#Bollywood Mascot

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HAPPY HOLI TO EVERYONE WHO CELEBRATES IT (IT'S A HINDU FESTIVAL OF COLOURS) BUT PLEASE GOD SOMEONE RESCUE ME FROM @thearoacemess AND @hello-ello-ello WHO ARE TRYING TO STRONG ARM ME INTO WATCHING AN INDIAN MOVIE ABOUT, AND I QUOTE, "ALIENS" AND "FLYING SHAWTIES".

PLEASE SAVE ME.

I'D RATHER REWATCH THAT ONE MOVIE WHERE HALF AN HOUR OF SCREENTIME IS DEDICATED TO NIGHTMARISH ANIMATION, ANOTHER FIFTEEN MINUTES TO A SHROOM TRIP, THE MAIN CHARACTER IS PROBABLY A VAMPIRE BUT IT'S NEVER ADDRESSED, AND THEY PLAY PUPPET WITH THE CORPSE OF THE FAMILY MATRIARCH.

[lastofthe20thcenturygirls]

tho mohabbatein isn't even that great but it always gets me that raj aryan didn't come back to gurukul to get revenge on the man who hated love sm he ruined raj's future just because he was in love with that man's daughter but came back for the lonely father of the girl he will always love and considered him as his own father

[fly-pow-bye]

The Lost Blossom Shampoo Commercial

During my very early days on Tumblr, I was loving all the GIFs and I wanted to join the community. Along with my love of video games, I love animation and I love Cartoon Network, and I wanted to contribute even if my main Tumblr, which is all that I had back then, wasn't animation focused. I wanted to give something that nobody else has posted. I knew non-American commercials have unique animation not seen anywhere else, so that felt like a good idea. I decided, to add some unique Cartoon Network GIFs to Tumblr, to look through various Cartoon Network commercial reels on YouTube and Vimeo. One of the videos I found on Vimeo was this reel from Brendan Rogan, a producer at Cartoon Network Latin America. I found a clip of the Powerpuff Girls I had never seen at 0:32.

Wait, is this...a shampoo commercial? Seems really fitting considering the Blossom hair wave scene in The Mane Event, and I shouldn't be surprised someone decided to use something inspired by that scene in advertising. Not going to lie: I was intrigued.

After the break, my entire history of my attempt to track down this commercial.

Right after this part of Blossom that I made the GIF from is this clip of three superhero-like mascots flying around three different bottles of different hair products. The one on the left has a bubbly hairstyle that is the same color as the bubbles shown in the Blossom part, suggesting that these two clips are from the same commercial. I did not want to believe it at first, but it did fit pretty well. The Powerpuff Girls are 6 years old at the most, and they could still be using baby shampoo.

After my searches went nowhere, I e-mailed Brendan Rogan back in 2015, who was pretty much my only lead at the time, about it. Rogan asked me why I wanted to see the "full spot". I immediately recalled one YouTube video about people trying to find the guy from Active Enterprises of Cheetahmen infamy only to be met with an all caps "WHY DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THIS INFORMATION" and no further replies, and I was hoping it was not going to end like that video. I did e-mail him with honesty, saying I just wanted to see the context of the full spot, and I'm a big Cartoon Network and Powerpuff Girls fan.

Rogan did not reply back.

I did not e-mail him again because I did not want to pester someone about a baby shampoo commercial, and I was holding onto the hope that it'll appear in a upload of commercials on YouTube so I do not have to test my anxiety. Of course, it'd be in way higher quality if I got it from someone who worked on the commercial rather than a VHS recording of commercials, but I was not thinking of that at the time. At least he indirectly confirmed a full spot exists.

Years later, I found a promotional reel based on the Toonix era of Cartoon Network Latin America, dated to 2011. It advertises The Amazing World of Gumball and Johnny Bravo Goes To Bollywood, both from 2011, so I can believe the year. It seemed to be made for investors and advertisers, showing off Cartoon Network's programming, and how they can have synergy with other brands. This includes a bunch of cross-promotion. Showing up at 4:52, to my surprise, is the Blossom ad. It was almost the exact same clip seen in the Rogan reel. The keyword is "almost." I got out my video editing software, and this is what I can see:

The Cartoon Network reel does have more of the commercial we did not see in the Rogan reel, though it's just more of the mascots flying in from outside of the frame and a little bit less of Blossom waving her hair around. This does confirm to me that neither reel was showing a single clip from the full spot, but two clips from different parts of the spot, showing the Cartoon Network character and showing what that Cartoon Network character was advertising. It also reconfirms that what I am looking for is not a Cartoon Network promo, but a baby hair product line commercial.

