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...Austrian director is known for his contradictions. A former film critic and television producer, Haneke, 67, prides himself on being an art-house provocateur and a fierce critic of big-budget, Hollywood movies. And yet his films have recently started to attract more mainstream audiences and enjoy commercial success. Four years after his thriller Hidden earned a respectable $16 million at the box office worldwide, he is garnering critical acclaim and snapping up awards for his latest film, The White Ribbon. The movie, released this fall in Europe and set to open in December in the U.S., won the Palme...
...very pragmatic view of his newfound popularity. "Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions," he says. "You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film." But success and money is unlikely to change his style. Throughout his career, Haneke hasn't attracted controversy so much as courted it and if his films are looked upon as bleak diatribes on the human condition, frankly, he doesn't care. He first turned stomachs in 1989 with The Seventh Continent, which...
...necessarily trying to reinvent the wheel. Rather, they see themselves as leveraging their experience at building brands. "That's what our core strength is," says Munn, who spent most of his career working for consumer-products giant Unilever. "We're an idea-generating powerhouse." Munn says agencies can find success developing and promoting "high-concept, low-tech" products "where the role of the brand is a very, very important part of the overall offer." Agencies typically enlist partners to handle manufacturing, distribution and, sometimes, financing. To launch the Ila Dusk, for example, Zag teamed with Locca Tech, a U.K. security...
...logistics in China and the Pacific Rim, not just enabling foreign companies to function more smoothly but also exporting knowledge of modern shipping in the process. The cumulative result was a transfer of capital, yes, but more vitally of knowledge that has been the key to China's success. (See pictures of China's electronic waste village...
...women enjoyed success all around...