Many people may consider that they are familiar with the term disruptive Innovation. Before attempting to discuss this topic, it would be prudent to first define what is innovation.
Definition of Innovation
The process of translating an idea or invention into either goods/products or services that creates value or for which customers will pay. Here customers can either be external customers or internal customers for example the ICT team can come up with an innovation which allows finance – accounts payable department process payments faster and efficiently reducing the number of people and time spent in processing.
To be called an innovation, an idea must be replicable at an economical cost and must satisfy a specific need. Innovation involves deliberate application of information, imagination and initiative in deriving greater or different values from resources, and includes all processes by which new ideas are generated and converted into useful products. In business, innovation often results when ideas are applied by the company in order to further satisfy the needs and expectations of the customers.
Definition Disruptive innovation
Disruptive innovation, a term of art coined by Clayton Christensen, who describes it as a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves up market, eventually displacing established competitors
This definition is what derives The theory of disruptive innovation which if applied by an organization, will reduce/eliminate complicated, expensive products and services with simplier and affordable ones.
The Theory of Disruptive innovation demonstrates that thre are actually two different trajectories of performance improvement in every market.
Trajectory one – Sustaining Innovation
This is the trajectory of continual improvement of a product or service that is introduced by companies over time. Although these innovations can be either small and incremental or dramtic breakthroughs they tend to sustain the existing trajectory of performance improvement. Sustaining innovation results in better products that can be sold for higher profits to the best customers.
Trajectory two – Disruptive Innovation
The trajectory of disruptive innovation is made possible because innovation gets started through two types of markets that incumbents overlooks
Low-end footholds
This exists because incumbents typically try to provide their most profitable and demanding customers with ever improving products and services, and they pay less attention to less demanding customers. This opens the door to a disrupter focused(at first) on providing those low-end customers with a “good enough” product.
new-market footholds
This is where a disrupter creats a market where none existed ie they find a way to turn nonconsumers into customers.
Impact of Disruptive Innovation on Value
With disruptive innovation, upstart companies, in an effort to deliver more affordable and accessible solutions are maode to away once dominant firts with alarming regularity, often before the incumbents and their leaders realize that their days are numbered.
Disruptive Technologies And Business-Model Innovations
The starting point of a successful business model is its value proposition: a product or service that helps customers get a job done more effectively, conveniently, and affordably. The role of the managers in this process to bring together a set of resources (people, suppliers, intellectual property – IP, equipment, budget) required to deliver the value proposition. As employees and other resources repeatedly work together to generate the product, processes emerge and become ingrained in the business model. Finally, a profit formula materializes, which defines the pricing, mark-ups, gross and net profit margins, asset turns, and volumes necessary to profitably cover the costs of the resources and processes that are required to deliver the value proposition. Over time, an established business model begins to determine the types of value propositions an organization can and cannot deliver. In other words, once the pieces of a business model have coalesced to deliver a particular value proposition, the causality of events begins to work in reverse—only value propositions that fit the existing resources,processes, and profit formula of the organization can be successfully taken to market
A Typology Of Business Models
In general, business models can be categorized into three types: solution shops, value-adding process businesses, and facilitated user networks.
Solution shops
Solution shops are institutions built to diagnose and solve unstructured problems. Consulting firms, advertising agencies, research and development organizations, and many law firms employ this type of business model. These solution shops deliver value primarily through the people they employ—experts who draw upon their intuition and problem-solving skills to diagnose the cause of complicated problems and recommend solutions—and successful firms are those that can attract the best talent. Solutionshop work tends to be unique for each customer, who is often quite willing to pay very high prices in return.
Value-adding process businesses
These businesses transform inputs of resources, such as people, equipment, raw materials, energy, and capital, into outputs of greater value. The business model is built to do this in repetitive ways so that the organization’s capabilities are embedded more in its processes than in its resources. Although some value-adding process businesses may be more efficient than others, as a whole they focus their attention on process excellence that can deliver high-quality services and products consistently at a lower cost, and they are less affected than other types of businesses are by the variability that occurs when outcomes depend on people’s intuition. Often, results can be guaranteed or redone free of charge. Retailing, restaurants, automobile manufacturing, and petroleum refining are examples of this type of business model.
Facilitated user networks.
User networks are enterprises in which the same people buy and sell and deliver and receive things to and from each other. In these types of businesses, the companies that deliver value and make money are those that facilitate the effective operation of the network and its user transactions. Mutual insurance companies are usernetwork businesses—customers deposit their insurance premiums into a collective pool, and they take claims out of it. Telecommunications companies, which facilitate calls and data transfers among their customers,as well as the online auction site eBay, stock exchanges, and many activities of banks are also user-network businesses.
