# Twice Upon a Christmas
***Twice Upon a Christmas*** is a 2001 film directed by Tibor Takács. A sequel to the 2000 PAX television film, *Once Upon a Christmas*, it stars most of the original cast from the first film. The filming location was in Vancouver, British Columbia.
After Kristin saved Kyle\'s life, she has been living with the Morgan family ever since. Unfortunately, she cannot remember her past, and has lost her immortality. Bill proposes to her, but she declines, as she says she doesn\'t feel right about the decision without knowing her family. At the North Pole, Rudolpha is secretly selling pieces of the North Pole worldwide to get rid of the North Pole, and to make Santa Claus feel he is being replaced. As Kristin is preparing her wedding with Bill, Brittany and Kyle, Bill\'s two children, order from Rudolpha\'s business, and unknowingly receive Kristin\'s doll from when she was a little girl. After Kristin sees the doll, she immediately remembers her past, as flashbacks are shown of her life until then (with many using footage from *Once Upon a Christmas*). After Kristin sees Rudolpha\'s commercial, she and the children discover Rudolpha\'s plan, and head for the North Pole to try to save Christmas. With a special announcement the pieces are returned and Christmas saved. Rudolpha must ride since the deer have not come back. Kristen and Bill get married.
`Actor`
`Role`
Kathy Ireland
Kristin Claus
John Dye
Bill Morgan
Matthew Walker
Santa Claus
Mary Donnelly Haskell
Rudolpha Claus
Wayne Thomas Yorke
Uncle Johnny
Robin Avery
Sandman
Rebecca Toolan-doka
Clara Claus
Kirsten Prout
Brittany Morgan
James Kirk
Kyle Morgan
Arturo Gil
Wahoo
Rachelle Carson
Harley Jones
Liz Torres
The Tooth Fairy
Sean Allan
Donald Trump
CBS Home Entertainment through Paramount Home Entertainment released the film on DVD November 7, 2006.
- List of Christmas films
- Santa Claus in film


# The Musician at the Dragon Citadel
***The Musician at the Dragon Citadel*** () is a 2010 Vietnamese film based on Nguyễn Du\'s poem for the Millennial Anniversary of Hanoi directed by Đào Bá Sơn. The film won the Golden Kite Prize for Best Feature Film, as well as Best Director, Actor, Editing, and Costuming.
Poet Tố Như meets a musician and they fall in love. But he already has a wife, and doesn\'t want to take her even when he meets her several times and even has sex with her later. He meets her when she is old, feeling sorry, writes a poem for her, and she jumps into a well that nobody wants to drink the water later.
- Nhật Kim Anh \... *Cầm*
- Quách Ngọc Ngoan \... *Tố Như*
- Trần Lực \... *Nguyễn Khản*


# The Croods: A New Age
***The Croods: A New Age*** (also known as ***The Croods 2***) is a 2020 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. The sequel to *The Croods* (2013) as well as the second film in *The Croods franchise*, it was directed by Joel Crawford (in his feature directorial debut) with a screenplay by Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman, Paul Fisher, and Bob Logan from a story by the original directors Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders. The film features the returning voices of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener, Clark Duke, and Cloris Leachman alongside new additions to the cast including Peter Dinklage, Leslie Mann, and Kelly Marie Tran.
A sequel to *The Croods* was first announced in 2013, with directors DiMicco and Sanders returning to helm the film. Its development continued through 2014 and 2015 until its cancellation in November 2016 due to the doubts in response to Universal\'s acquisition of DreamWorks. However, the project was revived in 2017 with Crawford replacing Sanders and DiMicco as director. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, much of the final animations were done from the crew\'s homes.
*The Croods: A New Age* was theatrically released in the United States on November 25, 2020. It grossed over \$215 million worldwide against its \$65 million budget and received generally positive reviews, with critics calling it \"a decent-enough follow-up\" and praising the cast. The film was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film.
A flashback shows the death of Guy\'s parents when he was a child. As they drown in tar, they tell him to find somewhere called \"tomorrow\". He goes on a long journey and meets a young Belt before taking him along for the ride. This eventually leads up to events of meeting Eep and her family.


# The Croods: A New Age
The Croods, along with Guy and their pets Chunky and Douglas, are still searching for a place to settle down, all the while surviving many dangerous creatures along the way. Grug is repeatedly annoyed at Eep and Guy\'s blossoming romance, fearing they may separate from the rest of the pack. This fear intensifies after Guy proposes to Eep that they find their own \"tomorrow\" without the rest of the Croods. As Grug walks off in anger, he soon comes across a giant wall and leads the whole pack to it. On the other side lays an idyllic paradise-like land rich in agriculture that the Croods quickly become enamored with. However, they are soon caught in a net and are released by the owners of the land, a couple called Phil and Hope Betterman, who were best friends with Guy\'s parents before their deaths and Guy\'s disappearance. The Bettermans welcome the Croods to their giant tree-home as house guests, where they meet their daughter and Guy\'s old friend, Dawn, who immediately befriends Eep. Life with the Bettermans becomes degrading for Grug as the Bettermans soon reveal themselves to be technologically advanced, better-mannered, and visibly condescending toward the Croods. Believing that Guy is better off with them they hatch a scheme to get Guy to leave the Croods. Phil eventually takes Grug to his secret man-cave, a sauna-like place behind some waterfalls, where he manipulates him into believing Guy should leave their pack in exchange for Eep staying with her family. Meanwhile, Hope angers Ugga by insulting her family\'s lifestyle and attempts to manipulate her like Phil, but fails, thus leading to Ugga and Grug\'s decision to leave.


# The Croods: A New Age
Sometime after this, Eep discovers that Dawn has never left the inside of the wall. Relating this to the solitude she faced in her cave, Eep convinces Dawn to use Chunky to escape the land and jump their wall for a joyride that ends with a bee stinging Dawn and having her hand swell up. When Eep takes her back home, Guy, upon finding out, chides her for her recklessness, ending with him insensitively calling her a \"cave-girl\". At dinner, tensions rise between the parents as well as Guy and Eep, especially when Dawn\'s swelling is revealed, culminating in Grug accidentally revealing his and Phil\'s deal. Having had enough, the Croods decide to leave in the morning, but Guy decides to stay after he and Eep have a falling out. Soon, the land is attacked by \"Punch Monkeys\" (monkey-sized but with human-like strength) on account of Grug and Ugga eating a bunch of bananas the Bettermans hoard around their land and have forbidden Grug from eating. Phil reveals he sends the Punch Monkeys the bananas every day so that they leave the Bettermans alone and since Grug and Ugga ate them, the Punch Monkeys become upset and kidnap Grug, Phil, and Guy and take them to their homeland.


# The Croods: A New Age
As the men are taken, the remaining Croods and Bettermans leave to rescue the men, but eventually get marooned on an island full of Wolf-Spiders, wolves with the characteristics of arachnids. During their time together, Hope finally snaps, lashing out on the Croods and running off. However, during an encounter with the Wolf-Spiders, she learns the error of her ways and accepts the Croods. When they learn the location of the men, they name themselves \"The Thunder Sisters\", after a female-exclusive clan Gran was in when she was younger. At the Punch Monkey home, Grug, Guy and Phil soon discover that Phil\'s diversion of a river to irrigate his farm unknowingly deprived the Punch Monkeys of their water supply and that the Punch Monkeys need the bananas not only to eat, but to offer to a large primate monster called the Spiny Mandrilla in hopes of appeasing it. The Punch Monkeys make Grug and Phil fight gladiator-style to see who will be the sacrifice and when they wear each other out, they exchange their bitter feelings with each other, making Guy regret what he said during his and Eep\'s fallout.
Soon, the Punch Monkeys dress all three men as bananas to sacrifice to the giant Spiny Mandrilla. Grug and Phil apologize for their poor behavior, and for putting pressure on Guy, but just as they are about to be eaten, the Thunder Sisters show up to rescue them. A long and perilous battle ends with Guy and Eep on a giant skull-chandelier where they reconcile and use it to defeat the Spiny Mandrilla by using fire to sever the ropes and send the skull falling into the abyss below. The Spiny Mandrilla climbs back out of the depths and grabs Eep by her \"peanut toe\", which she uses as a prosthetic phalange, and pulls it off, sending the monster plummeting to its demise and allowing the families to escape.
With their differences finally settled, the Bettermans allow the Croods to live in their land as neighbors, with Guy realizing that Eep is his \"tomorrow\". Guy and Eep soon move into one of the Bettermans' bedrooms together, which Grug approves of, and the Punch Monkeys become their next door neighbors.


# The Croods: A New Age
- Nicolas Cage as Grug Crood, a caveman and the patriarch of the Croods.
- Emma Stone as Eep Crood, a cave girl, Grug\'s oldest daughter and Guy\'s girlfriend.
- Ryan Reynolds as Guy, a cave boy with an advanced modern mindset who lives with the Croods and is Eep\'s boyfriend.
  - Gabriel Jack voices a younger Guy.
- Kelly Marie Tran as Dawn Betterman, Phil and Hope\'s daughter and only child who befriends Eep and is Guy\'s old friend.
- Peter Dinklage as Phil Betterman, the patriarch of the Bettermans who had a history with Guy\'s parents.
- Leslie Mann as Hope Betterman, the matriarch of the Bettermans and Phil\'s wife.
- Catherine Keener as Ugga Crood, a cavewoman and Grug\'s wife.
- Clark Duke as Thunk Crood, a cave boy and Grug\'s son.
- Cloris Leachman as Gran, an old cavewoman who is Ugga\'s mother and Eep, Thunk, and Sandy\'s grandmother.
- Kailey Crawford as Sandy Crood, a cave girl and Grug\'s 5-year-old daughter. Her vocal effects were previously performed by Randy Thom in the last movie.
- Chris Sanders as Belt, Guy\'s pet sloth.
- James Ryan as Sash, Dawn\'s pet sloth.
- Melissa Disney as Guy\'s Mom, the unnamed mother of Guy who died in the tar pit.
- Joel Crawford as Guy\'s Dad, the unnamed father of Guy who died in the tar pit.
- Januel Mercado as Shaman Monkey, the head of the Punch Monkeys.
- Ryan Naylor as Creepo Monkey, a creepy-eyed member of the Punch Monkeys.
- Artemis Pebdani as Additional voices
ADR group provided by Richard Gould, Januel Mercado, Ryan Naylor, James Ryan, Randy Thom and director Joel Crawford.


# The Croods: A New Age
### Development
In April 2013, DreamWorks Animation announced a sequel to the film *The Croods*, with Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco set to return as directors and writers. According to DeMicco, the sequel would focus on Ugga and motherhood, making it \"the first chapter of society,\" expanding on the first film, which he said is about \"the last chapter of the caveman.\"
On June 12, 2014, it was announced that the sequel would be released on November 3, 2017. On August 21, 2014, the film was pushed back to December 22, 2017. On August 9, 2016, nearing Comcast\'s impending acquisition of DreamWorks Animation, 20th Century Fox removed the film from the release schedule. The film would be instead released by Universal Pictures sometime in 2018. On August 23, 2016, it was reported that Kevin and Dan Hageman were hired to rewrite the script.
On November 11, 2016, DreamWorks announced that production for the sequel was cancelled. According to reports, there had been doubts about proceeding with the project before Universal\'s acquisition of DreamWorks, and it was DreamWorks\' decision to cancel the film. However, in September 2017, DreamWorks and Universal revealed that the film was back in production with a release date scheduled for September 18, 2020. It was also revealed that both DeMicco and Sanders would not be returning. In October 2017, it was reported that Joel Crawford would replace them as director and Mark Swift would replace both the first film\'s producers Jane Hartwell and Kristine Belson as the producer of the film. Production of the film was shifted to work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.


