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2024.05.11 14:01 tgladman1 Dream character line up....

Apologies if this has already been done, but not seen it.. From all 17 series of contestants who would be you favorite 5 characters they have played? Tim Key- Side Kick Simon Asim Choudhry - Chabuddy G Daisy Mae - Kerry Muckloe Mike Wozniak - Brian Arnes Joe Wilkinson - Pat
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2024.05.09 04:20 Sorry-Ball9859 A-League All Stars Women's squad

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2024.05.09 04:18 angulshandu The A-League All Stars Women squad has been announced

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2024.05.03 14:49 tonyyums The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester Free Audiobook and Review

"The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World" by Simon Winchester is a fascinating analysis of the history and impact of precision engineering on the modern world. Winchester, a renowned novelist and journalist, takes readers on a captivating voyage through time, following the growth of precise engineering from its humble beginnings to its vital role in molding the contemporary period.
The book covers a wide range of topics, including the development of precision instruments, machinery, and manufacturing techniques, as well as the contributions of significant personalities such as James Watt, Henry Royce, and John Wilkinson. Winchester celebrates the inventiveness, tenacity, and innovation of precision engineers throughout history, exhibiting their amazing achievements and the significant impact they have had on society.
What sets "The Perfectionists" distinctive is its interdisciplinary approach and entertaining storyline. Winchester expertly mixes together scientific, technological, and historical insights to present a vivid image of the people and processes behind some of the most momentous breakthroughs in human history. From the invention of the steam engine to the production of the atomic bomb, Winchester explores how precision engineering has revolutionized industries, increased standards of living, and reshaped the world as we know it.
Overall, "The Perfectionists" is an engaging and thought-provoking read that offers significant insights into the potential of precision engineering to drive development and innovation. Winchester's painstaking research, entertaining style, and contagious enthusiasm make this book a must-read for anybody interested in the history of technology, engineering, or the forces that have shaped the contemporary world. Whether you're a scholar, a student, or simply a curious reader, "The Perfectionists" is bound to leave you with a fresh respect for the astounding achievements of precision engineers throughout history.
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2024.04.19 01:52 nowhereman136 All Guild Awards Nominees and Winners 2024

(NOTE: Only feature film categories are listed. Certain nominations omit teams of nominees and only list the film and/or certain individuals. Winners highlighted)

Producers Guild of America

Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures

Directors Guild of America

Feature Film
Documentaries
First-Time Feature Film

Screen Actors Guild

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

Writers Guild of America

Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Documentary Screenplay

American Society of Cinematographers

Winners Announced March 5
Theatrical Feature Film Nominees
Spotlight Award
Documentary Award

American Cinema Editors

Best Edited Feature Film (Drama, Theatrical)
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy, Theatrical)
Best Edited Documentary (Theatrical)
Best Edited Animated Feature Film (Theatrical or Non-Theatrical)

Visual Effects Society

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature
Outstanding Animated Character in a Photoreal Feature
Outstanding Character Animation in an Animated Feature
Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature
Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a CG Project
Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project
Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature
Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature
Outstanding Composition and Lighting in a Feature
Outstanding Special (Practical) Effects in a Photoreal Project
Emerging Technology Award

Motion Pictures Sound Editors

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Feature Animation
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Feature Documentary
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Foreign Language Feature
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Feature Dialogue ADR
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Feature Effects/Foley
Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing - Documentary
Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing - Feature Motion Picture

Cinema Audio Society

Motion Picture: Live Action
Motion Picture: Animated
Motion Picture: Documentary

Casting Society of America

Feature Animation
Feature Big Budget - Comedy
Feature Big Budget - Drama
Feature Studio or Independent - Comedy
Feature Studio or Independent - Drama
Feature Low Budget - Comedy or Drama
Feature Micro Budget - Comedy or Drama
The Zeitgeist Award

Art Directors Guild

Excellence in Production Design for a Contemporary Film
Excellence in Production Design for a Period Film
Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film
Excellence in Production Design for an Animated Film

Guild of Music Supervisors

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Over $25 Million
Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted $25 Million And Under
Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted $10 Million And Under
Best Music Supervision for a Non-Theatrically Released Film
Best Song Written and/or Recorded for a Film

Costume Designers Guild

Excellence in Contemporary Film
Excellence in Period Film
Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film
Excellence in Costume Illustration

Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild

Best Contemporary Make-up
Best Period and/or Character Makeup
Best Special Makeup Effects
Best Contemporary Hair Styling
Best Period Hair Styling and/or Character Hair Styling

Society of Composers and Lyricists

Outstanding Original Score For a Studio Film
Outstanding Original Score For an Independent Film
Outstanding Original Song For a Drama or Documentary
Outstanding Original Song For a Comedy or Musical
David Raksin Award for Emerging Talent

Set Decorators Society of America

Best Achievement in DécoDesign of a Contemporary Feature Film
Best Achievement in DécoDesign of a Period Feature Film
Best Achievement in DécoDesign of a Science Fiction or Fantasy Feature Film
Best Achievement in DécoDesign of a Comedy or Musical Feature Film
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2024.04.15 16:46 SleepingMonads Pirates or General Seafaring

I'm looking for (more) gamebooks with a strong piratey or general seafaring theme.
I love nautical/maritime/seafaring literature, both fiction and non-fiction, especially pirate-themed stories and histories, and I would love to play more gamebooks (and/or simple branching-plot books) that feature these elements.
I think I'm aware of most of the big ones, which I'll list below, and hopefully this list and can help others who are also interested in these themes and unaware of what's out there. But if there's anything not on this list you think I should know of, please let me know.
Ones I've played:
Ones I haven't played yet:
Ones mentioned in this thread (alphabetical order):
Also certain sections from Joe Dever's Fire on the Water (Lone Wolf series), John Butterfield et al.'s Cretan Chronicles series, Keith Martin's Master of Chaos, by Keith Martin (Fighting Fantasy series), Robin Waterfield and Wilfred Davies' The Water Spider (Webs of Intrigue series), Douglas Niles' Lords of Doom (AD&D Adventure Gamebooks series), Edward Packard's Cave of Time and Return to the Cave of Time (Choose Your Own Adventure series), Pompeyo Reina's El Retorno del Imperio Cobra (Imperio Cobra series), Paul Mason's and Steve Williams' The Riddling Reaver (Fighting Fantasy: The Introductory Role-playing Game series), and Pat Mills' You Are Torquemada: Trapped in the Garden of Alien Delights (Diceman series)
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2024.04.12 15:46 NatureBoyRicFlair36 PFL 2: 2024 Betting and Picks

PFL 2: 2024 Regular Season Betting and Picks
Impa Kasanganay vs. Alex Polizzi (205lbs)
Rob Wilkinson vs. Tom Breese (205lbs)
Clay Collard vs. Patricky Pitbull (155lbs)
Mads Burnell vs. Michael Dufort (155lbs)
Sadibou Sy vs. Josh Silveira (205lbs)
Antonio Carlos Jr. vs. Simon Biyong (205lbs)
D. Yaghimuradov vs. Jakob Nedoh (205lbs)
Bruno Miranda vs. Brent Primus (155lbs)
Gadzhi Rabadanov vs. Solomon Renfro (155lbs)
Adam Piccolotti vs. Elvin Espinoza (155lbs)
Marcelo Nunes vs. Jordan Heiderman (265lbs)
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2024.04.09 11:01 DryTradition6576 Game crashing when I try to enter or leave anywhere and crashes when I exit Creations

I made a few changes and now my LO and game is crashing constantly, most noticeably when i try to enter whiterun. I can spawn in its inn and go into caverns but when i try to enter a city proper it goes down.Tried disabling new mods but it's not working (I did use new saves.) Can't figure out what the hell I did so I'm posting here. I tried my best to follow a logical load order. The ryn and lantern mod were placed at the bottom because they weren't loading in right. Been there for a few days with no problems. Same with headhunters. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Load Order

CC Content
USSEP
Simple Workaroune Framework (swf)
Realistic Equipment(RE) - AE version
Reforging to the masses - RE version
Busty Skeevers
Better Animals
Skyrim Extended Cut- Saints and Seducers
Wyrmstooth
Heart of Gold- an adoption bundle
Paarthurnax - quest expansion
Starlit Loading Screens
SWF²: Tailor SWF
Nordic UI SWF² Hud
TK Interface Overhaul (Beta)
Updated Categorized Favorites
Imperious - Races of Skyrim [XB1]
Better Vampires 8.7 XB1
Reflection- Level Up Messages [XB1]
Serendipitous: Rewards of the Weary Traveller
Serendipitous-AE patch
Adamant 5.9.1 by Simon Magus
Thaumaturgy 1.4.5 by Simon Magus
Thaumaturgy AE Patch XB1SR
Mysticism 2.4.1 by Simon Magus
Mysticism AE patch XB1SR
Artificer- an artifact overhaul
Artificer- USSEP patch
Tonics and Toxins
C.O.I.N - Coins Of Interesting Nature
C.O.I.N- Adamant Consistency Patch
Smart NPC Potions- enemies use potions
(UPDATED) Yappers of Tamriel
2021 Reverb and Ambience Overhaul
Azurite Weathers II (V2.52)
Happy Little Trees
3D Collection- No Pine Grass
Cathedral Grass Standalone
Landscape fixes for Grass mods
No Grassias by Knight4life
Improved Terrain LOD Meshes (Lite)
4F: to the face
XP32 Maximum Skeleton Special Edition
The Ultimate Dodge Mod - XP32
Tempered Skins for Males (weathered)
Tempered Skins for Femalee (weathered)
R.A.S.S. (Shaders and Effects)
Left Hand Rings complete by Duggelz
The Shape of Things (the smim)
Dwemers Pipework Reworked
Book Covers of Skyrim Tweaked & Fixed
Armor Variants Expansion (SWF)
Armorn Variants Expansion- USSEP patch
Adamant- Armors Variant Expansion Patch
Artefakes - SWF Edition
[Patch] Artefakicer(?)(Artefakes)
(UPDATED) Xavbio Retextures AIO
(UPDATED) Xavbio Mesh Addon AIO
Xavbio-Wyrmstooth aio patch
Savior's Hide Mesh Replacer - Pants & Sleeves Addon
Artificer-Xavbio textures addon
Artificer-Xavbio Mesh Addon AIO patch
Improved Closefaced Helmets by Navida1
Improved Closefaced Helmers- USSEP patch
Leanwolf's Better-Shaped Weapons
Xavbio's- Leanwolfs Better- Shaped Weapons patch
VAE2- Visually Animated Enchants 2-023
Visual Animated Enchants 2023- Thaumaturgy patch
Riton AIO
Underground- Apocrypha, Dweemer Ruins, & Riften Ratways
Underground- Caves & Mines
Underground- Nordic Ruins
YORS- Ye Olde Road Signs
Falmer Overhaul-1k-Port by Xtudo
AI Overhaul 1.8.3
AI Overhaul-Artefakes Patch
Better Vampire NPCS 1.9 XB1
Immersive Patrols
Traveling Merchant Caravans
Immersive Carriages - Drivers New Clothing
Ancient Nordic Sentinel - Mihail Monsters and Animals (SE-AE version)
Draugr Patrols- Mihail Monsters and Animals
Natural Eyes
Brows [XB1]
Beards [XB1]
AOF Believable Hair
Window Shadows
Window Shadows Enhancer
JK's Interiors AIO
JK'S Interiors Window Shadows Patch
JK'S Interiors AIO USSEP Patch
JK'S Interiors AI Overhaul Patch
JK'S Interiors CC Patch Bundle
Hearthfire Unique Display Room
Immersive Laundry
Hold Border Guards Anniversary Edition
Wintersun-Faiths of Skyrim AE
Andromeda- Unique Standing Stones
Blended Roads, Snow & More
Destinations by Sforzinda [XB1]
JK'S Skyrim AIO
JK'S Interiors AIO JK'S Skyrim AIO
JK's Skyrim- AI Overhaul SSE Patch
JK's Riverwood- Immersive Laundry Patch
Missives by Irondusk33
Missives- Note Retexture
Riverside Shack
Paulicus Poison Block (PBB)
Zim's Dragon Improvements (Full-Breathless)
A Side Order Of Dragons
Rogues 'N Raiders 3.2 AIO - Full Penalty System
Rogues 'N Raiders 3.2 Mysticism Patch
The Restless Dead W/ Cannibal Draugr
The Restless Dead Dragonstone Fix
Rogues 'N Raiders 3.2 [Penalty] TRD
More Undying Undead
Clementine Waters
Silver Overhaul- Anniversary Edition
Useful Torches
Alternate Start- Live Another Life
JK'S Interiors AIO Alt Start patch
Classic Classes and Birthsigns
Updated Classic Classes and Andromeda patch
Cheat Room (XB1)
Cheat Room Anniversary Patch
The Dragonborn Dreams (XB1)
Dragon Wall Wisdom - Readable Dragonwalls
Headhunter- Bounties Redone
(512) Pretty Lanterns
Ryn's Standing Stones
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2024.04.04 14:16 TheScarletPimpernel The County Championship Preview: Division Two, Part Two

