Word: hyped
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...Dark Knight's unprecedented box-office might is "mind-boggling for us," says Dan Fellman, president of domestic distribution for Warner Bros. Pictures. (TIME and Warner Bros. are both subsidiaries of Time Warner.) The film benefited from a unique mix of factors beyond the usual superhero movie hype, including a buzzed-about performance by the late Heath Ledger as the Joker, perfectly pitched marketing, agile distribution and gas prices that have made a night at the movies an attractive alternative to a summer road trip. It also helps that The Dark Knight, as most critics and audiences attest...
Actually, if cruel was all they were, she got off pretty easy. For all the hype about Flickr and YouTube and Twitter and whatever else is putting "Web 2.0" in its business plan these days, the most ubiquitous form of user-generated content (to employ a phrase that just won't die) is the humble comment. Web publishers have begun to offer commenting on everything--posts, videos, pictures, whatever--like it was a kind of interactive condiment. Now practically anything on the Web collects comments the way a whale collects barnacles...
...despite the hype around this would-be tie-up - the head of Reliance Big Entertainment refused to comment to TIME on the speculation - and while many smaller deals will strengthen ties between Hollywood and Bollywood, don't expect a succession of deals of this magnitude any time soon. For one thing, there simply aren't any other players out there with cash reserves as deep as Ambani...
...called him "Bjorn Loser" - but he's unshakable. "You give the most to the solutions that do the most good," says Lomborg, who believes that more effort needs to be put on adapting to climate change, rather than simply trying to stop it. "There's definitely a case of hype and one-sidedness on the climate debate...
...easy fear to hype, given how opaque these funds tend to be. But even the most conspiracy-minded find it hard to work themselves into a panic over Norway's Government Pension Fund-Global. That's not to say it's lacking in clout. With assets of $382 billion at the end of March, it's the world's second-largest sovereign wealth fund, trailing only the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, which weighs in at about $875 billion. Norway's fund, flush with money from the nation's oil and gas, has stakes in 7,000 firms - from Google...