document_title: CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story

question_text: who played left eye in the tlc movie

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text: CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story

text: Plot[edit]

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text: The film begins with Tionne Watkins (Drew Sidora) narrating, telling about the girls' lives as children and summarizing their story. The film then jumps to the year 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia. Tionne, after being rejected for an all-male street dance crew despite impressing the crowd at a rollerskating center, is approached by her friend, Marie, who informs her about a girl group being formed by Ian Burke and persuades her to audition for LaFace Records. Tionne, although reluctant, brings Crystal (Brooke Montalvo), the founder of the group, to meet her rapper friend Lisa Lopes (Natia "Lil Mama" Kirkland) and see her perform and Crystal says that she will be perfect for the group. After singing "Meeting in the Ladies Room", they receive a mixed reception, mostly in part due to Crystal's ill-fated off key performance. However, both Tionne and Lisa garner interest from both Perri "Pebbles" Reid (Rochelle Aytes) and her husband, co-founder of LaFace Antonio "L.A." Reid (Carl Anthony Payne II). After receiving the good news from both Pebbles and L.A. Reid, Lisa decides that she should call her family in Philadelphia and tell them the great news, especially her father, who told her that she would never make it as a rapper. She calls her family only to learn that her father has been shot and killed, which causes her to begin drinking heavily in her grief.

text: The film jumps ahead to a dance class where we see Rozonda Thomas (Lauren "Keke" Palmer) dancing. Rozonda sees Pebbles walk in and talk to her teacher. She asks one of the other girls why Pebbles was there. The girl tells her about Pebbles looking for another girl for a girl group. Rozanda rushes over and immediately talks to Pebbles and when her dance teacher tries to shoo her away, she starts singing, amazing everyone listening. Pebbles brings Rozonda to meet Lisa, Tionne, and music producer Dallas Austin (Evan Ross), who is Tionne's longtime friend. The girls become fast friends and start working on their audition with L.A. Reid. At the audition, where they perform "What About Your Friends", L.A. gives them a green light to go ahead and cut their first video and record, and Rozonda is rechristened "Chilli" for the group. After the audition, Chilli asks Tionne and Lisa about Dallas, and they state that he is a player - a guy who has flings with several women and will not settle down with anyone. Pebbles takes the girls out to lunch to sign the contracts telling them that they have a weekly stipend of $25.00 and will only get paid when they have sold records and tickets to shows.

text: The girls are given studio sessions, where Pebbles forces the girls to do sections of their dance routines repeatedly to get them right. During the rehearsal, Pebbles notices Chilli eying Dallas, who is producing some tracks for the album, and Lisa complains she is hungry whilst swearing. She pulls all the girls aside and tells them that they will not cuss or be "loose", this seems to rub Chilli and Tionne the wrong way, but they get back to work. Pebbles later leaves the girls during a studio session to attend a meeting. She tells Dallas to keep the girls working, but instead a fun food fight breaks out between the girls and Dallas. Dallas chases Chilli into one of the sound booths and proceeds to kiss her. After re-entering the studio Pebbles sees the two lip-locked lovers and begins to reprimand the girls and Dallas for their behavior while she was gone. After docking the girls two weeks' pay, she then pulls Chilli into the sitting area and tells her that she is suspended for two days and that she may or may not get her job back. Pebbles tells Chilli to leave the studio and says that she has a lot of thinking to do.

text: Pebbles goes and talks to Tionne and Lisa who both tell her that they want Chilli to stay. Pebbles still insists on putting out an advertisement on the radio about the auditions to see if there is another singer who fits the vision she has for the group. During the auditions, an upset Chilli is with Dallas, who comforts her by kissing her, which leads to them making love while Tionne and Lisa sit through a day of auditionees. After a day of bad auditions, Pebbles decides to let Chilli stay in the group. Lisa and Tionne call Chilli to tell her that she is back in the group and that everything will go according to plan. Right after Chilli gets that call she looks down at a pregnancy test that she has just taken and it is positive. She tells Dallas that she is uncertain what to do, despite her desire to be a mother, and Dallas says that he will support her in whatever decision she makes. Chilli decides that it's best that she get an abortion because of the fragile state her career is in. Tionne and Lisa come to visit Chilli after the operation to cheer her up. After Chilli has recovered, they are seen working on their first music video for their song "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg" from their debut album, Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip. During the video shoot, Chilli begins to suspect that Dallas is cheating on her when she sees him talking to another girl. Later in a car, Lisa proposes that they do a video and an album with a futuristic theme, but Tionne says that they should wait until they get recognized. The girls are then estatic when they hear "What About Your Friends" on the radio for the first time.

text: The girls begin their first nationwide tour as an opening act for MC Hammer, and their first concert is met with rousing acclaim from the stadium audience. Midway through the successful tour, during which their album and singles also sell well, after learning that they will only get paid once the label is reimbursed for the costs spent on them, the girls ask Pebbles if they can review their initial contracts. A hurt Pebbles, who thinks that the girls don't trust her, storms out, so they decide to wait before pursuing the matter any further. Backstage following a concert, Chilli eyes Dallas talking to yet another girl, arousing her suspicions, and Tionne collapses on the floor and is taken to the hospital. A doctor informs Lisa, Chilli and Pebbles that Tionne's collapse was due a crisis from her sickle-cell anemia, a fact previously unknown to the girls, and she needs two weeks to recover, resulting in several cancelled shows. Tionne's mother complains to the doctor about not being given reassurance on the ongoing prognosis, but Tionne says that as long as she is living her dream of performing in front of thousands of people, she will be okay.

text: After the girls return home from their tour, they receive their platinum records for 1 million copies sold of their album and they receive their brand new cars, but still wonder where the rest of the money is. They go to their attorney so that they can go over their contracts, only to find out that their attorney works for Pebbles. The attorney tells them that L.A. Reid has all their money and they are to only get a stipend while the rest goes into an account so that they don't spend it all. They go talk to L.A. and tell him that they don't want Pebbles on their second album because they want more artistic freedom. L.A. tells them that since Pebbles owns the trademarks and copyrights of the name TLC they will either have to buy her out or change their name. They decide to buy her out in order to achieve the creative freedom that they need.

text: In 1993, the girls begin working on their second album CrazySexyCool, believing that their new creative freedom will come with more rights to their money. When Chilli rejects a night out with Tionne and Lisa to get some rest at home, they go clubbing at a nearby club. However, Lisa gets drunk and dances on top of the bar, and she smashes the bar owner in the head with a beer bottle when he tries to get her to stop, causing her to be banned from the club. Tionne takes her to a hotel, where she has a nervous breakdown about people taking things away from her. The same night, Chilli comes home only to find Dallas has thrown a party there without informing her, but he calms her down by kissing her. The next morning, Chilli admits to her mother that she is uncertain, saying she shouldn't be with Dallas but she cannot let him go. During a recording session, Tionne notices Dallas talking to another woman, so scolds him on his behaviour while he is still dating Chilli, who walks in, witnesses the confrontation and sees the woman. During a night of clubbing with her friend, Lisa complains about a man watching her from afar. Her friend says that the man is Andre Rison, a wide receiver with the NFL's Atlanta Falcons. Andre walks up to Lisa, proclaiming that he is her biggest fan and requests that she honor him with a dance, to which Lisa obliges. Later, as Lisa and her friend are leaving the club, Andre picks Lisa up and carries her in his arms, and despite Lisa's demands that he put her down, he persuades her to come home with him. As they arrive in his house, Lisa asks him why there is no furniture inside; he says he was waiting for her and they kiss passionately.

text: Later in 1994, Lisa moves in with Andre and Chilli is horrified when another girl announces that she is pregnant with Dallas' baby, so she pours her heartbreak into the recording of "Creep". Later that night, Lisa comes home and finds Andre cheating on her with another woman, she slaps him and storms out. Dallas arrives at Chilli's house the next night to apologise to her, and they make love again. At the same time, Lisa and her friend notice newly-bought tennis shoes on her and Andre's bed. Realising that Andre did not buy the shoes for her, she takes some of the shoes, puts them in a bathtub and sets fire to them to get back at Andre. However, the fire quickly spreads and their entire house is burnt down, which makes the news. Lisa flees and Tionne and Chilli find her in a forest, coming to terms with all that she has been through. Eventually, Lisa turns herself in to the police and is charged for first-degree arson and sentenced to five years of probation and a $10,000 fine. She spends time in rehab, and is only released during her stay for two recording sessions with Tionne and Chilli, during which she contributes an introspective rap verse to what will become the group's biggest hit, "Waterfalls", after seeing a rainbow on the ride to the studio. During the video shoot for "Creep", Lisa complains to Tionne that they never get to do her "futuristic" idea and threatens to wear tape on her mouth, which turns into Lisa and Chilli complaining that they spoke with L.A. who told them that he isn't in control of the money, that Clive Davis (Ed Amatrudo) has all their money and that they need to speak with him. Tionne then urges them not to fixate on it, as she believes that getting rid of Pebbles is supposed to fix their problems in the first place.

text: In 1995, after receiving awards and other acknowledgements they still don't see any money come in. At the 1996 Grammy Awards, they announce that they are broke - because of greedy people at their record company. The film flashes back to 1995, where they complain to each other about only receiving $50,000 a year, whereas most people make more money than they do. So the girls band a group together to go storm the record label's building to speak with Clive, who is in the middle of a meeting with Sean "Puffy" Combs (Shaun Davis). Clive tells the girls that they will get the attorneys and the accountants in a meeting and see what the record label owes them. They are all cut small checks of $25,000, and Lisa reveals in an on-air radio interview that the group owe $200,000 that they don't have in order to pay back managers, lawyers and damages that Pebbles is suing them for. The group then file for bankruptcy and find a new manager, Bill Diggins (Donny Boaz), who gives them a worldwide headlining tour, the Budweiser Fest Tour, and an improved profit margin after they record their next album.

text: In late 1996, following the tour, Chilli announces to Tionne and Lisa that she is pregnant with Dallas' baby. By 1997, the girls are recording their third album FanMail, dedicated to their fans whose letters they have received, and Chilli gives birth to her and Dallas' son, Tron. In 1998, during a sickle-cell scare in hospital after being comforted by her mother, Tionne writes a poem dealing with a woman's struggle with her self-image and unrealistic concepts of beauty portrayed in the media, which Dallas helps her adapt into "Unpretty", an empowering song for the group's female fan base to overcome feelings of physical inadequacy. During the song's recording, Chilli breaks up with Dallas, saying that even though they have a son together, they are still very different people and they are not right for each other.

text: In October 1999, the girls are about to go on tour to support FanMail. However, by this time, friction between the girls has increased because Lisa is complaining to her new boyfriend Larry about Tionne and Chilli rejecting her ideas and apparently plagiarizing them, and she has challenged Tionne and Chilli to make their own solo albums in a bid to see who is most successful member of the group. Following a confrontation between Tionne and Bill and Lisa and Larry before a scheduled appearance at TRL, during which Tionne reveals that Larry is married, Bill urges Lisa to sort out her issues with Tionne and Chilli before going on tour or they will all fall back into bankruptcy again.

