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...independent it is. Adapted and directed on a shoestring budget by John Shear, Urbania barely made it to theaters. Set to open on Sept. 15, the film was dropped from its distributor's schedule on Sept. 1, just two weeks before its planned release. The film hung in limbo, with filmmakers desperately hunting for someone willing to distribute their work...
...under 17 as a big catch in media strategies for games rated M, for "mature" buyers. Dale Pollock, dean of the film school at the North Carolina School of the Arts, produced the 1996 film "Set It Off." It was violent, raw and rated R, but Pollock says its distributor, New Line, marketed it to young audiences. "People are naive to think marketers are scrupulous in trying to avoid exposing R-rated films to [kids]," he says. "The exact opposite is true." New Line, a subsidiary of Time Warner, had no comment...
...kind of guy who sleeps only because he's dog tired, and then he's likely to bolt out of bed and down to the office with a new idea about moving molecules. On business trips to Tokyo (Japanese firms were his biggest customers), he would get his distributor to arrange access for him to factories. He spent two nights prowling the catwalks above a Nissan Maxima assembly line, studying every human and robotic move below. Obsessed? He dragged his wife on a factory tour of China and Japan during their honeymoon...
Many family businesses are passed down through a combination of promissory notes and gifting. This worked best for Karen Caplan, 44, president and CEO of Frieda's, a Los Alamitos, Calif., marketer and distributor of exotic fruits with more than $30 million in sales last year. Caplan and her sister Jackie Caplan Wiggins, 42, who is vice president, bought the 38-year-old business from their parents in 1990. Almost half the transfer was paid with a 10-year note, and the rest came through a one-time gifting of $600,000 from each parent after a company valuation. Karen...
...apparently not alone. Thanks in part to a raucous trailer that has been showing since last spring, Wayans' $19 million comedy has been generating rapid-fire word of mouth. The film's strong "tracking" (surveys that indicate audiences' desire to see an upcoming flick) has inspired the distributor, Miramax's Dimension division, to step up its marketing blitz and increase its opening-day screens from 1,900 to about...