It's now April and this means only one thing: county cricket is back, bebeh.
It was a long hard winter, forced to endure six entire months of my life with no sound of leather on willow, no cries of "catch" or "NORAHN", and definitely no embarrassing international performances with bat, ball, and mouth.
The OG cricket, the thing that was formed primarily so aristocrats could gamble on something that wasn't horses, co-opting a game played by shepherds to avoid becoming monumentally bored with their jobs, begins again on the 5th of April. It promises to be a season of thrills (whenever Hameed is batting), spills (whenever Hameed is fielding), and chills (it's snowing in Plymouth ffs, Hameed).
For those new to County cricket, here is a brief explanation of how it works:
The 18 county sides are arranged into 2 divisions - ten teams in Division One, 8 in Division Two. Each side plays 14 games and at the end of the season the team in Division One with the most points wins the Championship trophy.
Points are awarded for a win (16), a tie (8), a draw (8), and for various milestones reached within the first 110 overs of each side's first innings. The bottom two sides in Division One are relegated and the top two sides in Division Two are promoted.
One batting point is awarded per 50 runs, starting at 250 and ending at 450; one bowling point is awarded for every 3 wickets taken for a maximum of 3. This means that the maximum points per match is 24, and most teams will earn at least 3 even in a loss.
To help you get up to speed, here is a handy guide for each team in both Divisions, what you can expect from them, and what the season as a whole will provide.
Division Two Division Two promises, as always, to be pure chaos. For once there is no direct stand out to head the league, as Middlesex and Yorkshire boast potentially magical but brittle line ups, and the usual suspects Glamorgan lurk waiting for a chance to finally strike. A slight downgrade in the quality of overseas players, caused by an increased Test calendar in some nations and injury crises in others, will see teams digging deep into their homegrown reserves as the season wends through the early months. Every side has a reasonable case to finish in the second promotion spot, and every side has enough flaws that a few lean months could see them headed to the wooden spoon.
Middlesex
Home ground: Lord’s, London. Capacity: 31100
Primary outground: Merchant Taylor’s School, Northwood. Capacity: N/A
Head coach: Richard Johnson
Captain: Toby Roland-Jones
BBC Radio Commentator: Kevin Howells
2023 Finish Top Scorer Top Wicket Taker
9th, Division One (relegated) Ryan Higgins, 955 @ 41.52 Ethan Bamber, 41 @ 25.65
Transfers in: Leus du Plooy (Derbyshire); Henry Brookes (Warwickshire); Noah Cornwell (Youth)
Transfers out: ; John Simpson (Sussex); Tim Murtagh, retired
Overseas players: TBC
After promotion was won in 2022 amidst an uncharacteristic flurry of runs, normalcy was restored on day two of 2023. The top 4 were all dismissed for ducks and only some middle order magic from Higgins and John Simpson got them close to respectability. The tone set, only an historically low 5 batting points were forthcoming as collapse followed collapse. This inability to score proved their downfall as, despite winning more games than 8th placed Kent, a division high nine losses were enough to seal their fate - although a bizarre draw with the scores level saw them just one more delivery from salvation.
Higgins produced his customary show-stopping form, with sole support from Sam Robson’s 856 @ 37.21. No one else averaged more than 25, but sheer persistence did get Mark Stoneman (612 @ 22.66) and John Simpson (564 @ 23.50) past the 500 mark. The bowling fared better, the medium pace menage of Bamber, Higgins (31 @ 27.51), and Tim Murtagh (30 @ 20.63) rolling out one last time. Tom Helm (28 @31.87) and Toby Roland-Jones (27 @ 35.29) added some expensive support; but the find of the season was Josh de Caires, who finished his transformation from struggling opening bat to off spinning demon with 27 wickets at 25.59.
Two names intrinsically linked with Middlesex departed over the winter: England wicketkeeper John Simpson left for a new role as crêche manager at Sussex; and super Tim Murtagh, scourge of the English, called it a day after 16 years at the club and a 23 year professional career. He has moved into a new role as coach at the club, though, so they haven’t lost his 950 wickets of experience yet.
Arriving at the club are Derbyshire captain and Hungary international Leus du Plooy, who parachutes in an attempt to rescue the ailing batting; and Warwickshire’s bowling all rounder Henry Brookes who will look to add some pace to the bowling ranks. Highly regarded left armer Noah Cornwell was promoted from the academy on a rookie contract. On paper this is a highly capable side - the top 4 boast nearly 40000 between them, and Bamber, Higgins, Roland-Jones is better than pretty much every other Div Two attack - but they remain a curiously brittle collective. Promotion should be assured, but should is a big word.
Most likely next England player: Ethan Bamber. A Bachelor of Theology and the son of actors, “Mini Murtagh” is capable of many roles - and calls down divine vengeance upon opposition top orders. A classic county “fast-medium if you squint”, Bamber is cracking along at just shy of 2 wickets an innings. Equally at home on a rainy May green mamba or a baked July flat top, Bamber happily chips away ball after ball all day. Another who will be waiting for the post-Key years, you might not see him in an England shirt any time soon - but when that day arrives, the smiling assassin will be waiting patiently to nick you off.
One to watch: Ryan Higgins. County cricket’s premier all rounder, Higgins is box office viewing with bat or ball. 2023 was a slow one with the ball by his standards, taking only 31 wickets, but he has formed a crucial opening partnership with Ethan Bamber. With the bat he stood nearly alone as only Sam Robson came within 300 runs. Now 29, standing at 5’ 8” and sending down niggly medium-fast when he really cranks it, Higgins won’t trouble the ECB’s selection panel - he’ll simply strike fear into the hearts of opposition players, year on year. The Higgod Abides.
Why you should support them: Maximum entertainment for minimum effort, and you get to watch Ryan Higgins
Why you should avoid them: The batting will give you a heart attack and they’re a bit of a nothing club right now
Potential first choice XI: Stoneman, Robson, Eskinazi, du Plooy, Cracknell, Higgins, White+, de Caires, Roland-Jones*, Helm, Bamber
Squad depth chart
Predicted finish: 2nd
Northamptonshire:
Home ground: Wantage Road, Northampton. Capacity: 6500
Primary outground: None
Head coach: John Sadler
Captain: Luke Procter
BBC Radio commentator: Andrew Radd
2023 Finish Top Scorer Top Wicket Taker
10th, Division One (relegated) Rob Keogh, 780 @ 39.00 Jack White, 50 @ 25.58
Transfers in: George Scrimshaw (Derbyshire); George Bartlett (Somerset); Ravi Bopara (free agent, t20 only)
Transfers out: Tom Taylor (Worcestershire); Josh Cobb (Worcestershire); Hassan Azad/Harry Gouldstone, released; Simon Kerrigan/Gareth Berg/Ollie Sale, retired
Overseas players: Karun Nair (IND, first 7 games); Chris Tremain (AUS, April); Prithvi Shaw (IND, from June)
After comfortably avoiding relegation in 2022 Northants turned up for 2023 in high spirits, eager to do it again. Any concerns raised by a first week 8 wicket defeat by Kent were delayed after a second week win over fellow relegation candidates Middlesex - but after a mammoth innings and 270 run defeat against Hampshire made it 6 innings into the season with passing 200, alarm bells began to sound. Finishing the first phase with 3 consecutive innings defeats, they had drifted out down to rock bottom - and stayed there. A last week innings victory over Essex at least ensured the fans had some fun at the end of a long, hard campaign.
Batting proved their key weakness. Keogh and overseas star Sam Whiteman (719 @ 37.84) were the sole members of the 700 club, with Emilio Gay (589 @ 34.64) and Said Zaib (514 @ 28.44) the only other batter who passed 500 - and only Gareth Berg (131 @ 21.83) averaged more than 20, leaving the team to pick up just 10 batting points. Ben Sanderson (32 @ 24.68) was the only bowler to join Jack White with over 50 wickets as the bowlers toiled. Overseas bowler Chris Tremain was excellent inn his three game stint, his 13 wickets coming at 17 apiece.
All rounder Tom Taylor headed the departures board, choosing to stay in Division One by joining promoted Worcestershire. Josh Cobb followed him later in the winter, another victim of coach John Sadler’s fractious man management style - as was Gareth Berg, who has retired from county cricket but remains available for Italy selection. Long-serving spinner Simon Kerrigan also retired after being limited to just one appearance in his final year, while Ollie Sale called it a day after a spinal stress fracture became the latest in a long line of injuries. Hassan Azad was not retained after a below par year, while academy graduate Harry Gouldstone was also released.
After trimming down what was a bizarrely large squad, Northants brought in just two domestic players, Georges Bartlett and Scrimshaw. Bartlett joined from Somerset in search of more regular first team cricket, while newly-capped England white ball international Scrimshaw headed down the M1 from Derbyshire. Indians Karun Nair and Prithvi Shaw will operate at opposite ends of the season, with Shaw also available for white ball. Chris Tremain returns for another April only stint. Having worked to fix some of their batting issues, Northants will hope a step down to Division Two allows their squad the opportunity to rediscover some form - but an aging, inconsistent bowling attack remains intact.
Most likely next England player: Ricardo Vasconcelos. Several years have passed since Vasco was the name on pundits’ lips, coyly nodding in his direction when outside shots at England duty were mentioned. He remains a canny operator, albeit one in a bit of a rut. One of the stereotypically stylish left handed batters, the stocky Portuguese uses the crease well to unfurl his arms in a powerful off drive. Progressively diminishing returns as a opener suggest his talents might suited to the middle order role where he made his name - but still only 26, he has plenty of time to rediscover his form and press for England again.
One to watch: Alex Russell. The tall, bustling leg spinner didn’t endure the smoothest of first seasons, making just three county appearances and averaging 64.50. All 6 of his wickets came in one innings, a mammoth 38 over 6-175 as Kent scored 621. He has spent a very fruitful winter in Zimbabwe, however, finishing top of the wicket taking charts with 37 poles at an average of 30 and a strike rate of just 37. Unlikely to make much of an impact in a wet spring, mid-May onwards will see him afforded more opportunities to hone his craft and push for a starting berth in the years ahead.
Why you should support them: There are some talented youngsters here and some elegant, attacking batsmen. Plus they employ Ravi Bopara
Why you should avoid them: The coach appears to be a lunatic who forces players out of the club
Potential first choice XI: Gay, Vasconcelos, Procter*, Nair (o), Keogh, Zaib, McManus+, White, Sanderson, Russell, Tremain (o)
Squad depth chart
Predicted finish: 6th
Sussex
Home ground: County Cricket Ground, Hove. Capacity: 6000
Primary outground: Arundel Castle Cricket Ground, Arundel. Capacity: 6000
Head Coach: Paul Farbrace
Captain: John Simpson
BBC Radio Commentator: Adrian Harms
2023 Finish Top Scorer Top Wicket Taker
3rd Fynn Hudson-Prentice, 879 @ 48.83 Aristides Karvelas, 35 @ 22.85
Transfers in: John Simpson (Middlesex); Danny Lamb (Lancashire); Henry Rogers (Youth)
Transfers out: George Garton (Warwickshire); Ali Orr (Hampshire); Jamie Atkins, retired
Overseas players: Jayden Seales (WI, until June); Nathan McAndrew (AUS, June-July); Cheteshwar Pujara (IND, until 27th May); Daniel Hughes (AUS, from 31st May); Jaydev Unadakat (IND, from mid-August)
A first week victory over Durham pushed Sussex firmly into the promotion favourites category. Any potential momentum generated from this was immediately lost, as they drew the next 9 games due to a combination of rain, aHove pancake, and some ineffectual bowling. A late season surge towards promotion was halted by unsavoury scenes in a win over Leicestershire, Sussex receiving two fixed penalty notices due to ill discipline. This took them to 4 for the year, prompting an automatic 12 point deduction and a one match ban for captain Pujara. With 4 more points deducted for slow over rates Sussex finished third, 17 points behind Worcestershire.
Despite the favourable Hove conditions no individual batter cashed in, although several ended up around 800 runs - James Coles (849 @ 42.45), Tom Alsop (820 @ 39.04), and Oli Carter (779 @ 38.95) joining Fynn Hudson-Prentice. Che Pujara’s disrupted campaign produced 649 runs at 54.08 per dismissal was the pick of the batters, albeit from only 8 matches. Ari Karvelas produced a marvellous campaign with the ball, his 8 games producing 35 wickets at just under 23 apiece and taken one every 41 balls. He was joined in the 30 club by Nathan McAndrew’s 31 @ 24.19 and Jack Carson’s 31 @ 40.32. Ollie Robinson cameo’d with 20 wickets at 13.65.
George Garton departed for Warwickshire, lured by former coach Mark Robinson and the allure of playing at a Test ground. In yet another classic of the Sussex genre, a mid-winter tempestuous row erupted and Ali Orr ripped up his contract, following in Ben Brown’s path by moving westward to Hampshire. Ravi Bopara was released, later joining Northamptonshire; and youth graduate Jamie Atkins retired, after finding first team opportunities limited. Chief executive Rob Andrew left to take up a role at the ECB.
Finally deigning to bring some experience into a still incredibly callow playing squad, Sussex recruited wicketkeeper John Simpson, who will captain the club for the first 7 games. Danny Lamb also stepped through, after a strange 2023 that saw him on loan at three different clubs before departing Lancashire for good. Pujara, Unadakat and McAndrew return as overseas, while Jayden Seales arrives a year late and Daniel Hughes will appear mid-season. This is, when fully fit, undoubtedly the strongest team in Division Two. The struggle will be keeping the team fit and momentum going as overseas and international stars come and go.
Most likely next England player: Tom Haines. A purveyor of booming drives and crunching pull shots, Haines scores at quick pace and in all directions. 2023 was a bump back to earth for a career that had been soaring straight into the England side, as he crowned 2022 with a maiden ton on tour with the Lions. Unburdened with the captaincy of an extremely young team amid off field turmoil, Haines can again focus on what makes him one of the most anticipated talents on the circuit - free flowing drives and a penchant for producing daddy hundreds.
One to watch: Aristides Karvelas. The flying Greek international produced a phenomenal breakthrough year in 2023, wickets coming at a remarkable rate of 1 every 7 overs. An all format threat, he bowls slingy medium-fasts on a nagging 4th stump line before nipping it back off the seam. Repeating the trick this year amid competition for his place will be tricky but not beyond him - although it might be better if he learnt how to keep his mouth shut, or at least improve his sledging, alter an ill judged comment towards Leicestershire and Pakistan batter Umar Amin saw him miss the final two matches while the ECB investigated and cleared him.
Why you should support them: A potential bowling attack of Robinson, Archer, Seales is a crazy thing to unleash into Division Two
Why you should avoid them: They have the worst Twitter hashtag. #GOSBTS
Potential first choice XI: Haines, Clark, Pujara (o), Alsop, Ibrahim, Hudson-Prentice, Simpson+*, Archer, Robinson, Carson, Seales
Squad depth chart
Predicted finish: 3rd
Yorkshire
Home ground: Headingley, Leeds. Capacity: 18350
Primary outground: North Marine Road (Queen’s), Scarborough. Capacity: 9000
Head coach: Ottis Gibson
Captain: Shan Masood
BBC Radio commentator: Jonathan Doidge
2023 Finish Top Scorer Top Wicket Taker
7th Adam Lyth, 1019 @ 48.52 Ben Coad, 36 @ 20.22
Transfers in: Dan Moriarty (Surrey)
Transfers out: Ben Mike (Leicestershire); Will Fraine/Jack Shutt, released
Overseas players: Shan Masood (PAK)
2023 continued to go wrong off the field for Yorkshire, as the fall out from the racism scandal rumbled on. On field things mostly held on, despite a historic first week loss at home to Leicestershire and the loss of an entire game to rain in the second. It took until the 6th match for Yorkshire to earn a win - but from there they flew, going 9 games unbeaten and racking up two more wins. Arguably they deserved more, as rain curtailed two pushes for victory in extremely promising positions. A run at promotion was denied them, however, as the ECB handed out a 48 point penalty which left them languishing in 7th place.
Finlay Bean unexpectedly appeared as first choice opener but repaid this faith with an opening day century, clobbering 118(149) and finishing the year with 983 runs @ 46.80 in a formidable partnership with Adam Lyth. An injury disrupted campaign saw 8 batters average over 35 but only two more make it past 600 runs - captain Shan Masood scoring 720 at 60s and all rounder George Hill (694 @ 36.52). The bowling was not quite so dominant, as only Jordan Thompson (30 @ 30.60) joined Ben Coad in the 30 club. Matt Fisher’s disrupted year yielded 28 @ 28.53, but only one more passed 20 Dom Bess, 22 at a distinctly average 42.45.
Having cleared out the wage bill the previous winter, Yorks had a low key close season. Ben Mike was allowed to return to Leicestershire after a single, frustrating season, while young bowler Jack Shutt and white ball specialist Will Fraine were not given new deals. An unfortunate return as Chairman for Colin Graves proved the biggest story, as Yorkshire found themselves stuck between a rock, a hard place, two slimy snake oil salesmen and a tentative takeover suggestion from Rajasthan Royals.
Dan Moriarty returned permanently after a strong mid-season loan spell, and Shan Masood continued his overseas residency and retained the captaincy. Hopes of a flying early season were boosted after it was annnounced that Joe Root and Harry Brook would play at least some part in proceedings - although when and where are yet to be confirmed. This is very much Yorkshire’s season for promotion - they have the deepest quality of squad in the division, and the added boost of the country’s best two batters. A successful season might only be derailed by the continuing turmoil off field. Extremely likely champions.
Most likely next England player: Dan Moriarty. Having finally escaped from Surrey’s spin bowler’s prison, Moriarty will waste no time in re-establishing his England credentials. A tall slow left armer, he delivers the ball from well over 2 metres and with a great rip, extracting awkward turn and bounce from most surfaces. Add to this a probing consistency and it’s no surprise Yorkshire were quick to snap him up. His lack of batting ability is likely why he missed England Release Point’s tour of India - but if he gets regular game time for Yorks this season a slew of wickets and an international debut will surely arrive.
One to watch: George Hill. A schoolmate of Harry Brook’s, Hill is another graduate of the Sedbergh school conveyor belt of talent. A talented middle order bat, his slender frame belies some powerful hitting combined with immaculate timing. 2023 was a consolidation year, as he added 7 50s and another century to his 2022 breakthrough. Combine this with a handy medium pace, which to date has claimed 47 victims at an average of 27, and you get a strong all round player who can dominate matches with bat or ball. Still only 23, he will be looking to fully nail down his spot in the starting XI.
Why you should support them: It’s a very likeable squad of players, currently, and they’ll produce some entertaining games
Why you should avoid them: Ignoring the off field stuff and Colin Graves, they’re just northern Surrey. They have two players with the middle names Thornhill and Cherrington ffs
Potential first choice XI: Lyth, Bean, Masood*, Root, Brook, Tattersall+, Hill, Thompson, Fisher, Moriarty, Coad
Squad depth chart
Predicted finish: 1st
Position Team
1st Yorkshire
2nd Middlesex
3rd Sussex
4th Glamorgan
5th Gloucestershire
6th Northamptonshire
7th Leicestershire
8th Derbyshire
And that's it! Every team covered, some in less detail than I'd like, some in more detail than there was to cover - looking at you, Middlesex, you boring bastards.
If you want to read the previous three parts, you can find them here, here, and here. Otherwise, I'll see you all tomorrow for the start of the Greatest Show On Earth*
*Rain and Middlesex batting first pending
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2024.04.02 19:42 bv-brc Viral Sub-Species Classification Workshop Topics