Conclusion
When moving towards the Disruptive Innovation in an organization, the appropriate solution is to encourage the development of disruptive business models that can assume a greater share of the workload. By coupling technological advances with appropriately matched business models, disruptive innovation can bring about affordability and accessibility to industries ranging from steel making to personal finance. It is also worth pointing out that some organizations have achieved Distruptive innovation through Lean Six Sigma. Lean Six sigma has been the key driver for performance improvement for many companies, including more than 50 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. One CEO from a Fortune 500 copmany pointed out that his company used tactical innovation within the DMAIC methodology to generate the savings needed to fund the strategic or disruptive innovation that was launched at the corporate level.
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Ruth Jones has admitted that Gavin and Stacey viewers might
be left surprised at the Christmas special as she snd James Corden discussed
the final ever episode.
Die-hard fans have been speculating about how the co-creators will round off the show, with the duo giving an insight on Monday.
Many questions remain unanswered since the last episode, including what happened after Nessa’s shock proposal to Smithy.
While the plot for this year’s Christmas special still being kept tightly underwraps, Ruth has revealed
that they are defiantly bring the sitcom to an end.
Speaking in an interview with The Big Issue she said: ‘I keep telling people this finale might not
be what you are expecting. And I guarantee we will definitely not be coming back.’
James added: ‘What people are going to see on Christmas
Day is the culmination of a 20-year love story,
which hopefully shows, if nothing else, that love is complicated and messy and for everyone.’
Ruth Jones has admitted that Gavin and Stacey viewers might be left
surprised at the Christmas special as she snd James Corden discussed the final ever episode (pictured in March)
Die-hard fans have been speculating about how the co-creators will round off the show, with
the duo giving an insight on Monday (James as Smithy, Mathew Horne as Gavin,
Joanna Page as Stacey and Ruth as Nessa)
Elsewhere, one Gavin and Stacey star has confirmed that they will be appearing in the highly-anticipated
Christmas special and dropped a major hint about the final scene.
Steffan Rhodri, known as Dave ‘Coaches’ Gooch on the show, has revealed a small spoiler
about the final episode
Speaking to Metro, he said: ‘My character Dave is
a bit of an outsider but they planned it so that with the last scene we did, which
is the ending, we were all together and it was very touching.’
He added that he can’t say anything else about the Christmas special, but he can confirm that he will be in it.
Steffan missed the 2019 Christmas special, meaning he hasn’t filmed for the show in 17 years.
He said: ‘I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It was like putting on a pair of old trousers.
It was really lovely to hang out with them again.’
Fans know coach driver Dave for his iconic
line about what he will and wont put up with on his coach –
‘fags and weed, glue and speed, but I draws the line at crack’.
But what they may not know is that Steffan based the character on his uncle who is a coach driver with a
similar attitude.
Many questions remain unanswered since the last episode, including what happened after
Nessa’s shock proposal to Smithy
Speaking in an interview with The Big Issue Ruth said: ‘I keep telling people
this finale might not be what you are expecting. And
I guarantee we will definitely not be coming back’
Steffan Rhodri, known as Dave ‘Coaches’ Gooch on the show, has revealed a small spoiler about the final episode earlier this week, revealing that he will
feature
‘When he realised I’d based Dave on him he was quite chuffed,’ the actor
said.
Many questions remain unanswered about the final episode, including what really
happened on that fishing trip with Dave, Bryan and
Jason.
Cast members have been spotted on set filming scenes but have kept filming details a
secret.
It has been reported that the cast and crew have been told to hide their scripts and to be on ‘high alert’ when it comes to leaks.
The Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special airs at
Christmas Day at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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Joker: Folie À Deux director Todd Phillips ‘wanted nothing to do with DC’
during making of the $200million flop film, a new report has claimed.
The hotly-anticipated sequel to the 2019 billion dollar Oscar-winning film – stars Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga and
was considered a surefire hit for Warner Bros Pictures – but was slammed by critics and failed to
ignite at the box office.
The sequel has been roundly criticized for being a musical and ‘ignoring’ the DC fanbase – with an agent familiar with Phillips’ process telling Variety he ‘wanted nothing
to do with DC’ during the making of the film, with DC bosses James Gunn and Peter
Safran notably absent from the film’s LA premiere afterparty last month.
A source said: ‘If the first movie was about some
down-on-his-luck, mentally ill guy in a downtrodden city, it makes maybe
$150 [million] worldwide. Not a billion. People showed
up because that guy was Joker.’
