Distributed by 20th Century Fox, “Meet the Spartans” was released in the United States on January 25, 2008. It is a parody film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer.
XL Recordings released “19” on January 28, 2008. It is the debut studio album of Adele Adkins, who is mononymously known as Adele.
“Meet the Spartans”
Friedberg and Seltzer produced “Meet the Spartans” with Peter Safran. It is a parody of the 2006 epic historical action film “300”, which was written by Kurt Johnstad, Michael B. Gordon and Zack Snyder and directed by Snyder.
The parody film stars Sean Maguire as King Leonidas with Zachary Dylan Smith playing the younger version of the character. Also in the cast are Carmen Electra, Diedrich Bader, Ike Barinholtz, Jareb Dauplaise, Ken Davitian, Kevin Sorbo, Travis Van Winkle and Nicole Parker as Britney Spears, Ellen DeGeneres, Paris Hilton and Paulo Abdul.
Maguire was born in Ilford, London, England, United Kingdom. On April 18, 2007, he turned 31.
“19”
Born in Tottenham, London, Adele turned 19 on May 5, 2007. Her father Marc Evans is Welsh and her mother Penny Adkins is English.
After separating from Evans in 1990, Penny singlehandedly raised Adele. In May 2006, Adele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon, London.
In June 2006, Jonathan Dickins of September Management became Adele’s manager. Her debut studio album has 12 songs including “Hometown Glory”, which was released on October 22, 2007 in the U.K.
- “Daydreamer”
- “Best for Last”
- “Chasing Pavements”
- “Cold Shoulder”
- “Crazy for You”
- “Melt My Heart to Stone”
- “First Love”
- “Right as Rain”
- “Make You Feel My Love”
- “My Same”
- “Tired”
- “Homegrown Glory”
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