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Bought and savvily marketed by Lionsgate, Saw was a huge hit, proving that mainstream audiences have an appetite for sadism--at least if it's cleverly conceived. Another Saw quickly followed. So far the franchise has earned more than $250 million worldwide, and Saw III will open in roughly 3,000 U.S. theaters Oct. 27, the biggest release of the films to date. Saw films skew to the under-25 audience and are as popular with girls as with guys. "Good horror movies don't need stars, and they don't need special effects," says Tom Ortenberg, Lionsgate president...
...politics especially resist reduction. One reason lawmakers have to draw such twisted districts to save their seats is that we are so much more purple than they'd like, a tangle of red suburbs of blue cities and blue counties in red states. That mischievous map of a huge central red sea cupped by blue parentheses on the coasts makes us look like a very different country than we really...
...BARACK The cover of TIME, Oprah, the morning talk shows, conservative columnist David Brooks--the media have a huge mancrush on the smooth, stylish but somewhat inexperienced Senator Barack Obama. Which bodes well if we add swimsuit and talent categories to the presidential contest...
...going to win, or we have a great chance at winning, because not many teams are going to keep us from scoring,” Hoff said. “But getting a goal in the first half and going into halftime with the lead was a huge boost because we really didn’t come out very strong.” The fourth-highest scoring team in the nation, Harvard strategized how best to use its offensive skills against the Tigers, watching tapes of the game to size up Princeton’s weaknesses...
...Science Center. Actress Jada Pinkett-Smith said that the media and commercial advertisements have increasingly created negative perceptions of females, and that women need to come together to overcome these images. “The idea that the media has that much influence over us is a huge problem,” Pinkett-Smith said in her discussion, sponsored by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. “I believe in the power of reeducating people because the media depends on us. There is nothing to sell if no one is buying.” Pinkett-Smith...