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...Shyamalan has an even more radical--or counterrevolutionary--idea. "Let's say you can see any movie you want anytime. You can see it on a phone in the toilet when it opens," he says. "Well, somebody like me is going to go to somebody like Warner Bros. and say, 'I want to make a movie but only for the movie theaters. How much money will you give me to make a movie like that?' And they'll do the math and say, 'We'll give you $20 million.' And someone like me is going...
...Harris, “A History of Violence”). A book editor (Amy Madigan, “Pollock”) has offered her $100,000 for the love letters her famous father wrote her equally famous and recently deceased mother. There Reese meets an English grad student (Amelia Warner, “Aeon Flux”) and wannabe Christian-rock musician (Will Ferrell), both of whom help Reese to reconnect with her reclusive father. And all of this to the tunes of indie faves like Azure Ray and—wait for it—the Shins...
...vibrant, it convinced us that this was the right technology." Within a month, CBS and NBC made plans to offer some of their top shows as 99 video-on-demand selections through cable company Comcast and satcaster DirecTV, and soon Google, AOL (owned, like TIME, by Time Warner) and others joined the party...
...that people wanted more than that." In the mid-1990s, back before Keanu knew kung fu, the Wachowskis wrote a screenplay of V for Vendetta. When Matrix mania finally subsided in 2003, they had the time to get the movie made. Just as important, they'd earned Warner Bros. $600 million in the U.S. at the box office, and that kind of money buys you the kind of good will you need to make a risky film. Instead of directing it themselves, they tapped James McTeigue, who worked under them on the Matrix trilogy. (The Wachowskis no longer talk...
TIME: Sony BMG and Warner Music agreed last year to stop bribing stations to play certain songs. How do you convince listeners that new music is being picked on its merits and not because of some backroom deal...