title: Jill Ireland

text: Jill Dorothy Ireland (24 April 1936 – 18 May 1990) was an English actress and singer. She appeared in 16 films with her second husband, Charles Bronson, and was additionally involved in two other of Bronson's films as a producer.


title: Jill Ireland

text: Born in London, Ireland was the daughter of a wine importer. She began acting in the mid-1950s with small roles in films including "Simon and Laura" (1955) and "Three Men in a Boat" (1956).


title: Jill Ireland

text: In 1957, Ireland married actor David McCallum after the couple met while working on the film "Hell Drivers" (1957). Later, they appeared together in five episodes of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.": "The Quadripartite Affair" (season 1, episode 3, 1964), "The Giuoco Piano Affair" (season 1, episode 7, 1964), "The Tigers Are Coming Affair" (season 2, episode 8, 1965), and a two-parter "The Five Daughters Affair" (season 3, episodes 28 & 29, 1967). They had three sons, Paul, Valentine, and Jason (who was adopted). McCallum and Ireland divorced in 1967. Jason McCallum died of a drug overdose in 1989, six months before Ireland's death.


title: Jill Ireland

text: In 1968, Ireland married Charles Bronson. She had met him when he and McCallum were filming "The Great Escape" (1963) some years earlier. Together they had a daughter, Zuleika, and adopted a daughter, Katrina. They remained married until Ireland's death in 1990.


title: Jill Ireland

text: Ireland was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1984. After her diagnosis, Ireland wrote two books, chronicling her battle with the disease. At the time of her death, she was writing a third book and became a spokeswoman for the American Cancer Society. In 1988, she testified before the U.S. Congress about medical costs and was given the American Cancer Society's Courage Award by President Ronald Reagan.


title: Jill Ireland

text: In 1990, Ireland died of breast cancer at her home in Malibu, California. She was cremated and her ashes were placed in a cane which Charles Bronson had buried with him at Brownsville Cemetery when he died in 2003.


title: Jill Ireland

text: For her contribution to the film industry, Jill Ireland has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6751 Hollywood Boulevard.


title: Jill Ireland

text: In 1991, Ireland was portrayed by Jill Clayburgh in the made-for-television film "Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story." The film, which was based on Ireland's memoir "Lifelines" and listed her posthumously as an executive producer received mixed reviews from critics. To prepare for the role, Clayburgh, who had never met Ireland, read "Lifelines", and listened to Ireland's recorded interviews.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Tuesday Weld (born Susan Ker Weld; August 27, 1943) is an American actress and model. She began acting as a child and progressed to mature roles in the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960. Over the following decade, she established a career playing dramatic roles in films.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Weld often portrayed impulsive and reckless women acting out sexually, and was nominated for a Golden Globe for "Play It as It Lays" (1972), an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" (1977), an Emmy Award for "The Winter of Our Discontent" (1983), and a BAFTA for "Once Upon a Time in America" (1984). Since the late 1980s her acting appearances have been infrequent.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Weld was born Susan Ker Weld in Manhattan on August 27, 1943. Her father was Lathrop Motley Weld, of the Weld family of Massachusetts. Her father died in 1947 at the age of 49, shortly before his daughter's fourth birthday. Her mother, Yosene Balfour Ker, daughter of the artist and "Life" illustrator William Balfour Ker, was Lathrop Weld's fourth and last wife. Canadian-born William Balfour Ker had Scottish ancestry. His mother, Lily Florence Bell Ker, was first cousin of the inventor Alexander Graham Bell, and his father, William Ker, was a Scottish businessman and banker.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Weld had two siblings, Sarah King Weld and David Balfour Weld. She legally changed her name to Tuesday Weld on October 9, 1959.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Left in financial difficulty by her husband's death, Weld's mother put Weld to work as a model to support the family. As the young actress told "Life" in 1971:


title: Tuesday Weld

text: My father's family came from Tuxedo Park, and they offered to take us kids and pay for our education, on the condition that Mama never see us again. Mama was an orphan who had come here from London but so far as my father's family was concerned, she was strictly from the gutter. I have to give Mama credit—she refused to give us up… So I became the supporter of the family, and I had to take my father's place in many, many ways. I was expected to make up for everything that had ever gone wrong in Mama's life. She became obsessed with me, pouring out her pent-up love—her alleged love—on me, and it's been heavy on my shoulders ever since. Mama still thinks I owe everything to her.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Her name became Tuesday, an extension of her childhood nickname, "Tu-Tu", so named by her young cousin, Mary Ker, who could not pronounce "Susan". She officially adopted her name in October 1959.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Weld's mother secured her an agent using her résumé from modeling. She made her acting debut on television at the age of 12, and her feature film debut that year in a bit role in the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock crime drama "The Wrong Man".


title: Tuesday Weld

text: In 1956 Weld played the lead in "Rock, Rock, Rock", which featured record promoter Alan Freed and singers Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, and Johnny Burnette. In the film Connie Francis performed the vocals for Weld's singing parts.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: On TV she appeared in an episode of "Goodyear Playhouse", "Backwoods Cinderella". She understudied on Broadway in "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs".


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Weld was cast in a supporting role in the Paul Newman–Joanne Woodward comedy "Rally Round the Flag, Boys!" (1958), made by 20th Century Fox. At Paramount Pictures, Weld was in "The Five Pennies" (1959), playing the daughter of Danny Kaye, who called Weld "15 going on 27". She guest-starred a number of times on "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" (1958–59). She appeared in "77 Sunset Strip" with Efrem Zimbalist Jr., in the 1959 episode, "Secret Island".


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Weld's performance in "Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!" impressed executives at Fox, who signed her to a long-term contract. They cast her in the CBS television series "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis", with a salary of $35,000 for one year. Weld played Thalia Menninger, the love interest of Dobie Gillis (played by Dwayne Hickman), whose rivals for Thalia's affection included Milton Armitage (played by Warren Beatty). Although Weld was a cast member for only one season, the show created considerable national publicity for her, and she was named a co-winner of a "Most Promising Newcomer" award at the Golden Globe Awards.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: At Columbia, she had a leading role in a teen film, "Because They're Young" (1960), starring Dick Clark. She was second billed in "Sex Kittens Go to College" (1960) made by Albert Zugsmith at Allied Artists. She made a second film for Zugsmith, "The Private Lives of Adam and Eve", made in 1959 but not released for two years.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: She guest starred on "The Red Skelton Hour" in "Appleby: The Big Producer" (1959) and on "77 Sunset Strip" (1959) and "The Millionaire" (1960).


title: Tuesday Weld

text: At Fox, she played Joy, a free-spirited university student in "High Time", starring Bing Crosby and Fabian Forte. She sang a love song to Fabian in the season opener of NBC's "The Dinah Shore Chevy Show" on October 9, 1960. Four weeks later, on November 13, Weld returned to the network as a guest star in NBC's "The Tab Hunter Show". She guested in "The Mormons" for "Zane Grey Theatre" (1960).


title: Tuesday Weld

text: For Fox, Weld had a supporting role in the sequel "Return to Peyton Place" (1961), in the part played by Hope Lange in the original. Her portrayal of an incest victim was well received, but the film was less successful than its predecessor. She supported Elvis Presley in "Wild in the Country" (1962), along with Lange. Weld had an off-screen romance with Presley.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Fox also used her as a guest star on "Follow the Sun" ("The Highest Wall") and "Adventures in Paradise" ("The Velvet Trap"). On November 12, 1961, she played a singer, Cherie, in the seventh episode of ABC's television series "Bus Stop", produced by Fox, with Marilyn Maxwell and Gary Lockwood. It was an adaptation of the play by William Inge, with Weld in the role originated on screen by Marilyn Monroe.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Weld supported Terry-Thomas in the Frank Tashlin comedy "Bachelor Flat" (1962), for Fox. Following the film's release, she appeared on What's My Line as the celebrity mystery guest.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Weld's mother was scandalized by her teen daughter's love affairs with older men, such as actor John Ireland, but Weld resisted, saying, If you don't leave me alone, I'll quit being an actress—which means there ain't gonna be no more money for you, Mama'. Finally, when I was sixteen, I left home. I just went out the door and bought my own house".


title: Tuesday Weld

text: She was Stanley Kubrick's first choice to play the role of Lolita in his 1962 film, but she turned the offer down, saying: "I didn't have to play it. I was Lolita".


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Weld took three months off to go to Greenwich Village in New York and "study myself". Then she starred along with Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen in "Soldier in the Rain", written by Blake Edwards from a novel by William Goldman, but the film was only a minor success.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: She won excellent reviews for a February 7, 1962, episode in the "Naked City", "A Case Study of Two Savages", adapted from the real-life case of backwood killers Charles Starkweather (played by Rip Torn) and Weld, cast as his young bride, Ora Mae Youngham, on a homicidal spree ending in New York City. She guest starred on "Route 66" in "Love Is a Skinny Kid" (1962), "Ben Casey" in "When You See an Evil Man" (1962), "The Dick Powell Theatre" in "A Time to Die" (1962), and "Run Till It's Dark" with Fabian (1962).


title: Tuesday Weld

text: In 1963 Weld guest-starred as Denise Dunlear in "The Eleventh Hour", in the episode "Something Crazy's Going on in the Back Room" alongside Angela Lansbury. She was in "The Legend of Lylah Clare" for "The DuPont Show of the Week" (1963), directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: In 1964 she appeared in the title role of the episode "Keep an Eye on Emily" on Craig Stevens's CBS drama, "Mr. Broadway". In the same year, she appeared as a troubled blind woman in "Dark Corner", an episode of "The Fugitive".


title: Tuesday Weld

text: She appeared with her former co-star Dwayne Hickman in Heck Palance's circus drama "The Greatest Show on Earth" on ABC, in separate episodes.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Weld appeared in 1965 in the successful Norman Jewison film "The Cincinnati Kid", opposite Steve McQueen. There was some controversy when she refused to meet the local governor at a fund-raiser for hurricane victims, jumping out of a car in view of 70,000 people. The film was a big hit.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Weld got a star role in "Lord Love a Duck" (1966), with Roddy McDowall, Ruth Gordon, and Harvey Korman. Weld received excellent reviews, but the film was a box office disappointment.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: She followed it playing Abigail in a TV adaptation of "The Crucible" (1967), opposite George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst. After guest starring on "Cimarron Strip" (1967), Weld had the starring role in "Pretty Poison" (1968), co-starring Anthony Perkins. The film became a cult success.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Around this time, Weld became famous for turning down roles in films that succeeded at the box office, such as "Bonnie and Clyde", "Rosemary's Baby", "True Grit", "Cactus Flower", and "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice". In a 1971 interview with the "New York Times", Weld explained that she had chosen to reject these roles precisely because she believed they would be commercial successes: "Do you think I want a success? I refused 'Bonnie and Clyde' because I was nursing at the time, but also because deep down I knew it was going to be a huge success. The same was true of 'Bob and Carol and Fred and Sue' or whatever it was called. It reeked of success".


