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Movie Tome was the sister site for TV Tome, now the CNET website TV.com. Whereas TV Tome had TV shows and people pages, Movie Tome had movie guides. The website was created no later than August 2003 (the earliest archive) by John Nestoriak III, and was owned by Collaborative Content, LLC which was acquired by CNET in January 2005. Nestoriak continued to manage the site until early 2007, however. Movie Tome had six general forums in addition to a forum for each movie. The forums were About Movie Tome, In Theaters, On Video, In The Art House, Classic Movies and The Movie Industry.

Each movie information page at Movie Tome included cast, crew, synopsis, notes, quotes, goofs, links, and a forum for discussion of the movie. There was also the ability to rate a movie from 1 to 10, the average vote being displayed on the left side of the guide, as well a link to reviews for the movie. Titles were added by users, and an individual user could request data manager status for titles he/she was interested in preserving from error or vandalism. The majority of titles on the site were of recent vintage, however, with a wide smattering of pre-2000 titles, largely American.

All members of TV Tome were also members of Movie Tome. They retained their membership at Movie Tome when TV Tome was converted into TV.com. Generally, the editing/submission format was exactly the same as the original TV Tome. However, the site eventually showed interest only in new releases; submitted new titles for older films, even with an offer to serve as editor, were ignored by Mr. Nestoriak..

The New MovieTome[link]

On December 7, 2006, CNET launched a new version of the site, changing the name to FilmSpot.com (similar to the conversion of TV Tome to TV.com and probably in the same trend as GameSpot.com). The Movie Tome domain was permanently redirected to the new site on January 10, 2007. FilmSpot is a sister site to TV.com, GameSpot, and MP3.com. On November 14, 2007, the website name was reverted to MovieTome, after it was discovered that "MovieSpot" was already a registered domain name of MGM.

Since the 2006 operational takeover by CNET, the site had been in "beta stage". No information was provided as to how long this stage would last, but all user activities had therewith been frozen. Users may have accessed information already on the site as of the end of 2006, but could add nothing. Even the "Community Forums" were locked, and, unlike other user-driven sections, could not be accessed beyond an index of the forums in operation at the time of the CNET operational takeover. Registered users from the original Movie Tome were still carried, but could not even add to their own profiles. A message at the bottom of each user-specific page claimed that the user was "in a pending, suspended or banned status". This was not further explained. There were no instructions on how to use the site, e.g. that to search for a movie, you had to enter the title in all lower-case letters, each word in the title connected by a _ .

No "Contact Information" was provided for the site and there is no page identifying any of the site staff.

As of November 29, 2010, all MovieTome URLs automatically redirect to the Movies section of Metacritic. The reason for this is currently unknown, although the site was possibly closed down for lack of visitors.

Rating system[link]

As it was still in the beta stage, MovieTome had yet to offer its own reviews; however, they used Metacritic's average score. The score was based on a 5-star system, similar to other movie review sites.

MovieTome staff had made small reviews of movies on their "In Focus" section, but they were not given a score and were not listed on the movie's page, so the reviews were not considered official.

External links[link]

• Archived versions of Movie Tome at the Internet Archive
• MovieTome, the successor to Movie Tome (Redirects to Metacritic's movie page)

Jack Davenport
Born	(1973-03-01) 1 March 1973 (age 39) Merton, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1996–present
Spouse	Michelle Gomez (1 May 2000–present, 1 child)

Jack Davenport (born 1 March 1973) is an English actor, best known for his roles in the television series This Life, Coupling and as James Norrington in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. He has also appeared in many other Hollywood films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley. More recently, Davenport was part of the ensemble cast of characters in the drama series FlashForward and Smash.

