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Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group

Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group

:The subject of this article is a corporate group of movie studios, not to be confused with Buena Vista Distribution. The Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group is a collection of affiliated motion picture studios, all subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company. It includes:
- Walt Disney Pictures
- Touchstone Pictures
- Hollywood Pictures
- Miramax Films The name Buena Vista comes from the much older company Buena Vista Distribution, a company founded by Walt Disney as a subsidiary to distribute his films in 1955. That name in turn came from the street name in Burbank where the Walt Disney Studios complex was, and still exists today. The President of the Group is Nina Jacobson, who reports to Dick Cook, Chairman of the Walt Disney Studios. Cook, in turn, reports to Bob Iger, President/CEO of The Walt Disney Company. In 2003, Walt Disney Pictures made headlines as they made their first ever PG-13 certificate film, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, a movie based on a Disneyland attraction. Although Miramax, Touchstone, and other Disney-owned studios have made films with certificates as high as R, Walt Disney Pictures has always remained family-oriented, although Pirates of the Caribbean is fairly mild. Category:Walt Disney Company subsidiaries

Buena Vista Distribution

:For other meanings, see Buena Vista. Buena Vista Buena Vista Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. is a motion picture and television feature distribution company owned by The Walt Disney Company. Buena Vista International is the worldwide equivalent, and Buena Vista Home Entertainment is the firm's video and DVD distribution arm. Prior to 1954, Walt Disney's productions were distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. However, a dispute over the value of Disney's True-Life Adventures series of live-action documentary featurettes led to Walt and his older brother Roy Oliver Disney founding the Buena Vista Distribution Company to handle the distribution of their own product. Buena Vista's first release was the Academy Award winning live-action feature The Living Desert. The company name comes from Buena Vista Street, the road on which the current Walt Disney Studios and company headquarters are situated. The company distributes all features produced by Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, DisneyToon Studios, Touchstone Television, Miramax, and several small independent companies which employ Buena Vista to distribute their films. Buena Vista also distributes television shows such as sister Disney division ABC's Desperate Housewives and Lost to broadcasters around the world. It also syndicates the daily talk shows Live with Regis and Kelly and The Tony Danza Show. The current company logo is the Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland, which opened a year after the company was founded. Category:Walt Disney Company subsidiaries

Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures is a United States-based movie studio, and is a division of The Walt Disney Company. It maintains Disney's family-friendly image and generally only releases G and PG rated films with only one exception: 2003's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, which was handed a PG-13 rating. Walt Disney Pictures was established as a Disney division in 1983; prior to that Disney films were released under the banner of the parent company, then named Walt Disney Productions. Walt Disney Pictures includes Walt Disney Feature Animation and DisneyToon Studios, and is a part of the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group.

External links

- [http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/main.html Walt Disney Pictures website]
- Category:Hollywood movie studios Category:Walt Disney Company subsidiaries simple:Walt Disney Pictures

Touchstone Pictures

Touchstone Pictures is a film division of The Walt Disney Company. Its releases are typically more adult than those under the Disney label, although some of its features, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) strayed to some extent onto Disney territory thanks to the inclusion of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and many other Disney and non-Disney characters in the former and the inclusion of the latter in the Kingdom Hearts series. The origins of Touchstone Pictures can be traced to the 1979 release of The Black Hole, a science fiction film that sparked controversy due to the fact that it was the first Disney film to receive a PG rating. Over the next few years, Disney experimented with more PG-rated fare, such as the 1981 film Condorman, 1982's Tron and 1983's Trenchcoat. The latter film attracted major criticism for including adult themes that were considered inappropriate for a Disney film. The controversy over Trenchcoat is generally considered the catalyst that sparked the creation of Touchstone Pictures. One title considered for the new company was "Hyperion Pictures," named after the location of the studio in the 1930s before the move to Burbank. Ironically, some critics complained that the creation of Touchstone in order to distribute more mature content which was itself inappropriate for Disney. Founded by Disney CEO Ron W. Miller in 1984, Touchstone's first release was Splash, a huge hit for the studio. The film included brief nudity on the part of star Daryl Hannah and adult language. The unit became a top source of income for Disney during the 1980s. Touchstone/Disney's first R-rated film, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, came in January of 1986 and was another smash. Ruthless People followed in April of 1986 and was also huge. One example of a recent release is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005). Touchstone is still an active unit of the company today. The studio's sister company, Touchstone Television currently produces the smash hits Desperate Housewives and Lost, as well as Scrubs.