We are a week away from the sub-species classification workshop and we are excited to announce the topics for discussion. We would love your feedback. Each subsection will be posted here on Reddit for conversation, feedback and any questions you want to ask our speakers.
Our speakers include: Tavis Anderson, Justin Bahl, Andrew Beck, Rachel Colquhoun, Celeste Donato, Eneida Hatcher, Angie Hinrichs, Bette Korber, Jens H. Kuhn, Philippe Le Mercier, Elliot Lefkowitz, Dr Rosamund Lewis, Richard Neher (University of Basel), Áine Niamh O'Toole, Krista Queen, PhD, Cornelius Roemer, Don S., Peter Simmonds (University of Oxford), Derek Smith Xiong(Sean) Wang, Andrew Warren, Christian Zmasek

Our sessions include (links to threads for each one)

Session I: Tracking virus evolution through sub-species classification
Session II: Unraveling the complexities of RNA and DNA viruses
Session III: Diverse Viewpoints: Exploring Classification from Different Perspectives
Session IV: Virus classification schemes
Session V: Virus classification tools
Session VI: Analytical and visualization tools
Session VII: The Public Health Impact, Challenges and the Path Forward
Brainstorming Sessions

Reading Material for Workshop

General References Hodcroft EB, De Maio N, Lanfear R, MacCannell DR, Minh BQ, Schmidt HA, Stamatakis
A, Goldman N, Dessimoz C. Want to track pandemic variants faster? Fix the bioinformatics bottleneck. Nature. 2021 Mar;591(7848):30-33. doi: 10.1038/d41586-021-00525-x. PMID: 33649511.
Tavis Anderson (The evolution of influenza A virus at the human-animal interface)
Markin A, Wagle S, Grover S, Vincent Baker AL, Eulenstein O, Anderson TK. PARNAS: Objectively Selecting the Most Representative Taxa on a Phylogeny. Syst Biol. 2023 Nov 1;72(5):1052-1063. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syad028. PMID: 37208300; PMCID: PMC10627562.
Andrew Beck (CDC: Public Health Perspective: Federal Level)
Masters NB, Beck AS, Mathis AD, Leung J, Raines K, Paul P, Stanley SE, Weg AL, Pieracci EG, Gearhart S, Jumabaeva M, Bankamp B, Rota PA, Sugerman DE, Gastañaduy PA. Measles virus transmission patterns and public health responses during Operation Allies Welcome: a descriptive epidemiological study. Lancet Public Health. 2023 Aug;8(8):e618-e628. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00130-5. PMID: 37516478; PMCID: PMC10411127.
Rachel Colquhoun (Pango beyond the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic)
Rambaut A, Holmes EC, O'Toole Á, Hill V, McCrone JT, Ruis C, du Plessis L, Pybus OG. A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology. Nat Microbiol. 2020 Nov;5(11):1403-1407. doi: 10.1038/s41564-020-0770-5. Epub 2020 Jul 15. PMID: 32669681; PMCID: PMC7610519.
Celeste Donato (Rotavirus diversity, evolution, and lineage classification)
Tran H, Friendship R, Poljak Z. Classification of group A rotavirus VP7 and VP4 genotypes using random forest. Front Genet. 2023 May 30;14:1029185. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1029185. PMID: 37323680; PMCID: PMC10267748.
Angie Hinrichs (UShER and autolin: Identifying virus lineages)
McBroome J, de Bernardi Schneider A, Roemer C, Wolfinger MT, Hinrichs AS, O'TooleAN, Ruis C, Turakhia Y, Rambaut A, Corbett-Detig R. A framework for automated scalable designation of viral pathogen lineages from genomic data. Nat Microbiol. 2024 Feb;9(2):550-560. doi: 10.1038/s41564-023-01587-5. Epub 2024 Feb 5. PMID: 38316930; PMCID: PMC10847047.
Hinrichs A, Ye C, Turakhia Y, Corbett-Detig R. The ongoing evolution of UShER during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Nat Genet. 2024 Jan;56(1):4-7. doi: 10.1038/s41588-023-01622-5. PMID: 38155331.
Jens H. Kuhn (Filoviruses; The ICTV):
Kuhn JH, Bao Y, Bavari S, Becker S, Bradfute S, Brister JR, Bukreyev AA, Chandran K,Davey RA, Dolnik O, Dye JM, Enterlein S, Hensley LE, Honko AN, Jahrling PB, Johnson KM, Kobinger G, Leroy EM, Lever MS, Mühlberger E, Netesov SV, Olinger GG, Palacios G, Patterson JL, Paweska JT, Pitt L, Radoshitzky SR, Saphire EO, Smither SJ, Swanepoel R, Towner JS, van der Groen G, Volchkov VE, Wahl-Jensen V, Warren TK, Weidmann M, Nichol ST. Virus nomenclature below the species level: a standardized nomenclature for natural variants of viruses assigned to the family Filoviridae. Arch Virol. 2013 Jan;158(1):301-11. doi: 10.1007/s00705-012-1454-0. Epub 2012 Sep 23. PMID: 23001720; PMCID: PMC3535543.
Siddell SG, Smith DB, Adriaenssens E, Alfenas-Zerbini P, Dutilh BE, Garcia ML, Junglen S, Krupovic M, Kuhn JH, Lambert AJ, Lefkowitz EJ, Łobocka M, Mushegian AR, Oksanen HM, Robertson DL, Rubino L, Sabanadzovic S, Simmonds P, Suzuki N, Van Doorslaer K, Vandamme AM, Varsani A, Zerbini FM. Virus taxonomy and the role of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). J Gen Virol. 2023 May;104(5):001840. doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001840. PMID: 37141106; PMCID: PMC10227694.
Elliot Lefkowitz (Monkeypox virus sub-species evolution)
Ndodo N, Ashcroft J, Lewandowski K, Yinka-Ogunleye A, Chukwu C, Ahmad A, King D, Akinpelu A, Maluquer de Motes C, Ribeca P, Sumner RP, Rambaut A, Chester M, Maishman T, Bamidele O, Mba N, Babatunde O, Aruna O, Pullan ST, Gannon B, Brown CS, Ihekweazu C, Adetifa I, Ulaeto DO. Distinct monkeypox virus lineages co-circulating in humans before 2022. Nat Med. 2023 Sep;29(9):2317-2324. doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02456-8. Epub 2023 Sep 14. PMID: 37710003; PMCID: PMC10504077.
Philippe Le Mercier (Virus sub-species in ViralZone and UniProtKB)
De Castro E, Hulo C, Masson P, Auchincloss A, Bridge A, Le Mercier P. ViralZone 2024 provides higher-resolution images and advanced virus-specific resources. Nucleic Acids Res. 2024 Jan 5;52(D1):D817-D821. doi: 10.1093/nagkad946. PMID: 37897348; PMCID: PMC10767872.
Rosamund Lewis (Does viral evolution influence the public health response to mpox outbreaks?)
Laurenson-Schafer H, Sklenovská N, Hoxha A, Kerr SM, Ndumbi P, Fitzner J, Almiron M, de Sousa LA, Briand S, Cenciarelli O, Colombe S, Doherty M, Fall IS, García-Calavaro C, Haussig JM, Kato M, Mahamud AR, Morgan OW, Nabeth P, Naiene JD, Navegantes WA, Ogundiran O, Okot C, Pebody R, Matsui T, Ramírez HL, Smallwood C, Tasigchana RFP, Vaughan AM, Williams GS; WHO mpox Surveillance and Analytics team; Mala PO, Lewis RF, Pavlin BI, le Polain de Waroux O. Description of the first global outbreak of mpox: an analysis of global surveillance data. Lancet Glob Health. 2023 Jul;11(7):e1012-e1023. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00198-5. PMID: 37349031; PMCID: PMC10281644.
Cornelius Römer (Clade and lineage assignment with Nextclade) Nextclade: clade assignment, mutation calling and quality control for viral genomes. Available at: https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.03773
Don Seto (Update on Human Adenoviruses)
Chatterjee A, Bhattacharjee U, Gupta R, Debnath A, Majumdar A, Saha R, Chawla-Sarkar M, Chakrabarti AK, Dutta S. Genomic Expedition: Deciphering Human Adenovirus Strains from the 2023 Outbreak in West Bengal, India: Insights into Viral Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology. Viruses. 2024 Jan 21;16(1):159. doi: 10.3390/v16010159. PMID: 38275969; PMCID: PMC10820069.
Peter Simmonds (Virus classification and support for different stakeholders) Simmonds P, Adriaenssens EM, Zerbini FM, Abrescia NGA, Aiewsakun P, Alfenas-Zerbini P, Bao Y, Barylski J, Drosten C, Duffy S, Duprex WP, Dutilh BE, Elena SF, García ML, Junglen S, Katzourakis A, Koonin EV, Krupovic M, Kuhn JH, Lambert AJ, Lefkowitz EJ, Łobocka M, Lood C, Mahony J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Mushegian AR, Oksanen HM, Poranen MM, Reyes-Muñoz A, Robertson DL, Roux S, Rubino L, Sabanadzovic S, Siddell S, Skern T, Smith DB, Sullivan MB, Suzuki N, Turner D, Van Doorslaer K, Vandamme AM, Varsani A, Vasilakis N. Four principles to establish a universal virus taxonomy. PLoS Biol. 2023 Feb 13;21(2):e3001922. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001922. PMID: 36780432; PMCID: PMC9925010.
Derek J. Smith (Influenza and SARS-CoV-2: Evolution, Immunity, and Surveillance)
Smith DJ, Lapedes AS, de Jong JC, Bestebroer TM, Rimmelzwaan GF, Osterhaus AD, Fouchier RA. Mapping the antigenic and genetic evolution of influenza virus. Science. 2004 Jul 16;305(5682):371-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1097211. Epub 2004 Jun 24. PMID: 15218094.
Áine O-Toole (Perspectives on the development of the Pango system and software)
Happi C, Adetifa I, Mbala P, Njouom R, Nakoune E, Happi A, Ndodo N, Ayansola O, Mboowa G, Bedford T, Neher RA, Roemer C, Hodcroft E, Tegally H, O'Toole Á, Rambaut A, Pybus O, Kraemer MUG, Wilkinson E, Isidro J, Borges V, Pinto M, Gomes JP, Freitas L, Resende PC, Lee RTC, Maurer-Stroh S, Baxter C, Lessells R, Ogwell AE, Kebede Y, Tessema SK, de Oliveira T. Urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing nomenclature for monkeypox virus. PLoS Biol. 2022 Aug 23;20(8):e3001769. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001769. PMID: 35998195; PMCID: PMC9451062.
Christian Zmasek (BV-BRC sub-species classification tools)
Anderson TK, Macken CA, Lewis NS, Scheuermann RH, Van Reeth K, Brown IH, Swenson SL, Simon G, Saito T, Berhane Y, Ciacci-Zanella J, Pereda A, Davis CT, Donis RO, Webby RJ, Vincent AL. A Phylogeny-Based Global Nomenclature System and Automated Annotation Tool for H1 Hemagglutinin Genes from Swine Influenza A Viruses. mSphere. 2016 Dec 14;1(6):e00275-16. doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00275-16. PMID: 27981236; PMCID: PMC5156671.
Matsen FA, Kodner RB, Armbrust EV. pplacer: linear time maximum-likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic placement of sequences onto a fixed reference tree. BMC Bioinformatics. 2010 Oct 30;11:538. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-538. PMID: 21034504; PMCID: PMC3098090.
Stark M, Berger SA, Stamatakis A, von Mering C. MLTreeMap--accurate Maximum Likelihood placement of environmental DNA sequences into taxonomic and functional reference phylogenies. BMC Genomics. 2010 Aug 5;11:461. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-461. PMID: 20687950; PMCID: PMC3091657.
Turakhia Y, Thornlow B, Hinrichs AS, De Maio N, Gozashti L, Lanfear R, Haussler D, Corbett-Detig R. Ultrafast Sample placement on Existing tRees (UShER) enables real-time phylogenetics for the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Nat Genet. 2021 Jun;53(6):809-816. doi: 10.1038/s41588-021-00862-7. Epub 2021 May 10. PMID: 33972780; PMCID: PMC9248294.
Andrew Warren (Thinking about virus mutational spectra through visualization)
Parks DH, Chuvochina M, Rinke C, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Hugenholtz P. GTDB: an ongoing census of bacterial and archaeal diversity through a phylogenetically consistent, rank normalized and complete genome-based taxonomy. Nucleic Acids Res. 2022 Jan 7;50(D1):D785-D794. doi: 10.1093/nagkab776. PMID: 34520557; PMCID: PMC8728215.
de Bernardi Schneider A, Su M, Hinrichs AS, Wang J, Amin H, Bell J, Wadford DA, O'Toole Á, Scher E, Perry MD, Turakhia Y, De Maio N, Hughes S, Corbett-Detig R. SARS-CoV-2 lineage assignments using phylogenetic placement/UShER are superior to pangoLEARN machine-learning method. Virus Evol. 2024 Jan 11;10(1):vead085. doi: 10.1093/ve/vead085. PMID: 38361813; PMCID: PMC10868549.
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2024.03.28 17:00 chanma50 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire' Review Thread