text: In February 2000, Bill offers the girls 10 shows in Europe for their tour the following week with estimated earnings of $25 million, which Tionne and Chilli are ecstatic about, but Lisa declines, stating that she is going to Honduras that week for spiritual healing and she is beginning work on her debut solo album. Later, while Lisa is in Honduras, Tionne learns in hospital that she is pregnant with her first child and chooses to keep the baby, despite the risks for her and the baby. Shortly after, Bill urges the girls to do another album and another tour, but Tionne, due to her pregnancy, and Lisa, awaiting the release of her album Supernova, are reluctant. Later, Lisa learns that her record company isn't releasing Supernova in the U.S. due to poor sales and reception overseas, so she has a nervous breakdown. After she admits to Tionne and Chilli that she feels that the numbers aren't aligning properly, they comfort her and urge her to go back to Honduras for more spiritual healing and work on her second solo album in addition to working with them on their next album. Tionne then gives birth to her daughter, Chase.

text: By early 2002, the group are recording their fourth album 3D, with Tionne and Chilli adjusting to life as mothers with growing children and Lisa contributing raps to some of the songs before heading to Honduras. Lisa promises to record more songs with them when she gets back from Honduras, and vows that there will be no more friction between them. However, on April 25, 2002, a devastated Tionne and Chilli learn that Lisa has been killed on impact in a car accident in La Ceiba, Honduras while filming what will become her documentary. During a radio interview, Tionne and Chilli vow to always stay together despite Lisa's death, although they are uncertain about the group's fate.

text: The film ends 10 years later with Tionne and Chilli reuniting in the studio to begin recording their next album. The film then transitions into real-life studio footage of Tionne and Chilli recording "Meant to Be" in the studio with singer-songwriter Shaffer "Ne-Yo" Smith, as vigils in the career of TLC play during the song.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Keke Palmer as Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas

Hannah Cartwright as Young Chilli

Natia "Lil Mama" Kirkland as Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes

Ariana Neal as Young Lisa

Drew Sidora as Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins

Chase Rolison as Young Tionne

Rochelle Aytes as Perri "Pebbles" Reid
Evan Ross as Dallas Austin
Carl Anthony Payne II as Antonio "L.A." Reid
Tasia Sherel as Chilli's mother
Jim Coleman as Dr. Sebi
Shaun Clay as Sean "Puffy" Combs
Rico Ball as Andre Rison
Ed Amatrudo as Clive Davis
Shervoski Couture as Choreographer
DeMontrez Spears as Dalvin DeGrate
Donny Boaz as Bill Diggins
Chantell D. Christohper as T-Boz's mother
Brave Williams as Singer at Award show
Brooke Montalvo as Crystal Jones
Mary Shaw as Tionne's Doctor
Renell Gibbs as Larry (Marshall Lorenzo Martin)
Shamea Morton as Pregnant girl
Nadiyah Hollis as Bleached Weave Girl
Charles Walton as Radio Host
Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins as herself (plus archive footage)
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes as herself (archive footage)
Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas as herself (plus archive footage)
Shaffer "Ne-Yo" Smith as himself


document_title: Mike Birbiglia

question_text: who plays danny on orange is the new black

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text: Mike Birbiglia

text: Early life[edit]

text: Birbiglia was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, the son of Mary Jean (née McKenzie) and Vincent Paul Birbiglia. He is the youngest of four children.[2] He is of part Italian descent.[3] Birbiglia attended St. John's High School, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts for one year, and graduated from St. Mark's School, Southborough, Massachusetts in 1996[4][5] and subsequently graduated from Georgetown University in 2000.[6] During college Birbiglia performed as a member of the Georgetown Players Improv Troupe.

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text: Professional work[edit]

text: Birbiglia has starred in three Comedy Central specials and has released three albums with Comedy Central Records: Two Drink Mike (2006), My Secret Public Journal Live (2007), and Sleepwalk With Me Live (2011). My Secret Public Journal Live was named one of the best comedy albums of the decade by The A.V. Club[7] and Sleepwalk With Me Live debuted at #1 on the Billboard Comedy Charts.[8]

text: In 2008, Birbiglia opened Sleepwalk with Me, a one-man show that straddled standup comedy and theater, off-Broadway at the Bleecker Street Theater.[9][10] The show was presented by Nathan Lane, and the New York Times called it "simply perfect".[11] Time Out New York named it their "Show of the Year" in 2009.[12]

text: Birbiglia followed up his theatrical debut with Sleepwalk with Me and Other Painfully True Stories,[13] a book which debuted at #29 on the hardcover nonfiction New York Times Bestseller List[14][15] and number four on the hardcover nonfiction section of the Washington Post Political Bookworm Best Sellers.[16] Birbiglia was also a finalist for the 2011 Thurber Prize for American Humor for Sleepwalk with Me and Other Painfully True Stories.[17]

text: Birbiglia made his feature film debut with Sleepwalk with Me, a film based on his one-man show of the same name which he wrote, directed, and starred in. The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and won the NEXT Audience Award.[18] It was selected in the "Festival Favorites" category at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas [19] and also appeared in the Nantucket Film Festival where it won the award for best writer/director.[20] The film was produced by Jacob Jaffke and This American Life's Ira Glass and stars Birbiglia, Lauren Ambrose, Carol Kane, James Rebhorn, and Cristin Milioti and has cameos by Glass, Kristen Schaal, Wyatt Cenac, David Wain, Jessi Klein, John Lutz and Marc Maron.[21]

text: In addition to starring in Sleepwalk with Me, Birbiglia has acted in the films Trainwreck, Going the Distance, Cedar Rapids, Your Sister's Sister, The Fault in Our Stars and Annie, and in the HBO series Girls,[22] and has played Danny Pearson on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black.

text: In 2011, Birbiglia mounted his second one-man show, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, which ran for four months off-Broadway and won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show.[23] He toured My Girlfriend's Boyfriend around the world with tour dates in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. On June 2, 2013, Birbiglia performed it for the last time at Carnegie Hall.[24][25] My Girlfriend's Boyfriend was featured as the number one stand-up special of 2013 by Vulture,[26] Paste,[27] The Laugh Button[28] and Laughspin.[29] It was also named one of Time Out New York's Best Comedy Specials of 2013.[30] Flavorwire listed the special as one of the top 20 funniest stand-up specials of all time.[31] Birbiglia's Thank God for Jokes comedy special was released on Netflix on February 28, 2017.[32]

text: On This American Life[edit]

text: Birbiglia is a regular contributor to the Public Radio International-distributed program This American Life.[33]

text:
"Stranger in the Night", Episode 361: The Fear of Sleep
"Tragedy Minus Comedy Equals Time", Episode 370: Ruining it for the Rest of Us
"My Girlfriend's Boyfriend", Episode 374: Somewhere Out There
"D-u-why?!", Episode 379: Return To The Scene Of The Crime
"Beat It", 384: Fall Guy
"Error at First Base", Episode 411: First Contact
"Little Altar Boy", Episode 422: Comedians of Christmas Comedy Special
"My Girlfriend's Boyfriend", Episode 486: Valentine's Day
"Heels on the Bus", Episode 515: Good Guys
"Of Mice and Men", Episode 528: The Radio Drama Episode

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text: Personal life[edit]

text: Birbiglia has rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, which once caused him to run out of a second-story window of a motel he was staying in Walla Walla, Washington, while on tour. As a result of the accident, Birbiglia received 33 stitches in his leg.[34][35][36]

text: Birbiglia is married to Jen Stein. They have one daughter, Oona.[37]

text: Filmography[edit]

text: As actor[edit]

text:
Going the Distance (2010) - Toby the Waiter
Cedar Rapids (2011) - Trent
Your Sister's Sister (2011) - Al
Sleepwalk with Me (2012) - Matt Pandamiglio
Girls (2012, one episode: "Vagina Panic") - Brian
Inside Amy Schumer (2013, one episode: "Slow Your Roll") - Dan
The Fault in Our Stars (2014) - Patrick
Adult Beginners (2014) - Braden
Annie (2014) - Social services inspector
Digging for Fire (2015) - Phil
Hot Pursuit (2015) - Steve
Orange Is the New Black (2015) - Danny Pearson
Trainwreck (2015) - Tom
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) - Blond CMZ Reporter
Don't Think Twice (2016) - Miles
Tramps (2016)

text: As director/writer[edit]

text:
Sleepwalk with Me (2012) - Director, writer
Don't Think Twice (2016) - Director, writer, producer

text: Standup specials[edit]

text:
What I Should Have Said Was Nothing: Tales From My Secret Public Journal (2008)
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (2013) - also released as a comedy album
Thank God for Jokes (2017) - Netflix Originals special

text: Discography[edit]

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2004: Dog Years (out of print) (self-produced, winner of the "Just Plain Folks" comedy album of the year)
2005: Invite Them Up (Comedy Central Records compilation CD of NYC indie comics)
2005: My Secret Public Album, Volume 1a (weekly guest spots on The Bob and Tom Show)
2006: Two Drink Mike
2007: My Secret Public Journal Live
2011: Sleepwalk with Me Live
2013: My Girlfriend's Boyfriend

text: Awards and nominations[edit]

text:
Year
Award
Title
Category
Result

2003
ECNY Award
Stand-up comedy
Best Male Stand-up
Won

2009
Nightlife Awards
Sleepwalk with Me
Outstanding Comedian in a Major Engagement
Won

Outer Critics Circle
Outstanding Solo Show
Nominated

Lucille Lortel
Outstanding Solo Show
Nominated

Drama Desk
Outstanding Solo Performance
Nominated

2011
Outer Critics Circle
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend
Outstanding Solo Show
Nominated

Drama Desk
Outstanding Solo Performance
Nominated

Lucille Lortel
Outstanding Solo Show
Won

Thurber Prize for American Humor
Sleepwalk with Me and Other Painfully True Stories
N/A
Finalist

2012
Sundance Film Festival Audience Award
Sleepwalk with Me (Film)
Best of NEXT
Won

Gotham Awards
Breakthrough Actor[38]
Nominated

2016
Lucille Lortel
Mike Birbiglia: Thank God For Jokes[39]
Outstanding Solo Show
Nominated

2017
Just For Laughs Awards
Stand-up comedy
Stand-Up Comedian of the Year[40]
Won

Kurt Vonnegut Humor Award[41]
N/A
N/A
Won

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document_title: Finding Dory

question_text: who is the voice of dory in finding dory

text: Finding Dory

text: Plot[edit]

text: Dory, a regal blue tang, gets separated from her parents as a child. As she grows up, Dory attempts to search for them, but gradually forgets them due to her short-term memory loss. In the flashback of the previous film, Finding Nemo, she joins Marlin – a clownfish looking for his missing son Nemo – after accidentally swimming into him.

text: One year later, Dory is living with Marlin and Nemo on their reef. One day, Dory has a flashback and remembers that she has parents. She decides to look for them, but her memory problem is an obstacle. She eventually remembers that they lived at the Jewel of Morro Bay across the ocean in California, thanks to Nemo mentioning its name.

