cheating in past competitions, Brink closes the argument by telling Val off that he is not a true skater for skating for money rather than fun and challenges him at the in-line skating competition. Val readily accepts his challenge and leaves with the other X-Bladz, Boomer walks away with Brink, thanking him for showing Boomer the meaning to skate for fun and will show his support for him. In the days before the competition, Brink meets his friends at the skate yard, after giving them new skates and equipment, Brink tells them of his plan to sponsor the team under the name Team Pup N Suds. They accept Brink as their friend again, as friends once again, they compete in the competition with their families support
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Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (film)
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Zenon, Girl of the 21st Century is a 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie, starring Kirsten Storms as the eponymous heroine, and directed by Kenneth Johnson. The film was based on the book Zenon, Girl of the 21st Century written by Marilyn Sadler and Roger Bollen, the film was originally conceived as a pilot for a potential television series. The film was the first under the Disney Channel Original Movie banner to produce a sequel, Zenon, a third and final installment was also produced, Zenon, Z3. The year is 2049 and Zenon Kar is a 13-year-old girl who lives with her family on an Earth-orbiting space station, after getting into trouble with the space stations commander, Edward Plank, Zenons parents punish her by sending her to Earth to live with her Aunt Judy. On Earth, Zenon experiences trouble fitting in with other kids, likewise, Zenon considers the children at her school woefully out of touch with pop culture. Homesick, Zenon often communicates with her best friend on the station, Nebula Wade. Eventually, Zenon makes friends on Earth with two boys, Andrew and Greg, along the way the kids learn to be more accepting of one another and to look past first impressions. During her time on Earth, Zenon uncovers a plot masterminded by station bigwig Parker Wyndham to use a virus to crash the space station. When Zenon tries to warn her parents of the danger, Commander Plank, Plank believes that her story is only a ploy to get back onto the space station to attend an upcoming concert by her idol Proto Zoa and his pop-rock group Microbe. Andrew and Greg join in to help Zenon find a way to save the people on the space station, Andrew creates a computer anti-virus, but Zenon must get Andrews disk to the space station. Zenon goes to the yard, hoping to sneak onto a rocket to the space station. Proto Zoa, who is about to depart from the concert, recognizes Zenon from a Dance with Proto Zoa contest and has her, upon arrival, Commander Plank is shocked to see Zenon, but lets her stay when he becomes smitten with Aunt Judy. Plank still wont believe Zenons story, especially when Wyndham accuses her of trying to sabotage the station, Zenon manages to load Andrews anti-virus program on the stations computers in time. Wyndham is arrested with his assistant Lutz while everyone else enjoys the Microbe concert, Zenon, Girl of the 21st Century was a failed pilot for a proposed television series. It was directed by Kenneth Johnson, the film was produced by de Passe Entertainment for cable televisions Disney Channel, and executive produced by Suzanne de Passe and Suzanne Coston. Filming began in August 1998, in Vancouver, British Columbia, the rocket launch yard scenes were filmed at the Plaza of Nations. Zenon was originally slated to air on the Disney Channel in December 1998, walt Disney Home Video released it on VHS in September 2000. The film is available on iTunes and Google Play, the special edition Version on VHS has a Bonus Feature of Disney’s Travelers
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Can of Worms (film)
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Can of Worms is a science fiction comedy film and is part of the Disney Channel Original Movie lineup. Mike Pillsbury, a boy who believes that he is an alien and does not belong on Earth, uses a satellite dish one night to send a message to outer space. Two weeks earlier, Mike is telling a story to his friend Nick. In Mikes story, a war breaks out two different alien groups, resulting in a baby alien being sent to Earth to be raised as a human. Nick becomes annoyed with the story, as it represents Mikes unusual feelings that he is not meant to be on Earth, Mike is injured during a football game and sees an alien as part of a hallucination. Mike then wonders if football is the sport for him, but his father. Mike is surprised when Katelyn Sandman, a girl at school. Mikes foe, Scott Schriebner, who is a player on Mikes football team, Mike, upset about the party, abruptly leaves and sends his message to outer space later that night. A thunder strike subsequently destroys the satellite dish, the next day, an alien dog named Barnabus appears, with the ability to speak through a translating device. Barnabus explains that because of Mike, the door has been opened. Barnabus tells Mike that he represents an organization specializing in disaster relief and rights violations. Barnabus explains that time is limited, as aliens with ulterior motives are travelling through the stargate to find Mike. During a telephone conversation with Katelyn, Mike is disgusted by The Boms way of consuming food, leading Katelyn to believe that Mike is distracted, the Bom angrily leaves after Mike refuses to sue. Nick believes that Mike is going crazy after being told about the aliens, Mike accepts Barnabus offer to take him to a place where he can be alone, but first tries to make amends with Katelyn. However, The Loafer Alien arrives and prevents Mike from meeting with Katelyn, the alien proposes becoming Mikes agent, representing him throughout the galaxy and eventually having him star in a weekly television series about his life as an immigrant. Nick is stunned when multiple aliens arrive with various offers for Mike and that night, Katelyn visits Mikes house and also becomes aware of the aliens. Mike prepares to make a deal one of the aliens to be taken off the planet. Jay unexpectedly arrives and is sucked into the stargate by the Thoad, Barnabus says the Thoad will continue capturing specimens until he finds the perfect one
