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☆ Layoffs keep hitting Amazon, Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, and more entertainment companies — here's the list of those with recent cuts
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Lucia Moses | Alison Brower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

"Netflix missed their numbers, and Wall Street woke up," said Paul Hardart, director of NYU Stern's entertainment, media and technology program. A wide range of companies and employees were impacted, from entertainment giants to independent production companies to Hollywood talent agencies. More consolidation among the legacy media companies and independent production companies is widely expected, which often entails job cuts. Entertainment companies will get back to staffing up, but the jobs will be in stronger growth areas like gaming, streaming, and advertising, more than in filmed entertainment programming. Here are the Hollywood companies, listed alphabetically, that have made layoffs since the summer.

Persons: Paul Hardart, Bob Iger, Joanna Sucherman, Fox, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Nadia Sinh, Companywide, Rami Malek, Mr, Dawn Olmstead, Heather McCauley, YANNIS DRAKOULIDIS, Oscar, Severance, Roku, Alison Levin, NBCUniversal, Curtis Brown, James, Jennifer Coolidge Organizations: Netflix, Disney, Business, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, NYU, Warner Bros, NBC, JLS Media, Entertainment, Hollywood, Amazon Studios, Studios, Talent, Variety, CAA, ICM Partners, DreamWorks Animation, Apple, NETFLIX, Nasdaq, TechCrunch, Starz, CNBC, Lionsgate, LIonsgate, UTA, Hollywood Reporter, Fletcher & Company, Co, HBO Locations: Hollywood, Australia

[1/2] JioCinema and Pokemon logos are pictured in this illustration taken November 15, 2023. Pokemon has spawned a global multi-billion dollar media franchise spanning trading cards, games, TV shows and movies. In total, JioCinema will add around 3,000 hours of children's content, including movies and shows from Entertainment One, Animaccord, Cartoon Network Studios and DreamWorks, the sources said. Some Pokemon content was earlier on Voot, but the new JioCinema deal is a "much larger partnership", one of the sources said. NBCUniversal told Reuters that "kids and family programming", including DreamWorks content, was part of a multi-year partnership with JioCinema announced in May.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Mukesh Ambani, Mukesh Ambani's, Ambani, Viacom18, NBCUniversal, JioCinema, Aditya Kalra, Munsif, Miral Organizations: REUTERS, Disney, Netflix, Cartoon Network, DreamWorks, Pokemon Company, Walt Disney Co, Nintendo, Media Partners, Entertainment, Cartoon Network Studios, Reuters, Warner Bros Discovery Inc, Hollywood, Thomson Locations: DELHI, India, New Delhi, Bengaluru

☆ As Hollywood reckons with AI, Warner Music will use the tech to make an Edith Piaf biopic
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Drew Richardson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Warner Music plans to use artificial intelligence to recreate the voice and image of French artist and singer Edith Piaf, nearly 60 years after her death, the company said Tuesday. The Animation Guild, which represents professionals in the animation industry, is taking the issue of AI seriously, a representative for the union told CNBC. The biopic will be narrated using Piaf's AI regenerated voice, while animation will "provide a modern take on her story." So far, only a proof of concept of the film has been created, Warner Music said. There's no release date yet, either, a Warner Music representative told CNBC.

Persons: Edith Piaf, Piaf, Edith, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Katzenberg, It's, Piaf's, Marion Cotillard Organizations: Warner Music, Hollywood, Disney, DreamWorks, CNBC Locations: Paris, New York

☆ Annette Bening Knows a Thing or Two About Difficult Women
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Ligaya Mishan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +111 min

© TriStar/Everett Collection Bening and Warren Beatty in “Bugsy.” Everett Collection Bening in “American Beauty” (1999). © DreamWorks/courtesy of Everett Collection Bening and Jeremy Irons in “Being Julia” (2004). © Sony Pictures Classics/Everett Collection Bening and Julianne Moore in “The Kids Are All Right” (2010). Suzanne Tenner/© Focus Features, via Everett Collection Bening and Billy Crudup in “20th Century Women” (2016). Firstview (8); courtesy of Prada PRADA STILL resides in the Milanese apartment where she and her two older siblings, Marina and Alberto, grew up.

