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...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...
...things that's fascinating about Patterson is his total lack of interest in received wisdom; another is his complete confidence in his own judgment. With 1992's Along Came a Spider, the first novel in his Alex Cross series, Patterson knew he'd written a best seller--so he took control of the way it was designed and marketed. When his publisher told him it wasn't interested in running a TV campaign, he called in a few favors at J. Walter Thompson and shot the ad with his own money. He wasn't jazzed about Spider's cover...
...STILL SO HARD FOR FEMALE DIRECTORS? That's interesting. When women became studio heads--boy, that's interesting--it didn't change anything. The second you get in that job, you still have to sing the same song. You still try to figure out how to make Spider...
...spurred Rege and Turner to create seductive designs to justify the price tag. "We wanted to get away from the Arts and Crafts thing by choosing contemporary, graphic images," says Turner. "The ideas evolved between us, trying to think of quirky things you could have on walls - a spider in the corner of a shower, or taps above the sink." That led them to incise the washing symbols found on most clothing labels into tiles. "We were amazed no one had done it before," admits Turner, while Rege says that she made use of her father's professional equipment...