In an apparent snub by Phillips, the opening sequence
of the film does not include a DC Studios logo.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie currently holds an audience score of
31% and a critic score of 32%
The hotly-anticipated sequel to the 2019 billion dollar Oscar-winning
film – stars Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga
– seen with Phillips last month – and was considered a
surefire hit for Warners Bros Pictures – but was slammed by critics and failed to ignite at the
box office
A DC spokesman said Gunn was directing the Max series Peacemaker in Atlanta, which had lost a day of production due to Hurricane
Helene, while Safran was sick.
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Joker: Folie À Deux is branded ‘bleak’ and the ‘most disappointing follow-up’ by critics
A Warner spokesman added that a DC logo appears at the end of the Joker sequel.
while Phillips declined to comment to the publication.
Several frictions are said to have developed between Phillips, DC and Warner- with claims that
Michael DeLuca, Chairperson of Warner Bros.
Entertainment, and CEO Pamela Abdy seemed ‘unwilling’ to say no to Phillips due to his huge past successes.
It is claimed Phillips would ‘only’ speak with DeLuca and Abdy rather
than Gunn and Safran – who took control of DC two months before production began on Joker 2
in December 2022.
Gunn and Safran did attend the first director’s cut screening for the studio but Phillips fueled rift speculation when he told a reporter:
‘With all due respect to them, this is kind of a Warner Bros.
movie.’
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav also met with Phillips shortly after WarnerMedia and Discovery merged in April 2022
and was ‘open to filming in Los Angeles if
the director would make the sequel at a lower price point.’
The studio wanted to film in London which would have cost around 20 per cent
less.
However, Phillips insisted on filming in LA
with the budget remaining static.
The sequel has been roundly criticized for being a
musical and ‘ignoring’ the DC fanbase – with an agent familiar with Phillips’ process telling Variety
he ‘wanted nothing to do with DC’ during the making of the film, with DC bosses James Gunn
and Peter Safran notably absent from the film’s
LA premiere afterparty last month
A Warner spokesman told the publication the studio ‘supported the decision to film in Los Angeles’.
A source directly involved with the film said: ‘No one could get through to Todd.
And the one thing about genre stuff: If you don’t listen and pay attention to what the fan expectations are,
you’re going to fail.
Insiders also claim studio bosses did not want to premiere the film at the Venice
Film Festival, but Phillips pushed back – with a Warner spokesman saying the studio ‘fully supported the decision to bring the
film to Venice.
Joker: Folie À Deux has garnered the lowest CinemaScore in comic book movie history
as the film bombed at the box office on opening night.
It has only made $114million worldwide against its $200million budget.
The psychological musical thriller — which has
been criticized as ‘bleak’ and ‘disappointing’ — officially
released in theaters on Friday, October 4, but it only raked in $20 million at the domestic box office, per The Hollywood Reporter.
Phoenix reprised his role as the Joker in the sequel, which had earned him an Oscar for his portrayal in the 2019 film, while Gaga took on the role of Harleen Lee Quinzel (Harley Quinn).
However, Joker: Folie À Deux has been given a D rating
on CinemaScore — the lowest score for a comic book movie.
Madame Web — which notably also flopped in theaters earlier this year and also received terrible reviews — holds a higher score with a C+.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie currently holds an audience score of 31% and a critic score of 32%.
The sequel is projected to rake in less that $50 million at the domestic
box office during the entirety of opening weekend, per The Hollywood Reporter.
Weeks ago, the movie had been projected to bring in around
$70 million – but the number has since drastically dropped.
Joker (2019) notably opened with $96.2 million when the film first released in theaters – and eventually landed a
little over $1 billion in the global box office.
The first movie – which was also directed by Todd Phillips
– had a budget of between $55 and $70 million. However, the budget increased for Folie À Deux to around $200
million.
The 2019 movie garnered praise and positive reviews from both critics
and audiences – and won the Golden Lion during the 76th Venice International Film Festival.
Joaquin received an Oscar for Best Actor for his
portrayal of the Joker (Arthur Fleck) – and the film garnered an additional Academy Award for
Best Original Score.
The sequel also screened during the Venice International
Film Festival last month in September, where it earned a 12-minute standing ovation, per Deadline.
A source directly involved with the film said: ‘No one could get through to
Todd. And the one thing about genre stuff:
If you don’t listen and pay attention to what the fan expectations
are, you’re going to fail.
However, audiences have since taken to X after
the movie released in theaters on Friday – and shared their opinions on the sequel, which features musical sequences.
