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...fare than with blockbusters. All Emmerich had to work with was a vaguely ominous future date - think 1984, 2001 - and his confidence that he could get people into theaters by telling them they're all gonna die. He's done it before. A past master of disaster, the German director devastated the planet in Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow; he wasted New York City in Godzilla and showed us the distant past was no safer in 10,000 B.C. This time Emmerich left billions of humans crushed in the convulsions of the earth and for good measure killed...
...picture also took in a burly $160 million internationally in its first five days. That's imposing but, for Emmerich, not surprising. With the exception of The Patriot, his American Revolution drama, the director's big pictures have amassed nearly two-thirds of their theatrical revenue in foreign countries. Moviegoers are no more sophisticated overseas, and Emmerich plays to the universal demands for mega-hits: throw little people into a giant disaster, put all the major information in pictures, not dialogue, and make sure that stuff blows up great. With 2012 seemingly headed for a $500 million worldwide take (which...
...October, 54% of Chinese residents reported in a China Daily survey that they would not get the H1N1 vaccine because of concerns about the shot's safety. That prompted the director of the World Health Organization's Beijing office, Dr. Michael O'Leary, to tell the newspaper, "The H1N1 vaccine is one of the safest vaccines being used. When it's available to me, I would not hesitate to get the vaccine developed and produced by China." (Read "H1N1: Hitting the Young, Riskier...
...real," David R. Jacobson, Khazei's deputy communications director, told...
...said Zhang, “So whether it’s CSA or Harvard in general, by the time I leave it, I would have left it better than when I came.” Zhang is the vice president of the Chinese Students Association (CSA) and the director of special projects for Veritas Financial Group. In the beginning of this year, Zhang worked with CSA, BSA, and BMF to host “Rush Hour,” a party held in the Quad that brough members of all three organizations together...