List of notable Touchstone features

- Splash (1984)
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- Baby: Secret Of the Lost Legend (1985)
- Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
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- Ruthless People (1986)
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- Three Men and a Baby (1987)
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- "Ernest" movies (1987 to 2000)
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- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
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- Three Men and a Little Lady (1990)
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- Scenes from a Mall (1991)
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- 3 Ninjas (1992)
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- Sister Act (1992)
- Life With Mikey (1993)
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- The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
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- Con Air (1997)
- Armageddon (1998)
- Enemy of the State (1998)
- Unbreakable (2000)
- Signs (2002)
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- Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
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- The Life Aquatic (2004)
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- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
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- Flightplan (2005)
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- Rated PG
- Rated PG-13
- Rated R Category:Walt Disney Company subsidiaries Category:Hollywood movie studios

Hollywood Pictures

Hollywood Pictures is one of The Walt Disney Company's subsidiary movie studios. Like Touchstone Pictures, another Disney studio, it produces films for a primarily adult audience. Its first release was Arachnophobia (1990). While Disney chief Michael Eisner at first intended Hollywood Pictures to be a full-fledged studio, like Touchstone, in recent years its operations have been scaled back and its management has been merged with the flagship Walt Disney Pictures studio. Many film critics criticize the quality of the movies produced by Hollywood Pictures, thus earning the motto, "If it's the Sphinx, it stinks" (referring to the the use of the sphinx for its company logo). Category:Walt Disney Company subsidiaries Category:Hollywood movie studios

Buena Vista Distribution

Dick Cook

Dick Cook is the studio chief for the Walt Disney Company (officially, Chairman of the Walt Disney Studios). He is the only top Disney executive who has worked for the company since before Michael Eisner took charge in 1984. Cook began his career with Disney as a ride operator at Disneyland in Anaheim and moved to the Disney Studios in Burbank in 1977. For much of his career he worked as in the company's film distribution department, eventually heading both its distribution and marketing efforts, and in 2002 Eisner named him as Peter Schneider's replacement as studio chief. Known for his good relations with Disney's partners, including its autonomous subsidiary Miramax and the independent studio Pixar, he is now considered a top candidate to succeed Bob Iger as president and chief operating officer of the company when Iger officially becomes CEO in October 2005.

External links

- [http://corporate.disney.go.com/corporate/bios/richard_cook.html Official Bio from The Walt Disney Company]
- [http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2005/nf20050330_9032_db011.htm BusinessWeek article on Cook and the presidency of Disney] Cook, Dick

Robert Iger

Robert "Bob" Iger is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company. He has been President since June 2000 and CEO since October 2005. Iger finished his undergraduate studies at Ithaca College, in Ithaca, NY. Before joining Disney, Iger worked for Capital Cities/ABC, where he was President and COO until that company was purchased by Disney. It was announced on March 13, 2005, that Iger would replace longtime Disney chief Michael Eisner as CEO on October 1, 2005, a year ahead of schedule and after Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay, withdrew her name from consideration to be CEO. Although Eisner was to remain CEO for over six months, Iger immediately took the reigns as Disney's de facto CEO, with Eisner serving a more advisory role. Iger made his first move at the helm of Disney when in March 2005 he sacked Peter Murphy, the company's Chief Strategic Officer and pledged to disband the company's strategic planning division. The division, which Eisner had created, was charged by many inside and outside the company with stifling creativity. Iger also made bold moves in restarting negotiations with Disney's film production partner Pixar Animation Studios and by reconciling the company's differences with former shareholders Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold, who in July 2005 dropped their SaveDisney campaign. Disney, Gold, and Pixar chairman Steve Jobs had all been alienated by Iger's predecessor, Eisner. On the first day of Iger's term at the helm of the media conglemorate, he fired many senior staff at the Muppet Holding Company, the subsidary of Disney which controls The Muppets. [http://www.jimhillmedia.com/article.php?id=1673] Eisner had personally hand-picked this staff himself when the Muppets became Disney property in April 2005. Many saw Iger's action as a sign that Disney is entering a new era with no baggage from past CEOs. Iger, Robert Iger, Robert

2003

2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. It was designated the:
- International Year of Freshwater
- European Disability Year
- Blog Year See also Wikipedia's almanac of events for this year.

Events

January

- January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil.
- January 1 - Pascal Couchepin becomes President of the Confederation in Switzerland.
- January 8 - US Airways flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina killing all 21 people aboard.
- January 15 - The United States Supreme Court hands down its decision in Eldred v. Ashcroft allowing the extension of copyright terms in the U.S.
- January 24 - The new United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
- January 25 - Central Line train crashes into the tunnel wall at Chancery Lane station in London, injuring 34 people.
- January 25 - An international group of volunteers left London and headed for Baghdad to act as voluntary human shields, hoping to avert a U.S. invasion.
- January 30 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The leaders of Britain, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, Denmark, and the Czech Republic release a statement, the letter of the eight, demonstrating support for the United States' plans for an invasion of Iraq.

February

February
- February 1 - The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry, killing all seven astronauts onboard.
- February 1 - In Northern Ireland, The Protestant UDA Belfast leader John Gregg is killed by a loyalist faction.
- February 3 - The worldwide movie premiere of Shanghai Knights was held at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood.
- February 5 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell addresses the UN Security Council on Iraq.
- February 9 - Cricket World Cup begins in South Africa.
- February 15 - Global protests against Iraq war - more than ten million people protest in over 600 cities worldwide, the largest war protest to take place before the war occurred.
- February 17 - Antwerp Diamond Center in Belgium opens its vaults after weekend and discovers that unknown burglars had stolen diamonds worth $100 million - largest diamond theft so far.
- February 26 - An American businessman is admitted to the Vietnam France Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam. WHO doctor Carlo Urbani reports the unusual highly contagious disease to WHO. Both the businessman and Carlo Urbani die of SARS in March.

