Ice Age 3 Trailer

Ice Age 3...The third in this fun kids movie series and a popular birthday party theme for kids! You probably already know what this is movie is about and have already met the wonderful Ice Age Characters, but have you thought about using this movie to get some ideas for a kids party? If your child is an Ice Age fan, why not invite this enjoyable, prehistoric cast to be your next kids party...as the party theme! Make your party invitations using pictures of the cast, make a dinosaur cake and play games like Pin the Trunk on the Wooly Mammoth. In the first movie, we were introduced to the cast of characters. In the second movie, the characters survived a world-changing event in the meltdown. Now, taking off where the first two movies left off, Ice Age 3 will see the return of the familiar and loveable characters, Manny and Ellie the Woolly Mammoths, Sid the Megalonyx, Crash and Eddie the Opossums, Diego the Smilodon, and Scrat the squirrel in an all new adventure.

Fresh off the meltdown of the Ice Age 2, the motley crew of animals encounter something they never expected to see, dinosaurs! Thought to have been extinct millions of years ago, it is revealed that many of these ferocious beasts have survived in a frozen paradise. After the events of the second movie, with the glaciers melting down, the dinosaurs are no longer trapped in ice. Among their numbers is a monstrous Tyrannosaurus Rex which threatens Scrat the squirrel. In a side plot, Ellie the Woolly Mammoth is also getting ready to have her and Manny's first and only baby Woolly Mammoth. And in addition to the new dinosaur characters, more animal characters are introduced in Ice Age 3, including a female companion for Scrat, a flying squirrel named Scratte. As the characters from the Ice Age encounter their new animal counterparts, there is sure to be tension and conflict. But while the tone of the movie may get scary at times, the antics of Crash and Eddie the Opossums will continue to be amusing and light-hearted.

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Vampire Movies Are Hot at the Box Office

The popularity of the Twilight movie series lately has sparked a renewed interest in all things vampire. Even if you are not a fan of the book or movie series, you can't miss them all over television and in the news. It began as a figment of imagination many years ago, and has now become a movie genre with fans all over the world. The legend of vampires has existed for centuries all across the globe. Said to be evil spirits, demons, witches, or ghosts, vampires were told to live by consuming human blood. The frightening shadowy creature with fangs, possibly came from a core fear of the unknown which even today exists in most peoples' minds. Almost all cultures have vampire stories and the entertainment industry has made millions on this terrifying tale.

The best known and most seen vampire of all time is of course, Dracula. Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula in 1931 was the beginning of the vampire movie empire, which carries on extensively today. Many books, movies, and television shows have told vampire tales in all sorts of variations. Even though we think of Dracula as getting the ball rolling, a film produced in 1922 called Nosferatu is most likely the true origin of all vampire movies. Starring Max Schreck, this was a silent move made in Germany. It told the tale of Braum Stoker's novel, which has been published in over 150 versions. Many experts in the vampire movie industry consistently rate Nosferatu in the top-ten in the genre.

Although there is some variety among vampire movies these days, some of the basic elements are the same. Of course, the vampire is usually the dreaded main character. All vampires need a good vampire hunter to create a story as well. According to the legends, it is commonly seen that vampires can only be killed by a wooden stake through their hearts, can't go out in the sunlight, have no reflection and are afraid of holy water and crucifixes. These early horror films had a much narrower audience than vampire movies today. Films such as The Lost Boys, Blade, Braum Stoker's Dracula and Van Helsing have attracted people who may not have been into vampire movies before. Involving a tragic love story with the vampire legend is a good fit for moviegoers everywhere. Mix in a few handsome actors, and these movies are now a popular mainstream genre.

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Youtube Movies

2010 marked the tipping point for 3D movies - in terms of public interest and acceptance. According to a recent report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, at a time when overall worldwide ticket sales are decreasing, 3D sales are helping to increase the industry's revenue in fact, 3D ticket sales are currently accounting for some 50%-70% of industry revenue. This high percentage of sales is partly accounted for by the premium that can be charged on tickets for 3D features, and partly on the higher percentage of tickets sold for 3D. For example, over opening weekends, movies such as "Step Up" have been earning 84% of their revenue from 3D, when compared to earlier movies such as "Avatar" at 80% and "Final Destination: Death Trip" at 73%.

Increased UK takings

In the UK, box office takings last year increased by 8% to a total of £1.076 billion on the back of the success of 3D releases such as "Toy Story 3" and "Alice in Wonderland". The UK's 725 cinemas have some 3,650 screens, of which around 700 have digital projection systems, most of which can show 3D films.

