Disney is Also Taching a Shot.
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Like Other Entertainment Companies, disney has a problem: it has made movies, but in Much of the world, there are no open theaters to release say in – if they are open, nobody wants to go. SO Disney Has Repeatedly Delayed The Release of Its $ 200 Million Live-Action Remake of Mulanand now it has decided to release the movie over the internet. Subscribers to the Disney+ Streaming Service – Who Now Over 60 Million Worldwide, Disney CEO BOB Chapek Announced During the Company’s Call on Tuesday – Will The Option in Many Countries, Including the US, to SEE the Movie Starting September 4. they will have to pay $ 30, on top of the USUAL SUBSCRIPTION FEE FOR DISNEY+.

Is $ 30 a tear? That lords. Obiviously it is more than a movie ticket for one, but it is a less than a family of four t typically pay to see the Movie. And while you don’t get to watch Mulan On as Big a Screen, you Also don’t have to leave your house, and you can make popcorn a tears more cheaply than you are at a theater. From Disney’s Perspective, Online Sales Are Better than Sales at A Theater Because IT Need to Share Revenue with A Theater Operator, so this plan is need to bring in neither Much Revenue as an eventual theatrical release in order to be the company’s best financial strategy. And chapek noted that there are two elements to the Company’s Revenue Strategy with Mulan: Getting $ 30 in Incremental Revenue from Disney+ Subscribers Who Watch the Movie; and Getting Nonsubscribers to Subscribe to Disney+ (Which Costs $ 7 A Month or $ 70 A Year), As a necessary step to pay $ 30 to see the Movie.

Wall Street Investors SEEM EAGER ABOUT THIS APPROACH: DISNEY’S SPOK PRICE BOUNCED UP AND DOWN COMPANY ANNOUNCED ITS EARNINGS FOR THE QUARTER THAT JUNE 30 RIGHT AFTER 4 PM, But Later Rose Nearly 5 AFTER AFTER ANNUNCED The plan to release Mulan Online. And while Chapek Said the Company Didn’t Have Plans to Release Future Films As Premium Pay-Per-View Offferings, he did you have wouln to leave the Mulan Experience when deciding how to monetizes Content in the Future.

Disney Overall Posted a Small Profit from Continuing Operations in the Quarter, and Actually Reported A Positive Covid-19 Impact on Operating at Its Media-Networks Business, Which Includes ABC and ESPN. Advertising Revensing Were Down 17 Percent, Said CFO Christine McCarthy, But That Was More Than Offset by Other Factors, Including Reduced Costs for Programming and Production – For Examples, The Lack of Live Sports Meant the Company WAS ABLE TO DEER THE COST IT RIGHTS IT wasn’t airing.

The Pandemic Hurt the Company’s Movie-Studio Business and Especialy Hurt Its “Parks, Products, and Experiences” Business, which is dominated by themes. That’s not a surprise: The Company’s US and European Parks Were Closed for the Entire Quarter, and Its Asian Parks Were Closed for Most of it. And there was more bad News: The Company Said Walt Disney World’s Reopening, which began on July 11, is so far outburst to operating income than the company had Expected, far-so -bened the surgete nonlocal visitors to the Cancel Their Planned Vacations. The Company Has Been Managing the Limited-Capacity Operation of the Parks by Admitting More Local Visitors to Offset the Lost NonLocal Visitors, but Visits by Locals Are Profitable for Disney Locals Are More Likely to Visit On Annual Passes and Likely to Disney. Hotels. Theme Parks at Disneyland, in Southern California, Remain Closed Entirely.