March

- March 1 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The United Arab Emirates calls for Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to step down to avoid war. The sentiment is later echoed by Bahrain and Kuwait
- March 1 - The Turkish parliment vetos the access of the U.S troops to airbases in Turkey in order to attack Iraq from the north. The Bush administration starts working on the B Plan, namely attacking Iraq from the south, through the Persian Gulf.
- March 1 - The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the United States Customs Service, and the United States Secret Service moves to the United States Department of Homeland Security
- March 1 - Boxer Roy Jones Jr. beats John Ruiz to become WBA champion
- March 1 - War on Terrorism: Authorities in Pakistan capture Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks along with money man Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi.
- March 1 - Ohio celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
- March 5 - The Supreme Court of the United States by a 5-4 margin upholds California's "three strikes and you're out" law.
- March 11 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi fighters threaten two U.S. U-2 surveillance planes, flying missions for U.N. weapons inspectors, forcing them to abort their mission and return to base.
- March 12 - Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić assassinated in Belgrade
- March 12 - WHO issues a global alert on SARS.
- March 12 - Iraq disarmament crisis: British prime minister Tony Blair proposes an amendment to the possible 18th U.N. resolution, which would call for Iraq to meet certain benchmarks to prove that it was disarming. The amendment is immediately rejected by France, who promises to veto any new resolution.
- March 13 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints had been found in Italy
- March 15 - Hu Jintao becomes president of the People's Republic of China, replacing Jiang Zemin.
- March 16 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The leaders of the United States, Britain, Portugal, and Spain meet at a summit in the Azores Islands. U.S. President Bush calls Monday, March 17th, the "moment of Truth", meaning that the "coalition of the willing" would make its final effort to extract a resolution from the U.N. Security Council that would give Iraq an ultimatum to disarm immediately or to be disarmed by force.
- March 17 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President George W. Bush gives an ultimatum: Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his sons must either leave Iraq, or face military action at a time of the U.S.'s choosing
- March 19 - First American bombs dropped on Baghdad, Iraq. President Saddam Hussein and his sons do not comply with President Bush's 48 hour mandate demanding their exit from Iraq.
- March 20 - 2003 Iraq war: Land troops from United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invade Iraq.
- March 22 - The United States and the United Kingdom begin their shock and awe campaign with a massive air strike on military targets in Baghdad.
- March 23 - Cricket World Cup ends as Australia wins over India in Centurion, South Africa.
- March 29 - WHO doctor Carlo Urbani, who first identified SARS, dies of the disease.
- March 30 - The Undertaker defeated the Big Show and A-Train in a handicap match, boosting his Wrestlemania record to 11-0.

April

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- April 3 - Passenger bus hits remote-controlled land mine in the Chechen capital, killing at least 8.
- April 9 - U.S. forces seize control of Baghdad, apparently ending the regime of Saddam Hussein.
- April 14 - Human Genome Project successfully completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy.
- April 17 - The Stevens Report concludes that members of the RUC and British Army cooperated with the UDA in the killings of Catholics in Northern Ireland
- April 21 - Retired U.S. Army General Jay Garner becomes Interim Civil Administrator of Iraq.
- April 30 - The last American owned vehicle frame manufacturer, [http://web.archive.org/web/20010623093543/www.immsp.com/index.htm Midland Steel Products] goes [http://www.newsnet5.com/news/2166844/detail.html out of business] after almost 110 years in business, laying off almost 250 people.

May

- May 1 - George W. Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, in a Lockheed S-3 Viking, where he gave a speech announcing end of major combat in the Iraq war.
- May 2 - Monkeyman superhero hoax begins in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK
- May 3 - Old Man of the Mountain, rock formation in New Hampshire, crumbles after heavy rain
- May 4-10 - A major severe weather outbreak spawned more tornadoes than any week in U.S. history. 393 tornadoes were reported in 19 states.
- May 11 - Benvenuto Cellini's Saliera is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
- May 12 - Suicide truck-bomb attack kills at least 60 at a government compound in northern Chechnya.
- May 12 - In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 26 people are killed in the Riyadh Compound Bombings.
- May 14 - Female suicide bomber blows up explosives strapped to her waist in crowd of thousands of Muslim pilgrims, killing at least 18 people in Chechnya.
- May 16 - In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
- May 19 - Pen Hadow becomes the first man to walk alone, without any outside help, from Canada to the North Pole
- May 23 - The birth of Dewey, the first cloned deer by scientists at Texas A&M University
- May 26 - A draft of the proposed European constitution is unveiled.
- May 28 - The birth of Prometea, the first cloned horse by Italian scientists.
- May 31 - Eric Rudolph, the suspected person to have carried out the Centennial Olympic Park bombing is captured in North Carolina behind a Save-A-Lot store.

