Ghanaian-British Filmmaker Amma Asante has been honoured with an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Asante was awarded for her services to the film industry. An MBE is Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and is an award given by the Queen to an individual for outstanding service to the community … Read more
Nostalgic horror sensation “Stranger Things” and Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” shared the spoils at the MTV Movie and TV Awards, expanded and renamed this year to include television. Netflix’s hit series took best show and best actor in a show for an emotional Millie Bobby Brown, one of its young stars, while best actor … Read more
Malaysia also had a fair share of the Beauty and the Beast controversy, as homosexual activity is illegal under both secular and religious laws in the country. The inclusion of a gay character in the Disney movie “Beauty and the Beast”, has led to an outrageous uproar in the media across the globe. Disney’s fairy-tale … Read more
Beauty and the Beast will be released in Malaysia without any cuts, Disney says, days after it rejected censors’ demands for a gay scene to be removed. The blockbuster would be released on 30 March with a PG13 rating, Disney said. Two major cinema chains have confirmed the new date, two weeks after the postponed … Read more
Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” smashed box office records in its opening three-day weekend, taking in an unexpected $170 million, according to industry estimates. The film, featuring “Harry Potter” veteran Emma Watson as a charming Belle to the frightening Beast played by Dan Stevens of “Downton Abbey” fame, set a record for a March opening … Read more
It is a tale as old as time (or one dating back to the 1990s, at least): Disney dusts off an animated classic, adds bells, whistles and real people, and everyone makes a fortune. Since Jason Scott Lee annoyed purists as a grown-up Mowgli in “Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book” (1994), the company has churned … Read more
The release of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast has been postponed in Malaysia. The Emma Watson film was due to open on Thursday but has been put on hold due to an “internal review”. No specific reason has been given for the decision. “The movie release date has been postponed and we are reviewing its … Read more
The live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast will feature Disney’s first ever gay character and love scene. US actor Josh Gad plays LeFou, a sidekick of the film’s main antagonist Gaston. LeFou tries to come to terms with feelings for Gaston that swing between lust and admiration, as a side-plot to the main story. … Read more
The live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast will feature Disney’s first ever gay character and love scene. US actor Josh Gad plays LeFou, a sidekick of the film’s main antagonist Gaston. LeFou tries to come to terms with feelings for Gaston that swing between lust and admiration, as a side-plot to the main story. … Read more