document_title: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

question_text: who dies in the best exotic marigold hotel

text: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

text: Plot[edit]

text: Recently widowed housewife Evelyn (Judi Dench) must sell her home to cover huge debts left by her late husband. Graham (Tom Wilkinson), a high-court judge who had spent his first eighteen years in India, abruptly decides to retire and return there. Jean (Penelope Wilton) and Douglas (Bill Nighy) seek a retirement they can afford, having lost most of their savings through investing in their daughter's internet business. Muriel (Maggie Smith), a retired housekeeper prejudiced against Indians, needs a hip replacement operation which can be done far more quickly and inexpensively in India. Madge (Celia Imrie) is hunting for another husband, and Norman (Ronald Pickup), an aging Lothario, is trying to recapture his youth. They each decide on a retirement hotel in India, based on pictures on its website.

text: When the group arrives at the picturesque hotel, they find an energetic young manager Sonny (Dev Patel) but a dilapidated facility, not yet what he had promised. Overwhelmed by the cultural changes, Jean often stays inside at the hotel, while her husband Douglas explores the sights. Graham finds that the area has greatly changed since his youth and disappears on long outings every day. Muriel, despite her xenophobia, starts to appreciate her doctor for his skill and the hotel maid for her good service. Evelyn gets a job advising the staff of a call centre on how to interact with older British customers. Sonny struggles to raise funds to renovate the hotel and sees his girlfriend Sunaina (Tena Desae), despite his mother's disapproval. Madge joins the Viceroy Club seeking a spouse, where she is surprised to find Norman. She introduces him to Carol (Diana Hardcastle). He admits he is lonely and seeking a companion, and the two begin an affair.

text: Graham confides in Evelyn that he is trying to find the Indian lover he was forced to abandon as a youth. Social-climber Jean is attracted to Graham, and makes a rare excursion to follow him, but is humiliated when he explains he is gay. Graham reunites with his former lover, who is in an arranged marriage of mutual trust and respect. Reconciled, the Englishman dies of an existing heart condition. Evelyn and Douglas grow increasingly close, angering his wife, which results in an outburst from Douglas denouncing this marriage. Muriel reveals that she was once housekeeper to a family who had her train her younger replacement and now, having been forced out of the home and into retirement, she feels that she has lost any purpose in her life.

text: Sonny's more successful brothers each own a third of the hotel and plan to demolish it. His mother (Lillete Dubey) agrees and wants him to return to Delhi for an arranged marriage. Jean and Douglas prepare to return to England after money is found through their daughter's company. Jean eagerly awaits returning to England, but Douglas is more hesitant. Now that the hotel is closing against Sonny's wishes and pleas, Madge prepares to return to England, and Norman agrees to move in with Carol. Madge, after encouragement from Carol and Muriel, decides to keep searching for another husband.

text: Sonny, encouraged by Evelyn, finally tells Sunaina that he loves her. He confronts his mother, who first forbids the match but then is persuaded by Young Wasim, who speaks no English. He explains that he once knew another man who wanted to marry a smart beautiful woman against his family's wishes. Sonny's mother interprets for Young Wasim, realizing he is talking about her, and she finally gives the couple her blessing. She asks Sunaina to take good care of her "favourite son". Before the remaining guests can leave, Muriel reveals that her experience running the family's household gave her the knowledge how to balance a budget and that the hotel can make a profit. She approaches Sonny's investor privately and then invites him to visit the hotel to discuss matters with Sonny. The investor agrees to fund Sonny's plans for renovation so long as Muriel stays on as an assistant manager.

