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...book and magazine publishers for which Messier overpaid, and the water utility that was once the company's core. Even its 18th century French manse, Château de Méry-sur-Oise, about 50 km northwest of Paris, is on the block. Last week came the blockbuster spin-off, as Fourtou woke the company from Messier's Technicolor dream of becoming a major player in Hollywood. After an epic four-month auction among many of the world's largest media firms, the company signed a letter of intent with General Electric to merge its U.S. movie...
...Spin-off industries are also blossoming, such as Liza Elliott-Ramirez's Expecting Models, founded in July 2001. "When I started modeling 20 years ago, pregnancy was something you hid," she says. "But when I was pregnant [in 2000], I never worked so much." Business has quadrupled since the agency opened, and some of the 100 pregnant models on Elliott-Ramirez's books command as much as $10,000 a day. "It's a huge and booming market," she says. "There are new vendors every day, as they realize pregnant women are consumers who want to look good...
...only cunning wrinkle in this series is the collective hero: a dozen or more supernal types, each bending the laws of physics in a peculiar fashion, each trying not to obstruct the others while implicitly angling for a spin-off series of his or her own. Though this tactic offers a pleasing congestion, it risks piling on--cluttering the narrative with myriad subplots. Singer figures the audience won't mind as long as the actors have the requisite dishiness. As they do. Janssen can look into our minds anytime. Jackman, on the verge of stardom for three years, grows ever...
...We’re around for everyday needs,” says Craig Newmark, the list’s founder. Newmark’s original, San Francisco-based craigslist.org, which he started in 1995, gained such a strong following in the Bay Area that the need for spin-off sites in other cities became apparent. Boston was chosen as Craigslist’s first expansion city in 2000 because of its high concentration of Internet users. “Boston is a city with a lot of people on the web, and there’s probably a high correlation...
PASS THE BUTT-KICKING BATON One suspects that if JENNIFER GARNER'S character in Daredevil had worn a turtleneck and baggy jeans, we might have seen the end of her, but the leather-clad Elektra is getting her own spin-off. The already announced sequel is no surprise: Daredevil made $45 million in its opening weekend. But news of Elektra's spin-off is more of a shock. Not to give anything away, but her health seemed somewhat less than robust at the end of the film...