‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Director Davis Guggenheim Asks Who Will Replace The Social Impact Made By Participant’s Movies
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Deadline— Editors note: Filmmaker and producer Davis Guggenheim directed 2006’s An Inconvenient Truth featuring Al Gore. The film won the Oscar and helped put Jeff Skoll’s social-impact-driven production company then known as Participant Media on the map, and also sounded an alarm about climate change that has become more pronounced since the film was released. In […]
PYMNTS.com—Pinterest: Consumers Will Adopt Social Commerce If It’s Easy. As consumers seek more frictionless eCommerce experiences, Pinterest is seeing user demand for shoppable features, as long as the purchasing journey is simple and intuitive. The social media company shared Tuesday (April 30) in its first quarter fiscal 2024 earnings report that revenue was up 23% year over year in the period, attributing this increase to, […]
GQ—Jerry Seinfeld Says Movies Are Over. Here’s Why He Made One Anyway. Of all the things one might associate with Jerry Seinfeld, excited sentimentality might be the last. But remembering the day he shot the recent finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm, his voice approaches something dangerously close to swelling. “As I drove home that night, my scalp was just tingling. I thought what we had done was just the coolest, wildest, most remarkable thing,” he says of his surprise (though much guessed at) appearance. It was, he says, the callback to end all callbacks, a...
The Monitor—Edinburg North band director’s inspiration will live long after his passing. Chad Dempsey, a beloved music educator, father, husband and friend will be forever remembered for his passion and dedication to inspire everyone around him, even while fighting cancer.