Disney CEO Bob Chapek – Asked About Gina Carano Firing – Says He Doesn’t See Company As “Left-Leaning Or Right Leaning”

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe European Film Promotion organization is poised to return to Hong Kong’s FilMart with a virtual booth that befits this year’s online-only edition of the film rights market.

Rust players are being warned that their server data may be lost, as a datacentre fire caused irreparable damage.The OVH Datacentre in Germany caught fire in the early hours of the morning on Wednesday (March 10). Servers fell offline immediately, as one of the buildings was totally destroyed while others were damaged.All staff were safely evacuated and eventually the fire was brought under control, but 25 servers remain lost, with no way to retrieve this data.

Disney CEO Bob Chapek responded to a shareholder on Tuesday who accused Tinseltown, as well as the multimillion-dollar company, of a double standard in firing Gina Carano due to her political affiliation.

After Amazon Prime signed deals for soccer rights in the U.K. and Germany and is now eyeing more Thursday night NFL games, Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei sees the streaming giant spearheading an accelerated push by Big Tech platforms for more international sports rights.

EXCLUSIVE: 300: Rise Of An Empire and The Departed producer Gianni Nunnari of Hollywood Gang Productions and producer Andre L III of MiLu Entertainment have acquired rights to Cuban author and journalist Armando Lucas Correa’s well-received novel The German Girl, which they are developing as an international TV series.

Bill Burr has some thoughts about Gina Carano’s firing from The Mandalorian!

You may not recognize her name, but actress Barbara Sukowa has pretty much seen it all over her long career. She was the muse of acclaimed filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder and has worked with directors such as David Cronenberg, Lars von Trier, Sebastián Lelio, and Agnieszka Holland.

who was recently fired from the Disney+ show over controversial tweets. The 38-year-old mixed martial arts pioneer — who played ex-stormtrooper Cara Dune on the “Star Wars” spinoff — had tweeted in February that the treatment of conservatives in Hollywood was akin to that of Jews in Nazi Germany.

BBC will rerun every episode of Fawlty Towers - but racist remarks from one of the characters will be removed. All 12 episodes of the popular comedy series will air from March 15 as part of the broadcasters Festival of Funny.

Nick Jonas' wife, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, inspired his new music, or at least her absence did. The 28-year-old singer and actor appeared on Tuesday's where he opened up about his upcoming album, and how the past year of quarantine amid the pandemic influenced his music. «I sort of started writing this record back in July.

Stand-up comedian Bill Burr isn’t a fan of cancel culture and he’s made that known before, most recently during his October Saturday Night Live monologue.

Bill Burr is the first actor from The Mandalorian to defend his former co-star Gina Carano after she was fired from the Disney+ show.