June

- June 1 - The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the massive Three Gorges Dam, raising the water level near the dam over 100 metres.
- June 4 - Martha Stewart and her broker are indicted for using privileged investment information and then obstructing a federal investigation. Stewart also resigned as chairperson and chief executive officer of Martha Stewart Living.
- June 5 - Female suicide bomber detonates bomb near a bus carrying soldiers and civilians to a military airfield in Mozdok, a major staging point for Russian troops in Chechnya, killing at least 16 people.
- June 15 - 2003 NBA Finals end. The San Antonio Spurs defeat the New Jersey Nets, 4 games to 2.
- June 22 - The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska, USA.
- June 23 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in university admissions in Grutter v. Bollinger
- June 26 - U.S. Supreme Court rules sodomy laws unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas

July

- July 1 - 500,000 Hong Kong people march to protest Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23, which redefined treason controversially.
- July 2 - International Olympic Committee session in Prague. Vancouver ,Canada is declared the Host City for the XXI Olympic Winter Games in 2010.
- July 5 - SARS is declared to be contained by WHO.
- July 5 - Double suicide bombing at a Moscow rock concert kills the female attackers and 15 other people.
- July 6 - Residents of Corsica reject a referendum for increased autonomy for the region from France by a very narrow margin.
- July 7 - Canon Jeffrey John, first would-be gay bishop in the Church of England, withdraws his acceptance of the post of The Bishop of Reading after discussions with the church leaders
- July 10 - Russian security agent dies in Moscow while trying to defuse a bomb a woman had tried to carry into a cafe on central Moscow's main street.
- July 14 - U.S. columnist Robert Novak publishes the name of Valerie Plame, blowing her cover as a CIA operative. CIA leak scandal begins.
- July 18 - Convention on the Future of Europe finishes its work and proposes the first European constitution
- July 18 - The body of Dr. David Kelly, a scientist at the Ministry of Defence, is found a few miles from his home, leading to the Hutton inquiry
- July 23 - Operation Warrior Sweep is the first major military deployment of the Afghan National Army
- July 24 - The Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands, Operation Helpem Fren, led by Australia, begins in the Solomon Islands
- July 30 - The last old-style Volkswagen Beetle rolls off its production line in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.

August

- August 1 - Suicide bomber rams truck filled with explosives into a military hospital near Chechnya, killing 50 people, including Russian troops wounded in Chechnya.
- August 2 - The United Nations authorizes an international peacekeeping force for Liberia.
- August 10 - The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK - 38.1°C (100.6°F) at Gravesend in Kent and Kew Botanic Gardens, London. It is the first time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
- August 11 - NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
- August 11 - Jemaah Islamiah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
- August 14 - Widespread power outage affects northeast United States and Canada.
- August 14 - 6.4 Richter scale earthquake near the Greek Ionian island of Lefkada - 24 injured
- August 22 - 21 killed at the Brazilian rocket complex in Alcântara due to a premature ignition of a solid rocket booster.
- August 25 - 52 killed in two bomb blasts in Mumbai, India.
- August 27 - Perigee of Mars

September

- September 5 - Roller coaster accident at Disneyland injures 10 and kills one.
- September 10 - Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh is stabbed in a Stockholm department store and dies the next day.
- September 14 - Sweden rejects adopting the Euro in a referendum. (Results.)
- September 14 - Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
- September 15 - ELN kidnaps 8 foreign tourists in the Ciudad Perdida - they demand a human rights investigation and release last of the hostages three months later
- September 16 - Two suicide bombers drive a truck laden with explosives into a government security services building near Chechnya, killing three people and injuring 25.
- September 27 - Smart 1 is launched.
- September 27 - The Uniterran Church was founded in Victor, NY
- September 28 - a power failure affected all of Italy except Sardinia, cutting service to more than 56 million people.
- September 29 - Hurricane Juan makes landfall at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada as a category 2 storm. Two were killed directly and 5 indirectly.

October

October
- October 7 - 2003 California recall: Voters recall Governor Gray Davis from office and elect Arnold Schwarzenegger to succeed him.
- October 10 - Facing an investigation surrounding allegations of illegal drug use, American Right Wing radio host Rush Limbaugh publically admits that he is addicted to prescription pain killers and will seek treatment.
- October 14 - The Florida Marlins defeat the Chicago Cubs in Game 6 of Major League Baseball's National League Championship Series; the game is remembered for Cubs fan Steve Bartman interfering with a foul ball which could have helped Chicago win the game and the series.
- October 15 - China launches Shenzhou 5, their first manned space mission.
- October 16 - The Boston Red Sox lose to their hated rivals, the New York Yankees in Game 7 of Major League Baseball's American League Championship Series, blowing a three-run, eighth-inning lead.
- October 23 - Luis A. Ferre, the third Democratically Elected Governor of Puerto Rico, dies at age 99.
- October 24 - Concorde makes its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic travel to a close, at least for the time being.
- October 25 - The Florida Marlins defeat the New York Yankees 4 games to 2 to win the 2003 World Series, behind a complete-game shutout by ace pitcher, Josh Beckett.
- October 25 - Cedar Fire begins in San Diego County burning 280,000 acres (1,100 km²), 2,232 homes and killing 14
- October 31 - Mahathir Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia after 22 years in power.