I also notice that even with these two different appearances, we only have 2.5 seconds of what could be a 15 or 30 second commercial. That alone does make that intriguing even with the possibility that Blossom only appears for that one second and the rest is just a generic baby shampoo ad. I hope that's not it, but it would explain why the full spot was not uploaded.

I did find one other piece of this campaign. It's not from the commercial, but it is related. Maybe it was an extremely lucky Google Image Search, or I just somehow stumbled across it in one of my searches. This was from a company named Bau Print, who specializes in different kinds of printing, including printing on vehicles, and, hey look!

There they are! It's even a photo taken from a camera that wasn't edited, meaning I could see from the metadata that it was taken in April of 2010. That does narrow down the beginning end of my search, though I had no doubt that the spot was at least post-Powerpuff Girls Movie. It also made me realize a bit of lore about these three super obscure mascots: they each represent the three different kinds of intense hydration: shampoo, conditioner, and combing cream. There are no Powerpuff Girls, showing either these superheroes were not just made for the commercial, or they wanted to use them without having to contact Warner Bros. or Cartoon Network.

This picture does prove that this campaign, at the very least, got to the point where it was advertised on trailer trucks. I did have a feeling this was a part of a scrapped campaign; maybe Johnson's got cold feet for having their clean baby shampoo brand be associated with girls that have beaten monkeys, criminals, talking dogs, and clowns to a pulp. However, wouldn't it be false advertising if a campaign that fell through ended up in a video that seemed to be made for advertisers?

And that's where my search runs cold. I have searched a lot of Cartoon Network Latin America commercial breaks on and off over the years, and I even used Filmot to search YouTube's subtitles for phrases that could be a part of it, like that "salud es belleza" tagline on that truck, and the full spot remains elusive after years of searching. I guess I could just imagine what the rest of the commercial could be.

The City of J&Jville, where our heroic trio responds to a dis-tress call: Blossom, superheroine of Townsville, is having a bad hair day and won't have the confidence to beat up Mojo Jojo and stop his "turn everyone into chickens with his chicken ray" plan. Lather, Rinse, and Repeat are called to action, and with their ultra-cleaning powers, they go into Blossom's hair as she stares at the mirror, and her hair magically turns luscious again. With her newfound confidence, Blossom flies to Mojo Jojo, and knocks his teeth out, bruising him with all of her techniques, her flurry of punches, her eye lasers, and the dreaded ponytail whiplash! The day is saved thanks to Blossom, and Johnson's Baby Hidratación Intensa! (Warning: Baby shampoo will not give your baby superpowers, do not let them fight crime.)

...okay, maybe that violence wouldn't have happened, but there is only one way we can find out for sure, and I can only wish I could find that way. So uh, here's another shampoo ad starring Hanna-Barbera characters that appears to be unrelated. Yes, the Powerpuff Girls are technically Hanna-Barbera. Bye.

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[starryalpacasstuff]

Tag Game

Tagged by @neuroticbookworm, thank you bestie!

Favourite colour: Blue (the middle school percy jackson obsession was real)

Last song: The Tortoise and The Hare by Stray Kids. I don't care what anyone says, this song is rules and everyone who says otherwise has no taste

Last Book: The last one I finished was The Secret History by Donna Tart (one of the forebearers of dark academia), but I'm rereading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (The science fiction book)

Last Movie: Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga, translates to "The way I felt when I saw a girl", a very sweet bollywood movie about a guy helping a girl he meets by chance to come out to her family and avoid being married off to a man.

Last TV Show: The last one I watched an episode of is Love In The Big City

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Depends heavily on my mood, but I'm almost always down for spicy

Relationship status: Single and not planning on doing anything to change it any time soon

Last Thing I Googled: "luce vatican", because apparently the Vatican now has an anime mascot named Luce

Do with that information what you will.