One fan penned, ‘Joaquin Phoenix don’t deserve this.
what happened to the script?’ while another added, ‘is it that
bad,’ followed by a crying face emoji.
‘Ironically I feel that a musical, if done well, could have been a good choice.
It’d show how much of an unreliable narrator Fleck is,’ one typed.
‘But with some original songs, that keep everything vague,
not just covers. Also when I heard of the ending I snorted fr.’
A social media user wrote, ‘Stop making sequels as musicals if the original wasn’t a musical.’
‘Maybe he [Phillips] only had an hour long movie, and decided to randomly add musical scenes to fill the runtime,’ one
penned.
‘Joker downfall really needs to be studied,’ another shared,
along with a monkey staring out a window.
One fan said, ‘the movie sucks. i had to
walk out of the cinema,’ while another penned, ‘After years
of disagreement….*Joker 2 releases* Critics [shaking hands] Audience.’
However, audiences have since taken to X after the movie released in theaters on Friday – and shared their
opinions over the sequel, which was also a musical
‘Ironically I feel that a musical, if done
well, could have been a good choice. It’d show how much of an unreliable narrator Fleck is,’ one typed
‘Joker downfall really needs to be studied,’ another shared, along with a
monkey staring out a window
‘That’s way below what we expected,’ one wrote in regards to the current Rotten Tomatoes scores.
‘People are saying this is the worst sequel
ever.’
A fan explained, ‘yea this film was bad. it was
pretentious and dull. has the aesthetic of an arthouse film without
the substance.’
‘It also insults the audience’s intelligence.
the songs were also underwhelming too. they shouldn’t have let this escape to theaters.’
One shared, ‘The audience that loved the first movie is not the same audience running to see musicals.
This was a gigantic mistake from step 1.’
During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Phillips discussed whether he would be interested in making a
third Joker film or a movie centered around Gaga’s character.
‘It’s not really where this movie is headed for me.
I feel like my time in the DC Universe was these two films.’
Ahead of the movie’s release, Lady Gaga also dropped an accompanying album titled Harlequin on September 27.
Joker: Folie À Deux has been branded the ‘most disappointing follow-up to the Oscar-winning movie’ by critics, as they cast doubt on Lady Gaga’s ‘thin’ role in the film following
its release on Friday.
‘That’s way below what we expected,’ one wrote in regards to the current Rotten Tomatoes scores.
‘People are saying this is the worst sequel ever’
A fan explained, ‘yea this film was bad. it was pretentious and dull.
has the aesthetic of an arthouse film without the substance’
The ‘bleak’ sequel, has also received a tepid reception from fans, with some claiming Lady Gaga’s
career could be at risk.
While the same director Todd Phillips was back in the hot
seat, critics have said the sequel is just a ‘repeat’ of the first hit but
with an added musical twist.
Most critics have said Todd failed to use Gaga correctly in the movie and claimed she was only bought
in for the musical aspect of it.
While the majority of critics say Joker: Folie À Deux didn’t
live up to expectations, others have dubbed the movie ‘bold’ and
‘brilliant.’
Daily Mail’s Brian Viner commended the move as ‘bold’ and ‘brilliant’
but said it lacked any thrill.
The Independent’s Geoffrey Macnab said: ‘Today Joker is best remembered as one of the most subversive and original films of the
last decade, while its hugely anticipated sequel is just as bleak and formally daring as
its predecessor’.
Meanwhile, the Irish Times’ Donald Clarke gave the movie
just two stars but credited Phillips’ work for making a sequel following the first movie’s $1billion success.
Financial Times critic Danny Leigh said although
Gaga worked hard to bump the ratings up in the sequel, Phillips appeared to have no
idea what to do with her.
Giving a three star rating, The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw claimed the movie proves ‘claustrophobic’ and ‘repetitive.’
Joker: Folie À Deux has been branded the ‘most disappointing follow-up to the Oscar-winning movie’
by critics, as they cast doubt on Lady Gaga’s ‘thin’ role in the film following its release on Friday;
seen in September in London
The Times’ Kevin Maher wrote: ‘The director Todd Phillips said there would be
no follow-up to the original, but he changed his mind and the result is
a derivative musical’
‘This might be the most disappointing follow-up to an Oscar-winning performance since Anthony Hopkins reworked
his silky and terrifying Dr Lecter from for the campy,
kitschy.’
Along with Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix, other stars that had appeared in the sequel include Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Zazie Beatz and Steve Coogan.
Joker: Folie à Deux has faced additional backlash from fans as they have claimed that Gaga is running
the risk of losing her acting career.
