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Nike President and CEO John Donahoe.Source: NikeAs a political battle rages between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Disney, Nike CEO John Donahoe said it's important for corporations to choose their battles, but fight for the values integral to their brands. During a sit-down interview at the inaugural CNBC CEO Council Summit in Santa Barbara, California, Monday evening, CNBC's Sara Eisen touched on the DeSantis controversy and asked Donahoe if he was worried Nike would become a target."Aren't you worried that if Ron…

Image via Universal Based entirely on the words to come directly out of his own mouth, the prospect of Dwayne Johnson returning to the Fast & Furious franchise was borderline unthinkable. After all, The Rock had made it abundantly clear more than once that his issues lay directly with figurehead and producer Vin Diesel, who’d even gone so far as to bring up the legacy of the late Paul Walker in an attempt to end the self-imposed exile of The Fast Saga‘s Luke Hobbs. via Universal Johnson wasn’t buying it,…

In a seminal moment for international data flows, the EU has fined Meta a record-breaking €1.2bn for privacy violations. The penalty is the largest ever for a violation of GDPR, which was introduced to protect personal information. According to EU regulators, Meta broke the rules by transferring user data from the bloc to the US for processing. The Facebook owner made these transfers on the basis of standard contractual clauses (SCCs), which govern the flow of personal data. But an EU…

Stepping up a feud with Washington over technology and security, China's government on Sunday told users of computer equipment deemed sensitive to stop buying products from the biggest U.S. memory chipmaker, Micron Technology Inc.Micron products have unspecified “serious network security risks” that pose hazards to China's information infrastructure and affect national security, the Cyberspace Administration of China said on its website. Its six-sentence statement gave no details. “Operators of critical information…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFast X features a surprise mid-credits appearance from Dwayne Johnson – despite the former WWE star saying he would never return to the franchise.Johnson appeared as Luke Hobbs in four Fast & Furious films from 2011 to 2017, as well as the 2019 spin-off Hobbs & Shaw.He announced his departure from the franchise in 2021, saying he would not be appearing in any more films amid a…

via Universal If you were to do a shot every time somebody in a Fast & Furious movie makes mention of family, there’s not a chance you’d be able to remember anything that happened onscreen. It isn’t just a tagline, though, with Fast X proving it by healing a bitter divide and drawing a line under one of Hollywood’s most high-profile feuds. While the reasoning behind Dwayne Johnson’s surprise return as Luke Hobbs have already sparked many theories that include a big pile of cash and his desire to find his…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFast X features a surprise mid-credits appearance from Dwayne Johnson – despite the former WWE star saying he would never return to the franchise.Johnson appeared as Luke Hobbs in four Fast & Furious films from 2011 to 2017, as well as the 2019 spin-off Hobbs & Shaw.He announced his departure from the franchise in 2021, saying he would not be appearing in any more films amid a…

Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images One of the best things about pre-film press is that sometimes, stars are partial to a bit of candor. And, in an interview with longtime film journalist Josh Horowitz, John Cena has implied he’d be able to get two of the biggest (literally) names he knows back together on camera again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd03fB6XF40 The exchange took place during a wide-ranging interview that Horowitz did with the star for his Happy Sad Confused podcast, in which the pair…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJohn Cena has admitted that he was “short-sighted and selfish” when he publicly feuded with Dwayne Johnson.The actors had a long-standing rivalry while working as pro wrestlers, but remained friends behind the scenes.However, one rough period in the pair’s friendship came in 2012, after a number of comments Johnson – who performed as “The Rock” – made about the business.While Cena was…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJohn Cena has admitted that he was “short-sighted and selfish” when he publicly feuded with Dwayne Johnson.The actors had a long-standing rivalry while working as pro wrestlers, but remained friends behind the scenes.However, one rough period in the pair’s friendship came in 2012, after a number of comments Johnson – who performed as “The Rock” – made about the business.While Cena was…