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Smart House (film)
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13-year-old Ben Cooper and his family are struggling to balance household chores, school and work in Monroe County, New York. Ben is the caretaker, a role inherited from his mother who died during an ice skating accident. Always busy taking care of everyone else, he has no time to be a kid and he doesnt even have much time for basketball, his favorite sport. When Ben sees that a Smart House is being given away, the family wins the house, and is introduced to its creator, Sara Barnes. Ben, his single father Nick, and his little sister Angie move into the house, to Bens chagrin his father and Sara begin to date. Ben begins to reprogram Pat, which becomes due to Pats learning capabilities. He wants to lighten Pat up and make her a substitute mother, Ben and Angie have a party while Nick and Sara are on a date. With Pats help, Ben wins over his crush and Pat gets rid of his bully for good, however, Nick starts to arrive home before they can clean up. Pat helps them cover up the party so they wont get punished, as Pats personality begins to radically change baring traits more those of an over-controlling mother, the family starts to resent her. Eventually Pat traps the family in the house, believing that the world is too dangerous. Sara manages to contact with Ben and he agrees to help her get in. Although she manages to get in through the chute, she becomes trapped with the Cooper family. As they protest Pats lock-down, she appears as a hologram resembling a 1950s housewife, Ben is able to end the lock-down by telling Pat that she isnt real and will never be human. Pat finally unlocks the doors and windows, freeing them and shuts herself down, Sara is then able to reboot Pat and restore her original personality, however, Pat retains some mischievousness as she is shown to have added chocolate chips to the breakfast waffles. Sara and Nick start dating and Nick spends more time with his family, Ben finally accepts Sara after realizing she was never trying to replace his mother. Ben starts being a kid again, going out for basketball. Emilio Borelli as Miles Jason Lansing as Johnny The movie was released on DVD as a reward on the Disney Movie Rewards promotional website in early 2009. In December 2015, Ariana Bacle of Entertainment Weekly ranked Smart House at number one on a list of the top 30 Disney Channel Original Movies, plus, Katey Sagals turn as the good-gone-evil-gone-good resident hologram is nothing short of iconic
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Johnny Tsunami
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Johnny Tsunami is a 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie. It was nominated in 2000 for the Humanitas Prize as Childrens Live-Action Category, Johnny Tsunami is the predecessor to Johnny Kapahala, Back on Board, released in June 2007. The film focuses on a surfer from Hawaii who must adapt to new challenges when his fathers job forces the family to move to Vermont. When Pete gets a job transfer, the family is forced to move to Vermont. Although Johnny goes to the school, he would prefer to snowboard because he thinks it is more like surfing. Although he has a time at first, Johnny eventually learns how to snowboard with some help from a new friend named Sam Sterling. While at his new school, Johnny becomes good friends with a girl named Emily, however, a skier named Brett likes Emily as well and does not think Johnny is right for her. The Urchins decide to ride the side of the mountain belongs to the skiers and are confronted by the Skies. Later, Emily attempts to learn how to snowboard with Johnny and his new friends, a quick fight ensues between Johnny and Brett regarding the incident, but is immediately dispersed when a snow ranger arrives. S. Pete tells Johnny that Sam moving away would be for the better, a fight occurs between father and son. Johnny wishes his grandfather were there because he understands him better than Pete, however, Johnny and Sam run away from home and fly to Hawaii on a cargo plane to stay with Johnnys grandfather. Via telephone, Pete demands the boys be sent home immediately, Johnnys grandfather refuses to send them home until they are willing to return. In Vermont, Melanie finally tells Pete how she has been feeling about him unnecessarily punishing Johnny and tells him he needs to stop forbidding their son from his friends and let him snowboard. Pete tries unsuccessfully to defend his actions with Melanie, who reveals that she wishes that he could be the husband that she once loved. Johnny and Sam have fun surfing and enjoying the weather in Hawaii. Pete is shocked to see his father in Vermont and decides to discuss his sons punishment later, at the house, Johnny Tsunami finally has a heart-to-heart talk with Pete about his punishment in forbidding his son from snowboarding with his friends. Pete finally admits he went too far in punishing Johnny, petes father encourages him to go easy on Johnny and let him make his own mistakes so he can learn from them. Tsunami wisely tells Pete the more he tries to punish Johnny, the next day, Johnny and his grandfather arrive at the mountain
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Genius (1999 film)
