title: Tom Berenger

text: Tom Berenger (born Thomas Michael Moore; May 31, 1949) is an American actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes in "Platoon" (1986). He is also known for playing Jake Taylor in the "Major League" films and Thomas Beckett in the "Sniper" films. Other films he appeared in include "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" (1977), "The Dogs of War" (1980), "The Big Chill" (1983), "Eddie and the Cruisers" (1983), "Betrayed" (1988), "The Field" (1990), "Gettysburg" (1993), "The Substitute" (1996), "One Man's Hero" (1999), "Training Day" (2001), and "Inception" (2010).


title: Tom Berenger

text: Berenger won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his performance as Jim Vance in the 2012 miniseries "Hatfields & McCoys".


title: Tom Berenger

text: Berenger was born as Thomas Michael Moore in Chicago, on May 31, 1949, to a Catholic family of Irish ancestry with his great-grandfather and grandmother settling in Chicago. He has a sister, Susan. His father was a printer for the "Chicago Sun-Times" and a traveling salesman.


title: Tom Berenger

text: Moore graduated in 1967 from Rich East High School in Park Forest, Illinois. He studied journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, but decided to seek an acting career following his graduation in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.


title: Tom Berenger

text: He worked in regional theatre and in 1972, he worked as a flight attendant with Eastern Airlines, based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He transferred to New York in 1973.


title: Tom Berenger

text: Moore selected "Berenger" as his professional name after he was forced to change his surname professionally, as there was already a "Tom Moore" in the Actors' Equity Association.


title: Tom Berenger

text: Berenger worked in soap operas and had a starring role as lawyer Tim Siegel on "One Life to Live". His feature film debut was the lead in "Rush It" (1976), an independent film. In 1977, he had a small role as the killer of the lead character (played by Diane Keaton) in "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" based on the murder of schoolteacher Roseann Quinn. In 1978, he had a starring role in "In Praise of Older Women" for Avco-Embassy Pictures. In 1979, he played Butch Cassidy in "Butch and Sundance: The Early Days", a role he got in part because of his resemblance to Paul Newman, who played the character in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969).


title: Tom Berenger

text: Berenger starred in several significant films in the 1980s, including "The Big Chill" (1983), "Eddie and the Cruisers" (1983), "Rustlers' Rhapsody" (1985), "Platoon" (1986), "Someone to Watch Over Me" (1987), "Shoot to Kill" (1988), and "Major League" (1989). In 1986, he received an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Staff Sergeant Barnes in "Platoon" (this performance won him a Golden Globe Award for "Best Supporting Actor"). A role for which he has become well known for is Thomas Beckett, the main character in the mid-1990s film "Sniper" (which would later be followed by six sequels, featuring Berenger in the starring role for four). Other notable films from that period in which he was featured include "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989), "Shattered" (1991), "Sliver" (1993), and "Chasers" (1994). When asked in a 1999 interview to name his favorite film out of those in which he had acted, Berenger said it was too difficult to choose but that the one he had watched most frequently was his 1993 film "Gettysburg", where he played the role of General James Longstreet.


title: Tom Berenger

text: He established the Tom Berenger Acting Scholarship Fund in 1988 to award theatre students for excellence in performance.


title: Tom Berenger

text: In more recent years, Berenger has continued to have an active acting career in film and television, although often at a supporting level. One of his most notable television appearances was on "Cheers" in its last season as Rebecca Howe's blue collar-plumber love interest, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series". He also began a career as a producer in the 1990s. Berenger co-produced the 1997 miniseries "Rough Riders", also starring as Theodore Roosevelt.


title: Tom Berenger

text: Berenger was also seen on the box art and promotional content for Novalogic's "Delta Force: Black Hawk Down", as his roles in "Sniper 2" and "Sniper 3" were very similar to what was chosen for the game's artwork. He starred in the mini-series version of Stephen King's "Nightmares & Dreamscapes", as a celebrated author who realizes the warped painting he recently purchased is alive with illustrations of impending doom for him in "The Road Virus Heads North". Berenger stars opposite Armand Assante and Busta Rhymes in the dramatic thriller "Breaking Point", which had a limited release starting in December 2009.


title: Tom Berenger

text: Berenger appeared in the 2010 science fiction thriller "Inception" with Leonardo DiCaprio and Cillian Murphy, where he played a business executive who served as a mentor to and was an associate of the father of Murphy's character. It was his first major film role since "Training Day" in 2001. In 2012 he appeared in the TV miniseries "Hatfields & McCoys" as Jim Vance, uncle of protagonist Devil Anse Hatfield (played by Kevin Costner). On September 23, 2012 Berenger earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for the role.


title: Tom Berenger

text: Berenger married four times and has six children. He has two children by his first wife, Barbara Wilson, to whom he was married from 1976 to 1984: Allison Moore (born 1977) and Patrick Moore (born 1979). He has three daughters by second wife Lisa Williams (to whom he was married from 1986 to 1997): Chelsea Moore (born 1986), Chloe Moore (born 1988) and Shiloh Moore (born 1993). He has a daughter named Scout Moore (born 1998) with Patricia Alvaran, to whom he was married from 1998–2011. He married Laura Moretti in Sedona, Arizona, in early September 2012.


title: I Live Alone (TV series)

text: I Live Alone (), also known as Home Alone, is a South Korean entertainment program distributed and syndicated by MBC every Friday at 23:00 (KST).


title: I Live Alone (TV series)

text: "I Live Alone" is recognized as one of the "Real-Variety" shows in Korean television. The program is unscripted using documentary techniques with variety show elements, which follows the format of other reality television programs such as "Infinite Challenge", which airs on the same network.


title: I Live Alone (TV series)

text: Every Friday night, this program plays footage from selected "Rainbow Club" members' everyday lives, both in and out of their homes. As proclaimed on its homepage, there are about 5 million singles in South Korea and about one-third of South Korean entertainers are not in a relationship. This program shows viewers how single celebrities live, and has attained great popularity due to the relatability of the single lifestyles of various celebrities, which are shown without significant filtering.


title: I Live Alone (TV series)

text: Since its inception, each host of the program has gathered other celebrity guests to form a club called the "Rainbow Club" ().


title: I Live Alone (TV series)

text: In the ratings below, the highest rating for the show will be in red, and the lowest rating for the show will be in blue each year.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: Ice Age is a 2002 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios (in its debut film) and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film was directed by Chris Wedge (in his feature directorial debut) and co-directed by Carlos Saldanha from a screenplay by Michael Berg, Michael J. Wilson, and Peter Ackerman and a story by Wilson, and features the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Goran Višnjić, and Jack Black. Set during the days of the Pleistocene ice age, the film centers around three main characters—Manny (Romano), a no-nonsense woolly mammoth; Sid (Leguizamo), a loudmouthed ground sloth; and Diego (Leary), a sardonic saber-toothed cat—who come across a human baby and work together to return it to its tribe. Additionally, the film occasionally follows Scrat, a speechless "saber-toothed squirrel" (Wedge), who is perpetually searching for a place in the ground to bury his acorn.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: "Ice Age" was originally intended as a 2D animated film developed by Fox Animation Studios, but eventually became the first full-length animated film for the newly-reformed Blue Sky, which had been reshaped from a VFX house to a computer animation studio. Focus shifted from making an action-adventure drama film to a more comedy-oriented one, and several writers, such as Berg and Ackerman, were brought on to bring out a wittier tone.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: The film was released in the United States on March 15, 2002. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and was nominated at the 75th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature. It was a box office success and grossed over $383.2 million, making it the eighth highest-grossing film of 2002 and the highest-grossing animated film of 2002. It started the "Ice Age" franchise, being followed by four sequels: "" (2006), "" (2009), "" (2012), and "" (2016). A sixth installment, "The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild", was produced by Walt Disney Pictures without the involvement of Blue Sky Studios and released as a direct-to-streaming film on Disney+ in 2022. Two holiday specials were also released: 2011's "" (taking place between "Dawn of the Dinosaurs" and "Continental Drift") and 2016's "" (taking place between "Continental Drift" and "Collision Course"). Several "Ice Age" short films were also released between 2002 and 2022.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: Scrat, a squirrel, attempts to find a place to store his acorn for the winter. Eventually, as he tries to stomp it into the ground, he inadvertently causes a large crack to form in the ice that extends for miles before setting off a large avalanche which nearly crushes him. He barely escapes but finds himself getting stepped on by a herd of prehistoric animals migrating south in order to escape the forthcoming ice age. Sid, a clumsy ground sloth, is left behind by his family and decides to move on by himself, but is attacked by a pair of Brontotheres after accidentally ruining their meal and making them angry. Sid is soon rescued by Manny, a mammoth heading north, who fights the rhinos off and continues on his path. Sid joins Manny, not wanting to be alone and unprotected. Manny is annoyed by Sid's outgoing demeanor and wishes to migrate on his own, but Sid nonetheless continues to follow Manny. Meanwhile, Soto, the leader of a Smilodon pack, wants revenge on a human tribe for killing half of his pack by eating the chief's infant son, Roshan, alive. Soto leads a raid on the human camp, during which Roshan's mother flees with her son. Cornered by Soto’s lieutenant, Diego, she leaps down the waterfall with Roshan. As punishment for his failure to retrieve the boy, Diego is sent to find and retrieve him while the rest of the pack waits for him at a mountain known as Half-Peak. If he fails, he will be killed in Roshan’s place.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: Later, Sid and Manny encounter the mother struggling out of the lake, dying from her plunge. The mother only has enough strength to entrust Roshan to Manny before she dies and disappears into the water. After much persuasion by Sid, they decide to return the baby, but when they reach the human settlement, they find it deserted. They meet up with Diego, who convinces the pair to let him help by tracking the humans. Manny does not trust Diego's intentions towards the baby, so in order to keep an eye on him, decides that he will lead the way. Like Manny, Diego is also easily annoyed by Sid's chatterbox personality. The four travel on, with Diego secretly leading them to Half-Peak where his pack is waiting to ambush them.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: After encountering several misadventures on their way, with Manny slowly beginning to like Sid and trust Diego, the group reaches a cave with several cave paintings. There, Sid and Diego learn about Manny's past and his previous interactions with the human hunters, in which they slaughtered his family, consisting of his mate and child, leaving Manny a depressed loner. Later, the group almost reaches their destination, Half-Peak, only to encounter a forming river of lava. Manny and Sid, along with Roshan, make it across safely, but Diego ends up hanging on a cliff, about to fall into the lava. Manny saves him, narrowly missing certain death by falling into the lava himself. The herd takes a break for the night, and Roshan takes his first walking steps towards Diego, who starts to have a change of heart about his mission.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: The next day, the herd approaches the ambush, causing Diego, now full of respect for Manny for saving his life and having also grown to like Sid, to change his mind and confess to Manny and Sid about the ambush. As the pair turn hostile towards him, Diego pleads for their trust and tries to foil the attack. The herd battles Soto's pack, but despite their efforts, Soto and his associates manage to corner Manny. As Soto closes in for the kill on Manny, Diego jumps in the way and is injured as a result. Manny then knocks a distracted Soto into a rock wall, causing several sharp icicles to fall onto Soto, impaling and instantly killing him. Horrified, the rest of the pack retreat. Manny and Sid mourn for Diego's injury, which they believe is fatal, and continue their journey without him. The two manage to successfully return Roshan to his tribe, and to their surprise, a recovered Diego manages to rejoin them in time to see Roshan leave. The trio then begin to head off to warmer climates as best friends.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: Twenty thousand years later, Scrat, frozen in a block of ice, ends up on the shores of a tropical island. As the ice slowly melts, an acorn that was also frozen in the same ice block is washed away. Scrat then finds a coconut and tries to stomp it into the ground, only to accidentally trigger a volcanic eruption.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: The characters are all prehistoric animals. The animals can talk to and understand each other and are voiced by a variety of famous actors. Like many films of prehistoric life, the rules of time periods apply very loosely, as many of the species shown in the film never actually lived in the same time periods or the same geographic regions.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: "Ice Age" was originally pitched to 20th Century Fox in 1997 by producer Lori Forte. The film, originally envisioned as a traditionally animated movie with an action-oriented comedy-drama tone, was intended to be developed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman's Fox Animation Studios. Around the same time, Blue Sky Studios, a small visual effects studio in White Plains, New York, was bought out by Fox and reshaped into a full-fledged CG animation film studio. In light of this, Fox Animation head Chris Meledandri and executive producer Steve Bannerman approached Forte with the proposition of developing the film as a computer-animated movie, which Forte realized was "basically a no-brainer," according to her. Michael J. Wilson, who had written and developed the film's original story treatments in conjunction with Forte, wrote the first draft for the script, and Chris Wedge, a co-founder of Blue Sky, was brought on to the project as the director in late 1998. Fox also opted for the movie to take a more comedy-oriented direction, and brought writer Michael Berg to help emphasize a more comedic tone. After being hired, Berg reportedly told the studio that he couldn't write a film made for children, to which the studio responded, "Great! Just write a good story."


