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IPL fetches staggering media rights for over $6 billion

U.S. media giant Walt Disney and India’s Reliance Industries have won the broadcasting rights for the Indian Premier League for more than $6 billion, making the Twenty20 cricket competition one of the most lucrative sports leagues in the world in terms of cost per game

The Independent UK

Hollywood has yet to give LGBT people their happy ending after Lightyear same-sex kiss debacle

Annie Brown takes a look at controversies this week around the blockbuster film Lightyear, which features a same-sex kiss, and the treatment of Rebel Wilson by the media over her new relationship with a woman.

Daily Record

IPL media rights sealed at Rs 48,390.50 crore: Disney-Star get TV, Viacom digital; Times Internet gets overseas rights

MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Co., Viacom18-led JV and Times Internet have turned out to be the big winners in the Indian Premier League (IPL) media rights e-auction for the 2023-27 cycle that concluded over a period of three days on Tuesday evening.

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Animation 'Lightyear' banned in 14 markets after same-sex kiss controversy

LOS ANGELES: Disney's latest animation "Lightyear," which features a same-sex kiss, has been denied release in more than a dozen mainly Muslim countries, a source close to the company told AFP on Tuesday.

Bangkok Post

Family left in tears as dream holiday to Disney World 'ruined over airline blunder'

The Miller family turned up at Birmingham Airport on May 30 for their dream holiday only to be blocked by KLM as airline staff broke devastating news

Daily Mirror

Boyzone's Ronan Keating tells of 'bittersweet' moment after pal Stephen Gately's death

The 'Life is a Rollercoaster' singer spoke to Disney podcast host Giovanna Fletcher about his memories of his late boyband pal, who died in 2009

Irish Mirror

Review: Sorry, Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ Is a Buzzkill

“In 1995, Andy got a toy from his favorite movie. This is that movie.” So begins “Lightyear,” a new Pixar release that takes a meta approach to the animation studio’s flagship franchise. It isn’t a prequel to “Toy Story,” exactly, but instead presents the movie that inspired Buzz Lightyear toys…

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Selena Gomez had to Google Martin Short when they were cast in Only Murders in the Building

‘I said, “Selena, what did you do when you found out you were working with me?” And she said, “I Googled you,”’ Short said

The Independent UK

Movie review: Sci-fi story 'Lightyear' nimbly blends adult drama, kid adventure

Disney has made big business mining content from content, with spinoffs and sequels and multiverses dancing through multiplexes and streaming apps. “Lightyear,” the latest Disney/Pixar animated film, has been extracted from the much-beloved “Toy Story” universe, but it’s a bit unique. It’s sort of a prequel, in that it’s intended…

Tribune News Service

'Loki' Season 2 release date may be sooner than you think, new report reveals

The next chapter in the God of Mischief’s story is finally being written. A little over a year after the show's original Disney+ premiere, filming has officially begun on 'Loki' Season 2.

Inverse

Thor: Love and Thunder star Tessa Thompson apologises to Marvel over leaked photo

Photograph of her character’s new look was circulated online earlier this year

The Independent UK

Disney To Reopen Shanghai Properties After 3 Months Of COVID Closure

The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) is planning to reopen two of its Shanghai properties as the Chinese city slowly moves beyond its extensive COVID-19 lockdown.

Benzinga

Chris Evans surprises children's ward patients with special screening of Lightyear

Chris Evans - best known for playing Captain America - voices Buzz Lightyear in a new animated film by Disney and Pixar, with him having greeted patients and families at a special screening recently

Daily Mirror

Boyzone’s Ronan Keating reveals 'bittersweet' moment after Stephen Gately death

Ronan cried for an hour and a half after watching Princess and the Frog following Stephen's death

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Evening Standard

The Spider-Man franchise is swinging onto Disney+

Five Spider-Man films will be launching on the streaming platform in mid-June

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The United Arab Emirates is banning Disney and Pixar's 'Lightyear' spinoff

The movie, which chronicles the adventures of space cadet Buzz Lightyear, is slated to be released June 16.

Inverse

'Ms. Marvel' Episode 2 release date, time, plot, cast, trailer, and schedule for the Disney Plus series

How will the world’s biggest Avengers nerd deal with having her own superpowers?

Evening Standard

Buzz Lightyear film banned in 14 countries over same-sex kiss

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are among the nations refusing to show the Toy Story spin-off

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Whoopi Goldberg joins international backlash over Sydney Morning Herald’s treatment of Rebel Wilson

Editor Bevan Shields has now accepted full responsibility for the paper’s coverage and apologised for the delay in acknowledging mistakes were made

Bangkok Post

Malaysia, Indonesia ban Pixar movie 'Lightyear', with same-sex couple

LOS ANGELES: Fourteen Middle Eastern and Asian countries will not show Walt Disney Co's new Pixar movie "Lightyear" when it hits cinemas this week, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday.

Wales Online

Pixar’s Lightyear banned by United Arab Emirates over lesbian kiss

Other Muslim-majority countries likely to follow UAE, which has refused the film a licence for public screening

Benzinga

Disney-Pixar's 'Lightyear' Unlikely To Release In China, Dozen Other Countries Over LGBTQ Depiction

Walt Disney Co's Pixar Studios (NYSE: DIS) is reportedly facing an uphill battle to release its latest animated offering, “Lightyear,” in 14 countries, including China.

The Independent UK

Chris Evans responds to awkward Disneyland photo

Photos of Chris Evans at Disneyland circulated online with claims that the actor’s awkward pose was photoshopped

Benzinga

To Infinity And Not Saudi Arabia: 'Lightyear' Banned In Country Over Same-Sex Kiss

Highly anticipated movie “Lightyear” will not be released in two international territories. Here’s why the latest movie in the Toy Story franchise won’t be included there.

The Guardian - UK

A journalist trying to out Rebel Wilson was like something from the sordid 80s. Thankfully, the world has changed

Teenagers today just shrug their shoulders at the idea an actor’s sexuality is news. They would be more shocked if a vegan was caught eating a bacon sandwich, writes Zoe Williams

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