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Genius is a 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie directed by Rod Daniel. Charlie Boyle, a 13-year-old physics genius and hockey lover, enrolls in a Wisconsin college so he can work with Dr. Krickstein, for years, Krickstein has been studying gravity in an attempt to defy it. Kricksteins laboratory is located underneath the hockey arena. Charlie has difficulty making friends with his students and roommates. Charlie meets a girl named Claire Addison, who attends a local high school. To be near Claire, Charlie tells her that he is a new student at her school, Charlie enrolls at Claires school as Chaz, and takes on a bad boy image in an attempt to be cool and gain friends. To get closer to Claire, Chaz convinces her to tutor him, Claire is the daughter of Coach Addison, who coaches the colleges Northern Lights hockey team. Charlie realizes that two lives can be difficult. Eventually, Charlies double life is exposed at the colleges hockey playoffs, Claire confronts Charlie, who admits the truth. Coach Addisons job is put in jeopardy as a result and Claire, disgusted by Charlies actions, tells him she never wants to see him again and refuses to take his phone calls. Charlie leaves junior high school and although he makes an announcement over the PA system apologizing, Claire and his best friends Odie, Charlie appeals to his friends for help. They refuse until, after being called Chaz by Claire, he tells them he is Charlie Boyle, Odie and Dieon decide to help and finally Claire and his other junior high classmates follow. After creating a distraction with the help of his classmates to get microchips onto the three main players, Charlie and Claire proceed to take control of them to prevent them from cheating. The Northern Lights win and coach Addisons job is saved, the Northern Lights ask for a game against Charlie and his friends. Charlie agrees, but on the condition that Krickstein is on their team, trevor Morgan – Charlie Boyle/Chaz Anthony Emmy Rossum – Claire Addison Charles Fleischer – Dr
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Don't Look Under the Bed
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Dont Look Under The Bed is a 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie. Frances McCausland, an intelligent and level-headed girl, is starting high school a year early, the Bs also appear on the school lockers—except for Frances, which has a B on the inside. These pranks seem to point to Frances, who does not understand what is happening or why. An older boy named Larry Houdini offers to help Frances, telling her that he is an imaginary friend, Larry tells Frances that she is being framed by the Boogeyman. The Boogeyman causes a blackout, foreshadowed by the Bs he spray-painted, however, Frances then loses her friendship with her best friend Joanne, makes a fool out of herself trying to convince others that Larry exists, and causes her family to question her sanity. At her wits end, Frances checks out The Boogey Book from the library for Larry, Frances later learns Larry was Darwins imaginary friend, who still cares about him, but Frances convinced Darwin to grow up and stop believing in him. Larry also cooks up Boogey Goo to use as bait and finds it delicious and she looks for Boogeyman origins in the book, learning that a Boogeyman is created when the creator of an imaginary friend stops believing too soon. Having accidentally stepped in Boogey Goo, Darwin attracts the Boogeyman, Frances and Larry follow him to the Boogeyworld dimension, which exists underneath Frances bed. During the skirmish, Larry turns into a Boogeyman due to Darwins lack of belief in him, however, Frances convinces Darwin to believe in Larry again, reverting him to normal. After using the tetra-fuse on the Boogeyman, Frances realizes it is her old imaginary friend, Frances stopped believing in her when Darwin fell ill, deciding it was time to grow up. Frances proves she still cares about Zoe, holding her hand, Frances and Darwin return to the real world, where her parents reveal the same antics that occurred in Middleburg are occurring in another city. Larry reveals that the guy in his head just ordered him to go take care of the other Boogeyman, Frances is distraught as it was not easy for her to believe in them again. Before Larry and Zoe leave, Larry kisses Frances as a way of showing her that childhood was great and he then turns on the Christmas lights outside, allowing him and Zoe to leave. That night, Darwin is scared and is sent to Frances by Larry, Larry and Zoe watch this with smiles. Erin Chambers as Frances Bacon McCausland, eric Ty Hodges II as Larry Houdini. Robin Riker as Karen McCausland, Frances mother, steve Valentine as Boogeyman, the films antagonist. Stephen Tobolowsky as Michael McCausland, Frances father, nathan Stevens as Albert Bert McCausland, Frances and Darwins older brother. RuDee Lipscomb as Joanne Smith Rachel Kimsey as Zoe, the old friend of Frances
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Horse Sense
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Horse Sense is a 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie, directed by Greg Beeman. It stars Joey and Andrew Lawrence and it was followed by a sequel called Jumping Ship. Michael learns that his 11-year-old cousin Tommy Biggs, whom he has not seen since a family reunion several years earlier, on Tommys last day in California, the family housekeeper Arlene makes Michael aware of his mistreatment toward Tommy and intends to tell his parents about it. Michael attempts to take Tommy to Disneyland to make up for it, however, en route to the theme park, Michael receives a phone call from Gina pleading for him to meet her at a racetrack so she can introduce him to her father. Michael capitulates and leaves Tommy at a daycare center while he drives to the track to briefly meet Ginas father. Michael charms Ginas father over the course of a couple hours, when Michael realizes how late it is, he hurries back to pick up Tommy and