title: Tuesday Weld

text: The films Weld did make included "I Walk the Line" (1970), opposite Gregory Peck; "A Safe Place" (1971), co-starring Jack Nicholson and Orson Welles and directed by Henry Jaglom, and "Play It as It Lays" (1972), again with Perkins, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Weld began to work again in television, starring in "Reflections of Murder" (1974) and "F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood" (1975) in which she played Zelda Fitzgerald.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Weld attracted attention as the favored, out-of-control Katherine in "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" (1977) – packing into her short screen time an orgy, a divorce, a lot of alcohol, and two abortions – and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; later she appeared in "Who'll Stop the Rain" (1978) opposite Nick Nolte; and the ensemble satire "Serial" (1980).


title: Tuesday Weld

text: She said she preferred television. "What I dig about TV is the pace", she said. "Two weeks for even a heavy part – great. Too much thinking about a role is a disaster for me. I mean, let's do it, let's get it done."


title: Tuesday Weld

text: She played the lead in the TV films "A Question of Guilt" (1978), in which she plays a woman accused of murdering her children, "" (1980), a remake of "Madame X" (1981), and a new version of "The Rainmaker" (1982).


title: Tuesday Weld

text: In feature films, Weld had a good supporting role in Michael Mann's acclaimed 1981 film "Thief", opposite James Caan. She played Al Pacino's wife in "Author! Author!" (1982) and co-starred with Donald Sutherland in the TV film "The Winter of Our Discontent" (1983). This performance earned her an Emmy nomination.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: In 1984, she appeared in Sergio Leone's gangster epic "Once Upon a Time in America", playing a jeweler's secretary, who is in on a plan to steal a shipment of diamonds. During the robbery, her character goads Robert De Niro's character, David "Noodles" Aaronson, into "raping" her with her complicity. She later meets up with the gang from the robbery, and becomes the moll of James Woods' character Max Bercovicz. Disturbed by what she sees as Max's delusional, even suicidal, ambitions, she convinces Noodles to betray Max to the police. The performance earned Weld a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress of 1984.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: On TV, Weld was in "Scorned and Swindled" (1984), "" (1986) and "Something in Common" (1986). She had a supporting role in "Heartbreak Hotel" (1988).


title: Tuesday Weld

text: In 1993, she played a police officer's neurotic wife in "Falling Down", starring Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall. She had small supporting roles in "Feeling Minnesota" (1996), "Investigating Sex" (2001), and "Chelsea Walls" (2001).


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Weld has been married three times. She was married to screenwriter Claude Harz from October 23, 1965, until their divorce on February 18, 1971. They had a daughter, Natasha, born on August 26, 1966. Weld was awarded custody of Natasha in the divorce and $100 a month in child support payments. Weld told Guy Flatley of "The New York Times" in 1971:


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Mama hated my husband—she's a jealous lover, you know. She's hated all the men I've ever been involved with. But I really felt that what I had been doing up to that time with my life was probably wrong, that maybe what I should be was a housewife. Our marriage lasted 5 years. It was just another one of my mistakes.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: She married British actor, musician and comedian Dudley Moore on September 20, 1975. On February 26, 1976, they had a son, Patrick. The couple divorced in 1980, with Weld receiving a $200,000 settlement plus $3,000 monthly alimony for the next 4 years and an additional $2,500 a month in child support.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: On October 18, 1985, she married Israeli concert violinist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman, becoming stepmother to his daughters Arianna and Natalia. The couple divorced in 1998. In court papers, Zukerman quoted Weld as saying, "Why do I need to go to another concert when I’ve heard the piece before?" and "I can’t stand the backstage scene. I don’t want to hear another note."


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Between marriages, Weld dated Al Pacino, David Steinberg, Mikhail Baryshnikov (whose previous girlfriend, Jessica Lange, had been Weld's best friend), Omar Sharif, Richard Gere and Ryan O'Neal.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Weld sold her beach house in Montauk, New York, in the late 2000s and moved to Carbondale, Colorado. In 2018, she left Colorado and bought a $1.8 million home in the Hollywood Hills.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Weld and then-husband Zukerman purchased 74 Surfside Ave in 1990 from the estate of Norman Kean, who produced the long-running Broadway show "Oh! Calcutta!" and who killed himself and his actress wife Gwyda Donhowe in their Manhattan apartment in 1988. Although the Montauk residence was not a crime scene, Weld later struggled to find a buyer for the property due to its murder-suicide connection. Listed in 2006, it sat on the market for three years before selling at a reduced price of $6.75 million in 2009 and is now rented. Weld bought a "tiny condo" there in 2021 for $335,000.


title: Tuesday Weld

text: Offhand references to Weld sometimes appear in fiction and music. Some works, though, have been more directly inspired by her:


title: General Hospital

text: General Hospital (often abbreviated as GH) is an American daytime television soap opera. It is listed in "Guinness World Records" as the longest-running American soap opera in production, and the second in American history after "Guiding Light". Concurrently, it is the world's third longest-running scripted drama series in production after British serials "The Archers" and "Coronation Street", as well as the world's second-longest-running televised soap opera still in production. "General Hospital" premiered on the ABC television network on April 1, 1963. "General Hospital" is the longest-running serial produced in Hollywood, and the longest-running entertainment program in ABC television history. It holds the record for most Daytime Emmy Awards for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, with 14 wins.


title: General Hospital

text: The show was created by husband-and-wife soap writers Frank and Doris Hursley, who originally set it in a hospital, in an unnamed fictional city. In the 1970s, the city was named Port Charles, New York. From its beginning, "General Hospital" starred John Beradino and Emily McLaughlin, and both actors stayed with the show until their deaths in 1996 and 1991, respectively. They were joined a year later by Rachel Ames who remains to date the longest serving actress on an ABC soap opera, having been continuously on the show from 1964 to 2007. "General Hospital" was the second soap to air on ABC (after the short-lived "Road to Reality", which aired for several months during the 1960–61 season). In 1964, a sister soap was created for "General Hospital", "The Young Marrieds"; it ran for two years, and was canceled because of low ratings. "General Hospital" also spawned the daytime series "Port Charles" (1997–2003) and the primetime spin-off "" (2007–2008). Taped at The Prospect Studios, "General Hospital" aired for a half-hour until July 23, 1976. The series was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26, 1976, and then to a full hour on January 16, 1978.


title: General Hospital

text: Ever since the late 1970s, most of the storylines have revolved around the Quartermaine family and the Spencer family. From 1979 to 1988, "General Hospital" had more viewers than any other daytime soap opera. It rose to the top of the ratings in the early 1980s in part thanks to the monumentally popular "supercouple" Luke and Laura, whose 1981 wedding brought in 30 million viewers and remains the highest-rated hour in American soap opera history. The soap opera is also known for its high-profile celebrity guest stars who have included, among others, Roseanne Barr, James Franco and Elizabeth Taylor. In 2007, the program was listed as one of "Time" magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-Time". On April 23, 2009, "General Hospital" began broadcasting in high-definition television, making it the first ABC soap opera to make such a transition.


title: General Hospital

text: "General Hospital" became the oldest American soap opera on September 17, 2010, following the final broadcast of CBS's "As the World Turns". On April 14, 2011, ABC announced the cancellation of both "All My Children" and "One Life to Live", leaving "General Hospital" as the last remaining soap opera airing on the network after January 13, 2012. The show celebrated its 50th anniversary on April 1, 2013, and its 15,000th episode on June 22, 2022.


title: General Hospital

text: "General Hospital" was created by Frank and Doris Hursley and premiered on April 1, 1963. The first stories were mainly set on the seventh floor of General Hospital, in an unnamed midsize Eastern city (the name of the city, Port Charles, would not be mentioned until the late 1970s). "They had this concept of the show that it was like a big wagon wheel – the spokes would be the characters and the hub would be the hospital", John Beradino (Steve Hardy) later reflected to "Entertainment Weekly" in 1994.


title: General Hospital

text: Launched in 1963, the first stories were mainly set at General Hospital in an unnamed midsized Eastern city. The name of the city, Port Charles, would not be mentioned until 1976 by headwriters Eileen and Robert Mason Pollock. Storylines revolved around Steve Hardy (John Beradino) and his friend, Nurse Jessie Brewer (Emily McLaughlin). Jessie's turbulent marriage to the much-younger Phil Brewer (originally portrayed by Roy Thinnes; lastly by Martin West) was the center of many early storylines. In 1964 Audrey Hardy (Rachel Ames), a flight attendant and sister of Nurse Lucille (Lucille Wall), came to town, and was the woman who won Steve's heart.


title: General Hospital

text: By the end of the 1970s, "General Hospital" was facing dire ratings when executive producer Gloria Monty was brought in to turn the show around. Monty is credited with creation of the first supercouple, Luke and Laura, played by Anthony Geary and Genie Francis. The end of their hour wedding on November 17, 1981, was the most-watched event in daytime serial history. During the 1980s, the series featured several high-profile action, adventure, and some science fiction-based storylines. Location shooting at sites including Mount Rushmore in South Dakota; Niagara Falls; Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Big Bear and Avalon (Catalina Island), California; and San Antonio, Texas are some that propelled the story.


