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...doubled in cost by the time all reshoots and editing were complete. And super-low costs can't make up for miserable ticket sales: Captivity has earned only $8.5 million in box-office revenue, Silent Partner went straight to DVD, and You and I has yet to find a distributor, though RAMCO hopes to release the film worldwide by next fall. As Konov and Minkovski wrap up for the day, several executives from Warner Bros. (which is owned by TIME's parent company, Time Warner) arrive at the RAMCO offices for an exploratory meeting. Nearly all of the major Hollywood...
...Weinsteins are good at knowing what films the world wants to see," agrees John Chong, CEO of Media Asia, the largest distributor of Chinese films for international audiences. Chong doesn't see the Weinsteins' buying power as a threat, but rather as a way of fostering younger talent and helping the industry grow, giving Media Asia more future films to purchase. "It will be a booming period," Chong predicts. "If they're successful very quickly, maybe more independent film producers will be coming into the China market and the Asia market...
...Monetized food aid is not a major method of getting food to the developing world-only 22% of all food aid was sold rather than distributed in 2005. European countries all but phased out monetized food aid in the 1990s and the world's largest food aid distributor-the U.N.'s World Food Program-does not allow any of its grain to be sold by NGOs...
...taboo that has surrounded discussion over whether U.S. grain shipped to hungry mouths could actually be harmful. "The fact that they are willing to forgo significant funding sends a message," he says. "This has political ramifications in the U.S., as CARE has for 50 years been been the leading distributor of U.S. food aid. No one argues that [current food aid arrangements] are not inefficient; the question is whether they are also damaging...
...paid about $500,000 for Barry Bonds's record-breaking 73rd home run ball in 2003. Steroids scandals were by then casting shadows over home run records, and McFarlane was riding the memorabilia market down. But it doesn't seem so crazy now that McFarlane Toys is the official distributor of action figures for all four major American sports. McFarlane also has individual deals with Bonds as well as outspoken Bonds critic Curt Schilling of the Boston Red Sox. And he credits his baseball collection with opening the doors that helped him land those deals...