title: Metallica

text: MTV ranked Metallica the third "Greatest Heavy Metal Band in History". Metallica was ranked 42nd on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", was listed fifth on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock", and the band was number one on VH1's "20 Greatest Metal Bands" list. "Rolling Stone" placed the band 61st on its list of "The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time"; its albums "Master of Puppets" and "Metallica" were ranked at numbers 167 and 252 respectively on the magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". "Master of Puppets" was named in "Q Magazine" "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time", and was ranked number one on IGN's "Top 25 Metal Albums", and number one on Metal-rules.com's "Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums" list. "Enter Sandman" was ranked number 399 on "Rolling Stone" "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".


title: Metallica

text: "Kerrang!" released a tribute album titled "Master of Puppets: Remastered" with the April 8, 2006, edition of the magazine to celebrate the 20th anniversary of "Master of Puppets". The album featured cover versions of Metallica songs by Machine Head, Bullet for My Valentine, Chimaira, Mastodon, Mendeed, and Triviumall of which are influenced by Metallica. At least 15 Metallica tribute albums have been released. On September 10, 2006, Metallica guest starred on "The Simpsons" eighteenth-season premiere, "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer". Hammett's and Hetfield's voices were used in three episodes of the animated television series "Metalocalypse". Finnish cello metal band Apocalyptica released a tribute album titled "Plays Metallica by Four Cellos", which features eight Metallica songs played on cellos. A parody band named Beatallica plays music using a combination of The Beatles and Metallica songs. Beatallica faced legal troubles when Sony, which owns The Beatles' catalog, issued a cease and desist order, claiming "substantial and irreparable injury" and ordering the group to pay damages. Ulrich, a fan of Beatallica, asked Metallica's lawyer Peter Paterno to help settle the case.


title: Metallica

text: On March 7, 1999, Metallica was inducted into the San Francisco Walk of Fame. The mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown, proclaimed the day "Official Metallica Day". The band was awarded the MTV Icon award in 2003, and a concert paying tribute to the band with artists performing its songs was held. Performances included Sum 41 and a medley of "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Enter Sandman", and "Master of Puppets". Staind covered "Nothing Else Matters", Avril Lavigne played "Fuel", hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg performed "Sad but True", Korn played "One", and Limp Bizkit performed "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)".


title: Metallica

text: The "Guitar Hero" video game series included several of Metallica's songs. "One" was used in "Guitar Hero III". The album "Death Magnetic" was later released as purchasable, downloadable content for the game. "Trapped Under Ice" was featured in the sequel, "Guitar Hero World Tour". In 2009, Metallica collaborated with the game's developers to make "", which included a number of Metallica's songs. Harmonix' video game series "Rock Band" included "Enter Sandman" and "Battery"; "Ride the Lightning", "Blackened", and "...And Justice for All" were released as downloadable tracks. In 2013, due to expiring content licenses, "Ride the Lightning", "Blackened", and "...And Justice for All" are no longer available for download.


title: Metallica

text: In October 2020, Miley Cyrus announced that she was planning on recording a Metallica covers album and on January 7, 2021, she announced that she has recorded a cover version of "Nothing Else Matters" that would feature Elton John on piano, drummer Chad Smith from Red Hot Chili Peppers and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The song was produced by Andrew Watt.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: Stanley Tucci Jr. ( ; born November 11, 1960) is an American actor and filmmaker. Involved in acting from a young age, he made his film debut in John Huston's "Prizzi's Honor" (1985), and continued to play a variety of supporting roles in films such as Woody Allen's "Deconstructing Harry" (1997), Sam Mendes's "Road to Perdition" (2002), and Steven Spielberg's "The Terminal" (2004). In 1996, he made his directorial debut with the cult comedy "Big Night" which he also co-wrote and starred in alongside Tony Shalhoub. He played Stanley Kubrick in the television film "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers". Tucci is also known for his collaborations with Meryl Streep in films such as "The Devil Wears Prada" (2006) and "Julie & Julia" (2009). Tucci gained further acclaim and success with such films as "Burlesque" (2010), "Easy A" (2010), "" (2011), "Margin Call" (2011), "The Hunger Games" film series (2012–2015), "Spotlight" (2015), "Beauty and the Beast" (2017), and "Supernova" (2020).


title: Stanley Tucci

text: He has won five Emmy Awards; one for "Winchell" (1998), one for a guest appearance on the comedy series "Monk", one for being a producer of the web series "Park Bench with Steve Buscemi" and two for a six-part food and travel documentary series on CNN titled "" for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series in 2021 and 2022. Tucci was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "The Lovely Bones" (2009). He was also nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune" (2003), and a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, for "The One and Only Shrek!" alongside Meryl Streep.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: Tucci also starred in numerous television series such as the legal drama "Murder One" (1995–96), the medical drama "3 lbs" (2006), Ryan Murphy's limited series "Feud: Bette & Joan" (2017), and the drama "Limetown" (2018). Since 2020, Tucci has voiced Bitsy Brandenham in the Apple TV+ animated series "Central Park".


title: Stanley Tucci

text: Tucci was born on November 11, 1960 in Peekskill, New York, and grew up in nearby Katonah, New York. His parents, Joan (née Tropiano), a secretary and writer, and Stanley Tucci Sr. an art teacher at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York, both of Italian descent, have roots in the town of Marzi in Calabria. His maternal great-grandmother, Angela Albanese, was from Calabria and her surname indicates that she was of Arbëreshë descent. Tucci is the oldest of three children; his sister is actress Christine Tucci. Screenwriter Joseph Tropiano is a cousin. During the early 1970s, the family spent a year living in Florence, Italy.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: He attended John Jay High School, where he played on the soccer and baseball teams, although his main interest lay in the school's drama club, where he and fellow actor and high school friend, Campbell Scott, son of actors George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst, gave well-received performances at many of John Jay's drama club productions. Tucci then attended State University of New York at Purchase, where he majored in acting and graduated in 1982. Among his classmates at SUNY Purchase was fellow acting student Ving Rhames. It was Tucci who gave Rhames, born Irving, the Ving nickname by which he is known.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: In 1982, Tucci earned his Actors' Equity card when actress Colleen Dewhurst, the mother of Tucci's high-school friend, actor Campbell Scott, arranged for the two young men to have parts as soldiers in a Broadway play in which she was co-starring, "The Queen and the Rebels" which premiered on September 30, 1982. Around this time, Tucci also worked as a model, with his most notable work being a television commercial for Levi's 501 jeans. In 1985, Tucci made his film debut in "Prizzi's Honor." Tucci then went on to portray minor and supporting roles in a number of films including "Monkey Shines" (1988), "Slaves of New York" (1989), "Fear, Anxiety & Depression" (1989) and "Billy Bathgate" (1991).


title: Stanley Tucci

text: In 1991, Tucci performed at the Yale Repertory Theatre in Molière's "Scapin." In 1992, Tucci acted in the family comedy "Beethoven" and the romantic fantasy "Prelude to a Kiss". The former spawned a franchise of the same name due to the success of the 1992 film.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: From 1995 to 1996, Tucci starred in the television series "Murder One" as the mysterious Richard Cross. Tucci received his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his performance in the series, specifically for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Following disappointing ratings, ABC decided to revamp the series resulting in Tucci being dismissed from the series.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: In 1996, Tucci co-wrote, co-directed and starred in the comedy-drama film "Big Night". Tucci wrote the screenplay with his cousin Joseph Tropiano and directed the film with friend Campbell Scott. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it was nominated for the "Grand Jury Prize". Tucci and Tropiano won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay for writing the screenplay of the film. The film also featured his sister Christine and their mother, who wrote a cookbook for the film.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: In 1998, Tucci wrote, directed, co-produced and starred in the comedy film "The Impostors". Shortly thereafter, Tucci starred in the HBO biographical television film "Winchell" in which Tucci portrayed columnist Walter Winchell. For his portrayal of Winchell, Tucci won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film. Tucci also received a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for his performance in the film.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: In 1999, he played Robin Goodfellow / Puck in the Michael Hoffman adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream".


title: Stanley Tucci

text: In 2000, Tucci directed, produced and starred in the drama film "Joe Gould's Secret", based on a 1964 biographical essay about Gould by "The New Yorker" reporter Joseph Mitchell. In 2001, Tucci starred in the HBO television war film "Conspiracy" as Adolf Eichmann. The project also starred Kenneth Branagh and Colin Firth. For his portrayal of Eichmann, Tucci won another Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film. The film was critically acclaimed and won a Peabody Award.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: In 2006, Tucci had a major role in the comedy film "The Devil Wears Prada", opposite Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt. The film was Tucci's highest grossing-film until "" in 2011. Also in 2006, Tucci made an appearance on the television series "Monk", for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: Tucci returned to broadcast television by starring in the drama series "3 lbs", which premiered on November 14, 2006. However, due to low ratings CBS cancelled the series. The following year, Tucci went on to recur in the drama series "ER". For his performance in "ER," Tucci was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: In 2009, Tucci portrayed George Harvey, a serial killer of young girls, in "The Lovely Bones", Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel, for which he received Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. To prepare for the role, he consulted with retired FBI profiler John Douglas. Also in 2009, Tucci reunited with Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia". The following year, Tucci directed a revival of the Ken Ludwig play "Lend Me a Tenor" on Broadway, starring Tony Shalhoub. Furthermore, Tucci had a supporting role in the teen comedy film "Easy A". In 2010, Tucci starred alongside Cher and Christina Aguilera in "Burlesque". In 2011, Tucci played Dr. Abraham Erskine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film "Captain America: The First Avenger".


title: Stanley Tucci

text: In the fall of 2012, Tucci released his first cookbook titled "The Tucci Cookbook." Tucci was also a co-owner of the Finch Tavern restaurant in Croton Falls, New York.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: From 2012 to 2015 Tucci portrayed Caesar Flickerman in "The Hunger Games" (2012) and its sequels "" (2013), "" (2014) and "" (2015). In 2013, Tucci played the role of the Ancient Greek God Dionysus in "". Also in 2013, he lent his voice to an episode of the animated series "American Dad!."


