title: Hikaru Utada

text: "Ultra Blue" sold 500,317 copies in the first week, lower than that of the previous album, although it still topped the Oricon Daily, Weekly, and Monthly charts. "Ultra Blue" was Utada's fifth consecutive chart-topping Japanese album (excluding the English-language "Exodus") to sell in excess of 500,000 copies in the first week. On July 13, Toshiba EMI published a report stating that "Ultra Blue" had sold over one million copies worldwide and four million digital ringtones already making it one of EMI's 10 best-selling albums of the past year. The album, which did not contain much pop music, was met with mixed reception, although the album was certified Million by RIAJ. Additionally, it was the highest-selling original studio album by a Japanese female artist in 2006.


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text: "Ultra Blue" later became available on the iTunes Japan online music store, charting at number 4 on the 2006 yearly download rankings. Two weeks after the release of "Ultra Blue," she went on a nationwide tour titled Utada United 2006, from June 30 through September 12. This was her second concert tour after the Bohemian Summer 2000 tour.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: The singles that were released prior to Utada's fifth studio album, "Heart Station", were able to reach the Top Five position on the chart, including the number 1 hit "Flavor of Life", which would become the best selling digital single in Japan with over 7,500,000 copies downloaded. Around the same time, she visited New York to talk with producers and executives at Island/Def Jam about recording a second English album. Later in the year a digital track by American R&B artist Ne-Yo, titled "Do You" from his 2007 album "Because of You", featured Utada and was released in Japan on November 21 (the song was later featured on Ne-Yo's "best of" album, , released on September 2, 2009, in Japan and November 2009 in the US).


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text: On June 30, 2007, the British EMI Group, which had held a 55% stake in Toshiba EMI since before Utada's debut in Japan, purchased the remaining 45% stake from the Japanese Toshiba Corporation, therefore making Toshiba EMI a wholly owned subsidiary of the London-based record label. Toshiba EMI then changed its name to EMI Music Japan to reflect Toshiba's divestiture from the business. Utada's first single under the label, "Beautiful World"/"Kiss & Cry" was released as a double A-side single on August 29, 2007, and also reached number 1 on the Oricon Daily Chart. "Beautiful World" was used as the theme song for "", the 2007 film reboot of the anime, "Neon Genesis Evangelion", while "Kiss & Cry" was used in a series of commercials for Nissin Foods' Freedom Project advertising campaign starting April 20, 2007, and was previously released as a digital download on May 31, 2007.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: The year 2007 ended with the single "Flavor of Life" becoming the best seller of 2007 and with Utada again voted "Number 1 Favorite Artist of 2007" by Oricon's annual readers poll, after a two-year absence from the top spot. She sold 12 million digital ringtones and songs in 2007, with "Flavor of Life" accounting for 7.5 million, the second-highest of any song worldwide that year. The single was featured as the main song in the second season of TV drama "Hana yori Dango Returns".


title: Hikaru Utada

text: Utada's fifth studio album, "Heart Station", was released on March 19, 2008, becoming her fifth consecutive number-one Japanese studio album. Although it had collected the lowest first week sales for her career, with 480,081 copies sold, the sales of this album reached a million on the Oricon charts in January 2009, making it her first Japanese album to do so since the 2004 compilation album. It was given a certification of one million for shipments by the RIAJ. "Heart Station" became the best-selling digital-format album on the iTunes 2008 yearly album charts in Japan, and was also the highest-selling original studio album by a solo female artist on the Oricon Yearly Chart.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: The song "Prisoner of Love" was used as the theme-song for the television drama "Last Friends". Although "Prisoner of Love" was not initially released as a single alone, it reached number 1 in iTunes and the Chako-Uta charts after it was released as a single for the drama. It reached number 2 at the Oricon Weekly charts. It marked the fourth successful drama tie-in for Utada, following 1999's "Majo no Jōken" and "First Love", 2001's "Hero" and "Can You Keep a Secret" and 2007's "Hana Yori Dango" and "Flavor of Life".


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On October 20, 2008, the song "Eternally" from Utada's 2001 album "Distance" was used as the theme for the drama "Innocent Love". The song was later released as a digital single.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: By the end of the year, Utada was also voted the "Number 1 Favorite Artist of 2008" by Oricon's annual readers poll for the second consecutive year, and third time overall.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On December 16, 2008, information leaked onto the internet that Utada's next English-language single, titled "Come Back to Me", would be scheduled for airplay release through U.S. Rhythmic/Crossover and Mainstream formats on February 9 and 10, 2009 respectively via Island Records. Her second English album, titled "This Is the One", was released on March 14, 2009, in Japan and on May 12, 2009, in the United States. "This Is the One" debuted at number 1 in Japan on March 13, 2009, the day it was released in Japan, but became her first album not to top the weekly chart since "Precious". On March 30, 2009, Utada appeared on New York City radio station Z-100, the largest pop radio program in the U.S., and granted a live on-air interview on the station's "Elvis Duran Morning Show", a breakthrough that would lead to a promotional schedule through the album's international physical release on May 12. She also sang the theme song for the second "Evangelion" film, "". The single was released on June 27, 2009, and is a remix of a previous single, "Beautiful World". The single is titled "".


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On November 30, 2009, at Studio Coast, Tokyo, Utada sung a duet of "Let It Snow" with pop singer Mika.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On December 21, 2009, Utada's "Dirty Desire" remixes were released only on Amazon.com, Zune Marketplace, and the U.S. iTunes Store, in support of "This Is the One" and an upcoming tour. The tour, , was her first concert tour outside Japan and included eight cities in the US and two dates in London, UK. The tickets for the second London performance went on public sale November 13, and reportedly sold out in just five hours.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: In a personal blog post on August 9, 2010, Utada announced a long hiatus, writing "I don't know if it will be 2 years or 5 years." After having been focused on music from age 15 to 27, she expressed a need to have a broader range of experiences, and grow as a person.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: However, she also wrote that before the hiatus began, some new music would be released. Soon after the post, a compilation album was announced: "Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 2", with a release date of November 24, 2010. This album would include all of Utada's Japanese singles, from "Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro" to "Prisoner of Love", on disc one, as well as an extra EP featuring five new tracks. Later it was announced a DVD containing the promotional video for "Goodbye Happiness" would be included in all first-press edition pre-orders.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On September 27, 2010, Utada revealed a single, entitled "Hymne à l'amour (Ai no Anthem)", which became a commercial tie-in for Pepsi NEX. The song features both Japanese and French lyrics, written and translated by Utada herself. She performed a concert series titled Wild Life at Yokohama Arena to promote the album, her first Japanese concert since 2006's Utada United.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On October 3, 2010, Utada's official EMI website was updated with the album artwork and final track list for "Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 2". First-press editions included a three-fold paper slip case, along with a good luck charm, and a lottery slip for fans to have a chance at winning one of 1000 tickets to Wild Life.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: In late October, it was revealed online at Tower Records Japan and several other websites that an English-language "best-of album" titled "Utada the Best"" would become available in Japan on the same day as "Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 2", November 24. Utada reacted to the news, stating: "I understand that if it doesn't sell, I'm the one who will take the hit, but to be honest, I don't want my fans putting down money for something that my heart isn't in." and "The release of "Utada the Best" is entirely against my will. I wish that my fans won't have to buy it. There's no new material in it."


title: Hikaru Utada

text: Utada later announced a single, "Goodbye Happiness", with its accompanying PV appearing publicly on November 9, 2010. The song was also chosen as the Recochoku Chaku-Uta TV commercial theme song. She also appeared on a track entitled "London City" with English rapper Devlin on his first studio album, "Bud, Sweat and Beers", which was also released on November 1.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On November 8, 2010, EMI Japan announced on its Web site that the company had made a global recording deal with Utada, also stating that all of her future work regardless of language would be released under one name: Hikaru Utada. This signaled the retirement of her Western stage name, Utada.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: First-week sales for "Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 2" were 231,000 units according to Oricon. The release marked Utada's seventh consecutive number 1 album (5 original and two best-ofs) since her debut, surpassing KinKi Kids' previous record of six. On April 10, 2011, she won the award for "Best Conceptual Video" in the Space Shower Music Video Awards for the promotional video for "Goodbye Happiness", which was also her directorial debut.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: The two-concert Wild Life tour took place on December 8 and 9, 2010 at Yokohama Arena. The opening concert was broadcast in 64 cinemas in Japan while it was simultaneously broadcast on Ustream, a live video streaming website. The two channels set up for the concert on Ustream were accessed a total of 925,000 times, with 345,000 unique viewers, which was a global record on Ustream.tv for the highest number of simultaneous accesses of any video, with the previous highest being only 100,000.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: Japanese TV station NHK premiered a documentary about Utada on January 15, 2011, entitled , a documentary featuring studio performances ("Show Me Love (Not a Dream)" and "Goodbye Happiness") as well as a few clips from the Wild Life performances. It also featured a post–Wild Life interview with J-Wave host Chris Peppler, in which she expressed a desire to travel and do volunteer work overseas. She said she would continue writing music during the hiatus. The documentary was also broadcast internationally, in Europe on February 2, 2011, and in the US on February 12, 2011, on the NHK channel (TV Japan in America, and JSTV in Europe).


title: Hikaru Utada

text: A DVD and Blu-ray release of Wild Life were confirmed and initially set for release on April 6, 2011. However, on March 24, 2011, Utada tweeted that both the DVD/Blu-ray of the Wild Life tour had been postponed, due to the earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan damaging the pressing factories. The DVD was released on April 20, 2011, with the Blu-ray following.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On December 7, 2011, Recochoku updated their yearly download and awards chart, with her "Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 1" listed as the second-most-downloaded album of 2011.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On November 16, 2012, Utada's YouTube account uploaded a video entitled "桜流し" ("Sakura Nagashi", meaning "Flowing Cherry Blossoms"). The single was co-written with Paul Carter, and was digitally released on November 17, 2012. A DVD single was released a month later. "Sakura Nagashi" is the theme song from the animation movie "".


title: Hikaru Utada

text: In September 2012, the British EMI group was broken up and sold to various companies. On April 1, 2013, Utada's record company, EMI Music Japan, was absorbed into Universal Music Japan, became defunct as a company and was renamed to EMI Records Japan. Therefore, all of her further releases before switching to Sony Music Entertainment Japan would be through Universal Music Japan.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On December 9, 2013, to celebrate the 15th anniversary of "First Love", EMI Records released "" tour footage on iTunes and announced a re-release of "First Love", including a special limited edition that contained the original album remastered, instrumentals from the original tracks, unreleased tracks and live footage from Utada's first live show, "Luv Live".