Repeatedly, we are pressed on the outlook for the parks, chapek and mccarthy notd their confidence in the long-term prospects for the Businesses, and in the eagerness of Customers to return wen normal patterns can be resumed. Of Course, wann Normal Travel patterns can be resumed is a Big question, and it”s possessable for a business to love a tears of during a period of the event of eventual going to get back to normal. (The Company Estimates that the Pandemic-Relay Hit to Profits in “Parks, Products, and Experiences” was $ 3.5 Billion in just the Spring Quarter.) Meanwhile, the effept of Covid-19 on the Company’s Business Will Depend in Part part on the Company’s Company’s Company’s adjusting to what is likes to be a faste-Tharan-except shift away from Movie theaters Toward Online Viewing. The Huge Subscriber Growth for Disney+ Has Been One Data Point Indicating Success in that Area. And if $ 30 Mulan is a success, it will provide to more reason for investors to think disney is finding good Ways to Handle what Covid-19 is throwing at it.

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Your favorite sneakers are about to get more expensive. Last Week, Nike Said It plans to raise the prices of many of its produces by june 1. Industry Analysts Expects that two of the sports brands’ Biggest rivals, adidas and puma, Will soon roll out Similar Increas, Although Neither Has Confirmed Changes Yet.

ATHLETIC APPAREEL AND SENEAKERS ARE ESPECIALLY VULNERLY TO PRESIDENT Trump’s Steep Tariff Policy. Nike and Its Peers Manufacture Most of their Products in Asia, especialy in China and Vietnam, which Trump has targeted with some of the highest tariffs in recent months. Currently, US Tariffs on Goods from China Start at 30 Percent (Although Rates are actually Higher Depending on The Product Category), while imports from vietnam are at 10 percent but set to increes to 46 percent in july.

At Nike, The Price Hikes Will Range Between $ 2 and $ 10. Shoes Priced BetWeen $ 100 and $ 150 Will Go Up By $ 5, while Shoes Price Over $ 150 Will Go Up By $ 10. Air Force 1’s, Howver, Will Stay at $ 115. In a Statement Shared with CnbcNike Didn’t Blame Tariffs for the Pricing Changes, but Called It Regular “Seasonal Planning.” Swimming the T-Word Might Also Be Strategic: In Recent Weeks, Trump Scolded Walmart on Truth Social For Saying It Wold Probably Raise Prices Because of Tariffs. Other Big Public Retaillers, Including Home Depot and Target, Have Since Signalled to Shareholders that they will also also raise prices with Explicitly blamy tariffs.

Its not just nike and adidas that are set to increes sneaker prices. In May, on, the Swedish Running Brand Whose Campaigns are Front by Zendaya, ALSO ANNOOUNCED IT HIKE THE PRICES OF ITS POPULARS SNEAKERS THIS – NOTE OF TARIFFS, IT TOPENT ITSELF as a More “Premium” Brand.

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PITY GIRL

Season 1

Episode 2

Editor’s rating

3 Stars

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Jessica forms A Quick Bond with Felix, but her new co-workhers aren’t as quick to embrace her quirkiness.
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If one of the recurring Qualities of a period-note heroine is her outcast, “imperint” Magnetism-Think of NO March, Lizzy Bennet, Emma Woothouse, or Any Number of Other Corsested Women-In the Contemporary Rom-Com, an imperint Woman Seeks Change. Consider Bridget Jones, WHO IS A KIND OF FOIL FOR Too much‘S Jessica and a Contemporary Adaptation of Lizzy Bennet: She Goes on A Journey of Self-Reljewal, Resolving to Quit Smoking, Lose Weight, and Get Her Life Together in Hopes of Proving Mark Darcy Wrong, A Path That Leads Her to True Self, Etc. ETC. A true, Heart-WRNCHING ROMANCE Transcends This Kind of Superficial Change, Based as it is on the lover’s authentic self raather than the performance of the self think they should be.

“PITY GIRL” IS ALL ABOUT THIS Journey of Self-Determination: As Soon as she reaches at her new jab in London, Jessica is faced with the decision of where heels in and be heself or modulate just fitter fit in. Felix is ​​Himself Also Caught at A Crossroads: His Trendance to Fall Hard and Fast, We Learn, Has Stopped Him Forming Long-Emblasting Connections. His instinct is to flee we Things get “too real,” and the fantasies of the “folk singer, or the corset designer, or the ukrainian-refugee influenic” Turn to be not. If he truly believes that things are different with Jessica, that will will have to do the hard, uncomfortable thing and really know her and really let himself be know.