title: Stanley Tucci

text: In 2015, Tucci portrayed Mitchell Garabedian in the biographical drama film "Spotlight". The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture as well as Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Also in 2015, Tucci starred in the British series "Fortitude" as DCI Eugene Morton.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: In 2017, Tucci directed and wrote the drama film "Final Portrait". The same year, Tucci played the role of the composer Maestro Cadenza in the live-action adaptation of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast", co-starring with Emma Watson and Dan Stevens. Tucci also returned to the "Transformers" film series by portraying Merlin in "". Furthermore, Tucci played the husband of Dame Fiona Maye, a British High Court judge, opposite Emma Thompson in "The Children Act", based on the book of the same name by Ian McEwan.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: Also in 2017, Tucci starred in the miniseries "Feud" as Warner Bros. studio head Jack L. Warner. "Feud" received critical acclaim and Tucci received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: In 2018, Tucci starred the independent films "Patient Zero", "A Private War" and "Night Hunter". In 2019, Tucci starred in the drama series "Limetown", based on the podcast of the same name. Facebook cancelled the series after one season had aired. The same year, Tucci starred in the horror film "The Silence".


title: Stanley Tucci

text: In 2020, Tucci began voicing the character Bitsy Brandenham in the animated series "Central Park". The series received a two-season order from Apple Inc., with each season set to consist of 13 episodes each. The series premiered on May 29, 2020. In the same year, Tucci narrated the series "The California Century", on notable people in the history of California told from the point of view of a screenwriter.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: In 2020, Tucci starred in the British drama film "Supernova "opposite Colin Firth. The film explores the relationship between a couple played by Tucci and Firth as one of them succumbs to early onset dementia. The film premiered at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and since has received critical acclaim. Guy Lodge, critic for "Variety" wrote of their chemistry "Firth and Tucci are such reliable stalwarts that we tend not to regard their presence too closely in films these days: Almost invariably, they fulfill our expectations of their refined gravitas. But there's something lovely and surprising in what they bring out of each other here, as they complement and reflect each other's curtness, evasiveness and occasional spillages of tenderness in the way that long-term couples do."


title: Stanley Tucci

text: In 2021, Tucci hosted the culinary travel series, "", a six-part original CNN series following the actor on a food tour of Italy. The series received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including one for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series, and was renewed for a second season set to air in 2022. In September, Tucci was cast as Grammy-winning producer Clive Davis in "I Wanna Dance With Somebody," a biopic on Whitney Houston.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: Tucci's first wife, Kathryn Spath (born 1962), died of breast cancer in 2009. She was a social worker and former wife of actor and stage manager Alexander R. Scott, the elder son of actors Colleen Dewhurst and George C. Scott. She and Tucci married in 1995 and had three children: daughter Camilla and twins Nicolo and Isabel. The couple also raised Kathryn's two children from her previous marriage. Tucci left her in 2002 for actress Edie Falco, with whom he was appearing on Broadway in Terrence McNally's "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune", but the affair ended, and he returned to his wife and children.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: In 2011, then a widower, Tucci became engaged to Felicity Blunt, a British literary agent. She is the elder sister of British actress Emily Blunt, who co-starred with Tucci in "The Devil Wears Prada" and introduced the couple several years later at her own 2010 wedding to actor John Krasinski. Tucci and Blunt married in a civil ceremony in summer 2012, followed by a larger observance at Middle Temple Hall in London on September 29, 2012. The couple live in Barnes, London, and have a son Matteo Oliver born on 25 January 2015 and a daughter Emilia Giovanna, born on 19 April 2018.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: On September 12, 2016, Tucci, with Cate Blanchett, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Peter Capaldi, Douglas Booth, Neil Gaiman, Keira Knightley, Juliet Stevenson, Kit Harington, and Jesse Eisenberg, appeared in a video from the United Nations' refugee agency UNHCR to help raise awareness of the global refugee crisis. The video, titled "What They Took With Them", has the actors reading a poem, written by Jenifer Toksvig and inspired by primary accounts of refugees, and is part of UNHCR's #WithRefugees campaign, of which also includes a petition to governments to expand asylum to provide further shelter, integrating job opportunities, and education.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: On May 21, 2021, Tucci received a Doctorate Honoris Causa in Humane Letters from the American University of Rome, in Rome, Italy, for his lifelong contribution to the arts and humanities.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: In September 2021, Tucci revealed that he had been diagnosed with oral cancer three years earlier. He had received treatment (chemotherapy and radiation) after a tumor was found at the base of his tongue, and said it was unlikely that the tumor would return.


title: Stanley Tucci

text: In October 2021, his memoir "Taste: My Life Through Food" was published, which describes his encounter with cancer and his love of food. As of February 20, 2022, "Taste: My Life Through Food" had been on "The New York Times" Best Seller List for 18 weeks.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Christopher Ashton Kutcher (; born February 7, 1978) is an American actor, producer, entrepreneur, and former model. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a People's Choice Award, and nominations for two Young Artist Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Critics' Choice Movie Award.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: He began his acting career portraying Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom "That '70s Show" (1998–2006). He made his film debut in the romantic comedy "Coming Soon" (1999), followed by the comedy film "Dude, Where's My Car?" (2000), which was a box office hit. In 2003, Kutcher moved into romantic comedies, appearing in that year's "Just Married" and "My Boss's Daughter". In 2003, he created and produced the television series "Punk'd", also serving as host for the first eight of its ten seasons. In 2004, Kutcher starred in the lead role of the psychological film "The Butterfly Effect".


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Kutcher subsequently appeared in more romantic comedies, including "Guess Who" (2005), "A Lot Like Love" (2005), "What Happens in Vegas" (2008), and "No Strings Attached" (2011). He starred as Walden Schmidt on the CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men" (2011–2015). In 2013, Kutcher portrayed Steve Jobs in the biographical film "Jobs." He also starred as Colt Bennett in the Netflix series "The Ranch" (2016–2020). Kutcher provided the voice of Elliot in "Open Season" (2006). Kutcher later starred in the comedy thriller "Vengeance" (2022).


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Beyond entertainment, Kutcher is also a venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of the venture capital firm A-Grade Investments. At SXSW in March 2015, Kutcher announced Sound Ventures, the successor to A-Grade Investments, managing a fund backed by institutional funding. Kutcher has also successfully invested in several high technology startups. Kutcher has investments in over 60 companies, the most prominent of which include Skype, Foursquare, Airbnb, Path and Fab.com. Kutcher has invested in five startups : Neighborly, Zenreach, ResearchGate, Kopari Beauty, and Lemonade.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Kutcher was born on February 7, 1978, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Diane ("née" Finnegan), a Procter & Gamble employee, and Larry M. Kutcher, a factory worker. He has Czech, German, and Irish ancestry.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Kutcher was raised in a "relatively conservative" Catholic family. He has an older sister named Tausha and a fraternal twin brother named Michael, who had a heart transplant when the brothers were young children. Michael also has cerebral palsy and is a spokesperson for the advocacy organization Reaching for the Stars. Michael's cardiomyopathy caused Kutcher's home life to become increasingly stressful. He has said he "didn't want to come home and find more bad news" about his brother, stating, "I kept myself so busy that I didn't allow myself to feel."


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Kutcher attended Washington High School in Cedar Rapids for his freshman year, before his family moved to Homestead, Iowa, where he attended Clear Creek–Amana High School. During high school, he developed a passion for acting and appeared in school plays. During his senior year, he broke into his high school at midnight with his cousin in an attempt to steal money; he was arrested leaving the scene. Kutcher was convicted of third-degree burglary and sentenced to three years of probation and 180 hours of community service. Kutcher stated that although the experience "straightened him out", he lost his girlfriend and anticipated college scholarships, and was ostracized at school and in his community.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Kutcher enrolled at the University of Iowa in August 1996, where his planned major was biochemical engineering, motivated by the desire to cure his brother's heart ailment. At college, Kutcher was kicked out of his apartment for being too "noisy" and "wild". Kutcher stated, "I thought I knew everything but I didn't have a clue. I was partying, and I woke up many mornings not knowing what I had done the night before. I played way too hard. I am amazed I am not dead." To earn tuition money, Kutcher worked as a college summer hire in the cereal department for the General Mills plant in Cedar Rapids and sometimes sold his blood plasma. While at the University of Iowa, he was approached by a model scout at The Airliner bar in Iowa City, Iowa, and entered the "Fresh Faces of Iowa" modeling competition. Placing first, he won a trip to New York City's International Modeling and Talent Association (IMTA) Convention. Leaving Iowa for a stay in New York City, Kutcher then returned to Cedar Rapids, before relocating to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: After participating in an IMTA competition in 1998, Kutcher signed with Next modeling agency in New York, appeared in commercials for Calvin Klein, and modelled in Paris and Milan.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Following his success in modeling, Kutcher moved to Los Angeles after his first audition. He was cast as Michael Kelso in the television series "That '70s Show", from 1998 to 2006. Kutcher was cast in a series of film roles; although he auditioned but was not cast for the role of Danny Walker in "Pearl Harbor" (2001) (replaced by Josh Hartnett), he starred in several comedy films, including "Dude, Where's My Car?" (2000), "Just Married" (2003), and "Guess Who" (2005). He appeared in the 2003 family film "Cheaper By The Dozen" as a self-obsessed actor. In the 2004 drama film "The Butterfly Effect", Kutcher played a conflicted young man who time travels. While the film received negative reviews, it was a box office success.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: In 2003, Kutcher produced and starred as the host in his own series, MTV's "Punk'd", that involved hidden camera tricks performed on celebrities. He is also an executive producer of the reality television shows "Beauty and the Geek", "Adventures in Hollyhood" (based around the rap group Three 6 Mafia), "The Real Wedding Crashers", and the game show "Opportunity Knocks". Many of his production credits, including "Punk'd", come through Katalyst Films, a production company he runs with partner Jason Goldberg. A 2004 interviewer described Kutcher as a "hunky young actor [who] is heading in all different directions at once", including "the hot L.A. restaurant Dolce":


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Because of scheduling conflicts with the filming of "The Guardian", Kutcher was unable to renew his contract for the eighth and final season of "That '70s Show", although he appeared in its first four episodes (credited as a special guest star) and returned for the series finale. Kutcher produced and starred in the 2010 action comedy, "Killers", in which he played a hitman. In May 2011, Kutcher was announced as Charlie Sheen's replacement on the series "Two and a Half Men".