text: All the guests agree to stay — except Jean and Douglas. Due to their daughter's long-awaited success, they decide to return home but on the way to the airport, their taxi gets caught in a traffic jam. A rickshaw driver says that he can take only one of them. Jean sees it as a sign that it is time to split with Douglas; she bids him farewell and departs. He winds up at another hotel, discovering that it's nothing more than a brothel and drug den, and spends the rest of the night wandering the streets. He returns to the hotel just as Evelyn is leaving for work, and asks her out on a date. A closing montage with a voiceover shows Muriel checking in customers in an elegant renovated lobby, Madge dining with a handsome older Indian man, and Norman and Carol living happily together. Sonny and Sunaina are shown riding a motorbike and passing Douglas and Evelyn on another bike.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Judi Dench as Evelyn Greenslade, a recently widowed housewife whose house must be sold to pay off her husband's debts. Like his father, her son wants to "care" for her, without her input. At Sonny's home for the "elderly and beautiful", she keeps a blog of her activities. She narrates throughout the film, from bookend to bookend, from the opening sequence to the Day 51 moral "We get up in the morning, we do our best".
Bill Nighy as optimist Douglas Ainslie, husband of Jean for 39 years. His loyalty has kept them together when she sees they both "deserve better". He enjoys the food and sights, going out every day.
Penelope Wilton as pessimist Jean Ainslie. After Douglas invested—and seemingly lost—all their savings in their daughter's internet business, they can afford only a "beige bungalow" installed with a panic button and hand rails "for the future". She hates everything about India; the perceived noise, poverty, and smells. It is for this reason that she stays indoors often, and wishes to return to the UK.
Maggie Smith as Muriel Donnelly, an ex-nanny with a head for figures, is deemed surplus to requirements by her lifelong employers after she unwittingly trains her own replacement. She has no family of her own, having devoted her life to her employers. Although racist, she chooses not to wait six months for a hip replacement, and rather be "outsourced" to India.
Tom Wilkinson as Sir Graham Dashwood, a High Court judge who has, for many years, been retiring "any day now". During the retirement speech of a colleague, he decides that "today's the day". Having lived in India for his first 18 years, he returns to seek out the love of his early life, a man.
Ronald Pickup as Norman Cousins, an aged lothario, unable to face up to his own age and consequent undesirability by younger women; he hopes for a new start with new possibilities in India.
Celia Imrie as Madge Hardcastle, who has had several unsuccessful marriages. Like Norman, she wants fun, adventure and a new mate. Tired of her daughter's attempts to keep her as unpaid babysitter, she flees for anywhere, choosing India.
Dev Patel as Sonny Kapoor, manager of the hotel, and one-third owner with his older, more favoured brothers. Sonny is a dreamer eager for a first success, but his determination makes him unwilling to ask for help until the end.
Tina Desai as Sunaina, call centre worker, Sonny's "modern" girlfriend. She befriends Evelyn when Evelyn gets a job at the same call centre (see below).
Sid Makkar as Jay, Sunaina's brother, manager of a call centre, hires Evelyn to teach workers British culture.
Lillete Dubey as Mrs. Kapoor, widowed mother of Sonny. She admits that Sonny is not her favourite son, and wants him to move back with her to Delhi for an arranged marriage, not to Sunaina.
Diana Hardcastle as Carol, an Englishwoman but lifelong resident of Jaipur, who asks Norman to enter into cohabitation, according to his perception, impetuously.
Seema Azmi as Anokhi, a Dalit (lowest-caste) maid at the hotel who takes Muriel's acknowledgement for friendship. Via an interpreter Bhuvnesh Shetty, Muriel reveals that her bitterness was caused by her employers having tossed her aside as obsolete after having devoted her life as a nanny and housekeeper, and having unwittingly prepared her replacement.
Paul Bhattacharjee as Dr. Ghujarapartidar; this was Bhattacharjee's final feature film appearance before his death in 2013.
Liza Tarbuck as head nurse Karen.
Denzil Smith as Mr Dhurana, the Viceroy Club Secretary
Honey Chhaya as Young Wasim.
Bhuvnesh Shetty as Physiotherapist to Muriel Donnelly and assists her during her recovery after the hip replacement surgery. He takes her to visit Anokhi, the maid, and plays the interpreter during their conversation.

text: Production[edit]

text: Background and script[edit]

text: Producers Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin were the ones who first saw the potential for a film in Deborah Moggach's novel. The concept of outsourcing retirement, "taking our outsourcing of everyday tasks like banking and customer service one step further", appealed to them, and they commissioned screenwriter Ol Parker to formulate this concept into a screenplay.[2]

text: Parker wanted to take the older characters completely out of their element and involve them in a romantic comedy. They initially encountered difficulties finding a studio; Working Title Films rejected their proposals, considering it unmarketable,[3] but they eventually aligned with Participant Media, Imagination Abu Dhabi FZ, and Blueprint Pictures.

text: Casting[edit]

text: To lead the project, the producers Broadbent and Czernin approached John Madden, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Shakespeare in Love in 1998. Madden considered the characters in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel to be of "an analogous kind of geographical suspension", which have "entered a strange world removed from their former reality, cut off from their past, where they have to invent a new life for themselves".[2] Dench and fellow cast members Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton, Celia Imrie, Bill Nighy, Ronald Pickup, Tom Wilkinson, and director John Madden jumped at the opportunity to all work together for the first time in one film. Producer Broadbent considers Dench's character to be central to the story, and that Evelyn is much like Dench herself, being "the most wonderfully sympathetic person". John Madden considers Maggie Smith's character Muriel to be "instinctively xenophobic, never stepping out of her comfort zone in any way", which is not uncommon in England.[4]

text: The filmmakers determined early on that the role of Sonny was crucial to the outcome of the picture, and they selected Dev Patel, who at the time was still revelling in the success of Slumdog Millionaire. Dench described Patel as a "born comedian", and Madden considered him to be a "comic natural—a sort of Jacques Tati figure, with amazing physical presence and fantastic instincts".[5] Patel had personal experience of watching the elderly through his mother who had been a carer, and he was "enticed by how vivid these characters are, by their sarcasm and their wisdom", confessing that he "fell in love with the script because every character shines in his or her own different way and you believe in each of them."[5] Lilette Dubey was cast as Sonny's mother, and English-language debutante Tina Desai portrayed Sunaina, Sonny's call-centre-operator girlfriend.