text: Marlin and Nemo accompany Dory. With the help of Crush, their sea turtle friend, they ride a water current to California. Upon arrival, they explore a shipwreck full of destroyed cargo, where Dory accidentally awakens a giant squid, who immediately pursues them and almost devours Nemo. Marlin berates Dory for endangering them. Her feelings hurt, Dory travels to the surface to seek help and is captured by staff members from the nearby Marine Life Institute after getting entangled in six pack rings.

text: Dory is placed in the quarantine section and tagged. There she meets a grouchy but well-meaning octopus named Hank. Dory's tag shows that she will be sent to an aquarium in Cleveland. Due to a traumatic ocean life, Hank wants to live in the aquarium instead of being released back into the ocean, so he agrees to help Dory find her parents in exchange for her tag. In one exhibit, Dory encounters her childhood friend Destiny, a nearsighted whale shark who used to communicate with Dory through pipes, and Bailey, a beluga whale who mistakenly believes he has lost his ability to echolocate. Dory subsequently has flashbacks of life with her parents and struggles to recall details. She finally remembers how she was separated from her parents: she overheard her mother crying one night, left to retrieve a shell to cheer her up, and was pulled away by an undertow current.

text: Marlin and Nemo attempt to rescue Dory. With the help of two sea lions named Fluke and Rudder and a disfigured common loon named Becky, they manage to get into the institute and find her in the pipe system. Other blue tangs tell them that Dory's parents escaped from the institute a long time ago to search for her and never came back, leaving Dory believing that they have died. Hank retrieves Dory from the tank, accidentally leaving Marlin and Nemo behind. He is then apprehended by one of the employees and unintentionally drops Dory into the drain, flushing her out to the ocean. While wandering aimlessly, she comes across a trail of shells; remembering that when she was young, her parents had set out a similar trail to help her find her way back home, she follows it. At the end of the trail, Dory finds an empty brain coral with multiple shell trails leading to it. As she turns to leave, she sees her parents Jenny and Charlie in the distance. They tell her they spent years laying down the trails for her to follow in the hopes that she would eventually find them.

text: Marlin, Nemo, and Hank end up in the truck taking various aquatic creatures to Cleveland. Destiny and Bailey escape from their exhibit to help Dory rescue them. Once on board the truck, Dory persuades Hank to return to the sea with her, and together, they hijack the truck and drive it over busy highways, creating havoc, before crashing it into the sea, freeing all the fish. Dory, along with her parents and new friends, return to the reef with Marlin and Nemo.

text: In a post-credits scene, the Tank Gang from Finding Nemo, still trapped inside their (now algae-covered) plastic bags, reach California one year after floating across the Pacific Ocean. They are eventually picked up by staff members from the Marine Life Institute.

text: Voice cast[edit]

text:
Ellen DeGeneres as Dory, a regal blue tang who suffers from short-term memory loss.

Sloane Murray as Young Dory. Murray is the seven-year-old daughter of producer Lindsey Collins.[12]
Lucia Geddes as Teen Dory.

Albert Brooks as Marlin, an overprotective ocellaris clownfish, Nemo's father and Dory's friend.
Hayden Rolence as Nemo, a young optimistic clownfish and Marlin's son. He was previously voiced by Alexander Gould in the first film.
Ed O'Neill as Hank, a cranky East Pacific red octopus who previously lost a tentacle.
Kaitlin Olson as Destiny, a near-sighted whale shark and Dory's childhood friend.
Ty Burrell as Bailey, a beluga whale who temporarily lost echolocation due to a concussion.
Diane Keaton as Jenny, Dory's mother.
Eugene Levy as Charlie, Dory's father.
Idris Elba as Fluke, a California sea lion.
Dominic West as Rudder, a California sea lion and Fluke's friend.
Bob Peterson as Mr. Ray, a spotted eagle ray and Nemo's schoolteacher.
Andrew Stanton as Crush, a green sea turtle.
Sigourney Weaver as herself, the announcer for the recorded messages broadcast over the institute's public address system.
Bill Hader as Stan, a kelp bass and husband fish.
Kate McKinnon as Stan's wife fish.
Alexander Gould as Passenger Carl, a delivery truck driver who works for the institute.
Torbin Xan Bullock as Gerald, a California sea lion who wishes to lie on the rock occupied by Fluke and Rudder only to be constantly repelled by them, and Becky, a loon who helps Marlin and Nemo.
Katherine Ringgold as Chickenfish, named Kathy.
Bennett Dammann as Squirt, Crush's son.
John Ratzenberger as Husband Crab (Bill).
Angus MacLane as Sunfish "Charlie Back-and-Forth".
Willem Dafoe as Gill, a Moorish idol, the leader of the "Tank Gang."
Brad Garrett as Bloat, a pufferfish.
Allison Janney as Peach, a pink starfish.
Austin Pendleton as Gurgle, a royal gramma.
Stephen Root as Bubbles, a yellow tang.
Vicki Lewis as Deb (& Flo), a four-striped damselfish.
Jerome Ranft as Jacques, a cleaner shrimp.

text: Production[edit]

text: Prior to work on Finding Dory, Disney had planned to make a Finding Nemo sequel without Pixar's involvement, through Circle 7 Animation, a studio Disney announced in 2005 with the intention to make sequels to Pixar properties.[13][14] However, due to the 2006 acquisition of Pixar by Disney, Circle 7 was shut down by Disney without ever having produced a film.[15]

text: In July 2012, it was reported that Andrew Stanton was developing a sequel to Finding Nemo,[16] with Victoria Strouse writing the script and a release date scheduled for 2016.[17] However, the same day the news of a potential sequel broke, Stanton posted a message on his personal Twitter calling into question the accuracy of these reports. The message said, "Didn't you all learn from Chicken Little? Everyone calm down. Don't believe everything you read. Nothing to see here now. #skyisnotfalling."[18] According to a report by The Hollywood Reporter published in August 2012, Ellen DeGeneres was in negotiations to reprise her role of Dory.[19] In September 2012, it was confirmed by Stanton, saying: "What was immediately on the list was writing a second Carter movie. When that went away, everything slid up. I know I'll be accused by more sarcastic people that it's a reaction to Carter not doing well, but only in its timing, but not in its conceit."[20] In February 2013, it was confirmed by the press that Albert Brooks would reprise the role of Marlin in the sequel.[21]

text: In April 2013, Disney announced the sequel, Finding Dory, for November 25, 2015, confirming that DeGeneres and Brooks would be reprising their roles as Dory and Marlin, respectively.[22] Following a long campaign for a sequel on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, DeGeneres stated:

text: I have waited for this day for a long, long, long, long, long, long time. I'm not mad it took this long. I know the people at Pixar were busy creating Toy Story 16. But the time they took was worth it. The script is fantastic. And it has everything I loved about the first one: It's got a lot of heart, it's really funny, and the best part is—it's got a lot more Dory.[22]

text: In a July 2013 interview with Los Angeles Times, Stanton spoke of the sequel's origin: "There was polite inquiry from Disney [about a Finding Nemo sequel]. I was always 'No sequels, no sequels.' But I had to get on board from a VP standpoint. [Sequels] are part of the necessity of our staying afloat, but we don't want to have to go there for those reasons. We want to go there creatively, so we said [to Disney], 'Can you give us the timeline about when we release them? Because we'd like to release something we actually want to make, and we might not come up with it the year you want it.'"[23]

text: In a 2016 interview Stanton stated how the film's story came to be; "I don't watch my films that often after they're done because I have to watch them so many times before they come out. So about 2010 when we were getting Finding Nemo ready for the 10-year re-release in 3D, it was interesting to watch again after all that time. Something kind of got lodged in the back of my brain and started to sort of stew. I started to think about how easily Dory could get lost and not find Marlin and Nemo again. She basically was in the same state that she was when Marlin found her. I didn't know where she was from. I knew that she had spent most of her youth wandering the ocean alone, and I wanted to know that she could find her new family, if she ever got lost again. It's almost like the parental side of me was worried." Stanton additionally stated: "I knew if I ever said Finding Dory or mentioned a sequel to Finding Nemo out loud, I'd be done, [T]here would be no way I'd be able to put that horse back in the barn. So I kept it very quiet until I knew I had a story that I thought would hold, and that was in early 2012. So I pitched it to John Lasseter and he was all into it. Then I got a writer, and once we had a treatment that we kind of liked, I felt comfortable calling Ellen."[24]

text: Stanton selected Victoria Strouse to write the screenplay. She later said, "It was always collaborative with Andrew, but really the screenwriting was me. Of course, Andrew would do passes, and he and I would brainstorm a lot together and then we would bring it to the group of story artists. People would weigh in and share ideas."[25] She pointed to Dory's forgetfulness as a challenge when writing the script, adding, "You don't realize until you sit down to write a character who can't remember things how integral memory is to absolutely everything we do, and that's what creates a narrative that people can follow. When a main character can't self-reflect and can't tell a story, that character is very difficult to design because she can't really lead. To get her to be able to lead and to get an audience to be able to trust her was the hardest thing to do."[25]

text: The fictional Marine Life Institute depicted extensively in the film is based on the production team's research trips to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Marine Mammal Center and the Vancouver Aquarium.[26]

text: The film's ending was revised after Pixar executives viewed Blackfish, a 2013 documentary film which focuses on the dangers of keeping orca whales in captivity. Initially, some of the characters were to end up in a SeaWorld-like marine park, but the revision gave them an option to leave.[27][28] On September 18, 2013, it was announced that the film would be pushed back to a June 17, 2016, release. Pixar's The Good Dinosaur was moved to the November 25, 2015, release window to allow more time for production of the film.[29]

text: Angus MacLane was one of the first people to whom Stanton revealed his idea for the sequel. Together, with Bob Peterson, they discussed about different ideas for places Dory would visit during her journey — one of those ideas was the touch pool sequence. Later, during the Brave (2012) wrap party, Stanton invited Angus to join him in his first co-directing duty. Stanton described Angus' role as a "jack of all trades", particularly utilizing his experience in animation and story, as well as in production, having created a few short films himself.[30]

text: In August 2015, at Disney's D23 Expo, it was announced that Hayden Rolence would voice Nemo, replacing Alexander Gould from the first film, whose voice has deepened since reaching adulthood (Gould voiced a minor character in the sequel instead).[31][32] At the D23 expo they also announced that Ed O'Neill would be the voice of Hank.[31]

text: To make the light more realistic, RenderMan was completely re-engineered, its biggest change in 25 years.[33]

text: Soundtrack[edit]

text:
Finding Dory

Soundtrack album by Thomas Newman

Released
June 14, 2016

Recorded
2015–16

Studio
DeepSleep Studios
Newman Scoring Stage
Sony Pictures Studios
The Village

Genre
Soundtrack

Length
68:20

Label
Walt Disney

Producer

Thomas Newman
Bill Bernstein

Thomas Newman chronology

Spectre
(2015)Spectre2015
Finding Dory
(2016)
Passengers
(2016)Passengers2016

Pixar film soundtrack chronology

The Good Dinosaur
(2015) The Good Dinosaur2015
Finding Dory
(2016) Finding Dory2016
Cars 3
(2017) Cars 32017

Singles from Finding Dory

"Unforgettable"
Released: May 27, 2016

text: The film's soundtrack entitled Finding Dory was composed by Thomas Newman and released on June 17, 2016.[34][35] Louis Armstrong's version of "What a Wonderful World" is played during the scene in which fish are released into the ocean as the truck Dory and Hank are driving crashes into the water.[36] On May 20, 2016, Sia performed a cover of Nat King Cole's "Unforgettable" on The Ellen DeGeneres Show following an announcement that it would be featured in the film.[36]

text: Track listing[edit]

text:
No.
Title
Performer
Length

1.
"Kelpcake"

0:46

2.
"Finding Dory (Main Title)"

0:55

3.
"Lost at Sea"

1:36

4.
"One Year Later"

2:24

5.
"Migration Song"

0:35

6.
""O, We're Going Home""

1:38

7.
"Jewel of Morro Bay"

2:00

8.
"Gnarly Chop"

1:39

9.
"Squid Chase"

1:28

10.
"Sigourney Weaver"

1:21

11.
"Hank"

3:19

12.
"Nobody's Fine"

3:29

13.
"Rebecca Darling"

1:54

14.
"Meet Destiny"

1:07

15.
"Joker at Work"

1:16

16.
"Becky Flies"

3:53

17.
"Hands!"

