Night at the Museum is a 2006 fantasy-comedy film directed by Shawn Levy and written by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. It is based on the 1993 children's book of the same name by Croatian illustrator Milan Trenc and is the first film in the Night at the Museum series. The film stars Ben Stiller as Larry Daley, a divorced father who applies for a job as a night watchman at New York City's American Museum of Natural History and subsequently discovers that the exhibits, animated by a magical Egyptian artifact, come to life at night. 20th Century Fox released the film on December 22, 2006, and it grossed $574 million.
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Plot[edit]Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) is a divorced man who has been unable to keep a stable job and has failed at many business ventures, including being an inventor. His invention of 'the Snapper', which does exactly what the clapper does, has failed because there is a significant amount of people who can't snap, and therefore, can't use it. His former wife (Kim Raver) believes that he is a bad example to their ten-year-old son Nick (Jake Cherry), and Larry fears that Nick respects his future overweight stepfather, bondtrader Don (Paul Rudd), more than him. Cecil Fredricks (Dick Van Dyke), an elderly night security guard about to retire from the American Museum of Natural History, hires Larry despite his unpromising résumé. The museum, which is rapidly losing money, plans to replace Cecil and two colleagues Gus (Mickey Rooney) and Reginald (Bill Cobbs) with one guard. Cecil gives Larry an instruction booklet on how to handle museum security, and advises Larry to leave some of the lights on and warns him not to let anything 'in..or out'. Once night falls, Larry discovers that the exhibits come to life, including a playful Tyrannosaurus skeleton nicknamed 'Rexy' who behaves like a dog; a mischievous capuchin monkey named Dexter which steals Larry's keys and tears up his instruction booklet; rival miniature civilizations led by Old West cowboy Jedediah (Owen Wilson) and Roman general Octavius (Steve Coogan); limb-ripping Attila the Hun (Patrick Gallagher); an Easter IslandMoai (Brad Garrett) obsessed with 'gum-gum' who addresses Larry as Dum-Dum; and a wax model of Theodore Roosevelt (Robin Williams). Roosevelt explains that since an Egyptianartifactâthe Golden Tablet of Pharaoh Ahkmenrahâcame to the museum in 1952, all of the exhibits come to life each night. If the exhibits are outside the museum during sunrise, they turn to dust. Roosevelt helps Larry by restoring order, but only for one night. Larry quits the next morning, saying to the three guards he doesn't want a job that is life-threatening. However, he sees Nick coming to see him at work the next morning, where Larry offers Nick a tour of the museum. After seeing Nick's interest in his job, Larry decides to remain as a night guard. When Larry tells Cecil about how Dexter tore up his instructions, Cecil advises him to study history to prepare himself for his nightly duties. He also learns history from a museum docent Rebecca Hutman (Carla Gugino), who is writing a dissertation on Sacagawea (Mizuo Peck), but does not feel she knows enough about her subject. The next night, Larry uses what he has learned to better control the exhibits. However, things go wrong anyway and four Neanderthals set fire to a display and some other things. One of the Neanderthal turns to dust when he leaves the museum at dawn. The next morning, museum director Dr. McPhee (Ricky Gervais) almost fires Larry after what happened to the Neanderthal exhibit. He offers Rebecca a meeting with Sacagawea, but she believes that he is mocking her and the museum. Larry brings Nick to the museum to show him the exhibits, but none of them are alive. They find Cecil, Gus, and Reginald stealing the tablet and other valuable objects. Like the exhibits, the guards receive enhanced vitality from the artifact; wishing to retain their youth, health and to fund their retirements, the three plan to frame Larry for the thefts. They have also disabled the tablet to stop the exhibits from interfering. Nick reactivates the artifact, but Cecil locks him and his father in the Egyptian