query: director the matrix reloaded
supports: The 2003 Cannes Film Festival started on May 14 and ran until May 25. The Palme d'Or went to the American film "Elephant" by Gus Van Sant based on the Columbine High School massacre. Short film plots.
  "Final Flight of the "Osiris"".
  "Final Flight of the "Osiris"" was written by The Wachowskis and directed by Andy Jones, with CG-animation production and design by Square Pictures, this segment is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for "Sci-Fi Violence, Sensuality and Language". The short is a direct prequel leading into the events of "The Matrix Reloaded". The Matrix Revolutions is a 2003 AmericanAustralian science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers. It was the third installment of the "Matrix" trilogy, released six months following "The Matrix Reloaded". The film was released simultaneously in 60 countries on November 5, 2003. While it is the final film in the series, the "Matrix" storyline is continued in "The Matrix Online". It was the second live-action film to be released in both regular and IMAX theaters at the same time. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (known professionally as Warner Bros. Pictures, often referred to as Warner Bros. and Warner Brothers and abbreviated as WB) is an American entertainment company, film studio and film distributor that is a division of Time Warner and is headquartered in Burbank, California. It is one of the "Big Six" major American film studios. Enter the Matrix is the first video game based on "The Matrix" series of films. Its story was concurrent with that of "The Matrix Reloaded", and featured over an hour of original footage, directed by The Wachowskis and starring the cast of the film trilogy, produced exclusively for the game. It sold one million copies in its first eighteen days of release, 2.5 million over the first six weeks, and ultimately 5 million copies. The Matrix Online (officially abbreviated as MxO) was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) initially developed by Monolith Productions and later, a few months after launch, by Sony Online Entertainment. It was billed as an official continuation of the storyline of the "The Matrix" films, as The Wachowskis, the franchise's creators, gave their blessing to the notion of gamers "inherit[ing] the storyline". The game began closed beta-testing in June 2004 which was then opened for people who pre-ordered the game in November 2004. Warner Bros. and Sega officially released "MxO" on March 22, 2005 in the United States. It was released in Europe on April 15, 2005. In June 2005 it was announced that Warner Bros. sold the rights to the game to Sony Online Entertainment, and the game's development and operation was transitioned to the latter on August 15, 2005. Sony Online Entertainment shut down operation of the game on July 31, 2009. Lana Wachowski (formerly Laurence "Larry" Wachowski, born June 21, 1965) and Lilly Wachowski (formerly Andrew Paul "Andy" Wachowski, born December 29, 1967) are sister American film directors, screenwriters, and producers. They are both transwomen. Known together professionally as The Wachowskis and formerly as The Wachowski Brothers, the pair made their directing debut in 1996 with "Bound", and reached fame with their second film "The Matrix" (1999), a major box office success for which they won the Saturn Award for Best Director. They wrote and directed its two sequels: "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions" (both in 2003), and were deeply involved in the writing and production of other works in the franchise. Time Warner, Inc. (also known as AOL Time Warner from 2001-2003; stylized as TimeWarner) is an American multinational media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is currently the world's third largest entertainment company in terms of revenue, after Comcast and The Walt Disney Company. It was also once the world's largest media conglomerate. Time Warner was first founded in 1990 with the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications. The current company consists largely of the assets of the former Warner Communications (as well as HBO, a Time Inc. subsidiary prior to the merger), and the assets of Turner Broadcasting (which was acquired by the company in 1996). Time Warner currently has major operations in film and television, with a limited amount in publishing operations. Among its most popular assets are HBO, Turner Broadcasting System, The CW Television Network, Warner Bros., CNN, DC Comics, and as of August 2016, Hulu, owning 10%. In the past, other major divisions of Time Warner included Time Inc., AOL, Time Warner Cable, Warner Books and Warner Music Group. All of these operations were either sold to other investors or spun off as independent companies from 2004 to 2014. The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 American - Australian science fiction action film , the first sequel to The Matrix , and the second installment in The Matrix trilogy , written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers . It premiered on May 7 , 2003 , in Westwood , Los Angeles , California , and went on general release by Warner Bros. in North American theaters on May 15 , 2003 , and around the world during the latter half of that month . It was also screened out of competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival . The video game Enter the Matrix , which was released on May 15 , and a collection of nine animated shorts , The Animatrix , which was released on June 3 , supported and expanded the storyline of the film . The Matrix Revolutions , which completes the story , was released six months after Reloaded , in November 2003 . Carrie-Anne Moss (born August 21, 1967) is a Canadian actress, best known for her role of Trinity in "The Matrix" trilogy of films beginning with the sci-fi action film "The Matrix" (1999), her breakthrough film. She has starred in the neo-noir-psychological thriller film "Memento", directed by Christopher Nolan, the sci-fi thriller "Red Planet", and the romantic drama "Chocolat" (all 2000), the indie drama "Snow Cake" (2006), the Hitchcockian mystery horror-thriller film "Disturbia" (2007) and the controversial suspense thriller "Unthinkable" (2010). Moss currently stars as Jeri Hogarth in several series of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, mainly "Jessica Jones". IMAX (an acronym for Image maximum) is a motion picture film format and a set of cinema projection standards developed in Canada by Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr, and William C. Shaw. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems. Since 2002, some feature films have been converted (or upgraded) into IMAX format for displaying in IMAX theatres and some have also been partially shot in IMAX. The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction film written and directed by The Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano. It depicts a dystopian future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality called "the Matrix", created by sentient machines to subdue the human population, while their bodies' heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. Computer programmer "Neo" learns this truth and is drawn into a rebellion against the machines, which involves other people who have been freed from the "dream world".
candidates: andy jones christopher nolan graeme ferguson gus van sant lana wachowski the wachowskis walt disney
answer: the wachowskis