2:24

18.
"Almost Home"

2:01

19.
"Open Ocean"

3:18

20.
"Two Lefts and a Right"

3:57

21.
"Everything About You"

1:41

22.
"Quarantine"

2:41

23.
"Warp"

1:03

24.
"All Alone"

0:53

25.
"...Shells"

4:47

26.
"No Walls"

2:25

27.
"Okay with Crazy"

1:50

28.
"Hide and Seek"

1:51

29.
"Quite a View"

1:25

30.
"Unforgettable (End Title)"
Sia
3:17

31.
"Three Hearts (End Title)"

3:29

32.
"Loon Tune"

1:20

33.
"Fish Who Wander"

1:18

34.
"Release"

1:13

text: Release[edit]

text: Finding Dory premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on June 8, 2016, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 17, 2016, in 2D, Disney Digital 3-D and RealD 3D.[5][6] It was also released to select IMAX 3D theaters.[37] In April 2016, it was announced that a new Pixar short, Piper, directed by Alan Barillaro and with music by Adrian Belew, would be shown in front of the film.[38] It had its UK premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on June 18, 2016.[39][40]

text: The film was re-released for Labor Day weekend in 2016.[41]

text: Home media[edit]

text: Finding Dory was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on Blu-ray (2D and 3D) and DVD in the United States on November 15, 2016, with a digital release on October 25. In addition to Piper, the bonus features also included a short film, titled Marine Life Interviews, featuring interviews with the inhabitants of the Marine Life Institute about their encounters with Dory.[42]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Box office[edit]

text: Finding Dory grossed $486.3 million in the U.S. and Canada and $542.3 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $1.029 billion, against a budget of $200 million.[4] It had a worldwide opening of $185.7 million, which is the second-biggest of all time for an animated film behind Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ($218.4 million), and an IMAX global opening of $6.4 million.[43][44][45] On August 16, it became the fourth film of 2016 to earn $900 million in ticket sales,[46] and on October 9—its seventeenth weekend—it passed the $1 billion threshold, becoming the third film of 2016 after Captain America: Civil War and Zootopia to reach that mark, the second Pixar film (after Toy Story 3), the fifth animated film (after Toy Story 3, Frozen, Minions, and Zootopia), the twelfth Disney film (fourth Disney animated film), and the twenty-seventh film overall in cinematic history.[47][48]

text: Worldwide, it is the third-highest-grossing film of 2016 (behind Civil War and Rogue One),[49] the highest-grossing animated film of 2016,[49] the second-highest-grossing Pixar film ever (behind Toy Story 3),[50] the fourth-highest-grossing animated film of all time, and the 28th-highest-grossing film of all time. Deadline.com calculated the net profit of the film to be $296.6 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues for the film, making it the fourth-most profitable release of 2016.[51]

text: North America[edit]

text: In the United States and Canada, Finding Dory opened on June 17, 2016, alongside Central Intelligence, with projections having the film grossing $110–120 million[52][53][54][55] in its opening weekend, with some estimates going as high as $130 million.[56][57] It received the widest release for a Pixar film (4,305 theaters, breaking Brave's record), of which 3,200 venues were in 3D, along with 425 premium large format locales, approximately 100 IMAX theaters and a handful of Dolby Cinema sites.[54] It was Fandango's top pre-selling animated film of all time, outselling the previous record-holder, Minions.[58] The film grossed $9.2 million from Thursday night previews, a record for both Pixar and any animated film,[59][60] and $54.7 million on its opening day, marking both the biggest opening day and single-day for an animated film. This also marks the first time that an animated film has grossed over $50 million in a single day.[61][62] It went on to gross $135.1 million in its opening weekend, finishing first at the box office and setting the record for the highest opening weekend for both Pixar (breaking Toy Story 3's record) and any animated film (breaking Shrek the Third's record), and became the third-biggest adjusted for inflation.[63] It is also the third-highest opening (excluding Marvel and Star Wars films) for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures behind Beauty and the Beast ($174.8 million) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ($135.6 million), and is the studio's ninth-biggest debut overall.[43][64][65] It also became the fifth animated film and the fifth film of 2016 to open above $100 million.[66] Moreover, its opening also marked the second-biggest for the month of June, behind only Jurassic World.[67] Its opening was 93.8% above Finding Nemo's $70.3 million debut.[68] It further broke the record for the biggest PLF and Cinemark XD opening for an animated film with $10.4 million and $2.6 million, respectively. In IMAX, it made $5 million from 211 theaters,[45] the third-best animated IMAX opening behind Zootopia ($5.2 million) and Toy Story 3 ($8.4 million).[69]

text: Following its record-breaking openings, it scored the biggest Monday for Pixar by grossing $19.6 million (breaking Toy Story 3's $15.6 million) and the best Monday in June for an animated film. However, among all animated films, it is ranked second—behind 2004's Shrek 2, which made $23.4 million on its first Monday,[70][71] and it is also the biggest Tuesday for an animated film with $23.2 million, besting Minions' $16.8 million.[72] It jumped 18.5% over its Monday gross, a rare achievement for a film.[73] It crossed the $200 million mark in its first seven days, becoming the first (and fastest) animated film to pass the said milestone in just a week.[74] It fell only 46% in its second weekend earning $73 million to record the biggest second weekend for an animated film (breaking Shrek 2's $72.2 million previous record), the biggest for Disney and 2016 (surpassing Captain America: Civil War's $72.6 million), and the eighth-biggest second weekend gross of all time overall.[75][76] This was despite facing stiff competition from newcomer Independence Day: Resurgence.[77] It crossed $300 million in 12 days—a new record for an animated film, surpassing the previous record held by Shrek 2 and Toy Story 3 (both of which took 18 days),[78] and became the second animated film of 2016 (after Zootopia), the fourth Disney film of 2016, and the sixth overall film of the year to cross the milestone.[79] It continued to dominate the box office for the third straight weekend, despite competitions from three new wide releases—The Legend of Tarzan, The Purge: Election Year, and fellow Disney release The BFG—after witnessing a 42% decline to $41.8 million in three days and $51.4 million in four days, respectively, during the Independence Day holiday frame.[80] This made it the second time in two years and just the third time since 1992, the July 4 holiday box office was topped by a film in its third weekend of release.[81] It broke another record as it passed the $400 million mark in 21 days, which is the fastest for an animated film, the fastest of 2016, the fastest for the studio, and the fifth-fastest of all time overall. Morever, it became the second film of 2016 (after Captain America: Civil War), the fifth animated film, the ninth film for the studio, and the twenty-fourth film overall to pass the milestone.[82][83] On the following day (July 8), it surpassed Civil War to become the biggest film of the year up until Rogue One took that title in January 2017.[84][85] It dropped out of the top ten in its eighth week.[86]

text: Although the film was finally overtaken by The Secret Life of Pets (and The Legend of Tarzan in second place) in its fourth weekend, it nevertheless passed The Lion King to become the highest-grossing Disney animated film of all time in the same weekend, surpassing the latter which held the record for 15 non-consecutive years.[87] In just 30 days, it overtook Shrek 2 ($441.2 million) to become the highest-grossing animated film of all time, breaking the latter's record of 12 years.[88][89] Four days later, on July 20, it became the first-ever animated film in cinematic history to cross the $450 million mark.[90] As with its predecessor Finding Nemo, the studio expanded the theater count for the film during the Labor Day weekend from 345 theaters to 2,075 theaters, an addition of 1,730 theaters. In 2003, Nemo was expanded from 838 sites to 1,053 locations.[91][92]

text: It became the second-highest-grossing film of 2016 (behind Rogue One),[93] the highest-grossing Pixar film,[50] the second-highest-grossing Walt Disney Pictures release (behind Beauty and the Beast), the highest-grossing Disney animated film, the highest-grossing animated film overall,[94] and the ninth-highest-grossing film of all time.[95]

text: Outside North America[edit]

text: Internationally, Finding Dory received a staggered release in a span of four months from June to September, with Germany being the last country. This was done in order take advantage of key holidays and competitive dates around the world.[96][97] It was released across 29 countries—which is 32% of its entire international release territories—the same weekend as its U.S. premiere. It made an estimated $50.7 million to take the No. 1 spot at the international box office.[45] In its second weekend, it added $38.7 million from 37 markets, falling in third place behind Independence Day: Resurgence and Now You See Me 2.[96] In the same weekend along with its $73 million take in North America, the film helped Pixar cross the $10 billion mark worldwide since Toy Story (1995).[96] By its fourth weekend, the animated film helped Disney push past the $3 billion mark internationally and $5 billion globally.[98][99]