Persons: Queen Latifah Annette Bening Henry Taylor Miuccia Prada, I’m, Queen Latifah, Henry Taylor, D’Angelo Lovell Williams, Miuccia Prada, Collier Schorr, Annette Bening, Katy Grannan, Delphine Danhier, Rob Talty, Sara Tagaloa, Rahim Fortune, Ian Bradley, Iasia Merriweather, Raisa, Prada, you’ve, YANAGIHARA, ANNETTE BENING, Diana Nyad, “ Nyad, ”, Bening’s, Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Alex Honnold’s, ” Chin, “, Nyad, Bening, —, Rada Owen, Owen “, Ralph Lauren, Carrie Fisher’s, Julia ”, Robert Caro, ” Bening, that’s, Delphine Danhier Gabriela Hearst poncho, Dianne Feinstein, She’s, Austin Butler, Elvis, manqué, “ It’s, Mike Mills, Nyad ”, Diana, he’s, Cillian Murphy, “ Oppenheimer, Kurt Collins, BENING, Tina, Tony, Pierre Choderlos, didn’t, Marquise de Merteuil, Milos Forman’s “, Glenn Close, Valmont, she’s, Lisa Cholodenko, Meryl Streep, Alexander McQueen, Forman, Stephen Frears, Myra Langtry, Langtry, Bugsy ”, she’d, Warren Beatty, moll Virginia Hill, Reagan, “ I’ve, Fairuza, “ Valmont ”, “ Bugsy ”, “ Bugsy, ” Everett, Jeremy Irons, Julianne Moore, Suzanne Tenner, Billy Crudup, Merrick Morton, “ Nyad ”, ” Liz Parkinson, Liz Parkinson, Angela Bassett, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Rather, you’re, Pete Zuccarini, Jodie Foster, Nyad’s, Tracy Letts, ” Letts, — “, Beatty, ” Mills, Ella Beatty, “ She’s, ” Vasarhelyi, Dale Carnegie’s, Sophie Buhai, Vasarhelyi, they’re, I’ve, slathering, Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Harrison Ford, Julia, callow, Shaun Evans, Corey Stoll, Howard Hughes —, “ I’m, it’s, Jesse Hoffman, Cam Lindfors, Christian Scutt, Ronna Jones, Francesca Martin, Susie Kourinian, Rachel Pollen, Jazmine Robinson, MIUCCIA PRADA, David Cronenberg, Jean, Luc Godard, Dara Birnbaum, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Mario Prada, Patrizio Bertelli, Miu Miu, Guy Marineau, Condé Nast, Homer, “ Prada Marfa, Lauren Weisberger’s, Wears, Drake, Prada hasn’t, Carsten Höller, Suzanne Koller Prada, Suzanne Koller, Gerhard Richter, — Rei Kawakubo, Martin Margiela, Domenico Dolce, Stefano Gabbana, Donatella Versace, Suzanne Koller “, Francesco Vezzoli, Olivier Rizzo, Ferdinando Verderi, Theaster Gates, Uma Thurman, Frank Ocean, Carla Sozzani, Corso, Vivienne Westwood, Yves Saint Laurent, jolie laide, It’s, Lotta Volkova, Miu Miu’s, Guido Palau, they’d, ‘, Tom Ford, prim, ” Prada, Prada PRADA, Luisa Prada —, Sozzani —, Miuccia’s, Luigi Bianchi, Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bertelli, we’re, Lorenzo Bertelli, Giulio Bertelli, ” Francesco Risso, ” Risso, Fabio Zambernardi, “ Bottega, Gaetano Pesce, Saint Laurent, Pedro Almodóvar, Rem Koolhaas, ” James Jean, Frédéric Sanchez, Sanchez, cardigans, Marc Jacobs, Robert Gober, Louise Bourgeois, there’s, Gober, Suzanne Koller Prada pongee, — Prada, Milano, Damien Hirst, ” Koolhaas, Koolhaas, “ I’d, Wes Anderson — who’s, Bar Luce, Fondazione Prada —, ” “, Hirst, Prada sighed, ’ ” Prada, Miuccia Prada hasn’t, Raf Simons, Prada’s, Simons, ” Simons, Dior, Calvin Klein, Jil Sander, ” he’d, Miuccia, ’ ”, Andrea Guerra, Lorenzo, who’d, ” Miu, Antoneta Alamat, ” Miuccia Prada, Elio Berenett, Saunders, Awar Odhiang, Jonas Glöer, Chloe Nguyen, Estrella Gomez, America Gonzalez, Marie Duhart, Rafael Medeiros, Stefano Poli, Ariel Sadok, Cameron Koskas, Vassili, Alexandra Adams, Vincent Brière, Vira, Natsuki Oneyama, Joel Phillips, Manicurist’s, Akane Kanazawa, Marek Dague, QUEEN LATIFAH, DANA OWENS, She’d, Melle Mel, Big Daddy Kane, D.J.s, Owens, Nikki Giovanni, Octavia E, Butler, M.C.s, Latifah, Jazzy Joyce, MC Lyte, Lyte, ” Latifah, We’re, Shakim Compere, Norma Kamali, David Yurman, David Webb, Ian Bradley Louis Vuitton, Monie, Gary Gray’s, Tracy Oliver, Kenya Barris, Megan Thee, Viola Davis, LATIFAH, Michael Jackson, who’ve, Shakim, Rita Owens, Compere, Rita, scions, Amina, Amiri Baraka, Lauryn Hill, Latifah wasn’t, Lyte’s, Roxanne, Roxanne Shanté, Dana Owens, Danyel Smith, Queen Latifah —, Latifah ”, Tommy Boy, Jada Pinkett Smith, I’d, ’, ” Pinkett Smith, Al Pereira, Michael Ochs, Raymond Boyd, Getty, D’s, Gray, Latifah’s, Luther Vandross’s, Lancelot Owens Jr, Winki, Kierna Mayo, Love, merrily hyperhappy, Harriet