text: Filming[edit]

text: Principal photography began on 10 October 2010 in India.[6] Most of the filming took place in the Indian state of Rajasthan, including the cities of Jaipur and Udaipur.[7] In Jaipur, filming took place around the City Palace, the Marigold market, and on crowded buses. Other scenes were shot in Kishangarh, and on the outskirts of Jaipur, footage was shot at Kanota Fort, which stood in for the Viceroy Club. The place where Sonny and Sunaina meet in the film was shot nearby at the Step Well near Amer Fort, a 10th-century establishment noted for its "ten stories of pale golden stone steps."[8] Ravla Khempur was chosen as the site for the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; it is an equestrian hotel that was originally the palace of a tribal chieftain, located about an hour and a half outside of Udaipur in the village of Khempur.[7] Madden considered the building to have a magical quality and unmistakable charm, remarking that it had "something special that could ultimately draw the characters in. It had these wonderful cool dark interiors, with glimpses of saturated light and the teeming life outside its walls."[8] Production designer Alan MacDonald, who won Best Art Direction in a Contemporary Film from the Art Directors Guild for his work,[9] was brought in to embellish the interiors, intentionally making it clash with "interesting furniture inspired by colonial India, mismatched local textiles, all mixed together with modern plastic bits and pieces, with everything distressed and weather beaten."[8] Footage was also shot at the Lake Palace Hotel at Lake Pichola.[7]

text: Madden said that challenges of filming in India included the street noise, as well as the people's curiosity and hospitality when they saw him producing a camera.[7] The cast and crew were well received by the locals, as was the director who, along with the cast, was invited by Arvind Singh Mewar, the Maharaja of Udaipur, to attend his lavish Diwali celebrations and firework display, as well as a royal wedding held at the Rambagh Palace Hotel in Jaipur.[8] Chris Gill was the editor of the picture.[10]

text: A sequel, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, began production in India in January 2014 and was released in February 2015. Most of the cast returned, with additions including American actor Richard Gere.[11][12]

text: Soundtrack[edit]

text:
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Music from the Motion Picture)Soundtrack album by various artistsReleased
2012Genre
SoundtrackLength
46:42Label
Sony Classical

text: The soundtrack, composed by Thomas Newman, was released in the CD format in 2012.[13]

text: showTrack listingNo.TitlePerformer(s)Length1."Long Old Life"Instrumental3:322."This Is the Day"Instrumental0:473."The Chimes at Midnight"Instrumental2:384."Road to Jaipur"Instrumental1:295."Night Bus"Instrumental1:156."Tuk Tuks"Instrumental1:417."The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"Instrumental2:358."Assault on the Senses"Instrumental2:589."Anokhi"Instrumental1:1010."Cricket Spell"Instrumental3:4611."More Than Nothing"Instrumental2:2212."Day 22"Instrumental1:4113."Mrs. Ainsley"Instrumental1:4314."Do Your Worst"Instrumental1:4815."Udaipur"Instrumental4:1016."Turning Left"Instrumental2:0017."Not Yet the End"Instrumental0:5018."Progress"Instrumental2:4219."Young Wasim"Instrumental2:4620."What Happens Instead"Instrumental0:5721."A Bit of Afters"Instrumental3:52Total length:46:42

text: Reception[edit]

text: Box office[edit]

text: The film was first shown at the Italian cinema trade show Le Giornate Professionali di Cinema ("The Professional Days of Cinema") in Sorrento on 30 November 2011[14] and at the Glasgow Film Festival on 17 February 2012, before being released widely in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 24 February 2012. This was followed by release in a further 26 countries in March and April. From May to August, more and more nations saw the release of the film, before Japan's February 2013 release capped off the film's theatrical debut calendar.[15]

text: In the United Kingdom, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel came in second to The Woman in Black at the box office during its first week, earning £2.2 million.[16] It eventually topped the UK box office, with £2.3 million, in its second weekend on release.[17] By the end of its UK run, the film had grossed around US$31 million.[18] Prior to its United States debut, the comedy had already grossed US$69 million worldwide and passed both The Queen (2006) and Calendar Girls (2003) in total international grosses.[18][19] After three months of release, it was ranked the third highest-grossing 2012 release in Australia and New Zealand, behind only The Avengers and The Hunger Games, and the fourth-highest-grossing 2012 title in the UK.[19]

text: In the US and Canada, the film initially opened in 16 theatres in its first week. In its second week of release, it expanded from 16 to 178 screens in North America and grossed US$2.7 million for the weekend, ending eighth on the week's top hits.[20] By the end of the month, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel had grossed US$100 million worldwide.[19] The film had a worldwide gross of US$136,836,156.[1] It ranks among the highest-grossing international films released by Fox Searchlight Pictures behind Black Swan (2010), The Full Monty (1997), and The Descendants (2011),[19] and  among the highest-grossing specialty releases of the year along with Moonrise Kingdom  and To Rome with Love.[21]

text: Elsewhere, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel took in less than 58 million USD. Nations contributing sizable box office returns aside from the UK and North America included Australia (21.2 million USD), Germany (6 million USD), New Zealand (4.4 million USD), Spain (4.3 million USD), France (1.9 million USD), Sweden (1.3 million USD), Italy (1.1 million USD), South Africa (1 million USD), and Norway (797 thousand USD).[22]

text: Reception[edit]

text: The film received positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 78% of critics gave the film a positive rating, based on 150 reviews, with an average score of 6.6/10. Its consensus states "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel isn't groundbreaking storytelling, but it's a sweet story about the senior set featuring a top-notch cast of veteran actors."[23] On Metacritic, which uses a normalized rating system, the film holds a 62/100 rating, based on 35 reviews, indicating "generally favourable reviews".[24]

text: Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle remarked that the film was "a rare reminder from movies that the grand emotions are not only for the young and the middle-aged", citing it "too well made to be dismissed and contains too much truth to be scorned."[25] Roger Ebert, writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, gave The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel three and a half out of four stars. He declared the film "a charming, funny and heartwarming movie [and] a smoothly crafted entertainment that makes good use of seven superb veterans."[26] Claudia Puig from USA Today called it "a refreshing, mature fairy tale with a top-notch ensemble cast." While she felt the film was "about 15 minutes too long", she summarized it as "a delightful, droll and entertaining comedy of manners with an estimable cast" and an "ideal low-tech alternative to the special-effects laden" film projects of 2012.[27]

