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...KAZUO ISHIGURO Something is wrong at Hailsham, the very exclusive English boarding school that Kathy H. attends. The students there seem to have no parents, their teachers are wary of them, and they cannot leave the grounds. (You can catch echoes of a dark, inverted Harry Potter.) Part science fiction--horror, part existential waltz, Never Let Me Go is a gripping story about ordinary people trying to wring some joy out of life before it's too late--and for Kathy and her friends, it has always been too late...
Freshmen may have expected a “PG-rated” show at last night’s pre-housing lottery screening of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” in Sanders Theatre.But they got a peek into the more risque side of House Life when a group of Currier House residents ran shirtless in front of the screen—spelling out “Currier” on their stomachs and propping broomsticks between their legs. The screening was the first part of “Get Housed?...
...demand for animation takes off in India, the industry will find a way to attract talent. Says Kapur: "The appetite for Eastern mythology - Chinese, Indian, Japanese - is clear in the rest of the world if you look at the success of Kill Bill or the mysticism of Harry Potter or Japanese anime. I mean, $14 billion in cultural exports from Japan can't all be sushi...
...G.L.The problem is, Making a big movie, a Harry Potter or a Spider-man, you?re spending $20 to $30 million for the prints, just to strike them and ship them to the theaters. Smaller movies have to spend a huge part of their budgets on prints. Now, if you don?t have to spend any money on prints, and all you have to do is spend some money on advertising, and you?re willing to look at different alternative ways of advertising, like The Blair Witch Project did, then you have access. You can go directly to the theater...
...there's an argument for digital that Hollywood can get behind, it's this: it's far cheaper than film--cheaper to shoot, cut and duplicate. But the big savings come in getting the product to the public. Says Lucas: "Making a big movie, a Harry Potter or a Spider-Man, you're spending $20 [million] to $30 million for the prints just to strike them and ship them to the theaters. Smaller movies have to spend a huge part of their budgets on prints." Digital would cut print and shipping costs about 80%. Even Spielberg, who wears many hats...