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: Story development began in spring of 1999, and official production on the film began in June 2000, one week after the closure of Fox Animation Studios. 150 employees were hired to work on the film, and a budget of $58 million was granted by Fox. Peter Ackerman was hired as a third writer for the film, and collaborated extensively with Berg for three years before the two eventually moved on from the project. Jon Vitti and Mike Reiss, both former writers for "The Simpsons", were added later on after Berg and Ackerman left to further polish the script.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: For research, the film's development team took several trips to the Museum of Natural History early on in production in order to make sure that the film authentically felt like the Ice Age. Ultimately, the team translated the information that they had compiled in their research by stylizing it in order to fit with the film's story. A team of 32 animators went out and did research to figure out the movements of different animals; for instance, for the movement of Scrat, animators visited a park and observed local squirrels, taking note of their "twitchy" way of moving.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: Michael J. Wilson stated on his blog that his daughter Flora came up with the idea for an animal that was a mixture of both squirrel and rat, naming it Scrat, and that the animal was obsessed with pursuing his acorn. The plan to have Scrat talk was quickly dropped, as he worked better as a silent character for comedic effect. The name 'Scrat' is a combination of the words 'squirrel' and 'rat', as Scrat has characteristics of both species; Wedge has also called him "saber-toothed squirrel." Scrat's opening adventure was inserted because, without it, the first real snow and ice sequence wouldn't take place until about 37 minutes into the film. This was the only role intended for Scrat, but he proved to be such a popular character with test audiences that he was given more scenes. The filmmakers made it so that many of the scenes with Scrat appear directly after dramatic moments in the film.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: In a 2012 interview with Jay Leno, Denis Leary revealed that his character, Diego, originally died near the end of the film. However, it was reported that kids in the test audience burst into tears when his death was shown. Leary warned the producers that something like this would happen. When it was proven true, the scene was re-written to ensure Diego survived.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: Originally, Sid was supposed to be a con-artist and a hustler, and there was a finished scene of the character conning some aardvark kids. His character was later changed to a talkative-clumsy sloth because the team felt the audience would have disliked him. There was also an alternate scene of Sid in the hottub with the ladies which shows him saying to them "Let's jump in the gene pool and see what happens." One of the female sloths then kicks him in the groin. This was cut because it was not suitable for children and may have gotten the film a PG-13 rating. Other innuendos with Sid were also cut from the film. Sid was also supposed to have a female sloth named Sylvia (voiced by Kristen Johnston) chasing after him, whom he despised and kept ditching. All the removed scenes can be seen on the DVD.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: The characters and environments in "Ice Age" were modeled and animated using WaveFront's Maya animation software. Rendering was completed using CGI Studio, an in-house ray tracing program being developed since Blue Sky's formation in 1987 and previously used for Wedge's 1998 short film, "Bunny". While "", released three months before "Ice Age", became the first computer-animated film to make use of ray tracing technology, "Ice Age" would have received the distinction had it been released at the time Blue Sky began work on the movie.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: In order to keep the film at a more exciting pace, the development team took certain liberties with Sid in terms of realism; although real-life ground sloths were slow-moving and rigid, Sid was given a fast movement speed in certain scenes, as well as a more flexible range of motions. Conversely, the character’s arm movements were more restricted in order to retain a sense of laziness true to the nature of sloths. Manny was a particularly difficult character to animate due to his unique attributes as a mammoth, such as his long fur and massive trunks that covered up his face. Dealing with a creature which had seldom appeared in animation at the time, the team needed to figure out how Manny would realistically move with character designer Pete DeSeve explaining that “a wooly mammoth isn’t simply an elephant with long fur”. According to co-director Carlos Saldanha, Diego was one of the most complexly animated characters in the movie, with some scenes showing off his high movement speed as a sabre-toothed tiger while others kept his movement more contained and focused on his facial expressions to carry the moment.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: The voice cast of "Ice Age" was encouraged to make up their own dialogue during recording. Several lines in the film were improvised by the actors.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: For Manny, the studio was initially looking at people with big voices. James Earl Jones and Ving Rhames were considered, but they sounded too obvious and Wedge wanted more comedy. Instead, the role was given to Ray Romano because they thought his voice sounded very elephant-like. Wedge described Romano's voice as deep and slow in delivery, but also with a "sarcastic wit behind it."


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: John Leguizamo, who provided the voice for Sid, experimented with over 40 voices for the character, including a slower-sounding voice to fit with the lazy nature of a giant sloth. Leguizamo came up with the final voice and trademark lateral lisp for the character after watching footage of sloths and learning that they store food in the pockets of their mouths which ferments over time. Leguizamo remarked in an interview with BBC that he had wanted to contribute to an animated project for a while, claiming that cartoon voice actor Mel Blanc was "one of my comedy Gods" and a large source of inspiration for him as a child.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: The official soundtrack to "Ice Age" was released on May 14, 2002 by Varèse Sarabande. The soundtrack consists of the original musical score composed for the film by David Newman and performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony. The song "Send Me on My Way" by Rusted Root is also featured in the film but is absent from the album.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: "Ice Age" was released on March 15, 2002, and had a $46.3 million opening weekend, a large number not usually seen until the summer season, and way ahead of Fox's most optimistic projection of about $30 million. "Ice Age" broke "Liar Liar"s record for a March opening (later surpassed in 2006 by its sequel, "") and at the time was the third-best opening ever for an animated feature—after "Monsters, Inc." ($62.6 million) and "Toy Story 2" ($57.4 million). "Ice Age" finished its domestic box office run with $176,387,405 and grossed $383,257,136 worldwide, being the 9th highest gross of 2002 in North America and the 8th best worldwide at the time. It was one of the two animated films of that year to make over $100 million, with the other one being "Lilo & Stitch".


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: "Ice Age" holds approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews, with an average rating of . The site's consensus reads: "Even though "Ice Age" is treading over the same grounds as "Monsters, Inc." and "Shrek", it has enough wit and laughs to stand on its own." Similar site Metacritic had a score of 60% out of 31 reviews, meaning "mixed or average reviews". Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film 3 stars out of 4 and wrote "I came to scoff and stayed to smile". Elvis Mitchell of the New York Times called the film a "blandly likeable computer-animation extravaganza", comparing the film's plot to the Western film "3 Godfathers".


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave "Ice Age" an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: "Ice Age" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003, losing to "Spirited Away".