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On December 8, 2014, Universal Music Japan released a tribute album entitled "Utada Hikaru no Uta". The album features cover versions of Utada's back catalogue of songs by different popular artists such as AI, Ayumi Hamasaki, Peabo Bryson, Ringo Shiina, and more.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On December 26, 2014, Universal Music Japan revealed through media outlet "Weekly Bunshun" that Utada only has one album left before the contract with the label ends, and that a comeback in the music industry was under discussion.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On July 3, 2015, Utada revealed the birth of a son on her blog, and mentioned work on an album primarily written during pregnancy. She asked for patience leading up to the release during the transition into parenthood.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: In January 2016, it was reported that Utada would release a song in the spring. "Hanataba o Kimi ni" ("Bouquet for You") was the theme for the television show ), which aired on April 4, 2016. In February 2016, "Manatsu no Tōriame" was aired on April 4, 2016, to be the theme to a late-night TV station's news show, "News Zero". That same day, Utada's website announced the official song's release, as digital singles, on April 15.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: Utada's website was also updated with the announcement of a project titled "New-Turn", in which fans were encouraged to purchase her music and to use the hashtag "#おかえりHIKKI" ("Welcome Back Hikki") on Twitter. The aim was to use proceeds from the music purchased to plant more cherry blossom trees in the tsunami-damaged areas of Japan after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. The website also confirmed her return to artistic activities.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On August 8, 2016, the album's title, track list and cover were released. The album's title was announced as "Fantôme" (French: 'ghost'), containing eight new songs, as well as the previous three singles, for a track listing totaling eleven tracks. Following its release on September 28, "Fantôme" was commercially and critically successful. It debuted atop the Oricon Albums Chart and stayed there for four consecutive weeks, the most of any Utada studio album since "First Love". It was awarded Album of the Year at the Japan Record Awards and received positive reviews from media outlets. At the end of the year, it was ranked the third-best-selling physical record of the year by Oricon, as well as the best-selling digital album, according to Billboard Japan.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On February 9, 2017, it was announced that Utada would switch labels to Sony Music Japan sub-label Epic Records once the contract with Universal expired in March. The label announced that new material would be released later in 2017. The first digital single under the label, called "Ōzora de Dakishimete", was released digitally worldwide on July 10, 2017. The second one, called "Forevermore", was released on July 28. It features the drummer Chris Dave. A third digital single, called "Anata", was released on December 8. The song was chosen as the theme for the movie "Destiny: Kamakura Monogatari". On December 8, she announced that the Japanese repertoire, from debut single "Automatic" to the sixth album "Fantôme" would be simultaneously available on all streaming services but Spotify, where it would be available a month later on January 8, 2018.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: In 2018, Utada released a seventh Japanese album, the first under Epic, and embarked on a domestic tour, her first since 2006. She also co-produced the singer-songwriter Nariaki Obukuro's major label debut album, "Bunriha no Natsu", under Epic. The first single off the album, "Lonely One", has Utada credited as a featured artist and was released on January 17, 2018, through streaming services.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On February 10, 2018, it was announced that Utada would provide the theme song for the video game "Kingdom Hearts III", called "Chikai" ("Oath"), along the English version, called "Don't Think Twice", for international audiences. It was confirmed that "Chikai" would be included in her seventh Japanese album, set for release in 2018. A third studio collaboration with Obukuro was announced to be released in Sheena Ringo's tribute album, "Adam to Eve no Ringo", a cover of Ringo's song "Marunouchi Sadistic", which they both covered one year earlier in Obukuro's radio show.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On April 17, 2018, a new single by Utada, "Hatsukoi", was unveiled in the drama "Hana Nochi Hare ~Hanadan Next Season~" as an image song. It was the second song she delivered to the "Hana Yori Dango" drama series, after "Flavor of Life" in 2007. The single was released on May 30. On the next day, a single was announced for release on April 25 called "Play a Love Song", the theme song for Suntory Water SWITCH&SPARKLE.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On June 27, Utada's seventh Japanese album "Hatsukoi" was released. It contained all previous six singles, for a total of 12 songs. A domestic concert tour, called Hikaru Utada Laughter in the Dark Tour 2018 was held from November 6 until December 9 (which was her 20th debut anniversary day), for a total of 12 dates at 6 different venues. The album debuted at number 1 in Oricon physical and digital weekly charts, with total sales combined of over 242,000.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On September 28, it was reported that Utada would release a single titled "Face My Fears" as the theme song for "Kingdom Hearts III". She co-produced the song with American musicians Skrillex and Poo Bear. "Face My Fears" was released as a CD single on January 18, 2019, making it her first release on the format in eleven years since her 2008 single "Prisoner of Love". It was also her first release with original English songs since "This Is the One" in 2009. The song became her first US Billboard Hot 100 at number 98, and it peaked at number 9 in Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On June 26, 2019, Utada's "Laughter in the Dark" tour film was released worldwide on Netflix, with English subtitles personally translated by the singer.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On November 1, 2019, an Utada collaboration with singer-songwriter Sheena Ringo was released, called "Roman to Soroban LDN ver." ("The Sun and the Moon", in English). It was featured in Sheena's best-of album "Apple of Universal Gravity". An alternative version of the song, called "Roman to Soroban TYO ver.", was available on November 25. On November 27, 2019, Utada released the first single in over a year with "Shonen Jidai". It appears as track number 5 on the "Inoue Yosue Tribute" album. She also included a live rendition of the song on her 2003 DVD "UH Live Streaming 20 Dai wa Ikeike!"


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On May 8, 2020, Utada released "Time", the theme song for the NTV drama "Bishoku Tantei Akechi Goro". The single "Darenimo Iwanai" was released on May 29 as the music for a Suntory mineral water campaign, with Utada starring in the commercial.


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text: In the second episode of Instagram live series "Jitaku Kakuri-chu no Hikaru Paisen ni Kike!", Utada confirmed that work was underway on both new Japanese and English songs for the next album, including English versions of the Japanese songs.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On December 3, 2020, it was announced that Takeru Sato and Hikari Mitsushima will star in a Netflix based on Utada's songs "First Love" and "Hatsukoi". The streaming show, titled "First Love Hatsukoi", is scheduled to be released in 2022.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On December 25, 2020, Utada's official website announced a new single titled "One Last Kiss" as the theme song for the film "". The song was later postponed 'until further notice' due to the COVID-19 pandemic, along with the movie. The single was released on March 8, 2021, with the release of the film.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: Utada sang the theme "Pink Blood" for the 2021 anime "To Your Eternity" which was released in April. She released the single "Kimini Muchuu" for TBS drama series "Saiai" that November.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: "Bad Mode", Utada's eleventh studio album, was released on January 19, 2022. Her first bilingual album, "Bad Mode" includes collaborations with a variety of producers, including Skrillex and Poo Bear, A. G. Cook, and Sam Shepherd. The album reached number one on Japan's Oricon and Billboard charts.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: In April 16, 2022, Utada performed at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival's main stage, her first time in a music festival in the United States, under the 88rising block. She sung a short setlist of old songs including “Simple and Clean”, “Automatic”, “First Love” and a new song, called "T". A studio version of "T", featuring rapper Warren Hue, was released in the same day after the concert finished, as part of the 88rising EP "Head in the Clouds Forever".


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On June 9, 2022, the concert "Hikaru Utada Live Sessions from Air Studios" was released for streaming in Netflix.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: Utada is a core component of the ever-changing J-pop music genre, bringing her American-inflected R&B vocal style to a mix of soulful ballads, bouncy dance-pop, and standard pop songs.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: Utada's official website cites 16 musicians and composers as her favorite artists: Freddie Mercury, Cocteau Twins, Nine Inch Nails, Jimi Hendrix, Prince, Amel Larrieux, Édith Piaf, Chick Corea, the Blue Nile, Björk, Kate Bush, Akino Arai, Lenny Kravitz, Béla Bartók, Mozart, Jeff Buckley, Yutaka Ozaki, and Hibari Misora. Elsewhere, she has also listed R&B artists Aaliyah, Mariah Carey, and Mary J. Blige as inspirations, and has previously mentioned growing up as a fan of Madonna, Sting, and the Cure.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: Utada is bilingual and speaks English and Japanese fluently. On September 7, 2002, she married Kazuaki Kiriya, a photographer and film director who had directed several of her music videos. On March 2, 2007, the couple announced their divorce, citing personal changes and lack of communication due to the nature of their jobs.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On August 22, 2013, Utada's mother, Keiko Fuji, died by apparent suicide by jumping from the thirteenth floor of a 28-floor condominium building in Shinjuku, Tokyo.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: On February 3, 2014, Utada announced plans to be wedded to an Italian man, asking for fans and the media to view their personal lives from a "respectable distance" as he was not in the entertainment industry. On the same day, ex-husband Kazuaki Kiriya congratulated her on the new marriage. On February 10, 2014, Utada and fiancé Francesco Calianno left a message on her official website explaining how they met each other while Calianno was a bartender in a London hotel, and asking for privacy. The couple were married on May 23, 2014. On July 3, 2015, the couple announced the birth of a son. On April 6, 2018, it was announced that they had divorced.


title: Hikaru Utada

text: Utada has supported same-sex marriage; on June 26, 2021, she came out as non-binary in an Instagram livestream. Utada uses both she/her and they/them pronouns. Utada also said in regards to the English language honorifics Ms. and Mrs., "It makes me uncomfortable to be identified so markedly by my marital status or sex, and I don’t relate to any of those prefixes. Every time, I feel like I’m forced to misrepresent myself." Utada expressed support for such alternatives as "Mx".