title: General Hospital

text: After Gloria Monty first left the series in 1987, "General Hospital" entered into a transitional phase that lasted until Wendy Riche took the position of executive producer in 1992. Under Riche, the show gained critical acclaim for its sensitive handling of social issues. In 1994, Riche started an annual Nurses' Ball, a fundraiser and HIV/AIDS awareness event both on the show and in real life. Later that year, a heart transplantation storyline involves the death of eight-year-old (daughter of Dr. Tony Jones and Bobbie Spencer) in a bus crash and the subsequent donation of her heart to her dying cousin Maxie Jones. Shortly afterwards, Monica Quartermaine (Leslie Charleson) begins a long battle with breast cancer, which leads to her adopting Emily Quartermaine, the orphaned young daughter of Monica's friend from treatment. "General Hospital" was also praised for the love story of teenagers Stone Cates (Michael Sutton) and Robin Scorpio (Kimberly McCullough). After a struggle that lasted throughout most of 1995, Stone dies from AIDS at the age of 19 and his death is followed by 17-year-old Robin having to deal with being HIV-positive as a result of their relationship. Sutton received a nomination for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and McCullough won an Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series award. ABC featured an Afterschool Special "Positive: A Journey Into AIDS" revolving around the AIDS story as well as "The New York Times" best selling novel "Robin's Diary".


title: General Hospital

text: On Saturday, December 14, 1996, "General Hospital" aired its one of three primetime episodes, "", which picked up where that Friday's episode had left off. The special centered on Laura's supposed death at the hands of Stefan Cassadine. In 1997, the show's long-rumored spin-off materialized into the half-hour serial, "Port Charles". The series' 11,000th episode aired on February 20, 2006. On April 23, 2009, "General Hospital" became ABC's first regular daytime drama to be taped and broadcast in High-definition television, though the 2008 season of its primetime spinoff "" was in high definition. This is the second daytime drama to move to high definition after CBS's "The Young and the Restless". On February 23, 2010, the series aired its 12,000th episode. On December 1, 2011, ABC confirmed that former "One Life to Live" executive producer Frank Valentini and head writer Ron Carlivati would replace longtime executive producer Jill Farren Phelps and Garin Wolf respectively, though Wolf would remain on as a regular writer. The change took effect on January 9, 2012. The first episode under the direction of Valentini aired on February 1, 2012, with Carlivati's material beginning on February 21. Several storylines reminiscent of iconic story arcs of the past were created and popular characters returned to the show in order to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the series in 2013. The serial celebrated 13,000 episodes on February 24, 2014, and marked its 51st anniversary several weeks later on April 1. Also in January 2014, ABC renewed Carlivati's contract with the soap. The series marked its 52nd anniversary on April 1, 2015, with a special episode revolving around the Spencer family.


title: General Hospital

text: In July 2015, it was revealed Carlivati was fired as head writer; Shelly Altman and Jean Passanante were hired as his successors. On September 16, 2016, "Daytime Confidential" reported that Valentini, Passanante and Altman re-signed with the show. On June 6, 2017, Passanante announced her decision to retire from the serial. On July 29, 2017, it was revealed through Passanante that breakdown writer Chris Van Etten would be promoted to co-head writer as her successor. On February 23, 2018, the serial aired its 14,000th episode. On July 30, 2019, it was announced Altman would retire; breakdown writer Dan O'Connor was announced as her successor, joining Van Etten as co-head writer. On June 22, 2022, the soap aired its 15,000 episode; in celebration, the episode focused on Francis' Laura Spencer.


title: General Hospital

text: "General Hospital" has aired on the ABC television network and has been filmed in Hollywood since its inception. The show was filmed in the Sunset Gower Studios from 1963 to the mid-1980s. It relocated in the 1980s to The Prospect Studios.


title: General Hospital

text: "General Hospital" has had a number of different distributors throughout the show's history. From its beginning until 1968, it was a co-production of Plitt Theatres and Selmur Productions. ABC bought the series outright in 1968 and its ownership passed from Selmur to American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., ABC's old separate conglomerate. Ownership of the soap was then passed when the original ABC, Inc. merged with Capital Cities/ABC Inc. in 1985 and it became Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. The show would change hands again when The Walt Disney Company bought Capital Cities/ABC in 1996 and Disney began to program the network and the soap in September 1997 where it remains today.


title: General Hospital

text: Production of "General Hospital" was suspended in March 2020, as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Production resumed on July 22 of the same year; new episodes began airing on August 3, 2020. "General Hospital" was Disney's first series to go back into production during the pandemic.


title: General Hospital

text: Though the series originally focused on solely the medical staff at Port Charles' General Hospital, and starred John Beradino as Dr. Steve Hardy and Emily McLaughlin as Nurse Jessie Brewer, the series branched out and began to focus more on the people and families of the town of Port Charles rather than those solely in the hospital.


title: General Hospital

text: Port Charles is full of "dysfunctional family dynamics ... and family drama remains the focal point of this town." The current families on the show include the quarreling and wealthy Quartermaine family, the mobster crime Corinthos family, the middle class Scorpio/Jones family, the aristocratic Cassadine family, and the adventurous Spencer family.


title: General Hospital

text: Notable former crew members include Gloria Monty, Jill Farren Phelps, Robert Guza Jr., Charles Pratt Jr., John William Corrington, Lewis Arlt, Lynda Myles, Alan Pultz, Judith Pinsker, Joseph Behar, Stephanie Braxton, Norma Monty, Frank South, Ralph Ellis, Shelley Curtis, Jean Passanante, Hope Harmel Smith, Michael Conforti, Michele Val Jean and Ron Carlivati.


title: General Hospital

text: Since the series began in 1963, Port Charles, New York, has been the setting for the show. The town exists in the same fictional universe as other soap opera settings such as Llanview ("One Life to Live"), Pine Valley ("All My Children"), New York City ("Ryan's Hope"), and Corinth ("Loving"). The same setting was also used for "General Hospital" spinoff, "Port Charles".


title: General Hospital

text: "General Hospital" cast and crew have won many awards since 1974 when the Daytime Emmy Awards were created. In 2012, the Creative Arts Emmy Awards were created. "General Hospital" has won 14 Daytime Emmys for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series.


title: General Hospital

text: In June 2009, "TV Guide" ranked "Luke and Laura's Wedding" #45 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.


title: General Hospital

text: During the 1960s, "General Hospital" earned decent ratings against the likes of "To Tell the Truth" and "The Secret Storm" on CBS, but there was a decline as the 1970s came, especially when NBC's "Another World" became highly popular. For two years, it also faced CBS's "The Price Is Right", already a major hit. After continued mediocrity in the Nielsen ratings, ABC was prepared to cancel "General Hospital", but decided to give it a second chance in 1978 when it expanded the show from an experimental 45 minutes to a full hour. However, the expansion came with an ultimatum to the producers that they had six months to improve the show's ratings. Gloria Monty was hired as the new executive producer, and on her first day, she spent an extra $100,000 re-taping four episodes. A miracle occurred thanks to Monty and head writer Douglas Marland; the show became the most-watched daytime drama by 1979, marking a rare instance of a daytime serial's comeback from near-extinction. During the wedding of Luke and Laura on November 17, 1981, about 30 million people tuned in to watch them exchange vows and be cursed by Elizabeth Taylor's Helena Cassadine (Constance Towers).


title: General Hospital

text: From 1979 to 1988, "General Hospital" remained number one in the ratings, competing against two game shows and two low-rated soaps on NBC—"Texas" and "Santa Barbara"—and "Guiding Light" on CBS (although "Guiding Light" experienced a renaissance for a brief period in the middle of 1984, and became the #1-rated soap, briefly dethroning "General Hospital" from the top ratings spot). For the most part, however, "General Hospital" continued to triumph, even after the departure of popular actors Anthony Geary and Genie Francis in the mid-1980s. Although "The Young and the Restless" took "General Hospital's" place as the highest-rated serial in 1989, "General Hospital" continued to maintain excellent ratings.


title: General Hospital

text: Even at its peak in the 1980s, "General Hospital" had been pre-empted in at least two markets in the United States. With the show still number one in the Nielsens, WDTN in Dayton, Ohio preempted the series upon joining ABC in January 1980 in favor of "Woody Woodpecker" and "Super Friends" cartoons. Later, the station would air such shows as "Hour Magazine", "Geraldo" and "Maury" in the show's timeslot until September 2000, when the station's new owners, Sunrise Broadcasting (which purchased the station from Hearst Television two years prior), pulled "Maury" from the station's schedule, due to what it called "community standards", and brought "General Hospital" back to Dayton. In Vermont and Plattsburgh, New York, WVNY dropped "General Hospital" from the schedule in the 1980s and would only bring it back in 1995. During that hiatus, "General Hospital" still aired on Montreal's CFCF-DT, whose signal was decently available in Vermont and Plattsburgh.


title: General Hospital

text: Ever since the 1991–1992 season of "General Hospital", the show has had a steady decline in ratings. On and off, it would rank between third and fifth place in the Nielsen ratings, with CBS's "The Young And The Restless" and "The Bold and the Beautiful" coming in first and second place, respectively. "General Hospital" remained in between third and fifth place in the ratings during that time, and from late 1991 to 1996 "All My Children" held the title of ABC's highest-rated soap.