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Kutcher's contract was for one year and was believed to be worth nearly $20 million. His debut as the character Walden Schmidt, entitled "Nice to Meet You, Walden Schmidt", was seen by 28.7 million people on September 19, 2011. The Nielsen ratings company reported that figure was more than any episode in the show's first eight seasons, when Sheen starred in it. Kutcher earned $750,000 an episode on the show. The show ended with a forty-minute series finale "Of Course He's Dead" on February 19, 2015.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Kutcher appeared as a guest Shark during the seventh season of reality TV show "Shark Tank", which premiered on September 25, 2015.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: In 2016, he appeared in the "Candy, Quahog Marshmallow" episode of "Family Guy". From 2016 to 2020, Kutcher co-starred in the Netflix series "The Ranch" alongside Danny Masterson, Elisha Cuthbert and Debra Winger, playing the role of Colt Bennett, the son of a Colorado rancher (Sam Elliott) returning home from a semi-pro football career to run the family business on the ranch. On April 30, 2022, it was announced that Kutcher would have a guest appearance in the follow-up sitcom, "That '90s Show".


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Beyond the entertainment world, Kutcher has invested in several high technology startups. Kutcher has invested in five startups : Neighborly, Zenreach, ResearchGate, Kopari Beauty, and most recently, Lemonade.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: He is a co-founder of the venture capital firm A-Grade Investments with Guy Oseary and Ron Burkle and fund manager Chris Hollod. Kutcher, Oseary & Burkle started by initially investing $30m of their own funds in 2010 when they founded the firm, by 2016 Forbes valued the firms holdings at $236m. At SXSW on March 14, 2015, Kutcher announced Sound Ventures, the successor to A-Grade Investments managing a fund backed by institutional funding.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: On October 29, 2013, Lenovo announced that it hired Kutcher as product engineer. Kutcher was part of the management team for Ooma, a tech start-up launched in September 2007. Ooma is in the Voice over Internet Protocol business and Kutcher's role was as Creative Director. He spearheaded a marketing campaign and produced viral videos to promote this service. Kutcher also created an interactive arm of Katalyst called Katalyst Media, with his partner from Katalyst Films, Jason Goldberg. Their first site was the animated cartoon "Blah Girls". Ooma revamped its sales and marketing strategy with a new management team in the summer of 2008, replacing Kutcher as their creative director. Rich Buchanan, from Sling Media, became Ooma's Chief Marketing Officer.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Kutcher has invested in an Italian restaurant called Dolce (other owners include Danny Masterson and Wilmer Valderrama) and a Japanese-themed restaurant named Geisha House with locations in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and New York City. Geisha House went out of business on June 1, 2013.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: In 2019 Ashton Kutcher, Mark Cuban, Steve Watts, and Watts' wife Angela, invested a 50% stake in Veldskoen shoes fledgling US business.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: In 2009, Kutcher established an international human rights organization with his then-wife Demi Moore. DNA Foundation, later known as Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children, works to address the sexual exploitation of children and the proliferation of child pornography on a global scale. On March 23, 2011, Kutcher launched his own Twitter client with UberMedia called A.plus. While the app was initially available exclusively for desktop computers with Adobe Air installed, it eventually became available on mobile platforms, for iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry. In order to download on one of the 3 mobile platforms, users must first have the UberSocial client installed on their device and then proceed to the device's browser to download A.plus.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: In 2013, Kutcher teamed up with Evan Beard and Kendall Dabaghi to launch A Plus, where Kutcher is chairman of the board. Initially a product discovery service, it morphed in April 2014 to a social media-driven content platform focused on upbeat stories. It was officially launched in that incarnation in January 2015. It has reported 27.5 million monthly uniques in the United States, has an Alexa rank of about 11787 (4019 in the US), and is ranked by Quantcast as a top-50 site in the US in terms of unique visitors.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: In 2022, Kutcher and his wife Mila Kunis started a gofundme page to help two online companies (Airbnb and Flexport) to aid refugees fleeing the violence in Ukraine perpetrated by Russia's military. They raised $34 million as of March 2022. These two organizations are on the ground helping people in Poland and Romania. The couple promised to match the funding. Kunis is a native of Ukraine.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Ashton Kutcher received widespread criticism for his appearance in a Popchips ad campaign in May 2012. The campaign featured Kutcher as an Indian man named Raj who was "looking for love" in a dating ad-style spoof. Kutcher's use of brown face paint and a stereotypical Indian accent received backlash from online viewers and members of the Indian-American community.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: In February 2001, Ashley Ellerin, whom Ashton Kutcher was dating at the time, was murdered. While never a suspect, Kutcher testified at the 2019 trial of serial killer Michael Gargiulo. He stated that on the night that Ellerin was murdered, he (Kutcher) had arrived to pick her up for a date, but that she had not answered the door. His information helped establish the time of death. Gargiulo was found guilty and sentenced to death on July 16, 2021, for her murder.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Kutcher and Demi Moore married on September 24, 2005. Six years later, on November 17, 2011, Moore announced her intention to end the marriage. After more than a year of separation, Kutcher filed for divorce from Moore on December 21, 2012, in Los Angeles Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences. The divorce was finalized on November 27, 2013.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Kutcher began dating his former "That '70s Show" co-star Mila Kunis during the first half of 2012. After they became engaged in February 2014, she gave birth to a daughter in October 2014. Kunis married Kutcher in July 2015. She gave birth to a son in November 2016. The family resides in a sustainable farmhouse, designed by the couple and architect Howard Backen, in Beverly Hills.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: In 2009, Kutcher described himself as a fiscal conservative and social liberal. He is a gun owner; however, he supports new gun laws to help stop mass shootings. Following the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, he said on Twitter "I've had a gun since I was 12 yrs old but enough is enough. I'm a hunter and a sportsman but nobody needs assault rifles. Let's pray. Then let's change the law."


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: On September 17, 2008, Kutcher was named the assistant coach for the freshman football team at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles. However, he was unable to return in 2009 because he was filming "Spread".


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: In February 2011, Kutcher sold his Hollywood Hills home, which he originally bought in 2004 for $1 million.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Kutcher grew up as a Roman Catholic. As an adult, he practices Kabbalah, and has visited Israel and studied the Torah; his wife Mila Kunis stated that he "taught [me] everything I never knew" about her religion, Judaism, though as of 2018, he has not converted. On trips to Israel, Kutcher visited Kabbalah centers in Tel Aviv and in Tsfat. In 2013, Kutcher remarked, "Israel is near and dear to my heart ... coming to Israel is sort of coming back to the source of creation – trying to get closer to that. And as a creative person, going to the source of creation is really inspiring. And this place has been really inspiring for me – not only on a spiritual level, but also on an artistic and creative level."


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: In April 2012, Kutcher became the 500th paying customer to sign up to ride Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: On November 6, 2022, Kutcher ran and completed the 2022 New York City Marathon on a warm day in 3:54:01.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: On April 16, 2009, Kutcher became the first Twitter user to reach more than 1 million followers, beating CNN in the site's "Million followers contest". However, there have been several reports that Twitter manipulated the contest's results by preventing users from "unfollowing" Kutcher or CNN.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: In November 2011, Kutcher received heavy criticism for his tweet in response to the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal, calling the firing of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno "in poor taste". Kutcher subsequently turned over management of his Twitter account to his team at the Katalyst Media company.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: On March 8, 2015, Kutcher sparked a national debate regarding the lack of equal access to diaper changing facilities in men's restrooms with this Facebook post: "There are NEVER diaper changing stations in public restrooms. The first public men's room that I go into that has one gets a free shout out on my FB page!"


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Kutcher has leveraged his social media presence, particularly on Facebook, to post and promote content published by A Plus, a social media-driven content platform and associated company of which he is the chairman.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: In April 2011, Kutcher and then-wife Demi Moore began a public service announcement campaign to end child sex trafficking. Kutcher claimed that 100,000 to 300,000 American children were sold into sexual slavery. The number was criticized by newspaper "The Village Voice". Kutcher and others including the "New York Times", CSPAN, and CNN used a peer-reviewed study referring to minors at risk for sexual exploitation. "The Village Voice", from their research, said it was only hundreds of children. Kutcher claimed the criticism by the "Village Voice" promoted child prostitution and used Twitter to request that "Village Voice" advertisers withdraw their advertising from publications owned by its parent company.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: In August 2022, Kutcher revealed that two years earlier he had been diagnosed with vasculitis, which had impaired his hearing, vision, and mobility during the course of a year.


title: Ashton Kutcher

text: Since he started acting, Kutcher has been nominated by the Teen Choice Awards the most. He has also won awards for his romantic comedies "A Lot like Love," "What Happens in Vegas" and "No Strings Attached." In 1999, he was nominated by the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series by a Supporting Young Actor as Michael Kelso in "That '70s Show". He has also been nominated by the Kid's Choice Awards, MTV Movie Awards, People's Choice Awards, and the Golden Raspberry Awards.


title: Uma Thurman

text: Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29, 1970) is an American actress and former model. She has performed in a variety of films, from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action films. Following her appearances on the December 1985 and May 1986 covers of British "Vogue", Thurman starred in "Dangerous Liaisons" (1988). She rose to international prominence with her performance as Mia Wallace in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film "Pulp Fiction", for which she was nominated for the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Often hailed as Tarantino's muse, she reunited with the director to play the main role in "" and "" (2003, 2004), which brought her two additional Golden Globe Award nominations.


title: Uma Thurman

text: Established as a Hollywood actress, Thurman's other notable films include "Henry & June" (1990), "The Truth About Cats & Dogs" (1996), "Batman & Robin" (1997), "Gattaca" (1997), "Les Misérables" (1998), "Paycheck" (2003), "The Producers" (2005), "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" (2006), "" (2010), Lars von Trier's "Nymphomaniac" (2013) and "The House That Jack Built" (2018), and "Hollywood Stargirl" (2022). In 2011, she was a member of the jury for the main competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, and in 2017, she was named president of the 70th edition's "Un Certain Regard" jury. Thurman made her Broadway debut in "The Parisian Woman" (2017–2018).


