Reporting live from Vogue’s Paris offices ahead of the Chanel and Louis Vuitton shows, The Run-Through’s hosts (and special guest Claire Thomson-Jonville, head of editorial content at Vogue France) were in agreement: by and large, fashion’s new creative directors have stopped auditioning for their roles and started owning them. Nowhere was that clearer than at … Read more
Hoards of American and European agents, producers and executives are descending on the Kensington Olympia today for the enormous London Book Fair (LFB), but whether they can find what they were looking for is another matter. There is a quiet sense of optimism in the TV and film industry this year as distance grows between … Read more
US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds posted net inflows on Monday, snapping a two-session stretch of outflows as Bitcoin rose toward $70,000 and investor demand returned to the largest cryptocurrency. Spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs recorded $167 million of inflows on Monday, following around $577 million in outflows on Thursday and Friday, according to SoSoValue data. Daily … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israeli officials are preparing for an extended campaign against the Lebanese militant group Hizbollah that is likely to continue beyond the end of the war against Iran, according to people briefed on the discussions. Israeli … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: George Michael: The Faith Tour, a restored and remastered feature based on long lost film, is being lined up for a worldwide big screen release later this year, Deadline can reveal. George Michael Entertainment and Mercury Studios are behind the new and never-seen-before project, which will be accompanied by the release of an 18-track … Read more
Best picture is the only Oscar category decided by preferential ballot. Our reporter Marc Tracy explains how that works.
heThe LinkedIn post seemed like yet another scam job offer, but Katya was desperate enough to click. After college, she’d struggled to make a living as a freelance journalist, gone to grad school, then pivoted to what she hoped would be a more stable career in content marketing — only to find AI had automated … Read more
Hyperscale data center operator AirTrunk has secured a 191.6 billion Japanese yen ($1.24 billion) green loan to refinance and expand its TOK1 data center campus in the greater Tokyo area, marking what it described as the largest data center financing completed in Japan. The loan will support the next development phases of the TOK1 campus, … Read more
Qatar’s Doha Film Institute (DFI) has moved its annual project and talent incubator Qumra online due to the ongoing U.S.-Israel-Iran war which has spilled out into the entire Gulf region and beyond. “In light of the recent developments in the region, we have made the difficult decision to hold this upcoming edition of Qumra online … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lego’s chief executive has lambasted Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s wealth tax proposal, arguing it would hurt the rich Scandinavian country significantly. Niels Christiansen, head of the world’s largest toymaker, told the FT that the … Read more