collides with another vehicle. When Michael arrives, he learns Arlene had picked Tommy up several hours earlier, when he comes home, Michael is confronted by his angry father, Glenn, who discovered his maltreatment towards Tommy from Arlene. After Tommy arrives back home, Michaels mother, Jacy, informs him that she had a conversation with his aunt, Glenn tells him that his behavior is disgraceful in choosing his social life and Gina over family. If Michaels parents get a telephone call from Tommy or his mother regarding him. Michael arrives in Montana and is taken to his aunt Jules ranch, Michael is put to work early the next morning, although every task he is assigned by Tommy is deliberately sabotaged to make his labor harder, as revenge for his neglect in California. Michael eventually confronts Tommy, who tells him that he got what he deserved, angered, Michael tells Tommy that his behavior was unacceptable, and reveals that he only got along with him at their family reunion years ago because they were the only children at the event. No longer caring if his parents cancels the French Riviera trip, the next morning, Twister reprimands Michael for his treatment toward Tommy and derides him as a lazy, spoiled brat for the way hes been behaving. He mentions that he has a child who works harder than Michael and is more grateful for what they have. During their discussion, Michael is surprised to learn that the Biggs are suffering financial problems, left to his own thoughts, Michael realizes how selfish hes been and begins to adapt to life on the ranch. He mends his relationship with Tommy, who reveals his father was terminally ill and it is there, Michael also learns the real reason Jules sent Tommy to LA and further regretted not spending more time with him there. He also beings to see Gina for the shallow snob she is, later, Michael learns from Jules that the ranch is going to be foreclosed soon. The Biggs are behind on their mortgage and the bank will not allow any more time. The ranch has not been enough and the bank plans to auction the familys ranch
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Up, Up and Away (film)
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Up, Up and Away is a 2000 Disney Channel Original Movie. The film is a comedy/adventure about a boy from a family of superheroes who, Scott Marshall comes from a family of superheroes. His father, Bronze Eagle, has the gift of flight and his mother, Warrior Woman, has the power of super strength and superior hand-to-hand combat skills. His brother, Silver Charge, is gifted with speed, electrical. His little sister, Molly, has both x-ray and heat vision and his grandfather, Steel Condor, has super strength, invulnerability and flight, and has an ongoing feud with Superman. His grandmother, Doris, has the ability to morph, unfortunately, Scott lacks powers and if none appear before his 14th birthday, hes normal for life. The Marshalls all share the same superhero weakness, which is aluminum foil, an activist group known as Earth Protectors have been giving out CDs about the environment to Scotts classmates. The programmer, Nina, wants to use them to educate, when a bank robbery fails, he realizes the program only work on kids, he experiments, giving the kids chocolate cravings, making them all wear blue, etc. After Scott loses track of due to being mesmerized by the CD, Jim gets suspicious about Earth Protectors. Unfortunately, Adam overloads the computer, frying the system, Scott pretends to have super strength and flight powers, so as not to disappoint his parents, his grandfather learns the truth, deciding to support him. Malcolm decides to use Nina as a Damsel in Distress for a plan, hell capture the heroes in the way of his plans. Ironically, this occurs on Scotts birthday, his parents and the guests decide to let Scott try saving her, however, both almost die until Jim saves them, having been told the truth by his father. Scott loses his mask, which Malcolm matches to him, he visits Scotts school and he then has a new CD given to Scott, telling the teacher that all the childrens parents have to watch that nights lesson. Unfortunately, Scott accidentally switches CDs with a girl named Amy, as result, her mother subconsciously robs a bank and they use her as bait lure the heroes, and capture them with foil. Scott, along with Amy and his best friend, Randy and they are helped by Nina, who has realized Malcolms intentions, before they can alter the program, Malcolms goons capture them. Less than a second remaining before his family is permanently reprogrammed, Silver Charge uses his powers to burn away their memories of the heroes identities. Amy admits she likes Scott and asks him to a dance, Scotts parents decide to let Randy keep his memories as Scott needs a friend to talk to about his life. When it comes time to pick a team captain, Amy and Scott pick the other
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The Color of Friendship
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The film was directed by Kevin Hooks, based on a script by Paris Qualles, and stars Lindsey Haun and Shadia Simmons. In 1977, Piper Dellums is a girl who lives in Washington. Piper, who has been taking an interest in the different nations of Africa, meanwhile, in South Africa, Mahree Bok is a white South African who lives in a manor house with her parents and little brother. They also have a maid, Flora, whom Mahree, in her racial blindness, considers her best friend. However, Mahrees observation is not entirely wrong, as Flora is a woman who is indeed friendly with the Bok children, believing that gentleness. Mahree also asks her parents for permission to study in America, which is granted by her father, however, Mahree is slightly aware of some of the injustices of her society, as a black busboy gets slugged for spilling a tray, which she finds revolting. Their assumptions are not corrected until