title: Uma Thurman

text: Thurman won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Film for her performance in the made-for-HBO film "Hysterical Blindness" (2002) and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her five-episode role in the NBC musical series "Smash" (2012). She has also starred in the miniseries "The Slap" (2015) and the series "Imposters" (2017–2018), "Chambers" (2019) and "Super Pumped" (2022).


title: Uma Thurman

text: Uma Karuna Thurman was born on April 29, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father, Robert Thurman, is a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies and an author, who lived as an ordained Buddhist monk for three years. Her mother, Nena von Schlebrügge, a high-fashion model, was born in Mexico City to a German nobleman and a Swedish model.


title: Uma Thurman

text: Thurman received a Buddhist upbringing, and spent altogether around two years in Almora, a town in the Northern-Indian state of Uttarakhand. She grew up mostly in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she went to Amherst Regional Junior High School, then moved to Woodstock, New York. She has three brothers, Ganden (b. 1967), Dechen Karl (b. 1973), and Mipam (b. 1978), and a half-sister named Taya (b. 1961), from her father's previous marriage. Thurman's first cousin once removed is Swedish football player Max von Schlebrügge.


title: Uma Thurman

text: She is described, in a 2004 biography, as having been an awkward and introverted girl who was teased for her appearance and unusual name (sometimes using the name "Uma Karen" instead of her birth name). When Thurman was ten years old, a friend's mother suggested a nose job. As a child, she suffered bouts of body dysmorphic disorder. She attended Amherst Public Schools, where in eighth grade she discovered her love of acting. At age 14 she attended Northfield Mount Hermon School, a preparatory school in Massachusetts, where talent scouts noticed her performance as Abigail in a production of "The Crucible" and offered her the chance to act professionally; she then dropping out to pursue an acting career.


title: Uma Thurman

text: Thurman began her career as a fashion model at age 15, and signed with the agency Click Models. Her early modeling credits included "Glamour" and the December 1985 and May 1986 covers of British "Vogue". She made the transition to acting with her film debut, the teen thriller "Kiss Daddy Goodnight", which was released in 1987. Thurman was subsequently cast in three 1988 films — "Johnny Be Good", "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and most notably, "Dangerous Liaisons". In the comedy "Johnny Be Good", she played the girlfriend of a top high school quarterback prospect, and in "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", she made a brief appearance as the goddess Venus; during her entrance she briefly appears nude, in an homage to Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus". In the Oscar-winning drama "Dangerous Liaisons", co-starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich, Thurman took on the role of a naive teenager, raped by a manipulative man. The picture was an arthouse success, and garnered Thurman recognition from critics and audiences; film critic Roger Ebert found her to be "well cast" in her "tricky" key role. At the time, insecure about her appearance, she spent roughly a year in London, during which she often wore loose, baggy clothing. Malkovich said of her, "There is nothing twitchy teenager-ish about her, I haven't met anyone like her at that age. Her intelligence and poise stand out. But there's something else. She's more than a little haunted."


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text: In 1990, Thurman appeared with Fred Ward and Maria de Medeiros in "Henry & June", a sexually provocative drama about the relationship and affairs between writer Henry Miller and his wife June Miller in 1931 Paris. This film was the first to receive an NC-17 rating and partly because many American newspapers refused to advertise films with the new rating, it did not get wide release in the United States. However, it won Thurman good notices; "The New York Times" wrote: "Thurman, as the Brooklyn-accented June, takes a larger-than-life character and makes her even bigger, though the performance is often as curious as it is commanding." After playing Maid Marian in the 1991 British adventure film "Robin Hood", Thurman began filming "Dylan Thomas", a biopic on Welsh poet Dylan Thomas starring her then-husband Gary Oldman with herself as Caitlin Thomas, however the project was shut down shortly after filming began. Thurman went on to star as the patient of a San Francisco psychiatrist in the neo-noir drama "Final Analysis" (1992), opposite Richard Gere and Kim Basinger, and as a blind woman romantically involved with a former policeman in the thriller "Jennifer 8" (also 1992), with Andy García.


title: Uma Thurman

text: Thurman portrayed a young woman with unusually big thumbs in Gus Van Sant's 1993 adaptation of Tom Robbins' novel "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". The film was a critical and commercial failure, eventually earning Thurman a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Actress. "The Washington Post" described her acting as shallow and remarked: "Thurman's strangely passive characterization doesn't go much deeper than drawling and flexing her prosthetic thumbs". Also in 1993, she starred as a waitress opposite Robert De Niro and Bill Murray in the drama "Mad Dog and Glory" and auditioned for Stanley Kubrick while he was casting for his eventually unrealized adaptation of the novel "Wartime Lies".


title: Uma Thurman

text: In Quentin Tarantino's neo-noir black comedy "Pulp Fiction" (1994), Thurman played Mia Wallace, the wife of a Los Angeles mobster. Several actresses were considered for the role, but Tarantino wanted Thurman after their first meeting. The film grossed $213.9 million worldwide and received widespread acclaim, appearing on many critics' lists of the greatest films ever made. She dominated most of the movie's promotional material; Mia is considered one of the most iconic female film characters of the 1990s. "The Washington Post" asserted that Thurman was "serenely unrecognizable in a black wig, [and] is marvelous as a zoned-out gangster's girlfriend". For her performance, Thurman was nominated for the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and launched into the celebrity A-list. She took little advantage of her new-found fame by choosing not to do any big-budget films for the next three years. In a 2003 interview with "Time" magazine, Tarantino, who considers Thurman his muse, remarked that she was "up there with Garbo and Dietrich in goddess territory".


title: Uma Thurman

text: Thurman's next films, the romantic dramedy "Beautiful Girls", in which she played a fairly wise love interest, and the comedy "The Truth About Cats & Dogs", in which she top-billed as a ditzy blonde model, were modest commercial successes amid a positive critical response upon their theatrical releases in 1996. In 1997, Thurman starred opposite Ethan Hawke in "Gattaca", a science fiction film set in a future society driven by eugenics where potential children are conceived through genetic manipulation. The film received critical praise and became successful on the home video market, despite lackluster box office receipts. Her next film role was that of supervillain Poison Ivy in "Batman & Robin" (1997). Budgeted at $160 million, the film grossed a modest $238 million worldwide and is often considered to be one of the worst films ever made. Thurman's performance, however, was largely highlighted upon the film's release; the "Houston Chronicle" remarked that "Thurman [...] sometimes seems to be doing Mae West by way of Jessica Rabbit", and a similar comparison was made by "The New York Times": "[L]ike Mae West, she mixes true femininity with the winking womanliness of a drag queen". She obtained a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Best Sci-fi Actress and was also nominated for Favourite Movie Actress at the Kids' Choice Awards.


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text: Thurman took on the role of Fantine in "Les Misérables", the 1998 film version of Victor Hugo's novel of the same name, directed by Bille August. The film was considered an "intelligent, handsomely crafted adaptation" of the classic novel, according to Rotten Tomatoes, and on his review of the film, Roger Ebert expressed that "Thurman's performance is the best element" of the story. That year, she also starred as a British secret agent in "The Avengers", a notable financial and critical flop; CNN described her as "so distanced you feel like you're watching her through the wrong end of a telescope". In 1999, she performed in theater in an update of Molière's "The Misanthrope" at the Classic Stage Company, and portrayed a socialite in Woody Allen's romantic dramedy "Sweet and Lowdown", opposite Sean Penn. Thurman was in a hiatus from acting at the time as she had her daughter in 1998, doing only a few small, low-budget projects after giving birth; she eventually turned down the role of Éowyn in Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy, which she considers "one of the worst decisions [she] ever made".


title: Uma Thurman

text: Thurman headlined the period drama "The Golden Bowl" (2000), based on the 1904 novel of the same name by Henry James. In November 2000, she narrated the John Moran opera "Book of the Dead (2nd Avenue)" at The Public Theater. The historical drama "Vatel" (2000) saw Thurman play Anne de Montausier, the love interest of 17th-century French chef François Vatel, and in Richard Linklater's real-time drama "Tape" (2001), she starred as the former girlfriend of a drug dealer and volunteer firefighter (Ethan Hawke). She was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for her part in "Tape". Hawke directed her in "Chelsea Walls" (2001), a drama revolving a number of artists as they spend a single day in New York's famed bohemian home Chelsea Hotel. Thurman would win a Golden Globe for her performance in the HBO cable film "Hysterical Blindness" (2002), where she was also one of the executive producers. Thurman played a New Jersey woman in the 1980s searching for romance. In its review, the "San Francisco Chronicle" remarked: "Thurman so commits herself to the role, eyes blazing and body akimbo, that you start to believe that such a creature could exist—an exquisite-looking woman so spastic and needy that she repulses regular Joes. Thurman has bent the role to her will."


title: Uma Thurman

text: Thurman reunited with Quentin Tarantino for the two-part martial arts action film "Kill Bill" (2003–2004), portraying assassin Beatrix Kiddo, out for revenge against her former lover. Tarantino wrote the part specifically for her. He cited Thurman as his muse while writing the film, and gave her joint credit for the character, whom the two conceived on the set of "Pulp Fiction" from the sole image of a bride covered in blood. Thurman's main inspiration for the role was the title character of "Coffy" (played by Pam Grier) and the character of Gloria Swenson from "Gloria" (played by Gena Rowlands). She said that both of them are "two of the only women I've ever seen be truly women [while] holding a weapon". Production was delayed for several months after Thurman became pregnant and Tarantino refused to recast the part. The film took nine months to shoot, and was filmed in five different countries. The role was also her most demanding, and she spent three months training in martial arts, swordsmanship, and Japanese. "Kill Bill" was originally set to be released as one film, however, due to its long running time, it was ultimately released in two parts. Both volumes scored highly with critics and audiences, subsequently developing a cult following. "Rolling Stone" likened Thurman to "an avenging angel out of a 1940s Hollywood melodrama". She was nominated for two Golden Globes for both entries, plus three MTV Movie Awards for Best Female Performance and two for Best Fight.


