More than anything, in this era of hyper-editing and hyper-budgeting, I'm just delighted to find a film that can transfix viewers even as untold minutes of its running time are devoted to watching grainy footage of a couple asleep in bed.
For every "Lord of the Rings" there's a "Treasure Planet" — an animated Disney film that cost an estimated $140 million and sold less than $40 million of tickets domestically — with the potential losses magnified by often hyper-inflated budgets for special effects.
Anita Elberse, a professor at Harvard Business School, has a different take on the future of big-ticket, hyper-marketed, budget-busting movies, music albums and sports teams, arguing that they are growing more, not less, important to the success of entertainment groups.
Assuming specialty coffees get cut out of consumer budgets, Starbucks' hyper growth plans may be costly.
Today we have ready access to films, documentaries and computer games that depict war in high-budget hyper-reality, but museums have one very big advantage over this competing media: real objects.
"And all of it in the midst of digging out from under the wreckage of the worst global economic downturn since the Great Depression, in a massively hyper-partisan era, necessitating huge budget cuts and the pursuit of new revenues".
It is code for permanently cementing deficits into the federal budget, and virtually guaranteeing either hyper-inflation, hyper-taxation or both down the road.
Brown evidently thinks this phrase describes his approach, an approach which he says has largely worked in bringing California back from a chronic operating state budget deficit and and the abyss of permanent hyper-partisan gridlock.
Thet expressed the primary difficulty of hyper-targeted push mobile ads being fragmentation, that it was really difficult to take the million dollar budget for a client like Tide and apply it to a micro scale.
