The pay-off is the reported local spend for features such as Prometheus and Snow White and The Huntsman, which were shot on Skye, and many other productions filmed nearby in Glencoe and the Cairngorms on the mainland, including the Harry Potter series, The Dark Knight Rises, Skyfall and Cloud Atlas.
Sky customers will now have access to hit films such as Snow White and the Huntsman, The Bourne Legacy and Ted, in addition to a broad range of high-caliber programming on our bouquet of branded channels.
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Even as many Republicans attack the administration for choices such as ending White House tours or canceling early snow removal from Yellowstone National Park, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee in particular fear that giving Obama greater flexibility would erode Congress' control over the federal purse, which is enshrined in the Constitution and zealously guarded.
As the breeze whipped the snow in little maelstroms of white, I stopped halfway and tilted my face to the cloudless, sapphire-blue sky.
With the 20th-century boom in winter sports, the unloved blankets of snow that stifled the Walser each winter suddenly became white gold, and villages such as Davos, Klosters and Lech grew into famous ski resorts.
As the blade slices, a blizzard of snow-white flakes floats onto an already headhigh mound.
"I think it might even be worse than Sandy, " said Chip Gomes, a construction worker who took shelter from the snow in a 7-Eleven in White Plains as he waited for a bus.
The director sets a heart-pounding pace, pausing only for such interludes as Snow White's encounter with seven dwarfs who could not be more distant from their Disney forebears.
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The match will be remembered in American soccer for the elements as much as the 1967 Ice Bowl is in the NFL. As the snow increased, it made the field resemble a cake topped with piles of sugar, and players' hair turned white as snow stuck along their scalps.
Back on the big screen, Stewart's Snow White character was berated for being too masculine by critics such as Debbie Schlussel.
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