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: The initial home video release for "Ice Age" was accompanied by an $85 million marketing campaign involving promotional partnerships with 14 different companies, including Microsoft, Pizza Hut, Carl's Jr., Dole, Langer's, Valpak, Cold Stone Creamery, and the National Hockey League. The movie was released on 2-disc DVD, VHS and D-Theater on November 26, 2002. All three releases included "Gone Nutty", a short film starring Scrat and detailing his further antics as he tries to bury his acorn. The DVD release was THX certified and gave the viewer the option of viewing the film in either widescreen or pan and scan fullscreen. Another single disc release was released on February 5, 2005, and the next year a new two-disc release with extra features on March 14, 2006. The film was released on Blu-ray on March 4, 2008, and beside "Gone Nutty", it included 9 minutes of deleted scenes.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: A tie-in video game was developed by Artificial Mind and Movement and published by Ubisoft for the Game Boy Advance. A platform game, it has the player controlling Sid and Manny through 10 levels as they carry Roshan. The game holds an aggregate ranking of 46.00% on GameRankings and 47/100 on Metacritic.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: Since the release of "Ice Age", several sequels have followed. "", the first sequel, was released on March 31, 2006, following the main characters trying to escape a massive flooding due to global warming, as well as Manny's concern over whether or not his species is going extinct. A third installment, "", was released in 2009, followed by a fourth film, "", in 2012. The fifth and latest installment, "", was released on July 22, 2016. With the release of "Collision Course", the "Ice Age" series became the first computer-animated movie franchise to house five theatrical installments, not including spinoffs. The sequels suffered a decline in critical reception, but were still box-office successes.


title: Ice Age (2002 film)

text: Following Disney’s purchase of 20th Century Fox in 2019 and the closure of Blue Sky Studios in 2021, a spin-off film titled "The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild" and produced by Walt Disney Pictures was released directly to streaming on Disney+ in 2022.


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: Saints Row is an action-adventure video game developed by Volition and published by Deep Silver. It is a reboot of the "Saints Row" series, and the fifth main installment, following 2013's "Saints Row IV". It was released on August 23, 2022 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Google Stadia. Set within the fictional city of Santo Ileso, loosely based on Las Vegas, the single-player story follows a group of four friends who start their own outlaw gang called The Saints, which they subsequently expand by seizing power from other criminal organizations in the city.


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: The game is played from a third-person perspective and its world is navigated on-foot or by vehicle. Players can fight enemies using a variety of firearms and other tools, and call in non-playable gang members to assist them. Similarly to previous "Saints Row" titles, players control the gang's leader, nicknamed "the Boss", who features highly customizable traits. Outside of the main story, players can freely explore Santo Illeso and engage in several different side activities. A cooperative online multiplayer mode is also included, allowing two players to play through the single-player campaign together while progressing in their own game.


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: The developers of "Saints Row" intended for the game to return to a mixture of drama and comedy that had been present in earlier games in the series. Following its announcement in August 2021, "Saints Row" was met with mixed reactions from fans, with some expressing concern for the game's tone. It ultimately received mixed reviews from critics for a large number of technical issues, the writing, and elements of the gameplay feeling dated. Due to the game's reception, Volition's parent company Embracer Group announced that Volition would become part of Gearbox Entertainment.


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: Similarly to previous installments in the series, "Saints Row" is an open world action game with third-person shooter elements where players complete missions—linear scenarios with set objectives—to progress through the main story. Outside of missions, players can freely roam the game's world and complete optional side activities. The game's setting, the fictional city of Santo Ileso, is broken down into nine districts, which players will have to work towards taking over in the name of their gang, The Saints, earning certain benefits in the process. After taking over a district, players are able to use empty lots found there to launch illegitimate businesses with legitimate fronts to help finance and benefit the gang. The city includes more vertical areas with tools that the player will be able to use to take advantage of that. The driving gameplay has been improved from previous "Saints Row" games to encourage the use of vehicles as weapons themselves alongside guns.


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: The game includes a detailed character creator for the player-character, including selection of gender. In addition to their character's appearance, players are also able to customize their weapons and vehicles. There is a drop-in cooperative multiplayer mode which allows two players to play together at the same time, with each player using their own custom Boss character and progressing in their own missions.


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: "Saints Row" is set in the fictional city of Santo Ileso, located in the American southwest and modeled after Las Vegas, Nevada. At the start of the game, the city is controlled by two warring gangs: Los Panteros, a gritty vehicle and fitness-oriented gang that runs smuggling, protection, and car-boosting; and the Idols, an anarcho-communist gang focused on clubs and nightlife. A third faction, Marshall Defense Industries, an international private military corporation known for its high-tech weaponry, is also based in Santo Ileso, and attempts to eradicate all gang presence in the city while increasing its own influence.


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: The player character, known simply as "the Boss", is a former member of Marshall who forms their own gang, The Saints, with the help of their roommates: Eli, a struggling investor and business entrepreneur that plans most of the gang's operations; Kevin, an aspiring chef who formerly worked as a DJ for the Idols and handles the execution of the Saints' heists; and Neenah, an art major and ex-mechanic for Los Panteros who serves as the gang's driver.


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: On their first day of work for Marshall Defense Industries, the Boss apprehends a notorious criminal known as "The Nahualli", but is denied a performance bonus by their strict superior, Gwen Theriault. Nevertheless, they return to their apartment to celebrate their success with their friends and roommates: Eli, Kevin, and Neenah. Although affiliated with rival groups (Kevin with the Idols and Neenah with Los Panteros, the four remain more loyal to each other, and often engage in criminal activities together to afford their rent and student loans.


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: The Boss later helps Marshall recover a stolen Mayan artifact known as the Hummingbird Codex from a Los Panteros smuggling convoy, narrowly evading the gang's leader, Sergio Velez. Company founder Atticus Marshall praises the Boss for their performance, and promotes them to head of the museum's security ahead of an unveiling gala for the Codex. The Idols and Los Panteros both attack the gala to steal the artifact for themselves, with the former succeeding. Although the Boss saves the life of Marshall board member Myra Starr, they are fired by Atticus for failing to protect the Codex.


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: The following evening, Kevin and Eli attend an Idols party at a local resort, which is attacked by Los Panteros. Eli is injured, and one of the Idols' leaders is killed by the four after Kevin refuses an order to kill his friends. With both the Idols and Los Panteros now targeting them, the group resolve to start their own criminal organization. They use an abandoned church as their headquarters, and adopt the moniker "The Saints".


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: The Saints take on the Idols and Los Panteros to gain territory, and to spite Marshall, the Boss helps Eli defeat Gwen in her favorite LARP tournament. To cover the operational costs, the group decide to rob a shipment of Federal Reserve cash onboard a Marshall-protected train. The Boss breaks The Nahualli out of Marshall’s private prison to assist them with the heist, and they form a bond with him. Los Panteros also try to rob the train, but the Saints deal with them (with The Nahualli personally killing Sergio) and escape with the money. The Boss and Kevin later steal the Hummingbird Codex back from the Idols' base of operations aboard a yacht, killing two more of the gang's leaders in the process.


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: Marshall's legal counsel approaches the Saints and informs them that the group's front companies have been legally declared Marshall subsidiaries, due to the Boss having signed a non-compete agreement upon their hiring. The Boss and Eli storm Marshall's headquarters to demand the return of their companies, but only find Myra Starr, as Atticus has already fled the building. Myra reveals her longstanding desire to usurp Atticus as the chairperson of the company, but explains that if Atticus were killed, the role would pass to his next of kin. Myra and the Boss collaborate to tank the company's stock price by using a Marshall tank to cause destruction in the city, triggering a vote by the board on whether to replace Atticus with Myra. The vote comes to a tie, which is broken when the Boss votes using a momentary seat granted by Myra. Atticus is fired (or potentially killed by the Boss), and Myra uses her new position to return the Saints' assets before parting ways with them amicably.


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: Several months later, during a party hosted by the Saints celebrating their successes, The Nahualli returns to accept the Boss' invite to officially join the gang. However, while alone with the Boss, The Nahualli betrays and stabs them before explaining his jealousy of the Boss' life and his desire to replace them. He then buries the Boss alive while his men attack the party and kidnap Eli, Kevin, and Neenah, whom The Nahualli subsequently forces to act as his friends. Surviving the burial, the Boss tracks The Nahualli to a vacant casino, where they kill him and rescue their friends. The four then toast to their friendship while enjoying the sunset on the rooftop and their control over Santo Ileso.


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: THQ Nordic announced in August 2019 that Volition was developing a full entry in the "Saints Row" series. Parent organization Koch Media, owner of the "Saints Row" intellectual property, said they were giving the developer time and space to make the game they saw fit. The series had a rocky history in the years prior to the reboot's development. The prior full game in the series was "Saints Row IV" (2013), which was followed by a standalone expansion titled "" (2015). A series spin-off, "Agents of Mayhem" (2017), sold poorly and led to layoffs at Volition. "Saints Row" was officially announced as a reboot of the franchise at the August 2021 Gamescom, which was met with divided opinion on social media for not retaining the "feel" of prior series entries.


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: The reboot was intended to pull away from the "wacky" tone of "Saints Row IV" and later games in the series, instead bringing back the balance between comedy and seriousness that "Saints Row 2" had. Volition's Jeremy Bernstein compared "Saints Row IV" to "Moonraker" of the James Bond films series, having gone so far outside the realm of reality that they need to reel it back in. Studio development director Jim Boone added that the current social climate had outgrown the tone of prior "Saints Row" games. Some of the more lewd elements like the giant purple dildo that could be used as a weapon were cut for this reason. The game's developer, Volition, looked to action films as reference points for what they wanted players to experience, including the feel-good vehicular movement of "Baby Driver", the brutal, stylized combat of "John Wick", and the extravagance of "Hobbs & Shaw", "that "Saints Row" sort of flavor".


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: "Saints Row" was originally set to release on February 25, 2022, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Windows and Stadia platforms; however, it was later delayed until August 23, 2022. The PC release is exclusive to the Epic Games Store digital marketplace. A post-release expansion pass will include at least three pieces of downloadable content. A pre-order bonus and digital-only special editions include additional cosmetic content.


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: "Saints Row" received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. Reviews focused on the large number of bugs following launch, leading the "Washington Post" to call it "barely playable." Other major concerns were with the quality of the story and writing, and parts of the gameplay feeling dated.


