This weekend, one of the most anticipated movies of the summer opens: Super 8.
Adam Gilchrist was also delighted with the team's position in the early stages of the Super 8 phase.
If audiences embrace Super 8 once they have seen all of its secrets, it could earn for many weeks.
Bopara himself downplayed his efforts, but insisted England could look to Sunday's Super 8 match against Australia with confidence.
After the Super 8, Ireland have just nine days off before their first match in English county cricket's one-day competition.
The hosts must win their remaining Super 8 games against South Africa, Bangladesh and England to have any chance of progress in the tournament.
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"China has 10, 000 hotels but less than 200 with any sort of national brand, " says Super 8's China chief executive, Mitchell Presnick.
Cendant's Super 8 budget entry knows that it, too, needs local know-how in China and figures its franchising model is the way to get it.
At Super 8, franchise service managers keep in daily touch with all hotels, use teams of inspectors and offer other support, including a group reservation system.
ECONOMIST: There is a huge opportunity for budget hotels in China
As the sun readies itself for the day's end, the light turns hazy and golden, coating every scene with the warm graininess of a Super 8 home movie.
Canada, who are also through to the Super 8 stage, had Bagai's fine 122-ball innings to thank for a testing total, and Sunil Dhaniram chipped in with 41.
Pakistan failed to qualify for the Super 8 phase after losing their opening game to West Indies and suffering a shock at the hands of Ireland on Saturday.
While Abrams has let me down in the past Lost was a great show that fell apart badly by the end his work on Super 8 and Star Trek was terrific.
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Among them: Cendant's Super 8, which has opened 10 franchised hotels since last June and is gearing up to have as many as 300 by the end of 2008.
Last year he rented a factory in the city's up-and-coming North Bund area, turned it into a hotel and decided this year to adopt the Super 8 brand for marketability.
He also shared footage he filmed himself with a Super 8 camera when he was working on the patients in the Bronx borough of New York City in the late 1960s.
The U.S. saw the rise of budget hotels coast to coast in the 1960s, as Comfort Inns, Motel 6, Days Inn and Super 8 hotels sprung up near major highway exits.
HFS, based in Parsippany, New Jersey, has in recent years snapped up a variety of franchising businesses, among them Avis car-rentals, Super 8 motels, Days Inn and Ramada hotels, and Century 21 and Coldwell Banker property agencies.
Mitchell Presnick, the China head of Cendant's Super 8 Motel group, the world's largest chain of franchised budget motels, has opened eight Super 8 hotels since 2004 and expects to open around 300 more by the end of 2008.
ECONOMIST: There is a huge opportunity for budget hotels in China
"It really is an honour to be asked to captain Cardiff at the first Super 8 competition, not only to lead the Welsh athletes but also to do so on home turf is going to be very special, " added Malcolm.
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The Goonies in 1985 had two females, one of whom was relatively de-sexualized while the modern-day equivalent, Super 8, had just Ella Fanning as a romantic prize for the first two acts and a hostage to be rescued for the entirety of act three.
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Abrams and his production company Bad Robot have a proven track record of blockbuster movies that feature complex action, heartfelt drama, iconic heroes and fantastic production values with such credits as Star Trek, Super 8, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, and this year's Star Trek Into Darkness.
He never saw clearly enough to find Nessie except on that one day in 1972, when he had been too moved and excited to work the Super-8 camera that shook in his hand.
The pursuit of long-silenced emotions and the poignant stories that underlie them (teased out through an unusually good use of family Super-8 film footage) also makes revealing inroads into modern French history, as when Suzette discusses students who were children of Harkis (Algerians who fought with the French against their own national-liberation movements).
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Both models retain the same 4.8-inch Super AMOLED HD (PenTile) display as the global version, and offer a pixel density of 306ppi.
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