Personal life[link]

Davenport, the son of actors Nigel Davenport and Maria Aitken,^[1] was born in Merton, Oxfordshire and lived in Ibiza for the first seven years of his life. His uncle is writer and disgraced former Conservative Member of Parliament Jonathan Aitken, his maternal grandfather was politician William Aitken and his maternal great-grandfather was the first Baron Rugby.^[2] His parents divorced when he was seven, at which point he was sent to the independent Dragon School, a co-educational boarding school in Oxford, as his parents did not want him to become involved in the divorce proceedings. He then went on to attend the independent school Cheltenham College, followed by the British American Drama Academy. He is married to the actress Michelle Gomez who gave birth to their son, Harry, in early 2010.^[3][4]

Career[link]

Davenport had not planned to become an actor; however, his career began when he took a gap year after attending Cheltenham College. A director from Clwyd Theatr Cymru (The Welsh National Theatre) was impressed by his performance in a summer drama course and asked Davenport to work for him. At 18 years of age he ended up in Wales, performing bit parts in Hamlet, where he became friends with Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill).

The following year, he attended the University of East Anglia (UEA), concentrating in Film Studies and English Literature. He tried out acting once more at the UEA but was not, at this point, seriously interested in it. In fact, Davenport had considered becoming a member of a film crew, as opposed to acting in front of the camera. His mother advised him, after his graduation from UEA, to write to John Cleese requesting work on the set of his upcoming film, Fierce Creatures, so that Davenport could gain some real experience behind the camera. Cleese instead sent Davenport's letter to the casting department, and he was cast as a student zookeeper. Whilst a small part with very few lines it provided his first opportunity to work in front of the camera. After the production of Fierce Creatures was completed, Davenport found an agent who secured him an audition for the role of Miles Stewart in the BBC television drama series This Life.

Since then Davenport has played roles in many successful films and TV series, including The Talented Mr. Ripley, Coupling, and Ultraviolet, as well as the box office smash Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and its sequels, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

During his career Davenport has also performed voice-overs, having narrated the audio versions of John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps and recorded parts in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. He also provides the voice over for the British MasterCard advertisements (the American being done by Billy Crudup).

In 2006, he featured in the ITV1 drama The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant and in 2009 starred in the film The Boat That Rocked.

In 2007 Davenport was cast in Swingtown (2008), a period and relationship drama for CBS about the impact of sexual and social liberation in 1970s American suburban households, with story arcs involving open marriages and key parties. This was cancelled after its only season.

In 2008, Davenport was cast in the new ABC pilot FlashForward (2009–10), which was based on a Robert J. Sawyer novel. In the series, Davenport played the character of Lloyd Simcoe, a physicist allegedly responsible for a worldwide blackout, which causes the whole world to see the future. That series was also cancelled after a single season.

In February 2011, Davenport was cast in the NBC musical drama pilot Smash.^[5] In May 2011, it was reported that NBC has picked up the show as a series for the autumn 2011 TV season.^[6] The series follows a group of people coming together to put on a Marilyn Monroe musical on Broadway. Davenport plays the musical's director.

Davenport also starred as the replacement singer in the video for Snow Patrol's new single Called Out in the Dark, released on YouTube on 17 August 2011, alongside Tara Summers and Gary Lightbody.^[7] .

Filmography[link]

Television appearances

Radio[link]

• Alistair Cooke's American Journey (2006) (reading the veteran journalist's wartime reports for BBC Radio 4)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jack Davenport

• Jack Davenport at the Internet Movie Database

Masahiro Sakurai (桜井 政博, Sakurai Masahiro^?) (born on August 3, 1970 in Tokyo, Kantō region) is a Japanese video game designer, the creative force behind both the Kirby and the Super Smash Bros. series on Nintendo platforms, currently Director of Software Development for the video game developer's Sora Ltd. and Project Sora. He is also the author of a weekly column for Famitsu magazine and has developed a cult following for his streamlined, yet deep gameplay.

Biography[link]

One of Sakurai's earliest experiences in the video game industry began when he worked for HAL Laboratory, where that he created the character Kirby at the age of 19 and directed his first title, Kirby's Dream Land.

