# The Invasion (film)
When Carol arrives at Tucker\'s house, he and several colleagues close in on her. He explains that the changed humans, devoid of irrational emotions, are offering a better world, and asks her to join them. When Carol resists, Tucker holds her to the ground and infects her by spurting his saliva on her. She escapes and returns to Ben at the Belicecs\' house. They flee when Belicec returns with more transformed people intent on infecting anyone in the house.
Galeano and one of his assistants head to Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, where they and other scientists will attempt to find a cure for the virus. Carol and Ben separate to find Oliver, who texts his location, the apartment of Tucker\'s mother, to Carol. Carol goes there and manages to spirit Oliver away, but is again pursued by Tucker, whom she has to kill to stop.
Carol arranges to meet up with Ben, but it takes a while for him to show, and Carol almost falls asleep, but Oliver saves her. Ben arrives, but Carol finds he too has \'converted\'. He attempts to seduce her to give in to the new society that has no crime, war, or violence, but also frankly states that there is no room for people like Oliver who are immune. Carol shoots Ben in the leg and flees with Oliver. They are pursued, but finally she and Oliver are picked up by helicopter, and flown to the medical center. A vaccine is created, inoculations are made world-wide, and within a year the alien virus is eliminated. Carol and Ben reunite, Ben having no memory of the events, and society reverts to its normal emotional and violent ways.


# The Invasion (film)
### Conception
In March 2004, Warner Bros. hired screenwriter David Kajganich to write a script that would serve as a remake of the 1956 science fiction film *Invasion of the Body Snatchers*. In July 2005, director Oliver Hirschbiegel was attached to helm the project, with production to begin in Edgemere, Maryland. The following August, Nicole Kidman was cast to star in the film then titled *Invasion*, receiving a salary of close to \$17 million. *Invasion* was based on the script by Kajganich, originally intended as a remake of *Invasion of the Body Snatchers*, but Kajganich crafted a different enough story for the studio to see the project as an original conception. Kajganich described the story to reflect contemporary times, saying, \"You just have to look around our world today to see that power inspires nothing more than the desire to retain it and to eliminate anything that threatens it.\" The screenwriter said that the story was set in Washington, D.C. to reflect the theme. In August, Daniel Craig was cast opposite Kidman in the lead. The film, whose original title *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* was shortened to *Invasion* due to Kajganich\'s different concept, was changed once more to *The Visiting* so it would not be confused with ABC\'s TV series *Invasion*.


# The Invasion (film)
### Filming
Filming began on September 26, 2005 in Baltimore and lasted 45 days. Filming also took place in Washington, D.C., including in the Cleveland Park Metro station, outside the Foggy Bottom--GWU Metro station, and in Dupont Circle. The film had minimal visual effects, with no need for greenscreen work. Instead, the director shot from odd camera angles and claustrophobic spaces to increase tension in the film. In October 2006, *The Visiting* changed to the title of *The Invasion*, due to the cancellation of the ABC TV series. The studio, however, was unhappy with Hirschbiegel\'s results and hired The Wachowskis to rewrite the film and assist with additional shooting. The studio later hired director James McTeigue to perform re-shoots that would cost \$10 million and for which McTeigue would not be credited. After 13 months of inactivity, re-shoots took place in January 2007 to increase action scenes and add a twist ending. The re-shoot lasted for 17 days in Los Angeles. During the re-shooting, Kidman was involved in an accident, while in a Jaguar that was being towed by a stunt driver and was taken to a hospital briefly. Kidman broke several ribs, but she was able to get back to work soon after being hospitalized.


# The Invasion (film)
### Musical score
In May 2007, composer John Ottman recorded the musical score for *The Invasion*, using heavy synthesizers combined with a 77-piece orchestra intended to create \"otherworldly foreboding and tension\". The music was also designed to have an avant-garde postmodern style, with atmospheric and thrilling action elements.
*The Invasion* was originally intended to be released in June 2006, but it was postponed to 2007. The film was released on August 17, 2007 in the United States and Canada in 2,776 theaters.
The music in the trailer is called \"Untitled 8 (a.k.a. \"Popplagið\")\" by Sigur Rós.
The film grossed \$5,951,409 over the opening weekend. *The Invasion* grossed \$15,074,191 in the United States and Canada and \$24,727,542 in other territories for a worldwide gross of \$40,170,558 .
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, *The Invasion* holds an approval rating of 19% based on 163 reviews, with an average rating of 4.36/10. The critical consensus reads: \"*The Invasion* is slickly made, but it lacks psychological insight and thrills.\" On review aggregator Metacritic, *The Invasion* received an average score of 45 out of 100.
Roger Ebert of the *Chicago Sun-Times* called it \"the fourth, and the least, of the movies made from Jack Finney\'s classic science fiction novel.\" Owen Gleiberman of *Entertainment Weekly* wrote that it was \"a soulless rehash\...The movie isn\'t terrible; it\'s just low-rent and reductive.\" Joanne Kaufman of *The Wall Street Journal* added, \"With all the shoot-outs, the screaming, the chases, collisions and fireballs, there isn\'t much time for storytelling.\"


# The Invasion (film)
### Musical score
Manohla Dargis of *The New York Times* criticized the film, writing: \"The latest and lamest version of *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* might have been an accidental camp classic if its politics weren\'t so abhorrent and the movie didn\'t try to hide its ineptitude behind a veil of pomposity.\" Paul Arendt of the BBC wrote: \"Having established an effectively creepy mood in the first half, the film eventually degenerates into a muddled mess, with Nicole and Daniel Craig dodging zombies while popping amphetamines in a desperate effort to stay awake. We know how they feel.\" Maitland McDonagh of *TV Guide* called the film \"a frantic mess that opens with a scene plucked from the film\'s third act that smacks of having been moved up to pacify audiences too restless for a slow build.\"


# Fong Sai-yuk (film)
***Fong Sai-yuk*** (, a.k.a. ***The Legend of Fong Sai-yuk*** or simply ***The Legend***; released in the Philippines as ***The Prodigal Fighter***) is a 1993 Hong Kong action-comedy film directed by Corey Yuen and produced by Jet Li, who stars as Chinese folk hero Fong Sai-yuk. The film won the Hong Kong Film Award and Golden Horse Award for best action choreography. The film received positive reviews, particularly praising Josephine Siao\'s acting and the action choreography. The film had a sequel, *Fong Sai-yuk II*, released later the same year in 1993.
The brash and ambitious Fong Sai-yuk meets the beautiful Lui Ting-ting during a track and field competition and falls in love with her. Ting-ting is the daughter of Tiger Lui, a hot-headed hooligan. Lui stages a martial arts competition for interested men to participate and win his daughter\'s hand in marriage. The contestant must defeat Lui\'s wife, Siu-wan, in order to win. Fong joins the contest at his friends\' urging and defeats Siu-wan. He catches a glimpse of his future bride, who is actually a servant to replace Ting-ting, who had gone missing during the contest. Fong decides to forfeit the match and leaves.
Fong\'s mother, Miu Tsui-fa, enters the contest in disguise as a man to help her son regain his lost pride. She defeats Siu-wan by knocking her off the scaffold, but catches her as she falls and they land safely on the ground. After that intimate moment together, Siu-wan becomes romantically attracted to Miu without knowing that Miu is actually a woman in disguise. Lui then forces Miu to marry his daughter. To save his mother from embarrassment, Fong marries Ting-ting on behalf of his \"brother\" (his mother in disguise as a man), and is confined in his father-in-law\'s house. He is unaware that his bride is actually his love interest and they fight in the dark. They discover each other\'s identities eventually.


# Fong Sai-yuk (film)
Miu manages to persuade Lui to let her son return home. Just then, Fong\'s father, Fong Tak, returns home from a trip. Fong discovers that his father is a member of the Red Flower Society, a secret society seeking to overthrow the ruling Qing dynasty. While Fong Tak is having a conversation with fellow members, they are ambushed by the Governor of Nine Gates and his soldiers. The Governor demands that Fong Tak hand over the name list of the society\'s members, but he refuses. Just then, Fong Sai-yuk and his mother show up, and Fong fights with the Governor and holds him off until his parents have escaped.
Fong and his parents hide in their in-laws\' house to evade the authorities, but the Governor visits Lui\'s house and recognises them. In the ensuing fight, Fong Tak is captured while Siu-wan dies from a gunshot wound. The Governor stages a public execution of Fong Tak to lure Fong Sai-yuk into a trap. Fong lies to his mother that his father has been rescued and decides to save his father alone without letting her know. He attempts to storm the execution ground and fights with the Governor to save his father. At the critical moment, Miu appears with the Red Flower Society\'s members and their leader, Chan Ka-lok. They defeat the Governor and his men and succeed in freeing Fong Tak. In the end, Fong Sai-yuk becomes Chan\'s godson and joins his godfather on their quest as they ride towards the horizon.
Jet Li (pictured) portrayed Fong Sai-yuk and produced the film.
Sources:
- Jet Li as Fong Sai-yuk
- Josephine Siao as Miu Tsui-fa
- Vincent Zhao as the Governor of Nine Gates
- Michelle Reis as Lui Ting-ting
- Paul Chu as Fong Tak
- Sibelle Hu as Siu-wan
- Chen Sung-young as Lui Lo-fu (Tiger Lui)
- Adam Cheng as Chan Ka-lok


# Fong Sai-yuk (film)
*Fong Sai-yuk* was a box office hit on Hong Kong, grossing HK \$30,666,842. In the Philippines, the film was released as *The Prodigal Fighter* by Viking Films on December 2, 1993. A sequel, *Fong Sai-yuk II*, was released in the same year.

### Home media
In the United Kingdom, the film (released as *Jet Li\'s The Legend*) was watched by viewers on television in 2004, making it the year\'s tenth most-watched foreign-language film on television (below nine other Hong Kong action films). *Fong Sai-yuk II* (released as *The Legend II*) drew UK viewers the same year, adding up to a combined UK viewership for both films in 2004.
In Hong Kong, Corey Yuen and Yuen Tak won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Action Choreography at the 13th Hong Kong Film Awards. Josephine Siao and Zhang Yao-zong were nominated for best actress and best editing respectively as well. At the 1993 Golden Horse Awards, Peter Cheung won the award for Best Editing, while Corey Yuen and Yuen Tak won the award for best action choreography.
The film received a positive review from *Time Out London* who referred to the script as \"cobbled together\", but praised actress Josephine Siao, noting \"a show-stopping culmination of three decades of fine work in the Hong Kong cinema\". The *Austin Chronicle* praised the film\'s fight choreography as the \"most breathtakingly choreographed fight scenes witnessed in years\", and noted the liberated female characters, calling them \"a refreshing change of pace from years past, when women were frequently used as either cookie cutter stereotypes or the requisite damsels in distress\". *TV Guide* gave the film four stars, praising both Siao and Jet Li\'s roles and Corey Yuen\'s direction stating \"it\'s astonishing to find that the director also helmed the ridiculous Stateside kung fu fest *No Retreat, No Surrender* (1986), Jean-Claude Van Damme\'s film debut; on home ground, he proves a filmmaker of consummate skill and style\".