I will continue to update this post as reviews come in.
Rotten Tomatoes: Rotten
Critics Consensus: Come to Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire for the sheer monster-mashing spectacle -- and stay for that too, because the movie doesn't have much else to offer.
Score Number of Reviews Average Rating
All Critics 55% 164 5.70/10
Top Critics 32% 41 5.10/10
Metacritic: 47 (47 Reviews)
Sample Reviews:
The movie can make your head hurt. But not because it’s too convoluted to follow. It’s because the real convolution is: Why are we supposed to care? About any of this? - Owen Gleiberman, Variety
At one point in the film, Godzilla, weary from all that stomping around, lies down to take a well-deserved nap in the middle of Rome’s Colosseum. It’s the most relatable moment in the film. - Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
When Godzilla x’es Kong — whatever the hell that means — everybody wins. - William Bibbiani, TheWrap
Being in Hollow Earth takes some of the fun out of things... That also leaves Godzilla x Kong residing in a purely CGI arena without even tenuous connections to reality. It's a empty chamber for movie spectacle and nothing else. 2/4 - Jake Coyle, Associated Press
When you multiply Godzilla by Kong, what do you get? When Wingard’s doing the math, it’s an earnest, wacky, hectic ride that often feels like being thrashed about in an Imax seat. 2/4 - Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service
Wingard’s not a sentimentalist, and “Godzilla x Kong” stumbles whenever he tries to slap phony emotions onto the film to make it more like a generic crowd-pleaser. He’s a showman, a popcorn guy with excellent aesthetics. 2.5/4 - Amy Nicholson, Washington Post
“Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” has very little road left to cruise, and it shows. - Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times
"X” is also the symbol that should have been prodigiously used to cross out the script’s many, many stupid ideas. 2/4 - Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post
I guess, if you’re wowed by soulless CGI chaos. Thrilling? Not really. At the end, I was left feeling the way Kong does at the beginning: tired and bored. - Kyle Smith, Wall Street Journal
“Godzilla x Kong” is exactly as you’d expect it to be: a popcorn movie with special effects that are better imagined than Marvel movies, rip-roarin’ action and monsters, monsters, monsters. It does its job. 2.5/4 - G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
Despite the addition of some new characters (human and otherwise), “Kong x Godzilla: The New Empire” comes across as a relatively uninspired and repetitive effort and a fairly forgettable chapter in the Monsterverse saga. 2/4 - Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
“Godzilla X Kong” makes up for its own deficiencies with oddball flourishes. Wingard and the writers work like rogue chefs at an Olive Garden, tossing everything they can at any number of walls to see what sticks. 3/4 - Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
The problem with “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” is the same as so many of these franchise-based films: They’re all soulless special-effects extravaganzas where CGI takes the place of character development, good writing, and emotional connection. 1.5/5 - Odie Henderson, Boston Globe
"Godzilla x Kong" is as big and loud as expected, but when the dust is settled, there's nothing to hold onto. The kaiju clash is a crushing bore. C- - Adam Graham, Detroit News
Look, with that pairing, you know what you’re going to get. And in this picture you get it. And get it. And get it. 3/4 - Soren Andersen, Seattle Times
Every single scene is explained like a high school book report. It's been said over and over again that you want to show, not tell, every chance you get. 2/5 -Meredith G. White, Arizona Republic
Returning director Adam Wingard and his writers really lean into the cartoonish style of the Showa-era Godzilla films from 1954 to ’75. This includes abandoning all pretence of logic or plausibility, never a huge concern in this franchise. 2.5/4 - Peter Howell, Toronto Star
A whole section during the climactic bout takes place in the Earth’s core, without gravity, which doubles as a metaphor for the movie as a whole. It’s weightless. - Radheyan Simonpillai, Globe and Mail
It’s a still fun yet far sloppier outing, a second round that’s less of a win for us and more of a draw. 3/5 - Benjamin Lee, Guardian
It’s giant monsters fighting, the thing constantly shrugs: what else do you want? Ideally a bit more than this. 2/5 - Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph (UK)
More than previous chapters in the MonsterVerse series, Godzilla x Kong plays out as an elaborate but empty pantomime, anxious to avoid any form of subtext that might be deemed controversial. 2/5 - Jake Wilson, Sydney Morning Herald
The kaiju of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire don’t stand for anything but themselves. They’re just giant monsters that occasionally fight one another, which would be forgivable if the fighting in the movie weren’t so torpid. - Alison Willmore, New York Magazine/Vulture
“Let them fight!”, a human bystander once said in regards to Godzilla and some skyscraper-sized enemy. In terms of future endeavors regarding these two beloved legacy characters, we beg of you, MonsterVerse curators: Just let them be. - David Fear, Rolling Stone
This doesn’t reinvent the wheel, and keeps you waiting too long for the final showdown — but when the creatures collide, it still delivers satisfying thrills. 3/5 - Amon Warmann, Empire Magazine
There is very little emotion or inspiration underneath the orgiastic violence and, especially in the wake of last year’s ingenious Japanese-produced Godzilla Minus One, The New Empire feels old hat. - Tim Grierson, Screen International
So many effects blockbusters attempt to run before they can walk (mentioning no names), and at least Wingard has the humble intent of a filmmaker who wants to make something simple, coherent and fun. 3/5 - David Jenkins, Little White Lies
“Godzilla x Kong” doesn’t multiply or divide, exactly, but in its tilt toward only those who are extremely invested in this increasingly silly franchise, it doesn’t conquer, either. - Brian Lowry, CNN.com
For fans longing to see Titans, as the Monsterverse creatures are called, go at each other ­­– again and again and again – it's fine. For anyone else, it's just another Kong movie, with Godzilla himself a kind of sideshow. - 2/5 - Caryn James, BBC.com
The people who’ve inherited this franchise are so determined to make it “fun” that they’ve forgotten how to earn that feeling. C - David Ehrlich, indieWire
Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire is a mouthful of a title. And one that’s surprisingly hard to parse out on its own, especially as it suggests more of a brand collab between those famed cinematic monsters than anything else. C - Manuel Betancourt, AV Club
About halfway through Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, I turned to a fellow critic to ask a desperate question: What the hell is this movie about? - Robert Daniels, Mashable
Godzilla x Kong absorbs its disparate influences with glee, spitting out an adventure that hums with stimulating sound design, stuns with psychedelic visuals, and coasts on Titan-level charm. - Lyvie Scott, Inverse
The last 20 minutes live up to the promise of bludgeoning viewers with plenty of rock-‘em-sock-‘em combat and demolished human landscapes, but what any of it is actually for will be forgotten even before the dust begins to settle. 1.5/4 - Derek Smith, Slant Magazine
There was real potential for this movie to be a strange action-packed odyssey. That potential was undercut, sadly, by a weak script and too many too conventional choices. - Liz Shannon Miller, Consequence
This is a monster movie for monster-movie fans and not more. But hardly 10 minutes goes by without monster action. 2/4 - Dylan Roth, Observer
For all its flaws, in fact, GxK is second only to the underappreciated Godzilla: King of the Monsters among the WarneLegendary reboot of these venerable characters. - Alonso Duralde, The Film Verdict
The underwhelming effects give you new appreciation for what Godzilla Minus One did at a fraction of the cost. 2/5 - A.A. Dowd, Digital Trends
On the level of brainless spectacle, it gets the job done. If you consider any other aspect with any degree of thought, you’re going to run into issues. 5/10 Matt Singer, ScreenCrush
The live-action and motion capture performances are mostly marvelous, despite the bum dialogue and Wingard’s tendency to rush through sequences and whole relationships that might’ve been extraordinary had they been presented with patience and elegance. 2.5/4 - Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com
It's no easy feat to make a boring film with these two iconic movie Monsters, yet GxKTNE bounds into the arena like a drunken kaiju and falls flat on its face without making any of the impact it, and its makers, are capable of. 2/5 - Linda Marric, HeyUGuys
I admit I got a bit confused by the overwhelming number of creatures in the various locations and did not always remember who was on who’s side, but the fight scenes are as much fun as the fans could hope for. B - Nell Minow, Movie Mom
SYNOPSIS:
The epic battle continues! Legendary Pictures’ cinematic Monsterverse follows up the explosive showdown of “Godzilla vs. Kong” with an all-new adventure that pits the almighty Kong and the fearsome Godzilla against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence—and our own. “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” delves further into the histories of these Titans and their origins, as well as the mysteries of Skull Island and beyond, while uncovering the mythic battle that helped forge these extraordinary beings and tied them to humankind forever.
CAST:
DIRECTED BY: Adam Wingard
SCREENPLAY BY: Terry Rossio, Simon Barrett, Jeremy Slater
STORY BY: Terry Rossio, Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett
BASED ON THE CHARACTER GODZILLA OWNED AND CREATED BY: TOHO Co., Ltd.
PRODUCED BY: Mary Parent, Alex Garcia, Eric Mcleod, Thomas Tull, Brian Rogers
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Adam Wingard, Jen Conroy, Jay Ashenfelter, Yoshimitsu Banno, Kenji Okuhira
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Ben Seresin
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Tom Hammock
EDITED BY: Josh Schaeffer
COSTUME DESIGNER: Emily Seresin
MUSIC BY: Tom Holkenborg, Antonio Di Iorio
CASTING BY: Sarah Halley Finn
RUNTIME: 115 Minutes
RELEASE DATE: March 29, 2024
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2024.03.26 13:55 Delay_Possible Throwback to 2014 lineups

Throwback to 2014 lineups
Arguably one of the best lineups and best festivals in the last decade. With all this recent chatter about lineups not delivering. Just wanted to throwback to a simpler time and maybe we will see some of these kinds of artists return in the future.
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2024.03.26 00:08 XHeraclitusX Why is there a lack of successful English managers in football?

This topic came up today on Talksport between Graeme Souness, Simon Jordan and Jim Grey as host. An English manager has never won the Premier League. The last Englishman to win the top flight league title in England was Howard Wilkinson with Leeds in 1992. Joe Fagan was the last Englishman to win the European Cup/Champions League in 1984 with Liverpool.
Why is there such a deficit when it comes to English managers being a success? I have two reasons that I think may contribute to this;
  1. English managers don't travel abroad for experience nowhere near as much as they should. They tend to stay at home in England and not learn their trade in other countries. Sol Campbell is a great example of this. He has been on the radio in the past complaining about not being offered jobs in England. Why doesn't he go abroad then? It would do him a world of good, it certainly helped his former manager Arsene Wenger when he was starting out.
  2. English managers set their standards too high. They want to immediately get a job in the Premier League and not work their way up from the bottom. I mean, Jurgen Klopp began in 2. Bundesliga with Mainz. Max Allegri started in the Serie C2. Sir Alex started in the Scottish Second Division. Why don't Lampard, Gerrard, Rooney and the likes not want to go any lower than the Championship? Why don't they consider going abroad like I mentioned in point 1?
What do you think is the reason/s?
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2024.03.25 15:50 EmmalynRenato SFF books coming in April 2024

SFF here means all speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror, alternate history, magical realism etc).
The following SFF books will be published in the U.S. in April 2024. Other countries may differ.
If you know of others, please add them as comments below. If I've made any mistakes, just let me know, and I'll fix them up.
The published book formats are included with each entry (mostly hardcover and/or trade paperback with the occasional ebook). This information is obtained from the isfdb website which lists one format type for each entry but mostly omits ebook entries. If it's a new hardcover and/or trade paperback book, it's very likely that an ebook is also coming out at the same time.
If you are using the Chrome browser, you might find the Goodreads Right Click extension useful, to find out more information on books that you are interested in:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/goodreads-right-click/fbicpmopjallgdpklipffmihodimmcbe?hl=en
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Key
(A) - Anthology
(C) - Collection
(CB) - Chapbook
(N) - Novel
(NF) - Nonfiction
(O) - Omnibus
(R) - Reprint
(YA) - Young Adult and Juvenile
[eb] - eBook
[hc] - Hardcover
[tp] - Trade Paperback
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Edit1: Added in horror books listed on Emily C. Hughes' blog that I didn't already have (tag #ehh).
Edit2: Added in books from the April io9 SF/Fantasy list that I'd missed (tag #io9).
Edit3: Added in books from Rob J. Hayes' April 2024 list of self-published fantasy books, that I didn't already have (tag #rjhspb).
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Archive
Previous "SFF books coming ..." posts have been collected here. (Thank you mods).
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Main Sources
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2024.03.24 23:45 AdOld4007 Garden State Soundtrack (2014)

Garden State Soundtrack (2014)
Date in title is date of pressing.
Gonna start posting every album from my collection as I re-listen to them. Hopefully you will notice an oddity or rare item that inspires you to pull something unique from the shelf. I have been buying albums for a little over 20 years (when bargains were easy to find!).
My humble setup:
Pro-Ject Debut III w acrylic platter & Pro-Ject Speed box
Cambridge Audio Topaz Am10
Nubert nuBox 310 bookshelf speakers / Grado SR80 headphones
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2024.03.18 13:37 TELMxWILSON FFFRESH MUSIC! Particle, Ed Rush, DJ Marky, Wilkinson, IMANU, Annix, Nia Archives, Camo & Krooked, The Caracal Project and more.. Reviews for some traditional Dancefloor bangers and a Deep Tech hidden Gem from Malley [+weekly updated Spotify playlist] New Music Monday! (Week 12)

 
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Picks Of The Week (by u/lefuniname)

1. METHOD - From The Ashes (feat. Houndeye) / Watch Me [Ridmic]

Recommended if you like: Lexurus, Andromedik, Jon Void
Nowadays, there's so many different paths you can take towards recognition and success in music. One that is probably among the rarest ones out there is through YouTube Mixes - I see your confusion, allow me to give an example. Let's talk about man like METHOD.
Obviously, there's a lot more to his musical journey than I let on in the intro there. Straight outta Den Haag, Dutchman Bob Devilee, as he's known to friends, family and me because I googled it, has been building up a community of like-minded DnB enthusiasts for ages now. What you might not know, however, is that his initial plans for YouTube weren't music related at all! 13 years ago, Bob started his now 41k subscribers strong channel off under the name HDCommentary, a place for Starcraft 2 commentaries, Modern Warfare 2 (the original one!) quickscoping, Minecraft, Hearthstone and League of Legends content - truly the most early 2010s sentence I've ever written. From 2017 on, gaming gave way to music, or more specifically, DnB mixes! What didn't change, however, was his closeness to the community he was building. Every mix saw him specifically asking for feedback, with Bob responding to each and every comment, in the early days even promising a response in less than 24 hours. It even became part of his morning routine!
The next few years saw him spreading his DJing wings far and wide, participating in various mix competitions for Viper, Fiber, High and Liquici-Tea, and winning the one organised by Primal Instinct, sharing a lot of his favourite mashups on his socials and, of course, continuing to deliver his hype-inducing full hour mixes. As a big-time fan of the aforementioned Dutch Liquid, both Power- and regular, imprint Liquicity, he eventually started crafting warm-up mixes for their bigger events to spread the hype, cementing himself as an integral part of the larger community. Behind the curtain of all the big mixes with their view counts in the hundreds of thousands, in other words on his publicly available SoundCloud, you could also see how much fun he was having playing around with tunes, from random set openers featuring the right amounts of Mr. Happy to some Dubstep mashups, and if you go far back enough, even a piano-driven cover of Hakuna Matata. In 2019, his loyal SoundCloud followers could even get a glimpse of what's to come in the near future: his first original production!
The ID uploaded back then was an early version of what would eventually become You Started A Fire, one of his two debut songs on High Tea's 2020 Rooibos compilation (the other one being Hefty, or should I say Hef-tea?). Only around a year after crossing off that entry on his bucket list, the next milestone was reached: A release on Liquicity's then-new sub-label Ridmic, complete with an upload on the main channel and an inclusion on the legendary Yearmix! That was merely the beginning though. 2022 saw METHOD releasing on both the Spring and Winter AquaSettlement compilations, plus another anthem on Ridmic, of course leading to plenty more Yearmix inclusions, and, most importantly, a set on the summer festival's Nebula stage! The madness didn't even stop there though, in 2023 Liquicity officially commissioned him to put together mixes celebrating the seasonal compilations, officially uploaded on the main channel! Plus, a slot on the summer festival's Solar stage!
Now, METHOD once again returns to the place his Liquicity producer career began, Ridmic, with a Dancefloor one-two-punch so well-crafted, so anthemic and just so all-around sick I just want to hear it blasted out at all the summer festivals. Especially From The Ashes, with his fellow literally game-changing game industry colleague, DnB craftsman and simply too amazing vocalist Houndeye delivering yet another stunning and entirely too catchy vocal performance, captures that spirit of the Liquicity anthem so well I had to do a double-take on the artist name the first time I heard it. Synths so large they make any home setup feel like the main stage, melodies so sing-alongable you won't get them out of your head anytime soon and chugging basses so fat, you can't help but break out into skanking. The flipside of the project, Watch Me, takes all these qualities and flips them on their head: Hypnotic vocals, relentless 4x4 beats, bunker vibes out the wazoo! Get you a METHOD man that can do both.
Methodically crafted for both the big outdoor stages and the more intimate venues, supremely catchy, straight-up anthems.
Other Dancefloor releases from this week: - Polygon - Echoes Of Yesterday - Wilkinson, NORTH - Balance - Dirtyphonics, Circadian - You Want Me - Culture Shock - Breathe

