What’s yellow, fluffy, and has a name that will probably stick in your head? The new television star of the insurance sector. Liberty Mutual worked its way into consumers’ brains over the past decade with a series of ads featuring a hard-to-forget slogan (just repeat the company name several times while singing) along with a
Andy Burnham became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on Monday, replacing Keir Starmer in a handover choreographed around a visit to Buckingham Palace, where Starmer formally resigned and King Charles III invited Burnham to form a government. Before heading to the Palace, Starmer gave a farewell speech at 10 Downing Street, flanked by colleagues
London-based Chilean-Indian director Shalini Adnani’s debut feature, “Our Share of Sand,” about a 12-year-old girl named Maya who returns to rural India to reconnect with her estranged father, is among the featured entries in the upcoming Venice Film Festival Critics’ Week. The section, dedicated to debut films from around the world, also includes two titles
The Locarno Film Festival will honor James Gray with a lifetime achievement award at this year’s edition, where the American auteur’s most recent work, “Paper Tiger,” will be screened. Gray will receive the Pardo alla Carriera award on August 9 and will present “Paper Tiger,” which premiered in May in Cannes, at the festival’s open-air
New-Gen Universe, Inc. is launching its first consumer products initiative at San Diego Comic-Con, introducing an exclusive collector’s trading card set made with Cryptozoic Entertainment to celebrate its Marvel-distributed comic book series. Only 300 convention-exclusive boxes exist worldwide for the July 23-26 event, making it one of the rarest “next-gen” collectibles released to date. Designed
Homegrown sci-fi survival thriller “Hope” stormed to the top of the South Korean box office during the July 17-19 weekend. According to data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, the highly anticipated blockbuster generated $11.3 million with 1,504,019 admissions over the three days, capturing a commanding 66.62% share of the
