Mississippi Business Journal » Kathryn Stockett http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Tue, 21 May 2013 14:11:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Hollywood Gets Help From Jackson http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/08/23/hollywood-gets-help-from-jackson/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hollywood-gets-help-from-jackson http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/08/23/hollywood-gets-help-from-jackson/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:32:02 +0000 Stephen McDill http://msbusiness.com/?p=45225 Brent’s Drugs, a Fondren diner that started out as a pharmacy and soda fountain in 1946, is causing quite the local buzz with its several appearances in the box office hit movie “The Help” from Dreamsworks Entertainment. The movie, based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Jackson native Kathryn Stockett, tells the story [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/08/23/hollywood-gets-help-from-jackson/feed/ 0 “The Help” Leads Box Office http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/08/21/the-help-leads-box-office/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-help-leads-box-office http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/08/21/the-help-leads-box-office/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:32:28 +0000 Stephen McDill http://msbusiness.com/?p=45049 Brandon Gray of Box Office Mojo: “On the bright side, The Help climbed to the top spot… while Rise of the Planet of the Apes took second. The Help eased 21 percent to an estimated $20.5 million, lifting its total to $71.8 million in 12 days. It marked the first time since early January that [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/08/21/the-help-leads-box-office/feed/ 0 ‘Help’ has $15-million impact on state http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/05/22/%e2%80%98help%e2%80%99-for-state-15-million/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=%25e2%2580%2598help%25e2%2580%2599-for-state-15-million http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/05/22/%e2%80%98help%e2%80%99-for-state-15-million/#comments Sun, 22 May 2011 06:00:50 +0000 Amy McCullough http://msbusiness.com/?p=41534 In the same way the best-selling Mississippi author Kathryn Stockett persevered through 60 rejections before getting her book “The Help” published, a band of folks responsible for bringing the movie of “The Help” to Mississippi wouldn’t take no for an answer. The DreamWorks Studios film, which had a $27-million budget and starred break-out actress Emma [...]

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