Sovereign Man: Offshore Business, Global Opportunities, Freedom and Expat News How ‘Dune’ almost prevented ‘Star Wars’ from ever being Cannes, France – Remember how bad the movie “Dune” was? Well, it didn’t have to be that way. The film, directed by David Lynch in 1984, was so terrible, David Lynch eventually took his name off of it. But Lynch wouldn’t have had a chance to direct “Dune” if its original director had been able to get it made back in the mid-1970s. That man’s name is Alejandro Jodorowsky, and his epic failure to get “Dune” to the big screen is the subject a documentary that has become a hit at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. “Jodorowsky’s Dune” tells the tale of the director’s mad plan to recruit a cast including David Carradine, Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, and Mick Jagger to his movie adaptation of the wildly popular sci-fi book. Oh yeah, and Pink Floyd was doing the soundtrack. “What we try to get across in the film is his whole notion of ambition,” the documentary’s director, Frank Pavek, told FOX411. And try he did. And then Jodorowsky shopped it to the studios. Nothing in between.
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50 Cent's Mission To Feed A Billion Children In Need This is the true meaning of success…..To make enough money to give back to the world! Rapper/Actor/Entrepreneur & Philanthropist , 50 Cent is feeding those in need through a collaborative venture with the ‘United Nations World Food Programme‘. 50 Cent has already donated $2.5 Million himself and has found a way to feed millions of the less fortunate in the world through his Energy Drink and the ambition to achieve so much more. 50 Cent – The Street King 50 Cent has a goal, that goal is to feed a billion kids in need over the next 5 years. This will be accomplished through sales of his new Energy Drink “Street King” where the sale of each Street King bottle will pay for 1 meal for a child in need. Street King aims to eat into the market share of the wildly popular 5-Hour Energy drink, leader of the $1.5 billion energy shot category, which is growing at a 50% rate. “We’re talking to an 18-24 year-old consumer,” adds Street King’s co-founder Chris Clarke.
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