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This article is about the animated feature film. For the Nickelodeon TV series, see The Penguins of Madagascar.
Penguins of Madagascar
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Eric Darnell
Simon J. Smith
Produced by
Mark Swift
Lara Breay[1]
Tripp Hudson[2]
Screenplay by
Michael Colton[3]
John Aboud[3]
Brandon Sawyer[3]
Story by
Alan J. Schoolcraft
Brent Simons
Michael Colton
John Aboud
Based on
Characters created
by Tom McGrath
and Eric Darnell
Starring
Tom McGrath
Chris Miller
Christopher Knights
Conrad Vernon
Benedict Cumberbatch
Ken Jeong
Annet Mahendru
Peter Stormare
John Malkovich
Music by
Lorne Balfe[4][5]
Edited by
Nick Kenway
Production
company
DreamWorks Animation
Pacific Data Images[6]
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date
November 14, 2014 (2014-11-14) (China)
November 26, 2014 (2014-11-26) (United States)
Running time
92 minutes[7]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$132 million[8]
Box office
$373 million[9]
Penguins of Madagascar is a 2014 American 3D computer-animated comedy film,[10] produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is a spin-off of the Madagascar film series, and takes place right after the events of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted,[11] following the penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private in their own adventure.[10] Apart from the main characters, it is unrelated to the TV series The Penguins of Madagascar.[12]
The film was directed by Simon J. Smith and Eric Darnell,[13] and written by Michael Colton, John Aboud,[1] and Brandon Sawyer.[3] It stars the voices of Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Conrad Vernon, Christopher Knights, Benedict Cumberbatch, John Malkovich, and Ken Jeong. The film was released on November 26, 2014.[1] It is the only film in the Madagascar franchise that was distributed by 20th Century Fox and was the final film produced by Pacific Data Images before its closure on January 22, 2015.[14] Despite earning $373 million on a $132 million budget, the film forced a write-down for the studio.[15]
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Release
4.1 Home media
5 Reception
5.1 Box office
5.2 Critical response
5.3 Awards and nominations
6 Soundtrack
7 Video game
8 References
9 External links
Plot[edit]
In Antarctica, three young penguin brothers—Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico—defy the laws of nature to save an egg the other penguins believe to be doomed. After saving it from a pack of leopard seals and accidentally setting themselves adrift on an iceberg, the egg hatches into their new member, Private.
Ten years later (after the events of the previous film), the penguins decide to leave the circus to celebrate Private's birthday by breaking into the United States Gold Depository at Fort Knox in order to treat him to a discontinued snack called "Cheezy Dibbles" in the vending machine of their break room. Despite this, Private begins to feel out of place with the team, as he is constantly described as being the "secretary/mascot". Suddenly, they are abducted by the machine and sent to Venice, Italy by Dr. Octavius Brine, a renowned geneticist who removes his human disguise and reveals he is actually an octopus named Dave, who has grown resentful of penguins after their cuteness had him shunned from every zoo and aquarium across the globe.
Rico swallows Dave's collection of snowglobes along with a canister of a green substance called the Medusa Serum before the four escape and are chased through the canals and streets of Venice by Dave's henchmen. When cornered, they are rescued by a group of animals from an Arctic elite undercover interspecies task force agency called "The North Wind" consisting of their leader, a gray wolf whose name is classified (in which Skipper mistakenly calls him "Classified" throughout the film), a harp seal demolitionist named Short Fuse, a polar bear named Corporal, and an intelligent snowy owl named Eva, who Kowalski instantly falls in love with. Their mission is to help animals who can't help themselves and have been fighting Dave to protect the penguin population.
At their hideout, their communication systems are hacked by Dave, who reveals that he has an enormous supply of the Medusa Serum and that he intends to capture the penguins out of every zoo he was kicked out of. Viewing the penguins as a hindrance to their mission, Classified tranquilizes the group and sends the group to their most remote base (which happens to be on Madagascar) but the penguins awaken mid-flight and crash land in the Sahara Desert before making their way to Shanghai, China, which they mistake for Dublin, Ireland. Discovering Dave's next target in Shanghai using Dave's snowglobe collection, the penguins ship themselves to their current location and make their way to the zoo. Disguising himself as a mermaid-tailed penguin (a tourist attraction) to distract Dave from his real target, Private himself is captured along with the Shanghai penguins after the North Wind arrives to put a stop to Dave's plan. The penguins take the North Wind's high-tech plane to give chase, but inadvertently self-destruct the machine. They manage to track Private to an island though, using a tracking device planted on him when Classified darted them before planting them in a flight to Madagascar. Meanwhile, on the island, Dave demonstrates his way to genetically mutate the penguins into hideous monsters as an effort to make humans disgusted by them as revenge.
