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...still struggled with the role, calling her first week on set the worst she had ever had. But somehow the role crystallized, and the family-friendly movie proved a major force at the 2009 box office. It was also the first female-led film to hit the $200 million mark...
...late 1990s, the DIA hired Graham Beal, who formerly headed the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to serve as its CEO. He arrived just as the DIA was set to launch a six-year, $158 million renovation and expansion. Beal's mandate: "to rethink how we present art to the general public." That meant tripling the amount of space devoted to the DIA's Native American art collection and opening a department to curate a collection of African-American art. Beal ordered that exhibit labels be more accessible to the masses. In one gallery, he added a virtual dining...
...Alice in Wonderland, $116.3 million, first weekend 2. Brooklyn's Finest, $13.5 million, first weekend 3. Shutter Island, $13.3 million; $95.8 million, third week 4. Cop Out, $9.1 million; $32.4 million, second week 5. Avatar, $7.7 million; $720.2 million, twelfth week 6. The Crazies, $7 million; $27.4 million, second week 7. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, $5.1 million; $78 million, fourth week 8. Valentine's Day, $4.3 million; $106.4 million, fourth week 9. Crazy Heart, $3.4 million; $29.6 million, twelfth week 10. Dear John, $2.9 million; $76.7 million, fifth week...
...that's the problem. Pandora is a nonexistent place, dreamed up by one man's imagination - and brought to life with cutting-edge technology and about $310 million of News Corp. studio's money. The overwhelming success of Avatar points to a future where more and more of our experiences might be virtual and passive, just like those of the movie's hero, where the air and water of the outdoors will matter less than what technology and the human mind can offer us in a climate-controlled studio...
...wives of bureaucrats wearing new diamond necklaces at a charity gala, ones that were awfully similar to the ones taken from the Saudi royalty. Needless to say, Saudi Arabia was not amused. In June 1990, the country would stop renewing the visas of more than a quarter-million Thai workers in Saudi Arabia and would give out no further ones, cutting Thailand off from billions of dollars in remittances. Saudi Arabia also barred its citizens from traveling to Thailand as tourists. Nabil Ashri, the current Saudi chargé d'affaires, said the decision to downgrade relations was "obviously for safety...