Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are few sure things in the $36 billion global toy business; indeed, previous interactive games aimed at girls have been largely a flop. Although the mission is child's play, creating a toy or game that sells is not: the process generally takes a couple of years and requires big up-front costs. Toy manufacturers pray for a product's sales to double after the launch of TV ads and for demand to exceed supply temporarily...
...live in a Calvinistic culture," says Rossetto, meaning everyone loves a good flop. I called him a few days ago, and Wired's 47-year-old editor-publisher was oddly upbeat. Never mind that now Wired Ventures must go hat in hand to private investors for capital to further extend the Wired brand name into new magazines, TV shows, books and online publishing. A Wired friend says Louis "thrives on being told something's impossible. The more you tell him it's doomed, the happier he gets because he knows it will happen...
...message was short and simple: "Jean, I'm taking over." With more than 50% of the stock in her hands, Loida got what Loida wanted, which was a European snack-food and grocery business mired in debt. The smart money on Wall Street thought the inexperienced Lewis would surely flop...
Like the heroine, the movie has two personalities that smartly coexist. Writer Shane Black mines his thriller premise while musing on issues of identity and redemption; he also shaped the itchy camaraderie of Davis and Jackson. Atoning for the flop Cutthroat Island, director Renny Harlin pumps up the genre adrenaline and puts his wife-star through her labors (including a Tarzan stunt echoing one of Jackie Chan's in Police Story). But he keeps sight of the film's disquieting subtext: that we often don't know what monsters swim inside us. And if we did, we might want...
...uses it against those who made her what she was. Like the heroine, the movie has two personalities that smartly coexist. Writer Shane Black mines his thriller premise while musing on issues of identity and redemption; he also shaped the itchy camaraderie of Davis and Jackson. "Atoning for the flop 'Cutthroat Island,' director Renny Harlin pumps up the genre adrenaline and puts his wife-star through her labors," notes TIME's Richard Corliss. "But he keeps sight of the film's disquieting subtext: that we often don't know what monsters swim inside us. And if we did, we might...