As summer leisure travel ramps up, travel industry insiders predict the rental car shortage currently gripping the U.S. is likely to worsen before it gets better.
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The Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce has a series of upcoming events scheduled for March, each focused on providing the most current information and developing meaningful connections to help the regionâs businesses.
On March 3, Hunter Byrnes and Steven Gould of Byrnes Gould Law will present The Rules of COVID-19Â Management: Understanding Virginiaâs Permanent Workplace Health and Safety Standards. The program will focus on Virginiaâs newly adopted, permanent workplace standards to train and protect employees and develop response plans during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Morning Brew, the Chamberâs networking series, will be held virtually on March 17 at 8 a.m. Morning Brew provides access to intentional networking to share a business message with business and community leaders. The Chamberâs newest Innovation Partners, Blue Ridge Fiberboard, Columbia Forest Products and JTI will be highlighted at the event.
But those are the perils of using your film to set up a franchise without any certainty that there will, in fact, be anyone that wants it. Sometimes, when you are trying to plan on several films at once, you forget to concentrate on the one you re making. People will not want two of your films if they don t like the first one.
Enter
Jumper.
Jumper was a film that had everything going for it. It had a star director (Doug Liman, fresh off the smash
Mr. and Mrs. Smith), a hot movie star (Hayden Christensen, not quite yet fully meme d), and a beloved science-fiction novel with a killer hook that fans had been clamoring to be made into a movie for nearly two decades. Heck, that novel already had its own sequel! This thing was ready-made to be a franchise.
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Just as it stands, Saints and Soldiers could have been made in 1948. That is not a bad thing. It has the strengths and the clean lines of a traditional war movie, without high-tech special effects to pump up the noise level. I saw it the same week as the new restoration of Sam Fuller s The Big Red One (1980), made by a director who was an infantryman throughout World War II, and was struck by how the two films had similar tone: The No. 1 job of a foot soldier is to keep from getting killed. Doing his duty is a close second.