Skipper and Classified argue on the best means to rescue the captives and stop Dave, finally settling on Classified's plan of a frontal assault and Skipper agrees to act as a diversion. The North Wind manages to corner Dave in his lair only to be captured by Dave's henchmen as well as the other penguins. Dave demonstrates his mutation ray at full power on Private, apparently disintegrating him with the beam, but unbeknownst to them he escapes at the last minute by using a paper clip he swallowed earlier. Private rescues the North Wind members, who want to regroup due to lack of equipment, but Private, not wanting to leave anyone behind goes to stop Dave. As Dave's submarine docks at New York with the promise of returning the penguins he found to the zoo, he turns the ray on the rest of the penguins, mutating them all into hideous monsters. The city erupts into chaos as the brainwashed, mutated penguins run amok on the terrified human crowd. Getting Skipper, Kowalski and Rico back to their senses, Private decides to connect himself into the ray to return them to normal. After fending off more of Dave's henchmen, they manage to turn all the penguins back to normal in one huge blast.
Private is left partially mutated from the machine while the rest of the penguins are restored to normal. Despite his strange new look, the Penguins show their gratitude and new-found respect for Private. Dave (who was caught in the blast) has been turned into a pipsqueak version of himself and is trapped in a snow globe where he is admired by a little girl. Finally seeing one another as equals, Classified promises to grant the Penguins anything they want. In addition to Kowalski getting a kiss from Eva, the Penguins are given their own jet packs and they then fly off above the clouds looking for their next adventure.
In a mid-credits scene, the Penguins return to the circus and plug Mort into the ray and use him to revert Private back to normal. Mort does not appear to show any side effects from the ray until he manages to swallow King Julien whole, much to King Julien's delight.
Cast[edit]
John Malkovich and Benedict Cumberbatch talking at the Penguins of Madagascar panel at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International
Main article: List of Madagascar characters
Tom McGrath as Skipper, the leader of the penguins.[16]
Chris Miller as Kowalski, the brains of the penguins.[16]
Christopher Knights as Private, the rookie of the penguins.[16]
Conrad Vernon as Rico,[17] the loose cannon of the penguins.
Benedict Cumberbatch as Classified, a British gray wolf and team leader of the North Wind.[1][16]
Ken Jeong as Short Fuse, a Belgian explosive and demolitions expert harp seal and a member of the North Wind.[13]
Annet Mahendru as Eva, a Russian snowy owl and the North Wind's intelligence analyst.[16]
Peter Stormare as Corporal, a Norwegian polar bear and a member of the North Wind who serves as the muscle.[16]
John Malkovich as Dave, a villainous and disgruntled octopus who has the human disguise of Dr. Octavius Brine.[1][16][18]
Werner Herzog as a documentary filmmaker.[19]
Danny Jacobs as King Julien XIII, a ring-tailed lemur.
Andy Richter as Mort, a Goodman's mouse lemur.