# The Croods: A New Age
### Casting
In September 2013, it had been confirmed that Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, and Ryan Reynolds would reprise their roles in the sequel as Grug, Eep, and Guy from the first film. On May 21, 2015, Leslie Mann and Kat Dennings had joined the voice cast. Mann would lend her voice to an upscale mother of a rival family named Hope Betterman, while Dennings was set to voice her daughter, Dawn. It was also reported that Catherine Keener and Clark Duke were reprising their roles as Ugga and Thunk. In September 2017, it was confirmed that the original actors would reprise their roles. In October 2018, Peter Dinklage was cast in the film to voice the character Phil Betterman. In October 2019, DreamWorks revealed that Kelly Marie Tran had replaced Dennings as Dawn.

### Music
In September 2020, it was announced that Mark Mothersbaugh had composed music for the sequel. The original 2013 feature was scored by Alan Silvestri.

### Theatrical
*The Croods: A New Age* was theatrically released in the United States on November 25, 2020, by Universal Pictures, which was then followed by a PVOD release on December 18. It was previously scheduled to be released on November 3, 2017, December 22, 2017, September 18, 2020, and December 23, 2020. The studio spent about \$26.5 million promoting the film. In the United Kingdom, the film was released on July 16, 2021.

### Home media
*The Croods: A New Age* was released by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment on Digital HD and on DVD, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D and 4K Ultra HD on February 23, 2021. All the releases include two new short films *Family Movie Night: Little Red Bronana Bread* and *Dear Diary: World\'s First Pranks*, the award-winning short *To: Gerard,* deleted scenes, an audio commentary and more. It was also released by Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in Australia, along in a 2-movie pack with its 2013 film. It was also released on DVD and Blu-Ray on October 18, 2021, by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment in the UK.


# The Croods: A New Age
### Box office and VOD
, *The Croods: A New Age* has grossed \$58.6 million in the United States and Canada, and \$157.3 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of \$215.9 million. It became the first animated film released during the COVID-19 pandemic and the first family film since *Sonic the Hedgehog* to break the \$200 million mark.
In the United States, the film made \$1.85 million from 2,211 theaters on its first day, \$2.7 million on its second (a 47% increase, opposed to the normal 40% drop seen on Thanksgiving Day), then \$4 million on its third. It went on to debut to \$9.7 million in its opening weekend (a five-day total of \$14.3 million), the biggest opening weekend since *Tenet* over two months prior. The film remained in first the following two weekends, grossing \$4.4 million and \$3 million, respectively. It was dethroned by *Monster Hunter* in its fourth weekend. That same weekend, the film was the most-rented on FandangoNow, Apple TV, and Google Play. In its fifth weekend the film grossed \$1.7 million over the Christmas frame. It also remained number one on all digital rental platforms. IndieWire estimated the film had made about \$20 million from PVOD sales up to that point (of which Universal would keep 80% of). The film continued to hold steady in subsequent weekends, and regained the top box office spot in its 12th week of release with \$2.7 million.
The film earned \$3 million on its opening day in China, which is the third biggest for a Hollywood film in 2020, behind *Tenet* and *Mulan*. It went on debut to \$19.2 million in China, and a total of \$21.6 million internationally. By its third weekend of release the film crossed \$46 million (RMB 300 million) in China, becoming the second-biggest Hollywood title of the year in the country behind *Tenet* (\$66.6 million). It made \$3.2 million in its fourth weekend of international play, pushing its running total above \$57 million.


# The Croods: A New Age
### Critical response
Critics noted *The Croods: A New Age* as \"a decent-enough follow-up\" and commended the cast. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, of critics\' reviews of the film are positive, and an average rating of . The website\'s critics consensus reads: \"Another agreeable outing for the titular prehistoric clan, *The Croods: A New Age* may be the missing link for parents between more elevated family-friendly fare.\" According to Metacritic, which calculated a weighted average score of 56 out of 100 based on 26 critics, the film received \"mixed or average reviews\". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"A\" on an A+ to F scale (the same score as the first film), and PostTrak reported 83% of those gave the film a positive score, with 59% saying they would definitely recommend it.


# The Croods: A New Age
### Critical response
Ben Kenigsberg of *The New York Times* gave a mixed-to-positive review, writing \"No one would call it a huge leap on the evolutionary ladder, but the animated sequel *The Croods: A New Age* is slightly funnier than its serviceable 2013 predecessor.\" Michael O\'Sullivan of *The Washington Post* rated the film 2/4 stars, describing it as a \"larky, slightly lunatic film\". Lindsey Bahr at *Associated Press* rated the film 2.5/4, stating \"it might not be as novel as the first, but it\'s essentially harmless, if a little chaotic, fun for kids and doesn\'t need to be anything more than that\". Kate Erbland of *IndieWire* gave the film a \"C+\" and said, \"It\'s a little silly, very colorful, and entertaining enough to deliver some good-hearted ideas that aren\'t beholden to any period in time. Worth nearly a decade of push-pull to get here? Probably not, but on its own merits it\'s a charming throwback\". Alonso Duralde of *TheWrap* gave the film a positive review and wrote, \"You may never have thought you needed or even wanted a sequel to *The Croods*, but you may find it a pleasant surprise in a year where most of the surprises have been anything but.\"
In 2021, LA Weekly placed it in the \"Top 10\" list.

### Accolades
`Award`
`Date of ceremony`
`Category`
`Recipient(s)`
`Result`
`American Cinema Editors Awards`
`April 17, 2021`
`Best Edited Animated Feature Film`
`James Ryan`
`Annie Awards`
`April 16, 2021`
`Best Animated Feature`
`Mark Swift`
`Best Animated Effects in an Animated Production`
`Amaury Aubel, Domin Lee, Alex Timchenko, Andrew Wheeler and Derek Cheung `
`Best Character Animation in a Feature Production`
`Rani Naamani `
`Best Character Design in a Feature Production`
`Joe Pitt`
`Best Storyboarding in a Feature Production`
`Evon Freeman`
`Best Voice Acting in a Feature Production`
`Nicolas Cage as Grug`
`Art Directors Guild Awards`
`April 10, 2021`


# The Croods: A New Age
### Accolades
`Excellence in Production Design for an Animated Film`
`Nate Wragg`
`Cinema Audio Society Awards`
`April 17, 2021`
`Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Motion Picture – Animated`
`Tighe Sheldon, Christopher Scarabosio, Leff Lefferts, Alan Meyerson, Richard Duarte and Scott Curtis`
`Golden Globe Awards`
`February 28, 2021`
`Best Animated Feature Film`
`Joel Crawford`
`Hollywood Music in Media Awards`
`January 27, 2021`
`Best Original Score in an Animated Film`
`Mark Mothersbaugh`
`Best Original Song in an Animated Film`
`"Feel the Thunder" – Alana Haim, Danielle Haim, Este Haim and Ariel Rechtshaid`
`Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards`
`April 16, 2021`
`Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Animation`
`Brian Chumney, Leff Lefferts, Randy Thom, Rick Hromadka, Dominick Certo, Pascal Garneau, Mac Smith, Doug Winningham, Dee Selby, Jonathan Greber, Ronni Brown, Shelley Roden, John Roesch and Janna Vance`
`Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards`
`March 13, 2021`
`Favorite Animated Movie`
*`The Croods: A New Age`*
`Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie`
`Ryan Reynolds`
`Emma Stone`
`Visual Effects Society Awards`
`April 6, 2021`
`Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature`
`Joel Crawford, Mark Swift, Betsyf Nofsinger and Jakob Hjort Jensen`
A follow-up animated series, titled *The Croods: Family Tree*, was announced and set to be released simultaneously on Peacock and Hulu on September 23, 2021. Tran reprises her role as Dawn, while A. J. Locascio reprises his role as Thunk from *Dawn of the Croods*. The new voice cast features Amy Landecker as Ugga, Kiff VandenHeuvel as Grug, Ally Dixon as Eep, Artemis Pebdani as Gran, Darin Brooks as Guy, Matthew Waterson as Phil, and Amy Rosoff as Hope.


# She's Funny That Way (film)
***She\'s Funny That Way*** is a 2014 screwball comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and co-written with Louise Stratten. It stars Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Kathryn Hahn, Will Forte, Rhys Ifans, and Jennifer Aniston. It marked the first feature film Bogdanovich directed in 13 years since *The Cat\'s Meow*.
It received a limited release in the United States and was released through video on demand on August 21, 2015, by Lionsgate Premiere.
Broadway director Arnold Albertson---under the alias \"Derek\"---hires \"Glo Stick\", a call girl whose real name is Izzy Patterson, despite being married with two children. Izzy dreams of becoming an actress, and \"Derek\" offers her \$30,000 to quit being a call girl and pursue her true goal. She is not the first escort he has done this for. Lead actor Seth Gilbert sees Arnold kissing Izzy as she leaves his hotel room.
Arnold\'s wife Delta Simmons is the star of his new play *A Grecian Evening*. Izzy, keeping her promise to \"Derek\", shows up to audition for a part in the play as a call girl, unaware that Derek/Arnold is the director. Impressed, playwright Joshua Fleet becomes attracted to Izzy and invites her out to dinner, despite the fact that he is dating Jane Claremont, who happens to be Izzy\'s therapist. Meanwhile, Judge Pendergast is another client of Izzy\'s, and also a patient of Jane. He is obsessed with Izzy, and hires private investigator Harold Fleet, who happens to be Joshua\'s father, to follow her.
After the auditions, everyone ends up at the same Italian restaurant. Harold sees Izzy with his son Joshua. Jane arrives with her client Judge Pendergast---who both see Joshua with Izzy. Jane punches Joshua in the face and storms out the restaurant, quickly pursued by Judge Pendergast. Izzy sees Arnold and tries to escape out of the bathroom window, but Delta catches her and brings her back into the restaurant. Izzy\'s cover is almost blown when Seth arrives with a co-worker of Izzy\'s.


# She's Funny That Way (film)
Although Arnold is initially unsure, Izzy is eventually given the role. While shopping, Delta discovers that Arnold has been hiring escorts when Margie, another former escort Arnold helped, thanks him profusely and indiscreetly. Joshua learns about Izzy when Judge Pendergast confronts the two of them while they are on a date; she runs off before he can talk to her. Arnold invites Izzy back to his hotel room to talk. Delta turns to Seth, who has long professed his love for her, for comfort, but finds another call girl hiding in his bathroom. She then storms into Arnold\'s room, only to find Izzy hiding in his bathroom.
Everyone shows up to the first table read the next day, despite the tension. Delta makes a point of kissing Seth passionately while rehearsing. Izzy\'s father shows up looking for the men who paid his daughter for sex. Jane shows up to cause a scene, and identifies Arnold, Seth, and Joshua as Izzy\'s clients. During the commotion, Seth and Jane catch each others\' eye.
The play opens to great acclaim. In an interview some time later, Izzy says that it closed in a week because wives from Long Island are not interested in seeing a play about call girls. Nevertheless, she caught the attention of a man from Hollywood, and has achieved success as a film actress since. She and Joshua broke up; she is now dating Quentin Tarantino. Seth and Jane are still dating. Judge Pendergast was arrested for solicitation; his wife is now dating Harold Fleet. Arnold now works for a charity giving large sums of money to women\'s causes.