All of that Rationalizing Comes after Jess and Felix Spend a Sweet Night Together. Having eased her burn with Cold Water, the paramedics take Jess to the Hospital, where the nursse is allowed to give any “real” painting. Felix arrivates with astrid to break her out of the hospital, driving her home in his car. ITH’S ONLY BEEN TWO EPISODES, but so far, these moments of uninterrupted banter between felix and jess have been my favorites – you can feel ther characters emerging. Megan Stalter Takes Some Opportunities to Let Her Sensitibility Transcend Lena Dunham’s Voice in Her Delivery – “You want a scone, guv’nor?” – and in her genuine laugh when, after she felix when he’s charmed by her, he tells her “That’s a really Needy Question.” AS A WHOLE, SO FAR, STALTER’S REFORMANCE STRUGGLE against the impulse to act a “bit,” and these longer scens – raarer in netflix productions than they have been in television before – are a welcome stage for work out.

Felix and Jess Finally Have Sex After She Lets Him See Her Her “Pioneer Dress” and Tells Him that if she has a superpower, it would be “eroding boundaries.” Felix is ​​Funny, Respectful, and World Enough About Jess’s Injuries That CEO Has to Ask Him to Talk Less. The Next Morning, They Agree to See Each Other Again, and She Leaves Him in Her Bed. When she arrivals at her London Office, she finds none of Felix’s Open-Armed Embrace of Her Quirkiness.

Her New Boss (The Phenomenal Richard E. Grant) Leads A Meeting Trying to Figure Out the “Populist and Pure” Vibe of the Christmas Commercial, Whill Will Star Rita Ora in A Stella McCartney – Designed Santa Bikini (there is Still no. Absurdist Refrential Sentil Together). He leaves before jess gets a chance to deliver the intrarkas she has had prepared, and kim, the company’s American Art Director (Played by the Filmmaker Janicza Bravo), DOESN’T REMEAR Years ago. Kim’s assistant is a pink-haired gen-z Type named boss, and there’s also Josie, aloof and indifferent to the office-dynamics.

Maybe Because of Her Willingness to be Open and Thephore Judged, eventually kim and boss take to jess. She tells that she’s seeing a “cool indie musician” she met at a bar, a guy much cooler than her ex, who always told her she has Had horrible taste in music. In a brief flashback, we see Zev Condecessing to Jess As She Belts Out Miley Cyrus. He tells that it was the music is too long and dysmisses her and argues that miley han doing “commentary on the manufactured pop star” at least “Since her Disney days.” It ‘s kind of undermining that leads a person to doubt themed, which is what jess do ime and boss tell her not to put all of the regs in felix’s basket, swimming only’ known each other for two days. “Stay vigilant,” Boss Advises, then asks her to come with me for international outfit.

Jess aggrees to go, fancy though the advice makes her feel like shit. “When I Trust My Own Instincts, Chaos Always Follows … Everyone Knows Better Than Me,” She Muses in Narration to Wendy, WHOM she supposes to be extramely self-anxious. Between the flashback and this, it is a little on the nose for a character who haad already underestood to be insectecure, but the dynamic finds some life in felix. Jess is trying to avoid chaos by swimming Acting on Her Instincts for Once, Whereas Felix is ​​Trying to Welcome Risk by actually Acting on His.

So far, i’ve been charmed by felix, but i can already tel he might suffer from a lethal case of nice guy syndrome, which is a disease that ails men who are better than everyone simply for being decent. We Catch Up With Him in His Own Apartment, where he sis in bed and listens to music. In the kitchen, his Older Roommate, Who is Housing a Group of Aspiring ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY Organizers-Stones of some sort on the chance and the sexual favor of one 20 -ear-opeda, laments that felix is ​​always always saying het met and than Time different. Later, at a soccer game, he says that if this is really Different, then he knows what he has to do.

