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...can’t comment on how other people viewed this, but to me, it came late,” Acker says. “It has been an obvious problem for some time...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena and Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Partners' Conflict of Interest Policy's Reach Concerns Docs | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

Medical School professor David B. Acker, who is also chief of obstetrics at Brigham and Women’s, says he approves of Partners’ new policy, which was released in April 2009 and is now being implemented...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena and Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Partners' Conflict of Interest Policy's Reach Concerns Docs | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

...easily outgrossed the other three new entries in wide release. Shane Acker's visually imaginative animated feature 9, which finished second with $10.9 million, benefited from being presented by Tim Burton, as District 9 had by its Peter Jackson connection, but is unlikely to escape its art-house patina. The other two newbies - the horror film Sorority Row and Kate Beckinsale's Antarctica killer-hunt drama Whiteout - got the theatrical equivalent of a window display in a video store before their imminent DVD releases; each took in just over $5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: Tyler Perry's Bad Does Good | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

...Shane Acker's visually alluring but hollow animated film 9, the apocalypse has come and gone, leaving a scorched landscape, smoldering ruins and a crew of mechanical beasts in charge. Mankind is no more, and this ought to be troubling, until you consider the usual sort we see saving the world onscreen and realize it's a relief not to have to worry about the plight of yet another plucky, attractive human being with a tendency to throw him- or herself in the way of some soulless yet savage machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Movie 9, Technology Ruins the World ... Again | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...Acker made a short film called 9 when he was in graduate school. Nominated for an Academy Award in 2006, it brought Acker admirers and eager mentors, including Tim Burton and Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov, two of the producers of the feature-length version. They saw something special in that short film, and Acker was encouraged to expand on it. The results are still on the skimpy side - the film is only 79 min. - and while reminiscent of Coraline's playful weirdness and Wall-E's plotline, lack the power of either. The script by Pamela Pettler, who also worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Movie 9, Technology Ruins the World ... Again | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

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