Odd as it may sound, coffee fanatic David Lynch has his own brand of coffee, which comes in three blends (House Blend, Espresso, and French Decaf) and uses organic, fair trade beans. 

The director, whose Twin Peaks made "damn good coffee" a catchphrase, naturally directed the above spot for his coffee and it's, well, perfectly on-brand for the king of quirk. (How Mattel feels about Barbie appearing in it is another matter.)

It's also, it seems, a damn good coffee. According to the UK distributor, a portion of the sales are being donated to the David Lynch Film Scholarship Fund at the American Film Institute.

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After years of litigation between MGA and Mattel, with Barbie-maker Mattel charging copyright violation over the latter's Bratz line of dolls with a former employee, a court has finally found Mattel to be in the wrong.

The corporate espionage case has been brutal, with Mattel winning itself no sympathies with ad hominem attacks, referring to MGA as a "mediocre toy company."

On the (high) heels of news that it will be slammed by a $88 million court decision against it, Mattel is looking to positive areas, including playing nice with the environment with a new green initiative that was announced for Earth Day.Continue reading...

Galia Slayen created the "life-size" Barbie (39" bust, 18" waist and 33" hips) above for an eating disorders awareness event at her college, and stirred up enough debate (she also blogged about it on the Huffington Post) that NBC's Today Show brought her on to talk about the impact the doll had on her growing up. 

“I’m not blaming Barbie [for her own eating disorder] — she’s one small factor, an environmental factor,” the 20-year-old Hamilton College, NY, student said in the segment, below. “I’m blond and blue-eyed and I figured that was what I was supposed to look like. She was my idol. It impacted the way I looked at myself.”Continue reading...

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Mattel celebrates Ken's 50th with web series and new focus separate from Barbie.

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Barbie hits $3 billion in global annual sales as brand shutters China flagship.

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Mattel today closed its flagship Barbie store in China, which opened with a splash less than two years ago.Continue reading...

After waiting a week for all the world to see the latest Harry Potter film… twice, Disney's modern day Repunzel tale Tangled took the top spot at the box office. After a string of years of heavy product placement and brand "jokes" in animated films, a trend toward minimalist product placement in animated children's films has become mainstream. Did Tangled continue the trend or did Disney let down its hair and signal a return to onscreen selling?Continue reading...