Coca-Cola turns 125 years old and the Atlanta-based company is celebrating its birthday, not with a new formula, but with a stylish new look and a limited-edition packaging for the Diet Coke starting next month. As Adweek reminds us, “Remember New Coke back in 1985? That was a branding lesson for one and all: Do [...]
Brad Pitt’s latest film “World War Z” transformed Glasgow’s city centre into Philadelphia’s boulevards. Pitt and his crew are in the city for the post apocalyptic zombie flick after being sighted previously on location in Valleta, Malta and in Falmouth, Cornwall. The tabloids reported how Pitt and wife Angelina Jolie and their family arrived in [...]
The fall and holiday seasons of Hollywood is packed with exciting films including those Brad Pitt reinventing baseball, George Clooney running for president, Kristen Stewart acquiring a taste for blood, Robert Downy, Jr. facing a criminal mastermind, Meryl Streep impersonating Margaret Thatcher and Leonardo DiCaprio putting American under surveillance. Family films like Puss in Boots, [...]
The action thriller “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” from the 20th Century Fox has climbed to the top rung of the weekend box office by taking in $54 million and opening as the No. 1 movie. The opening receipt was $15 to $20 million more than what was earlier predicted by analysts for [...]
Fans who can’t get enough of the animal that inspired the movie Happy Feet can still watch him day and night from his Wellington Zoo enclosure as he is being live streamed to the world. While the animal species inspired the movie, this particular animal was named after the movie Happy Feet. It can be [...]
Facebook was accused by a leading German privacy official of violating German and European laws with the use of its face recognition software which allow Facebook users to locate new “Friends” with the use of the biometric data scan. Hamburg data protection expert Johannes Caspar called on the social networking company to delete from its [...]
The almost 14-percent profit increase by media conglomerate Time Warner during the second quarter was attributed to the higher revenue from movies such as “The Hangover Part II” and its TV channel business. Time Warner said its net income increased from 49 cents per share or a net income of $562 million a year earlier [...]
A new study released Tuesday shows that instead of the traditional advertisements that target youngsters, companies that have pledged not to directly market unhealthy food and beverages to children have resorted to product placement on television shows. The Yale University study called this method which includes high exposure to sugary soft drinks on prime-time TV [...]
Houston web developer and IT consultant could not find a friend to preside over his and fiancé Diana Wesley’s wedding so he coded a virtual minister named “Rev.Bit”. “We’re both friends of the computer. So it’s kind of like our best friend is still marrying us,” Wesley told the Associated Press. “The computer is a [...]
Christie’s auction house has sold 50 gelatin prints made from the photographs taken by Mike Mitchell of the momentous first U.S. concert tour of the Beatles in Washington, D.C. in 1964 and from another Beatles concert. The said prints fetched a total of $361,938. The first U.S concert of the Beatles was held on February [...]