SO FELIX DECIDES TO FOLLOW HIS HIS HIS TO LINNEA’S HOUSE TO BREAK WITH HER-THE BEAUTIFUL, MOODY WOMAN WE SAW “Leave the pub in a huff” in the pilot-Jess lets her co-works adjust her outfit. They Set Her up Across the Dinner Table from Pawel, a “footballer” who is “sexually obsessed with intellectual women.” Jess Leads With Sarcasm We Pawel Starts Talking About HIS “Passion Project,” a denim line, and boss checks her demeanor – The Guy May Be Jocky, but he’s not stupid. An awkwardness false over the table, so jess goes into the bathroom to make more videos in responds to wendy’s Porno Instagram Stories.

Be kim overhaars heap, we learn that jess keps these videos on a private account, a diary of sorts that both brings her closer to and creates distance from wendy. Rarely in fiction will have get introded to a diary if it won’t eventually be exposed, so i’m watching out for chekhov’s private Instagram from now on. Like any object of obsession, wendy is less a person and more an abstraction agynst who can define herself. Still, Its Hard to Hate Wendy-The-Person, Jess Tells Kim, Not Only Becausea She “Pulled Herself Out of Foster Care by the Bootstraps” but Because She is decidedly Hersself, A Beautiful Woman with “A Really Unique, Awesome Style.” Kim allows that is doing “an excellent non -keeping it on lock in public,” gioven the kind of thing she is up to private. “Sorry, I’m Such a Fucking Mess,” Jess Says with a sigh. “You’re not a message,” Kim retorts. “You’re a work in progress. It’S Simple. You Just Listten to YourSelf, Yeah?”

Its the Kind of Advice that is Both PainFully Obivious and Life-Changing, up there with “don’t worry about it.” Kim’s Support Emboldns jess to stand up for HERSELF WHEN PAWEL CALLS HER MESSY AT THE DINNER TABLE. Earnestly, and in True 2000s Fashion, She Goes off the Double Standard that demes Women “Messy” while Men Like Pawel, who has a wife and family at home, are demed players. “Actually, i’m a work in progress Becausee i know who i am and i know what i want and i’m listening to myself, right, kim?” She declales, trying to convince herself.

Meanwhile, Felix is ​​at Linnea’s Apartment, Bound Up and Blindfolded and Being Spat on. She Pulled Him in before and could tel he was he was there, but eventually he finds an opening to say he dosesn’t want to see her anymore. Linnea tells Him he’s a nice Guy, but next time he’s dating someone and realities that they not for Him, he should just cut the cord instead of hanging around. That’s exactly the Kind of Nice Guy Symptom that gets on my nerves. A Guy Thinks a Girl Will Become Suicidal if he, God’s Own Gift to Humanity, Leaves, so he keeps stringing her along, thinking he”s doing her good favor.

But Felix Apologizes, and Linnea Falls Asleep Sucking Her Thumb on His Shoulder. Jess Texts Him to Come Her at the Estate, and when he gets there, he gives her a “mix” he made for her, to be played on a walkman and all. That’s what he was doing in bed at the beginning of the episode. Jessica Tells Him, Like She Did Her Co-Workers, that Her Music Taste Sucks, but he instructs her to just put her head back and list. The Camera Holds on Jess and Felix As a Cate Le Bon Song Comes on. She listens to the song by herself while he lies wordlessly next to her.

