Category: Entertainment

  • Football merchandising kicks off

    It’s under a week to go before the 2010 world cup kicks off in host country South Africa with the first match being Uruguay vs France on June 11. Here in England, it’s now hard to go anywhere without being…

  • Avatar: telling an old story in a new way

    We went and saw Avatar yesterday, the film that’s getting a lot of attention for a variety of reasons since its release on December 17: the amazing digital effects, the dramatic and epic scale of the story, the $400 million…

  • Twitter marketing: genuine works

    It’s advertising du jour in the movie and television business to use banner ads and other eyeball-catching imagery on the web to promote your new movie or TV series. Websites, too, employing all the latest audio-visual and social media magic…

  • Gearing up for a Michael Jackson bonanza

    At various times during the weekend when I was out and about, I was checking the latest news on my iPhone, usually with the excellent Sky News app. It did amaze me at one point on Saturday to note that…

  • RIP Michael Jackson, you thrilled us

    I was up late in my office last night when the first comments on Twitter about the death of entertainer Michael Jackson started appearing. It wasn’t long before those tweets became a torrent as more and more people heard the…