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: The 5th Wave is a 2016 American science fiction action film directed by J Blakeson, with a screenplay by Susannah Grant, Akiva Goldsman, and Jeff Pinkner, based on Rick Yancey’s 2013 novel of the same name. The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, Alex Roe, Maria Bello, Maika Monroe, and Liev Schreiber.


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: Development began in March 2012, when Sony picked up the film rights to the trilogy of novels, with Graham King's production company GK Films and Tobey Maguire's Material Pictures. Filming took place in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 2014 to January 2015, with Jon Billington serving as the production designer. "The 5th Wave" was released on January 22, 2016, in the United States by Columbia Pictures. It grossed $109 million worldwide against a $54 million budget.


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: Ohio high-schooler Cassie Sullivan, armed with an M4 carbine, emerges from the woods to raid an abandoned gas station. Upon entering, she hears a voice calling for help. She finds a wounded man, who points a gun at her, but they ask each other to put their respective weapons down. His other hand is under his jacket—and as he takes it out, she sees a glint of metal and kills him, thinking he was holding a gun, but he was in fact holding a Christian cross; the screen cuts to black to show her backstory.


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: A colossal alien spaceship is circling Earth, guided by extraterrestrial life referred to as "The Others". Ten days later, The Others unleash their 1st Wave, an electromagnetic pulse that disables all electrical power and communications worldwide, and shuts off the engines of moving vehicles, including planes in mid-flight. The 2nd Wave has The Others manipulate the planet's geology and fault lines, causing earthquakes and megatsunamis that destroy coastal cities and islands, including Hallandale Beach, London, Bangkok and New York City. In Ohio, Lake Erie floods, but Cassie and her younger brother Sam are able to escape by climbing a tree. For the 3rd Wave, The Others modify a strain of avian influenza and spread it across the planet via birds. The population is decimated, with Cassie's mother one of the victims. In the 4th wave, the Others possess common humans and start killing other humans.


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: Cassie, Sam and their father find a summer camp in use as a refuge in the woods with roughly 300 survivors. A few days later, an Army unit with working vehicles rolls into the camp. The unit's commander, Colonel Vosch, claims there is an imminent threat of a 5th Wave and they will take the children to safety at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, intending to bring the buses back to retrieve the adults. Cassie is separated from Sam, and witnesses the Army massacring all the adults, her father included. Cassie makes her way toward the base, but is shot in the leg by a sniper and passes out. About a week later, she wakes up in the farmhouse of a young man named Evan Walker, who saved her. Cassie leaves towards the base with Evan, but learns that he is an Other, sent years ago as a sleeper agent and merged his consciousness into a human host. The sleepers roam their designated zones, killing human survivors. Evan admits his humanity was reactivated when he saw her, disagrees with the invasion and lets her leave. He warns that Colonel Vosch and the military are possessed by the consciousness of individual Others.


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: At the base, the military have used deception and technology to convince the rescued children that the humans outside the base have been possessed. They provide military training to the children, forming them into squads to go on kill missions outside the base. Sam has been placed into a squad led by Ben, a boy Cassie had a crush on, along with Ringer, a tough teenage girl, Dumbo and Teacup. While out on a kill mission, Ringer removes her military implant, causing her to register as an Other-possessed human on the squad's scopes. The squad deduces the plan to have them kill real unpossessed humans, making them the 5th Wave. Ben sends his squad into the woods and returns to base, claiming his squad was killed, for the purpose of retrieving Sam, who was left behind. Ben confronts Colonel Vosch about child warriors being the 5th Wave and Cassie kills Sergeant Reznik during her one-on-one indoctrination spiel. Ben and Cassie find each other and leave to find Sam. Evan sets off numerous bombs and advises them to quickly find Sam before the destruction of the entire facility. Colonel Vosch and the surviving military Others evacuate with the human children by military aircraft. Cassie, Ben and Sam escape, with help from Ringer, just as Evan completes the destruction of the base. Ben's squad is reunited, and Cassie ponders the strength of hope as humanity's driving force for survival.


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: In March 2012, Columbia Pictures picked up the film rights to the trilogy, with Graham King and Tobey Maguire attached as producers. On April 15, 2014, it was officially announced that Chloë Grace Moretz would star as Cassie Sullivan, and that J Blakeson would direct from a script by Susannah Grant. From June through August 2014, Nick Robinson and Alex Roe joined the film as male protagonists Ben Parish and Evan Walker, respectively, while Liev Schreiber was cast as the villain. Over the following months, Maika Monroe, Zackary Arthur, Tony Revolori, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, and Talitha Bateman joined the film.


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: Principal photography began on October 18, 2014, in Atlanta, Georgia. According to production designer Jon Billington, the production team scouted a number of cities but Atlanta was ultimately selected for its "visual diversity and interest". A total of $21.7 million was spent shooting in Georgia. 967 local crew members were hired to help with the production of the film, and they spent 17,843 man-days working on the film. Billington designed the various sets used throughout the movie around the Cassie and her story. He viewed the film as "Cassie’s 'Odyssey'" and envisioned five "worlds" that she travels through linearly. A few scenes taking place in the forest were shot on the Jackson trail, outside of Winder, Georgia, USA. Three months after production began, on January 11, a planned explosion of a bus in downtown Macon, Georgia, for the film went awry when it spread wider than planned, blowing out more than forty windows on Cotton Avenue, collapsing ceilings, destroying store fronts, setting one building on fire, and leaving soot on the brick buildings as well. The production company promised to cover all damages caused by the 3:45 am incident, but the work that was done was done badly and remained incomplete twenty-eight months later. Filming officially ended on January 17, 2015.


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: Livett's Launches provided filming support for the scene showing the destruction of Tower Bridge by a tsunami. In addition to London, Miami. Bangkok, Beijing, and New York can all be seen during the Second Wave as they are destroyed by a giant tsunami wave following the earthquake.


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: In April 2015, it was announced that Henry Jackman would compose the original soundtrack for the film. Notable songs by popular artists featured in the film include Sia, Coldplay, Pitbull, Ne-Yo, Madeon, Passion Pit, and Mark Ronson. Part of the song "Don't Panic" by Coldplay can be heard when Ben and Sam sing it together in an attempt to lull Sam to sleep. "Time of Our Lives" by Pitbull ft. Ne-Yo, "Pay No Mind" by Madeon ft. Passion Pit, and "Summer Breaking" by Mark Ronson ft. Kevin Parker. can by heard during a house party flashback involving Cassie. "Alive" by Sia serves as the film's end credit song and was used in promotional material for the film


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: Columbia Pictures originally set the film a release date for January 29, 2016. On April 30, 2015, the release date was changed from its original release date of January 29, 2016, to an earlier date of January 15, 2016. However, in December 2015, the release date was pushed back from January 15, 2016, to January 22, 2016. It was released on January 14, 2016, in Australia, Germany and the Middle East.


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: An international trailer for the film was released on Sony Pictures' official YouTube account on September 1, 2015. Standard marketing techniques were used to promote the film such as movie posters, trailers, and TV advertising. The film also had several pages on social media including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Lead actress Chloë Grace Moretz was featured on the cover of February 2016 issue of teenage lifestyle magazine Marie Claire to promote the film. The film's actors were also featured in several interviews with various YouTube channels such as IGN and FilmisNow


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: On May 3, 2016, it was announced via social media that the 5th Wave was available for purchase on Blu-Ray and Digital formats that same day. The film was released online on various video sites two weeks prior to this.


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: "The 5th Wave" grossed $34.9 million in North America and $75 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $109.9 million, against a production budget of $54 million.


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: The film was released in North America on January 22, 2016, alongside "Dirty Grandpa" and "The Boy", and was projected to gross $10–14 million from 2,908 theaters in its opening weekend. It made $475,000 from its Thursday night screenings and $3.5 million on its first day. It went on to gross $10.3 million in its opening weekend, finishing 6th at the box office.


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 16% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 141 reviews, with an average rating of 4.22/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "With unimpressive effects and plot points seemingly pieced together from previous dystopian YA sci-fi films, "The 5th Wave" ends up feeling like more of a limp, derivative wriggle." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 33 out of 100 based on 30 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: Jeffrey M. Anderson of "The San Francisco Examiner" said of the film, "Every plot turn and every line of dialogue has been borrowed from somewhere else, and everything is utterly, totally predictable", noting how the film "steals material from (but does not stop at) the "Twilight", "Hunger Games" and "Divergent" franchises." Anthony Lane of "The New Yorker" faulted the film as a "marketing wheeze dressed up as an art form, and stupendously summarized by the image of Cassie hurrying through the woods carrying both an assault rifle and a Teddy bear", adding that the film "appears to have been designed by some crazed Oedipal wing of the N.R.A."


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: Rob Vaux of the Sci-Fi Movie Page gave the film one star out of five, saying, "The Young Adult adaptation craze hits a low point with this aimless, purposeless alien invasion story that wastes a fine cast." In the "San Francisco Chronicle", Mick LaSalle wrote, "rarely does a movie that fails so utterly start so well", falling apart ahead of the fifth wave. As to a possible trilogy, "if we’re not really vigilant, and look to the skies, and prepare, they're going to make at least two more of these things. We’ve got to beat back the invasion now". Eddie Cockrell of "Variety" gave the film a mixed review, saying, ""The 5th Wave" is an effectively decent post-apocalyptic, young adult, world-in-the-balance survival thriller" with an "arrestingly original spin on trendy genre tropes", although he suggested that fans of the book may have "issues with what has been edited".


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: Brian Truitt of "USA Today" gave the film a positive review, stating that it "is an inviting sci-fi invasion" and "nicely stokes the imagination of a new generation of science-fiction movie nerds". He praised Moretz and Robinson as "equally strong" co-leads. Shannon Harvey of "The West Australian" also gave the film a positive review, writing, "It's actually got a lot going for it, from acting prodigy Chloe Grace Moretz as the kind of tough but fragile heroine you can cheer for to handsome production values, several plot twists". Michael Patterson of "Moviepilot" gave the film a positive review, calling it a "thrilling story of survival".


title: The 5th Wave (film)

text: Author of "The 5th Wave" Rick Yancy was heavily involved with the film's production from the beginning and seemed to be pleased with the final product saying "The filmmakers were very cognizant of the fact that what really sets the story apart is the heart of it". He believed that fans of the book would be "... pleased with how the filmmakers have captured the characters and story".


