Zodiac is a 2007 American mystery-thriller film directed by David
Fincher and based on Robert Graysmith's non-fiction book of the same
name. The Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. joint production stars
Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey, Jr. Zodiac tells the
story of the hunt for a notorious serial killer known as "Zodiac" who
killed in and around the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s
and early 1970s, leaving several victims in his wake and taunting
police with letters and ciphers mailed to newspapers. The case remains
one of San Francisco's most infamous unsolved crimes. Fincher,
screenwriter James Vanderbilt, and producer Brad Fischer spent 18
months conducting their own investigation and research into the Zodiac
murders. During filming, Fincher employed the digital Thomson Viper
Filmstream camera to shoot the film. Contrary to popular belief, Zodiac
was not shot entirely digitally; traditional high-speed film cameras
were used for slow-motion murder sequences. Reviews for the film were
highly positive; however, it did not perform strongly at the North
American box office. It performed better in other parts of the world,
earning $84 million, with a budget of $65 million spent on its
production.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1081:
The Komnenian dynasty came to full power when Alexios I Komnenos was
crowned Byzantine Emperor.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexios_I_Komnenos>
1566:
A covenant of nobles in the Habsburg Netherlands presented Governor
Margaret of Parma a petition to suspend the Spanish Inquisition in the
Netherlands.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_Nobles>
1942:
Second World War: Carrier-based aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy
conduct the Easter Sunday Raid to disrupt the war effort of
Commonwealth nations and force the British Eastern Fleet to leave Asian
waters.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Sunday_Raid>
1992:
Bosnian War: Unidentified gunmen killed two people while firing upon a
large crowd of anti-war protesters in Sarajevo, marking the start of
the four-year-long Siege of Sarajevo.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Sarajevo>
2010:
An explosion at a coal mine in West Virginia killed 29 miners in the
United States' worst mining disaster in 40 years.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Big_Branch_Mine_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
reptilianness (n):
The quality of the embodiment of reptile characteristics
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reptilianness>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
At the door of life, by the gate of breath,
There are worse things waiting for men than death;
Death could not
sever my soul and you,
As these have severed your soul from me.
--Algernon Charles Swinburne
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Algernon_Charles_Swinburne>