title: Uma Thurman

text: By 2005, Thurman had a reported asking price of $12.5 million per film. Besides the children's film "", in which Thurman had a cameo, she had three other major film releases throughout 2005. Her first film in the year was the crime-comedy "Be Cool", the sequel to 1995's "Get Shorty", which reunited her with her "Pulp Fiction" co-star John Travolta. Despite a lukewarm critical reception, the film grossed $95 million. She next starred in the romantic comedy "Prime" with Meryl Streep, playing a divorced and lonesome business-woman who enters a relationship with a much younger man (Bryan Greenberg). A modest mainstream success, it eventually grossed $67.9 million internationally. In the remake "The Producers" (her last 2005 film), Thurman played Ulla, a Swedish stage actress hoping to win a part in a new Broadway musical. The producers of the film originally planned to have another singer dub in her musical numbers, but Thurman was eager to do her own vocals; she is credited for her songs in the film. While box office receipts were modest, Thurman garnered acclaim from critics; A. O. Scott of "The New York Times" stated: "Thurman as a would-be actress is the one bit of genuine radiance in this aggressively and pointlessly shiny, noisy spectacle."


title: Uma Thurman

text: In 2006, Thurman starred opposite Luke Wilson in "My Super Ex-Girlfriend", playing a superhero who is dumped by her boyfriend and then takes her revenge upon him. She received $14 million for the role, but the film was panned by critics and made a modest $61 million worldwide. "Entertainment Weekly" felt that it was a "miscalculation to make Thurman the antagonist. She does a sprightly satiric turn, but [it is] wasted in a movie that would rather tweak male paranoia than liberate a nerdette terrified of her powers". In the 2007 film "The Life Before Her Eyes", Thurman starred as an accident survivor whose guilt causes her present-day life to fall apart. It received a limited theatrical release and was dismissed by critics as "a confusing, painfully overwrought melodrama".


title: Uma Thurman

text: In 2008, Thurman starred with Colin Firth and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in "The Accidental Husband", a romantic comedy where she played a woman who finds herself married while engaged to another man. Despite theatrical runs abroad, the film was released on DVD in North America due to financial problems with its distributor. She also took on the role of a cocaine addict in the British television drama "My Zinc Bed", which garnered what was considered poor ratings, especially given her involvement.


title: Uma Thurman

text: In 2009's "Motherhood", she starred as a New York City mother whose dilemmas of marriage, work, and self are shown in the trials and tribulations of one pivotal day. "I've never really played a realistic mom before," she said. Distributed for a limited release to certain parts of the United States only, the independent dramedy garnered just $93,388 in three weeks of release. "The New York Times" critic A. O. Scott felt that Thurman's character is "scattered, ambivalent, flaky and inconsistent—all of which is fine, and energetically conveyed by Ms. Thurman. But what are tolerable quirks in a person can be deadly to a narrative [...] the movie stumbles from loose and scruffy naturalism to sitcom tidiness". Thurman filmed a brief role in the fantasy adaptation "" (2010), appearing as Medusa, a gorgon cursed by Athena.


title: Uma Thurman

text: In 2011, she was a member of the jury for the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and her only film in the year—"Ceremony"—was released for VOD and selected theaters after its initial screening at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. In the independent comedy, she starred as woman on the eve of her wedding who re-connects with an old fling (played by Michael Angarano). By that time, she had taken on the roles of a powerful and wealthy mistress in the period drama "Bel Ami" (2012), a trophy wife in the romantic comedy "Playing for Keeps" (2012), and that of Lois Lane in a segment of the anthology film "Movie 43" (2013); all films were panned by critics and flopped at the box office. Writing for the "New York Daily News" in her review for "Ceremony", Elizabeth Weitzman noted: "She gets stuck in so many small, undeserving projects, one has to wonder who's mapping out her career".


title: Uma Thurman

text: Thurman ventured into television in 2012, when she joined the cast of the drama series "Smash" in its first season, portraying the five-episode role of Rebecca Duvall, a Hollywood actress who wants to star in a new Broadway musical, despite having limited musical ability. Her performance garnered critical acclaim, with "The A.V. Club" writing: "Uma Thurman is a lot of fun. She gives that character some pop, playing both the shallow, demanding side of celebrity [...] and the sincere, talented side [...]". She earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.


title: Uma Thurman

text: Thurman appeared in the "Volume I" of Lars von Trier's two-part ensemble art drama "Nymphomaniac" (2013) as Mrs. H, a rejected wife who confronts her estranged husband. Despite her limited screen time in the film, "Rolling Stone" remarked that she was "sensational" in a role that defies "[von Trier]'s mixed feelings about female power", while "Vanity Fair" found her to be "downright terrific", noting that she "lends the character [...] a good deal of dignity". For her part, she received a Bodil Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and in 2014, she won the BAMBI Award for Best International Actress.


title: Uma Thurman

text: In 2015, Thurman starred on the NBC miniseries "The Slap", the American adaptation of the Australian series of the same name about the fallout after a man slaps another couple's misbehaving child, and played a famed restaurant critic named Simone in the drama "Burnt", starring Bradley Cooper. In 2017, Thurman took on the recurring role of a fixer on the Bravo dark comedy series "Imposters", which ran for two seasons, and was named president of Cannes Film Festival "Un Certain Regard" jury for "works which offer a unique perspective and aesthetic".


title: Uma Thurman

text: Thurman made her Broadway debut in "The Parisian Woman", a play written by Beau Willimon. Set in Washington, D.C., the production saw her star as a socialite coming to terms with politics, her past, her marriage and an uncertain future. The play ran for 141 performances, including previews, between November 2017 and March 2018, garnering a mixed critical response and what was described as "strong" box-office returns by "Playbill". "The New York Times" remarked: "Unlike many actors whose expertise derives from movies, [Thurman] has no trouble fully inhabiting, and projecting, even a jury-rigged character like [hers]. Her intelligence and, it has to be said, her innate glamour, make it possible to care about someone you do not believe in". For her role, she won the Broadway.com Audience Award for Favorite Leading Actress in a Play.


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text: "The Con Is On", an independent heist comedy Thurman filmed in 2015, opposite Tim Roth, was released on May 4, 2018. Both actors played a con-artist couple planning a jewel heist in Los Angeles, after escaping from a notorious Russian gangster. She reunited with director Lars von Trier to play the first victim of a serial killer during the 1980s in his psychological horror film "The House That Jack Built", which premiered on May 14, 2018, at the Cannes Film Festival. In her next film, the supernatural thriller "Down a Dark Hall" (2018), directed by Rodrigo Cortés, Uma portrayed the role of Madame Duret, the eccentric headmistress of a mysterious school for troubled girls. In its review for the latter film, "Variety" noted that she "cuts an elegant figure [...] but her somewhat unconvincing villain could have used more notes of mystery and wit".


title: Uma Thurman

text: Thurman played a grieving mother in the Netflix supernatural horror series "Chambers", which was released on April 26, 2019. Alex McLevy, for " The A.V. Club", felt that she sold "the hell out of [her] often absurd role", which he found to be "over-written", as part of an overall mixed response. In 2019, Thurman also received a career honorary award at the David di Donatello Film Awards in Italy, and performed the role of Helene Alving in a revival of Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.


title: Uma Thurman

text: Thurman reunited with Robert DeNiro, her co-star in "Mad Dog and Glory", for the family comedy "The War with Grandpa", in which she portrayed the daughter of his recently widowed character. Originally filmed in May 2017, the film had a lengthy post-production due to the closure of The Weinstein Company, the original distributor, but was eventually released theatrically in North America on October 9, 2020, by 101 Studios. Despite negative reviews, "The War with Grandpa" made US$40 million worldwide, which was deemed a success amid the COVID-19 pandemic. She served as the narrator of "The Age of Nature", a three-part documentary series, which aired on PBS in October 2020.


title: Uma Thurman

text: The Apple TV+ thriller series "Suspicion", which premiered on February 4, 2022, featured Thurman as an American media mogul whose son is kidnapped. The production received mixed reviews from critics, who collectively noted that she "was barely in it at all", despite being heavily promoted. She next portrayed Arianna Huffington, the co-founder of "The Huffington Post", in "The Battle For Uber", the first season of "Super Pumped", an anthology drama television series created by Brian Koppelman and David Levien, which debuted on Showtime on February 27, 2022. While Bryan Lowry of "CNN" praised Thurman's efforts at a Greek accent, Adrian Horton of "The Guardian" described her portrayal as "a cringey caricature" of Huffington. Thurman made a return to film, starring as Roxanne Martel in the Disney+ original film "Hollywood Stargirl", which was released on June 3, 2022, on the streaming platform.


title: Uma Thurman

text: She is currently filming a role as an art dealer in the upcoming crime thriller "The Kill Room" alongside "Pulp Fiction" co-star Samuel L. Jackson. In June 2022, it was announced she would portray fictional US president Ellen Claremont in the Amazon Prime romantic-comedy film "Red White & Royal Blue". Later that same month, it was confirmed that she joined the cast of the sequel to "The Old Guard" alongside Charlize Theron.


title: Uma Thurman

text: "Empire" included Thurman among "The 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History" in 1995 as well as "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" in 1997. A regular feature on "FHM"s "100 Sexiest Women in the World" from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, she also ranked at No. 34, No. 21 and No. 30 on the "Maxim" Hot 100 in 2004, 2005 and 2006 respectively. In 2013, Thurman was named one of the "100 Hottest Women of the 21st Century" by "GQ".


title: Uma Thurman

text: On February 7, 2006, Thurman was awarded and named a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France for outstanding achievement in the field of art and literature, and for her work and importance as an actress.


title: Uma Thurman

text: The American rock band Fall Out Boy released a song titled "Uma Thurman" in 2015, celebrating the actress and her roles in "Pulp Fiction" and "Kill Bill". She gave permission for the band to use her name, and during an interview on the "Today Show", stated: "It's very, like unbelievably polite and gracious of them. So sweet. I'm so happy for their big success".


title: Uma Thurman

text: In 2020, scientists named a new species of fringe-toed lizard from southwest Arizona ("Uma thurmanae") after Thurman.


title: Uma Thurman

text: The lavender Prada dress Thurman wore to the 67th Academy Awards on March 27, 1995, was admired by the media. Stylecaster.com stated that, as a result, "Thurman became known for her stellar fashion sense, while Prada got a huge boost from instant name recognition the world over." Similarly, her crimson Alberta Ferretti dress at the 72nd Academy Awards on March 26, 2000, remains among her most notable, with "The Daily Telegraph" voting it the 20th greatest red carpet gown of all time. Thurman has been a face and spokeswoman of Lancôme, TAG Heuer, Louis Vuitton, and Parfums Givenchy. She posed for the 2014 Campari Calendar and was among the actresses photographed by Peter Lindbergh for the 2017 Pirelli Calendar.


