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...took in another $113 million. And since each movie was made for a thrifty $25 million, there are big profits in the franchise. The only obligation for the screenwriters going forward is to come up with a new catastrophe. What would it be this time? A stock-market crash? A Thanksgiving Day Kmart trampling? The explosion of a movie theater where the feature attraction is a Final Destination movie? Nothing so imaginative: just a race-car crash and stadium collapse with multiple, gruesome fatalities...
...frame in third place, behind the Nazi-scalping-and strangling Inglourious Basterds. Quentin Tarantino's World War II epic dropped a less-than-expected 47% from last weekend to pull in about $20 million. In 10 days, the polylingual action drama has amassed $73.8 million in the North American market and another $60 million abroad - which, in any language, means boffo. The South African sci-fi thriller District 9 was next with a $10.7 million weekend and a $90.8 million three-week total. For the first time in, well, quite a while, the films in the top four box-office...
What are seasonal stock-market patterns pointing toward? Right now investors have a tremendous amount of doubt with respect to the stock market. With the economy just coming out of recession and stocks up more than 40% from the lows, people are thinking, 'It's gotta correct, it's gotta correct.' But historically, it doesn't have to correct, and that's what these seasonal patterns show - following big runs in the summertime, the stock market does not, on average, turn negative in the fall...
...September or October. We saw it in 1929, but more recently in 1987, and in '97 and '98 as well. Even when there's not a big sell-off, it's not a good month. In fact, since 1942, September has been the most negative month in the stock-market year, exhibiting on average a 0.5% negative return. That's the seasonal pattern most people think of when heading into the fall. But there have been noticeable changes in summer seasonal patterns since 1994. (Read "Why an Investment Guru Is Bullish on Recovery...
...haven't done a very good job on promoting existing family-planning products," says Strong. "Why should we divert attention from pills, IUDs and male condoms to what's really a niche market? It can be nice to go off on a new pilot when old things aren't working very well, rather than sticking around and trying to make them work...