title: U2

text: The band cites the Who, the Clash, Television, Ramones, the Beatles, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Elvis Presley, Patti Smith, and Kraftwerk as influences. In addition, Van Morrison has been cited by Bono as an influence, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame mentioned his influence on U2. U2 have also worked with and/or had influential relationships with artists including Johnny Cash, Green Day, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, B.B. King, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, and Luciano Pavarotti. Bono said that David Bowie helped him discover the works of Bertolt Brecht, William Burroughs, Springsteen, and Brian Eno.


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text: Since the early 1980s, the members of U2—as a band and individually—have collaborated with other musicians, artists, celebrities, and politicians to address issues concerning poverty, disease, and social injustice.


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text: In 1984, Bono and Clayton participated in Band Aid to raise money for the 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia. This initiative produced the hit charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?", which would be the first of several collaborations between U2 and Bob Geldof. In July 1985, U2 performed at Live Aid, a follow-up to Band Aid's efforts. Bono and his wife Ali, invited by World Vision, visited Ethiopia that year where they witnessed the famine first-hand. Bono later said that this laid the groundwork for his Africa campaigning and some of his songwriting. In 1986, U2 participated in the Self Aid benefit concert for unemployment in Ireland and the Conspiracy of Hope benefit concert tour in support of Amnesty International. The same year, Bono and Ali also visited Nicaragua and El Salvador at the invitation of the Sanctuary movement and saw the effects of the Salvadoran Civil War. These 1986 events greatly influenced "The Joshua Tree" album, which was being recorded at the time.


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text: During their Zoo TV Tour in 1992, U2 participated in the "Stop Sellafield" concert with Greenpeace to protest a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. Events in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War inspired the song "Miss Sarajevo", which premiered at a September 1995 Pavarotti and Friends show, and which Bono and the Edge performed at War Child. U2 fulfilled a 1993 promise to play in Sarajevo during the PopMart Tour in 1997. The following year, they performed in Belfast days prior to the vote on the Good Friday Agreement, bringing Northern Irish political leaders David Trimble and John Hume on stage to promote the agreement. Later that year, all proceeds from the release of the "Sweetest Thing" single went towards supporting the Chernobyl Children's Project.


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text: The band dedicated their 2000 song "Walk On" to Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who had been under house arrest since 1989. In late 2003, Bono and the Edge participated in the South Africa HIV/AIDS awareness 46664 series of concerts hosted by Nelson Mandela. In 2005, the band played the Live 8 concert in London, which Geldof helped stage on the 20th anniversary of Live Aid to support the Make Poverty History campaign. The band and manager Paul McGuinness were awarded Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience Award for their work in promoting human rights.


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text: Since 2000, Bono's campaigning has included Jubilee 2000 with Geldof, Muhammad Ali, and others to promote the cancellation of third-world debt during the Great Jubilee. In January 2002, Bono co-founded the multinational NGO DATA, with the aim of improving the social, political, and financial state of Africa. He continued his campaigns for debt and HIV/AIDS relief into June 2002 by making high-profile visits to Africa. Product Red, a for-profit licensed brand seeking to raise money for the Global Fund, was co-founded by Bono in 2006. The ONE Campaign, originally the US counterpart of Make Poverty History, was shaped by his efforts and vision.


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text: In November 2005, the Edge and producer Bob Ezrin helped introduce Music Rising, an initiative to replace instruments for musicians in the New Orleans area impacted by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. In 2006, U2 collaborated with pop punk band Green Day to record a remake of the song "The Saints Are Coming" by the Skids to benefit Music Rising. A live version of the song recorded at the Louisiana Superdome was released on the single.


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text: At the 3rd iHeartRadio Music Awards in April 2016, U2 were honored with the Innovator Award for their "impact on popular culture and commitment to social causes." In April 2020, the group donated €10 million to purchase personal protective equipment for Irish healthcare workers working during the COVID-19 pandemic. The band also donated US$1.5 million to ease the impact of the pandemic on the music industry, including a €200,000 donation to the Songs from an Empty Room fundraiser.


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text: Bono has received a number of awards for his music and activism, including the Legion of Honour from the French Government in 2003, "Time"s Person of the Year for 2005 (along with Bill Gates and Melinda Gates), and an honorary British knighthood in 2007. Some news sources have questioned the efficacy of Bono's campaign to relieve debt and provide assistance to Africa.


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text: The members of U2 have undertaken side projects, sometimes in collaboration with some of their bandmates. In 1985, Bono recorded the song "In a Lifetime" with the Irish band Clannad. The Edge recorded a solo soundtrack album for the film "Captive", which was released in 1986 and included a vocal performance by Sinéad O'Connor on the song "Heroine" that predates her own debut album by a year. Bono and the Edge wrote the song "She's a Mystery to Me" for Roy Orbison, which was featured on his 1989 album "Mystery Girl". In 1990, Bono and the Edge provided the original score to the Royal Shakespeare Company London . One track, "Alex Descends into Hell for a Bottle of Milk/Korova 1", was on the B-side to "The Fly" single. That same year, Mullen produced and played drums on "Put 'Em Under Pressure", a song for the Irish national football team for the 1990 FIFA World Cup; the song topped the Irish charts for 13 weeks.


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text: Bono and the Edge wrote the song "GoldenEye" for the 1995 James Bond film "GoldenEye", which was performed by Tina Turner. Clayton and Mullen reworked the "" for the . Bono loaned his voice to "Joy" on Mick Jagger's 2001 album "Goddess in the Doorway". Bono also recorded a spare, nearly spoken-word version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" for the "Tower of Song" compilation in 1995. Additionally, in 1998, Bono collaborated with Kirk Franklin and Crystal Lewis along with R. Kelly and Mary J. Blige for a successful gospel song called "Lean on Me".


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text: Aside from musical collaborations, U2 have worked with several authors. American author William S. Burroughs had a guest appearance in U2's video for "Last Night on Earth" shortly before he died. Video footage of him reading his poem "Thanksgiving Prayer" was used during a Zoo TV Tour television special. Other collaborators include William Gibson and Allen Ginsberg. In early 2000, the band contributed three songs to "The Million Dollar Hotel" , including "The Ground Beneath Her Feet", whose lyrics are taken from Salman Rushdie's book of the same name.


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text: In 2007, Bono appeared in the film "Across the Universe" and performed songs by the Beatles. Bono and the Edge also wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical "". Additionally, the Edge created the theme song for seasons one and two of the animated television series "The Batman".


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text: U2 have sold an estimated 150–170 million records worldwide, placing them among the best-selling music artists in history. The group's fifth studio album, "The Joshua Tree", is one of the best-selling albums in the US (10 million copies shipped) and worldwide (25 million copies sold). With 52 million certified units by the RIAA, U2 rank as the 22nd-highest-selling music artist in the US. U2 have eight albums that have reached number one in the US, the third-most of any group. They were the first group to attain number-one albums in the US in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. In the UK, the group have had seven number-one singles, tied for the 17th-most of any artist, and ten number-one albums, tied for the 8th-most of any artist. The band's 1,465 weeks spent on the UK music charts ranks 17th all-time. In their native Ireland, U2 hold the record for most number-one singles with 19.


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text: In the 1980s, U2 "dominated the alternative rock scene", according to cultural critic Kevin J. H. Dettmar. Similarly, in the next decade, they were one of the most famous alternative rock bands worldwide and among the highest-selling rock bands. Record sales declined in the 2000s and the music industry entered an age of often illegal digital downloading, but according to author Mat Snow, U2 prospered more than younger acts because of a loyal following that held an attachment to the album format. Snow said, "Children of the album era as they were, U2 would never stop regarding the album as the core statement of their creativity", despite progressively decreasing sales, while he noted that live shows consequently became the group's greatest source of revenue.


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text: According to "Billboard Boxscore", the band grossed US$1.67 billion in ticket sales from 1990 to 2016, second only to the Rolling Stones. U2 were the only group in the top 25 touring acts from 2000 to 2009 to sell out every show they played. According to "Pollstar", the band grossed $1.038 billion and sold 9,300,500 tickets from 255 shows played between 2010 and November 2019, earning the publication's title of touring artist of the 2010s decade; U2 were the only artist to surpass $1 billion grossed during that span. "Forbes" has named U2 the world's annual highest-earning music artist a record five times. "The Sunday Times" 2020 Irish Rich List estimated the group's collective wealth at €670 million.


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text: U2 are regarded as one of the greatest pop-rock acts of all time. "Rolling Stone" placed U2 at number 22 on its list of "The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time", while ranking Bono the 32nd-greatest singer, the Edge the 38th-greatest guitarist, and Mullen the 96th-greatest drummer. The magazine placed Bono and the Edge at number 35 on its list of the "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time". In 2004, "Q" ranked U2 as the fourth-biggest band in a list compiled based on album sales, time spent on the UK charts, and largest audience for a headlining show. VH1 placed U2 at number 19 on its 2010 list of "The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2010, eight of U2's songs appeared on "Rolling Stone"s updated list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", with "One" ranking the highest at number 36. Five of the group's twelve studio albums were ranked on the magazine's 2012 list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"—"The Joshua Tree" placed the highest at number 27. Reflecting on the band's popularity and worldwide impact, Jeff Pollack for "The Huffington Post" said, "like The Who before them, U2 wrote songs about things that were important and resonated with their audience". "Houston Press" journalist John Seaborn Gray attributed U2's pioneering impact on pop-rock music largely to the Edge's unique guitar style.


