And Sir Howard brought new management into the movie division and enjoyed bumper worldwide success with the Spiderman films, among others.
What did Taymor get from the Spiderman comics and movies?
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To date the mobile industry has flirted with films with Motorola shipping its Z8 handset with The Bourne Identity and Nokia offering users of its N95 8GB model, the Spiderman 3 movie.
In movies, Amy Pascal , chairman of the Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, is trying to repair the studio's sagging reputation, with box-office successes like the Spiderman series and The Da Vinci Code.
To watch movies or TV episodes from Amazon Instant Video on iPhone and iPod touch, customers can simply search for the content they've already rented or purchased from Amazon Instant Video-including the latest hit movies like The Dark Knight Rises, Brave and The Amazing Spiderman and the latest episodes from TV series like The Walking Dead, Sons of Anarchy and The Vampire Diaries.
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From the 16th-floor, penthouse suite of Manhattan's Royalton Hotel, a Belkin company representative streamed the "Spiderman 2" trailer using a Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) laptop to the bustling, sun-drenched, ground-floor plaza outside the hotel.
As for the story itself, Taymor threw out even the basic storyline from Spiderman comics and movies and thought up her own from scratch.
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The elements of her Spiderman failure were her own ideas for spectacle (good), her own ideas for story (bad), and songs (so-so) from musical-theater novices.
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Though the French philosopher, Voltaire, and Uncle Ben from Spiderman have both spoken these words, this expression is especially true of social media.
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This summer, in particular, movies like "Spiderman" have had huge openings and then plummeted in the U.S. while overseas, the revenue kept pouring in.
The game sets the record for the most money earned in a day by an entertainment product, topping figures set by film Spiderman 3.
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