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Jermain Colin Defoe (born 7 October 1982) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. He also played for the England national team.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe began his career with Charlton Athletic, joining their youth team aged 14, before moving to West Ham United aged 16 and rising through the ranks. He made his first-team debut for West Ham in 2000 and, after a season-long loan spell at AFC Bournemouth during the 2000–01 season, established himself in the West Ham line-up. After West Ham's relegation in 2003, a move to Tottenham Hotspur in January 2004 soon followed, where Defoe played for four years before being sold to Portsmouth in January 2008. He spent one season at Fratton Park before returning to Tottenham in the January 2009 transfer window. He left for Toronto of Major League Soccer (MLS) in 2014, before returning to England in January 2015 to sign for Sunderland where he stayed until the club was relegated from the Premier League in 2017. Following a brief spell at AFC Bournemouth in 2017, Defoe joined Scottish team Rangers in 2018 on loan. The move was later made permanent. At his new club he was involved in winning the 2020–21 league title. This was the first and only league title in his career at the age of 38.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: In April 2011, Defoe became the 20th player to score a century of Premier League goals, and is currently the ninth-highest goalscorer in Premier League history as well as the sixth highest goalscorer in Tottenham's history. Defoe also holds the Premier League record for the most goals scored as a substitute, with 22, as of 11 January 2014. On 19 November 2016, Defoe scored his 150th Premier League goal, becoming the joint tenth-highest goal scorer in Premier League history.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe made his England debut in 2004 and has made 57 appearances, scoring 20 goals, including three appearances and a goal at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Born in Beckton, Greater London, Defoe attended St Joachim Primary School in Custom House, London and St Bonaventure's in Forest Gate, London. Defoe grew up in Canning Town and when his family moved to Beckton, played five-a-side football at Newham Leisure Centre. He joined the Sunday league team Senrab, well known in London for producing players such as Lee Bowyer, John Terry, Ashley Cole and Ledley King, and then joined the FA National School of Excellence at Lilleshall, Shropshire, as a 14-year-old in 1997. While there, he attended Idsall School. He was born to a Dominican father and his mother is of Saint Lucian descent.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe was spotted playing football by Charlton Athletic who enrolled him at the FA National School of Excellence at Lilleshall Hall in 1997. Two years later, he took the controversial decision, aged 16, to turn professional with West Ham United, following which Charlton were subsequently awarded compensation rising to £1.4 million contingent on Defoe's Premier League and international appearances. At West Ham, he was a member of the Under-19 team that won the Premier Academy League title in 1999–2000, scoring twice against Arsenal in the play-off final.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe made his first-team debut in a League Cup match against Walsall in September 2000, scoring in a 1–0 win. Shortly thereafter, he joined Second Division club AFC Bournemouth on a near season-long loan, where he scored in ten consecutive matches, equalling John Aldridge's and Clarrie Jordan's post-war record. He scored 18 goals in 29 league appearances for Bournemouth. West Ham manager Harry Redknapp tipped him for stardom, saying, "He's done great. I sent him out to Bournemouth to get some experience playing league football and he's coped marvellously. To score 10 goals in 10 games is a terrific achievement. He's a bright lad who's full of confidence. Nothing knocks him, he's a typical goal-scorer. If he misses, he'll be there the next time looking for a goal. He's a kid with a big future."


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe finished as West Ham's top scorer in the 2001–02 season despite being used primarily as a substitute by manager Glenn Roeder, scoring 14 goals in 39 league and cup appearances, one of which was a 1–0 away win against Manchester United in December 2001, as West Ham finished seventh in the Premier League. He scored a further 11 goals in 42 league and cup appearances in 2002–03 but was unable to prevent West Ham from being relegated.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Less than 24 hours after the club had been relegated, Defoe made a written request for a transfer, saying, "As much as I love West Ham United I feel that now is the right time for me to move on in my career. This is very much a career decision. I am very ambitious and hungry to achieve at the highest levels of the game for both club and country." The timing of his request, however, drew criticism from both fans and teammates and was turned down by the club. He later apologised to supporters, saying, "I mishandled that move and I can only apologise. I'm young and I've learned from it. I still played my hardest for West Ham and gave them 100% and want to thank the fans for their support."


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe began 2003–04 with West Ham but a refusal to sign a new contract and disciplinary problems, including three sendings-off, which saw him play only 22 matches out of a possible 34, led to West Ham accepting an offer from Tottenham Hotspur for him in the January transfer window.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe joined Tottenham in February 2004 for an initial fee of £6 million, rising to £7 million depending on "specific performance criteria", and with Bobby Zamora joining West Ham. Manager David Pleat said, "I can't think of a British striker at his age who has achieved as much in such a short space of time. His goal record for a 21-year-old is quite exceptional. I hope he will have a fine career at Tottenham." Defoe marked his arrival at Tottenham with a goal on his debut in the 4–3 home win over Portsmouth in February 2004 and added a further six in the remainder of 2003–04, scoring 7 goals in 15 matches. He then scored 13 goals in 36 matches in the Premier League, including a hat-trick in a 5–1 win over Southampton in December 2004, and nine goals in eight matches in the FA Cup and League Cup, in 2004–05. He also received the club's Player of the Year award for the 2004 calendar year, as voted by season ticket holders and Spurs members. Despite speculation linking him with other clubs, Defoe signed a new four-and-a-half-year contract with Tottenham in April 2005. The following season was not as profitable for Defoe, and Spurs manager Martin Jol used Defoe in rotation with Robbie Keane, Dimitar Berbatov and Mido providing the competition for a starting position. Defoe started 23 times and came on as substitute 13 times, scoring nine goals.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe made 49 league and cup appearances for Tottenham, scoring 18 goals, during 2006–07 as Tottenham competed in the UEFA Cup as well as the domestic competitions. He appeared to bite West Ham player Javier Mascherano on the shoulder during Tottenham's 1–0 win over West Ham in October 2006, sparking a melee between players of both teams. The FA declined to take action against Defoe as the referee, Steve Bennett, had booked Defoe for the incident. Defoe scored his 50th goal for Tottenham in the 2–1 win over Aston Villa on Boxing Day in December 2006, in which he scored both goals, and scored in Tottenham's 2–0 win over Charlton in May 2007, which condemned his former club to relegation to the Championship. During the summer of 2007, there was speculation about Defoe's future at Tottenham following the arrival of Darren Bent for a fee of £16.5 million. However, Defoe insisted that he would stay at Tottenham and fight for his place, saying, "I'm really excited about the new season and the prospect of another campaign in Europe. We have made some good signings and are now stronger and better equipped to compete in all competitions."


