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...resident fellows, Noonan and Cutter will stay for the entire semester and lead weekly study groups for students. The group of resident fellows also include Brett McGurk, special advisor to President Obama's National Security Council staff and former senior director for Iraq and Afghanistan under President George W. Bush; Kim Gandy, former president of the National Organization for Women; Rev. Leah Daughtry, former DNC chief of staff; and Gina Glantz, former national campaign manager for Bill Bradley...
...McGurk, who clerked on the U.S. Supreme Court before becoming heavily involved in the NSC, said he would be leading a study group called "Highest Level (and Highest Stakes) Deliberations: an Insider Look at the U.S. Supreme Court and the National Security Council in Wartime." He said he looked forward to being able to "step back" from and reflect on his governmental work, and to discuss with students and faculty the ways that the NSC and Supreme Court have changed since 9/11...
...than 3,100 theaters. But it's likely to be profitable for Overture, which is almost certain to recoup the more than $10 million investment it made in Righteous Kill at the Cannes Film Festival last year. "If it does $25 million lifetime, we'll be happy," says Chris McGurk, CEO of Overture, a division of Liberty Media that launched in January...
...million movies starring men with capes. This summer Warners closed its specialty divisions that handle smaller-budget films, Picturehouse and Warner Independent, and absorbed New Line Cinema into the larger company. Meanwhile Paramount Pictures' prestige label, Vantage, is restructuring. "The studios are very focused on the tentpoles," says McGurk. "And there's a lot of turmoil in the indie marketplace. So there's more product available." That means fewer takers for a cop movie starring a couple of sixtysomething actors, Oscars nothwithstanding...
Nevertheless Overture, which had one of the year's few arthouse hits in The Visitor, is counting on viewers' nostalgia for De Niro and Pacino 1.0. "In this movie, audiences are gonna see them the way they want to see them," says McGurk. "Not in a comedy or a fantasy, but as two detectives in New York City." Overture is hoping to lure men, older women and the urban and Latino audiences who have helped make Scarface an enduring cult hit. To do so, they're marketing with a campaign that emphasizes the actors' histories. In one TV ad McGurk...