Looking forward to: Ah.. I don't know? There's a wedding I'll be attending in about three weeks, so probably that

Tagging: @anixknowsnothin @tittylover26 @dimplesandfierceeyes and if you see this and want to play, consider yourself tagged by me!

[lunawings]

Okay, I watched AiPri episode 1

...........

First of all, the way they refer to AiPri is super different and it's jarring. Before, like, PriPara/PriChan/PriMagi was something you could do. AiPri is something you become. You don't do AiPri, you become an AiPri (Idol Princess)?

This will take some getting used to.

As I predicted from the day it was announced, Mitsuki is already an AiPri and Himari is already a fan not knowing it's her. Her AiPri name is Mii or Miichan and she broadcasts to her Miichannel (......).

Himari's sister Hiiro calls to make sure Himari isn't late and her mother reminds her to keep up with her skin and hair care......

Himari's room is ginormous, but it does seem like she has a roommate. (Mitsuki? It's implied that Mitsuki snuck out early to go do AiPri stuff.)

Himari is nervous about starting their first day of junior high and not knowing anyone, but Mitsuki nudges her forehead (their secret good luck sign) and takes her hand and they are off.

These guys are all the student council, apparently.

Himari and Mitsuki's brothers go to the school too. It's implied that Himari's brother is very protective of Himari, but Himari kinda has a crush on Mitsuki's brother.......

AiPri isn't outright banned I think(?), but the principal Victoria seems to be against it? I wasn't quite sure she said in her speech. (She's shown later in the episode watching AiPri though.)

After establishing that Himari is shy and could never see herself doing becoming AiPri, she spectacularly falls and flips over onto her bracelet, attaching it to her hand. (You know that viral clip of like a Bollywood actress fainting into a suitcase? It was basically that.......)

(Also wait... did she accidentally steal her bracelet from the student council!!?)

"SO CUTE!!!!"

(....i....is it...?)

Himari is being forced to debut immediately even though she doesn't want to. Despite Himari not recognizing Mitsuki as Miichan, Mitsuki recognizes Himari immediately after seeing her on a screen for five seconds and runs to her. Mitsuki/Miichan asks why she's there, and Himari insists she was forced, but Michiru asks her, isn't it because you wanted to be an AiPri? Himari realizes this is true.

Mitsuki gives Himari their good luck headbonk and Himari finally realizes it's her. The secret's out already. (But, considering they were shown performing together in the OP I figured...)

I kinda like the CG. I like the soft shading.

The Buzzilume change kinda hurts my eyes though. Why do they need to have so many.... lasers...........

I've been wondering if Buzzilume comes from like... someone told them that "buzz" as in like "what's the buzz" means like rumor, i.e. secret or something haha.

Student council gets the VIP death star.

One of them has a thick Kansai accent but I'm not sure which because she wasn't on screen while she was talking.

Is this really supposed to be the audience?

Ugh, I dunno. It's just the beginning, but I thought this episode was super cringy. I got a lot of secondhand embarrassment from it. Specifically from the scenes below:

-There's this scene where Himari is forced to address the entire school despite neither knowing nor having any chance to prepare for it. They didn't make it seem like she knew and forgot, it just seemed like she was picked randomly. It was supposed to be like an analog for her debut and show how Himari actually can overcome anything (with a little help from Mitsuki) but like... that would never happen in real life. So cruel.

-Chi is determined to break all the rules and make AiPri as little a secret as possible. The joke is she's putting her secret out there but nobody will listen to her, but... in order to make that work, they've made her super annoying haha.... ha...

-Himari ROLLING OVER AND FALLING INTO HER BRACELET... REALLY.............

-Seeing Himari's mascot/manager felt like in PriChan when Rinka was showing off Silk except we are actually supposed to think it's cute........

-Realizing Himari overcame her fears and put everything into performing to.... a bunch of.... floating c...cards.........?

Welp. Neither Himari nor Mitsuki left a big impression on me and Chi was kind of annoying. Looking forward to getting to know the student council at least, I'm pretty sure I'll find my favorite there.