room and flees with the tablet. Larry releases Ahkmenrah's mummy (Rami Malek) from his sarcophagus. The pharaoh speaks English from many years as an exhibit at Cambridge, and helps Larry and Nick escape. The three find the other exhibits fighting; Larry confronts Attila, realizing his behavior came from being hurt a long time ago, and convinces them to work together. The exhibits capture Gus and Reginald without difficulty, but Cecil escapes by stagecoach with Larry, Nick, Ahkmenrah, Jed, Octavius, Rexy, and Atilla the Hun in pursuit in Central Park, where they stop him and regain the tablet. Jed and Octavius are presumably killed when their remote-controlled Hummer crashes, but they somehow survive. Rebecca sees the exhibits return to the museum before sunrise and realizes that Larry was telling the truth; he introduces her to Sacagawea. Dr. McPhee fires Larry again after seeing news reports of the strange events around the museum & dash; such as cave paintings in the museum's subway station, dinosaur footprints in Central Park, and cavemen sightings. However, upon seeing how much these events raised attendance, he thinks better of it and gives Larry his job back. Larry, Nick, and the exhibits celebrate the following night. During the credits, it was shown that Cecil, Gus and Reginald weren't handed over to the authorities and are now working as janitors at the museum. Cast[edit]Humans[edit]
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Production[edit]The building featured in the film, which was constructed on a sound stage in Burnaby, British Columbia, is based on the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, external shots of which were used in the movie.[3] Trainers spent several weeks training Crystal, who plays the troublemaking monkey Dexter, to slap and bite Stiller in the film. Robin Williams' Theodore Roosevelt costume closely resembles that of John Wayne's character in The Shootist.[4] Autocad map 2000i download. Director Shawn Levy credited Ben Stiller for the ensemble cast: 'When actors hear that Ben Stiller is in a movie they want to work with him. It['s] a high-water mark and it absolutely draws actors in and I'm convinced that's a big part of why we got this cast.'[5] Music[edit]Songs[edit]
Ben Stiller claimed that he watched Tom Cruise in the Mission: Impossible films to learn how to imitate his running technique, shown here as Stiller portraying his film character running for dear life from the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton (Rexy).[5]
Score[edit]Alan Silvestri replaced John Ottman as score composer.[6] Silvestri's score was used for the teaser trailer of Horton Hears a Who!
Track list[edit]Varèse Sarabande released a soundtrack album of the score on December 19, 2006.[7] Jeena laga ho song mp3 free. All tracks written by Alan Silvestri.
Release[edit]Night at the Museum had its premiere in New York City on December 17, 2006, on December 22, 2006 in the United States, December 26, 2006 in UK, January 12, 2007 in Brazil, on February 14, 2007 in China and on March 17, 2007 in Japan.[8] The film was released under the title of 'Noche en el museo' in Spain, 'Una note al museo' in Italy, 'La nuit au musée' in France, 'ÐоÑÑ Ð² мÑзее' in Russia and 'Uma Noite no Museu' in Brazil.[8] Box office[edit]At the end of its box office run, Night at the Museum earned a gross of $250.9 million in the US and Canada and $323.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $574.5 million.[2] It was the fifth highest-grossing film of 2006 and also the highest-grossing film worldwide of the trilogy.[9] It was the highest-grossing film in its opening weekend, grossing $30.8 million plating in 3,686 theaters, with a $8,258 per-theater average. For the four-day Christmas holiday weekend, it took in $42.2 million.[2] The movie was also released in IMAX large screen format, often on site at museums of science or natural history such as the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. In its second weekend, Night at the Museum expanded into 83 more theaters and took in approximately $36.7 million, out-grossing its opening weekend. It maintained the top position in its third week, with an additional $23.7 million.