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This is the first time an external agency has been brought on board to present the intellectual property. Renaissance Licensing has announced it has been appointed to represent the name, image and likeness (NIL) rights of the late actor, race car driver and philanthropist, Paul Newman, to ensure the continued integrity and respectful use of his legacy.   Under this new appointment, Renaissance will oversee…

Michael B. Jordan's upcoming remake of Steven McQueen's Oscar-nominated heist thriller movie, The Thomas Crown Affair, gets a major filming update from the actor and director. Jordan's The Thomas Crown Affair remake is currently in production, scheduled to be released by Amazon MGM Studios on March 5, 2027. The story is expected to pull elements from the 1968 original. The…

The opening-night celebration for “Something Else Entirely,” the new show celebrating the illustration art of Edward Gorey at New York’s Society of Illustrators (one of the city’s most undersung museums), drew the largest crowd of any exhibition in the institution’s 125-year history. “The connection people have to Gorey is evident in the huge response to this exhibition,”…

Before he became one of the most influential and legendary actors of all time, James Dean was simply a kid growing up in Fairmount, Indiana. Although he was only a professional thespian for about five years before his untimely death in 1955, he made a significant impact on the world with roles in East of Eden (1955), Rebel without…

Heretic Parfum partnered with the Edward Gorey Estate on an exclusive collection of room sprays inspired by Gorey’s illustrations and brought the collection to life in a lavish campaign. There are generally two types of people: Those who eagerly await Halloween all year long, and those who anticipate the end of spooky season so that…

Indian National Award-winning helmer Srijit Mukherji (“Chotushkone”) will direct a British-Indian co-production on Arthur Conan Doyle that blends the Sherlock Holmes creator’s real-life crusade to overturn wrongful convictions with elements from his iconic detective fiction. The feature, titled “Elementary, My Dear Holmes,” has secured backing from the Conan Doyle Estate as associate producer, with Shahnaab Alam (“The Lunchbox”) producing…

TLL Editor in Chief In licensing terms, as Sherlock Holmes might say, the game is afoot, as the Estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has appointed Renaissance Licensing as its exclusive licensing representative for North America. Under the new partnership, Renaissance Licensing will become the Watson to Conan Doyle’s famed detective character Sherlock Holmes, as…

Seventy years ago today, actor James Dean was killed while driving his sports car on a remote highway in Central California. Dean had made only three films but was already a star whose brooding performances captured a counternarrative to the 1950s. His death at age 24 helped make him a legend. Carroll Baker, who co-starred…

Houghton exhibition celebrates legendary artist’s offbeat, macabre sensibility  A pair of disembodied hands thrusts a cake topped with candles through an open window. A nearby menu announces only one course: cold boiled owl. A figure glances worriedly at an accumulation of boxes of chocolate. The caption: “The Horror of Having a Birthday.”  The offbeat illustration…