Also the yellow girl does seem to be the Rinne character, as her voice was inviting Himari to the AiPri Verse and she has like, triangle pupils. It's also heavily implied in the OP that she is indeed Mitsuki and Himari's teammate. We'll see, we'll see.

Oh, and Himari didn't choose a name for her AiPri persona in this episode. Mitsuki is Mii so... (Hii? lol)

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Remembering the legendary cartoonist #RKLaxman on his 103rd birth anniversary (24/10). Best known for his iconic creation The Common Man and the daily cartoon strip You Said It in The Times of India, Laxman’s sharp wit and biting satire captured the essence of India's political and social landscape for over five decades. His work provided a voice to the everyday struggles of the common Indian, often exposing the absurdities of bureaucracy and politics.

Beyond his political cartoons, Laxman also made a mark in Bollywood. He created memorable caricatures of Bollywood stars, most notably in the 1955 film Mr. & Mrs. '55, where his sketches added a humorous flair to the film. Additionally, he designed the beloved mascot "Gattu" for Asian Paints, which became an iconic symbol in Indian households.

His illustrious career earned him numerous accolades, including the Padma Vibhushan and the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism.

What are your favorite memories of R.K. Laxman’s work?

[kharisubas40972]

Hansal Mehta opens up on Pratik Gandhi’s fleeting shot in Scoop; says, “Must have my lucky mascot somewhere” : Bollywood News

Pratik Gandhi who shot to fame in Hansal Mehta’s game-changing series Scam happily agreed to be part of Mehta’s new OTT sensation Scoop on Netflix, albeit for a fleeting shot. Elaborating on Pratik’s cameo Hansal explains, “We were shooting in Kandivali (Mumbai) at a location which is the protagonist Jagruti’s Mama (maternal uncle)’s shop. I called Pratik who lives in the lane behind to drop…

[starfriday]

'Tridev' Fame Sonam Makes A comeback!

Oye Oye Girl Sonam Feels Ecstatic To Be Back In Bollywood!

Sonam , the Oye Oye girl from Tridev who ruled hearts & the box office in the 90's is all set to make a powerful comeback in Indian cinema . She has shared screen space with the who’s who in Bollywood and was known to be a lucky mascot .

Speaking about her come back she says, “I feel great to be back after living three decades across the globe. The industry has given me a warm welcome & it just gets better from here. I’m looking forward to doing scripts with established, millennial as well as new-age directors. Indian cinema has changed dynamics making the country proud globally. The OTT space has boomed globally & I look forward to exploring the same along with cinema.”

For the unversed, Sonam was introduced to the industry by Yash Chopra & adjourned her career in 1988 with the multi-starrer action film ‘Vijay’’. The actress rose to fame with the film ‘Tridev’ and in the same film A song ‘Oye Oye… ’ became very famous among the people.

Looks like, she will be back to doing what she’s best at soon… entertainment!

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I DIDN'T I MADE THE MISTAKE OF TRYING TO DANCE TO A BOLLYWOOD SONG AND IT HAS FOLK STEPS AND I WAS DRENCHED WITH SWEAT AND HYPERACTIVE AND THEN I READ THE FIC

Y'ALL ARE SO JUDGY IT'S INSANE THE GOOD OMENS MASCOT BLESSES/CURSES YOU WITH EVEN MORE BRAINROT HAH TAKE THAT

*runs headfirst through your closed door*

TEACHERS AU CHAPTER TWO IS OUT

@arkytiorlecter @1800ineedshelp @obsessed-sketches @weirdly-specific-but-ok @queermarzipan etc etc WHEEEEEEEE

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Instagram influencer and TV actress Jannat Zubair Rahmani's latest selfies with Bollywood queen Kangana Ranaut shredding selfies on Instagram. Both are working on the same picture launch very soon. Jannat Zubair Rahmani shared pics with the caption I met Dhakad rani.

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Anonymous asked:

Question for the mun: What do you think is the best or least bad Disney Live-Action Remake?

