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Mamma Mia! ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus reveals how the band keeps growing its empire

As Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again opens in theaters, we talked with ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus about how the band stays relevant–and lucrative–after all these years.

How everything–everything–changed for Netflix this week

The four events since Monday (!) that signal we’re entering the next chapter in the epic saga of Netflix and the future of entertainment.

The amount of Thai cave rescue movies in the works is ridiculous

Top 5 ads of the week: Nike celebrates France, Netflix at the mall

Gatorade salutes Serena Williams like a mother, Helsinki’s biggest newspaper welcomes Trump and Putin to town, and KFC plays with cats.

Chance The Rapper bought a media company and announced it in a song

Brand WTF of the Week: Papa John playing the batsh*t blame game

Papa John’s founder John Schnatter has tried to shift the blame off him and onto his ad agency and even Kanye West, sliding his company’s brand into an 800-degree oven.

Lessons in fearless creativity from composer Max Richter

In the latest episode of Creative Conversation, Richter explains how he’s pushing his creativity to unfamiliar places–and why you should too.

Life found a way for this 25-foot Jeff Goldblum statue in London

How P&G found the insight behind its Emmy-nominated ad “The Talk”

Multicultural agency Egami CEO Teneshia Warner on “The Talk,” why brands need to work on their cultural competency, and how multicultural agencies are no longer niche.

Amazon orders new sci-fi series based on some dystopian paintings

Tales from the Loop is a sci-fi drama based on Simon Stålenhag’s art and will span eight episodes.

Study: Male film critics outnumber women two to one

“Treasonable doubt”: late-night TV reacts to the Trump-Putin summit

Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, and the rest of the late-night gang get fired up about Monday’s much-maligned joint press conference.

Issa Rae’s new ad continues Covergirl’s search for new femininity

“Shade for shade” looks like just Rae and her friends having fun, but for the brand it represents a goal for more complex, diverse, and real expressions of what beauty means to women.

13 reasons why Netflix’s disappointing quarter merits scrutiny

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings effectively shrugged off his company’s missed subscriber growth estimate, but a larger lesson looms in the loss.

FCC chairman Ajit Pai has “serious concerns” over Sinclair merger

There’s one Blockbuster left . . . and it’s the saddest place in America

Scarlett Johansson quits trans film “Rub and Tug” after backlash

Everything we know so far about Sacha Baron Cohen’s secret project

Cohen began teasing the hotly anticipated project on July 4th and since then, a lot of new intel has come to light.

Teens, tech, and emotions: How Bo Burnham graduated to “Eighth Grade”

For his first feature, the former YouTuber crowdsourced real 13-year-olds to make his depiction of tech-addled adolescence as authentic as possible.