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Batman Begins is the primary film to efficiently reboot a franchise. On the time the final Batman movie, Batman & Robin, had been launched eight years prior — in 1997 — and the opinions and viewers reactions to it have been so unhealthy that Warner Bros. put a cease to future motion pictures.
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Opposite to rumors, “Umbrella” was not turned down by Mary J. Blige and Britney Spears earlier than being provided to Rihanna. The writers of the tune, The-Dream, Jay-Z, Kuk Harrell, and Difficult Stewart, provided it to all of them on the identical time.
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In response to Jonathan Bennett, Tina Fey advised him he bought forged as Aaron Samuels in Imply Ladies as a result of he appears to be like like Jimmy Fallon.
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In 2006, at its peak, the iPod accounted for 40% of Apple’s income.
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Whereas Juicy Couture tracksuits are very a lot related to then-younger celebs, like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, the primary movie star to put on them was really Madonna (the founders of the corporate despatched one on to her together with her nickname “Madge” embroidered on the again).
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In 2006, analog TVs nonetheless out offered HDTVs.
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Gwen Stefani’s “Cool” is a tune she wrote about her ex and No Doubt bandmate, Tony Kanal. The music video for it stars Erin Lokitz because the “new girlfriend” and IRL, she was the then-girlfriend of Kanal (the 2 would ultimately go on to get married).
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In 2004, Starbucks bought into the music enterprise with their Hear Music Coffeehouses. The brand new shops have been a mixture of a espresso store and music retailer and provided the power to make combine CDs — you would choose the music you needed from a touch-screen laptop kiosk after which burn it onto a CD (for 99 cents a observe).
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Amy Winehouse was the primary option to sing the Bond theme tune for 2008’s Quantum of Solace. After assembly with the franchise’s producer, Barbara Broccoli, it was clear that she could not do it. In response to Broccoli, Winehouse “was not at her finest” and that “she was very fragile emotionally.”
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The Motorola Razr is likely one of the most iconic cellphones of all time. Nonetheless, when it was first launched in 2004, it was not a right away success as a result of it value $500, which was too costly for most individuals on the time. As soon as the value was reduce on it, it turned a HUGE vendor.
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Mad Males is taken into account one of many biggest TV reveals of all time. The present’s creator, Matthew Weiner, envisioned the present for HBO, however not solely did HBO move on it, they did not even learn the pilot.
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It took Beyoncé one-and-a-half months to study all of the choreography to “Single Women (Put a Ring on It).” Throughout the shoot, they did the routine 50 instances and broke a number of pairs of excessive heels as a result of they have been dancing so onerous.
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The concept for the collection Queer Eye for the Straight Man got here from a complete fluke. In 2001, the collection co-creators, David Collins and Michael Williams, the place at an open artist studio in Boston after they overheard a spouse yell at her husband for not being dressed as good as three homosexual males that have been there — the homosexual males then went to speak to the couple to easy issues over. Whereas they have been all speaking, Collins mentioned to Williams, “They simply bought a queer eye for the straight man. That is the present we have been searching for.”
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Leona Lewis’s breakthrough hit “Bleeding Love” was co-written by Jesse McCartney (together with OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder) — who supposed to place it on his personal album, however as an alternative gave it to Lewis.
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In late 2007, Netflix bought VERY near releasing their very own streaming gadget referred to as The Netflix Participant. Nonetheless, Netflix’s CEO, Reed Hastings, realized that if he put out his personal streaming gadget, he would doubtless lose out on Netflix being obtainable on different gadgets — like AppleTV — as a result of he can be a direct competitor. With only a few weeks earlier than the product was set to launch, Hastings canceled it. Nonetheless, he determined to spin off the product to Roku, which was the corporate that had helped develop the gadget.
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The ultimate episode of Pals is the most-watched present of the whole 2000s. The collection finale was watched by 52.5 million viewers.
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And lastly, The Satan Wears Prada shouldn’t be solely probably the most iconic style movies of the 2000s, however of all time. Nonetheless, the film solely had a wardrobe price range of $100,000, which meant the film’s costume designer Patricia Area needed to name in quite a lot of favors as a way to create all of the excessive style appears to be like. In response to Area, she imagined Andy Sachs as a “Chanel lady,” so she personally referred to as Chanel (who she had an extended relationship with) and confirmed them the script. Chanel was ecstatic to work together with her as a result of “they needed to see Chanel on younger ladies.” In fact, this collaboration all led to the long-lasting Chanel boots quote and look.