Haha you came for me too. Other than 101 Dalmatians in ‘96 which I hold to be the standard of Disney remakes... Here’s what you have to realize is my low bar of remakes: Do what you couldn’t do originally. Add something to embellish. Do not do a complete remake that’s word for word. Fix technical errors. Add for runtime if the original was very short. Alright so... Let’s start with what remakes I think are the most dumpster fire. That would be Cruella, Maleficent, and The Jungle Book. BUT GASP. Everyone loves that one. And okay. Okay I hear you. ...The remake removes all of the intentionally placed gay subtext between Baloo and Bagheera. Because you gotta remember, The Jungle Book is actually racist bs that Rudyard Kipling wrote so that white people would be encouraged to keep races separate. The idea is a metaphor to keep the jungle to the jungle and the civilized people to the civilized people. Yes, this is racist metaphor. BTW there’s a bag company called Kipling named after Rudyard Kipling and they use a gorilla as a mascot. Just... think about that for a second. ANYWAY!

Disney... knew this and turned this into an adoption story that is more relevant to the 70s. Instead of that crap, it is “Mowgli is an interracial adoptee and he has a right to know where he came from.” This was a hot topic in the 70s and is still a hot topic today. I would know. I am adopted. My parents saw this film and it convinced them they should become adoptive parents and did not care where that baby came from so... here I am. Rock you like a hurricane. Walt did something decent before he died when he touched this. He didn’t touch it hard and remember, Disney’s black animators (yes they exist holy crap) worked on this film. So. Yeah it’s garbage. That’s all garbage. The remakes either remove queer subtext (looking at you Lion King you took it out) that has been there for years or it adds things that tend to become really offensive when you actually sit down and take a breath (Maleficent sweetie really). A’ight so. So shoving that out of the way. Grudgingly, I pick Aladdin. And I know what happened. What you don’t know is... people are racist and needed Middle Eastern actors to tan because “that’s not dark enough for a majority white audience” so enjoy the colorism that is rampant in the Disney fandom. We could honestly talk about the discourse that happened and the harassment that followed all the actors but... let’s not. And I don’t like the movie because GASP I MUST WHITE KNIGHT. I like it because it’s a dull stick in the eye compared to a sharp one.

Jafar isn’t a pedophile. Rejoice.

Jafar wasn’t woobified. Get wrecked, Cruella. I hope the real Cruella rips out your hair.

Jasmine gets the bare minimal of explanation I needed. She wants to be Sultana. Sultan is too afraid because her mother was literally murdered. Historically, sultanas existed but right now he’s too scared.

Speaking of the Sultan, he’s not an idiot. He’s just afraid. When we’re afraid we can do foolish things and I deeply appreciated it. Like I could have gone for “oh this is why he collects toys” but hey, I got an explanation. Two seconds was all it took.

Speechless is relatable. Beyond relatable. And the scene is very beautiful.

Mena Massoud is an excellent Aladdin. I do love Brad Kane, but at this point I prefer Mena Massoud’s performance. He’s great. There’s an innocence to his voice and yet a very matter-of-fact when he’s living that Street Rat life. Brad Kane just Broadway’s it and while that’s still great since that’s the Aladdin we all grew up with, Mena takes me there slowly.

The first version of Friend Like Me is horrific and feels stiff. The credits version feels much better and as if Will Smith finally makes the character his own. Why we didn’t get that and a Bollywood style dance in the Cave of Wonders BEFORE the credits, IDK! But that’s a better performance.

Will Smith does have scenes where Genie feels like the actual Genie. Problem is... it’s inconsistent. And that’s upsetting because it looks like Will Smith knows what he’s doing so I want to “talk” to the director.

JAMS. STOP TALKING. ABOUT THE JAMS.

Arabian Nights has a much better rewrite. God like that’s such a bop and I don’t feel unclean like the first one always made me feel like that. Also the visuals of the ship coming into the port? Uuuugh. drooling.

I actually didn’t miss Iago. But is it because they didn’t use Gilbert Gottfried for the squawking or...? Hey, I didn’t miss him. You will not miss him at all. Turns out... Unless it’s Return of Jafar, you don’t need Iago at all. Which surprised me.

A little bitter it’s not Eden with Genie but hey, he’s happy and that makes me happy.

Okay but when you mix BOTH A Friend Like Me together it is ear candy having that duet.

