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Ex-Warner Bros. exec becomes Disney studio chief

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The Walt Disney Co. said Thursday that it hired former president of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Alan Horn, to lead its movie studio as chairman, a personnel move that attempts to right the wrongs that led to blockbuster bomb "John Carter."

Horn, 69, oversaw the hugely successful runs of the "Harry Potter" and "The Dark Knight" movies at Warner Bros. and is one of the highest-profile executives in Hollywood. Horn had stepped down at Warner Bros. in April 2011 and had a consulting agreement through 2013. He's also credited as a producer on the upcoming "Hobbit" movies.

Horn starts at Disney on June 11, just under two months after former chairman Rich Ross stepped down in a move widely seen as taking responsibility for "John Carter," the science-fiction movie set on Mars which caused an epic $200 million write-off for Disney.

The veteran movie studio executive is a safe pick for Disney. Outgoing chairman Ross had a TV background. He developed hits like "Hannah Montana" and "High School Musical" as former head of Disney Channels Worldwide. Television projects tend to have more time to develop than movies and cost less. Movie projects are high-pressure ventures in which minimizing risk is a key factor in decision-making.

Horn will oversee worldwide production, distribution and marketing for live-action and animated films from Disney, Pixar and Marvel and movies made by Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Studios.

A day before the announcement, Disney CEO Bob Iger told an analysts' conference that he was looking for someone who could provide consistency.

Indeed, Disney has experienced head-spinning highs and lows recently. Just a couple months after its "John Carter" disaster, "The Avengers" became Disney's highest-grossing film of all time, with global ticket sales of $1.3 billion since its May 4 U.S. release.

"We've got a business that has done well on the animated front and on the Marvel front, but our results on the live-action front have been inconsistent this year in particular," Iger said. "The goal is to find a management team that is capable of creating higher quality films under the Disney live-action banner on a more consistent basis."

Disney is aiming to produce two animated movies per year under the Disney or Pixar brands, two Marvel movies, and six to eight other live-action films, some of which come from DreamWorks.

Horn said in a statement that he was "incredibly excited" about joining Disney, "one of the most iconic and beloved entertainment companies in the world."

Horn helped Warner Bros., a division of Time Warner Inc., become the global box office leader for seven years of his 12-year tenure. He oversaw all eight films in the "Harry Potter" series, as well as "The Dark Knight," ''Sherlock Holmes," ''Million Dollar Baby," and the "Ocean's Eleven" trilogy.

Before joining Warner Bros., Horn cofounded and was CEO of Castle Rock Entertainment, which made such films as "A Few Good Men," ''The Shawshank Redemption" and "When Harry Met Sally." Horn has also served as president and chief operating officer of News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox.

Warner Bros. chairman and CEO Barry Meyer wished Horn well in a statement. "He's been a part of some of the most popular films produced in the last decade, and we're very happy for him," Meyer said.

Associated Press

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Friday, June 1, 2012

Self Confidence Is A Tale That You Tell Yourself | Self Improvement ...

We all tell ourselves stories continually. That is part of the way that we generate the thoughts and feelings that allow us to do all of the things that we do. For instance you may have got out of bed this morning not feeling one hundred percent. Perhaps you asked yourself, ?am I too sick to go to work?? If your truthful answer was ?marginal?, you may then have made up a story to explain to your team leader that you were too sick to work. For instance: ?when I got up this morning I had this rasping sore throat and I feel highly feverish?.

The more often we use these stories the easier we find it to believe in the truth of the story. In the ?sore throat? example above you might be croaking as you speak to your boss on the telefone to elucidate why it is you are not coming to work today.

Most of the time we create stories to excuse ourselves or to elucidate our unacceptable performance to ourselves and others. But you are able to use stories in a much more positive way. You can write stories about the self-confidence you feel. If you write a good self confidence story and keep telling yourself that story you will, in time, find that you begin to feel self-confident.

The trick to writing a good story is to construct it in three parts, the past, the present and the future. For example, ?I used to suffer from a dearth of self-confidence, but now I feel assured all of the time, I know that now that I have found my self confidence I can always feel assured in the future?.