2. Malley - Distance / Convergence 💎 [Stellar Audio]

Recommended if you like: Skylark, Misanthrop, Secula
Now for something a bit more out-there. Let's talk about up-and-comer, and this week's Hidden Gem Of The Week™️, Malley!
There's not a whole lot to be said about Oliver "Malley" O'Malley's backstory up until now, but that kind of makes the level of sound design he's pushing nowadays even crazier! Born and raised in Norwich, but now residing in York, the 21-year-old has been smashing it as part of the respective local underground scenes for quite some time now, with gigs at Norwich's Basement Session and York'z Breakz, but what really makes him stand out in my eyes is the wild evolution his own productions have made. In just a year or so, he went from the more rave-y, UK sound type tunes in 2020, to the experimental, breaky and techy sides of things in 2021, when he debuted his first proper release, Whisper, on Bad Taste. The techy aspect continued to grow more and more though, each tune sporting an even more intricate level of production than the ones that came before, and by 2023, his SoundCloud had become a real treasure trove of techy smashers (especially Reason!). In other words, a perfect candidate for my favourite Bristol-based label out there, Stellar Audio!
After the conclusion of the interplanetary SOL Series earlier this year, with us having examined the celestial bodies inhabited by Submonitor and Vici, Stellar has now engaged the Phase 3™️ hyperdrive to travel even further across the musical galaxy, with Malley being our captain for this maiden voyage. While recalibrating the Direction we're all going in, our vessel's engine experiences a bit of a stuttery bumpy start, but our captain luckily manages to work around it. As we pass all sorts of intergalactic bleeps and bloops, the sparse bassy bursts of propulsion keep us aimed towards greatness. Also, the drum action is rather tight, which is something that carries over to the next stop on our interstellar journey, Convergence. As we close in towards our destination, the sheer scale of the planetary system we aim to explore simply overwhelms us - basslines that seem to defy every single one of our known laws of physics, paired with drum action that rapidly evolves in a matter of minutes, going from minimal steppers to metallic companions to the symbiotic distortion underneath, eventually ending up as a fast-paced whirlwind of madness that's making our heads spin.
All metaphors aside, this is absolutely fantastic! Production so out of this world, so cinematic and so maximalley minimal that you can't help but be fascinated by it.
Other techy stuff from this week: - Cuepric, Melanie Ring - Aphel 💎 - IMANU, INDI - Reminiscing - The Caracal Project, Camo & Krooked - While you count down. - LYLY - Argue 💎 - LYLY - Crashing Down 💎 - Liveon - Block Universe
 

New Releases

General DnB / Mixed

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2024.03.11 21:02 SokoudjouFan PFL First Three Events; Full Card Reveals

PFL San Antonio – April 4, 2024 San Antonio, TX - 10 pm EST on ESPN 2 and ESPN +
PFL San Antonio – Early Card - 6 pm EST on ESPN +
PFL Las Vegas – April 12, 2024 Las Vegas, NV - 9 pm EST on ESPN 2 and ESPN +
PFL Las Vegas – Early Card - 6 pm EST on ESPN +
PFL Chicago – April 19, 2024 Chicago, IL - 10 pm EST on ESPN and ESPN +
PFL Chicago – Early Card - 6:30 pm EST on ESPN +
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2024.03.09 06:58 howstuffworks3149 Erin Patterson, accused mushroom killer hires legend of Australian law

Accused mushroom murderer Erin Patterson has hired a legend of Australian criminal law as part of her legal team as she faces three murder and five attempted murder charges.
Philip Dunn KC, who has worked on some of the biggest criminal cases in Australia including the Great Bookie Robbery in the 1970s, will defend 49-year-old Ms Patterson.
Mr Dunn has represented people including late gangland boss Carl Williams and other gangland figures, and represented the wife of Melbourne society murders killer Matthew Wales, Maritza.
He is widely accepted to be one of the country’s greatest criminal lawyers, his specialities including alleged murder, conspiracy, corporate and tax fraud and drug and sex offence cases.
Melbourne lawyer Bill Doogue, who has worked for clients including former governor-general Peter Hollingworth, is Ms Patterson’s solicitor and Mr Dunn’s junior will be Sophie Stafford, a former associate to Victorian County Court judge Michael O’Connell.
The mushroom case is due to return to the Latrobe Valley Law Courts in Morwell in May, with the brief of evidence due to be finalised this month.
This will outline the evidence police have gathered after the deaths of three people after a toxic dish was allegedly served at Ms Patterson’s house in Leongatha, 135km southeast of Melbourne.
Ms Patterson’s alleged victims were her former parents-in-law Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, and Heather Wilkinson, 66, the aunt of her estranged husband Simon Patterson. Ms Patterson is accused of attempting to murder Simon Patterson several times and of attempting to kill Baptist minister Ian Wilkinson on the same day as the fateful meal.
Simon Patterson and Mr Wilkinson are both living in nearby Korumburra and attend the local Baptist church, and Mr Wilkinson’s health has improved steadily since he was admitted to hospital after the lunch.
His friends had feared he would die along with his wife.
Simon Patterson was not at the July 29 lunch last year, but Ms Patterson was also charged with attempting to murder him on that day.
Ms Patterson, who barely spoke when she appeared in court on November 3 last year, had previously stridently stated that she would never harm her former parents-in-law, who are buried in a single grave outside Korrumburra.
They are buried opposite Ms Wilkinson.
The engagement of Mr Dunn comes after Ms Patterson sold her city townhouse, in outer suburban Mt Waverley, for about $1m.
Expenses will depend on how the case progresses through the courts and the terms on which the lawyers are engaged. She still owns her $1m house at Leongatha.
Ms Patterson, who is the mother of two children, has not pleaded and the court process could last until well into 2025, depending on the prosecution’s case.
Police are alleging that Ms Patterson tried to kill her ex-husband three times in 10 months and again on the same day of the meal.
Ms Patterson is accused of ­attempting to kill her husband on four occasions between November 16, 2021, and July 29 2023, with claimed incidents also in May and September 2022.
Ms Patterson appeared in ­Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court for 16 minutes on November 3, wearing the same clothes as when she was arrested and taken into custody during a police search of her house.
When she reached the dock in the Morwell court in her beige knitted jumper, surrounded by two guards, Mr Doogue walked up and asked how she was going. “OK,’’ she replied.
Ms Patterson is widely believed to be in jail at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, which is a women’s prison in Melbourne’s west.
As a prisoner on remand, she is not required to work but faces almost all of the same restrictions as other prisoners.
While Ms Patterson did not grow up in a religious house, she was a regular attendee after marrying Simon Patterson in a small weatherboard church near the coalmining end of the town.
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2024.03.07 13:36 darthjoker02 Out of My Casts for Paddington Duology (2014-2017), Which One is Your Favourite? (Version 2)

1984-1987
Gabriel Byrne as Paddington Bear
Peter O'Toole as Henry Brown
Sarah Miles as Lesley Brown
Naomi Watts as Judy Brown
Corey Feldman as Jonathan Brown
Barbara Lott as Mrs. Bird
Donald Pleasence as Samuel Gruber
Roddy McDowall as Mr. Curry
Alec Guinness as Uncle Patsuzo
Angela Lansbury as Aunt Lucy
Jane Fonda as Millicent Clyde
Roger Moore as Phoenix Buchanan
Bernard Fox as Knuckles McGinty
Director: Frank Oz
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1994-1997
Colin Firth as Paddington Bear
Timothy Dalton as Henry Brown
Jane Seymour as Lesley Brown
Natalie Portman as Judy Brown
Brad Renfro as Jonathan Brown
Judi Dench as Mrs. Bird
Bernard Cribbins as Samuel Gruber
John Cleese as Mr. Curry
Paul Scofield as Uncle Patsuzo
Julie Andrews as Aunt Lucy
Helen Mirren as Millicent Clyde
David Warner as Phoenix Buchanan
Albert Finney as Knuckles McGinty
Director: Mike Newell
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2004-2007
Ewan McGregor as Paddington Bear
Pierce Brosnan as Henry Brown
Julia Ormond as Lesley Brown
Bonnie Wright as Judy Brown
Freddie Highmore as Jonathan Brown
Julie Christie as Mrs. Bird
John Cleese as Samuel Gruber
Bill Nighy as Mr. Curry
Michael Caine as Uncle Patsuzo
Pam Ferris as Aunt Lucy
Miranda Richardson as Millicent Clyde
Gabriel Byrne as Phoenix Buchanan
Tom Wilkinson as Knuckles McGinty
Director: David Yates
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2014-2017
Eddie Redmayne as Paddington Bear
Ralph Fiennes as Henry Brown
Olivia Colman as Lesley Brown
Ruby Stokes as Judy Brown
Samuel Bottomley as Jonathan Brown
Harriet Walter as Mrs. Bird
Billy Connolly as Samuel Gruber
Christopher Eccleston as Mr. Curry
Ian McKellen as Uncle Patsuzo
Emma Thompson as Aunt Lucy
Cate Blanchett as Millicent Clyde
Hugh Laurie as Phoenix Buchanan
Liam Neeson as Knuckles McGinty
Director: Paul King
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2024-2027
Jamie Bell as Paddington Bear
Simon Pegg as Henry Brown
Hayley Atwell as Lesley Brown
Isla Brill as Judy Brown
Jude Hill as Jonathan Brown
Emma Thompson as Mrs. Bird
Stephen Fry as Samuel Gruber
Michael Sheen as Mr. Curry
Jonathan Pryce as Uncle Patsuzo
Helena Bonham Carter as Aunt Lucy
Kate Winslet as Millicent Clyde
Jude Law as Phoenix Buchanan
Mark Addy as Knuckles McGinty
Director: Edgar Wright
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2024.03.02 23:25 SanderSo47 Directors at the Box Office: Bryan Singer

Directors at the Box Office: Bryan Singer
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Before we start. Yeah, this post won't ignore the accusations against Singer. That's coming up at the end of the post.

Here's a new edition of "Directors at the Box Office", which seeks to explore the directors' trajectory at the box office and analyze their hits and bombs. I already talked about a few, and as I promised, it's Bryan Singer's turn.
In his early teens, he started making 8mm films as well as experimenting with photography. He studied filmmaking for two years at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and later transferred to the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles where he followed the Critical studies program. He started making short films with his friends Ethan Hawke and John Ottman, and this drew the attention of someone from Tokuma Japan Productions, a Japanese company interested in funding a series of low-budget films.
From a box office perspective, how reliable was he to deliver a box office hit?
That's the point of this post. To analyze his career.

Public Access (1993)

"What's wrong in Brewster?"
His directorial debut. A clean-cut drifter ends up in a small town called Brewster. Getting wind of the local public-access television cable TV station, the man decides to host his own show called Our Town, which becomes a focal point for town citizens to call in and voice their problems anonymously.
When Singer was approached by Tokuma, he was given the chance to make a film. On a $200,000 budget, he filmed this in just 18 days. The crew used leftover film stock from Bram Stoker's Dracula and Hoffa.
The film only played in festivals, so there are no box office reports here. But it received a very good critical response, pointing to a promising career.

The Usual Suspects (1995)

"In a world where nothing is what it seems, you've got to look beyond..."
His second film. It stars Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Chazz Palminteri, Pete Postlethwaite, and Kevin Spacey. The plot follows the interrogation of Roger "Verbal" Kint, a small-time con man, who is one of only two survivors of a massacre and fire on a ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles. Through flashback and narration, Kint tells an interrogator a convoluted story of events that led him and his criminal companions to the boat, and of a mysterious crime lord — known as Keyser Söze — who controlled them.
Singer met Kevin Spacey at a party after a screening of Public Access at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize. Spacey had been encouraged by a number of people he knew who had seen it, and was so impressed that he told Singer and his screenwriting partner Christopher McQuarrie, that he wanted to be in whatever film they did next. Singer read a column in Spy magazine called "The Usual Suspects" after Claude Rains' line in Casablanca. Singer thought that it would be a good title for a film. The first idea that Singer and McQuarrie had was the image of five guys in a police line-up.
McQuarrie revamped an idea from one of his own unpublished screenplays — the story of a man who murders his own family and disappears. The writer mixed this with the idea of a team of criminals. The character of Keyser Söze was based on a real-life account named John List, who murdered his family and disappeared for two decades before being captured. The name came from one of his previous supervisors, Kayser Sume, at a Los Angeles law firm where he worked, but decided to change the last name because he thought that his former boss would object to how it was used. He found the word "söze" in his roommate's English-to-Turkish dictionary, which translates as "talk too much". All the characters' names are taken from staff members of the law firm at the time of his employment.
After 9 drafts, they started shopping the project, but studios were skeptical due to its non-linear narrative, dialogue-heavy script and lack of stars. Through foreign deals, the producers made offers to actors and assemble a cast. They were able to offer the actors only salaries that were well below their usual pay, but they agreed because of the quality of McQuarrie's script and the chance to work with one another. That money fell through, and Singer used the script and the cast to attract PolyGram to pick up the film negative.
The film had a slow roll-out, but it quickly became a word-of-mouth success, earning $67 million worldwide and successfully launching the careers of Singer and McQuarrie. Critical reception was through the roof, and its ending has ranked as one of the most iconic endings in cinema's history. It received 2 Oscar nominations and won both Best Supporting Actor for Spacey and Best Original Screenplay for McQuarrie.
  • Budget: $6,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $23,341,568.
  • Worldwide gross: $66,941,568.

Apt Pupil (1998)

"If you don't believe in the existence of evil, you've got a lot to learn."
His third film. Based on the novel by Stephen King, it stars Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Bruce Davison, Elias Koteas, David Schwimmer. Set in the 1980s in southern California, the film tells the story of high school student Todd Bowden, who discovers a fugitive Nazi war criminal, Kurt Dussander, living in his neighborhood under a pseudonym.
The film received mixed reviews, and it failed to capitalize on the Suspects' momentum; it flopped with just $8.8 million.
  • Budget: $14,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $8,863,193.
  • Worldwide gross: $8,863,193.