Production[edit]
A direct-to-video film featuring the penguins had been in the works since 2005 when the first Madagascar film was released, with a release date initially planned for 2009.[20] The studio announced in March 2011 that the penguin characters would be given their own feature film to be directed by Simon J. Smith, the co-director of Bee Movie, produced by Lara Breay, and written by Alan J. Schoolcraft and Brent Simons, the writers of DreamWorks' Megamind.[21][22]
At the July 2012 Comic-Con, DreamWorks Animation announced that the film, titled The Penguins of Madagascar, would be released in 2015.[23] Robert Schooley, one of the producers of The Penguins series, said that the film would be unrelated to the TV series of the same name, but added that that could always change.[24] In early September 2012, 20th Century Fox, the studio's new distributor, and DreamWorks Animation announced a release date of March 27, 2015, and a new pair of writers, Michael Colton and John Aboud.[25] Benedict Cumberbatch and John Malkovich joined the cast in August 2013.[1] Malkovich, who had been offered the role of Dr. Octavius Brine three and a half years before the film's release, told an audience at the July 2014 Comic-Con that he thought that it "was a funny idea" to use his voice for an octopus.[12]
Release[edit]
On May 20, 2014, the film's release date was moved up to November 26, 2014, from its initial March 27, 2015, date, switching places with DreamWorks Animation's other film Home.[26] Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks Animation's CEO, reasoned that the film, coming from one of DWA's most successful franchises, would have an easier task to stand out around the Thanksgiving holiday season, while Home was to try to take advantage of a less competitive spring release window and repeat successful spring launches of some of DWA's original films including The Croods and How to Train Your Dragon.[27] The film was released two weeks earlier in China, on November 14, 2014.[28]
The film was released in RealD 3D and Digital 3D formats.[6] It was digitally remastered into the IMAX format, and released in select theaters across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.[29] A four-issue comic book series based on the film was published by Titan Comics. Written by Alex Matthews and drawn by Lucas Fereyra.[30]
Home media[edit]
Penguins of Madagascar was released on DVD, Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D on March 17, 2015.[31] It topped the home video sales chart in its first week.[32]
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
Penguins of Madagascar grossed $83.4 million in North America and $290.2 million in foreign countries for a worldwide total of $373.6 million.[9] The film's production budget was $132 million, which, according to the DreamWorks Animation's president Ann Dally, excluded "incentive-based compensation."[8] By the end of 2014, the studio had to take a $57.1 million write-down, primarily related to the performance of Penguins of Madagascar and another DreamWorks Animation's film Mr. Peabody & Sherman.[15][33]
Penguins of Madagascar was released on November 26, 2014 in North America and Canada across 3,764 theatres. It earned $6.25 million on its opening day and $3.95 million the next day on Thanksgiving Day.[34] It earned $10.5 million on Black Friday.[35][36] The film underperformed during its opening weekend earning $25.4 million and debuting at #2 at the box office behind The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, for which 3D accounted for 24% of its opening-weekend gross.[37] The opening-weekend audience was evenly split among those under and over the age of 25, with 58% and female accounted 51%. In CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave Penguins of Madagascar an average grade of A- on an A+ to F scale.[38]
The film was released in China on November 14,[28] two weeks ahead of its North American debut, and earned $11.3 million from 3,500 screens, debuting at number two at the Chinese box office behind Interstellar ($42 million).[39] In its opening weekend, the film earned $36.5 million from 47 markets.[40] Overall, the top openings were in Russia ($8.2 million), Korea ($6 million), Italy ($4.63 million), Germany ($4.2 million), and Australia ($3.68 million).[41][42] The film's opening in Germany was the second-highest for an animated film in 2014, behind How to Train Your Dragon 2.[41]
Critical response[edit]
The film has a 73% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 107 reviews, with an average rating of 6.2/10. The site's consensus was "Penguins of Madagascar is fast and brightly colored enough to entertain small children, but too frantically silly to offer real filmgoing fun for the whole family."[43] On Metacritic, the film achieved a score of 53 out of 100 based on 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[44]
Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a negative review, saying "While there are plenty of madcap antics to fill a feature, all that manic energy ultimately proves to be more exhausting than exhilarating."[45] Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News gave the film three out of five stars, saying "Granted, it's no classic, but a sassy script and good-natured voice work from Benedict Cumberbatch and John Malkovich should keep kids and grownups entertained over the holidays."[46] Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of The A.V. Club gave the film a B, saying "Frenetic and frequently funny, Penguins Of Madagascar represents the DreamWorks Animation franchise style—which boils down to self-aware, but naïve, talking animals who learn kid-friendly life lessons—at its most palatable."[47] Ben Kenigsberg of The New York Times gave the film a positive review, saying "The lack of originality is offset by sheer silliness, including Classified and Skipper's Abbott and Costello-style argument over whether there's a long I in 'diversion.' The word fits the movie."[48]
Bill Zwecker of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three out of four stars, saying "Once again the Madagascar team have come up with a winner – a nice way to kick off the Thanksgiving and holiday filmgoing experience for the whole family."[49] Lou Lumenick of the New York Post gave the film one out of four stars, saying "Penguins of Madagascar is a lazy, noisy ADHD-addled collection of animated clichés guaranteed to give anyone older than 5 a headache, even if you don't see it in optional 3-D."[50] Jeff Labrecque of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a C-, saying "Penguins of Madagascar aims primarily for the kiddies, racing from one frenetic action sequence to another like some haywire Walter Lantz cartoon."[51]
Awards and nominations[edit]
List of awards and nominations
Award/Film Festival
Category
Recipient(s)
Result
42nd Annie Awards[52] Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Production Mitul Patel, Nicolas Delbecq, Santosh Khedkar and Yash Argawal Nominated
Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production Ravi Kamble Nominated
Outstanding Achievement for Character Design in an Animated Feature Production Craig Kellman, Joe Moshier, Stevie Lewis and Todd Kurosawa Nominated
51st Cinema Audio Society Awards[53] Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Picture - Animated Tighe Sheldon, Paul N.J. Ottosson, Dennis Sands and Randy K. Singer Nominated
28th Kids' Choice Awards[54] Favorite Animated Movie Eric Darnell and Simon J. Smith Nominated
11th St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards[55] Best Animated Film Nominated
Soundtrack[edit]
Penguins of Madagascar: Music from the Motion Picture
Film score by Lorne Balfe
Released
November 25, 2014 (2014-11-25)
Recorded
2014
Genre
Film score
Length
52:46
Label
Relativity Music Group
Producer
Hans Zimmer
DreamWorks Animation chronology
How to Train Your Dragon 2
(2014) How to Train Your Dragon 22014 Penguins of Madagascar
(2014) Penguins of Madagascar2014
Lorne Balfe composed the original score for the film,[56] making it his first solo debut in a DreamWorks Animation film. Balfe wrote the additional music for the previous two Madagascar films and helped Madagascar composer Hans Zimmer with the score for Megamind. The soundtrack was released on November 25, 2014, by Relativity Music Group.[56] Relativity also released an EP, Penguins of Madagascar: Black & White Christmas Album, which featured five holiday songs.[56]
No.
Title
Length
1. "The Penguins of Madagascar" 4:10
2. "Antarctica" 3:31
3. "Demersus" 2:53
4. "Sclateri" 3:25
5. "Adeliae" 3:31
6. "Forsteri" 2:52
7. "Patagonicus" 3:03
8. "Magellanicus" 1:24
9. "Private’s Theme" 2:34
10. "Robustus" 3:36
11. "Eudyptula Minor" 1:35
12. "Chrysolophus" 2:51
13. "Chrysocome" 1:59
14. "Antipodes" 1:20
15. "Schlegeli" 2:46
16. "Mendiculus" 3:14
17. "Papua" 1:56
18. "Humboldti" 2:52
19. "He Is Dave" (featuring Antony Genn) 3:14
Video game[edit]
A video game based on the film, titled Penguins of Madagascar, and published by Little Orbit, was released on November 25, 2014 for Nintendo 3DS, Wii, and Wii U.[57]
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Electric City (web series)
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Electric City
Genre
Science Fiction
Created by
Tom Hanks
Directed by
Joel Trussell
Starring
Tom Hanks
Holland Taylor
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Ginnifer Goodwin
Jason Antoon
Chris Parnell
Joey Kern
Paul Scheer
June Diane Raphael
Georg Stanford Brown
Composer(s)
Leo Z and Ali Noori
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
1
No. of episodes
20
Production
Producer(s)
Tom Hanks
Gary Goetzman
Bo Stevenson
Josh Feldman
Running time
4-7 minutes
Production company(s)
Playtone
6 Point Harness
Reliance Entertainment
Release
Original network
Yahoo.com
Original release
July 17, 2012
Electric City is an animated, post-apocalyptic, science fiction, web series published through Yahoo!. It was released July 17, 2012 and for now contains 20 short episodes totaling 90 minutes in length.[1] Erin McPherson, vice president and head of video for Yahoo, claims this is a first project in what will be known as online digital blockbusters.[2] The series stars the voices of Tom Hanks, Holland Taylor, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Antoon, Chris Parnell, Joey Kern, Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, and Georg Stanford Brown.[3]
Created by Tom Hanks, the series begins after the world has ended. Electric City represents peace and security in the midst of rubble. Even though it seems to be an orderly utopia, there are still secrets, back-alley dealings, daring chases and murder.