And I know that’s the hottest take ever. These reasons are such a hot take... But I consider it a dull stick in my eye compared to a sharp stick. Cause nah really, all the remakes are accepting a stick in your eye.

[hinducosmos]

Naanko-chan (whose head is a naan bread) promotes Bollywood Films in Japan. (via Twitter: Mondo Mascots)

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In the ultimate symbol of one Hollywood era ending and another beginning, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, home to James Bond and Rocky, finally found a buyer willing to pay retail: Amazon.

The e-commerce giant said on Wednesday that it would acquire the 97-year-old film and television studio for $8.45 billion — or about 40 percent more than other prospective buyers, including Apple and Comcast, thought MGM was worth. The studio, which had been shopped around for months, was once home to “more stars than the heavens,” as Louis B. Mayer liked to brag. But its vast production lot and pre-1986 film library were sold off decades ago. (Sony Pictures now occupies the lot, and Warner Bros. owns classic MGM films like “Singin’ in the Rain,” “The Wizard of Oz,” and “Gone With the Wind.”)

MGM does come with one Hollywood crown jewel: James Bond.

But even 007 has an asterisk. Amazon will own only 50 percent of the spy franchise. The balance is held by Barbara Broccoli and her brother, Michael G. Wilson. The siblings also have ironclad creative control, deciding when to make a new Bond film, who should play the title role and whether television spinoffs get made. (They have blocked such efforts in the past.)

The 25th installment in the Bond series, “No Time to Die,” is scheduled for pandemic-delayed release in theaters on Oct. 8, with Universal Pictures handling overseas distribution.

So why did Amazon pay such a startling premium?

For starters, it can. The company has $71 billion in cash and a market capitalization of $1.64 trillion.

But Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and chief executive, is known as a conservative buyer. The purchase of Whole Foods for $13.4 billion in 2017 was the biggest acquisition in Amazon’s history. Its next-largest deals — until MGM — were for Zappos ($1.2 billion, 2009) and the smart doorbell company Ring ($1.2 billion, 2018).

The Whole Foods deal was a major strategic change for the company, pushing it into new markets of groceries and physical stores, which it had largely avoided. MGM is more about augmenting a current strategy: Amazon most likely paid more than others thought MGM was worth because of its all-important Prime membership program.

In addition to paying Amazon $119 a year or $13 a month for free shipping and other perks — notably access to the Prime Video streaming service — households with Prime memberships typically spend $3,000 a year on Amazon. That is more than twice what households without the membership spend, according to Morgan Stanley. About 200 million people pay for Prime memberships.

“More and more Prime members are using video more often, spending more hours on there, so I think this is a way to add more content and more talent around movies,” said Brian Yarbrough, a senior analyst at Edward Jones.

“This isn’t one studio buying another,” he added. “If you’re Amazon, the perspective is what’s the potential for Prime membership, what is the potential for advertising.”

In buying MGM, Amazon is bolstering Prime Video at a time when the biggest old-line studios are becoming less willing to license their libraries to outside streaming services; Warner Bros., Walt Disney Studios and Paramount Pictures must now supply corporate siblings like HBO Max, Disney+ and Paramount+.

That shift has made independent film libraries more valuable. In recent weeks, Sony Pictures licensed its old films and TV shows to Netflix and Disney in deals valued at more than $3 billion, a sharp increase from the expiring licensing agreements. Sony does not have a streaming service, unless you count the game-oriented PlayStation Network.

Although its library is diminished, MGM still owns 4,000 older movies, including pre-1986 films that come from two MGM divisions, United Artists and Orion. Those movies include “Rocky,” “RoboCop,” “The Pink Panther,” “Silence of the Lambs” and the James Bond catalog. (Fun fact: In true Hollywood fashion, MGM’s roaring lion mascot is lip-syncing; a cranky tiger sounded more ferocious.)

In addition, MGM has several movies in its pipeline that could be Oscar contenders, including “Respect,” an Aretha Franklin biopic starring Jennifer Hudson; Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci,” starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver; and Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest project, which stars Bradley Cooper in his first film since “A Star is Born.”

