Morning Update: Keven Spacey in the new Call of Duty ad; Lawyers write to Barack Obama over ‘racist’ Top Gear

Miranda Ward

May 5, 2014 8:16

This is our Morning Update, rounding up international media and marketing news from while you were sleeping.

AdWeek: Ad of the Day: Yes, That’s Kevin Spacey in the New Call of Duty Commercial

“On Thursday, Complex and a few other outlets found a SoundCloud file, with no context attached, of somebody who sounded an awful lot like Kevin Spacey delivering a bad-guy-sounding monologue about democracy—and not really being into that particular form of government so much. Complex originally hypothesized it was a viral campaign for House of Cards.

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Miranda Ward

Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.