Archive for the 'International' Category

• e  36 Startups and slippery facts

  Since I was name-checked twice this interview from the top-ranked Wharton School of Business, I feel some responsibility to point out a few fallacies and follies.

• e  6 Narcopalabras

  A handy and scary glossary to terms from the Mexican drug war.

• e  43 Subtitled success stories

  Somewhat remarkably, the top two movies in America have subtitles. Lots and lots of subtitles.

• e  55 Spanish or Mandarin

  At the gym yesterday, we were discussing which language would be the best foreign language for a native English speaker to learn. Specifically, can you make a compelling case for any language other than Spanish or Mandarin?

• e  19 Simple English Wikipedia

  A parallel set of articles written in a subset of English is remarkable cool.

• e  15 Are glossaries a good idea?

  Generally, no. Try to make terms understandable in context.

• e  18 Let the right subtitles in

  Changing the subtitles for Let The Right One pissed off a lot of fans.

• e  17 Aliens abroad

  In a precautionary move to ward off pirates, Paramount supplied only dubbed prints of “Monsters vs. Aliens” to Russian and Ukrainian theaters.

• e  10 Fansubbing

  It’s time for the studios to meet the demands of the international audience and avoid piracy at the same time.

• e  62 Going to France

  Along with nine other WGA writers, I’ll be headed to France in November to get a backstage tour of Paris and Marseille, in the hopes of finding cinematically interesting people and places. It’s all sponsored by Film France in the hopes of getting more big Hollywood movies shooting there.

  It’s a clever idea, one I suspect [...]

• e  8 From Russia with Questions

  What are the pitfalls for a foreigner trying to break into Hollywood?

• e  9 Back from Venice

  I’m back from the Venice Film Festival, where The Nines had its international premiere.

  The movie screened three times, but the main public debut was 2:30 p.m. on Monday. At lunch that day, both the sales agent and the publicist separately pulled me aside to say, “So, John, you should know that if the audience [...]

• e  Comments Off Summer Reruns

  Over the next two weeks, you’ll notice a bit of deja vu at this site: old articles suddenly popping up on the front page, with new dates and old comments. It’s not a technical glitch. I’m putting the site into reruns while I’m out of the country and off the grid.

  I’m going to Africa — [...]

• e  5 La escritura profesional y el auge de los amateurs

  My first experience with being translated.