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NZ Herald
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
French producer woos Hollywood with epic that inspired Game of Thrones
His godfather is Francis Ford Coppola and his family is French cinema royalty, but Dimitri Rassam says he's carving his own path with plans to make a global blockbuster. Dimitri Rassam was destined to make movies. The son of Bond girl and Cesar-winning actor Carole Bouquet and French film producer
Vogue
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Vogue
How to Throw an Elevated Wine Country Bachelorette
Sit out in the gardens and enjoy a round of bocce ball with your party on your stop at Landmark Vineyards. We love this stop to sip on Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays of the Russian River Valley. Aperture Cellars Photo: Courtesy of Aperture Cellars The architecture of the modern tasting room decorated with Alex Katz photography is just one reason to visit Aperture Cellars. Matched with their delicious Bordeaux-style wines, it's a winning combo. Other Fun Wine Country Bachelorette Activities Want to put some more activities on your agenda than a traditional tasting? Check out some amazing activity options ahead. Passport to Dry Creek Valley Want to skip the hassle of arranging tons of tasting room visits for your bachelorette and also get some bang for your buck? Plan your bachelorette during Passport to Dry Creek Valley. This two-day spring celebration in the Dry Creek Valley wine region in Northern Sonoma gives you access to over 25 wineries that are open to ticket holders for events with food pairings, live music, and unique behind-the-scenes property tours. Napa Valley Wine Train You may be surprised that a train wine tour is actually one of the best tastings in the region. The Napa Valley Wine Train is a favorite thanks to it offering scenic views, great pairings, and stops at some favorite wineries in the region. It also will make for some great photo moments with your group. Francis Ford Coppola Vineyard Pool While a tasting at the winery owned by famed director Francis Ford Coppola is always a great time, you should consider booking a timeslot at the property's pool on your visit. You can enjoy a resort-like experience while sipping on cans of Sofia sparkling rosé and cooling off from the wine-country heat. Bottlerock Does the bride-to-be love a good concert? Consider coordinating your bachelorette around the Bottlerock music festival. Hosted annually in May, the Napa-based festival has more of a wine-country feel than Coachella vibes, with a diverse mix of music as well as a focus on great food and wine pop-ups. With one-day and three-day tickets available, you can make it a part of your trip or the main event. Transportation in Wine Country Anyone who has ever served as a maid of honor will tell you that logistics are one of the most important parts of planning a bachelorette. Understanding how to get to wine country and then move around it with a group is unfortunately not as easy as booking an Uber or Lyft whenever you want. First off, driving from either the San Francisco Airport or Oakland Airport to the area can take a minimum of two hours with traffic, so either renting cars, scheduling a shuttle, taking Vine public transit, or booking a private chauffeur like Blacklane is the only way you can make it north towards Napa. There is also an airport in Sonoma, with flights available from major cities like Los Angeles, Dallas, and Portland. Once you're settled at your accommodations, it's important to coordinate your designated drivers for wine tasting and excursions. While you might have a friend or two that will abstain from drinking for the weekend that can chauffeur the group around, it's best to arrange professional drivers for the group that can traverse windy roads with a clear head. While ride shares can be found, they aren't always reliable when trying to make a reservation in time with a big group. Consider booking a driver for the day or even a bus if you have more than a carload of bridesmaids. Sonoma Sterling Limousines is a great transportation option that not only has luxury SUVs and sprinter vans, but also limos and party buses if you want to really take your trip up a notch.
