Annette Michelson, Influential Film Writer, Is Dead at 95

She was a founder of the arts journal October and helped turn cinema studies into its own discipline.

Graham leaves 72andSunny to be CCO at Pitch, Seidl joins Velocity as ECD from VML


Pitch appointed Galen Graham as its new chief creative officer. He will be working with clients such as Burger King, Tim Horton’s, Roche, Genentech and Konami. He joins from 72andSunny, where he was group creative director in charge of MillerCoors. Previously, he has worked at Cramer-Krasselt, 180 Amsterdam and DDB Chicago.

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Mother London’s Last Hurrah for MoneySuperMarket Is an Epic Thelma & Louise Thriller

The seemingly endless parade of bills, work, and various duties can make adulthood feel tedious at times. Thankfully, nostalgia can be a fun, much-needed vacation from the day-to-day monotony. For years, the U.K. price comparison site MoneySuperMarket and London-based creative agency Mother have <span aria-describedby="tt" class="glossaryLink " data-cmtooltip=" Channel A distribution method; In advertising, it's…

Emmy Ratings Fall to All-Time Lows as TV Awards Show Audience Exodus Continues

Another big awards show, another record-low audience. Monday night’s 70th Primetime Emmy Awards were not immune from the TV awards show audience exodus. The NBC telecast was watched by 10.2 million total viewers and received a 2.4 rating in the 18-49 demo, according to Nielsen’s fast official numbers. Both represented all-time lows for the telecast….

Primeiro passageiro da SpaceX à Lua é o bilionário japonês Yusaku Maezawa

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Como prometido, Elon Musk revelou na noite da última segunda-feira (18) os detalhes sobre o primeiro cliente da SpaceX a comprar uma passagem para uma viagem ao redor da Lua. Trata-se de Yusaku Maezawa, bilionário japonês e fundador da Zozotown, maior varejista de roupas online do Japão. Maezawa será o primeiro passageiro a viajar no Big …

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Com elenco multiétnico, Netflix fará série live-action de “Avatar: A Lenda de Aang”

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De acordo com o Deadline, a Netflix produzirá uma série em live-action baseada na animação “Avatar: A Lenda de Aang”. O desenho, que no Brasil era exibido pela Nickelodeon, foi criado por Michael DiMartino e Bryan Konietzko, e a dupla comandará o novo seriado como showrunners. A série animada foi exibida de 2005 a 2008 …

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Google fecha parceria com Renault, Nissan e Mitsubishi para incluir Android em seus carros

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Em mais um capítulo da saga “O Google ainda vai dominar o planeta”, a empresa do Vale do Silício anunciou hoje ao Wall Street Journal uma parceria com a Renault, a Nissan e a Mitsubishi que vai tornar o Android o principal sistema operacional dos veículos das três fabricantes. Considerando que o trio de companhias …

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Top 30 Social Media Trends in September – From Cartoon Cat Influencers to Internet-Based Fragrances (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) The Internet’s accessibility is only growing, with a number of broadening platforms attainable through a series of different mediums—these September 2018 social media trends pay into the…

Top 30 Social Media Trends in September – From Cartoon Cat Influencers to Internet-Based Fragrances (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) The Internet’s accessibility is only growing, with a number of broadening platforms attainable through a series of different mediums—these September 2018 social media trends pay into the…

Top 30 Social Media Trends in September – From Cartoon Cat Influencers to Internet-Based Fragrances (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) The Internet’s accessibility is only growing, with a number of broadening platforms attainable through a series of different mediums—these September 2018 social media trends pay into the…

Top 55 Sports Trends in September – From Active Standing Desk Treadmills to Home Gym Mirrors (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) The September 2018 trends range from sports gear and apparel to technology and much more.

A standout example in the world of fitness is the JEMPET Under Desk Walking Treadmill, which allows a…

Top 55 Sports Trends in September – From Active Standing Desk Treadmills to Home Gym Mirrors (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) The September 2018 trends range from sports gear and apparel to technology and much more.

A standout example in the world of fitness is the JEMPET Under Desk Walking Treadmill, which allows a…

Top 55 Sports Trends in September – From Active Standing Desk Treadmills to Home Gym Mirrors (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) The September 2018 trends range from sports gear and apparel to technology and much more.

A standout example in the world of fitness is the JEMPET Under Desk Walking Treadmill, which allows a…

Watch the newest ads on TV from T-Mobile, Amazon, Hulu and more


Every weekday we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than eight million smart TVs. The ads here ran on national TV for the first time yesterday.

A few highlights: In the latest from Hulu, celebrities including James Harden, Joe Manganiello, Sofia Vergara and Sarah Silverman say you should “never get Hulu” because “it’ll ruin TV for you forever.”

Amazon points out that “half of everything sold on Amazon comes from small and medium businesses.” And T-Mobile offers a remarkably sweet take on one family’s vacation (which, of course, is immeasurably enhanced thanks to a T-Mobile plan).

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Ex-L.A. Times Beijing Bureau Chief Resigns Amid Sexual Misconduct Claims

Jonathan Kaiman, a former foreign correspondent for the newspaper, faced accusations by two women. He had been suspended in May.

Watch Colbert deconstruct Trump's Puerto Rico death-toll conspiracy theory


During his opening “Late Show” monologue Thursday night, Stephen Colbert took on President Trump’s astonishingeven by Trump standardstweets about the 2017 hurricane-related death toll in Puerto Rico. (The clip abovetitled “This Tweet Trumps All Other Horrible Trump Tweets” for the show’s YouTube channelshould automatically start at that portion of the monologue, but if not you can manually skip ahead to the 1:28 mark.)

“Now, you know, folks, if you watch the show,” Colbert says, “we kid the president about being a terrible person. But… in reality, it is much worse.” Colbert then goes on to read Trump’s Thursday back-to-back tweets in which he claims that Democrats simply made up the Puerto Rico death toll to make Trump look bad:

Colbert, still doing his Trump impression, extrapolates from that “I love Puerto Rico!” closer by saying, “Yes, yes, you’re my favorite bunch of lying, ungrateful fake dead people. I like Puerto Ricans who don’t die!”

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Watch the newest ads on TV from T-Mobile, Amazon, Hulu and more


Every weekday we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than eight million smart TVs. The ads here ran on national TV for the first time yesterday.

A few highlights: In the latest from Hulu, celebrities including James Harden, Joe Manganiello, Sofia Vergara and Sarah Silverman say you should “never get Hulu” because “it’ll ruin TV for you forever.”

Amazon points out that “half of everything sold on Amazon comes from small and medium businesses.” And T-Mobile offers a remarkably sweet take on one family’s vacation (which, of course, is immeasurably enhanced thanks to a T-Mobile plan).

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Heineken's Champions League ad takes a light-hearted spin on missing big football moments

The next instalment in Heineken’s new global marketing campaign dramatises the unmissable moments of the Uefa Champions League.

The Captain Marvel Trailer Has a Glorious, Lingering Product Placement for … Blockbuster?

The trailer for Captain Marvel, who emerges from relative obscurity to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe next spring, features a few interesting cameos–but none more unexpected than that of Blockbuster. The video rental chain has a lengthy, front-and-center product placement right at the beginning of the first official trailer for the superhero film, despite the…

An Emmy Awards Proposal Sent Hearts Aflutter on Facebook and Twitter Monday Night

When director Glenn Weiss proposed to his girlfriend, Jan Svendsen, during the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards Monday night, Cupid’s arrow struck Twitter and Facebook. The surprise proposal was the most-tweeted-about moment on Twitter and the top social moment on Facebook during the event. Other data from the two social networks follows: Most-tweeted about Emmy moments:…