Tubman, Angela Davis, Winnie Mandela, Tipper Gore, Al Gore, ” Love, Giorgio Armani, Van Cleef, Will Smith’s, Bel, Amanda Wicks, John Singleton’s “, Cleo, Clover Hope, “ Will, Smith, Wright ”, “ Bessie, Bessie Smith, Dee Rees, Ma Rainey, Jack Gee, Michael K, Williams, Compere’s, helpfully, Sylvia Robinson, Debra Martin Chase, Wright ” —, Lancelot Owens Sr, Pinkett Smith, Edward Woodward, Denzel Washington, Latifah’s Robyn McCall, Danyel, Vi, Lorraine Toussaint, Robyn, Paul Drinkwater, Cress Williams, Adam Lazarre, Everett, Kimberly Elise, Vivica, Nicola Goode, LL, “ Bessie ”, Frank Masi, David Lee, Jocelyn Prescod, scleroderma, David Jolicoeur, Love —, Eboni Nichols, she’ll, gazes, Bruce Springsteen, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, They’ve, Cartier, Iasia Estée, Raisa Flowers, Adrien Potier, Fallou, Nuvany David, Manicurist, Lisa Logan, Derrick Bernard, Casey Jones, Stylist’s, Charles Ndiomu, Tyler Sparling, HENRY TAYLOR, Taylor, Thom Browne cardigan, Philando, Diamond Reynolds, Henry Taylor’s “, Mark Dever, Dever, ” Dever, Castile, he’ll, Steve Cannon, Cannon, ” Taylor, Joshua White, panhandlers —, Cora, isn’t, He’s, Michelle Obama, Bob Dylan, Alice Coachman, Chuck Berry, Jay, Stanley Williams, Haile Selassie I, Taylor’s “ Cora, Jeff McLane Taylor, — Pablo Picasso, Philip Guston, Henri Matisse, Robert Rauschenberg —, Donald Trump’s, he’d, Picasso, Jordan Casteel, Kerry James Marshall, Jennifer Packer, Amy Sherald, Barack Obama, Michelle, Pharrell Williams, Kendrick Lamar’s, He’d, Emmett Till, Till, Till’s, Dana Schutz, Hannah Black, Schutz, William Styron, Nat Turner, George Jackson, Randy, Jackson, “ George Jackson ”, Dylan, Medgar Evers, Evers, Ku Klux Klan who’d, Taylor’s “ Cicely, Miles, Sam Kahn, Hershal, Taylor didn’t, Taylor’s, who’s, Bill Traylor, James Jarvaise, Jarvaise, Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Louise Nevelson, Frank Stella, Mark Bradford —, Hauser, Wirth —, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida Organizations: Key West, Liverpool ”, SAG, Telluride Film, Variety, Broadway, Miami, Writers Guild of America, Orion Pictures, Everett, Miramax, DreamWorks, Sony Pictures, Netflix, Kimberley, Juilliard, Hollywood, Forward Artists, Fondazione Prada, New, Galleria Vittorio, Prada, Prada Group, Olympic, Harvard, Gucci, University of Milan, Union of Italian, Communist Party, ABC, Suzanne Koller Journalists, Yorker, Milano Prada Arte, Fondazione, tote, New York, Guggenheim, OMA, Next Management, Oui Management, Ford Models, Lumien, Management Paris, IMG Models, America, Bryant Artists, Burger, Swatch, Irvington High School, Black Arts, Hit Factory, Ramada, Flavor Unit Entertainment, CBS, WHO, Factory, Irvington, Tommy Boy Records, Unit, Michael Ochs Archives, Getty, AMC, Play Studios, Music Resource Center, “ Chicago ”, HBO, Jazz, Mo’Nique, Sugar Hill Records, Winki, ”, NBCU, Warner Brothers, Fox, Paramount, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Bank, BET, Hawks, Mori, Digital, Minn, Facebook, Hauser & Wirth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Los, Whitney Biennial, Biennial, Black America, New York Times, Louis Vuitton, Black Panthers, U.S ., San, Prison, Ku Klux Klan, Ardmore, New York’s Museum of Modern, California Institute of Arts, Wirth Locations: Havana, Key, Fla, Bening, Dominican Republic, Capitan, Yosemite, San Diego, Los Angeles, Simi Valley, Calif, Givenchy, Liverpool, Nyad, Cuba, Florida, San Francisco, Denver, New York, Tina Howe’s, Champagne, yips, America, Hollywood, “, Kimberley, “ Nyad, American, Topeka, Kan, Wichita, San Fernando Valley, San Carlos, Milan, Canadian, Switzerland, ”, Marfa , Texas, Italian, Belgian, Corso Como, Paris, British, chino, Firstview, Milanese, Alberto, Europe, Italy, —, Taiwanese American, there’s, Manhattan, Koolhaas, Rotterdam, Netherlands, New, Antwerp, Croatian, Newark , N.J, Midtown Manhattan, Hudson, Brooklyn, Hit Factory , New York City, NoHo, New York City, Lafayette 148 New York, New Jersey, Newark, Jersey, Baltimore, Chicago, Milwaukee, Queens, “ Chicago, Watts, Koreatown, Philando Castile, St, Paul, Oxnard, California, Mississippi, U.S, San Quentin, Castile, bro, Naples, East Texas, Ardmore, Alabama

