The LA Times
1) Disney's Rich Ross is Really Crazy
Rich Ross thinks that because of Pixar's new movie, 'Toy Story 3,' Pixar should get the Oscar for the best picture. The movie has prophet-ed over $1 billion in Movie Theater appearances and DVDs. Most people have told Ross that he is wasting the studio's money trying to hard for the win. They have done many things like link characters from the best picture win to other films. Ross should slow down and just accept that he might or might not win the Oscar for the greatest picture.
2) 'Tangled' beats 'Burlesque'
Disney Animation come back to the top with a princess who came down from a tower. "Tangled," the storied animation studio's six-years-in-the-making movie based on "Rapunzel," opened to a strong $69 million over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend. Box offices are selling more tickets for 'Tangled' than 'Burlesque, ' Faster,' 'Love and Other Drugs. 'Tangled' also enjoyed solid if not huge starts in a few foreign countries, particularly Russia, where it took in $7.5 million.
3) The Biz: Eye Wear Shoots for Style in 3-D
The movies in 3-D may be cool, but the glasses you get to watch them with are most certainly not. The Buddy Holly-like spectacles are not only clunky, but some moviegoers complain that the reusable glasses cause eye strain and question just how thoroughly they have been sanitized. Marchon3D, a division of Marchon Eye wear based in Melville, N.Y., has licensed its technology to Calvin Klein and Nautica for 3-D eye wear between $95 to $150. But the high-tech glasses, with a patented curved-lens design, are useful not just in theaters: They can be worn outdoors as regular sunglasses.Apart from being more stylish, these premium glasses vastly improve the 3-D viewing experience, manufacturers claim, because they're lighter, more comfortable and employ advanced optics to filter out reflections and other distractions that can cause eye strain.
4) Epic Mickey: Disney looks for bright future in a dark realm
Epic Mickey is the new video game from Disney for the Wii game system. The happiest place on Earth has a doppelganger. It’s called Wasteland. Its denizens are forgotten, dejected and resentful. But they’re not seething with rage. This is after all still a Walt Disney Co. property, even if its moniker is a topsy turvy twist on the Disneyland theme park where no one really dies and fairy princesses always prevail. It helps that Spector is a devoted Disney fan. During a company-sponsored tour for journalists of Walt Disney’s private apartment at Disneyland two weeks ago, his eyes welled up as he blurted, “I’ve modeled my whole life after two people, David O. Selznick and Walt Disney.”
5) Robot trained to care for the elderly at University of Connecticut
At the University of Connecticut, a robot named Nao is learning how to take care of elderly patients. The toddler-sized machine is being programmed to determine how often it should remind its charges to take their medication, when to notify an overseer and when to just let the patients enjoy some autonomy. Nao, a sleek creature with glowing eyes, represents a combination of basic ethical principles, machine learning techniques, and artificial intelligence science. It looks partly cute and partly creepy, walking in lolling steps and speaking in its mechanical voice: "It is time to take your medication."
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