[10] During its opening weekend of December 15, 2006, the film grossed a figure of estimated $5 million, with the highest debut coming from South Korea ($5.04 million).[11] The biggest market in the other territories were the UK, Japan, South Korea, and Germany, where it grossed $40.8 million, $30 million, $25.7 million, $22.9 million.[12] Critical reaction[edit]On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 43% based on 132 reviews and an average rating of 5.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads, 'Parents might call this either a spectacle-filled adventure or a shallow and vapid CG-fest, depending on whether they choose to embrace this on the same level as their kids'.[13] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 48 out of 100 based on 28 critics, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'.[14] James Berardinelli of Reelviews gave it 2 stars out of 4, and commented on Stiller's performance by stating 'It might be fair to give Ben Stiller an 'A' for effort, but to call what he does in this movie 'acting' is a misnomer. He does a lot of running around, occasionally falling down or bumping into things.'[15] One positive review by William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, gave it a B-, and stated that the film was 'Out to impress and delight a family audience with the pageantry of human and natural history, and that's a surprisingly worthy ambition for a Hollywood comedy.'[16] In a case of life imitating art, museum officials at the American Museum of Natural History have credited the film for increasing the number of visitors during the holiday season by almost 20%. According to a museum official, between December 22, 2006, and January 2, 2007, there were 50,000 more visitors than during the same period the prior year.[17]CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave the film an average grade of 'A-' on an A+ to F scale.[18] Home media[edit]The film was released on a 2-Disc DVD edition in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2007. It was released on 1-Disc and 2-Disc DVD editions and Blu-ray Disc format on April 24, 2007 elsewhere. The film became the first non-Disney film to be reviewed by Ultimate Disney (now known as DVDizzy.com), due to the website dealing with other studios besides Disney.[19][20] Night Of The Museum Cast And CharactersAs of 6 December 2009, the film has sold 9,191,694 DVDs and grossed $153,566,058 in DVD sales.[21] Cast Night At The MuseumAwards[edit]
Sequels[edit]The first installment in the trilogy, Night at the Museum was followed by a sequel titled Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian,[25] which was released on May 22, 2009 in North America. The third and final installment, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, was released on December 19, 2014 in North America.[26] In 2016, The Hollywood Reporter stated that the Alibaba Pictures Group intended to remake the film.[27] References[edit]
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20th Century Fox unveiled seven character posters for next month's Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb yesterday, and for those who just came for the posters they will be after the page break/jump. Six of the seven of the posters, which of course highlight a specific main or supporting character, uses some kind of play on the word "night" in a fashion that somewhat acknowledges their character in some fashion. What's also notable is that there is just one female in the seven offered posters (one of which contains two male supporting characters), implying that the ratio among main characters for this PG-rated kids-centric adventure fantasy is 12.5% female. For the purpose of the advertising, and presumably the final product, Rebel Wilson isn't just providing comic relief but also standing in for the gender that makes up 51% of the country. Now the filmmakers of Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb aren't evil or malicious, nor does said demographic split inherently stand out in today's marketplace. And that in itself is the issue. Here we have a mainstream, kid-friendly big-budget studio fantasy film that didn't seem to think that they should have more than one major female character in the mix. That's par for the course.
