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Bill Maher blasted Nike’s new Super Bowl 2025 commercial featuring iconic female athletes like Sha’Carri Richardson and Caitlin Clark as deceiving viewers with a so-called “zombie lie” about the patriarchy.The new black-and-white ad, “So Win,” features a vaunted roster of female athletes, including WNBA stars Clark, Sabrina Ionescu and A’ja Wilson, as well as Olympic runner Richardson and gymnast Jordan Chiles. During the minute-long clip, musician Doechii narrates myriad doubts and fears coursing through female athletes’ minds — they can’t be “demanding,” “relentless” or “put yourself first” — before stressing how they should prove critics wrong as Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” blares in the background.

Variety published on Tuesday, the same day the promos for Glenmorangie Scotch Whisky were released.Titled “Once Upon a Time in Scotland,” the campaign consists of a series of episodic films that follow Ford, who plays himself, as he journeys to Glenmorangie’s Highland home, Andross Castle in Scotland.With his characteristic prickly demeanor, Ford insists he won’t be doing “all that action man s–t that they want” before adding that he “will sit by the fire and drink.” Elsewhere in the series, Ford meditates, rides a bike, gets the boozy time by the fire that he wanted and tries on a kilt.Despite Ford’s perceived Edge, Edgerton says he discovered the “Star Wars” icon has a softer side.“I’d watched a lot of his interviews, and I realized that true or false, there’s a persona of Harrison’s that is quite gruff and, you know, grumpy, but he’s a bit like an avocado,” the actor and filmmaker explained. “He’s rock solid on the outside but he’s very soft in the middle.

Nicole Kidman’s second crack at starring in ads for the AMC movie chain — after her first AMC “heartbreak” ad campaign in 2021 went viral — was panned in the pop-culture zeitgeist after premiering March 1.Some fans vented their displeasure on X after the first new ad appeared — feeling let down after Kidman’s original ad was both beloved and lampooned when it first appeared in AMC theaters 2½ years ago.“So the new Nicole Kidman AMC ad is almost exactly the same. It’s like one line different and she’s watching Elvis and Avatar 2 instead of Wonder Woman and La La Land,” @awkwardpancake wrote on X (formerly Twitter).Indeed, the new ad has been tweaked from the original version — and even removed Kidman’s iconic line from the 2021 version: “Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this.”The new campaign, which will play in AMC Theatres, kicked off Friday and will consist of three ads.AMC will rotate in two other never-before-seen-in-theaters versions of the original pre-show ad over the coming months.In the new ad unveiled Friday, Kidman appears in the same jumpsuit as she did in the original, but instead of watching scenes from “La La Land” and “Creed” flicker on the screen, she’s watching scenes from “Avatar: The Way of Water” and Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis.”According to Adweek.com, Kidman’s dialogue is also slightly different — “that indescribable feeling when the lights begin to dim — dazzling images on a huge silver screen, beautiful music soaring through me,” and the ad’s new kicker is: “That’s magic.”“I need whoever’s idea it was to cut the Nicole Kidman AMC commercial shorter to be held accountable,” @boredandtiredok wrote on X.

implementation of ads on Prime Video and filed a class action lawsuit on Friday challenging the move.The plaintiff, who lives in California, leveled allegations of misleading advertising and consumer protection law breaches against Amazon in connection to its “unfair” change to ads on Prime Video. The court filing was published and earlier reported by The Hollywood Reporter.The lawsuit comes about a week and a half after the company started automatically showing limited ads to US subscribers and asking those looking to continue streaming without them to pay an extra charge each month.

A Calvin Klein ad featuring FKA Twigs has been banned across the pond after the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority concluded it portrays the singer as a “stereotypical sexual object.” The poster, which came out in April, shows the 36-year-old wearing a denim shirt that only covers one-half of her body, leaving the side of her butt and some of her other breast exposed. FKA Twigs strategically holds her hand in front of her breast so that her nipple is covered.

“Just Friends” co-stars Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart have reunited for a new ad, titled “Just Friendsgiving.”The mini “sequel” debuted days before the comedy’s 18-year anniversary on Thursday, November 23. As it falls on Thanksgiving, the commercial was the perfect way to get the pair back together to promote Reynolds’ Aviation American Gin.The ad reveals where their characters, Chris Brander and Jamie Palamino, respectively, are today.Spoiler alert: They are still together!“Wow!” Smart, 47, says as she walks in the room, spotting Reynolds near the Christmas tree.Reynolds, 47, replies: “Oh hey, honey, I was just looking at the tree.

Facebook post on Wednesday. “Why Bob would do this is beyond my reckoning,” he continued.

dispensing tough-love wisdom to his clients who can’t stop themselves from imitating their mothers and fathers — whether it’s clapping at the end of a film (“No one who made the movie is here”), telling anyone who will listen about their morning (“You woke up early — no one cares”), stopping themselves from commenting on someone’s blue hair (“We all see it. We all see it.”) or correcting their placement of pillows on the couch (“If you have nowhere to sit, you have too many”).“I call it a sort of generational triple-dip,” said Bill Glass, 51, the amiable Chicago-area native who’s played Dr.

Average grade: ABud Light’s spot was a nod to the “lemon” of a year we’ve just had — though “this ad is anything BUT a lemon,” said DaSilva.Most of our experts enjoyed the clip’s quirky metaphor for 2020 and its take on the age-old adage: “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” In the ad, giant lemons raining down on weddings and other parties, and though we’ve seen unexpected objects falling from the sky before, this one was “nicely produced and fun to watch,” said Graves.“Thank you, Bud Light,” said Jennie Moore, Creative Director at WONGDOODY in Seattle.“We could either laugh or cry about last year, and this helped me share in a much-needed laugh.”Overall grade: A-Comedians Dana Carvey and Mike Myers of “Wayne’s World” brought