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text: U2 received their first Grammy Award in 1988 for "The Joshua Tree", and they have won 22 in total out of 46 nominations, more than any other group. These include Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group, Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Rock Album. In the UK, U2 have received 7 Brit Awards out of 20 nominations from the British Phonographic Industry, including five wins for Best International Group. They were the first international group to win the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In Ireland, U2 have won 14 Meteor Awards since the awards began in 2001. Other awards won by the band and their members include one American Music Award, six MTV Video Music Awards, eleven Q Awards, two Juno Awards, five NME Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. The band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2005. In 2006, all four members of the band received ASCAP awards for writing the songs "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and "Vertigo". In 2022, the group received Kennedy Center Honors for their contributions in the performing arts.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: Alien is a science-fiction horror and action media franchise centered on the film series which depicts warrant officer Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and her battles with an extraterrestrial lifeform, commonly referred to as "the Alien" or Xenomorph.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: Produced and distributed by 20th Century Studios, the series began with "Alien" (1979), directed by Ridley Scott, and was followed by three sequels: "Aliens" (1986), directed by James Cameron; "Alien 3" (1992), directed by David Fincher, and "Alien Resurrection" (1997), directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Scott also directed a prequel series, composed of "Prometheus" (2012) and "" (2017), which follows the exploits of the David 8 android and the creators of the eponymous creatures referred to as the "Engineers".


title: Alien (franchise)

text: The series has led to numerous novels, comics, video games and an upcoming television series developed by Scott for FX on Hulu, with Noah Hawley. It has inspired a number of spin-offs – most notably the "Alien vs. Predator" series, which combines the continuities of the "Alien" franchise with the "Predator" franchise and consists of two films as well as various series of comics, books, and video games.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: The "Alien" franchise depicts a series of deadly encounters, predominantly spanning the 21st and 24th centuries, between humanity and the Aliens; a hostile, endoparasitoid, extraterrestrial species. Humanity is depicted as a space-faring species with an interstellar dominion; space journeys typically last months, even years, and require the use of cryosleep. Throughout the series, characters are repeatedly manipulated and endangered by the unscrupulous megacorporation Weyland-Yutani Corp, which seeks to profit from the Aliens.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: The series fictionalizes the origin of the human race. A member of an ancient humanoid species, called the "Engineers", sacrifices himself, allowing his DNA to spark the genesis of mankind. The Engineers' other experiments, designed to exterminate the human race through the means of a deadly mutagen, paves the way for the Aliens to rise and populate through the traumatic implantation of larvae in hosts. Incidents across several generations are chronicled throughout the franchise.


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text: Writer Dan O'Bannon, wanting to write a science-fiction action film, collaborated with screenwriter Ronald Shusett on a script, initially titled "Star Beast", but eventually changed to "Alien". Brandywine Productions, a company which had a distribution deal with 20th Century Fox, bought the script. The writers expected it to be a low-budget film, but the success of "Star Wars" inclined Fox to invest millions.


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text: In the original script, the ship had an all-male crew, though it noted that all parts were gender-interchangeable. The Ripley character was initially to be played by Tom Skerritt, but when Fox president Alan Ladd Jr. and the producers at Brandywine heard rumors of Fox working on other titles with strong female leads, it was decided to cast a female as Ripley and Skerritt became Captain Dallas.


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text: Swiss painter and sculptor H. R. Giger designed the alien creature's adult form and the derelict ship, while French artist Mœbius created the look of the spacesuits and Ron Cobb provided most of the industrial design for the sets.


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text: While "Alien", directed by Ridley Scott, was successful, Fox did not consider a sequel until 1983, when James Cameron expressed his interest to producer David Giler in continuing the "Alien" story. After Cameron's "The Terminator" became a box office hit, Cameron and partner Gale Anne Hurd were given approval to direct and produce the sequel to "Alien", scheduled for a 1986 release. Cameron wrote the screenplay for "Aliens" from a story he developed with Giler and Walter Hill.


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text: Following the second film, Weaver was not interested in returning to the series, so Giler and Hill commissioned a sequel without the Ripley character. Fox's president Joe Roth opposed Ripley's removal, and Weaver was offered a $5 million salary and a producer credit to make "Alien 3". Giler, Hill and Larry Ferguson wrote the screenplay, based on a story from an earlier script by Vincent Ward, intended to bring closure to the "Alien" franchise by killing off Ripley, the principal character. "Alien 3" faced a mired production, with extensive script difficulties, trouble securing a director, production beginning prior to the completion of a final script, as well as profuse studio interference.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: While fans and critics initially did not receive "Alien 3" well, the film was a worldwide success and piqued Fox's interest in continuing the franchise. In 1996, production on the fourth "Alien" film, "Alien Resurrection", began. Ripley was not in the script's first draft, and Weaver was not interested in reprising the role. She joined the project after being offered an $11 million salary and more creative control, including director approval. The script, set 200 years after "Alien 3", resurrected the Ripley character via human cloning. The film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, experienced an extended production, and screenwriter Joss Whedon later recounted that it had done "everything wrong" with his script. The film was released in 1997 to mixed reviews and modest box office returns, and is unsucceeded.


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text: On its way back to Earth, the commercial towing vehicle "Nostromo" is diverted to a desolate planetoid by a cryptic signal from a derelict alien spacecraft. Inside the alien ship, the crew discovers thousands of egg-like objects. A creature, released from one of the eggs, attaches itself to a crewman's face, rendering him unconscious. The others break quarantine to return him to the "Nostromo". The parasite dies and the crewman wakes up, seemingly unaffected. Soon afterwards, an alien organism bursts from his chest and grows rapidly into a large lethal creature, which the surviving crew attempt to kill. The "Nostromo" is destroyed in an unsuccessful attempt to kill the creature, leaving Ellen Ripley as the only survivor in the ship's lifeboat.


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text: After 57 years in hypersleep, Ripley awakens aboard a medical space station orbiting Earth. She recounts the events of the "Nostromo" but is disbelieved by her superiors in the Weyland Yutani corporation, which has now begun to terraform and colonise the planetoid from the first film. When contact with the colony is lost, Ripley is persuaded to accompany a squad of marines to investigate. They discover the colonists have been wiped out after being directed by the company to secure the derelict ship reported by Ripley. There is only one survivor, a girl named Newt. The aliens vastly outnumber and quickly overwhelm the marines, who fight for survival. Only a handful, including Ripley and Newt, escape.


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text: Immediately following the events of "Aliens", the military ship USS "Sulaco", carrying the survivors, catches fire. The occupants are ejected in an escape pod, which crash-lands on the refinery/prison planet Fiorina "Fury" 161. All on board except Ripley are killed. An alien facehugger is also aboard, and impregnates an animal with an alien, which soon begins killing inmates and wardens. Ripley discovers an alien queen is growing inside her, and is determined to kill both herself and the creature before Weyland Yutani can exploit them.


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text: Two hundred years after the events of "Alien 3", several clones of Ripley, including the alien queen she was carrying, are grown by the military aboard the USM "Auriga". The military intends to exploit the aliens, and uses humans kidnapped and delivered to them by a group of mercenaries as hosts for the queen's eggs. The Aliens escape, and Ripley 8 (a clone mixed with Alien DNA) and the mercenaries attempt to escape and destroy the "Auriga" before it reaches Earth.


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text: Inspired by the Dark Horse Comics series, the filmmakers of "Predator 2" (1990) incorporated an Easter egg in which an Alien skull was seen in a Predator trophy case. Expansions upon this shared universe between the "Alien" and "Predator" franchises followed through comics and video games, leading up to the launch of a film franchise with the release of "Alien vs. Predator" in 2004, followed by "" in 2007. The franchise has spawned various comics, novels, video games, and other merchandise based upon or inspired by the films. A third film has been variously rumored since the production of "Requiem". In mid-2018, Shane Black, the director of "The Predator", expressed his belief that a third "Alien vs. Predator" could still happen, indicating the studio's interest in both franchises.


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text: In 2004, a Predator mothership arrives in Earth orbit to draw humans to an ancient Predator training ground on Bouvetøya, an island about one thousand miles north of Antarctica. A buried pyramid giving off a "heat bloom" attracts a group of explorers led by billionaire and self-taught engineer Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen), the original founder and CEO of Weyland Industries, who unknowingly activates an Alien egg production line as a hibernating Alien Queen is awakened within the pyramid. Three Predators descend unto the planet and enters the structure, killing all humans in their way with the intention of hunting the newly formed Aliens, while the scattered explorers are captured alive by Aliens and implanted with embryos. Two Predators die in the ensuing battle with an Alien, while the third allies itself with the lone surviving human, Alexa "Lex" Woods (Sanaa Lathan), while making their way out of the pyramid as it is destroyed by the Predator's wrist bomb and eventually does battle with the escaped Alien Queen on the surface. The Queen is defeated by being dragged down by a water tower into the dark depths of the frozen sea, but not before she fatally wounds the last Predator. The orbiting Predator mothership uncloaks and the crew retrieves the fallen Predator. A Predator elder gives Lex a spear as a sign of respect, and then departs. Once in orbit it is revealed that an Alien Chestburster was present within the corpse, thus a Predalien hybrid is born.


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text: Set immediately after the events of the previous film, the Predalien hybrid aboard the Predator scout ship, having just separated from the mothership shown in the previous film, has grown to full adult size and sets about killing the Predators aboard the ship, causing it to crash in the small town of Gunnison, Colorado. The last surviving Predator activates a distress beacon containing a video recording of the Predalien, which is received by a veteran Predator on the Predator homeworld, who sets off towards Earth to "clean up" the infestation. When it arrives, the Predator tracks the Aliens into a section of the sewer below the town. He removes evidence of their presence as he moves along using a corrosive blue liquid and uses a laser net to try to contain the creatures, but the Aliens still manage to escape into the town above. The Predator fashions a plasma pistol from its remaining plasma caster and hunts Aliens all across town, accidentally cutting the power to the town in the process. During a confrontation with human survivors, the Predator loses its plasma pistol. The Predator then fights the Predalien singlehandedly, and the two mortally wound one another just as the US air force drops a tactical nuclear bomb on the town, incinerating both combatants along with the Predalien's warriors and hive, as well as the few remaining humans in the town. The salvaged plasma pistol is then taken to a Ms. Cullen Yutani of the Yutani Corporation, foreshadowing an advancement in technology leading to the future events of the "Alien" films.


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text: Development of a prequel story began in the early 2000s when both Ridley Scott and James Cameron started to develop ideas for a story that would explore the origins of the Alien. In 2002, the development of "Alien vs. Predator" had taken precedence and the prequel project remained dormant until 2009. Jon Spaihts wrote the first screenplay for the project, but Scott then opted for a different direction and hired Damon Lindelof in 2010, to rewrite the script into a story that focused on the creators of the Aliens, rather than the Aliens themselves. The film, titled "Prometheus", was released in 2012 to box office success and mostly positive reviews.


