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Netflix puts 'Fortnite' in crosshairs as streaming wars heat up
San Francisco — Netflix, moving to fend off the challengers in the war for streaming media dominance, is taking aim at competitors from the video game world, notably "Fortnite."The dominant online television service has begun efforts to become more interactive as part of an effort to keep its viewers from turning to service like Epic Games' Fortnite and Microsoft Xbox video games.Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings spoke of competition from the video game sector this month as he discussed the quarterly results from the company with 140 million worldwide subscribers."I think about it really as us winning entertainment time away from other activities... Xbox, 'Fortnite,' or HBO or a long list," Hastings said."We compete so broadly with all these...
January 27, 2019

Netflix puts 'Fortnite' in crosshairs as streaming wars heat up

Pichayapa
Thai pop idol condemned for Nazi swastika T-shirt
Bangkok — A member of Thailand's most popular all-girl band has apologized for wearing a shirt with a Nazi flag featuring a swastika, after her TV appearance Friday drew "shock and dismay" from the Israeli embassy.Images of Hitler, swastikas and other Nazi regalia are fairly commonplace on T-shirts and memorabilia in Thailand, a phenomenon blamed on a lack of historical understanding rather than political leanings.The latest faux pas was committed by Pichayapa "Namsai" Natha, one of the singers of BNK48, when she wore the red-and-black top complete with swastika during the group's rehearsal.The deputy chief of mission of the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok took to Twitter the following day to express "shock and dismay" at the outfit, given that Sunday is...
January 27, 2019

Thai pop idol condemned for Nazi swastika T-shirt

People admire the Sotheby’s New York display of the only privately owned collection of every Supreme skate deck ever manufactured for the online-only sale “20 Years of Supreme” in New York. — AFP
Supreme skateboard collection auctioned for $800,000
New York — A collection of all 248 skateboards produced by streetwear brand Supreme has been sold for a record $800,000 at a Sotheby's online auction.Supreme, founded by British designer James Jebbia and established in 1994 in New York's Soho neighborhood, gained a special status among skateboarding connoisseurs with its streetwear-inspired clothing.Starting in 1998, it also began offering quality, limited-series boards designed by big-name artists like Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Richard Prince.The collection, sold in a two-week online auction that ended Friday, included Louis Vuitton-monogrammed decks, a series of Last Supper decks and a tribute to Nike Air Jordan sneakers.Also in the collection was a custom-made Louis Vuitton trunk worth several thousand dollars.The entire...
January 27, 2019

Supreme skateboard collection auctioned for $800,000

A robot waiter serves customers at a cafe in Budapest, Hungary. — Reuters
Robots serve up food and fun in Budapest café
Budapest — The robots at the Enjoy Budapest Cafe can do it all — they can serve up food and drink, tell jokes, dance with the kids or just hang out for a chat with customers.The cafe, opened by IT company E-Szoftverfejlesztő in the Hungarian capital, is staffed by a whole team of robots that aim to help familiarize the public with the technological revolution in automation and artificial intelligence. — Reuters
January 27, 2019

Robots serve up food and fun in Budapest café

Michel Legrand
French Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand dies aged 86
Paris — Prolific French composer Michel Legrand, who won three Oscars and five Grammys during a career spanning more than half a century, died Saturday aged 86, his spokesman said.Legrand lived in a musical whirlwind, with the same appetite for popular music to jazz, from conducting to film."Since I was a child, my ambition has been to live completely surrounded by music, my dream was to not miss anything, which is why I have never focused on a single musical discipline," he said.He first won an Academy Award in 1969 for the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from the film "The Thomas Crown Affair".He followed that with Oscars for his music for "Summer of '42" in 1972 and for "Yentl" in 1984.Legrand, who had been scheduled to stage...
January 26, 2019

French Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand dies aged 86

Attorney Benjamin Brafman attends a hearing for film producer Harvey Weinstein in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City. — Reuters
Judge OKs new Harvey Weinstein lawyers who once represented accuser
New York — A New York state judge on Friday approved Harvey Weinstein's overhaul of his legal team to defend him against criminal sexual assault charges, though two of his new lawyers represented one of the disgraced Hollywood mogul's most vocal accusers, actress Rose McGowan.At a Manhattan court hearing, Weinstein told Judge James Burke he accepted the potential conflicts of interest that Jose Baez and Ronald Sullivan might have from recently representing McGowan in a Virginia drug possession case, where she pleaded no contest. — Reuters
January 26, 2019

Judge OKs new Harvey Weinstein lawyers who once represented accuser

Chinese actor Gao Yunxiang leaves the Downing Center court in Sydney, Australia. — REuters
Chinese movie star pleads not guilty to assault in Australia
Sydney — Chinese movie actor Gao Yunxiang and a producer pleaded not guilty in an Australian court on Friday to charges of sexual assault, setting the course for a trial later this year, a court official said.Gao and Chinese producer Wang Jing both entered the pleas during a short procedural hearing at the New South Wales state District Court and a judge booked the matter for a six-week trial starting in October, the court spokeswoman said. — Reuters
January 26, 2019

Chinese movie star pleads not guilty to assault in Australia

Oliver Mtukudzi
Zimbabwe declares popular musician Mtukudzi national hero
Harare — President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared Zimbabwe's internationally renowned musician Oliver Mtukudzi a national hero on Thursday, granting him a status following his death that has been a preserve for ruling party elites and independence veterans.Mtukudzi, 66, and affectionately known as "Tuku", died at a local clinic on Wednesday from diabetes, ending a career that spanned four decades and 67 albums. — Reuters
January 26, 2019

Zimbabwe declares popular musician Mtukudzi national hero

Chris Brown
Singer Chris Brown files slander case over Paris rape allegation
Paris — American singer Chris Brown filed a legal complaint for defamation after a woman accused him of rape in Paris, his lawyer said. Brown, 29, denied the accusation. He was released this week after one night in police custody and no charges were brought against him. — Reuters
January 26, 2019

Singer Chris Brown files slander case over Paris rape allegation

Directed by Saudi filmmaker Samir Aref, ‘Boxing Girls’ is the screenwriting debut of Afnan Alqasimi, and stars a slew of well-known names in Arab entertainment, including Fatima Al Hosani, Ali Al Sherif and Shaifan Al Otaibi. — Courtesy photo
Young Saudi women take center-stage in brand-new TV drama
Abu Dhabi — MBC Studios is unveiling ‘Boxing Girls’, a brand-new Arabic-language drama produced by O3 Productions and twofour54 Abu Dhabi.Directed by Saudi filmmaker Samir Aref, ‘Boxing Girls’ is the screenwriting debut of Afnan Alqasimi, and stars a slew of well-known names in Arab entertainment, including Fatima Al Hosani, Ali Al Sherif and Shaifan Al Otaibi.The program places young people at the center of the gripping story, as well as behind the scenes.Teams with both O3 Productions — which falls under MBC Studios — and twofour54 spent two months shooting in Abu Dhabi across locations in the UAE capital, before moving to Riyadh to complete the second phase of production.As well as the series benefitting from twofour54’s award-winning production and post-production...
January 23, 2019

Young Saudi women take center-stage in brand-new TV drama

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