title: Jermain Defoe

text: On 20 September 2007, Defoe came on as a substitute against Cypriot club Anorthosis Famagusta to score twice in a 6–1 win, his first goals of the season. On 25 November 2007, he missed a penalty against former club West Ham at the Boleyn Ground in added time which would have won the match for Spurs; the match finished 1–1.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe joined Portsmouth in January 2008 for £7.5 million. He scored the equalising goal on his debut, a 1–1 draw at home to Chelsea. In March 2008, he was unable to play against Tottenham as the Premier League ruled that he was ineligible to do so as he was initially signed on loan in January 2008. In Portsmouth's match against Wigan Athletic the following week, he scored twice; in so doing, he became the first ever Portsmouth player to score in his first five home matches. Due to appearances in Tottenham's third and fourth round ties, Defoe found himself cup-tied for all the subsequent matches of Pompey's successful 2007–08 FA Cup campaign. This also meant that he missed out on playing in Spurs' League Cup final victory over Chelsea, however he still received his winners' medal, albeit 10 years later, in December 2018. Defoe ended 2007–08 with eight goals in 12 appearances for Portsmouth.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe scored Portsmouth's first goal of 2008–09 on 30 August 2008 with the opener in a 3–0 win at Everton, and then scored their first home goals on 13 September with a brace against Middlesbrough. Five days later, he contributed a goal and an assist in Pompey's first ever major European match, a 2–0 UEFA Cup first round win over Portuguese club Vitória de Guimarães on 18 September.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: In January 2009, Portsmouth chairman Peter Storrie revealed Defoe's intentions to leave the club in the near future. This came after joining the club only in the same transfer window of the previous year. It was reported that Defoe's former club Tottenham made a formal approach for the striker, but no agreement was reached; Spurs manager Harry Redknapp described the clubs as "miles apart in their valuation of the player", suggesting that Portsmouth wanted "in excess of £20 million". After negotiations, Portsmouth accepted a bid from Tottenham thought to be around £15.75 million (including fees owed to Tottenham for the previous transfers of Younès Kaboul and Pedro Mendes and waiving a £4 million sell-on clause that had also been negotiated during his transfer from Spurs to Portsmouth) on 6 January 2009. The player had agreed to a five-year contract and was confirmed as a Tottenham player by his new club on 9 January 2009. Defoe was presented at White Hart Lane with a carnival atmosphere before the start of Spurs' League Cup clash against Burnley after his return to White Hart Lane.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe made his return debut on 11 January 2009 in a Premier League match against Wigan Athletic. He scored his first goal against former club Portsmouth at White Hart Lane on 18 January 2009, in a match which finished 1–1. He also scored his team's second goal in the League Cup semi-final second leg loss at Burnley, which helped Spurs book a place in the final with a 6–4 aggregate win. He scored three goals in his first four matches before suffering a broken foot which meant that he returned for Spurs against Newcastle United on 19 April in which the club won 1–0. This injury meant he missed Spurs' appearance in the 2009 Football League Cup Final. He scored his first goal since his return from injury in a 2–1 win against Manchester City and helped his team secure eighth place in the league.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: On 19 August 2009, Defoe scored his first hat-trick for Tottenham in a 5–1 away victory over Hull City in the second match of the 2009–10 Premier League. Following the match, his manager Harry Redknapp stated his high opinion of Defoe: "With [Cristiano] Ronaldo gone, he can push to be the [Premier League] top scorer." After a fine run of form which saw him score seven goals for club and country, Defoe was named Premier League Player of the Month for August 2009. On 12 September 2009, Defoe scored after 38 seconds with an overhead kick against 2008–09 Premier League champions Manchester United in a match which ended in a 3–1 loss for Tottenham, taking his tally for the 2009–10 league season to five goals in five matches. On 23 September 2009, Defoe scored a header during Tottenham's 5–1 win over Preston. Defoe scored a goal and was sent off during the match against his former club, Portsmouth.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe scored five goals at White Hart Lane in a 9–1 thrashing of Wigan on 22 November 2009. This included the second-fastest hat-trick in Premier League history, which was scored in seven minutes. In doing so, Defoe became only the third player to score five goals in one Premier League match, after Alan Shearer and Andy Cole. Dimitar Berbatov and Sergio Agüero have subsequently equalled this feat. After the match, Harry Redknapp further asserted his belief that Defoe would go on to be the Premier League's top scorer in 2009–10. Redknapp later said that although Wayne Rooney is the best all-round attacking player, Defoe is the best finisher in England and should be a regular for the English national team. On 3 February, Defoe claimed his third hat-trick of the season in an FA Cup fourth-round replay against Leeds United at Elland Road, with Spurs winning 3–1. His rich vein of form continued on 21 February with another goal in the Premier League, against Wigan. Defoe's next goal was a penalty in Tottenham's win against Chelsea, which itself followed a famous 2–1 win over Arsenal. This took his tally to 24 goals for the season.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe played his part in Tottenham qualifying for the UEFA Champions League group stage, thanks to a controversial goal against Young Boys, where he appeared to use his arm before scoring the second goal of the match, which finished 4–0 to Tottenham. He was injured in the beginning of September when he was on duty with England, He made his comeback in Tottenham's 3–2 victory against Arsenal in the North London derby. He won a header which started the attack in which Gareth Bale scored five minutes in the second half to begin the comeback from 2–0 down to a 3–2 victory.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: On 26 December 2010, Defoe received a straight red card, his first of the season and first since 17 October 2009, in a match at Aston Villa; his team leading at the time went on to secure the win despite playing over an hour with ten men. Defoe began Tottenham's 2010–11 FA Cup campaign with a brace of goals in the third round match at home to Charlton Athletic on 9 January 2011, with Spurs winning 3–0, but in the following round, they were defeated by Fulham.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: In the 2010–11 Premier League, Defoe scored his first league goals of the season on 6 March 2011 against Wolverhampton Wanderers, getting the first two for Spurs in a 3–3 draw. He scored his third goal of the 2010–11 season with a long-range shot with his left foot against West Bromwich Albion. This was a triple landmark for Defoe, as it was his 100th Premier League goal as well as his 100th goal scored as a Tottenham player. In addition, it signified the 1,000th goal scored for Tottenham in the Premier League era.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: In pre-season, Defoe scored two goals, one coming in a 3–0 win against Orlando Pirates on 23 July, and the other in a 2–1 win against Athletic Bilbao at White Hart Lane on 6 August. Defoe started 2011–12 by scoring in a 5–0 win against Hearts in a UEFA Europa League play-off match on 18 August. His first Premier League goal of the season came in a 2–0 win at Wolves, scoring the second goal after exchanging passes with Niko Kranjčar. Defoe's first goal of 2012 came in a 1–0 home win against West Brom, converting a Gareth Bale cross. He scored on the last day of the season against Fulham, the second in a 2–0 win. Defoe ended the season with 17 goals in 38 matches across all competitions; in the Premier League, he scored 11 in 25 appearances, of which only 11 were starts.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe started by scoring on the opening day of the 2012–13 Premier League against Newcastle United in a 2–1 defeat. On 30 August 2012, Defoe signed a new three-year contract with Tottenham. He scored the 200th goal of his club career in a 4–2 defeat to Chelsea on 20 October and on 8 November, he scored a hat-trick in a 3–1 win against Slovenian club Maribor in the Europa League. In doing so, he overtook Teddy Sheringham on Tottenham's all-time goalscorers list. On 21 April 2013, Defoe scored his 15th goal of the season in the home match against Manchester City, a 3–1 win. The goal took him level with Alan Gilzean in joint-seventh place on the all-time Tottenham scorers list.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe started 2013–14 as a substitute, with newly signed striker Roberto Soldado starting for Tottenham. Nonetheless, manager André Villas-Boas used him as a first-choice striker for their opening matches in the Europa League, and on 29 August he scored his first goals of the campaign in a 3–0 home win against Dinamo Tbilisi. The result took Tottenham through to the group stages via an 8–0 aggregate victory after winning 5–0 in the first leg.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: On 19 September, Defoe scored twice in a 3–0 victory against Tromsø in the Europa League group stages, taking his tally in Europe to within two goals of the record holder, Martin Chivers. On 24 September 2013, Defoe scored another two in a 4–0 win against Aston Villa in the League Cup, which took his tally for Tottenham to 139 goals, moving him past George Hunt as the club's fifth-highest scorer of all-time. His goal on 3 October against Anzhi Makhachkala in a 2–0 win took him to one short of the club's all-time record of 22 held by Chivers. Two further goals, against Sheriff Tiraspol in two consecutive fixtures in the Europa League, saw Defoe with 23 European goals, one more than Chivers' previous record as Tottenham's highest European goalscorer. Defoe said Chivers had been at the match and had encouraged him to beat his record.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: On 10 January 2014, Tottenham announced that Defoe was leaving to join Major League Soccer (MLS) club Toronto FC, effective 28 February 2014. He agreed to a four-year deal worth between £68,000–90,000 per week. Toronto began its pursuit of Defoe the previous October, when the team management – which included Defoe's ex-Tottenham teammate Ryan Nelsen – met with him in London, and he received phone calls from rapper Drake, a Toronto native. The transfer also includes an agreement between Tottenham Hotspur and Toronto's owners, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, involving marketing, merchandise and broadcast rights, as well as a friendly match during Tottenham's North American tour in July 2014. Defoe was immediately loaned back to Tottenham until the end of February 2014, with whom he made two more appearances as a substitute.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe debuted with Toronto in their season opener at Seattle Sounders on 15 March 2014, scoring both goals in their 2–1 victory. On 31 August 2014, Toronto FC called a press conference to fire manager Nelsen; during the press conference, the general manager Tim Bezbatchenko was non-committal on Defoe's future at the club, implying that the player might be unsettled and that the club would entertain offers in excess of the £6 million paid for the striker. He said, "We're speaking with him [Defoe] and then we'll make a decision. We'll discuss it over the next 24 hours."


