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...that $30 you spend on tickets and popcorn at Spider-Man 3 this weekend seems expensive, consider the checks the producers were writing. Studios are notoriously coy about the budgets for their films - maybe because it seems gauche to spend the GDP of Micronesia on a fake pirate ship - but it's clear the price tags for a couple of this summer's most anticipated movies, Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, will hover in the $260-$300 million range, not including the marketing costs. To put it in perspective, the most expensive film...
...synthesized footage from “The Miracle of Life” and snake films for a Harvard production—a female character was giving birth to a reptile, and Ur wanted to shoot for verisimilitude. During his time at Harvard, Ur has also built a giant pirate ship, an enchanted forest that turns into Hell, an asylum made of glass, and a house on fire. He has worked on the technical aspects of nearly 50 plays, including sets, lights, sound, and video. For his behind-the-scenes artistic contributions, he recently won the Louise Donovan Award, the Office...
...past two decades than most people do in an entire lifetime. He has driven through all 48 continental U.S. states, explored Northern Iceland in blizzard conditions, toured medical clinics in El Salvador, led school children on a hiking trip in rural China, conducted religious studies onboard a ship in the Caribbean, and traveled to Baton Rouge only days after Hurricane Katrina to aid in relief efforts. With his bank of images and experiences rapidly expanding, Collins’s drive to promote change through his artwork continues to deepen. “I want to influence communities...
...shot and put the odd lodge to the torch. Terrified natives opened their granary to the armed trespassers, knowing that meant some of their own people would likely starve come winter. Returning from one such mission of foraging and gunboat diplomacy, Smith found disgruntled settlers trying to commandeer a ship back to London. He opened cannon and musket fire on the would-be deserters, who quickly reassessed and came ashore...
...more than two hours to speak. When at last she did, she gave him a piece of her mind, telling Smith he had betrayed her people and upbraiding him for staying gone for so many years and never sending a word. Weeks later, drifting down the Thames aboard a ship bound for Jamestown, Pocahontas fell ill. She died in Gravesend in March 1617. Smith lived another 14 years, unwed to his dying day. Both were buried in England, separately, and a world away from the one true love they indisputably shared, a place the English called America...