### Cameo appearances
- Tatum O\'Neal
- Jake Hoffman
- Graydon Carter
- Quentin Tarantino
- Michael Shannon


# She's Funny That Way (film)
### Development
*She\'s Funny That Way* originated from a script written by director Peter Bogdanovich and ex-wife Louise Stratten around 1999 and 2000. Bogdanovich and Stratten, who were in financial distress at the time trying to buy back *They All Laughed* (1981), decided to write a comedy to uplift their spirits. While writing the script, Bogdanovich was inspired by an incident in Singapore during the time he was filming *Saint Jack* in 1978, where he was able to talk to many prostitutes after hiring them for his film. He would give them more money than their salary for them to leave the prostitution business. The script was originally titled *Squirrels to the Nuts*, but due to many people misinterpreting it as a children\'s film, Bogdanovich changed it to *She\'s Funny That Way*. (\"Squirrels to the Nuts\" is a line used frequently in the film, lifted from the 1946 film *Cluny Brown*.) Bogdanovich originally wrote the role of Arnold Albertson for John Ritter, but due to his death, he shelved the project. Bogdanovich later became friends with Owen Wilson, introduced to him by Wes Anderson, and he decided to change aspects of the character of Albertson: all of the physical gags intended for Ritter were changed to verbal jokes to suit Wilson. In 2010, Bogdanovich\'s protégés---Anderson and Noah Baumbach---offered their backing to get the film made, agreeing to serve as executive producers.


# She's Funny That Way (film)
### Casting
When the script was originally written, Bogdanovich envisioned John Ritter, Cybill Shepherd and co-writer Louise Stratten in the lead roles. In 2012, when the film was officially announced, Wilson, Brie Larson, and Olivia Wilde were signed on in lead roles. Larson was to play the call girl-turned-ingenue actress and Wilde would play the role of her therapist. Jason Schwartzman was also rumored to be in negotiations to play Wilde\'s playwright boyfriend. Due to production delays, Wilson is the only actor to remain with the project. In February 2013, it was announced that Jennifer Aniston would replace Wilde in the role of the therapist, the same time Kathryn Hahn, Cybill Shepherd, and Eugene Levy were announced as cast members. Aniston was initially offered the part of Delta Simmons, Arnold Albertson\'s wife, but she favored the role of the therapist, in which she was cast. Despite the commencement of filming on July 11, 2013, Imogen Poots and Richard Lewis were announced for roles of the ingenue and her father on July 22, with Will Forte taking the role of a playwright two days later. The same week, the casting of Joanna Lumley, Debi Mazar, Rhys Ifans, Lucy Punch, Ahna O\'Reilly, and Jake Hoffman was set.

### Filming
Principal photography lasted 29 days, commencing on July 11, 2013, in New York City.

### Music
On July 15, 2014, Edward Shearmur was hired to score the music for the film, replacing Stephen Endelman, who had already recorded music for the film by the time of the announcement.
*She\'s Funny That Way* premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival on August 29, 2014. On September 12, it was bought by Clarius Entertainment at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. A screening at the Tokyo International Film Festival was scheduled for late October. In January 2015, the film was screened to the Palm Springs International Film Festival.


# She's Funny That Way (film)
### Music
The film was originally scheduled for a May 1, 2015, release in theaters nationwide, but Clarius Entertainment pulled the film from the schedule. However, on June 2, 2015, Lionsgate Premiere acquired the film after Clarius Entertainment dropped the film for unknown reasons. The film was released in the United States on August 21, 2015, in select theaters and through video on demand.
In 2020, a copy of Bogdanovich\'s original cut of the film, still titled *Squirrels to the Nuts,* was found on eBay. In the wake of Bogdanovich\'s death in January 2022, the cut was shown at New York\'s Museum of Modern Art beginning on March 28, 2022.
The film received mixed reviews from American critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 44%, based on reviews from 96 critics, with an average rating of 5.27/10. The site\'s critical consensus states: \"*She\'s Funny That Way* is an affectionate, talent-filled throwback to screwball comedies of old---which makes it even more frustrating that the laughs are disappointingly few and far between.\" Metacritic gives the film a score of 45 out of 100, based on reviews from 25 critics, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\".

### Accolades
`Accolade`
`Category`
`Recipient`
`Result`
`Ref`
Jupiter Award
Best International Actress
Jennifer Aniston


# The Rebel (1932 film)
***The Rebel*** () is a 1932 German historical drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt, Edwin H. Knopf, and Luis Trenker and starring Trenker, Luise Ullrich, and Victor Varconi. The film\'s art direction was by Fritz Maurischat. It was made by the German subsidiary of Universal Pictures, with location shooting in Austria and St. Moritz, Switzerland. Interior scenes were filmed at the Tempelhof Studios. A separate English language version *The Rebel* was released the following year. The film is part of the Mountain film genre.
Trenker stated that the film\'s plotline of a Tyrolean mountaineer Severin Anderlan leading a revolt against occupying French forces in 1809, during the Napoleonic Wars. The greatest Tirolean patriot Andreas Hofer was a proto-type of \"Severin Anderlan\" (both died in the same year!).. Trenker was designed to mirror what was happening in contemporary Germany as it rejected the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. In 1933 there was published Luis Trenker\'s novel, *Der Rebell. Ein Freiheitsroman aus den Bergen Tirols*.
Trenker later made a second film about the Tyrolean Rebellion *The Fire Devil* in 1940.


# Witch from Nepal
***Witch from Nepal*** (奇緣) is a 1986 Hong Kong supernatural film directed by Ching Siu-tung. The film stars Chow Yun-fat as Joe Wong, an architect on vacation in Nepal with his girlfriend, Ida (Yammie Lam). Joe injures his leg as in a hospital where he has dreams of a beautiful woman with magical powers. Joe is later in a hospital in Hong Kong with his leg infected, finding that the woman from his visions named Sheila (Emily Chu) magically heals him. Sheila is a good witch who gets Joe to return to Nepal to fight a cat-like demon with supernatural powers.


# Witch from Nepal
The film was part of a trend of supernatural film productions from Hong Kong about Chinese tourists in exotic South Asian locations. It grossed \$4.2 million Hong Kong dollars on its theatrical run in Hong Kong. The film was nominated for two awards at the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards, where director Chin Siu-tung won the Best Action Choreography Award.
While on vacation in Nepal, Joe Wong (Chow Yun-fat) and his girlfriend, Ida (Yammie Lam), ride an elephant when Joe falls and hurts his knee and is sent to a hospital. In a local hospital, Joe has visions of a beautiful veiled woman with mystical powers. Joe\'s leg later becomes infected and he finds himself in a hospital in Hong Kong, and finds the woman from his dreams earlier named Sheila (Emily Chu) magically healing his legs and granting him superhuman powers such as the ability to make large leaps through the air. Sheila reveals to Joe that she is a witch and that he has become a chosen one, to help defeat a demon for a Himalayan tribe who had their temple destroyed by the creature. Joe and Sheila begin to have an affair. Joe eventually meets up with the demon (Dick Wei) and the two have a clash at a temple. Sheila eventually sacrifices herself to save both Joe and Ida.
*Witch from Nepal* was director Ching Siu-tung\'s second film as a director after *Duel to the Death* (1983).
*Witch from Nepal* follows a trend of Hong Kong films at the time to have a plot about Chinese tourists in exotic South Asian locations such as Nepal, Thailand or Borneo such as *The Seventh Curse*. The film is a mixture of genres that include gothic horror, romance, comedy and mystery.
*Witch from Nepal* was released in Hong Kong on 27 February 1986. grossed a total of HK\$4,285,113 The film has been released under several different English titles including *The Nepal Affair*, *Affair from Nepal* and *A Touch of Love*.
At the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards, the film was nominated for Best Art Direction (James Leung) and Best Film Editing (Peter Cheung). Ching Siu-tung (Along with other three choreographers such as Philip Kwok, Alan Chui Chung-San and Lau Chi Hou) won the award for Best Action Choreography, beating other films nominees including *Righting Wrongs* and *Peking Opera Blues*.

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# Bird Box (film)
***Bird Box*** is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror thriller film directed by Susanne Bier and written by Eric Heisserer, based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Josh Malerman. The film follows the character Malorie Hayes, played by Sandra Bullock, as she tries to protect herself and two children from entities which cause people who look at them to die by suicide.
*Bird Box* had its world premiere at the AFI Fest on November 12, 2018, and began a limited release on December 14, before streaming worldwide on Netflix on December 21, 2018. The film received mixed reviews from critics and went on to become the most-watched film on Netflix within 28 days of release.
In a post-apocalyptic world, Malorie Hayes informs two young children that they will go down a river in a rowboat. She sternly instructs them not to remove their blindfolds, or they will die.
Five years earlier, a pregnant Malorie is visited by her sister, Jessica. A television news report about unexplained mass suicides begins spreading across Europe and Asia. After a prenatal checkup, Malorie witnesses a woman smashing her head repeatedly into the hospital window. Others start behaving suicidally as well, causing panic and chaos. Afterward, Malorie hurries to leave the scene with Jessica. While steering away from the hospital, Jessica sees something inexplicable that drives her insane and deliberately crashes her car. She then walks in front of a speeding truck, killing herself.
As Malorie flees on foot, a woman invites her into a house for safety. The woman then sees the entity before going into a trance and sitting inside a burning car. A passerby, Tom, picks up Malorie from the street into the house, where six other people are taking shelter. One survivor, Charlie, says that humanity has been judged, and the appearance of demonic entities is the sign of end game. He also mentions that those spiritual beings have different names in various cultures, such as Aka Manah, Surgat, Huli Jing, and Púca. Those in the house cover all the windows and blindfold themselves whenever they go out. Greg, the house\'s owner, commits suicide after volunteering to test if it is safe to observe them indirectly through surveillance cameras.


# Bird Box (film)
A new pregnant survivor, Olympia, arrives. Half of the group goes to the grocery store Charlie worked at to restock their dwindling food. They drive there in a blacked-out car using GPS navigation system. Malorie gets three pet birds along with their supplies. She notices the entities\' presence agitates the birds. Later, Charlie\'s coworker attacks the group, attempting to force them to look at the creatures. However, Charlie sacrifices himself to save the others. They make it back to the house. Sometime after, Felix and Lucy steal the car and drive away.
Olympia lets a stranger named Gary into the house against Douglas\'s wishes. Cheryl knocks Douglas out, and the others lock him in the garage. As Olympia and Malorie go into labor simultaneously, Gary works on drawings of the creatures he has seen before. He knocks Tom unconscious and opens the garage door, exposing Douglas to the entities. Gary goes upstairs and rips all the windows\' blinds. Olympia fails to look away, and after witnessing the creature, she dives out the window, killing herself. Malorie hides with both newborn babies under a cover while Gary forces Cheryl to look at the entities, causing her to stab herself in the neck with a pair of scissors. Douglas escapes the garage and blindly attempts to kill Gary with a shotgun, wounding him in the process, but Gary kills him with the scissors. Tom begins to recuperate shortly after, fighting Gary over the gun. After Malorie hears a few gunshots, Tom approaches her to say everything is fine.
Five years later, Tom and Malorie live together with the children, called \"Boy\" and \"Girl\". They receive transmissions from survivors informing them of a safe community hidden in the forest, accessible only by boat along the river. As they leave their house, a group of unblindfolded survivors attacks them. Tom distracts the assailants so Malorie and the children can flee. He uncovers his eyes and shoots all the attackers, but after seeing the entities, he kills himself.