title: Jermain Defoe

text: On 16 January 2015, Defoe joined Premier League club Sunderland after agreeing to a three-and-a-half-year deal, as part of a player exchange deal sending Jozy Altidore to Toronto FC, after completing only 11 months of his four-year deal with Toronto. He made his Sunderland debut the following day against former club Tottenham. Defoe started the match but was goalless when he was substituted after 75 minutes, ending his record of scoring on his first appearance for every club he has played for. Defoe scored his first Sunderland goal on his home debut in a 2–0 victory over Burnley on 31 January 2015. His second goal came the following week on 7 February 2015, where he scored the opening goal in a 1–1 draw away to Swansea City.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: On 5 April, he scored the only goal in the Tyne–Wear derby victory over Newcastle with a 22-yard volley to end a sequence of eight matches without a win, and their first victory under the management of Dick Advocaat. The emotion of scoring the goal caused him to cry. On 9 May, Defoe scored his fourth goal of the season in a 2–0 win against Everton at Goodison Park, a result which moved Sunderland out of the relegation zone and gave Everton their first home defeat of 2015.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: On the opening day of the 2015–16 Premier League, Defoe scored in a 4–2 loss at Leicester City, meaning he had scored in 15 Premier League seasons. On 25 August, he scored a hat-trick in a 6–3 home win over Exeter City in the second round of the League Cup. Defoe then scored twice in Sunderland's opening match of 2016, a 3–1 defeat of Aston Villa on 2 January. In the team's next league fixture, he scored a hat-trick against Swansea City in a 4–2 win at the Liberty Stadium. On 6 February, Defoe scored an 89th-minute equaliser against Liverpool as Sunderland came from 2–0 down to draw the match. On 16 March, Defoe opened the scoring away to Newcastle as the Tyne–Wear derby was drawn 1–1.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: On 16 April 2016, Defoe scored Sunderland's second goal in a crucial 3–0 away victory over fellow strugglers Norwich, which left Sunderland one point from safety. On 7 May 2016, Defoe scored the winning goal against Chelsea, moving Sunderland out of the bottom three, and taking his Premier League tally to 15 for the season. Defoe was part of the Sunderland squad on the matchday when they secured their Premier League status with a 3–0 home win over Everton on 11 May 2016.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe ended the season as Sunderland's top scorer with 15 league goals, and was also named the club's player of the season. On 9 June, Defoe signed a new contract with Sunderland, committing his future to the club until 2019.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: On 13 August 2016, the opening day of the 2016–17 Premier League, Defoe scored in a 2–1 loss at Manchester City, meaning he has now scored in 16 Premier League seasons. On 5 November 2016, Defoe scored the winning goal from the penalty spot as 10-man Sunderland came from behind to win at Bournemouth, their first league win of the season. On 19 November 2016, Defoe scored his 150th Premier League goal in a 3–0 home win against Hull City, becoming the joint seventh highest goal scorer in Premier League history. On 2 January 2017, Defoe scored twice from the penalty spot as Sunderland came from behind to draw at home to Liverpool.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: In January 2017, with Sunderland lying in the relegation zone, Defoe was linked with a return to former club West Ham United. However, Sunderland rejected a bid in the region of £6 million, with manager David Moyes describing Defoe as "priceless". On 4 February 2017, Defoe scored twice in first half stoppage time in a 4–0 away victory at Crystal Palace to move on to 14 league goals for the season.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: In April 2017, Defoe hinted that he may leave Sunderland, if the club were to be relegated at the end of the 2016–17 Premier League. He was linked with a possible transfer to Newcastle United, and potential returns to former clubs Bournemouth and West Ham United. Sunderland's relegation was confirmed later that month. On 23 June, it was confirmed that Defoe had signed a contract with Bournemouth on a free transfer, leaving Sunderland on 1 July. He had previously played for the club in the 2000–01 season, on loan from West Ham United.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: On 16 September 2017, Defoe scored the winning goal and his first goal since his return to Bournemouth in a 2–1 home win against Brighton, providing the team with its first victory in the 2017–18 Premier League season, meaning he had scored in 17 different Premier League seasons.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: After making only eight appearances for Bournemouth in the 2018–19 season, Defoe joined Scottish Premiership club Rangers on 6 January 2019 on an 18-month loan, with two recall clauses inserted into the deal, which could have been activated in July 2019 or January 2020. On 23 January 2019, he scored a debut goal for Rangers against Kilmarnock, which meant he had scored a debut goal for 5 of his last 7 clubs. After scoring in a game on 27 September 2019 he was involved in a car accident.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: On 25 January 2020, it was announced that Defoe had signed a pre-contract agreement with Rangers, and would join the club permanently on a one-year deal, at the expiry of his Bournemouth contract in June 2020.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe joined Rangers permanently in the summer transfer window of the 2020–21 season. He scored his 300th career club goal, against Livingston on 25 October 2020.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: On 8 June 2021, Defoe signed a new one-year deal with Rangers to keep him at the club. As part of the contract, he will also become a coach at the club. On 15 November 2021, following the departure of manager, Steven Gerrard from Rangers to Aston Villa, Defoe was named as part of a four-man caretaker team responsible for leading the club during the pursuit of a new permanent head coach. On 12 January 2022, Defoe departed Rangers.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: On 31 January 2022, Defoe re-signed for Sunderland on a short-term deal until the end of the 2021–22 season. On 24 March 2022 he announced his retirement from professional football.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe was capped by England at two youth levels, earning eight caps for the under-16s and seven caps for the under-18s. Defoe's form for Bournemouth in the 2000–01 season saw him selected for the England under-21 team to play Mexico in May 2001, and he marked his debut with the second goal as England U21s won 3–0. He went on to gain 23 caps for England at under-21 level, scoring seven goals.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe debuted for the senior England team in a 1–0 defeat to Sweden in March 2004, coming on as an early substitute for the injured Darius Vassell. England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson singled out Defoe's display for praise in an otherwise poor performance by England, saying, "Jermain Defoe did very well – I liked what I saw. He showed that he can do very well even in international football and that he is technically very good. Jermain is quick and he knows where the goal is." He was not however selected for the England squad to take part in UEFA Euro 2004.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: He made his first start for England in a 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Poland in September 2004, scoring in a 2–1 win. Eriksson again paid tribute to Defoe, saying, "Jermain is a great talent. It couldn't have been much better for him. He did very well. He scored one goal and created other chances as well. He is a great player who will always score goals."


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Despite appearing regularly for England in FIFA World Cup qualifying matches and friendly matches, Defoe was not named in the provisional England squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany and named only on a five-man standby list. He joined the squad for training in Germany, but returned to England when Wayne Rooney was cleared to play after having suffered a foot injury in April. He confessed that he was baffled by his omission, saying, "I've been involved in every squad for the last two years and feel I've played a part in helping us to qualify. I have never felt fitter and sharper than I was in training and believe I could have scored goals in the tournament. It's a strange decision and everybody I speak to thinks so as well." Eriksson explained why Defoe was not selected for the England squad: "Jermain had a very bad season. I don't think he deserved to go to the World Cup."


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Steve McClaren, who took over as England manager after the FIFA World Cup, selected Defoe for England in his first match, a friendly against Greece in August 2006. Defoe continued to be selected and to appear for England in UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying matches and friendly matches.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe was initially omitted from Fabio Capello's first squad with the new manager insisting he would only select players who were playing regular club football. One day after scoring on his Portsmouth debut, Defoe was recalled to the England squad to replace the injured Gabriel Agbonlahor. Defoe took his international goals tally up to five in the Caribbean on 1 June 2008 when he scored twice against Trinidad and Tobago and in the process staking a claim for a more regular place in the international team.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe scored his first competitive international goal of 2008 with the final goal in England's 5–1 win over Kazakhstan on 11 October 2008 after coming on as a late substitute for Wayne Rooney. He also scored two goals in three minutes against Andorra in a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: His 2009–10 season got off to the perfect start as he came from the bench to score both goals in the 2–2 draw against the Netherlands at the Amsterdam Arena on 12 August 2009 and was announced as man of the match.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: On 23 June 2010, he scored the only goal in England's third group stage match against Slovenia in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. This goal gave England the win they needed to progress into the Round of 16.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe opened up the scoring for England's UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying campaign against Bulgaria, volleying home from the six-yard box after a cross from Ashley Cole, whose initial effort was saved by the Bulgarian goalkeeper Nikolay Mihaylov. Defoe went on to score his first international hat-trick, which was the first ever at the new Wembley. Defoe was called up to the England squad to face Wales on 26 March 2011, though he served as an unused substitute. Defoe was named as a member of the England squad for UEFA Euro 2012.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe did not play for the full 90 minutes in any of his England appearances until 11 September 2012 where he played the entire match against Ukraine.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe started England's first 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match, a 5–0 away win against Moldova and scored his 17th goal for England, tying him with David Beckham.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe was not included in the 23-man squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Defoe believes that he "likely won't ever get over the decision", and stated, "I don't think I'll ever be at peace with it." However, he was named as one of seven players on "standby".


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe's form in the 2015–16 season, where he helped Sunderland avoid relegation with 15 goals, led to calls for him to be included in the England squad for UEFA Euro 2016. He was not, however, named in manager Roy Hodgson's 26-man preliminary squad, and expressed his disappointment at his omission.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: After over three years away from international football, Defoe was recalled to the England squad in March 2017 by manager Gareth Southgate for a friendly match against Germany and a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Lithuania. On 26 March, Defoe returned to the first team, against Lithuania. Ahead of captain, Joe Hart, Defoe led the team onto the pitch with terminally ill child, Bradley Lowery, a Sunderland supporter who suffered from neuroblastoma. England won the match 2–0 with Defoe scoring the first goal.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: In a 2018 interview with Sky Sports, Defoe spoke about the influence of former Arsenal striker Ian Wright on his career, which included being inspired by his goal celebrations. He explained that his own favourite celebration is outstretching both arms straight, before stating when scoring a goal "you just want to go mad".


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe is a practising Roman Catholic. In 2017 he adopted a vegan diet in order to prolong his football career. He is teetotal.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: On 24 April 2009, his 26-year-old half-brother, Jade Defoe, died of head injuries following an assault in Leytonstone, London. On 7 June 2012, his father, Jimmy Defoe, died after a long battle with throat cancer. Defoe was with the England squad ahead of UEFA Euro 2012 at the time, and returned home from Poland upon receiving the news, but rejoined the squad on 9 June, two days before the opening match and played against France as a 77th-minute substitute.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Whilst playing for Sunderland, Defoe befriended Bradley Lowery, a terminally-ill six-year-old fan with neuroblastoma, describing their relationship as the "highlight of his season". Lowery was named 'Child of Courage' at the Pride of North East Awards in May 2017; Defoe attended the award ceremony, saying, "As a person he has changed me because of what he's going through at such a young age". Lowery died on 7 July 2017, at the age of 6.


title: Jermain Defoe

text: Defoe was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to the Jermain Defoe Foundation, a charitable foundation he founded in 2013.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) is a media franchise of space western role-playing video games created and developed by BioWare, which have seen releases on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Xbox One. The franchise takes place in the fictional universe of "Star Wars" by George Lucas. The first title, and subsequent massively multiplayer online role-playing game series, was developed by BioWare while the second was done by Obsidian Entertainment per LucasArts' request. All were published by LucasArts. The video game series is based on an earlier comic book series; the franchise includes a subsequent new comic book series. Both comic series were published by Dark Horse Comics and act as prequels to the video games.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: With the discontinuation of the Expanded Universe on April 25, 2014, and rebrand as "Star Wars Legends", the "Knights of the Old Republic" multimedia project is the only remaining source of "Legends" content.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: The games: system is based on Wizards of the Coast's "Star Wars Roleplaying Game", which is based on the d20 role-playing game system derived from the Third Edition "Dungeons & Dragons" rules. Combat is round-based; time is divided into discrete rounds, and combatants attack and react simultaneously. However, the number of actions a combatant may perform each round is limited. While each round's duration is a fixed short interval of real time, the player can configure the combat system to pause at specific events or at the end of each round.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: The alignment system tracks actions and speech – from simple word choice to major plot decisions – to determine whether the player's character aligns with the light or dark side of the Force. In the first game, the player's speech and actions have no effect on their teammates. However, the player has influence over their companions in "The Sith Lords", the player's actions determining not only what side the player is on, but their teammates as well. The influence the player has on another character can be minor, from converting a character from the dark side to the light, to something as major as teaching them the ways of the Jedi themselves. Influence can be lost, however, if the player makes an action inconsistent with past decisions, causing the player to pay very close attention before reacting in any way. The series includes "Gray Jedi" who tend to follow their own path as far as the Force is concerned rather than obeying the light or dark side.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: The series includes a high level of lightsaber customization including crystal colors and blade styles. The developers of the series "fought" to expand the number of lightsaber colors. The game includes the ubiquitous colors blue and green but also colors such as orange and yellow. Danny Paez, for "Inverse", commented that ""KOTOR"s spectrum of lightsaber crystals led to gamers obsessing over collecting them all to design the lightsaber of their dreams. This led to fans going out of their way to explore every nook and cranny of the games".