text: It had the biggest opening for an animated film in Brazil ($7.1 million) and the Netherlands ($2.1 million),[97] and the biggest of all time for a Disney animated or Pixar film in Australia ($7.7 million), the Philippines ($2.1 million), Singapore ($1.3 million), India ($1 million), Indonesia, Peru and Central America, and in Russia it opened with $3.2 million,[45][97] and the second-biggest in the United Kingdom and Ireland ($10.7 million), Mexico ($9.4 million) and Argentina ($3.5 million), and that's despite amidst the latter country's Copa America soccer match, and Colombia ($2.1 million), behind Monsters University.[45][100][101] In the UK and Ireland, the film recorded the second-biggest animated opening of the year with £8.1 million ($10.7 million) from 580 theaters, behind only The Secret Life of Pets. However, if previews are excluded, Finding Dory is ahead. Moreover, it also posted the second-biggest Disney/Pixar opening, behind only Toy Story 3 (fourth-biggest if previews are included), and the seventh-biggest animated opening of all time overall based on pure Friday-to-Sunday gross alone.[101][102][103] It added an additional 43 theaters in its second weekend, after which it added another £3.98 million ($5.1 million) at the weekend, thereby passing the £20 million mark in just 10 days (among Pixar films, only Toy Story 3 reached £20 million faster). It made an impressive £8.15 million during weekdays, from Monday to Thursday resulting in a £2.03 million daily-average gross. According to The Guardian, this was because of the school holidays that prevailed on the weekdays. Otherwise, family films earn the vast majority of their takings on Saturday and Sunday, and showtimes typically reduce on weekdays.[104] It returned to the top of the box office in its fourth weekend[105] and went on to become the highest-grossing film of the summer that year.[106] In Brazil, in addition to recording the biggest Disney/Pixar opening ever, almost twice the previous record held by The Good Dinosaur, it also set a new record for an all-time animated opening, on par with Minions in local currency.[97] In South Korea, it had the biggest opening for a Pixar film with $7.1 million, which is also the second-biggest for a Disney animated film, behind Frozen.[98] In Japan, the film had a two-day weekend opening of $7 million on Saturday and Sunday from 511 screens on 571,000 admissions. For the entire three-day holiday weekend, including Marine Day on Monday July 18, the film earned $11 million on 922,000 admissions. This made it the top western release of the weekend and the biggest foreign opening-weekend in the country of that year.[100][107] It had further number-one openings in Spain ($4.9 million), France ($4.7 million), Hong Kong ($1.9 million; $2.8 million including previews), Taiwan ($1.9 million), Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.[96][98][100] It topped the box office in the Netherlands for three[100] and in Spain and Australia for four consecutive weekends.[98] In Italy, it scored the biggest animated opening of the year with $5.8 million.[108]

text: In China, where Pixar films have been struggling to find broad audiences and accrue lucrative revenues, the film was projected to make around $30 million in its opening weekend.[109] The film ended up grossing $17.7 million—the highest Pixar opening in the country's history—debuting in second place behind Warcraft.[45] It surpassed Monsters University in just seven days to become the biggest Pixar film there with $38.1 million.[97][98] It opened in Germany—its last market—on September 29, where the film delivered a robust opening of $8.4 million, the biggest for any film of 2016 in the country. The film continued to benefit from German Unity Day on October 3.[110] It went on to top the box office there for three straight weekends, tying with Inferno in its third weekend.[111]

text: It is now the highest-grossing Disney animated or Pixar film in Australia (where it is also the second-highest-grossing animated film of all time behind Shrek 2), Bolivia, Brazil, Central America, Colombia, India, Indonesia, New Zealand, Peru, the Philippines, and Trinidad.[98][100][112] It also became the second-highest-grossing Pixar release of all time in South Korea behind Inside Out.[113] Elsewhere, the biggest markets in terms of total earnings were Japan ($66 million), followed by the UK ($56.3 million), China ($38.1 million), Australia ($36.3 million), and Brazil ($34.5 million).[48]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Finding Dory has an approval rating of 94% based on 297 reviews and an average rating of 7.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Funny, poignant, and thought-provoking, Finding Dory delivers a beautifully animated adventure that adds another entertaining chapter to its predecessor's classic story."[114] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 77 out of 100, based on 48 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[115] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[116]

text: Mike Ryan of Uproxx gave the film a positive review, saying: "I never thought I wanted a sequel to Finding Nemo, but here we are and I'm pretty happy it exists. And, for me, it was a more emotional experience than the first film. Finding Dory got me—it made me cry."[117] A. O. Scott of The New York Times said that while the film lacks "dazzling originality", he overall wrote, "it more than makes up for in warmth, charm and good humor".[118] In his review for Variety, Owen Gleiberman wrote, "It's a film that spills over with laughs (most of them good, a few of them shticky) and tears (all of them earned), supporting characters who are meant to slay us (and mostly do) with their irascible sharp tongues, and dizzyingly extended flights of physical comedy."[119] Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal said that "Finding Dory can be touching, sweet and tender, but it's compulsively, preposterously and steadfastly funny."[120] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and said that the film "brims with humor, heart and animation miracles", despite lacking "the fresh surprise of its predecessor".[121]

text: Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a negative review, writing, "Its heroine may suffer from short-term memory loss, but viewers with any memory at all will realize that Finding Dory falls rather short of its wondrous progenitor."[122] Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan said that, "As the 13-year gap between "Nemo" and "Dory" indicates, this was not a concept that cried out to be made."[123]

text: Environmental controversies and issues[edit]

text: Conservationists warned that, very much like Finding Nemo, the film could lead to uninformed customers buying blue tangs for home aquariums.[124] Blue tangs cannot be bred in captivity and have to be caught in the wild.[125] They are related to surgeonfish and exhibit razor-sharp spines on both sides of the tail that can inflict formidable wounds.[126]

text: While promoting the film, actress Ellen DeGeneres reminded audiences that Nemo and Dory's real-life home, the Great Barrier Reef, is under enormous threat,[127] mostly due to coral bleaching, a process induced by climate change, which has killed coral reefs on an enormous scale.[128]

text: Accolades[edit]

text:
List of awards and nominations

Year
Award
Category
Recipient(s)
Result
Ref(s)

2016
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
Best Animated Film
Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane
Nominated
[129]
[130]

Best Animated Female
Ellen DeGeneres

British Academy Children's Awards
BAFTA Kids' Vote
Finding Dory
[131]
[132]

Critics' Choice Awards
Best Animated Feature
[133]

Hollywood Music in Media Awards
Best Original Score – Animated Film
Thomas Newman
[134]
[135]

San Francisco Film Critics Circle
Best Animated Feature
Finding Dory
[136]
[137]

St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association
Best Animated Film
[138]

Teen Choice Awards
Choice Summer Movie
Won
[139]

Choice Summer Movie Star: Female
Ellen DeGeneres

Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
Best Animated Feature
Finding Dory
Nominated
[140]

Best Voice Performance
Ellen DeGeneres

Women Film Critics Circle
Best Animated Female
Finding Dory
[141]

2017
Annie Awards
Best Animated Feature
[142]

Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Feature Production
Erick Oh

Outstanding Achievement, Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
Trevor Jimenez

Black Reel Awards
Outstanding Voice Performance
Idris Elba
[143]

British Academy Film Awards
Best Animated Film
Andrew Stanton
[144]

Cinema Audio Society
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Motion Picture – Animated
Scott Curtis, Doc Kane, Nathan Nance, Michael Semanick and Thomas Vicari
Won
[145]

Empire Awards
Best Animated Film
Finding Dory
[146]

Georgia Film Critics Association
Best Animated Film
Andrew Stanton and Lindsey Collins
Nominated
[147]

Golden Tomato Awards
Best Wide Release 2016
Finding Dory
7th place
[148]

Best Animated Movie 2016
2nd Place

Houston Film Critics Society
Best Animated Feature Film
Nominated
[149]
[150]

2017 Kids' Choice Awards
Favorite Animated Movie
Won
[151]

Favorite Voice From an Animated Movie
Ellen DeGeneres

Most Wanted Pet
Nominated

#Squad
Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Kaitlin Olson, Hayden Rolence, Willem Dafoe, Ed O'Neill, Ty Burrell and Eugene Levy
Won

NAACP Image Awards
Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance
Idris Elba
Nominated
[152]

Online Film Critics Society
Best Animated Film
Finding Dory
[153]

People's Choice Awards
Favorite Movie
Won
[154]

Favorite Family Movie

Favorite Animated Movie Voice
Ellen DeGeneres

Producers Guild of America
Best Animated Motion Picture
Lindsey Collins
Nominated
[155]

Satellite Awards
Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature
Finding Dory
[156]

Saturn Awards
Best Animated Film
Won
[157]

Village Voice Film Poll
Best Animated Feature
7th place
[158]

Visual Effects Society
Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature
Chris J. Chapman, Lindsey Collins, John Halstead and Angus MacLane
Nominated
[159]

Outstanding Animated Performance in an Animated Feature
Hank – Jonathan Hoffman, Steven Clay Hunter, Mark Piretti and Audrey Wong
Won

Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature
Open Ocean Exhibit – Stephen Gustafson, Jack Hattori, Jesse Hollander and Michael Rutter
Nominated

Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature
Stephen Gustafson, Allen Hemberger, Joshua Jenny and Matthew Kiyoshi Wong

text: Possible sequel[edit]

text: In June 2016, director Andrew Stanton talked about the possibility of a sequel, saying that he would never exclude it because of the introduction of new characters, citing the Toy Story films as guides for how to expand a world through sequels.[160]


document_title: Fast & Furious (2009 film)

question_text: who died in the beginning of fast and furious

text: Fast & Furious (2009 film)

text: Plot[edit]

text: Five years after the first film, Dominic Toretto and his new crew, consisting of his girlfriend Letty, Tego Leo, Rico Santos, Cara Mirtha, and Han Seoul-Oh, are hijacking fuel tankers in the Dominican Republic. Dominic suspects that the police are on their trail, forcing the crew to disband and go their separate ways, with Han deciding to go to Tokyo. Realizing that he must leave, Dominic runs, leaving Letty behind to protect her from harm.

text: Three months later, Dominic is now residing in Panama City. He gets a call from his sister, Mia Toretto, who tells him that Letty has been murdered. Dominic heads back to Los Angeles to attend her funeral and examine the crash and finds traces of nitromethane on the ground. He visits the only car mechanic that sells nitromethane in LA and forces him into giving him the name David Park, the man who ordered the fuel, and informs him that the only car that uses nitromethane in the area is a green 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport.

text: Meanwhile, FBI agent Brian O'Conner is trying to track down a Mexican drug lord, Arturo Braga. His search leads him to David Park, and he tracks him down using an illegal modification record on his car. Dominic arrives at Park's apartment first and hangs him out of the window by his ankles before Brian arrives. Brian saves Park and Park becomes the FBI's new informant. Park gets Brian into a street race. Brian selects a modified 2002 Nissan Skyline GT-R R34[5] from the impound lot. Dominic races in his modified 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454. Gisele Yashar, the liaison for Braga, reveals that the winner will become the last driver on a team that traffics heroin between the Mexico–United States border. Dominic wins by bumping Brian's car while it is in nitro, making him lose control. Brian uses his power as an FBI agent to arrest another driver, Dwight Mueller, and takes his place on the team.

text: The team meets one of Braga's men, Fenix, and Dominic notices that Fenix drives the same Torino the mechanic described. They drive across the border using underground tunnels to avoid detection. Brian has prior knowledge that after the heroin was delivered Braga ordered the drivers to be killed. Fenix killed Letty personally, and after a stand-off, Dominic detonates his car with nitrous to distract Braga's men, and Brian hijacks a 1999 Hummer H1 with $60 million worth of heroin in it. Dominic and Brian drive back to LA and hide the heroin in a police impound lot, where Brian picks up a modified Subaru Impreza WRX STI Hatchback, and they drive to Dominic's hideout.

