It's the blockbuster comedy.

Prozac was really the first absolute blockbuster drug.

This is beyond any blockbuster exhibition in the West.

This is beyond any blockbuster exhibition in the West.

Will the next big budget blockbuster movies actually be chick flicks?

And we aren't going to be able to support the kinds of expenses that we have to create blockbuster drugs today.

Overall, developing countries realize that traditional State support mechanisms (subsidies and quotas) have not been sufficient to withstand the power of the blockbuster phenomenon.

Or perhaps a bit of both? It is undeniably a great show with all the ingredients of a Hollywood blockbuster, including a surprising plot twist the emergence of a Third Man, François Bayrou.

In this way, we will remind those in the industry of a fundamental premise their most precious commodity is not a blockbuster drug, but the public s trust. If drug makers and pharmacists cannot protect their customers health, they cannot protect their business.

Still, it is not easy for national leaders, even those with Abe s talents, to manage such stories, just as it is hard for film producers to make a blockbuster every time. No leader can consistently shape the narratives that affect the economy.

MELBOURNE Two new movies released this month one a science fiction blockbuster, the other a revealing documentary raise the issue of our relations with our closest non human relatives, the great apes. Both dramatize insights and lessons that should not be ignored.

In June, Gilead was freed from paying up 200 million in damages for infringing two Merck patents related to Gilead's blockbuster drugs Sovaldi and Harvoni, after a U.S. judge found a pattern of misconduct by Merck including lying under oath and other unethical practices.

Serious book stores are losing their franchise, nonprofit theaters are surviving primarily by commercializing their repertory, symphony orchestras are diluting their programs, public television is increasing its dependence on reruns of British sitcoms, classical radio stations are dwindling, museums are resorting to blockbuster shows, dance is dying.

And we enter the era of true personalized medicine the right drug for the right person at the right time instead of what we're doing today, which is the same drug for everybody sort of blockbuster drug medications, medications which don't work for you, the individual.

So take this theory with you when you see James Cameron s Avatar , and watch for two revealing themes the raw, guilty template of the American unconscious in the context of the war on terror and late stage corporate imperialism, and a critical portrayal of America for the first time ever in a Hollywood blockbuster from the point of view of the rest of the world.

NEW YORK The Indian Supreme Court s refusal to uphold the patent on Gleevec, the blockbuster cancer drug developed by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis, is good news for many of those in India suffering from cancer. If other developing countries follow India s example, it will be good news elsewhere, too more money could be devoted to other needs, whether fighting AIDS, providing education, or making investments that enable growth and poverty reduction.