# Fong Sai-yuk (film)
### Home media
In 2014, *Time Out* polled several film critics, directors, actors and stunt actors to list their top action films. *Fong Sai-yuk* was listed at 84th place on this list under its title *The Legend*.
- Jet Li filmography
- List of Hong Kong films of 1993


# Visible Secret 2
***Visible Secret 2*** () is a 2002 Hong Kong film directed by Abe Kwong and stars Eason Chan and Cherrie Ying.
A man with the ability to see ghosts begins to suspect that his wife may be possessed.
- Eason Chan
- Cherrie Ying
- Roger Kwok
- Jo Kuk
- Joe Cheung
- Law Lan
- Sheila Chan
- Sum Sum
- *Visible Secret* (2001)


# Thru the Moebius Strip
***Thru the Moebius Strip*** () is a Hong Kong--produced 3D-CGI feature film made in Mainland China.
The story is about the coming of age of a 14-year-old boy who grew up refusing to accept the loss of his father. He reaches the planet Raphicca 27.2 million light years away to find that his father is a prisoner in a kingdom of giant aliens who believe in magic and a medieval code of chivalry. In the midst of a raging battle between good and evil, Jac rescues his father, his new-found family of aliens, the planet of Raphicca, and ultimately, the universe.
The film was produced in Shenzhen, China by the Institute of Digital Media Technology (IDMT). The project began with 200 animators in 2000 and grew to employ more than 400 by the end of production. Unlike traditional Chinese films, the movie was dubbed into English first. Previewed at the Second International Animation and Cartoon Festival at Hangzhou, China on April 27 and May 3, 2006, The film was based on an original story and designs by Jean \"Moebius\" Giraud.
Name
English dubbing actor
`Narrator `
`Andrea Miller`
`Young Jac `
`Michelle Ruff`
`Simon Weir `
`Mark Hamill`
`Caroline Weir `
`Peri Gilpin`
`Young Ragis `
`Daisy Torme`
`Shepway `
`Jean Simmons`
`Jac Weir `
`Chris Marquette`
`Allana `
`Kellie Martin`
`Prince Ragis `
`Jonathan Taylor Thomas`
`King Tor `
`Michael Dorn`

### Box office
The film earned at the Chinese box office.

### Critical reception
The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005 and received good reviews for the animation work. However film critics have emphasized that the story was mostly catered to the west with eastern elements added in, making it difficult to satisfy any group of audience in any one particular region.
- History of Chinese animation
- List of computer-animated films
- List of animated feature films


# Samurai Reincarnation
`is a 1981 Japanese fantasy film written and directed by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Sonny Chiba, Kenji Sawada, and Hiroyuki Sanada. It is based on the novel of the same name by Futaro Yamada.`\
The film was nominated for three Awards of the Japanese Academy and won two of them. Sanada won best newcomer of the year and Tokumichi Igawa and Yoshikazu Sano took the award for best art direction. The film was nominated for best sound but did not win the award.
Following the massacre of many thousands of Christians by soldiers of the Tokugawa Empire after the Shimabara Rebellion, Shiro Amakusa renounces the God who he feels abandoned them, and bargains his soul to the forces of darkness for the power to take his revenge. He gains the power to resurrect the dead, and begins with Hosokawa, the wife of a samurai who mocked her for her chastity and then left her to die during the invasion. Shiro restores her beauty in exchange for her loyalty. Next, they travel to the cave of legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, who regrets that he neglected his lovely wife to find more opponents to duel, and that his advanced age prevents him from challenging the one rival he considered worthy to test his technique. He initially resists the pair, but suffers a heart attack and agrees to join them. During this exchange, his cave is visited by Yagyu Jubei, son of a samurai master and a powerful swordsman in his own right. Jubei rushes to Musashi\'s aid only to find an empty suit of armor. The unholy trio then encounter Inshun, a Buddhist monk who is plagued with terrible fantasies of sex and death. Hosokawa taunts him with the failings of his monastic teachings, and he commits suicide in despair, becoming one of Shiro\'s undead in the process.


# Samurai Reincarnation
At a local Iga ninja village, young Kirimaru is excited to learn that Jubei is on his way. However, before he can arrive, their Tokugawa controlled rivals the Koga ninja ambush the village with flaming arrows, killing everyone except Kirimaru. He fights his way through the forest against a female ninja, and is mortally wounded, but the female ninja is assaulted by Inshun. The rest of the Koga attack, but are quickly dispatched by the undead warriors. A dying Kirimaru is tenderly offered resurrection by Shiro, and he accepts. Jubei returns to the village to find it in shambles, and goes looking for Kirimaru. He encounters the undead battalion, now on horseback, and they taunt him before leaving, promising to meet again.
Hosokawa poses as a beautiful maiden and seduces Tokugawa Ietsuna, allowing for her and her partners to murder many of his fellow shogunate. The terminally-ill swordsman Yagyu Tajima, father of Jubei, attempts to put a stop to them using a sword crafted by exiled sword maker Muramasa, and succeeds in killing Inshun, only to be thwarted by Shiro. Tajima initially declines their offers of joining them in their conquest, but is soon won over when his jealousy towards his son\'s swordsmanship is unleashed.


# Samurai Reincarnation
In a remote shrine, Shiro chants a ritual curse to wither Tokugawa\'s crops. The curse succeeds, and a desperate mob petition the magistrate to lift their yearly tax in light of their situation, but his samurai attempt to drive the mob away. Kirimaru comes through the forest to find a young girl mourning the loss of her parents; her father was killed by one of the magistrate\'s men during the protest. He offers her a flower for their grave, but is overcome by remorse as she sings for them. Meanwhile, Jubei approaches the secluded mountain home of the legendary sword maker Muramasa. He is shocked to learn that his father approached Muramasa to commission a sword that would not only cut human flesh, but demonic spirits as well. Jubei wishes a similar sword as well, since Muramasa was exiled by his master Masamune due to his evil nature, and only a truly evil sword can defeat an evil demon. However, Muramasa\'s daughter Otsu claims that making the sword for Jubei\'s father has considerably weakened the smith. Muramasa reveals that Otsu is actually the daughter of Musashi\'s neglected wife who he has adopted as his own. Jubei tells them that he wants the sword to fight against Musashi and the rest of the demons. Just then, the ground begins to tremble as the undead Musashi approaches. Jubei bars the door, and Musashi begins to fight his way in until Otsu plays a haunting tune on her flute. Musashi recognizes the tune and staggers off confused.


# Samurai Reincarnation
Muramasa agrees to make the most evil blade ever to help Jubei defeat the demons, and they begin construction. The villagers are approached by the Shogun\'s men, who read a proclamation that Tokugawa himself is coming for a lavish hunting party, and expects a high tribute in gold or servitude, nearly inciting a riot among the peasants. Shiro encounters a confused Kirimaru at the shrine, and encourages him to seduce the young girl he met, and to sacrifice her to their dark gods in order to shed his youthful turmoil. He attempts to force himself on the girl by a river, but finds he cannot go through with it. After she runs off, Jubei appears and confronts Kirimaru, who begs Jubei to kill him and put him out of his torment. Jubei draws his sword, however after hearing Kirimaru singing the same song the girl did, he tells Kirimaru that he is also a swordsman and thus his destiny is to fight. If he fights with all his ability and one day feels defeated by his own darkness, only then will Jubei release him. Jubei returns to Muramasa to continue work on his sword.
During the Shogun\'s hunt, a number of villagers run through the field to present him with a written complaint about the taxes. Hosokawa uses her dark magic to convince Tokugawa and the elder Yagyu that the villagers are actually large deer, and they shoot the peasants down with arrows. Later, the peasant bodies have been crucified on a hill for all the village to see, and the people begin praying loudly and clacking stones together in mourning. Muramasa completes his greatest blade ever, and after telling Jubei \"If you encounter God, God will be cut\" he collapses dead. As the villagers\' uneasy vigil extends into the night, Shiro possesses a local woman to tell the crowd that they can lift the curse by burning Tokugawa\'s men and spreading the ashes. He causes the bodies to glow, which finally incites the crowd to riot, tearing down the fence and charging the samurai on the hill. They cut down as many peasants as they can but are overwhelmed and killed. Shiro rides up and gives the crowd the magistrate\'s head on a pole, and incite them to ride to Edo and overthrow the Shogun.


# Samurai Reincarnation
As the peasants march, Kirimaru attempts to escape with his girl, but is blocked by Shiro, who reveals Kirimaru\'s demonic nature. He tries to battle Shiro using his ninja training, but Shiro overcomes him with a magical whip that transforms into a flock of birds that strangle him. Jubei prepares to place Muramasa\'s body on a funeral pyre, when the girl brings him Kirimaru\'s body as well. Before they can act, Musashi approaches and challenges Jubei to meet him on an island at sunrise for a duel. He accepts, much to Otsu\'s chagrin, and declares it to be \"the way of the sword\". The following morning, he heads to the beach to battle Musashi, who claims not to be swayed a second time by Otsu\'s flute. The two masters engage each other on the surf as Otsu plays a frenetic tune, until Jubei finally splits Musashi\'s scabbard and face in half before impaling him through the heart. Musashi\'s lifeless body drifts out in the tide.
As the peasants\' furious uprising is advancing on the capital, the Shogun\'s advisors speculate on the future of the Empire. The dying Yagyu Tajima-no-kami Munenori is approached by Shiro about his son Jubei\'s impending arrival and yields to Shiro\'s dark influence. Revived from death by Shiro, Tajima begins killing the members of the castle. Meanwhile, Hosokawa Gracia has called out the name of her husband, lord Hosokawa Tadaoki, in her sleep, prompting a fit of jealously from the Shogun, her new lover. In the struggle, a lamp is knocked over and sets the room on fire. She freaks out, drawing a weapon and running through the castle declaring that she will not be abandoned again and confusing her lover with her husband. She begins attacking retainers, encountering Tajima who also attacks. With the building ablaze, and Hosokawa and Tajima on a killing rampage, the whole castle is thrown into chaos. Tajima kills many men and dares his son to come fight him before the flames die down.


# Samurai Reincarnation
Upstairs, Hosokawa has the Shogun hostage in the fire, and Shiro reveals himself as the leader of the \"Christian Believers\". He condemns the Shogun to burn in agony as the Christians did. An insane Hosokawa promises to never leave his side, clutching him as they both fall into the fire. As the castle collapses, Tajima is confronted by Jubei, who has covered his body with Buddhist prayer symbols and chastises his father for obsessing only on his swordplay to the point of coming back from hell to fight his own son. The two begin to duel, during which Jubei loses his eyepatch; although his sword is broken, he disarms his father and kills him.
Shiro appears and offers to let Jubei join him; Jubei declines and vows to set his father and Kirimaru\'s souls at peace. After a brief fight, Jubei decapitates Shiro; although this does not kill him, his body catches his head and promises to return as long as humans have evil in their heart before melting into the flames.


