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28 Days Later: The Soundtrack Album

The original score was composed by John Murphy, and tracks from Brian Eno, Grandaddy and Blue States which featured in the movie also appear on the album.

Aero Portuguesa

The AP route from Lisbon to Casablanca became world famous for the movie Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.

Ahmad Sohrab

Later, while living in Los Angeles, he helped write a scenario for a movie dealing with Mary Magdalene, for the actress Valeska Surratt.

Barry Tourist Railway

Some parts of the line, particularly around the Plymouth Road/Barry Island area, were used for several scenes in the Doctor Who episodes "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances" in January 2005.

Bobby Bowden

Bowden reportedly became emotional while viewing the movie We Are Marshall, and has said that he was the original candidate for the Marshall head coaching job ultimately filled by crash victim Rick Tolley.

Bouza Department

The major (unpaved) road in the area -- RN16 runs through Bouza town from Madaoua to the south to Keita in the north, before reaching Tahoua in the northwest of the Region.

Calumet, Lexington

Its boundaries are Viley Road to the west, Versailles Road to the south, New Circle Road to the north, and Wolf Run Creek to the east.

Charlton Park, Greenwich

It is situated east of Charlton village and Charlton House, and south of Charlton Park Road (the B210, linking Woolwich and Blackheath).

Chicago 16

The single would also be included in its lengthier form "Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away" (featuring the hard rocking 'Get Away' tag) on the "Summer Lovers" movie soundtrack.

Darch, Western Australia

The 352 route, which enters the suburb and serves the central section, links to Whitfords railway station; the 450, running along Kingsway, links to Warwick railway station, whilst the 372 route, which terminates on Landsdale Road in the suburb's southwestern corner, links to Mirrabooka bus station.

E53

European route E53, a road connecting Plzeň, Czech Republic and München, Germany

Eminent domain

In Stephen King's novel Roadwork, published in 1981, the protagonist's house is purchased to make way for a road extension.

Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby

The movie has been reaired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang usually as part of Mother's Day special programming.

Horse's Neck

In the 1935 Fred Astaire movie Top Hat, Helen Broderick orders "un altro Horse’s Neck" in a stylized Venetian canal cocktail lounge.

Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies

Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies (Arabic: كلية ابن سينا الأهلية للعلوم الطبية) is a private medical university in the Al mahjar road Ghulail area of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Iza, Now!

"Kotoba yori Taisetsu na Mono" is the theme song of the drama Stand Up!! starring Arashi member Kazunari Ninomiya, Anne Suzuki, NEWS member Tomohisa Yamashita, Shun Oguri and Hiroki Narimiya, while "Pikanchi Double" is the theme song of the movie Pikanchi: Life is Hard Dakara Happy, the sequel to Pikanchi: Life is Hard Dakedo Happy.

Japanese submarine I-19

I-19 was the number of the submarine, commanded by Toshiro Mifune, in the Steven Spielberg movie, 1941.

Jonathan LaPaglia

in 2013 published that he will star in the movie "The Reckoning" alongside Luke Hemsworth, He is also a sports enthusiast and model.

Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

To these ends, Klosterman engages on an "epic" road trip, visiting the death sites of rock stars such as Duane Allman and Kurt Cobain.

Klaus Dierks

Dierks wrote a number of scientific publications including his doctorate on the development of an improved road system in Namibia and publications on history and the settlement of ǁKhauxaǃnas in the Great Karas Mountains.

Nolan Gerard Funk

He received his first break when cast, opposite Tammin Sursok, in the starring role of the Columbia Records/Nickelodeon movie Spectacular!.

Ontario Highway 409

Instead of continuing northwest from Highway 427 and through Malton's four-corners at Derry Road and Airport Road towards Brampton, it would curve southwest and provide access to the developing Pearson Airport.

Peace thru Vandalism

The song gained renewed interest when it was mentioned in the 2002 Vin Diesel movie xXx.

Peter Andrew Jones

He has also produced images for film publicity, creating the movie posters for The Sword and The Sorceror and Alligator, contributed during the early 1980s to television shows including BBC comedy The Two Ronnies Show and the BBC's '80s sci-fi adaptation of The Tripods, and has produced cover illustrations for video game publishers such as US Gold, Psygnosis and Virgin Interactive.

Pierre-Octave Ferroud

He died in 1936, when he was decapitated in a road accident in Debrecen, in Hungary.

Pigs in a Polka

Short clips from this cartoon can be seen in the opening credits of the Futurama episode Mars University; in the Everybody Hates Chris episode "Everybody Hates Gretzky"; and in the movie Training Day.

