Global creative agency Ralph has entered into a partnership with Tulsea, a strategic talent and content management company based in India, that will bring together expertise across talent, brands and content.
Expanding on Ralph’s mission to make content people love and share, the new partnership with Tulsea and its deep roster of talent brings this offering to life in more effective, global, and creative ways. By matching the right talent and curious creatives, they will help adventurous clients to grow and develop authentic relationships with passionate communities.
Combined services will include strategic advisory across brand, audience outreach, social media and content, along with content production and ideation, and distribution strategies.
“For the past 20 years, we have always been driven to evolve ourselves creatively and take on new challenges,” said Chris Hassell, CEO, founder of Ralph, headquartered in London with offices in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. “I can’t wait to work with Tulsea and offer a new level of original content creation, taking brands and their relationship with audiences to new heights.” Ralph clients include Netflix, Amazon Prime, Spotify, SkyTV, Lionsgate, Disney+, Hulu and AppleTV+.
“Ralph’s team and work embody a spirit and culture of light-heartedness and top-notch creativity,” said Datta Dave, CEO, co-founder of the Mumbai-based Tulsea. “We represent the largest roster of high-quality writers and directors across India, and look forward to enabling our talent in more exciting ways to help brands through this partnership.”
This partnership follows the launch of Ralph magazine across key global markets. Celebrating “Pop Culture For The Fun Of It,” the magazine covers all things that make life worth living, including music, film, TV, food and drink, comedy and comics.
Ralph and Tulsea will host a combined magazine launch and partnership party on Friday (10/11) at Khar Social in Mumbai.
Review: Director Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice”
Decades before he hosted "The Apprentice," Donald Trump was … an apprentice.
His mentor: Roy Cohn, the ruthless attorney who was a prominent New York power broker in the '70s and '80s after famously serving as a top aide to Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
The Trump-Cohn connection is well known. But in "The Apprentice," his provocative if not quite shocking, entertaining if not quite illuminating, impeccably acted and inherently controversial film, Ali Abbasi takes it farther.
It's this relationship, posits the Danish Iranian director, that essentially made a young real estate heir — inexperienced but wildly ambitious — into the man who would become the 45th U.S. president, smashing the norms of American politics along the way.
Speaking of unlikely paths: The mere route of "The Apprentice" to the big screen is fodder for its own movie.
Written by Gabriel Sherman and starring an ingeniously cast trio of Sebastian Stan as Trump, Jeremy Strong as Cohn and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump, the film failed to get picked up at Cannes in May. That was surely due at least in part to a cease and desist letter from Trump lawyers.
Trump's campaign spokesman called the movie "pure fiction" (the filmmakers call their script "fact-based"). One of the film's investors — Trump supporter Dan Snyder, former owner of the Washington Commanders — saw it and wanted out. It was only weeks ago that Briarcliff Entertainment announced it would open "The Apprentice" this Friday — less than four weeks before the U.S. election.
So, what kind of movie do we have here?
Contrary to some descriptions, Abbasi says his film isn't a biopic at all, but a look at a relationship — and at a system that's about winning at any cost.
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