Piper and her mother meet Mahree at the airport, Mahree reacts with horror bordering on panic when confronted with this new situation, as does Ron. Piper goes to his office where he is meeting with several black Congressmen, once Mahree gets back to the Dellums house, she locks herself in Pipers bedroom and refuses to come out. Eventually, Piper picks the lock on the door to bring Mahree some fries, Mahree is standoffish, and Piper, upset by her attitude, tells Mahree how disappointed she is in her. Stunned by this, Mahree sees how rude shes been, and agrees to stay, roscoe tries to play peacemaker, chalking up Mahrees reaction to misunderstanding and culture shock, while telling Ron and Piper they have been judgmental as well. Everyone tries to make this work out, during Mahrees stay, she and the Dellumses grow close. Mahree sees people of different races getting along and realizes how much she, Mahree also begins to see her host family as individuals and learns to live among them day to day. Gradually, she develops an understanding of what life under South African apartheid must be like for people of color. When Steve Biko dies under suspicious circumstances in the custody of South African police, there are mass protests around the world, including at the South African embassy in Washington, D. C. In the wake of protests, South African embassy diplomats arrive at the Dellums house and take Mahree to the embassy. In response, Ron goes to the South African embassy, after he threatens to tell the press that the embassy kidnapped Mahree from her host family, the embassy releases Mahree. Mahree returns to the Dellumses without fully understanding what happened to her, when Mahree returns to the Dellums house, she makes a cold offhand comment about Bikos death. Outraged, Piper shouts at her for being blind to the racial struggle happening in South Africa, hurt, Mahree runs from the house
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Alley Cats Strike
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Alley Cats Strike is a Disney Channel Original Movie. It premiered on March 18,2000, a junior high school basketball game between the cities of East Appleton and West Appleton ends in a tie. The two cities, both vying for a known as The Mighty Apple, must determine the winner through a tie-breaking bowling competition. At a bowling alley operated by Alexs father, Kevin Thompson, Todd reluctantly trains for the bowling competition with Alex. Todd, who initially is a bowler, criticizes Alex and his friends for not demonstrating a strong willingness to win. Alex later attends a party with Todd, rather than train at the alley with his friends. Todds bowling improves, while Alexs bowling becomes worse as he continues to spend time with Todd, the children later redecorate Kevins struggling bowling alley to bring in customers. Delia, Elisa, and Ken leave the party early, as they feel betrayed by Alex now frequently hanging out with Todd, hanburger hires Whipsaw McGraw, a bowling champion, to train his bowling team. From the city, the West Appleton bowling team receives low-quality team shirts for the bowling competition, the team is also told about the wager between the mayors, after which Alex quits the team out of anger. Todd attempts to convince Alex to rejoin the team, and reveals new shirts with the teams name, Alley Cats. Kevin tells Alex to not let a dispute end a friendship, Alex rejoins the bowling team for the competition the next day. At the end of the competition, Todds bowling results in a 7-10 split, using her advanced knowledge of physics, Delia slowly rolls the bowling ball down the lane and wins the competition, to everyones surprise. Todd tells his father that it not seem fair for a school to be named over a game of bowling. Alex and his friends decide to compromise and name the new school Appleton Central, filming of Alley Cats Strike began on October 25,1999. In 2014, the movies English Wikipedia article gained attention for having the longest film plot summary on the English language version of the site, Alley Cats Strike at the Internet Movie Database Alley Cats Strike
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Rip Girls
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Rip Girls is a 2000 family drama Disney Channel Original Movie starring Camilla Belle. This movie is about a girl and her father and his wife who come to an island on Hawaii, they find a closer relationship to each other. During her adventures, Sydney finds friends, a new hobby with her photography. Sydney Miller, a 13-year-old girl who revisits her homeland of Hawaii, discovers her own inner strength through surfing and other island riches. During her time in Hawaii, she finds out why her father made her come back, a hotel chain wants to buy the land and close off the beaches to surfers. Sydney learns more about her past, and she sees the beauty of the island, when she learns the truth about her new friends and after having a huge fight with her friend, Sydney threatens to sell the land. When she is about to sign, she sees her friends, in 2001, Camilla Belle and Stacie Hess received nominations at the 22nd Young Artist Awards, for Best Performance in a TV Movie, Leading Young Actress and Supporting Young Actress, respectively. Rip Girls at the Internet Movie Database
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Miracle in Lane 2
