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...director of photography to help Schnabel deliver a bold visual style, shooting as if the viewer were inside the paralyzed man's body. When the film's French production company balked at the price of an A-list cinematographer, Kennedy persuaded them to find the money elsewhere in the budget. "They see talent," says Brad Grey, CEO of Paramount. "They understand it. They know how to get the most out of the folks who work for them and with them...
...casting personalities as well as skills," says Kennedy. "If you have somebody who's intensely creative but they can't manage their way out of a paper bag, you bring somebody else in to augment that." The two producers also like to pair inventive directors of smaller-budget films (like Greengrass before Bourne and Schnabel now) with studio-caliber crews to surround an artistic mind with precision and experience...
...average, only 10-15 attend the meetings. "The public is not aware that [gambling addiction] is a disease. They think it's part of the culture," says acting executive director Milagros Eos Capistrano. The clinic runs on patient fees, which don't add up to enough to cover the budget, forcing staff to dig into their own pockets to make up the difference. Without government support, "the disease will continue, the rate of crime will go up," says Capistrano. "It's destroying lives...
...electrical power to fast-growing industries to avoid leaving homes without heating. But because this year is a (re)election year for the governing couple, the obscure ministries of Social Development and Federal Planning now take charge of more than half of the state’s budget. To make things even worse, President Kirchner has amended laws to give his cabinet discretionary power over budgetary allocations without bothering with the legislature. According to many, the government has also tweaked price indexes, as if discourse could influence the tangible reality of inflationary pressures. But thanks to petrodollars, at least there...
...from their own 20-year war with the central government in Khartoum that left the territory physically ravaged but in possession of oil, minerals, wildlife and forests. With its capital in the city of Juba, south Sudan, a semi-autonomous region with 6 million residents, now has an annual budget of $1.2 billion and is in possession of most of Sudan's oil reserves. Foreign investors are clamoring to get in. But oil is both promise and danger; Khartoum may not be willing to release its grip on such a resource-rich region. A few weeks ago, Juba's representatives...