The Insider’s Guide To Movie Marketing
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In 2012, Marvel’s The Avengers brought in a staggering $632 million in revenues, and sold around 80 million tickets, according to The Numbers. But not every film manages to achieve the same level of success. In fact, the film industry funds lots of losers each year, in the hope that one of them will be [...]
Tech Update: The New Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
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Forget about the iPad mini, Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 is on its way, expected to be released this Q2 of the year. Even in Germany, Samsung rules the mobile market. Samsung proves to be the global leader in providing top Android mobile lines by beating Apple’s iPhone 5 in terms of patronage. This first quarter [...]
Welcome to “The City Beautiful”: What Orlando Has to Offer You
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“The City Beautiful”, the nickname for Orlando, Florida, is a fitting moniker for good reason, because it’s beautiful all year long. It is a great place to live and an even better place for a vacation. Fifty-one million people a year can’t be wrong, after all (that is the number of people who choose to [...]
Steve Jobs’ yacht – Venus, revealed in the Aalsmeer, Netherlands (VIDEO)
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Venus, Steve Jobs’ 250-foot yacht, has finally been revealed in the Netherlands. The photos and videos of the boat were first released by Dutch blog One More Thing, and show the details of the meticulously-designed boat that Jobs’ commissioned six years ago and designed with the help of minimalist designer Philippe Starck, ABC News reported. The vessel, [...]
New Film ‘Prometheus’ is a Sci-Fi Puzzle
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Are you a fan of the classic 1979 science fiction movie, Alien? If you are, then I’m betting you’ve already seen or are planning to see Prometheus, the highly anticipated new film by Alien director, Ridley Scott. I’ve been waiting to see Prometheus ever since I heard it was being made two years ago, so I [...]
These Dock-jumping Dogs Are Guaranteed to Make You Smile
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Every May, Richmond, Virginia hosts a huge outdoor sports festival called Dominion Riverrock and it attracts participants and spectators from all over the U.S. and other countries. Richmond is one of the few cities in America that has a whitewater rapids river (The James) running through it and an extensive running and biking trail system in the [...]
Cool Places: The Museum of Edgar Allan Poe
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Richmond, Virginia, is a city full of museums, and a person could spend years exploring all of the art and artifacts that these institutions offer. I must admit that I’m woefully behind on my plan to visit each and every museum here in Virginia’s capitol, but I’m making progress. For example, on a recent Saturday [...]
Cool Places: Wabi-Sabi Sushi in Petersburg, Virginia
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I admit, I’m something of a foodie and so I’m always looking for interesting restaurants to check out. One of my recent finds was a great sushi place called Wabi-Sabi, in Petersburg, Virginia. A small town in central Virginia might not seem like the most likely place for awesome sushi, but don’t let the location [...]
Artists Let Imaginations Soar in Street Painting Festival
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My advice for any city that wants to give its downtown area an instant upgrade and have a lot of fun in the process – hold a street painting festival like Lake Worth, Florida does every year. Just block off a street, offer some cool prizes for the best creations, and then let a bunch [...]
Richard Branson’s Bash at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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On the forefront of things it’s interesting to see how certain events shape themselves into progressive connections. In case you didn’t know. Sir Richard Branson started a chain of record stores called Virgin Records, after that the Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s. At that time Virgin Atlantic Airways was set up and the [...]
50 Funny, Bizzare and Creative Tombstones
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Have the courage to live, anyone can die. – Robert Cody Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that. – George Carlin [...]