text: Dominic finds out Brian was the last person to contact Letty, which results in Dominic attacking Brian until Brian explains that Letty was working undercover, tracking down Braga in exchange for clearing Dominic's record. Brian tells his superiors that in exchange for Dominic's pardon, he will lure Braga into a trap, forcing him to show up to exchange money for the heroin. At the drop site, the man who claims to be "Braga" is revealed as a decoy, and "Campos", the real Braga, escapes and flees to Mexico.

text: Brian and Dominic travel to Mexico to catch Braga. They find him at a church and apprehend him. As Braga's henchmen try to rescue him, Brian and Dominic drive through the underground tunnels back to the United States. Brian crashes his car after taking fire from Braga's men. He is then injured after being T-boned by Fenix. Before Fenix can kill Brian, Dominic drives into and kills Fenix. As police and helicopters approach the crash site on the American side of the border, Brian tells Dominic to leave, but Dominic refuses, saying he is not running anymore. Despite Brian's request for clemency, the judge sentences Dominic to 25 years to life. Brian resigns from the FBI and Dominic boards a prison bus that will transport him to Lompoc penitentiary. As the bus drives down the road, Brian, Mia, Leo, and Santos arrive in their cars to intercept it.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto, an auto mechanic, ex-convict, elite street racer, and a street smart hijacker from the United States. Dominic is wanted for committing numerous semi-truck hijackings. At the beginning of the film, he is living in the Dominican Republic and drives a black Buick Grand National to hijack fuel trucks.[6]
Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner, a former police officer, auto mechanic and elite street racer. Brian is now an FBI agent on the trail of the Mexican drug lord Arturo Braga. He drives a Nissan Skyline GT-R R34, and then switches to a Subaru Impreza WRX Hatchback.
Michelle Rodríguez as Leticia "Letty" Ortiz, a street racer, mechanic, and Dominic's girlfriend who lives with him in the Dominican Republic. She drives a grey 1970 Plymouth Satellite also driven by Dominic at the end of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto, Dominic's younger sister and Brian's girlfriend. She drives a Honda NSX-R (although she also owns a white Honda Integra Type R).
Gal Gadot as Gisele Yashar, a liaison for Braga. She drives a white Porsche Cayman.
John Ortiz as Arturo Braga / Ramon Campos, a Mexican drug lord who wants drivers to smuggle heroin across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Laz Alonso as Fenix Calderon, Arturo Braga's main henchman. He is Letty's murderer and he drives a green 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport.
Jack Conley as Penning, head of the Los Angeles FBI office
Shea Whigham as Michael Stasiak, a sarcastic FBI agent and Brian's colleague.
Tego Calderón as Tego, ex-convict and a member of Dominic's crew.
Don Omar as Rico Santos, a member of Dominic's crew. He drives a 1986 Nissan Silvia Nismo.
Sung Kang as Han Lue, a street racer, mechanic, and member of Dominic's crew, who also appeared in Tokyo Drift (setting this film as a prequel).
Liza Lapira as Sophie Trinh, an FBI agent and Brian's colleague.
Mirtha Michelle as Cara, a member of Dominic's crew and Han's girlfriend.
Greg Cipes as Dwight Mueller, Braga's Camaro driver.
Ron Yuan as David Park, a street racer, and scout for street racers for Braga.
Neil Brown Jr. as Malik Herzon.
Wilmer Calderon as Tash Barilla.
Brandon T. Jackson as Alex.
Mousa Kraish as Silvia S14 driver.
Alejandro Patino as Petrol truck driver.
Greg Collins as FBI investigator.

text: Production[edit]

text: The film was announced in July 2007. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and the rest of the cast of the original film all reprised their roles. Filming began in 2008. The movie cars were built in Southern California's San Fernando Valley. Around 240 cars were built for the film.[7] However, the replica vehicles do not match the specifications they were supposed to represent. For example, the replica version of F-Bomb, a 1973 Chevrolet Camaro built by Tom Nelson of NRE and David Freiburger of Hot Rod magazine, included a 300 hp crate V8 engine with a 3-speed automatic transmission, whereas the actual car included a twin-turbo 1,500 hp engine and a 5-speed transmission.[8]

text: The original Dodge Charger 426 Hemi R/T that was used in the original movie was a 1970, but the car in this movie was a 1969 Dodge Charger R/T 426 Hemi with a slightly modified front grill and rear tail lights to appear as a 1970 car; the original 1970 Dodge Charger was in pieces, being totally disassembled for restoration.

text: The original red 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454 seen in the end credits of the first Fast & Furious movie, also makes an appearance but is later highly modified for a street race.

text: The most radical vehicles built for the film were the Chevy trucks constructed for the fuel heist. Powered by 502ci GM big block motors, the '67 had a giant ladder-bar suspension with airbags using a massive 10-ton semi rear axle with the biggest and widest truck tires they could find. The '88 Chevy Crew Cab was built with twin full-floating GM 1-ton axles equipped with Detroit Lockers and a transfer case directing power to both axles and capable of four-wheel burnouts.[9]

text: Another vehicle built for the film was the blue Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 owned by an uncredited owner which brought a 241-mile per hour top speed at the Bayshore Route Highway in Japan. It was a hard car to build by the production so they made clones by acquiring Nissan Skyline 25GT's and made them look like the original car. The Skyline that was also used at the desert was actually a dune buggy using a Skyline R34's shell.

text: Music[edit]

text: The score to Fast & Furious was composed by Brian Tyler, who recorded his score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox.[10] The score album was released on CD by Varèse Sarabande Records with over 78 minutes worth of music.

text: The trailers for the film feature the track "We Are Rockstars" by Does It Offend You, Yeah? and a Travis Barker-remixed version of "Crank That" by Soulja Boy Tell 'Em.

text: The official soundtrack was released on March 31, 2009 on Star Trak. The first single from the soundtrack was titled "Blanco" and is by Pitbull featuring Pharrell Williams and is produced by The Neptunes.[10] The second single from the album is "Krazy" by Pitbull featuring Lil Jon. The track is also featured on Pitbull's album Rebelution. The third and final single from the album is "Bad Girls" by Robin Thicke. The soundtrack also features the song "G-Stro" by Busta Rhymes featuring Pharrell Williams and also produced by The Neptunes. The track is a leftover track from Busta Rhymes' album Back on My B.S. Amazon.com gave the album an average score of 3.5 out of 5, calling it a Spanish-themed rap soundtrack with mostly average tracks. Interscope and Star Trak Records released the soundtrack for the film with "Crank That" not included.

text: Another song that was omitted from the album was song "Rising Sun" by South Korean group TVXQ.

text: The Japanese version of the movie features the song "Before I Decay" by Japanese rock group The GazettE.

text: Also featured in the background under a club scene which was omitted from the album, was song "Ride" written by Kervins Joseph and Travis Baker, published by InDigi Avenue Music Publishing (ASCAP), courtesy InDigi Music, and Virtual Diva performed by Don Omar.[citation needed]

text: Release[edit]

text: It was originally set to release on June 12, 2009, but moved it up to April 3, 2009 instead. It was the first motion-enhanced theatrical film to feature D-BOX motion feedback technology in selected theaters.[11]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: Fast & Furious received generally negative reviews from professional critics. The film is rated at 28% based on 173 reviews collected on the Rotten Tomatoes website[12] and 45 on Metacritic based on 27 reviews.[13]

text: Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gives the film a B+, saying, "Fast & Furious is still no Point Break. But it's perfectly aware of its limited dramatic mission...and...it offers an attractive getaway route from self-importance, snark, and chatty comedies about male bonding."[14] Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter thought this movie was the first real sequel to the first and also gave it a positive review, writing, "Fast & Furious is the first true sequel of the bunch. By reuniting the two male stars from the original and...continuing the story from the first film, this new film should re-ignite the franchise."[15] Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times gave it a positive review, providing viewers were car fans, writing, "If you're a lover of stomach-clenching speed that turns the world into a neon blur...then Fast & Furious, the fourth edition of that metal-twisting series, should leave you exhausted and satiated for a very long time."[16]

text: Roger Ebert, who gave positive reviews to the previous films, gave an unfavorable review of the film, writing, "I admire the craft involved, but the movie leaves me profoundly indifferent. After three earlier movies in the series, which have been transmuted into video games, why do we need a fourth one? Oh. I just answered my own question."[17]

text: Box office[edit]

text: On its first day of release the movie grossed $30.6 million, and peaked at the top spot of the weekend box office with $70,950,500, more than Tokyo Drift earned in its entire domestic run.[18] The film had the sixth-biggest opening weekend of 2009 and was double what most industry observers expected.[19]

text: It also held the record for the highest-grossing opening weekend in April[20] and of any car-oriented film, the record having been previously held by Cars, which grossed $60.1 million. Both of these records were broken two years later by Fast Five, which grossed $86.2 million.[21] Fast & Furious also held the record for the highest opening weekend for a Spring release, until it was broken by Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Its worldwide gross on its opening weekend stands at $102.6 million[22] with $7.2 million coming from the UK, $8.6 million from Russia, $6 million in France and $3 million from Germany.[23]

text: As of July 27, 2011 the film had grossed a total of $155,064,265 in the United States and $208,100,000 internationally for a worldwide total of $363,164,265 (making it the fift most successful film in the franchise behind Furious 7, The Fate of the Furious, Fast & Furious 6, and Fast Five). It is the sixth highest-grossing film in the car genre, behind Furious 7, The Fate of the Furious, Fast & Furious 6, Fast Five, and Cars.[2] It is also the 17th highest grossing film of 2009 and the fifth highest film of 2009 to gross $300 million worldwide behind Star Trek, Monsters vs. Aliens, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Terminator Salvation.[24]

text: Home video[edit]

text: Fast & Furious was released on DVD and Blu-ray on July 28, 2009.[25] The DVD is a two-disc set that includes:

text:
Digital copy of the film
Under the Hood: Muscle Cars & Imports
High Octane Action: The Stunts
Shooting the Big Rig Heist
Driving School with Vin Diesel
Original short film Los Bandoleros, the never-before-seen short film that reveals the events leading up to the explosive beginning of Fast & Furious. It is written and directed by Vin Diesel and was produced in the Dominican Republic.[26] This was released on the iTunes Store as a free download.

text: As of July 29, 2011 the DVD has sold 3,324,117 copies generating $53,879,547 in sales revenue for a combined total of $417,043,812 including worldwide movie ticket sales.[27] It was re-released in Australia on Blu-ray including a digital copy and re-titled Fast & Furious 4 on March 30, 2011.

text: Sequel[edit]

text: Vin Diesel and Paul Walker reunited for a Fast & Furious sequel, entitled Fast Five. Justin Lin directed, while Chris Morgan wrote the screenplay. It was released in April 2011.[28]


document_title: Principle of faunal succession

question_text: who formulated the principles of stratigraphy and faunal succession

text: Principle of faunal succession

text: This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (February 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

text: The principle of faunal succession, also known as the law of faunal succession, is based on the observation that sedimentary rock strata contain fossilized flora and fauna, and that these fossils succeed each other vertically in a specific, reliable order that can be identified over wide horizontal distances.  A fossilized Neanderthal bone will never be found in the same stratum as a fossilized Megalosaurus, for example, because neanderthals and megalosaurs lived during different geological periods, separated by many millions of years.  This allows for strata to be identified and dated by the fossils found within.

