Shanghai Disneyland To Reopen This Week

Gilla Band, who were previously called Girl Band, have today (July 14) unveiled details of a new album.‘Most Normal’ will arrive on October 8 via Rough Trade and the band have also today shared the first single from this, ‘Eight Fivers’.The video for the song, which you can watch below, was animated and directed by Mortis Studios with Ruben Hernandez.Speaking about the new song, singer Data Keily said in a statement: “‘Eight Fivers’ is about being out of touch with modern circumstances while feeling socially limited.“Never fitting in and kind of proud of it. Stuck with what I have and happy for it.

Ellise Shafer Shinzo Abe, a former prime minister of Japan, was apparently shot during a campaign speech on Friday in Nara, according to the Associated Press and NHK public television.NHK camera footage showed him collapsed on the street, holding his chest, with the broadcasting corporation reporting that he is experiencing heart failure. Abe was rushed to the hospital following the incident and a male suspect has been arrested at the scene on the suspicion of attempted murder, according to NHK.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefWildBrain CPLG, a leading entertainment, sport and brand-licensing agency, has been appointed by Peanuts Worldwide as the exclusive licensing agent for the Peanuts brand in parts of Asia-Pacific.   The companies already have a licensing relationship in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and, more recently, India.

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran talent agent Matt Jackson has joined MSA Agency as Vice President of the West Coast Theatrical Division, as the agency expands into representation of actors in TV and film.

Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez was committed to not missing her pre-holiday workout.The 52-year-old, Emmy award-winning journalist took to Instagram to show us one of the impressive workouts that keep her looking fab, fit and toned. In the video, which played the Miley Cyrus’ song - ‘Party In The U.S.A.’ -the perfect song for the patriotric holiday - we can see Lauren and her trainer in the background while she is doing dumbbell presses on a bench, dips on a parallette bars, and other exercises.

Russell Martin will be preparing his Swansea City side for the season ahead as training begins again this week. The club will be aiming to compete for a play-off place this Championship campaign after a transitional year under the ex-MK Dons boss.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefNi Kuang, one of Hong Kong’s most distinguished screenwriters and novelists, has died. He was 87.He died on Sunday in Hong Kong, with local media reporting skin cancer as the cause of death.Ni wrote some 300 screenplays, many in the martial arts genre and many for the Shaw Brothers studio with co-writer Chang Chen. He wrote the scripts for classic films “The 36th Chamber of Shaolin” and “One Armed Swordsman” and had a hand in two of Bruce Lee’s six movies “The Big Boss” and “Fist of Fury” though the writing credit went to Wei Lo.As a novelist, Ni wrote the “New Adventures of Wesley” a series of detective stories that often featured aliens and extra-terrestrial creatures.

Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos enjoyed a solo date night at Nobu for Father’s Day, but they went back to the celebrity hot spot this week, this time with all of his kids. The Emmy award-winning journalist looked stunning in a beige dress with matching heels and an orange purse while Jeff rocked a light blue button-up with navy pants and white sneakers.The billionaire shares three sons and one daughter with his ex-wife Mackenzie Scott.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Shanghai Disneyland theme park will reopen to visitors later this week, park management announced on Tuesday. Tickets will go on sale Wednesday, ahead of a resumption of operations on Thursday.The park was shuttered on March 21, 2022, as city authorities tried to contain the fast-spreading omicron variant of the COVID-19 disease.Management said that the park will see a “careful ramp up of operations.” In the first stage of reopening it will resume operations with limited daily capacity and enhanced health and safety protocols.” These will include unspecified capacity limits.

Olivia Rodrigo has one thing to say to the Supreme Court Justices who horrifically overturned Roe v. Wade – “f**k you.”

Elle di Elle (Fatma Mohamed) and her collaborators Billy Rubin (Asa Butterfield) and Lamina Propria (Ariane Labed), all of whom rise, walk and smoke in sync — at first, anyway, before the friction and infighting begins — the prospect of freedom to create their specialized brand of performance is a dream come true. Together they pantomime the process of grocery shopping, attach microphones, effects-generating equipment and amps to their prep stations, then chop and cook vegetables like stylish monks in materialist prayer.But Elle di Elle is a control queen to rival The Fall’s Mark E.

Oli Sykes and Alice Longyu Gao have announced the release of a new collaborative track, ‘Believe The Hype’.In a video posted to Instagram on Tuesday (June 21), the Bring Me The Horizon frontman and Chinese electro-pop artist teased the release of their upcoming collaboration while covered in silver paint on what looks like a video set.“Hi guys it’s bad gal Alice… and I’m Oliver from Bring Me The Horizon,” the pair begin the clip. Longyu Gao continues: “Our new song ‘Believe The Hype’ is about to come out.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Universal Beijing Resort will begin to restart operations from Saturday (June 25, 2022) after being closed for nearly two months due to COVID. The resort, which includes a theme park, two hotels and a Citywalk retail-entertainment area, closed on May 1 as COVID cases resurfaced in the Chinese capital after months of abeyance. Plans to reopen from June 15 were previously announced, but these were scrapped when the COVID wave flared up again.

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez have great taste. On Sunday, the couple headed to celebrity hotspot Nobu in Malibu, California, for what looks like a Father’s Day dinner.