Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs.
No ‘Love Shack’ at White House – B-52s won’t play Aussie dinner
At the White House, the dinner is on but the band is out. The B-52s’ planned performance at U.S. President Joe Biden’s state dinner for Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday was scrapped as the event takes on a more somber tone due to the Middle East crisis.
Disney nears deal to sell $10-billion valued India business to Reliance -Bloomberg News
Disney is nearing a deal to sell its India operations, which it values at around $10 billion, to Reliance Industries, its biggest rival in the country, rather than sell the business in parts, Bloomberg News reported on Monday. Disney has been exploring options to sell or find a partner for its India assets, Reuters reported in July, and has held talks with billionaires Gautam Adani and Sun TV Network-owner Kalanithi Maran as well as private equity firm Blackstone, according to various media reports.
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons gets climate change makeover
A Spanish music director has adapted Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” to the grim reality of global warming, adding prominence and drama to the summer concerto while shortening the other three, and he believes the Italian great would not mind. “I think Vivaldi would have been a lot more aggressive and gritty. If today someone were to compose ‘The Four Seasons’ from an absolutely realistic perspective, it would be frankly daring,” composer and producer Hache Costa told Reuters.
‘The Hunger Games’ to be turned into London stage play
“The Hunger Games” is set to open at a London theatre next year in the first live stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ novels and the hugely successful film franchise. Irish playwright, screenwriter and director Conor McPherson has adapted for theatre the first book in Collins’s young adult dystopian trilogy and the first film from “The Hunger Games” Lionsgate movie franchise, which starred Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen.
Spotify posts quarterly profit, user growth beats expectations
Spotify on Tuesday swung to a quarterly profit aided by price hikes in its streaming services and growth in subscribers in all regions, and forecast that its number of monthly listeners would reach 601 million in this quarter. The company posted a third-quarter operating income of 32 million euros ($34.1 million), its first quarterly profit since 2021, helped by a higher gross margin and lower marketing and personnel costs.
(With inputs from agencies.)
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