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Bobby Hundreds (real name Bobby Kim), the influential designer behind The Hundreds streetwear brand, has been hired as Disney’s new VP of creative for the Americas at Disney Consumer Products. In other words, Kim is getting his biggest platform yet. The Big Picture: Luxury designers have increasingly transitioned to the world of entertainment. But Kim’s hiring seems […]
HBO’s hit show The White Lotus has booked incredible engagement for Four Seasons — the luxury hotel chain where the show is filmed. Now that Four Seasons is an official partner of the show, the relationship is only deepening. The Big Picture: The crossover between entertainment and experiences has reached a fever pitch. While most IP-driven IRL events cater […]
Yesterday marked the five-year anniversary of the COVID shutdowns that consequently hobbled the entertainment industry. Looking at the state of it today, things have landed somewhere between “back to normal” and “cementing a new normal.” The Big Picture: As the world reopened during the waning days of the pandemic, entertainment companies wondered if people would go back […]
Robert Rodriguez — the renegade filmmaker behind genre classics like From Dusk Till Dawn, The Faculty, and Machete — is launching a new banner called Brass Knuckle Films, allowing fans to directly invest in movies in exchange for various perks. The Big Picture: Trying to boost fan involvement in movie slates has taken off in recent years, whether through platforms like Legion M or […]
FIFA announced that the 2026 World Cup — which will take place in various cities across the US, Canada, and Mexico — will be the first tournament to feature a halftime show during the final match. Why It Scores: In case you weren’t just reminded during last month’s Super Bowl, halftime shows are a big deal — big viewership drivers, […]
Timur Bekmambetov, director of movies like the Angelina Jolie-starring Wanted and the upcoming Chris Pratt-starring Mercy, recently launched a new platform called Screenlifer. The platform hopes to incubate and support “screenlife” projects — movies and shows in which all the action takes place on a computer, tablet, or smartphone screen. The Big (Little) Picture: Bekmambetov has become the patron saint of […]
The internationalization of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ membership body is starting to have a major impact on which films get nominated for and win the biggest award in American cinema — the Oscar. The Big Picture: For decades, the Academy-Award nominations and wins have been an integral motivator for American studios to make more […]
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy is reportedly planning on retiring from the George Lucas-founded production company at the end of the year. The Big Picture: Lording over all things Star Wars (and Indiana Jones, but that franchise seems to have run its course) is one of the most enviable and anxiety-inducing jobs in Hollywood… almost as much as running James Bond. With Kennedy stepping down, […]
The 50th anniversary of Survivor is planning on experimenting with a new format: letting fans vote on the main elements of the game. The Big Picture: While Survivor remains a hallmark of broadcast TV, the last five years have consistently seen the show dip below 10 million viewers and continue to decline — a stark difference from its peak of almost […]
EON Productions, the production company that’s guided every aspect of the James Bond franchise for decades, is handing creative control over to Amazon MGM Studios… for a price. The Big Picture: Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, the heads of EON and the children of original Bond producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, have ruled Bond with an iron […]