# Bird Box (film)
Malorie and the children go blindfolded down the river on a boat, carrying the birds to warn them of the entities. They encounter several obstacles, including an unblindfolded survivor and river rapids. Soon after the three reach shore, they are separated when Malorie accidentally slides down a hill. The entities use Malorie\'s voice to trick the kids into taking off their blindfolds. Malorie regains consciousness and tells the children where to find her. They eventually reach the community, a former school for the blind. Malorie releases the birds and finally gives the children names, Tom and Olympia, admitting that she is their mother.

### Development
The film rights to *Bird Box* were optioned by Universal Pictures in 2013, prior to the book\'s release. Scott Stuber and Chris Morgan were set to produce the film, with Andy Muschietti attached as director. Eric Heisserer was in negotiations to write the script. In July 2017, after Stuber became head of the feature film division of Netflix, it was announced that Netflix had acquired the rights to the book and would develop the film, with Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich starring. Susanne Bier was announced as the director.

### Casting
In July 2017, Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich were cast in the film as Malorie Hayes and Douglas. In October 2017, Danielle Macdonald, Trevante Rhodes, Jacki Weaver, Sarah Paulson, Rosa Salazar, Lil Rel Howery, and Amy Gumenick joined the cast. In November 2017, Machine Gun Kelly and David Dastmalchian were also added.

### Filming
Principal photography began in California in October 2017. Wilderness scenes were shot on the Smith River in the far northern part of the state. The house exterior is from a place in Monrovia. Filming partially took place in Santa Cruz, and the final scene was shot at Scripps College in Claremont.
The production used live birds during filming as much as possible, replacing them digitally for sequences when they became \"agitated\".


# Bird Box (film)
### Filming
The film uses footage of the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, which caused the death of 47 people in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, on July 6, 2013. The stock footage was purchased from a vendor and Netflix stated it would stay in the movie even after a request to remove it from survivors of the disaster. Netflix later removed the footage and replaced with an outtake from a canceled U.S. TV series. The same footage was also used in another Netflix production, *Travelers*, but has since been removed.

### Visual effects
The visual effects were created by Industrial Light & Magic and supervised by Marcus Taormina.

### Music
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (of Nine Inch Nails) were hired to score the film. The soundtrack album itself was released about two weeks after the release of the film, on January 1, 2019. It was first released for sale only on Nine Inch Nails\'s website, and later on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify and other platforms. The released version consisted of ten tracks, totalling an hour and six minutes of music. In a statement on the Nine Inch Nails website, Reznor said:
The full version of the soundtrack was released on November 22, 2019, exclusively on a special edition vinyl box set (with a digital download at purchase). The full version contains 13 more tracks and an extra hour of music, resulting in a two-hour (plus six minutes), 23-track album.
In December 2019, Reznor criticized *Bird Box* producers over their use of his and Ross\'s music, and the film editor over making an inadequately low mix of the music in the film, calling the experience a \"fucking waste of time\".
The film had its world premiere at the AFI Fest on November 12, 2018. However, due to the Woolsey Fire that hit California and out of respect for the victims of the Thousand Oaks shooting, Netflix cancelled AFI Fest\'s red carpet coverage scheduled for the premiere. The film began a limited theatrical run on December 14, 2018, before streaming on Netflix on December 21, 2018.


# Bird Box (film)
### Critical response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website\'s critical consensus reads, \"*Bird Box* never quite reaches its intriguing potential, but strong acting and an effectively chilly mood offer intermittently creepy compensation.\" On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 51 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\".
Brian Tallerico from *RogerEbert.com* said, \"Most of the problems with *Bird Box* come back to a thin screenplay, one that too often gives its characters flat, expository dialogue and then writes itself into a corner with a climax that\'s just silly when it needs to be tense.\" Amy Nicholson, in a review for British newspaper *The Guardian*, gave a negative appraisal, awarding the film two out of five stars and concluding that \"as the film staggers on in its quest to give us entertainment satisfaction or death, we\'re tempted to with the movie\'s first victim, a woman in a tracksuit banging her head against the glass, ready to get this painful sight over with.\" Writing for *Forbes*, Sarah Aswell described the movie as one \"that embraces everything about the (horror genre) formula, both good and bad---this movie has moments of true, delightful, fright, but it also has some of the corniness and shallowness that many horror movies can\'t shake.\" Aisha Harris of *The New York Times* found the film occasionally riveting but overall disappointing.


# Bird Box (film)
### Audience viewership
According to Nielsen, *Bird Box* was watched by nearly 26 million viewers in its first seven days of release in the United States. It also revealed that a significant part of its audience were young -- aged 18 to 34 (36%) -- female (57%), and either African American (24%) or Latino (22%). Netflix also released its own viewing figure that gave a worldwide audience of more than 45 million in seven days, with views defined by the company as the film streaming for over 70 percent of its time. The viewing figure was claimed to be the best ever for a Netflix film. This audience figure released by Netflix was met with skepticism from some analysts, who cited a lack of independent verification of the view count. In July 2020, Netflix revealed the film had in-fact been watched by 89 million households over its first four weeks of release, the second-most ever for one of their original films. A Barclays study deduced that, had the film received a traditional theatrical release, it would have grossed about \$98 million worldwide. *Bird Box* became the most-watched film on Netflix within 28 days of its release, with 282.02 million hours being viewed. It retained this position until being displaced by *Red Notice* in 2021.

### Accolades
`Award`
`Date of ceremony`
`Category`
`Recipient(s) and nominee(s)`
`Result`
`Visual Effects Society Awards`
`February 5, 2019`
`Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature`
`Marcus Taormina, David Robinson, Mark Bakowski, Sophie Dawes and Mike Meinardus`
`Artios Awards`
`January 30, 2020`
`Film – Non-Theatrical Release`
`Mary Vernieu, Michelle Wade Byrd and Jina Jay`


# Bird Box (film)
### Accolades
In Australia, Netflix originally partnered with four Twitch streamers in performing what they called a *Bird Box* challenge, in which they would play some popular video games while blindfolded. However, the challenge became widely mimicked on the Internet by individuals wearing blindfolds while trying to do ordinary activities, causing injuries to some. In response, Netflix released several messages over social media advising people not to undertake the challenge or hurt themselves. Nevertheless, in January 2019, a 17-year-old girl in a blindfold taking part in the craze drove into oncoming traffic in Utah and crashed her car, prompting state police to issue the same warning as Netflix. YouTube has responded to this issue by updating its community guidelines, and warns content creators not to put minors in harmful situations that may lead to injury, including dangerous stunts, dares, or pranks.
In July 2020, it was announced that a sequel is in development. In March 2021, it was revealed that the feature would be receiving a Spanish-language spin-off film from writers Alex and David Pastor as \"the first of multiple local-language *Bird Box* spinoffs\" set in the same universe.
- Blood List


# Once Upon a Time in Vietnam
***Once Upon a Time in Vietnam*** () is a 2013 Vietnamese action fantasy film directed by and starring Dustin Nguyen along with Roger Yuan. It was released on August 22, 2013. This is the first Vietnamese action fantasy film.
- Dustin Nguyen as Dao
- Roger Yuan as Long
- Thanh Van Ngo as Anh
- Thai Hoa as Hien
- Nguyen Hoang Quan as Hung
- Ngoc Diep as Van
- Hieu Hien as Huy
- Phi Thanh Vân as Lan
- Xuan Phat as Mr. Tinh
- Jason Ninh Cao as General
- Bui Van Hai as Deserter
- My Le as Teacher
- Kieu Mai Ly as Neighbor
- Diem Trinh as Neighbor
- Quang Hieu as Monk
- Nguyen Hau as Man on truck
- Le Kham as Man on truck


# Maazii
**Maazii** () is an Indian bollywood film, directed by Jaideep Chopra and produced by Jaideep Chopra & Narendra Singh. The title Maazii is an Urdu word meaning \"the past\".
- Sumeet Nijhawan as Tarun Singh
- Mona Wasu as Shrishti Singh
- Manish Chaudhary as Gulab Singh
- Pankaj Tripathi as Satinder Rathi
- Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub as Ashfaq
- Manav Kaushik as Satinder Bhati
- Zakir Hussain as Mahinder Singh
- Mukesh Rishi as Malhaan Singh
- Ashok Banthia as Satbeer Singh
- Devender Chaudhary as Rajinder Chaudhary
- Mohit Chauhan as Sushil Jain
- Pooja Bisht as Shanno
- Saanvi Sharma as Minal
- Vansh Chopra as Young Tarun


# Maazii
Maazii is essentially a thriller that travels from the hills of Mussoorie to the plains of western UP. It is a story about a couple Tarun (Sumit Nijhawan) and Shrishti (Mona Wasu) who have a near perfect relationship. However, by a twist of fate, an unfortunate accident occurs which brings Tarun\'s life into the limelight and turns him into a hero overnight.
The events that follow not only shatter the peaceful life of the family but also put them in grave danger. But when his daughter, Minal (Saanvi Sharma) is kidnapped at the hands of an unknown assailant, Tarun will stop at nothing to get her back safely. He must now return to his roots and find out who is wreaking havoc in his life and what is the motive behind it.
This movie is a remake of the English movie A History of Violence (2005).
The first half of the film was shot in the scenic locations of Mussourie and Dehradun, and the second half was mostly shot in the rustic and raw locations of Meerut. The flashback portion of the film was filmed in Rao Raj Vilas fort of Jat Jagirdar of Kuchesar, near Meerut. The shooting was completed within the pre-decided schedule of 31 days from 29 October to 2 November 2012. The production budget was around Rs. Four Crores.
The film was released across the country on 27 September 2013. However, being a debutorial venture without any big names attached to it, despite great critical acclaim, *Maazii* failed to get many screens. It was re-released in cinemas on 11 October 2013. In 2019, Maazii was released on Prime Video.
Despite being Jaideep Chopra\'s debut directorial, *Maazii* received good critical acclaim and his work as a director was appreciated. Renowned critic Subhash K. Jha, called it \"the shocking surprise of the season.\" He also stated that Maazii \"takes us back to the stylish thrillers of B.R. Chopra like Dhund and Ittefaq. Debutant Jaideep Chopra\'s film is well-crafted and thoughtfully scripted. It\'s an original idea executed in a gripping language. Worth a dekko for its suspenseful aura.\"


# Maazii
Rohit Vats from IBN7 gave *Maazii* a rating of 4/5 stars and was all praises for the film. He claimed that *Maazii* shows \"a glimpse of the latent potential of the gangster genre\" and was \"not to be missed\" India Today\'s Faheem Ruhani mentioned in his review that \"Director Jaideep Chopra\'s debut directorial Maazii is that pleasant surprise which hits you once in a while.\"
\"Maazii\" was also listed as one of the 10 \"small films/non-star cast films that made it big\" in 2013 in an article in DNA newspaper.
Despite good critic reviews, the film was not given many screens. In an interview, the producers of the film reported that several multiplex chains had demanded money in return for giving them shows. This led to a wave of controversy with several other producers and directors coming forward to claim that they had faced similar extortion at the hands of multiplex chains.
The music score of the film was composed by the duo Faizan Hussain-Agnel Roman, *Maazii* being their first commercial film album. Faizan Hussain is the nephew of tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain. Lyrics for the album were written by Swanand Kirkire and Arun Kumar. The preparation for the songs and selection of music started as early as May 2012. Recording of the songs began in October 2012.
The music album was launched on 30 August 2013.
`Award`
`Category`
`Recipients and Nominees`
`Outcome`
`IBN LIVE Film Awards `
`Best Independent Film 2013 `
`Jaideep Chopra for Maazii `
`Won`
`Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival 2014`
`Best Film Category`
`Jaideep Chopra for Maazii`
`Official Selection/Nomination`
`Sunset Film Festival Los Angeles 2014`
`Foreign Film Category`
`Jaideep Chopra for Maazii`
`Won "Honorable Mention"`
`Indie Film Fest California 2014`
`Foreign Independent Film Category`
`Jaideep Chopra for Maazii`
`Won "Award of Merit"`
`Indian Cine Film Festival 2014`
`Best Film Category`
`Jaideep Chopra for Maazii`
`Special Festival Mention`
`Radio Mirchi Music Awards`
`Best Raag Based Song 2013`
`Rekha Bhardwaj for Mora Jiya`
`Nominated`


# The Eternal Evil of Asia
***The Eternal Evil of Asia*** () is a 1995 Hong Kong Category III comedy horror film written and directed by Man Kei Chin. The film follows a group of friends, who on a hedonistic trip to Thailand, accidentally kill a sorcerer\'s sister, and upon arriving back home to Hong Kong, find themselves cursed.


