Dredd is a 2012 science fiction action film directed by Pete Travis and written and produced by Alex Garland, released first on 11 July at the San Diego Comic-Con, and worldwide that September. Karl Urban (pictured) stars as Judge Dredd (based on the 2000 AD comic book character), a law enforcer given the power of judge, jury and executioner in a vast, post- apocalyptic metropolis called Mega-City One. Dredd and his apprentice partner, Judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby), are instructed to bring order to a 200-storey high-rise block of flats and deal with its resident drug lord, Ma-Ma (Lena Headey). Produced by the British studio DNA Films, Dredd began principal photography, using 3D cameras throughout, in November 2010. Filming took place on practical sets and in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Critics were generally positive about the film's visual effects, casting and action, but found it too violent, and out of touch with the satire of the comic strip. It earned just over $41 million at the box office on an estimated budget of $30–45 million, but saw greater success following its home release, and has since been recognised as a cult film.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1405:
Marking the start of Ming China's treasure voyages, Admiral Zheng He's expeditionary fleet set sail towards foreign regions on the South China Sea and Indian Ocean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_voyages
1848:
London Waterloo station, Britain's busiest railway station by passenger usage, was opened by the London and South Western Railway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Waterloo_station
1936:
New York City's Triborough Bridge, the "biggest traffic machine ever built", opened to traffic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triborough_Bridge
1960:
To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee, featuring themes of racial injustice and the destruction of innocence in the American Deep South, was first published. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
2011:
An explosion at the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base killed 13 people, including the head of the Cyprus Navy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelos_Florakis_Naval_Base_explosion
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
russet: 1. Having a reddish-brown color. 2. (archaic) Gray or ash-colored. 3. (botany) Having a rough skin that is reddish-brown or greyish; russeted. 4. Rustic, homespun, coarse, plain. 5. The condition of leather when its treatment is complete, but it is not yet colored (stained) and polished. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/russet
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
The duties of man consist in alternate action and meditation, mutually aiding and relieving each other; and both, directed with undeviating aim, to the progressive improvement of himself and his fellow creatures. Heaven has given him in charge, to promote the happiness and well-being of himself, his wife, his children, his kindred, his neighbors, his fellow citizens, his country, and his kind; and the great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community, that this gradation of duties, may be made to harmonize in all its parts — that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same. --John Quincy Adams https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams
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