Word: hollywood
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...that red-carpet glamour, and the hope of a first look at next year's Oscar finalists, attracts audiences to the big-ticket galas and special presentations. It also lures a sizable number of other power brokers: Hollywood execs, for whom Toronto has become a crucial harbinger of the movie-award season, and U.S. film critics, avid to see grown-up pictures after a fast-food summer diet of action epics with numerals...
...land of psychosis. Like Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen and An Unquiet Mind by Kay Jamison, The Center Cannot Hold is the beautifully written saga of a young woman grappling with mental illness and ultimately triumphing. A movie may soon be appearing at a theater near you, given Hollywood's intense interest in the book. TIME's publishing reporter, Andrea Sachs, met with Saks (no relation) during the author's recent book-tour stop in Manhattan...
...fossil collecting becomes the next big thing for China's nouveaux riches and even Hollywood leading men - Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicolas Cage reportedly recently got into a bidding war over the remains of a $276,000 Asian T-rex - the paleontological paradise of Chaoyang is under threat. Farmers and dealers are hard at work disturbing potentially valuable sites in the race to find specimens to sell. In a cornfield outside of town, farmers have sliced open an entire hill. Layers of earth, each covering deposits millions of years old, protrude naked, leaving only broken slabs of rock. Along the road...
...Asian films also attract local audiences, and the Weinsteins have watched the film market in Asia become the world's fastest growing. Ten years ago, North American box office tallies outpaced international earnings. "That's now absolutely shifted," explains TWC co-president Michael Cole, who will shuttle between Hollywood and the fund office in Hong Kong...
...China's box office grows at a rate of over 30% per year and India is second to Hollywood in terms of the number of films produced. This year, Disney released its first project tailored for China - a cartoon shot in Mandarin; in July, Warner Brothers and Sony announced a project to build multiplexes in South Asia; and Price Waterhouse Coopers estimated that Asia's film industry would increase by 6% annually, reaching $104 billion...