X-Men (2000)

"Trust a few, fear the rest."
His fourth film. Based on the Marvel Comics characters, it stars Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Bruce Davison, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Ray Park, and Anna Paquin. The film depicts a world where an unknown proportion of people are mutants, possessing superhuman powers that make them distrusted by normal humans. It focuses on mutants Wolverine and Rogue as they are brought into a conflict between two groups with radically different approaches to bringing about the acceptance of mutant-kind: Charles Xavier's X-Men, and the Brotherhood of Mutants, led by Magneto.
Marvel Comics writers and chief editors Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas wrote an X-Men screenplay in 1984 when Orion Pictures held an option on the film rights, but development stalled when Orion began facing financial troubles. Stan Lee and Chris Claremont started shopping the project to Carolco, and considered either James Cameron or Kathryn Bigelow as directors. Bigelow had a treatment which had Bob Hoskins as Wolverine and Angela Bassett as Storm, but Lee prioritized Cameron's intended Spider-Man adaptation. Eventually, Carolco went bankrupt and Marvel regained the rights.
20th Century Fox bought the film rights and assigned Andrew Kevin Walker to write it. This draft focused on the rivalry between Wolverine and Cyclops, and would include Magneto as the cause of the Chernobyl disaster. While Laeta Kalogridis and Michael Chabon, Fox considered many directors for the project. These included Brett Ratner, Robert Rodriguez and Paul W.S. Anderson. Singer was looking to direct a science fiction film, and Fox offered Alien: Resurrection to him. But producer Tom DeSanto thought that X-Men would be better for him. Singer was hesitant to direct a comic book film, but changed his mind after DeSanto presented the themes of prejudice in the comic that resonated with Singer. Singer and DeSanto subsequently rewrote the script, which was very well received by the Fox executives.
After the disastrous reception of Batman & Robin in 1997, the release of Blade convinced some film studios that a Marvel character "could carry on" a movie. But Fox was unhappy with the huge budget, so they demanded to cut on some characters, which included Beast, Nightcrawler, Pyro and the Danger Room. Joss Whedon was brought to write the third act, but he decided to just rewrite the whole film since he really disliked the script. This screenplay was rejected because of its "quick-witted pop culture-referencing tone", and the finished film contained only two dialogue exchanges that Whedon had contributed. Whedon also claimed to have been invited to the table read, completely unaware that his script had been thrown out.
After getting his friend Christopher McQuarrie for a rewrite, Singer decided to get his assistant, David Hayter, to rewrite it as he had an extensive knowledge of the comics. Hayter took great pride in retaining much of the core elements from the source material, such as Wolverine's Canadian background, as the studio wanted to make him American. He received solo screenplay credit from the Writers Guild of America, while Singer and DeSanto were given story credit.
As they started assembling the cast, Russell Crowe was asked to play Wolverine. He turned it down, but recommended it to his friend Hugh Jackman. Jackman was not a known actor by this point, and his wife convinced him to turn it down. Viggo Mortensen was approached, but he was unwilling to sign to multiple films. Eventually, Dougray Scott was cast as Wolverine, and he was set to start filming once his commitment to Mission: Impossible II ended. However, that film faced delays due to a late start and crew members quitting. But most importantly, Scott sustained injuries during the film for its motorcycle sequences, forcing him to quit the film. After filming started, Jackman agreed to play the character.
Highly anticipated, it opened with $57 million, which was the sixth biggest in history. It closed its run with $296 million worldwide, the ninth highest grossing of the year. It also found a huge life in home media; in its initial home video weekend, the film earned $60 million in rentals and direct sales and finished as the seventh highest-grossing home release of 2000 with $141 million. The film also received positive reviews, and is seen as a landmark in comic book films.
  • Budget: $75,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $157,299,718.
  • Worldwide gross: $296,339,528.

X2 (2003)

"The time has come for those who are different to stand united."
His fifth film. The sequel to X-Men, it stars Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Brian Cox, Alan Cumming, Bruce Davison, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Kelly Hu, and Anna Paquin. The plot concerns the genocidal Colonel William Stryker leading an assault on Professor Xavier's school to build his own version of Xavier's mutant-tracking computer, Cerebro, in order to destroy every mutant on Earth and to save the human race from them, forcing the X-Men to team up with the Brotherhood of Mutants to stop Stryker and save the mutant race.
Fox quickly commissioned a sequel, so Singer started considering storylines, wanting to study "the human perspective, the kind of blind rage that feeds into warmongering and terrorism", citing a need for a "human villain". David Hayter and Zak Penn were hired to write separate scripts, and combined what they felt to be the best elements of both scripts into one screenplay. Singer and Hayter worked on another script, while Penn based the film's outline on Chris Claremont's graphic novel X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills before leaving to work on another movie.
Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris were hired to rewrite Hayter and Penn's script, eventually making 100 drafts. Fox made them cut characters like Beast and Angel, feeling it was already over-crowded. However, Singer asked them to insert Lady Deathstrike into the script. There was to be more development on Cyclops and Professor X being brainwashed by Stryker. The scenes were shot, but Fox cut them out because of time length and story complications. Hayter was disappointed, feeling that James Marsden deserved more screentime. After Halle Berry won the Oscar for Best Actress in Monster's Ball, Fox instructed them to give more screentime to Storm.
The film opened with $85 million, one of the biggest openings ever. It closed with $214 million domestically and $407 million worldwide. The critical reception was even better than the original, and is often cited as a sequel that improves on its predecessor. A sequel would follow up in 2006, but Singer was working on something else.
  • Budget: $110,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $214,949,694.
  • Worldwide gross: $407,711,549.

Superman Returns (2006)

"Look up in the sky."
His sixth film. A homage sequel to Superman and Superman II, it stars Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, James Marsden, Frank Langella, Eva Marie Saint and Parker Posey. The film centers on Superman as he returns to Earth after a five-year absence, whereupon he discovers that his love interest, Lane, has moved on with her life and that his archenemy, Luthor, is plotting a scheme to kill him and reshape North America.
After Superman IV: The Quest for Peace bombed, there was no progress on a new film. Not only because the rights reverted to Ilya and Alexander Salkind, but because of Christopher Reeve's paralysis. Warner Bros. decided to make a reboot, inspired by The Death of Superman, but it didn't come to fruition. A new version, Superman Lives, began with Kevin Smith writing and Jon Peters producing. But it was a frustrating experience for Smith, as Peters had two specific requests: Superman couldn't fly and he had to fight a giant spider in the third act. Smith complied, but then Peters had more absurd requests, such as having Brainiac fighting a polar bear, wanting a space dog for merchandising purposes, and wanted Brainiac's robot assistant L-Ron was to be voiced by Dwight Ewell.
Tim Burton was hired to direct, and Nicolas Cage was cast as Superman. Both also received huge pay-or-play contracts; Burton got $5 million, while Cage got $20 million. The film would also feature Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor, Christopher Walken as Brainiac and Chris Rock as Jimmy Olsen. Michael Keaton also confirmed that he would appear, but he reaffirmed he wasn't going to play Batman. But in 1998, WB decided to place it on hold for multiple reasons, having spent $30 million already.
While filming X2, Singer conceived the idea of "Superman returning to Earth after a five-year absence." He presented this to producer Lauren Shuler Donner and her husband Richard, the director of the first two Superman films. After impressing WB with his pitch, Singer got the job and he dropped out of directing X-Men: The Last Stand. Inspired by his love for the original film, he decided to make it a "homage sequel" that would ignore all films after Superman II. While Jim Caviezel advocated to play the role, Singer wanted an unknown star. Many actors auditioned, including Henry Cavill, Sam Heughan and Chris Pratt. Eventually, Brandon Routh was selected. Coincidentally, he also auditioned to play the character in Smallville.
WB had high hopes, spending a massive $223 million on the budget (plus $40 million from the cancelled Superman films). But the film never quite took off. It had a soft start at the box office, and its legs were not really great. It closed with $200 million domestically and $391 million worldwide, which made it a box office bomb considering the massive budget and expectations. While critical reception was positive, the audience reception was more negative. Routh's performance received mixed reviews, while the story and action sequences were criticized. Plans for a sequel were cancelled. Singer struck gold with X-Men, but not here.
  • Budget: $223,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $200,081,192.
  • Worldwide gross: $391,081,192.

Valkyrie (2008)

"Many saw evil. They dared to stop it."
His seventh film. It stars Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Eddie Izzard, Terence Stamp, and Tom Wilkinson. The film is set in Nazi Germany during World War II and depicts the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country.
In 2002, Christopher McQuarrie visited Berlin while researching another project and visited the memorial to Claus von Stauffenberg at the Bendlerblock. Researching the 20 July plot, he was moved and fascinated by the fact that the conspirators were fully aware of what would happen if they failed their assassination attempt, and he wanted to make their story more well-known. He planned to direct it himself, but realized that he needed a bigger director to find funding. Singer signed, as he wanted to make a smaller film after making three major blockbusters.
While Tom Cruise is undeniably a box office star, these were rough years. His involvement with Scientology and other controversies dampened his public persona. While one could argue that these never impact films, these proved to be the opposite. Mission: Impossible III disappointed in 2006, and Lions for Lambs was his lowest grossing film in decades. So he decided to take control of United Artists for more artistic films, and Valkyrie was one of them. Pressure was high on the film, although United Artists constantly delayed the release date and downplayed Cruise's presence in the marketing.
The film drew mixed reviews, with critics concluding that the film was just a bland and uninspired thriller. But with Cruise's presence, it hit $200 million worldwide, becoming a box office success.
  • Budget: $75,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $83,077,833.
  • Worldwide gross: $201,545,517.

Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

"If you think you know the story, you don't know Jack."
His eighth film. Based on the fairy tales Jack the Giant Killer and Jack and the Beanstalk, it stars Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy, Eddie Marsan and Ewan McGregor. The film tells the story of Jack, a young farmhand who must rescue a princess from a race of giants after inadvertently opening a gateway to their land in the sky.
Darren Lemke conceived the idea of a new version of the classic story. D.J. Caruso was originally hired, before Singer replaced him. He brought Christopher McQuarrie to rewrite it, and his rewrite included a deeper back story for the giants and explanation of their relationship with the humans, which Singer considered a "vast improvement"; it also upped the budget. To get the budget back in line, Singer brought in television writer Dan Studney to work on the project. While Singer toned down the violence to make it appropriate for the family, it was still rated PG-13.
With a few months before release, it was delayed by nine months due to needed work on the CGI. Turns out no one was really anticipating. The film was a gigantic bomb by opening with just $27 million domestically, closing with just $65 million in the marketing. It fared much better overseas, but the $197 million worldwide total was far below the $200 million budget, making it one of the biggest bombs in history. It received unfavorable reviews, with many conflicted over the film's tone (some thought it was too dark for kids and too childish for adults), story and over-use of CGI over storytelling.
  • Budget: $200,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $65,187,603.
  • Worldwide gross: $197,687,603.

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

"His past. Our future."
His ninth film. The seventh film in X-Men franchise, it stars Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Elliot Page, Peter Dinklage, Ian McKellen, and Patrick Stewart. The story, inspired by the 1981 Uncanny X-Men storyline Days of Future Past by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, focuses on two time periods, with Logan traveling back in time to 1973 to change history and prevent an event that results in unspeakable destruction for both humans and mutants.
After The Last Stand, there was doubt over the continuation of the franchise with the main cast. X-Men: First Class was intended as the beginning of a new trilogy, with Matthew Vaughn returning to direct and Singer also returning as producer. After confirming the casts, Simon Kinberg started writing a script over the future of the characters. In the original script, Kitty Pryde would be the main lead, but Kinberg decided that Wolverine should be the lead due to his ageless look. However, Vaughn decided to depart the project to film Kingsman: The Secret Service, and Singer was officially hired, marking his first directorial title in the franchise since X2.
A mid-credits scene teasing the film was attached to the theatrical release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in April 2014. In the scene, which is set during the Vietnam War, Mystique tries to infiltrate a military camp led by William Stryker to recruit fellow mutants Havok, Ink, and Toad. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 director Marc Webb had an existing contract with Fox Searchlight Pictures to direct another film following 500 Days of Summer. After The Amazing Spider-Man, Webb's negotiations with Sony Pictures Entertainment stalled because of his commitment to Fox. Fox eventually agreed to allow Webb to direct the sequel of The Amazing Spider-Man, and in exchange, Sony promoted the X-Men film without charge.
Domestically, the film earned $233 million, which was below The Last Stand. But while the franchise was domestic-heavy, this was the first to have huge overseas power; it earned a colossal $746 million worldwide, easily becoming the highest grossing film in the franchise. The film earned critical acclaim, and has been included as one of the franchise's best films.
  • Budget: $200,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $233,921,534.
  • Worldwide gross: $746,045,700.

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

"Only the strong will survive."
His tenth film. The ninth film in X-Men franchise, it stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Olivia Munn, and Lucas Till. In the film, the ancient mutant En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse is inadvertently revived in 1983, and he plans to wipe out modern civilization and take over the world, leading the X-Men to try to stop him and defeat his team of mutants.
Five months before Days of Future Past opened, Singer confirmed that Apocalypse would be ready for May 2016. According to Singer, the film would focus on the origin of the mutants and feature the younger versions of Cyclops, Jean Grey and Storm. Singer also said that he was considering Gambit and a younger version of Nightcrawler to appear. He has referred to the film as "kind of a conclusion of six X-Men films, yet a potential rebirth of younger, newer characters" and the "true birth of the X-Men". During filming, Kinberg had to take on directing responsibilities when Singer went MIA mid-production (more on that later on).
With Singer having helmed the best installments, it was a foregone conclusion the film would live up to the standards... but it didn't. It received unfavorable reviews, with disdain towards the story, uninspired villain, and CGI. The film was still a box office success, although its $543 worldwide total was far below Days of Future Past.
  • Budget: $178,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $155,442,489.
  • Worldwide gross: $543,934,105.

Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

"Fearless lives forever."
His eleventh (and final) film. It stars Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joe Mazzello, Aidan Gillen, Tom Hollander, and Mike Myers. The film focuses on the life of Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the British rock band Queen, from the formation of the band in 1970 to their 1985 Live Aid performance at the original Wembley Stadium.
Development on a Queen biopic started in 2010, with Sacha Baron Cohen set to play Mercury. The band supported Cohen's casting, but they had reservations on the film's direction, worrying that it would harm Mercury's legacy. In 2013, Cohen left the project due to creative differences. Allegedly, he had wanted a "gritty R-rated tell-all" focused on Mercury, while the band hoped for a PG-rated film about the band. The band also expressed caution over Cohen, as they felt his presence would feel distracting as he was known for Borat. Cohen himself wanted David Fincher to direct the film, and also expressed frustration with the band wanting the film to include Mercury's death halfway through.
By 2014, Dexter Fletcher was attached to direct the film and Ben Whishaw would now play Mercury, but both exited later on. Eventually, Anthony McCarten won Queen over with his script, and progress was finally underway. Singer joined later on, with Rami Malek now playing Mercury after the producers watched Mr. Robot. Malek conducted recordings at Abbey Road Studios and had consulted Roger Taylor and Brian May, both of whom would serve as producers.
Alright, now this is where it was game over for Singer.
On December 1, 2017, 20th Century Fox had temporarily halted production due to the "unexpected unavailability" of Singer. Sources said that Singer had not returned to the set after the Thanksgiving week (November 20-26). Discussions began about replacing him. Cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel stepped in to direct during Singer's non-showings. Singer's absence was reportedly due to "a personal health matter concerning Bryan and his family". With under three weeks left on the shoot, Singer requested a filming hiatus as his mother was extremely ill. Other sources claimed that Malek and the crew had grown tired of Singer's behaviour, who was reportedly arriving late to set and clashing with Malek. Tom Hollander briefly quit the film over issues with Singer but was convinced to return. 3 days later, Singer was fired as director, with about two weeks of scheduled principal photography remaining.
2 days later, Dexter Fletcher (attached at one point to direct the film) was hired to direct the reminder of the film. Only 1/3 of the film was left, which he finished the following month. Although Fletcher replaced Singer with two weeks left in the production, Singer had hired the cast, crew and shot most of the film. Producer Graham King announced in June 2018 that Singer would receive the directing credit on the finished film, due to WGA's rules. Fletcher received an executive producer credit. Despite that, Singer's name was absent from the marketing campaign and the cast and crew decided to mostly exclude him from interviews.
Due to the massive popularity of Queen, the film was a hit, but even higher than anyone expected. It broke records for a biopic, and it became the highest grossing music biopic after just two weeks. It closed its run with a colossal $910 million worldwide, which was bigger than the previous highest grossing biopic (Straight Outta Compton) by a lot and becoming the sixth highest grossing film of the year. The film itself received mixed reviews from critics. While the musical sequences and Malek's performance were particularly praised, Singer's direction, the film's portrayal of Mercury and other personnel, and its use of creative licence were criticized.
During awards season, the film surprised by winning big at the Golden Globes, before receiving 5 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. This made it one of the worst reviewed titles to receive a nomination. It won 4 Oscars (the most of the night): Best Actor (Malek), Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing.
  • Budget: $52,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $216,668,042.
  • Worldwide gross: $910,809,311.