The other part of the way of becoming self-confident is to learn your story by heart and to keep telling yourself the very same story constantly. Never vary your story and make it your habit to always repeat your story at least four times a day at the same times.

Imagine a precision instrument that records the actions, words and feelings of the best performers. Then download that data to a powerful decoder that analyses and codes the behaviour. Transfer the code to your personal control panel so that you can reproduce excellence and self confidence at will. This is how NLP Techniques work. NLP Practitioner David Ferrers will show you how to build your own control panel during Business Coaching, or at one of his his Sales Success Sales Training workshops.

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Moon Express

An artist's conception shows Moon Express' lunar lander.

By Alan Boyle

One of the competitors in the race to send the first private-sector probe to the moon says it's acquired the assets of a rival team, marking what could be considered a "Netscape moment" for the commercial moonshot industry.

Moon Express said the acquisition of Colorado-based Next Giant Leap will add to its momentum in the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize competition, which promises a huge payoff to the first team that sends a rover to the moon for an exploratory trek that includes transmitting high-definition imagery back to Earth. Moon Express and Next Giant Leap are among 26 teams vying for the prize.

"There are many synergies between our companies," Bob Richards, Moon Express' co-founder and CEO, said in today's announcement, which was issued during a Google Lunar X Prize team summit in Washington. "We are all stronger together, and we look forward to carrying on the innovation and vision of the Next Giant Leap founders and partners."

Both ventures were selected by NASA in 2010 for?data-sharing contracts?that are worth up to $10 million each. Both companies have been working on rovers that would hop across the lunar surface. The Next Giant Leap effort produced a "hopper" design that attracted a $1 million commitment from the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory to fund the development of a guidance, navigation and control system testbed.

Richards told me that the relationship with Draper Lab on the control system "is perhaps the most obvious and strongest inheritance of the acquisition we will be actively working," but he also placed great value on the other partnerships that Next Giant Leap had forged over the past few years. Among those partners are Sierra Nevada Corp., MIT Space Systems Laboratory, Aurora Flight Services, Jolted Media Group, the Center for Space Entrepreneurship and the Challenger Center for Space Science Education.?

Richards said that the acquisition involved a payment to Next Giant Leap, but by mutual agreement, the amount would not be disclosed. Moon Express probably ranks among the more financially solid ventures chasing the Google Lunar X Prize, considering that one of the venture's co-founders is dot-com billionaire Naveen Jain.?

Next Giant Leap

An artist's conception shows Next Giant Leap's proposed lunar lander. Moon Express' Bob Richards said that his venture "will subsume Next Giant Leap designs to the extent possible and practical. ... The main hardware difference is that the Moon Express lander uses the NASA Common Spacecraft Bus heritage and the Next Giant Leap lander was based on the SNC Orbcomm bus."

Michael Joyce, founder and president of Next Giant Leap, said the acquisition serves as validation of his team's value, and as a testament to the dedication of his partners. "Next Giant Leap and its partners have made remarkable technical progress," he said in today's announcement. "We are proud to be able to offer that value in support of the vision and resources of Moon Express that continue our dreams toward the moon."

Richards said Joyce and another Next Giant Leap co-founder, Todd Mosher, have been invited to serve as advisers to Moon Express.

The Google Lunar X Prize is offering $20 million to the first team that lands a rover on the moon, sends it on an excursion of at least 500 meters and gets it to send high-definition images and video back to Earth. If a second team pulls off the same feat, that team would receive $5 million. Another $5 million is reserved for bonus prizes. The prizes expire if no team fulfills the requirements by the end of 2015, and if a government-backed lander beats the teams to the lunar surface, the grand prize would be reduced to $15 million.

Richards and Jain have said Moon Express intends to launch its lunar lander as early as 2014.?

More about the Google Lunar X Prize:

Alan Boyle is msnbc.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the?Cosmic Log page?to your Google+ presence. You can also check out?"The Case for Pluto,"?my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.

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