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Paul Hoen
Paul Hoen (born December 28, 1961) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for his directorial work with Nickelodeon and Disney Channel, especially his direction of List of Disney Channel original films, Disney Channel Original Movies. He has directed and produced projects such as ''The Cheetah Girls: One World'' (2008), ''Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam'' (2010), ''Zombies (2018 film), Zombies'' (2018) and ''Zombies 2'' (2020) and Zombies 3 (2022) Hoen studied drama, film and television at the University of Santa Clara. He was admitted to the Directors Guild of America in 1987. Since then he has directed several television films such as ''Jump In'', ''Read It and Weep'', ''Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off'', ''You Wish! (film), You Wish!'', ''Tru Confessions'' starring Shia LaBeouf and the comedy ''The Luck of the Irish (2001 film), The Luck of the Irish'' starring Ryan Merriman. Both ''Jump In'' and ''Luck of the Irish'' on first airing were the Disney Channel's ...
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Film Director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking. The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended a film school. Directors use different approaches. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue, while others control every aspect and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely. Some directors also write thei ...
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Shia LaBeouf
Shia Saide LaBeouf (; born June 11, 1986) is an American actor, performance artist, and filmmaker. He played Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel series ''Even Stevens'', a role for which he received Young Artist Award nominations in 2001 and 2002 and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2003. He made his film debut in ''The Christmas Path'' (1998). In 2004, he made his directorial debut with the short film ''Let's Love Hate'' and later directed a short film titled ''Maniac'' (2011), starring American rappers Cage and Kid Cudi. In 2007, LaBeouf starred in the commercially successful films '' Disturbia'' and '' Surf's Up''. The same year he was cast in Michael Bay's science fiction film ''Transformers'' as Sam Witwicky, the main protagonist of the series. ''Transformers'' was a box office success and one of the highest-grossing films of 2007. LaBeouf later appeared in its sequels '' Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' (2009) and '' Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' (2011), both also box ...
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Just Jordan
''Just Jordan'' is an American television sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon as a part of the network's TEENick lineup. The series debuted on January 7, 2007, and was canceled on August 23, 2008, with 29 episodes produced. Since the series' cancellation, Nickelodeon and The N continued to air reruns until December 26, 2008. BET also aired reruns of the series until 2009. After several years, reruns made a short-lived return on MTV2, with only 6 episodes airing on October 16, 2016. Premise The show follows the exploits and actions of Jordan Lewis, who has moved to Los Angeles from Little Rock. He has to work in his gruff grandfather's diner, and survive with a silly younger sister, a critical cousin, and his over-protective mom who seems to know all his misdeeds before he even conceives of them. Production The first season of ''Just Jordan'' had 13 episodes, and ran from January 7, 2007, to August 10, 2007. The second season, which was filmed in front of a live studio audience, beg ...
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Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
''Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide'' (sometimes shortened to ''Ned's Declassified'') is an American live action sitcom on Nickelodeon that debuted on the Nickelodeon Sunday night TEENick scheduling block on September 12, 2004. The series' original pilot episode aired on September 7, 2003, without many of the current version's main characters, and it was ordered to series by Nickelodeon in early 2004. The one-hour special movie series finale aired on June 8, 2007. The show was produced by Apollo ProScreen GmbH & Co. Filmproduktion KG in association with Jack Mackie Pictures. Its main executive producer and creator is Scott Fellows, the head writer for ''The Fairly OddParents''. Premise ''Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide'' follows the lives of Ned Bigby, Jennifer "Moze" Mosely, and Simon "Cookie" Nelson-Cook. The first season takes place during the first semester of seventh grade, the second season covers the second semester of seventh grade, and the third season ...
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Just For Kicks (TV Series)
''Just for Kicks'' is an American comedy series that aired on the Nickelodeon television network as a part of the channel's TEENick television lineup. The series is about a group of girls on a soccer team set in New York City. Created by Alana Sanko and developed by Whoopi Goldberg, the series was first titled ''Head to Toe'', and then ''The Power Strikers'', but its title was finally changed in 2005 to ''Just for Kicks''. The series premiered in January 2006 on Nickelodeon UK, and in April 2006 on Nickelodeon in the United States. The series is produced by Brookwell McNamara Entertainment. Airing for one season of thirteen episodes, it is also considered to be one of Nickelodeon's most forgotten series, as this show fell to obscurity and was lost for over a decade until May 2, 2016, nearly ten years after its original premiere, when the entire series was uploaded onto YouTube in two parts. Despite this, the show has yet to ever air again on television in over a decade. Character ...
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The Jersey
''The Jersey'' is an American comedy television series based on the '' Monday Night Football Club'' books by Gordon Korman. The series aired on Disney Channel from January 30, 1999, to March 23, 2004. Premise Nick Lighter, Morgan Hudson, Coleman Galloway, and Elliot Riffkin are four teenagers who discover the magic of "the jersey", a mystical football jersey that transports them into the bodies of professional athletes. This is done in a way that is very similar to how "Sam", the main character in ''Quantum Leap'', travels from body to body, and there is a different athlete featured in every episode. The show had several athletes as guest actors, including Dan Lyle, Michael Andretti, Terrell Davis, David Robinson, Malik Rose, Tony Gonzalez, Shannon Sharpe, Donovan McNabb, Tim Couch, Byron Dafoe, Michael Strahan, Kurt Warner, Stephon Marbury, Sergei Fedorov, Kordell Stewart, Jerome Bettis, Junior Seau, Scott Steiner, Booker T, Eddie George, Sabrina Bryan, Randy Johnson, Tony Hawk ...
