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Live and Let Die  (1973) and Licence to Kill  (1989).

In The Nutty Professor  (1996) and Nutty Professor II: The Klumps  (2000).

One word: Fruitopia as it launched in the mid Nineties under the Minute Maid brand and had that trippy psychedelic ads.

Titled "Drugstore", this was directed by Michel Gondry and had two versions when it aired during 1995. See for yourself.

All of these franchises are under the highest-grossing media franchises list from Wikipedia with over $1-2 billion in revenue. Pokémon  -  Pokémon Detective Pikachu  (2019), grossed $433 million Mickey Mouse & Friends  - Get a Horse!  (2013, short film attached to Frozen ), grossed $1.28 billion Winnie the Pooh  - Christopher Robin  (2018), grossed $197.7 million Star Wars  - Star Wars: The Force Awakens  (2015), grossed $2.071 billion Disney Princess  - Beauty and the Beast  (2017), grossed $1.266 billion Anpanman  - Not applicable Barbie  - Barbie  (2023), grossed $1.447 billion Harry Potter/Wizarding World  - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two  (2011), grossed $1.342 billion Marvel Cinematic Universe - Avengers: Endgame  (2019), grossed $2.799 billion Hello Kitty  - Not applicable Call of Duty  - No films to date Batman  - The Dark Knight Rises  (2012), grossed $1.1...

While touchscreen phones/smartphones that already existed before the iPhone, the first notable example is the IBM Simon. Brand - Bellsouth Developed by IBM Manufactured by Mitsubishi Launched August 16, 1994 Discontinued February 1995 50,000 units sold

As the first is in fact the 1989 film The Wizard , which starred Fred Savage and has gained a cult following to this day. It also known for that line "I love the Power Glove. It's so bad."

It opened five days after I was born. December 12, 1996 to be exact. It has gone by various names: Virgin Cinemas (1996-2000), UGC Cinemas (2000-2005), Cineworld (2005-2006), Empire Cinemas (2006-2023) and now Omniplex Cinemas (2024-present).

When launched in 1998 by Dixons, they were Freeserve and was later bought by France Telecom in 2001. Three years later, Freeserve became Wanadoo and then becoming Orange Home in 2006 and is now EE Broadband as a result of the Orange/T-Mobile merger in 2010 that resulted in the EE brand two years later.

So, back in 1963, Ford announced plans to acquire the Italian luxury carmaker as founder Enzo Ferrari wanted to focus more on the racing side of the company and the deal was revealed in full on May 21, where once the acquisition was finalised, the automobile side would be called Ford-Ferrari and the racing side would be called Ferrari-Ford. However, the acquisition never materialised as Enzo, who initially approved it, discovered a clause that the racing team to request its funds from Ford, feeling it would threaten his autonomy. Because of this, Ford would create their own racing car to compete against Ferrari called the GT40.