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text: After months of speculation and cancellation rumors, "Deadline Hollywood" reported on April 11, 2012, that ABC quietly made the decision to keep "General Hospital" on the air and to cancel instead the lower-rated talk show "The Revolution". On June 26, 2012, ABC officially announced that "General Hospital" would move to the 2 p.m. ET/PT timeslot starting on September 10, 2012, and that the network would give the 3:00 p.m. hour back to its affiliates, as it was the recommended time slot for Katie Couric's new, ABC-syndicated talk show, "Katie".


title: General Hospital

text: Encore episodes were shown every weeknight on the former cable channel Soapnet, with a marathon on Saturday and classic episodes at 4 a.m. EST and 5 a.m. (3 a.m. and 4 a.m. CST).


title: General Hospital

text: Production of "General Hospital" was suspended in March 2020 as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The show had banked roughly two months' worth of episodes at that time. By airing repeats on "Flashback Fridays", "General Hospital" was able to air original episodes through the end of May 21, 2020. This will be followed by several weeks of vintage episode repeats. Production resumed on July 22, 2020, and new episodes began airing on August 3, 2020.


title: General Hospital

text: ABC stations in the Mountain and Pacific Time Zones, and in Alaska and Hawaii follow a Central Time Zone schedule for daytime programming; thus, "General Hospital" is scheduled by the network to air at 1:00 p.m. in these areas.


title: General Hospital

text: The popularity of "General Hospital" has gained it many parodies and references in other mainstream programs. For example:


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text: The success of the long-running soap opera has had one sister serial, one spinoff in the United States, and two primetime spinoffs in the United States and the United Kingdom.


title: General Hospital

text: "The Young Marrieds" was ABC's first attempt at a sister serial for "General Hospital". It ran for only two years, racking up a total of 380 episodes. Despite its moderate popularity, it was aired against CBS's top-rated "The Edge of Night", which it could not compete against. The series finale aired on March 25, 1966, with the show's main protagonist contemplating suicide. It ended in a cliffhanger, leaving the audience wondering if the man had killed himself or not. "The Young Marrieds" was set in the fictional suburb of Queen's Point, which was considered by the writers to be a suburb of "Port Charles".


title: General Hospital

text: The British television series "General Hospital" did not feature any characters from the American show, but was modeled after its format. It started as a half-hour program broadcast in the afternoons, which was unusual for British serials that normally aired in prime time. In 1975, it was expanded to an hour-long format and moved to Friday evenings.


title: General Hospital

text: "Port Charles" was a daytime drama that initially featured interns in a competitive medical school program, and was known for having more action actually in the hospital than "General Hospital" itself. It also included the characters of Scott Baldwin, Serena Baldwin, Lucy Coe, Kevin Collins, and Karen Wexler, all of whom originally appeared as characters on "General Hospital". As the show evolved, it tended more towards gothic intrigue, including supernatural elements such as vampires and afterlife. It also switched formats from an open-ended daytime serial to 13-week story arcs known as "books", similar to Spanish language telenovelas.


title: General Hospital

text: "" is the second American prime time spinoff of a daytime drama (the first being "Our Private World", a spinoff of "As the World Turns"). Its first season aired from July 12, 2007, to October 4, 2007, on Soapnet, a cable channel owned by ABC. The series follows the nighttime adventures of familiar and new characters around the hospital. As of March 2008, the first season of the series was "Soapnet's most-watched series ever", with ABC Daytime and Soapnet President Brian Frons noting that "Night Shift" drew more than 1 million new viewers to the channel during its first season.


title: General Hospital

text: "" was a primetime special that aired on Saturday, December 14, 1996. The episode picked up where that Friday's show had left off. The special centered on Laura's supposed death at the hands of Stefan Cassadine.


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text: On April 2, 1998, "General Hospital" aired a primetime special in celebration of the program's 35th anniversary. Hosted by Anthony Geary, the show focused and recapped on many popular storylines including Monica Quartermaine's breast cancer, BJ's death, and Stone Cates' battle with HIV. This was the first anniversary special that was broadcast in primetime and that didn't include any of the current storyline.


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text: On April 6, 2013, as part of the show's 50th anniversary commemoration, ABC's newsmagazine "20/20" aired "General Hospital: The Real Soap Dish"—a retrospective and behind-the-scenes special hosted by Katie Couric.


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text: On September 5, 2014, it was announced that cast member Nancy Lee Grahn would begin to host a companion web series for ABC.com in January 2015, "General Hospital Now!", which would feature behind-the-scenes interviews with fellow cast members, as well as panel discussions with comedians who are fans of the show.


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text: On May 15 and 18, 2015, "General Hospital" aired two live episodes as part of its 52nd anniversary celebration, using the hashtag #GHLive to promote the broadcast on social media.


The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification process determines 30 of the 32 teams which will play in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, with the co-hosts Australia and New Zealand qualifying automatically. It is the ninth FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's football world championship tournament. The tournament is the first Women's World Cup to be hosted in multiple countries, the third by an AFC member association after the 1991 and 2007 Women's World Cups in China, the first to be held in the Southern Hemisphere, the first senior FIFA tournament in Oceania, and also the first FIFA tournament to be hosted across multiple confederations (with Australia in the AFC and New Zealand in the OFC).


title: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification

text: After the number of teams qualifying for the Women's World Cup was increased, a new slot allocation was approved by the Bureau of the FIFA Council on 24 December 2020. The slots for the host nations, Australia and New Zealand, were taken directly from the quotas allocated to their confederations, the AFC and OFC respectively.


text: Qualifying matches started in September 2021 and will end in February 2023. Matches have been played on dates within the FIFA International Match Calendar.


text: Apart from the hosts Australia and New Zealand, 207 of 209 remaining FIFA member associations could qualify through their own confederation's qualifying process if they choose to enter. The exceptions were Chad and Pakistan, whose football associations were suspended by FIFA. A third exception might have been Russia after initially receiving a four-year ban from all major sporting events by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on 9 December 2019, after Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) was found non-compliant for handing over manipulated laboratory data to investigators. However, the Russian women's team could still enter qualification. The decision was appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which ruled in WADA's favour but reduced the ban to two years. The CAS ruling also allowed the name "Russia" to be displayed on uniforms if the words "Neutral Athlete" or "Neutral Team" have equal prominence. Had Russia qualified for the tournament, its female players would have been able to use their country's name, flag or anthem at the Women's World Cup, unlike their male counterparts, as the ban was scheduled to expire on 16 December 2022. But earlier on 28 February, FIFA and UEFA announced Russia's suspension from all competitions following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 2 May, UEFA announced that Russia would no longer be allowed to participate in qualification, that their prior results were nullified, and that Group E would continue with five teams.


text: As in the previous World Cup cycle, the AFC Women's Asian Cup served as the World Cup qualifying tournament for AFC members. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows:


text: North Korea withdrew on 29 July 2021 from the Women's Asian Cup qualifiers due to COVID-19 pandemic-related safety concerns, followed by Turkmenistan on 6 August because of pandemic-related travel restrictions. In a letter to the AFC published on 8 September, Iraq decided not to take part. Afghanistan also withdrew from qualification later in September as the women's team's participation was uncertain due to the Taliban takeover of the country.


text: During the Women's Asian Cup, host team India was unable to play their match of the group stage against Chinese Taipei due to having fewer than 13 players available, with the remaining team members testing positive for COVID-19. They were considered to have withdrawn from the competition, and all previous matches played by them were considered "null and void" and were not considered in determining the final group rankings.


text: <section begin=RP0 />The format of the play-off round depended on the performance of Australia, who qualified automatically for the World Cup as hosts. Since Australia was eliminated in the quarter-finals, the play-offs format was for the remaining three quarter-final losers to play a single round-robin play-off. The best team after three matches advanced to the World Cup, and the remaining two teams entered the inter-confederation play-offs.


text: As in the previous World Cup cycle, the Women's Africa Cup of Nations served as the World Cup qualifying tournament for CAF members. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows:


text: As in the previous World Cup cycle, the CONCACAF W Championship served as the World Cup qualifying tournament for CONCACAF members. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows:


text: The Copa América Femenina was held from 8–30 July 2022, providing three direct qualifying places and two play-off places for the Women's World Cup. The top two teams from each group advanced to the knockout stage, from which the winners of the and third place matches qualified for the World Cup. The loser of the third place match advanced to the . The third-placed teams from each group played a fifth place play-off, the winner of which also advanced to the .


text: The OFC Women's Nations Cup was held from 13 to 30 July, with Fiji hosting the tournament. It was originally scheduled for July and August 2022, but was shifted to January and February 2022 to accommodate changes to the FIFA Women's International Match Calendar. It was subsequently pushed back to July due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


text: New Zealand did not take part as they had already qualified for the World Cup as co-hosts, and American Samoa opted not to participate due to continuing difficulties related to the pandemic. The remaining nine teams were ranked according to the 25 March world rankings and drawn into three groups on 10 May, from which the top two teams in each group and the top two third place teams advanced to the knockout stage. Papua New Guinea advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs as tournament winners.


text: The final three spots at the FIFA Women's World Cup will be decided through a ten-team play-off tournament. The tournament will be used as a test event for New Zealand to host prior to the Women's World Cup.


text: In the play-off draw, four teams will be seeded into groups based on the FIFA Women's World Rankings, with a maximum of one seeded team per confederation. Teams from the same confederation will not be drawn into the same group. The winner of each group will qualify for the FIFA Women's World Cup.


title: Crimson Peak

text: Crimson Peak is a 2015 gothic romance film directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by del Toro and Matthew Robbins. The film stars Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Charlie Hunnam, and Jim Beaver. The story, set in Edwardian era England, follows an aspiring author who travels to a remote Gothic mansion in the English hills with her new husband and his sister. There, she must decipher the mystery behind the ghostly visions that haunt her new home.


title: Crimson Peak

text: In 2006, a spec script written by Del Toro and Robbins was sold to Universal Pictures, with Del Toro set to direct. Development was delayed due to scheduling conflicts. The film was described as a "ghost story and gothic romance" heavily inspired by other horror films, such as "The Haunting", "The Innocents" and "The Shining". Principal photography began at Pinewood Toronto Studios in Toronto, Ontario on February 10, 2014, with additional filming in Hamilton, and ended on May 16 that year. The film was produced by Legendary Pictures and Del Toro's production company, Double Dare You Productions.


title: Crimson Peak

text: "Crimson Peak" premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 25, 2015, and was released in the United States on October 16, 2015 in standard and IMAX formats. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with many praising the production values, performances and direction, but criticized the plot and characters. It grossed $74 million worldwide against its $55 million budget. The film received three nominations at the 21st Empire Awards, including Best Horror. It received nine nominations at the 42nd Saturn Awards, winning three, including Best Horror Film, Best Supporting Actress for Chastain and Best Production Design for Thomas E. Sanders.


title: Crimson Peak

text: In 1887 Buffalo, New York, American heiress Edith Cushing, daughter of wealthy businessman Carter Cushing, is visited by her mother's ghost who warns, "Beware of Crimson Peak."


title: Crimson Peak

text: In 1901, Edith is now a budding author, and meets English baronet Sir Thomas Sharpe and his sister, Lucille. Thomas seeks investors for his invention, a digging machine to revive his family's clay mines, but Mr. Cushing rejects his proposal. Thomas and Edith become romantically attached, leading her father to hire a private detective who uncovers unsavory facts about the Sharpe siblings. Mr. Cushing bribes them to leave America, forcing Thomas to "break Edith's heart" by disparaging her and her novel.