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
So THAT's Why Standing Ovations At Cannes Are So Damn Long
According to The Guardian, the applause following Pillion's screening at this year's Cannes Film Festival 'lasted several minutes, with the inevitable awkwardness of seeming dutiful'. The Alexander Skarsgård film is the norm, not the exception. In 2024, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis reportedly got seven callous-inducing minutes of standing ovation. Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth managed to elicit a record-breaking 22 mins in 2006. And Joachim Trier's 2025 follow-up to The Worst Person In The World rivalled that, with the ovation for his latest film clocking in at almost 20 minutes. GQ has said in the past that, when it comes to applause at Cannes, 'anything five minutes or less is a tepid – or worse – appraisal'. But how did this palm prison get built, and what is its purpose? According to The Atlantic (who, like The Guardian, call the custom 'awkward'), clapping at Cannes is part of the spectacle. At the French festival in particular, the length and enthusiasm of the clapping is seen as a sign of who thinks which film will be the next 'hit'. But the 'pageantry' of standing ovations is fallible at best and unfairly, performatively biased at worst – for what it's worth, Megalopolis was both critically panned and a box office flop. Speaking to The Atlantic, professor Scott Page, who's studied clapping as a form of social behaviour, said: 'There is a real asymmetry to who has influence'. You might be more inclined to partake in a quarter-hour of palm-smashing if someone you really respect and admire is doing so beside you, he suggested. He added that 'if you're not sure' about a film, and 'you think the other people [around you] are smarter than you, then you are going to stand… I imagine Cannes to be a place [where if I ask myself,] 'How confident am I, sitting near movie stars and directors?'' The answer, he says, is likely to be 'not very'. Also, I can't imagine the panic of being the first person to stop applauding, say, a Del Toro film in front of the man himself – peer pressure and etiquette pile up. Speaking to Screen Daily, Barry Hertz, film editor and critic for Canadian national newspaper The Globe and Mail, says that the length of applause a film got at Cannes can sometimes be seen as an interim star rating system until its release. 'Instead of a film getting four stars, it got a '10-minute standing ovation,'' he says. But though an anonymous film PR told the publication that 'nobody is taking it seriously,' Kent Sanderson, president of indie film distributor Bleecker Street, doesn't think Cannes' applause sessions are going anywhere fast. 'It's a self-perpetuating machine between the festival, the trades and the audiences,' they commented. The more the Cannes audience claps, the more it's noted that they clap, the more expected long clapping sessions become; so, it becomes both a sign of disdain and proof of not being 'in on' the festival's culture not to do so. I'd call it a vicious cycle, but it's literally already a shoulder-aching, barbed, endless round... Harry Potter Star Harry Melling And Alexander Skarsgård's 'Kinky' Biker Romance Causes A Huge Stir In Cannes Halle Berry Forced To Change Her Outfit Because Of This Last-Minute Change To Cannes Dress Code Robert De Niro Kicks Off Cannes Film Festival With Blistering Speech About 'Philistine' Trump
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Delicato Family Wines ceases winemaking at Francis Ford Coppola facility
US-based Delicato Family Wines has stopped production at a satellite site used for its Francis Ford Coppola wines in Geyserville, California. The company told Just Drinks it had stopped crushing at the facility, while bottling and canning activities continue. Ceasing winemaking at the facility, known as Virginia Dare Winery/Geyser Peak, has resulted in the layoff of 15 employees. Delicato's move is part of a 'long-planned' integration of the Francis Ford Coppola wine business, acquired by Delicato in 2021, into its "broader production network", it said. Over the past three years, Delicato has gradually been relocating winemaking operations from satellite site to the main Francis Ford Coppola Winery, located nearby in Geyserville, and other Delicato locations. The satellite facility which has been 'underutilised' for wine production, is being 'right-sized' as part of a broader strategy to 'optimise resources' across Delicato's portfolio, the group added. The California-based group's portfolio includes brands such as Coppola Diamond, Bota Box and Gnarly Head. Transcendent Wines, its fine wines portfolio features the brands Black Stallion, Diora and Torbreck, among others. The development comes amid a difficult operating climate for US wine producers. Jackson Family Wines pointed to a 'challenging business environment' after announcing employee layoffs this April. At the time, the company told Just Drinks it had 'made some recent adjustments as part of broader efforts to navigate the challenging business environment facing many in and beyond our industry and to protect the long-term health of our business'. Delicato, however, emphasised that its decision to shut the Francis Ford Coppola facility was "not tied to sales performance or industry trends - on the contrary, the Francis Coppola Diamond Collection has grown 6% since we acquired the brand in 2021". Earlier this month, The Duckhorn Portfolio announced plans to concentrate its investment on a select group of wineries and close several tasting rooms as part of efforts to 'profitably scale.' "Delicato Family Wines ceases winemaking at Francis Ford Coppola facility " was originally created and published by Just Drinks, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
Bloomberg
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Bloomberg
Can OpenAI Take on the iPhone With Jony Ive Deal?
