Headless chickens

Updated 10:45 AM EDT, Thu March 21, 2013 View more photos and read the stranger-than-fiction story at Life.com." onload="this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')" onerror="imageLoadError(this)" height="720" width="1280"> Mike the headless chicken — A rooster named Mike lived for 18 months after losing his head in 1945 at a farm in Fruita, Colorado. According to some accounts, the day the ax fell Mike slept with his head under his wing. The story originally ran in an October 1945 issue of Life magazine. View more photos and read the stranger-than-fiction story at Life.com. Bob Landry/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Mike the headless chicken — Mike hangs out with fellow chickens in his Colorado barnyard in 1945. Bob Landry/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Mike the headless chicken — Mike stands atop a lawn mower. Bob Landry/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Mike the headless chicken — A suitcase holds the tools for feeding Mike, including an eye dropper that was used to provide sustenance through the hole where his head used to be. Bob Landry/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Mike the headless chicken — Promoter Hope Wade took Mike on the road in 1945 and charged money for folks to take a look. Bob Landry/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

He’s become one of Spain’s most successful auteur directors of big audience hits. Now director-writer-producer Alex de la Iglesia (“The Day of the Beast,” “30 Coins”) and producing partner, the actor-producer Carolina Bang (“The Last Circus”), have turned to wayward soccer players for their latest TV outing, HBO Max show “Headless Chickens.” The starting point for this upcoming Spanish series is curiosity, Bang explained at an afternoon Q&A session at the Berlinale Series Market on Tuesday scheduled in the Next from Spain strand. “Alex and I don’t like soccer very much but we have a lot of curiosity about the industry,” said Bang. “You have a lot of young people that became very rich very quickly. It destroys your head.” Indeed, a teaser for “Headless Chickens” featured a beautiful footballer parading in a big, white fluffy coat through a nightclub with women falling at his feat. The swagger was amusing. Popular on Variety “It’s a comedy about the world of soccer,” added Iglesia who says the release date will soon be announced. In approaching his projects, Iglesia keeps his audience in mind. “The most important thing is to think about cinema. All the things we are doing have some relationship to the cinema,” said Iglesia. And he knows how to create tension. “I understand the world of these kinds of people. It’s fun to lose some respect for big soccer players and put them in the real world,” he said. “Our intention is to laugh. We don’t want to offend anyone. But not hide a reality either.” Also taking part in the panel was the executive producer Rodrigo Ruiz- Gallardon, from Banijay Iberia, who talked about the development of the series.. “At the beginning, it was going to be about more characters, but then we focused on Hugo. He’s a

🐔 Nugget Royale is a multiplayer battle royale game with chickens in a factory farm. 🐔 80 chicken players compete to be the last standing on an unstable disk above a gruesome grinder. The last player standing on the disk avoids being turned into a chicken nugget. Become #1 on the leaderboard and you'll be rewarded with a golden crown. Only one player can wear the crown, kings of the chickens. Nugget Royale has over 40 unlockable hats. Hats are unlocked by winning rounds in certain stages or by your amount of chicken nuggets. Nuggets unlock new hats, like a visor cap, ketchup cap, deep fry basket, and a drinking lid. Collect all the hats and show them to other players!Nugget Royale has over 14 stages with 4 different themes each with its own obstacles. Regular stage, this stage is all about balancing on the disk but be careful holes may appear. Freezer stage, the floor is extremely slippery, it's easy to push frozen chickens off the stage. Sumo stage, eat as much growth pills to push off the other chickens. Saw stage, dodge the saws or you'll be chopped into a headless chicken. Grab items before the other players and get a time-limited boost. Turn players into ice cubes, blow them away like a tornado or fly away from the danger!Compete with players from all over the world! Chaotic 80 player battles. It can also be played locally with up to 4 players on one computer.

