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...picture also took in a burly $160 million internationally in its first five days. That's imposing but, for Emmerich, not surprising. With the exception of The Patriot, his American Revolution drama, the director's big pictures have amassed nearly two-thirds of their theatrical revenue in foreign countries. Moviegoers are no more sophisticated overseas, and Emmerich plays to the universal demands for mega-hits: throw little people into a giant disaster, put all the major information in pictures, not dialogue, and make sure that stuff blows up great. With 2012 seemingly headed for a $500 million worldwide take (which...
...stormed the specialty box office after winning raves at festivals from Sundance to Cannes. Last week the indie drama - about a Harlem teenager who is illiterate, morbidly obese and pregnant for a second time by her abusive father - broke records in a very limited opening; this week it took in $6.1 million at just 174 theaters for a wowie-zowie $35,000 per screen. That's how Paranormal Activity started out. Fervently promoted by Tyler Perry (who brought the movie to his distributor, Lionsgate) and Oprah Winfrey, with a plug from George H.W. Bush, Precious has a chance...
Helping keep travelers at bay are tighter visa restrictions, tougher entry procedures at immigration desks and a general increase in anti-American sentiment in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "We took foreign travelers for granted and erroneously assumed they would just keep on coming," says Harteveldt...
...fashion house, Andersen & Lauth. The company's creative director, Gunnar Hilmarsson, was also recently crowned chairman of the year-and-a-half-old Design Centre. Although it was created before the crash, Hilmarsson explains that the center - which is a government-sponsored platform for exhibitions and seminars - took on a new life once the money disappeared. "People are looking into how we can survive in the future," says Hilmarsson. "Design and fashion have now become a high focus, not only within the sector, but also politically." Indeed, in May of this year, the promotion of design both at home...
Obama's Administration moved quickly to change the mood. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took part in the ASEAN regional forum earlier this year, pointedly announcing that ?the U.S. is back in Southeast Asia.? Since then Washington has designated an Ambassador to ASEAN, and its Southeast Asia love-fest will culminate with the Nov. 15 summit between Obama and the 10 regional leaders...