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: "Gamespot" wrote that while the combat and story were adequate, the game "struggl[ed] to live up to its legacy". "EGM" praised the "great open-world city and respectable gameplay fundamentals," but was disappointed in "a story that never finds its footing, and too many bugs to count."


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: According to Volition's parent company Embracer Group, "Saints Row"s pre-order sales had exceeded the publisher's expectations. "Saints Row" was the biggest-selling physical game in the UK, topping the charts in its debut week of release and selling more than five times the number of units as Volition's 2017 game "Agents of Mayhem". For week 2 of UK sales, "Saints Row" experienced an 80% drop in sales, falling from No. 1 to No. 6 on the chart. During August, "Saints Row" was the best-selling digital game, and the second-best-selling physical game behind "". In Japan, during its first week of release, the PlayStation 4 version was the ninth-best-selling retail game, with 10,013 physical units sold; the PlayStation 5 version was the twelfth-best-selling retail game, with 7,622 physical units sold.


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: Embracer Group CEO Lars Wingefors stated that while he expects "Saint Row" to be profitable, he felt it likely won't "have as great a return on investment as we have seen in many other games". He further expressed his disappointment of the game's "polarising" reception.


title: Saints Row (2022 video game)

text: In November 2022, Embracer Group stated that "Saints Row" “did not meet the full expectations and left the fanbase partially polarized”, but financially “performed in line with management expectations in the quarter.” It subsequently announced that Volition would be transferred from Deep Silver to Gearbox Entertainment, stating that it "has all the tools, including an experienced management team in the US, to create future success at Volition".


title: Aloe vera

text: Aloe vera () is a succulent plant species of the genus "Aloe". It is widely distributed, and is considered an invasive species in many world regions.


title: Aloe vera

text: An evergreen perennial, it originates from the Arabian Peninsula, but grows wild in tropical, semi-tropical, and arid climates around the world. It is cultivated for commercial products, mainly as a topical treatment used over centuries. The species is attractive for decorative purposes, and succeeds indoors as a potted plant.


title: Aloe vera

text: It is used in many consumer products, including beverages, skin lotion, cosmetics, ointments or in the form of gel for minor burns and sunburns. There is little clinical evidence for the effectiveness or safety of "Aloe vera" extract as a cosmetic or topical drug, and oral ingestion has risk of toxicity.


title: Aloe vera

text: The genus name "Aloe" is derived from the Arabic word "alloeh", meaning "bitter and shiny substance" or from Hebrew "ahalim", plural of "ahal". The specific epithet "vera" comes from "verus" meaning "true" in Latin.


title: Aloe vera

text: Common names use "aloe" with a region of its distribution, such as "Chinese aloe", "Cape aloe" or "Barbados aloe".


title: Aloe vera

text: The species has several synonyms: "Aloe barbadensis" Mill., "Aloe indica" Royle, "Aloe perfoliata" L. var. "vera" and "Aloe vulgaris" Lam. Some literature identifies the white-spotted form of "Aloe vera" as "Aloe vera" var. "chinensis"; and the spotted form of "Aloe vera" may be conspecific with "A. massawana". The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 as "Aloe perfoliata" var. "vera", and was described again in 1768 by Nicolaas Laurens Burman as "Aloe vera" in "Flora Indica" on 6 April and by Philip Miller as "Aloe barbadensis" some ten days after Burman in the "Gardener's Dictionary".


title: Aloe vera

text: Techniques based on DNA comparison suggest "Aloe vera" is relatively closely related to "Aloe perryi", a species endemic to Yemen. Similar techniques, using chloroplast DNA sequence comparison and ISSR profiling have also suggested it is closely related to "Aloe forbesii", "Aloe inermis", "Aloe scobinifolia", "Aloe sinkatana", and "Aloe striata". With the exception of the South African species "A. striata", these "Aloe" species are native to Socotra (Yemen), Somalia, and Sudan. The lack of obvious natural populations of the species has led some authors to suggest "Aloe vera" may be of hybrid origin.


title: Aloe vera

text: The leaves are thick and fleshy, green to grey-green, with some varieties showing white flecks on their upper and lower stem surfaces. The margin of the leaf is serrated and has small white teeth.


title: Aloe vera

text: "Aloe vera" leaves contain phytochemicals under study for possible bioactivity, such as lignans, phytosterols, polyphenols, acetylated mannans, polymannans, anthraquinone C-glycosides, anthrones, and other anthraquinones, such as emodin and various lectins.


title: Aloe vera

text: The flowers are produced in summer on a spike up to tall, each flower being pendulous, with a yellow tubular corolla long. Like other "Aloe" species, "Aloe vera" forms arbuscular mycorrhiza, a symbiosis that allows the plant better access to mineral nutrients in soil.


title: Aloe vera

text: "A. vera" is considered to be native only to the south-east Arabian Peninsula in the Al Hajar Mountains in north-eastern Oman. However, it has been widely cultivated around the world, and has become naturalized in North Africa, as well as Sudan and neighboring countries, along with the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, and Madeira Islands. It has also naturalized in the Algarve region of Portugal, and in wild areas across southern Spain, especially in the region of Murcia.


title: Aloe vera

text: The species was introduced to China and various parts of southern Europe in the 17th century. It is widely naturalized elsewhere, occurring in arid, temperate, and tropical regions of temperate continents. The current distribution may be the result of cultivation.


title: Aloe vera

text: "Aloe vera" has been widely grown as an ornamental plant. The species is popular with modern gardeners as a topical medicinal plant and for its interesting flowers, form, and succulence. This succulence enables the species to survive in areas of low natural rainfall, making it ideal for rockeries and other low water-use gardens. The species is hardy in zones 8–11, and is intolerant of heavy frost and snow. The species is relatively resistant to most insect pests, though spider mites, mealy bugs, scale insects, and aphid species may cause a decline in plant health. This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.


title: Aloe vera

text: In pots, the species requires well-drained, sandy potting soil, and bright, sunny conditions. Aloe plants can turn red from sunburn under too much direct sun, though gradual acclimation may help. The use of a good-quality commercial propagation mix or packaged "cacti and succulent mix" is recommended, as they allow good drainage. Terra cotta pots are preferable as they are porous. Potted plants should be allowed to completely dry before rewatering. When potted, aloes can become crowded with "pups" growing from the sides of the "mother plant". Plants that have become crowded can be divided and repotted to allow room for further growth, or the pups can be left with the mother plant. During winter, "Aloe vera" may become dormant, during which little moisture is required. In areas that receive frost or snow, the species is best kept indoors or in heated glasshouses.


title: Aloe vera

text: There is large-scale agricultural production of "Aloe vera" in Australia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, China, Mexico, India, Jamaica, Spain, where it grows well, even inland, Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, along with the USA to supply the cosmetics industry.


title: Aloe vera

text: Two substances from "Aloe vera" – a clear gel and its yellow latex – are used to manufacture commercial products. Aloe gel typically is used to make topical medications for skin conditions, such as burns, wounds, frostbite, rashes, psoriasis, cold sores, or dry skin. Aloe latex is used individually or manufactured as a product with other ingredients to be ingested for relief of constipation. Aloe latex may be obtained in a dried form called "resin" or as "aloe dried juice".


title: Aloe vera

text: There is conflicting evidence regarding whether "Aloe vera" is effective as a treatment for wounds or burns. There is some evidence that topical use of aloe products might relieve symptoms of certain skin disorders, such as psoriasis, acne, or rashes, but topical application may cause an allergic reaction in some people.


title: Aloe vera

text: "Aloe vera" gel is used commercially as an ingredient in yogurts, beverages, and some desserts, but at high or prolonged doses, ingesting aloe latex or whole leaf extract can be toxic. Use of topical aloe vera in small amounts is likely to be safe.


title: Aloe vera

text: "Aloe vera" may be prepared as a lotion, gel, soap or cosmetics product for use on skin as a topical medication. For people with allergies to "Aloe vera", skin reactions may include contact dermatitis with mild redness and itching, difficulty with breathing, or swelling of the face, lips, tongue, or throat.


title: Aloe vera

text: Aloin, a compound found in the semi-liquid latex of some "Aloe" species, was the common ingredient in over-the-counter (OTC) laxative products in the United States until 2002 when the Food and Drug Administration banned it because manufacturers failed to provide the necessary safety data. "Aloe vera" has potential toxicity, with side effects occurring at some dose levels both when ingested and when applied topically. Although toxicity may be less when aloin is removed by processing, "Aloe vera" ingested in high amounts may induce side effects, such as abdominal pain, diarrhea or hepatitis. Chronic ingestion of aloe (dose of 1 gram per day) may cause adverse effects, including hematuria, weight loss, and cardiac or kidney disorders.


title: Aloe vera

text: "Aloe vera" juice is marketed to support the health of the digestive system, but there is neither scientific evidence nor regulatory approval for this claim. The extracts and quantities typically used for such purposes are associated with toxicity in a dose-dependent way.


title: Aloe vera

text: "Aloe vera" is used in traditional medicine as a skin treatment. Early records of its use appear from the fourth millennium BCE. It is also written of in the "Juliana Anicia Codex" of 512 CE.


title: Aloe vera

text: "Aloe vera" is used on facial tissues where it is promoted as a moisturizer and anti-irritant to reduce chafing of the nose. Cosmetic companies commonly add sap or other derivatives from "Aloe vera" to products such as makeup, tissues, moisturizers, soaps, sunscreens, incense, shaving cream, or shampoos. A review of academic literature notes that its inclusion in many hygiene products is due to its "moisturizing emollient effect".


title: Aloe vera

text: Orally ingested non-decolorized aloe vera leaf extract was listed by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment among "chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity", possibly resulting from the anthraquinones.


title: Aloe vera

text: Use of aloe vera on the skin is generally not associated with significant side effects. Oral ingestion of aloe vera is potentially toxic, and may cause abdominal cramps and diarrhea which in turn can decrease the absorption of drugs.


title: Aloe vera

text: Ingested aloe products may have adverse interactions with prescription drugs, such as those used to treat blood clots, diabetes, heart disease and potassium-lowering agents (such as Digoxin), and diuretics, among others.


