Gas up the Learjets and break out the Moncler vests, it’s time for corporate chieftains to let their hair down, as only the one percent of the one percent knows how.
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, Warner Bros. Discovery honcho David Zaslav, Paramount Global chair Shari Redstone, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple head Tim Cook, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates are heading to Idaho in July to attend the annual “summer camp for moguls,” known more formally as Sun Valley. And Bob Iger, back on the throne at the Walt Disney Company, will also be touching down in the resort town after a brief, unhappy (for shareholders) interregnum. They’ll be mixing and mingling with other media barons, Silicon Valley heavyweights and political players at the media finance retreat hosted by Allen & Co.
Among those getting tapped to dust off their Brooks Brothers casual wear are two former treasury secretaries,...
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, Warner Bros. Discovery honcho David Zaslav, Paramount Global chair Shari Redstone, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple head Tim Cook, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates are heading to Idaho in July to attend the annual “summer camp for moguls,” known more formally as Sun Valley. And Bob Iger, back on the throne at the Walt Disney Company, will also be touching down in the resort town after a brief, unhappy (for shareholders) interregnum. They’ll be mixing and mingling with other media barons, Silicon Valley heavyweights and political players at the media finance retreat hosted by Allen & Co.
Among those getting tapped to dust off their Brooks Brothers casual wear are two former treasury secretaries,...
- 6/8/2023
- by Brent Lang and Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
With so many films done on the subject, the subject of Finance & Banking, particularly in the setting of Wall Street, is no longer surprising to moviegoers. From a wide range of names, titles, and genres,covering from real world finances,to metaverse and AI bots, we have chosen 5 films that not only accurately depict this subject but also suit the goal of English language instruction.
1. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
A young man named Jake Moore works for Gordon Gekko, his mentor, at an investment firm. At work, Jake engages in a bloody duel with another person where the victor takes all. Jake developed a new perception of the well-liked Gordon during that conflict: that of a cutthroat financial specialist with access to insider information and dirty techniques. Will Jake become a Gordon-like manipulator by losing himself in the cycle of power, violence, and money?
2. The Bank (2001)
Jim Doyle is...
1. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
A young man named Jake Moore works for Gordon Gekko, his mentor, at an investment firm. At work, Jake engages in a bloody duel with another person where the victor takes all. Jake developed a new perception of the well-liked Gordon during that conflict: that of a cutthroat financial specialist with access to insider information and dirty techniques. Will Jake become a Gordon-like manipulator by losing himself in the cycle of power, violence, and money?
2. The Bank (2001)
Jim Doyle is...
- 10/20/2022
- by James Smith
- Nerdly
William Hurt, who became a top leading man in the 1980s, winning an Oscar for 1985’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” and starring in “The Big Chill” and “Body Heat,” died Sunday of natural causes. He was 71. Hurt’s death was confirmed to Variety by his friend, Gerry Byrne.
His son Will said in a statement, “It is with great sadness that the Hurt family mourns the passing of William Hurt, beloved father and Oscar winning actor, on March 13, 2022, one week before his 72nd birthday. He died peacefully, among family, of natural causes.”
Hurt was nominated for four Oscars over the course of his long career, scoring two best actor nominations for “Broadcast News” and “Children of a Lesser God” and a supporting actor nod for less than 10 minutes of screen time in “A History of Violence.” He was one of the most heralded performers of the 1980s, becoming something...
His son Will said in a statement, “It is with great sadness that the Hurt family mourns the passing of William Hurt, beloved father and Oscar winning actor, on March 13, 2022, one week before his 72nd birthday. He died peacefully, among family, of natural causes.”
Hurt was nominated for four Oscars over the course of his long career, scoring two best actor nominations for “Broadcast News” and “Children of a Lesser God” and a supporting actor nod for less than 10 minutes of screen time in “A History of Violence.” He was one of the most heralded performers of the 1980s, becoming something...
