After seeing umpteen films about cricket from Lagaan to Iqbal to Victory, Speedy Singhs is the first Canadian-Hindi film we see about ice hockey. But this isn’t your average sports based first with a dash of patriotism and individual storylines of triumph. Its a story about Rajveer Singh [Vinay Virmani] who is stuck between the expectations of following the family business and devotion enforced by his father [Anupam Kher of course] and his dream of greatness in ice hockey. But you can’t play ice hockey without a team so while papa doesn’t know, he forms his team, the Speedy Singhs, and tries to fulfil this desire.
Of course we have our dash of love with Camilla Belle playing the love interest Melissa, sister to coach Dan Winters, played by Rob Lowe that agrees to train the Speedy Singhs to victory. And maybe for a little fun, a dash of comedy supplied by Russell Peters who plays Sonu,...
Of course we have our dash of love with Camilla Belle playing the love interest Melissa, sister to coach Dan Winters, played by Rob Lowe that agrees to train the Speedy Singhs to victory. And maybe for a little fun, a dash of comedy supplied by Russell Peters who plays Sonu,...
- 10/2/2011
- by Githa Vanan
- Bollyspice
Illustration by Dan Winters
When supersecretive agriculture giant Cargill decided to attack the no-calorie-sweetener market dominated by Sweet'n Low, Splenda, and Equal, it sent its best marketers and scientists to basement war rooms and covert labs. Only now can the inside story of Truvia -- and its unlikely success -- be told.
Says Zanna McFerson, plucking a stevia leaf from a plant on her desk and biting into it, "I knew there had to be something we could do with it." Through the expansive windows of her corner office at Cargill's headquarters, an Aspen-like mega-lodge on the outskirts of suburban Minneapolis, she stares out at the snowy pines and at the horizon beyond. McFerson chews, swallows, and smiles. "It's definitely nice to see the light," she says.
That's because McFerson is one of several Cargill employees who spent three years secluded in the company basement, in rooms with blacked-out windows,...
When supersecretive agriculture giant Cargill decided to attack the no-calorie-sweetener market dominated by Sweet'n Low, Splenda, and Equal, it sent its best marketers and scientists to basement war rooms and covert labs. Only now can the inside story of Truvia -- and its unlikely success -- be told.
Says Zanna McFerson, plucking a stevia leaf from a plant on her desk and biting into it, "I knew there had to be something we could do with it." Through the expansive windows of her corner office at Cargill's headquarters, an Aspen-like mega-lodge on the outskirts of suburban Minneapolis, she stares out at the snowy pines and at the horizon beyond. McFerson chews, swallows, and smiles. "It's definitely nice to see the light," she says.
That's because McFerson is one of several Cargill employees who spent three years secluded in the company basement, in rooms with blacked-out windows,...
- 4/25/2011
- by Ben Paynter
- Fast Company
Guitar Hero has not been scrapped completely, according to publisher Activision. Head of developer relations Dan Winters told GamesIndustry.biz that the franchise could return if the right opportunity presented itself. "Actually, just to clarify, we're just putting Guitar Hero on hiatus, we're not ending it," he said. "We're releasing products out of the vault - we'll continue to sustain the channel, the brand won't go away. We're just not making a new one for next year, that's all." Winters also said that True Crime: Hong Kong, which was axed alongside Guitar Hero, would have turned out to be a "very good game". "The question was really the size of the prize based on how good it could be," he said. "We are confident that thing would have been 80-plus. 85 maybe. They're (more)...
- 4/12/2011
- by By Matthew Reynolds
- Digital Spy
Photographer Dan Winters built this set for Fast Company in his backyard, torched it, and photographed it--without any Photoshop work.
Oil Companies--Some Run by Former Bush Officials--Make a Risky Move Into Kurdistan
In their haste to tap Kurdish reserves, dozens of oil companies -- several fronted by former Bush officials -- have undercut U.S. policy and fanned sectarian tensions in Iraq. They may also lose a fortune.
See more of the best photos of 2010...
Oil Companies--Some Run by Former Bush Officials--Make a Risky Move Into Kurdistan
In their haste to tap Kurdish reserves, dozens of oil companies -- several fronted by former Bush officials -- have undercut U.S. policy and fanned sectarian tensions in Iraq. They may also lose a fortune.
See more of the best photos of 2010...
- 12/27/2010
- by Lisa Parisi
- Fast Company
Kol have their best debut week ever with Come Around Sundown.
By Gil Kaufman
Kings of Leon
Photo: Dan Winters
Kings of Leon have notched their best debut sales in the United States with Come Around Sundown, which sold more than 184,000 in its first week. But that was not quite enough to beat the chart bow by country-pop duo Sugarland, whose Incredible Machine will take the top honors and land at #1 on the Billboard 200, thanks to sales of 203,000, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan.
Both bands lead a parade of new faces in the top 10, which also includes the collaboration between old friends Elton John and Leon Russell, Union (#3, 80,000); the latest clutch of oldies from Rod Stewart, Fly Me to the Moon: The Great American Songbook (#4, 79,000); the latest "Glee" soundtrack, Rocky Horror Glee Show (#6, 48,000); Shakira's Spanish-language Sale el Sol (#7, 46,000) and Christian rockers Third Day, whose Move comes in...