text: Peter Travers from Rolling Stone rated the comedy three out of four stars. He found that "with a lesser cast, the movie would be a lineup of TV-movie clichés. But this is a cast that never makes a false move even when the script settles for formula."[28] Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips wrote that "as two-hour tours go, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel goes smoothly." While he felt that the film focused on "pleasantly predictable story", he noted that the project was one of those films which "are better off concentrating on a reassuring level of actorly craft [than] going easy on the surprises."[29]

text: Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly graded the film with a 'B–' rating, summarizing it as a "lulling, happy-face story of retirement-age self-renewal, set in a shimmering, weltering, jewel-colored India", and that it succeeded in selling "something safe and sweet, in a vivid foreign setting, to an underserved share of the moviegoing market."[30] Peter Bradshaw, writing for The Guardian, was more cutting in his 2/5 star review, saying that the film "needs a Stannah chairlift to get it up to any level of watchability, and it is not exactly concerned to do away with condescending stereotypes about old people, or Indian people of any age." Noting the luminous, prolific resumes of the cast he noted "nothing in this insipid story does anything like justice to the cast's combined potential." He went on to opine that the film appeared "oddly like an Agatha Christie thriller with all the pasteboard characters, 2D backstories and foreign locale, but no murder."[31] In further negative reviews, critics from The Guardian and the blog Marshall and the Movies criticized the film for having a colonialist and orientalist point of view towards India.[32][33]

text: Accolades[edit]

text: At the Cinema Scapes Awards, organised on the sidelines of the 2012 Mumbai Film Festival, the film was honoured with the Best International Film accolade for showcasing Indian filming locations.[34] The film and its cast earned five nominations from the British Independent Film Awards.[35]

text:
Award
Category
Recipient(s)
Result

ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards

Contemporary Film

Alan MacDonald

Nominated

ALFS Awards

Actress of the Year

Judi Dench

Nominated

British Academy Film Awards

BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film

John Madden

Nominated

British Independent Film Awards

Best British Independent Film

Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin

Nominated

Best Director of a British Independent Film

John Madden

Nominated

Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film

Judi Dench

Nominated

Best Supporting Actor

Tom Wilkinson

Nominated

Best Supporting Actress

Maggie Smith

Nominated

Critics' Choice Awards

Best Cast

Ensemble

Nominated

Costume Designers Guild Awards

Excellence in Contemporary Film

Louise Stjernsward

Nominated

European Film Awards

Audience Award

John Madden

Nominated

GLAAD Media Awards

Outstanding Film – Wide Release

Nominated

Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Film

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

Judi Dench

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Cast

Nominated

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Maggie Smith

Nominated

Women Film Critics Circle Awards

Best Comedic Actress

Maggie Smith

Won

Women's Work: Best Ensemble

Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Penelope Wilton and Celia Imrie

Won


document_title: List of NCAA Division I men's basketball players with 12 or more 3-point field goals in a game

question_text: record for three pointers in a game ncaa

root

text: A three-point field goal (also known as a "three-pointer" or "3-pointer") is a field goal in a basketball game, made from beyond the three-point line, a designated arc radiating from the basket. A successful attempt is worth three points, in contrast to the two points awarded for shots made inside the three-point line. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) keeps records of the Division I 3-point field made in a game leaders. The statistic was first recognized in the 1986–87 season when 3-point field goals were officially instituted by the NCAA. From the 1986–87 season through the 2007–08 season, the three-point perimeter was marked at 19 ft 9 in (6.02 m) for both men's and women's college basketball.[1] On May 3, 2007, the NCAA men's basketball rules committee passed a measure to extend the distance of the men's three-point line back to 20 ft 9 in (6.32 m), while the women's line would remain the same.[1]

tag: p

text: Through January 6, 2017, only 17 players have made at least 12 three-point field goals in a single game.[2][3] The all-time record is 15, which has only occurred one time and it was by Marshall's Keith Veney.[4] On December 14, 1996, he set the record against Morehead State.[2] Only three other players have made 14 three-pointers: Ronald Blackshear, Dave Jamerson and Askia Jones.[2] The most recent player to make 12 threes in a game is Darius Dawkins of Jacksonville, who made 13 three-pointers against Middle Georgia State on January 3, 2017.[5]

text: Key[edit]

text:
Pos.
G
F
C
Ref.

Position
Guard
Forward
Center
Reference(s)

Class (Cl.) key

Fr
Freshman
So
Sophomore
Jr
Junior
Sr
Senior

Team (X)
Denotes the number of times a player from that school appears on the list

^
Player still active in NCAA Division I

tag: table

text: Dates of 12+ three-pointers[edit]

text:
3-pointers
made
Player
Pos.
Cl.
Team
Opponent
Date
Ref.

