Back in April, the world was treated to their first look at the third outing of everyone's favorite nihilistic psychic teen. It was confirmed that Wednesday Season 3 had entered production in Ireland, with Jenna Ortega back at Nevermore Academy to face her toughest case yet. The search for Enid (Emma Myers) is on, with Tyler (Hunter Doohan) looking set to return, and Winona Ryder joining the cast after teaming up with Ortega and Tim Burton on the legacy sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

As a new chapter in his career begins, Johnny Depp is looking to win back some fans by returning to his best-loved role. In the upcoming sixth film in Disney’s blockbuster franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean, Depp looks set to return to his most iconic role as Captain Jack Sparrow, although it is still unclear whether he will be joined by fellow franchise favorites such as Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley. Although his place in the film isn't yet confirmed, franchise producer Jerry Bruckheimer did previously hint that a role for Depp's Sparrow might already be in the script.

The days of Paramount+ as a standalone streaming service may already be numbered. With Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery moving closer to completing their blockbuster merger, executives have made it clear that they don’t intend to keep Paramount+ and HBO Max operating separately forever. Instead, the plan is to bring the two services together, creating a larger platform with more than 200 million subscribers and a library capable of competing with Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+.

SINGAPORE: A woman who felt quite uncomfortable after catching a man pointing his phone toward her for an extended period of time grew suspicious that he was live-streaming her. She then took to social media to warn others about him

In a post on Instagram on Tuesday (June 16), a woman who goes by @huizhen0515 posted a video of a man on the train on the East-West Line dressed in a black shirt and pants, who had headphones on and was holding up his phone.

In the text overlay, she urged others to “Pay attention to people using their phones like this on the Singapore MRT.”She added that he looked like he felt “guilty” and was aware he was being filmed.

Later, she confirmed that he was indeed live-streaming what was going on in the train, after she was able to see his screen, though she did not know which app he was using.

“Please be aware of this person! I just encountered someone on the MRT who made me very uncomfortable!!! From the beginning, I noticed his strange way of holding his phone, and the camera was always pointing in my direction,” she wrote in the caption.

However, as initially she had only based her suspicion on how uncomfortable she felt, she acknowledged that she wasn’t sure he was actually filming her, and was worried it was just a misunderstanding.

She then filmed him back “to see if he was scared,” and noted that when the man appeared to notice this, while he “looked a little guilty,” he just “ kept chuckling to himself.”

The post author then decided to find out for herself what he was doing and got off at the next stop. Outside the train, she went behind where he was sitting so she could see his screen, and saw his camera “was definitely pointing in the direction I was sitting.”

“I was completely stunned,” she wrote, adding that she really wanted to go back and ask him what he was filming, but didn’t want to stay in the same carriage where he was, and therefore decided not to get back on the train.

She ended her post telling others to be cautious: “I’m posting this to warn everyone: if you see this person or encounter a similar situation on the MRT, please be extra careful. I can’t say for sure that he was filming me, but it’s really uncomfortable to have a stranger’s camera pointed at you.” /TISG

Read also: Who filmed who? TikToker clarifies after accusing man in navy uniform who put his phone between his legs of filming her on MRT

This article (Woman senses man live-streaming her on train, warns others in Singapore) first appeared on The Independent Singapore News.

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Famed anime house isn’t worried about losing relevancy by limiting access to its films.

Studio Ghibli has a reputation for preferring to do things the old-fashioned way, and so fans weren’t really shocked when the famed anime production house was initially reluctant to licensing its works for online streaming. The studio eventually softened its stance, striking deals with HBO Max in 2019 and Netflix the following year, and while the Netflix agreement has since expired, HBO Max still offers the Ghibli catalog for streaming…but not if you’re in Japan.

To this day, there’s only one Ghibli-produced film that’s ever been made available for streaming within Japan, and it’s the one film that Ghibli itself didn’t control the rights to, Grave of the Fireflies. Everything else, like My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, and Howl’s Moving Castle? Not available to view online in Japan.

▼ “Ashitaka, will I ever see you online?”

On-demand online streaming may not dominate the video entertainment landscape in Japan to quite the same extent as it does in many other countries, but things are moving in that direction, especially with Japan’s physical media rental stores fading away at an accelerating pace. It’s getting to the point where one could question whether Ghibli’s attitude about making its anime available for streaming in Japan has gone from being quaintly old-fashioned to detrimentally outdated. That was the sentiment one attendee alluded to at a regular press conference held by Hiroyuki Fukuda, president of Japanese television broadcaster Nippon TV, which acquired Studio Ghibli as a subsidiary in 2023. At the press conference, held on May 25, the attendee asked Fukuda:

“Ghibli’s works remain unavailable for streaming within Japan, which limits their audiences…Concerns have been raised that without opportunities to view these titles, some of them may become forgotten [by the public], so is there any chance of Ghibli’s anime becoming available for streaming on your company’s Hulu service?”

As alluded to in the question, Hulu Japan is a subsidiary of Nippon TV, which would make it the natural, and theoretically easiest to negotiate with, online host of the Ghibli catalog. Users shouldn’t go typing “Ghibli” into the Hulu Japan search box just yet, though, nor that of any other streaming service in Japan, as Fukuda answered that there are no plans to put Ghibli’s films online, because Nippon TV and Studio Ghibli want to preserve the relevance of the TV broadcasts of Ghibli anime.

“Presently, Studio Ghibli and Nippon TV are of the shared belief that we want to preserve the specialness of Ghibli’s films appearing on broadcast TV through our Friday Roadshow program. We are of course aware of the various requests for and different opinions regarding streaming, and this is a matter we intend to continue discussing moving forward.”

Friday Roadshow, or Kinyo Roadshow in Japanese, is Nippon TV’s Friday night movie block, in which it shows a different classic, popular, or family-oriented film each week. Ghibli anime are featured several times per year, with mega-hits like Totoro often saved for dates during summer or other vacation seasons, becoming appointment television for fans.

▼ Hurry home, Chihiro! Friday Roadshow is about to start!

Still, not every Ghibli anime airs every year, and even those that do usually do so only once annually. Nippon TV and Ghibli aren’t currently worried about that lessening the relevance of the studio’s films, though. In his press conference response, Fukuda went on to say that permanent facilities like the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo and the Ghibli Park theme park near Nagoya help build interest and excitement for Ghibli’s anime, as do celebratory events like Ghibli’s art exhibitions that travel around the country. Though Fukuda didn’t mention them, Ghibli’s kabuki stage play adaptations, like the one for Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and the upcoming one for Princess Mononoke, also help to spark interest in their source material, and even if there’s no Friday Roadshow broadcast of them in the near future, Ghibli’s anime are always readily available for purchase on physical media in Japan.

Occasional overseas events and London’s My Neighbor Totoro stage play notwithstanding, the average overseas Ghibli fan has far less access to these kinds of Ghibli touchpoints than fans in Japan do, which in turn makes easier access to the anime movies themselves, though online distribution, a greater necessity outside Japan, which would explain why Ghibli has come around to the idea of streaming its works in foreign countries. And the day may come when Ghibli shrugs its shoulders and says “OK” for streaming inside Japan too. Nippon TV and the studio aren’t at that point just yet, though, and Fukuda’s treatment of Ghibli as a partner, as opposed to just a subsidiary, in the matter is probably a wise call, considering how committed Ghibli is to presenting its creations in the way it feels best conveys their vision.

Source: Nippon TV via Oricon News via Otakomu
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