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
Fortune 500 companies, A-list movie stars, filmmakers and corporate heavyweights came out swinging on April 14, condemning Georgia’s new voting restrictions in an open letter that was printed in The Washington Post and the New York Times.
The hundreds of signatories included the likes of Netflix, Amazon, ViacomCBS, Starbucks, Facebook and UTA, as well as celebrities such as Rooney Mara, George Clooney, Mark Ruffalo, Larry David, Josh Gad, Lee Daniels, George Lucas, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leonardo Dicaprio, Demi Lovato, Shonda Rhimes, Samuel L. Jackson, Orlando Bloom and Naomi Campbell. Business titans such as Michael Bloomberg, Scooter Braun, J.J. Abrams, David Geffen and Warren Buffett also signed the note.
“For American democracy to work for any of us, we must ensure the right to vote for all of us,” the statement reads. “Voting is the lifeblood of our democracy, and we call upon all Americans to take a nonpartisan stand for this basic...
The hundreds of signatories included the likes of Netflix, Amazon, ViacomCBS, Starbucks, Facebook and UTA, as well as celebrities such as Rooney Mara, George Clooney, Mark Ruffalo, Larry David, Josh Gad, Lee Daniels, George Lucas, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leonardo Dicaprio, Demi Lovato, Shonda Rhimes, Samuel L. Jackson, Orlando Bloom and Naomi Campbell. Business titans such as Michael Bloomberg, Scooter Braun, J.J. Abrams, David Geffen and Warren Buffett also signed the note.
“For American democracy to work for any of us, we must ensure the right to vote for all of us,” the statement reads. “Voting is the lifeblood of our democracy, and we call upon all Americans to take a nonpartisan stand for this basic...
- 4/14/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Antoine Fuqua and Will Smith will move production on their big-budget, runaway slave thriller “Emancipation” out of Georgia in protest over the state’s controversial new voting restrictions.
The announcement continues the economic fallout from Gov. Brian Kemp and the state legislature’s decision to pass new regulations that critics maintain amount to voter suppression, aimed at reducing the turnout of people of color. The new laws were passed in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, and after Georgia voted for a Democrat for president for the first time in decades. The rules shorten the duration of absentee voting, require absentee voters to produce identification, limit the use of drop boxes and make it a crime to hand out free food or water to voters standing in line.
“At this moment in time, the Nation is coming to terms...
The announcement continues the economic fallout from Gov. Brian Kemp and the state legislature’s decision to pass new regulations that critics maintain amount to voter suppression, aimed at reducing the turnout of people of color. The new laws were passed in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, and after Georgia voted for a Democrat for president for the first time in decades. The rules shorten the duration of absentee voting, require absentee voters to produce identification, limit the use of drop boxes and make it a crime to hand out free food or water to voters standing in line.
“At this moment in time, the Nation is coming to terms...
- 4/12/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Major League Baseball is pulling their All-Star Game out of Atlanta in response to a new Republican-backed law that is purposely designed to make it harder for Georgians to vote.
“I have decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year’s All-Star Game and MLB Draft,” MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred said in a statement.
The decision comes after business leaders from across the country spoke out against the new law. American Express CEO, Kenneth Chenault, urged corporate America to put aside partisanship and “take a stand.
“I have decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year’s All-Star Game and MLB Draft,” MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred said in a statement.
The decision comes after business leaders from across the country spoke out against the new law. American Express CEO, Kenneth Chenault, urged corporate America to put aside partisanship and “take a stand.
- 4/2/2021
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
Entertainment industry veteran Ann Mather has joined Airbnb’s board as its first female director.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky made good on a promise he made this spring at the Code Conference, when he pledged to appoint at least one woman to the board this year.
“In meeting Ann, I was immediately impressed by her deep financial technical expertise, her passion for innovation and her fierce commitment to fostering growth within creative cultures like the one we have at Airbnb,” Chesky said. “Ann values taking smart, ambitious long-term bets and has the vision to see how they can transform a company and its stakeholders.”
Mather served as chief financial officer of Pixar Animation Studios from 1999-2004, where she was responsible for finance, administration, business affairs, investor relations and human resources. She also held executive positions at Village Roadshow Pictures and the Walt Disney Company.
A native of Great Britain, Mather...
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky made good on a promise he made this spring at the Code Conference, when he pledged to appoint at least one woman to the board this year.
“In meeting Ann, I was immediately impressed by her deep financial technical expertise, her passion for innovation and her fierce commitment to fostering growth within creative cultures like the one we have at Airbnb,” Chesky said. “Ann values taking smart, ambitious long-term bets and has the vision to see how they can transform a company and its stakeholders.”
Mather served as chief financial officer of Pixar Animation Studios from 1999-2004, where she was responsible for finance, administration, business affairs, investor relations and human resources. She also held executive positions at Village Roadshow Pictures and the Walt Disney Company.
A native of Great Britain, Mather...
- 8/23/2018
- by Dawn C. Chmielewski
- Deadline Film + TV
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