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...Marvel's future remains a cliff-hanger. "It's definitely one of the more--if not the most--difficult companies out there to forecast," says Bear Stearns analyst Glen Reid. In late May, just as Marvel kicked off what may be the greatest test of its powers yet--a slate of 10 independently financed films--the firm stunned investors and Hollywood alike by announcing that Avi Arad, the man behind the Spider-Man and X-Men film franchises, would leave to start his own production company. Not six weeks later, two more key execs departed unexpectedly--Tim Rothwell and Bruno...
...founder of Slate Magazine and former Crimson vice president now has new plans—he’ll pass up the Harvard gig to become the American editor at large for the Guardian of London...
...become somewhat of a newspaper nomad of late, hop-scotching from Slate to the Los Angeles Times and now to the Guardian...
...stay afloat as sagging ticket sales and a general decline in live concert attendance took its toll. But the following year, Lollapalooza retooled itself from a touring entity into a two-day event based in Chicago's Grant Park. More than 60,000 people showed up to see a slate of some 60 bands that included the Pixies, the Killers, Arcade Fire and Widespread Panic. The event grossed a healthy $2.9 million, a major rebound...
...It’s a total blank slate for him,” he said...