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...local bookstore had a waitlist that totaled more than 100 names. Dave Eggers, McSweeney's founder and Panorama's mastermind, was shocked. "I thought there'd be some excitement, but this went beyond anything I expected," he said. With traditional media outlets facing staff cuts, budget restraints and buyouts - 139 newspapers folded in 2009 alone - the demand for Eggers' publication was unprecedented. But then again, the Panorama isn't really a newspaper - just a literary experiment masquerading...
Years in the making, and with a production budget from $200 million to $300 million plus marketing costs, Avatar arrives in theaters on Dec. 18 to colossal expectations. The movie industry hopes its immersive special effects spark a big-screen renaissance. Fans crave the next Star Wars. It's a heavy burden, even for a man who seems to enjoy doing only things that are hard. Cameron first laid out his vision for the technology he would use in the film in a digital manifesto in the early 1990s; he then labored to perfect it over the course...
...page draft of the script months later, the studio balked. Here was an ambitious project with a lot of risky elements, including unproven technology, blue protagonists with tails and a script that wasn't based on a comic book, novel or video game - making it unique for a big-budget film in its time. In September 2006, Fox formally passed on Avatar. Only after another studio (Disney) seemed poised to take it on - and after Cameron made concessions in both his script and his compensation - did Fox green-light the film. Now he just had to make...
Smith told The Crimson that the decision not to cut the library budget further was not a direct response to his colleagues’ appeal...
Facing a tighter budget last spring, the graduate unit of FAS enrolled 10 percent fewer students than in previous years, according to GSAS Dean Allan M. Brandt...