By Gil Kaufman
Kings of Leon
Photo: Dan Winters
Kings of Leon have notched their best debut sales in the United States with Come Around Sundown, which sold more than 184,000 in its first week. But that was not quite enough to beat the chart bow by country-pop duo Sugarland, whose Incredible Machine will take the top honors and land at #1 on the Billboard 200, thanks to sales of 203,000, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan.
Both bands lead a parade of new faces in the top 10, which also includes the collaboration between old friends Elton John and Leon Russell, Union (#3, 80,000); the latest clutch of oldies from Rod Stewart, Fly Me to the Moon: The Great American Songbook (#4, 79,000); the latest "Glee" soundtrack, Rocky Horror Glee Show (#6, 48,000); Shakira's Spanish-language Sale el Sol (#7, 46,000) and Christian rockers Third Day, whose Move comes in...
- 10/27/2010
- MTV Music News
Rockers take a victory lap with Only by the Night follow-up, in Bigger Than the Sound.
By James Montgomery
Kings of Leon
Photo: Dan Winters
It would be easy to hate the Kings of Leon for making Come Around Sundown mostly because it's the follow-up to their Grammy-winning breakthrough Only by the Night. But really, that wouldn't be particularly fair. After all, the Kings spent their first nine years as America's most under-appreciated band (drummer Nathan Followill once lamented to me that all reporters in the States ever asked them about was their mustaches) only to stumble into fame thanks to songs like "Sex on Fire" and "Use Somebody." They have, in almost every conceivable way, earned everything they have today, so you really can't blame them for wanting to take a victory lap.
And Sundown (due Tuesday) is most definitely a victory lap. The majority of it sounds like...
By James Montgomery
Kings of Leon
Photo: Dan Winters
It would be easy to hate the Kings of Leon for making Come Around Sundown mostly because it's the follow-up to their Grammy-winning breakthrough Only by the Night. But really, that wouldn't be particularly fair. After all, the Kings spent their first nine years as America's most under-appreciated band (drummer Nathan Followill once lamented to me that all reporters in the States ever asked them about was their mustaches) only to stumble into fame thanks to songs like "Sex on Fire" and "Use Somebody." They have, in almost every conceivable way, earned everything they have today, so you really can't blame them for wanting to take a victory lap.
And Sundown (due Tuesday) is most definitely a victory lap. The majority of it sounds like...
- 10/13/2010
- MTV Music News
Photograph by Dan Winters
An Iraqi Kurdish soldier stands guard at the Tawke oil field in the Dohuk province of Iraqi Kurdistan. | Photograph by Muhannad Fala'ah/Getty Images
In their haste to tap Kurdish reserves, dozens of oil companies -- several fronted by former Bush officials -- have undercut U.S. policy and fanned sectarian tensions in Iraq. They may also lose a fortune.
Map by Mike Reagan
Infographic: Combustible
The Tawke oil field, just south of Iraq's mountainous border with Turkey, is a bare, windblown patch of hills in one of the Middle East's most isolated corners.
Three hundred miles north of Baghdad, it is also four hours by road from the nearest international airfield and hundreds of miles from the nearest seaport. But on April 12, 2005, more than 100 dignitaries from around the world trooped up to this bleak turf to observe a bit of history. One year earlier, a...
An Iraqi Kurdish soldier stands guard at the Tawke oil field in the Dohuk province of Iraqi Kurdistan. | Photograph by Muhannad Fala'ah/Getty Images
In their haste to tap Kurdish reserves, dozens of oil companies -- several fronted by former Bush officials -- have undercut U.S. policy and fanned sectarian tensions in Iraq. They may also lose a fortune.
Map by Mike Reagan
Infographic: Combustible
The Tawke oil field, just south of Iraq's mountainous border with Turkey, is a bare, windblown patch of hills in one of the Middle East's most isolated corners.
Three hundred miles north of Baghdad, it is also four hours by road from the nearest international airfield and hundreds of miles from the nearest seaport. But on April 12, 2005, more than 100 dignitaries from around the world trooped up to this bleak turf to observe a bit of history. One year earlier, a...
- 4/5/2010
- by Joshua Hammer
- Fast Company
The latest issue of Vanity Fair has an outstanding set of articles on the late filmmaker/screenwriter John Hughes, something I would say you can't afford not to read. Details after the jump. Photographer Dan Winters offers a peek into the director's archieves, including memorabilia and props from some of his films, scans of some of his pocket Moleskine notebooks from 2006/2008, and above is a box of demo tapes, some with temp scores, others with submissions from bands, which Hughes used to generate ideas for the soundtracks of his movies. Vanity Fair actually got permission to reprint a few of the "Very, Very Short Stories" Hughes wrote in his yeats away from Hollywood, some of which previously appeared online, published under a pseudonym he borrowed from an old Detroit department store, Jl Hudson. As part of his profile, Kamp interviewed some of the actors and actresses who worked with Hughes...
- 2/18/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Brad Pitt even looks hot in a headset. The star of Quentin Tarantino's upcoming Nazi-scalping action flick Inglourious Basterds graces the August cover of Wired magazine, and People.com has a first look. Pitt, 45, sports a wireless cell phone headset and gives advice - in his Inglourious character - on a variety of subjects, including conduct at work, etiquette and those sometimes awkward cyber dilemmas. "Who cares if your Warcraft wife is really a dude," Pitt is quoted as saying on the cover. "If it's good, don't check under the hood."According to Wired, Pitt was intrigued by the magazine's May Mystery issue,...
- 7/15/2009
- by Marla Lehner
- PEOPLE.com
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