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The Independent
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- The Independent
Apple... cinemas? Tech giant sues movie theater chain
Apple is suing another fruit-named company — Apple Cinemas — in an attempt to get the small theater company to change its name. Apple Cinemas has reportedly signed a lease to take over a historic cinema and a retail space in San Francisco that had previously been operated by AMC Theaters and CGV Cinemas. The purchase is part of Apple Cinema's overall goal of expanding to 100 locations across the country over the next 10 years. Apple entered a lawsuit on Friday in Massachusetts alleging that the theater company is infringing on its trademark and using its brand to trick consumers into thinking they're attending a cinema operated by the tech company. Apple does have a cinema division — Apple Studios — which it began in 2019, but Apple has been offering movie-adjacent entertainment since 1999 via its QuickTime Movie Trailers. The tech company also held cinema events, including some in connection with the Tribeca Film Festival. The cinema company began its operations in 2013 when it opened its first theater in Massachusetts. The company says its name is from it's initial plans to open its first theater in the Apple Valley Mall in New England, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The company primarily operated in the northeast until it laid out its plans to expand to San Francisco and other parts of the country in 2024. Sand Media — Apple Cinema's parent company — filed an application for the name "Apple Cinematic Experience" but was denied. A trademark examiner ruled that the name might cause confusion between Apple Cinemas and the tech company. Apple responded to that branding attempt by sending Sand Media a cease and desist letter. It further claims that Apple Cinemas began using a stylized apple for its logo and began focusing its expansion on malls and shopping centers where Apple Stores were already present. According to the lawsuit, the similar names resulted in landlords at these locations assuming that Apple Cinemas was affiliated with the tech brand. Apple alleges that Apple Cinemas was given favorable deals to open in some areas as a result of the presumed connection. Further driving the tech giant's lawsuit are claims that some customers have had negative experiences with Apple Cinemas. Some customers have complained that the theaters are "greasy," "dirty" and "grungy" and are at times beset by technical issues. 'Consumers should not go to an 'Apple Cinemas' theater thinking it is connected to the famous Apple brand, with all its goodwill and brand equity,' Miranda Means, an attorney representing Apple, stated in the lawsuit. Apple's goals with its lawsuit are to force the theater chain to stop using the word "Apple" in its name. It is also seeking damages, though the amount was unspecified.
Daily Mail
29 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Justin Bieber's son Jack Blues makes his music video debut for Yukon as he bonds with parents in sweet footage
Justin and Hailey Bieber's baby boy Jack Blues is officially a rising star. The child, who was born in August 2024, has made his music video debut in his father's new track, Yukon. The idyllic, black-and-white video sees the new parents dote on their bundle of joy as they enjoy a sun-soaked boat trip. While the parents have yet to reveal their child's face to the public - and continue to creatively maintain his privacy in the video - they do show off his adorable baby teeth. In the video, the Baby singer, 31, is shown bonding with his child during a blissful family getaway. He showers his son with kisses as they lounge on the luxurious boat together. Hailey, 28, nuzzles Justin's bare shoulder as their infant son waddles beside their father in another sweet moment. They stop at a secluded cove, where Hailey splashes in the water with Jack in her arms. Justin and Hailey announced the arrival of Jack Blues, their first child together, in August 2024. 'WELCOME HOME JACK BLUES BIEBER,' Justin captioned a post announcing his son's arrival. The new parents tied the knot in a New York City courthouse in 2018 followed by a more lavish ceremony the following year. But the couple have been plagued by rumours of marriage trouble in recent months, with the singer sparking concerns among fans with his behaviour. While Hailey had been seen in public without her wedding ring last month, the couple appeared to be on affectionate terms when they were seen earlier this month in Switzerland. In a move certainly intended to quiet the chatter, Hailey also shows off her massive diamond engagement ring in the sweet music video. And speaking to Vogue Italia as their August 2025 cover girl, Hailey appeared to quash the rumours of a rift as she gushed over Justin being an 'extraordinary' father, 'a natural', and 'seeing her as a goddess, a superhero'. Hailey also opened up about her pregnancy with Jack, revealing it was unexpected. 