Sakurai resigned from his position at HAL Laboratory on August 5, 2003, leading many to believe that the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series would cease to continue. Reasons for his departure are said to be because he was seeking more freedom and was not happy with the structure that was present at HAL Laboratory. Most of all, however, Sakurai grew tired of the sequelization of the industry and at HAL.^[1][2]

"It was tough for me to see that every time I made a new game, people automatically assumed that a sequel was coming," said Sakurai 21 days later, in an interview with Nintendo Dream, two weeks after his resignation from HAL Laboratory. "Even if it's a sequel (laughs), lots of people have to give their all to make a game, but some people think the sequel process happens naturally." His resignation came just days after an interview where he openly criticized the company for circumstances surrounding the development of the Nintendo GameCube racer Kirby Air Ride. He has publicly stated that he wishes HAL to continue working on the Kirby series. After he left HAL, Sakurai began working with Q Entertainment, along with Tetsuya Mizuguchi. This collaboration resulted in Meteos, a unique puzzle game for the Nintendo DS.

On September 30, 2005, Sakurai announced that he had formed his own company, Sora.^[3] Two titles have been announced to be in development but any information on the titles (other than that they are in development) has not yet been divulged. As for the future of the Super Smash Bros. series, former HAL Laboratory President and current President of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, during the Nintendo E3 2005 press conference, promised an online iteration of the game would come to Nintendo's video game console, Wii. In issue #885 of Famitsu magazine, Sakurai first revealed that he would be serving as a director and game designer on Nintendo's highly anticipated game Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the console. Sakurai completed development of Super Smash Bros. Brawl in 2008. He developed the game, despite personnel borrowed from 19 different developer studios being put in charge of preliminary development of it.^[4] Brawl was released on January 31, 2008 in Japan, and on March 9, 2008 in North America. Sakurai had also been updating daily the official Super Smash Bros Brawl web site called "The Dojo". Starting a year previous the release, Sakurai had started revealing Brawl secrets and gameplay content through the site. Regular updates began May 22, 2007 and ended on April 14, 2008. On the final day of updates, it was revealed that Sakurai provided the voice for King Dedede in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards; his name also appeared under "Voice Actors" in the final credits of Kirby 64. He and his company, Sora Ltd. alongside Nintendo have started a new first-party studio, Project Sora, which is 72% owned by Nintendo and 28% owned by Sora Ltd. It was revealed at E3 2010 that Sakurai and Project Sora have been working on a new Kid Icarus game for the Nintendo 3DS console. In the following year at E3 2011, Nintendo announced that Sakurai will work on the next games in the Super Smash Bros. series for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, with both titles being able to interact with each other. Sakurai intends to begin full development upon the completion of Kid Icarus: Uprising.^[5]

Games Designed[link]

• 1992 - Kirby's Dream Land
• 1993 - Kirby's Adventure
• 1993 - Kirby's Pinball Land
• 1995 - Kirby's Block Ball
• 1996 - Kirby Super Star
• 1999 - Super Smash Bros.
• 2001 - Super Smash Bros. Melee
• 2002 - Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
• 2003 - Kirby Air Ride
• 2005 - Meteos
• 2005 - Kouchuu Ouja: MushiKing -- Greatest Champion e no Michi^[6]
• 2008 - Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• 2012 - Kid Icarus: Uprising
• TBA - Super Smash Bros. 4^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• MasahiroSakurai.com Also known as "Masahiro Sakurai Fans Unite!", a website dedicated to the work of Masahiro Sakurai, 2007.
• Meteos Man Forms New Studio, Talks Game Design. Interview with Edge Magazine, 2005. URL accessed 05/11/2006
• PRESS START 2006 -SYMPHONY OF GAMES- Concert in which Masahiro Sakurai largely participated, 2006. URL accessed 1/21/2007
• Smashbros.com Web page ran by Masahiro Sakurai that offers straight-from-the-creator reports on Super Smash Bros. Brawl, 2007.