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What Happens When Reese Witherspoon Calls?
Bloomberg Originals· 2025-12-22 16:20
Are we rolling? >> Because this is good stuff. I got a phone call from her in 2016 asking if I would be interested in running film and television at her new company, Hello Sunshine. Tell me about that phone call. To be honest with you, the very first phone call came from a mutual friend of ours and he said, "Are you interested. Reys wants to know. " And I said, "Does Reese know that I'm 7 and 1/2 months pregnant. " And he said, "She does. " And I said, "Does Reese care I'm 7 and 1/2 months pregnant." And he ...
How North Korea Hid an IT Workforce Inside US Companies | Bloomberg Investigates
Bloomberg Originals· 2025-12-22 09:00
- I was born in South Korea. I read a lot and I was always drawing or painting. I really wasn't much of an outdoor kid.I'm not the girl who has ever dreamed of being part of an international spy ring or whatever it is. - 49-year-old Christina Chapman helped the North Korean government avoid sanctions. - Conspiring in a scheme to defraud the US.- Was running what they called a laptop farm. - Christina Chapman's laptop farm alone generated $17 million. - Computers started showing up at my house.I had no clue. ...
Can France Fix Its Debt Problem?
Bloomberg Originals· 2025-12-19 09:00
In 2019, France watched a national treasure go up in flames. Now, there's a fear that the structures holding up French politics are starting to catch. There is clearly a problem with French public finances.Further worsening of the budget deficit. France's political crisis deepened today. Most French citizens adore their nation's system of social safety nets, but those programs have become increasingly unsustainable.France has the Euro area's largest deficit, massive debt, and every attempt at reform has end ...
The Dangerous Feature in Tesla's Doors | Exclusive Preview
Bloomberg Originals· 2025-12-18 14:30
Dixon went in the house, got the keys, backed out the Cybertruck. Mr. . Dixon was intoxicated and on drugs.These kids were hanging out before Thanksgiving, they'd all come home from college and they were doing what kids do. The Cybertruck rounds a curve and crashes into a tree. A friend of theirs tries to push the buttons to open the passenger side door, both for the front passenger and the back passenger.Nothing happens. Doors are all activated by this low voltage battery that's right up at the front of th ...
Spending a Day at the Disney Entertainment Studios
Bloomberg Originals· 2025-12-17 19:27
This is the front of the iconic Disney lot. And if you look up, the seven dwarves. >> So, this is where the magic happens.>> Welcome to TV animation. >> Today, we're interviewing Dana Walton and one of the most powerful women in Hollywood, co-chair of Disney Entertainment. What do you think it's going to take to lead a 100-year-old company into the next century.Well, I think it's a lot of the things we're doing right now. understanding the consumer, being able to personalize experiences. We're serving fans ...
Inside China’s Controversial $167 Billion Mega-Dam | Exclusive Preview
Bloomberg Originals· 2025-12-17 17:01
For decades, the Three Gorges Dam has stood as a symbol of China’s engineering might. A project so vast that NASA said it measurably altered the Earth’s rotation, making days 0.06% microseconds longer. The Three Gorges Dam generates more electricity than any other power plant on Earth.Enough to light up more than 70 million homes a year. But on the edge of the Himalayas, China is planning something even more ambitious, on a river you may never have heard of. This is the project of the century.The most impre ...
How North Korea Hid an IT Workforce Inside US Companies | Exclusive Preview
Bloomberg Originals· 2025-12-16 14:01
I was born in South Korea. I read a lot and I was always drawing or painting. I really wasn't much of an outdoor kid.I'm not the girl who has ever dreamed of being part of an international spiring or whatever it is. 49-year-old Christina Chapman helped the North Korean government avoid sanctions, >> conspiring in a scheme to defraud the US, >> running what they called a laptop farm. Christina Chapman's laptop farm alone generated $17 million.>> Computers started showing up at my house. I had no clue. >> Chr ...
The High Price of Clemency
Bloomberg Originals· 2025-12-15 09:00
I never expected I'd be part of a Ponzi. I never expected to lose money. You fantasize, you know, you fantasize about.Well, maybe I can buy a bigger house. Or maybe I can send my kids to private school and do things that, you know what I mean, you normally wouldn't do. But that made the pain more hard at the end.He said, "Safe, safe, safe. We are going gangbusters". This is all fake. Like, everything is fictitious.This is a story about a series of crimes that could have easily been prevented. When I found o ...
'Politics Can Be Brutal': Theresa May on Power and Populism | Leaders with Francine Lacqua
Bloomberg Originals· 2025-12-14 09:00
- I always said, when I was home secretary and then prime minister, one of the things I had to do was to learn about the things that I had to forget. Because, as a leader very often there are things you just cannot talk to somebody else about. I think you can never 100% relax because you never quite know when there's gonna be a phone call that you've got to respond to.Virtually every day brings tough moments. - Theresa Mary May has been duly elected to serve as a member for the said constituency. - Theresa ...
Theresa May's Biggest Regret as UK Prime Minister
Bloomberg Originals· 2025-12-13 17:00
I will shortly leave the job that it has been the honor of my life to hold. The second female prime minister, but certainly not the last. I do so with no ill will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love.What's your biggest regret actually for from your time as prime minister. Is there something that you wish you'd done differently or [music] not done. >> I think one of the challenges certainly that we see here for prime ministers is that you do have ...