The episodes are available to view for free on Yahoo.com. Episodes continue to be available to purchase through apps for iOS and Android devices.
Contents
[hide]
1 Production
1.1 Development
2 Plot
3 Technology
4 Geography
5 Cast of characters
6 Tie-ins
6.1 Electric City: The Revolt
7 Reception
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
Production[edit]
Animation services for Electric City were provided by 6 Point Harness in Los Angeles under the direction of Joel Trussell.
Development[edit]
This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (July 2012)
Tom Hanks, Josh Feldman, and Bo Stevenson, all of whom voice characters, began writing Electric City in 2003 without intending it as necessarily a web series.[4] Tom Hanks wrote the first story in 2003 on an Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter.[5] Tom Hanks said that during the development the idea was just worked and reworked at Playtone, Hanks' production company, without a production or distribution plan until Yahoo! purchased the distribution.[6]
Plot[edit]
It's the first project in what we call online digital blockbusters. This is new for Yahoo and new for the Internet — this is maiden territory.
--Erin McPherson, Yahoo! Vice President[7]
In a post-apocalyptic setting, mankind is reduced to small settlements whose main business is to produce electric power. With fossil and nuclear fuel sources mostly depleted, the communities are dependent on naturally created electricity, be it by air, water, or muscle power (the latter of which is used as a punishment for criminals and other undesirables of this society). Under the motto "All in service to all" everyone must contribute to society's welfare.
Electric City is actually a collective name for several geographically separated precincts. Central cultural and social administration takes place at Central Stations. Other precincts include:
Nerima, the site of Electric City's water purification facilities and of the Camera Obscura observatory, the meeting place of the "knitting society",
Greenlight, where the city's first university is located,
Morningside, the most modern precinct and residential area,
the Mines, a mining and manufacturing district,
the Agricultural Territories, the main food provider for the city,
and the Outside, an unsettled off-limits territory lining the coast near Electric City, which is inhabited by fugitives from the persecution by the "knitting society".
The precincts' main connection is by their power cables and a wired radio service, but free communication, trading, and traveling has been made illegal, since it entails the wasting of precious electrical power reserves as well as the gradual loss of influence for the "knitting society", a matriarchal group of war survivors who founded Electric City and are ruthlessly trying to maintain their power base. The Tap Coders, an underground movement of free-thinkers trying to circumvent the current social restrictions by establishing an illegal communications network, especially present a considerable thorn which they seek to eliminate.
Technology[edit]
There appears to be a limited use of technology in this new society, wood seems to be the primary construction material instead of metal or plastic. Also firearms appear to be absent. Some conveniences are shown, such as electric light and electric heat. There are no horses or other pack animals, but bulk transportation appears to be available by freighter boats that traverse the canals. The Skytrain appears to be a crude electric tram system that runs on an elevated suspended cable. The Walking Post delivers interpersonal communication, but it seems to be of limited use, and does not carry parcels. The Wire Service is a form of radio that is broadcast to sets that are hardwired into the main studio at Wire Central. Electricity is generated through several sources, but the city is powered down overnight to conserve energy, except for the Wire Service. Citizens are discouraged for and punished if they are found to be tapping off of the Wire Service power supply. The use of recording wire is also seen, a technology that largely disappeared in the 1950s with the advent of magnetic tape. A newspaper is published called The Daylight, but it appears only in the old "broadside" format, posted in kiosks in town squares and no subscribers or single issues sold.
An encampment on The Outside is shown to have a full library of vinyl records, as well as stereo players, supposedly salvaged from "the lost cities."
Geography[edit]
Little is known about the actual location of Electric City, though some references have been made to the "swollen lakes" which could be a reference to the Great Lakes, which could place Electric City somewhere in Michigan or Wisconsin, or somewhere in the American Midwest.