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text: Thurman met English actor Gary Oldman on the set of "State of Grace"; they married in 1990 and divorced in 1992. On May 1, 1998, she married American actor Ethan Hawke, whom she met on the set of the 1997 film "Gattaca". Hawke's novel "Ash Wednesday" is dedicated to "Karuna", Thurman's middle name. Together, Thurman and Hawke have two children, a daughter, Maya (born in 1998), and a son, Levon (born in 2002). The couple separated in 2003, and the divorce was finalized in August 2005.


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text: Thurman began dating Las Vegas based grandson Douglas Warner of Warner Brothers Estate. Arpad Busson in 2007, and they announced their engagement in June 2008. In late 2009, they called off their engagement, but reconciled soon after. The couple called off the engagement for the second time in April 2014. Thurman and Busson have a daughter, Luna Thurman-Busson, born in July 2012. In January 2017, Thurman and Busson began child custody negotiations in relation to their daughter, which resulted in Thurman receiving primary physical custody later that month.


title: Uma Thurman

text: Thurman was the target of a stalker, Jack Jordan, from about 2004 to 2011. He was arrested in October 2007 and, following a trial in which Thurman testified as a witness, was convicted of stalking and harassment charges the following May. Sentenced to three years' probation, Jordan was arrested again in 2010 on charges of violating a restraining order by attempting to contact her. He pleaded guilty in November 2011 after spending 11 months in jail in lieu of bail, and was released with time served.


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text: In 2017, in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations, Thurman was interviewed, and, when asked about the scandal, she replied, "no comment," stating she was too angry to talk about the case. A few weeks later, through an Instagram post, she joined the "Me Too" hashtag, confirming that she had suffered sexual harassment and expressing disgust for Harvey Weinstein. In a 2018 interview with "The New York Times", Thurman revealed that Weinstein had sexually assaulted her in 1994 at the Savoy Hotel in London. She also revealed that she had been sexually assaulted at age 16 by an actor nearly 20 years her senior.


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text: In the same 2018 "New York Times" interview, Thurman described how she had been in a serious car accident back in 2003 on the set of "Kill Bill", because Tarantino had insisted she perform her own driving stunts. Two weeks after the crash, she tried to see footage of the incident. Thurman stated that Miramax would only agree to show her the footage if she signed a contract "releasing them of any consequences of my future pain and suffering", which she refused. As a result of the crash, she sustained permanent injuries to her neck and knees. Tarantino later called this incident "the biggest regret of his life". Thurman later clarified on Instagram that Tarantino had apologized to her for the incident and that she has since forgiven him, being open to working with him again.


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text: Thurman has been involved in various philanthropic and activist causes. She is a supporter of the Democratic Party, and has given money to the campaigns of John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Joseph R. Driscoll. She supports gun control laws, and in 2000 participated in "Marie Claire"s "End Gun Violence Now" campaign. She is a member of the board of Room to Grow, a charitable organization providing aid to families and children suffering poverty. She serves on the board of the Tibet House US. In 2007, she hosted the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway, with actor Kevin Spacey.


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text: In February 2008, ahead of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, Thurman talked about human rights in China alongside Steven Spielberg and others, describing actions and policies carried out by the government of China as "horrible" and "unspeakable crimes against humanity".


title: Uma Thurman

text: In 2011, Thurman was one of several celebrities associated with the USAID and Ad Council's FWD campaign, an awareness initiative tied to that year's East Africa drought. She joined Geena Davis, Chanel Iman and Josh Hartnett in TV and internet ads to "forward the facts" about the crisis. During the same year, she also participated at Human Rights Campaign for LGBT civil rights, saying "We're fighting for a conservative value: the right to make a lifelong commitment to someone you love". In 2015, Thurman joined "Rhino Rescue Project" and traveled to Southern Africa to assist and help relocate the threatened species of black rhinoceros; being in close contact with rhinos, Thurman defined her experience with those animals to be "spiritual, surreal".


title: Uma Thurman

text: In December 2017, during the allegations of sexual misconduct against Roy Moore, Thurman voiced her disapproval of his candidacy in the United States Senate special election in Alabama.


title: Uma Thurman

text: In September 2021, Thurman wrote an op-ed in "The Washington Post" criticizing the Texas Heartbeat Act, an abortion ban that went into effect earlier that month. She called the law a "human rights crisis for American women", and discussed her experience of having an abortion as a teenager after being "accidentally impregnated by a much older man." She described the abortion as "the hardest decision of my life," but maintained that it "allowed me to grow up and become the mother I wanted and needed to be."


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Pushpa: The Rise – Part 01 is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language action drama film written and directed by Sukumar. It stars Allu Arjun as the titular character alongside Fahadh Faasil (his Telugu debut), and Rashmika Mandanna while Jagadeesh Prathap Bandari, Sunil, Rao Ramesh, Dhananjaya, Anasuya Bharadwaj, Ajay and Ajay Ghosh play supporting roles. It is produced by Mythri Movie Makers in association with Muttamsetty Media. The first of two cinematic parts, the film depicts the rise of a low wage laborer in the smuggling syndicate of red sandalwood, a rare wood that grows only in the Seshachalam Hills of Andhra Pradesh state.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Devi Sri Prasad composed the film's score and soundtrack while the cinematography and editing are performed by Miroslaw Kuba Brozek and Karthika Srinivas–Ruben respectively. The film began its production in December 2019 but was halted in March 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming resumed in November 2020 and ended in November 2021, predominantly taking place at the Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad and Maredumilli forest in Andhra Pradesh.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: "Pushpa: The Rise" was released on 17 December 2021. The film received generally mixed reviews from critics who praised the performances (particularly of Allu Arjun, Sunil and Fahadh Faasil), action sequences, cinematography, direction, and soundtrack but criticised the runtime and editing. The film was commercially successful, grossing – crore at the box office. The film emerged as the highest-grossing Indian film in 2021, and ranks among the highest-grossing Telugu films of all time.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: In the 1990, Pushpa Raj, a laborer, decides to smuggle red sandalwood, a rare wood in high demand that only grows in the Seshachalam Hills of the Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh with his friend sidekick Keshava. When DSP Govindappa and his team raid the forest for apprehending the coolies and seize the stock, Pushpa hides it, gets arrested and brutally beaten for revealing the location of wood. Pushpa's employer, smuggler Konda Reddy and his brothers bail Pushpa out for the stock's location and he eventually rises through the ranks by suggesting novel ideas to smuggle the stock earning Konda Reddy's trust and becoming his 5% partner, while also simultaneously receiving hatred from Konda Reddy's youngest brother Jolly Reddy.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Known for his cruelty and oppression, Managalam Srinu, Konda Reddy's boss and a big criminal, manages the syndicate and entrusts Konda Reddy to keep 200 tons of his contraband safe from the Police Department. As Jolly Reddy is deemed incompetent for task, Pushpa is assigned to do the same. Jolly Reddy intentionally delays the export of wood putting Pushpa in a perplexed condition as Govindappa is about to raid the place. Pushpa throws all the logs into a nearby river while Keshava bribes the chief engineer of the neighboring dam to close its gates preventing the logs from flowing and Govindappa gains nothing with the raid for second time. Srinu hosts a party on this occasion and during the festivity, Pushpa overhears the conversation of two people discussing Srinu's scams and realizes that he sells wood at much higher price than what they are paid. He informs it to Konda Reddy suggesting him to demand a fair share from Srinu but gives up when going against a highly influential Srinu seems risky.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Meanwhile, Pushpa falls in love with a brave and outspoken milk seller Srivalli, who is the daughter of a coolie Muniratnam, who is also indulged in smuggling like Pushpa and eventually, an engagement is arranged for them. During the ceremony, Pushpa's elder half-brother Mohan creates a scene, condemns Pushpa for using their father's name to fix his marriage with Srivalli as Pushpa was born out of wedlock to Pushpa's father and mother Parvatamma, who is not legally married. During the scuffle, Parvatamma is wounded and her miseries motivate Pushpa to make himself, an influential personality. He smuggles the wood directly to Chennai bypassing Srinu and later meets the latter demanding a higher price than what is paid but when rejected and ordered to be beaten, Pushpa revolts, goes to Chennai and cuts deal with the customer Murugan for 1.5 crores per tonne which Konda Reddy and Pushpa agree to share equally. Govindappa detains Muniratnam while smuggling the wood and threatens him to be a mole. Jolly Reddy, who lusts for Srivalli learns about Muniratnam's deceit and blackmails Srivalli to sleep with him in exchange of her father's freedom, holding him captive.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Srivalli reveals about this to Pushpa, who furiously beats Jolly Reddy black and blue putting him in a paralyzed state. When Jolly Reddy refuses to reveal about the person behind his condition to his brothers as he wants it to be avenged by himself, Konda Reddy, himself finds that Pushpa is responsible for it. He attempts to murder Pushpa but Srinu's men led by his brother-in-law Mogileesu attack them and assassinate Konda Reddy. Pushpa rescues Konda Reddy's younger brother Jakka Reddy rekindling their friendship and murders Mogileesu. MP Bhumireddy Siddappa Naidu arranges a truce between Pushpa and Srinu and after discovering about the latter's scams, he appoints Pushpa to replace Srinu. As time pass by, Pushpa becomes an influential person while Srinu's wife Dakshayani injures Srinu berating his inability.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: While Pushpa is at his prime, Bhanwar Singh Shekawat, a ruthless Police official takes charge as the district's SP. Pushpa offers a bribe to Bhanwar for cooperation but the latter ridicules Pushpa for his parents' story and his motives for that are to make Pushpa call him "sir". After this incident, Pushpa turns meek and submissive towards Bhanwar, who regularly receives bribes from him. Pushpa, on the day of his marriage spends partying with Bhanwar alone where he converses about the past incident and Bhanwar's humiliating conduct. Pushpa seizes Bhanwar's gun and forces him to be semi-naked while he also does the same, intending to explain that he is the same without clothes while Bhanwar is nothing without his uniform and even his pet dog would not identify him. Pushpa leaves to wed Srivalli while an insulted Bhanwar walks home, semi-naked and as said earlier, his pet fails to identify him without uniform. Enraged, Bhanwar kills his pet and burns the bribe sent by Pushpa, swearing revenge while Pushpa marries Srivalli, telling the latter that the actual story has begun.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Post the success of "Rangasthalam" (2018), Sukumar narrated a script to Mahesh Babu, with whom he previously worked in "" (2014). Babu, who liked the story, gave a nod to the project, and was reported to start the shoot after completing Vamshi Paidipally's project "Maharshi" (2019). In mid-April 2019, Mythri Movie Makers, which collaborated with Sukumar in their previous film "Rangasthalam", officially announced the project which was tentatively titled as "#SSMB26", thus marking their second collaboration with Babu and Sukumar. The film was expected to begin in January 2019, but, in that March, Babu walked out of Sukumar's project citing creative differences, and he confirmed this through Twitter. The actor instead signed his next project with Anil Ravipudi titled as "Sarileru Neekevvaru", whereas Sukumar approached Allu Arjun for his next marking his reunion with the director after a decade since "Arya 2" (2009), Mythri Movie Makers which earlier associated with Babu and Sukumar's project also agreed to produce the venture.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Sukamar narrated Babu a story based on red-sanders. However, once the project was shelved, he came up with a different storyline on red sanders for Allu Arjun. Speaking with "Press Trust of India", Sukumar said: "with Mahesh Babu, I couldn’t make him cool. He is very fair. So, the backdrop was the same but the story is different."