15
Veney, KeithKeith Veney
G
4 !Sr
Marshall
Morehead State
19961214 !December 14, 1996
[4]

14
Blackshear, RonaldRonald Blackshear
G
3 !Jr
Marshall (2)
Akron
20020301 !March 1, 2002
[6]

14
Jones, AskiaAskia Jones
G
4 !Sr
Kansas State
Fresno State
19940324 !March 24, 1994
[7]

14
Jamerson, DaveDave Jamerson
G
4 !Sr
Ohio
Charleston (WV)
19891221 !December 21, 1989
[7]

13
Dawkins, DariusDarius Dawkins
G
4 !Sr
Jacksonville
Middle Georgia State
20170103 !January 3, 2017
[5]

13
English, A. J.A. J. English
G
4 !Sr
Iona
Fairfield
20151201 !December 1, 2015
[8]

13
Clarke, RotneiRotnei Clarke
G
2 !So
Arkansas
Alcorn State
20091113 !November 13, 2009
[3]

12
Hunter, R. J.R. J. Hunter
G
2 !So
Georgia State
UTSA
20131222 !December 22, 2013
[9]

12
Jackson, JamelJamel Jackson
G
3 !Jr
Seton Hall
VMI
20091212 !December 12, 2009
[10]

12
Jenkins, MichaelMichael Jenkins
G
3 !Jr
Winthrop
North Greenville
20061111 !November 11, 2006
[11]

12
Woods, TerrenceTerrence Woods
G
3 !Jr
Florida A&M
Coppin State
20030301 !March 1, 2003
[12]

12
Gilbert, ClarenceClarence Gilbert
G
4 !Sr
Missouri
Colorado
20020223 !February 23, 2002
[13]

12
McMahan, DavidDavid McMahan
G
4 !Sr
Winthrop (2)
Coastal Carolina
19960115 !January 15, 1996
[14]

12
Taylor, MitchMitch Taylor
G
3 !Jr
Southern
Louisiana Christian
19941201 !December 1, 1994
[2]

12
Dillard, AlAl Dillard
G
3 !Jr
Arkansas (2)
Delaware State
19931211 !December 11, 1993
[15]

12
Fitzgerald, DarrinDarrin Fitzgerald
G
4 !Sr
Butler
Detroit
19870209 !February 9, 1987
[16]

12
Bossert, GaryGary Bossert
G
4 !Sr
Niagara
Siena
19870107 !January 7, 1987
[17]


document_title: Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

question_text: where does the drac pack visit on summer vacation in hotel transylvania 3

text: Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

text: Plot[edit]

text: In 1897, Dracula (Adam Sandler) and his friends disguised as humans are traveling on a train to Budapest. However, Professor Abraham Van Helsing (Jim Gaffigan), Dracula's arch-enemy, boards the train and unveils the monsters; the monsters escape by climbing through the roof and Dracula pushes his friends from the train for their safety. Van Helsing is obsessed with destroying Dracula, but is constantly outsmarted by him.

text: In the present day, some time after the events of the previous film, Dracula is running his hotel business smoothly, with his daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) and son-in-law Johnny (Andy Samberg). However, Drac is depressed by the fact that, since his wife's death, he's lonely despite attempts to meet someone. Misinterpreting this as stress from overwork, Mavis books a cruise so they can all take a break and spend more time together as a family. The next day, Dracula, Mavis, Johnny, Dennis (Asher Blinkoff), Vlad (Mel Brooks), and the hotel guests board a cruise ship called the Legacy. Dracula sees the ship's human captain, Ericka (Kathryn Hahn), and immediately falls for her, something that he thought was impossible as he had already "zinged" before.

text: Ericka goes to a secret room on the lower decks where she meets Abraham Van Helsing, who is revealed to be her great-grandfather and is almost completely mechanised, to avoid death. Van Helsing has plans to eliminate all the monsters, in the cruise upon its arrival at the lost city of Atlantis using an Instrument of Destruction, that could be found in Atlantis's ruins. Van Helsing makes Ericka promise to not assassinate Dracula beforehand, but she repeatedly attempts to do so anyway, albeit unsuccessfully, much to her frustration. After failing to kill Dracula at an underwater volcano, Ericka moans about being unable to get him. Dracula's friends hear this, and thinking that Ericka likes him, inform Dracula about what they heard. Dracula nervously asks Ericka out on a date, and she accepts since she sees this as another chance to kill the vampire. However, as they dine on a deserted island, Ericka begins to fall in love with Drac, after they learn about each other's pasts.

text: Mavis finds out Dracula is interested in Ericka and becomes suspicious of Ericka's motives. The cruise ship reaches Atlantis which has been converted into a casino; Dracula decides to tell Mavis the truth about Ericka, but gets distracted seeing Ericka going into a crypt below the city. Drac follows her, with Mavis not far behind, and learns that Ericka is after a "family heirloom". With Dracula's help, she gets past the numerous booby traps around the object and escapes. Mavis arrives and confronts them, and Dracula confesses that he "zinged" with Ericka, to Mavis's surprise and confusion. After Ericka is told what a "zing" is, she harshly rejects Dracula's romantic feelings, leaving Dracula heartbroken.

text: A regretful Ericka gives Van Helsing the object--revealed to be the Instrument of Destruction--and he proceeds to set a trap for the monsters, at a dance party. Noticing that Dracula is still upset, Mavis, after some advice from Johnny, tells her father to talk to Ericka, admitting that she was really afraid of him leaving her, which Drac allays. Suddenly, Van Helsing shows up and pushes away the DJ, and a sadden Ericka is forced to reveal, that she is his great-granddaughter. Van Helsing unveils the Instrument of Destruction, a case for a music note sheet, and plays a song that drives a friendly Kraken (Joe Jonas) that lives near the island to attack the monsters. Ericka saves Dracula from the Kraken and pleads with her great-grandfather to stop the destruction, confessing to Drac that she fell for him as well, which infuriates Van Helsing and causes him to attack them both.

