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and cellist yo-yo ma offers songs of comfort and hope a new album for tough times. welcome to arts and culture the battle lines been redrawn and the war over home entertainment disney announced plans to spend $16000000000.00 on streaming content about half of that on its own streaming platform disney plus where the company is set to release 10 new series from the marvel comics universe and 10 new star wars series which are sure to include disney's cutest new cash cow. if you could take a picture i know there's mandelbrot trick or treater showing now by do you know when you spoke to experts scott roxboro i am he's here to tell us what this means for the global entertainment industry scott so disney launched its disney plus platform just about a year ago it looks like they're going all in on streaming those should netflix be

worried yeah i think so i mean netflix is still course the big you know $800.00 pound gorilla in streaming they they they have something like $200000000.00 subscribers worldwide but took them a decade to get there disney launched its disney plus service just last year they're already at 86000000 and they expect it 300000000 subscribers in the next 3 years i think they they could make it and as you're saying they're just pouring money into streaming i mean 10 new marvel t.v. series 10 new star wars a t.v. series basically what disney's tragedy is taking minor characters from their big film franchises like loki or wanda vision from the avengers movies and they're making them into a spin off t.v. series basically they're hoping that. these stories these characters have global fan bases from the films they're hoping with the series they can basically go toe to toe with netflix is a national so does that mean that disney is giving up on cinemas on the big screen no actually not i mean disney made

a very clear they said last year we made 13000000000 dollars at the box office in cinemas there not to throw that business away but i think what we are going to see now is a real division that we're going to see the very very big movies the big disney movies the big marvel movies the big star wars movies those are going cinemas for the smaller stuff is probably going to go online and we might even see smaller films from studios that disney owns like like thoughts or searchlight pictures also go straight to straight online ok it's got stick around because it's also the european film awards they've been handing out prizes all week and we've got a look now at some of the winners. italian period drama hidden away one european film honors for best cinematography and best costume design. the film star ileo johnno is also up for best actor for his performance as self-taught italian artist and tony only got to have. the right to turn out to be the hero of my own story whether that station will be held by anybody else is

a european film award for best production design went to british comedy the personal history of david copperfield film until you. if you were you very are you real dangerously she's back. for a very sorry. state. is this having been taken to status. of your. condition or whatever have any spanish side try dystopia the platform which netflix released worldwide one for best visual effects. you know what. i was getting people believe it was to just the. nest original score went to the hunting soundtrack of berlin alexanderplatz a modern day update of the german classic novel.

i'm back with our film grass got rocks for sky it looks like it was a great year for european cinema i'm a little embarrassed to say that i haven't seen any of these movies yeah but of course stuff the barest obviously we have locked down across most of europe and that's case in most the world so a lot of these films never even made it into indiscernible because cinemas were shut which is actually why the european film awards are extremely important this year because this is a chance to really shine a light on on some of these movies that maybe maybe got overlooked and as you say it's been a great great year for european cinema 2020 ok so the technical awards have already been announced but there are the really big awards best actor best actress best film those are going to be announced saturday night germany already has one if a with berlin i'm excited about any chance of another yeah i think the best chance for me to win another day is in the best actress category because you got 2 german actions nominee 2 by favorite german actresses i think either could win you've got

nina hoss she's nominated for little sister where she plays the long suffering little sister of a famous theater actor played by famous theater actor lars i did her and she sort of cares for him as he's dying of cancer i really hope for this but she's up against big competition because there's another german actress paula big and she stars in dino which is a love story from the director kristen petzold both these are 2 incredible performances and i would want to pick between them ok what's your pick for best film best film i mean i think we talk about this early in the week another round the danish dramedy i love it's about 4 high school teachers in midlife crisis and they side to sort of get through it by good. really into day trading where it's a lariat movie it stars mads mikkelsen. it's also not just a comedy though it's quite a touching drama really life affirming film i love this movie my favorite movie of the year competition particularly from

a polish movie called corpus christi which is about a priest convict who a person needs a priest and so gets involved with small town spiritual community also great films . this year so maybe that's the big competition but i'll definitely be pulling for another round to we have ok thanks so much. another movie making headlines is nigeria's 1st lesbian feature film effect meaning what's the movie was released online this thursday for human rights day that's because the country's censors won't allow it to be shown in cinemas nigeria has one of the world's biggest film industries known as nollywood it also has laws that punish homosexuality with up to 14 years in prison. or last year this is a perfect. if a tells the story of 2 women who fall in love in nigeria

a country where same sex relationships are illegal in the past nollywood has often depicted clear characters as mentally ill or deeply troubled but the filmmakers say their film portrays normal life for a sizable percentage of the nigerian population i feel like for a very long time we've been told one sided story and the story is not complete if it does not represent all the groups in the society so what i wanted to through was until the full story by representing l.g.b. 3 people in 1000. production had to take place in secret the film's director the actors all face prosecution if censors decide their work promotes homosexuality and indeed thora these have threatened legal action in nigeria it's not accepted and so doing something like that puts you where you feel like it's not it's not the norm but but but i don't feel that it's bold i feel that it's ordinary i feel that it's my life just being shown on screen but it's been beautiful so the filmmakers have

opted to have released on a streaming platform to ensure it can be seen by people within nigeria as well as. more arts and culture headlines now and hold onto your mask the elusive street artist banksy confirmed on instagram that he is the creator of this rather graph. public health warning the painting appeared a few days on vale street england's steepest road in bristol reminding us that coded safety measures are nothing to sneeze at. but they were swift dropped her 2nd surprise album of 2020 the new work is called evermore swift says it's the sister album to her chart topping record folklore which came out just 5 months ago the 1st video from the new album had millions of you tube hits within hours. lucky her while the world's most famous cellist yo-yo ma has also been keeping busy during

the pandemic he's got a new album together with pianist catherine stott it's called songs of comfort and something a lot of us can use here's a preview of the album starting with somewhere over the rainbow. this is. ok too. tough times and you know who lost people who are who are pushing through and leading their strenuous life and and. and for the longest time not knowing whether there's light at the end of the tunnel.

boring with. all of these songs have i think specific meaning for people in different places and since this is you know a worldwide epidemic and and it's one of the few things that actually. all at once are joining us together you know i mean in a horrible way but we're all kind of faced with the same issues right and and so we think music kind of could do that at various times also and we're hoping that this is sort of like you know

a way reaching into people's hearts and memories. we. are only i. mean. i think when i think of the words. over the rainbow it's like it kills me you know it's like it's completely birthed you know you can like it i you know it's a. it's just it just kills me and 2nd every time we play it you know we're sort of look at least you know either. ready.

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