Books, films, food, and everything in between — filtered through an investor’s lens.
KFC will swap Pepsi for Coca-Cola at its U.S. restaurants starting in January 2027. It looks like a breakup. It’s closer to a homecoming, with one casualty on the menu.
A Chinese tea chain lost a logo fight to Louis Vuitton. Then Chinese shoppers picked a side, and LVMH’s third-quarter numbers showed which one.
GTA 6 started life as Project Americas, a map stretched across North and South America. Bloomberg’s inside story explains why it became one city instead.
Tom Cruise has spent years as the star who saves the movies. In Digger he plays a man who only believes he saves the world, and the $8 million opening says audiences didn’t want that joke.
The UN declared its enemy state clauses obsolete in 1995 and agreed to delete them in 2005. Japan asked again in September. One article of the Charter explains the wait.
A consortium led by L Catterton just backed Hyrox’s founders in buying their company back. The races aren’t the asset — the eight-station format is, and thousands of gyms pay yearly to borrow it.
Coyote vs Acme has not earned back the $50 million its distributor paid for it, yet every headline calls it a win. The gap is a bookkeeping story.
General Mills says every US cereal — Cheerios, Trix, Lucky Charms — is now free of artificial dyes. The company tried this exact move once before, in 2015, and brought the dyes back within a year. Here’s what’s different this time.
Dolly Parton died holding a 3,000-song catalog she was repeatedly urged to sell. The refusal started with a phone call from Elvis Presley’s manager in 1974.
Nostos is the ancient Greek idea that a true homecoming changes you — and it’s exactly what Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey brings back to the screen.
