In less than two weeks since its release, Avengers Endgame has amassed a whopping US$2 billion at the box office worldwide. The movie set a record with its opening weekend haul of US$1.2 billion. Endgame is the conclusion of 22 Marvel movies that have been released over the past 10 years and is the defining cultural phenomenon ...
Recently, it was rumored that popular television host Larry King was hospitalized due to a heart attack and cardiac arrest. However, his publicists have denied the rumors and said that the 85-year-old was hospitalized for a different reason. King had already scheduled an angioplasty procedure that was aimed at easing blood flow through the artery. ...
HBO TV series Game of Thrones is the most popular show right now, with millions of fans across the world. The show, based on the book series A Song of Fire and Ice, covers political intrigue in a fictional world where several clans fight for control over the central kingdom. Interestingly, the show is quite ...
Winnie the Pooh may be the honey-loving and cuddly bear of the Hundred Acre Wood that people worldwide know and love. But he’s getting no love in China, particularly from President Xi. The reason behind Winnie the Pooh’s censorship Of all the things that China has banned, the censorship of Winnie the Pooh is one ...
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) obsession with censorship has now resulted in a complete ban of all costume drama series from TV. The shows were banned because they lead impressionable young Chinese onto “wrong paths.” Banning TV dramas Since 2012, the Chinese government has placed strict rules on broadcasting palace dramas. Such shows only account ...
China has one of the most heavily censored movie industries in the world, thanks to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). However, Beijing’s censoring of any content that violates the CCP’s ideologies means that Chinese movies do not get the same level of international appreciation that Hollywood films do. After all, people go to movies to ...
When the Chinese movie The Wandering Earth hit the domestic box office in February, it set some brand new records. Within its first week, the movie collected US$349 million. Despite this strong performance in the mainland, The Wandering Earth has received a lukewarm response from moviegoers in Hong Kong. No takers for a Chinese blockbuster? ...
When a person grows old, memories begin to fade and this will have a huge impact on the mind. Edward Hardy, a British World War II veteran, was admitted to the Mellifont Abbey Nursing Home in Somerset, England, suffering from dementia. Unfortunately, he was separated from his wife of 70 years, Betty. Being alone in ...
Nemanja Rebic, a New York-based world-class guitarist originally from Serbia, has always loved music and has had a special relationship with the guitar since his childhood. In 2006, he traveled to South India to study classical music and was taught by a musical master. In 2007, while on a bus in New York one day, a ...
Chinese political dissident Ai Weiwei’s segment from the movie anthology Berlin, I Love You was cut from the film’s American release after producers were concerned about a backlash from Beijing. Producers were worried that including Weiwei’s segment would harm their prospects to secure funding for future movies. Censoring Ai Weiwei “The reason we were given ...
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