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: The 40-Year-Old Virgin is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by Judd Apatow, who produced the film with Clayton Townsend and Shauna Robertson. It features Steve Carell as the titular 40-year-old virgin Andy, an employee at an electronics store. Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, and Seth Rogen play co-workers who resolve to help him lose his virginity, and Catherine Keener stars as Andy's love interest, Trish.


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: Watching Carell's performance in "" (2004) inspired Apatow to cast him in the lead role for the film, and they wrote "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" together. It was based on a sketch Carell created with The Second City where a man aged 40 hides a secret. Filming took place in Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley, California, from January to April 2005.


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: The film was released theatrically in the United States on August 19, 2005, through Universal Pictures, and grossed over $177 million worldwide on a $26 million budget. Reviews were generally favorable, praising Carell's performance and the film's well-meaning yet bawdy humor, which was a point of contention by some conservative commentators as well. He won accolades from the Golden Schmoes Awards and MTV Movie & TV Awards for this role while Keener received awards from the Boston Society of Film Critics and Los Angeles Film Critics Association. "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" was named by the American Film Institute one of 2005's Top 10 Films.


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: Andy Stitzer is a shy 40-year-old introvert who works as a stock supervisor at electronics store Smart Tech. He gave up trying to have sex after various failed attempts and lives alone in an apartment with a collection of action figures and video games. When a conversation at a poker game with his co-workers David, Jay, and Cal turns to past sexual exploits, they learn that he secretly is still a virgin.


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: Andy is mortified upon discovering the next day that everyone else at work has learned about the secret, including their boss Paula, who is attracted to him and later privately offers to take his virginity. He almost quits work in humiliation before David consoles him and recommends trying again to have sex. David, Jay, and Cal become determined to help Andy achieve this. They all give differing advice on how to interact with women.


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: David invites him to join them for a speed dating event and unsuccessfully tries to reconnect with his ex-girlfriend Amy there. Jay drags Andy to various social events, books a painful chest waxing appointment, and sets him up with a prostitute, which all end with embarrassing results. Cal advises Andy to simply be confident and ask women questions instead of talking about himself. He practices this on a bookstore clerk named Beth, who quickly becomes intrigued by him. David gives Andy his pornography collection, encouraging him to masturbate.


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: Andy eventually gets a date with a customer named Trish Piedmont. At the end of their first date, they almost have sex but are interrupted by her teenage daughter Marla. Trish suggests they postpone having sex, and Andy enthusiastically agrees; they decide to abstain until their twentieth date. Their relationship flourishes over the following weeks. She encourages Andy's dream of starting a business and helps fund it by selling his collectibles. After Marla argues with Trish over wanting birth control, Andy takes her to a group information session at a sexual health clinic, where she is mocked for being a virgin. Andy admits his own virginity to defend her, earning him Marla's respect.


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: Meanwhile, David suffers an emotional breakdown at work over his obsession with Amy and takes a vow of celibacy, which leads to Paula giving his sales duties to Andy for the day and later promoting him to floor manager due to his high sales quota. As Cal takes on Andy's previous role, he hires a woman named Bernadette to work at the store, hoping to match her with David so he can move on from Amy. After Jay's girlfriend Jill breaks up with him due to his infidelity, he concedes to Andy that sex can ruin a relationship. Following a reconciliation with Jill, Jay later invites Andy and the others to a nightclub to celebrate her pregnancy.


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: Trish tries to initiate sex with Andy on their twentieth date and becomes upset when he resists. They argue, and Andy leaves to meet his friends at a nightclub. He gets drunk and leaves with Beth to have sex at her apartment. Cal gets David and Bernadette to hook up, while Marla convinces Trish to reconcile with Andy. At Beth's, Andy sobers up and decides to leave without having sex, just as his friends arrive and encourage him to go back to Trish.


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: Andy returns to his apartment to find Trish waiting for him. She has found David's porn collection; he tries to explain, but she flees in alarm and disgust, fearing Andy may be a sexual deviant. While pursuing her on his bike, Andy collides with her car, flying through the side of a billboard truck. She rushes to his side, and Andy finally confesses that he is a virgin. Trish is relieved and accepting, and they profess their love for each other. They eventually marry in a lavish ceremony with everyone in attendance, having generated roughly $500,000 from the sales of his action figures to pay for it, before having sex for the first time. The film ends with a musical sequence where all the characters sing and dance to "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In".


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: Other cast members include Kat Dennings as Marla Piedmont, Mindy Kaling as Amy, Gerry Bednob as Mooj, Marika Domińczyk as Bernadette, Shelley Malil as Haziz, Mo Collins as Gina, Kimberly Page, Gillian Vigman, and Siena Goines as women attending the speed dating event, Nancy Walls as the health clinic counselor, Cedric Yarbrough, David Koechner, and Jeff Kahn as fathers attending the health clinic, Loren Berman, Nick Lashaway and Julian Foster as boys attending the health clinic, Chelsea Smith as Julia, Erica Vittina Phillips as Jill, Jonah Hill as an eBay customer, Jordan Masterson as Mark, Jazzmun as a prostitute, Miki Mia as the waxing lady, Denise Meyerson as Robin, Michael Bierman as a 16-year-old version of Andy, Lee Weaver as Joe, Kevin Hart, Wayne Federman, Ron Marasco, and Joseph T. Mastrolia as Smart Tech customers, Kate Luyben as a woman who purchases videotapes, Stormy Daniels as a porn star, Shannon Bradley, Brianna Brown, Elizabeth Carey, Elizabeth DeCicco, Hilary Shepard, and Barret Swatek as bar girls, Carla Gallo as a girl who sucks on toes, Laura Bottrell as a college girl, Joseph Nunez as a man who buffs floors, Charlie Hartsock as the speed dating MC, Gloria Helena Jones as Sara, Marisa Guterman as a girl wearing braces, Matthew McKane as a motorist, Miyoko Shimosawa as a waitress, Rose Abdoo, Steve Bannos, and Brooke Hamlin as restaurant customers, Marilyn Dodds Frank as a woman who buys a television, and Loudon Wainwright III as a priest.


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" was Judd Apatow's directorial debut. While serving as a producer for the 2004 film "", he got the idea to have a film with Carell in the lead role after watching his performance in that, thinking "It would be great to see a Steve Carell movie". Apatow later asked him whether he had any movie ideas, and both men wrote "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" together after the latter expressed desires to make something about a virgin who was aged 40, basing it off a sketch Carell created while performing with the improv comedy troupe The Second City. Carell did many versions of the sketch, trying out different scenarios where the 40-year-old man is hiding a "big secret." Apatow had difficulty coming up with the ending for the film. Garry Shandling suggested it was important to show that Andy was having better sex because he was in love, and instead of directly showing the sex they decided to have Andy sing and have a musical number.


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: Apatow started casting the film early in the development process and tailored its script to the strengths of the actors. He also produced it for Apatow Productions along with Clayton Townsend and Shauna Robertson. Catherine Keener was the first choice for the female lead. Apatow specifically cast Stormy Daniels because he wanted "someone who's really, really comfortable" doing nude scenes that were required for the film's plot. A large portion of the dialogue in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" was improvised. Keener stated in 2010 that Apatow "never really would even say cut" and instead would say "reload" when burning through film due to the improvisation, calling the experience "hysterically funny". She also mentioned "you had to kind of lose sense of being self-conscious on that movie because it was sort of an all-in in terms of throwing a joke out or even the writer would sit behind the monitors behind the curtain". The production used over a million feet of film, a milestone reached on the last day of filming and celebrated with free champagne from Technicolor SA.


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: Filming for "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" started on January 17, 2005, and wrapped on April 1, 2005. The movie was shot in parts of California, including Studio City, Los Angeles, and San Fernando Valley's Ventura Boulevard. Lyle Workman composed the film's score while Jack N. Green and Brent White respectively served as its cinematographer and editor. Production was halted by Universal Pictures after the first week, due to concerns that the physical appearance of Carell's character resembled that of a serial killer, and that the early footage was not funny. Paul Rudd was criticized for being overweight and the studio was unhappy with how Apatow treated the project like an independent film. Apatow initially had a supporting role in mind for Jason Segel that Universal refused to allow. Because of the accidental deaths of fish used in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin", the American Humane Association withheld its "no animals were harmed..." disclaimer.


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: Seven test screenings were held for the film prior to entering theaters, with each costing approximately $10,000. It was initially considered "uncomfortably dirty, and not all that funny" before Apatow reduced the amount of pornography shown. Malco once pleaded for him to cut his scenes, fearing what would happen following its release and insisting: "My mom is an ordained minister, bro, cut me out of the movie, please. I'm serious." This request was declined because Apatow found Malco funny. He was surprised to find out his mother ended up taking "all of her church friends to see it, multiple times", and stated "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" "changed my career" by leading to more subsequent job offers without prior auditions. Jay was initially conceived as "a preppy, fraternity boy" before Malco's audition prompted him to be reworked into a "streetwise, trash-talking womanizer". He liked how the character "actually learns his own life lessons along with Andy" and called him the main character's "sexual antithesis".


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: Carell's chest was genuinely waxed for the film, with five cameras set up to capture the scene, which was done in one take. He insisted on having an actual wax, telling Apatow: "It won't be as funny if it's mocked up or if it's special effect. You have to see that this is really happening." Malco began to feel sick while watching the waxing and ran away from the set. According to Miki Mia, it took three or four hours to shoot the scene, and she requested that some of the chest hair be trimmed in advance to reduce Carell's pain. Mia noted that only "a tiny bit" was removed "so that it'll look great on camera". His chest was never fully waxed during the filming, and he shaved off all the hair after three weeks. After Carell blurted out Kelly Clarkson's name during the wax, Clarkson told Rogen in 2021 that it would be "literally the one thing people know me from" regardless of anything else she did. Rogen explained he came up with this idea while seeing her on television as he was compiling a list of "clean jokes" and "dirty jokes" to use in the scene.