Yes I know I've discussed this before, but in my mind this is the biggest problem in terms of gender representation in mainstream Hollywood product. It's not just a matter of having more male-centric films in the marketplace than female-centric ones by a wide margin, although that is in itself an issue. The secondary problem, arguably a more insidious one, is the rather paltry representation of female characters outside of the so-called "lead role." Okay, you want a Night at the Museum film that focuses on Ben Stiller and his relationship with his son? Fine, that's the artistic choice that was made in 2006 and it's a valid one. But over the last three films, we have seen exactly one major female character in somewhat of a spotlight role each time out. The first film had Carla Gugino as a potential new love interest for Stiller's hapless security guard, the sequel had Amy Adams as Amelia Earhart, while this sequel has Ms. Phillips as a London-based security guard who (judging solely from the trailers) spends most of the movie in a booth-like station. The only other major female character of note is Sacajawea, played by Mizuo Peck. She was primarily a would-be love interest for Robin Williams's Teddy Roosevelt in the first film, and I can't speak for her role in the sequel as I never saw it, but while she is featured in the trailers as a tag-along (she has not one line in any of the footage), she is not fit to have her own character poster among the seven highlighted men. Again, I don't mean to highlight Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb as being somehow "worse" but am merely using it as an example of what is frusteratingly "normal." I am not the first person to use phrases like "Smurfette Syndrome" or "Minority Feisty" when discussing films, even films technically targeted at very young children (think The LEGO Movie, where only WildStyle got a character poster and no other female character had more than a few lines of dialogue), that have one or two female characters to represent the gender as a whole. The end result is the same. The target audience, specifically kids who flock to these films, come to see a male-centric world where there is but one or two major female characters who are wholly defined by the fact that they are a girl in a world of boys. Not every kids film does this. While Big Hero 6 is a boy-centric action fantasy, two of the six major superheroes are female and (this is just as important) both have distinctive and charming personalities that have little to do with their gender and neither of them are viewed as a potential love interest, treated as a sexual object, or placed in gender-specific peril. The film also contains a deluge of other female faces in major and minor roles throughout the picture, creating what resembles a somewhat gender-neutral world even as the main arc is given to a boy and his robot. Warner Bros.' ( The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was filled with major male characters yet had only two major female characters, a doomed girlfriend and a surrogate mother to the male lead. Heck, the filmmakers even changed a scientist character who in the comics was an African-American female to well, Colm Feore. So yes for the moment I am going to pick on Night at the Museum 3: Secret of the Tomb and the (I presume) good and decent people who made it and marketed it, at least from a marketing perspective. The finished product may have more viable female characters and it may give Sacajawea more to do than momentarily look tough (how I'm tired of judging the quality of female characters on the basis of "how much they have to do"). But how these films are marketed as arguably as important as how they are made. It's great when Cartoon Network's Young Justice features a deluge of kick-ass female heroes and villains with varying personalities, but much of that is negated when McDonalds puts out male-centric Happy Meal tie-ins, and then the show gets cancelled allegedly because girls don't buy the action figures (never mind that it's really hard to find female action figures in a toy store) anyway. Night at the Museum 3 is filled with male characters who play quirky characters and say funny things. Surely there was room for more than one female character who could say funny things too. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb may be another variation of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which infamously contained a single female human and single female ape in an otherwise totally male-dominated cast, or it may have more to offer the female gender as a whole beyond barest token representation. But the manner in which films like this, especially films targeting younger moviegoers, darn well matters at least as much as the actual film's respective actual gender demographics. When Fox, and I again emphasize no presumptions of malicious intent nor a delusion that their marketing strategy is out-of-the-ordinary, puts out six male character posters and a single female character poster, the implicit message is that the film has next-to-no female characters and that said character matters only in that she is female. Okay, for those who came just for the posters, thanks for wading through the lecture and the posters are below. '>20th Century Fox unveiled seven character posters for next month's Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb yesterday, and for those who just came for the posters they will be after the page break/jump. Six of the seven of the posters, which of course highlight a specific main or supporting character, uses some kind of play on the word 'night' in a fashion that somewhat acknowledges their character in some fashion. What's also notable is that there is just one female in the seven offered posters (one of which contains two male supporting characters), implying that the ratio among main characters for this PG-rated kids-centric adventure fantasy is 12.5% female. For the purpose of the advertising, and presumably the final product, Rebel Wilson isn't just providing comic relief but also standing in for the gender that makes up 