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...Wednesday, nearly 50 years on from the comic's debut, the third live action adaptation of his adventures was released, in an extravagant promotional blaze that would have even made Hollywood sit up and pay attention. The movie, Asterix at the Olympic Games, comes just six months before the Beijing Games, which the marketing campaign gleefully exploits...
...cloak swings naturally in the TV series Clone Wars and that Jackie Chan slides effortlessly down the Eiffel Tower in Rush Hour 3. Like their colleagues back at Lucasfilm's San Francisco headquarters, the Singapore crew members work in jeans and decorate their cubicles with their favorite Star Wars action figures. But while years of experience and Yoda-level technical skill are prerequisites for joining Lucasfilm's U.S. team, the developers and animators in Singapore were hired less for their résumés than for their artistic eye. Students like Ho at Asian universities are its top potential recruits...
...Secret of the Magic Gourd, its first Mandarin-language film made for mainland China. But the movie was produced entirely by Hong Kong-based Centro Digital Pictures. Under Disney's watchful guidance, Centro adapted a classic Chinese bedtime tale, shooting and editing it into a 90-min. live-action feature. Disney then directed the film's marketing and distribution. The Magic Gourd became China's top-grossing children's film ever, generating $2 million in its first two weeks, says John Chu, Centro's founder, who oversaw the production. "It was a matter of finding a story that matched Disney...
...after a far bigger scandal that cost it $7.13 billion to unwind - and that subjected its risk control procedures to public mockery. Yet the end is still not in sight. The SocGen's board of directors, meeting in emergency session, left chairman and president Daniel Bouton in place. That action probably wasn't a vote of confidence as much as it was acknowledgment that SocGen's travails have only begun...
...This will give the committee members a more complete picture of what’s happening,†she said. “Senator Grassley would like to see more action and a fuller understanding of growth and spending...