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text: Thomas returns Edith's manuscript with a letter explaining his actions, and they reconcile. Mr. Cushing is brutally murdered, raising the suspicions of Edith's childhood friend, Dr. Alan McMichael. Thomas marries Edith — giving her a ring taken from Lucille — and they arrive at Allerdale Hall, the Sharpes' dilapidated Cumberland mansion, which is sinking into the red clay mine below. Lucille plies Edith with tea made from "firethorn berries", and Thomas persuades her to put her father's fortune toward his machine. He mentions that the estate is referred to as "Crimson Peak" due to the warm red clay seeping through the winter snow.


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text: Edith grows weak and begins coughing up blood, plagued by nightmares and visited by gruesome ghosts around Allerdale. One of the spirits tricks her into opening a closet, where she discovers wax phonograph cylinders, and chases her into the cellars, where she finds a locked trunk engraved with the name "Enola". Thomas takes Edith to the local post office, where she receives a letter addressed to E. Sharpe. Snowed in for the night, they finally make love, which Lucille is infuriated to learn.


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text: Edith steals a key from Lucille bearing the inscription "Enola" and unlocks the trunk to find a gramophone and secret documents. The wax cylinders and documents reveal that Thomas previously married three other wealthy women — including Enola Sciotti, the letter’s intended recipient — and that Lucille has been poisoning Edith with tea as part of the siblings' "marriage and murder" scheme to finance Thomas' inventions. Edith confronts her husband and sister-in-law, catching them in an incestuous embrace, and Lucille pushes her from a balcony.


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text: Alan has learned what Mr. Cushing uncovered about the Sharpes: Thomas's multiple marriages and Lucille's time in a mental institution. He travels to Allerdale Hall to rescue Edith, arriving just after she has been pushed. Tending to her injuries, Alan prepares to leave with Edith, but Lucille stabs him and demands that Thomas finish the job. Instead, Thomas fakes Alan’s death with a non-fatal wound and hides him in the cellar.


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text: Lucille forces Edith to sign a transfer deed granting the Sharpes ownership of her estate, and confesses to having murdered Thomas’ previous wives and having borne a child with Thomas that soon died — these are the ghosts who have appeared to Edith. Lucille admits to murdering Edith's father, as well as her own mother when she discovered Lucille and Thomas' sexual relationship. Edith stabs Lucille with her pen and flees, but is confronted by Thomas, who has truly fallen in love with her. He burns the deed and begs his sister to join him and Edith in a new life together, but an enraged Lucille stabs him to death. She pursues Edith with the cleaver she used to kill her mother, but is halted by Thomas' ghost, allowing Edith to kill her with a shovel. Edith silently bids Thomas farewell before he vanishes.


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text: Edith and Alan are rescued by the villagers, and Lucille becomes the ghost of Allerdale Hall, playing her piano for eternity. The end credits imply that Edith has written a novel based on her experiences, titled "Crimson Peak".


title: Crimson Peak

text: Del Toro and Robbins wrote the original spec script after the release of "Pan's Labyrinth" in 2006. It was sold quietly to Donna Langley at Universal. Del Toro planned to direct the film, but postponed the project to make "", and then again to work on "The Hobbit" films. Langley suggested that del Toro produce the film for another director, but he could not find one he deemed suitable. While directing "Pacific Rim", del Toro developed a good working relationship with Legendary Entertainment's Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni, who asked what he wanted to do next. Del Toro sent them his screenplays for a film adaptation of "At the Mountains of Madness", a Western adaptation of "The Count of Monte Cristo", and "Crimson Peak". The producers deemed the last of these "the best project for us, just the right size". Universal allowed del Toro to move the project to Legendary, with the caveat that they could put up money for a stake in the film.


title: Crimson Peak

text: Del Toro called the film a "ghost story and gothic romance". He has described it as "a very set-oriented, classical but at the same time modern take on the ghost story", and said that it would allow him to play with the genres' conventions while subverting their rules. He stated, "I think people are getting used to horror subjects done as found footage or B-value budgets. I wanted this to feel like a throwback."


title: Crimson Peak

text: Del Toro wanted the film to honor the "grand dames" of the haunted house genre, namely Robert Wise's "The Haunting" and Jack Clayton's "The Innocents". The director intended to make a large-scale horror film in the tradition of those he grew up watching, such as "The Omen", "The Exorcist", and "The Shining". He cited the latter as "another Mount Everest of the haunted house movie", praising the high production values and Stanley Kubrick's control over the large sets.


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text: British playwright Lucinda Coxon was enlisted to rewrite the script with del Toro, in hopes of bringing it a "proper degree of perversity and intelligence", but she is not credited on the finished film.


title: Crimson Peak

text: Benedict Cumberbatch and Emma Stone were originally cast, but both dropped out of the production. Tom Hiddleston and Mia Wasikowska took over their respective roles, making this film their second collaboration after "Only Lovers Left Alive". "Crimson Peak" is also the second collaboration between Wasikowska and Chastain after starring together in "Lawless". The film was titled "Haunted Peak" while under production, a title used only for the studio booking. In the summer of 2013, Burn Gorman joined the cast in a cameo role.


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text: In October 2013, Chastain went through a full-body cast process for the film. She posted pictures on her Facebook of her getting her head, torso, and fists cast. Composer Fernando Velázquez composed the film's score. Callum Greene, Jon Jashni and Thomas Tull helped produce the film.


title: Crimson Peak

text: Principal photography began in Toronto at Pinewood Toronto Studios on February 10, and ended on May 16, 2014. On April 28, filming started on Queen Street South, between Main Street and King Street in Hamilton, Ontario. That section of roadway was closed to traffic and covered in topsoil to assist in the look of the setting. The building to the west figured prominently. Filming also took place in Kingston, Ontario on April 14, 2014. The trailer features PJ Harvey's cover of "Red Right Hand".


title: Crimson Peak

text: "Crimson Peak" held its world premiere at Fantastic Fest, in Austin, Texas, on September 25, 2015, with Del Toro in attendance, and was held as a "secret screening". The film was also screened at the UGC Cine Cite Bercy on September 28 in Paris, France. The film premiered at Lincoln Square in New York on October 14, 2015. The film was released theatrically in the United States on October 16, 2015, in standard and IMAX formats.


title: Crimson Peak

text: At the San Diego Comic-Con International on July 23, 2014, del Toro helped create props for the Legendary Pictures booth by allowing fans to walk through snow-covered gates, and a gallery of props from the set and costumes from the film, including a bloody knife and moth print in the wallpaper that spell out the word "fear". On February 13, 2015, the first trailer for the film was released online. On May 13, 2015, the second trailer was released online, together with an international trailer featuring alternate material.


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text: On June 16, 2015, four character posters were released, featuring the four main cast members. On July 6, 2015, four alternate character posters were released, less than a week prior to Legendary Pictures' "Crimson Peak" panel at San Diego Comic-Con International.


title: Crimson Peak

text: On July 11, 2015, John Murdy, creative director of Universal Studios Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights, announced that the film would be adapted into a maze for the 2015 season. A novelization of the film, by Nancy Holder, was released on October 20, 2015. Publisher Titan Books had previously published the novelization of del Toro's film "Pacific Rim".


title: Crimson Peak

text: "Crimson Peak" grossed $31.1 million in North America and $43.6 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $74.7 million, against a budget of $55 million.


title: Crimson Peak

text: In the United States and Canada, the film opened simultaneously with "Bridge of Spies", "Goosebumps", and "Woodlawn", on October 16, 2015, in 3,501 theaters, as well as IMAX and premium large formats. Pre-release tracking projected the film to open to around $15–20 million. It made $855,000 from its early Thursday night showings at 2,178 theaters and $5.2 million on its opening day. It ended up opening to $12.8 million, with IMAX comprising $2.3 million from 365 IMAX theaters. The film suffered from a very competitive PG-13 adult market where such films as "The Martian" and "Bridge of Spies" were overperforming. Women represented 60% of the film's audience with 55% 25 or older.


title: Crimson Peak

text: Outside North America, "Crimson Peak" opened in 66 countries. It earned $13.6 million in its opening weekend from 55 territories. It opened at No. 2 in Russia and the CIS ($2.6 million; behind "The Martian") and Spain ($1.1 million) and No. 5 in the U.K., Ireland and Malta ($1.5 million). It opened in Belgium, Greece, Israel, Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Trinidad around October 22–23.


title: Crimson Peak

text: "Crimson Peak" received positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 73% approval rating based on 284 reviews, with an average rating of 6.60/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ""Crimson Peak" offers an engaging – albeit somewhat slight – diversion driven by a delightfully creepy atmosphere and director Guillermo del Toro's brilliant knack for unforgettable visuals." Metacritic gives the film a score of 66 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.


title: Crimson Peak

text: After attending an early screening, horror writer Stephen King called the film "gorgeous and just fucking terrifying", and said it "electrified" him like Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead", whose distribution he helped secure with a rave review in 1982. King's son, writer Joe Hill, called "Crimson Peak" "del Toro's blood-soaked "Age of Innocence", a gloriously sick waltz through Daphne du Maurier territory". IGN reviewer Scott Collura gave the film an 8.5 out of 10 score, saying, "Featuring memorable performances, amazing production design, and a hard edge that is too often lacking in horror films these days, it nonetheless also manages to subvert some long-standing tropes about the gothic romance genre which inspired it." Writing on Roger Ebert's official website and giving the movie four stars out of four, Sheila O'Malley said "Watching del Toro's films is a pleasure because his vision is evident in every frame. Best of all, though, is his belief that 'what terrifies him will terrify others.' He's right." Robbie Collin of "The Daily Telegraph" wrote that "Its sombre sincerity and hypnotic, treasure-box beauty make Crimson Peak feel like a film out of time – but Del Toro, his cast and his crew carry it off without a single postmodern prod or smirk. The film wears its heart on its sleeve, along with its soul and most of its intestines." "The Guardian" lead film critic Peter Bradshaw gave the film four stars out of five, wrote that "Guillermo del Toro's gothic fantasy-romance Crimson Peak is outrageously sumptuous, gruesomely violent and designed to within an inch of its life." "Observer" critic Mark Kermode considered it the director's best film since "Pan's Labyrinth" and noted the various gothic and horror influences - including Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Stevenson's "Jane Eyre", and Hitchcock's "Rebecca" - on "one of the year's most handsomely mounted productions."