'The pregnancy was hard for me to accept, it was a surprise and you have to deal with so many emotions,' she told the outlet. 'You realise that your life will never be the same again, yes, it changes in a positive way, but it will never be the same again. It was a huge challenge for me, mentally,' she added. Despite this, Hailey said that everything ends up coming together eventually and it acted as a huge teaching lesson for her as a person - and her marriage. 'Suddenly, your partner sees you as a goddess, a superhero... Or at least, that's how it was for me,' she said. Justin's bad behaviour has manifested in recent months in the form of arguing with Hailey online, acting erratically and clashing with paparazzi, a source told Page Six. The material on the latest album, which Justin released July 11, included a trio of comedy skits with comic Druski. One of the bits dubbed 'Therapy session,' in which Druski portrays a counsellor, Justin touches on the complications of living life in the limelight. 'That's been a tough thing for me recently - feeling like I have had to go through a lot of my struggles as a human, as all of us do, really publicly. 'And so people are always asking if I'm OK - and that starts to really weigh on me.' Bieber busts a move on the vessel Justin said that the attention makes him feel like he's 'the one with the issues and everyone else is perfect.' The singer sold rights to his catalogue for $200million in 2023, the Los Angeles Times reported recently. His most recent studio album prior to Swag was Justice in 2021. The album garnered critical acclaim and spawned successful commercial tracks such as Peaches, a Billboard Hot 200 chart-topper; and the top 10 hits Holy, Anyone and Ghost. In February 2023, Justin officially cancelled the remainder of his Justice World Tour after the singer said he was diagnosed with the condition Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which can lead to facial paralysis.
Times
30 minutes ago
- Times
Feeling gloomy? Hollywood has a so bad-it's-good comedy for you!
S omething strange is happening in cinema. Have you noticed? It's Liam Neeson delivering one-liners, sight gags and a very effective diarrhoea routine in The Naked Gun. Or it's Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis camping it up together as hipster teenagers in Freakier Friday (released this week). Or it's Christopher Guest as the ageing rocker Nigel Tufnel, awkwardly shredding a guitar solo in a tiny English pub in Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, out in September. Or it's Ariana Grande joining Robert De Niro for another Meet the Parents instalment, Focker In-Law. Or it's Bill Pullman in the Star Wars spoof Spaceballs 2, or Eddie Murphy in the new Pink Panther, or … OK, we get it. Comedies are back. And it's been a while. 'I'm Liam Neeson, and every passing year more and more comedies go unseen, unmade and unquoted.' That's how the 73-year-old Taken star began a recent faux public service announcement that begged potential audiences to buy a cinema ticket for The Naked Gun, 'so our children and hopefully their children too can one day enjoy watching a comedy in the theatre'. The clip was just part of the film's zany promotional machine but it addressed a glaring absence of comedies in the multiplex ecosystem. Box office analysts and culture watchers alike suggest that it's been more than a decade since comedies effectively disappeared from cinema screens, or at least since comedy impresarios such as Judd Apatow could turn everything from The 40-Year-Old Virgin to Knocked Up to Bridesmaids into box office gold. 'What we witnessed is a migration of audiences to the small screen to get their comedy,' says Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for the data firm Comscore. 'In order to spend their money, and take the time and effort to go out to the theatre, audiences wanted the larger-than-life experience of superhero movies, action movies and sci-fi movies.' • Read our film reviews, guides about what to watch and interviews In short, thanks to Iron Man and the rise of the streamers, a grand cinematic tradition that included the Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Monty Python, Airplane!, Austin Powers and Wedding Crashers had effectively been replaced by a faceless Netflix algorithm that was regularly pumping out joyless 'laugh fests' such as Mother of the Bride and Love & Gelato. The few comedies that did remain in cinemas, according to the Naked Gun producer (and Family Guy creator) Seth MacFarlane, weren't always recognisable as such. 