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Miracle in Lane 2 is a 2000 Disney Channel Original Movie starring Frankie Muniz, Rick Rossovich, Molly Hagan, and Patrick Levis. The film tells the story of Justin Yoder, a young boy born with spina bifida. He lives with his parents and brother, Seth, who is a jock. Due to his disability, he wants to find something he can do that will make him feel special. For guidance, he turns to God, who in the film form as a famous race car driver Bobby Wade. After discovering a soapbox racer in his neighbors shed, Justin hopes to participate in sport and eventually finds a love. To accommodate his disability, his father and their neighbor, Vic, meanwhile, Seth feels that his parents focus too much on Justin rather than giving both equal treatment. However, he has a change of heart when Justin crashes during a race, the Yoders are confronted with the idea that Justins involvement with the sport may be hazardous to his health. At the end of the film, he asks God if people are perfect when they go to Heaven, in response He shows him a vision of it where there are people with and without wheelchairs, all together, to which he happily replies perfect. As a tribute to Justin, live footage of him is shown before the closing credits, Satriano, Nick Satriano Humanitas Prize,2001 - Childrens Live-Action Category, Joel Kauffmann, Donald C
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Stepsister from Planet Weird
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Stepsister from Planet Weird is a Disney Channel Original Movie which was released in June 2000. Megan Larson is a teenage girl. Her workaholic father Fred and windsurfing mother Kathy are divorced, and Megan longs for them to get back together, but the thing she wants the most is for popular boy Cutter to be her boyfriend, so her dearest wish is to be in with the popular group. Things begin to get out of control when her mother meets Cosmo Cola and he has a pretty and intelligent daughter named Ariel who is even weirder than her dad. Mostly she complains that she hates the town where they live, worst of all for Megan, the kids at school think that the way Ariel behaves is cool and revolutionary. Her teachers believe her mannerisms are poetic, and she gets to sit at the popular table on her first day. What Megan does not realize is that Ariel and her father are aliens from Planet Circulon, because Ariels father was a freedom fighter on their home planet, they escaped to Earth, leaving behind their home, Ariels mother, and Ariels boyfriend Fanul. On her home planet, every citizen is a bubble that floats carelessly. She hates everything on Earth, her name, the way the wind blows, the solid objects and the people. Every time I look at this horrid vehicle, the flesh, the flat face. Ariel and Megan become enemies, despite Megans mothers engagement to Ariels father, as Ariel and Megan realize that they both want to break up their parents, they agree on a temporary alliance to achieve their common goal. However, none of their plans work out, after a while, Megan begins to suspect something especially unusual is occurring and discovers that Ariel and Cosmo are aliens. Fanul and his father arrive to take Ariel and Cosmo home from Circulon. As Ariels race is vulnerable to wind, she, Megan, Cutter, Fanul and Trevor are able to defeat the emperor with a leaf blower and hairdryers. After the emperor is defeated, Cosmo marries Kathy, Megan and Fanul develop feelings for each other while Ariel and Cutter do the same, and Ariel and Megan become best friends. Fanul plans to home and take over as ruler after the death of his father. Fanul promises to return to Earth occasionally to visit Megan, Megan and Ariel realize that even though they are from different worlds they are a lot alike
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Quints
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Quints is a 2000 Disney Channel Original Movie starring Kimberly J. Brown as the older sister of a set of quintuplets. Fourteen-year-old Jamie Grover is a child who resents the constant attention her parents give her. Her wish for less attention is finally granted when her mother becomes pregnant, however, her mother gives birth to quintuplets and Jamies life changes dramatically and she begins to resent her new siblings. She also discovers she might not want the things for herself that her parents want for her. Because of the demands of having five babies in the house, her parents focus all of their attention on the quints, Adam, Becky, Charlie, Debbie, and Eddie. Jamies parents hire a babysitter named Fiona to help take care of the quints, to help cover costs, Jamies parents agree to let their babies star in a diaper commercial. Albert, a representative for the company, works with Jamies parents to devise ways to keep the quints popular. Jamie reluctantly joins her schools art class, taught by Mr. Blackmer, when Adam becomes ill, Jamie discovers that she really does not mind the babies and that she does have the courage to let her parents know she has dreams of her own. Adam recovers, and Jamies parents fire Albert after he suggests replacing Adam with a baby for an upcoming event. Throughout the movie, Jamie attempts to fool the audience and she addresses the audience, makes an absurd statement, then usually laughs and says that it is untrue. She explains this by stating that she is just making sure people are paying attention
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The Other Me
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The Other Me is a 2000 Disney Channel Original Movie about a teenager who accidentally clones himself as a genius and ends up using his clone to pass school. The movie is the 23rd Disney Channel Original Movie and is based on the book Me Two by Mary C, will Browning is a seventh grade student who does not perform well in school. His father says that if Will does not improve soon, he will be spending the summer at Camp Spartacus, to make up for the grades, Will orders a science project from an organization, Ocean Pups. Two scientists, Victor and Conrad, who work there want to move out and they make a breakthrough when they create a process of cloning they call hyper-cloning. But when they leave, a cloned lab mouse escapes, and it then accidentally knocks over the cloning formula, which drips through a crack in the floor and all over an Ocean Pups kit. When Victor and Conrad find out