Asia outstrips even the US

If you want to see the most dramatic growth from the 3D movie phenomenon, you need to look east. In Hong Kong, the first half of 2010 saw box office receipts increase by 20%, while ticket sales were actually down by 2%. In South Korea, the story was similar, with a 15% increase in revenue on 4% fewer admissions. The biggest growth of all, of course, was in China. Box office takings doubled year-on-year, with "Avatar" alone accounting for 60% of the increase. Premium priced tickets for "Alice in Wonderland" and "Clash of the Titans" also made significant contributions. In Japan, box office revenues increased by 7.7% on an admissions rise of just 0.6%.

'True 3D' or 2D to 3D conversion?

The worldwide success of "Avatar" has appeared to whet the appetite of audiences for movies that have been conceived as a 3D experience, rather than made as a 3D version of what was originally conceived as a 2D movie.

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A two year college located in Charleston, South Carolina, in United States, Trident Technical College serves Charleston, Dorchester and Berkeley in South Carolina. It is the part of South Carolina Technical College System.

Campus
Every semester around 12,000 students working for college transfer with associate degrees and technical associate degrees, diplomas and certificate come out of the college. Main campus of the college is located at 7000 Rivers Avenue, North Charleston, SC 29406 and the Palmer campus is located at 66 Columbus St. Charleston, SC 29403. Other campuses are Berkeley Campus and St. Paul Parish Site Campus.

Programs Offered
Programs offered by TTC includes Aeronautical Studies, business technology, community family as well as child studies, visual arts, culinary arts, film media, hospitality, tourism, law, nursing, science, mathematics, and allied science. Popular degrees and majors offered include physical science, security and protective service, public administration, personal and culinary services, visual and performing arts, communication and journalism, business, management, and marketing etc. In addition, the college offers extensive health study programs.

Brief History
With the merger of Berkeley Charleston-Dorchester Technical Education Center with the Palmer College, the Trident Technical College was born in 1973. Berkeley center started with two buildings in 1964 and was expanded into the Trident College in 1973. Berkeley campus in 1982 and Palmer campus in 1986 were added. 147 acres of land was purchased during 1993-94 near downtown Charleston and complex for economic development was set up in 2005. St. Paul 's Parish site campus was set up in 2008.

Unique Features
Accelerated program, cross registration, double major, distance learning, dual enrollment for high school students, independent study, internship, and ESL are some of the unique options offered by the college.

Admission
Open admission policy is followed by the college. Transfer students are not ignored. However both SAT and ACT scores are important.

Student Support
Trident Technical College provides extensive disability supports along with remedial instructions, study skill assistance and tutoring and counseling in various aspects. Counseling includes adult student services, alcohol and drugs abuse, career and academic counseling and employment service. For details one can visit the college directory at the state university website.

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Star Wars

Lego Star Wars has quite the interesting history when it comes to the fact that the game entertains children everywhere. It all stems from the popular plastic building blocks that can be used to build cars, space ships, buildings, and whatever a child's imagination can think up. Anyone under the age of 60 has most likely played with Legos, so that means that many of the children playing with them today have grandparents who once used their imaginations to do the same exact thing. The Lego saga began in 1932 in Billund, Denmark, where a carpenter by the name of Ole Kirk Kristiansen began a new business that made wooden toys, stepladders, and ironing boards. What no one realized at that time was that Legos had been born.

It was in 1934 that Kristiansen created the name Lego, which is derived from "leg godt," which are the Danish words for "play well." However, in Latin, the word Lego means "I put together." Unfortunately in 1942, the plant burned down and Kristiansen had to rebuild, but just two years later, Kristiansen's plant purchased an injection molding machine that created plastic toys, but he was yet to invent the building blocks.

It was in 1949 that the Automatic Binding Brick was introduced for sale only in Denmark and looked like a tiny plastic brick with eight or four studs. However, by 1950 the Lego accounted for half of the company's business. From then on, the Lego began spreading around the world and through the years had developed various themes such as sets that focused just on building cars or on just building buildings. The possibilities were endless.

However, the Legos of today are much different than the Legos both we and our parents played with. Our children are playing with Lego theme parks, there are Lego themed movies, and there are even Lego themed video games that are based off of particular toy lines created by Lego. One of those toy lines is Lego Star Wars, which later led to the Lego Star Wars video game. The video game was first released in 2005 and is based during the prequel trilogy to the actual Star Wars Trilogy that began in the late 1970's and early 1980's. However, the game was actually released a month before the last of the Star Wars films was released.

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