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Little Expressions on the Big Screen

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 28.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, marketing
Summary | The Emoji movie tells the story of a "meh" emoji named Gene who can express more emotions than just the blasé feeling. The emoji leader wants to get rid of Gene because of his versatility. The movie is idiotic, and shows that Hollywood still thinks that the idiotic can seem less so just by hiring famous actors and by polishing it up a little.
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Emoji Art, From 'Moby-Dick' to Hollywood

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 29.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, marketing, smartphone
Summary | The Emoji movie represents our consumerist and capitalist society, where big tech companies try to sell their products to children. Before emojis made it to Hollywood, other artists used them. For instance, Emoji Dick is a translation of the book Moby Dick; Book from the Ground is a book written in pictograms; Boring Angel video is a video from the internet artist John Michael Boling, which shows a series of emojis; Garden of Emoji Delights represents The ''Garden of Earthly Delights'' (Renaissance work of art) with layers of hundreds of emoji; and finally, the MoMa acquired the original set of emojis for its permanent collection.
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'The Emoji Movie' Draws Audiences

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 31.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, marketing
Summary | The Emoji movie (Sony) surprisingly became a box office success, despite critics that hated the movie. But we people should not underestimate the taste of American people. Sony already had other successes this summer: ''Baby Driver'' and ''Spider-Man: Homecoming''. The Emoji movie cost about 50 million dollars to make.
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Marketers Let Emojis Say It With Pictures

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 7.3.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, marketing
Summary | The brand Durex proposed a new condom emoji to communicate safe sex, but the Unicode Consortium has yet to approve the proposal. Brands are aware of the power of emojis, so they want to create new emojis that represent their brand. Big companies such as Coca-Cola, Disney, or Starbuck have paid Twitter a lot of money to see special emojis representing them. Emojis can also be used to promote movies (e.g. Deadpool).
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