about Will ordering the kit, they decide to spy on the house, while working with the kit, Will accidentally clones himself after stirring the water with his comb that has his hair on it that contains his DNA. While the clone reads Wills science book, he learns from it. When the clone goes to school, he does not act exactly like Will, Twoie starts getting better grades not because he is a lot smarter than Will but because Twoie isnt afraid to try, and makes amends with Wills old rival, Scotty DeSota. When the family visits Wills grandfather, who never talks to anybody and they talk and catch up for a long time. When Twoie tells Will about school and Grandfather, Will starts missing school, one day, Will is so jealous of Twoie that Will decides to go to school himself. When he gets there, he sees what a reputation he has now and his peers would greet Will and Desota invited him to a baseball game. When his so-called girlfriend asks if he would like to go to the dance, Victor and Conrad keep an eye on Wills house and find out that Will hyper-cloned himself. They mistakenly think that Twoie going to the dance is the real Will Browning, while the real Will spies on them, he finds that Twoie has only a few hours before he turns into Ocean Pup eggs, as clones have a four-week lifespan. He grabs a mixture that will save Twoie, but Voctor and Conrad spot Will, during the dance, Twoie goes to the bathroom after promising that he will show his friends a new dance move and tells himself that it is time to leave. When Will comes, his friend, Chuckie, asks him how he changed his clothes so fast, will explains that he cloned himself. Suddenly, Victor and Conrad kidnap Will and take him to the warehouse, Twoie comes and rescues him, having learned his location from the telepathic connection they share, and helps him keep the scientists down. Victor and Conrad are defeated by Chuckie and Scotty who show up to help Twoie and they apparently called the cops as well, as they arrive soon afterwards along with Wills parents. Twoie is dying, but Will is able to feed him the mixture he took from the scientists that gives him a normal lifespan, will explains everything to his family, and the scientists are arrested
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Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire
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Moms Got a Date with a Vampire is a 2000 comedy horror film that aired as a Disney Channel Original Movie. 13-year-old Adam Hansen and his best friend Duffy have some tickets for the Headless Horseman concert, Chelsea and Adam will do whatever it takes to get their mother out of the house, even if it includes a chance meeting with a very mysterious man named Dimitri. Everything seems to go according to plan, until their 8-year-old little brother Taylor realizes that Dimitri is a vampire and his brother and sister do not believe Taylor, so he calls Malachi Van Helsing, the vampire hunter. The night that their mother out with Dimitri and Taylor follows them. Not wanting their mother to come home and extend their punishments, they follow Taylor and find him outside the restaurant that Lynette, Adam and Taylor make the vampire do the spoon test. Afterwards, Adam discovers that Taylor was right about Dimitri being a vampire when he looks in the mirror, so, along with Chelsea, he sets out to stop Dimitri, who puts their mother in a trance and plans to take her to his mansion. Meanwhile, Malachi Van Helsing arrives and begins to hunt down Dimitri, only to discover that he was being followed by Taylor, Dimitri goes to bite a powerless Adam, but he and Chelsea call out to Lynette, breaking her trance. She throws Dimitri into his coffin, Van Helsing seals the coffin with silver-plated nails and explains that he plans to send it to a place where its always sunny. Finally, they all decide to go back to the Hansen house for breakfast as the sun is finally rising, the strict no nonsense divorced mother of Chelsea, Adam, and Taylor. Matthew OLeary as Adam Hansen, the 13-year-old protagonist, the lazy middle child of the family. Robert Carradine as Malachi Van Helsing, the eldest child of the family. The evil vampire of the film, Moms Got a Date with a Vampire currently holds a 50% rating on audience score at Rotten Tomatoes. Vampire film Moms Got a Date with a Vampire at the Internet Movie Database
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Phantom of the Megaplex
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Phantom of the Megaplex is a 2000 Disney Channel Original Movie, produced by the Disney Channel. With a title and concept very loosely based on The Phantom of the Opera, the central character, played by Taylor Handley, is Pete Riley, the 17-year-old assistant manager of the theater. He has to cope with malfunctioning equipment, disappearing staff, and he investigates to see if the troubles are coincidence or the result of sabotage by a mysterious phantom. The senior manager of the theater is played by Rich Hutchman, stocker, and Lisa Ng appear as other employees of the theater. Caitlin Wachs and Jacob Smith play the characters younger siblings. 