text: In order to pacify the Kraken, Johnny opens up a portable DJ kit, and starts playing positive songs, to beat Van Helsing's song. Upon playing the Macarena, the Kraken is relaxed and happy for good; Van Helsing is unable to counter the song as everyone begins to dance, including the music sheet (Which shreds itself to tiny pieces, in the process). Van Helsing also ends up dancing, and accidentally slips and falls but is saved by Dracula. Touched by this act of kindness, Van Helsing apologizes to the monsters and gives everyone a full refund for the cruise, before sending them back.

text: Back at Hotel Transylvania, Dracula and Ericka have ended up in a romantic relationship. Drac proposes to Ericka, who stammers at the question, and she agrees to the proposal.

text: Voice cast[edit]

text:
Adam Sandler as Count Dracula: The 540-year-old lord of the vampires, and founder of Hotel Transylvania. Dracula is the son of Vlad, husband of the late Martha, father of Mavis, father-in-law of Johnny, maternal grandfather of Dennis, and Ericka's love interest.
Andy Samberg as Jonathan "Johnny" Loughran: A 29-year-old human, who is Mavis' husband and Dennis' father.[7]
Selena Gomez as Mavis: The 126-year-old daughter of Dracula and the late Martha, and the granddaughter of Vlad. She is the wife of Johnny, and Dennis' mother.
Kevin James as Frankenstein:[8] The monster famously created from reanimated dead tissue, by Dr. Frankenstein. His friends call him "Frank".
David Spade as Griffin, the Invisible Man[8]
Steve Buscemi as Wayne: A werewolf who is overwhelmed by his large number of children.[8]
Keegan-Michael Key as Murray: An ancient mummy.[8]
Molly Shannon as Wanda: Wayne's werewolf wife.[8]
Fran Drescher as Eunice: Frankenstein's wife.[8]
Kathryn Hahn as Ericka Van Helsing: The captain and cruise director of the cruise ship Legacy. She is secretly continuing her great-grandfather's wishes in eliminating monsters and is Dracula's love interest.
Jim Gaffigan as Professor Abraham Van Helsing: Ericka's great-grandfather who is a legendary monster hunter and Dracula's archenemy.
Mel Brooks as Vlad: An ancient, more experienced and traditional vampire, who is Dracula's father, the grandfather of Mavis, the grandfather-in-law of Johnny, and the great-grandfather of Dennis.
Asher Blinkoff as Dennis Loughran: Mavis and Johnny's 6-year-old son who is a human/vampire hybrid, inheriting a combination of traits from his parents. He has a mutual crush on his best friend Winnie.
Sadie Sandler as Winnie: The werewolf daughter of Wayne and Wanda. Winnie is Dennis' best friend, and she has a mutual crush on him.
Genndy Tartakovsky as Blobby: A green blob monster.[9] He was previously voiced by Jonny Solomon in Hotel Transylvania 2.
Tartakovsky also voices Blobby Baby: A spawn of Blobby.
Tartakovsky also voices Puppy Blobby: Blobby Baby's pet puppy.
Chrissy Teigen as Crystal: An invisible woman who is Griffin's new girlfriend.[10]
Joe Jonas as Kraken: A giant sea monster that lives near Atlantis.
Alison Hammond as Frankenginger:[11] A female whose right arm is related to Frankenstein from his right hand's side of the family.
Chris Parnell as Stan: A fish-man.
Joe Whyte as Tinkles: Dennis' giant pet puppy.
Whyte also voices Bob: One of the Gremlins who works as a co-pilot on Gremlin's airlines.
Aaron LaPlante as Gremlins, Gremlin Pilot, Gremlin Stewardess
Michelle Murdocca as Phone Voice, Kelsey, Witch #1, Witch #2
Joyce Arrastia as Zingr Witch, Witch 3
Sunny Sandler as Sunny, the newborn daughter of Wayne and Wanda.
Tara Strong as Frankenlady
Libby Thomas Dickey as Libby
Patrick Harpin as Austrian Boy
Craig Kellman as Mr. Hydraberg
Jaime Camil as El Chupacabra

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text: Production[edit]

text: Development[edit]

text: In September 2015, Michelle Murdocca, the film's producer, said before the second film's release that the studio was "talking about number 3 and moving forward and taking the franchise to the next level," but thought that she and director Genndy Tartakovsky would not return, since they were working on Tartakovsky's Can You Imagine?[12] before that project was later shelved.[13] That same month, Tartakovsky stated that he will not return for the sequel, specifying to TheWrap that "two is enough. I have a lot of other ideas, and I kind of have to express them and have them come out."[14] In November 2015, Sony Pictures Animation announced that the third film, under the tentative title of Hotel Transylvania 3, had been set for release on September 21, 2018.[15]

text: Despite leaving the series, Tartakovsky later announced that he would return as the director for the third installment.[7][12] Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, and Andy Samberg also reprised their previous roles, as Dracula, Mavis, and Johnny, respectively, and the film was written by Tartakovsky and Austin Powers writer Michael McCullers.[7] In June 2016, Sony also confirmed Tartakovsky's return, after his taking a leave of absence to work on the final season of his show Samurai Jack.[16] According to Tartakovsky, he returned after he received inspiration from a "miserable" family vacation, and from the Chevy Chase National Lampoon's Vacation movies, as the film takes place aboard a cruise ship.[17][18][19] By early November 2017, the film had been entitled as Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation.[20]

text: Music[edit]

text: Mark Mothersbaugh returned to score the third film, having previously scored the first two installments, while Sony Classical has released an official soundtrack of the trilogy. Dutch DJ Tiësto also provided music for the film. DNCE's song "Cake by the Ocean" and Pitbull's song Shake Senora were used in promotional material. I See Love performed by Jonas Blue ft. Joe Jonas. Eric Nam recorded the song Float for the film.

