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That imposing number just about covers Alice's $200 million budget; it's the most expensive new movie since Avatar, and Disney probably spent another $100 million or so to advertise it. The Burton picture is unlikely to come near the $2.5 billion global gross of James Cameron's epic, which become the all-time top grosser in Energizer fashion, by just going and going and going. Alice got so-so reviews from critics, but it achieved a healthy A- rating from Cinemascore's poll of people who'd just seen the movie; and it should hang on through spring...
...hoping that more hits would be included, since the highest-rated Oscar shows in the past 15 years were when the big prizes went to the megahits Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The scheme worked: half of the Best Picture nominees have grossed more than a quarter-billion dollars worldwide. Here's the full roster, with each movie's domestic and worldwide gross...
...Europe 2020 plan focuses on honing the E.U.'s technological edge, especially in green industries, and on improving higher education. And it sets key targets for E.U. member states, including raising the overall employment rate from 69% to 75%, boosting investment in research and development from 1.9% of E.U. gross domestic product to 3%, and lifting the percentage of 30-34-year-olds with a university education from 31% to 40%. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...well as some recipes that came with the PolyScience gadget, I ended up with truly divine endive: cooked for 45 minutes with a little bit of lemon, it came out sweet, melt-in-your-mouth good. But that 24-hour steak was not memorable. And the chicken was gross, like a wet sponge. (See a special report on the science of appetite...
Duncan, who grew up in the diverse Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park where his mother ran an after-school tutoring program for under-privileged children, said he had witnessed gross inequities between his education at the University of Chicago Lab School and the education of his neighbors in other schools...