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Following is a abstract of present leisure information briefs. Amazon faces backlash from Indian ruling occasion lawmakers over net collection ‘Tandav’

An area official from India’s ruling Hindu nationalist occasion on Sunday registered a police grievance towards an Amazon Prime net collection alleging it insults Hindu gods and goddesses, and threatened to launch a protest on the firm’s workplace in Mumbai. Protests towards Amazon.com have been organised for Monday to warn it to not present scenes insulting Hindu gods and goddesses, Ram Kadam, a BJP member of the Maharashtra legislative meeting, mentioned in a tweet after submitting a grievance with police in Mumbai on Sunday. Producer Ian Levine sells some royalties from “Take That” songs to One Media

British songwriter and producer Ian Levine has bought his share of royalties from some tracks of English pop group “Take That” to One Media iP Group, the music writer and distributor mentioned on Monday, sending its shares 16% increased to eight pence. Apart from producer royalties from tracks within the band’s debut album, together with “A Million Love Songs” and “I Discovered Heaven”, One Media mentioned it has additionally purchased producer royalties of two different “Take That” tracks which have been by no means launched. Field Workplace: Liam Neeson’s ‘The Marksman’ ends ‘Marvel Lady 1984’ reign

If time is a flat circle, then it is solely becoming {that a} second Liam Neeson film is ruling over the U.S. field workplace through the pandemic. Months after his motion thriller “Trustworthy Thief” led home charts, one other Neeson (you guessed it!) motion thriller “The Marksman” has debut at No. 1 with $3.2 million in ticket gross sales. Robert Lorenz directed “The Marksman,” a couple of rancher and retired Marine dwelling in Arizona who helps a younger boy escape a Mexican drug cartel. The movie, which premiered in 1,975 places, ought to rake in $3.7 million via the Martin Luther King vacation on Monday. Open Highway, the distributor behind “The Marksman,” additionally backed “Trustworthy Thief.” That movie bowed to $3.7 million final October and ended its theatrical run with $14 million within the U.S. and $28 million globally. Music producer Phil Spector, convicted of homicide, useless at 81

Rock producer Phil Spector, who modified the sound of pop music within the 1960s along with his “Wall of Sound” recordings and was convicted of homicide for the 2003 homicide of a Hollywood actress, has died at age 81 of COVID-19, in accordance with authorities and media reviews. Spector produced 20 prime 40 hits between 1961 and 1965 and went on to work with the Beatles on “Let It Be,” in addition to Leonard Cohen, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.

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