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...“Nationalism is absolutely the root cause of Chinese viewers’ criticism of the show,” said Ying Zhu, a professor at Hong Kong Baptist University’s academy of film....
...Elsewhere, it has been a good year for the Nike brand: film-goers flocked to see Air, an affectionate depiction of Nike employees in Oregon inventing the Air Jordan sneaker....
...That was followed by a one-minute “film” of random content, before five more ads begin playing. Each “view” is counted as an engaged consumer....
...Lego is putting out feature films. Lego is putting out TV shows....
...But Netflix said it expected revenue to grow between 13 and 15 per cent for the full year....
...Barbie Inc: An increasing number of films revolve around the origin stories of everyday objects. Is Hollywood’s basket of ideas finally empty?...
...Netflix said it planned to build out its advertising business this year and would work to improve the quality of its film and series offerings....
...Apple’s commitment to the full cinematic experience comes at a difficult moment for Hollywood, where the screen actors’ union remains on strike and traditional studios are grappling with the financial upheaval...
...“The structure that Skydance has proposed takes full advantage of Paramount’s dual-class structure, and unlike other reported potential match-ups, signals the Redstone family may be ready to cash out,” Bernstein...
...This show, set within a cavernous underground space at Palazzo Citterio, finds Loewe in full show-off mode....
...So my house is full of ideas and prototypes. Pierre Mahéo, fashion designer I have a collection of chairs from many different eras....
...If it took, say, a minute per title to add all those bits of metadata for each title, it would take the four of us more than three full days each to do that, and we ain’t gonna do that....
...The menswear runways are full of them, celebrities are wearing them on the red carpet, and stores are placing them at the heart of their spring/summer 2024 offerings....
...Mattel’s earnings, of $27mn or 8 cents a share, exceeded Wall Street forecasts of a 2 cent loss but the company kept its full-year outlook unchanged....
...Barbie is a story of a cheerful doll plunging into “a full-on existential crisis” but trademarks are infinitely renewable. So far, Barbie is too. john.gapper@ft.com...
...Reid and Usher have partnered with Gamma, a buzzy music start-up that launched this year with $1bn in funding from Apple, Todd Boehly’s Eldridge and indie film studio A24....
...It sets the stage for what the Air Jordan brand would do — turn colourful trainers into a full-on fashion statement, and eventually a cult status symbol that’s exploded into the mainstream....
...Like the others I’ve spoken to, he thinks the strike will pay off for writers like him who want to be able to work at their craft full-time....
...The agency, founded in 1956, was the first African-American full-service advertising agency....
...He is promising to revive big Warner film franchises and prioritise full cinematic runs before moving to streaming services. To demoralised staffers, he has vowed that the worst is over....
...I am not serious, so I went to see the new Quentin Dupieux film, Smoking Causes Coughing....
...As horror film aficionados will tell you, stay seated through the scariest moments to end up with the biggest bag of treats....
...We've gone into a lot of detail in this film - brands, shell companies, licence providers, trademark holders. But why does any of that matter?...
...Art-fair season is truly in full swing and the pre-pandemic issue of too many fairs on the circuit is hard to avoid....
...Again, the full story rewarded closer examination. Revisiting my longlist of this year’s favourites, it took a while to see the thread between many of them....
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