# Ouija (2014 film)
***Ouija*** is a 2014 American supernatural horror film directed by Stiles White in his directorial debut, produced by Jason Blum, Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Bradley Fuller, and Bennett Schneir and written by Juliet Snowden and White, who previously together wrote *The Possession*. It stars Olivia Cooke, Daren Kagasoff, Douglas Smith, and Bianca A. Santos as teenagers who have unleashed spirits from a Ouija board.
*Ouija* was released on October 24, 2014, by Universal Pictures. The film was a commercial success, grossing \$103.6 million worldwide over a \$5--8 million budget, but was overwhelmingly criticized by critics, with many criticizing its performances, inconsistent tone, characters and story. A prequel, *Ouija: Origin of Evil*, was released in 2016, and was far better critically received.
Debbie Galardi recalls playing Ouija with her best friend Laine Morris as children. In the present day, Debbie throws her Ouija board into the fire, burning it. Debbie implies to Laine that something strange happened with the Ouija board. After Laine leaves, the Ouija board reappears in Debbie\'s bedroom. Debbie becomes possessed and hangs herself with Christmas lights inside her home.
Laine attends Debbie\'s wake with her boyfriend Trevor, younger sister Sarah, friend Isabelle, and Debbie\'s boyfriend Pete. The five friends meet at Debbie\'s house and use her Ouija board to try communicating with her. Strange things happen, and a presence smashes Pete\'s hand and face into a mirror. Later, the friends start finding the phrase \"hi friend\" (a message communicated during the Ouija board session) written in different places, like Isabelle\'s car window, a tunnel wall, Pete\'s desk, and Laine\'s computer. Thinking Deb is trying to communicate with them, the group has another Ouija session. They then discover that they are actually in contact not with Debbie but with a spirit calling itself \"DZ\". Laine sees the image of a little girl with her mouth sewn shut. The girl warns them to run because her mother is coming. Laine sees an old woman, and everyone flees. Laine later learns that Deb found the Ouija board in her attic and played alone.


# Ouija (2014 film)
Isabelle is possessed and killed by being smashed into her bathroom sink and cracking her skull open. Laine and Pete search Deb\'s attic and find a box of old photographs that belonged to the previous residents. While researching the previous family\'s history, they learn of a little girl named Doris Zander who went missing, and whose mother was suspected in her disappearance. Laine visits Doris\' sister, an old woman named Paulina, who is now committed to a psychiatric hospital. Paulina explains that her mother was a medium and used Doris as a vessel for the dead to speak through. Their mother went mad and sewed Doris\' mouth shut before killing her. She tells Laine that there is a secret room in the house where Laine must find Doris\' hidden body and unstitch her mouth in order for the girl to banish their mother. The remaining friends go back to the Galardi house, where Laine finds Doris\' corpse and cuts the stitches on her mouth. Doris\' mother\'s spirit protests, but Doris\' spirit appears and chases away the ghost of her mother. Pete becomes possessed and is killed in his home, appearing as a soulless ghost with his mouth stitched up.
Laine revisits Paulina and reveals that the old woman, realizing that she was in allegiance with Doris, intentionally lied. Doris was the evil entity all along and her mother was trying to stop the friends from summoning her. The Morris\'s grandmother, Nona, advises the sisters to destroy Doris\' body and the Ouija board at the same time. Doris\' ghost throws Trevor into a swimming pool covered with a plastic canopy, trapping and drowning him. Laine and Sarah return to the Galardi house cellar, where Doris captures Sarah and prepares to sew her mouth shut. Laine plays the Ouija board alone to draw the spirit\'s attention. Doris starts possessing Laine, but Debbie\'s ghost appears to help Laine defeat Doris. Sarah throws Doris\' body into the furnace, and Laine throws the Ouija board, stopping the paranormal activity. Later, Laine finds that the planchette has mysteriously appeared back at her home in her bedroom. She holds it up to her eye to look inside and the screen then cuts to black.


# Ouija (2014 film)
- Olivia Cooke as Laine Morris
  - Afra Sophia Tully as young Laine
- Ana Coto as Sarah Morris
  - Izzie Galanti as young Sarah
- Daren Kagasoff as Trevor
- Bianca Santos as Isabelle
- Douglas Smith as Pete
- Shelley Hennig as Debbie Galardi
  - Claire Beale as young Debbie
- Sierra Heuermann as Doris Zander
  - Sunny May Allison as young Doris
- Lin Shaye as Paulina Zander
- Claudia Katz Minnick as Mother / Alice Zander
- Vivis Colombetti as Nona
- Robyn Lively as Mrs. Galardi
- Matthew Settle as Anthony Morris

### Pre-production
The film was announced in May 2008 with Universal attached. At one point in 2011 Universal dropped out due to budgetary concerns. Following this it was subsequently announced that the film would be produced at a lower budget and Universal rejoined the project.
Casting was announced in November and December 2013.

### Filming
Principal photography began mid December 2013 in Los Angeles wrapped at the end of January 2014
Although shooting officially wrapped in January 2014, poor test screenings resulted in re-shoots occurring in June, which, according to Olivia Cooke, resulted in half the film being re-shot. With the reshoots, Lin Shaye was added to the film to play a newly written character, Erin Moriarty\'s character was removed from the film entirely, and new plot points were added or changed entirely. The most notable of changes included the character of Doris Zander\'s physical appearance changing from that of a burnt looking girl to a rotting, decomposing girl with stitches in her mouth.

### Theatrical
Universal released *Ouija* in the United States on October 24, 2014. A tie-in novelization for the film by Katharine Turner was released on September 16, 2014.

### Home media
*Ouija* was released in the US on DVD and Blu-ray on February 3, 2015.


# Ouija (2014 film)
### Box office
In North America, the film was released to 2,858 theatres and earned \$19,875,995 on its opening weekend (including its \$911,000 gross on Thursday preview nights and \$8.3 million on its opening day). at an average of \$7,000 per theatre, debuting at number one at the box office ahead of newly released *John Wick* (\$14.2 million). The film played 75% under-25 years old and 61% female on its opening weekend.
*Ouija* was released in five international markets and earned \$1.3 million from 234 screens. The film went to number two in Malaysia (\$545,000), number four in Taiwan (\$331,000), number two in Singapore (\$238,000) and also number four in Poland (\$137,000). In its second weekend the film earned \$5.7 million from 1,166 screens in 19 territories for a two weekend international total of \$7.7 million. It went to number one in the UK, Indonesia and the Philippines. In the UK, the film earned \$2.2 million on its opening weekend, which is the second biggest opening weekend for a horror film in 2014 only behind *Annabelle* (\$3.1 million). *Ouija* made a domestic total of \$50,856,010 and \$52,618,000 overseas, for a worldwide total of \$103,674,010.

### Critical response
According to the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 6% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 88 reviews, with an average rating of 3.2/10. The website\'s critics consensus states: \"Slowly, steadily, although no one seems to be moving it in that direction, the *Ouija* planchette points to NO.\" Metacritic, another review aggregator which assigns and normalizes scores of critic reviews, gave the film a weighted average score of 38 out of 100 based on reviews from 22 critics, indicating \"generally unfavorable reviews\". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a \"C\" grade.
The film was novelized by Katharine Turner. The novel was released on September 16, 2014.


# Ouija (2014 film)
### Critical response
The plot of the novel differs from the movie in many notable ways, containing an additional flashback sequence at the beginning of the book which occurs two months before Debbie dies, giving a more in-depth backstory to the main characters. Laine\'s father has a larger role in the novel, snapping at Sarah after she tries to sneak out of the house. There is an additional scene in the novel after the group uses the Ouija board for a second time where Sarah and Laine have a heartfelt conversation at the dinner table. There are longer sequences with Laine\'s grandmother Nona as well.
The message \"Hi friend\" from Doris in the novel appears as \"Hi frend\". When Isabelle approaches her car after work, instead of finding \"Hi friend\" written in the condensation on the inside of her car, she finds a hand print.
The characters of Pete and Isabelle also die in different ways in the novel. Pete, after seeing Doris\' spirit in his room and becoming possessed, slits his wrists with an X-ACTO knife. Isabelle, after being possessed by Doris, sits in her bathtub with a plugged-in hair dryer, electrocuting herself.
The finale of the novel differs greatly from the film. Sarah is not trapped in the altar room with Doris\' spirit as in the film, but rather Laine crawls down the passageway into the altar to get Doris\' body. While Laine is in the passageway, Sarah is left by the furnace with the Ouija board where Doris manipulates Sarah\'s arm and has it twist in unnatural positions while touching the planchette. Doris uses Sarah\'s arm to spell out \"D-I-E-F-R-E-N-D\" on the board. After throwing Doris\' body into the furnace with the Ouija board, Doris appears in spirit form as a normal girl, where her mother joins her. The two hold hands and disappear. Laine suddenly notices Debbie\'s spirit in the room. She says \"Hi friend\" to Laine. Laine asks if she is dead, but Debbie tells her everything is okay. Debbie says goodbye to Laine, and Laine falls unconscious.
The epilogue to the novel mirrors the film, with Laine finding the planchette in her room.


