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This summer may be looked back upon as the summer that turned it around. It might be the last summer studios and filmmakers throw millions of dollars at the screen for no particular reason. Why? District 9. Tips for the Producers of Major Motion Pictures 1. Don't Get a Star to be in your movie, just because they're a star. Today many big-name actors get paid millions of dollar per movie, racking up the budgets to levels beyond what they should be, why do you think "Funny People" cost $75 mill… Continue

I'm not one to discriminate in my Anime viewing, but honestly I seem to prefer light-hearted anime to the darker stuff. I would definitely put Death Note in the "darker stuff" category. I think that Death Note is the rare series not intended to be deep entertainment, that just came out that way. It you don't know by now, Death Note is a series about Light Yagami, a young man from Japan who finds a book entitled "Death Note" that will kill whoever's name is written within it. He uses the book t… Continue