Lazada, Alibaba's SE Asian arm, named its third CEO in three years; sources say company's middling performance after losing ground to rival Shopee led to change — SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Southeast Asian e-commerce firm Lazada, a unit of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) …
For posts about voting, Facebook says it will attach labels that will direct users to accurate election and voting information on its Voter Information Center — Posts about voting will direct viewers to accurate information, and violations from important political figures will be marked “newsworthy.”
Enlarge / We'll have to wait a little bit longer for Disney's hotly anticipated live action remake of Mulan (credit: YouTube/Disney)
The murmurs this past week were true: Deadline Hollywood reports that Disney has decided to bump the release date of its live action remake, Mulan, from July 25 to August 21, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to flare up around the world. It is not unexpected: theaters still haven't re-opened in China, with no concrete dates for re-openings in New York and Los Angeles, either. Without those major markets, the financials just don't work.
“While the pandemic has changed our release plans for Mulan and we will continue to be flexible as conditions require, it has not changed our belief in the power of this film and its message of hope and perseverance,” Alan Horn, co-chairman and chief creative officer, and Alan Bergman, co-chairman, The Walt Disney Studios, said in a statement. “Director Niki Caro and our cast and crew have created a beautiful, epic, and moving film that is everything the cinematic experience should be, and that’s where we believe it belongs – on the world stage and the big screen for audiences around the globe to enjoy together.”
As Deadline notes, "The good news here for exhibition is that Disney has a plan to open Mulan in the near future, close to Tenet and not during the holidays or 2021 (or even on Disney+, for that matter)."
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Newzoo report: global games market to generate revenue of $159.3B in 2020, up 9.3% YoY, with Asia-Pacific region alone generating $78.4B — The following free report boasts high-level takeaways from our 2020 Global Games Market Report, featuring a detailed breakdown of the market in terms of revenue and gamer forecasts per segment.
Melanie Scrofano returns as the titular gunslinging, demon-hunting heroine in S4 of SyFy's Wynonna Earp.
The SyFy series Wynonna Earp has trod a rocky road on the way to its fourth season, much to the frustration of its loyal fanbase ("Earpers"). First, the start of S4 production was delayed until late 2019, due to financial troubles at IDW Entertainment. Shooting finally commenced this past January in Alberta, Canada, and was nearly complete when the coronavirus pandemic led to the shutdown of all film and TV productions. Showrunner Emily Andres and her determined team have nonetheless managed to complete the season, and we now have the first trailer (uncensored, with colorful language fully intact), and an air date: July 26, 2020.
(Some spoilers for first three seasons below.)
The original comic book series created by Beau Smith in 1996 had Wynonna roaming the world hunting down revenants and other demons; the TV series mostly keeps her in her hometown of Purgatory (primarily for budgetary reasons). As I wrote when S3 wrapped way back in October 2018, Wynonna is the the Anti-Buffy: "She's a hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, promiscuous, bar-brawling free spirit with a chip on her shoulder. She never even had a shot at being Homecoming Queen in high school."
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Brands' ad boycott of Facebook has been uneven, with some continuing to funnel money into Instagram, and third-party apps via the Facebook Audience Network — Yesterday, Verizon became the latest company to join a corporate chorus boycotting Facebook advertisements in July as part …
Sources: DOJ has been meeting with developers to discuss Apple's rules that require apps to use its App Store payment system for subscriptions — - Developers complain they're locked in to Apple payment system — Apple inquiry progresses as DOJ poised to file Google lawsuit
Greg Bensinger / Reuters : The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its ...
