Shark Tale the world, measuring more than six stories tall and over . It required of air to inflate and more than 50 tons of water for stabilization. The premiere was attended by 6,000 visitors, including Will Smith, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, and Michael Imperioli. Jeffrey Katzenberg, the executive producer of the film, explained that they "wanted to find a unique way to introduce this movie to the world. We needed a big idea. … More than anything, we are in showbusiness. This is the show part." "Shark Tale" opened at #1 with $47.6 million, which was, at the time, the
The Plowman's Tale Chaucer's "Works". It is a decidedly Wycliffite anti-fraternal tale that was written "ca." 1400 and circulated among the Lollards. Sometimes titled "The Complaynte of the Plowman", it is 1380 lines long, composed of eight-line stanzas (ababbcbc with some variations suggesting interpolation) like Chaucer's "Monk's Tale". There is no clear internal/design connection in "The Plowman's Tale" with Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" or "Piers Plowman". Anthony Wotton, who was probably the editor of the 1606 edition of "The Plowman's Tale", suggested that "The Plowman's Tale" makes a reference to "Jack Upland" or, more likely, "Pierce the Ploughman's Crede", since main character in "The