'We've been giving people broccoli and telling them it's a candy bar for the last ten years, as a lot of things called comedies now are most definitely not comedies,' he said recently. 'We've been offered comedies that are a little up their own asses, maybe a little inflated with a sense of their own importance.' MacFarlane, at the time, declined to name the 'offenders' in question, but any search for key movie comedies of the past decade will throw up titles such as the social satire Triangle of Sadness, the love letter to creativity The Banshees of Inisherin and the environmental sermon Don't Look Up. All great movies, yes, but not exactly Neeson doing a diarrhoea gag. Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, and Michael McKean in the upcoming Spinal Tap 2 SONY PICTURES And that's another thing. This new wave of comedies is being described as 'pure comedy', the films focused only on giggles and laughter, and notable for their delicate dance through the culture wars. There is not a single scene in either The Naked Gun or Freakier Friday that could aggravate either side of the foam-flecked clickerati. This is something that could not be said of the previous comedy wave: plenty of Apatow movies, even the best ones, involved whiny guys sitting around telling sexist jokes. 'Without getting into politics and stuff, we're all living in a culture, a society, where we're scared to speak and scared if we don't,' Neeson said recently, noting that movies such as The Naked Gun, like 'gargoyles in cathedrals', are here to remind us, 'Come on, don't take yourself too seriously. The film is a giggle and we need that.' • How Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson became the new late-life love story Neeson's point is underscored by the Freakier Friday director Nisha Ganatra, who sees this big-screen comedy resurgence as a reflection of wider collective yearnings. 'It's my hope that people are craving a communal experience again and that laughing together with a group of people at a theatre is what makes people feel good,' she tells me. 'Especially in this time of uncertainty, comedies can provide relief. Laughing out loud is an energising experience with your friends or with total strangers. Everyone ends up feeling better.' The crucial question, however, is whether enough cinemagoing audiences will turn up for comedy in a time of uncertainty. The box office figures are in and The Naked Gun made $28.3 million on its opening weekend. It has not, according to Dergarabedian, 'blown the doors off', but it is a solid beginning that, combined with positive scores and exit polls, suggests word-of-mouth may sustain a healthy commercial run. What it really means, Dergarabedian says, is that all attention now falls on Freakier Friday, which opens this weekend. If that's a hit, then the new multiplex comedy wave continues apace. If not, expect to be watching Murphy's Pink Panther on Netflix next year. 'If there's a crisis of confidence that's happening with movie comedy it's simply because putting a comedy into a movie theatre is more expensive than going to streaming,' Dergarabedian says. 'There's a worldwide marketing push involved with a theatrical release that's a whole different animal to just going into streaming.' Latest figures suggest that marketing a Hollywood film globally costs as 'little' as $35 million and as much as $200 million. • Ten of the silliest comedies to watch now It explains why Adam Sandler famously signed his first four-movie Netflix deal in 2014 and why his new film, Happy Gilmore 2, a sequel to the big-screen golf comedy from 1996, has been released on Netflix only. It also explains why Sandler's most recent four-movie deal with the streamer, signed last year, is alleged to have earned him $275 million — it's clearly cheaper than pushing his films into the multiplex. Adam Sandler and Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio in Happy Gilmore 2 NETFLIX 'And so, yes, it's a fragile market place but, thankfully, The Naked Gun did not bomb,' Dergarabedian continues. 'And if Freakier Friday makes $40 million-plus domestically [in the US], that could be one that emboldens studios to get on board and hopefully open the door to more comedies.' In the meantime, if you fancy some quality toilet humour or a sweetly moving film with Lohan and Curtis playing teenagers, you should rush out and buy a ticket to your local multiplex. Because, as the great Liam Neeson says, it means that your children and their children will one day get to watch a comedy movie too, where it was meant to be seen: at the cinema. The Naked Gun is in cinemas; Freakier Friday is in cinemas from Aug 8; Happy Gilmore 2 is on Netflix Times+ members can enjoy two-for-one cinema tickets at Everyman each Wednesday. Visit to find out more. Which films have you enjoyed at the cinema recently? Let us know in the comments and follow @timesculture to read the latest reviews
