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  • Thursday, Jun. 27, 2024
Amazon joins exclusive club, crossing $2 trillion in stock market value for the first time
An Amazon Prime truck is seen on April 5, 2024, in Portland, Ore. Amazon hits a stock market valuation of $2 trillion for the first time on Wednesday, June 26, 2024.(AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Amazon joined the exclusive $2 trillion club Wednesday after Wall Street investors pushed the value of the e-commerce giant's stock past that threshold.

Shares in Amazon.com Inc. finished the day up almost 4%, giving the Seattle-based company a stock market valuation of $2.01 trillion. Its stock has gained 52% in the past 12 months, partly driven by enthusiasm for the company's investments in artificial intelligence.

Amazon now joins Google's parent Alphabet, software behemoth Microsoft, iPhone maker Apple and chip maker Nvidia among companies with valuations of at least $2 trillion.

Last week, Nvidia hit $3 trillion and briefly became the most valuable company on Wall Street. Nvidia's chips are used to power many AI applications and its valuation has soared as a result.

Amazon has also been making big investments in AI as global interest has grown in the technology. Most of the focus has been on business-focused products, More

  • Wednesday, Jun. 26, 2024
Bill Cobbs, the prolific and sage character actor, dies at 90
Actor Bill Cobbs, a cast member in "Get Low," arrives at the premiere of the film in Beverly Hills, Calif., July 27, 2010. Cobbs, the veteran character actor who became a ubiquitous and sage screen presence as an older man, died Tuesday, June 25, 2024, at his home in Inland Empire, Calif. He was 90. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
By Jake Coyle, Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Bill Cobbs, the veteran character actor who became a ubiquitous and sage screen presence as an older man, has died. He was 90.

Cobbs died Tuesday at his home in the Inland Empire, California, surrounded by family and friends, his publicist Chuck I. Jones said. Natural causes is the likely cause of death, Jones said.

A Cleveland native, Cobbs acted in such films as "The Hudsucker Proxy," "The Bodyguard" and "Night at the Museum." He made his first big-screen appearance in a fleeting role in 1974's "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three." He became a lifelong actor with some 200 film and TV credits. The lion share of those came in his 50s, 60s, and 70s, as filmmakers and TV producers turned to him again and again to imbue small but pivotal parts with a wizened and worn soulfulness.

Cobbs appeared on television shows including "The Sopranos," "The West Wing," "Sesame Street" and "Good Times." He was Whitney Houston's manager in "The More

  • Wednesday, Jun. 26, 2024
Suzanne Ayello joins McCann NY as managing partner to lead L'Oréal's U.S. business
Suzanne Ayello
NEW YORK -- 

Suzanne Ayello has joined McCann New York as managing partner to lead the L’Oréal U.S. business. Reporting into Charlotte Franceries, global business leader for L’Oréal and McCann Paris presidente, and working into Amber Guild, CEO of McCann NY, Ayello will leverage her extensive experience in the beauty category on behalf of L’Oréal’s suite of brands. 

Ayello joins McCann after more than a decade at Grey, where she served as partner, leading iconic global brands including Gillette Venus, Gillette, MassMutual and IHG Hotels & Resorts. Ayello brings more than 25 years of expertise in transforming brands and businesses through innovative brand experiences. Throughout her career, she’s worked at top agencies including 360i and Saatchi & Saatchi for brands across beauty, CPG, health, and retail sectors.  

“Suzanne has a proven track record of driving meaningful work for a diverse range of clients, and I’ve seen this first-hand. Her More

  • Wednesday, Jun. 26, 2024
AICP honors longtime general counsel Robert L. Sacks with the Jay B. Eisenstat Award
Matt Miller (from left), Tabitha Mason-Elliott and Robert L. Sacks
NEW YORK -- 

Robert L. Sacks, Esq., partner in the law firm of Ellenoff Grossman & Schole, LLP and AICP’s long-serving general counsel, was presented with the Jay B. Eisenstat Award in recognition of his many years of service to the association and to the larger commercial production and postproduction industry. The presentation took place during the AICP Awards’ gala ceremony honoring the winners of its three awards competitions, which was held at The Museum of Modern Art on June 6. 

The Eisenstat Award, the AICP’s highest honor, was created in 1990 and is named for one of the founders of the association. The award, said AICP president and CEO Matt Miller, is given in recognition and appreciation for outstanding service to the industry and to the AICP. Recipients, he added, “have contributed to the creation and evolution of AICP in their own special ways.” 

Tabitha Mason-Elliott, partner at BARK BARK and chairperson of AICP’s National Board, is in More

  • Tuesday, Jun. 25, 2024
afterhrs. launches photography division; Annie Henley named executive integrated producer
Annie Henley
LOS ANGELES -- 

Content studio afterhrs. has launched a photography division that will showcase artists who lens the role of culture in art and advertising. To manage this roster of exclusive artists, the studio has appointed Annie Henley to serve as its executive integrated producer. Henley’s qualifications for this new gig are derived from her experience as both an integrated art producer and as well as photographic agent. Her roles have been pivotal in curating artists for integrated campaigns for global brands such as Google, Meta, Pepsi, Gatorade, BASF, and Pfizer. 

The photographic artists in residence at afterhrs. are:

  • Jason Al Taan (he/his) who began his career as assistant and apprentice to legendary fashion photographer David Lachapelle. His immediately recognizable voice blends the voyeurism of modern art photographers like Gregory Crewdsen with the democratic accessibility of classic pop and fashion creators. 
  • Nick Walker (he/ More
  • Tuesday, Jun. 25, 2024
Director Megan Stowe joins ONE at Optimus
Megan Stowe
CHICAGO -- 

ONE at Optimus has added LGBTQIA+ commercial/TV/film director Megan Stowe to its talent roster. 