00:00 What do you make of the promotional video? What do you make of the impact? I mean, look, the video was was incredible, wasn't. The cafe they filmed it in belongs to Francis Ford Coppola. And I was saying to our colleague, it's almost like he directed it himself. Right? It was so grand. Look, I love Jony Ive. I think he's obviously an incredibly gifted man. I think this is an incredibly difficult thing for even him to achieve because creating the kind of hardware which their stated aim really is, is to topple the iPhone as the leading device of choice when it comes to interacting with computing. I think that's incredibly difficult and I think for all the experience and talent that Jony Ive has and the team that he's assembled with Sam, open code, I think they're the most gifted, talented team ever assembled in history, which kind of gives you an idea of the hyperbole he's working with the mind of Unite. Yeah, precisely. I just think it's an incredibly tall order. I think it's easier for Apple to solve A.I. than it is for Openai to create a new iPhone and put it that way. Okay, so let me go back to basics on the story. What the the entity Openai and IO is saying is that by the end of 2026 they'll have a range of devices, but we don't know what form factor, right? We don't know smartphone or dare I say, you know, Chunky Broach, Alpha Humain. I just want to get the basics of that out there. But to me, this seems like an aqua hire because what open our eyes getting is not just Jony Ive, but a team of other former Apple designers and who are, according to the press release, remaining independence. Mm hmm. Hmm hmm hmm hmm. Well, this is all about bringing in the expertise that open. I just it just doesn't have. I mean, of course, they've they've done incredibly well in creating a leading AI company and is seen as being ahead of the pack still. And China has a huge market share and scores of people who are willing to go to a website to put an AI prompt in and and get what they need. The problem is, is that over time, I think that way of interacting with, I guess, a lot less useful. And I think we're seeing signs of that already. We've seen how Google are putting AI straight into their search engine in a big way, and that's a way to capitalize on a tool that people already have already used and they find A.I. that way. Open AI doesn't necessarily have that same vector. It doesn't have a device like like Apple doesn't have. So Amazon's reach with the cloud, it doesn't have a social network like Siri doesn't have a search engine like Google. And so they have to do something, but they have to to create something that's going to be the place that people interact with open AI specifically and a piece of hardware is the way to do that. This is a very good, so expensive way to bring on that expertise. But then, you know, the complications will follow, I think next year's keynote, if they decide to present it in this way of this new device, whatever it is, and there's been reporting this morning that it's perhaps like a third device in addition to your laptop and your phone. There'll be something else. I mean, that's going to be a very what's keen, I think, is a big, big ask too, to expect people to add another device that day. Because we saw, like you mentioned with some of those other wearables that people from the word go just wasn't very impressed. I think John is probably going to be a better judge of making something people like than those companies perhaps were. But I still think he's asking a lot of people to get on board with. Jony Ive is pretty critical of Humain and others having tried Ace Hardware. Yes. What's interesting though, is Eddy Cue, the Apple executive was giving evidence at that Google legal fight saying in ten years time we probably won't be using iPhones. We'll go discuss the Apple impact. But more broadly, do you think that this is a moment that we should be risk off with Apple? Well, I think you know the context of those comments, Maggie. Q In a competition hearing where it served the company very well, for him to say there's a big threat against the iPhone, I do think what this is doing at the very least, is highlighting the fact that Apple has been very much on the back foot since Jony Ive left. I think it's almost six years ago. There hasn't been this sort of product visionary in the company. They haven't sort of hired behind him in a way that most people might have said. So I do think it sort of highlights that Apple has just huge amounts of work to do. I want to go back to basics even further. Like I think about how I use chat every day and I use it through my iPhone. Frankly, I've a voice mode or forward text. How much of this story is about open AI thinking to itself? That exact question How are people going to use our software in the future? Yeah, I think that's a big, big lingering concern. I think for the entire company, particularly as you know, this as Caroline just mentioned, I mean this was Jony Ive has been quite outspoken about what he sees as the legacy devices of of the iPhone and of of Mac, just just laptops in general. I guess you could say. I do wonder what this announcement might do for Openai's relationship with Apple incidentally, because obviously you can use it on the iPhone now as a as a sort of almost add ons. Let's I wonder if Apple might be thinking a bit more carefully about how they manage that relationship. But yeah, I just think this is about bringing tragedy. A into a everyday device in a way that's going to be much more integrated. Right now, I should say people use the app, but I don't think this is going to be something that people go to an app specifically for. I think it's going to be a tool that's within that's all they're using with somebody else. And that's that's an experience I have.