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text: By 2014, development on the second prequel was underway, with Scott returning as director. The film's screenplay was initially written by Jack Paglen in 2013, but was subsequently rewritten by Michael Green and Dante Harper, before Scott's collaborator from "Gladiator", John Logan, wrote the final version. The film, titled "", commenced production in February 2016 and was released on May 19, 2017. "Alien: Covenant" was a box office disappointment, grossing $240.9 million worldwide against a production budget of $97 million, while also receiving lukewarm critical reviews. The story of the prequel series centers around the android David 8, and two crews he accompanies on expeditions to meet the mysterious Engineers.


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text: Some 30 years before the events of "Alien", scientists Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway discover a star map among the remnants of several ancient Earth cultures. Accompanied by David 8 and hoping to discover the origins of humanity, they journey aboard the spaceship USCSS "Prometheus" and arrive on the distant planet LV-223 in the Zeta Reticuli system, the same region of space in which the planetoid LV-426 from "Alien" is found. There they discover the ancient remains of an advanced civilization, called the Engineers (the same race as the dead pilot from the derelict ship in "Alien"), who were developing biological weapons in the form of a pathogenic mutagen which could have driven the human race extinct. The horrors they encounter result in the loss of the crew except for David and Shaw.


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text: Eleven years after the events of "Prometheus", the colony ship USCSS "Covenant", carrying thousands of colonists and hundreds of human embryos in cryo-stasis, makes its way towards the planet Origae-6. The crew is awakened by a neutrino blast and intercepts a transmission sent from Shaw, which they decide to trace to an apparently habitable Engineer home world (referred to as Planet 4), devoid of all non-floral life. When several crew members are infected by the same mutagen encountered by the "Prometheus" crew and give birth to a new breed of Alien, the Neomorphs, the android David 8 rescues them. It is revealed that he brought Shaw to the planet, where he killed all non-floral life and began experimenting on Shaw's corpse to engineer his own breeds of Aliens. His motivations to replace human life with Aliens is made apparent, and with the birth of yet another new breed of Alien, a terraforming expert named Daniels and the remaining crew are forced to flee from the world. After disposing of the Aliens chasing them, the crew members return to the "Covenant" and are put back into cryosleep by someone they believe to be their shipboard synthetic, Walter. Only when Daniels is put in her cryopod does she realize that Walter has been replaced by the identical David. With the crew, colonists, and embryos at his mercy, David contacts Weyland-Yutani back on Earth, stating that while the majority of the crew was killed in the neutrino blast, they would continue to Origae-6.


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text: In the mid-1990s, screenwriter Stuart Hazeldine wrote a treatment titled "Alien: Earthbound". Fox executives were impressed by the script, having read it after "Alien Resurrection" had entered post-production. Joss Whedon had written an Earth-set script for "Alien 5", but Sigourney Weaver was not interested and wanted it to be set on the original planetoid. She has remained open to a role on the condition that she likes the story. Before 20th Century Fox greenlit "Alien vs. Predator", James Cameron had been collaborating on the plot for a fifth "Alien" film with another writer, but ceased work on learning of the crossover. Cameron stated that the crossover would "kill the validity of the franchise", and that "it was "Frankenstein Meets Werewolf"" – like "Universal just taking their assets and starting to play them off against each other." Although he liked the final product, he ruled out any future involvement with the series. In late 2008, Weaver hinted in an interview with MTV that she and Scott were working on an "Alien" spin-off film, which would focus on the chronicles of Ellen Ripley rather than on the Aliens, but the continuation of Ripley's story has not materialized.


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text: Sigourney Weaver has expressed her interest in returning to the role of Ripley with Neill Blomkamp's story (purportedly titled "Alien: Awakening") which would tie into the first two "Alien" films by taking place after "Aliens" and foregoing involvement with the other two sequels. This was canceled in favor of Scott's own untitled third prequel (also purportedly titled "Alien: Awakening"), which was later also canceled following the disappointing box office results of "Alien: Covenant". In February 2019, James Cameron stated that he was working on reviving Blomkamp's project. In June 2020, Brandywine Productions revealed that a screenplay for a new installment in the original series called ""Alien V"", centered around Ripley, had been written by Walter Hill and David Giler. In an interview with "The Hollywood Reporter" published in September 2022, Hill confirmed in that the proposed alternative sequel involving Weaver would not be moving forward.


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text: After the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company, it was officially confirmed at the 2019 CinemaCon that future "Alien" films are in development. In May 2019, "Variety" reported that the third prequel film was "in the script phase", with Ridley Scott attached to serve once again as director. In September 2020, Scott confirmed that work on the next installment is ongoing, but was undecided with keeping it tied in with the plot set out in "Prometheus" and "Alien: Covenant".


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text: In March 2022, "The Hollywood Reporter" reported that a new "Alien" movie set separately from the earlier movies is coming to Hulu directed by Fede Álvarez and produced by Ridley Scott. Álvarez pitched the idea to Scott years ago and now has the opportunity to make it. That November, Cailee Spaeny was announced to be in talks for the lead role. Rumors suggest that the film is going to be titled "Alien Romulus".


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text: In 2012 and 2017 respectively, Ridley Scott directed eight short films to tie in with the releases of "Prometheus" and "Alien: Covenant". In July 2018, it was reported that 20th Century Fox had joined forces with Tongal to produce short films, intended to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the "Alien" franchise. By March 2019, the details of the short films were released. Tongal co-founder and CEO James DeJulio stated that the joint-production is "reflective of Tongal's mission to bring creative opportunities to the next generation of talent." The shorts were released weekly on "IGN", after which they were uploaded to the Alien Universe web page, as well as all "Alien" social media pages on May 5 of the same year. All six of the short films premiered at the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle. The 40th anniversary short films are available as a Movies Anywhere-exclusive bonus feature accompanying the digital release of "Alien".


title: Alien (franchise)

text: In 1979, 20th Century Fox considered producing a television series based upon the 1979 film "Alien" and hoped that ABC would pick it up but its only media coverage was found in the June 1980 "Fangoria" issue #6 and it ended up abandoned as the 1986 sequel "Aliens" arrived on the scene. In 1992, a now cancelled animated series inspired by the 1986 film "Aliens" titled "Operation: Aliens" was being produced along with an LCD game, board game, a Sega Genesis video game, and action figures. However the brand lived on through Kenner toylines as simply "Aliens" and in the comics series included with the action figures as well as in the "Aliens/Predator Universe" trading cards set. In 2007, Ain't It Cool News reported that a (since then cancelled) animated series inspired by the 1986 film "Aliens" titled "Aliens: War Games" was being produced.


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text: On December 10, 2020, as part of Disney's Investor Day presentation, a new TV series project based on the franchise was announced to be in development for FX on Hulu, with Noah Hawley and Scott being involved. It will be set on Earth in the near future, thus marking the first of the franchise to do so without featuring Ellen Ripley. At the 2021 Television Critics Association Press Tour, FX network's John Landgraf said that the series will probably premiere in 2023. A casting sheet for characters Hermit and Wendy shed light on the show's leads. Reports suggested that the TV series would start filming in March 2022, but production has been delayed until 2023.


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text: In 2014, Sega published the video game "". In 2019, a seven-episode animated adaptation of "Alien: Isolation" was released on February 28. The series, developed by 20th Century Fox, in conjunction with Reverse Engineering Studios and DVgroup, was created using a combination of brand-new scenes animated from scratch, cinematics taken directly from the original game, and digital recreations of first-person scenes from the game. "Alien: Isolation" is set in 2137, 15 years after the events of "Alien" and 42 years prior to "Aliens", following Amanda Ripley, who is investigating the disappearance of her mother, Ellen Ripley, as she is transferred to the space station Sevastopol to find the flight recorder of the "Nostromo" only to discover an Alien has terrorized the station, killing the vast majority of the crew. Andrea Deck reprises her role as Amanda Ripley.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: Figures in this table are not inflation adjusted. Where two different figures are quoted for box office grosses, information is taken from two different sources.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: "Alien" was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning for Best Visual Effects. "Aliens" received seven nominations, including a Best Actress nomination for Sigourney Weaver, and won for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Effects. "Alien 3" was nominated for Best Visual Effects. "Prometheus" was also nominated for Best Visual Effects. "Alien" was also inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for historical preservation as a film which is "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."


title: Alien (franchise)

