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...Bloomberg is starting with baseball. The company has just launched its fantasy product, which costs $31.95 for the year and is available on MLB.com. It's the first consumer product in the company's history - Bloomberg sells its expensive financial analytics to companies. (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
This new focus on plot-driven storytelling has led to an unexpected broadening of the film’s audience base across Europe and into the States. “I’m so surprised that American audiences and reviews have been that good. I was shocked that we came along with the little Danish film looking like something happening in the Midwest, talking in Danish and requiring subtitles. I thought this could only be a disaster. But I’m surprised and happy about the response we’ve gotten...
According to Genz, “Terribly Happy” epitomizes the encroachment of American film tropes on European movies. “What has happened is that the Danish films are beginning to look much more like the films that come from the U.S. Therefore, each year, our film language becomes more and more similar to the way of telling the stories [in America], to get an audience to come to the cinemas. So, in fact, there’s a tendency in the ways of European filming to go towards the American way of telling stories...
This apparent swapping of styles may prove useful in what could be Genz’s next film, a remake of “Terribly Happy” in English, set in the American Midwest. “There’s a lot of talk about a remake,” Genz says. “We have had some meetings, and I would say as long as I am in control of the story, and it’s not taken out of my hands and transformed into something I cannot agree on, then it could definitely...
...More Perfect Union,” the album’s sprawling seven-minute opener, sets the tone for the narrative. Sickles sets in with loud vocals summarizing a journey out of Titus Andornicus’ native New Jersey into the American unknown. Cynically invoking Springsteen, he screams, “I’m looking for a new New Jersey / Cause tramps like us / Baby we were born to die.” Driving guitar riffs and drum beats move the song forward, as the song builds to a climaxing chorus. Lyrics continuously question the anxiety and angst...