# Ouija (2014 film)
### Critical response
Throughout January 2015, reports of a sequel were announced. In February 2015, it was confirmed the film was in development and had no release date. Jason Blum stated \"We\'re a ways away \...\" In April 2015, it was announced that the sequel would be released on October 21, 2016. Mike Flanagan would direct and co-write the sequel with his *Oculus* co-writer Jeff Howard. The film would be produced by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form, Jason Blum, Brian Goldner, and Stephen Davis. Annalise Basso and Kaylee Procter would star in the sequel. It was then announced that *Ouija: Origin of Evil* would serve as a prequel to the first film. It was released in the United States on October 21, 2016, and unlike its predecessor, it gained far more positive reviews.
- List of ghost films
- *Jumanji*
- *Zathura: A Space Adventure*


# Burning Paradise
***Burning Paradise*** (*Foh Siu Hung Lin Ji* 火燒紅蓮寺) is a 1994 Hong Kong action film directed by Ringo Lam. The film is set in the Qing dynasty and stars Willie Chi Tian-sheng as Fong Sai Yuk and Yang Sheng as Hung Hei-kwun.
The film was a box office failure in Hong Kong.
During the Qing dynasty, young Shaolin disciple Fong Sai-yuk and his master, Chi Nun, are fleeing Manchu government agents hunting them. The two have become fugitives after the Yongzheng emperor gave orders to destroy the Shaolin Monastery for plotting to overthrow the government. While on the run, they meet a female prostitute named Tou Tou, who helps them hide. However, they are found by Manchu officer Crimson and his men. Crimson kills a wounded Chi Nun, and both Fong and Tou Tou are captured.
Fong and Tou Tou end up imprisoned at Red Lotus Temple, where other Shaolin practitioners are held captive. The prison\'s warden, Kung, is a hedonistic, power-hungry former general who forces the inmates to work as slave labor. He also booby traps the entire building to punish dissidents. To the Shaolin disciples\' anger, Kung has enlisted one of their own, Hung Hei-gun, as the foreman. Hung and Fong fight until Fong is injured by a spear thrown by Kung. Left for dead in a pit full of corpses, Fong meets Shaolin master Chi Seen, who was also thrown down there.
Meanwhile, Tou Tou is taken as Kung\'s concubine. When offered a gift by Kung, she requests that Fong be released in exchange for her servitude. Kung initially agrees, but reneges after he becomes jealous of Tou Tou and Fong\'s relationship, throwing Fong back in jail. A love triangle is also revealed between head priestess Brooke and Hung, as well as between Hung and priestess Luk. Hung is caught by Brooke for looking at an explosives stash, but she lets him go. However, Luk betrays Hung, revealing him to be a double agent using his freedom as foreman to create a map of the temple for the inmates. His ruse uncovered, Hung helps Fong free the prisoners, who kill Luk in revenge.


# Burning Paradise
The Shaolin disciples and Manchu soldiers clash, but the soldiers manage to partition and trap the disciples between gates. Fong and Hung escape the soldiers, and Hung reveals his plan to free the prisoners by blowing the traps up with explosives from a weapons storehouse. The two find Tou Tou held captive in Kung\'s bedroom, but Brooke encounters them and fights them both. She loses the fight when a broken bedframe falls on her leg and incapacitates her. A booby trap in the bed causes Fong and Tou Tou to fall into a pit, and the bedroom begins to fill with poisonous gas. Hung, grateful that Brooke spared him earlier, returns the favor and carries her out of the room before the poison can kill either of them.
Fong and Tou Tou follow the path to a catacomb of dead concubines. Meanwhile, Hung and a crippled Brooke make their way to where the explosives are stored, but a trap ends up killing Brooke. Crimson enters the catacombs and begins to fight Fong. At this point, Hung begins to detonate the explosives, causing the Manchu soldiers to panic and evacuate the temple. Fong and Crimson resume fighting in the main forge area, where Crimson is impaled by Fong\'s thrown sword and explodes. Hung, Chi Seen, and the remaining Shaolin members try to escape the temple, but are blocked off. Chi Seen asks the members to recite a sutra in front of a Buddha statue they find, but the Buddha is booby-trapped with firearms, shooting some of the disciples. A gloating, hidden Kung lures Fong and Hung to the battle arena with his voice. Meanwhile, the disciples\' kowtowing opens a small hole above the Buddha, which they widen by lighting gunpowder near the statue. As the temple collapses, Kung reveals he is a powerful martial artist, using inked paper as powerful projectiles. Fong temporarily blinds Kung with his own ink, and the two successfully kill Kung by hanging him with chains. Everyone reunites and successfully escapes the temple, and Fong begins to escort Tou Tou back to her home on horseback.
*Time Out London* referred to the film as a \"A box office disaster in Hong Kong\". After its release in Hong Kong on 27 March 1994, it grossed a total of HK\$1,819,69. The film was the 145th highest-grossing film in Hong Kong for 1994.


# Burning Paradise
The film was released direct-to-video in the United Kingdom. The film was released on DVD on 29 June 2010. The DVD contains an interview with Tsui Hark and the film\'s trailer.
*Time Out London* stated that \"Some of the acrobatic fights do seem grimly anarchic, but the endless booby traps grow tiresome and the film\'s \'dark side\' is undercut by feeble elements of humour and romance. As a genre piece: too little, too late.\" Film 4 opined that \"Lam gives the story a new twist by envisaging the temple as a kind of Quake-type fortress complete with bottomless pits, traps, poison gases and other nasties that await the two fighters who are assigned to free the monks. Some amazing cinematography and art direction lift this endeavour out of the ordinary.\" The Austin Chronicle praised the film, stating that it is \"Lam\'s bizarre direction that makes this one of the better chopsocky efforts in recent memory. He manages to make the genre\'s clichés seem brand new again, creating a considerably darker and more sinister piece than your typical martial arts picture\" and that \"Although the finale is a slight letdown, for the most part, Burning Paradise is a terrific movie that tells an old story with a new attitude.\" *Variety* referred to the film as \"the highly entertaining but uncharacteristic swordplay item\" in a review of Lam\'s later feature *The Adventurers*.
- Hong Kong films of 1994
- List of action films of the 1990s

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# Hungry Ghost Ritual
***Hungry Ghost Ritual*** (盂蘭神功) is a 2014 Hong Kong-Malaysian horror thriller film directed by Nick Cheung. The film was released on 10 July 2014 in Hong Kong and Malaysia.
After incurring debts from his failed business venture in China, Zong Hua (Cheung) returns to Malaysia after a decade\'s hiatus. The demoralised Zong Hua faces problems finding a job and tries hard to get used to things at home, including his estranged relationship with his step-father, Xiaotian, who runs a Cantonese opera troupe, and half-sister, Jing Jing (Cathryn Lee). Jing Jing is hostile towards Zong Hua as she always has the impression that the death of their mother was caused by the excessive fights between Zong Hua and his step-father.
- Nick Cheung
- Annie Liu
- Carrie Ng
- Cathryn Lee
- Lam Wai


# Speaking of Sex
***Speaking of Sex*** is a 2001 Canadian/American/French comedy film directed by John McNaughton and starring Bill Murray, James Spader, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Jay Mohr.
When a couple having marital problems see a female marriage counselor who advertises on a bus bench, she recommends that the wife see a male depression expert, who ends up initiating an affair with the wife.
- Bill Murray as Ezri Stovall
- James Spader as Dr. Roger Klink
- Lara Flynn Boyle as Dr. Emily Page
- Jay Mohr as Dan
- Melora Walters as Melinda
- Phil LaMarr as Joel Johnson, Jr.
- Megan Mullally as Jennifer Klink
- Nathaniel Arcand as Calvin
- Nick Offerman as Sheriff Panghorn
- Catherine O\'Hara as Connie Barker
The movie was filmed in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.


# Vengeful Heart
***Vengeful Heart*** () is a thriller film directed by Vietnamese-American director Victor Vu. The film was released on February 14, 2014. Starring actress Nha Phuong, actor Thai Hoa, Quy Binh, Hoang Bach, Tu Vi, Kim Xuan, Nancy Nguyen and Van Tung.
The film was based on same title play written by Thai Hoa, which used to be a best selling play at *Phu Nhuan Theater.*
The story starts as Son takes his newly wife Linh on a vacation after her heart transplant. After the transplant, Linh keeps encountering unexplainable incidents and dreaming about a strange house located in the countryside of Da Lat. 49 days later, she sleepwalks to the grave of Phuong at an isolated area, where she meets Tam who is Phuong\'s husband. Tam brings Linh back to his house while waiting for Son to pick Linh up after informing him, Linh comes to realize this is the house which she has kept dreaming about. Entering the house, she meets Phuong\'s mother - Ms. Le and Cu Hu (a friend of Phuong and Tam). Son comes to pick Linh up, in the midst of talking, it is revealed that the heart which had been transplanted for Linh is from Phuong - Ms. Le\'s daughter also Tam\'s wife. Ms. Le gets emotional, therefore she invites both of them to stay at their house to join her late daughter\'s 49-day ceremony.


# Vengeful Heart
Many weird and supernatural incidents begin to happen since they have decided to stay, Linh has more sleepwalking incidents, while Son keeps being haunted, as well as there seems to be a soul or ghost trying to warn Linh something, to the point Linh is unable to leave that house as her heart will stop beating once she does it. Finally, after being heavily haunted, Son can\'t take it anymore and confesses that he caused the accident that killed Phuong in the middle of the street, however, he was in a rush to the hospital. Son drove away after calling the police to inform the situation. The police named Sau Dung invites him to the police station for a couple of questions. Thinking everything is coming to an end, things are getting weirder as Son claims that when he drove away, Phuong was still alive and was not injured, she was just unconscious. However, the body found by the police was heavily crushed, unable to identify, later Tam confirmed it was Phuong then took her body back home for the funeral.
Cu Hu discovers that Linh\'s blood type to be O, therefore she couldn\'t be able to get transplant by Phuong whose blood type is AB. Later, Linh and Cu Hu find a funeral table with the picture of Hong - who is allegedly Tam\'s business partner. Right after knowing that Hong is missing, Cu Hu drives Linh to the flower farm where Tam is working a night shift. Linh has intuition so she insists Tam to drive her back to the abandoned house on Ma Ta Hill, which turns out Phuong is still alive and has been locked inside for months.


# Vengeful Heart
Phuong says Hong is Tam\'s mistress and they had much debt due to their failed business. Knowing Tam wouldn\'t divorce Phuong (Tam truly loves Phuong) and leave her deal with all the debts alone, Hong had secretly texted and told Phuong to go to the abandoned house on Ma Ta Hill in order to know the truth about her husband. Phuong was hiding outside and heard the full story, which little did she know that Tam hits Hong with a shovel later. Phuong terrifyingly ran away while Tam was chasing her. As she was about to get close to the outskirt of the wood, Phuong got hit by Son while carelessly crossing the road. Tam hid until Son drove away, Phuong was still alive and kept warning that she would report this to the police. Tam decided to switch Phuong and Hong\'s clothes and locked Phuong in the basement, then Tam carried barely conscious Hong to the road where Phuong got hit previously. Tam used Phuong\'s car to crush Hong until she was completely dead, then made a false statement about Phuong that she was in the accident in which her face was fully crushed. Actually, the heart Linh carries is from Hong. Cu Hu calls the police right away, however, he is hit by Tam, while Linh is chased by Tam in the woods. As she is about to reach the outskirt, Linh suddenly falls like Phuong did. Tam intends to kill Linh but the ghost of Hong shows up to save her. Being terrified to see Hong, Tam is stunned as Hong is staring at him. The police arrive and Tam tries to escape, however, he gets hit by a truck.
Phuong reconciles with her mother, Linh and Son are happy together. The movie ends with the scene in which Cu Hu is taking Phuong to sightsee on the boat. Phuong also discovers Cu Hu\'s unrequited love for her after a long time.
- Nhã Phương as Linh
- Thái Hòa as Cu Hù
- Quý Bình as Tâm
- Hoàng Bách as Sơn
- Tú Vi as Phương
- Kim Xuân as Mrs. Lê
- Nancy Nguyễn as Hồng
- Văn Tùng as Mr. Sáu Dũng
- Mã Trung as Mr. Phong
- Vy Minh as Nurse


# Vengeful Heart
The film grossed 91 billion đồng (US\$4.3m) in Vietnam. It\'s the highest-grossing Vietnamese film in 2014.