# Samurai Reincarnation
- Sonny Chiba as Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi
- Kenji Sawada as Amakusa Shirō Tokisada
- Tomisaburo Wakayama as Yagyū Tajimanokami Munenori
- Ken Ogata as Miyamoto Musashi
- Akiko Kana as Hosokawa Gracia / Akechi Tama
- Hideo Murota as Priest Hozoin Inshun
- Hiroyuki Sanada as Iga no Kirimaru
- Tetsuro Tamba as Muramasa
- Mikio Narita as Matsudaira Izunokami Nobutsuna
- Noboru Matsuhashi as Tokugawa Ietsuna
- Jun Ōba as Yagyū Samon Tomonori
- Etsuo Shima as Yagyū Matajūrō Munefuyu
- Masataka Naruse as Koga Genjūrō
- Asao Uchida as Sakai Utanokami Tadayo
- Haruki Kadokawa as Itakura Naizennokami Shigemasa
- Gōzō Sōma as Abe Bungonokami Tadaaki
- Sen Okamichi as Hotta Bichunokami Masamori
- Masataka Kobayashi as Toda Ujikane
- Saburo Hayashi as Mizuno Katsushige
- Hideo Nakae as Hosokawa Tadatoshi
- Hideo Shimada as Tachibana Muneshige
- Shintarō Mibu as Nabeshima Katsushige
- Mizuho Suzuki as Ogasawara Hōmyō Hidekiyo
- Shigerō Shiroi as Sasaki Kojirō
- Naoko Kubo as Yajima no Tsubone
- Kinji Nakamura as Ishida Kazusanokami
- Kenji Kawai as Kamio Bizennokami
- Yasuhiro Suzuki as Tomita Shuzen
- Masaharu Arikawa as Izaki Heinai
- Masataka Iwao as Yasui Tōbei
- Jun Hamamura as Shigesaemon
- Katsutoshi Akiyama as Yohei
- Takashi Noguchi as Hikosaku
- Kayoko Shiraishi as Hosokawa Gracia (voice)
- Seizō Fukumoto as Koga Ninja
- Hiroshi Inuzuka as Sōgorō
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# Samurai Reincarnation
- \"If you should encounter God, God will be cut.\"
- A nod from this line and moment (An old swordsmith giving her legendary sword for a legendary mission) is found in Tarantino\'s *Kill Bill*, with Chiba now taking the role of the swordsmith.
- When Lord Izu is killed, his corpse is hanged and a cross is paint on his forehead. This could have been referenced in *Inglourious Basterds*, just that with a cut in form of a swastika on nazis left alive by the \'Basterds\'.
- The showdown between Yagyu Jubei and Miyamoto Musashi occurs in a location used a year before in the Fukasaku film *Virus*.
- Original American Release on home video deleted much of the middle of the movie, reducing the running time from 122 minutes to 88 minutes and eliminating many important plot points such as the introduction of Jubei\'s Father.


# Stargate: The Ark of Truth
***Stargate: The Ark of Truth*** is a 2008, military science fiction, direct-to-video film in the *Stargate* franchise, acting as a sequel to the television series *Stargate SG-1*. It is written and directed by Robert C. Cooper, produced by Cooper, John G. Lenic, and the series\' creator Brad Wright, and stars its regular cast. The film is the conclusion of the Ori arc, and picks up after the *SG-1* series finale, but happens before the Stargate Atlantis third season finale.
*The Ark of Truth* was released as a Region 1 DVD by MGM\'s home media distributor 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on March 11, 2008. Sky One has broadcast the film on March 24, 2008, to be followed by the Region 2 DVD release on April 28, 2008 with the Region 4 DVD release on April 9, 2008. SPACE has broadcast the film on September 13, 2008. The SciFi Channel premiered the movie on March 27, 2009.
It is the first of two *Stargate SG-1* direct-to-DVD films, the second one being *Stargate: Continuum*.
While digging on Dakara, SG-1 discovers a box that they believe contains the Ark of Truth, but before they can open it, Ori soldiers arrive, led by Tomin. Daniel tricks them into opening the box, but it is revealed to be a fake. When Tomin is ordered by a Prior to kill them, he refuses, and Mitchell kills the Prior, whose powers were being blocked by the Anti-Prior device. Shocked at the death of their Prior, the Ori soldiers surrender with Tomin returning to Earth with SG-1 where he resides at the SGC for a time.


# Stargate: The Ark of Truth
Back on Earth, General Landry and Mitchell meet James Marrick, an IOA representative sent to interrogate Tomin, because the original IOA representative, Richard Woolsey, is now working for the Atlantis Expedition. When Daniel Jackson realizes that the Ark is still in the Ori galaxy, Marrick is assigned to accompany them on board the *Odyssey* through the Supergate. In the Ori galaxy, a member of the anti-Ori resistance tells the team that according to legend, the Ark is on Celestis, the Ori capital. When SG-1 beams down to the planet, Marrick activates the Asgard computer core which alerts the Ori to the ship\'s location.
Upon being alerted by Major Kevin Marks of what is going on, Mitchell and Carter beam back to the *Odyssey* and discover that Marrick has used the core to build a Replicator, intending to plant it on an Ori ship and let it spread to their entire fleet. When Mitchell attempts to destroy it with an anti-Replicator Gun, the replicator escapes, and Marrick reveals that the IOA removed that weakness from the design, although conventional weapons are sufficient to destroy individual replicators. Marrick implies that a shutdown code has been included as a failsafe, but claims he does not know what it is. He is placed in the ship\'s brig and falls victim to the Replicators, when they make their way into the brig, resulting in Marrick becoming a Human/Replicator hybrid. With several Ori ships approaching, Mitchell attempts to beam Daniel, Teal\'c, Vala, and Tomin up from the planet, but the replicator takes over the system and keeps Mitchell from doing so. With no other option, the *Odyssey* jumps to hyperspace to escape, leaving the others on the planet.


# Stargate: The Ark of Truth
Daniel finds the Ark in a set of catacombs, and after several ground tremors, brings it to the surface. When the team emerges, they are ambushed by Ori warriors, and Teal\'c is shot in the back while the others are captured. When they are brought to the city, Vala discovers that the Ori were indeed killed by the Sangraal during the events of *The Shroud.* Adria has ascended and taken over all of their power. Teal\'c, who has been walking toward the city of Celestis since he was shot, collapses due to his wound within sight of the city. He is subsequently revived by Morgan le Fay and continues on to free Daniel. Morgan then arrives in Daniel\'s cell (initially in the guise of Merlin) and tells him if he can expose one Prior to the Ark, the others will be turned by a link in their staffs. This will weaken Adria enough for Morgan to stalemate her.
In the meantime, a Prior arrives on Earth, offering a last chance to convert to Origin. When General Landry refuses to even listen to him, the *Apollo* detects a fleet of Ori motherships waiting on the edge of the Solar System. On the *Odyssey*, Marrick is attacked by Replicators who infest his body. In the ensuing battle, Mitchell is able to briefly disable the Replicator connection to Marrick\'s brain, who then informs Mitchell the shut down code for the Replicators is on the other side of the crystal used to create them. Mitchell activates an explosive charge which kills Marrick. Mitchell informs Carter, who activates the shut-down command, deactivating the Replicators.
When the Ark is activated and opened, the Doci is caught by the beam and made to see that the Ori are not gods and spreads this belief to all of the Priors in the Ori galaxy and through them their followers. With Adria now in a weakened state, Morgan is able to engage her in an eternal battle. SG-1 exposes the Prior on Earth to the Ark, transmitting the knowledge about the Ori to all of the Priors in the Milky Way, and thus turning all known Priors in the Universe.


# Stargate: The Ark of Truth
In the aftermath, Tomin departs for the Ori galaxy as the new leader of his people, he and Vala agreeing that, while the Ori were liars, Origin itself has a worthwhile message. Tomin asks Vala to come with him, but Vala apologizes and says that she feels her place is with the SGC. Over Daniel\'s objections the Ark is taken to Area 51 for study while SG-1 later prepare for another new mission through the Stargate.
- Ben Browder as Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell
- Amanda Tapping as Lieutenant Colonel Doctor Samantha Carter
- Christopher Judge as Teal\'c
- Michael Shanks as Dr. Daniel Jackson
- Beau Bridges as Major General Henry "Hank" Landry
- Claudia Black as Vala Mal Doran
- Currie Graham as James Marrick
- Morena Baccarin as Adria
- Tim Guinee as Tomin
- Julian Sands as Doci
- Sarah Strange as Morgan le Fay
- Michael Beach as Colonel Abe Ellis
- Gary Jones as Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman
- Martin Christopher as Major Kevin Marks
- Chris Gauthier as Hertis
- Eric Breker as Colonel Reynolds
- Matthew Walker as Merlin
- Fabrice Grover as Amelius
- Spencer Maybee as Captain Binder
This movie is the conclusion of *Stargate SG-1* Ori arc, which began in the season nine episode \"Avalon\". *Stargate: The Ark of Truth* is the story that Cooper originally planned as a five- or six-episode arc to begin at the end of Season Ten and beginning of Season Eleven, but the series was canceled by the Sci-Fi Channel in August 2006. The intended ending for the Tenth Season was to introduce the concept of the Ark of Truth, an artifact for which SG-1 is searching. As the story progresses, SG-1 would learn that this device is in the Ori galaxy and could be helpful in diverting the Ori warriors from their crusade. The *Odyssey* would have brought them through the Supergate to the Ori galaxy. However, the Sci Fi Channel wanted the series to be concluded, and the producers neither had the time nor the will to do that and went with the idea of what would become \"Unending\", the *SG-1* series finale. The movie\'s storyline picks up after \"Unending\", but takes place before the fourth season of *Stargate Atlantis*.


# Stargate: The Ark of Truth
According to Robert C. Cooper, the film had higher production values than episodes of the television series. The production budget was \$7 million. The film was shot in a 16:9 aspect ratio on 35mm film. Joel Goldsmith produced an orchestral score for the film, rather than a synthetic score as he did for episodes of the series.
In addition to wrapping up the Ori storyline, this film was also intended as a transition into an ongoing series of films centered around the *SG-1* characters. Certain scenes were shot concurrently with that of the second film, *Stargate: Continuum*. According to the DVD commentary, a tease leading into that film was planned to be included at the end of *Stargate: The Ark of Truth*, but was ultimately dropped as it was felt that this film had \"too many endings.\"
The movie went into production in April 2007.
A pre-release (workprint) version of the film with unfinished special effects, no credits and recorded in cropped 16:9 was leaked onto the Internet in mid-December 2007.

### Home media
*The Ark of Truth* was released as a Region 1 DVD release on March 11, 2008. Sky One broadcast the film on March 24, 2008, to be followed by the Region 2 DVD release on April 14, 2008. The DVD was released in Australia on April 9, 2008. The DVD includes an audio commentary with Robert C. Cooper, Peter Woeste and Christopher Judge, a 30-minute behind-the-scenes program, highlights from the 2007 Comic-Con Stargate panel and a nine-minute summary of the Ori storyline from seasons nine and 10.
The DVD release of *Stargate:The Ark of Truth* in the U.S. earned MGM/Fox US \$1.59 million in rentals in the first week after the release, and another US \$1.38 million in rentals in the second week. In its third week it earned US \$1.19 million in rentals totaling US \$4.16 million. The DVD has also earned US \$9.0 million in sales.


# Sahasa Veerudu Sagara Kanya
***Sahasa Veerudu Sagara Kanya*** () is a 1996 Indian Telugu language film produced by Buragapalli Sivarama Krishna under the Sri Venkateswara Art Films banner, directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. It stars Venkatesh, Shilpa Shetty and Malashree, with music composed by M. M. Keeravani.
`The film was dubbed in Tamil as `*`Kanavu Kanni`*`.`
The film is about Ravi Chandra, the film\'s hero and Sagara Kanya, a mermaid. Malashree plays Ganga, Ravi\'s cousin who loves him. They stay with some comedians in a house near the seashore. Kaikala Satyanarayana, the villain of the film, tries to acquire a ship which sank with much treasure on board.
He associates himself with a witch who helps him in finding the treasure. After a few attempts, the witch finds out that the treasure can be recovered with the help of a mermaid. Accidentally one day Sagara comes on to land from the water and loses her mermaid body. She transforms into a beautiful woman. Whenever water is spilled over her, however, she turns back into a mermaid.
On land, she becomes involved with the hero, Venkatesh. She is named as Bangaram. Bangaram starts loving Ravi. The witch learns about Sagara and informs Kaikala that only a mermaid can find the treasure.
The film continues with Bangaram being harassed and with Ravi\'s adventures. In the end, Ravi wins over the evil elements. Bangaram returns to the sea uniting Ravi and his cousin.
- Venkatesh as Ravi Chandra
- Shilpa Shetty as Bangaram, mermaid
- Malashree as Ganga
- Kaikala Satyanarayana as Bangaru Raju
- Kota Srinivasa Rao as Mutyalu
- Srihari as Ratnalu
- Brahmanandam
- Babu Mohan as Nallodu
- Sudhakar as Lingaraju
- Ali
- Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Police Inspector
- Rallapalli
- Ananth
- Gundu Hanumantha Rao as Gundu
- Suthivelu
- Garimalla Visweswara Rao as Pottivadu
- Mada
- Jagga Rao
- Vijayalalitha as Malakpeta Manchala
**Telugu version**


# Sahasa Veerudu Sagara Kanya
Music composed by M. M. Keeravani. Music released on MELODY MAKERS Audio Company.
**Tamil version (Kanavu Kanni)**
All the lyrics are written by Vairamuthu.


