Armed thieves dressed in Hawaiian shirts swiped up to EUR 15mn in gems from a French Riviera boutique in broad daylight, a British daily writes. The Telegraph reports that “a man with a deep suntan and wearing a flowery shirt walked into the Cartier store in Cannes and threatened staff with a gun,” followed by two accomplices wearing crash helmets who then entered the store.
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Bettany & Connelly’s Darwin Movie To Open Toronto Film Festival
July 14th, 2009 |
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TORONTO — Real-life couple Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany will kick off the Toronto International Film Festival with the life story of Charles Darwin.
Bettany stars as the theory-of-evolution pioneer and Connelly plays his wife in “…
Paris Hilton sued over Pledge This!
July 13th, 2009 |
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Flop comedy’s investors sue the socialite and hotel heiress for not fulfilling her promotional duties, but she insists she plugged it to the best of her abilities
Paris Hilton has insisted in court that she did everything she could to promote flop comedy Pledge This! amid allegations from an investor that she turned her back on the 2006 film.
The hotel heiress and socialite is being sued for $8.3m (£5.1m) in damages by receivers for the now defunct entertainment firm that was the major investor in the film, which made just $2.9m (£1.8m). The lawsuit claims she violated her contract by rejecting or ignoring requests by producers to appear on talkshows and undertake radio and magazine interviews for the film.
The film-makers were particularly galled by Hilton’s alleged refusal to promote the DVD release of the movie, which centres on goings-on at a sorority house at the fictional South Beach University.
On the witness stand at the federal court in Miami on Friday, Hilton, 28, acknowledged Pledge This!’s failure at the box office but said she had promoted it to the best of her abilities.
“If I have my name attached to something, I want it to be as big as it can be,” she testified.
Hilton also insisted she was never told her contract required appearances after the October 2006 premiere of Pledge This! and said she spent more than two years promoting it beforehand, including two high-profile trips to the Cannes film festival.
At an earlier hearing, Bryan West, lawyer for defunct firm Worldwide Entertainment Group, told the court: “At no time would she take 10 minutes to do a phone interview.”
Michael Goldberg, lawyer for the receiver, said on Friday that he had pumped the final £600,000 from the company’s account into the completion of the film in the hope that Hilton’s participation would lead to a dividend.
“I said, ‘Just do one little thing and you’ll never hear from me again.’ We had no support whatsoever,” he told the court.
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Sleek, Friendly And … Seductive
November 12th, 2007 |
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Joseph Yadao
joseph.yadao@mediacorp.com.sg
Bigger and clearer – that seems to be the sales pitch for most television
sets these days. But Philips is bringing another element into its
marketing drive.
The Dutch consumer products manufacturer enthralls its target audience
with the Seduction by Light campaign for its Aurea line of televisions.
This campaign was developed to convey the emotions aroused by Aurea.
Philips roped in film director Wong Kar Wai, fashion photographer Vincent
Peters, fashion designer Alber Elbaz from the House of Lanvin and
jewellery designer Lorenz Baumer to generate the seduction of light-
inspired creatives.
Mr Wong, who won international acclaim when he garnered the Best Director
award in the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, created There Is Only One Sun, a
short film that had its exclusive premiere in Singapore at the Aurea
launch.
“He is a renowned master in blending light and colours to create a
seductive atmosphere in his movies and Philips feels that he is the
perfect person to create a movie which highlights all of the Aurea’s
features,” said Philips Electronics Singapore general manager Milton Tan.
For Aurea’s print campaign, Mr Peters was the man for the job. Having
worked with Vogue magazine and several fashion houses, he brought the
campaign images to life with his inimitable style of light manipulation.
“The light itself is what creates emotional access to what you see. The
light is always there, but no one ever thinks about it,” he said.
The Seduction by Light campaign is Philips’ first foray into the luxury
lifestyle space and is a world away from its usual brand positioning as a
leader in technology. With its alluring appeal, Aurea is positioned to
appeal as much to women as to men.
“Women are getting more tech-savvy today and are constantly seeking
technology that enhances their current lifestyle,” said Mr Tan. “More
women today are willing to explore technology and want it to be sleek,
feminine, user friendly and trendy.”