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...year got off to a good start for Hollywood in Bollywoodland. As expected, the global success of James Cameron's Avatar is also playing out in India: it's slated to become the biggest Hollywood grosser of all time in the country. The 3-D extravaganza, also released in 2-D and dubbed in three local languages, has already grossed $15 million across the country, and is expected to edge out Columbia Pictures' doomsday epic 2012, which has made $20 million since its opening on Dec. 18. What's more, in a rare show of heft, the film continues...
...Last year was Hollywood's best performance in India to date. The success of the U.S. exports in the world's most prolific movie market - India makes over 1,000 films every year - began a year ago, as Indian audiences from Punjab to Chennai lapped up all genres of films, from Sony's Terminator Salvation to Warner's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to the Fox Star Studio-distributed Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Even Baz Luhrmann's romantic epic Australia, which tanked pretty much everywhere else in the world, made $2 million on the subcontinent - enough...
...with 1.2 billion people. But India's real estate boom and 9% economic growth rate (it has now backed down to 7%) helped usher in a herd of multiplexes - and new profits for U.S. players. American studios now estimate that 65% of their earnings come from screenings at multiplexes. Hollywood films, which only cashed in on 1% of the total Indian market 10 years ago, now skim 7% of that growing market...
...Within a few years they - and François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol - were writing for Cahiers du Cinéma, which Rohmer edited from 1956 to 1963. No film magazine was so influential as Cahiers in those years. The young firebrands excoriated the prevailing French cinema and championed Hollywood directors like Howard Hawks, Samuel Fuller, George Cukor and Alfred Hitchcock. (Rohmer and Chabrol co-authored one of the earliest Hitchcock monographs.) Soon, their revolution in criticism spread to the screen. Godard made Breathless, Truffaut The 400 Blows. Their Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) was cresting; its influence would land...
...Hollywood, winners and losers are relative: the money earned at the box office must be matched against money spent on production. It's Complicated had a hefty $85 million budget; Leap Year cost just $19 million to make; Youth in Revolt, $18 million. All three will have to scramble to break even. In the bang-for-a-buck category, the phenomenon remains The Blind Side, the sports-inspirational drama starring Sandra Bullock. Still in the top seven after eight weeks of release, the movie has now earned $219.2 million on a $29 million budget. It's now the all-time...