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Netflix’s ‘BoJack Horseman’ Pulled From China’s iQiyi Streaming Service

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Episodes of “BoJack Horseman” — Netflix’s adult animated comedy about an alcoholic half-man/half-horse who’s a washed-up TV star — were removed last week from Chinese streaming service iQiyi after evidently running afoul of government censors. Three episodes of the show debuted June 19 on iQiyi before they were pulled two days later, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. A rep for iQiyi explained that “adjustments need to be made to the content”; there is no indication about when “BoJack” might return to the service. Netflix did not respond to a request for comment. Netflix last year abandoned plans to launch its own streaming service in China — at least for the foreseeable future — citing regulatory challenges. Instead, the company inked a licensing pact with iQiyi in April to carry its original programming in the Middle Kingdom. According to iQiyi, the company has 500 million monthly users for its ad-supported video service. Last month, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings acknowledged that t

Japan’s Studio Ghibli to Build ‘Totoro’ Park

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Iconic Japanese animation firm, Studio Ghibli and the government of Nagoya’s Aichi Prefecture, are to build a park based on “My Neighbor Totoro,” the 1988 classic anime by Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki. The site will be part of a 200-hectare park previously used for the Expo 2005 world exposition. The park is scheduled to open in summer 2020. Veteran Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki and Aichi governor Hideaki Omura unveiled the plans, but gave no details on cost or financing. Studio Ghibli already manages a popular museum in the Tokyo suburb of Mitaka dedicated to Miyazaki and other Ghibli animators. Aichi and Studio Ghibli collaborated on a Studio Ghibli exhibition in 2015 that was part of a larger prefecture-sponsored fair, and the precursor of the new partnership.

TINKARA – Album “Cuori Di Ossigeno” Single “Marte E Venere”

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TINKARA Album “ Cuori Di Ossigeno” Digital & Physical Distribution Label Plaza Mayor Company ltd The Orchard  Tinkara - Album "Cuori Di Ossigeno" in Itunes   The new Italian Pop by a great vocalist A mil Smith and Bobby Solo were last week joined forces, and together they recorded a new song entitled La cura è vivere, which will be in English and Italian version of the new album. Tinkar a and at the invitation of producer Albert Zeppieri, which is a great vocal recognize Tinkar a Filming took place in the intimate ambience of the Studio Videmskega Angel's Wings in the middle of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Bobby concedes that he looking forward to cooperation with the great vocalists who can njegovomu work give this something fresh. Further stressed the importance of the process of musical creation: all the musicians we're too subordinate to modern technologies that allow us to bring discovery options is the completeness of our songs.

Sony Merges The Orchard and Red Essential Into Single Artist/Label Services Division

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Sony Music U.K. is to merge its two artist and label services divisions Red Essential and The Orchard into one amalgamated company. Based in central London, the new enterprise will take The Orchard name and be led by Red Essential co-managing directors Ian Dutt and Mike Chadwick . Offering independent clients a range of services including physical and digital sales, marketing, promotion, synch licensing and neighbouring rights in more than 30 international markets, the company counts Run The Jewels, Joey BadA$$, Anderson .Paak and British grime stars Skepta and Giggs among its current roster of clients. Label partners number Cooking Vinyl, Cherry Red, Snapper, Red Bull Records, Demon, Thirty Tigers and the London Symphony Orchestra. According to figures from labels trade body BPI and Official Charts Company data, Sony Music accounted for 11.4 percent market share of the U.K. albums distribution market in 2016, with The Orchard taking 1.9 percent. Market leader Sony DADC