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...always an embarrassment when a movie earns less than the low-ball figures its executives publicly predict. The Vampire's Assistant, envisioned as the launch of a franchise based on Darren Shan's horror-romance books, came with the creative pedigree of director Paul Weitz (American Pie, About a Boy, In Good Company) and Oscar-winning screenwriter Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential). Its distributor had a modest goal: "If it comes in with double digits," said Universal's Nikki Rocco, "that will be a win for us." Instead, it cadged just $6.3 million. Expect no sequels du Freak...
...June 25, Michael Jackson's longtime collaborator Kenny Ortega had little time to comprehend his friend's death, let alone grieve over it. Hollywood's hottest choreographer-director went from preparing Jackson's 50-date London concert series to setting the paces of the pop icon's star-studded memorial to directing the behind-the-scenes film of Jackson's rehearsals for the ill-fated tour. This Is It opens on Oct. 28 for a limited two-week run with a simultaneous premiere in 15 cities around the world. Ortega spoke to TIME about the film, which he calls...
...chefs go, the company says the less exposure to Chinese food, the better. "We've hired some Chinese chefs in the U.S., but we weren't successful because they had their own habits, and old habits are hard to break," says Roberto DeAngelis, P.F. Chang's director of international operations. "So we'd rather have someone new." (See why Chinese-American food is so different from the real thing...
...York Times Co. v. Sullivan Supreme Court case essentially apply to today's digital media. "There aren't enough cases yet for anybody to tell whether there are nuances or differences to be drawn from how courts actually apply the Sullivan standard to online speech," says Sandra Baron, executive director for the Media Law Resource Center. Basically, a public figure can win a defamation claim if he proves that an individual person or media outlet published something about him with so-called actual malice - knowing it was false or with reckless disregard for the truth. This standard offers considerable protection...
...Alessandro has also had to sort out some tricky governance issues. The company's experience with nonfamily management hasn't been an unmitigated success. The first outside managing director, who came from automaker Fiat, served just three years before leaving, together with the chief financial officer, in 2006. A new CFO brought in from Burberry lasted just 21 months. As well as putting together a new management team, Alessandro has also sought to delineate more clearly the roles played by the family and by management. The new managing director, Gerolamo Caccia Dominioni, comes from Warner Music, while the current...