Cast of characters[edit]
Cleveland Carr (formerly Lorenzo Seventeen) (Tom Hanks): The main protagonist. He was formerly a team leader of the AMP (Allied Municipal Patrol) but was stripped of his old life and identity due to a tragic accident during a mission, and was recruited by the "knitting society" as a grid operative and assassin for Ruth Orwell. Though originally unquestioningly loyal, he begins to harbor doubts following his meeting Hope and his assignment to assassinate Richard Jacobs.[8]
Ruth Orwell (Holland Taylor): An elder lady and childhood survivor of the apocalyptic war which reduced humanity to its current state. She is a member of the matriarchical founding group of Electric City, nicknamed the "knitting society".[9] She is also Carr's immediate superior.
Mrs. Emerson (Lindsey Stoddart): A member of Electric City's founding council.
Mrs. Zelaski (Edith Fields): Founder of the "knitting society".
Hope Chatsworth (Jeanne Tripplehorn): A popular young anchorwoman for the radio news station Wire 6, iconically called "Voice of the City". Eventually, she becomes Cleveland's girlfriend.
Frank Deetleman (Joey Kern): Hope's technician colleague at Wire 6, and secretly also a Tap Coder activist.
Roger Moore (Tara Sands): A young boy and Youth Auxiliary member who spies on the code transmissions of the Tap Coders for the AMP.
Gladys Elba (Kristin Klabunde): A member of the Electric City YX (Youth Auxiliary), and a friend of Roger Moore. She usually serves tea to the "knitting society".
Garrison "Knobs" Butler (Jason Antoon): A small-time crook who makes a living in selling illegal radio listening sets to civilians. Is later forced to serve Carr as his underground G-man.
Dr. Loman (David Kaye): Head of the revolutionary forces.
Makaela (Tara Strong): Assistant to Dr. Loman.
Biff (Josh Feldman): A member of the revolutionary movement, and Happ's partner. Is killed by Cleveland via electrocution during an arrest attempt.[10]
Happ (Bo Stevenson): A member of the revolutionary movement, and Biff's partner. Is killed by Cleveland via electrocution during an arrest attempt.
Richard "Dick" Jacobs (John Rubinstein): Publicly a fabric cutter, he is secretly a grid operative working for the "knitting society" under the direction of Mrs. Emerson, but since meeting his wife Eva, he decides to retire in order to support his family. For this perceived "treason", he is assassinated by Cleveland under orders of the "knitting society".[11]
Eva Jacobs (June Diane Raphael): Richard's wife and expecting mother, and a Tap Coder. She is unaware of her husband's affiliation with the "knitting society" until after his untimely demise, and together with La Fong begins to investigate his past and the circumstances of his death and subsequently flees to the Outside.
Walter La Fong (Paul Scheer): A reporter for the Central Stations newspaper Daylight, and a very close friend of Richard Jacobs and his wife.
Sah (Eric Bauza): The proprietor of a noodle restaurant, which is used as a front for the Tap Coders' hideout.
Chucky Wilcox (Josh Feldman): A Tap Coder friend of Frank Deetleman. Is killed by Cleveland so he can track down the revolutionaries.[12]
Commander Welles (Georg Stanford Brown): The current commander of the AMP.
Mr. Orwell (James Urbaniak): Ruth's husband and a high-ranking politician in Electric City. Although he is devoted to Ruth, he is secretly sympathetic to Dr. Loman and his rebel cause.
Giovanni Montalbon (Chris Parnell)
Manny (Chad Coleman): A former grid operative, now the superintendent of Cleveland's residence in Morningsite.
Jean Marie St. Cloud (Ginnifer Goodwin): Former officer of the AMP Forces and ex-girlfriend of Cleveland. Due to the machinations of the "knitting society" and the AMP, she is unaware that Cleveland is alive.
Tie-ins[edit]
Along with the release of the web series, the mobile application was also released for iOS and Google Android. In addition to the 20 episodes, it includes 2 comics, a behind-the-scenes sneak peek, and character profiles.[13] In addition to this, there is also a game called Electric City: The Revolt. It allows the player to become a key character as he attempts to undermine the power of the knitting society and restore people's freedom.
Electric City: The Revolt[edit]
Electric City: The Revolt
Developer(s)
Jump Games Pvt. Ltd.
Series
Electric City
Platform(s)
iOS
Release
Jul 17, 2012.
Genre(s)
Role-playing
Electric City: The Revolt is a role-playing iOS game based on the animated post-apocalyptic science fiction web series Electric City. It was developed by Jump Games Pvt. Ltd. and released on Jul 17, 2012.