text: The American Film Institute ranked "Alien" as the sixth most thrilling American movie and seventh-best film in the science fiction genre, and in the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains list, Ripley was ranked eighth among the heroes, and the Alien was fourteenth among the villains. IGN listed "Alien" as the thirteenth best film franchise of all time in 2006.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: "Alien Day", April 26, has become the fan celebration day for the "Alien" franchise. The date derives from LV-426, the "426" converting to "4/26" or "April 26". On Alien Day 2016, Neill Blomkamp released new art for his concept of "Alien 5", and the Audible Original audio play adaptation of "" was released. On Alien Day 2017, 20th Century Fox released "The Crossing" prologue short film for "", and the Audible Original audio play adaptation of "Alien: River of Pain" was released.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: From March 19 to 22, 2019, North Bergen High School (New Jersey, US) staged an adaptation of "Alien" entitled "Alien: The Play", which was widely praised and granted seals of approval by Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver and Walter Hill. In the aftermath of the play's popularity and approval, North Bergen Mayor Nick Sacco's non-profit foundation pledged funds for more performances.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: The Bishop character has been the subject of literary and philosophical analysis as a high-profile android character conforming to science fiction author Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics and as a model of a compliant, potentially self-aware machine. The portrayal of androids in the "Alien" series—Ash in "Alien", Bishop in "Aliens" and "Alien 3", and Call (Winona Ryder) in "Alien Resurrection" (1997)—has been studied for its implications relating to how humans deal with the presence of an "Other", as Ripley treats them with fear and suspicion, and a form of "hi-tech racism and android apartheid" is present throughout the series. This is seen as part of a larger trend of technophobia in films prior to the 1990s, with Bishop's role being particularly significant as he redeems himself at the end of "Aliens", thus confounding Ripley's expectations.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: There have been dozens of stand-alone releases of the individual films on various formats, including Betamax, VHS, Laserdisc, DVD, and Blu-ray. The multiple single releases on VHS were generally the original theatrical cuts of each film.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: Laserdisc saw single releases of all theatrical versions, as well as two so-called "box sets" which only contained one film (there were two single releases, one each for "Alien" and "Aliens") but had multiple discs and a large amount of supplemental material with a high retail price tag (around US$100). The "Aliens" set included a new "Special Edition" cut of the film completed by James Cameron just for this release, which was a significantly extended version of the film.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: The films made their DVD debut in 1999, both as part of a boxed set (see "Alien Legacy" below) and as separate single-disc releases of each film ("Aliens" was only available in its "Special Edition" cut, not its original theatrical cut, which did not make it to DVD until the next boxed set). Following the "Alien Quadrilogy" set (see below), each film received individual two-disc releases containing the content of each film from that set. Since then, there have been multiple issues and reissues of the films, in both their theatrical or extended version, though some single releases include both.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: In addition to the single releases, there have been seven complete box sets of the series at various points in its history. With the exception of the DVD version of the "Aliens Triple Pack", each release contained all films that had come out at the time the sets were released. The seven box sets each had unique characteristics and features which were then sometimes reused in later sets or single releases in one form or another, most notably the Blu-ray "Anthology", which includes a detailed archive of many previous releases, including the rare Laserdisc box sets.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: There exists a great number of spin-offs in other media, including a large number of crossovers with the "Predator" franchise.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: "Alien" print media has been published since shortly before the release of the original eponymous film, in 1979. The full library of these literary works include novelizations of the films, original content that expand upon the fictional universe, comics and companion books for both the cataloging of in-universe elements and supplemental works concerning the development of the franchise. These include works by special effects company Amalgamated Dynamics Incorporated (ADI), which assisted with the effects in "Alien 3" and "Alien Resurrection".


title: Alien (franchise)

text: Several novelizations of each of the six films and some comic books as well as original canonical novels based on the franchise have been released. The original novels include "", "Alien: Sea of Sorrows", "Alien: River of Pain", marketed as the "Canonical "Alien" Trilogy" and the short story collection "Aliens: Bug Hunt". "Out of the Shadows" and "River of Pain" were adapted into audio dramas in 2016 and 2017 respectively released on the Alien Day of the respective year. Alan Dean Foster published "Alien: Covenant – Origins", a novel set between the events of "Prometheus" and "Alien: Covenant".


title: Alien (franchise)

text: In addition to "", a graphic novel adaptation of the original film, there have been numerous limited series set in the "Alien" universe, as well as non-canonical crossover appearances of the Alien. In addition to "Alien vs. Predator" comics featuring the Alien and Predator battling, Dark Horse Comics published "Fire and Stone" between 2014 and 2017, crossing over the continuities of the "Alien" prequel series with the "Alien vs. Predator" franchise.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: Dark Horse Comics also published a number of other miniseries crossovers, featuring the Alien species as an enemy pitted against prolific characters from other continuities. In 1995, the miniseries "Superman/Aliens" featured Aliens fighting against Superman, while his powers are diminished. Between 1997 and 2002, a two-part miniseries called "Batman/Aliens" was published, depicting Batman fighting against a horde of Aliens in a jungle bordering Mexico and Guatemala. In 1998, WildStorm, (now a part of Image Comics), and Dark Horse Comics published an intercompany crossover event called "WildC.A.T.s/Aliens", featuring the Wildcats battling the Aliens. "Green Lantern Versus Aliens", an intercompany crossover event between Dark Horse and DC Comics, features a plot beyond either continuity, where the Aliens residing on the Green Lantern planet Mogo get out of control and must be exterminated. In 2003, Dark Horse published "Judge Dredd vs. Aliens", depicting an Alien invasion in Mega-City One, necessitating for Judge Dredd to intervene, to destroy the infestation.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: In July 2020, Marvel Comics announced that it had acquired the comic book rights to the "Alien" franchise, in addition to the rights to the "Predator" and "Alien vs. Predator" franchises. Marvel announced the "Alien" series in December 2020, with Phillip Kennedy Johnson writing and Salvador Larroca illustrating it. Issue #1 was released in March 2021.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: Since the launch of the "Alien" franchise, there have been numerous video games released over the years, spanning a variety of genres. In addition to appearances in crossover video games, including those from the "Alien vs. Predator" franchise and "Mortal Kombat X", the four films from the original series were adapted into video games, typically multiple times. The first release was "Alien" (1982) for the Atari 2600, inspired heavily by "Pac-Man". A second adaptation of the first film was released in 1984. The sequel, "Aliens" was adapted into four different video games: two different 1986 games titled "Aliens: The Computer Game", a collection of minigames by Activision and a first-person shooter by Software Studios; as well as two different games titled "Aliens", a 1987 MSX platformer by Square and a 1990 arcade shoot 'em up by Konami. Acclaim Entertainment released three different games based on "Alien 3"; two different run and gun platformers - one for consoles in 1992, another for the SNES a year later - and a Game Boy adventure game in 1993. Sega also released a light gun arcade game "Alien 3: The Gun" in 1993. Acclaim's first-person shooter "Alien Trilogy" was released in 1996 and their adaptation of "Alien Resurrection" was released in 2000 as a PlayStation first-person shooter.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: Other "Alien" games include Mindscape's adventure game "Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure" (1995), the first-person shooter "Aliens Online" (1998), the Game Boy Color action game "" (2001), the mobile phone game "Aliens: Unleashed" (2003), and the arcade game "Aliens: Extermination" (2006). In 2014, Play Mechanix and Raw Thrills released "Aliens: Armageddon", a rail gun first person shooter that hit arcades soon after. Between 2016 and 2017, Zen Studios released downloadable content packs in a product line called ""Alien vs. Pinball"", featuring three virtual pinball tables based around the "Alien" and "Alien vs. Predator" franchises for "Zen Pinball 2", "Pinball FX 2" and "Pinball FX 3".


title: Alien (franchise)

text: In 2006, Sega made a deal with Fox Licensing to release two "Alien" video games for sixth generation consoles. The first was "", a first-person shooter by Gearbox Software that was released in 2013 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows. The game is set between "Aliens" and "Alien 3", following a group of marines sent to investigate the "Sulaco" who wound up crash-landing on LV-426.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: The second was "", a survival-horror game by Creative Assembly that follows Ripley's daughter, Amanda, who is stranded aboard an Alien-infested space station. The game experienced a long development cycle, with it finally being released in late 2014 for seventh generation consoles. During the prolonged development of "Alien: Isolation", Sega also released a Nintendo DS game "Aliens Infestation" in 2011. Furthermore, a spin-off featuring Amanda Ripley called "" was released for mobile devices in 2019.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: Despite "Alien" being widely considered a mature and non child-appropriate series, merchandise - including action figures, board games and role-playing games - has been manufactured and marketed to a wide range of age groups. Prior to the release of the first film, 20th Century Fox executives signed a deal with Kenner Products, for the production of a board game called "Alien Game", as well as action figures, marketed for being family-friendly. Following the release of the film and the outcry from parents about its nature of being a graphic and mature horror film, the product lines were abruptly cancelled. The merchandising efforts for the franchise remained largely stagnant until the release of the more action-based sequel, "Aliens", seven years later. From thereon out, merchandise has been produced on a rolling, ongoing basis.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: From the franchise's inception until Kenner's closure in 2000, the company was a major manufacturer of "Alien" action figures. From 1992 to 1995, Kenner produced a line of action figures dubbed "Aliens", initially intended to promote a cancelled animated series called "Operation: Aliens". In 1996, Galoob released the Micro Machines "Alien" line of miniature toys, but ceased production the following year, due in large to the violent and graphic nature of its packaging art. Following the founding of Hong Kong collectible toy company Hot Toys, one of the first lines the company began producing was "Alien". In 2014, Funko released a line of action figures heavily inspired by the original 1979 Kenner line called ReAction. In the 2010s, the National Entertainment Collectibles Association (NECA) took a prominent role in the manufacturing of "Alien" action figures, with the majority being largely inspired by the Kenner line of action figures, as well as new additions depicting the prequel films and crossover continuities, such as "Alien vs. Predator" and "Superman/Aliens".


title: Alien (franchise)

text: Following Kenner's ill-fated first foray into the board game market with "Alien Game", merchandising efforts in the medium were stagnant, until Leading Edge Games released the cooperative game "Aliens" in 1989. Leading Edge Games released "Aliens Adventure Game" in 1991, to mixed reviews and commentary that states it functions closer to a board game than a traditional tabletop RPG. In 1993, British toy company Peter Pan Playthings Ltd released a board game called "Operation: Aliens — Combat Game", in which up to four players play as Colonial Marines and compete to reach the center of the board and self-destruct the Alien-infested facility. In December 2019, Swedish publisher Free League Publishing released a tabletop role-playing game called "Alien: The Role-Playing Game", featuring two game modes. An upcoming licensed board game titled "Alien: USCSS Nostromo" is set for release in 2020. However, in 2018, a French board game designer named François Bachelart accused the game's publisher, Wonder Dice, of theft of a game concept he pitched to them years prior. Wonder Dice published a press release, in which they threatened to sue anyone who would question their legal practices.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: An "Alien"-themed attraction debuted at the Genting SkyWorlds Theme Park in Malaysia in February 2022. The Park, previously known as '20th Century Fox World', has faced significant delays during construction, however, a licensing deal with Fox and new parent company The Walt Disney Company was reached. Pre-show footage of the ride was released online, and appears to detail a Weyland-Yutani themed drop tower attraction.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: "Alien" was also previously represented in The Great Movie Ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World from 1989 until the attraction's closure in 2017. The attraction featured a scene based on the first film, in which riders were taken through the "Nostromo", encountering Audio-Animatronic representations of Ripley and a Xenomorph.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: Inspired by the Dark Horse Comics series, the filmmakers of "Predator 2" (1990) incorporated an easter egg in which an Alien skull was seen in a Predator trophy case. Expansions upon this shared universe between the "Alien" and "Predator" franchises followed through comics and video games, leading up to the launch of a film franchise with the release of "Alien vs. Predator" in 2004, followed by "" in 2007. The franchise has spawned various comics, novels, video games, and other merchandise based upon or inspired by the films. A third film has been variously rumored since the production of "Requiem". In mid-2018, Shane Black, the director of "The Predator", expressed his belief that a third "Alien vs. Predator" could still happen, indicating the studio's interest in both franchises, with Françoise Yip then reprising her role as Cullen Yutani from "Requiem" in a silent cameo appearance in "The Predator", after her speaking scenes were cut.