# Picture Bride (film)
***Picture Bride*** is a 1995 American Japanese-language feature-length independent film directed by Kayo Hatta from a screenplay co-written with Mari Hatta, and co-produced by Diane Mei Lin Mark and Lisa Onodera. It follows Riyo, who arrives in Hawaii as a \"picture bride\" at the turn of the century for a man she has never met before. The story is based on the historical practice, due to U.S. anti-miscegenation laws, of Japanese immigrant laborers in the United States using long-distance matchmakers in their homelands to find wives.
Released by Miramax Films, the film stars Youki Kudoh, Akira Takayama, Tamlyn Tomita, and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, with a special appearance by Toshiro Mifune in his penultimate film role. *Picture Bride* premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for narrative feature film. Considered a landmark Asian American work, the film was an Official Selection at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section and received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature.
In 1918, Riyo (Youki Kudoh) is a young Japanese woman who becomes a picture bride for a man who works as a field hand on a sugarcane plantation in Hawaii. It is Riyo\'s aunt who facilitates the match as Riyo\'s father has long been deceased. Riyo is shown a picture of the handsome Matsuji (Akira Takayama), her husband-to-be in Hawaii. When Riyo arrives in Honolulu, she discovers that Matsuji is actually twenty years older than her, and had sent a photo that was taken of him when he was a young man. Riyo is disappointed but goes through with the wedding in a mass ceremony with other \"picture couples\".
She joins Matsuji on a wagon that takes her to her new home, a ramshackle house in the sugarcane plantation. As she walks past the darkened fields to their home, Riyo hears a faint sound on the wind of a woman singing. When she asks about it, Matsuji half-jokes that the ghosts of the canefields have come to welcome her. That night, they sleep on the same mat, but Riyo fights off his attempts at intimacy and hides beneath a blanket.


# Picture Bride (film)
The next day, Riyo is given an ID tag to wear around her neck and goes to work in the sugarcane fields. She is unfamiliar with farm work and slows the other workers down, leading her to be harassed and ridiculed by Antone (James Grant Benton) the *luna* (field supervisor). Yayoi (Kati Kuroda), who leads the women workers, prompts Kana (Tamlyn Tomita), another picture bride who arrived several years before, to help Riyo learn. Over time, Riyo and Kana become friends. Riyo learns that Kana\'s husband, Kanzaki (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), frequently beats her and goes out gambling. To escape the abuse, Kana goes out to the fields at night with her baby, where she sings and sleeps.
Riyo agrees to help Kana with her side business of doing laundry for the workers. She saves her earnings from her laundry work and farm work in a tin can, determined to earn her passage back to Japan. Matsuji begins drinking and gambling, telling Riyo he intends to win enough money to get another bride. Kana advises Matsuji to become romantic and to take Rudolf Valentino as a role model to win Riyo\'s heart.
Meanwhile, Yayoi departs with her family for Honolulu, asking Kana to take care of the other women caneworkers. Antone the luna becomes more exacting on the workers to meet the harvest in time. One day, he has the workers set fire to the cane fields to burn off the leaves for harvesting, but in a hurry to get the job done, he does not let the women locate their children first. To Kana\'s horror, she cannot find her baby daughter Kei, who has wandered into the fields. She rushes into the burning field to find her daughter, but neither mother nor daughter returns.


# Picture Bride (film)
After this tragedy, the workers talk about waging a strike. Matsuji asks Riyo to contribute some of her earnings to help with the strike, but she refuses, still nursing the hope she can use the money to return to Japan. One night, Riyo continues to hear the sound of a woman singing in the fields and leaves the house to follow the sound. Matsuji pursues her and accuses her of having a secret lover. As they sit under a tree, Riyo discloses that when she was a child, both of her parents died of tuberculosis, which at that time carried tremendous social stigma. Although Riyo was healthy, her matchmaker aunt lied to Matsuji about his bride-to-be\'s status. That night, when Riyo tentatively reaches out to him as they lie in bed, he brusquely turns away.
Feeling betrayed, the next day Riyo gathers her savings and a few belongings and runs away, eventually finding herself at the ocean. After falling asleep on the shore, she is awakened by the sound of singing and glimpses a woman walking among the shoreline rocks. She runs after the vision and encounters Kana, who says she is leaving for Japan. When Riyo asks to accompany her, Kana gently says, \"Who waiting for you there?\" As Yayoi had done when she left the plantation, Kana hands her neck tag to Riyo and tells her to \"take care of the girls.\" Kana turns to walk toward the sea and fades out of sight.
Riyo awakens with Kana\'s neck tag in her hand. She returns to the plantation and to her house, where she finds Matsuji drunk. She puts him to bed, and he looks at her, saying, \"I thought I was all alone again.\" Later that night, she hesitantly reaches out to touch his hand, and he reaches back; they embrace and consummate their relationship.
The next day, Riyo surprises the other workers when she begins singing in the fields, as Kana and Yayoi had done. Though Antone tries to make fun of Riyo, she continues to sing with the realization that she has picked up the mantle of leadership. Matsuji makes a gift of a Buddhist altar to Riyo to honor her parents, and she is touched at his acceptance of her past.


# Picture Bride (film)
The film ends as Riyo, Matsuji, and the other workers dance in a circle at a lively Obon Festival. In a closing voiceover by Nobu McCarthy, an older Riyo describes how she imagines at times that she hears a woman\'s voice singing and realizes it is the voice of her own daughter singing to her children.
*Picture Bride* was met with critical acclaim. On review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, it has a score of 82% with a certified \"Fresh\" rating based on 11 reviews.
Roger Ebert awarded the film with 3 out of 4 stars and wrote, \"*Picture Bride* is one of several recent films about how we gathered from all over the globe to call ourselves Americans. **My Family** is another, about Mexican-Americans. Of course, those early generations suffered much, but somehow the films are suffused with a certain serenity, because after all, the stories had a happy ending: They produced the children and grandchildren who are telling the tales.\"
Lisa Schwarzbaum of *Entertainment Weekly* gave a B+, saying the film is \"a lyrical, elegantly composed drama.\" Peter Stack of the *San Francisco Chronicle* said *Picture Bride* is an \"exceptionally lovely first feature film by Kayo Hatta\" that \"captures with disturbing simplicity the lonely terror affecting one such bride.\"
Alison Macor of the *Austin Chronicle* said \"*Picture Bride* deservedly won this year\'s Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival\", as \"director Hatta\'s first feature skillfully blends humor with the day-to-day drama of living in a land that is not one\'s own\". Macor ended her review by saying, \"although this is a small film in that it profiles an individual\'s drama rather than the human condition, *Picture Bride* does so with tremendous warmth and respect for its characters.\"
In 2004, Miramax released a DVD which includes \"The *Picture Bride* Journey,\" a documentary on the making of the film featuring the director, cast members, archival historical footage, and behind-the-scenes clips from the movie set.
As part of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the Criterion Channel included *Picture Bride* as part of its May 2022 streaming lineup.


# Den ofrivillige golfaren
***Den ofrivillige golfaren***, also known in English as ***The Accidental Golfer*** and ***The Involuntary Golfer***, is a Swedish comedy film and the fourth installment of the popular *Sällskapsresan* series directed by Lasse Åberg. It was released to cinemas in Sweden on 25 December 1991. Åberg won the award for Best Actor in a leading role at the 27th Guldbagge Awards. The film was inspired by the golf stories of author P. G. Wodehouse.

## Plot
The business cycle in Sweden is booming. Hapless Stig-Helmer Olsson (Lasse Åberg) is laid off from a toaster factory and gets an offer to play a one-on-one golf competition against a wealthy man for money, something he has never done before. He travels to Scotland to learn to play golf, taking lessons by the skilled golf veteran Roderic McDougall (Jimmy Logan).
- Lasse Åberg as Stig-Helmer Olsson
- Jon Skolmen as Ole Bramserud
- Jimmy Logan as Roderic McDougall
- Margo Gunn as Fiona McDougall
- Barbro Hiort af Ornäs as Stig-Helmer\'s mother
- Claes Månsson as Scientist
- Mats Bergman as Bruno Anderhage
- Annalisa Ericson as Alice
- John Fiske as TV-host
- Sydney Coulson as Malcolm
- Lovisa Bogg-Lindkvist as Anderhage\'s daughter
- Simon Bogg-Lindkvist as Anderhage\'s son


# Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film)
***Journey to the Center of the Earth*** (also promoted as ***Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D**\'\' or***Journey 3D**\'\') is a 2008 American 3D science fantasy action-adventure film directed by Eric Brevig and starring Brendan Fraser in the main role, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem and Seth Meyers. Produced by New Line Cinema, it is an adaptation of Jules Verne\'s 1864 novel (which had previously been adapted multiple times, most notably in the 1959 film of the same name), and was released in 3D theaters by Warner Bros. Pictures on July 11, 2008.
The film also introduced the 4DX movie format, featuring \"4D\" motion effects in a specially designed cinema in Seoul, South Korea, using tilting seats to convey motion, wind, sprays of water and sharp air, probe lights to mimic lightning, fog, scents, and other theatrical special effects.
The film received mixed reviews from critics and earned \$244.2 million against a \$60 million budget.
In 2007, Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser) is a Bostonian volcanologist whose 13-year-old nephew, Sean (Josh Hutcherson), is supposed to spend ten days with him. Trevor learns at work that his brother\'s lab is being shut down because of a lack of funding. Trevor has forgotten that Sean is coming until he receives several messages from Sean\'s mother. When Sean\'s mother drops him off, she leaves Trevor with a box of items that belonged to Max, Trevor\'s brother and Sean\'s father, who disappeared 10 years before, in July 1997. Sean suddenly takes interest in what Trevor has to say after he tells him about his father, whom he never really had a chance to know. In the box, Trevor discovers the novel *Journey to the Center of the Earth* by Jules Verne. Inside the book Trevor finds notes written by his late brother. Trevor goes to his laboratory to find out more about the notes. There he realizes that he must go to Iceland to investigate for himself.


# Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film)
He intends to send Sean back to his mother, but relents at Sean\'s protest and brings Sean to Iceland with him. They start by looking for another volcanologist. When they get to that scientist\'s institution, they meet his daughter Hannah (Anita Briem), who informs them he is dead. She also tells them that both her father and Max believed that Jules Verne\'s books were factual accounts. However she offers to help them climb up to the instrument that has suddenly started sending data again. While hiking the mountain a lightning storm forces the three into a cave. The cave entrance collapses, trapping them, so they have no alternative but to go deeper in the cave, which turns out to be an abandoned mine.
Trevor, Sean, and Hannah investigate farther into the mine until they fall into a deep hole, taking them to the \"Center of the Earth\". They all continue until they discover a cave-dwelling that Max lived in. Trevor and Sean find Max\'s old journal. Hannah and Trevor discover Max\'s dead body and bury him. Trevor reads a message from Max\'s journal that was written on Sean\'s 3rd birthday (8-14-97). Trevor continues to read Max\'s journal until he realizes from his notes that they must quickly leave, as the temperature is steadily rising.
Trevor figures that they must find a geyser that can send them to the surface. They must do this in 48 hours or all of the water to create the geyser will be gone. They also figure that they must get out before the temperature rises past 135 degrees. They begin by crossing the underground ocean, and then the two adults become separated from Sean. Sean\'s guide is now a little bird who has been present since the trio entered the center, and it takes him towards the river. However, he encounters a Giganotosaurus, and Trevor - who desperately is searching for him - saves him. When they arrive at the geyser it is all dried up. All of the water is on the other side of a wall.


# Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film)
Trevor uses a flare to ignite the magnesium in the wall and causes a geyser to shoot them through Mount Vesuvius in Italy. When they destroy the home of an Italian man, Sean gives him a diamond that he had found earlier. Trevor sees that he has many more in his backpack, and he uses them to fund his brother\'s laboratory. Throughout the adventure, Hannah and Trevor gradually become so attached to each other that they kiss. On the final day of Sean\'s visit with Trevor (and now Hannah), he is leaving their new home, which was purchased with some of the diamonds Sean took from the cave, and Trevor hands Sean a book titled \"Atlantis\", suggesting they could maybe hang out at Sean\'s during Christmas break.
- Brendan Fraser as Professor Trevor \"Trev\" Anderson, a volcanologist, Sean\'s uncle and Max\'s brother
- Josh Hutcherson as Sean Anderson, Trevor\'s nephew and Liz & Max\'s son
- Anita Briem as Hannah Asgeirsson
- Seth Meyers as Professor Alan Kitzens
- Jean-Michel Pare as Maxwell \'Max\' Anderson, Sean\'s father, Trevor\'s brother and Liz\'s husband
- Jane Wheeler as Elizabeth \'Liz\' Anderson, Sean\'s mother and Max\'s wife.
- Frank Fontaine as Old Man
- Giancarlo Caltabiano as Leonard
- Kaniehtiio Horn as Gum-Chewing Girl
- Garth Gilker as Sigurbjorn Asgeirsson


# Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film)
### Development and filming
In September 2001, Walden Media announced that Eric Brevig was hired and set to direct *Journey to the Center of the Earth* based on the book of the same name by Jules Verne. Michael D. Weiss, Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett wrote the script for the film. Beau Flynn and Charlotte Huggins produced the film with the budget of \$60 million for release in 2008. In 2003, Brendan Fraser, Anita Briem, Josh Hutcherson, Seth Meyers, Jean-Michel Paré, Jane Wheeler, Giancarlo Caltabiano and Garth Gilker joined the film. Andrew Lockington composed the music for the film. The development and filming of the film was completed in Canada and Iceland in March 2006, followed by principal photography and production which began on April 20. In January 2007, New Line Cinema acquired distribution rights to the film. The film transposes the novel into the present day and is mostly live action, with only the landscape and creatures supplied by computer-generated graphics. The film is projected using Real D Cinema and Dolby 3D.
Josh Hutcherson\'s character, Sean, is named after the professor and conservation biologist Dr. Sean Anderson.

### Marketing
The first trailer was shown before screenings of *Meet the Robinsons*, the re-release of *The Nightmare Before Christmas* and the release of *Beowulf*, with the *Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert*, and during the 2008 Kids\' Choice Awards. Warner Bros. marketed the film like a theme park attraction. However, the studio had to slightly tweak the campaign (including dropping \"3D\" from the title) when it became clear that the film would be shown in 3-D in far fewer theaters than anticipated.

### Theme parks
In May 2009, the film premiered as \"Journey to the Center of the Earth 4-D\" at Stone Mountain Park in Georgia. It also opened in the motion simulator at Dollywood under the same name on June 12 the same year. It also featured the new 4D Cinema at the Weston Super-Mare Grand Pier in the U.K and was shown in Movieworld on the Gold Coast.


# Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film)
### Home media
*Journey to the Center of the Earth* was released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 28, 2008, in standard 2D format as well as a magenta / green anaglyph. It opened at #2 at the DVD sales chart, selling 843,224 units in the 1st week which translates to \$13,238,617 in revenue. As per the latest figures, 1,642,994 DVD units have been sold, bringing in \$25,346,260 in revenue. This doesn\'t include Blu-ray Disc sales / DVD rentals. The 2008 2-disc BD edition of the movie doesn\'t conform to the -- only later established -- 3D Blu-ray specifications, which means that this version doesn\'t take advantage of any dedicated 3D HDTVs, although it can be watched on 3D HDTVs, as well as on any other TV in anaglyph 3D, by using red-cyan paper glasses (four pairs are included). A 3D Blu-ray version was released on January 17, 2012.

### Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an approval rating of 61% based on 158 reviews with an average rating of 6/10. The website\'s critical consensus reads: \"Modern visuals and an old fashioned storyline make this family adventure/comedy a fast-paced, kitschy ride\". Metacritic gave the film a 57 out of 100, based on 35 reviews, indicating \"mixed or average reviews.\" Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade \"A-\" on scale of A to F.


# Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film)
### Critical response
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2 stars out of 4, and wrote: \"This is a fairly bad movie, and yet at the same time maybe about as good as it could be. There may not be an 8-year-old alive who would not love it.\" Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave it 2.5 out of 4, but warned \"Remove a star from the rating if you take this Journey without wearing 3-D glasses. That's where the real fun comes in.\" Owen Glieberman of Entertainment Weekly gave it a B- and said \"Journey is just the new version of a 1950s comin\'-at-ya roller coaster, with a tape measure, trilobite antennae, and giant snapping piranha thrust at the audience.\"

### Box office
*Journey to the Center of the Earth* grossed \$101.7 million in the US and \$142.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of \$242 million.
The film opened at #3 in North America, behind *Hellboy II: The Golden Army* and *Hancock*. The film grossed \$21,018,141 in 2,811 theaters in its first week of release with an average of \$7,477. 57 percent of the opening gross was taken from theaters which showed the film in 3-D. In second weekend it dropped to \$12,340,435 and in third to \$9,717,217.

### Accolades
`Award `
`Year `
`Category `
`Result `
`Cast/crew`
**`Teen Choice Awards`**` `
`2008 `
`Choice Summer Movie: Action Adventure `
**`Young Artist Award`**` `
`2009 `
`Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor `
`Josh Hutcherson`
**BMI Film & TV Awards**
`2009 `
`Andrew Lockington`
**World Soundtrack Awards**
`2009 `
`Discovery of the Year `
`Andrew Lockington`


# Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film)
### Accolades
- Brazil - July 11, 2008
- Canada - July 11, 2008
- Ireland - July 11, 2008
- United Kingdom - July 11, 2008
- United States - July 11, 2008
- Chile - August 7, 2008
- Singapore - August 7, 2008
In March 2009, Walden Media announced a sequel film, *Journey 2: The Mysterious Island*, starring Hutcherson, Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine, Luis Guzman, and Vanessa Hudgens. Fraser and Briem\'s characters did not return, and Jane Wheeler was replaced by Kristin Davis. *Journey 2* was filmed between November 2010 and February 2011 and was released in February 2012. Like the first film, the sequel was shot in 3D, and the script is loosely based on a Verne novel --*The Mysterious Island*.
*Journey to the Center of the Earth 4-D Adventure* is a 15-minute 4D film shown at various 4D theatres all over the world. It retells the condensed story of the film with the help of 3D projection and sensory effects, including moving seats, wind, mist and scents. Produced by SimEx-Iwerks, the 4D experience premiered in 2009. Locations included Warner Bros. Movie World (2010--2012), Dollywood (2009--2012), Enchanted Kingdom (2009--), Stone Mountain, and Rainbows End.


# The Last Lear
***The Last Lear*** is a 2007 Indian drama film directed by Rituparno Ghosh. The film won the National Award of India for Best Feature Film in English in 2007. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal, Divya Dutta, Shefali Shah and Jisshu Sengupta. Shefali Shah won the Best Supporting Actress National Award for her role in the movie. It was produced by Arindam Chaudhuri of Planman Motion Pictures.
Basing the script on Utpal Dutt\'s semiautobiographical play *Aajker Shahjahan*, Rituparno Ghosh penned it in 2006, and turned to the actors in February 2007, all of whom accepted the offer. The film began shooting from 28 February 2007 to 10 April 2007; principal shooting took place in Kolkata and some shooting took place in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand. Dubbing for the film ended on 31 August 2007.
*The Last Lear* premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September and received a significant reception, earning many accolades after being showcased at a Gala Presentation.
The film was later showcased at the London Film Festival, and the International Film Festival of India in Goa. The film was received positively by critics with many saying that Bachchan has given a career best performance.
The story revolves around Harish Mishra (Amitabh Bachchan), a retired Shakespearean theatre actor who spent precisely thirty years and nine months on stage and then suddenly quit, and his first and last act as a cinema artist. He is immensely passionate about Shakespeare, believes that nothing even comparable can ever be written, knows all his plays by heart, lives in those stories, condemns modern cinema and considers theatre as a much higher artform for directors and actors to convey their message to an audience.


# The Last Lear
It is Diwali, a time when box offices are flooded with new releases and Shabnam (Preity Zinta) has to attend the premiere of her latest movie: *The Mask*. However, she decides to visit her co-star Harish and heads to a cubbyhole of old Kolkata where Harish is bedridden in a coma. He is being taken care by Vandana (Shefali Shah) and a nurse, Ivy (Divya Dutta). Vandana treats Shabnam with spite as she blames her and the entire cast and crew for Harish\'s condition. But soon they are seen bonding over tea and are involved in a conversation about Harish. In flashbacks, their story and equation with Harish emerges.
The movie sees parallel narration from Goutam (Jisshu Sengupta), a journalist who recalls his encounters with the veteran actor. He had suggested Harish for the lead role to his elder brother Siddharth (Arjun Rampal) who happens to be an ambitious perfectionist director. After a casual meeting with Harish, Siddharth realizes that to convince Harish to act in his film, he has to win his trust and establish a relationship with him. And, hence, the impatient young auteur attempts to win the trust and collaboration of the aged performer, who sits raging against the modern world from the sanctuary of his study.
Harish finally agrees to act in the film. Shooting happens on the stunning Himalayan foothills of Mussoorie. On the sets he befriends Shabnam and teaches her lessons on acting, life and Shakespeare. As the story unfolds one gets to know his relationship with Vandana, the reason behind his quitting theatre and last but not the least the reason for his illness. *The Last Lear* becomes a captivating reflection on the comparative artifices of stagecraft and cinema.
- Amitabh Bachchan as Harish Mishra
- Preity Zinta as Shabnam
- Arjun Rampal as Siddharth Kumar
- Divya Dutta as Ivy
- Shefali Shah as Vandana
- Jisshu Sengupta as Goutam Kumar
- Prosenjit Chatterjee as Cameo appearance


