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...While the streaming platform does host films tackling geopolitics, such as Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, E-Team and The Square, almost all date from 2017 or earlier....
...The company faces stiff competition from e-retailers such as Farfetch, Yoox Net-a-Porter, MatchesFashion and MyTheresa (a great story from team DD on that last one here)....
...It’s not just me — Andrew Stanton [maker of Finding Nemo and WALL-E] is a very major voice....
...Parasite is also part of a highly successful “Korean wave” of exports centred on music and drama and on the success of media giants CJ E&M and SM Entertainment....
...I joke that Oscar Wilde said it first, with “revenge is a dish best served cold”. Clyburn breaks into a smile: “Kennedy stole a lot from other people, he might have stolen that line.”...
...“Have you seen the movie WALL-E?...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on May 15 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...At Vice, the focus is news and issue-driven shows, although the company has a small movie division and input from the Oscar winner Spike Jonze, the co-president of Viceland....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on April 6, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...At the Crystal Cabin Awards, a glitzy if seriously dull “industry Oscars” held on the middle night of the expo at the Atlantic Kempinski hotel, Sir Tim Clark, president and chief executive of Emirates, remembers...
...Liberty Street Economics has an informative little Q&A with one of their economists, Andreas Fuster, looking at the accuracy of Oscar winner The Big Short....
...The campaign also highlights the tough start Oscar Munoz is having as chief executive of United Airlines. Next week, he is due to return to work after nearly five months away following a heart attack....
...The guide also clears up the grey area of e-cigarettes, which are used by 2.1m people in the UK. “Vaping is best done in private,” it warns....
...But the core business comprised of a search engine, a portal and a plethora of apps — excluding the stakes in the Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba and Yahoo Japan — is still valued in some calculations at...
...Disney had endured a similar experience in 2012 with John Carter, a fantasy adventure which, on paper — and with Wall-E director Andrew Stanton in the chair — looked like the beginning of a sure-fire franchise...
...It is producing well-received original shows, from House of Cards and Orange is the New Black to Oscar-nominated documentaries....
...Facebook is gearing up for a fight with Twitter, which has been seen as dominating live events especially after a record-breaking tweet at the Oscars, by stressing its much larger reach and more precise...
...The same can be said of Creativity Inc, Ed Catmull’s endearingly thoughtful explanation of how the studio he co-founded generated hits such as the Toy Story trilogy, Up and Wall-E....
...Suzanne Kolb, president of E!...
...… Colombian-born London-based artist Oscar Murillo is just 27 years old, and the hottest market darling around....
...She has been instrumental in helping Moda Operandi, the e-commerce site that is the most credible threat to net-a-porter’s dominance, get off the ground by suggesting brands work with them....
...That dream translated into Pixar, the Oscar-winning California studio later acquired by Steve Jobs and Disney....
...Today it announced the acquisition of the luxury arm of Harry Winston Diamond corporation, i.e. the product and retail side (the mining side remains independent and will be renamed Dominion Diamond Corporation...
...Mr Clowes, who was nominated for an Oscar for adapting his book Ghost World and whose latest, The Death-Ray, was published by D&Q, says: “Chris is such a quiet unassuming guy....
...A case in point: Watson’s much-looked-at dress, as well as the floor-skimming, figure-hugging evening looks at Oscar de la Renta....
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