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Sukumar described the storyline as, "the red sanders heist in the hills of Andhra is a convoluted nexus that unfurls in the course of the narrative through a coolie-turned-smuggler." Sukumar explored the subject of red sandalwood smuggling when he read about such incidents in Andhra Pradesh years ago. Sukumar did his research and thought of developing the project as a web series. However, he later decided to make it as a feature film. He personally went for location scouting across Nallamala Forest as the film is set in Rayalaseema and Nellore and the plot revolves around red sanders smuggling. Since most of the film takes place in a rural backdrop, Allu Arjun was reported to master Chittoor accent for the film, and the makers hired a team from Bollywood to work on his look. The story was set against the backdrop of Seshachalam forest, located in the hilly region of Tirumala. Polish cinematographer Miroslaw Kuba Brozek, who worked for "Nani's Gangleader" (2019) was signed for the film. Karthika Srinivas is performing the film's editing, whereas Mounika and Ramakrishna, the art directors of Sukumar's previous film "Rangasthalam" (2018) were chosen for production design. Resul Pookutty is signed for the film's sound design, along with Vijay Kumar. The film's title "Pushpa" was officially announced on 8 April 2020, on the occasion of Allu Arjun's birthday and a poster was also released.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Allu Arjun played the titular character Pushpa Raj, a red-sanders smuggler, and sported a bearded look for his role in the film. Rashmika Mandanna was cast as the film's lead actress, with an official announcement made on Allu Arjun's birthday (8 April 2019). Mandanna in an online interaction confirmed that she will be learning a new dialect for the film, which is slightly based on the accent of Chittoor. Jisshu Sengupta was originally offered to play the antagonist but he refused due to pandemic and time constraint. Vijay Sethupathi entered in talks to play the antagonist in October 2019, after working with Sukumar in the director's production venture "Uppena" (2021), and was confirmed to be part of the film in January 2020. However, in July 2020, Sethupathi left the film citing scheduling conflicts. Post Sethupathi's exit, Vikram, Bobby Simha, Madhavan and Arya were reported to play negative roles in the film, but Malayalam actor Fahadh Faasil was announced as the film's antagonist in March 2021, . For his role in the film, Fahadh sported a bald look and a rough moustache.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Kannada actor Dhananjaya was reported to play a pivotal role in April 2020. Jagapathi Babu and Prakash Raj were signed to play key roles in the film. In November 2020, Sunil was cast in a supporting role and was present in the film's second schedule along with Harish Uthaman, and Vennela Kishore. Sunil's character was reported to have grey shades in the film. Though it was reported that Anasuya Bharadwaj was playing a crucial role, she later clarified that she wasn't approached for the film. However, Bharadwaj joined the film shooting in April 2021. In July 2021, Sritej confirmed that he was cast in the role of Pushpa Raj's brother. The film had three antagonists, with Sunil and Anasuya, being the antagonists in the first part, while Fahadh's character, Bhanwar Singh Shekhawat, the main antagonist, will appear only at the end of the first part and will continue throughout its sequel. Jagadeesh was cast by Sukumar after watching his performances in the films "Mallesham" (2019) and "George Reddy" (2019). In an interview, Jagadeesh Prathap Bandari revealed that he has left 15 smaller projects for working in the film. Samantha joined the production in late-November 2021. She has shot for the item song ""Oo Antava Oo Oo Antava"" alongside Allu Arjun and others. On working in the song, she said that "being sexy is next level hard work".


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: In July 2019, the makers planned to start the filming during the occasion of Dusshera (7 October 2019). However, the launch event of the film took place on 30 October 2019, with a formal "puja" ceremony held in Hyderabad at the office of Mythri Movie Makers, with the film's cast and crew being present at the event. In December 2019, Sukumar performed a test shoot in Kerala's Athirappilly Falls. After Allu Arjun's involvement in the promotions of "Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo" (2020), the makers planned to shoot the first schedule of the film in Kerala in March 2020, with Arjun joining the schedule, however, the filming was halted due to COVID-19 pandemic in India.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: For a 6-minute action sequence in the film, the team planned to hire action choreographers from South India, instead of opting for foreign technicians. Thus, the film became a "Make In India" project, an initiative to provide employment to the workers from the Indian Film Industry, after some technicians faced employment crisis due to the pandemic. This sequence is reported to be made a cost of and Allu Arjun has been trained intensively for this sequence.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: The makers later planned to shift the location from Kerala to Andhra Pradesh, due to restrictions on travel, in order to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2020, the makers planned to resume the shoot in Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad, and later planned to shoot the film at Nalgonda. Post government permitted film shootings with minimal crew, the makers resumed filming on 10 November 2020 in Maredumilli forest in Andhra Pradesh, and completed within 14 days. The team moved to Rajahmundry in December 2020 to shoot key sequences, but was indefinitely postponed to January 2021, as twelve crew members working in the film were diagnosed with COVID-19. The shooting later resumed in January 2021 and the production house tweeted that two schedules at Rampachodavaram and Maredumilli was completed within February 2021. The team also finished a schedule at Kerala in March 2021.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: The shooting of the film was put on hold due to restrictions following second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India, and Allu Arjun was also diagnosed with COVID-19 in late April. The team resumed the final leg shooting on 6 July 2021, with a major schedule was filmed in Secunderabad, but came to a halt on 24 July 2021 when Sukumar was diagnosed with dengue fever. The filming resumed after Sukumar recovered from the disease. On 22 August 2021, Fahadh Faasil joined the shooting schedule of the film. After wrapping her portions in the Hindi film "Goodbye", Rashmika joined the shoot for filming her portions. In September 2021, she rejoined the shoot after a brief break. On 8 September, Allu Arjun headed to Maredumilli to film the final schedule. After a month-long production, on 4 October, the team started shooting face off scenes between Allu Arjun and Fahadh Faasil. Finally, a special song featuring Samantha was filmed in November 2021 at a specially constructed set at the Ramoji Film City and ""Ey Bidda Idi Na Adda"" () song, was Arjun filmed at Mallikarjun swami mandir of Beeramguda. After this, the film entered into the full-fledged post-production phase.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Speaking to the media at a promotional event of Tamil version in Chennai, Allu Arjun said that "We had about 400-500 cars in the forest that would take us from point A to B. In some places, there were no roads and we had to create a pathway with whatever was available. The filming itself took us almost two years, that is why I say this: the effort we had put in for "Pushpa" is equal to four films."


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: The dubbing works of the film have begun in April 2021. Ten days before the release of the film, Shreyas Talpade confirmed that he has dubbed for Allu Arjun of the film's Hindi version. Jis Joy who has dubbed for Arjun's previous films in Malayalam, has been signed to voice dub for Allu Arjun of the film's Malayalam version. By the early-December 2021 he has completed his portions of dubbing. K. P. Sekar lent Allu Arjun’s voice for the film’s Tamil version. Fahadh Faasil has dubbed for his role in all the languages, except Hindi which is dubbed by Rajesh Khattar.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Sukumar's regular collaborator Devi Sri Prasad composed score and soundtrack of this film. The soundtrack features five singers written by Chandrabose, including "Daakko Daakko Meka", "Srivalli", "Oo Antava Oo Oo Antava", "Saami Saami", and "Eyy Bidda Idhi Naa Adda".


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: The film was screened at the Moscow International Film Festival in 2022. It was screened in the category "Blockbuster hits from around the world".