Other Projects

He has produced many films, particulary in horror. The most famous was the anthology flick Trick 'r' Treat.
He has worked in television. He directed the pilots for Football Wives, Mockingbird Lane, Battle Creek and The Gifted (an X-Men show). But perhaps the most iconic was House M.D., where he directed the first and third episode, served as executive producer and plays himself in a first season episode.

The elephant in the room

Okay, look. We can't discuss Singer without having to address the elephant in the room. It was tough for me to write this, knowing about the scandals. How to recognize his achievements without addressing this? It was impossible for me. So I though the best possible way was to also report on the sexual assault accusations.
Due to character limitations on Reddit, I cannot fully delve into them. This article offers a timeline of the events starting with The Usual Suspects and going all the way up to December 2017. There are four more cases in 2019, which were covered in The Atlantic.
Now you may be wondering, what happened to Singer? Where is he now? Well, he's been living in Israel since 2019 and he is working on a self-financed documentary that addresses the sexual assault claims. Big "OJ: If I Did It" vibes.

MOVIES (FROM HIGHEST GROSSING TO LEAST GROSSING)

No. Movie Year Studio Domestic Total Overseas Total Worldwide Total Budget
1 Bohemian Rhapsody 2018 Fox $216,668,042 $694,141,269 $910,809,311 $52M
2 X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014 Fox $233,921,534 $512,124,166 $746,045,700 $200M
3 X-Men: Apocalypse 2016 Fox $155,442,489 $388,491,616 $543,934,105 $178M
4 X2 2003 Fox $214,949,694 $192,761,855 $407,711,549 $110M
5 Superman Returns 2006 Warner Bros. $200,081,192 $191,000,000 $391,081,192 $223M
6 X-Men 2000 Fox $157,299,718 $139,039,810 $296,339,528 $75M
7 Valkyrie 2008 MGM / Fox $83,077,833 $118,467,684 $201,545,517 $75M
8 Jack the Giant Slayer 2013 Warner Bros. $65,187,603 $132,500,000 $197,687,603 $200M
9 The Usual Suspects 1995 Gramercy $23,341,568 $43,600,000 $66,941,568 $6M
10 Apt Pupil 1998 Sony $8,863,193 $0 $8,863,193 $14M
He made 11 films, but only 10 have reported box office numbers. Across those 10 films, he made $3,770,959,266 worldwide. That's $377,095,926 per film.

The Verdict

Singer was clearly influential in the superhero genre. Team-up movies wouldn't be the same without X-Men, and The Usual Suspects is still well known for having one of the greatest twist endings ever. But not everything was a home run; just look at Superman Returns and Jack the Giant Slayer. And that's before we address the sexual assault accusations. Singer was also known for often clashing during filming; the X-Men and Bohemian Rhapsody cast have addressed this and complained that he was absent or arrived late. He may try to get financing from overseas markets, but his career in Hollywood is pretty much over.
Hope you liked this edition. You can find this and more in the wiki for this section.
The next director will be Kathryn Bigelow. With International Women's Day coming up, it is important to give the spotlight to a female director.
I asked you to choose who else should be in the run and the comment with the most upvotes would be chosen. Well, we'll later talk about... Baz Luhrmann. Very few films, but a very important director.
This is the schedule for the following four:
Week Director Reasoning
March 4-10 Kathryn Bigelow Any Strange Days fan here? Hello?
March 11-17 M. Night Shyamalan There's no adaptation in Ba Sing Se.
March 18-24 Spike Lee Is he really to blame for the lame Oldboy remake?
March 25-31 Baz Luhrmann 30 years, only 6 films.
Who should be next after Luhrmann? That's up to you.
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2024.02.19 12:35 Berrypick "Lifeline movie" database analysis

So I finally caved and got an API key for TMDB to do some light analysis.
One of the first things I was interested in was creating a list of useful "lifeline movies" - i.e. movies that might get you a connection when you're out of lifelines and your back is against the wall. Worth noting that some of these movies are themselves death traps, as anyone who's ever played Avengers: Endgame and found their ass trapped in Sam Jackson or Tilda Swinton might know! :)
I know some people might not consider this to be in the spirit of the game, but I think guessing is a legitimate (albeit quite risky) strategy. As you might notice if you try to use this list - context matters a great deal! If you're in the 1960's or hyper-modern rom-coms, Ocean's Thirteen is unlikely to help you, and I think knowing that and knowing how to use lists like these or similar heuristics are an inherent part of the game.
I used the top 500 actors listed as the "Centers of the Hollywood Universe" according to the Oracle of Bacon (more on their methodology for creating that list here). Then I wrote a short script that uses the TMDB api to:
  1. Find castlists with the largest amount of actors from within our shortlist.
  2. Exclude documentaries and short films.
  3. Rank the results by most shortlist actors who appear in each movie.
This was just a quick and dirty script, there's tons more potential for advanced analytics here which is really cool! Anyway, here's the list:
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen 49 ['Tom Hanks', 'Mickey Rourke', 'Jackie Chan', 'Kevin Spacey', 'Sylvester Stallone', 'Rosanna Arquette', 'Sharon Stone', 'Nicole Kidman', 'Daniel Craig', 'Carrie Fisher', 'Glenn Close', 'Bruce Willis', 'Leonardo DiCaprio', 'Diane Lane', 'Laura Dern', 'Keanu Reeves', 'Nicolas Cage', 'Dee Wallace', 'Christopher Plummer', 'Tom Cruise', 'Robin Wright', 'Matt Damon', 'Mel Gibson', 'Miranda Richardson', 'Al Pacino', 'Gary Oldman', 'Sean Connery', 'Robert De Niro', 'John Goodman', 'Samuel L. Jackson', 'Robin Williams', 'Harrison Ford', 'Scarlett Johansson', 'Brad Pitt', 'Jon Voight', 'David Thewlis', 'Jeff Bridges', 'Sigourney Weaver', 'John Travolta', 'Mark Hamill', 'Ethan Hawke', 'Michael Douglas', 'Arnold Schwarzenegger', 'Michelle Pfeiffer', 'Ewan McGregor', 'Malcolm McDowell', 'Anjelica Huston', 'Bill Murray', 'Meryl Streep']
The Player 29 ['Fred Ward', 'Burt Reynolds', 'Peter Falk', 'Karen Black', 'Nick Nolte', 'Julia Roberts', 'Bruce Willis', 'Jeremy Piven', 'Rod Steiger', 'James Coburn', 'Tim Robbins', 'John Cusack', 'Gary Busey', 'Susan Sarandon', 'Jeff Goldblum', 'Dean Stockwell', 'Robert Wagner', 'Gina Gershon', 'Sally Kirkland', 'Richard E. Grant', 'Brion James', 'Ned Bellamy', 'Whoopi Goldberg', 'Greta Scacchi', 'Scott Glenn', "Vincent D'Onofrio", 'Malcolm McDowell', 'Anjelica Huston', 'Elliott Gould']
Avengers: Endgame 20 ['Gwyneth Paltrow', 'Bradley Cooper', 'Frank Grillo', 'Jon Favreau', 'Tilda Swinton', 'Josh Brolin', 'Jeremy Renner', 'Samuel L. Jackson', 'Don Cheadle', 'Scarlett Johansson', 'William Hurt', 'Robert Redford', 'Natalie Portman', 'Mark Ruffalo', 'Michael Douglas', 'Paul Rudd', 'Marisa Tomei', 'Michelle Pfeiffer', 'Stan Lee', 'Robert Downey Jr.']
Armageddon 14 ['Jason Isaacs', 'Ben Affleck', 'Charlton Heston', 'Owen Wilson', 'Bruce Willis', 'Udo Kier', 'Will Patton', 'Steve Buscemi', 'William Fichtner', 'Grace Zabriskie', 'Keith David', 'Mark Boone Junior', 'Billy Bob Thornton', 'Peter Stormare']
The Grand Budapest Hotel 14 ['Fisher Stevens', 'Owen Wilson', 'Willem Dafoe', 'Tilda Swinton', 'F. Murray Abraham', 'Adrien Brody', 'Jude Law', 'Jeff Goldblum', 'Harvey Keitel', 'Edward Norton', 'Bob Balaban', 'Bill Murray', 'Tom Wilkinson', 'Ralph Fiennes']
Asteroid City 13 ['Tom Hanks', 'Fisher Stevens', 'Jeffrey Wright', 'Willem Dafoe', 'Liev Schreiber', 'Tilda Swinton', 'Matt Dillon', 'Adrien Brody', 'Bryan Cranston', 'Jeff Goldblum', 'Scarlett Johansson', 'Edward Norton', 'Bob Balaban']
Cradle Will Rock 13 ['Vanessa Redgrave', 'Paul Giamatti', 'Philip Baker Hall', 'Harris Yulin', 'Jack Black', 'Tim Robbins', 'John Cusack', 'Susan Sarandon', 'John Turturro', 'Ned Bellamy', 'Cary Elwes', 'Bob Balaban', 'Bill Murray']
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 13 ['Jason Isaacs', 'Rade Šerbedžija', 'Michael Byrne', 'Rhys Ifans', 'Toby Jones', 'John Hurt', 'Miranda Richardson', 'Timothy Spall', 'Michael Gambon', 'David Thewlis', 'Bill Nighy', 'Brendan Gleeson', 'Ralph Fiennes']
Pearl Harbor 13 ['Alec Baldwin', 'Ben Affleck', 'Beth Grant', 'Michael Shannon', 'Scott Wilson', 'Dan Aykroyd', 'Tom Sizemore', 'William Fichtner', 'Glenn Morshower', 'Jon Voight', 'Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa', 'Tomas Arana', 'Colm Feore']
The French Dispatch 13 ['Fisher Stevens', 'Owen Wilson', 'Jeffrey Wright', 'Willem Dafoe', 'Benicio del Toro', 'Liev Schreiber', 'Tilda Swinton', 'Adrien Brody', 'Christoph Waltz', 'Edward Norton', 'Bob Balaban', 'Anjelica Huston', 'Bill Murray']
Masked and Anonymous 12 ['Mickey Rourke', 'Fred Ward', 'Bruce Dern', 'Christian Slater', 'Ed Harris', 'Val Kilmer', 'Penélope Cruz', 'Tracey Walter', 'Cheech Marin', 'John Goodman', 'Noel Gugliemi', 'Jeff Bridges']
Cars 2 12 ['Vanessa Redgrave', 'Franco Nero', 'Jason Isaacs', 'Thomas Kretschmann', 'Owen Wilson', 'John Ratzenberger', 'Joe Mantegna', 'Cheech Marin', 'Michael Caine', 'John Turturro', 'Richard Kind', 'Emily Mortimer']
Nightmare Alley 12 ['Tim Blake Nelson', 'Toni Collette', 'Bradley Cooper', 'Willem Dafoe', 'Cate Blanchett', 'Mary Steenburgen', 'David Strathairn', 'Richard Jenkins', 'Ron Perlman', 'Stephen McHattie', 'Clifton Collins Jr.', 'Holt McCallany']
The Thin Red Line 12 ['Tim Blake Nelson', 'Nick Nolte', 'Elias Koteas', 'Woody Harrelson', 'Adrien Brody', 'John C. Reilly', 'George Clooney', 'John Cusack', 'John Savage', 'Sean Penn', 'Mark Boone Junior', 'John Travolta']
New York, I Love You 12 ['Burt Young', 'Bradley Cooper', 'Chris Cooper', 'Robin Wright', 'Cloris Leachman', 'John Hurt', 'Eli Wallach', 'Christina Ricci', 'Natalie Portman', 'Andy García', 'Ethan Hawke', 'James Caan']
Heat 12 ['Thomas Rosales Jr.', 'Val Kilmer', 'Danny Trejo', 'Jeremy Piven', 'Ted Levine', 'Al Pacino', 'Robert De Niro', 'Xander Berkeley', 'Tom Sizemore', 'William Fichtner', 'Jon Voight', 'Natalie Portman']
Last Action Hero 12 ['Thomas Rosales Jr.', 'Robert Patrick', 'Sharon Stone', 'F. Murray Abraham', 'Jean-Claude Van Damme', 'Colleen Camp', 'Danny DeVito', 'Ian McKellen', 'Arnold Schwarzenegger', 'Jim Belushi', 'Sven-Ole Thorsen', 'Charles Dance']
Grindhouse (Note that this is playable as separate movies - Planet Terror / Death Proof 12 ['Jason Isaacs', 'Jeff Fahey', 'Bruce Willis', 'Danny Trejo', 'Nicolas Cage', 'Udo Kier', 'Josh Brolin', 'Michael Parks', 'Cheech Marin', 'Rosario Dawson', 'Simon Pegg', 'Kurt Russell']
Zack Snyder's Justice League 12 ['J.K. Simmons', 'Ben Affleck', 'Willem Dafoe', 'Diane Lane', 'Connie Nielsen', 'Russell Crowe', 'Robin Wright', 'Jeremy Irons', 'Ciarán Hinds', 'David Thewlis', 'Vincent Riotta', 'Kevin Costner']
Isle of Dogs 12 ['Fisher Stevens', 'Liev Schreiber', 'Tilda Swinton', 'F. Murray Abraham', 'Bryan Cranston', 'Jeff Goldblum', 'Harvey Keitel', 'Scarlett Johansson', 'Edward Norton', 'Bob Balaban', 'Anjelica Huston', 'Bill Murray']
Avengers: Infinity War 12 ['Gwyneth Paltrow', 'Idris Elba', 'Bradley Cooper', 'Benicio del Toro', 'Josh Brolin', 'Samuel L. Jackson', 'Don Cheadle', 'Scarlett Johansson', 'William Hurt', 'Mark Ruffalo', 'Stan Lee', 'Robert Downey Jr.']
The Aviator 11 ['Ian Holm', 'Alec Baldwin', 'Leonardo DiCaprio', 'Willem Dafoe', 'Cate Blanchett', 'John C. Reilly', 'Jude Law', 'Joe Chrest', 'Kenneth Welsh', 'Edward Herrmann', 'Danny Huston']
A Bridge Too Far 11 ['Garrick Hagon', 'Michael Byrne', 'John Ratzenberger', 'Anthony Hopkins', 'Sean Connery', 'Gene Hackman', 'Michael Caine', 'Robert Redford', 'Maximilian Schell', 'James Caan', 'Elliott Gould']
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 11 ['Jason Isaacs', 'Jim Broadbent', 'Emma Thompson', 'John Hurt', 'Gary Oldman', 'Timothy Spall', 'Ciarán Hinds', 'Michael Gambon', 'David Thewlis', 'Ralph Fiennes', 'Miriam Margolyes']
Hail, Caesar! 11 ['Clancy Brown', 'Dolph Lundgren', 'Fisher Stevens', 'Tilda Swinton', 'George Clooney', 'Josh Brolin', 'Christophe Lambert', 'Peter Jason', 'Scarlett Johansson', 'Michael Gambon', 'Ralph Fiennes']
Bob Roberts 11 ['Fred Ward', 'Fisher Stevens', 'Jeremy Piven', 'Jack Black', 'Tim Robbins', 'David Strathairn', 'John Cusack', 'Susan Sarandon', 'Giancarlo Esposito', 'Ned Bellamy', 'Bob Balaban']
Austin Powers in Goldmember 11 ['Kevin Spacey', 'Gwyneth Paltrow', 'Tom Cruise', 'Clint Howard', 'Michael York', 'Tommy Lister Jr.', 'Michael Caine', 'Seth Green', 'Robert Wagner', 'John Travolta', 'Danny DeVito']
Pulp Fiction 11 ['Rosanna Arquette', 'Ving Rhames', 'Bruce Willis', 'Christopher Walken', 'Tim Roth', 'Uma Thurman', 'Steve Buscemi', 'Samuel L. Jackson', 'Harvey Keitel', 'Amanda Plummer', 'John Travolta']
Ocean's Thirteen 11 ['Julian Sands', 'Vincent Cassel', 'David Paymer', 'George Clooney', 'Matt Damon', 'Al Pacino', 'Joe Chrest', 'Don Cheadle', 'Brad Pitt', 'Andy García', 'Elliott Gould']
Nixon 11 ['Paul Sorvino', 'James Woods', 'David Paymer', 'Ed Harris', 'Dan Hedaya', 'Saul Rubinek', 'Mary Steenburgen', 'Anthony Hopkins', 'Edward Herrmann', 'Bai Ling', 'Bob Hoskins']
The Manchurian Candidate 11 ['Adam LeFevre', 'Jeffrey Wright', 'Denzel Washington', 'Liev Schreiber', 'Ted Levine', 'Tracey Walter', 'Dean Stockwell', 'Jon Voight', 'Zeljko Ivanek', 'Meryl Streep', 'Charles Napier']
JFK 11 ['Donald Sutherland', 'Tommy Lee Jones', 'Ed Asner', 'Bob Gunton', 'Jay O. Sanders', 'Gary Oldman', 'Martin Sheen', 'Sally Kirkland', 'Kevin Costner', 'Michael Rooker', "Vincent D'Onofrio"]
The Dark Knight Rises 11 ['Michael Papajohn', 'Christian Bale', 'Joseph Gordon-Levitt', 'Gary Oldman', 'Michael Caine', 'Noel Gugliemi', 'Matthew Modine', 'Liam Neeson', 'Morgan Freeman', 'Marion Cotillard', 'Tomas Arana']
Avengers: Age of Ultron 11 ['Thomas Kretschmann', 'Idris Elba', 'Josh Brolin', 'Jeremy Renner', 'Samuel L. Jackson', 'Don Cheadle', 'Scarlett Johansson', 'Stellan Skarsgård', 'Mark Ruffalo', 'Stan Lee', 'Robert Downey Jr.']
True Romance 11 ['Christian Slater', 'Val Kilmer', 'Kevin Corrigan', 'Saul Rubinek', 'Ed Lauter', 'Dennis Hopper', 'Gary Oldman', 'Christopher Walken', 'Samuel L. Jackson', 'Tom Sizemore', 'Brad Pitt']
Judge Dredd 10 ['Al Sapienza', 'Sylvester Stallone', 'Max von Sydow', 'Diane Lane', 'Jürgen Prochnow', 'Scott Wilson', 'James Earl Jones', 'Armand Assante', 'Rob Schneider', 'James Remar']
Paris Je T'aime 10 ['Ben Gazzara', 'Nick Nolte', 'Gérard Depardieu', 'Willem Dafoe', 'Miranda Richardson', 'Elijah Wood', 'Steve Buscemi', 'Natalie Portman', 'Bob Hoskins', 'Emily Mortimer']
Iron Man 2 10 ['Mickey Rourke', 'Gwyneth Paltrow', 'Jon Favreau', 'Samuel L. Jackson', 'Don Cheadle', 'Scarlett Johansson', 'Sam Rockwell', 'Seth Green', 'Stan Lee', 'Robert Downey Jr.']
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over 10 ['Alan Cumming', 'Bill Paxton', 'Sylvester Stallone', 'Antonio Banderas', 'Danny Trejo', 'George Clooney', 'Elijah Wood', 'Cheech Marin', 'Steve Buscemi', 'Salma Hayek Pinault']
The Last Shot 10 ['Tim Blake Nelson', 'Alec Baldwin', 'Judy Greer', 'Michael Papajohn', 'Toni Collette', 'Eric Roberts', 'James Rebhorn', 'Jon Polito', 'Glenn Morshower', 'Ray Liotta']
Traffic 10 ['Thomas Rosales Jr.', 'Luis Guzmán', 'Benicio del Toro', 'James Brolin', 'Dennis Quaid', 'James Lew', 'Don Cheadle', 'Clifton Collins Jr.', 'Salma Hayek Pinault', 'Michael Douglas']
Thor: Ragnarok 10 ['Clancy Brown', 'Idris Elba', 'Cate Blanchett', 'Matt Damon', 'Anthony Hopkins', 'Sam Neill', 'Jeff Goldblum', 'Scarlett Johansson', 'Mark Ruffalo', 'Stan Lee']
A Time to Kill 10 ['Kevin Spacey', 'Donald Sutherland', 'Octavia Spencer', 'Beth Grant', 'Oliver Platt', 'Chris Cooper', 'Matthew McConaughey', 'Samuel L. Jackson', 'Kiefer Sutherland', 'M. Emmet Walsh']
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2024.02.08 16:34 ebm_synthpop Beatport Top 100 Downloads February 2024 FLAC

