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September 8 (The Verge) - Protests and calls for boycotts over Disney’s live-action adaptation of Mulan have sprung up again in wake of the film hitting Disney Plus. Hashtags like #BoycottMulan have trended on Twitter following Mulan’s release on September 4th, but protests are tied to an incident that occurred in summer 2019, Vulture reports. Mulan actress and star Liu...

Los Angeles, September 4 (Reuters) - British actor Robert Pattinson has tested positive for COVID-19, news media reported on Thursday, halting production of “The Batman” and highlighting the industry’s struggles to get back to business after months of a pandemic-induced shutdown. Movie studio Warner Bros. said in a statement that “a member of ‘The Batman’ production” in Britain had tested...

September 3 (Independent) - Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have created a production company and signed a deal with Netflix to make documentaries, docu-series, feature films, scripted shows and children’s programming. On Wednesday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said their new endeavour would be focused on “creating content that informs but also gives hope”. "Our lives, both independent of...

September 1 (Bang Showbiz) - Demi Lovato wants to "leave the world a better place" than when she was born. The 'Anyone' hitmaker has reflected on her "year of growth" this year so far, and says that whilst 2020 has been far from "perfect" amid the coronavirus pandemic and the continued fight for racial equality, she has also "experienced extreme...

August 31 (Variety) - The final tweet posted to Chadwick Boseman’s Twitter account is now the most-liked post in Twitter history. The social media company made the announcement on Saturday afternoon, following the shocking death of Boseman on Friday night due to colon cancer. “Fans are coming together on Twitter to celebrate the life of Chadwick Boseman, and the tweet sent from his account...

Muthuswamy Master, who invested Sinhala film music with a new sound on par with Indian films, came to Sinhala films with Sri Lanka;’s first feature film Kadawanu Poronduwa (Broken Promise) as a member of Music director R.Naranaya Iyer’s orchestra and stayed on to make a mark.

August 29 (AP) - Actor Chadwick Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown before finding fame as the regal Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe, died Friday of cancer, his representative said. He was 43. Boseman died at his home in the Los Angeles area with his wife and family by his side, his publicist Nicki...

But it was the death of K.L.Saigal, the migration of Noorjahan to Pakistan in 1947 and the advent of Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammad Rafi as playback singers which truly established playback singing in Indian cinema

As the former Miss Universe Sri Lanka turns 35, we trace the career of the divisive screen star of Race 3, Drive and Kick – opposite Salman Khan

His haemodynamic and clinical parameters are being closely monitored in the ICU of a Chennai hospital