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: On August 19, 2005, "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" first premiered in theaters within the United States. The film opened atop the North American box office, grossing $21,422,815 during the opening weekend, and stayed at number one the following weekend. It grossed a total of $109,449,237 in this market, and $67,929,408 internationally, for a total of $177,378,645 against a budget of $26 million. The film was 25th in global gross, and 19th in the United States that year. It was released in the United Kingdom on September 2, 2005, and topped the nation's box office that weekend. Later that month, the film premiered in Germany, Greece, New Zealand, and Russia with respective openings of $2,195,972, $202,400, $144,666, and $443,428. Elsewhere, it opened with $66,277 in Argentina, $1,608,724 within Australia, $5,451 from Bulgaria, $25,200 in the Czech Republic, $29,884 within Lebanon, $310,280 from the Netherlands, $119,930 in Norway, $133,509 within Poland, $9,091 from Slovakia, $87,535 in South Africa, and $157,386 within Turkey. Upon being distributed in Spain, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" also had first-weekend grosses of $874,373, $240,882, $78,099, and $72,800 respectively within these markets.


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: On December 11, 2005, a version of the film that runs for 133 minutes was released onto DVD under the banner "unrated", which is 17 minutes longer than what was shown in theaters. This additional footage consists of more nudity, Andy asking Viagra for help on how to get rid of an erection, another scene featuring a "bad encounter" from his younger days, fantasies of a porn star, and Jay having "a lot more amusing racial banter" with Mooj. A 2008 Blu-ray distribution includes the same extended cut along with its theatrical version. For the 100th Anniversary of Universal Pictures, both editions were re-released onto DVD on January 10, 2012. This version also had a similar banner of "unrated".


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: With an approval rating of 84% at the end of 2005, Rotten Tomatoes ranked "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" as the year's "Best Reviewed Comedy" and added it "proves that Steve Carell has the comedic chops to carry a movie and provide a good share of laughs." Ebert and Roeper gave the film a "two thumbs up" rating. Roger Ebert said, "I was surprised by how funny, how sweet, and how wise the movie really is" and "the more you think about it, the better "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" gets." The pair gave minor criticisms, with Ebert describing "the way she (Catherine Keener as 'Trish') empathizes with Andy" as "almost too sweet to be funny" and Richard Roeper saying that the film was too long, and at times extremely frustrating. Roeper later chose the movie as the tenth best of 2005.


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: "The A.V. Club" reviewer Nathan Rabin felt Carell made "a surprisingly graceful transition to a leading-man role" following his performance in "Anchorman", and said both of them worked well due to the "chemistry and comic chops" of their casts. He concluded by praising Carell for instilling "a good deal of complexity and sophistication into his affectionate characterization" and believed it compensated for a perceived lack of humor in the romance. Owen Gleiberman of "Entertainment Weekly" gave the movie an A−, saying that Carell portrays Andy "in the most surprising way possible: as a credible human being." Manohla Dargis of "The New York Times" called the film a "charmingly bent comedy," adding that Carell was an essential component for "making this film work as well as it does."


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: Emanuel Levy gave the film a B+ grade, calling it an R-rated comedy superior to "Wedding Crashers" that has "a generous heart and a sweet, almost naive center" in spite of the profane language used. While Brian Lowry of "Variety" believed "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" was slightly too long and "indulges in some juvenile excesses", he also felt it often provoked laughs even when "sophomorically homophobic." Rating the movie 3 and a half stars, "The Baltimore Sun" critic Chris Kaltenbach opened with "People see the name of this movie and get defensive. What's wrong with being a virgin? they ask. Absolutely nothing, and that's part of the point of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin", probably the most sweet-spirited sex comedy ever made. It's pretty funny, too." He went on to call the lead character "endearing" and "a marvelous comic invention".


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: Ann Hornaday of "The Washington Post" is critical of the film but praised Carell for his performance. She wrote Andy remaining "steadfastly chaste and genuinely humane" was its most surprising aspect and described him as a character "of old-fashioned decency in a movie that otherwise flouts it at every turn." It was condemned by Harry Forbes of Catholic News Service as "relentlessly vulgar and frequently offensive", and by political columnist Cal Thomas for being an example of societal decline in regards to "self-control or what was once known as purity."


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 85% based on 189 reviews, with an average rating of 7.20/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Steve Carell's first star turn scores big with a tender treatment of its titular underdog, using raunchy but realistically funny comedy to connect with adult audiences." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 73 out of 100 based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: For the film's 10th anniversary, Erik Abriss from "Complex" and Josh Wigler of MTV News both wrote pieces asserting it remained enjoyable. The former called this "the best romantic comedy of the 2000s" as well as "the most influential" for shifting "the comedic zeitgeist from inane to intellectual, from screwball to sensitive, from hyper-masculine to hilariously honest" while the latter compiled a list of reasons it "Still Cracks You Up 10 Years Later", with the first being how the film "marked the beginning of a modern comedy age". Writing for "The Atlantic" on the same day, Megan Garber felt "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" "holds up" and might have become better over time. She wrote that the movie "launched (almost) a thousand bromantic comedies", put Apatow "on the mainstream map", and made him a "Hollywood king (and, much more interestingly, queen)-maker". Garber added it raises questions on how people become adults and established how "whatever makes an adult now, it isn't, in general, the thing that has defined adulthood for so much of human history: the having of sex." Chris Serico of "Today" said this "has continued to resonate among comedy fans, and served as a breakthrough movie for its director, Judd Apatow, and his co-writer/star, Steve Carell" a decade after being released. He went onto praise Carell's performance and stated it "took his career and the movie to the next level".


title: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

text: A 2018 article from "Detroit Free Press" contributor Julie Hinds noted that "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" was "Michigan's favorite romantic comedy", and called that ranking "a fine choice" when "Carell's character has a heart of gold" and "eventually lands in a solid, committed relationship". 15 years after the film's premiere, "NME" writer Beth Webb praised its use of "a mature virgin" for a protagonist who does not feel sex-starved. She called that aspect "a milestone" for "cinema's muddled relationship with virginity, in which women have since taken control of their virtue on screen, while men remain largely underrepresented" and declared the movie as a whole to be "a milestone for sex-positive cinema".


title: Stay Close

text: Stay Close is a British mystery drama miniseries based on the 2012 Harlan Coben novel of the same title, produced by Red Production Company for Netflix. The eight-episode series was released on 31 December 2021.


title: Stay Close

text: Megan Pierce is a suburban mum living in the fictional suburb of Livingstone, and is hiding a murky past. She has found her soulmate in Dave, and they have three great kids. Ray Levine was once a talented documentary photographer. Losing the woman he loved changed him. Now he is in a dead-end job, playing a paparazzo-for-hire, pandering to rich kid pseudo-celebrities. Michael Broome is a detective still haunted by a cold case from seventeen years ago, when local husband and father, Stewart Green, disappeared without any trace. Green's wife still waits for Stewart to return.


title: Stay Close

text: When another man goes missing on the anniversary of Stewart's disappearance, Broome takes the case in the hope of exorcising his demons. Lives are in danger of being ruined, relationships splintered, as Broome's investigations open old wounds, stir up memories, and threaten to expose the truth. Weaving their way through the spaces of what binds these three lives together are a couple of colourful psychopaths, intent on completing their own agenda.


title: Stay Close

text: In August 2018, American writer Harlan Coben signed a five-year deal with Netflix. Under the deal, Coben would have 14 of his novels adapted as Netflix series, with him serving as producer on all of them. "Stay Close" follows other Coben-created Netflix originals "Safe" (2018), "The Stranger", "The Woods" (both 2020), "The Innocent", and "Gone for Good" (both 2021).


title: Stay Close

text: The series, comprising eight episodes, was announced by Netflix in October 2020. At the time, Danny Brocklehurst was announced as head writer for the series with Daniel O'Hara as lead Director.


title: Stay Close

text: The main cast were revealed to be Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt, Richard Armitage and Sarah Parish. In February 2021, Netflix announced that several new people would be joining the cast, including Eddie Izzard, Andi Osho, Daniel Francis, Jo Joyner, Bethany Antonia and Rachel Andrews.


title: Stay Close

text: Filming of "Stay Close" began on 18 February 2021 and wrapped on 30 July 2021. The series was filmed in Brinscall, Lancashire, and around Manchester, St Helens, Runcorn, Widnes, Ashton-under-Lyne, Blackpool, Formby, Morecambe and North West England including Runcorn's Silver Jubilee Bridge. Jaume Plensa‘s sculpture "Dream" was featured heavily.


title: Stay Close

text: The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 92% approval rating with an average rating of 6.2/10, based on 13 critic reviews. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 51 out of 100 based on 7 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".


title: KonoSuba

text: A manga adaptation, illustrated by Masahito Watari and Joseph Yokobori, began serialization in Fujimi Shobo's "Monthly Dragon Age" magazine from October 2014. A radio drama CD was released by HobiRecords in March 2015, and an anime television series adaptation produced by Studio Deen aired in Japan between January and March 2016. A second season of the anime aired between January and March 2017. A spin-off light novel series, "KonoSuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World!", began publication from July 2014. Both the light novels and the manga are licensed in North America by Yen Press. An anime film adaptation produced by J.C.Staff, titled "", premiered on August 30, 2019. Drive intends premiering a third anime television series on April 2023, through its adaptation of "KonoSuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World!".


title: KonoSuba

text: The first mobile game released series is a Mobile RPG game called "Konosuba: Fantastic Days" for Android and IOS on August 19, 2021. The game was developed by Nexon, A South Korean video game company.