☆ Queen Latifah Redefined Being a Multihyphenate — and Made It Look Easy
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Emily Lordi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +111 min

© Miramax/courtesy of Everett Collection Latifah and LL Cool J in “Last Holiday” (2006). © Paramount/courtesy of Everett Collection Latifah in “Bessie” (2015). David Lee/© Fox Searchlight Pictures, via Everett Collection Latifah on “The Equalizer” in 2023. Firstview (8); courtesy of Prada PRADA STILL resides in the Milanese apartment where she and her two older siblings, Marina and Alberto, grew up. © TriStar/Everett Collection Bening and Warren Beatty in “Bugsy.” Everett Collection Bening in “American Beauty” (1999).

Persons: Queen Latifah Annette Bening Henry Taylor Miuccia Prada, I’m, Queen Latifah, Henry Taylor, D’Angelo Lovell Williams, Miuccia Prada, Collier Schorr, Annette Bening, Katy Grannan, Delphine Danhier, Rob Talty, Sara Tagaloa, Rahim Fortune, Ian Bradley, Iasia Merriweather, Raisa, Prada, you’ve, YANAGIHARA, QUEEN LATIFAH, DANA OWENS, “, She’d, Melle Mel, Big Daddy Kane, she’d, D.J.s, Owens, Nikki Giovanni, Octavia E, Butler, M.C.s, Latifah, Jazzy Joyce, MC Lyte, Lyte, ” Latifah, We’re, She’s, Shakim Compere, ”, Norma Kamali, David Yurman, David Webb, Ian Bradley Louis Vuitton, Monie, Gary Gray’s, Tracy Oliver, Kenya Barris, Megan Thee, Viola Davis, it’s, LATIFAH, Michael Jackson, who’ve, Shakim, Rita Owens, Compere, Rita, scions, Amina, Amiri Baraka, Lauryn Hill, Latifah wasn’t, Lyte’s, Roxanne, Roxanne Shanté, Dana Owens, Danyel Smith, Queen Latifah —, Latifah ”, Tommy Boy, Jada Pinkett Smith, I’d, ’, ” Pinkett Smith, Al Pereira, Michael Ochs, Raymond Boyd, Getty, D’s, Gray, Latifah’s, Luther Vandross’s, Lancelot Owens Jr, Winki, Kierna Mayo, Love, merrily hyperhappy, Harriet Tubman, Angela Davis, Winnie Mandela, Tipper Gore, Al Gore, ” Love, they’d, Giorgio Armani, Van Cleef, Will Smith’s, Bel, Amanda Wicks, John Singleton’s “, Cleo, Clover Hope, “ Will, Smith, —, Wright ”, “ Bessie, Bessie Smith, Dee Rees, Ma Rainey, Jack Gee, Michael K, Williams, Compere’s, helpfully, Sylvia Robinson, Debra Martin Chase, Wright ” —, Lancelot Owens Sr, Pinkett Smith, Edward Woodward, Denzel Washington, Latifah’s Robyn McCall, Danyel, Vi, Lorraine Toussaint, Robyn, Paul Drinkwater, Cress Williams, Adam Lazarre, Everett, Kimberly Elise, Vivica, Nicola Goode, LL, “ Bessie ”, Frank Masi, David Lee, Jocelyn Prescod, scleroderma, David Jolicoeur, Love —, she’s, Eboni Nichols, she’ll, gazes, Bruce Springsteen, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, “ I’m, It’s, They’ve, Cartier, Iasia Estée, Raisa Flowers, Adrien Potier, Fallou, Nuvany David, Manicurist, Lisa Logan, Derrick Bernard, Casey Jones, Stylist’s, Charles Ndiomu, Tyler Sparling, MIUCCIA PRADA, David Cronenberg, Jean, Luc Godard, Dara Birnbaum, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Mario Prada, Patrizio Bertelli, Miu Miu, Guy Marineau, Condé Nast, Homer, “ Prada Marfa, Lauren Weisberger’s, Wears, Drake, Prada hasn’t, Carsten Höller, “ It’s, Suzanne Koller Prada, Suzanne Koller, Gerhard Richter, — Rei Kawakubo, Martin Margiela, Domenico Dolce, Stefano Gabbana, Donatella Versace, Suzanne Koller “, Francesco Vezzoli, Olivier Rizzo, Ferdinando Verderi, Theaster Gates, Uma Thurman, Frank Ocean, Carla Sozzani, Corso, Vivienne Westwood, Yves Saint Laurent, jolie laide, “ She’s, Lotta Volkova, Miu Miu’s, Guido Palau, ‘, Tom Ford, prim, ” Prada, Prada PRADA, Luisa Prada —, Sozzani —, Miuccia’s, Luigi Bianchi, Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bertelli, we’re, Lorenzo Bertelli, Giulio Bertelli, they’re, ” Francesco Risso, ” Risso, Fabio Zambernardi, “ Bottega, Gaetano Pesce, Saint Laurent, Pedro Almodóvar, Rem Koolhaas, ” James Jean, Frédéric Sanchez, Sanchez, cardigans, Marc Jacobs, Robert Gober, Louise Bourgeois, there’s, Gober, Suzanne Koller Prada pongee, — Prada, Milano, Damien Hirst, ” Koolhaas, Koolhaas, “ I’d, Wes Anderson — who’s, Bar Luce, Fondazione Prada —, ” “, Hirst, Prada sighed, ’ ” Prada, Miuccia Prada hasn’t, Raf Simons, Prada’s, Simons, ” Simons, Dior, Calvin Klein, Jil Sander, ” he’d, Miuccia, ’ ”, Andrea Guerra, Lorenzo, who’d, ” Miu, Antoneta Alamat, ” Miuccia Prada, Elio Berenett, Saunders, Awar Odhiang, Jonas Glöer, Chloe Nguyen, Estrella Gomez, America Gonzalez, Marie Duhart, Rafael Medeiros, Stefano Poli, Ariel Sadok, Cameron Koskas, Vassili, Alexandra Adams, Vincent Brière, Vira, Natsuki Oneyama, Joel Phillips, Manicurist’s, Akane Kanazawa, Marek Dague, ANNETTE BENING, Diana Nyad, “ Nyad, Bening’s, Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Alex Honnold’s, ” Chin, Nyad, Bening, Rada Owen, Owen “, Ralph Lauren, Carrie Fisher’s, Julia ”, Robert Caro, ” Bening, that’s, Delphine Danhier Gabriela Hearst poncho, Dianne Feinstein, Austin Butler, Elvis, manqué, Mike Mills, Nyad ”, Diana, he’s, Cillian Murphy, “ Oppenheimer, Kurt Collins, BENING, Tina, Tony, Pierre Choderlos, didn’t, Marquise de Merteuil, Milos Forman’s “, Glenn Close, Valmont, Lisa Cholodenko, Meryl Streep, Alexander McQueen, Forman, Stephen Frears, Myra Langtry, Langtry, Bugsy ”, Warren Beatty, moll Virginia Hill, Reagan, “ I’ve, Fairuza, “ Valmont ”, “ Bugsy ”, “ Bugsy, ” Everett, Jeremy Irons, Julianne Moore, Suzanne Tenner, Billy Crudup, Merrick Morton, “ Nyad ”, ” Liz Parkinson, Liz Parkinson, Angela Bassett, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Rather, you’re, Pete Zuccarini, Jodie Foster, Nyad’s, Tracy Letts, ” Letts, — “, Beatty, ” Mills, Ella Beatty, ” Vasarhelyi, Dale Carnegie’s, Sophie Buhai, Vasarhelyi, I’ve, slathering, Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Harrison Ford, Julia, callow, Shaun Evans, Corey Stoll, Howard Hughes —, Jesse Hoffman, Cam Lindfors, Christian Scutt, Ronna Jones, Francesca Martin, Susie Kourinian, Rachel Pollen, Jazmine Robinson, HENRY TAYLOR, Taylor, Thom Browne cardigan, Philando, Diamond Reynolds, Henry Taylor’s “, Mark Dever, Dever, ” Dever, Castile, he’ll, Steve Cannon, Cannon, ” Taylor, Joshua White, panhandlers —, Cora, isn’t, He’s, Michelle Obama, Bob Dylan, Alice Coachman, Chuck Berry, Jay, Stanley Williams, Haile Selassie I, Taylor’s “ Cora, Jeff McLane Taylor, — Pablo Picasso, Philip Guston, Henri Matisse, Robert Rauschenberg —, Donald Trump’s, he’d, Picasso, Jordan Casteel, Kerry James Marshall, Jennifer Packer, Amy Sherald, Barack Obama, Michelle, Pharrell Williams, Kendrick Lamar’s, He’d, Emmett Till, Till, Till’s, Dana Schutz, Hannah Black, Schutz, William Styron, Nat Turner, George Jackson, Randy, Jackson, “ George Jackson ”, Dylan, Medgar Evers, Evers, Ku Klux Klan who’d, Taylor’s “ Cicely, Miles, Sam Kahn, Hershal, Taylor didn’t, Taylor’s, who’s, Bill Traylor, James Jarvaise, Jarvaise, Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Louise Nevelson, Frank Stella, Mark Bradford —, Hauser, Wirth —, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida Organizations: Burger, Swatch, Irvington High School, Black Arts, Hit Factory, Ramada, Hollywood, Flavor Unit Entertainment, CBS, WHO, Factory, Irvington, Tommy Boy Records, Unit, Michael Ochs Archives, Getty, AMC, Play Studios, Music Resource Center, “ Chicago ”, HBO, Jazz, Mo’Nique, Sugar Hill Records, Winki, ”, NBCU, Warner Brothers, Fox, Miramax, Paramount, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Everett, Bank, BET, Hawks, Mori, Digital, Fondazione Prada, New, Galleria Vittorio, Prada, Prada Group, Olympic, Harvard, Gucci, University of Milan, Union of Italian, Communist Party, ABC, Suzanne Koller Journalists, Yorker, Milano Prada Arte, Fondazione, tote, New York, Guggenheim, OMA, Next Management, Oui Management, Ford Models, Lumien, Management Paris, IMG Models, America, Bryant Artists, Key West, Liverpool ”, SAG, Telluride Film, Variety, Broadway, Miami, Writers Guild of America, Orion Pictures, DreamWorks, Sony Pictures, Netflix, Kimberley, Juilliard, Forward Artists, Minn, Facebook, Hauser & Wirth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Los, Whitney Biennial, Biennial, Black America, New York Times, Louis Vuitton, Black Panthers, U.S ., San, Prison, Ku Klux Klan, Ardmore, New York’s Museum of Modern, California Institute of Arts, Wirth Locations: America, Newark , N.J, Midtown Manhattan, Hudson, Brooklyn, Hit Factory , New York City, NoHo, New York City, Lafayette 148 New York, New Jersey, British, Newark, Jersey, Baltimore, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York, Queens, ”, “, Hollywood, “ Chicago, Watts, Milan, Canadian, Switzerland, Marfa , Texas, Italian, Belgian, Corso Como, Paris, chino, Firstview, Milanese, Alberto, Europe, Italy, —, Taiwanese American, there’s, Manhattan, Koolhaas, Rotterdam, Netherlands, New, Antwerp, Croatian, Havana, Key, Fla, Bening, Dominican Republic, Capitan, Yosemite, San Diego, Los Angeles, Simi Valley, Calif, Givenchy, Liverpool, Nyad, Cuba, Florida, San Francisco, Denver, Tina Howe’s, Champagne, yips, Kimberley, “ Nyad, American, Topeka, Kan, Wichita, San Fernando Valley, San Carlos, Koreatown, Philando Castile, St, Paul, Oxnard, California, Mississippi, U.S, San Quentin, Castile, bro, Naples, East Texas, Ardmore, Alabama