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Lady Gaga showed off her figure while partying
away with her fiancé Michael Polansky in Los Angeles on Monday.
The singer and actress, 38, looked nothing short of sensational in a
figure-hugging black velvet dress as she let loose after walking
the red carpet earlier that evening.
The entertainer managed a quick costume change for her night out following the US premiere of The
Joker: Folie a Deux in California.
Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, opted
for a slinky dress with spaghetti straps in contrast
to her earlier bold look.
The star went for soft make-up and channelled her character Harley Quinn as she kept her bright red locks in loose waves.
Lady Gaga, 38, showed off her figure in a velvet dress as she posed
at the The Joker: Folie à Deux afterparty in Los Angeles on Monday L to R: Lady Gaga, Alexandra Kravetz, Todd Phillips
The star cozied up to her fiancé Michael Polansky (far right),
alongside Brendan Gleeson (left) and director Baz Luhrmann (centre)after putting on a stunning display on the red carpet
Joaquin Phoenix , 49, (right) who had joined the singer on the red carpet earlier that evening was also
spotted partying the night away with director Todd
The Star Is Born actress was spotted smiling with Joker writer and director Todd Phillips and his wife Alexandra Kravetz at the
star-studded after party.
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Lady Gaga stuns in a custom-made gown at the UK premiere of Joker: Folie à Deux
Lady Gaga was also seen cosying up to her fiancé Michael
as she posed alongside actor Brendan Gleeson and director Baz Luhrmann.
The star and her partner seemed in good spirits
and couldn’t help but smiles as they wrapped their arms around each other.
The singer’s partner opted for a casual look
for the event, wearing a navy blue shirt and matching cap.
Gaga stars in the latest Joker installment alongside Joaquin Phoenix, 49, who joined her on the
red carpet earlier that evening.
The singer and actress plays Harley opposite Joaquin’s Joker in the psychological thriller.
The movie serves as a follow-up to Joaquin’s 2019 box office hit, which was simply titled Joker.
The musical is due in theatres on October 4, following an October 2 international release.
Gaga showed off her eclectic fashion sense earlier that evening as she
channeled her character Harley Quinn at The
Joker: Folie à Deux premiere in Los Angeles earlier that evening
The entertainer stars in the forthcoming project as a music therapist at Arkham Asylum and looked sensational as she posed at
the US premiere of her latest project
She rocked bleached eyebrows and sported a red wig as she graced the red
carpet solo. The superstar stepped out in sky-high shiny black platforms
For Monday evening’s appearance in Hollywood at TCL Chinese Theatre, Lady Gaga turned heads in a black gown with billowing, satin, short sleeves
And for Monday evening’s appearance in Hollywood at TCL Chinese Theatre, Lady Gaga turned heads in a black gown with
billowing, satin, short sleeves.
She rocked bleached eyebrows and sported a red wig as she graced the
red carpet solo.
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One month before the sequel’s release date, Joaquin praised Lady Gaga for her
‘impressive’ preparation for the feature film.
During a Venice Film Festival press conference in which he discussed shedding pounds for
Joker, he added: ‘Stefani also lost a lot of weight.
‘I remember when I first met you in rehearsals and
then you went away for like a month and then you came back, you lost a lot
of weight.’
He continued, ‘It was really impressive. It seemed very difficult.’
The singer agreed, ‘I think we transformed into our characters over
a period of time and we continued to hone in every kind
of detail.’
She plays a music therapist at Arkham Asylum in The Joker and said:
‘We rehearsed the waltz in the film for two months which kind of falls apart.’
Joaquin noted about the musical aspect: ‘Part of the joy for
me was to take standards and find a way that was specific to the
characters.
‘That was part of what was interesting for us. We started off
with references like Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr and we started to emulate
that sound.’
The 38-year-old entertainer stars in the forthcoming project
alongside Joaquin Phoenix, 49, who joined her on the red carpet
Phoenix attended the red carpet event in a sleek, tailored black suit with white accents
The stars posed alongside director Todd Phillips, who arrived in a dark gray suit
with a white shirt and black shoes
Joaquin attended the red carpet event in a sleek,
tailored black suit with white accents.
He looked spiffy in the look, which he teamed with white socks and a button-up white shirt with a
thin black tie.
The ensemble was rounded out with shiny, black lace-up dress
shoes and black-rimmed eyeglasses with lightly tinted sepia lenses.
The Walk the Line star’s graying hair was neatly cut with the sides short and longer pieces at the top.
He was typically handsome with a full, closely trimmed
grizzled beard.