November

- November 5 - Gary Ridgway, The "Green River Killer", confesses murders of 48 women
- November 9 - Lunar eclipse (the Americas, Europe, Africa, Central Asia)
- November 12 - Occupation of Iraq: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
- November 15 - Two car bombs explode simultaneously in Istanbul, Turkey targeting two synagogues, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 300; Al-Qaida claims responsibility.
- November 18 - US President George W. Bush makes a state visit to London in the midst of massive protests.
- November 18 - Goodridge v. Department of Public Health rules anti-same-sex marriage laws unconstitutional in Massachusetts
- November 20 - Several bombs explode in Istanbul, Turkey destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Holdings and the British consulate.
- November 20 - Michael Jackson is arrested by police on charges of child molestation, a charge that can carry an 8 year jail term.
- November 22 - England wins the Rugby Union World Cup defeating Australia 20-17 after extra time.
- November 23 - Georgian Rose Revolution ends with overwhelming victory - president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over fraudulent elections.
- November 23 - Total solar eclipse (Antarctica)
- November 24 - The High Court in Glasgow imposes a minimum sentence of 27 years for Al Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

December

December
- December 1 - The use of hand-held mobile phones while driving is made illegal in the United Kingdom.
- December 1 - Boeing chairman and CEO Phil Condit resigns unexpectedly. He is replaced by Lewis Platt as non-executive chairman and Harry Stonecipher as president and CEO.
- December 5 - Suicide bombing on commuter train in southern Russia kills 44 people. President Vladimir Putin condemns attack as bid to destabilize the country two days before parliamentary elections.
- December 7 - Parliamentary election in Russia.
- December 9 - Female suicide bomber blows herself up outside Moscow's National Hotel, across from the Kremlin and Red Square, killing five bystanders.
- December 12 - Paul Martin becomes the 21st Prime Minister of Canada
- December 12 - Olympic Airlines, Greece's new flag carrier is launched.
- December 13 - Saddam Hussein, former President of Iraq, is captured in Tikrit by the U.S. 4th Infantry Division.
- December 16 - The United Kingdom announces plans to build a new runway at Stansted Airport in Essex and a short-haul runway at Heathrow Airport sparking anger from environmental groups.
- December 17 - The film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King released, effectively completing the Lord of the Rings Trilogy directed by Peter Jackson.
- December 18 - The Soham Murder Trial ends at the Old Bailey in London with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend, Maxine Carr is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
- December 20 - Libya admits that it was building a nuclear bomb.
- December 22 - An earthquake shakes up California, killing two people.
- December 22 - Parmalat is first accused of falsifying accounts to the tune of USD $5 billion, later admitted by founder Calisto Tanzi; observers call it "Europe's Enron".
- December 24 - A BSE outbreak in Washington State is announced. Several countries including Brazil, Australia and Taiwan place a ban on the import of beef from the United States of America.
- December 24 - At the request of the US Embassy in Paris, the French Government orders Air France to cancel several flights between France and the US in response to terrorist concerns.
- December 24 - The Spanish police thwarts an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 PM on Christmas Eve inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.
- December 25 - Queen Elizabeth II broadcasts a Christmas message to the British Commonwealth paying tribute to British troops in Iraq. Pope John Paul II's Christmas message calls for peace in the Middle East.
- December 25 - Beagle 2 is scheduled to land on Mars, but nothing is heard from the lander.
- December 25 - The President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, escapes the second assassination attempt in two weeks.
- December 26 - A massive earthquake devastates southeastern Iran. Over 40,000 people are reported to have been killed in the city of Bam.
- December 31 - The world's largest Hogmanay party in the Scottish capital Edinburgh is cancelled twenty minutes before midnight due to bad weather.

Births

- April 29 - Maud Angelica Behn, daughter of Ari Behn and Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
- August 24 - Alexandre Coste, son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
- November 8 - Lady Louise Windsor, daughter of Earl and Countess of Wessex
- December 7 - Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands, daughter of Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands

Deaths

For more deaths, see: Deaths in 2003

January

- January 3 - Sid Gillman, American football coach (b. 1911)
- January 4 - Conrad Hall, Tahitian-born cinematographer (b. 1926)
- January 4 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (b. 1923)
- January 8 - Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (b. 1925)
- January 11 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (b. 1925)
- January 11 - Richard Simmons, American actor (b. 1913)
- January 12 - Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (b. 1926)
- January 12 - Maurice Gibb, Australian musician (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
- January 15 - Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
- January 17 - Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
- January 20 - Al Hirschfeld, American cartoonist (b. 1903)
- January 23 - Nell Carter, American singer and actress (b. 1948)
- January 24 - Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (b. 1921)
- January 26 - Valeriy Brumel, Russian athlete (b. 1942)
- January 26 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (b. 1917)
- January 29 - Frank Moss, U.S. Senator from Utah (b. 1911)

