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...ironic that all these peace-loving premodern agrarians are making astonishing amounts of cash for a lot of postmodern technocapitalist movie executives. Fantasy is hot, and studios are backing up the truck. Even as New Line and Warner Bros. (which, like Time, are owned by AOL Time Warner) churn out Potter and Rings sequels, New Line is already developing a follow-up franchise based on Philip Pullman's critically acclaimed fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, about the journey of an adolescent girl and boy through alternative worlds inhabited by witches, angels and armored polar bears. Late next year...
...unknown director who seldom stepped foot outside New Zealand and who was best known for quirky, low-budget films, was given a $270 million budget. The cost ultimately climbed to $310 million. If the first movie had tanked, then New Line (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner) would have had two more bombs in the can, already ticking...
...germ of physical shock comics like Tom Green and Johnny Knoxville in Lewis, as embodied by Sean Hayes (Will and Grace's Jack), who is all rubber legs and flailing arms. Jeremy Northam (Gosford Park) is believable as Martin, but he can't compete with Hayes' human Warner Bros. cartoon...
Under the direction of Chou, 41, Warner Music Taiwan's market share has quadrupled, to 16%, in four years. His biggest coup: signing Yanzi, 24, a Singaporean pop star who last year sold more than a million records. Warner Music Asia Pacific (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner) recently added mainland China to Chou's portfolio. Chou remains chairman of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry in Taiwan and leads the battle against digital piracy in the territory...
...first achieved stateside acclaim in the 1980s with "The Watchmen." For the last couple of years Moore has been the principle writer of multiple titles under the America's Best Comics imprint of Wildstorm Productions (an imprint of DC Comics, a subsidiary of TIME.com's parent corporation, AOL Time Warner). Out of the various projects, "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," "Tom Strong," and "Top Ten" among them, one title has particularly stood out. "Promethea" has just finished, with issue 23, a remarkable ten-issue story that can be described as nothing less than a cosmology in comix form...