Been following the path of the indy effort November for a little while now. The business model and execution for the film is one we are trying to model.

Have noticed that for some reason some critics have felt comfortable dropping some pretty serious spoilers into their reviews of the film. See that behavior from time to time in blogs and bulletin boards, but never really seen it before from professional critics. Curious as to what the motivation is?

At least according to Charley Gibson at ABC anyway. From World News Tonight, Monday August 29th, slightly after 5:30PM CDT:

“In New Orleans, entire neighborhoods are underwater, but the levees held. The nightmare scenario of an entire city underwater did not happen.”

A notice from the New Orleans office of the National Weather Service at 8:14 AM that same morning said:

“…a levee breach occurred along the industrial canal…3 to 8 feet of water expected due to the breach.”

From Joe Hagan and Joseph T. Hallinan in this morning’s The Wall Street Journal.

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Watching the Sunday morning talking heads this week calling for some heads to roll because of Katrina response was interesting. The clich

Dear Mr. Whitacre:

Dare to be great. As a media consumer, this is what we humbly ask of you today.

No doubt you’ve already achieved a level of business success which can not be denied. You have proven your kung fu is strong. But now we humbly ask you to use your immense power to slay a beast that will be perhaps your toughest to conquer. The cable monopoly.

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