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: Four thousand years prior to the "Star Wars" films, Darth Malak – Darth Revan's apprentice – has unleashed a Sith armada against the Republic. Many Jedi, scattered and left vulnerable by Malak's aggression, die in battle while others swear loyalty and allegiance to Malak. The game opens with the player's character awakening aboard a doomed Republic capital ship with no recollection of their past. After escaping the ship and crash-landing on Taris, the player gradually gathers companions and pieces together their past while attempting to stop Malak's forces. To accomplish this, the main character and their companions search for Star Maps that together reveal the location of the Star Forge, an ancient space station that creates massive amounts of material for Malak.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: The main character's actions and speech influence whether they align with the light or dark side of the Force. Depending on the character's alignment, they eventually reach the Star Forge either to defeat the Sith (the light-side path) or to usurp control of the Sith from Malak (the dark side path). A light-aligned character and their companions are hailed as saviors and heroes; a dark side character stands before the remaining Sith forces as the new Sith Lord.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: "The Sith Lords" takes place five years after the events of "Knights of the Old Republic", in a time when the Jedi have been nearly exterminated by the Sith. The player's character is a former Jedi Knight exiled from the Jedi Order, referred to as "the Exile" or "Jedi Exile". During the Mandalorian Wars, the Exile served under Revan who ordered the activation of a devastating gravitational superweapon – the Mass Shadow Generator – that caused so many deaths to the point where they stripped themself of all connections to the Force unconsciously to save themself, and was removed from the Jedi Order. Throughout the game, the player's character restores a connection to the Force while, with the help of their new companions, try to stop the Sith. Unlike the previous game where your actions affect the fate of the galaxy, here your actions affect only the planets you visit. You can choose to either help or hinder the Republic's attempt to rebuild these planets. In the end, if the character is light-aligned, the Mass Shadow Generator is activated and destroys Malachor V and the Exile goes into unknown space to find Revan. A dark-aligned character, however, takes over the Sith academy on Malachor V and the Mass Shadow Generator is destroyed.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: "The Old Republic" takes place 300 years after the previous two games, shortly after the establishment of a tenuous peace between the re-emergent Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic. The Jedi are held responsible for the success of the Sith and chose to relocate from Coruscant to Tython, where the Jedi Order had been initially founded, to seek guidance from the Force. The Sith control Korriban, where they re-established a Sith Academy. The game begins as new conflicts arise.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: Several new planets make appearances in the series as major locations. These include, for example, Dantooine and Korriban, the locations for the Jedi Academy and the Sith Academy, respectively; aboard the Star Forge space station where the final battle between master and apprentice takes place in KotOR; and war-ravaged Telos and its orbiting Citadel Station. Travel between locations happens aboard the freighter "Ebon Hawk", which is also a playable location, though no combat takes place on board, except for three instances in KotOR 2 where you have to fight off Sith attackers, the character Visas Marr, and members of the Red Eclipse slavers. A space station near Yavin is also playable location in the PC version of KotOR and is available to Xbox players via download from Xbox Live. In "The Old Republic", players have access to even more planets, like Ord Mantell, Nal Hutta, Balmorra, Alderaan, Tatooine, Dromund Kaas, Taris, Belsavis, Voss, Hoth, Corellia, Ilum and Quesh, and the moon Nar Shaddaa.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic" ("KotOR") is the first installment in the "Knights of the Old Republic" series. "KotOR" is the first role-playing video game set in the "Star Wars" universe. The game was released on the Xbox on July 15, 2003 in North America and on September 12, 2003 in Europe. The PC version was released on November 19, 2003 in North America and on December 5, 2003 in Europe. The iOS version was released on May 30, 2013, and an Android release followed on December 28, 2014.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: "Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords" ("KotOR II") is the second installment in the video game franchise. The game was released on the Xbox in North America on December 6, 2004, in Europe on February 11, 2005, and in Australia on February 15, 2005. The PC version was released in North America on February 8, 2005 and in Europe on February 11, 2005. Per request as to have time to deal with other matters, BioWare, the original developer, handed over the job to Obsidian Entertainment.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: In addition to technical changes – such as more combat animation and interface scaling – "The Sith Lords" includes several drastic changes from the original game's features. As mentioned earlier in the gameplay section, the player's actions now affect not only the player themselves but their teammates as well. The player can also teach some teammates the ways of the Jedi. The player also has more diversity when upgrading items, and can even create certain items, such as computer spikes and explosives, themselves.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: In a similar way the player's actions and alignment with the light or dark side affects their teammates (both a teammate's alignment and who teams with the player in the first place), gender is also a factor when it comes to companionships and gameplay in general. In addition the appearance (due to choices) also affects your teammates. For example, choosing a female character teams the player with Mical the Disciple, while being male teams the player with Brianna the Handmaiden.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: In 2003, LucasArts cancelled the "Proteus" console MMOG project during its design phase. The game was intended to be an in-house sibling to "Star Wars Galaxies". Upon its cancellation, the "Proteus" project's team and elements of its designs were applied to developing "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3". According to designer John Stafford, the team "wrote a story, designed most of the environments/worlds, and many of the quests, characters, and items." The game was cancelled as part of cuts initiated in 2004 aimed at positioning LucasArts for future success. Concept art from the cancelled "Knights of the Old Republic 3" project was published in the book "Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts" (2008); the artwork includes depictions of Taloraan, Rodia, and a Mandalorian city, as well as a Coruscant vehicle and a new character named Naresha.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: "Star Wars: The Old Republic" also known as ("SWTOR") was released for the Microsoft Windows platform on December 13, 2011 in North America and Europe, and released in Australia on March 1, 2012. It was first confirmed by Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello at E3 2008 confirmed. The game was developed by BioWare, who developed the first Knights of the Old Republic game. It takes place 300 years after the first two installments, as new conflicts arise between the Republic and the Sith Empire. Players participate in a period of time known as the Cold War in the galaxy, after the First Great Galactic War, which leads into events in the Second Great Galactic War.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: The game has received six storyline expansions and two smaller addons focusing on new gameplay mechanics.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: In September 2021, "Knights of the Old Republic — Remake", a graphically-updated remake of the original game, was announced as in development by Aspyr in collaboration with Sony Interactive Entertainment, for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 5. It will be a timed console exclusive for PlayStation 5 before releasing on other platforms. On the remake's development, lead producer Ryan Treadwell wrote: "We’re rebuilding it from the ground up with the latest tech to match the groundbreaking standard of innovation established by the original, all while staying true to its revered story". Several individuals who worked on the original game are returning for the remake, such as former BioWare developers and Jennifer Hale (reprising her role of Bastila). However, certain original cast members have since been deceased or will not be returning, such as Tom Kane who has retired due to medical reasons.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: "Kotaku" reported that "news of the project began leaking out earlier this year on social media and was later confirmed by former "Kotaku" news editor Jason Schreier [...]. There has been speculation that the remake will actually include parts of both "KOTOR 1" and "2", and also establish some of the lore from those games in the official "Star Wars" canon, something Disney seems keen on as it spins "Star Wars" off into new books, TV shows, movies, and games". Little information was otherwise revealed about the project.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: In July 2022, "Bloomberg" reported that the remake has been "delayed indefinitely" after Aspyr "abruptly fired the game's art director and design director". "Bloomberg" stated that this occurred after the vertical slice demo was shown to production partners Sony and Lucasfilm – Aspyr's studio heads put the project on hold as the demo gameplay "wasn't where they wanted it to be [...], according to two people who were in the meeting". The remake may not be released until 2025, per "Bloomberg"'s sources, instead of its intended 2022 release. In August 2022, it was announced that Aspyr has been fired from the project and is replaced by Saber Interactive, which along with Asypr is owned by Embracer Group.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: Select characters from the series have also made a non-canon appearance in the mobile turn-based role-playing game "", released on iOS and Android in November 2015, also published by Electronic Arts. While most of the game's playable characters come from the 2012 mainstream "Star Wars" continuity that Lucasfilm established under The Walt Disney Company, several characters from the "Knights of the Old Republic" series are also included, mostly due to Electronic Arts being responsible for both "Heroes" and "Knights". All new players are given a Jedi Consular who wields a green lightsaber and has the ability to heal.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: The original "Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi" (and specifically "") comic book series preceded these games, first published in 1993 by Dark Horse Comics. They formed the basis for the game setting, as well as inspiration for the game characters and story.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: The second "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic" comic book series takes places around 3964 BBY, the Sith era, approximately eight years prior to the story of the video game series. The publisher and publishing company for all issues are Mike Richardson and Dark Horse Comics, respectively. Art work was done by Brian Ching, while the series’ script was done by John Jackson Miller. Each issue was released monthly.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: "" is a novel released by author and lead writer of "Knights of the Old Republic", Drew Karpyshyn. It is focused on the time period between the first and second games and that which follows the second. Promoted as revealing the fate of series protagonist Revan, the novel also reveals the death of the hero of the next game in the series, the Jedi Exile. It then has Revan defeated and imprisoned in stasis by the Sith Emperor. The novel serves as a bridge between "The Sith Lords" and "The Old Republic" and also provides a backstory for the events of the first game.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: At the Star Wars Celebration Chicago in April 2019, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy was asked by MTV News about a possible Knights Of The Old Republic film adaptation: "Yes, we are developing something to look at. Right now, I have no idea where things might fall".


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: The following month, "BuzzFeed News"'s Kate Aurthur broke the news that Laeta Kalogridis is writing a script for an adaptation of the 2003 video game. BuzzFeed identifies the project as a "potential trilogy".


