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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 evaluations and viewers reactions to it have been so dangerous that Warner Bros. put a cease to future films.
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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 Tough Stewart, provided it to all of them on the similar time.
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In accordance with Jonathan Bennett, Tina Fey instructed him he received forged as Aaron Samuels in Imply Women as a result of he seems 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 superstar to put on them was really Madonna (the founders of the corporate despatched one on to her along with her nickname “Madge” embroidered on the again).
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In 2006, analog TVs nonetheless out bought 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 finally go on to get married).
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In 2004, Starbucks received 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 wished from a touch-screen pc 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 accordance with 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 minimize on it, it grew to become 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 be taught all of the choreography to “Single Women (Put a Ring on It).” Throughout the shoot, they did the routine 50 occasions and broke a number of pairs of excessive heels as a result of they have been dancing so exhausting.
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The concept for the sequence Queer Eye for the Straight Man got here from a complete fluke. In 2001, the sequence co-creators, David Collins and Michael Williams, the place at an open artist studio in Boston once 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 clean issues over. Whereas they have been all speaking, Collins mentioned to Williams, “They simply received a queer eye for the straight man. That is the present we have been on the lookout 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 meant to place it on his personal album, however as an alternative gave it to Lewis.
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In late 2007, Netflix received VERY near releasing their very own streaming machine referred to as The Netflix Participant. Nonetheless, Netflix’s CEO, Reed Hastings, realized that if he put out his personal streaming machine, he would doubtless lose out on Netflix being accessible on different gadgets — like AppleTV — as a result of he can be a direct competitor. With just some 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 machine.
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The ultimate episode of Associates is the most-watched present of your entire 2000s. The sequence finale was watched by 52.5 million viewers.
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And lastly, The Satan Wears Prada isn’t solely probably the most iconic vogue movies of the 2000s, however of all time. Nonetheless, the film solely had a wardrobe funds of $100,000, which meant the film’s costume designer Patricia Discipline needed to name in plenty of favors to be able to create all of the excessive vogue seems. In accordance with Discipline, she imagined Andy Sachs as a “Chanel woman,” so she personally referred to as Chanel (who she had a protracted relationship with) and confirmed them the script. Chanel was ecstatic to work along with her as a result of “they wished to see Chanel on younger ladies.” After all, this collaboration all led to the long-lasting Chanel boots quote and look.