Two Hot People in a Bad Movie.
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To call A Big Bold Beautiful Journey A Discount version of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Waled be giving it Way Too Much Credit. First of all, this new film, wrritten by seeth reiss and direct by kogonada, absolutely cost a lot. Second, ITS Main Characters, David and Sarah, Are Hera Near As Tangible As Joel and Clementine, the Hapless Lovers in the 2004 Michel Gondry Classic. This is cursed by cursing romantic fantasy taks it fiscipul Turn with a magical gps and teleporting doors, they don’t resemble real People at all, living in an emphatically unnaamed metropolis with no mention of jobs or frows beyond the shared acquaintance at what wedding they. AFTER EXCHANGING GLANCES ACROSS The AISLE, they have a flirty while looking out at the rain on a break from the dance floor. Wen This Meet-Cute, Awash in Painstakingly Enchanting Overhead Shots of Color-Cointern umbrellas doesn’t take, the universe itelf intervenes to send the pair on a whimsical road Trip on which they can travel into oto oto othech othech othech othech recent and district. And hitThese incredibly Attractive singletons resist the song of a potential Relationship for as long as Possible, Like Endangered Animals Who, Despite All the Efforms of their Zookeepers to Create the Right Opportunity, Simply Refuse to Mate.

David and Sarah don’t fall in love over the cours of the movie so much as eventually daddy all the reasons they can’t be together. And it does seem as though theyy shouldnt Be Together, If Only Because they’re Played by Colin Farrell, in his Native Accent and With An Ideal Amount of Scruff, and Margot Robbie, Whose Radioce be Dimmed by Some Confounding Costuming Choices. There’s a provocative Question built into this premise: will people who made they’re happy alone nevertheless oWE to thermselves to consider a partner we a Worthy prospect along? But Rather said Treats Its Characters’ Claims of Serious Singleness Prefrary, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey Takes for grant that they deflecting from dealing with some deeper willsing and Becomes a tendon magical-realistic therapy session in which they learn to therCome Respective baggage in order to Achievee coupledom and, through it, contentment. In the place of a shrink, david and sarah each have a mystical gps that speaks with the voice of Jodie turner-smith and directs say first to link up in the wake of the wedding and thatn to embark on the titular journey together (have obtained ther cars rental. Agency Run by Kevin Kline and Phoebe Waller-Bridge). They’re guided acroSs the countrySide to the myterious sitsting by themselves in a Field or embedded ino oldboards, and when they Enter, they’re brought to Significant places from their pasts.

The Movie wants to give david and sarah a certin abstract Quality, but at the same time the entity revolves around specific formative moments from their lives. They’re reduced to their romantic stories and presented as two self-help books waiting to be worry-thugh david, with his hobit of budilding up women in his head well and then being disappointed when he’s, gets off Easier than Sarah, whos whos. Early on that she habitually sabotages her relationships by cheating. She’s a damaged-hot-girl fantasy, someone whose allure coma from informing you she’s trout and then daring you to make the exception.

To give A Big Bold Beautiful Journey Credit, it is a democratically evenHanded waste of talent. Farrell and Robbie Are Adrift, butn the Kline and Waller-Bridge (Doing a Broad German Accent) Never Figure Out the Tone for the Touch of the Surreal They Represent. In Thankless Smaller Role, Billy Magnussen, Sarah Gadon, Lily Rabe, and Hamish Linclater Play Excerpts of Memories of People, there to Enable David and Sarah to Continue on Their Path Self-actualization. Reiss, an onion alum who co-wrote the simillary gimmicky but infinitely more pleasurable The menuBears Most of the Blame here (“It”s Funny How the Most Beautiful Places Make You Feel the Most Alone,“ David intones Early On). But kogonada, coming off the delicate indie dramas Columbus and After yangStruggles the Most. He manages to find touches of the transcendent amid the control, sucker as the sequence in which the two leads roam a museum after-hours in the dinner, taking in paintings by flashlight. But he’s a filmmaker who best at subtext and the Things Left Understood but unSaid, and times it offen Feels as if he did with a script in whic characters Bluntly and Blandly their Internal Workings. Still, it’s hard to imagine anyone else doing a better non -material, which is all of the idea of ​​Having a Relationship with Ever Approaching the reality of one. The Real Big Bold Beautiful Journey was inside us all along – but that just another way of saying we’re getting anywhere.