☆ How Miuccia Prada Reinvented Fashion
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Nick Haramis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +111 min

A few seasons earlier, for Miu Miu’s spring 2022 collection, Prada delivered raw-edge chino micro-miniskirts belted below the hip bone. Firstview (8); courtesy of Prada PRADA STILL resides in the Milanese apartment where she and her two older siblings, Marina and Alberto, grew up. In 1993, her days of on-the-ground protest behind her — she’d long stopped handing out flyers at rallies — Prada and Bertelli created Milano Prada Arte, which later became the Fondazione Prada. Styled by Suzanne Koller FOR THE PAST few years, Miuccia Prada hasn’t had to do quite as much all by herself. © TriStar/Everett Collection Bening and Warren Beatty in “Bugsy.” Everett Collection Bening in “American Beauty” (1999).

Persons: Queen Latifah Annette Bening Henry Taylor Miuccia Prada, I’m, Queen Latifah, Henry Taylor, D’Angelo Lovell Williams, Miuccia Prada, Collier Schorr, Annette Bening, Katy Grannan, Delphine Danhier, Rob Talty, Sara Tagaloa, Rahim Fortune, Ian Bradley, Iasia Merriweather, Raisa, Prada, you’ve, YANAGIHARA, MIUCCIA PRADA, David Cronenberg, Jean, Luc Godard, Dara Birnbaum, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Mario Prada, Patrizio Bertelli, Miu Miu, Guy Marineau, Condé Nast, ”, “, Homer, “ Prada Marfa, Lauren Weisberger’s, Wears, Drake, Prada hasn’t, Carsten Höller, “ It’s, Suzanne Koller Prada, Suzanne Koller, Gerhard Richter, — Rei Kawakubo, Martin Margiela, she’s, Domenico Dolce, Stefano Gabbana, Donatella Versace, Suzanne Koller “, Francesco Vezzoli, Olivier Rizzo, Ferdinando Verderi, Theaster Gates, Uma Thurman, Frank Ocean, —, Carla Sozzani, Corso, Vivienne Westwood, Yves Saint Laurent, jolie laide, It’s, “ She’s, Lotta Volkova, Miu Miu’s, Guido Palau, they’d, ‘, Tom Ford, prim, ” Prada, Prada PRADA, Luisa Prada —, Sozzani —, Miuccia’s, Luigi Bianchi, she’d, Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bertelli, we’re, Lorenzo Bertelli, Giulio Bertelli, they’re, ” Francesco Risso, ” Risso, Fabio Zambernardi, “ Bottega, Gaetano Pesce, Saint Laurent, Pedro Almodóvar, Rem Koolhaas, ” James Jean, Frédéric Sanchez, Sanchez, cardigans, Marc Jacobs, Robert Gober, Louise Bourgeois, there’s, Gober, Suzanne Koller Prada pongee, — Prada, Milano, Damien Hirst, ” Koolhaas, Koolhaas, “ I’d, Wes Anderson — who’s, Bar Luce, Fondazione Prada —, ” “, Hirst, Prada sighed, ’ ” Prada, Miuccia Prada hasn’t, Raf Simons, Prada’s, Simons, ” Simons, Dior, Calvin Klein, Jil Sander, ” he’d, Miuccia, ’ ”, Andrea Guerra, Lorenzo, who’d, ” Miu, Antoneta Alamat, ” Miuccia Prada, Elio Berenett, Saunders, Awar Odhiang, Jonas Glöer, Chloe Nguyen, Estrella Gomez, America Gonzalez, Marie Duhart, Rafael Medeiros, Stefano Poli, Ariel Sadok, Cameron Koskas, Vassili, Alexandra Adams, Vincent Brière, Vira, Natsuki Oneyama, Joel Phillips, Manicurist’s, Akane Kanazawa, Marek Dague, QUEEN LATIFAH, DANA OWENS, She’d, Melle Mel, Big Daddy Kane, D.J.s, Owens, Nikki Giovanni, Octavia E, Butler, M.C.s, Latifah, Jazzy Joyce, MC Lyte, Lyte, ” Latifah, We’re, She’s, Shakim Compere, Norma Kamali, David Yurman, David Webb, Ian Bradley Louis Vuitton, Monie, Gary Gray’s, Tracy Oliver, Kenya Barris, Megan Thee, Viola Davis, it’s, LATIFAH, Michael Jackson, who’ve, Shakim, Rita Owens, Compere, Rita, scions, Amina, Amiri Baraka, Lauryn Hill, Latifah wasn’t, Lyte’s, Roxanne, Roxanne Shanté, Dana Owens, Danyel Smith, Queen Latifah —, Latifah ”, Tommy Boy, Jada Pinkett Smith, I’d, ’, ” Pinkett Smith, Al Pereira, Michael Ochs, Raymond Boyd, Getty, D’s, Gray, Latifah’s, Luther Vandross’s, Lancelot Owens Jr, Winki, Kierna Mayo, Love, merrily hyperhappy, Harriet Tubman, Angela Davis, Winnie Mandela, Tipper Gore, Al Gore, ” Love, Giorgio Armani, Van Cleef, Will Smith’s, Bel, Amanda Wicks, John Singleton’s “, Cleo, Clover 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☆ Shrek’s ‘swamp’ now available to rent on Airbnb
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

But this new Airbnb listing in the Scottish Highlands is an exception to the rule. Shrek’s “swamp” is located on the grounds of Ardverikie Estate, a 19th-century Scottish mansion in the Scottish Highlands, some 60 miles south of the city of Inverness. One-off experienceShrek's home is located in the Scottish Highlands. While vacationers will need to organize their own travel to and from the Highlands location, their sojourn at Shrek’s house will be free. Alix McIntosh/AirbnbIf images provided by Airbnb are anything to go by, vacationers can expect a faithful recreation of Shrek’s humble, swampy abode.

Persons: it’s, Alix McIntosh, Airbnb, HopScotch, Baz Luhrmann, Barbie, ”, “ Outlander Organizations: CNN, Scottish Highlands, DreamWorks Locations: Scottish, Ardverikie, Inverness, Scotland, Moulin Rouge, Malibu , California, Balmoral, London, Bank

☆ You can book Shrek's Swamp on Airbnb. See inside the fictional ogre's residence — complete with an outhouse.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The swamp from DreamWorks Animation's "Shrek" has come to life, and it will be listed on Airbnb on October 13. The exterior of Shrek's Swamp looks just like the movie. DreamWorks/AirbnbOn the listing, Shrek's best friend and sidekick Donkey is listed as the host of the studio with two beds and one bathroom. DreamWorks/AirbnbAround the swamp, in Highland Council, Scotland, there are trails to explore and endless nature for picnics, according to the listing. AdvertisementAdvertisementIf you miss out on booking Shrek's Swamp, there are also unique stays like a seashell house, treehouses, and converted grain silos on the booking platform.

Persons: Airbnb, —, isn't, Shrek's, Donkey Organizations: DreamWorks, Service, Scottish Highlands Locations: Scotland, Airbnb, Highland Council

☆ Airbnb is offering a weekend stay at Shrek's Swamp in the Scottish Highlands: Here’s how to book
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Shrek's Swamp will be available for a three night stay from Oct. 27 to Oct. 29. Three months after offering a stay at Barbie's Malibu DreamHouse, Airbnb's latest stunt is a long weekend at Shrek's Swamp. "Ogre enthusiasts can find peace and quiet watching the leaves fall in this mud-laden, moss-covered, murky-watered oasis that is Shrek's Swamp," the listing for the property based on DreamWorks' 2001 hit animated film reads. The bedroom is designed to look exactly how it does in the 2001 animated film. The stay even features Shrek's outhouse.

Persons: Airbnb's, Alix McIntosh Organizations: Malibu, DreamWorks, Scottish Highlands Locations: Scottish

NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden's reelection campaign is getting some big-name fundraising help Monday from Broadway’s top stars. Both Biden and first lady Jill Biden will attend the event, with tickets ranging from $250 to $7,500. Since at least Bill Clinton, Democratic presidents have cultivated intimate ties with powerful figures in the Hollywood entertainment industry. Biden himself raised roughly $1 million during an early 2020 campaign fundraiser at the home of Michael Smith and James Costos, a former HBO executive. That event was attended by former DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, now a Biden campaign co-chair.

