The traditional American dream is to have a home, a house, an abode. Whatever you call it, your residence represents stability, maturity, and financial growth. At the end of a long day in the trenches, Americans always count on relaxing at home. The 2008 economic meltdown during the new millennium changed this scenario. Many parents ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 14:54

Jennifer Lawrence is probably the perfect Katniss Everdeen. Her performance in Winter?s Bone proved that she can handle a gritty role with maturity and depth. The Hunger Games opens today with enough anticipation to net $15 million in pre-sale tickets alone, and I have no doubt in my mind that as the lead, Lawrence will ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 18:55

What interested me the most about the post was her take on the film's demographics.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 20:57

That?s my opinion having just taken my 11 year old son to see it. And if I am to read the blogosphere, it is a controversial opinion to hold. Some, including here at Forbes, see it as potentially causing reduced civility amongst kids. Others see it as pure escapism for teens with little teach them ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 16:56

You can read a lot into the theme of the Hunger Games and its relevance to young people?s lives and culture but did?? Harry Potter suggest to you that young people wanted a British public school education or saw their world through those puzzlingly large lenses that Harry always wore? Probably not. I was interested ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 20:57

The Hunger Games is out! And predictably, Hollywood is already wondering who will show up to care about a female action hero who doesn't need saving. If we want other projects with strong leading women to get the green light, it's time to get to the movies and help this one bring in $100 million.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 17:56

Do you think that is the most sophisticated marketer in the world??? Or ??? They're not.?? Entertainment marketers are doing the best brand building in the world right now.?? The campaign for The Hunger takes this to a new level. This is a big paradigm shift from the nineties when entertainment marketing was sometimes an ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 22:25

In the research for my new book to be published this fall, Hungry Start-up Strategy: Creating New Ventures with Limited Resources and Unlimited Vision, one of the most surprising things I found is that entrepreneurs are not motivated primarily by money. Instead of money, successful start-up CEOs hunger to turn their vision of the world ...

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 15:26

Angry Birds may continuously produce new content, but there's only so many new ways to arrange sticks, rocks, glass and seasonal accoutrements to protect the meddlesome pigs. We've seen new backgrounds, we've seen new hats for pigs, and we're ready for something different. Angry Birds: Space, is looking like it might be the breath of ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 17:55

Oregonians love NPR; Wisconsinites adore the Onion; the Huffington Post is widely read in Appalachia. These are a few of the favorites that the data team at Bitly uncovered when they parsed data from millions of clicks on their shortened links. We've turned their data into an interactive map and an illustration in the April ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 13:25