The game’s creators and 20th Century Fox have partnered for “Angry Birds Rio, which is due out on March 22. (The animated feature film Rio, featuring the voices of Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway, comes out April 15.)” Execs insist that the new version is “an ‘authentic’ project that expands on the Rio story.”
Tag: 03.01.11
Random House Gives In to Apple’s E-Book Pricing Scheme
“Random House Inc., the publishing industry’s last major holdout against the ‘agency’ pricing model championed by Apple Inc., said Monday that it is reversing course and will begin offering its digital books in the U.S. under the new pricing system, in a bid to broaden its e-book distribution.”
The World’s Most Spectacular New Opera House (It’s In China)
“Set in Haixinsha Square, a brand new stretch of south China’s ever-expanding trading city, the opera house takes the form of what appear to be two enormous pebbles that might have been washed up on the shores of the Pearl river, on which Guangzhou stands.”
NY City Ballet Goes For The Music
“When I came to ballet in the 1970s, I caught the end of a golden age of ballet musicality. Our era is not golden in that way. Yet the winter season at New York City Ballet, which ended on Sunday, brought more than a few moments when music mattered again.”
Oscar Ratings Down
“In a year when ratings for the Grammys, the Golden Globes and the Super Bowl were all up, the bright, new Twitter-fingered Oscars were down.”
Oscar Ratings Down
“In a year when ratings for the Grammys, the Golden Globes and the Super Bowl were all up, the bright, new Twitter-fingered Oscars were down.”
Want To Sell Tickets? Make ‘Em Fly!
“Flying helps sell tickets. People in the industry like to point out that flying onstage with some mechanical assistance is almost as old as theatre itself. But it’s becoming much more common in live performances, from Broadway to awards ceremonies to Super Bowl shows.”
Striking Detroit Symphony Musicians Say They’ll Return To Work
A media advisory sent today said that the players would return “to work under the conditions management has imposed on the employees and without a new contract settlement.”
E-Borrowing: Should Publishers Let Libraries Lend E-books?
“What really dismays me is this: publishers believe that libraries are not good for business, that sharing is a bug, that book culture would survive if everyone had to pay for everything they read.This is short-sighted madness.”
“Printing” Food
“An engineering lab and a culinary school have teamed up to construct novel edible objects with 3D printers that use pureed foods in place of ink.”