01 The 15th Asian Film Awards were announced, and Zhang Yimou and Liu Haocun won the prize for "One Second"
On the evening of October 8, the 15th Asian Film Awards held an award ceremony, and the major awards were officially announced. Zhang Yimou won best director for "One Second", and Liu Haocun won best new actor for "One Second".
The Asian Film Awards are jointly organized by the Asian Film Awards Academy, the Busan International Film Festival and the Asian Film Market Exhibition, and this year's award ceremony was held in a physical and online manner.
02 The TV series "The Age of Awakening" will be changed to a stage play, and the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center will be awarded the adaptation rights
The award ceremony of the 24th Zuolin Dramatic Arts Awards, which has been separated for two years, was held at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center during the 11th Golden Week. At the award ceremony, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center released some of the plays of the 2022 performance season for the first time. Among them, it is worth noting that the major revolutionary historical theme TV series "The Age of Awakening", which triggered strong repercussions nationwide in the first half of the year, has obtained the right to adapt the stage play from Shangjiao and will premiere at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center next year.
03 Scarlett Johansson and Disney reach a settlement with an estimated total price of more than $40 million
"Black Widow" star Scarlett Johansson recently reached an out-of-court settlement with Disney, and the specific details have not yet been disclosed. Scarlett Johansson said in an interview, "I'm glad my differences with Disney have been resolved, I'm proud of the work we've done together over the years, and I look forward to our collaboration for years to come." Disney Studios Chairman Alan Bergman also said that he is happy that the recent controversy has finally been settled, "Scarlett Johansson and I have reached an agreement on "Black Widow", and we are grateful for her efforts and hope to continue to work together on a series of new projects in the future, including the new film "Terror of Tower" after Disney." According to people familiar with the matter, the settlement involved more than $40 million, but Disney would not make a one-time payment.
Disney revealed in August that Black Widow made $125 million on streaming platforms. As of the beginning of October, the film had grossed $378 million worldwide.
04 Amazon esports live streaming platform Twitch data breach
On October 7, Amazon confirmed to the outside world that twitch, its e-sports live broadcasting platform, suffered a data breach. According to the Video Games Chronicle, an anonymous hacker claimed to have leaked Twitch's data, including information related to the company's source code, customer data and some games that have not yet been released. Twitch confirmed the incident and said "the team is working urgently to understand the severity of the incident," but declined to comment further, saying it would "update the community as soon as more information is available."
The Video Game Chronicle revealed that the hacker's motivation was to "spark more disruption and competition in the online video streaming space," with about 125GB of data currently being leaked, including information from Twitch's highest-revenue video game streaming users since 2019. Online esports platform Twitch has more than 30 million daily visits and can interact with users while streaming content.
05 Twitter set out to improve video quality
The poor quality of the video on the social networking site Twitter has long been criticized by users. Recently, Twitter officially promised to adopt new technologies to improve video quality. Previously, when users uploaded videos on Twitter, the platform would split the video into multiple clips for preprocessing, which greatly reduced the clarity of the picture quality. After the technology update, the pre-processing step of the upload video is eliminated, and the picture quality will be significantly improved.
According to people involved in the internal test, in terms of the actual viewing experience, the twitter video after the improvement in image quality is still inferior to other platforms such as YouTube, and the videos uploaded by users still maintain the original picture quality and cannot be improved.
06 The seventh part of "Transformers" is named
Stephen Kapoor Jr., director of the latest Transformers movie, confirmed that the film was officially titled Transformers: Rise of the Beast and unveiled the movie's promotional icon. Written by Jubi Harold and James Vanderbilt and starring Ron Pullman and Anthony Ramos, the film will continue the storyline of the 1990s 3D animated series Transformers: The Mighty Warriors. The film is expected to be released on June 24, 2022.
07 The Prequel to "Master of Death" was released on Netflix at the end of October
Zach Schneider's "Division of Death" prequel spin-off film "The Division of Thieves" is set to launch on Netflix on October 29. Directed by Matthias Schweihev, the prequel tells the story of a bank clerk, Dieter, who is recruited by a mysterious woman in an attempt to break through "The Safest Safe in Europe".
08 "Shangqi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" grossed more than $200 million in North America
Marvel Studios' first Asian-American hero film, Legend of the Ten Rings, was recently reduced to 3,950 theaters, but still contributed more than a third of the North American film market box office. Starring Liu Simu and Liang Chaowei, "Shangqi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" has a steady trend, earning $200 million in north American release in 24 days, surpassing "Black Widow" of $183.5 million, becoming the annual box office champion in North America, and becoming the best performing film in the epidemic period, and the industry expects its final landing point in North America to be around $220 million.