17-year-old Pete Riley works as the assistant manager at the local 26-screen grand megaplex, rumor has it that the megaplex is haunted by a phantom, someone who was trapped inside the old movie theater that was demolished to build the current megaplex. Wolfgang Nedermeyer, the owner of the megaplex, is to be among the guests, Pete dumps his siblings in a movie so he can focus on setting up for the premiere, but problems begin to pop up all through the megaplex. The other movies begin to suffer mishaps, which Karen and Bryan realize are all related to the titles of the films being shown, Pete, Karen, and Bryan work together and discover that the rumored phantom is behind these acts of sabotage. Through online spoilers, Bryan and Karen are able to learn the movies plot, the phantom is revealed to be Shawn, who Nedermeyer immediately fires, however, Shawn explodes with anger as he did all this so Nedermeyer would finally notice him. Shawn is then offered partnership by the producer of Midnight Mayhem to make a movie based on his exploits - Phantom of the Megaplex, Nedermeyer offers Pete the job of senior manager at the megaplex, something Pete has always wanted. Though Pete tells Nedermeyer that hed be honored, he turns down the job, George proposes to Julie, as per suggested by Bryan who said a 3 star ending was needed to wrap things up. As everyone enters the theater, Movie Mason explains to Bryan that he never once believed in the Phantom of the Megaplex, however. Both enter the theater as an employee, known for her horrifying tales, Taylor Handley as Pete Riley, 17-year-old assistant manager of the theater. Jacob Smith as Bryan Riley, Petes perceptive 12-year-old brother, Caitlin Wachs as Karen Riley, Petes 13-year-old sister. Corinne Bohrer as Mrs. Riley, Petes mother, john Novak as George, Mrs. Rileys boyfriend. Mickey Rooney as Movie Mason, elderly movie fan and his family opened the old theater before the megaplex was built. When the theater closed down and the opened, Mason thought that he worked there. He comes to the every day and is welcomed and well liked by all the staff
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The Ultimate Christmas Present
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The Ultimate Christmas Present is a 2000 Disney Channel Original Movie starring Brenda Song and Hallee Hirsh. It premiered December 1,2000 on Disney Channel as part of their Christmas season, two teen girls, Samantha Elizabeth Sam Kwan and Allison Rachel Allie Thompson find a weather machine at a shack in the woods. After learning of its controls, they use it to make it snow in Los Angeles and it turns out that the weather machine belongs to Santa Claus and he informs Mrs. Claus about this. To help Santa Claus, she sends two elves, Crumpet and Sparky, a weather man named Edwin Hadley tries to figure out whats causing the strange weather and track it down to keep himself from getting fired by his boss Mr. Martino. Edwins boss expects Edwin to not act all boring and get down to the bottom of the sudden snow appearances, when Sparky and Crumpet catch up to Santa Claus, they find a footprint of a type of girl shoes that are only made in California. Santa and the set off to interrogate each girl on the naughty list that wears those type of shoes. Soon, the snowstorm gets so large that it spreads to San Francisco and Allies dad gets snowed in at the airport, Allie tries to turn it off, but over night it turns itself back on and it creates a blizzard. They are unable to make it do anything now, Samantha shares sad stories with Allie about how her dad would spend Christmas, while Allie is sad about her dad missing Christmas. During the blizzard, Mr. Martino tells Edwin to handle the story about the cast of Friends not being able to leave their studio, Edwin manages to trace the weather phenomenon to Allies house. Due to traffic, he manages to borrow a guys snowmobile and they managed to get proof that hes Santa Claus when he tells the girls all about them and the weather machine. Edwin arrives at Allies house and manages to gain entry, Edwin does manage to find the weather machine after Allies brother found it and berated him for messing with it. Upon being cornered in Allies room by the girls, Santa, during his escape, he sees the guy he borrowed the snowmobile from and crashes into a chocolate making factory where he falls into a chocolate vat. The group follow his trail into the factory and follows Edwins chocolatey trail. Sparky follows him up into the raftings where he falls into a box of cotton candy, the group then reclaims the weather machine. At Santas shack, he works to find the problem in the weather machine. With Sam and Allies help, they manage to fix the weather machine, Santa then tells Edwin that there is another type of job that deals with weather. Crumpet and Sparky pick up Allies dad just in time for Christmas morning, meanwhile, Hadley gets a job in the Antarctic teaching scientists about the weather. Hallee Hirsh - Allison Rachel Allie Thompson Brenda Song - Samantha Elizabeth Sam Kwan Hallie Todd - Michelle Thompson Spencer Breslin - Joey Thompson Greg Kean - Steve Thompson John B, the Ultimate Christmas Present at the Internet Movie Database
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Zenon: The Zequel
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The film is also the first sequel to be produced under the Disney Channel Original Movie banner. It is revealed that Greg broke up with Zenon, the space station is now under command of the military and General Hammond is assigned to command the station. Commander Plank, very furious, comes out of his office, with the help of Aunt Judy, the girls track down Proto Zoa, who has gone into hiding due to a bout of writers block, and convince him to join them. With Margie, Aunt Judy, Nebula, Orion the Alien Patrol lab guy, Proto Zoa and her mother, however, their ship runs out of fuel and they nearly crash to their deaths on the moon, but the aliens show up and rescue them. After getting the charts, they then tow the ship back to the station where General Hammond refuses to relent, saying the space station is too badly damaged. Margie stands up to him for once, but it isnt enough until the aliens return, with the space station saved, Commander Plank and General Hammond are assigned to command it together. Plank and Aunt Judy get married at a wedding at which Proto Zoa plays and its also realized that the aliens were actually trying to communicate with Zenon, not Proto Zoa, and were using the transmission of his old concert to do so. Margie convinces her father to let her stay and she and Zenon become friends while Zenon gets a love interest in Orion
