Netflix and Disney Plus Are Taking Different Tracks in Asia-Pacific (Report)

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Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific will fully reopen next week with capacity capped at 25 percent, officials announced on Friday.

Naman Ramachandran Netflix has acquired worldwide rights, with some exclusions, for “The Personal History of David Copperfield” star Dev Patel’s directorial debut “Monkey Man.” The streamer is thought to have paid around $30 million for the film.The rights agreement excludes Spain, Latin America, Iceland, Former Yugoslavia, Poland, Russia and Baltic States, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Pan-Asian PTV and China, where there are pre-existing deals.In the India-set film, Patel plays an unlikely hero who

Naman Ramachandran Indian government body, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, has sent a notice to Netflix calling on it to stop streaming “Bombay Begums,” on the grounds that the original series could incite “abuse and exploitation.”The notice, issued on Thursday, demands that Netflix stop streaming the series, which bowed on March 8, within 24 hours, and provide a detailed action report, failing which “the Commission will be constrained to initiate appropriate action”

Naman Ramachandran Most Paramount Plus content will be housed exclusively on Viacom18’s streamer Voot Select in India, alongside new programming from Showtime and other CBS content.“As Paramount Plus rolls out globally, we’ll (need) to work a strategy there to sort of see what decisions we make for the India market,” Ferzad Palia, head, Voot Select and international business, Viacom18, told Variety.

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Netflix has unveiled an enormous slate of 40 film and TV titles targeting the fast-growing Indian streaming market at a gala event held Wednesday in Mumbai. Dubbed "See What’s Next India 2021," the gathering was hosted by Netflix's top two executives in the country, Monika Shergill, vp of content for Netflix India, andSrishti Behl Arya, director of international original film.

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The Terminator is going anime with a new series at Netflix.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefVeteran producer and executive Jessica Kam-Engle has been appointed by The Walt Disney Company to head content and development in the Asia Pacific region. The hire is one of several management changes across the company’s media and entertainment distribution segment, which includes the direct-to-consumer, studio distribution, media networks, and content distribution businesses.Until last year Kam-Engle was head of original production at HBO Asia.