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...Harvard endowment’s chief invments has recently made a bid to buy a controlling interest in Reader’s Digest Inc...
...past children’s films have been less than pleasurable experiences for older moviegoers, he states that films aimed towards children have recently become very savvy and now try to integrate two levels of humor—one aimed at children and another aimed towards parents. Monsters Inc., Shrek, Toy Story 2—all of these films are very clever and include humor that older audiences can enjoy. When asked why this large shift occurred, Mitchell doesn’t hesitate for a moment. “The Simpsons” changed everything, he quickly states...
...Whenever someone does a crazy stunt, it gets press [coverage],” says Connie Cooper, founder of College Foundation Planners, Inc., a college counseling service based in California. “But these games don’t work...
...scorched the box office on its opening weekend: it earned $46 million, the second best opening ever for an animated film (after Monsters, Inc.'s $63 million). Its mammoth debut was a thundering surprise, not just because the PG-rated film came from 20th Century Fox, a studio with a dismal animation track record, but also because a curious 30% of the audience was what Hollywood calls "nonfamily" moviegoers. In other words, the audience was not just moms and dads and kids--they are to be expected--but also young adults and teens, including the species Homo adolescence, teenage boys...
...computer-generated (also referred to as CG or 3-D) animation. The proof is in the ticket sales. While traditional (or 2-D) animation has been waning at the box office, last year saw two CG blockbusters: DreamWorks/PDI's Shrek, which made $268 million domestically, and Disney/Pixar's Monsters, Inc., which has pulled in $253 million. "You can't get to any of these numbers with only children," notes Disney's president of animation, Tom Schumacher, "because kids are paying only half price...