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How To Train Your Dragon
''How to Train Your Dragon'' (abbreviated ''HTTYD'') is an American media franchise from DreamWorks Animation and loosely based on the eponymous series of children's books by British author Cressida Cowell. It consists of three feature films: '' How to Train Your Dragon'' (2010), ''How to Train Your Dragon 2'' (2014) and '' How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World'' (2019). The franchise also contains five short films: ''Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon'' (2010), ''Book of Dragons'' (2010), ''Gift of the Night Fury'' (2011), ''Dawn of the Dragon Racers'' (2014) and '' How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming'' (2019). The television series based on the events of the first film, '' DreamWorks Dragons'', began airing on Cartoon Network in September 2012. The first and second seasons were titled ''Dragons: Riders of Berk'' and ''Dragons: Defenders of Berk'' respectively. After the two seasons on Cartoon Network, the series was given the new title ''Dragons: Race to the Edge''. The ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How To Train Your Dragon 2
''How to Train Your Dragon 2'' is a 2014 American computer-animated action fantasy film loosely based on the book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox, it is the sequel to the 2010 film ''How to Train Your Dragon'' and the second installment in the trilogy. The film was written and directed by Dean DeBlois, and stars the returning voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, and Kristen Wiig, along with Cate Blanchett, Djimon Hounsou, and Kit Harington joining the cast. The film takes place five years after the first film, featuring Hiccup and his friends as young adults as they encounter Valka, Hiccup's long-lost mother, and Drago Bludvist, a madman who wants to conquer the world. Plans for the sequel to ''How to Train Your Dragon'' was announced in April 2010, following the success of the first film. DeBlois, who co-directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How To Train Your Dragon 2 (video Game)
''How to Train Your Dragon 2'' is a 2014 American computer-animated action fantasy film loosely based on the book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox, it is the sequel to the 2010 film ''How to Train Your Dragon'' and the second installment in the trilogy. The film was written and directed by Dean DeBlois, and stars the returning voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, and Kristen Wiig, along with Cate Blanchett, Djimon Hounsou, and Kit Harington joining the cast. The film takes place five years after the first film, featuring Hiccup and his friends as young adults as they encounter Valka, Hiccup's long-lost mother, and Drago Bludvist, a madman who wants to conquer the world. Plans for the sequel to ''How to Train Your Dragon'' was announced in April 2010, following the success of the first film. DeBlois, who co-directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cressida Cowell
Cressida Cowell FRSL (born 15 April 1966) is a British children's author, popularly known for the book series, ''How to Train Your Dragon (novel series), How to Train Your Dragon'', which has subsequently become an How to Train Your Dragon (franchise), award-winning franchise as adapted for the screen by DreamWorks Animation. As of 2015, the series has sold more than seven million copies around the world. In addition to her other publications, Cowell works with illustrator Neal Layton in the ongoing series of That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown, Emily Brown stories. The first in the series, ''That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown'', won a Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, Nestlé Children’s Book Award. Personal life The Hon. Cressida Cowell was born on 15 April 1966 in London. She is the daughter of Michael Hare, 2nd Viscount Blakenham. Her uncle, by marriage, is U.S Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer. As a child, Cowell states she "grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Star Kartz
High Impact Games was an American video game developer based in Burbank, California, formed in 2003 by former members of Insomniac Games and Naughty Dog. In 2007, the company released '' Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters'' for the PlayStation Portable, with a PlayStation 2 port released the next year, and ''Secret Agent Clank'' in 2008, also for the PlayStation Portable. On November 3, 2009, the company released its third game, '' Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier'', for the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2. The game was based on the ''Jak & Daxter'' series made by Naughty Dog. In 2010, High Impact Games was developing a remake of ''Crash Team Racing'' for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii, but the game was canceled by Activision before the prototype initial. In 2011 an environmental artist, who had worked on some games, revealed that High Impact Games was working on a new project for the Wii The Wii ( ) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Baruchel
Jonathan Adam Saunders Baruchel (; born April 9, 1982) is a Canadian actor, comedian, director and screenwriter. He is known for his voice role as Hiccup Haddock in the ''How to Train Your Dragon'' franchise, and for his roles in comedy movies such as ''Knocked Up'', ''Tropic Thunder'', ''The Trotsky'', '' Fanboys'', ''She's Out of My League'', ''Goon'', ''This Is the End'', and the action-fantasy film ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice''. He had lead roles as Josh Greenberg in the FXX comedy television series ''Man Seeking Woman'' and Steven Karp in Judd Apatow's comedy series ''Undeclared''. Early life Baruchel was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of Robyne (née Ropell), a freelance writer, and Serge Baruchel, an antiques dealer. He grew up in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood of Montréal, Quebec, and has a younger sister. His father was born in Paris, France. Baruchel is of one-quarter Jewish descent, with the rest of his ancestry being French and Irish-Catholic. He has sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viking
Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and settled throughout parts of Europe.Roesdahl, pp. 9–22. They also voyaged as far as the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean, North Africa, Volga Bulgaria, the Middle East, and Greenland, North America. In some of the countries they raided and settled in, this period is popularly known as the Viking Age, and the term "Viking" also commonly includes the inhabitants of the Scandinavian homelands as a collective whole. The Vikings had a profound impact on the Early Middle Ages, early medieval history of Scandinavia, the History of the British Isles, British Isles, France in the Middle Ages, France, Viking Age in Estonia, Estonia, and Kievan Rus'. Expert sailors and navigators aboard their characteristic longships, Vikings established Norse settlem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peacock (streaming Service)
Peacock is an American over-the-top video streaming service owned and operated by the Television and Streaming division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Named after the NBC logo, the service launched on July 15, 2020. The service primarily features series and film content from NBCUniversal studios and other third-party content providers, including television series, films, news, and sports programming. The service is available in a free ad-supported version with limited content, while premium tiers include a larger content library and access to additional NBC Sports, Hallmark Channel, and WWE content. As of December 2022, the service has reached 18 million paid subscribers. History On January 14, 2019, NBCUniversal announced plans to launch an over-the-top streaming service in 2020, which would feature original and library content, and be available in free advertising-supported and paid ad-free versions. The service would be led by chairman Bonnie Hamme, under the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hulu
Hulu () is an American subscription streaming service majority-owned by The Walt Disney Company, with Comcast's NBCUniversal holding a minority stake. It was launched on October 29, 2007 and it offers a library of films and television series like 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, Disney Television Studios, ABC, Freeform, and FX Networks among others, as well as Hulu original programming. Hulu was initially established as a joint venture between News Corporation and NBC Universal, Providence Equity Partners, and later The Walt Disney Company, serving as an aggregation of recent episodes of television series from their respective television networks. In 2010, Hulu launched a subscription service, initially branded as "Hulu Plus", which featured full seasons of programs from the companies and other partners, and undelayed access to new episodes. In 2017, the company launched ''Hulu with Live TV''—an over-the-top live TV service featuring linear television channel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network (often abbreviated as CN) is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. It is a part of The Cartoon Network, Inc., a division that also has the broadcasting and production activities of Boomerang, Cartoonito, Adult Swim, and Toonami under its purview. Founded by Ted Turner (who appointed Betty Cohen as the first president of the network), the channel was launched on October 1, 1992, and primarily broadcasts animated television series, mostly children's programming, ranging from action to animated comedy. It currently runs from 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. ET/ PT on weekdays and 6 a.m. - 9 p.m. ET/PT on weekends. Cartoon Network primarily targets children aged 6–14, while its early morning Cartoonito block is aimed at preschoolers and kindergarteners aged 2–6, and the channel shares channel space with its sister network Adult Swim, which targets older teenagers and young adults, 18–34. Cartoon Network offers an alternate Spanish-language au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media Franchise
A media franchise, also known as a multimedia franchise, is a collection of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work of fiction, such as a film, a work of literature, a television program or a video game. Bob Iger, chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, defined the word ''franchise'' as “something that creates value across multiple businesses and across multiple territories over a long period of time.” Transmedia franchise A media franchise often consists of cross-marketing across more than one medium. For the owners, the goal of increasing profit through diversity can extend the commercial profitability of the franchise and create strong feelings of identity and ownership in its consumers. Those large groups of dedicated consumers create the franchise's fandom, which is the community of fans that indulge in many of its mediums and are committed to interacting with and keeping up with other consumers. Large franch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graphic Novels
A graphic novel is a long-form, fictional work of sequential art. The term ''graphic novel'' is often applied broadly, including fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work, though this practice is highly contested by comic scholars and industry professionals. It is, at least in the United States, typically distinct from the term ''comic book'', which is generally used for comics periodicals and trade paperbacks (see American comic book). Fan historian Richard Kyle coined the term ''graphic novel'' in an essay in the November 1964 issue of the comics fanzine ''Capa-Alpha''. The term gained popularity in the comics community after the publication of Will Eisner's '' A Contract with God'' (1978) and the start of the ''Marvel Graphic Novel'' line (1982) and became familiar to the public in the late 1980s after the commercial successes of the first volume of Art Spiegelman's '' Maus'' in 1986, the collected editions of Frank Miller's ''The Dark Knight Returns'' in 1986 and Alan M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music From The Motion Picture
''Music from the Motion Picture'' is an album by 10,000 Maniacs. The album, their first full-length in 14 years, contains eleven original songs. This album is the first to feature guitarist Jeff Erickson since he took over for Robert Buck following his death in 2000, and the first Maniacs album to feature Mary Ramsey without her longtime music partner, John Lombardo. In addition to his guitar efforts, Erickson provides the first male lead vocals on a Maniacs song since John Lombardo's vocal on the ''Human Conflict Number Five'' album of 1982. As with 1999's ''The Earth Pressed Flat'' and the following 2015 album ''Twice Told Tales'', the album did not chart in either the US or the UK. Track listing # "I Don't Love You Too" (Dennis Drew) – 3:56 # "When We Walked on Clouds" (Drew) – 5:25 # "Gold" (Drew, Jeff Erickson) – 3:31 # "Triangles" (Drew, Mary Ramsey) – 5:26 # "Live for the Time of Your Life" (Drew, Ramsey) – 3:31 # "Whippoorwill" (Rams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