Plane Crazy

In Porco Rosso, in a theater in Milan, Porco watches a movie which has references to vintage cartoons.

PowerDirector

Other notable new features include direct links to Flickr and Freesound, the option to apply multiple fixes at once using Magic Clean, and beat detection technology – which syncs audio with movie content.

Richard Gilliam

He devised the Movie Links online game in 1990, and it was played extensively on GEnie four years before the quite similar Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game was promoted in 1994.

Robert Graeme Galbraith

His other great interests included cycling, where he was a member of a road-racing club, and Jazz music of which he remained a dedicated and lifelong fan.

Sacred Heart Malankara Catholic Church, Mylapra

Sacred Heart Malankara Syrian Catholic Church or referred as S H Church is located in the village of Mylapra, near Pathanamthitta on the road side of the Main Eastern Highway in the Indian state of Kerala.

Seasons of Love

The Philippine Idol Top 6 performed the song as the opening number to the show's movie/musical themed performance night on November 19, 2006.

Silent Movie

They recruit James Caan despite a disastrous lunch in his broken trailer, and then torture Liza Minnelli at the commissary (fortunately, she already badly wanted to be in the movie).

Sökarna

The Swedish hip-hop group Infinite Mass gained public attention after their appearance in the movie with their controversial song "Area Turns Red", also known as "Shoot the Racist".

Srikanth Addala

After working on many movies as an assistant director, Sreekanth directed his first movie Kotha Bangaru Lokam with Varun Sandesh and Shweta Basu Prasad.

Steve Rushton

His first major boost of his career was with Disney Channel's original series The Suite Life on Deck to which he sang the opening theme, "Livin' the Suite Life" Shortly after, he released his first single "Emergency" which was included in the soundtrack for the Disney movie, Race to Witch Mountain.

Sweethope Loughs

At the west end of Sweethope Loughs is the first bridge, actually a culvert, on the River Wansbeck and crossed by the minor road going west from Knowesgate to the A68 road.

Tajikistan insurgency

The incident occurred, when a vehicle was stopped at a military checkpoint on the road between Garm and Dushanbe.

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

The crime takes place at the Chateau du Glandier, located in the forest, near the road leading to Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois and Montlhéry.

Thomas D

Outside Germany, he is probably best known for Wish (Komm zu mir) which he performed with Franka Potente on the soundtrack of the movie Run Lola Run.

Tomorrow Come Today

The track "High Wire Escape Artist" appeared on the soundtrack for the 2003 movie, Daredevil.

Tongariro Power Scheme

State Highway 41 travels over the top of the bridge, with the Tokaanu Stream, an important trout spawning stream, running under the road surface.

U.S. Virgin Islands Highway 20

Highway 20, or North Shore Road is a road on St. John.

Virginia State Route 225

East of its intersection with Witchduck Road is historic Old Donation Episcopal Church.

Vungwi Primary School

It is along the road between Cha Cha Cha Township or, Donga Town Ship and Tongogara High School in Shurugwi Rural Areas under the chieftainship of Chief Nhema.The school was known for its academic excellency during the late 80s and early 90s when it was used to attain a pass rate of 100% on the national grade 7 examinations set by the Ministry of Education, Zimbabwe.

Wann wird's mal wieder richtig Sommer?

Together with the movie producer Andreas Habermeyer she covered the hit from Rudi Carrell for the Oktoberfest 2009 in Munich.

Western Road Liners

Western Road Liners is an Australian bus and coach company operating route, school and charter services in Parkes.

Whitehawk

The Community Centre, along with a new library, including a toy library for children was opened by Princess Alexandra in November 1973 in Whitehawk Road.

World University Cycling Championship – Road Cycling

World University Cycling Championship – Road Cycling are the world university championship races for road bicycle racing.

Zubeldia

Joseba Zubeldia (born in Usurbil, Basque Country), Spanish professional road bicycle racer


see also

Katrin Ottarsdóttir

The road movie Bye Bye Bluebird received top honors in 1999 at Nordische Filmtage and the Tiger Award in 2000 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Return to Bolivia

Related as a road-movie, the camera follows a pair of Bolivians with their three children, traveling to the edge of the boundary between Jujuy Province and Tarija, and then go to a village in the highlands between Oruro and La Paz.

Road Movie trilogy

The style of aimless wandering in the Road Movie trilogy influenced other directors including American director Jim Jarmusch (Stranger Than Paradise) who worked with Wenders on The State of Things.