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...said he had been talking with F.X. Toole, who'd written these great stories set in and around boxing. So I read them and particularly liked Million Dollar Baby. I thought it would be relatively simple. Mystic River had done reasonably well. So I went to Warner Bros., and they said, "We don't think boxing movies are really that commercial now," and I said, "Well, I don't quite see this as a boxing movie." I said it was a love story between a surrogate father and his surrogate daughter, and it's the next picture I'm going...
...tackle the modern immigrant experience as it is centered on the experiences of a foreigner in a new land. In doing so it succeeds just as well as those Nintendo folks’ who tried to capture the modern Italian psyche via Mario and Luigi of Super Mario Bros...
...revenue stream for which costs are low (old show, new box) and profit margins high--as much as 50%, according to Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen. By 2008, Cohen projects, the business will grow to $3.9 billion annually. The biggest beneficiaries: Time Warner, which owns HBO, Warner Bros. and New Line (and this magazine); Viacom, with its Paramount and MTV divisions; and 20th Century Fox, which is mostly owned by News Corp. Big-name actors like James Gandolfini of The Sopranos and Dave Chappelle of Chappelle's Show are grabbing for a bigger piece of the DVD pie during...
...able to exploit the power of fame for creative control. Since forming the production company Section Eight in 2000 with director Steven Soderbergh, with whom he had worked on Out of Sight, Clooney the producer has used Clooney the actor as barter. He did it to get Warner Bros. to make next year's Good Night and Good Luck, a movie about Edward R. Murrow's battle with Joseph McCarthy that CBS, Murrow's old network, had passed on as a TV movie. "It's hard to shoot something in black and white," Clooney says...
...certain tattoo and piercing emporium presents a smorgasbord of aural delights for Saturday night at the Middle East. Pino Bros. Ink sponsors Endway, Haloburn, Beyond the Embrace, the Hidden and Morgan Knockers. 18+. $9. 8 p.m. Downstairs at the Middle East. (ECMV...