Actor Brendan Gleeson, 69, who plays Jackie Sullivan in the movie, wore all-black
The Banshees of Inisherin star was clean-shaven and
he slicked his hair back
Rooney Mara, who has long been in a romantic relationship with Joaquin, was present at Monday’s premiere as she supported her beau.
The mother-of-one, who shares four-year-old son River with the actor, wore a black dress with subtle pleats
along its A-line skirt.
The sleeveless look boasted a strappy neckline and the actress added closed-toe black heels.
The brunette beauty parted her hair down the middle and pulled the locks back into
a neat updo.
Rooney Mara, who has long been in a romantic relationship with Joaquin, was present at Monday’s premiere as
she supported her beau
The brunette beauty parted her hair down the middle and
pulled the locks back into a neat updo
Actor Gregg Daniel flashed a smile as he arrived
at the premiere in a dark suit
Dancer and internet personality Merrick Hanna, 19, was
fashionable in dark slacks and a patterned blazer
The Todd Phillips-directed musical is due in theaters on October 4, following an October 2 international release
Joker, earned more than $1 billion at the global box office and remains the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time.
The second installment sees Arthur Fleck institutionalised at Arkham Asylum, awaiting trial
for his crimes as Joker.
‘While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles
upon true love, but also finds the music that’s always been inside
him,’ a press release shared.
The Los Angeles premiere comes nearly one week after Lady
Gaga announced her album Harlequin, which is a companion album to the movie.
It features a 13-song track list including covers like That’s Life, Oh, When the
Saints, and Smile.
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On Tuesday, Lady Gaga announced her next musical release would be Harlequin,
a soundtrack inspired by her Joker character Harleen ‘Lee’ Quinzel.
The 38-year-old pop diva – who boasts 232.3M social media followers – shared the album cover in an Instagram post captioned: ‘Harlequin. September 27.
A companion album to Joker: Folie à Deux.’
In the accompanying artwork, Lady Gaga (born Stefani Germanotta) was wearing a short
red wig, smeared make-up, a white sheer slip dress, and a red life preserver while seated in a shower.
The standard vinyl version of Harlequin comes with a full-length poster of the
13-time Grammy winner flashing her bra beneath a
sheer T-shirt and panties while removing blue stockings off her feet on a dingy bed.
The vinyl folds out to show Lady Gaga with red lipstick smeared
on her face into a smile just like the Joker while gazing into a mirror.
On Tuesday, Lady Gaga announced her next musical release would be Harlequin, a soundtrack
inspired by her Joker character Harleen ‘Lee’ Quinzel
The 38-year-old pop diva – who boasts 232.3M social media followers – shared the album cover in an Instagram post captioned: ‘Harlequin. September 27.
A companion album to Joker: Folie à Deux’
Only three of the tracks – The Joker, Folie à Deux, and Happy Mistake – appear to be original songs.
By Emma Rumney
LONDON, April 29 (Reuters) – Philip Morris International’s goals for heated tobacco in the United States are
reachable, analysts and investors say, even though rivals see limited potential
in a market where vaping dominates.
The world’s biggest tobacco company by market value will launch its
flagship heated tobacco device IQOS in the U.S.
in the second quarter, developing the brand pretty much from scratch.
IQOS is already the top selling heated tobacco device globally and is central to
PMI’s efforts to transform its image from a cigarette maker to a company driving the shift to healthier options.
In the U.S., heated tobacco is currently almost non-existent in what is one of the largest
markets globally for alternative nicotine products.
PMI wants to get a 10% share of total U.S. cigarette and heated tobacco
volumes within around five years of it launching the latest version of its device, not expected until at least 2025.
To do this would mean switching some 2.8 million U.S. smokers
to IQOS, based on a Reuters analysis of PMI numbers and Barclays forecasts.
Rival British American Tobacco has said it does not see huge
potential for heated tobacco in the U.S. where vaping is dominant.
Two analysts and one investor in PMI told Reuters
they see an opportunity for PMI in the U.S.
“We are all going to be watching this test,” said Bonnie Herzog, analyst at
Goldman Sachs.
PMI has poured most of the more than $12.5 billion it
has spent so far on smoking alternatives into IQOS’ development.
Heated tobacco devices heat up sticks of ground up tobacco without burning them in an attempt to avoid the
harmful chemicals released via combustion.
Its U.S. roll out will be a key test of the device’s
ability to appeal to smokers across different markets.
If successful in the U.S., PMI would get a substantial base of new, profitable users and a
hefty income stream. PMI estimates the total U.S. industry profit pool at around $20 billion.