February

- February 1 - Crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia
- Michael P. Anderson (b. 1959)
- David M. Brown (b. 1956)
- Kalpana Chawla (b. 1961)
- Laurel Clark (b. 1961)
- Rick Husband (b. 1957)
- William McCool (b. 1961)
- Ilan Ramon (b. 1954)
- February 2 - Lou Harrison, American composer (b. 1917)
- February 10 - Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)
- February 10 - Ron Ziegler, Richard Nixon's White House Press Secretary (b. 1939)
- February 19 - Johnny PayCheck, American singer (b. 1938)
- February 20 - Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and writer (b. 1907)
- February 20 - Orville Freeman, American politician (b. 1918)
- February 27 - Fred Rogers, American television host (b. 1928)
- February 28 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, President of El Salvador (heart attack) (b. 1917)

March

- March 2 - Hank Ballard, American musician (b. 1927)
- March 9 - Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (diabetes) (b. 1946)
- March 12 - Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (assassinated) (b. 1952)
- March 12 - Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b.1948)
- March 26 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York (b. 1926)
- March 29 - Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (SARS) (b. 1956)

April

- April 1 - Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor (b.1961)
- April 7 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (b. 1903)
- April 11 - Cecil Howard Green, British-born geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)
- April 17 - Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (b. 1930)
- April 17 - Paul Getty, American-born philanthropist (b. 1932)
- April 17 - Earl King, American musician (b. 1934)
- April 20 - Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (b. 1908)
- April 20 - Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
- April 21 - Nina Simone, American singer (b. 1933)
- April 23 - Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (b. 1910)
- April 26 - Peter Stone, American writer (b. 1930)
- April 30 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (b. 1923)

May

- May 3 - Suzy Parker, American actress (b. 1932)
- May 9 - Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (b. 1933)
- May 12 - Sadruddhin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933)
- May 14 - Wendy Hiller, English actress (b. 1912)
- May 14 - Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)
- May 15 - June Carter Cash, American singer (b. 1929)
- May 15 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (b. 1924)
- May 26 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer (b. 1919)
- May 27 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
- May 28 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
- May 28 - Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)

June

- June 2 - Burke Marshall, American lawyer and politician (b. 1922)
- June 10 - Donald Regan, U.S. Treasury Secretary (b. 1918)
- June 10 - Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
- June 11 - David Brinkley, American television reporter (b. 1920)
- June 12 - Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
- June 15 - Hume Cronyn, Canadian act

Walt Disney Pictures

External links

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) is a romantic adventure-comedy film set in the Caribbean during the early 1700s. It is based on the much-loved Pirates of the Caribbean attractions at Disney theme parks around the world, developed by Walt Disney himself. The movie stars Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush, and Jack Davenport. It was directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. As of March 16, 2004, Pirates had grossed at the box office more than $653 million worldwide—the 21st highest grossing movie ever. It proved to be a success for Walt Disney Pictures and, within weeks of its release, Disney announced that a sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was in development and slated for release in 2006: Pirates of the Caribbean 3 is also in production, slated for 2007. When production for the film was first announced in early 2002, movie fans and critics were skeptical of its chances of being a success; the concept of Disney basing a movie upon one of its own theme-park rides seemed to many a crass marketing ploy. Additionally, the genre of pirate-themed movies had also seen a string of big-budget flops (Cutthroat Island and Treasure Planet, among others). Critics were pleasantly surprised to find the film an enjoyable swashbuckler, and the movie became a huge box-office success, grossing over $300 million in North America alone. The film also received several Academy Award nominations, including a surprise Best Actor nomination for Johnny Depp. However, the poor reception received by other Disney films based upon its theme-park attractions (The Country Bears, The Haunted Mansion) suggested that the success of Pirates of the Caribbean was merely an exception to the rule or, perhaps, that each film was only as good as its producers (in this case, Bruckheimer). It was believed that the movie was partially inspired from the Monkey Island series of video games, and similarities have been drawn between Barbossa and LeChuck, and between Will Turner and Guybrush Threepwood. Even if most hold that this is coincidental, it is also believed that the filmmakers included intentional references from the games as a tribute. Tagline: Prepare to be blown out of the water.