title: KonoSuba

text: Following an untimely and embarrassing death, Kazuma Sato, a Japanese teenage shut-in NEET, meets a goddess named Aqua, who offers to reincarnate him in a parallel world with MMORPG elements, where he can go on adventures and battle monsters. Despite being offered a superpowered item or ability to use in this new world, Kazuma, following some provocation, chooses Aqua herself to accompany him to the town of Axel, quickly finding her absent-mindedness to be less than beneficial. With Aqua unable to return to the afterlife until the Devil King is defeated, the two form a party and recruit two other members; an explosion-obsessed magician named Megumin and a masochistic crusader named Darkness. Due to the party's dysfunctional abilities, Kazuma quickly gives up on the idea of defeating the Devil King and tries to live a comfortable lifestyle, only to find the circumstances of his daily life are forcing him and his party to encounter and battle the Devil King's generals.


title: KonoSuba

text: The original web novel series written by Natsume Akatsuki was published on Syosetu between December 2012 and October 2013. The author also wrote a side story featuring Wiz and Vanir. Akatsuki, who enjoyed playing fantasy video games like "Wizardry" and "Final Fantasy", also derived much of "KonoSuba" fantasy elements from tabletop role-playing games.


title: KonoSuba

text: A light novel version with illustrations by Kurone Mishima was released under Kadokawa Shoten's Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko imprint from October 1, 2013 to May 1, 2020. The light novel diverges significantly from the web novel's plot from the sixth volume onwards, and also features changes to the characters' ages. The final book in the series, Volume 17, contains information in its Afterword on possible future development that the teased "After Story" spin-offs might contain.


title: KonoSuba

text: A Megumin-focused spin-off light novel series, also written and illustrated by Akatsuki and Mishima respectively, titled and takes place a year prior to the main series, was released from July 1, 2014, to June 1, 2015 in three volumes. A two-volume sequel, was released on December 28, 2016, and March 1, 2019. Another spin-off featuring Vanir was published on April 1, 2016, called A third spin-off series titled began publication on August 1, 2017. It is written by Hirukuma and illustrated by Uihime Hagure, and features Dust as the central character.


title: KonoSuba

text: Yen Press announced on May 20, 2016, that it had licensed the light novels for release in North America. The first volume was released in conjunction with the second manga volume on February 21, 2017.


title: KonoSuba

text: A manga adaptation of "KonoSuba" illustrated by Masahito Watari began serialization in the October 2014 issue of Fujimi Shobo's "Monthly Dragon Age" magazine on September 9, 2014. As of November 8, 2022, sixteen "tankōbon" volumes have been released.


title: KonoSuba

text: A manga adaptation of the "KonoSuba Fantastic Days" smartphone game by Kasumi Morino began serialization in Media Factory's "Monthly Comic Alive" magazine on March 26, 2022.


title: KonoSuba

text: Yen Press announced its acquisition of the manga adaptation at the same time that it licensed the original light novels.


title: KonoSuba

text: An anime television series adaptation produced by Studio Deen aired on Tokyo MX between January 14, 2016, and March 16, 2016; later broadcasting on eight other networks and several video on demand streaming networks. The series was simulcast by Crunchyroll in several regions such as North America, and by AnimeLab in Australia. The series was directed by Takaomi Kanasaki and written by Makoto Uezu with character designs by Koichi Kikuta. An original video animation (OVA) was bundled with the ninth light novel of "KonoSuba" in June 2016. The anime's opening theme is "Fantastic Dreamer" by Machico while the ending theme is performed by Sora Amamiya, Rie Takahashi, and Ai Kayano. On January 7, 2019, Crunchyroll announced that the series would receive an English dub. The first season's dub made its debut on January 25, 2019, with the second season's dub being released on February 25, 2020. Discotek Media released the first season on Blu-ray in North America on May 25, 2020.


title: KonoSuba

text: The series was animated by Koichi Kikuta and Momoka Komatsu, with the former working on odd-numbered episodes and the latter on even-numbered. While Komatsu's character designs closely resembled those of the light novels and had more attractive appearances, Kikuta based his designs on children's shows like "Pokémon" as he felt "KonoSuba" story was similar to those found in such shows.


title: KonoSuba

text: A second season aired between January 12, 2017, and March 16, 2017. The second season's opening theme is "Tomorrow" by Machico, and the ending theme is by Amamiya, Takahashi, and Kayano. Crunchyroll later added the second season. A second OVA was bundled with the twelfth volume of "KonoSuba" in July 2017. Discotek Media will release the second season on Blu-ray in North America in 2021. On July 25, 2017, Jun Fukushima and Takahashi, the voice actors of Kazuma and Megumin respectively, announced plans for a new "KonoSuba" anime project, later revealed to be a new movie, "". On July 18, 2021, the official Twitter account for the "KonoSuba" anime confirmed that a new anime project was in production. The project was later revealed to be both a third season of the main series and an anime television series adaptation of "KonoSuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World!". Both series will be produced by Drive and directed by Yujiro Abe, with chief direction by Takaomi Kanasaki. The rest of the main staff are returning from previous seasons. "KonoSuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World!" is set to premiere in April 2023.


title: KonoSuba

text: On October 6, 2018, it was announced that characters from "KonoSuba" would appear in "Isekai Quartet", a crossover anime also featuring characters from "", "Overlord", and "The Saga of Tanya the Evil".


title: KonoSuba

text: On June 25, 2018, a film adaptation was announced to be in development at J.C.Staff. The cast and staff reprised their roles from the TV series. The film is titled and it premiered in Japan on August 30, 2019. Crunchyroll began streaming the English subtitled and English dub version on March 25, 2020, and on January 1, 2021, respectively.


title: KonoSuba

text: A PC video game developed by game creator Tachi, titled is bundled with the first Blu-ray Disc/DVD volume of the anime series on March 25, 2016. The game is developed using the software RPG Maker VX Ace. Another video game, created by Team Ladybug and Krobon, titled is bundled with the limited edition of first Blu-ray Disc/DVD volume of the anime series' second season and was released on April 28, 2017. The game is a side-scroller with gameplay resembling the "Mega Man" series.


title: KonoSuba

text: A visual novel adaptation for PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 4, was developed and published by 5pb., and was released in Japan on September 7, 2017. The game features an original story, in which Kazuma discovers a cursed ring that allows him to steal the underwear of others near him. He learns the only way to undo the curse would be by raising enough money. "Judgment on this Greedy Game!" introduces an "Underwear Judgment" system, where the player assists Kazuma in returning lost underwear to its rightful owner. Like the anime, Machico performed the opening "Million Smile", while Amamiya, Takahashi, and Kayano sang the game's ending theme "101 Pikime no Hitsuji". A Nintendo Switch port of the game was released on the Nintendo eShop on December 17, 2020.


title: KonoSuba

text: Another game for the PS4 and Vita, titled was released in Japan on June 27, 2019. An updated version of the game, was released in Japan on August 27, 2020, for the PS4 and Nintendo Switch. A mobile game titled was released for iOS and Android devices on February 27, 2020. was released on September 24, 2020, for the PS4 and Switch.


title: KonoSuba

text: A radio drama CD, featuring a different voice cast to the anime, was released by HobiRecords on March 1, 2015. A second drama CD, along with an original soundtrack by Kouda Masato and a character song album, was released in March 2017.


title: KonoSuba

text: The "KonoSuba" light novels have been quite popular. As of March 2, 2016, the 11-volume series has a total of 1.5 million copies in print, each volume selling 136,000 copies. In January 2018, the light novel series ranked first among the top 50 best selling digital manga and light novels in worldwide stores by BookWalker. As of February 2019, the light novels had 6.5 million copies in print. In a review of the first novel, Andy Hanley praised the series' comedy reflected in the "tired genre" as well as its cast finding them appealing based on their traits. However, Hanley criticized the short length of the first volume. The series won BookWalker's 2016 Grand Prix Award.


title: KonoSuba

text: In 2016, the anime was voted the tenth-best TV anime in the "Newtype" 2015–16 Awards. "KonoSuba" also finished runner-up for Best Comedy in the Anime Awards 2016 to "Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto". In 2019, the anime was chosen as the favorite isekai series in the Funimation 'Decade of Anime' fan polls, where they vote for the favorite anime series through decade in various genres.


title: KonoSuba

text: Like its light novel counterpart, the anime has received positive reception for its comedy, parody of the isekai genre, and faithful adaptation of the light novels. Reviewing the first few episodes, Anime News Network (ANN)'s Theron Martin described the second episode as "the funniest episode of anime I have seen since "Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun" aired", while also praising the series' musical score. The voice acting has also been a subject of praise; Nick Creamer of ANN commended Sora Amamiya and Rie Takahashi's roles as Aqua and Megumin for the energy provided in their performances, while Martin applauded Jun Fukushima for his work in voicing Kazuma, considering his dry tone an additional factor in the show's humor.


title: KonoSuba

text: From the "Legend of Crimson"'s release in Japan, Daryl Harding, writing for Crunchyroll News praised the story and comedy of the film noting that the "classic humor of (the TV series) translates well to a film runtime." Daryl Harding did criticise the film by stating that "It doesn’t look too different than the TV series" even with "more effects placed over the animation during scenes of explosive magic."


title: KonoSuba

text: In contrast, a common criticism of the anime was its inconsistent character animation, one that was described as "low budget" as characters appeared off-model. Koichi Kikuta responded by stating such design was intentional, hoping to "bring out the individuality of each character" rather than the prettier artwork in the light novels; to do this, Kikuta's animation displayed "their more human sides, like their unflattering traits and their distressed moments." Crunchyroll's Kim Morrissy considered the animation to be humorous, especially fitting in a comedic anime. Kotaku writer Richard Eisenbeis explained much of the series' humor derives from the deconstruction of Kazuma's hopes of becoming the hero of a fantasy world, instead realizing he is forced to struggle his way through the world. Comparing Kazuma's problems in a fantasy world to those in real life, Creamer wrote about a sense of relatability between the series' protagonists and the audience, as the party deals with issues like debt and taking questionable jobs because of high pay. On a critical note, Creamer disapproved of Kazuma's negative attitude, which he felt harmed the comedy in the series.


