Word: premieres
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...Some of that power, ironically, will be exported to countries like Thailand, where hydroelectric projects are controversial and have been blocked by ecologically minded citizens. Huaneng doesn't have to worry about public interference. The state-owned company is run by the well-connected son of China's former Premier, Li Peng. And with no shareholders calling for environmental-impact surveys or feasibility studies, Huaneng rarely makes public details of its plans until just months before it breaks ground. (The company declined requests for an interview...
This devotion is fueled by a belief, not shared by the world at large, that video games are an art form with genuine emotional meaning and that Halo 3 will be the premier example of that art. But there is, as it happens, a whole lot of money at stake too. At launch, Halo 3 will run only on Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console, lending the Xbox, into which Microsoft has sunk billions, huge credibility in its costly death match with Sony's PlayStation 3. "We're a platform company," says V.P. Kim. "It's about driving sales...
...TIFF became one of the premier brands in show business thanks in large part to its early September date, which perfectly positions the festival as the opening bell for the Oscar season culminating in February. "Toronto is like the beginning of the school year," says Bingham Ray, president of distribution for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, which is bringing the Ryan Gosling film Lars and the Real Girl to Toronto this year. For the Hollywood press, Toronto is a 10-day feast of films, celebrities and buzz, enough to fill their bellies for the fall. "I have to go to Toronto because...
...Free World ... from the veteran writer-director team of Paul Laverty and Ken Loach. Cowan recommends Penn's Into the Wild, the Guy Maddin "docu-fantasia" My Winnipeg and Nothing Is Private from Alan Ball, writer of American Beauty, which, in 1999, had its world premier at Toronto on its way to a Best Picture Oscar...
...selling spears of chilled guava down the street sports a Chelsea football jersey. Everywhere in soccer-mad Bangkok, in fact, people wear garments proclaiming their affiliation with one or another English Premier League team. But one jersey you're unlikely to spot? That of Manchester City. It's not because City has struggled, unsuccessfully, for three decades now to emerge from the shadow of its more moneyed crosstown rival, Manchester United. Even Birmingham's lackluster Aston Villa, after all, maintains a dogged fan base in Thailand's capital. No, the reason Manchester City is taboo in Bangkok is because...