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...money to be made from children's TV programs has as much to do with the product on store shelves as with the product on the small screen. Children love a good story, and licensed merchandise connected with that story is big business. Last year more than 36% of sales in Britain's $2.5 billion toy market were of licensed toy characters, up 4% from 1999. HIT Entertainment, the U.K. company that created the preschool favorite Bob the Builder, estimates that the four-digited animated handyman has generated $140 million in British retail sales of related toys and other merchandise...
...inspiration from the labor disputes currently embroiling his beloved union in order to draft a sequel to the film that first garnered him the limelight: “The Day Hollywood Stood Still.” It would be tragedy on a smaller scale, the demise of the silver screen as seen on the silver screen. And unlike the original, this one would be based on actual events...
...evil force has Hollywood in its grip? Nothing as campy as what science fiction can envision, to be sure. The latest tempest in Tinseltown (and no, it’s not J. Lo’s increasingly warped fashion sense) is that the contracts which the WGA and the Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG) have with the television and film industry (represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) are set to expire on May 1 and June 30, respectively. These 14,000 WGA members and 135,000 SAG members constitute the brains and the brawn...
Things started to unravel when the dotcoms realized banner ads weren't working. So if we all go online right now and start clicking on banner ads until our fingers bleed, we might be able to make those little numbers in the corner of the CNBC screen go the other...
...While real-life aerial battles have dominated the headlines, China's university students are playing out their own version of Sino-American relations on the computer screen. Their video-game bloodthirst reflects a surging patriotism among Chinese youth and an increasing frustration with perceived American arrogance. "After the Soviet Union fell, the U.S. thought it could do anything," says Zhang Lian, a freshman at prestigious Peking University. "We Chinese have the responsibility to tell them...