title: Alien (franchise)

text: Stuntwoman Breanna Watkins, in scenes that were filmed but not used, portrayed a masked Ellen Ripley in one alternate ending of Shane Black's "The Predator" (2018), and an unmasked adult Rebecca "Newt" Jorden in a second alternate ending, meant to tie the main "Predator" franchise to the "Alien" franchise in which the characters first appeared, in a manner separate from the pre-existing "Alien vs. Predator" franchise and incorporating the plot element of time travel; Watkins later elaborated that of the two roles portrayed, while she was serving as a stand-in for Ellen Ripley ahead of a failed attempt at a Sigourney Weaver cameo, that she had actually portrayed Newt Jorden in the original ending, and had been in early discussions about potentially reprising the role in a potential "Alien vs. Predator"-focused sequel to "The Predator".


title: Minka Kelly

text: Minka Kelly (born June 24, 1980) is an American actress and model. Her first starring role was in the NBC drama series "Friday Night Lights" (2006–2009) and she has also appeared on the shows "Parenthood" (2010–2011), "Charlie's Angels" (2011), and "Almost Human" (2013). From 2018 to 2021, Kelly portrayed Dawn Granger / Dove on the DC Universe / HBO Max series "Titans".


title: Minka Kelly

text: Kelly was born in Los Angeles. She is the only child of former Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay and the late Maureen Dumont Kelly. She was raised by her mother who worked various jobs. Kelly and her mother moved to various communities before settling in Albuquerque, New Mexico by the time Kelly was in junior high school. Kelly's mother Maureen died in 2008, at age 51, from colon cancer. Minka Kelly has French, Irish, and Dutch-Indonesian ancestry.


title: Minka Kelly

text: After graduating from Valley High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kelly returned to live in Los Angeles. While on a test shoot for a modeling agency, she was approached by a former "Playboy" Playmate who was interested in managing her. She helped Kelly find work as a receptionist at a surgeon's office who would provide Kelly breast augmentation in exchange for hours worked. Kelly decided against getting the surgery and was fired. Her exposure to the medical field spurred her to attend school for a year studying to become a surgeon's assistant; afterwards she worked as a scrub technician. During the four years she spent in the vocation she continued auditioning for film and television roles.


title: Minka Kelly

text: In 2003, Kelly made her acting debut as an extra in the short film "The Turbo Charged Prelude for 2 Fast 2 Furious", a six-minute introduction to the action film "2 Fast 2 Furious". This was followed by a special guest appearance on "Cracking Up". She has since appeared in a number of television shows such as "Entourage", "Drake & Josh", and "American Dreams". In 2005, Kelly landed a three episode recurring role in The WB comedy series "What I Like About You".


title: Minka Kelly

text: In April 2006, Kelly was cast as a series regular on the NBC drama series "Friday Night Lights". The show was based on the high school football film of the same name; it follows a high school football team in the fictional small town of Dillon. Kelly played the role of high school student and cheerleader Lyla Garrity. In preparation for her role as a cheerleader she trained with the Pflugerville High School cheerleading squad. The series premiered on October 3, 2006, with Kelly receiving praise for her performance with "The New York Times" calling her performance "heartbreaking." At the end of the show's third season Kelly left the series as her character left for college.


title: Minka Kelly

text: In 2006, Kelly starred in the horror slasher film "The Pumpkin Karver" as Tammy Boyles, and had a bit role in "State's Evidence". In 2007, she reunited with "Friday Night Lights" creator Peter Berg in the film "The Kingdom" in a cameo role as Ms. Ross alongside Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner. In 2009, she also appeared in the final scene of the film "500 Days of Summer" as Autumn, a potential new love interest to Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character.


title: Minka Kelly

text: In August 2008, Kelly had been cast as the protagonist in The CW pilot series "Body Politic". She played the role of Francesca "Frankie" Foster, who moves to Washington, D.C. to work for a senator and befriends a group of eager up-and-comers. Despite acclaim from critics who viewed the pilot, The CW did not pick up the series. Kelly also appeared in the pilot for the short-lived CBS comedy series "Mad Love" playing the role of Kate, a Midwestern girl who falls in love with Henry at the top of the Empire State Building. When the series was picked up, Kelly was replaced by Sarah Chalke.


title: Minka Kelly

text: In April 2010, Kelly appeared on the NBC drama series "Parenthood". She played the role of a behavioral aide to the child character Max who is diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. Kelly went on to appear in nine episodes of the show before making her final appearance in the episode "Taking the Leap" which aired on March 29, 2011. In the same year, Kelly was named "Sexiest Woman Alive" in the annual "Esquire" magazine feature. She accepted a role in the Off Broadway play "Love, Loss, and What I Wore" for an April 27–29, 2011, run with Conchata Ferrell, AnnaLynne McCord, Anne Meara, and B. Smith.


title: Minka Kelly

text: In December 2010, ABC announced that Kelly was cast in the planned reboot of the crime drama series "Charlie's Angels". She played the role of street racer Eve French. The pilot was filmed in March 2011 and the series was picked up on May 13, 2011. "Charlie's Angels" premiered on September 22, 2011, to over 8.76 million viewers. The series received unanimously negative reviews from critics. Despite a planned 13 episodes, ABC cancelled the series after the premiere of the fourth episode due to low ratings. The series concluded on November 10, 2011.


title: Minka Kelly

text: Kelly starred in the 2011 thriller "The Roommate" as a college freshman whose roommate, portrayed by Leighton Meester, has an obsession with her that turns violent. Although released to generally negative reviews, the film went on to make over $15.6 million in its opening weekend and over $40 million worldwide.


title: Minka Kelly

text: "Variety" announced that Kelly was cast as the lead in the mystery comedy movie "Searching for Sonny". The film follows two reunited friends who are suspects in a murder mystery that is similar to a play in which they appeared during high school. Production took place in May and June 2010 in Fort Worth, Texas. The film won the "Best Narrative Feature" Award at the Festivus Film Festival.


title: Minka Kelly

text: She joined an eight-day, four-country United Service Organizations tour in December 2011 with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey, Robert Horry, Jordin Sparks, Thomas Miles, and Sergeant Major Bryan Battaglia. In February 2012, she was one of the celebrities who modeled in red dresses for The Heart Truth Red Dress Collection show, part of New York Fashion Week. She wore a Diane von Fürstenberg dress. In June 2012, Kelly appeared in the music video for "One More Night" by Maroon 5. In 2013, Kelly appeared in the film "The Butler" as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.


title: Minka Kelly

text: In September 2017, it was announced that Kelly had been cast on the DC Universe series "Titans" in a recurring role as Dawn Granger / Dove. The series premiered on October 12, 2018. Kelly was promoted to a series regular for the second season in September 2019. In May 2018, Kelly appeared in the video game "" as North, the right-hand woman and potential love interest of protagonist Markus.


title: Minka Kelly

text: Kelly will co-star alongside Maggie Grace and Dermot Mulroney in the upcoming psychological thriller "Blackwater Lane", an adaptation of the 2017 novel "The Breakdown" by B.A. Paris.


title: Minka Kelly

text: Kelly enjoys cooking and baking. She graduated from the New School of Cooking in Culver City, California, in June 2015.


title: Nasdaq

text: The Nasdaq Stock Market () (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations Stock Market) is an American stock exchange based in New York City. It is the most active stock trading venue in the US by volume, and ranked second on the list of stock exchanges by market capitalization of shares traded, behind the New York Stock Exchange. The exchange platform is owned by Nasdaq, Inc., which also owns the Nasdaq Nordic stock market network and several U.S.-based stock and options exchanges.


title: Nasdaq

text: "Nasdaq" was initially an acronym for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. It was founded in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), now known as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). On February 8, 1971, the Nasdaq stock market began operations as the world's first electronic stock market. At first, it was merely a "quotation system" and did not provide a way to perform electronic trades.


title: Nasdaq

text: The NASDAQ Stock Market eventually assumed the majority of major trades that had been executed by the over-the-counter (OTC) system of trading, but there are still many securities traded in this fashion. As late as 1987, the Nasdaq exchange was still commonly referred to as "OTC" in media reports and also in the monthly Stock Guides (stock guides and procedures) issued by Standard & Poor's Corporation. Over the years, it became more of a stock market by adding trade and volume reporting and automated trading systems. In 1981, Nasdaq traded 37% of the U.S. securities markets' total of 21 billion shares. By 1991, Nasdaq's share had grown to 46%. In 1992, the Nasdaq Stock Market joined with the London Stock Exchange to form the first intercontinental linkage of capital markets. In 1998, it became the first stock market in the United States to trade online, using the slogan "the stock market for the next hundred years". The Nasdaq Stock Market attracted many companies during the dot-com bubble.


title: Nasdaq

text: Its main index is the NASDAQ Composite, which has been published since its inception. The QQQ exchange-traded fund tracks the large-cap NASDAQ-100 index, which was introduced in 1985 alongside the NASDAQ Financial-100 Index, which tracks the largest 100 companies in terms of market capitalization.


title: Nasdaq

text: On March 10, 2000, the NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaked at 5,132.52, but fell to 3,227 by April 17, and, in the following 30 months, fell 78% from its peak.


title: Nasdaq

text: In a series of sales in 2000 and 2001, FINRA sold its stake in the Nasdaq. On July 2, 2002, Nasdaq Inc. became a public company via an initial public offering. In 2006, the status of the Nasdaq Stock Market was changed from a stock market to a licensed national securities exchange. In 2007, it merged with OMX, a leading exchange operator in the Nordic countries, expanded its global footprint, and changed its name to the NASDAQ OMX Group.


