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...Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola set up shop elsewhere, and while George Lucas directed his first film, THX 1138, for the studio in 1971, he was left so vexed by interference that it was his last...
...No one expected Barbie to be Warner Bros’ biggest film of all time. No one predicted Oppenheimer’s huge success....
...“Rivian publicly boasts about its culture, so it was a crushing blow when I joined the company and almost immediately experienced a toxic bro culture that marginalises women and contributes to the company...
...Walt Disney and Warner Bros delayed the release of new films in Russian cinemas earlier in the week....
...For most of history, high-tech companies and the entrepreneurs that founded them were seen not just as job creators but as heroes, from Benjamin Franklin and his eponymous stove to Henry Ford’s assembly...
...The combination of America’s largest telecoms group by market value with the owner of HBO, CNN and Warner Bros was announced last month. The deal faces a year of regulatory scrutiny....
...Compare this with the year-end box office tally 20 years ago, when only one of the top 10 — Clear and Present Danger, starring Harrison Ford — was a sequel....
...Fun, magic and joy — the qualities of Nintendo games from Super Mario Bros and The Legend of Zelda to Wii Sports — won....
...like Ford Model Ts (Avengers: Infinity War — Part II is scheduled for 2019)....
...Compare this with the year-end box office tally 20 years ago when only one of the top 10 — the Harrison Ford-starring Clear and Present Danger — was a sequel....
...Indeed, this cinematic extravaganza is so product-stuffed, it even puts the Bond film Skyfall, showcase for everything from Tom Ford suits to Coke Zero, in the shade....
...anyone who has set up a garage business making customised model soldiers or chess pieces and the occasional novelty item like the first item made by a reproduced RepRap, a custom mobile phone holder for a Ford...
...Serious Potter fans could easily spend the day here (Warner Bros estimates three hours for the average visit)....
...Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now were released in successive years....
...The behaviour of great industrialists such as Henry Ford or Steve Jobs, or great investors such as Warren Buffett and George Soros, cannot be predicted by general rules....
...The distractions of multi-channel TV, primetime hits stacked up on digital video recorders and Facebook all bear some blame, but Sam Ford, author of The Survival of the Soap Opera, adds two other culprits...
...Tom Stoppard has adapted Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End for a mini-series, jointly produced with the BBC, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall, shooting now....
...Ford Motor became the first of the country’s three big carmakers to emerge from the red, rreporting a full-year net profit of $2.7bn....
...He has had for most of his adult life an uncanny ability to pick the right time to buy and sell, although he lost millions recently when he sold a large stake in Ford for a hefty loss....
...Mr Rockefeller became a powerful sponsor, bringing Mr Parsons to Washington in 1974 to serve as a senior aide in Gerald Ford’s White House....
...On the other hand, Ford Motor could lose a big chunk of business. The vast majority of cabs in New York and other American cities are bulky Ford Crown Victorias....
...In addition, the downgrades of General Motors and Ford to the high-yield market pushed the market sharply wider in the first half of the year....
...“The GM [and Ford] downgrades to junk puts a lot of pressure on the high-yield market,” he said....
...Three years ago five carmakers - DaimlerChrysler, Fiat, Renault, BMW and Ford (no longer part of F1 after the sale of Jaguar Racing) - took the first step towards establishing what they insist will be a...
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