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Cousin Skeeter
''Cousin Skeeter'' is an American children's sitcom, that originally aired on Nickelodeon from 1998 to 2001. It starred Robert Ri'chard as Bobby, a young boy whose life changed when his strange cousin Skeeter came to live with his family. With Skeeter's help, Bobby learns life lessons and tackles the ups and downs of growing up. The show also included Meagan Good as Bobby's friend Nina, Rondell Sheridan as Bobby's father Andre, and Angela Means as Bobby's mother Vanessa. Skeeter is portrayed by a hand puppet with Bill Bellamy providing his voice, and Drew Massey performing the puppetry, assisted by Alice Dinnean. Within the show, Skeeter is treated like a regular human and no mention of him being a puppet is made. Although the series was shot in a single-camera format, the show used a laugh track. The show's theme song is a parody of 702's 1996 hit " Steelo", written by Missy Elliott. Overview ''Cousin Skeeter'' first aired on September 1, 1998, on Nickelodeon, sharing the 8â ...
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Sabrina The Teenage Witch (1996 TV Series)
''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' is an American television sitcom created by Nell Scovell, based on the Archie Comics Sabrina the Teenage Witch, series of the same name. It premiered on September 27, 1996, on American Broadcasting Company, ABC to over 17 million viewers in its "TGIF (TV programming block), T.G.I.F." lineup. It stars Melissa Joan Hart as American teenager Sabrina Spellman, who, on her 16th birthday, learns she has magical powers (a departure from the Archie Comics series, in which she has known of her powers since an early age). She lives with her 600-year-old aunts, witches Hilda Spellman, Hilda (played by Caroline Rhea) and Zelda Spellman, Zelda (played by Beth Broderick), and their magical talking cat Salem Saberhagen, Salem (voiced by Nick Bakay), at 133 Collins Road in the fictional Boston suburb of Westbridge, Massachusetts through the rest of the series. The first four seasons aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from September 27, 1996 to May 5, 2000. T ...
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The Secret World Of Alex Mack
''The Secret World of Alex Mack'' is an American television series that ran from October 8, 1994 to January 15, 1998, on Nickelodeon (part of the SNICK line-up). The series was co-created by Ken Lipman and Thomas W. Lynch and was produced by Lynch Entertainment, Hallmark Entertainment and Nickelodeon Productions. ''The Secret World of Alex Mack'' was accompanied by a tie-in series of 34 paperback books, as well as a variety of merchandise. The series concluded with a two-part finale in 1998. Plot Alexandra "Alex" Mack is an ordinary teenage girl, living with her parents, George and Barbara, and prodigious older sister, Annie, in the industrial town of Paradise Valley, Arizona. The town is largely funded around Paradise Valley Chemical, a chemical factory that employs most of the adult residents, although the factory's staff and history are notoriously shady. While walking home after her first day of junior high school, saddened by an embarrassing encounter with a boy and bullied ...
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Roundhouse (TV Series)
''Roundhouse'' is an American comedy-variety television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 1992 through 1996. Background ''Roundhouse'' debuted as a part of the original SNICK lineup on Nickelodeon in 1992 and continued airing on the network through the end of 1996. Buddy Sheffield, a former writer for ''In Living Color'', and Rita Sheffield Hester created and produced the series. Recording artist Benny Hester was the music producer as well as co-producer of the series. They titled the show in reference to the roundhouses used by railroad companies to turn trains around and get them on the right track. This was in line with the show's theme song, in which the characters stated "we can go anywhere from here". In addition, the stage for the show mirrored the interior of a roundhouse. Episode format Each episode revolved around the Anyfamily and their problems in daily life. The half-hour show, taped in front of a visible live audience, was broken up into sketches, dance seq ...
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Danielle Panabaker
Danielle Nicole Panabaker (born September 19, 1987) is an American actress. She began acting as a teenager and came to prominence for her roles in the Disney films '' Stuck in the Suburbs'' (2004), '' Sky High'' (2005) and ''Read It and Weep'' (2006), and in the HBO miniseries '' Empire Falls'' (2005). She won three Young Artist Awards: for guest-starring in an episode of the legal drama television series ''The Guardian'' (2004), for her lead role in the TV film ''Searching for David's Heart'' (2005) and for her ensemble performance in the family comedy film '' Yours, Mine & Ours'' (2005). Panabaker came to wider attention as a cast member in the CBS legal drama series ''Shark'' (2006–2008) and is also noted as a scream queen, having starred in the psychological thriller '' Mr. Brooks'' (2007) and the horror films '' Friday the 13th'' (2009), '' The Crazies'' (2010), John Carpenter's '' The Ward'' (2010) and ''Piranha 3DD'' (2012). After starring in recurring roles on '' Nec ...
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Searching For David's Heart
''Searching for David's Heart'' is a 1998 young-adult novel by Cherie Bennett. The author is a screenwriter, novelist, playwright, and columnist for the ''San Diego Union-Tribune'' and other Copley newspapers. Plot summary Darcy Deeton is a twelve-year-old girl who loves her older brother, David. After becoming jealous when he falls in love with Jayne Evans, Darcy inadvertently leads David to his death in a car accident. The Deetons decide to donate David's most important organ, his heart. Darcy is so guilt-ridden about his death that she is determined to find the person who has his heart so she can find some closure. Darcy embarks on a wild adventure with her best friend, Sam. She goes on a journey with Sam and finds the recipient of David's heart, Winston Pawling. Film adaptation ''Searching for David's Heart'' was made into a made-for-TV movie that premiered on ABC Family in 2004. It is about a teenage girl, Darcy Deeton (played by Danielle Panabaker), who is dealing with the ...
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