In March 2026, at the Paris stop of a global exhibition commemorating the tenth anniversary of The Monsters, Chinese collectibles company Pop Mart and Sony Pictures Entertainment confirmed that a Labubu film was in the works. The film will be a hybrid of live action and computer-generated animation, with Paul King, the filmmaker behind Paddington and Wonka, attached to direct and produce; a screenplay written by the character's creator Kasing Lung and Steven Levenson; and no

For much of the twentieth century, design and business occupied different institutional worlds. Designers are trained in art academies to develop form, craft, and visual sensibility; managers are trained in business schools to optimize capital, operations, and markets. The two professions only met at the commission and often misunderstood one another when they did. Now that division has fallen apart. Global consultancies acquire design studios, technology companies place desi