- 3/13/2022
- by Brent Lang and J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
The confirmation process for Treasury Secretary hopeful Steven Mnuchin may have a steep cost — in divesting assets and stocks as well as the revelation of the Hollywood financier’s complex financial ties, according to a new report. Mnuchin will face “some of the most stringent divestiture requirements” to win his appointment to Donald Trump’s presidential cabinet, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday. In 2006 Henry Paulson spent an amount equaling his entire Treasury Secretary salary just to get the job offered by President George W. Bush in 2006, an individual familiar with the matter told the Journal. At the time,...
- 12/26/2016
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
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For Hamilton fans who can’t get enough of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, PBS has got you covered!
On Friday, Hamilton audiences will get to take an inside look at the making of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s masterpiece in the documentary film, Hamilton’s America.
In a People exclusive sneak peek, viewers will follow the creator and star of the Broadway hit as the film â. which has been three years in the making â. delves even deeper into the creation of the show, revealing Miranda’s process of absorbing and then...
For Hamilton fans who can’t get enough of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, PBS has got you covered!
On Friday, Hamilton audiences will get to take an inside look at the making of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s masterpiece in the documentary film, Hamilton’s America.
In a People exclusive sneak peek, viewers will follow the creator and star of the Broadway hit as the film â. which has been three years in the making â. delves even deeper into the creation of the show, revealing Miranda’s process of absorbing and then...
- 10/21/2016
- by nstonepeople
- PEOPLE.com
Title: Hank: Five Years From the Brink Director: Joe Berlinger Documentaries about the great financial crisis of 2008 have been numerous, but “Hank: Five Years From the Brink” attempts to put a personal spin on the affair, providing a look at the matter from the point-of-view of embattled Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Directed by Joe Berlinger, the film offers up a humanizing and in many ways sympathetic portrait of the man, but such a free-pass airing and seeming endorsement for many of his decisions, as well as a lack of substantive exploration of their after-effects, that it’s vexing throughout and at times borderline noxious. “Hank: Five Years From the Brink” unfolds chiefly as a [ Read More ]
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- 2/18/2014
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
“Hank: Five Years From the Brink,” the first film produced by Bloomberg Businessweek Films, will launch exclusively on Netflix starting Sept. 16, the streaming service announced in conjunction with Bloomberg on Monday. Directed by Oscar-nominee Joe Berlinger (“Paradise Lost” trilogy, “Metallica: Some Kind of Monster”), the documentary features former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson giving a first-person narrative of how he worked with banks, congress and presidential candidates to sign off on nearly $1 trillion of bail-outs in September of 2008 in order to prevent total economic collapse. He also details why another fiscal crisis is inevitable. Also read: How Bloomberg Businessweek Predicts.
- 9/9/2013
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
Filmmaker Michael Moore has called on the U.S. Treasury to abandon its investigation into allegations he broke a trade embargo with Cuba by traveling to the Caribbean island with a group of September 11th rescue workers. The stunt was part of the Oscar winner's latest documentary Sicko, a critique of the health-care industry in America. He supposedly traveled with the 10 rescue workers, made ill from their efforts after the terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center, in a bid to seek treatment for them. Last week, Moore received a letter from The Treasury Department's Office Of Foreign Assets Control, notifying him that it was conducting a civil investigation for possible violations of the trade embargo restricting travel to Cuba. Moore has now written a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, in which he accuses U.S. President George W. Bush's administration of investigating him for political reasons. Moore, who has posted his letter online, writes: "For five and a half years, the Bush administration has ignored and neglected the heroes of the 9/11 community. These heroic first responders have been left to fend for themselves, without coverage and without care. I understand why the Bush administration is coming after me - I have tried to help the very people they refuse to help, but until George W. Bush outlaws helping your fellow man, I have broken no laws and I have nothing to hide." And Moore believes that because he criticizes the U.S. health-care industry in Sicko, his film is a target. He adds, "I can understand why that industry's main recipient of its contributions - President Bush - would want to harass, intimidate and potentially prevent this film from having its widest possible audience." As previously reported, Moore has reportedly arranged for the film to be held in a "safe house" outside the U.S. to protect it from government interference - ahead of its planned premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next Saturday.
- 5/14/2007
- WENN
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