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text: Dan Jolin of "Empire" wrote that "It may be a little overwrought for some tastes, borderline camp at points, but if you're partial to a bit of Victorian romance with Hammer horror gloop and big, frilly night-gowns, GDT delivers an uncommon treat." Bilge Ebiri of "Vulture" wrote that "It doesn't always seem to know what it wants to be. But it's still full of marvels." Sara Stewart of the "New York Post" wrote that "Chastain and Wasikowska take center stage while Hiddleston flutters around like one of Allerdale's huge black moths. Watching the women square off within del Toro's eye-popping, painterly palette is a feast for the eyes, if not particularly substantial fare for the mind." A.O. Scott of "The New York Times" wrote that "The film is too busy, and in some ways too gross, to sustain an effective atmosphere of dread. It tumbles into pastiche just when it should be swooning and sighing with earnest emotion." Michael O'Sullivan of "The Washington Post" wrote that "The film by the stylish fantasist Guillermo del Toro looks marvelous, but has a vein of narrative muck at its core." Tom Huddleston of "Time Out London" wrote that "All three actors work hard... and when the melodrama hits fever pitch, Crimson Peak lurches into life. But overall this lacks weight and intensity: a Brontë-esque bauble smeared in twenty-first-century slickness." Peter Debruge of "Variety" wrote that "Aflame with color and awash in symbolism, this undeniably ravishing yet ultimately disappointing haunted-house meller is all surface and no substance, sinking under the weight of its own self-importance into the sanguine muck below." Chris Nashawaty of "Entertainment Weekly" wrote that "Crimson Peak is a cobwebs-and-candelabras chamber piece that's so preoccupied with being visually stunning it forgets to be scary."


title: Omni-Man

text: Omni-Man (Nolan Grayson) is a fictional character in the Image Universe, created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Cory Walker (with Ryan Ottley) as an expansion of a character concept created by Alan Moore and Chris Sprouse. Omni-Man is the father of Invincible and a member of the Viltrumite race, a humanoid species of extraterrestrial origin who possess immense powers, working as a superhero on Earth. As is customary for males of his species, Omni-Man sports a large moustache. Omni-Man appears in "Supreme", "Invincible", "Noble Causes", and "Dynamo 5".


title: Omni-Man

text: Omni-Man (as Omniman) was first referenced in Alan Moore's and Chris Sprouse's "Supreme: The Story of the Year" (August 1996–September 1997), in which the titular Supreme (in his civilian identity of Ethan Crane) would illustrate the adventures of Omniman. Robert Kirkman would officially introduce Omni-Man as the father of the titular character in his comic series "Invincible" (January 2003–February 2018), redesigned by Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley as a black-haired, moustachioed man compared to his "Supreme" design of blonde hair and a clean-shaven face.


title: Omni-Man

text: In "Supreme: The Story of the Year", the superhero Supreme (upon adopting the civilian identity of Ethan Crane) begins drawing the adventures of Omni-Man (spelled Omniman) as a comic book artist for Dazzle Comics, imagining his secret identity as that of Spencer Samson, and his love interests as Linda Lake and Lyra Lemuria alongside writer and Omniman creator Diana Dane. Later, supervillain Cyber-Zerk attacks Supreme's place of work in search of Omniman, assuming the comic to be accurate to life, and kidnapping Dane in an attempt to draw him out, subsequently mistaking Supreme for Omniman. Later, Supreme encounters a real-life version of the Dazzle Comics Omniman in his office after finding a comic book depicting his own life as it is happening. After questioning their respective existences and accusing the other to be fictional, Omniman and Supreme decide to demonstrate each other's powers in a brawl, with Diana helping Supreme by proving background on Omniman's powers. Ultimately, after breaking character, "Omniman" reveals to himself to be the inter-dimensional Szazs, the Sprite Supreme, having imitated Supreme's Omniman in an attempt to win the Impolympics.


title: Omni-Man

text: Following a multiversal war and a subsequent "revision" of Earth's history in Erik Larsen's "Supreme", set during the events of "Invincible", the real Omni-Man faces a "mean" Supreme after he viciously beats Suprema into a coma and goes on a killing spree, murdering criminals to re-establish his position as the most powerful superhero on the planet, while Dane, the "modern" Supreme and other surviving Supremes of the Supremacy, having been stripped of their superpowers, adjust to their helplessness in ending "mean" Supreme's rampage. After bringing their fight to the moon, knocking the "mean" Supreme unconscious, Omni-Man is surprised when the "mean" Supreme is captured by Khromium, while on Earth, Dane and Supreme are amazed to see a real-life version of their character brought to life, after finding Dazzle Comics to no longer exist.


title: Omni-Man

text: In "Invincible", Omni-Man arrived on Earth in the 1980s, where he eventually adopted the secret identity of a best-selling author named Nolan Grayson. He married Debbie, whose life he had saved, and they had a son together named Mark Grayson. In issue number 7, Nolan lures Earth's premiere superhero team, the Guardians of the Globe, to their hideout in Utah, where he brutally murders all the members. It was later revealed that the Immortal, the Guardians' leader, had been resurrected by the supervillain duo the Mauler Twins in an attempt to brainwash and control him. Remembering Omni-Man's betrayal, Immortal tracked down Nolan and battled him in public, outing him as the murderer and villain he truly is before being killed yet again. Nolan reveals that he was sent to Earth as a conqueror for the Viltrum Empire, a revelation that was in stark contrast to his previous claims that his presence was to advance human technology and protect the Earth from extraterrestrial dangers. In a confrontation shortly thereafter, Omni-Man beat Mark to within an inch of his life, yet he refuses to kill him before he fled the planet.


title: Omni-Man

text: It was further revealed that Nolan had found a new planet over which to rule, in the hopes of offsetting some of the consequences of his earthly failure. Nolan's rise to power, however, was entirely peaceful. The custom of the native inhabitants, the Mantis Aliens (an insectoid people who live entirely within a nine-month span), was to simply choose the oldest among them to act as their leader. As on Earth, Nolan has taken a native wife, Andressa, and sired a second son, Oliver (who subsequently begins to use the codename "Kid Omni-Man" when he accompanies Invincible back to Earth). The genetic differences between Viltrumites and the mantis-people were more apparent, though, than they were with humans. This caused the child to age much more slowly than his mother's species, but much faster than his father's.


title: Omni-Man

text: Omni-Man's attempts to appease the Viltrum Empire ended in failure with his defeat and capture at the hands of his own people. He was held captive in prison until the Empire was able to send the required Viltrumite executioners. His parting words to Mark were "Read my books, Mark. My books..." In a conversation with his tailor Art Rosenbaum, Mark learns that the books Nolan referred to were not his well-known travel books, but a series of failed science fiction "novels". While Arthur suspected that the stories were Viltrumite folklore, Mark quickly realized that they were, in fact, first-person accounts of Nolan's own missions to destroy potential threats to the Viltrum Empire, which could provide the secrets to defeating the Viltrumites.


title: Omni-Man

text: He is later saved on the day of his execution by Allen the Alien, to whom he agrees to reveal the "secret": Viltrumites are a near-extinct race, with fewer than fifty pure-blood able individuals left. Emboldened by the incredible strength shown by his new ally, he begins a two-men campaign to eradicate Viltrum's supremacy. Embarking on adventures across the galaxy, they gather weapons and allies which will give them an advantage over the Viltrumites, before returning to Earth to collect Mark and Oliver. They are briefly waylaid by the Viltrumite champion Conquest, an old enemy of Invincible who is killed in the ensuing battle, but not before Mark is critically injured. Nolan spends the subsequent months bonding with Oliver while Mark heals.


title: Omni-Man

text: In the final battle of the war, the anti-Viltrumite coalition is victorious, destroying the Viltrumite homeworld and scattering their enemies, although Nolan is badly wounded by the Viltrumite regent Thragg, who secretly relocates the surviving members of his race on Earth, planning to interbreed with humans to covertly rebuild the empire. Tensions mount when Thragg discovers that Nolan is a descendant of the long-dead Viltrumite king, and thus heir to the throne, provoking a fierce battle between them. Although Nolan is overpowered, the Viltrumites recognize him and rally behind him, forcing Thragg to flee. Nolan is subsequently crowned as ruler of the Viltrum Empire.


title: Omni-Man

text: Nolan Grayson manages to overlook the Viltrumites on Earth and sees how the Viltrumites changed for the better and see Earth as their new home. Nolan learns that Anissa raped Mark, and is saddened at Oliver's death. In the final confrontation between the Viltrumites and Thragg's army, Nolan was killed by Thragg. In his last words to Mark, Nolan Grayson names Mark as his successor to be the Emperor of Viltrumites. In the future, his grandson (Marky) visits Nolan's grave and promises to live up to his father's legacy.


title: Omni-Man

text: In "Dynamo 5: Sins of the Father", Omni-Man (alongside Captain Dynamo, Supreme, and the Savage Dragon) defeats Dominex in combat thirty years prior to the series' events, in which Dominex's three sons seek to regain their family's honour (after their father had been spared from execution and sent him back to his home planet in shame) by fighting Invincible and the Dynamo 5.


title: Omni-Man

text: In addition to having all the generic powers and abilities of a Viltrumite, Omni-Man ranks among the most powerful Viltrumites to ever exist. He has superhuman strength, able to easily lift immense amounts of weight and tear through virtually any matter; this places him as the single most powerful being on Earth. He has super speed, able to close tremendous distances in seconds and likewise react to the fastest of opponents. He is nigh-invulnerable, immune to all forms of illness or contamination and able to withstand physical harm from all but the strongest of dangers. He has an enhanced healing factor, able to recover from any damage he does sustain in remarkably short periods of time with no lingering side-effects. He has nigh-limitless stamina, able to continue his exertions for long periods of time with no effect to his performance and endure any damage he does sustain unhindered. He is also able to levitate and fly. While still needing air, Omni-Man can endure weeks holding his breath and likewise can survive the vacuum of space unprotected, allowing for unaided interstellar travel. Omni-Man is blessed with an immense longevity. This stems from a decelerated aging process, gradually aging slower the older he gets, allowing him to retain his youthful health, vitality, conditioning, and appearance for an incalculably long time. At over two thousand years old, he has only begun to show signs of aging while still physically performing in his prime. Also as a Viltrumite, Omni-Man's genetics are so potent, they almost completely overshadow any genetics his offspring will inherit from the other parent, making said offspring almost purely Viltrumite themselves.


