ALL SOURCES FOUND ON THE 28TH JAN 09

http://entertainmentnow.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/nicole-kidman-may-retire-from-acting/

Terms of my future as an actor and stuff, I don’t know. I am in a place in my life where … I’ve had some great opportunities and I may just choose to have some more children. I’ve no idea what is in my future but I am very at peace with where I want to be…There are many things I want to do besides act.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1567700,00.html

The Hollywood Reporter named Nicole Kidman the best-paid actress in the business. It’s an announcement that would have seemed well deserved…if this were 2002. That was the year when Kidman was evolving into the kind of rare Hollywood creature not seen since the days of Ingrid Bergman: an Oscar winner (for The Hours) who combined critical adoration (Moulin Rouge) with undeniable mainstream appeal (The Others).

But since then…slumming as a janitor in The Human Stain? Sharing a bathtub with a 10-year-old boy inBirth? Shaving Robert Downey Jr. in Fur? These offbeat indie choices might have made sense if Kidman’s career were cooking, but from 2003 to 2005, most of her prominent features — The Stepford Wives,Bewitched, and The Interpreter — disappointed big-time. As the paychecks keep coming (Kidman reportedly received about $16 million to star in the 2007 sci-fi thriller The Invasion), two questions arise: Is she worth it? And has she lost her golden touch? ”I’m interested in doing things that are unusual,” the actress told EW last summer. ”People try to say, ‘Be safe.’ And I always go, ‘No, I want to try to do things that, even if they don’t work, [are] at least bold.”’

http://defamer.com/hollywood/nicole-kidman/nicole-kidman-ascends-to-top-actress-earner-status-despite

Top earning actress.

http://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/features/10172/

You could argue that marrying Tom Cruise was the best career move Nicole Kidman ever made, but that would be just plain wrong. It was the second-best move. Divorcing Tom Cruise was the best, because it meant that, suddenly, she had the one ingredient for stardom she’d lacked: a cohesive story line.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20178950,00.html

“Occasionally you want to make films that they can take their friends to, [that] they can go to the premiere of, that they celebrate.”

Nicole kidman interviews 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7IHyTXpz8A&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfy10txy520&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU2xdFdo9j4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjzeqU3LdMQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77hX09_DFUM

Synopsis of The Big Sleep 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038355/synopsis

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038355/plotsummary

Research about The Big Sleep

• http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/01/12/bigsleep.html
• http://www.noiroftheweek.com/2005/10/big-sleep-1946-101005.html\

Remember: 

Questions will ask either what you think about it or how the market has gain from it. (Audience and Market)

_{New media technology} 

_{Source: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaelwalford/entry/glossary_for_new/}

HD-TV. High definition TVs came on sale in Britain in a big way in 2006 in the run up to the World Cup. whilst the quality is undoubtedly excellent when you see one with a live HD feed there is a problem in the UK of a lack of available program material in HD. 

iPhone. January 2007 CES saw the awaited launch of Apple’s iPhone. This is a fine example of convergent technology in which a phone is able to download both music and video. The screen is a widescreen. The phone is also controlled via a touch screen rather than conventional buttons. 

Interactive TV. The ability to feedback information into the TV system. This requires digital technology. Typically the flow of information from the receiver.

MP3. A digital compression system for transmitting music over the internet with short download times. The rate of sampling is only about half as much as on conventional CDs therefore quality is compressed and more songs are compacted into the memory. 

Internet Search Engine. To navigate the internet effectively it became necessary to invent new software to make a rapid search of the millions of domain names which mushroomed on after the start of the World Wide Web in the mid 1990s. The most successful to date is Google. The way in which the companies who run these make money is by selling advertising space.

_Technology: 

_{Mobile Phones}

_{Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/business_basics/469294.stm}

_{The mobile phone industry has grown over the years because of the growing technologies that has been created since the invention of the first mobile phone back in 1973 which was analogue. Today mobile phones are digital.}

_{Convergence is a key part of mobile phones today, the newest mobile phones have the internet, video recorded devices, camera devices, music players etc. The mobile phone industry has opened up opportunities for a lot of people which it has supplied jobs.} 

_{The article published 10 years ago reports that a third of the population in the UK own mobile phones. Today most of the population own a mobile phone and its only a small majority of the population today that don’t own a mobile phone because they either cant you one or refuse to have one.} 

_{Article:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4163003.stm}

_{There has been a growing concern on how mobile phones effect our health and worry over more younger children such as eight year olds having the use of a mobile phone. There have been reports that mobile phones can effect brain function and in extreme cases brain tumours.}  

_Music: 

_{Ipods, Mp3 players, Cd’s}

_{Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4230846.stm}

_{Music as a whole is growing. you can download music from the internet and download them onto an Ipod or an Mp3 player. Before the Mp3 there was the Cd player and before then there was the tape player. As the music industry grew and invented Cd’s the tapes became none existent and vinyl are collected or used by Dj players in clubs. But the music industry has taken a blow because of the illegal downloading on the internet. The number of Cd sales have dramatically dropped because more and more people are downloading music and would rather download the music from the internet then go and buy a Cd. And due to this the Cd players are not being sold as much anymore because of this.}