Plot

Shortly after his arrival at Port Royal, Jamaica, destitute pirate Captain Jack Sparrow rescues the governor's daughter, Elizabeth Swann, from drowning. However, when he returns to dry land, the occupying British forces attempt to arrest Sparrow for his previous crimes—including piracy, for which he has been branded on the forearm by the British East India Company (pirate lore suggests the tattoos were actually placed on the foreheads of the convicted). As he tries to escape, Sparrow meets Will Turner—the local blacksmith's apprentice, who is infatuated with Elizabeth but is too shy and refined to admit his feelings to her—and, following a swordfight with Turner, Sparrow is knocked unconscious and arrested.Will Turner That night, Port Royal is besieged by the infamous ghost ship known as the Black Pearl - a pure black vessel crewed by a vicious, bloodthirsty crew, and captained by a man claimed to be "so evil that Hell itself spat him back out". (The ship and its crew were once under the command of Jack Sparrow until they mutinied ten years ago, and have since fallen under a dark curse.) Crew members from the Pearl find Elizabeth—who claims that her last name is Turner—in possession of a golden medallion emblazoned with a skull, and take her back to their ship. She invokes the rule of parlez in order to be taken to speak with the Captain (Sparrow's former First Mate) of the Black Pearl, Barbossa, to cease his attack on Port Royal in exchange for the medallion. Barbossa then abducts Elizabeth. The next day, Will discovers Elizabeth's disappearance and, thwarted in his efforts to convince the Royal Navy into pursuing the culprits through its lead officer Commodore James Norrington (despite the Commodore's own feelings towards Elizabeth), takes up an offer by Jack Sparrow to rescue Elizabeth in exchange for breaking him out of jail. After absconding with the Royal Navy's fastest ship and assembling a crew to man it, Jack and Will set off to find Barbossa and the Black Pearl, which is heading towards Isla de Muerta—a mysterious island that's supposedly undiscoverable, save for "those who already know where it is". Isla de MuertaHere, we learn the true intentions of Barbossa and his crew: The island contains a cursed Aztec treasure that the crew of the Black Pearl discovered, following directions stolen from Sparrow (before they reached the island, Barbossa and the crew mutinied against Jack and stranded him on a deserted island; they then took the Aztec treasure for themselves). Shocked by this action, Will's father, "Bootstrap" Bill Turner, sent one of the cursed gold pieces away to his son in order to ensure a fitting punishment for the crew's betrayal. In retaliation, Barbossa ordered Bootstrap to be tied to a cannon and thrown overboard. Too late, the crew discovered that the curse was indeed real; in order to break it, they were required to return all the pieces of the treasure to its chest and give a blood sacrifice from everyone who removed them. As such, the crew's gluttony, greed, and lust for worldly possessions corrupted them to the point that they became undead, forced to never die or rest in their covetousness (moonlight reveals this fact, showing the pirates in its glare to be living, rotting skeletons). After ten years, they have succeeded in fulfilling almost all of the requirements to end the curse—save for obtaining the blood of Bootstrap Bill and the gold piece he stole. With the medallion (in reality, the last piece of the treasure) and Elizabeth in their custody, Barbossa believes he finally has what he needs to lift the curse. Jack and William confront Barbossa and his crew at the same time they learn Elizabeth is not the child of "Bootstrap" Bill. Will, however, had overheard Jack's plan to trade him for the Black Pearl; following his own plan, he knocks Jack out and gets them both captured in a failed attempt to rescue Elizabeth. Elizabeth and Jack are stranded on the same island on which Jack was stranded ten years ago, while Will is taken back to complete the requirements to end the curse. Elizabeth and Jack are eventually rescued by Norrington, but Elizabeth is unable to convince him to go back and rescue William until Elizabeth promises to marry him. "Bootstrap" Bill TurnerUpon arriving at the cursed island, Jack convinces Norrington's forces to lie in ambush for Barbossa's crew while he goes in and convinces them to come out. He succeeds in convincing Barbossa to delay spilling Will's blood and breaking the curse until after they kill the crew of the Royal Navy ship Dauntless and take the ship. This proves to all be part of Jack's plan; however, he was not expecting the undead crew to walk along the ocean floor to the ship, which allows them to escape the planned ambush. As the Black Pearl crew engages the Royal Navy in hand-to-hand combat aboard the Dauntless, Jack steals one of the cursed coins and engages in his own swordfight with his former first mate; "two immortals locked in epic battle". During their fight, he distracts Barbossa long enough for both he and Will to complete the requirements to end the curse. As the Black Pearl crew becomes mortal once again, Jack shoots Barbossa in the chest with a pistol preserved from the mutiny, killing him. Once they realize they're no longer cursed—and no longer immortal—Barbossa's crew surrenders to the Royal Navy. Back at Port Royal, Norrington is forced to hang Jack as per law, but Will, who believes him decent enough a person to not deserve death, rescues Jack. This sudden defiance by Will, as well as his confession of love towards her, inspires Elizabeth to reject marriage to Norrington and declare her feelings for Will instead. Norrington agrees to release her from her promise and Will is pardoned for his criminal act; meanwhile, Jack escapes and awkwardly falls into the ocean, to be rescued by the crew he assembled to help him earlier and who now man the Black Pearl. As the movie ends, Norrington watches as Jack sets sail for unknown adventure, impressed by the pirate enough to allow him a one day's head start before setting out in pursuit.

Script

Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (Shrek, The Mask of Zorro), among others, created a script noted for its witty lines and challenge-response jokes. Two examples: :Elizabeth: "Captain Barbossa, I am here to negotiate the cessation of hostilities against Port Royal."
Barbossa: "There be a lot of long words in there, Miss. We're naught but humble pirates. What is it that you want?"
Elizabeth Swann: "I want you to leave and never come back."
Barbossa: "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request."
(Elizabeth stares, dumbfounded)
Barbossa: "Means 'no'." :Norrington: "You are without doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard of."
Jack: "But you have heard of me." The wordplay was well suited to both Geoffrey Rush's and especially Johnny Depp's unusual style and worked well throughout the film. The official FIRST DRAFT of the script is available [http://www.wordplayer.com/archives/PIRATES.cover.html here], on Elliott & Rossio's Wordplay a.k.a. [http://www.wordplayer.com Wordplayer.com], one of the premier screenwriting sites on the internet.