Amazon’s appetite for movies became ravenous during the pandemic. It paid $125 million for the rights to “Coming 2 America,” $80 million for “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” and $200 million for “The Tomorrow War,” a Chris Pratt adventure that will arrive on Prime on July 2. Amazon also has Oscar ambitions, buying the rights to “Sound of Metal,” which was nominated for best picture and other top awards at the most recent ceremony.

When it comes to making its own hit films, Amazon has long struggled. MGM managers could help: Michael De Luca, MGM’s movie chairman, has a track record that includes, at various companies, the “Rush Hour,” “Austin Powers” and “Fifty Shades of Grey” franchises.

MGM also has a television studio that makes “Vikings,” “The Handmaid’s Tale” and various “Real Housewives” shows. In 2014, MGM acquired Mark Burnett’s production company, One Three Media, which holds rights to competition series like “The Voice,” “Survivor” and “Shark Tank.” Mr. Burnett, a contentious figure in Hollywood because he helped shape Donald J. Trump’s image with “The Apprentice” and remained close to him during his divisive presidential term, serves as MGM’s television chairman.

Anchorage Capital, a New York investment firm, has been the majority owner of MGM for more than a decade. Before that, MGM was tossed between owners and, bitten by falling DVD revenue, eventually ending up in bankruptcy. It was worth about $2 billion in 2010, according to analysts.

Kevin Ulrich, Anchorage’s chief executive and MGM’s chairman, formally put the studio on the block late last year. Anchorage has been under pressure from various stakeholders to exit the investment, with some agitators complaining that Mr. Ulrich was overly enamored with Hollywood and should have sold years ago.

The end of MGM as a stand-alone company adds to a vast reshaping of the media business as the big seek to compete by getting even bigger. Last week, AT&T announced a deal to spin off its WarnerMedia group and combine it with Discovery Inc., a move meant to strengthen WarnerMedia’s struggling HBO Max streaming service and a nascent streaming platform owned by Discovery. In a counterattack against the tech companies that have aggressively moved into Hollywood over the last decade, Disney paid $71.3 billion for the bulk of Rupert Murdoch’s entertainment assets in 2019.

Such megadeals have left smaller studios like MGM, Lionsgate and STX Entertainment looking for lifelines. (STX, known for comedies like “Hustlers” and “Bad Moms,” merged with the Bollywood studio Eros International last summer.)

[rosardhara]

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[misplacedprincess262]

21 Questions

I got tagged by @stars-and-their-treks Thank you!! 💕

Nickname: Ambi by certain family members, Pookabear by one of my older sisters, and more recently, “hedgie” by some coworkers after I agreed to be a mascot hedgehog for a book signing one time.

Zodiac: Cancer

Height: 5’4. I consider myself the shorter side of medium

Last movie I saw: Jab We Met, which is a really cute Bollywood movie currently on Netflix

Last thing I googled: Banqo/banquo’s ghost from Macbeth

Favorite musician: uhhh. I honestly don’t know? it usually depends on my mood? I really like Glen Miller (who I guess was a composer?) and I will eventually marry Emmet Cahill (of Celtic Thunder but also a soloist) but there are so many more I could list

Song stuck in my head: One Day More from Les Mis

Other blogs: nope I just throw everything I like into this one 

Do I get asks: not usually

Following: 134 right now

Amount of sleep: If my body is left to its own devices, I probably average about 7 1/2  but I have a bad habit of not going to sleep when I need to so realistically I usually get 5-6

Lucky number: don’t have one but I guess I’ve always liked the number 6

What I’m wearing: baggy sweatpants and an oversized t shirt from my undergrad university

Dream Job: I want to be a curator at a history museum! IDEALLY, I could be curator, exhibit design, and do some archaeology on the side, but the goal atm is curator. 

Dream trip: Ugh I’d like to go so many places. Currently if I somehow find the time and money, I’d like to do an Italy and Greece trip. Then maybe somewhere in East Asia. I’m also dying to go to Africa, to like Nambia or Kenya. 

Favorite food: Tri-colored rotini noodles are my fav comfort food and if I could just have that and Thai red veggie curry for the rest of my life I’d be so happy. Literally drooling rn

Play any instruments: I can play piano, kind of. I took classes for 8 years, and I can still read music and stuff but I don’t get to play super often now, so I’m a bit rusty.

