By John Carucci
NEW YORK (AP) --Michael Douglas paid simple homage to Prince at the Tribeca Film Festival with his attire: a matching purple shirt and pullover V-neck sweater.
"He was such a private man, protected his work so much," he said Saturday night. "But he was an extraordinary talent, just an extraordinary talent. I really feel a loss."
Besides being a fan, Douglas has a connection to Prince: he gave him his 1985 Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song Score for "Purple Rain."
Douglas was at the festival to help filmmakers Smriti Keshari and Eric Schlosser promote their multimedia installation, "The Bomb." The immersive experience, which closed the festival, puts the viewer in the middle of the film, which is displayed on screens around them while a live band plays in the center.
"I think this film, 'The Bomb' and the presentation, how beautifully it's done, is gonna bring in hopefully a new generation of younger people to make them conscious of the most important issue in our life that is least talked about," Douglas said.
Douglas feels the less we talk about nuclear weapons, the more dangerous they become.
"We cannot wait for a nuclear accident to happen before there's action to take place," Douglas said.
Douglas has already brought the conversation of a possible nuclear catastrophe to the big screen, having produced and starred in the 1979 thriller, "The China Syndrome."
"I was making a horror picture, involving a nuclear power station, and in doing our research and finding out about the half-life of plutonium and realizing, 'My God, this is really a monster.' And I've pursued this issue for years," he said.
Nintendo reports lower profits as demand drops for its aging Switch console
Nintendo, the Japanese video game maker behind the Super Mario franchise, said Tuesday that its profit fell 60% in the first half of the fiscal year, as demand waned for its Switch console, now in its eighth year since going on sale.
Kyoto-based Nintendo Co. reported a 108.7 billion yen ($715 million) profit for the April-September period, as sales slipped 34% from the previous year to 523 billion yen ($3.4 billion).
More than 74% of its sales revenue came from overseas, according to Nintendo, which didn't break down quarterly numbers.
Global Switch sales during the period dropped to 4.7 million machines from 6.8 million units the previous year.
But Nintendo said in a statement that Switch sales were still growing and vowed to stick to its goal of selling a Switch console to each and every individual, not just one Switch per every household.
Nintendo stuck to its earlier projection for a 300 billion yen ($2 billion) profit for the full fiscal year through March 2025, down nearly 29% from the previous fiscal year.
Annual sales were forecast to drop 23% to1.28 trillion yen ($8.4 billion).
It also lowered its Switch sales projection for the fiscal year to 12.5 million units from an earlier forecast to sell 13.5 million.
Nintendo and other game and toy makers rake in their biggest profits during the Christmas shopping season, as well as New Year's, a holiday celebrated with fanfare in Japan, when children receive cash gifts from grandparents and other relatives.
Nintendo has not yet announced details on a successor to the Switch.
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