Pixar, Culture, and Bollywood

Couple of good articles from the NY Times this weekend

Pixar Gambles on a Robot in Love

Andrew Stanton, who wrote and directed the film, doesn’t care if the kiddies want to hug Wall-E or not when the movie comes out on Friday. “I never think about the audience,” he said. “If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.”

When the Comedy Is Lost in Translation

The worse news for Hollywood is that the new movies may be feeding a non-American tendency in once-dependable foreign markets like France and South Korea. “Pop culture used to be American pop culture,” said Roger Smith, the executive editor and a motion picture analyst at Global Media Intelligence, a research company. “But the rest of the world is figuring out how to make pop culture of its own.”

Bollywood searches for deals in Hollywood

After several good years, entertainment companies in India are finding that they have plenty of money but not enough places to spend it.