# The Last Lear
Nirpal Dhaliwal of *The Guardian* called it \"The most god-awful film I have ever seen\", criticizing its use of rather hammy English language than Hindi and mentioning that the main actor, Amitabh Bachchan, is a combination of Steve McQueen, James Stewart and Sean Connery all rolled into one but in this film he is closer to Bruce Forsyth and Derek Jacobi.
Janet Gruttsman of Reuters mentioned that the film doesn\'t have any song and dance routines which are usual highlights in Bollywood cinema. IndiaGlitz praised the film\'s cinematography and acting but criticized its screenplay, especially the ending. Sukanya Verma of *Rediff.com* gave it 3 out of 5 stars saying that \"The problem with *The Last Lear* is that while Ghosh builds Harry\'s aura to perfection, everyone around him fails to reach out.\"
- 2009: Star Screen Award for Best Film in English
- 2009: National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English
- 2009: National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress - Shefali Shah


# Repo! The Genetic Opera
***Repo! The Genetic Opera*** is a 2008 American science fiction gothic rock opera horror film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. Based on the 2002 musical of the same name, written and composed by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich, the film stars Alexa Vega, Paul Sorvino, Anthony Head, Sarah Brightman, Paris Hilton, Bill Moseley, Nivek Ogre and Terrance Zdunich.
*Repo!* premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival in July 2008, followed by a very limited release on November 7, 2008, on seven screens in Pasadena, Chicago, Mobile, Charlotte, Kansas City, Toronto and Ottawa. While initially released to mixed reviews, it gained a cult following similar to *The Rocky Horror Picture Show*, managing even to fill theaters worldwide with costumed fans performing alongside the film.
By the year 2056, an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet. The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan. Clients who miss payments are hunted down by Repo Men, skilled assassins who \"repossess\" the organs (\"Genetic Repo Man\"). The CEO of GeneCo, Rottissimo \"Rotti\" Largo, discovers he is terminally ill. Rotti\'s three children, Luigi, Pavi, and Amber, bicker over who will inherit GeneCo (\"Mark It Up\"). Rotti believes none of his children are worthy heirs and instead plans to pass on his fortune to 17-year-old Shilo Wallace, the daughter of his ex-fiancé Marni (\"Things You See In A Graveyard\").


# Repo! The Genetic Opera
Shilo has inherited a rare blood disease from Marni which requires her to stay indoors, and longs to see the outside world (\"Infected\"). Shilo\'s overprotective father Nathan believes he killed Marni with a treatment he created for her illness -- in truth, Rotti poisoned Marni\'s medicine behind Nathan\'s back as revenge for leaving him, and then blackmailed Nathan, promising to keep him out of jail if he agreed to become GeneCo's head Repo Man, though he has led Shilo to believe he is a doctor (\"Legal Assassin\"). One night, Shilo secretly visits her mother\'s tomb and runs into GraveRobber, who is digging up bodies to secrete Zydrate, a euphoric and addictive pain-killer that he sells on the street to keep up with his GeneCo payments (\"21st Century Cure\").
Rotti lures Shilo to GeneCo\'s fair with the promise of a cure for her disease. There, the Largo brothers argue about their father\'s will while Amber harasses Blind Mag, an opera singer and GeneCo\'s celebrity spokesperson. Born blind, Mag has been given surgically enhanced eyes by GeneCo at the cost of working for them indefinitely. Rotti explains that Mag is soon resigning as GeneCo\'s spokeswoman. GraveRobber helps Shilo escape the fairgrounds, encountering several of his customers including the surgery-addicted Amber, who has skipped the fair she was supposed to speak at, once again publicly embarrassing her father (\"Zydrate Anatomy\"). Amber explains that Mag\'s eyes are set for repossession and that she will replace her. After GeneCops arrive, GraveRobber and Shilo part ways and she quickly returns to her room before Nathan notices her missing.


# Repo! The Genetic Opera
Rotti hires Nathan to repossess Mag\'s eyes but Nathan refuses, citing her close friendship with Marni, and quits his job mid-surgery (\"Night Surgeon\"). An infuriated Rotti vows to have Nathan taken out. Mag visits Shilo and reveals she is her godmother, and that Nathan had told her Shilo died with Marni. She cautions Shilo to not make the same mistakes she did (\"Chase The Morning\"). Nathan arrives home and forces Mag out after she scolds him for his lies and his incarceration of Shilo (\"Everyone's A Composer\"). Meanwhile, back at GeneCo, Rotti writes his will, ready to make Shilo his sole beneficiary (\"Gold\").
Rotti invites Shilo to the Opera (\"At The Opera Tonight\"). Nathan is pursued by GeneCops who try to arrest him, but he quickly dispatches them and heads to the opera looking for Shilo. Amber takes the stage for her debut, but her performance is ruined when her transplanted face falls off. Mag completes her final performance, but deviates from the song\'s grand finale, denouncing the Largo family and gouging out her eyes in an act of defiance (\"Chromaggia\"). Rotti cuts the cords suspending Mag, impaling her on a fence. Rotti assures the audience that Mag\'s death is part of the show.


# Repo! The Genetic Opera
Shilo sees a Repo Man arrive and attacks him with a shovel before realizing that he is her father, and angrily confronts Nathan for lying to her about his profession (\"Let The Monster Rise\"). Onstage, Rotti reveals that Shilo does not have a blood disease but that Nathan has been poisoning her \"medicine\" in an attempt to keep her safe from the outside world after being unable to cope with the loss of Marni. As his disease begins to take its toll, Rotti promises Shilo GeneCo if she kills her father. When she refuses, Rotti uses the last of his strength to fatally shoot Nathan, and dies after disowning his children. After a tearful farewell to her father (\"I Didn't Know I'd Love You So Much\"), Shilo leaves, deciding that her father\'s actions do not dictate her future (\"Genetic Emancipation\").
Shilo flees, leaving GeneCo with no legal heir. Amber inherits the company instead and auctions her fallen face to charity, which Pavi wins.


# Repo! The Genetic Opera
- Alexa Vega as Shilo Wallace, the primary protagonist of the film. Shilo is a 17-year-old girl, confined to her room due to the alleged blood disorder she inherited from her mother, and dreams of exploring the world outside of her bedroom, which she considers her prison. While she initially strives to obey her father\'s rules, later in the story, she becomes more and more assertive, attempting to earn her independence. Prior to the story she has often snuck out of her room at night to collect bugs, and shots of her room shows she has an impressive collection.
- Paul Sorvino as Rottissimo \"Rotti\" Largo, the film\'s main antagonist. Rotti is the ailing founder and president of GeneCo, looking for a worthy heir as his terminal disease progresses. He is a powerful and driven man, having built his GeneCo empire from the ground up, and believes that material wealth is the only real driving force in the world. He is ashamed of his own children, and is the one responsible for Marni\'s death, shielding the truth from Nathan as revenge for \"stealing\" Marni from him.
- Anthony Head as Nathan Wallace, Shilo\'s father and a widower, who wrongly believes he was inadvertently responsible for Marni\'s death. Nathan doubles as the head Repo Man to repay Rotti for \"fixing\" the circumstances of Marni\'s death with the police. Nathan is a highly skilled assassin who often laments his late night duties, though he appears to have some sadistic tendencies as well.
- Sarah Brightman as Magdalene \"Blind Mag\" Defoe, Shilo\'s godmother and Marni\'s best friend. She was born blind, but was given surgically enhanced eyes by GeneCo in exchange for having to work as a GeneCo spokesperson for the rest of her life. She is marked for repossession and is set to deliver her final performance for the company.
- Paris Hilton as Carmela \"Amber Sweet\" Largo, Rotti\'s only daughter and the youngest of the Largo children. She is addicted to both surgery and Zydrate, which she obtains illegally from GraveRobber, occasionally in exchange for sex.
- Bill Moseley as Luigi Largo, Rotti\'s aggressive, homicidal eldest son. He wields a knife at all times, and is willing to stab others at the slightest provocation.
- Nivek Ogre as Pavi Largo, Rotti\'s middle child. Womanizing, narcissistic, vacuous, and effeminate, he wears the skinned face of a woman as a mask over his own, which is heavily scarred. Due to the way his face is attached, he is able to change faces on a whim. He has an Italian accent (to conceal his speech impediment, according to Zdunich) and is almost always surrounded by women, usually Genterns (GeneCo\'s employees).
- Terrance Zdunich as GraveRobber, a peddler who obtains Zydrate from corpses and has connections to Amber, both sexually and as a dealer. He also seems to be Shilo\'s first and only friend. Mysterious and charismatic, he acts as the narrator of the post-apocalyptic world.
- Sarah Power as Marni Wallace, Nathan\'s late wife and Shilo\'s mother; she was engaged to Rotti until she left him for Nathan. A jealous Rotti poisoned her and framed Nathan for the crime.
  - Nancy Long provided Marni\'s singing voice for \"Chase the Morning\".


# Repo! The Genetic Opera
Joan Jett makes a cameo appearance during the song \"Seventeen\" playing the guitar. Dean Armstrong, later seen in *Saw 3D*, appears as the victim during \"Thankless Job\". Co-writer Darren Smith appears during \"We Started This Op\'ra Shit\" as the GeneCo band leader. Frequent Bousman collaborator J. LaRose appears during \"Zydrate Support Network\" as a GeneCo spokesman.
A 7-track demo CD dubbed the \"Pre-Surgery Sampler\", was released on July 24, 2008. A 22-track soundtrack was released on September 30. Songs do not appear in the same sequence on the CD as they do in the film. On February 20, 2009, an extended edition of the soundtrack was released online. The \"Deluxe Edition\" contains 38 tracks; and the song, \"Zydrate Anatomy\", was re-cut and used in its film version for this edition. Melora Creager of Rasputina plays cello on the soundtrack.
In the film, the following songs are performed:


# Repo! The Genetic Opera
1.  \"Genetic Repo Man\" - GraveRobber
2.  \"Things You See in a Graveyard\" - Rotti
3.  \"21st Century Cure\" - GraveRobber, Shilo
4.  \"Shilo Wakes\" - Nathan, Shilo
5.  \"Infected\" - Shilo
6.  \"Legal Assassin\" - Nathan, Ghostly chorus
7.  \"Lungs and Livers\" - GeneCo Chorus
8.  \"Mark It Up\" - Genterns, Amber, Luigi, Pavi
9.  \"Tao of Mag\" - Mag
10. \"Things You See in a Graveyard (Reprise)\" - Rotti
11. \"Limo Ride\" - Rotti and Shilo
12. \"Thankless Job\" - Nathan
13. \"Tao of Mag (Reprise)\" - Mag
14. \"No Organs? No Problemo!\" - GeneCo chorus
15. \"Largo\'s Little Helpers\" - Child chorus
16. \"Genterns\" - Genterns, Pavi
17. \"Luigi, Pavi, Amber Harass Mag\" - Luigi, Mag, Amber, Pavi, Rotti
18. \"Seeing You Stirs Memories\" - Rotti
19. \"Seeing You Stirs Memories (Reprise)\" - Rotti, Mag
20. \"My, What Big Scissors You Have\" - Shilo
21. \"Inopportune Telephone Call\" - Nathan, Shilo
22. \"GraveRobber and Shilo Escape\" - GraveRobber, Shilo
23. \"Zydrate Support Network\" - Rotti, Reporter
24. \"Zydrate Anatomy\" - GraveRobber, Shilo, Amber, Zydrate addicts
25. \"Disposal Crew\" - Disposal crew
26. \"Who Ordered Pizza?\" - Luigi, Pavi, Nathan, Rotti, Amber
27. \"Night Surgeon\" - Nathan, Rotti, Henchgirls, Luigi, Pavi, Genterns
28. \"Chase the Morning\" - Mag, Shilo, Marni
29. \"Everyone\'s a Composer\" - Mag, Nathan, Shilo
30. \"Come Back!\" - Nathan and Shilo
31. \"What Chance Has a 17 Year Old Girl\" - Nathan, Shilo
32. \"Seventeen\" - Shilo
33. \"Happiness is Not a Warm Scalpel\" - Amber, Rotti
34. \"Gold\" - Rotti
35. \"Nathan Discovers Rotti\'s Plan\" - Nathan, Shilo
36. \"Tonight We Are Betrayed\" - Nathan
37. \"At the Opera Tonight\" - Shilo, Mag, Nathan, Amber, GraveRobber, Rotti, Luigi, Pavi
38. \"Bloodbath!\" - GraveRobber
39. \"We Started This Op\'ra Shit!\" - Bandleader, Luigi, Pavi, Rotti, GeneCo chorus
40. \"Interrogation Room Challenge\" - Rotti
41. \"Blame Not My Cheeks\" - Amber, GeneCo chorus
42. \"Chromaggia\" - Mag
43. \"Pièce De Résistance\" - Rotti
44. \"Let the Monster Rise\" - Nathan, Shilo
45. \"Sawman\'s Lament\" - Rotti, Luigi, Pavi, Shilo, Nathan
46. \"The Man Who Made You Sick\" - Rotti, Shilo, Nathan
47. \"Cut the Ties\" - Rotti, Luigi, Shilo, Pavi
48. \"Shilo Turns Against Rotti\" - Shilo, Rotti, Nathan
49. \"I Didn\'t Know I\'d Love You So Much\" - Shilo, Nathan
50. \"Genetic Emancipation\" - Shilo
51. \"Epitaph\" - GraveRobber, Zydrate addicts
52. \"Repo Man\" - Ogre (**end credits**)
53. \"VUK-R\" - Katie Fitzgerald (**end credits**)
54. \"Needle Through a Bug\" - Shilo, Graverobber (**end credits**)
55. \"Bravi\" - Mag, Pavi, Luigi, Rotti, Amber (**end credits**)
56. \"Aching Hour\" - Sarah Brightman (**end credits**)