text: This principle, which received its name from the English geologist William Smith, is of great importance in determining the relative age of rocks and strata.[1]  The fossil content of rocks together with the law of superposition helps to determine the time sequence in which sedimentary rocks were laid down.

text: Evolution explains the observed faunal and floral succession preserved in rocks. Faunal succession was documented by Smith in England during the first decade of the 19th century, and concurrently in France by Cuvier (with the assistance of the mineralogist Alexandre Brongniart). Archaic biological features and organisms are succeeded in the fossil record by more modern versions.  For instance, paleontologists investigating the evolution of birds predicted that feathers would first be seen in primitive forms on flightless predecessor organisms such as feathered dinosaurs. This is precisely what has been discovered in the fossil record: simple feathers, incapable of supporting flight, are succeeded by increasingly large and complex feathers.[2]

text: In practice, the most useful diagnostic species are those with the fastest rate of species turnover and the widest distribution; their study is termed biostratigraphy, the science of dating rocks by using the fossils contained within them. In Cenozoic strata, fossilized tests of foraminifera are often used to determine faunal succession on a refined scale, each biostratigraphic unit (biozone) being a geological stratum that is defined on the basis of its characteristic fossil taxa. An outline microfaunal zonal scheme based on both foraminifera and ostracoda was compiled by M. B. Hart (1972).

text: Simply, the earlier fossil life forms are simpler than more recent forms, and more recent forms are most similar to existing forms (principle of faunal succession).[3]


document_title: The Royals (TV series)

question_text: when is the royals season 3 coming out

question_tokens: when is the royals season 3 coming out

text: The Royals (TV series)

text: Plot summary[edit]

text: Helena is the matriarch of a fictional contemporary British royal family who must struggle with both common and atypical family dramas while in the public eye.[2][3] Twins Prince Liam and Princess Eleanor enjoy the hedonistic pleasures available to them as royals, knowing that their older brother Robert bears the responsibility of being heir to the throne of England. But when Robert is killed, the family is thrown into disarray and a grieving King Simon fears for the future of the monarchy. Unexpectedly next in line for the throne, Liam must adjust to his new role while navigating his attraction to Ophelia, the American daughter of the royal head of security. His self-destructive sister Eleanor finds rock-bottom when her bodyguard turns out to be a conman. Trying to preserve the status quo and keep the royal family under her control, Queen Helena allies herself with Simon's brother Cyrus to preserve their way of life at any cost.

text: Cast[edit]

text: Main[edit]

text:
Actor
Role
Description
Seasons

1
2
3

Vincent Regan
King Simon Henstridge
King of England; he dies at the end of season 1 and is initially succeeded by his brother when his surviving children are deemed illegitimate.
Main
Recurring
Guest

Elizabeth Hurley
Queen Helena Henstridge
Simon's wife, the Queen of England and later the Queen Mother in season 3
Main

William Moseley
Prince Liam Henstridge
Simon and Helena's second son, twin to Eleanor and heir to the throne after his elder brother Robert is killed
Main

Alexandra Park
Princess Eleanor Henstridge
Liam's twin sister
Main

Jake Maskall
Prince Cyrus Henstridge
Simon's brother the Duke of York, who succeeds him as king in season 2 but is removed in season 3 when Simon's presumed-dead son Robert reappears.
Main

Tom Austen
Jasper Frost
Royal bodyguard and Eleanor's on-again, off-again lover
Main

Oliver Milburn
Ted Pryce
Head of royal security in seasons 1 and 2, and Ophelia's father
Main

Merritt Patterson
Ophelia Pryce
Liam's love interest in season 1, and daughter of Ted Pryce
Main
Guest

Genevieve Gaunt
Wilhelmina "Willow" Moreno
A friend of Liam's who is later hired by Helena to be the family's social media manager.

Recurring
Main

Max Brown
King Robert Henstridge
Simon and Helena's eldest son and heir to the throne; he is thought to have been killed in a plane crash, but he reappears in season 3 and ascends the throne

Main

text: Recurring[edit]

text:
Actor
Role
Description
Seasons

1
2
3

Victoria Ekanoye
Rachel
Helena's secretary
Recurring

Lydia Rose Bewley
Princess Penelope Henstridge
Cyrus's older daughter
Recurring

Hatty Preston (season 1)
Jerry-Jane Pears (season 2)
Princess Maribel Henstridge
Cyrus's younger daughter
Recurring

Andrew Bicknell
Lucius
Secretary to Helena and later Cyrus
Recurring

Poppy Corby-Tuech
Prudence
A palace servant
Recurring

Manpreet Bachu
Ashok
Liam's friend
Recurring

Scott Maslen
James Holloway
A married politician and Cyrus's male sometimes-lover
Recurring

Simon Thomas
Nigel Moorefield
A politician and leader of the anti-monarchy movement
Recurring

Andrew Cooper
Twysden "Beck" Beckwith II
Best friend of Robert, longtime friend of Liam and love interest of Eleanor
Guest
Recurring
Guest

Joan Collins
Grand Duchess Alexandra of Oxford
Helena's mother
Guest
Recurring

Leanne Joyce
Imogen
A girl Eleanor befriends after touring a rehab center
Guest
Recurring

Tom Ainsley
Nick Roane
Ophelia's classmate and love interest
Recurring
Guest

Noah Huntley
Captain Alistair Lacey
Helena's lover
Recurring
Guest

Ukweli Roach
Marcus Jeffrys
Liam's bodyguard and confidante
Recurring

Sophie Colquhoun
Gemma Kensington
Liam's jewelry-heiress ex-girlfriend
Recurring

Rocky Marshall
James Hill
Eleanor's newest bodyguard, later head of royal security

Recurring

Matthew Wolf
Jeffrey Stewart
Dominique Stewart's brother

Recurring
Guest

Laila Rouass
Rani
The Deputy Prime Minister

Recurring

Stephanie Vogt
Daphne Pryce
Ted's deceased wife

Recurring

Sarah Dumont
Mandy/Samantha Cook
Eleanor's American friend who shares a past with Jasper

Recurring

Keeley Hazell
Violet
A palace maid who is kind to Cyrus as he convalesces

Recurring

Ben Cura
Holden Avery
Liam's friend and Ivan's brother

Recurring

Alex Felton
Ivan Avery
Liam's friend and Holden's brother

Recurring

Jules Knight
Spencer Hoenigsberg
The Lord Chamberlain

Recurring

Miley Locke
Sara Alice Hill
James's Hill's daughter

Recurring

Christina Wolfe
Kathryn Davis
Bartender friend and love interest of Liam, previously involved with Robert

Recurring

Tom Forbes
Charles Madden
Liam's friend

Recurring

Aoife McMahon
Veruca Popperwell, Duchess of Essex
Cyrus's ex-wife and the mother of his daughters

Recurring

Toby Sandeman
Prince Sebastian Idrisi
Eleanor's charity auction date who becomes a friend and confidante

Recurring

Margo Stilley
Harper
An unscrupulous American reporter

Recurring

Damian Hurley
Hansel von Liechtenstein
Crown Prince of Liechtenstein

Guest

text: Production[edit]

text: In April 2013, E! announced several scripted projects it had in development, including The Royals, a "contemporary family ensemble is steeped in all of the regal opulence of the British Monarchy and framed by Shakespeare’s Hamlet."[4] Deadline.com reported in June 2013 that E! would be producing pilots for The Royals and another series named Songbyrd, which would be the network's first scripted pilots to date.[5] The Royals was picked up for series in March 2014, to be shot in the United Kingdom and scheduled to debut in 2015.[6][7][8] Shooting for the first season began in London in June 2014.[9] In August 2014, E! released its first promotional trailer for The Royals.[10][11] The first season consisted of ten episodes.[12]

text: In December 2014, E! announced that the series would premiere on March 15, 2015.[13][14][15] The network later announced at the Television Critics Association press tour on January 15, 2015, that the series had been renewed for a second season, two months before its debut.[16][17] E!'s Executive Vice President of Original Programming & Development Jeff Olde noted that production for season two would begin in London in spring 2015.[17] Shooting officially resumed on June 15, 2015,[18] with season two premiering on November 15, 2015.[19] On January 5, 2016, E! renewed The Royals for a third season,[20][21][22] which premiered on December 4, 2016.[23] The series was renewed for a fourth season on February 16, 2017, several days before the season three finale;[24] it is set to premiere on March 11, 2018.[25]

text: Schwahn was suspended from the series after the completion of season four filming on November 15, 2017, following sexual harassment allegations against him by female casts and crew of both The Royals and his previous series One Tree Hill came to light.[26] He was subsequently fired from the series on December 22, 2017.[27]

text: The production uses Blenheim Palace as its fictional royal palace.[28] In season two, the production also filmed at Allington Castle and Boughton Monchelsea Place in Kent.[29]

text: Casting[edit]

text: In September 2013, Hurley was cast in the leading role of Queen Helena.[30] Soon after, Moseley was cast as Helena's son Liam,[31] followed by Park as Liam's twin sister Eleanor and Haley Lu Richardson as his love interest, Ophelia.[32] The rest of the pilot's cast included Regan, Austen, Maskall, Roach and Milburn.[6][7] After the series pickup, Merritt Patterson replaced Richardson as Ophelia in June 2014,[33][34] as shooting for the first season began in London.[9] Additional recurring roles included Bewley and Preston as Cyrus' eccentric daughters Penelope and Maribel,[35] and Colquhoun as Gemma, Liam's heiress ex-girlfriend.[36] In August 2014, People reported that Joan Collins would guest star as the Grand Duchess of Oxford, Helena's mother.[37][38][39]

text: In June 2015, Laila Rouass was cast as Rani, the Deputy Prime Minister whom the actress calls "Elizabeth Hurley’s arch-enemy".[40] For season 2, Hatty Preston was replaced as Princess Maribel with Jerry-Jane Pears, the difference in their appearance explained by plastic surgery.[41]

text: In June 2016, Max Brown was cast as Prince Robert, the presumed-dead eldest son of Simon and Helena,[42] and Jules Knight was cast as Spencer Koenigsberg, Helena's new Lord Chamberlain.[43] Genevieve Gaunt, who played Liam's potential love interest Willow in season 2, was also promoted from recurring to series regular for season 3.[43] Hurley's son Damian Hurley was cast in a guest star role in July 2016.[44]

text: Concept and characterization[edit]

text: The Royals is loosely based on the Michelle Ray novel Falling for Hamlet.[1] Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times described the show as "a tongue-in-cheek nighttime soap" and "a Dynasty about a real dynasty".[45] Creator Schwahn said of the series, "It's a family drama. It's about a family, and it just happens to be a royal family ... [but] not the royal family."[46] Hurley called The Royals "a very nice combination of what the public sees and what the public will never see."[47] Of the concept, Schwann said:

text: I just thought it would be really interesting to take a look behind the curtain ... Who are these people? What do they want? What will they do to get it? I thought it was really fascinating and a great idea for the foundation of a story.[47]

text: Schwahn said of Hurley, "I tell her every day that this was the role that she was meant to play ... she has found her lot in life"[48] Of her character, Hurley commented "this queen is very matriarchal ... she has a lot of power and I think she knows how to use it."[48] She noted, however, that "there's no correlation at all between Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and my Queen Helena... If Princess Diana [sic], for example, had become queen of England, that would be a more similar age group."[49] Hurley later said that the character of Helena was inspired by Diana, but "some of it we picked from Cruella de Vil, the Disney character."[46] Noting that "most of the characters on The Royals are going to be walking a fine line between 'good' and 'bad',"[46] Schwahn said:

text: Elizabeth has been very brave in approaching the more villainous aspects of the character ... I was working with Elizabeth on wardrobe and she asked, 'Why not add in bits of fur? I think the queen should wear bits of cruelty once in a while.'[46]

text: Regan said of his character, the "soft-spoken" King Simon: "He's coping with a great deal of grief for the loss of his eldest son, Robert ... He's coping with that and trying to work out how the royal family can exist in the world they're now in."[48] Moseley commented on his own storyline as playboy Prince Liam, "it's like (if) Prince Harry was thrown into being the next King of England [sic]."[49] "He basically is sort of a rebel ... doesn't really care what anybody thinks, does whatever he wants to do, when he wants to do it," he later added.[48] Park said of her wild Princess Eleanor, "she's young and trying to find where her place is in the world. She's a party girl."[48] Austen said of bodyguard Jasper, "He's a very mysterious character ... you never know what to expect from him. There's a lot of stuff that only Mark [Schwahn] and me know about, so there's a lot of secrets on set."[50] Calling the show "uncompromising", Austen added, "It's about the lives of these people and it doesn't try to pretend that they would try to do anything different than the way they would. They're all human beings with flaws, some more than others, and the show doesn't shy away from that."[50]

text: Episodes[edit]

text:
Season
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired

1
10
March 15, 2015 (2015-03-15)
May 17, 2015 (2015-05-17)

2
10
November 15, 2015 (2015-11-15)
January 17, 2016 (2016-01-17)

3
10
December 4, 2016 (2016-12-04)
February 19, 2017 (2017-02-19)

4
TBA
March 11, 2018 (2018-03-11)
TBA

text: Promotion[edit]

text: In January 2015, Collins commented on the public anticipation for The Royals, saying "I know there’s been a lot of excitement about it in the British press."[16] Hurley suggested that fans of Dynasty and Gossip Girl would enjoy the series.[49]

text: In March 2015, a viral video of a naked man climbing out a window of Buckingham Palace on a bedsheet during the changing of the Queen's Guard, presumed to be a hoax, was publicized internationally by a variety of sources including Cosmopolitan and the Daily Mail.[51][52] The video turned out to be a publicity stunt to promote The Royals via the show's own fictional tabloid, D-Throned.[53]

text: Reception[edit]

text: The initial reviews were largely negative. Jane Mulkerrins of The Telegraph described The Royals as "a sexy and soapy portrayal of palace life", but noted that it "lacks the sophistication" of Gossip Girl and "the compelling melodrama" of The O.C.[54] Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times called the show "a mischievous sendup" and Hurley "amusing", but said overall that the series "gets old, and dull, very quickly."[45] Nancy Dewolf Smith of The Wall Street Journal described The Royals as "a trashy soap opera that's not bad enough to be funny and is best when it wallows in melodrama",[55] and David Wiegand of SFGate called the show "entertaining but disappointingly toothless".[56] The Sydney Morning Herald described the series as "possibly the worst show in the history of TV", criticizing it as "a bunch of bed-hopping halfwits saddled with ... very, very lousy dialogue".[57] The Independent agreed, calling The Royals "probably" the "worst series ever made".[58] Vicki Hyman of NJ.com said the show was "a royal failure," describing it as "crass and, for long stretches, tedious."[59] The Hollywood Reporter described The Royals as being "like an extended MTV music video interspersed with dialogue" and called it "interminably boring".[60] The Los Angeles Times panned the series, declaring that "camp requires courage, and The Royals has none",[61] while Margaret Lyons of Vulture said the show was "flaccid, weirdly paced, and badly cast."[62] Variety called The Royals "bloody bad",[1] and the Chicago Reader advised viewers to "think of the worst hour-long prime-time soap operas to have assaulted our senses over the past 30 or so years, then go ahead and add this one to your brain's trash heap."[63]

text: Conversely, David Hinckley of the New York Daily News wrote that The Royals "doesn’t pretend to be much more than good fun, and it delivers that."[64] Diane Gordon of TheWrap described the show as "addictive, naughty and just the right amount of silly ... it left me wanting more".[65] Calling it "an escapist fantasy", Amanda Michelle Steiner of People wrote that "The Royals is everything that's been missing from your life since Gossip Girl and The O.C.."[35] Ellen Gray of Philly.com also called it "silly but potentially addictive".[66] Kevin Fallon of The Daily Beast added that "once you commit yourself to the trashy abandon of The Royals, the one critique of the show might be that the abandon isn’t reckless or campy enough".[67] Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly agreed, noting that the show "actually isn't bad ... if anything, you'll wish The Royals were trashier".[68]

text: The performances have generally received praise. Jensen called the acting "uniformly good",[68] and Fallon deemed Hurley "fantastic in this role".[67] Wiegand added, "The unquestionable highlight of the series is the mother-and-daughter reunion between Queen Helena [Hurley] and the Grand Duchess of Oxford [Joan Collins]".[56] Dewolf Smith singled out Park's Eleanor as "the best and worst of what The Royals has to offer" and noted that Hatty Preston and Lydia Rose Bewley "steal their scenes in an Absolutely Fabulous sort of way".[55] Steiner concurred, writing "[Preston and Bewley's] banter is possibly the best part of the premiere."[35]

text: U.S. ratings[edit]

text:
No.
Episode
Air date
Time slot (EST)
Rating/Share (18–49)
Viewers (m)

1
"Stand and Unfold Yourself"
March 15, 2015 (2015-03-15)
Sunday
10:00 p.m.
0.50[69]
1.412[69]

2
"Infants of the Spring"
March 22, 2015 (2015-03-22)
0.60[70]
1.321[70]

3
"We Are Pictures, or Mere Beasts"
March 29, 2015 (2015-03-29)
0.333[71]
0.825[71]

4
"Sweet, Not Lasting"
April 5, 2015 (2015-04-05)
0.51[72]
1.119[72]

5
"Unmask Her Beauty to the Moon"
April 12, 2015 (2015-04-12)
0.46[73]
1.070[73]

6
"The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune"
April 19, 2015 (2015-04-19)
0.45[74]
1.123[74]

7
"Your Sovereignty of Reason"
April 26, 2015 (2015-04-26)
0.52[75]
1.125[75]

8
"The Great Man Down"
May 3, 2015 (2015-05-03)
0.55[76]
1.185[76]

9
"In My Heart There Was a Kind of Fighting"
May 10, 2015 (2015-05-10)
0.56[77]
1.172[77]

10
"Our Wills and Fates Do So Contrary Run"
May 17, 2015 (2015-05-17)
0.53[78]
1.148[78]

11
"It Is Not, nor It Cannot Come to Good"
November 15, 2015 (2015-11-15)
0.41[79]
0.841[79]

12
"Welcome Is Fashion and Ceremony"
November 22, 2015 (2015-11-22)
0.40[80]
0.725[80]

13
"Is Not This Something More Than Fantasy?"
November 29, 2015 (2015-11-29)
0.24[81]
0.532[81]

14
"What, Has This Thing Appear'd Again Tonight?"
December 6, 2015 (2015-12-06)
0.31[82]
0.627[82]

15
"The Spirit That I Have Seen"
December 13, 2015 (2015-12-13)
0.28[83]
0.653[83]

16
"Doubt Truth to Be a Liar"
December 20, 2015 (2015-12-20)
0.30[84]
0.705[84]

17
"Taint Not Thy Mind, nor Let Thy Soul Contrive Against Thy Mother"
December 27, 2015 (2015-12-27)
0.26[85]
0.671[85]

18
"Be All My Sins Remembered"
January 3, 2016 (2016-01-03)
0.37[86]
0.824[86]

19
"And Then It Started Like a Guilty Thing"
January 10, 2016 (2016-01-10)
0.38[87]
0.814[87]

20
"The Serpent That Did Sting Thy Father's Life"
January 17, 2016 (2016-01-17)
0.40[88]
0.848[88]

21
"Together With Remembrance of Ourselves"
December 4, 2016 (2016-12-04)
0.26[89]
0.609[89]

22
"Passing Through Nature to Eternity"
December 11, 2016 (2016-12-11)
0.31[90]
0.679[90]

23
"Aye, There's the Rub"
December 18, 2016 (2016-12-18)
0.21[91]
0.532[91]

24
"Our (Late) Dear Brother's Death"
January 1, 2017 (2017-01-01)
0.20[92]
0.458[92]

25
"Born to Set it Right"
January 8, 2017 (2017-01-08)
0.26[93]
0.535[93]

26
"More Than Kin, and Less Than Kind"
January 15, 2017 (2017-01-15)
0.21[94]
0.464[94]

27
"The Counterfeit Presentment of Two Brothers"
January 22, 2017 (2017-01-22)
0.23[95]
0.565[95]

28
"In the Same Figure, Like the King That's Dead"
January 29, 2017 (2017-01-29)
0.20[96]
0.502[96]

29
"O, Farewell, Honest Soldier"
February 12, 2017 (2017-02-12)
0.17[97]
0.466[97]

30
"To Show My Duty in Your Coronation"
February 19, 2017 (2017-02-19)
0.20[98]
0.520[98]

text: Broadcast, home video, and streaming[edit]

text: The Royals airs on E! in the United States and Canada.[13][14][15] It also aired on E! in the United Kingdom and Ireland,[99] although the channel dropped the series after season two.[100] In Germany the series is shown on Pro Sieben.[101] Amazon.com acquired exclusive subscription streaming rights to The Royals in October 2015,[102] making the first season of the show available to stream for Amazon Prime subscribers.[103] The first season is also available on the E Now mobile app (for cable subscribers), as well as the Canadian OTT video service CraveTV.[104] Outside of the SVOD and cable subscription space, the show is available from electronic sell-through platforms such as iTunes,[105] Amazon Instant Video[106] and Vudu.[107]

text: DVD release[edit]

text:
Name
Release dates
Ep #
Additional information

Region 1
Region 2
Region 4

The Complete First Season
August 18, 2015[108]
July 27, 2015[109]

10

English/Spanish subtitles

The Complete Second Season
March 22, 2016[110]
April 18, 2016[111]

10

English/Spanish subtitles, Region 1 contains digital copies of episodes