51% of the country. Now the filmmakers of Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb aren't evil or malicious, nor does said demographic split inherently stand out in today's marketplace. And that in itself is the issue. Here we have a mainstream, kid-friendly big-budget studio fantasy film that didn't seem to think that they should have more than one major female character in the mix. That's par for the course. Yes I know I've discussed this before, but in my mind this is the biggest problem in terms of gender representation in mainstream Hollywood product. It's not just a matter of having more male-centric films in the marketplace than female-centric ones by a wide margin, although that is in itself an issue. The secondary problem, arguably a more insidious one, is the rather paltry representation of female characters outside of the so-called 'lead role.' Okay, you want a Night at the Museum film that focuses on Ben Stiller and his relationship with his son? Fine, that's the artistic choice that was made in 2006 and it's a valid one. But over the last three films, we have seen exactly one major female character in somewhat of a spotlight role each time out. The first film had Carla Gugino as a potential new love interest for Stiller's hapless security guard, the sequel had Amy Adams as Amelia Earhart, while this sequel has Ms. Phillips as a London-based security guard who (judging solely from the trailers) spends most of the movie in a booth-like station. The only other major female character of note is Sacajawea, played by Mizuo Peck. She was primarily a would-be love interest for Robin Williams's Teddy Roosevelt in the first film, and I can't speak for her role in the sequel as I never saw it, but while she is featured in the trailers as a tag-along (she has not one line in any of the footage), she is not fit to have her own character poster among the seven highlighted men. Again, I don't mean to highlight Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb as being somehow 'worse' but am merely using it as an example of what is frusteratingly 'normal.' I am not the first person to use phrases like 'Smurfette Syndrome' or 'Minority Feisty' when discussing films, even films technically targeted at very young children (think The LEGO Movie, where only WildStyle got a character poster and no other female character had more than a few lines of dialogue), that have one or two female characters to represent the gender as a whole. The end result is the same. The target audience, specifically kids who flock to these films, come to see a male-centric world where there is but one or two major female characters who are wholly defined by the fact that they are a girl in a world of boys. Not every kids film does this. While Walt Disney'sBig Hero 6 is a boy-centric action fantasy, two of the six major superheroes are female and (this is just as important) both have distinctive and charming personalities that have little to do with their gender and neither of them are viewed as a potential love interest, treated as a sexual object, or placed in gender-specific peril. The film also contains a deluge of other female faces in major and minor roles throughout the picture, creating what resembles a somewhat gender-neutral world even as the main arc is given to a boy and his robot. Warner Bros.' ( Time Warner Inc.) A Dolphin Tale 2 contains several intelligent female characters who have arcs and lives independent of their roles in the life of the young male protagonist. It's not a hard trick to pull off, but it's a bar that an astonishing number of films, even seemingly gender-neutral family films, fail to clear. Heck, a film like The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was filled with major male characters yet had only two major female characters, a doomed girlfriend and a surrogate mother to the male lead. Heck, the filmmakers even changed a scientist character who in the comics was an African-American female to well, Colm Feore. So yes for the moment I am going to pick on Night at the Museum 3: Secret of the Tomb and the (I presume) good and decent people who made it and marketed it, at least from a marketing perspective. The finished product may have more viable female characters and it may give Sacajawea more to do than momentarily look tough (how I'm tired of judging the quality of female characters on the basis of 'how much they have to do'). But how these films are marketed as arguably as important as how they are made. It's great when Cartoon Network's Young Justice features a deluge of kick-ass female heroes and villains with varying personalities, but much of that is negated when McDonalds puts out male-centric Happy Meal tie-ins, and then the show gets cancelled allegedly because girls don't buy the action figures (never mind that it's really hard to find female action figures in a toy store) anyway. Night at the Museum 3 is filled with male characters who play quirky characters and say funny things. Surely there was room for more than one female character who could say funny things too. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb may be another variation of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which infamously contained a single female human and single female ape in an otherwise totally male-dominated cast, or it may have more to offer the female gender as a whole beyond barest token representation. But the manner in which films like this, especially films targeting younger moviegoers, darn well matters at least as much as the actual film's respective actual gender demographics. When Fox, and I again emphasize no presumptions of malicious intent nor a delusion that their marketing strategy is out-of-the-ordinary, puts out six male character posters and a single female character poster, the implicit message is that the film has next-to-no female characters and that said character matters only in that she is female. Okay, for those who came just for the posters, thanks for wading through the lecture and the posters are below. Comments are closed.
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