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Liberals (in the blogosphere, at the grass roots and in Congress) complain that the President is a spineless, incompetent quitter. Conservatives (on Fox News and talk radio, at tea-party confabs and in Congress) insist that he is a panicky, on-the-run liberal. Old media sputter that he is a flailing, directionless Jimmy Carter redux. (See pictures of Barack Obama's first year in office...
...annoying announcer going to ask the question, 'Will Avatar win Best Picture?' My answer is, 'Depends on how many Rolexes, Samsung DVD players, free food, and gambling trips to Vegas the studio gifted the HFPA members. Isn't that how it's done? Oh, wait, this was 20th Century Fox, the cheapest studio in Hollywood. Maybe the Avatar keychain was enough." (See the Top 10 James Cameron Moments...
...Curious Capitalist for Fox's daily take on business and the economy...
...multiscreen outlets have motivated big studios like Fox and Columbia to transplant their U.S. strategy of carpet bombing with prints and an ad blitzkrieg for new releases. Fox, say experts, released 700 film-reel prints to cinemas for exhibition of Avatar with a marketing and distribution budget of $1 million; 2012 was backed by 715 prints and an ad outlay of around $500,000. Three years ago, a big release meant releasing somewhere between 100 to 200 prints at a fraction of the cost. With films having smaller shelf lives now, companies are trying to capture cash flows...
...Still, buoyed by their increasing revenues, studios have not given up. Disney, which has a stake in Mumbai-based film and television producer UTV, is right now making two live-action films. Fox Star CEO Singh says he hopes to start making up to five Indian films a year. He is betting on the studio's first Indian co-production My Name Is Khan, to be released globally next month. It has all the right ingredients: Bollywood screen royalty, a hit director and the requisite hype. And if it clicks, it could be the script for the ultimate Hollywood-Bollywood...