PMI spokesperson Corey Henry told Reuters the company
has every reason to believe it can replicate successes seen elsewhere with IQOS in the
United States.
“In every market where we have launched IQOS, we’ve heard the same song from competitors. However it isn’t long before those same competitors jump into the category,” he
said.
TRACK RECORD
Reuters used PMI’s most recent annual figures on total IQOS stick sales and total
users to estimate that users on average consume around 4,379 sticks per year.
At that rate, PMI would need around 2.8 million IQOS users in the
U.S. to sell the number of sticks required to achieve its 10% market share goal by 2030.
Barclays forecasts U.S. cigarette and heated tobacco annual sales at around 122.79 billion sticks in 2030.
In Japan, PMI’s largest IQOS market by shipment volume, there
are 8.5 million users, making the U.S. target look manageable.
But vaping is largely absent in Japan due to regulations.
Globally there is little evidence that high vaping rates hurt heated tobacco take-up, research by Bernstein analyst Callum Elliott showed.
“Maybe the 10% … target really could be achievable?” he
wrote in a note.
Brett Cooper, managing partner at equity research firm Consumer Edge, said PMI
can use its track record of IQOS success in several countries
to help it hit its U.S. goals.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorised
PMI to market IQOS as reducing exposure to harmful chemicals versus cigarettes.
The FDA has not done the same for vapes.
As a result, IQOS could have lower taxes, which would help to
ease its relatively high price tag.
The most recent IQOS device costs 109 pounds ($136) in the United Kingdom,
where the packs of tobacco sticks cost around five pounds.
PMI’s former parent, Altria, previously sold IQOS on a limited scale in the
U.S. until 2021. Under Altria, a pack of 20 tobacco sticks cost
roughly equivalent to a packet of Marlboro cigarettes.
Phil Biedron, who worked as an IQOS salesman in Atlanta, Georgia,
said price was a key deterrent for those who tried IQOS.
But generally, the device was well received, said Biedron, who
worked at a marketing agency hired by Altria.
Stefano Volpetti, PMI’s president of smoke-free inhaled products, said the company would not
use price as a lever to grow sales early on.
“Price, at the beginning of establishing a category, is not part of the consideration,” he said, adding
PMI would follow the same approach to pricing in the U.S.
as it had elsewhere.
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Altria used sales people, as well as IQOS stores and pop-up kiosks, to promote the product in the U.S.
– a strategy PMI is unlikely to deviate from significantly,
given it is similar to its approach in other markets.
Cooper from Consumer Edge said raising awareness of IQOS
in the U.S. from almost zero while operating within strict advertising
laws relative to other consumer products will be no mean feat,
and costly.
But there are reasons why PMI, which purchased the U.S.
IQOS rights from Altria back in 2022, may have more success.
The company is currently preparing to launch IQOS in Austin, Texas, where it was not sold by Altria.
Sales of products like IQOS can eat into cigarette revenues as smokers switch,
meaning companies have to balance the success of heated tobacco with the threat this might pose to their core tobacco business.
Crucially, PMI can be more aggressive in the U.S.
because since it was spun off from Altria it has
no U.S. cigarette business.
Sean King, equity analyst at top-20 PMI investor Columbia
Threadneedle, said: “I believe [its targets] are achievable.”
With an estimated $20 billion profit pool up for grabs and
no cigarette revenues to worry about, PMI can put its
firepower behind IQOS success, he said. ($1 = 0.8022 pounds)
(Reporting by Emma Rumney; Editing by Matt Scuffham and Jane Merriman)
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Joker: Folie À Deux has been branded the ‘most disappointing follow-up to the
Oscar-winning movie’ by critics, as they cast doubt on Lady Gaga’s ‘thin’
role in the film following its release on Friday.
The ‘bleak’ sequel, has also received a tepid reception from fans, with
some claiming Lady Gaga’s career could be at risk.
While the same director Todd Phillips was back in the hot seat, critics have said
the sequel is just a ‘repeat’ of the first
hit but with an added musical twist.
Most critics have said Todd failed to use Gaga correctly in the movie and claimed she was only bought in for
the musical aspect of it.
While the majority of critics say Joker: Folie À Deux didn’t
live up to expectations, others have dubbed the movie
‘bold’ and ‘brilliant’.
Joker: Folie À Deux has been branded the ‘most disappointing follow-up to the Oscar-winning movie’ by critics
(Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga pictured in the movie)
While the same director Todd Phillips was back in the hot seat, critics have said the sequel is just a ‘repeat’ of
the first hit but with an added musical twist
Joker: Folie à Deux premiered at the 81st Venice
International Film Festival last month and was
released in the United Kingdom and the United States on Friday.