title: Nasdaq

text: To qualify for listing on the exchange, a company must be registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), must have at least three market makers (financial firms that act as brokers or dealers for specific securities) and must meet minimum requirements for assets, capital, public shares, and shareholders.


title: Nasdaq

text: In February 2011, in the wake of an announced merger of NYSE Euronext with Deutsche Börse, speculation developed that NASDAQ OMX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) could mount a counter-bid of their own for NYSE. NASDAQ OMX could be looking to acquire the American exchange's cash equities business, ICE the derivatives business. At the time, "NYSE Euronext's market value was $9.75 billion. Nasdaq was valued at $5.78 billion, while ICE was valued at $9.45 billion." Late in the month, Nasdaq was reported to be considering asking either ICE or the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to join in what would probably have to be, if it proceeded, an $11–12 billion counterbid.


title: Nasdaq

text: In December 2005, NASDAQ acquired Instinet for $1.9 billion, retaining the Inet ECN and subsequently selling the agency brokerage business to Silver Lake Partners and Instinet management.


title: Nasdaq

text: The European Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System (EASDAQ) was founded as a European equivalent to the Nasdaq Stock Market. It was purchased by NASDAQ in 2001 and became NASDAQ Europe. In 2003, operations were shut down as a result of the burst of the dot-com bubble. In 2007, NASDAQ Europe was revived first as Equiduct and was acquired by Börse Berlin later that year.


title: Nasdaq

text: On June 18, 2012, Nasdaq OMX became a founding member of the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative on the eve of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20).


title: Nasdaq

text: In November 2016, chief operating officer Adena Friedman was promoted to chief executive officer, becoming the first woman to run a major exchange in the U.S.


title: Nasdaq

text: In October 2018, the SEC ruled that the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq did not justify the continued price increases when selling market data.


title: Nasdaq

text: In December 2020, NASDAQ announced that it would strip its indexes of four Chinese companies in response to Executive Order 13959.


title: Nasdaq

text: Nasdaq 100 futures are traded on the CME (Chicago Merchantile Exchange) while its derivatives, E-Mini Nasdaq 100 and Micro E-Mini Nasdaq 100 futures are traded on the EMiniCME. Below are the contract specifications for the nasdaq 100 and derivatives.


title: CNN

text: CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.


title: CNN

text: As of September 2018, CNN had 90.1 million television households as subscribers (97.7% of households with cable). According to Nielsen, in June 2021 CNN ranked third in viewership among cable news networks, behind Fox News and MSNBC, averaging 580,000 viewers throughout the day, down 49% from a year earlier, amid sharp declines in viewers across all cable news networks. While CNN ranked 14th among all basic cable networks in 2019, then jumped to 7th during a major surge for the three largest cable news networks (completing a rankings streak of Fox News at number 5 and MSNBC at number 6 for that year), it settled back to number 11 in 2021.


title: CNN

text: Globally, CNN programming has aired through CNN International, seen by viewers in over 212 countries and territories; since May 2019, however, the US domestic version has absorbed international news coverage in order to reduce programming costs. The American version, sometimes referred to as CNN (US), is also available in Canada, some islands of the Caribbean and in Japan, where it was first broadcast on CNNj in 2003, with simultaneous translation in Japanese.


title: CNN

text: The Cable News Network launched at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on June 1, 1980. After an introduction by Ted Turner, the husband and wife team of David Walker and Lois Hart anchored the channel's first newscast. Burt Reinhardt, the executive vice president of CNN, hired most of the channel's first 200 employees, including the network's first news anchor, Bernard Shaw.


title: CNN

text: Since its debut, CNN has expanded its reach to several cable and satellite television providers, websites, and specialized closed-circuit channels (such as CNN Airport). The company has 42 bureaus (11 domestic, 31 international), more than 900 affiliated local stations (which also receive news and features content via the video newswire service CNN Newsource), and several regional and foreign-language networks around the world. The channel's success made a bona-fide mogul of founder Ted Turner and set the stage for conglomerate Time Warner's (later WarnerMedia which merged with Discovery Inc. forming Warner Bros. Discovery) eventual acquisition of the Turner Broadcasting System in 1996.


title: CNN

text: CNN's current weekday schedule consists mostly of rolling news programming during daytime hours, followed by in-depth news and information programs during the evening and prime time hours. The network's morning programming consists of "Early Start", an early-morning news program hosted by Christine Romans and Laura Jarrett at 5–6 a.m. ET, which is followed by "CNN This Morning", the network's morning show, hosted by Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins at 6–9 a.m. ET. Most of CNN's late-morning and early afternoon programming consists of "CNN Newsroom", a rolling news program hosted by Jim Sciutto in the morning and by Ana Cabrera, Victor Blackwell, and Alisyn Camerota in the afternoon. In between the editions of "Newsroom", "At This Hour with Kate Bolduan" airs at 11 a.m.–noon ET, followed by "Inside Politics", hosted by John King at noon–1 p.m. ET.


title: CNN

text: CNN's late afternoon and early evening lineup consists of "The Lead with Jake Tapper" at 4–5 p.m. ET and "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" at 5–7 p.m. ET. The network's evening and prime time lineup shifts towards more in-depth programming, including "Erin Burnett OutFront" at 7 p.m. ET, "Anderson Cooper 360°" at 8 p.m. ET, and "CNN Tonight" at 10 p.m. ET.


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text: Weekend primetime—from 9 p.m. ET on Saturday and 8 p.m. ET on Sunday—is dedicated mostly to factual programming, such as documentary specials and miniseries, and documentary-style reality series (such as "" and "United Shades of America"), as well as acquired documentary films presented under the banner "CNN Films". The network's weekend morning programming consists of "CNN Newsroom" (simulcast from CNN International) at 4–6 a.m. ET every Saturday and 3–6 a.m. ET every Sunday, which is followed by the weekend editions of "CNN This Morning", hosted by Amara Walker and Boris Sanchez, which airs every Saturday at 6–9 a.m. ET and Sunday at 6–8 a.m. ET, and the network's Saturday program "Smerconish" with Michael Smerconish at 9 a.m. ET. Sunday morning lineup consists primarily of political talk shows, including "Inside Politics Sunday", hosted by Abby Phillip at 8 a.m. ET, "State of the Union", co-hosted by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash at 9 a.m. ET and repeated at noon ET, and the international affairs program "Fareed Zakaria GPS", hosted by Fareed Zakaria at 10 a.m. ET and repeated at 1 p.m. ET. Weekend programming other than aforementioned slots is filled with "CNN Newsroom" by Fredricka Whitfield, Jim Acosta, Pamela Brown, and other rolling anchors.


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text: For the 2014–15 season, after cancelling "Piers Morgan Tonight" (which, itself, replaced the long-running "Larry King Live"), CNN experimented with running factual and reality-style programming during the 9:00 p.m. ET hour, such as John Walsh's "The Hunt", "This Is Life with Lisa Ling", and Mike Rowe's "Somebody's Gotta Do It". Then-president Jeff Zucker explained that this new lineup was intended to shift CNN away from a reliance on pundit-oriented programs, and attract younger demographics to the network. Zucker stated that the 9:00 p.m. hour could be pre-empted during major news events for expanded coverage. These changes coincided with the introduction of a new imaging campaign for the network, featuring the slogan "Go there". In May 2014, CNN premiered "The Sixties", a documentary miniseries produced by Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman which chronicled the United States in the 1960s. Owing to its success, CNN commissioned follow-ups focusing on other decades. "Anderson Cooper 360°" was expanded to run two hours long, from 8 PM to 10 PM.


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text: By 2019, CNN had produced at least 35 original series. Alongside the Hanks/Goetzman franchise (including the 2018 spin-off "1968"), CNN has aired other documentary miniseries relating to news and U.S. policies, such as "The Bush Years", and "American Dynasties: The Kennedys"—which saw the highest ratings of any CNN original series premiere to-date, with 1.7 million viewers. "Parts Unknown" concluded after the 2018 suicide of its host Anthony Bourdain; CNN announced several new miniseries and docuseries for 2019, including "American Style" (a miniseries produced by the digital media company Vox Media), "The Redemption Project with Van Jones", "Chasing Life with Sanjay Gupta", "Tricky Dick" (a miniseries chronicling Richard Nixon), "The Movies" (a spin-off of the Hanks/Goetzman decades miniseries), and "Once in a Great City: Detroit 1962–64".


title: CNN

text: With the takeover of CNN by Chris Licht and Warner Bros. Discovery, it was announced in October 2022 that CNN would cut back on acquisitions and commissions from third-parties as a cost-cutting measure, but Licht stressed that "longform content remains an important pillar of our programming", while the network announced a slate for 2023 that would include commissions such as "Giuliani: What Happened to America’s Mayor?", "United States of Scandal", and "The 2010s".


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text: CNN began broadcasting in the high-definition 1080i resolution format in September 2007. This format is now standard for CNN and is available on all major cable and satellite providers.


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text: CNN's political coverage in HD was first given mobility by the introduction of the CNN Election Express bus in October 2007. The Election Express vehicle, capable of five simultaneous HD feeds, was used for the channel's CNN-YouTube presidential debates and for presidential candidate interviews.


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text: In December 2008, CNN introduced a comprehensive redesign of its on-air appearance, which replaced an existing style that had been used since 2004. On-air graphics took a rounded, flat look in a predominantly black, white, and red color scheme, and the introduction of a new box next to the CNN logo for displaying show logos and segment-specific graphics, rather than as a large banner above the lower-third. The redesign also replaced the scrolling ticker with a static "flipper", which could either display a feed of news headlines (both manually inserted and taken from the RSS feeds of CNN.com), or "topical" details related to a story.


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text: CNN's next major redesign was introduced on January 10, 2011, replacing the dark, flat appearance of the 2008 look with a glossier, blue and white color scheme, and moving the secondary logo box to the opposite end of the screen. Additionally, the network began to solely produce its programming in the aspect ratio, with standard definition feeds using a letterboxed version of the HD feed. On February 18, 2013, the "flipper" was dropped and reverted to a scrolling ticker; originally displayed as a blue background with white text, the ticker was reconfigured a day later with blue text on a white background to match the look of the 'flipper'.


