Adele and Simon Konecki used mediators for divorce

Rebecca Davis editorHugely-popular Chinese video entertainment platform Bilibili is facing an ad boycott from Chinese brands after its airing of a controversial Japanese anime series sparked user criticism that the site appears to tolerate misogynistic comments and content.The controversy comes just months ahead of an expected secondary listing of Bilibili shares in Hong Kong.

Disney CEO Bob Chapek anticipates Disneyland and other parks in 2022 may be mask free and without onerous social distancing for a Covid free, vaccinated populace.

Shares of KuaishouTechnology, China’s second-most popular short-form video app behind TikTok owner ByteDance, rocketed nearly 300 percent Friday in their debut on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Shortly after the opening bell, the stock was selling at more than HK$330, nearly triple the initial public offering list price of HK$115 and valuing the company at $179 billion.

The return of the king.

Vivienne Chow Hong Kong cinema operators and filmmakers are crying for help following a government announcement on Monday that COVID-19 social distancing measures will remain in place until Feb. 17.

Vivienne Chow Hong Kong auteur Stanley Kwan will be featured as the filmmaker-in-focus at the Hong Kong International Film Festival.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefHong Kong-based boutique distributor Lightning International has acquired the U.K.’s documentary streaming service Docsville.Docsville was set up and launched in 2018 by award- winning documentary maker Lawrence Elman and Nick Fraser who had previously been a high-profile executive with the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Angelina Jolie was back at her beloved Target with an important assistant on hand to help her pick up the essentials. Her 12-year-old son, Knox Jolie-Pitt, was spotted steering the shopping cart during their January 24 trip to the superstore and he looked so old. Even while wearing a protective face mask, the tween is now the spitting image of his famous father, Brad Pitt. Just take a look at Knox in the photos below and you’ll totally agree.

Judd Apatow has shown a skill for crafting vehicles for offbeat comic personalities that channel elements of their lives and the things that make them so appealing. After doing this with Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer, Apatow channeled the slacker charm and energy of Pete Davidson, the Saturday Night Live cast member who as a child lost his firefighter father in 9/11.

Adele has reached a divorce settlement with her estranged husband Simon Konecki almost two years after they separated. The chart-topping singer, 32, is believed to have used mediators to carve up her impressive £140 million fortune which includes a £347 million property portfolio, according to Us Weekly.Adele filed for divorce in September 2019 in Los Angeles, and court records show she filed a judgment packet earlier this month.

Watch: Adele finalises divorce from Simon KoneckiAdele and her former husband Simon Konecki have reached a divorce settlement. It comes almost two years after the Hello singer and the charity entrepreneur went their separate ways.

Adele and her estranged husband, Simon Konecki, have agreed on a divorce settlement. The 'Hello' hitmaker and the charity boss - who are parents to eight-year-old son Angelo - filed a judgement packet on Friday (15.

Adele and Simon Konecki‘s marriage is one step closer to being officially over.

Vivienne Chow Documentary feature “Inside the Red Brick Wall,” which chronicles one of the most dramatic chapters of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, bagged the best film at the 27th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.The best director prize went to Peter Chan Ho-sun for “Leap,” a sports drama based on the trajectory of China’s national women volleyball team.

Vivienne Chow Twenty-nine projects from across Asia have been selected to take part in March’s Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), which will go virtual for the second time.Scheduled to take place March 15-17, 2021, HAF will run concurrently with the Hong Kong FilMart. Both events were postponed last year to August due to the pandemic and eventually migrated online.They will return to their usual March slot this year in tweaked virtual format.

Vivienne Chow The Hong Kong government will provide another $361 million (HK$2.8 billion) to rescue city’s troubled Ocean Park, which has seen losses increased by the effect of COVID-19. The venture is to be transformed from a traditional theme park into a travel destination and marine conservation hub that can be financially self-sufficient.The park will receive a one-off injection of $251 million (HK$1.67 billion) as working capital.

A Hong Kong Internet service provider on Thursday said it had blocked access to a pro-democracy website to comply with the city’s national security law. In a statement emailed on Thursday, Hong Kong Broadband Network said that it had disabled access to HKChronicles, a website that compiled information on "yellow" shops that supported the city’s pro-democracy movement and released personal information and pictures of police and pro-Beijing supporters during anti-government protests in 2019.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A talented musician who emigrated from Paisley to Hong Kong to pursue his career died suddenly on New Year’s Day.Davie Colquhoun had planned to return home to the town for good later this year.Tributes have flooded in from both the former colony and back home from his Paisley pals.The guitarist and singer - who died aged 72 of a suspected asthma attack - had become something of a celebrity of the Far