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...degree of the shift was surprising," says Wes Thompson, president of Sun Life Financial in the U.S. The economic environment was already troubling when the survey was done a year ago, and "we didn't expect the jump to be as significant - up to 65%" during the latest poll, he says. (See 10 big recession surprises...
...Where the Wild Things Are” is the first in a series of prominent children’s book adaptations that will hit theatres in the coming months, including Wes Anderson’s take on Roald Dahl’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and Tim Burton’s live-action remake of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Thankfully, Jonze steers clear of the common, sanitized book-to-film route that so many directors have followed in the past...
...Wes Crain, co-owner and vice president at Navitas Naturals, says the presence of Truvia and PureVia in the marketplace helped boost sales of his Organic Green Stevia, which was launched in April. "As a little company, we've benefited from their consumer education," he says. How sweet...
...themselves, are not commercially viable. The chance for exposure, then, comes in much the same form that it does for the short story: a collection. In 2006, a series of 21 short films set in Paris—many of which were directed by high profile industry figures like Wes Craven and the Coen brothers—called “Paris, je t’aime,” was released to much fanfare, and a follow-up project called “New York, I Love You”—featuring a film by Zach Braff...
Also at the table was Wes Mannion, head of Australia Zoo, the for-profit founded by the late Steve Irwin, the "Crocodile Hunter." The zoo had inked a deal with the government to help save the wombat, mainly through research support. "It's all about the marketing and money, mate," chimed in Mannion, an Irwin look-alike in his Aussie safari outfit. That view won over Alan Horsup, a conservation officer who spent the past two decades in an often lonely quest to pull the northern hairy-nose back from the edge of extinction. "I didn't like...