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text: On August 11, 2014, CNN introduced a new graphics package, dropping the glossy appearance for a flat, rectangular scheme incorporating red, white, and black colors, and the Gotham typeface. The ticker now alternates between general headlines and financial news from CNN Business, and the secondary logo box was replaced with a smaller box below the CNN bug, which displays either the title, hashtag, or Twitter handle for the show being aired or its anchor. In April 2016, CNN began to introduce a new corporate typeface, known as "CNN Sans", across all of its platforms. Inspired by Helvetica Neue and commissioned after consultations with Troika Design Group, the font family consists of 30 different versions with varying weights and widths to facilitate use across print, television, and digital mediums.


title: CNN

text: In August 2016, CNN announced the launch of CNN Aerial Imagery and Reporting (CNN AIR), a drone-based news collecting operation to integrate aerial imagery and reporting across all CNN branches and platforms, along with Turner Broadcasting and Time Warner entities.


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text: On July 27, 2012, CNN president Jim Walton announced he was resigning after 30 years at the network. Walton remained with CNN until the end of that year. In January 2013, former NBCUniversal President Jeff Zucker replaced Walton.


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text: On January 29, 2013, longtime political analysts James Carville and Mary Matalin, and fellow political contributor Erick Erickson were let go by CNN.


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text: In February 2022, Zucker was asked to resign by Jason Kilar, the chief executive of CNN's owner WarnerMedia, after Zucker's relationship with one of his lieutenants was discovered during the investigation into former CNN primetime host Chris Cuomo's efforts to control potentially damaging reporting regarding his brother Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York. Kilar announced that the interim co-heads would be executive vice presidents Michael Bass, Amy Entelis, and Ken Jautz. On February 26, 2022, it was announced that Chris Licht—known for his work at MSNBC and CBS—would be the next president of CNN; he was planned to be instated after the spin off and merger of WarnerMedia into Discovery Inc. Licht started his tenure in May 2022.


title: CNN

text: CNN launched its website, CNN.com (initially known as "CNN Interactive"), on August 30, 1995. The site attracted growing interest over its first decade and is now one of the most popular news websites in the world. The widespread growth of blogs, social media and user-generated content have influenced the site, and blogs in particular have focused CNN's previously scattershot online offerings, most noticeably in the development and launch of CNN Pipeline in late 2005.


title: CNN

text: In April 2009, CNN.com ranked third place among online global news sites in unique users in the U.S., according to Nielsen/NetRatings; with an increase of 11% over the previous year.


title: CNN

text: CNN Pipeline was the name of a paid subscription service, its corresponding website, and a content delivery client that provided streams of live video from up to four sources (or "pipes"), on-demand access to CNN stories and reports, and optional pop-up "news alerts" to computer users. The installable client was available to users of PCs running Microsoft Windows. There was also a browser-based "web client" that did not require installation. The service was discontinued in July 2007, and was replaced with a free streaming service.


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text: On April 18, 2008, CNN.com was targeted by Chinese hackers in retaliation for the channel's coverage on the 2008 Tibetan unrest. CNN reported that they took preventive measures after news broke of the impending attack.


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text: The company was honored at the 2008 Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for development and implementation of an integrated and portable IP-based live, edit and store-and-forward digital news gathering (DNG) system. The first use of what would later win CNN this award was in April 2001 when CNN correspondent Lisa Rose Weaver covered, and was detained, for the release of the U.S. Navy crew of a damaged electronic surveillance plane after the Hainan Island incident. The technology consisted of a videophone produced by 7E Communications Ltd of London, UK. This DNG workflow is used today by the network to receive material worldwide using an Apple MacBook Pro, various prosumer and professional digital cameras, software from Streambox Inc., and BGAN terminals from Hughes Network Systems.


title: CNN

text: On October 24, 2009, CNN launched a new version of the CNN.com website; the revamped site included the addition of a new "sign up" option, in which users can create their own username and profile, and a new "CNN Pulse" (beta) feature, along with a new red color theme. However, most of the news stories archived on the website were deleted.


title: CNN

text: The topical news program "Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics" was the first CNN program to feature a round-up of blogs in 2005. Blog coverage was expanded when "Inside Politics" was folded into "The Situation Room" ("Inside Politics" later returned to CNN in 2014, this time hosted by the network's chief national correspondent John King.). In 2006, CNN launched CNN Exchange and CNN iReport, initiatives designed to further introduce and centralize the impact of everything from blogging to citizen journalism within the CNN brand. CNN iReport which features user-submitted photos and video, has achieved considerable traction, with increasingly professional-looking reports filed by amateur journalists, many still in high school or college. The iReport gained more prominence when observers of the Virginia Tech shootings sent-in first hand photos of what was going on during the shootings.


title: CNN

text: In April 2010, CNN announced via Twitter that it would launch a food blog called "Eatocracy," which will "cover all news related to food – from recalls to health issues to culture". CNN had an internet relay chat (IRC) network at chat.cnn.com. CNN placed a live chat with Benjamin Netanyahu on the network in 1998.


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text: CNNHealth consists of expert doctors answering viewers' questions online at CNN's "The Chart" blog website. Contributors include Drs. Sanjay Gupta (Chief Medical Correspondent), Charles Raison (Mental Health Expert), Otis Brawley (Conditions Expert), Melina Jampolis (Diet and Fitness Expert), Jennifer Shu (Living Well Expert), and Elizabeth Cohen (Senior Medical Correspondent).


title: CNN

text: In early 2008, CNN began maintaining a live streaming broadcast available to cable and satellite subscribers who receive CNN at home (a precursor to the TV Everywhere services that would become popularized by cable and satellite providers beginning with Time Warner's incorporation of the medium). CNN International is broadcast live, as part of the RealNetworks SuperPass subscription service outside the U.S. CNN also offers several RSS feeds and podcasts.


title: CNN

text: CNN also has multiple channels in the popular video-sharing site YouTube, but those videos can only be viewed in the United States, a source of criticism among YouTube users worldwide. In 2014, CNN launched a radio version of their television programming on TuneIn Radio. The network also hosts CNN-10, a daily 10-minute video show visible at the CNN website or YouTube. It replaced the long-running show CNN Student News which had been aired since 1989. It is aimed at a global audience of students, teachers, and adults, and was hosted by Carl Azuz.In fall of 2022, Carl Azuz was replaced by Coy Wire as the host of CNN 10, after leaving CNN due to a "personal decision" accourding to a CNN spokesperson in a newsletter published on September 18, 2022.


title: CNN

text: On March 7, 2017, CNN announced the official launch of its virtual reality unit named CNNVR. It will produce 360 videos to its Android and iOS apps within CNN Digital. It is planning to cover major news events with the online, and digital news team in New York City, Atlanta, London, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Dubai, Johannesburg, Tokyo, and Beijing.


title: CNN

text: CNN Newsource is a subscription-based affiliation video service that provides CNN content to television station affiliates with CNN, including terrestrial stations and international stations. Newsource allows affiliates to download video from CNN, as well as from other affiliates who upload their video to Newsource.


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text: CNN's digital storefront, which sells branded merchandise, household goods, and software, is operated by StackCommerce via partnership.


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text: In 2021, CNN Digital had an average of 144 million unique visitors in the United States according to Comscore, making it the most viewed digital news outlet, ahead of "The New York Times", NBC News, Fox News, "The Washington Post".


title: CNN

text: On November 28, 2016, CNN announced the acquisition of Beme for a reported $25 million. On November 29, 2016, Matt Hackett, co-founder of Beme, announced via an email to its users that the Beme app would be shutting down on January 31, 2017. Since the shutdown of the app, it was announced that CNN intended to use the current talent behind Beme to work on a separate start-up endeavor. Beme's current team will retain full creative control of the new project, which was slated to release in summer 2017. Beme have also brought on other internet stars such as the host of Vsauce 3, Jake Roper, as head of production, who features prominently in Beme co-founder Casey Neistat's vlogs. Beme News has since begun uploading news related video on YouTube.


title: CNN

text: In October 2012, CNN formed a film division called CNN Films to distribute and produce made-for-TV and feature documentaries. Its first acquisition was a documentary entitled "Girl Rising", a documentary narrated by Meryl Streep that focused on the struggles of girls' education.


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text: In July 2014, Cumulus Media announced that it would end its partnership with ABC News Radio, and enter into a new partnership with CNN to syndicate national and international news content for its stations through Westwood One beginning in 2015, including access to a wire service, and digital content for its station websites. This service is unbranded, allowing individual stations to integrate the content with their own news brands.


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text: As of February 2019, the audio simulcast of CNN is distributed on Entercom's Radio.com website and app.


title: CNN

text: Over the years, CNN has launched spin-off networks in the United States and other countries. Channels that currently operate include:


title: CNN

text: CNN launched two specialty news channels for the American market which would later close amid competitive pressure: the sports news channel CNNSI shut down in 2002, while business news channel CNNfn shut down after nine years on the air in December 2004. CNN had a partnership with "Sports Illustrated" through the sports website CNNSI.com, but sold the domain name in May 2015. CNNfn's former website used to redirect to money.cnn.com, a product of CNN's strategic partnership with "Money" magazine. "Money" and "Sports Illustrated" were both Time Warner properties until 2014, when the company's magazine division was spun off into the separate Time Inc.


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text: CNN also launched "Great Big Story" in November 2015 to produce content tailored toward younger viewers. It was eventually shut down in September 2020 after building a following of nearly 6 million followers on both Facebook and YouTube.


title: CNN

text: In parts of the world without a CNN bureau, reports from local affiliate stations will be used to file a story.


title: CNN

text: CNN has been involved in various controversies, criticisms and allegations since its inception in 1980. The channel is known for its dramatic live coverage of breaking news, some of which has drawn criticism as overly sensationalistic. CNN claims to be "The Most Trusted Name in News", but its efforts to be nonpartisan have led to accusations of false balance. CNN has also been accused of having a liberal bias during the presidency of Donald Trump.