He’s become one of Spain’s most successful auteur directors of big audience hits. Now director-writer-producer Alex de la Iglesia (“The Day of the Beast,” “30 Coins”) and producing partner, the actor-producer Carolina Bang (“The Last Circus”), have turned to wayward soccer players for their latest TV outing, HBO Max show “Headless Chickens.”The starting point for this upcoming Spanish series is curiosity, Bang explained at an afternoon Q&A session at the Berlinale Series Market on Tuesday scheduled in the Next from Spain strand.More from VarietyArgentina's Mil Monos Teams with Pablo Agüero, Nicolás Britos for Dystopian Thriller 'Decibel' Mario Martone on Capturing 'Il Postino' Actor Massimo Troisi's Humor and Humanity in Berlin Doc 'Somebody Down There Likes Me'Hong Sang-Soo's Berlinale Film 'In Water' Sells to Cinema Guild for North America (EXCLUSIVE)“Alex and I don’t like soccer very much but we have a lot of curiosity about the industry,” said Bang. “You have a lot of young people that became very rich very quickly. It destroys your head.”Indeed, a teaser for “Headless Chickens” featured a beautiful footballer parading in a big, white fluffy coat through a nightclub with women falling at his feat. The swagger was amusing.“It’s a comedy about the world of soccer,” added Iglesia who says the release date will soon be announced.In approaching his projects, Iglesia keeps his audience in mind. “The most important thing is to think about cinema. All the things we are doing have some relationship to the cinema,” said Iglesia.And he knows how to create tension. “I understand the world of these kinds of people. It’s fun to lose some respect for big soccer players and put them in the real world,” he said. “Our intention is to laugh. We don’t want to offend anyone. But not hide a reality either.”Also taking part in the panel was the executive producer Rodrigo Ruiz- Gallardon, from Banijay Iberia, who talked about the development of the series..“At the beginning, it was going to be about more characters, but then we focused on Hugo. He’s a clever loser dealing with his stupid winners. He’s the soul. He’s everything,” he said.“Headless Chickens” is produced for HBO Max by Alex de la Iglesia and Carolina Bang at their shingle Pokeepsie Films, which is now a Banijay Iberia company.Hugo Silva, (“Nasdrovia,” “Witching and Bitching”) plays a soccer agent, former player and ex-alcoholic, who loses his girlfriend (Dafne Fernández), just as he’s getting it together, and loses his biggest soccer star as well.The show was created by Pablo Tébar (“Plastic Sea”) and Jorge Valdano Saénz (“Messi”) from an original idea by Bang.“We have a big soccer culture in Spain,” said Iglesia. “I love to shoot. It’s a dream,” he said. “You conquer the world. It’s fun. Now I’m producing. It could be even better. In some way you are putting all your efforts to do something not for you.”Pokeepsie Films credits include the HBO Max hit “30 Coins,” which was co-written and directed by Iglesia.One of Spain’s biggest broad audience directors, his second feature,

Developer’s DescriptionNugget Royale is a multiplayer battle royale game with chickens in a factory farm.Nugget Royale is a multiplayer battle royale game with chickens in a factory farm.80 chicken players compete to be the last standing on an unstable disk above a gruesome grinder. The last player on de disk wont be turned into a chicken nugget. Become #1 on the leaderboard, and you'll be rewarded with a golden crown.Only one player can wear the crown, kings of the chickens.Nugget Royale has over 40 unlockable hats. Hats are unlocked by winning rounds in certain stages or by your amount of chicken nuggets.Nuggets unlock new hats, like a visor cap, ketchup cap, deep fry basket, and a drinking lid. Collect all the hats and show them to other players!Nugget Royale has over 14 stages with 4 different themes each with its own obstacles.Regular stage, this stage is all about balancing on the disk but be careful holes may appear.Freezer stage, the floor is extremely slippery, it's easy to push frozen chickens of the stage.Sumo stage, eat as much growth pills to push off the other chickens.Saw stage, dodge the saws or you'll be chopped into a headless chicken.Grab items before the other players and get a time-limited boost.Turn players into ice cubes, blow them away like a tornado or fly away from the danger!Compete with players all over the world! Chaotic 80 player battles.