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It’s culture-clash weekend at the box office! Wildly different movies open on the same weekend all the time, but this particular mid-holiday frame’s lineup is just plain bizarre. Obviously, a vast conspiracy is at work—a bunch of Hollywood suits sat down over a bottle of Coppola Wine and decided that Americans needed a good dose of hot-button issues. In Shakespearean tragic tones, here’s what you’ve got coming: “Something’s rotten in the State of the Middle East?...
...inception. “I felt that Annie Proulx walked through the forest one day and…found this timeless combination that hasn’t been thought of before,” he says.Lee first got his hands on the script after it had been floating in Hollywood purgatory for several years. The project was initially attached to Gus Van Sant (“Elephant”) and various other directors, but ultimately failed to get made. In 2003, Lee approached producer James Schamus and started the production gears into motion. The film’s meticulous attention...
...planet's spin is partly what makes solar-generated electricity as inefficient as it is expensive. Think of those unsightly, bulky panels that hippies, Hollywood stars and even the President have affixed to their dwellings. They can soak up peak light only at noon, when the sun is highest in the sky. Why not design a system that captures that much sunlight all day long...
Silicon Optix owns the fix. The firm, based in San Jose, Calif., has designed an advanced video-processing chip that cleans up video for all sorts of displays. The private company's secret sauce is its Realta chip, which enables real-time, pixel-by-pixel processing of HDTV, delivering Hollywood-quality video to consumers at a fraction of the cost. It's like having a "supercomputer on a chip," boasts Paul Russo, 62, Silicon Optix's fast-talking CEO. The Realta is truly industry changing because it's the first programmable video-chip processor. The video chips can be upgraded...
Despite his high-level Hollywood contacts and ever-mounting cash flow, Carell claims to maintain some level of bewilderment about his sudden success. “This whole thing is weird. It’s funny, a couple of weeks ago, my sister-in-law asked my wife, ‘Has Steve changed?’ I thought that was the funniest thing to ask. Into what...