Sat 09 July 2022: Sennheiser, a German audio company, has teamed with Netflix to deliver spatial audio to its entire collection for its more than 221 million subscribers worldwide. Netflix said that spatial audio will help translate the cinematic experience of immersive audio to any stereo, “so the work creators do to bring you into […]
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Mon 27 June 2022: Streaming giant Netflix, which has laid off 450 employees in two tranches so far, is set to launch an ad-supported tier by the end of the year to reduce its losses and bring more users on to the platform. According to Hollywood Reporter, co-CEO of Netflix Ted Sarandos indicated during the […]
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Sun 19 June 2022: It has been several weeks since the verdict of the Heard vs. Depp trial; however, it seems that the aftermath will have long-term effects on several issues, as specialists point out. What happened in the courtroom? In 2018, Heard penned her now-infamous op-ed in The Washington Post, claiming she experienced domestic abuse […]
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Mon 13 June 2022: The United Arab Emirates today banned the public screening of the Walt Disney-Pixar animated feature film ‘Lightyear’ in cinemas ahead of its release this week, Reuters reported a government body saying. The Ministry of Youth and Culture’s Media Regulatory Office wrote on Twitter that the film violated the country’s media content standards, without specifying […]
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Sat 10 June 2022: Canadian superstar Justin Bieber says a rare disorder has paralysed half of the performer’s face and is the reason behind his tour postponement. The multi-Grammy winner is suffering from Ramsay Hunt syndrome, he told his friends in an Instagram post. Bieber’s announcement comes after he cancelled his shows in Toronto and […]
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Fri 10 June 2022: Mark Ruffalo, an award-winning Hollywood actor, has signed a petition protesting PayPal’s refusal to give services to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. “Paypal operates in Israel’s illegal settlements—but is refusing to provide service to Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank, in direct violation of UN guidelines,” the 54-year-old tweeted […]
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Muslims protesting outside Cineworld Bradford on Monday evening against the screening of the film. Sun 05 June 2022: In Blackburn, a demonstration was staged against a film that is believed to incite “Shia and Sunni tensions.” The Lady of Heaven is a British film directed by Eli King and written by cleric Yasser Al-Habib. Filming […]
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Thu 02 June 2022: The historical epic ‘Samrat Prithviraj’, which stars Akshay Kumar in the titular role, has been banned in Kuwait and Oman. The film tells the story of king Prithviraj Chauhan, who fought valiantly to protect India from the merciless invader Muhammad of Ghor. A senior trade source on conditions of anonymity said, […]
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Tue 31 May 2022: Iran on Monday rejected as “biased and political” last week’s award at Cannes for a film about a serial killer who targeted sex workers in an Iranian Shiite shrine city. Iranian Zar Amir Ebrahimi won the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday for her performance in the […]
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Sat 28 May 2022: A film set in the working class suburbs of the northern French city of Boulogne-sur-Mer has won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard competition at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday. The Worst Ones, directed by Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret, explores the challenges of street casting, telling the story of […]
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