Cast

- Johnny Depp .... Captain Jack Sparrow
- Geoffrey Rush .... Captain Barbossa
- Orlando Bloom .... Will Turner
- Keira Knightley .... Elizabeth Swann
- Jack Davenport .... Commodore James Norrington
- Jonathan Pryce .... Governor Weatherby Swann
- Lee Arenberg .... Pintel
- Mackenzie Crook .... Ragetti
- Damian O'Hare .... Lt. Gillette
- Giles New .... Murtogg
- Angus Barnett .... Mullroy
- David Bailie .... Cotton
- Michael Berry Jr. .... Twigg
- Isaac C. Singleton Jr. .... Bo'sun
- Kevin R. McNally .... Joshamee Gibbs
- Treva Etienne .... Koehler
- Zoe Saldana .... Anamaria In interviews, Johnny Depp stated that he had based his persona for Captain Jack Sparrow upon legendary guitarist Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, with some influence from cartoon character Pepe Le Pew. Depp is also a cameo character in Kingdom Hearts 2 as Jack Sparrow. There will be a Pirates of the Caribbean world in the upcoming game.

Trivia

- The Interceptor was the only real ship used in the movie - all other boats were actually barges. The Interceptor, in real life, is the Lady Washington, a tall ship based out of Gray's Harbor, Washington.
- In the scenes where you see Johnny Depp steering the vessel, the real captain of the Lady Washington was just off screen giving him visual directions.
- There were no "props" aboard the Interceptor—everything that is seen works and has a reason to be there.
- The steering wheel fell apart several times during shooting. In real life, the Lady Washington is steered by a tiller, however for the movie, a wheel was attached to that tiller. This ensured that the wheel was a "working prop." Flooring was built around the tiller to conceal it.
- The world of Pirates of the Caribbean will be one of many Disney films being featured in the sequel to the PlayStation 2 video game Kingdom Hearts. Early speculation insists that Depp, Bloom, Knightley and Rush are to provide the voices for their characters.
- Pirates is the first Walt Disney Pictures release to earn a PG-13 rating.

Sequels

- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Pirates of the Caribbean 3

Awards

All awards are from 2004, unless otherwise noted.

Academy Awards

- Nominee, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Johnny Depp
- Nominee, Best Makeup, Ve Neill, Martin Samuel
- Nominee, Best Sound, Christopher Boyes, David Parker, David E. Campbell, Lee Orloff
- Nominee, Best Sound Editing, Christopher Boyes, George Watters II
- Nominee, Best Visual Effects, John Knoll, Hal T. Hickel, Charles Gibson, Terry D. Frazee

Art Directors Guild

- Nominee, Excellence in Production Design Award, Feature Film - Period or Fantasy Film, Brian Morris

ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards

- Winner, Top Box Office Films, Klaus Badelt

BAFTA Awards

- Winner, Best Make Up/Hair, Ve Neill, Martin Samuel
- Nominee, Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects, John Knoll, Hal T. Hickel, Terry D. Frazee, Charles Gibson
- Nominee, Best Costume Design, Penny Rose
- Nominee, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Johnny Depp
- Nominee, Best Sound, Christopher Boyes, George Watters II, Lee Orloff, David Parker, David E. Campbell

Golden Globes

- Nominee, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, Johnny Depp

The Eddies, American Cinema Editors, USA

- Winner, Best Edited Feature Film - Comedy or Musical, Craig Wood, Stephen E. Rivkin, Arthur Schmidt

Saturn Awards, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA

- Winner, Cinescape Genre Face of the Future Award, Female, Keira Knightley
- Nominee, Best Actor, Johnny Depp
- Nominee, Best Costume, Penny Rose
- Nominee, Best DVD Special Edition Release
- Nominee, Best Director, Gore Verbinski
- Nominee, Best Fantasy Film
- Nominee, Best Make Up, Ve Neill, Martin Samuel
- Nominee, Best Music, Klaus Badelt
- Nominee, Best Special Effects, John Knoll, Hal T. Hickel, Terry D. Frazee, Charles Gibson
- Nominee, Best Supporting Actor, Geoffrey Rush
- Nominee, Best Supporting Actress, Keira Knightley

Screen Actors Guild Awards

- Winner, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, Johnny Depp

External links

- [http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/pirates/index.html Official site]
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- [http://www.ultimatedisney.com/pirates.html UltimateDisney.com 2-Disc Collector's Edition DVD Review]
- [http://www.ultimatedisney.com/pirates3disc.html UltimateDisney.com 3-Disc Gift Set DVD Review]
- [http://www.scummbar.com/resources/articles/index.php?newssniffer=readarticle&article=1029 Pirates of the Caribbean uncovered] at [http://www.scummbar.com The Monkey Island SCUMM Bar]
- [http://www.moviemistakes.com/film3372 Mistakes in Pirates of the Caribbean] at [http://www.moviemistakes.com moviemistakes.com]

Fan sites

- [http://www.keeptothecode.com/ Official fan site]
- [http://www.cursed-online.com/ Cursed Fan Site]
- [http://www.piratesofthecaribbeanfans.com/ Pirates of the Caribbean Fans]
- [http://www.potcinteractive.com/ POTC Interactive]
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