The Daily Mail’s Brian Viner commended the move as ‘bold’ and
‘brilliant’ but said it lacked any thrill.
Giving the sequel a four star rating, he wrote: ‘This film is audaciously different in style from the original, not as electrifying, but bold and brilliant all the same.
‘Arthur is now behind bars, waiting to see whether he will be judged
sane enough to stand trial for murder, and in the meantime enjoying his celebrity status with fellow prisoners and
even the warders, one of whom, a sadistic Irishman played by
Brendan Gleeson, feeds him cigarettes in return for jokes.
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‘Lady Gaga plays Lee, a fellow inmate on her way, we suppose, to becoming Joker’s girlfriend Harley Quinn.
The pair hit it off at a music therapy class, and are soon mutually
smitten, but Lee makes it clear that she loves the dangerously charismatic Joker, ‘clown prince of crime’, not the gloomily introspective Arthur.
‘Which is more real: the psychopath wearing the mask or
the vulnerable fellow behind it? Either way, identity confusion is the theme of this film, which keeps being billed as a musical.
‘It’s not, really, although music looms large as an expression of
Arthur and Lee’s burgeoning love for one another. And there are
a couple of swooning dance routines that make them look like psychotic versions of Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in La La Land (2016).
‘For me, Joker was a near-masterpiece, and while this sequel doesn’t scale those heady heights,
it is still a gripping film about mental illness; not quite comparable with all-time greats such as Psycho (1960) and
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), but not
too far off.’
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Celine Dion had a hilarious reaction to her hit, My Heart Will Go On, in a new
video this week.
The iconic songstress, 56, who is best known for the 1997 Titanic
soundtrack song, was seen attempting to stream her rendition of Edith Piaf’s Hymne à l’amour – but Siri failed to understand her and instead suggested My
Heart Will Go On.
In the clip, Dion says: ‘Hey Siri, play Hymne à l’amour by Céline Dion?’ with Siri responding: ‘I
cannot find that track by Céline Dion but here is My
Heart Will Go On. ”
A frustrated Dion said: ‘No! Hello, No, no, no, Hey Siri, can you play Hymne à l’amour by Céline Dion please?’
Again, Siri replied: ‘I cannot find that track by Céline Dion but here is My Heart Will Go On.’
Celine Dion had a hilarious reaction to her hit, My Heart Will Go On, in a new video this week
The 1997 chart-topper from the film Titanic is considered Dion’s signature song
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Dion burst out laughing and said ‘never mind!’ before suggesting she ask the question in a strong French accent.
After this Siri responded: ‘Okay, here is ‘Hymne à l’amour by Céline Dion.’
Dion looked shocked before smiling and giving the thumbs up.
In July Dion made a musical comeback with the track at the 2024 Paris Olympic Opening Ceremony amid her battle with incurable condition, stiff-person syndrome.
28 years after making her Olympic debut in 1996 at Atlanta’s stadium, Celine proved she’s still got it following her emotional act in the French city at the Eiffel Tower.
And after bringing fans to tears, Celine reflected on the iconic moment with a heartfelt message on X.
She wrote: ‘I’m honored to have performed tonight, for the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony, and so full of joy to be back in one of my very favorite cities!
‘Most of all, I’m so happy to be celebrating these amazing athletes, with all their stories of sacrifice and determination, pain and perseverance.
In the clip, Dion says: ‘Hey Siri, play Hymne à l’amour by Céline Dion?’ with Siri responding: ‘I cannot find that track by Céline Dion but here is My Heart Will Go On. ” A frustrated Dion said: ‘No!
Hello, No, no, no’
Again, Siri replied: ‘I cannot find that track by Céline Dion but here is My Heart Will Go On’
In July Dion made a musical comeback with the track at the 2024 Paris Olympic Opening Ceremony amid her battle with incurable condition, stiff-person syndrome
‘All of you have been so focused on your dream, and whether or not you take
home a medal, I hope that being here means that it has
come true for you!
‘You should all be so proud, we know how hard you have worked to be the best of the
best. Stay focused, keep going, my heart is with you!
– Celine xx…’
Celine looked incredible in a shimmering silver gown as
she performed in front of the Eiffel Tower.
She gave a rendition of Hymne à L’amour, which was originally
sung by French music icon Edith Piaf.
The song was originally released in 1950 and its title translates into English as
‘Hymn to Love.’
The My Heart Will Go On songstress looked to be on the verge of tears as
she finished the performance to cheers from the crowd,
whilst viewers at home were also left emotional.
Celine Dion