# The Legend of Qin (film)
***The Legend of Qin 3D Ancient Dragon Spirit*** (Chinese: 秦时明月3D电影龙腾万里) is a 2014 Chinese animated fantasy adventure wuxia film written and directed by Robin Shen.
An unlikely quartet - a boy, a young rebel and descendant of a reviled war criminal, a mysterious girl and descendant of the Divine Dragon and the kingdom\'s greatest warrior - cross the desert to find the hidden kingdom of Loulan to prevent Emperor Qin from awakening an ancient weapon that will return China to war. The events in the film take place before the events in The Legend of Qin (TV series).

### Background
Thousands of years ago, the supreme Goddess forged a fallen meteor into a powerful sword, to be used by Chi You to bring peace. However he became corrupted by its power and a terrible war broke out. The land was devastated by the now fearless warlord Chi You. A young, wise and courageous man, Huang Di (Yellow Emperor) led his people against Chi You with the help of the Supreme Goddess. He wielded the power of the Dragon and eventually won the war. The Supreme Goddess sealed Huang Di\'s ultimate weapon, a gem called the Dragons Soul, in Loulan in far western China. Now the Qin Emperor seeks the Demon Robot which is the last of 81 bronze giants created by Chi You.


# The Legend of Qin (film)
### Story
In a remote border town, the rebel Shaoyu and his troops are observing the actions of the Qin army. A mischievous young boy, Tianming is entrusted with a metallic ball by his Uncle Lu, machinery expert. However, he is under observation by the Qin and is attacked by the Yin Yang Priestesses of Birth and Dearth, accompanied by Gongshu Chou and his miniature machinery lizards. Tianming escapes and is saved from the Qin soldiers by Ge Nie and his sword Rainbow Abyss. Wei Zhuang and his Quicksand Group arrive to seize the metallic ball, but Ne Gie enables Tianming to escape. Tianming then encounters Shaoyu and they fight over the metallic ball which transforms into the tiny metal-eating dragon Pi Xiu. While trying to catch Pi Xiu, its owner, the mysterious Xiao Li arrives. She wears a necklace containing a blue gem called the Tears of a Goddess. All three are captured by Qin troops although Pi Xiu escapes. Pi Xiu frees the boys, and Xiao Li rescues them on a flying machinery dragon, but it crashes in the desert. Pursued through the desert by a Qin General and the Quicksand Group, the three are saved by Ne Gie. They accidentally find the secret entrance to Loulan through underground rivers in the desert.
In Loulan, the High Priestess says Pi Xiu contains the gem called the Dragon\'s Soul. She denounces Xiao Li as a descendant of the treacherous Lord Chi and she is imprisoned with the boys and Ge Nie. The Quicksand Group arrive and seize the powerful Chi You sword while Gongshu Chou gets the Dragons Soul gem which gives him control over the Demon Robot. Meanwhile Tianming, Shaoyu and Xiao Li escape and climb inside the robot to stop it. Ne Gie manages to defeat Wei Zhuang and takes the sword. With the help of Pi Xiu, Xiao Li uses the sword to immobilize the robot and save Loulan. Finally, Ne Gie reveals to Tianming that the boy\'s father asked Ne Gie to protect him. As Xiao Li\' body slowly fades away, the Priestess realizes that she was the physical embodiment of the Tears of the Goddess.
For detailed descriptions of the characters, see the List of The Legend of Qin characters.
**Voice Actor**
**Character**
冯骏骅/Feng Junhua
荆天明/Jing Tianming
沈达威/Shen Dawei


# The Legend of Qin (film)
### Story
项少羽(项羽)/Xiang Shaoyu(Xiang Yu)
季冠霖/Ji Guanlin
小黎/Xiao Li
周佶/Zhou Ji
貔貅/Pixiu
刘钦/Liu Qin
盖聂/Ge Nie
张嘉译/Zhang Jiayi
卫庄/Wei Zhuang
吴磊/Wu Lei
魔化卫庄/Possessed Wei Zhuang
/
白凤/White Phoenix
/
赤练/Crimson Lotus
黄莺Huang Ying
大司命/Priestess of Death
/
少司命/Priestess of Birth
王肖兵/Wang Xiaobing
公输仇/Gongshu Chou
程玉珠/Cheng Yuzhu
吕老伯/Uncle Lü
孟祥龙/Meng Xianglong
水果将军/General Fruit
游军/You Jun
秦国副将/Qin Vice General
狄菲菲/Di Feifei
大祭司/Loulan High Priestess
赵乾景/Zhao Qianjing
楼兰武士/Loulan soldier
钟有道/Zhong Youdao
旁白/Narrator
The film earned in China.


# Must Have Been Love
***Must Have Been Love*** (, ) is a 2012 Norwegian-Finnish romantic drama film directed by Eirik Svensson. The film was Svensson\'s directorial debut, and stars Pamela Tola and Espen Klouman Høiner. It was shot in Oslo, Helsinki, Istanbul and Berlin.
- Pamela Tola as Kaisa
- Espen Klouman Høiner as Jacob / Andreas
- Mattis Herman Nyquist as August
- Audun Hjort as Audun
- Laura Birn as Anna
- Pihla Viitala as Helmi


# Tales from the Dark 2
***Tales from the Dark 2*** (李碧華鬼魅系列　奇幻夜) is a 2013 Hong Kong portmanteau horror film directed by Gordon Chan, Lawrence Ah Mon and Teddy Robin. It was released on 8 August 2013. The film is made of three segments, *Pillow* (枕妖), *Hide and Seek* (迷藏) and *Black Umbrella* (黑傘). It follows *Tales from the Dark 1* (2013).

### *Pillow*
- Fala Chen as Chow Ching-yi
- Gordon Lam as Yun Ho-hong
- Tony Ho as Dr. Kwan
- Joman Chiang as Mabel
- Lam Chiu-wing
- Ian Yim
- Crystal Black

### *Hide and Seek*
- Chan Fat-kuk as Fatty Keung
- Sham Ka-ki as Char-siu
- Kiki Tam as Ceci
- Pam Cheung as Princess
- Ronny Yuen as Tat
- Tong Kit-leung as C Hing
- Wong Yat-ho as Sissy
- Jacqueline Chan as Little Bo
- Eric Leung as Lee
- Lai Hon-chi as Chan
- Lam Suk-ching
- Chan Lai-ling

### *Black Umbrella*
- Teddy Robin as Uncle Lau
- Aliza Mo as Zhenni
- K.K. Cheung
- Kelvin Kwan
- Vincent Wan as Bo
- Lana Wong
- Yick Tin-hung as Keung
On Film Business Asia, Derek Elley gave it a 5 out of 10 and said that \"two strong stories bookend a weak central one.\" On The Hollywood Reporter, Clarence Tsui said the \"three half-hour horror shorts attain uneven levels of scary moments, with Lawrence Lau's old-school shock-and-awe approach coming out tops.\"
- List of Hong Kong Category III films


# Chekkeranoru Chilla
***Chekkaeran Oru Chilla*** is a 1986 Indian Malayalam-language film directed by Sibi Malayil and produced by Shankar, starring Shankar himself, along with Bharath Gopi and Nedumudi Venu, while Ambika played the leading lady. The film has musical score by Shyam. The film is a remake of the Hindi film *Saaheb*, starring Anil Kapoor, which itself was a remake of 1981 Bengali film of the same name.
Unni is a promising football goalkeeper and he aims to be in the national team. He is often criticised by family members for not taking care of his family, completing his education, or making money. His sister gets a good marriage proposal, but his father does not have the financial means to fund the marriage. His sisters and brothers are stingy with money. His elder brother\'s wife tries to help but it doesn\'t help much. Unni as an unemployed youth takes responsibility in ways opportunity opens for him and that forms the climax.
- Shankar as Unni
- Ambika as Lathika aka Lallu
- Jagathy Sreekumar as Kunjuraman aka Pulluvan aka Kavi Kunjumamman
- Nedumudi Venu as Govindan, the father.
- Lissy as Chinnu, the sister.
- Bharath Gopi
- Raghavan
- M. G. Soman
- Ravi Menon
- Seema
- Sreenath
- Valsala Menon
- Sukumari
- Kannur Sreelatha
The music was composed by Shyam and the lyrics were written by Chunakkara Ramankutty.
`No. `
`Song `
`Singers `
`Lyrics`
`1 `
`"Jeevitham Shaashwatha"  `
`Unni Menon `
`Chunakkara Ramankutty  `
`2 `
`"Poonilaavudichallo" `
`Vani Jairam, Unni Menon `
`Chunakkara Ramankutty  `
`3 `
`"Snehappookkal Vaarichoodi" `
`Unni Menon `
`Chunakkara Ramankutty  `
- This is actor Shankar\'s first and only home production.


# Puli (2015 film)
***Puli*** () is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language fantasy adventure action film written and directed by Chimbu Deven. The film stars Vijay in a dual role as demon prince and his son a half-demon alongside Hansika Motwani and Shruti Haasan in the female leads. Sudeep features as the main antagonist of the film along with Prabhu and Nandita Swetha in cameo roles. Sridevi features as the possessed evil Queen.
The film\'s original Tamil version was released worldwide on 1 October 2015. The film was dubbed into both Telugu and Hindi, which were released a day later on 2 October 2015. The film received average reviews from critics with praise for the visual effects, cinematography and the performances of the cast but criticized the screenplay and execution.
The story revolves around the clash between humans and demons (Vedhalams) ruled by a demon kingdom in a fantasy world, where a human is fighting for justice for the killing of humans by demons, but his ancestry turns out to be a mystery.
*Puli* director Chimbu Deven as a cartoonist by profession, The film\'s half-demon theme was partially based on Japanese hit anime manga series *Inuyasha* similar to which, Vijay played dual roles as father being a powerful Tiger demon and son a half-tiger demon similar to the series.
*Puli* recovered its 100 investment through profit in satellite and digital rights.
Marudheeran (half tiger-demon and half human) is the adopted son of a tribal village chief named Vembunathan. From a young age, he notices the atrocities regularly committed on the villagers by soldiers from the neighbouring kingdom of Vedhalapuram called the Vedhalams, who have supernatural powers. When he becomes an adult, Marudheeran starts to protect the villagers from the Vedhalams, because of which he is well respected by the villagers.