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text: 2017: CNN received the Prince Rainier III Special Prize at Monte Carlo TV Festival for the documentary, "Midway: A Plastic Island" about sea pollution.


title: CNN

text: 2018: CNN received the Overseas Press Club of America David Kaplan Award for best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad for reporting on the fall of ISIS. Reporting done by Nick Paton Walsh and Arwa Damon.


title: CNN

text: 2018: CNN received the George Polk Award for Foreign Television Reporting for uncovering a hidden modern-day slave auction of African refugees in Libya. Reporting done by Nima Elbagir and Raja Razek.


title: CNN

text: 2018: CNN's Nima Elbagir to receive 2018 Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation.


title: CNN

text: 2018: CNN won a network-record six news & documentary Emmy Awards. They are, Outstanding Breaking News Coverage, Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newscast, Outstanding Live Interview, Outstanding Hard News Feature Story in a Newscast, Outstanding News Special, Outstanding Science, Medical and Environmental Report.


title: CNN

text: 2020: CNN's Ed Lavandera was awarded a Peabody for "The Hidden Workforce: Undocumented in America". CNN Films was awarded a Peabody for the documentary "Apollo 11".


title: CNN

text: 2021: CNN won a George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting for their reporting on the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China and later under quarantine in Beijing. CNN and Clarissa Ward were named finalists for the duPont-Columbia Award for their "Russia's Secret Influence Campaigns" investigation.


title: Alyssa Milano

text: Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972) is an American actress. She has played Samantha Micelli in "Who's the Boss?", Jennifer Mancini in "Melrose Place", Phoebe Halliwell in "Charmed", Billie Cunningham in "My Name Is Earl", Savannah "Savi" Davis in "Mistresses", Renata Murphy in "", and Coralee Armstrong in Netflix's "Insatiable".


title: Alyssa Milano

text: Alyssa Jayne Milano was born in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York City's Brooklyn borough on December 19, 1972, the daughter of fashion designer and talent manager Lin Milano and film music editor Thomas M. Milano. She is of Italian descent and has a brother named Cory, who is a decade younger. She was raised Catholic.


title: Alyssa Milano

text: Milano began her career at age seven, when her babysitter, without notifying her parents, took her to an audition for the national touring company of "Annie". She was one of four selected from more than 1,500 girls. During the course of her work in the play, Milano and her mother were on the road for 18 months. After returning to New York, Milano appeared in television commercials, and performed several roles in off-Broadway productions, including the first American musical adaptation of "Jane Eyre". When accompanying a friend from the "Annie" production to the office of a New York agent, Milano was introduced to the agent, who began representing her. She does not feel that growing up in front of the camera harmed her childhood and has said: "I love my family very much – they've really backed my career. I consider myself to be normal: I've got to clean my room, and help in the kitchen."


title: Alyssa Milano

text: In August 1984, Milano made her film debut in the coming-of-age drama "Old Enough", which she recalled as a "great" way for "starting out". The film was screened at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won First Prize.


title: Alyssa Milano

text: Milano auditioned as Tony Danza's daughter on the sitcom "Who's the Boss?" After winning the part, she and her family moved to Los Angeles, where the show was produced. It premiered on ABC on September 20, 1984. Throughout "Who's the Boss?", Milano developed a close relationship with co-star Danza. Commenting on their early years together, Danza observed: "She was just the sweetest little girl of all time ... She became much like my daughter." The series established Milano as a teen idol, and provided her opportunities for other roles. Her education was split between school and an on-set tutor with whom Milano would work for three hours a day.


title: Alyssa Milano

text: At age 12, Milano co-starred in "Commando" as Jenny Matrix, the daughter of John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger). Subsequently, she starred in the children's film "The Canterville Ghost", which did not achieve much praise or attention and "Variety" magazine noted in its review: "Milano as the catalyzing daughter Jennifer adapts to the ghostly Sir Simon without a qualm; that, of course, is the true charm of the story, but Milano doesn't exhibit enough presence to match the droll, charming Gielgud".


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text: A few years later this film was shown in Japan, prompting a producer to offer Milano a five-album record deal. Milano's albums, which she described as "bubblegum pop", scored platinum in the country, though she later criticised their musical quality. She has noted her love of English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) during her teenage years.


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text: On stage, Milano starred in "Tender Offer", a one-act play written by Wendy Wasserstein, "All Night Long" by American playwright John O'Keefe, and the first American musical adaptation of "Jane Eyre". She returned to the theater in 1991, producing and starring in a Los Angeles production of "Butterflies Are Free" from December 26, 1991, to January 19, 1992.


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text: Milano starred in two 1988 television films, "Crash Course" and "Dance 'til Dawn". Both projects allowed her to work alongside close personal friend Brian Bloom, who worked with his brother Scott with her in episodes of "Who's the Boss"; this working camaraderie would later expand in 1993 when Milano made a cameo appearance in Bloom's film "The Webbers". She produced a teen workout video, "Teen Steam", and achieved some fame outside the US with her music career, which lasted until the early 1990s. Even though she scored platinum in Japan, Milano had no interest to pursue a music career in the United States: "I'm not interested in crossing over. I'd much rather have it released where it's appreciated than laughed at." Simultaneously, she wrote a weekly column called "From Alyssa, with love" for the teen magazine "Teen Machine".


title: Alyssa Milano

text: Milano played a teenage prostitute in the 1992 independent film "Where the Day Takes You". The film, which focuses on a group of young runaway and homeless teenagers, was shot on and around Hollywood Boulevard. and was met with positive critical reception. It was nominated for the Critics Award at the Deauville Film Festival, and won the Golden Space Needle Award at the Seattle International Film Festival.


title: Alyssa Milano

text: Although Milano feared that viewers would only recognize her as "the girl from "Who's the Boss?"", she was noticed by the media, which helped her land the role of Amy Fisher in the high-profile TV movie "", one of three TV films based on Fisher's shooting of Mary Jo Buttafuoco. Milano said that her portrayal of Fisher in the film, which was based on the Buttafuoco's point of view, "was the least 'Alyssa' of anything [she had] done." The film was shot from November–December 1992. She welcomed the cancellation of the series, as she was ready to move on to other roles and enthusiastic to "showcase" what she was able to do. Looking back on eight years of playing the same role, Milano commented, "Creatively, it's been very frustrating. I gave her more of a personality. I changed her wardrobe, cut her hair, anything to give her new life."


title: Alyssa Milano

text: In the early 1990s, Milano auditioned for nearly every film role in her age bracket, including B movies, and finally tried to shed her "nice girl" image by appearing nude in several erotic films targeted at adults, such as "Embrace of the Vampire", "Deadly Sins" and "". She said the nude appearances taught her to begin requiring a nudity clause in her contracts giving her "full control" over all her nude scenes. In a 1995 interview, she explained her motivation for some explicit scenes in "Embrace of the Vampire": "I'm not going to say that I was manipulated into doing things that I didn't want to do. I did it because it was a woman director and I felt protected. And I learned a lot as far as knowing where the camera is and what coverage they need so that it's not all explicit."


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text: She starred in other roles, such as "Candles in the Dark", "Confessions of a Sorority Girl", "The Surrogate", "To Brave Alaska" and "Fear", which did not receive very positive reviews, although Jack Matthews of the "Los Angeles Times" called Milano's performance in "Fear" "very good".


title: Alyssa Milano

text: In late 1996, Milano was offered a role of Jennifer Mancini on the drama "Melrose Place" by producer Aaron Spelling: "We were looking for someone with sparkle. Alyssa was the perfect choice." She left early in season seven. In 1998, she was cast as Phoebe Halliwell, one of the three lead characters on Spelling's show "Charmed". She and Holly Marie Combs became producers for the show during season four. The series ran for eight seasons, concluding in 2006.


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text: In the early 2000s, Milano played Eva Savelot in MCI Inc. commercials for that company's 1-800-COLLECT campaign.


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text: In 2007, Milano's commercial work included two 2007 television ads for Veet and Sheer Cover. That year, she filmed a pilot for ABC called "Reinventing the Wheelers", which was not picked up for the 2007–08 season. That season she appeared in ten episodes of "My Name Is Earl".


title: Alyssa Milano

text: Milano was part of TBS's special coverage installment "Hot Corner" for the 2007 Major League Baseball playoffs. A fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers, in April 2007, Milano began writing a baseball blog on the Major League Baseball's website. That year she reported at Fenway Park during the ALDS between the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.


title: Alyssa Milano

text: The same year, she launched her signature "Touch" line of team apparel for female baseball fans, selling it through her blog on Major League Baseball's website. It also became available in 2009 through a boutique store located in Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets. She has an interest in the Los Angeles Kings, a National Hockey League team, and is involved with a related clothing line. In 2008, she expanded that to NFL football, as a New York Giants fan. Since Milano is from the same hometown as NFL Network's Rich Eisen, she revealed some of her family's connections with the Giants. In 2013, Milano expanded "Touch" into NASCAR.


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text: On March 20, 2009, it was announced that Milano voiced Dr. Ilyssa Selwyn in "". In a 2010 interview she told the press that she had 'a blast' working on the game, although she recalled it being 'odd' having to grunt in a room alone. On March 24, 2009, her book on her baseball fandom, "Safe At Home: Confessions of a Baseball Fanatic", was released. Milano has signed on to star in and produce "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend", a romantic comedy in which she plays a woman with a relationship dilemma. Milano starred in the sitcom "Romantically Challenged" as Rebecca Thomas, a recently divorced single mother attorney in Pittsburgh who has not dated "since Bill Clinton was president". The series premiered on ABC on April 19, 2010. The series was canceled after airing four episodes. Milano produced and led the cast of Lifetime's TV film "Sundays at Tiffany's". which was her second collaboration with Lifetime, after "Wisegal" (2008).


title: Alyssa Milano

text: In 2013, Milano created the comic book series "Hacktivist", which was written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, drawn by Marcus To, and published by Archaia Entertainment. The book, which explores the modern world of hacking and global activism, is described as "a fast-paced cyber-thriller about friendship and freedom in a time of war". The publication was released digitally in late 2013, while the first print edition issue of the four-issue miniseries was published in January 2014. A hardcover edition collecting all four issues was released in July 2014. The series received positive reviews, as it holds a score of 8.1 out of 10 at the review aggregator website Comic Book Roundup.