text: Release[edit]

text: Summer Vacation was originally scheduled for release on September 21, 2018, a date that was later moved up two months, to July 13, 2018.[15][21] A video game adaptation, titled Hotel Transylvania 3: Monsters Overboard, was released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows on July 10, 2018.[22] On June 21, 2018, Amazon announced it was offering its Amazon Prime members an early showing of the film on June 30, at about 1,000 theaters, similar to fellow Sony release Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle the previous December.[23]

text: International Release[edit]

text: While most territories are slated for July release dates, the film is set for release in China on August 17, 2018. Similarly, Italy and the Philippines won't see the film until late August while Japan and Poland have October release dates.[24]

text: Marketing[edit]

text: The first teaser trailer was released online on November 16, 2017,[25] and the official trailer for the film was released on March 21, 2018.[26][27] A 95-second sneak peek of the film was released online via Sony Pictures Entertainment's YouTube channel on May 7, 2018.[28]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Box office[edit]

text: As of  August 12, 2018[update], Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation has grossed $146.9 million in the United States and Canada, and $231.4 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $378.3 million, against a production budget of $80 million.[5]

text: In the United States and Canada, Summer Vacation was released alongside the opening of Skyscraper, as well as the wide expansion of Sorry to Bother You, and was projected to gross $38–45 million from 4,267 theaters in its first weekend.[23][29] The film made $1.3 million from its early 3PM screenings held by Amazon on June 30, and $2.6 million from screenings beginning at 5PM the Thursday before its official release.[30] It went on open to $44.1 million, finishing first at the box office and landing in-between the debuts of the first two Hotel Transylvania films.[31] The film made $23.2 million in its second weekend, finishing second behind newcomers The Equalizer 2 and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.[32] It made another $12.3 million in its third weekend, finishing fourth.[33]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 61% based on 98 reviews, with an average rating of 5.4/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation delivers exactly what fans will expect – which means another 97 agreeably lightweight minutes of fast-paced gags and colorful animation."[34] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 54 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[35] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale, the same score earned by both its predecessors.[31]

text: Sarah Melton from Exclaim! thought the film was predictable but not entirely unappealing, writing, "not a shipwreck... Mostly, the film rests on putting familiar, likeable characters in a goofy setting and seeing what gags ensue."[36]


document_title: Automotive navigation system

question_text: when was the first car navigation system invented

text: Automotive navigation system

text: History[edit]

text: Automotive navigation systems represent a convergence of a number of diverse technologies many of which have been available for many years, but were too costly or inaccessible. Limitations such as batteries, display, and processing power had to be overcome before the product became commercially viable.[1]

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1961: Hidetsugu Yagi designed a wireless-based navigation system. This design was still primitive and intended for military-use.
1966: General Motors Research (GMR) was working on a non-satellite-based navigation and assistance system called DAIR (Driver Aid, Information & Routing). After initial tests GM found that it was not a scalable or practical way to provide navigation assistance. Decades later, however, the concept would be reborn as OnStar (founded 1996).[2]
1973: Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) and Fuji Heavy Industries sponsored CATC (Comprehensive Automobile Traffic Control), a Japanese research project on automobile navigation systems.[3]
1979: MITI established JSK (Association of Electronic Technology for Automobile Traffic and Driving) in Japan.[3]
1980: Electronic Auto Compass with new mechanism on the Toyota Crown.
1981: The earlier research of CATC leads to the first generation of automobile navigation systems from Japanese companies Honda, Nissan and Toyota. They used dead reckoning technology.[3]
1981: Honda's Electro Gyro-Cator was the first commercially available car navigation system. It used inertial navigation systems, which tracked the distance traveled, the start point, and direction headed.[4] It was also the first with a map display.[3]
1981: Navigation computer on the Toyota Celica (NAVICOM).[5]
1983: Etak was founded. It made an early system that used map-matching to improve on dead reckoning instrumentation. Digital map information was stored on standard cassette tapes.[6]
1987: Toyota introduced the World's first CD-ROM-based navigation system on the Toyota Crown.[7]
1990: Mazda Eunos Cosmo became the first car with built-in GPS-navigation system[8]
1991: Toyota introduced GPS car navigation on the Toyota Soarer.
1991: Mitsubishi introduced GPS car navigation on the Mitsubishi Debonair (MMCS: Mitsubishi Multi Communication System).[9]
1992: Voice assisted GPS navigation system on the Toyota Celsior.
1993: The Austrian channel ORF airs a presentation of the software company bitMAP and its head Werner Liebig's invention, an electronic city map including street names and house numbers, using a satellite-based navigation system. bitMAP attends Comdex in Las Vegas the same year, but doesn't manage to market itself properly.
1994: BMW 7 series E38 first European model featuring GPS navigation. The navigation system was developed in cooperation with Philips (Philips CARIN).[10]
1995: Oldsmobile introduced the first GPS navigation system available in a United States production car, called GuideStar.[11]
1995: Device called "Mobile Assistant" or short, MASS, produced by Munich-based company ComRoad AG, won the title "Best Product in Mobile Computing" on CeBit by magazine Byte. It offered turn-by-turn navigation via wireless internet connection, with both GPS and speed sensor in the car.
1997: Navigation system using Differential GPS developed as a factory-installed option on the Toyota Prius[12]
1998: First DVD-based navigation system introduced on the Toyota Progres.
2000: The United States made a more accurate GPS signal available for civilian use.[13]
2003: Toyota introduced the first Hard disk drive-based navigation system and the industry's first DVD-based navigation system with a built-in Electronic throttle control
2007: Toyota introduced Map on Demand, a technology for distributing map updates to car navigation systems, developed as the first of its kind in the world
2008: World's first navigation system-linked brake assist function and Navigation system linked to Adaptive Variable Suspension System (NAVI/AI-AVS) on Toyota Crown