# Puli (2015 film)
Marudheeran falls in love with Pavalamalli. One day, she is kidnapped by a group of Vedhalams, who then ransack the village and also kill Vembunathan. Marudheeran, along with his close friends Kodangi and Sama, begins a journey to Vedhalapuram. During the journey, Marudheeran rescues Manthagini, the princess of Vedhalapuram, from a panther. That time Princess Manthagini falls in love with Marudheeran. This is noticed by Thalapathy Jalatharangan, the evil-minded demon, Commander-in-Chief of Vedhalapuram. On the pretext of being medicine makers, Marudheeran, Kodangi, and Sama enter the Vedhalapuram palace, where they meet Yavanarani, the cruel Queen of Vedhalapuram who is also a sorceress. She allows them to stay at the palace, and soon Marudheeran wins the support of the Queen and the love of Manthagini with his fighting prowess and resilience. Yavanarani announces the engagement of Marudheeran with Manthagini, and both get married.
Later, Marudheeran finds out that he himself is a half Vedhalam (half demon). Marudheeran was the son of Pulivendhan (powerful tiger-demon) and Pushpa (human princess), Pulivendhan was the late prince of Vedhalapuram, Yavanarani\'s younger brother and Manthagini\'s uncle. When he stood up to Jalatharangan, who used to terrorise the citizens of Vedhalapuram with the help of his henchmen, Jalatharangan killed him and his wife, Pushpa. Marudheeran also finds out that Yavanarani is actually a puppet Queen under the influence of evil magical power emanating from Jalatharangan\'s ring. Due to the evil magical influence, Yavanarani developed magical powers as well as her tyrannical behaviour. She performs yearly Kanya Puja to boost her magical powers. After Yavanarani performs the Kanya Puja for the 18th consecutive year (this time on Pavalamalli), Jalatharangan has planned to eliminate her and take over the throne.


# Puli (2015 film)
Marudheeran also finds out that he will transform into a Vedhalam (demon) if he stops taking the demon power suppression medicinal leaf, that he was consuming from his childhood. Marudheeran transforms to a demon and fights Jalatharangan and kills him, avenging his father\'s death. Still, before he dies, he opens his ring, releasing all the evil magical power so that Yavanarani could continue to rule Vedhalapuram as a tyrantess without his control after his death. Marudheeran realises that the Queen can be returned to normal only if her staff, which is the source of her magical power, is destroyed. Marudheeran and Manthagini find her performing the Kanya Puja on Pavalamalli. After a bitter sword fight with the Queen, he manages to destroy the staff, thus restoring the Queen to her normal self. In gratitude for releasing her from the evil magical influence, Yavanarani makes Marudheeran heir to the throne of Vedhalapuram.


# Puli (2015 film)
- Vijay as Marudheeran and Pulivendhan, Marudheeran's father (dual role)
- Sudeep as Senadhipathy Jalatharangan, an evil demon intending to take control of the city Vedhalapuram
- Sridevi as demon Queen Yavanarani and Pulivendhan elder sister, and her demon husband was killed by Jalatharangan to take control of her
- Shruti Haasan as a human girl Pavazhamalli, first wife of Marudheeran
- Hansika Motwani as Princess Manthagini, second wife of Marudheeran
- Prabhu as Vembunathan, foster father of Marudheeran
- Nandita Swetha as Princess Pushpa, wife of Pulivendhan, Marudheeran's original mother
- Vijayakumar as Pulivendhan and Yavanarani's father, Vedhala Mannan
- Thambi Ramaiah as Kodangi
- Sathyan as Sama
- Karunas as Sooran
- Ali as Karki Newton, the Liliput King
- Aadukalam Naren as Pavazhamalli\'s father
- Gayathri Raman as Pavazhamalli\'s mother
- Joe Malloori as Herbalist
- Robo Shankar as Albert @ Alpha
- Imman Annachi as Peter @ Beta
- Vidyullekha Raman as Einstein Kamalakshi @ Gamma
- Raveena Daha as Pulivendhan\'s sister
- Jangiri Madhumitha as Tharagamangalam
- Jasper as Jalatharangan\'s assistant
- Sugunthan as Vedhalam
- Ajay Rathnam as Pei-azhagu Kuruvi
- Junior Balaiah
- Sangili Murugan
- Vadivukkarasi
- Tinnu Anand
- G. M. Kumar
- Sampath Ram
- I. S. Rajesh
- TSR


# Puli (2015 film)
### Pre-production
Chimbu Deven was reported to be working on a \"fantasy film set in contemporary times\" in January 2011 for UTV Motion Pictures, and Dhanush was subsequently signed on to play the leading role. The film was titled as *Maareesan*, with G. V. Prakash Kumar and Kathir signed on as composer and cinematographer respectively. At the same time, the team revealed filming would start in late 2011. Hansika Motwani was confirmed to play the leading female role in the film, while Vadivelu was also reported to be a part of the cast. However, in October 2011, UTV Motion Pictures left the project citing the escalating budget and Aascar Films replaced them as producers. The project later failed to take off, and the actor and director moved on to work on other ventures. During the production of his *Oru Kanniyum Moonu Kalavaanikalum* (2014) in late 2013, Chimbu Deven restarted preliminary work on the fantasy film and narrated the script to Vijay, who expressed interest in being a part of the project. Subsequently, the project found producers in P. T. Selvakumar, Vijay\'s press relations officer, and Shibu of Thameen Films, who have previously distributed several of Vijay\'s films across Kerala. The two producers came together to form a new production house, SKT Films and announced that production would begin after the completion of Vijay\'s work in AR Murugadoss\'s *Kaththi* (2014).


# Puli (2015 film)
### Development
Although early reports suggested that A. R. Rahman would be the film\'s music composer, the team later confirmed Devi Sri Prasad had been signed. Natarajan Subramaniam chose to continue his work as a cinematographer with the film, despite his acting success in *Sathuranga Vettai* (2014), revealing he was excited to work alongside such an ensemble cast. T. Muthuraj was announced as the film\'s art director and began work alongside his commitments in Shankar\'s *I* (2014), while lyricist Vairamuthu also joined the crew. The team also picked five costume designers to take care of clothing for the actors, with Manish Malhotra, Deepali Noor, Chaitanya Rao, Siva and Sai all brought on board. Furthermore, four stunt choreographers were selected to take care of action scenes with international technicians Sang Lin and Pradit Seeluem, brought in to work alongside Sunil Rodrigues and Dilip Subbarayan. National Award winner, R.C Kamalakannan was signed on to be in charge of the film\'s animations and special effects, PhantomFx, a Chennai-based VFX company known for the movie Indru Netru Naalai, handled most of the VFX shots, and the rest were split among several studios. Chimbu Deven subsequently worked on finalising the script of the film between January and August 2014. Chimbu Deven and cinematographer Natarajan Subramaniam scouted locations in Kerala in August 2014, finalising schedules in Chalakudi and Nelliyampathy.

### Casting
In April 2014, reports suggested Kannada actor Sudeep was approached to play a parallel leading role in the film, while contrasting reports noted he would play the lead antagonist. Sudeep later confirmed his participation in the film, adding it would see him in a \"first of its kind\" role. The team then successfully signed on actress Sridevi to portray a supporting role of a princess in the film, with the actress appearing in a Tamil film for the first time in 29 years. This was her final Tamil film before her death in 2018. Another senior actor, Prabhu, also signed on after being approached by the director to portray a character role.


# Puli (2015 film)
### Casting
Chimbu Deven revealed that the film would feature two leading female roles to appear alongside Vijay. Initial reports had linked Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone to the roles, but high remuneration subsequently meant neither were signed. Shruti Haasan confirmed that she had signed the film in July 2014, making a comeback to Tamil films after a two-year hiatus following *3* (2012). Hansika Motwani was also added to the cast thereafter to portray a princess, the daughter of Sridevi\'s character. Thambi Ramaiah and Vidyullekha Raman were also selected to portray roles in the film, while comedians Sathyan, Robo Shankar and Imman Annachi joined the team in the first schedule. A press release in early January 2015 added actors Naren, Vijaykumar, Ali, Karunas and Joe Malloori to the film\'s cast. In April 2015, Nandita Swetha joined the cast to play a small and pivotal role, after Bhavana had turned down the offer. Gayathri Raman stated that she had portrayed Shruti\'s mother in the film.

### Filming
The team began filming on 10 November 2014 at the Adityaram Studios on the East Coast Road, Chennai, where a song featuring Vijay and Hansika Motwani was shot in a set replicating a castle put up by art director, T. Muthuraj. The team then set up base in Pannaiyapuram for a forty-five-day stint, with hundreds of extras and technicians gathered from neighbouring states. A second schedule continued throughout December, after which it was reported that the film was twenty per cent complete. After a Christmas break, production restarted in early January 2015, and carried on in the outskirts of the city until mid-January. Reports which suggested that the team had secured permission to film at the Mysore Palace was dismissed by the makers as speculation.


# Puli (2015 film)
### Filming
The film had begun shoot without a title and had been widely referred to in the media as *Vijay 58*. Other titles such as *Garuda*, the script\'s original name *Maareesan*, *Maru Dheeran* and *Por Vaal* were also registered by the producers, while finalising on a title. The team consequently confirmed the title as *Puli* in early January 2015, after having bought the rights from director S. J. Surya.
The film score and soundtrack was composed by Devi Sri Prasad collaborating with Vijay for the third time after *Sachein* (2005) and *Villu* (2009). The audio rights of the film were sold to Sony Music India. The album features six tracks, all of them were written by lyricist Vairamuthu.
The song teaser of \"Yendi Yendi\" sung by Vijay and Shruti Hassan, was released on 24 July 2015. The audio launch event was held on 2 August 2015. The event was telecasted live in YouTube.
Behindwoods rated the album 2.75 out of 5 and stated, \"Puli\'s music will need the grand visuals as it is programmed keeping in mind whats going to come onscreen.\" Indiaglitz gave the same rating and stated \"The album in all is racy but only in parts. The energy, which is typical of DSP seems to have dipped in his snoopiness for the choice of instruments, orchestrina of genres and classic melodies. However, most part of the album sounds just for situational numbers. Let\'s catch the complete action on the screen.\"
The first look poster was released on 21 June 2015, ahead of Vijay\'s birthday; and on his birthday, the makers revealed the teaser trailer of the film. However, the teaser was leaked hours before the official release. Despite, its leak the teaser crossed 2 million views within 45 minutes of its release. The promo song teaser of \"Yendi Yendi\" was released on 24 July 2015, in order to promote the audio launch of the film. The trailer of this film is supposed to be released on 2 August 2015, during the film\'s audio launch, but it was not confirmed by the makers.


# Puli (2015 film)
### Filming
The first trailer of the film was released through YouTube on 19 August 2015. The trailer became the first Tamil film to hit 100k likes, and also became the most liked Indian trailer on YouTube, beating the previous record held by *Kick*. The trailer also crossed 2 million views, within 49 minutes. In order to promote the film, the makers released a new promo song, featuring the music composer Devi Sri Prasad on 14 September 2015. The second trailer of the film was released on 23 September 2015. The teaser crossed 13 million views with 50k likes. The makers released an action 3D game for *Puli* on Google Playstore, Windows Store and Apple Store. A 3D game titled *Epic Clash* was released based on the characters of *Puli*.

### Theatrical
Puli was initially slated to release, coinciding with the Ganesh Chathurthi festival on 17 September 2015. But the release was postponed due to heavy work of computer graphics in the film. The makers finally zeroed on 1 October 2015, as the release date, which also coincides veteran actor Sivaji Ganesan\'s birthday and also announced that the film would be dubbed and released in Telugu and Hindi languages, both versions released on 1 October 2015 along with the Tamil version.
Tamil Nadu theatrical rights for the film were bought by Sri Thenandal films. Ayngaran International purchased the overseas rights while Thameens purchased the Kerala distribution rights. The Karnataka distribution rights were purchased by the Producer and director S. Narayan. Telugu rights were bought by SVR Cinema. North India release rights were acquired by Pahlaj Nihalani. The film was also released in China and Japan.

### Home media
The Tamil, Telugu and Hindi satellite rights of the film were totally sold for 100 crore to Indian TV channels.