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5/13 Web Round-up

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Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: The Next Generation• Nicole Kidman teams up with “Slumdog Millionaire” star Rubiana Ali in a Shekhar Kapur-directed, Ridley Scott-produced Schweppes ad. [Daily Telegraph]

• Patrick Goldstein pulls back the veil on studio manipulation of box office expectations. [The Big Picture]

• Revisiting “Star Trek: The Next Generation”‘s eerily prescient torture episode. [Slate]

• Dissecting the meaning and pronunciation of “synecdoche” across the pond. [The Guardian]

• Screenwriter David Nicholls on the “indulgence” of writing an adapted screenplay. [Live Journal via The Independent]

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  1. chad Avatar

    That article was less about studio expectations and more about how awesome the author is at box office predicting.