Word: distributor
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...besides just make the films," says Chae. "Nobody was doing international sales and promotion." He got the ball rolling by putting filmmakers in touch with buyers abroad whom he had met as a reporter. In the wake of Shiri and the growing buzz over Korean films at international festivals, distributors around Asia started to answer his calls. These days, the distribution channels are firmly in place, starting with Japan, the industry's biggest market. Tokyo-based distributor Cinequanon paid $1 million for Shiri, the first Korean film to open nationwide in Japan, where it sold 1.2 million tickets and pulled...
According to NSTAR, Cambridge’s power distributor, the outage affected 20,000 customers mostly in the M.I.T., Central Square, and Harvard Square areas...
...first Chinese PDA manufacturer to understand the role of whim and fashion in the industry. He turned his product into a household name with the help of a massive television advertising campaign featuring China's debonair movie heartthrob, Pu Quanxin. Zhang has also proved to be a clever distributor. He secretly installs a bar code in each PDA so when his reps visit retail shops, they can detect when distributors poach on one another's territory. But Zhang's magic bullet in the PDA wars is a sleek regulation-blue Police PDA. Flip open the lid, press a button...
When Tongchart Nusu, a food distributor in Phitsanulok, Thailand, yanks open the heavy steel door of his cold-storage locker, you get the expected burst of snowy frost?along with a moist, overpowering, rancid stench. Nostrils flaring, Tongchart draws the mist into his lungs, this sweet aroma of hard work, money, success: the odor of bugs...
This is because the U.S. has become the world's largest producer and distributor of enjoyments. Some of these are pleasures no more complicated than Britney Spears. Some are sterner stuff, made by artists working in subtler ways (or at least in more conservative wardrobes) and beyond the noise of the cash registers. But among the artists, whether they make rap songs or novellas, sitcoms or Cibachrome prints, dance steps or designer spike heels, there are increments of quality. They lead upward from the figures who are merely (though sometimes massively) popular to the ones who are truly accomplished...