An alum of SHOOT’s 2023 New Directors Showcase, Stowe has a body of work which spans LGBTQIA+ storytelling, documentary filmmaking, and commercial directing. Stowe is described by ONE at Optimus executive producer and head of production Dave Buehrle as “an empathetic, story-driven director with a talent for capturing people in an authentic way on screen. I love her passion for work that uplifts unique and underrepresented voices.” 

Stowe has garnered assorted accolades throughout her career including Gold Telly Awards, shortlist distinction for a Clio Award in Film Craft (Direction), a People’s Voice Webby Award and multiple Mid-America Emmys presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She was also honored as one of The Verywell Mind’s 25 Health Champions, alongside influential figures like Selena Gomez, Brené More

  • Tuesday, Jun. 25, 2024
Lily Gladstone, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, 485 others invited to join film academy
This combination of photos shows actors, top row from left, Jessica Alba, Ericka Alexander, Obba Babatunde, Stephanie Beatriz, Danielle Brooks and Tia Carrere, second row from left, Jason Clarke, Kate Del Castillo, Gang Dong-won, Lily Gladstone, Sandra Huller and Greta Lee, and bottom row from left, Kate Mara, Catherine O'Hara, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Fiona Shaw, Koji Yakusho and Teo Yoo, who are among the artists invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. (AP Photo)
By Lindsey Bahr

Actors Lily Gladstone, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Catherine O'Hara and filmmakers Cord Jefferson, Boots Riley and "RRR" director S.S. Rajamouli are among the lucky few who have been invited to join the film academy.

In total 487 artists, including actors, directors, costume designers, publicists and executives received invitations this year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday. Those who accept will be able to vote in the Oscars race.

Should all invited in the 2024 class say yes, the academy will have 9,934 voting members and the makeup would be 35% women, 20% from underrepresented ethnic and racial communities and 20% international.

The invitees include 19 Oscar-winners, like best documentary recipient Mstyslav Chernov ("20 Days in Mariupol") and "Anatomy of a Fall" filmmaker Justine Triet, as well as 71 nominees including Sandra Hüller, "The Color Purple's" Danielle Brooks, "Past Lives" filmmaker Celine Song More

  • Tuesday, Jun. 25, 2024
Lost Planet and PARALLAX form partnership
LOS ANGELES -- 

Lost Planet and PARALLAX have entered into a partnership, expanding their collective rosters of award-winning editorial talent. Longtime admirers of each other’s work, the companies will share resources and talent, looking to establish a creative force greater than the sum of its parts. 

With this partnership, Lost Planet’s renown in advertising will bring additional opportunities to PARALLAX, expanding its presence in commercial films, while Lost Planet will gain access to additional acclaimed editors. PARALLAX will also expand its finishing infrastructure, harnessing Lost Planet’s color, VFX and graphics capabilities. 

Led by editors Luke Lynch and Paul Rogers, artist/filmmaker Kahlil Joseph, and executive producer Graham Zeller, PARALLAX deploys a collaborative editing approach, “The Swarm,” which harnesses the creative power of multiple editors with diverse perspectives, resulting in dynamic and captivating visual narratives. Their More

  • Tuesday, Jun. 25, 2024
Gena Rowlands has Alzheimer's, her son Nick Cassavetes says
Actor Gena Rowlands poses for a portrait at the London West Hollywood hotel in West Hollywood, Calif., on Dec. 4, 2014. Rowlands is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, says her son, the filmmaker Nick Cassavetes. Cassavetes, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly published Tuesday, says Rowlands has had Alzheimer’s for five years. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

The celebrated actor and honorary Academy Award recipient Gena Rowlands is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, her son, the filmmaker Nick Cassavetes, has revealed.

Cassavetes, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly published Tuesday, said Rowlands has had Alzheimer's for five years. In the 2004 film "The Notebook," Cassavetes directed his mother, who played the older version of the character played by Rachel McAdams, as a woman with dementia.

"We spent a lot of time talking about Alzheimer's and wanting to be authentic with it, and now, for the last five years, she's had Alzheimer's," Cassavetes said. "She's in full dementia. And it's so crazy — we lived it, she acted it, and now it's on us."

A representative for Rowlands confirmed that Cassavetes "speaks for the family."

Rowlands, who received an honorary Oscar in 2015, made 10 films with her husband, John Cassavetes, including 1974's "A Woman Under the Influence" and More

  • Tuesday, Jun. 25, 2024
Vincent Geraghty joins Laughlin Constable to lead its HIVE Content Studio
Vincent Geraghty
CHICAGO -- 

Laughlin Constable (LC), an independent, full-service brand experiences agency, has hired Vincent Geraghty to serve as EVP, head of production at its HIVE Content Studio, overseeing the agency’s full integrated suite of production and content offerings.

Geraghty previously held senior executive production roles at Havas, Ogilvy, Publicis Communications and Leo Burnett. Most recently, he had founded GPSG Geraghty Group, an independent full-service production studio, working with agencies, production companies and brands.

“Vincent is one of those game-changing hires,” said Anthony Romano, CEO of Laughlin Constable. “His incredible reputation for building and running world-class production teams, combined with his high bar for creative excellence and his track record of doing award-winning work for iconic brands, makes him the perfect person to lead the big vision we have for what a modern content studio should be today.”

Geraghty will More

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