title: Omni-Man

text: Omni-Man appears in the "Invincible" streaming television series, voiced by J. K. Simmons to positive critical reception, spawning several internet memes.


title: Omni-Man

text: Omni-Man was ranked as "IGN"s 93rd-greatest comic book hero/villain of all time. The website cited his charismatic moustache in its ranking.


title: Omni-Man

text: The character has been compared to Superman, Vegeta from the "Dragon Ball" franchise, and Homelander from "The Boys" comic series and its TV adaptation.


title: Elizabeth Mitchell

text: Elizabeth Mitchell (born Elizabeth Joanna Robertson) is an American actress known for her lead role as Juliet Burke on the ABC drama mystery series "Lost" (2006–2010). Mitchell also had lead roles on the television series "V" (2009–2010), "Revolution" (2012–2014), and "Dead of Summer" (2016), as well as recurring roles as the Snow Queen on "Once Upon a Time" (2014) and Anna Volovodov on "The Expanse" (2018, 2021).


title: Elizabeth Mitchell

text: Mitchell is also known for her roles in numerous films, including "Gia" (1998), "Frequency" (2000), "Nurse Betty" (2000), "The Santa Clause 2" (2002), "" (2006), "Running Scared" (2006), "Answers to Nothing" (2011), and "" (2016).


title: Elizabeth Mitchell

text: Mitchell was born in Los Angeles, California. Her stepfather, Joseph Day Mitchell, and mother, Josephine Marian Mitchell (née Jenkins), are lawyers based in Dallas. Mitchell and her mother moved to Dallas, Texas in 1970, where her mother married Joseph Mitchell in 1975. Mitchell graduated from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, a public magnet school. She is the eldest of three sisters, the others being Kristina Helen "Kristie" Mitchell and Katherine Day "Kate" Mitchell.


title: Elizabeth Mitchell

text: She attended Stephens College, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting, and then studied at the British American Drama Academy.


title: Elizabeth Mitchell

text: Mitchell's theatre work includes six years at Dallas Theater Center and a season at Encore Theater. She had an early TV role as Dinah Lee on the soap opera "Loving" from 1994 to 1995. She co-starred in the 1998 movie "Gia" and the 2000 movie "Frequency".


title: Elizabeth Mitchell

text: In the 2002 film "The Santa Clause 2", Mitchell played Carol Newman, who becomes Mrs. Claus. She reprised the role for the sequel "", released in 2006. A limited series based on the film was launched on Disney+ in 2022, with Mitchell reprising her character in the series.


title: Elizabeth Mitchell

text: On TV, she played psychiatrist Kim Legaspi, the first woman partner of Kerry Weaver during the 2000–2001 season of TV series "ER," in a recurring role. She also had a one-episode role in "House M.D." as a patient.


title: Elizabeth Mitchell

text: In 2006, she played Juliet Burke on "Lost", beginning in the third season premiere, a role she would play for four seasons, three as a main character and one in a recurring capacity.


title: Elizabeth Mitchell

text: In March 2009, Mitchell was cast in the ABC series "V", a remake of the science-fiction television miniseries. Although ABC and Warner Bros. officials said she was only cast as a guest star, the announcement led to speculation and concern that Mitchell's character would be killed off at the end of "Lost"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s fifth season, which ended on a cliff-hanger that left the fate of her character unknown. Mitchell was later named the lead actress on "V" and her character was indeed written out in the premiere of the sixth season of "Lost", but returned for the two-part series finale. "V" lasted for one more season, which premiered on January 4, 2011.


title: Elizabeth Mitchell

text: Mitchell had a guest-starring role on "" in 2011, portraying June Frye. In 2012, she joined the cast of the series "Revolution" as Rachel Matheson, replacing actress Andrea Roth. The series premiered on September 17, 2012 and ended in May 2014. She then recurred as the Snow Queen on the TV fantasy series "Once Upon a Time" in late 2014.


title: Elizabeth Mitchell

text: In 2016, Mitchell starred as U.S. senator Charlene "Charlie" Roan in the science-fiction horror film "". Also that year, it was announced Mitchell would join the main cast of the Freeform supernatural horror series "Dead of Summer", portraying Deb Carpenter. The series ended after one season.


title: Elizabeth Mitchell

text: In 2018, Mitchell played Anna Volovodov on season 3 of "The Expanse". She made a cameo in the third episode of the final season of the series in 2021.


title: Elizabeth Mitchell

text: Also in 2021, she appeared in the film "Queen Bees" and the second season of the Netflix series "Outer Banks."


title: Elizabeth Mitchell

text: In 2022, she joined "" in the recurring role of Angela Cassidy, a government agent and the long-missing mother of main character Scott Forrester.


title: Elizabeth Mitchell

text: In 2022 she joined Tim Allen in reprisal of her role as Mrs Clause in the new Disney Plus series "The Santa Clauses"


title: Elizabeth Mitchell

text: While filming "The Linda McCartney Story" in 2000, Mitchell and co-star Gary Bakewell began dating and later became engaged, but the relationship ended in 2002.


title: Elizabeth Mitchell

text: Mitchell married improvisation actor Chris Soldevilla in 2004 and the two lived together in Bainbridge Island, Washington, with their son, who was born in 2005.


title: Elizabeth Mitchell

text: Mitchell has won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television in 2008, among other nominations. For her appearance as Juliet Burke on the series finale of "Lost", Mitchell was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2010.


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: The Game is a 1997 American thriller film directed by David Fincher, starring Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger and James Rebhorn and produced by Propaganda Films and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. It tells the story of a wealthy investment banker who is given a mysterious gift by his brother—participation in a game that integrates in strange ways with his everyday life. As the lines between the banker's real life and the game become more uncertain, hints of a large conspiracy become apparent.


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: "The Game" was well received by critics like Roger Ebert and major periodicals like "The New York Times", but had middling box-office returns compared to the success of Fincher's previous film "Se7en" (1995). The film later gained a strong cult following among Fincher's fans with some noting it as one of his most underrated films.


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: Nicholas Van Orton, a wealthy, selfish investment banker in San Francisco, has dinner with his estranged younger brother Conrad, who gifts him an unusual present for his 48th birthday— a voucher for a game offered by a company called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Though skeptical, he goes to the CRS office to apply, but the time-consuming psychological and physical examinations required irritate him, and he is later informed that his application has been rejected.


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: Nicholas returns home one evening to find a wooden clown outside, and later discovers a hidden camera inside. He is also contacted by a CRS employee through his distorted television screen who tells him not to try and figure out the object of the game. More bizarre events continue happening; Nicholas initially thinks CRS are simply staging elaborate pranks, but then he starts to believe his business, reputation and safety are endangered. Nicholas is also haunted by his father's suicide, which he witnessed as a child. He meets a waitress, Christine, who becomes involved. Nicholas contacts the police, but they find the CRS office abandoned.


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: Conrad visits Nicholas and apologizes, claiming CRS has attacked him. An argument breaks out between the two brothers, resulting in Conrad running away - leaving Nicholas on his own. Nicholas gets into a taxi, however, after locking the doors the driver jumps out before the car crashes into the sea. Nicholas manages to escape the sinking car and make it to the surface. With no one else to turn to, Nicholas finds Christine's home, and discovers she is a CRS employee. When she tells him they are being watched, Nicholas attacks a nearby camera, and armed CRS personnel swarm the house. When they fire at the two of them, Nicholas and Christine flee. Christine later tells him CRS has drained his bank accounts by guessing his passwords using the psychological tests he completed; his bank confirms such. He then begins to feel dizzy and realizes Christine has drugged him. As he loses consciousness, she admits she is part of the scam and says he made a fatal mistake in giving his card security code over the phone.


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: Nicholas wakes entombed alive in a Mexico cemetery. He sells his watch to return to San Francisco, where he finds his mansion foreclosed and most of his possessions removed. He contacts the hotel where Conrad was staying, and is told his brother has been committed to a mental institution following a nervous breakdown. Nicholas retrieves a hidden gun and seeks his ex-wife for help. While apologizing to her for his neglect, he learns that Jim Feingold, the CRS employee who conducted his tests, is an actor working in television advertisements. He forces Jim to find the real CRS office and takes Christine hostage, demanding to be taken to the head of CRS.


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: Attacked by CRS guards, Nicholas takes Christine to the roof. Christine, realizing Nicholas's gun is not a prop, frantically tells him it is only a game; his finances are intact, and his family and friends are waiting on the other side of the door. He refuses to believe her, and Nicholas shoots the first person to emerge— Conrad, bearing a bottle of champagne. Devastated, Nicholas then leaps off the roof but lands on a giant air cushion. He is greeted by Conrad (who is alive since the gun was indeed actually a prop, and Christine's fear of the gun faked) and the rest of the people from the game; absolutely everything had been staged by Conrad for his birthday present, with the intention of helping Nicholas become a better person and embrace life.


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: After a birthday party with friends, Christine (whose real name is revealed to be Claire) declines Nicholas' offer for a date as she has another job lined up in Australia. She instead agrees to have coffee with him at the airport.


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: "The Game" began as a spec screenplay, written by John Brancato and Michael Ferris in 1991. It was sold that year to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who put the project in turnaround, where it was picked up by Propaganda Films. Director Jonathan Mostow was originally attached to the project with Kyle MacLachlan and Bridget Fonda cast in the lead roles. Principal photography was to start in February 1993 but in early 1992, the project was moved to PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. Mostow was no longer the director of the film but instead became an executive producer. Producer Steve Golin bought the script from MGM and gave it to David Fincher in the hopes that he would direct. Fincher liked the various plot twists but brought in Andrew Kevin Walker, who had worked with him on "Seven", to make the character of Nicholas more cynical in nature. Fincher and Walker spent six weeks changing the tone and trying to make the story work. According to David Fincher, there were three primary influences on "The Game". Michael Douglas' character was a "fashionable, good-looking Scrooge, lured into a "" situation with a steroid shot in the thigh from "The Sting"". He said in an interview that his film differs from others of that kind because "movies usually make a pact with the audience that says: we're going to play it straight. What we show you is going to add up. But we don't do that. In that respect, it's about movies and how movies dole out information". Furthermore, Fincher has said that the film is about "loss of control. The purpose of "The Game" is to take your greatest fear, put it "this" close to your face and say 'There, you're still alive. It's all right.'" More revisions were made to the script, including removing a scene where Nicholas kills Christine and then commits suicide, because Fincher felt that this did not make sense. In 1996, Larry Gross and Walker were brought in to make revisions to the script.