text: Technology[edit]

text: The road database is a vector map. Street names or numbers and house numbers, as well as points of interest (waypoints), are encoded as geographic coordinates. This enables users to find a desired destination by street address or as geographic coordinates. (See map database management.)

text: Map database formats are almost uniformly proprietary, with no industry standards for satellite navigation maps, although some companies are trying to address this with SDAL and Navigation Data Standard (NDS). Map data vendors such as Tele Atlas and Navteq create the base map in a GDF (Geographic Data Files) format, but each electronics manufacturer compiles it in an optimized, usually proprietary manner. GDF is not a CD standard for car navigation systems. GDF is used and converted onto the CD-ROM in the internal format of the navigation system. CDF (CARiN Database Format) is a proprietary navigation map format created by Philips.

text: SDAL is a proprietary map format developed by Navteq, which was released royalty free in the hope that it would become an industry standard for digital navigation maps, has not been very widely adopted by the industry. Vendors who used this format include:

text:
Microsoft
Magellan
Pioneer
Panasonic
Clarion
InfoGation

text: Navigation Data Standard (NDS)[edit]

text: The Navigation Data Standard (NDS) initiative, is an industry grouping of car manufacturers, navigation system suppliers and map data suppliers whose objective is the standardization of the data format used in car navigation systems, as well as allow a map update capability. The NDS effort began in 2004 and became a registered association in 2009.[14] Standardization would improve interoperability, specifically by allowing the same navigation maps to be used in navigation systems from 20 manufacturers.[15] Companies involved include BMW, Volkswagen, Daimler, Renault, ADIT, Aisin AW, Alpine Electronics, Navigon, Navis-AMS, Bosch, DENSO, Mitsubishi, Harman International Industries, Panasonic, Preh Car Connect formerly TechniSat, PTV, Continental AG, Clarion, Navteq, Navinfo, TomTom and Zenrin.

text: Media[edit]

text: The road database may be stored in solid state read-only memory (ROM), optical media (CD or DVD), solid state flash memory, magnetic media (hard disk), or a combination. A common scheme is to have a base map permanently stored in ROM that can be augmented with detailed information for a region the user is interested in. A ROM is always programmed at the factory; the other media may be preprogrammed, downloaded from a CD or DVD via a computer or wireless connection (bluetooth, Wi-Fi), or directly used utilizing a card reader.

text: Some navigation device makers provide free map updates for their customers. These updates are often obtained from the vendor's website, which is accessed by connecting the navigation device to a PC.

text: Real-time data[edit]

text: Some systems can receive and display information on traffic congestion using either TMC, RDS, or by GPRS/3G data transmission via mobile phones.

text: Integration and other functions[edit]

text:
The color LCD screens on some automotive navigation systems can also be used to display television broadcasts or DVD movies.
A few systems integrate (or communicate) with mobile phones for hands-free talking and SMS messaging (i.e., using Bluetooth or Wi-Fi).
Automotive navigation systems can include personal information management for meetings, which can be combined with a traffic and public transport information system.

text: Original factory equipment[edit]

text: Many vehicle manufacturers offer a GPS navigation device as an option in their vehicles. Customers whose vehicles did not ship with GPS can therefore purchase and retrofit the original factory-supplied GPS unit. In some cases this can be a straightforward "plug-and-play" installation if the required wiring harness is already present in the vehicle. However, with some manufacturers, new wiring is required, making the installation more complex.

text: The primary benefit of this approach is an integrated and factory-standard installation. Many original systems also contain a gyrocompass and/or an accelerometer and may accept input from the vehicle's speed sensors and reverse gear engagement signal output, thereby allowing them to navigate via dead reckoning when a GPS signal is temporarily unavailable.[16] However, the costs can be considerably higher than other options.

text: SMS[edit]

text: Establishing points of interest in real-time and transmitting them via GSM cellular telephone networks using the Short Message Service (SMS) is referred to as Gps2sms. Some vehicles and vessels are equipped with hardware that is able to automatically send an SMS text message when a particular event happens, such as theft, anchor drift or breakdown. The receiving party (e.g., a tow truck) can store the waypoint in a computer system, draw a map indicating the location, or see it in an automotive navigation system.