# Repo! The Genetic Opera
Cut songs
Bits and pieces of some of these songs were used in the film. Most of the songs\' scenes were cut entirety (**\***).


# Repo! The Genetic Opera
1.  \"Crucifixus\" - Mag, Ghostly chorus (used as the screen closes in to GeneCo; instrumental version used in film)
2.  \"Bravi!\"\* - Mag, Pavi, Luigi, Rotti, Amber (end credits, a commercial that would have been used before \"Mark It Up\"; heard briefly between \"Infected\" and Nathan\'s Story)
3.  \"Tao of Mag\" - Mag (a commercial starring Mag that promotes the Genetic Opera; heard briefly between \"Mark It Up\" and Rotti\'s Story)
4.  \"Can\'t Get It Up if the Girl\'s Breathing?\"\* - Amber, GraveRobber (Amber telling GraveRobber that there are other ways to pay for Zydrate; would have succeeded \"Housecall\") (also a deleted scene on the Blu-ray release)
5.  \"Come Up and Try My New Parts\"**\*** - Amber (Amber seduces GraveRobber to get out of paying for Zydrate; succeeds \"Can\'t Get It Up\"; the scene is available on the Blu-ray)
6.  \"GraveRobber and Shilo Escape\" - GraveRobber, Shilo, Amber (GraveRobber and Shilo escape from the Italian festival; alternate version used in film, Amber not included) (also a deleted scene on the Blu-ray release)
7.  \"Buon Giorno\"**\*** - Rotti, Pavi, Luigi, Genterns (Genetic Opera greeting; would have come after \"We Started This Op\'ra Shit!\"; the scene is available on the Blu-ray)
8.  \"Rotti\'s Chapel Sermon\"**\*** - Rotti (the scene was reedited to make up \"Interrogation Room Challenge\"; succeeds \"Buon Giorno\")
9.  \"Needle Through a Bug\"**\*** - GraveRobber, Shilo (deleted scene where Shilo must pass another of Rotti\'s tests; succeeded \"Rotti\'s Chapel Sermon\"; the scene is available on the Blu-ray) and plays in its entirety during credits
10. \"Aching Hour\"**\*** - Blind Mag (Mag sings about her imminent death during the Renaissance festival; plays in its entirety during credits)


# Repo! The Genetic Opera
Score tracks
Includes songs only heard as instrumentals and not parts of any deleted songs: (**\*** = instrumental)
1.  \"Depraved Heart Murder at Sanitarium Square\"**\*** (First song heard in the film)
2.  \"The Prognosis\"**\*** (Heard right after \"Crucifixus\")
3.  \"Nathan\'s Story\"**\*** (Heard right after \"Infected\")
4.  \"Rotti\'s Story\"**\*** (Heard right after \"Tao of Mag\")
5.  \"A Ventriloquist\'s Mess\"**\*** (Heard right after \"Thankless Job\")
6.  \"Blind Mag\'s Story\"**\*** (Heard right after \"Seeing Your Stirs Memories\")
7.  \"Before the Escape\"**\*** (Heard right after \"Inopportune Telephone Call\")
8.  \"Worthy Heirs?\"**\*** (Heard right after \"Zydrate Support Network\")
9.  \"A Dump Truck Home\"**\*** (Heard right after \"Disposal Crew\")
10. \"The Visitor\"**\*** (Heard right after \"Night Surgeon\")
11. \"Pre-Happiness\"**\*** (Heard right after \"Seventeen\")
12. \"Not Your Parents\' Opera\"**\*** (Heard right after \"Bloodbath!\")
13. \"Mag\'s Fall\"**\*** (Heard right after \"Chromaggia\")
14. \"A Ten Second Opera\"**\*** (Heard right after \"Let the Monster Rise\")


# Repo! The Genetic Opera
### Development
In 1996, Darren Smith had a friend who was going through bankruptcy and whose possessions were going into foreclosure. Inspired by this, Smith came up with the idea of a future where not only one\'s property, but also one\'s body parts, could be repossessed. Smith and Terrance Zdunich collaborated ideas and plot lines to create the first version of *Repo!*, titled *The Necromerchant\'s Debt*, which told the story of a Graverobber in debt to a Repo Organ Man. It was first performed at the John Raitt theater in 2002. After being such a success, creators Smith and Zdunich expanded on the universe to create all of the storylines that became *Repo! The Genetic Opera* later in 2002. Many changes were made, gradually, to the characters and music throughout the show\'s various incarnations through 2005. For example, Rotti, in the earliest performances, was not the father to Luigi, Pavi, and Amber. Instead, he was a younger brother to Luigi and Pavi, while Amber was Luigi\'s daughter. Lyrics were adjusted to new arcs and some songs were dropped altogether, such as \"But This Is Opera!\", which was cut out in an effort to change the direction of Blind Mag\'s character. After years of being performed as a stage play, *Repo!* was adapted into a 10-minute short film directed and financed by Darren Lynn Bousman to pitch the idea to film studios. The film starred Shawnee Smith as Amber Sweet (then named \"Heather Sweet\"), Michael Rooker as the Repo Man, Kristen Fairlie as Shilo, Terrance Zdunich as GraveRobber, and J. Larose as Pavi.

### Filming
Once *Repo!* was picked up by Lionsgate, principal photography began on September 2007 in Canada. The film was scheduled to be released on April 25, 2008, but was pushed back to November 7. X Japan leader Yoshiki produced the soundtrack, along with composing one extra track for the film. He also served as the music director and one of the film\'s executive producers. Paul Masse was the cast\'s vocal coach for the film\'s soundtrack.


# Repo! The Genetic Opera
### Promotion
Due to Lionsgate\'s lack of promotion, director Bousman and creator Zdunich did much of their own promotion. To coincide with the film\'s release, Bousman, Smith, and Zdunich, as well as various cast members, did a *Repo! Road Tour* version of the film. The tour was set up for one-night screenings of the film in seven different cities across the United States. Principal cast and crew also did extensive Q&A sessions following each screening. Because of strong ticket sales, a second and third touring session were added, in addition to a British tour across four locations. A *Repo! Road Show* was announced on January 28 in 10 cities. This show was similar to the *Repo! Road Tour*, except it was almost completely fan-run.

### Theatrical release
The film received a limited release in the United States and Canada on November 7, 2008. It had a further limited Canadian release, playing in Toronto from November 21--27, 2008. It was released in the Czech Republic on November 20, this was followed by a theatrical release in Spain on January 2, 2009. In December 2008, several more US theatrical screenings were announced running between January 13--24, 2009 in several cities The Repo! Road Tour made its 4th and final leg in Europe from March 7--12, 2009. After initial theatrical release and DVD sales, fan support has caused *Repo! The Genetic Opera* to be played in select theaters for the duration of 2009 and well into 2014, some with \"shadow casts\" in which a group of actors and performers re-enact the film in front of the big screen while the film is playing on stage, much like the followers of *The Rocky Horror Picture Show*. It was re-released in a special screening at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International.


# Repo! The Genetic Opera
### Critical response
The film received generally mixed to negative reviews from critics. Critics polled on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 40% approval rating. The site\'s consensus reads, \"Bombastic and intentionally gross, *Repo! The Genetic Opera* has a unique style but lacks the wit and substance to be involving\". The film has a 32 out of 100 rating on Metacritic, indicating \"generally unfavorable reviews\". Kyle Smith of *The New York Post* concluded, \"There probably aren\'t enough futuristic Goth rock musicals, but *Repo! The Genetic Opera* is weak on a couple of things a musical needs: music and lyrics.\" Nathan Lee for *The New York Times* declared the film \"feels destined to please a campy coterie of fans and no one else\" and criticized the music, saying, \"A few catchy melodies, some clever lyrics or even a sense that the score wasn't just one long, unmodulated track might have energized this singularly inert tale\...\" Tasha Robinson for *The A.V. Club* said, \"One of the main issues with Repo! The Genetic Opera is that nearly every aspect of it goes on too long. The songs are generally overextended, which is a particular problem given that most of them are also atonal and dull, either chanted or seemingly assembled from a series of clunky, ill-fitting, barely rhyming lines.\" And ultimately \"\...I spent the vast majority of the film either bored or squirming with discomfort over the cheap gore, the arrhythmic songs, and the phenomenally bombastic performances\...\"
The film has since developed a cult following since its original release in 2008.

### Box office
*Repo!* grossed \$53,684 in its opening weekend, a \$6,711 average per theater. The film\'s full eleven-theater release earned \$146,750 in the United States, and an additional \$41,376 internationally, for a total of \$188,126 worldwide.


# Repo! The Genetic Opera
### Accolades
Hilton\'s performance won her the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress at the 29th Golden Raspberry Awards. At the same ceremony, Hilton was also awarded Worst Actress for her role in *The Hottie and the Nottie*. The songs \"Chase the Morning\", \"Chromaggia\", and \"Zydrate Anatomy\" were shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, although none were nominated.
The film was released January 20, 2009 on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States. In Canada, the DVD was released on January 20, 2009 and the Blu-ray was released February 10, 2009. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United Kingdom on March 9, 2009. It was released in Ireland on March 6, 2009. The DVD was released in Germany on April 14. The US DVD release contains two audio commentaries (one by Bousman and actors Vega, Moseley, and Ogre; the other by Bousman, creators Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich, and music producer Joseph Bishara), two featurettes (*From Stage to Screen* and *Legal Assassin - A Repo Man*), and the theatrical trailer. The Blu-ray contains all DVD features including a select-scene audio commentary by the director and Paris Hilton, an additional two featurettes (*Zydrate Anatomy - Amber Sweet: Addicted to the Knife* and *Chase the Morning - Blind Mag: The Voice of GeneCo*), a video sing-along with bouncing heart, four deleted scenes (*Needle Through a Bug*, *Buon Giorno*, *Extended Version of Shilo and GraveRobber Escape*, and *Come Up and Try My New Parts*), and the theatrical trailer.