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: Fincher intended to make "The Game" before "Seven", but when Brad Pitt became available for "Seven", that project became top priority. The success of "Seven" helped the producers of "The Game" get the larger budget that they wanted. Then, they approached Michael Douglas to star in the film. He was hesitant at first because of concerns that PolyGram was not a big enough company to distribute the film. However, once on board, Douglas' presence helped get the film into production. At the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, PolyGram announced that Jodie Foster would star in the film with Douglas. However, Fincher was uncomfortable with putting an actor and movie star of her stature in a supporting part. After talking to her, he considered rewriting the character of Conrad as Nicholas' daughter so that Foster could play that role. However, Douglas didn't like the idea and requested it to change the character to his sister, which Foster found peculiar as Douglas is almost 20 years her senior and appeared with her in "Napoleon and Samantha" when Foster was 9 years old while Douglas was 28. Due to differences in opinions and scheduling conflicts with Robert Zemeckis' "Contact", Foster could not appear in the film. Once she left, the role of Conrad was offered to Jeff Bridges, but he declined, and Sean Penn was cast. Later, Foster alleged that she and PolyGram orally agreed that she would appear in the film, and when this did not transpire, she took a $54.5 million lawsuit against the company. Deborah Kara Unger's audition for the role of Christine was a test reel consisting of a two-minute sex scene from David Cronenberg's "Crash". Douglas thought it was a joke, but when he and Fincher met her in person, they were impressed by her acting.


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: Principal photography began on location in San Francisco despite studio pressure to shoot in Los Angeles which was cheaper. Fincher also considered shooting the film in Chicago and Seattle, but the former had no mansions that were close by and the latter did not have an adequate financial district. The script had been written with San Francisco in mind and he liked the financial district's "old money, Wall Street vibe". However, that area of the city was very busy and hard to move around in. The production shot on weekends in order to have more control. Fincher utilized old stone buildings, small streets and the city's hills to represent the class system pictorially. To convey the old money world, he set many scenes in restaurants with hardwood paneling and red leather. Some of the locations used in the film included Golden Gate Park, the Presidio of San Francisco, and the historic Filoli Mansion, 25 miles south of San Francisco in Woodside, California, which stood in for the Van Orton mansion.


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: For the visual look of Nicholas' wealthy lifestyle, Fincher and the film's cinematographer Harris Savides wanted a "rich and supple" feel and took references from films like "The Godfather" which featured visually appealing locations with ominous intentions lurking under the surface. According to Fincher, once Nicholas left his protective world, he and Savides would let fluorescents, neon signs and other lights in the background be overexposed to let "things get a bit wilder out in the real world". For "The Game", Fincher employed a Technicolor printing process known as ENR which lent a smoother look to the night sequences. The challenge for him was how much deception could the audience take and "will they go for 45 minutes of red herrings?" To this end, he tried to stage scenes as simply as possible and use a single camera because "with multiple cameras, you run the risk of boring people with coverage".


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: The scene where Nicholas' taxi drives into the San Francisco Bay was shot near the Embarcadero, with the close-up of Douglas trapped in the back seat filmed on a soundstage at Sony Pictures Studios in a large tank of water. The actor was in a small compartment that was designed to resemble the backseat of a taxi with three cameras capturing the action.


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: Principal photography lasted 100 days with a lot of shooting done at night utilizing numerous locations.


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: "The Game" was released on September 12, 1997, in 2,403 theaters, grossing $14.3 million during its opening weekend. It went on to make $48.3 million in North America and $61.1 million in the rest of the world for a worldwide total of $109.4 million.


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: "The Game" was released by Criterion Collection on Laserdisc in 1997, with exclusive features including alternate ending and an audio commentary from creators; on September 18, 2012, it was reissued on DVD and Blu-ray. On April 17, 2007, Universal Studios released the movie on HD DVD format.


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 78% based on 63 reviews, with an average rating of 7.40/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "The ending could use a little work but this is otherwise another sterling example of David Fincher's iron grip on atmosphere and storytelling." Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 61 out of 100 based on reviews from 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film three and a half stars out of four, praising Douglas as "the right actor for the role. He can play smart, he can play cold, and he can play angry. He is also subtle enough that he never arrives at an emotional plateau before the film does, and never overplays the process of his inner change". In her review for "The New York Times", Janet Maslin wrote "Mr. Fincher, like Michael Douglas in the film's leading role, does show real finesse in playing to the paranoia of these times".


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: "Time" magazine's Richard Corliss wrote "Fincher's style is so handsomely oppressive, and Douglas' befuddlement is so cagey, that for a while the film recalls smarter excursions into heroic paranoia ("The Parallax View", "Total Recall")". In his review for "The Washington Post", Desson Howe wrote "It's formulaic, yet edgy. It's predictable, yet full of surprises. How far you get through this tall tale of a thriller before you give up and howl is a matter of personal taste. But there's much pleasure in Fincher's intricate color schemes, his rich sense of decor, his ability to sustain suspense over long periods of time and his sense of humor". "Entertainment Weekly" gave the film a "B+" rating, and Owen Gleiberman wrote "Emotionally, there's not much at stake in "The Game"—can Nicholas Van Orton be saved?!—but Douglas is the perfect actor to occupy the center of a crazed Rube Goldberg thriller. The movie has the wit to be playful about its own manipulations, even as it exploits them for maximum pulp impact".


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: In his review for the "San Francisco Chronicle", Mick LaSalle wrote "At times "The Game" is frustrating to watch, but that's just a measure of how well Fincher succeeds in putting us in his hero's shoes". However, "Rolling Stone" magazine's Peter Travers felt that "Fincher's effort to cover up the plot holes is all the more noticeable for being strained..."The Game" has a sunny, redemptive side that ill suits Fincher and ill serves audiences that share his former affinity for loose ends hauntingly left untied".


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: David Fincher later admitted in interviews that he was not proud of the movie, explaining his working relationship with his wife, longtime producer Ceán Chaffin, the filmmaker said he picks her brain, and that they'll often disagree:


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: In the Criterion edition film notes, the director was referred to as incorporating elements of the writings taken from Franz Kafka stating:


title: The Game (1997 film)

text: A sequence from the film deemed to be the most thrilling was ranked no. 44 on Bravo's "The 100 Scariest Movie Moments".


title: My Name (TV series)

text: My Name () is a South Korean streaming television series directed by Kim Jin-min and starring Han So-hee, Park Hee-soon, and Ahn Bo-hyun. The series revolves around a woman who joins a gang to avenge her father's death and then becomes the gang's mole inside the police force. Three episodes out of eight were screened at 26th Busan International Film Festival in newly created 'On Screen' section, on October 7, 2021. It was released on Netflix on October 15, 2021.


title: My Name (TV series)

text: Following her father's murder, a revenge-driven woman (Han So-hee) puts her trust in a powerful crime boss — and enters the police force under his direction.


title: My Name (TV series)

text: On August 11, 2020 Netflix confirmed through a press release that it would distribute another Korean original series "Undercover", to be produced by Studio Santa Claus Entertainment Co., Ltd. (named as Fleet Co., Ltd. at the time, and the same production house behind "Lucky Romance", "My Sassy Girl" and "Another Child"), written by "Life Risking Romance" TV series writer Kim Ba-da and directed by "Extracurricular" TV series director Kim Jin-min. In September 2020, the cast of TV series was confirmed. Filming began in November 2020 and ended in February 2021.


title: My Name (TV series)

text: Actors Han So-hee and Lee Hak-joo previously worked together in the 2020 JTBC drama series "The World of the Married". The series also marks the second time that actors Ahn Bo-hyun and Yoon Kyung-ho acted together after the series "Itaewon Class", which also aired on JTBC in 2020.


title: The Patriot (2000 film)

text: The Patriot is a 2000 American epic historical war film written by Robert Rodat, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Mel Gibson, Chris Cooper, Heath Ledger and Jason Isaacs. The story takes place mainly in rural Berkeley County in South Carolina and depicts Benjamin Martin (Gibson), an American colonist opposed to going to war with Great Britain who, along with his adult son, (Ledger) gets swept into the Revolutionary War when his home life is disrupted and one of his sons is murdered by a cruel British officer (Isaacs). Rodat has said Martin is a composite character based on four historical men: Andrew Pickens, Francis Marion, Daniel Morgan and Thomas Sumter.


title: The Patriot (2000 film)

text: Most of the film's events occur in the Southern theater of the war. Despite receiving generally positive reviews from critics, it was harshly criticized by British critics and historians and stirred controversy in the United Kingdom due to its themes of anti-British sentiment, its fictionalized portrayal of British figures and atrocities, including killing wounded soldiers and prisoners of war, the film's main villain shooting a child in cold blood and an ahistorical scene in which a church filled with colonists is locked and burned which was controversial due to it being similar to the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre, a World War II war crime perpetrated by the Waffen-SS in June 1944. In his review of the film, critic Roger Ebert wrote, "None of it has much to do with the historical reality of the Revolutionary War".


title: The Patriot (2000 film)

text: During the American Revolutionary War in 1776, Captain Benjamin Martin, a veteran of the French and Indian War and a widower with seven children, is called to Charleston to vote in the South Carolina General Assembly on a levy supporting the Continental Army. Fearing war against Great Britain and not wanting to force others to fight when he will not, Benjamin abstains; the vote is nonetheless passed, and, against his father's wishes, Benjamin's eldest son Gabriel joins the Army.


title: The Patriot (2000 film)

text: Two years later, Charleston falls to the British and a wounded Gabriel returns home carrying dispatches. The Martins care for both British and American wounded from a nearby battle before British Dragoons led by Colonel William Tavington arrive, arrest Gabriel with the intention of hanging him as a spy, and seize Benjamin's African American workers for their own use. When Benjamin's son Thomas tries to free Gabriel, he is shot and killed by Tavington, who then orders the Martins' house burned and all wounded Americans executed. After the British leave, Benjamin, accompanied by his two younger sons, set up a row of muskets and ambush the British convoy transporting Gabriel. Benjamin skillfully, yet brutally, slaughters several British troops with his tomahawk. A British survivor tells Tavington of the attack, earning Benjamin the moniker of the "Ghost".