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Blue-chip investment opportunities rarely include a lavish helping of fun, but one area where the two invariably coincide is the long-term ownership of vintage Ferraris, and this week served as a reminder of the potent force of forever rising Ferrari auction prices.Eight years ago in August 2015, RM Sotheby’s auctioned the Pinnacle Car Collection during Monterey Car Week, with the US$75.4 million sum making it the most valuable car collection in history, and with more than half the cars sold setting world record prices…

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While the specific details of Disney’s settlement with Alonso haven’t been made public, Deadline reports it as being a multimillion-dollar amount. Neither Disney nor Alonso’s legal representation has made statements about the settlement itself, but in the weeks leading up to the agreement, both sides were vocal about what they believed led to Alonso’s dismissal.Reports alleged that Alonso’s work as a producer on director Santiago Mitre’s film Argentina, 1985 — an Amazon Studios film — and her decision to promote the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDisney has settled with producer Victoria Alonso, who claimed she was fired after “refusing” to make a “reprehensible” Ant-Man 3 edit.Alonso, who helped steer the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) for more than two decades, was let go on 17 March, with Disney citing an “indisputable breach of contract”, following her work on Amazon’s Oscar-nominated film Argentina, 1985, as the…

Gatsby, Jeremy Holt (Made in Korea, After Houdini)’s newest graphic novel from AWA Studios, debuts this May and reimagines the “Great American Novel,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. When Holt read The Great Gatsby for the first time during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, they fell in love with Fitzgerald’s iconic novel and beautifully flawed characters. While the main plot points and themes are familiar to the original novel, unlike other Gatsby comic adaptations Holt’s rendition views the story in a new…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDisney has been embroiled in controversy after firing a producer who helped steer the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) for more than two decades.Last week, it was reported that the studio had cut ties with Victoria Alonso due to an “indisputable breach of contract”, following her work on Amazon’s Oscar-nominated film Argentina, 1985.However, Alonso, via her attorney Patty Glaser, has…

When one of the key figures behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe was fired seemingly out of the blue, you had a sense it was going to get much more complex. And now, it has. Last week, Victoria Alonso, who has produced every single Marvel Studios movie alongside Kevin Feige and Louis D’Esposito, was fired from the company. At the time,no reason was given for the exit but later in the week, a few things came to light. It began Friday when The Hollywood Reporter released a piece claimingAlonso was fired because she…

An attorney representing former Marvel Studio executive Victoria Alonso, who was fired earlier this week from the Walt Disney Co.-owned superhero juggernaut, is firing back at reports that she was pushed out over an Oscar-nominated film she produced. The Hollywood Reporter on Friday published a story citing unnamed sources who said Alonso violated her 2018 employment contract with Disney by producing the film “Argentina, 1985,” which was made by a competing studio, Amazon, and released on Prime Video.The film was…

Per The Hollywood Reporter, after 17 years of working at Marvel Studios — originally as executive vice president of visual effects and post-production before going on to become president in the department — Alonso left the company last Friday for reasons that aren’t entirely clear. As a co-producer on a number of Marvel’s earliest films like the first Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger, Alonso played a key role in shaping the MCU in its infancy, and 2012’s Avengers marked the beginning of her working…

Victoria Alonso, seen here (far right) at the premiere of Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania with stars Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly, has left Marvel.Photo: Alex J. Berliner/ABPhotos/DisneyA few names have been attached to every single Marvel Studios movie since the first one, Iron Man, in 2008. Kevin Feige is the one most people know. Louis D’Esposito is another, and a third is Victoria Alonso. Together, those three producers have worked together to build Marvel Studios into a history-making juggernaut. However, in a…