title: KonoSuba

text: "KonoSuba" characters, especially those in Kazuma's party, have garnered favorable reactions in the anime community. Creamer described the group as possessing a "strange but endearing chemistry," as the members are unfriendly with one another, yet are close. Morrissy added the party's "emotional bond is also evident in the ways they interact with each other. My favorite thing about the anime is that it takes the time to draw these nuances out onscreen and express them with visual flair." Megumin in particular has been considered one of the series' most popular characters, winning Sneaker Bunko's official Favorite "KonoSuba" Character poll. She was also the sixth-highest vote in "Newtype" 2015–16 Awards for Best Female Character (Kazuma was third in the male category) and received the most "Other" votes in the Best Girl category in Crunchyroll's Anime Awards 2016. In an interview with internet personality The Anime Man, Natsume Akatsuki described Megumin as giving off "a pure and elegant atmosphere" like one of an anime heroine or waifu, hence her popularity among fans.


title: KonoSuba

text: In May 2021, "KonoSuba" was one of five isekai-oriented anime titles (along with "Zombie Land Saga", "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime", "Princess Lover!", and "Nekopara") that were given a limited ban by the Russian government for their depiction of reincarnation, which was alleged to encourage suicide by lawmakers.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: The De Havilland Canada DHC-8, commonly known as the Dash 8, is a series of turboprop-powered regional airliners, introduced by de Havilland Canada (DHC) in 1984. DHC was later bought by Boeing in 1988, then by Bombardier in 1992; then by Longview Aviation Capital in 2019, reviving the De Havilland Canada brand. Powered by two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100s, it was developed from the Dash 7 with improved cruise performance and lower operational costs, but without STOL performance. Three sizes were offered: initially the 37–40 seat -100 until 2005 and the more powerful -200 from 1995, the stretched 50–56 seats -300 from 1989, both until 2009, and the 68–90 seats -400 from 1999, still in production. The QSeries are post-1997 variants fitted with active noise control systems.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: In the 1970s, de Havilland Canada had invested heavily in its Dash 7 project, concentrating on STOL and short-field performance, the company's traditional area of expertise. Using four medium-power engines with large, four-bladed propellers resulted in comparatively lower noise levels, which combined with its excellent STOL characteristics, made the Dash 7 suitable for operating from small in-city airports, a market DHC felt would be compelling. However, only a handful of air carriers employed the Dash 7, as most regional airlines were more interested in operational costs than short-field performance.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: In 1980, de Havilland responded by dropping the short-field performance requirement and adapting the basic Dash 7 layout to use only two, more powerful engines. Its favoured engine supplier, Pratt & Whitney Canada, developed the new PW100 series engines for the role, more than doubling the power from its PT6. Originally designated the PT7A-2R engine, it later became the PW120. When the Dash 8 rolled out on April 19, 1983, more than 3,800 hours of testing had been accumulated over two years on five PW100 series test engines.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: The airliner entered service in 1984 with NorOntair, and Piedmont Airlines, formerly Henson Airlines, was the first US customer the same year.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: In 1986, Boeing bought the company in a bid to improve production at DHC's Downsview Airport plants, as well as better position itself to compete for a new Air Canada order for large intercontinental airliners. Air Canada was a crown corporation at the time, and both Boeing and Airbus were competing heavily via political channels for the contract. It was eventually won by Airbus, which received an order for 34 A320 aircraft in a highly controversial move. The allegations of bribery are today known as the Airbus affair. Following its failure in the competition, Boeing immediately put de Havilland Canada up for sale. The company was eventually purchased by Bombardier in 1992.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: The market for new aircraft to replace existing turboprops once again grew in the mid-1990s, and DHC responded with the improved "Series 400" design.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: All Dash 8s delivered from the second quarter of 1996 (including all Series 400s) include the Active Noise and Vibration System designed to reduce cabin noise and vibration levels to nearly those of jet airliners. To emphasize their quietness, Bombardier renamed the Dash 8 models as the Q-Series turboprops (Q200, Q300, and Q400).


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: In April 2008, Bombardier announced that production of the classic versions (Series 100, 200, 300) would be ended, leaving the Series 400 as the only Dash 8 still in production.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: Bombardier aimed to produce the Q400 more economically. A deal with its machinists union in June 2017 allowed the assembly of the wings and cockpit section outside Canada and searches for potential partners commenced.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: Bombardier expected to produce the cockpit section in its plant in Queretaro, Mexico, outsourcing the wings to China's Shenyang Aircraft Corp, which already builds the Q400's centre fuselage. The Q400 components are chemically milled while older variants are assembled from bonded panels and skins.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: The production of Dash 8 Series 100 stopped in 2005. Later in 2009, Bombardier stopped the production of Series 100 and 200.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: Bombardier proposed development of a Q400 stretch with two plug-in segments, called the Q400X project, in 2007.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: In June 2009, Bombardier commercial aircraft president Gary Scott indicated that the Q400X will be "definitely part of our future" for possible introduction in 2013–14, although he did not detail the size of the proposed version or commit to an introduction date.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: As of July 2010, Bombardier's vice president, Phillipe Poutissou, made comments explaining the company was still studying the prospects of designing the Q400X and talking with potential customers. At the time, Bombardier was not as committed to the Q400X as it had been previously. As of May 2011, Bombardier was still strongly committed to the stretch, but envisioned it as more likely as a 2015 or later launch, complicating launch date matters were new powerplants from GE and PWC to be introduced in 2016. As of February 2012, Bombardier was still studying the issue, but as of 2011, the launch date was no longer targeted for the 2014 range. At least a three-year delay was envisioned.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: In October 2012, a joint development deal with a government-led South Korean consortium was revealed, to develop a 90-seater turboprop regional airliner, targeting a 2019 launch date. The consortium was to have included Korea Aerospace Industries and Korean Air Lines.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: At the February 2016 Singapore Airshow, Bombardier announced a high-density, 90-seat layout of the Q400, which should enter service in 2018; keeping the seat pitch of the Nok Air 86-seats, an extra row of seats is allowed by changing the configuration of the front right door and moving back the aft pressure bulkhead. The payload is increased by and the aircraft maintenance check intervals are increased: 800 hours from 600 for an A-check and 8,000 hours from 6,000 for a C-check.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: By August 2018, the 90-seat variant was certified before delivery to launch customer SpiceJet later in the same year.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: In March 2021, EASA certified the 90-seat variant for European operations; DHC believes that there are opportunities with current and prospective European customers.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: On November 8, 2018, Viking Air parent Longview Aviation Capital Corporation acquired the entire Dash 8 program and the "de Havilland" brand from Bombardier, in a deal that would close by the second half of 2019.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: Viking had already acquired the discontinued de Havilland Canada aircraft model type certificates in 2006.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: By November 2018, the sales of the higher-performance Q400 were slower than the cheaper aircraft from ATR.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: Bombardier announced the sale was for $300 million and expects $250 million net. The sale was projected by Bombardier to result in $250 million annual savings.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: In January 2019, Longview announced that it would establish a new company in Ontario, reviving the de Havilland Aircraft Company of Canada name, to continue production of the Q400 and support the Dash 8 range.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: On June 3, 2019, the sale was closed with the newly formed De Havilland Canada (DHC) taking control of the Dash 8 program, including the previous -100, -200, and -300 series. Production of the Q400 was planned to continue at the Downsview, Toronto production facility, under DHC's management.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: De Havilland is considering a 50-seat shrink, as North American airlines operate 870 ageing 50-seaters, mostly CRJs and Embraer ERJs.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: There were 17 Dash 8s scheduled for delivery in 2021, and De Havilland could pause production after those, while the factory lease expires in 2023.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: On February 17, 2021, DHC announced a pause in production, planned for the second half of 2021, due to lack of Dash 8 orders from airlines. The manufacturer planned to vacate its Downsview Toronto facility and lay off 500 employees in the process. The lay-off notice resulted in the union representing the workers demanding a government bail-out. The company plans to restart production after the pandemic at a new location.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: In July 2022, DHC announced that it would review the Dash 8 programme and supply chain later in the year, and could restart production in the middle of the decade if conditions allow. The Calgary site, where the company produces DHC-6 Twin Otters, would be the likely venue. Potential updates, including hydrogen-electric propulsion, will be studied.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: Distinguishing features of the Dash 8 design are the large T-tail intended to keep the tail free of prop wash during takeoff, a very high aspect ratio wing, the elongated engine nacelles also holding the rearward-folding landing gear, and the pointed nose profile.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: The Dash 8 design has better cruise performance than the Dash 7, is less expensive to operate, and is much less expensive to maintain, due largely to having only two engines. It is a little noisier than the Dash 7 and cannot match the STOL performance of its earlier DHC forebears, although it is still able to operate from small airports with runways long, compared to the required by a fully laden Dash 7.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: The introduction of the regional jet altered the sales picture. Although more expensive than turboprops, regional jets allow airlines to operate passenger services on routes not suitable for turboprops. Turboprop aircraft have lower fuel consumption and can operate from shorter runways than regional jets, but have higher engine maintenance costs, shorter ranges, and slower cruising speeds.


title: De Havilland Canada Dash 8

text: When world oil prices drove up short-haul airfares in 2006, an increasing number of airlines that had bought regional jets began to reassess turboprop regional airliners, which use about 30–60% less fuel than regional jets. Although the market was not as robust as in the 1980s when the first Dash 8s were introduced, 2007 had increased sales of the only two 40+ seat regional turboprops still in western production, Bombardier's Q400 and its competitor, the ATR series of 50– to 70-seat turboprops. The Q400 has a cruising speed close to that of most regional jets, and its mature engines and systems require less frequent maintenance, reducing its disadvantage.