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Music from Heaven Here come the wireless music stores. Late last year, Europe and Asia launched services for downloading full-length songs straight to mobile phones, and consumers responded. Now the U.S. is ready to get into the game, as Cingular, Sprint and Verizon Wireless all plan to launch over-the-air music stores next year. "There's an instantness that is amazing," says EMI's Adam Klein, who has helped carriers around the world launch music services. A mobile music store requires networks that can support fast downloading. Sprint and Verizon now have them, and Cingular will soon. Verizon...
...that the situation was “almost like a role reversal, with the dog being the smart one and the man being the stupid one.” Though the Wallace and Gromit shorts brought him international renown, he was initially wary of putting the characters into a full-length feature. “Sometimes the fact that they’re short gives them their charm,” he says. After releasing 2000’s “Chicken Run” to universal acclaim, Park started contemplating ideas for a Wallace and Gromit feature. He?...
...former karate instructor-cum-independent filmmaker is on a whirlwind press tour in support of her first full-length feature, “Green Street Hooligans.” The film chronicles the transformation of a mild-mannered Harvard undergrad and Crimson editor Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood) into a street-fighting man through his expulsion from school and his subsequent initiation into the ultra-violent world of soccer hooliganism...
...latest work to sprout from Park’s fertile mind is “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” the first full-length feature starring the titular team. Their initial appearances in a series of celebrated short films in the ’90s have amassed a fan base that adores their wry, unmistakably British humor. The formula is straightforward but enchanting. Wallace is the bald, big-grinned inventor with a different job in every film but two constant passions: wacky, necessarily unnecessary contraptions and a good hunk of cheese. Gromit...
...company, Apple refuses to run its decisions by focus groups. But Jobs is a hardened gambler, and he doesn't scare easily. This is the guy who coolly poured millions of his own dollars into an unknown and direly unprofitable company called Pixar before anybody had even made a full-length computer-animated movie. "The more we started to talk about what this could be," Jobs says, "it wasn't long before I said, 'You know, what if we just bet our future on this? Is that possible?' And everybody immediately looked pretty scared. Including...