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Arriving just days before what can often be a bustling acquisitions marketplace at the Cannes Film Festival, studio chieftains hastily organized war rooms to discuss implications surrounding the tariffs and ponder potential courses of action.
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Chris Lee, Vulture, 5 May 2025
Indeed, calls for higher taxation of millionaires, including corporate chieftains, should not be conflated with calls for higher taxation of corporations.
—Gary Hufbauer, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2011
And while Sony and Universal had been in hot pursuit of Sinners, Warner Bros. co-chairmen/CEOs Pam Abdy and Michael DeLuca were the only back-lot chieftains willing to acquiesce to Coogler’s unusual terms.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
Before boarding the barge in Inverness, travelers can visit Culloden Moor, the scene of the famous 1746 battle, a pivotal moment in Outlander and Clava Cairns, the burial site of a prehistoric clan chieftain, widely believed to have inspired the standing stones of Craigh na Dun in the series.
—Emese MacZko, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
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Chris Lee, Vulture, 5 May 2025
Indeed, calls for higher taxation of millionaires, including corporate chieftains, should not be conflated with calls for higher taxation of corporations.
—Gary Hufbauer, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2011
And while Sony and Universal had been in hot pursuit of Sinners, Warner Bros. co-chairmen/CEOs Pam Abdy and Michael DeLuca were the only back-lot chieftains willing to acquiesce to Coogler’s unusual terms.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
Before boarding the barge in Inverness, travelers can visit Culloden Moor, the scene of the famous 1746 battle, a pivotal moment in Outlander and Clava Cairns, the burial site of a prehistoric clan chieftain, widely believed to have inspired the standing stones of Craigh na Dun in the series.
—Emese MacZko, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
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“Chieftain.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chieftain. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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