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Sometimes bad breaks can bring great fortune. A few years ago, Peter Jackson, the Lord of the Rings movies, planned a big-screen version of the Halo video-game universe and tapped Neill Blomkamp to direct it. When that project collapsed after a few months, Jackson proposed that Blomkamp turn his science-fiction short Alive in Joburg into his first feature film. It would be set in Blomkamp's native South Africa, focus on the country's traumatic tradition of apartheid, have characters who speak in unfamiliar accents or unknown languages, boast no star power - the lead actor had never...
...bought the rights - and the first South African film that American audiences have paid much attention to since the tribesman fable The Gods Must Be Crazy earned $25 million (about $55 million in today's dollars) in 1985-86. Essentially, this is a little foreign film that hit it big...
...Deadline Hollywood Daily blog, industry reporter Nikki Finke summarized the reasons for the film's big bust-out: "Jackson's name means so much to 18-49 aged moviegoers. Comic-Con geeks and movie critic old farts loved it. (Finke later amended the laater phrase to "movie critic geezers." Thanks, Nikki.) It's the #1 most tweeted topic Friday night. And Marc Weinstock's viral marketing campaign for a year bore no Sony/Tri-Star logo on purpose so it wouldn't have a big studio's PR machine feel. (As if the audience had organically discovered the pic themselves...
...First Family's carbon footprint on this trip was hardly minimal, when you consider the big military cargo jets, Air Force One, the Marine choppers, Secret Service Suburbans, as well as dozens of rental cars and law-enforcement vehicles brought in from hundreds of miles around. The great mechanized force was on display Saturday afternoon at the West Yellowstone airport, as three helicopters preceded Obama's own Marine One, to the tarmac where Air Force One was waiting. After the national traveling White House press corps embarked from one chopper and boarded Air Force One, the President and his family...
...sentiment that is not good news for President Ma Ying-jeou, elected with 58% of the vote last year and already battling the island's recession, who now faces another major challenge to his relatively new administration. Taiwan is known for its susceptibility to big storms, and many at the national level have said that Taipei's well-funded emergency response teams should have been able to get to the stranded citizens sooner. Even lawmakers from his own Kuomintang party have criticized Ma this week for the government's slow response to Morakot, particularly as the public has voiced...