Reception[edit]
Electric City won the Streamy Award for Best Animated Series.[14]
See also[edit]
Spicy City, an animated futuristic science fiction series by Ralph Bakshi
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Online Blockbuster?: Tom Hanks' Electric City Debuts on Yahoo Today". Time. 17 July 2012. Retrieved July 17, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Tom Hanks' 'Electric City' could be an online blockbuster". USA Today. 16 July 2012. Retrieved July 17, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Tom Hanks’ ELECTRIC CITY Teaser Introduces an Animated Dystopia". Retrieved July 17, 2012.
Jump up ^ http://www.fastcocreate.com/1681236/tom-hanks-talks-electric-city-web-content-economics-expletives
Jump up ^ Warner, Kara (17 July 2012). "Tom Hanks' Online Series 'Electric City' A 'Different Brand Of Noir'". MTV. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
Jump up ^ Time. 17 July 2012 http://entertainment.time.com/2012/07/17/for-web-only-viewing-tom-hanks-created-series-debuts-today/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
Jump up ^ Puente, Maria (18 July 2012). "Tom Hanks, Jerry Seinfeld to debut online-only shows". USA Today. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
Jump up ^ Electric City ep. 12: "Lost Souls"
Jump up ^ Yahoo.uk Movies: Electric City Character Guides
Jump up ^ Electric City ep. 8
Jump up ^ Electric City ep. 10: "Never The Two Shall Meet"
Jump up ^ Electric City ep. 14: "Strategic Casualties"
Jump up ^ "Tom Hanks’ Electric City Goes Mobile: Jump Games Partners With Playtone to Launch Official iOS, Android Apps". Retrieved July 18, 2012.
Jump up ^ Hill, Naja. "Streamy Awards 2013: Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter.
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Tonsillar crypts
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Tonsillar crypts
Low-power microscope magnification of a cross-section through one of the tonsillar crypts (running diagonally) as it opens onto the surface of the throat (at the top). Stratified epithelium (e) covers the throat's surface and continues as a lining of the crypt. Beneath the surface are numerous nodules (f) of lymphoid tissue. Many lymph cells (dark-colored region) pass from the nodules toward the surface and will eventually mix with the saliva as salivary corpuscles (s).
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The human palatine tonsils (PT) are covered by stratified squamous epithelium that extends into deep and partly branched tonsillar crypts, of which there are about 10 to 30.[1] The crypts greatly increase the contact surface between environmental influences and lymphoid tissue. In an average adult palatine tonsil the estimated epithelial surface area of the crypts is 295 cm2, in addition to the 45 cm2 of epithelium covering the oropharyngeal surface.[citation needed]
The crypts extend through the full thickness of the tonsil reaching almost to its hemicapsule. In healthy tonsils the openings of the crypts are fissure-like, and the walls of the lumina are in apposition. A computerized three-dimensional reconstruction of the palatine tonsil crypt system showed that in the centre of the palatine tonsil are tightly packed ramified crypts that join with each other, while on the periphery there is a rather simple and sparse arrangement.[citation needed]
The crypt system is not merely a group of invaginations of the tonsillar epithelium but a highly complicated network of canals with special types of epithelium and with various structures surrounding the canals, such as blood and lymphatic vessels and germinal centers.[citation needed]
Macrophages and other white blood cells concentrate by the tonsillar crypts as well, in response to the microorganisms attracted to the crypts. Accordingly, the tonsillar crypts serve a forward sentry role for the immune system, by providing early exposure of immune system cells to infectious organisms which may be introduced into the body via food or other ingested matter.[citation needed]
However, the tonsillar crypts often provide such an inviting environment to bacteria that bacterial colonies may form solidified "plugs" or "stones" within the crypts. In particular, sufferers of chronic sinusitis or post-nasal drip frequently suffer from these overgrowths of bacteria in the tonsillar crypts.[medical citation needed] These small whitish plugs, termed "tonsilloliths" and sometimes known as "tonsil stones," have a foul smell and can contribute to bad breath; furthermore, they can obstruct the normal flow of pus from the crypts, and may irritate the throat (people with tonsil stones may complain of the feeling that something is stuck in their throat).[citation needed]
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