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: "Pushpa: The Rise" was released on 17 December 2021. Previously, the film was announced to release on 13 August 2021, coinciding with the Independence Day weekend. In May 2021, the makers announced that the film would be releasing in two parts, with the first part coming on the originally intended release date while the second installment will be arriving in 2022. The producers released a statement saying: "The storyline and the characters took on lives of their own and grew to a span that required the movie to be released in two parts", with the title of the film's first part was unveiled as "Pushpa: The Rise – Part 1" in August 2021. Due to surge in the COVID-19 pandemic, the film's release was rescheduled to Christmas 2021. In October 2021, the makers announced the release date as 17 December 2021. It simultaneously released in Telugu and dubbed versions in Tamil, Kannada , Malayalam and Hindi languages.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Following the release, the makers deleted a controversial scene on fans' demand. In the scene, Pushpa (played by Arjun) touches Srivalli's (played by Mandanna) chest and have a conversation about it, and they felt it may not go well with the family audience. It is also reported that a few more scenes were cut to reduce its runtime.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: In later half of 2022, it got officially dubbed in Russian, the production company released Russian-langauge trailer on YouTube on 29 November 2022 and the film will be release in theatres of Russia.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: On 25 June 2021, "Eenadu" reported that the Hindi dubbing rights were sold for . Initially Karan Johar's Dharma Productions were reported to acquire the distribution rights, and may present and promote the Hindi version of the film in North Indian theatres. This was reported to be third South Indian film to be presented by the company after the "Baahubali" franchise and "2.0" (2018). However, it was reported that the film's Hindi version will not have a be simultaneous theatre release, instead the Hindi dubbed version will release directly on YouTube. It has been reported that, the Hindi version faced troubles due to the legal disputes between the producers and Goldmines Telefilms, which regularly distributed the Hindi versions of the actor's previous films. However, in November 2021, a Hindi-version poster was later released, thus clarifying that the film will have theatrical release in Hindi. In the same month it was also reported that the Goldmines Telefilms will distribute the film in the Hindi-version by collaborating with another production company. On 20 November 2021, it was confirmed through social media that the Hindi distribution would be done by AA Films. The film is distributed in Tamil Nadu by Lyca Productions and Sri Lakshmi Movies, Swagath Enterprises in Karnataka and by E4 Entertainments in Kerala.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Star India Network acquired the satellite rights of the film (except the Hindi version, which was acquired by Goldmines TV), while Amazon Prime Video acquired the digital rights. The film began streaming 21 days later through Amazon Prime Video on 7 January 2022, while the Hindi version began streaming from 14 January 2022.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: On its opening day, "Pushpa: The Rise" netted in India with a gross of around , and set a post-pandemic record for day one. Including the premieres, the film grossed $850,000 in the United States and obtained a worldwide gross of 74 crore on its first day. "Pushpa" grossed over crore worldwide in its opening weekend. It netted over 107.5 crore in three days, making it the first 100 crore weekend in India post-COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, its the 13th film and fourth South India film to achieve this feat. "Box Office India" reported that the opening would have been higher, if not for the ticket pricing issue in Andhra Pradesh state. An article from "The Indian Express" analysed the losses incurred by "The Rise" due to low ticket prices in Andhra. ""Pushpa" collected a [distributor's] share of a little more than 13 crore from the state’s 1100 screens. To put this in perspective, in Telangana, the first-day share of "Pushpa" was pegged at over 11 crore from around 600-odd screens," the article stated.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: The film's Hindi dubbed version is commercially successful. "The Rise" Hindi version netted 26.50 crore in its first week, and over 62 crore by the end of third weekend. "The Rise" netted over crore in India in two weeks, and became the seventh South India film and the second Allu Arjun film after "Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo" (2020) to do so. The film grossed crore worldwide from all versions by the end of the third weekend, and emerged as the highest grossing Indian film in 2021. The scale of the dub's commercial gains have been considered unusual, especially as the film was also available on streaming platforms during its Hindi theatrical run. Its success, as well as the popularity of other Telugu films dubbed into Hindi, has been mainly attributed to the film's mass appeal as a masala film during a time when Hindi cinema has focused more on realism and has become more "toned down".


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: "Asianet News", "Sakshi Post", "The Hindustan Times", "Business Today", "The Indian Express" and "The Free Press Journal" reported that the reviews were mixed. While "International Business Times" mention that reviews were positive,


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: "Bollywood Hungama" gave it 3.5/5 rating, noting it as a "Paisa vasool" () film and called Sukumar's screenplay "top notch." "The Indian Express" gave it 3 out of 5 stars and wrote "Allu Arjun walks away with the film with his strong performance. He embraces his deglamorized look and delivers a memorable performance". "Deccan Chronicle" gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, and called it a "one-man show" referring to lead actor Allu Arjun. The reviewer added that the latter half was predictable and "Sami Sami" song appears without context with the climax lacking punch. A reviewer from "Pinkvilla" gave the film 3 out of 5 stars praising Allu's performance and soundtrack writing, ""'Pushpa: The Rise"' needed smarter writing for sure. But it's still one of the most engaging mass masala films in recent times. Devi Sri Prasad's superb songs hit the ball out of the park." "The Hans India" rated the film 2.75 out of 5 stars and wrote "The first half is quite engaging but the second half moves at a snail pace and bores us to the core. Barring Allu Arjun's exceptional performance, there is nothing else to watch out for in Pushpa". Karthik Keramalu of "The Quint" rated the film 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote "The meat of the story doesn’t have enough protein to sustain a sequel. Sukumar could have easily wrapped up everything in this movie itself. And now we’ll have to sit through three more hours of Shekhawat versus Pushpa".


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: "The Times of India" critic Neeshita Nyayapati rated the film 3 out of 5 stars and praised Allu's performance, action sequences, direction, cinematography and score but criticised the technical aspects while stating: ""Pushpa: The Rise" is Allu Arjun’s show all the way. He shines in playing this rustic character that is hard on the surface but vulnerable in ways that others don’t see." Rating the film 3/5, "India Today" critic Janani K. praised Allu and Sunil's performances but felt that Mandanna was in the film "only for the male gaze". On technical aspects, she appreciated cinematography and editing but criticised Sukumar's screenplay, calling it "one of the weakest screenplay of his career."


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Haricharan Pudipeddi of "Hindustan Times" called it "Ahaa Oho", writing, "At three-hour-long, Pushpa manages to stay engaging for the most part and never makes sitting through the film tiring. It’s a character-driven story and Sukumar needs to be lauded for effectively establishing the character of Pushpa, whose growth couldn’t have been handled more satisfyingly." "News18" praised the performances, action sequences and soundtrack writing "Overall, the film is a massy entertainer with a decent storyline and is custom-made for Allu Arjun’s fans." Reviewing the Hindi dubbed version, Komal Nahata praised Arjun's acting and Shreyas Talpade's Hindi dubbing of Pushpa character. Praising the work of cast and crew, a reviewer from "Eenadu" opined that Sukumar should have re-thought about the runtime and spent more time in the post-production. In "ABP News"'s review, Ravi Bule felt that the story was not fresh but by the style it was expressed its new.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Writing for "The News Minute", Sowmya Rajendran said: "Allu Arjun is immensely likable on screen and that keeps Pushpa going despite its lengthy runtime of three hours." Also opining that the film was a bit long, "Firstpost" Sankeertana Varma said: "Sukumar has a vision for who Pushpa is, both the character and the film." Calling it a "mixed bag," Sangeetha Devi Dundoo of "The Hindu", wrote, ""Pushpa – The Rise" is riveting in some segments and bland in others. Allu Arjun shoulders the film, but his coming together with Sukumar should have been for a more absorbing narrative." Anji Shetty of "Sakshi" appreciated the red sandalwood backdrop and Allu's characterisation but felt that the story was predictable and the climax with Fahadh was a disappointment. In her review for "BBC Telugu", Sahiti stated Sukumar deviated from his usual style of filmmaking and opted for flat narrative in "Pushpa" which was one of the film's downsides. A "News 18 Hindi" reviewer also felt the same. She added Mandanna's role was very dull and director doesn't dwell onto how oridinary kid like Pushpa grows up to a goon of his village.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Sukumar and the makers were accused of copyright infringement by the writer Vempalli Gangadhar. In a Facebook post dated 27 August 2020, Gangadhar stated that the storyline which is based on red sandalwood smuggling, was plagiarised from his short story titled "Tamil Coolie" written for Sakshi newspaper which was published two years earlier.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: In December 2021, a lawsuit was filed at a court in Andhra Pradesh against a song in the film titled ""Oo Antava Mava Oo Oo Antava"" () by a certain men's association. According to them, the song portrayed men as casanovas and eve teasers as its lyrics seemingly mock the male gaze. They also asked for a ban on the song.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Initially planned as a single film, it was later decided to make the film a two-part release. The second part titled "Pushpa 2: The Rule" will be releasing in December 2022, as announced by Sukumar. The second part will continue from the first part's story.


title: Pushpa: The Rise

text: Although few scenes of "Pushpa – Part 2: The Rule" were already filmed, the director Sukumar announced he will re-shoot the entire film, as the initial script was altered. Principal photography of the film is originally scheduled in February 2022 and later it was also reported that the filming will begin in April 2022. Later, in January 2022, Mandanna confirmed that she will join the production in March 2022.


title: Vladimir Lenin

text: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, his developments to the ideology are called Leninism.


title: Vladimir Lenin

text: Born to an upper-middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics following his brother's 1887 execution. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire's Tsarist government, he devoted the following years to a law degree. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1893 and became a senior Marxist activist. In 1897, he was arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye in Siberia for three years, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After his exile, he moved to Western Europe, where he became a prominent theorist in the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). In 1903, he took a key role in the RSDLP ideological split, leading the Bolshevik faction against Julius Martov's Mensheviks. Following Russia's failed Revolution of 1905, he campaigned for the First World War to be transformed into a Europe-wide proletarian revolution, which, as a Marxist, he believed would cause the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement with socialism. After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar and established a Provisional Government, he returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the new regime.


title: Vladimir Lenin

text: Lenin's Bolshevik government initially shared power with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, elected soviets, and a multi-party Constituent Assembly, although by 1918 it had centralised power in the new Communist Party. Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty conceding territory to the Central Powers, and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign administered by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in concentration camps. His administration defeated right and left-wing anti-Bolshevik armies in the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922 and oversaw the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. Responding to wartime devastation, famine, and popular uprisings, in 1921 Lenin encouraged economic growth through the New Economic Policy. Several non-Russian nations had secured independence from the Russian Empire after 1917, but three were re-united into the new Soviet Union in 1922. His health failing, Lenin died in Gorki, with Joseph Stalin succeeding him as the pre-eminent figure in the Soviet government.