# Repo! The Genetic Opera
### Accolades
The *Original Motion Picture Soundtrack* was released September 30, 2008 and only available through Amazon and iTunes. A deluxe version of the soundtrack was released on February 17, 2009. All the tracks from the previous release remain on the deluxe edition in the same order, with the new tracks placed in between some tracks, including score tracks. The only track that appears on both albums that differs is Zydrate Anatomy, where it is slightly longer on the deluxe edition. This album can also be found on Tidal.
In regards to the possibility of a sequel, Vega has been quoted as saying: \"From the very, very beginning, we always talked about a prequel or a sequel to this film. And it\'s hard, because as of right now, we all want to do it, but, you know, it didn\'t really do as we hoped. We didn\'t really have a lot of support. But we\'re hoping that the fans will come back, and it will be an underground cult classic that will grow, and that will eventually spark us to do another.\" Bousman also indicated interest, stating; \"I would love to follow up *Repo* and finish the story, because it was conceived as a three-part movie. But this movie is all about support from the internet, and support from fans. This is not a movie where you\'ll see billboards or bus stop ads or trailers on TV.\" It was additionally expected that Hilton would return in her role as Amber Sweet. However, in a video posted on YouTube, it was revealed that they \"no longer control the answer to the question of a future sequel\" since they no longer have ownership of the franchise, thus driving Bousman and Zdunich to make *The Devil\'s Carnival*.
- *Elysium*
- *Repo Men* -- A film involving a similar plotline regarding the repossession of transplanted organs


# My 20th Century
***My 20th Century*** () is a 1989 Hungarian comedy-drama science fiction film written and directed by Ildikó Enyedi. It premiered at the Toronto Festival of Festivals. Enyedi won the Golden Camera award at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as the Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film was chosen to be part of the New Budapest Twelve, a list of Hungarian films considered the best in 2000.
In Budapest in 1880, two twin daughters, Dóra and Lili, are born. After their mother dies, the twins support themselves by selling matches in the street. When they fall asleep one night, two men take their matches and, after a coin flip, each takes a girl and they go their separate ways.
On New Year\'s Eve 1900, Dóra, a drifter, finds herself aboard the Orient Express trying to scam two men out of money. In Austria, Lili, now a revolutionary, boards the train where she is briefly seen by Dóra, who is drunk and instantly forgets her.
At a library, Lili encounters Z, a man who will not stop staring at her. The two become acquainted and Z falls in love with her, but Lili, who is carrying a bomb which she plans to use to kill the minister of the interior, remains focused on her politics even when her plot fails.
Later, Z encounters Dóra on a boat. Believing her to be Lili, he gives her the number of his cabin where she robs him and the two later have sex.
When Z and Lili meet again, he takes her to his apartment. Lili, who had previously sexually rejected Z, apologizes to him and tells him she regrets her previous decision. Believing that Lili is apologizing for robbing him, Z takes her to his apartment and they have sex. The following evening Lili attacks the minister with a bomb, but after looking into his eyes she blows out the bomb and runs away. Seeking refuge from a crowd of police, Lili hides in a fun house where, turning a corner, she sees Dóra. Z finds his way there as well and briefly sees them both together before the two run away from him.


# My 20th Century
- Dorota Segda - Dóra / Lili / Anya (as Dorotha Segda)
- Oleg Yankovskiy - Z
- Paulus Manker - Otto Weininger
- Péter Andorai - Thomas Edison
- Gábor Máté - K
- Gyula Kéry - ékszerész (as Kéri Gyula)
- Andrej Schwartz - Segéd
- Sándor Téri - Huszár (as Téry Sándor)
- Sándor Czvetkó - Young anarchist
- Endre Koronczi - Liftboy
- Ágnes Kovács & Eszter Kovács - Baby twins
Ildikó Enyedi at the film\'s press conference in Berlin
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 100%, based on 9 reviews. In one positive review, Silent London wrote that \"the cinema is just one of the 20th-century ideas that illuminate this film -- from politics through to science, technology and transport. Enyedi\'s film has the capacity to make ideas and inventions that are now familiar seem new again, to imbue them with the sense of wonder and magic that they once held. Peter Bradshow wrote in *The Guardian* that \"*My 20th Century* is a jeu d'ésprit, a whimsical erotic fantasia of central Europe, a millennial meditation on modernity, all in black-and-white and infused with the spirit of early cinema.\"


# My 20th Century
Darragh O\'Donoghue, in film magazine Cineaste, described the film as \"a true masterpiece of \'domesticated sci-fi\'\" and \"one of the great debuts in film history, as formally daring, visually inventive, and thematically complex as *Citizen Kane*.\" \"Here science is treated as a source of wonder, magic, fantasy, utopianism\... Every sequence, every shot in this film is a mini-epic in itself---cinematography, composition, and sound shaped with an intensity across the entire film that is rare in the cinema.\"
Toronto International Film Festival curator Dorota Lech wrote that *My 20th Century* was a \"mischievous fairy tale of synchronicity and fin-de-siècle wonder\" and established Enyedi\'s reputation as \"an early pioneer of female science-fiction cinema and a master of labyrinthian storytelling.\" *My 20th Century*, she goes on, has \"a narrative concerned with both universal concepts and material dilemmas, cutting across space and time, sprinkled with irony, symbolism, and documentary realism\" and \"centers on the twin origins of modernity and cinema, both born of electricity.\" It reminds the viewer that \"our 20th century is undoubtedly one of paradoxes and we, like the dog connected to electrodes, know nothing of the universe beyond our own laboratory. \... These diverging narrative threads of male scientific triumph over nature and female biological capability are prodded and reflected in a kaleidoscope of turn-of-the-century events.\" The film is \"a pointed critique of man\'s arrogance through his pursuit for truth and his assumed infallibility of science in its infantile state.\"


# My 20th Century
Film scholar Jonathan Owen writes that *My 20th Century* is \"a story of the twentieth century itself and of its bold early developments - technological, political and cultural - in all their magic, promise, and danger\" and calls it a \"meditation on technological enlightenment that is quite literally luminous.\" He says that the opening sequence is \"clownish yet a little ominous\" and \"sets the tone for a film that will pay homage to the exuberance of early cinema while musing on the mixed blessings of a machine-dominated modernity.\" Enyedi, Owen writes, \"is as much engaged with the unrealized possibilities of the twentieth century as with the shape it actually took\" and he explains that the twins are contrary visions of the twentieth century. Owen explains that the pigeon at the end of the film \"conveys the lost romance of pre-technological communication\" and \"recalls the failure of modern technology to realize its utopian potential and achieve genuine global and social connection.\" Owen identifies a number of silent films that are referenced in *My 20th Century*, including 1921\'s *Orphans of the Storm* (which stars Lillian and Dorothy Gish, whose names are similar to Lili and Dóra\'s), 1926\'s *Now You Tell One*, and 1928\'s *The Little Match Girl*.
*New York Times* film critic Judy Stone wrote that the film is about \"the dreams and possibilities that existed in the 19th century and came true in the 20th. The inventions of electric light, flight, the telephone, movies, radio, television and computer microchips are now taken for granted, but\... science has also diminished our sense of the miraculous.\" Stone interviewed Enyedi, who stated \"The people who achieved those inventions could make them because they were not afraid. They didn\'t believe in governments or in political ideologies, but they were still able to believe in themselves.\" In warning that those technologies may pose dangers to the world, Enyedi said \"Our age has become overtechnical and soulless. Science has lost its moral basis. When I was planning the film, I thought about European culture \-- where it is now and what will happen.\"


# My 20th Century
*My 20th Century* was featured in Mark Cousins\' documentary *Women Make Film* in the Sci-Fi and Time episodes. In the Sci-Fi episode, narrator Thandiwe Newton states that the film is \"one of the most unusual in the sci-fi genre\", that it goes beyond \"future or parallel worlds, places of escape or veiled versions of our own malaise\", and that Enyedi \"shows that sci-fi has no bounds.\"
- List of submissions to the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Hungarian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film


# The Art of Woo
***The Art of Woo*** is a 2001 Canadian romantic comedy film written and directed by Helen Lee and starring Sook-Yin Lee and Adam Beach.
Alessa Woo (Sook-Yin Lee), an art gallery employee in Toronto, has built an image as a rich heiress, but is in dire financial straits. She attempts to court rich men to feed her lifestyle, but is prone to changing partners. One day, talented aboriginal artist Ben Crowchild (Adam Beach) moves into the apartment next door, leading to the two sharing a bathroom. In order to spurn a persistent suitor, Nathan (Don McKellar), Woo takes hold of Crowchild and kisses him. The two later become friends with benefits.
Soon, Woo is approached by the idly rich art collector Patrick Aucoin (Joel Keller), who proposes to her; Woo becomes tempted. However, she has developed feelings for the seemingly unwealthy Crowchild. Crowchild, who has similar emotions, reveals to her that he was adopted by Aucoin\'s father and that he himself is rich, but posing as a poor artist to be better received by the community. Woo and Crowchild become a couple.
Saulteaux actor Adam Beach was cast in the lead male role of Ben Crowchild.
*The Art of Woo* was the feature film directorial debut of Helen Lee. After the failure of Lee\'s previous short film, *Priceless*, she was approached by co-producer Anita Lee and offered the chance to direct a feature-length romantic comedy; finding herself depressed by the \"heaviness\" of *Priceless*, Helen Lee accepted. She wrote the first draft in two weeks after watching several \"classic\" romantic comedies; the speed in writing was caused by her desire to receive a grant for up to C\$ 500,000 from the Canadian Film Centre\'s Featured Film Project (FFP), granted for low-budget films. After approval, they received assistance from FFP member Peter O\'Brian to ensure they would finish the film within a year.
Helen Lee intended to insert themes of gender and race through showing social anxieties, class distinctions, and cultural displacements. Two reviewers noted a resemblance between *The Art of Woo* and the 1961 film *Breakfast at Tiffany\'s*.


# The Art of Woo
As there was a scheduling conflict with Sandra Oh, the first choice to play Alessa Woo, Helen Lee cast MuchMusic video jockey Sook-Yin Lee. Sook-Yin Lee underwent acting courses in Montreal with Jacqueline McClintock.
Helen Lee was lent paintings from local artists Michael Snow and Suzy Lake to use for filming, while Ron Sexsmith and Kurt Swinghammer did the soundtrack. *The Art of Woo* was filmed digitally in Toronto over 20 days between March and April 2001. Locations included the University of Toronto, The Power Plant, and Archive Gallery Inc.
*The Art of Woo* was released at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Upon its release, *The Art of Woo* was \"slashed\" by Canadian critics. Erin Oke of *Exclaim!* found the film to have \"many appealing aspects\", but felt that the situations were often contrived and it lacked a uniting vision; she surmised that it could have been a better film had it not tried \"quite so hard to be likeable all the time\". Lisa Braun of *Jam!* enjoyed the soundtrack but found the dialogue poor; she summarized that the film was \"uneven, but audiences would be interested to see what Lee does next\". Jonathan Crow, writing for the Rovi Corporation, found the film \"less fun and less accomplished than a third grade theater production\". At the 2002 Genie Awards, Ron Sexmith won *Best Achievement in Music -- Original Song* for his work in the film.