Languages: Only fluent in English, tragically, but have some basic knowledge of Latin and Biblical Hebrew (because why learn spoken languages when you could learn dead ones) and am trying to teach myself French. 

Favorite songs: Ummmm I have a lot, but some top ones are Moonlight Serenade by Glenn Miller, Fly Me to the Moon as sung by Frank Sinatra, and currently obsessed with Roaring 20′s by P!ATD

Random fact: about me or in general? because if it’s about me then I am a terrible rapper but I CAN successfully do the “Guns and Ships” rap from Hamilton, even when I am very drunk.

In general, I like to tell people about a dude called Geraldus Cambrensus, or “Gerald of Wales,” who was a weirdo and kind of a dick from the 12th/13th century, but also hilarious because when he didn’t like someone he insulted their grammar, but because it was the 12th/13th century barely anyone was about to register or care about these insults. 

Describe yourself as aesthetic things: high-waisted jeans, red lipstick, lavender scented candles, quiet history museums, handwritten letters, coffee shops. 

Tagging: @exclusivegorgeousgeek @artemis-pendragon @doctorwhogirl616 @fairiesandhugs @kimmbbaaa

If anyone else wants to do it, too, please do! 

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Home Minister Amit Shah unveils mascot of 36th National Games in Ahmedabad

Sep 04, 2022 22:54 IST Ahmedabad (Gujarat) , September 4 (AF): Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the city of Ahmedabad would soon be developed as the world's biggest sports city in the world. The National Games will be organised from September 29 to October 12 in six cities in the state namely Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot and Bhavnagar. Speaking at the unveiling function of the anthem and mascot for the 36th National Games at the EKA Arena, TransStadia here in Ahmedabad, Shah, said: "Ten years ago, when Modiji was the Chief Minister here, he started the Khel Mahakumbh. At that time Gujarat was nowhere in sports on the global map. "Now, we have the Narendra Modi Stadium, the largest stadium in the world, and very soon we will have the world's biggest sports city too," Shah said, addressing over 10,000 people at the majestic venue. The Home Minister, who is also the MP from Gandhi Nagar, led a power-packed audience at the glittering Curtain-Function, including Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Bhupendra Patel and Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Shri Anurag Thakur. The country's grandest sporting extravaganza will take place in six cities of Gujarat, from September 29 to October 12. "Once upon a time, we Gujjus were mostly seen as just businessmen. But Modiji started Khel Mahakumbh 11 years back and that event has become so big that as many as 55 lakh youngsters took part in this edition. We even offered a whopping Rs 29 crore as prize money to the winners," Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel said. "We are delighted that the National Games are back after 7 years and this will one will be the biggest and grandest ever," Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur said. "It normally takes years to organise an event of this scale but Gujarat did this in less than three months. It is all thanks to the efforts of the CM, with IOA supporting our initiative in a big way. Over 12,000 athletes, officials and support stage will enjoy not only the sporting extravaganza but also the garba here," he added. Top dignitaries from the world of politics and sport were present on the occasion, including Shri Harsh Sanghavi, Gujarat Minister for Sports and IOA secretary general Rajeev Mehta. The mayors of all six host cities, including Kiritkumar J Parmar (Ahmedabad), Hemali Boghawala (Surat), Keyur Rokadiya (Vadodara), Pradip Dav (Rajkot), Kirti Danidhariya (Bhavnagar), Hitesh Makwana (Gandhinagar) were also present. The winners of the Khel Mahakumbh, including the top 3 schools, districts and municipal corporations of the state, were felicitated shortly before the launch of the mascot. Aptly titled saavaj, lion in Gujarati, the mascot represents India's cultural heritage while also giving a glimpse of a rapidly growing India which is set to become a global leader again. The anthem of the Games, encapsulating the philosophy of Judega India, Jitega India, has been rendered by Bollywood star singer Sukhwinder Singh. The lyrics of the national sports festival's theme song inspire the youth of the country to connect and conquer historic places like the Statue of Unity and Sabarmati. Embellished with impressive sports scenes, the theme song captures the heart of how athletes triumph despite adversity. (AF) Read the full article