Title: Beatport Top 100 Downloads February 2024 Genre: House, Deep House, Tech House, Techno (Peak Time / Driving), Melodic House & Techno, Minimal / Deep Tech, Nu Disco / Disco, Funky / Groove / Jackin’ House, Dance / Electro Pop, Bass House, Progressive House, Drum & Bass, Trance Release Date: 2024-02-01
DOWNLOAD in 320kbps / FLAC: https://sharing-db.club/djs-chart/468744_beatport-top-100-downloads-february-2024/
Tracklist: 1. Mau P – BEATS FOR THE UNDERGROUND (Original Mix) (6:09) 2. Disclosure, Eliza Doolittle – You & Me (Rivo Extended Mix) (6:02) 3. Maverick Sabre, Tom Breu, Vintage Culture – Weak (Extended) (4:58) 4. The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition (John Summit & Silver Panda Extended Remix) (5:44) 5. Low Steppa, Tony Romera – Dance To The Music (Extended Mix) (5:20) 6. Layton Giordani, Eli Brown, OFFAIAH – When I Push (Original Mix) (5:22) 7. Max Styler, Westend – Rhythm Machine (Original Mix) (5:22) 8. Nick Morgan – Shook Part 3 (Original Mix) (7:02) 9. HELLMATE, Santiago & Carlitos, Chantal Lewis-Brown – Show Me Love (Extended Mix) (4:15) 10. Dom Dolla – Saving Up (Odd Mob Extended Remix) (4:35) 11. Wh0, Mark Knight, James Hurr, Kathy Brown – Turn Me Deeper (Extended Mix) (5:21) 12. Andruss – Frikitona (Original Mix) (5:39) 13. Diplo, Hugel, Julia Church – Stay High (Extended) (5:43) 14. Wakyin, Carlos Vives – Beso (Fruta Fresca) (Extended Mix) (6:31) 15. The Chemical Brothers – No Reason (Chris Lake Extended Mix) (5:22) 16. Loofy – Last Night (Extended Mix) (6:04) 17. Walker & Royce, VNSSA – I Don’t Remember (Original Mix) (6:07) 18. Gorgon City, Bbyafricka – Biggest Regret (feat. Bbyafricka) (Extended Mix) (6:01) 19. Fireboy DML, Peace Control – Peru (Peace Control Remix) (Peace Control Remix) (5:36) 20. Lucci Minati – Shut Up (Leagas Rmx) (5:00) 21. Kashovski – Bad Man (Original Mix) (5:51) 22. Fred again.., Baby Keem – leavemealone (Original Mix) (3:42) 23. Danny Del, Dcr Milda – Mwaki (zerb diss) (Extended Mix) (4:29) 24. Carlita, Black Circle, Calussa – Fell In Luv (Black Circle Remix (Extended)) (7:19) 25. Riordan – Needle On The Record (Extended Mix) (5:30) 26. HI-LO, Space 92 – ORION (Extended Mix) (5:18) 27. Argy, Omnya – Aria (Extended Mix) (5:14) 28. War – Low Rider (Kyle Watson Remix) (5:25) 29. RAFFA GUIDO – Famax (Original Mix) (5:35) 30. Majistrate, Primate, Ekstatic – Back In Time (feat. Ekstatic) (Original Mix) (4:10) 31. The YellowHeads, HLGRMS – Sandstorm (2024 Extended Mix) (6:40) 32. DiMO (BG), Mili – Verona (Original Mix) (5:17) 33. CASSIMM – LOVE DESIRE (Extended Mix) (5:47) 34. Delta Heavy – Ecstasy (Original Mix) (3:24) 35. CamelPhat – Running Man (Extended Mix) (7:10) 36. Friction – Supersonic (Basstripper Remix) (3:44) 37. Wolfram, Josh Ludlow – YoYo Disco (Purple Disco Machine Extended Remix) (5:39) 38. Push – Universal Nation (Charlotte de Witte Rework) (7:32) 39. Ky William, James Poole – Baila Le Digo (Original Mix) (6:01) 40. Oliver Heldens, Sergio Mendes, Ian Asher – Mas Que Nada (Extended Mix) (Original Mix) (4:24) 41. Meduza – Musica (Extended) (5:56) 42. Trace, Liquid Rose – Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe (Extended Mix) (6:02) 43. PUMP! – BANANAS (Extended Mix) (6:00) 44. Steve Angello – ME (Extended Mix) (4:48) 45. James Cole, Kevin McKay, Darcey, Simon Ellis – Somebody That I Used To Know (Extended Mix) (6:34) 46. Carlita – Cash For Love (Extended Mix) (6:31) 47. Rosalie, James Mac, VALL – The Boy Is Mine feat. Rosalie (Club Mix) (6:16) 48. Wilkinson, Kelli-Leigh – This Moment (Extended Mix) (3:50) 49. AYYBO – RIZZ (Extended Mix) (5:18) 50. Sugar Hill – I Love You So ((Extended mix)) (5:10) 51. Tiesto, W&W, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike – Thank You (Not So Bad) (Extended) (4:51) 52. Moderat, &ME, Rampa, Keinemusik – More Love (Rampa &ME Remix) (7:22) 53. Borai & Denham Audio – Make Me (Franky Rizardo Extended Remix) (5:43) 54. Tiesto, Tears For Fears, NIIKO X SWAE, GUDFELLA – Rule The World (Everybody) (Extended Mix) (3:31) 55. Miss Monique – Veselka (Extended Mix) (6:56) 56. Mochakk – Jealous (Extended Mix) (5:45) 57. Mandragora, Beltran (BR) – Moonlight (Original Mix) (5:37) 58. Hedex, Tion Wayne – Lowkey (LDN Drift) (Extended) (3:21) 59. Enoo Napa, DJ Merlon – BroCode (Original Mix) (6:58) 60. Jackers Revenge – Could You Be Loved (Original Mix) (4:44) 61. Serum, The Riddler – Ain’t No Way 2024 (Original Mix) (2:58) 62. Dom Dolla – Saving Up (Extended) (5:47) 63. FISHER (OZ), Aatig – Take It Off (Extended Mix) (5:26) 64. Kita Alexander, FISHER (OZ) – Atmosphere (Extended Mix) (5:51) 65. Rendah – Rocker (Original Mix) (4:24) 66. Richard Grey – Everybody (Original Mix) (3:46) 67. Joyhauser, Eli Brown – Drop It Down (Extended Mix) (5:45) 68. Fab Massimo, Kevin McKay, T’Shan Williams – Don’t Leave Me This Way (Extended Mix) (6:04) 69. Max Dean – In You (Original Mix) (6:13) 70. OceanLab, Above & Beyond – Sirens Of The Sea (Marsh Extended Mix) (8:24) 71. Sammy Virji – If U Need It (Extended Mix) (3:57) 72. Chris Avantgarde – Perception (Extended Mix) (6:35) 73. BENNETT (DE) – Vois sur ton chemin (Extended Techno Mix) (3:55) 74. Benny di Gioia, Dj Cucky – Mercury Superstar (Original Mix) (4:24) 75. K’Alexi Shelby – The Ron Hardy Memo (Riva Starr Remix) (8:28) 76. Odd Mob – Give You (Extended Mix) (4:03) 77. &ME, Black Coffee, Keinemusik – The Rapture Pt.III (Original Mix) (8:02) 78. Thomas Schumacher – Strip Silence (Extended Mix) (5:17) 79. Marie Vaunt – Dark Room (Original Mix) (6:24) 80. Coco, Francis Mercier, Mont Rouge – Voyage Voyage (Extended Mix) (6:21) 81. WhoMadeWho – Children (Mind Against & Dyzen Remix) (5:36) 82. Max Styler – Hypnotic (Extended Mix) (5:37) 83. Maori, Adam Ten – Spring Girl (Extended) (5:45) 84. Bush B4 Me – Say It Right (Extended Mix) (6:18) 85. Mau P – Dress Code (Extended Mix) (5:47) 86. GROSSOMODDO – Silencio (Extended Mix) (5:40) 87. The Blessed Madonna, Joy Anonymous, Danielle Ponder – Carry Me Higher (Elite Mix 10 Inch Version) (7:08) 88. Murphy’s Law (UK) – Ain’t No Other Man (Rework – Extended Mix) (5:26) 89. biskuwi, Fatum – Termination (Original Mix) (4:58) 90. Yvvan Back – Get On The Floor (Hotswing Extended Remix) (4:24) 91. Nico Moreno, Laren – You Make Me Horny (Original Mix) (4:54) 92. Neitan, DJ Kuba, Bounce Inc. – Blade (Extended Mix) (5:00) 93. Subsonic – Feel Ur Touch (Original Mix) (3:21) 94. Carly Wilford – The Dance (Extended Mix) (5:17) 95. Luke Dean – Get Hard (You In The Lobby) (Extended Mix) (6:03) 96. Niko The Kid – Deeper Love (Extended Mix) (4:43) 97. Boys Noize, Skrillex – Fine Day Anthem (Extended Mix) (4:22) 98. Phibes – Man Come Back (Original Mix) (3:33) 99. Jamiroquai – Little L (Dave Lee Extended Disco Reblend) (8:12) 100. Alex Wann – Milkshake (Original Mix) (6:18)
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