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: The general critical response of "Knights of the Old Republic" was overwhelmingly positive. "KotOR" won numerous awards, including Game Developers Choice Awards' game of the year, BAFTA Games Awards' best Xbox game of the year, and Interactive Achievement Awards for best console RPG and best computer RPG. "KotOR" has seen success as the game of the year from many sources including IGN, GameSpot, Computer Gaming World, PC Gamer, "GMR Magazine", The Game Developers Choice Awards, "Xbox Magazine", and G4TV.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: Interactive Achievement Awards awarded it for best story and best character development. IGN gave "KotOR" additional awards in Best Sound (Xbox category), Best Story (PC category), Xbox RPG Game of the Year 2003, PC RPG Game of the Year 2003, Xbox Game of the Year 2003, PC Game of the Year 2003, and Overall Game of the Year 2003 across all platforms. G4TV's game review show "X-Play" picked "KotOR" as the second "best game ever" since the show began. The game is also part of the Xbox Platinum Series/Classics for sales in excess of one million units. In 2007, a story twist within the game was ranked number two in Game Informer's list of the top ten video game twists of all time.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: "The Sith Lords" was generally well received by fans and critics alike. Mirroring the success of the first game, "The Sith Lords" has garnered over thirty-five "Game of the Year" awards. The game received high marks from major reviewers - 8.5/10 from GameSpot, 4.5/5 from Gamespy and 93% from IGN. Based on 30 professional reviews, Metacritic gave the game an average rating of 85 out of 100, compared 93 for "Knights of the Old Republic". The game was however criticized for being incomplete due to a rushed deadline.


title: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

text: "The Old Republic" has received generally positive reviews from critics, with a score of 85 on Metacritic and an 83.87% on GameRankings. G4TV gave a review of 5/5 and praised the game for "Top notch music and voice acting" and "hundreds of hours of content." PC Gamer gave a 93/100, praising the story, voice acting, and the amount of content available. Gamespy gave a review of 4/5, praising the story lines and companion system but criticising the "standard kill and fetch" quests. GameSpot gave the game 8.0/10, saying "["The Old Republic"] isn't the next step in online role-playing games. Instead, it's a highly entertaining refinement of what has come before it." GamesRadar gave the game 8/10 calling it "an extremely satisfying experience that sets the stage for a bright future". The game has received a 9.0/10 "Amazing" rating from IGN.com.


title: Yoo Yeon-seok

text: Yoo Yeon-seok (born Ahn Yeon-seok on April 11, 1984) is a South Korean actor. After making his acting debut in 2003 with a small role in "Oldboy", he resumed his acting career in 2008. His notable works include the films "Re-encounter" (2011), "Architecture 101" (2012), "A Werewolf Boy" (2012) and "Whistle Blower" (2014), "Perfect Proposal" (2015), "Mood of the Day" (2016) as well as the television series "Reply 1994" (2013), "Warm and Cozy" (2015), "Dr. Romantic" (2016), "Mr. Sunshine" (2018), and "Hospital Playlist" (2020).


title: Yoo Yeon-seok

text: Yoo was born as Ahn Yeon-seok on April 11, 1984, in Seoul, South Korea. In his junior year in high school, Yoo decided to take up acting and followed his brother, who was studying another year to enter university, to Seoul and they lived together near the district of Samseong-dong.


title: Yoo Yeon-seok

text: While taking acting classes, Yoo met a friend who would later work on the costume staff of film director Park Chan-wook. Remembering that he resembled actor Yoo Ji-tae, he gave him a call about auditioning for a role. Without having to pass out his resume, he made his acting debut as Yoo Ji-tae's younger counterpart in the acclaimed 2003 film "Oldboy".


title: Yoo Yeon-seok

text: Upon graduation from Sejong University with a degree in Film Arts, he resumed his acting career in 2008 and began using his agency's recommendation stage name, Yoo Yeon-seok.


title: Yoo Yeon-seok

text: Yoo took on supporting roles on television, such as the haughty student body president in the horror series "Soul" and more appealing characters in medical drama "Midnight Hospital" and "Tasty Life". But Yoo received his best reviews yet for playing a sensitive ex-boyfriend searching for his child in indie "Re-encounter".


title: Yoo Yeon-seok

text: Soon after he became known to mainstream audiences as the rich and spoiled antagonist in the box office hit melodramas "Architecture 101", and "A Werewolf Boy". He further raised his profile with comedy film "Born to Sing", and the fantasy series "Gu Family Book".


title: Yoo Yeon-seok

text: Yoo rose to popularity in the nostalgic campus drama "Reply 1994" in late 2013. Following his breakout year, he was cast in two high-profile films in 2014: "Whistle Blower" about infamous biotech researcher Hwang Woo-suk, and Joseon-set period drama "The Royal Tailor". Yoo then appeared in the travel-reality show "Youth Over Flowers".


title: Yoo Yeon-seok

text: In 2015, Yoo was cast in his first leading role on network television as a chef and restaurateur in the romantic comedy series "Warm and Cozy", written by the Hong sisters and set on Jeju Island. He also starred in the thriller "Perfect Proposal" (a remake of "Woman of Straw"), and "The Beauty Inside" (adapted from the social film of the same title). Later in the year, Yoo played the protagonist in "Le Passe-Muraille" ("The Man Who Walked Through Wall"); this was his first stage musical since his professional acting debut (Yoo had previously appeared in theatrical productions while still in university).


title: Yoo Yeon-seok

text: In 2016, Yoo starred in the period music drama "Love, Lies" followed by romantic comedy "Mood of the Day". He returned to the small screen with hit medical drama "Dr. Romantic" alongside Han Suk-kyu and Seo Hyun-jin.


title: Yoo Yeon-seok

text: In 2018, Yoo starred in romance melodrama "Mr. Sunshine" penned by Kim Eun-sook. To celebrate his 15th debut anniversary Yoo held a fan meeting titled “All About YOO”.


title: Yoo Yeon-seok

text: In 2020, Yoo starred in the critically acclaimed and hit medical drama "Hospital Playlist", playing Ahn Jeong-won, an assistant professor of pediatric surgery and reprised his role in season 2 in 2021.


title: Yoo Yeon-seok

text: In 2022, Yoo starred in the crime-mystery film "Vanishing" by French film director Denis Dercourt, as detective Park Jin-ho.


title: Nicole Aniston

text: Nicole Aniston is an American pornographic actress, model, exotic dancer and actress. Aniston was the 2013 "Penthouse" Pet of the Year.


title: Nicole Aniston

text: Aniston grew up in Escondido and Temecula in Riverside County, California. She attended Temecula Valley High School.


title: Nicole Aniston

text: Aniston's first credited adult film was released in 2009 with the adult studio "Sticky Video." Aniston began working with Reality Kings in late 2010"." Aniston starred alongside in a raunchy "Cum Catcher" scene that was released via "Reality Kings" in October 2010 and she also starred in the "All Hunnies" group sex scene with Rebeca Linares and Bill Bailey which was promoted via "Reality Kings" in November 2010. From this time on Aniston started to appear in a wide range of popular porn productions. Aniston's raunchy scene with Mike Adriano in the Bang Bros compilation title "Big Tit Creampie #13" (2011) which won “Best Internal Release” at the 30th AVN Awards. Her work in the Elegant Angel movie "Hard Bodies" (2011) that was nominated for “Best All-Sex Release” at the 29th AVN Awards and “Gonzo Release of the Year” at the 2012 XBIZ Awards. Aniston's group sex scene with Angel Vain, Buddy Davis and Pauly Harker in the "Bang Bros" DVD "Ass Parade #32" (2011) that was nominated for “All-Sex Release of the Year” at the 2012 XBIZ Awards and her group shoot with Anissa Kate, Misty Stone, Skin Diamond and Karlo Karrera in the Marc Dorcel film "In Bed With Katsuni" (2012) which was nominated for “Best Gonzo Movie” at the 2012 Erotic Lounge Awards and “European Non-Feature Release of the Year” at the 2013 XBIZ Awards.


title: Nicole Aniston

text: In early 2012 Aniston began modeling for "Penthouse". In August 2012 she won Pet of the Month and in 2013 Pet of the Year.


title: Nicole Aniston

text: In 2012 Aniston began working with Brazzers. Her first Brazzers scene was shot with successful co-star Johnny Sins. Aniston began doing work and shot "Office 4-Play: Christmas Eve Edition!" group shoot with Chanel Preston, Krissy Lynn, Tanya Tate and Keiran Lee in December 2012.


title: Nicole Aniston

text: In late 2017 Nicole Aniston took part in season 2 of the fan-favorite "Brazzers House" web series which showed fans what goes on when 10 leading porn stars lived together in a mansion. Fans voted for their favorite "Brazzers House" contestants with the winner taking home a $20,000 grand prize. Aniston made it all the way to the final whereupon she participated in "Brazzers House 2 Finale" group sex scene with Abella Danger, Kelsi Monroe, Monique Alexander, Skyla Novea, Charles Dera, Danny Mountain, Isiah Maxwell, J-Mac, Keiran Lee, Ricky Johnson and Xander Corvus. The final scene showcased in the "Brazzers" DVD "Brazzers House #2" (2018) which was nominated for “Best Gonzo Movie” at the 36th AVN Awards.


title: Nicole Aniston

text: Aniston launched her own website in 2013. The website is a subscription-based service that allows fans to view exclusive content in the form of photos, gifs and high definition video. Her site has won numerous industry awards including "Most outrageous site", "Best Pornstar site" and "Best Web director" at the annual AVN Awards.


title: Nicole Aniston

text: In 2018 Aniston teamed up with Fleshlight to develop a realistic Aniston-based sex toy. Aniston is also involved in feature dancing in 2017, 2018 and 2019 Aniston made appearances at clubs across the United States meeting fans and dancing at local strip clubs.


title: Nicole Aniston

text: Over the years Aniston has attracted a global fan base due to her scenes in many porn parodies. Aniston starred in the "Septo Studios" spoof "OMG…It’s The Flashdance XXX Parody" (2011) that was nominated for “Best Music Soundtrack” at the 2013 AVN Awards. She appeared in the Wicked Pictures parody "Spartacus MMXII: The Beginning" (2012) which won “Best Parody: Drama” at the 2013 AVN Awards. Aniston also starred in Hustler Video's release "This Ain’t The Smurfs XXX" (2012) that was nominated for “Best 3D Release” at the 2013 AVN and XRCO Awards and she starred in the "Exquisite" production "Xena XXX: An Exquisite Films Parody" (2012) which was nominated for “Adult Parody of the Year” at the 2013 Sex Awards.