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☆ Shrek Crocs are officially real
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Aj Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —In the distant future, archaeologists will happen upon a Shrek Croc, its soft vinyl unsullied by the ages, and they will have questions. Crocs, the brand behind everyone’s favorite unapologetically ugly shoe, has collaborated with DreamWorks to craft an extremely important cultural artifact: The Shrek Croc. Green, freckled, and just a little scary, the Shrek Croc (or Shroc, if you will) has long been a dream for some Croc lovers. There actually is a 2018 Change.org petition floating around to “Make Shrek Crocs Real.” The good people at Crocs know what’s up too: In the run-up to the shoe’s launch on September 13, the official Croc X account retweeted 20 identical messages from an account called “Shrek Crocs,” all reading “Make Shrek Crocs real.”“The wait is over for the most wonderfully hideous Classic Clogs,” the shoe’s description reads. There are Pop Tarts Crocs (Croc-Tarts), Lisa Frank Crocs, Barbie Crocs, Crocs with fanny packs and even scented Crocs Jibbitz — a combination of words commanding almost as much dark energy as “Shrek Crocs.”Most reactions to the Shrek Crocs fall into one of two categories: “I need them immediately,” or “If you wear these in public I will perform a citizen’s arrest.” If your thoughts lean toward the former, you may want to hurry.

Persons: Margaritaville, Crocs, Lisa Frank Crocs, Barbie Crocs, fanny Organizations: CNN, DreamWorks

☆ How the ‘Spider-Verse’ Movies Have Changed Animation for the Better
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Esther Zuckerman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

It was wonderful to have ‘Spider-Verse’ going on in the next room so we could point to it and say, ‘Look, they’re doing it. We can do it too, right?’”Films like “Into the Spider-Verse,” and those that have followed in its footsteps, blend animation techniques that are common in 3-D computer-generated movies with those that were commonplace in the 2-D hand-drawn animation that preceded it. It’s not just that the images are less photorealistic, the movements of the characters are as well. The results are more broadly impressionistic in the ways that Looney Tunes cartoons, Disney classics or decades of anime have been. “The Last Wish,” directed by Joel Crawford, is linked to the era of animation dominated by C.G.I.

Persons: Rianda, It’s, “, ”, Joel Crawford, Crawford, ” Crawford Organizations: Disney, C.G.I, DreamWorks

☆ Aura Sells Cybersecurity to Regular People
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Kim S. Nash | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +5 min

Hari Ravichandran, chief executive of Aura, wants families—from children to their grandparents—to take charge of their personal cybersecurity. Ravichandran spoke with WSJ Pro about Aura’s challenges, and how it uses artificial intelligence to make cybersecurity invisible. With cybersecurity, people don’t think about a lot of the basic views from which your data can get exploited. In a grandparent scam, for example, somebody calls pretending to be your grandson or a granddaughter saying, “Hey, I’ve been kidnapped. Newsletter Sign-up WSJ Pro Cybersecurity Cybersecurity news, analysis and insights from WSJ's global team of reporters and editors.

Persons: Hari Ravichandran, Aura, —, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Robert Downey Jr, Ravichandran, Jack Plunkett, it’s, “, I’ve, Kim S, Nash Organizations: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Hollywood, DreamWorks, Southwest Locations: kim.nash

☆ 'Barbie' movie banned in Vietnam over South China Sea map
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Reuters —Vietnam has banned Warner Bros.’ highly anticipated film “Barbie” from domestic distribution over a scene featuring a map that shows China’s unilaterally claimed territory in the South China Sea, state media reported on Monday. (Warner Bros’, like CNN, is a unit of Warner Bros. The U-shaped “nine-dash line” is used on Chinese maps to illustrate its claims over vast areas of the South China Sea, including swathes of what Vietnam considers its continental shelf, where it has awarded oil concessions. “Barbie” is the latest movie to be banned in Vietnam for depicting China’s controversial nine-dash line, which was repudiated in an international arbitration ruling by a court in The Hague in 2016. Vietnam and China have long had overlapping territorial claims to a potentially energy-rich stretch in the South China Sea.

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☆ Vietnam bans 'Barbie' movie over South China Sea map
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

HANOI, July 3 (Reuters) - Vietnam has banned Warner Bros' highly-anticipated film "Barbie" from domestic distribution over a scene featuring a map that shows China's unilaterally claimed territory in the South China Sea, state media reported on Monday. The U-shaped "nine-dash line" is used on Chinese maps to illustrate its claims over vast areas of the South China Sea, including swathes of what Vietnam considers its continental shelf, where it has awarded oil concessions. "Barbie" is the latest movie to be banned in Vietnam for depicting China's controversial nine-dash line, which was repudiated in an international arbitration ruling by a court in The Hague in 2016. In 2019 the Vietnamese government pulled DreamWorks' animated film "Abominable" and last year it banned Sony's action movie "Unchartered" for the same reason. Vietnam and China have long had overlapping territorial claims to a potentially energy-rich stretch in the South China Sea.

Persons: Warner, China's, Barbie, Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Kien Thanh, Warner Bros, Phuong Nguyen, Kanupriya Kapoor Organizations: Warner Bros, Vietnam, DreamWorks, Netflix, Department of Cinema, Warner, Thomson Locations: HANOI, Vietnam, South China, The Hague, China, Australian, United States

☆ How ‘Nimona’ Helped Its Creator Explore His Emerging Identity
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Robert Ito | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The film had its beginnings in 2015, the same year the book was published, and is that rarest of Hollywood literary makeovers. For Stevenson, much of the book spoke to his own upbringing and experiences. Stevenson, 31, was born and raised in Columbia, S.C., the middle child of five siblings. After years of home-schooling and two more at the local high school, he went to the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he began posting Nimona comics online in 2012, a project that became his senior thesis. “When I first started making the comic, I didn’t consider myself a writer,” he said.

