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...vision," says Fronk. "It's a different story going on at Ford than at some of their competitors." Other big gainers included ExxonMobil, Pepsi, Costco, the Home Depot and Southwest Airlines. Among the companies falling the fastest in the rankings were Bank of America, Verizon, Sony, Target and Time Warner (the parent company of TIME). (See which businesses are bucking the recession...
...premise of Hanks as history maker seemed reasonable until I flipped the page and found a two-page ad for The Pacific, the miniseries from Time Warner's HBO. TIME's objective news judgment has been seriously compromised by an act of such corporate self-promotion. Ira Pilchen, Chicago...
That was also the case 60, 70 years ago, when Disney shorts had a monopoly on the Oscars, while the funnier, livelier cartoons from Warner Bros. - which today are treasured - were ignored. In that sense, Pixar's features are closer to the old, elevated Disney style, while DreamWorks' films are flat-out cartoons, proud to carry on the fast, cavorting Warner tradition...
...high as SM4's.) But the movie earned about $10 million less than Fast and Furious, which opened on this (non-Easter) weekend last year, and about $9 million less than the opening weekend take of 300, the antique-Greek saga whose success three years ago surely inspired Warner Bros. to remake the original, 1981 version of Clash. (See "The 3-D Pileup: Too Many Movies, Not Enough Screens...
...diagnose these complaints. First, the 3-D makeover. Yes, it is nothing but Warner Bros.' scheme to fleece an extra $3 or $4 from the moviegoer's pocket. Yes, the retrofit adds nothing to Clash of the Titans, and may detract from the film's old-fashioned vigor, as audience's wait in vain for some big monsters-in-your-lap moment. (And it's rated PG-13 - unlike 300, its recent ancestor in the antique-Greek action genre - so the hacked-off-arm opportunities are also limited.) But at least this transfer to 3-D doesn't substantially darken...