Persons: Nimona, Stevenson, ”, “, Nimona ”, Eisner, ” Stevenson, Ra Organizations: Hollywood, Netflix, Maryland Institute College of Art, ”, Fox Animation, Blue Sky Studios, DreamWorks, Media Locations: Hollywood, Burbank, Sur Monterey County, Columbia

☆ A Hollywood movie mogul and campaign adviser to Joe Biden is telling the president to embrace his age like Harrison Ford and Mick Jagger
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Hollywood big shot is helping Joe Biden pitch his age to wary voters in the 2024 election. Jeffrey Katzenberg wants Biden to tout his age like Harrison Ford or Mick Jagger, per The Wall Street Journal. Katzenberg has told Biden to embrace his age like 80-year-old Harrison Ford, who is reprising his role in the "Indiana Jones" franchise, or Mick Jagger, who was still performing on tour last year at 79. "I've never, ever had the sense that Jeffrey does this for what the business people call ROI," Begala told the Journal. "He's very much committed to Biden, for Biden, and I think he may be one of the few people who can talk to him as a near peer."

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Universal’s “The Super Mario Bros.” movie and Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” both animated films, have racked up big ticket sales this year. The successes of "Super Mario Bros." and "Spider-Man" also reflect a new post-COVID-19 trend at box offices, Hollywood insiders say. In his book, “Creativity, Inc.,” Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull credited Pixar's brain trust with the studio’s early box-office triumphs. Catmull and other members of the original brain trust are gone, though Docter remains, now in the role of chief creative officer. During the pandemic's peak, when many cinemas were closed, Disney launched three Pixar films directly to Disney+_in the U.S., bypassing theaters.

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☆ 'The Flash,' 'Elemental' disappoint as 'Spider-Verse' continues box office domination
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The mixed results saw disappointing debuts from "The Flash" and "Elemental," while "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" continued to attract ticket buyers. It also fell short of the $67 million debut of fellow DC film "Black Adam" last October. "Audiences have shown in recent months and post-'Endgame' years that they are being more selective about which comic book films are going to earn their box office dollars," he said. Estimates peg the film's debut at $29.5 million, just higher than the $29.1 million "Toy Story," Pixar's first-ever theatrical release, which opened in 1995. Across Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the Father's Day weekend, the domestic box office is expected to tally just under $175 million in receipts.

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☆ Disney looks to get out of animation rut with Pixar's 'Elemental'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The stakes are high as Pixar releases its 27th feature film in theaters this Friday. "Elemental," a romantic immigrant story told through anthropomorphic elements of nature, arrives as Disney is under pressure to prove it hasn't lost its golden touch in animation. The company, which operates both Pixar and Disney Animation, has struggled to drum up ticket sales for its animated fare in recent years. Disney's Pixar studio, in particular, is looking to rebound from the box-office letdown that was "Lightyear." "Animation certainly seems to be going through some winds of change," said Shawn Robbins, chief analyst at BoxOffice.com.

Persons: hasn't, Mario, Shawn Robbins Organizations: Pixar, Disney, Disney Animation, DreamWorks, Mario Bros, Alpha

☆ 'The Little Mermaid's' box office will say a lot about Disney's live-action remake strategy
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

That opening is on par with the $91 million "Aladdin" secured in 2019 on its way to more than $1 billion at the global box office. Audience buzz has become an increasingly important factor in box office success in the wake of the pandemic. Those that skip out on seeing a film during its opening weekend can be enticed to cinemas by positive chatter, helping to bolster the film's overall box office. The studio, which is known for its animated content, saw two of its recent releases — "Lightyear" and "Strange World" — flounder at the box office. Although there were two live-action films based on "101 Dalmatians" in 1996 and 2000, Disney didn't start producing these remakes in earnest until 2010's "Alice in Wonderland."

Persons: Alice, Maleficent, Lilo, Shawn Robbins, it's Organizations: Disney, Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, BoxOffice.com Locations: Wonderland

DreamWorks Animation has laid off 33 staffers, or around 2%, in recent days. DreamWorks' parent company, NBCUniversal, has been laying off staff across divisions in recent months. The cuts were confirmed by a spokesperson from DreamWorks Animation, whose parent company, Comcast's NBCUniversal, has eliminated roles across the organization over the past six months. DreamWorks Animation said in a statement that the layoffs were part of an overall cost reduction and that a majority of those affected were in support functions. This person said staffers laid off in this round learned the news several weeks ago, giving those affected some time to prepare.

☆ CNBC Anchor Complained NBCUniversal C.E.O. Pressured Her for Years
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Benjamin Mullin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A CNBC journalist accused Jeff Shell, the former chief executive of NBCUniversal, of pressuring her for sex over a period of years during her career at the business news network, according to a copy of her complaint reviewed by The New York Times. The complaint, lodged in late March by Hadley Gamble, an anchor and senior international correspondent, kicked off an investigation that led to Mr. Shell’s dismissal last week, sending shock waves across a far-flung media empire that includes NBC News, the Universal movie studio and DreamWorks Animation. Less than a page of Ms. Gamble’s complaint, which is more than a dozen pages, focused on allegations of sexual harassment by Mr. Much of the complaint raised accusations of bullying and discrimination at CNBC, saying women at the network’s international division were harassed by their male colleagues on several different occasions. Comcast, NBCUniversal’s parent company, hired the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher to investigate the complaint after it was sent to the company’s executives in New York and London.

☆ Big money donors rally behind Biden as he launches his reelection bid
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Big donors in the business world started rallying around President Joe Biden soon after he announced Tuesday that he's running for reelection next year. A Biden campaign spokesperson didn't return a request for comment before publication. Katzenberg told CNBC in an exclusive interview Tuesday night that he believes the Biden campaign will raise more this time around than in 2020. Biden's campaign raised over $400 million from donors that gave under $200 during his last run for president, according to OpenSecrets. Venture capitalist Ron Conway has told friends he will help the president's campaign, according to a person close to him.

A series of upcoming challenges, from the ongoing war in Ukraine to a still-uncertain economy, could provide hurdles to Biden’s reelection. The Washington beltway event may be indicative of what’s to come for the Biden reelection campaign strategy. “Just like four years ago—I’m off to teach and Joe’s launched his (re-election) campaign! Obama held his first reelection campaign rally in May 2012, 13 months after announcing his bid for a second term. The wait for a Biden reelection rally could be just as long.

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