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No China release date for the fifthPiratesfilm has been announced yet.

Disneys Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales has been approved for cinemas in China, according to sources familiar with the matter, but a release date is yet to be announced.

Directed by Joachim Rnning and Espen Sandberg, the film marks the third time the franchise has made it to what is now the worlds second-largest entertainment market.

A decade ago, Pirates Of The Caribbean: At Worlds End was the first of the series to show in China and ended up earning RMB 125 million (USD$18.1 million). In 2011, Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides pulled in RMB 476 million ($69 million).

Earlier this month it was announced that all of the previous installments in the franchise will screen in the out of competition section of this years Beijing International Film Festival the first clear sign the newest film would also make it to the Chinese market.

The film sees Johnny Depp return as Captain Jack Sparrow as he is chased down by a group of deadly ghost pirates lead by new arch-nemesis Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem).

While a China release date is yet to be announced, the film is confirmed to be coming out in North America on May 26.

The impending release in China will no doubt help bolster attendance at the Shanghai Disney Resort, which opened in June 2016.

The resort has become an obligatory stop for stars of Disney films since it opened. Late last month the cast of Beauty and the Beast including Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, and Josh Gad met fans at the resort ahead of its release on March 17.

The resort received close to 8 million visitors in the first nine months since opening last year, according to Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger.

About the author Fergus Ryan has worked in media, communications and marketing roles in China and Australia for close to a decade. Most recently, Fergus was a journalist for the News Corp. publications China Spectator and The Australian. He has also been published in The Guardian and Foreign Policy. Prior to that, Fergus worked on business development for the A-list star Li Bingbing at Huayi Brothers, and on celebrity engagement and social media for the WWF and DMG Entertainment.

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'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales' Passes China Censorship - China Film Insider

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#HandsOffSocialMedia as 'internet censorship' bill booed Southlands Sun It comes on the back of a range of existing, deeply problematic censorship policies, including the Film and Publication Board's internet censorship regulations, the draft Hate Speech Bill, and the new Cybercrimes Bill, which would 'hand the keys of ...

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The Karnataka Legislature, on the last day of its budget session on Tuesday, formed a joint legislature committee to "study" the impact, the adverse impact and ways to control the quality of reportage by both print and electronic media.

The committee was found necessary, after nearly four hours of discussions in the Assembly last week where MLAs from all parties complained to the Speaker about how they were "misrepresented" by the media and wanted to put an end to this.

The debate included speeches and comments from MLAs who have been facing the heat from the public after visuals of their deeds (or misdeeds, as the case may be) went viral on mainstream and social media over the past month. It's another matter that this debate preceded the debates on budget, drought, water scarcity or the salaries of anganwadi workers - all issues that had been matters of major debate outside the Assembly, among the common men.

"I have been repeatedly portrayed as a Rowdy MLA," screamed Tumkur Rural MLA Suresh Gowda, whose images caught slapping a toll booth manager on CCTV just two weeks before had been given much time on regional and national channels.

Another BJP MLA, Bharamagouda Kage, who had been arrested (after CCTV footage emerged) for allegedly assaulting a Congress worker in his constituency in Belagavi, said, "Channels have run shows after shows, for days together, repeatedly asking 'Where is Kage, where is Kage,' despite my assuring them that I am here, that I have not run away anywhere."

Incidentally, Kage and his family members were picked up from a resort in Maharashtra after being on the run for nearly ten days, while facing attempt to murder charges. Gowda, Kage and a few other MLAs thus did not take too kindly with the way they were "portrayed as guilty" before the public, they complained to the Speaker.

The legislature committee, formed rather hastily as its terms and reference is yet to be finalised, will be headed by Minister K R Ramesh Kumar, will have among its honourable participants, such members as Gowda, Kage, and B R Yavagal, the MLA who had faced flak three years back for leading a House panel on a "study trip" to Australia. The Congress' Chief Whip Ashok Pathan is also a member, while three members are yet to be nominated from the Legislative Council.

The committee is likely to give its recommendations in three months. Incidentally, the media was also blamed for being irresponsible four years back and more controls along the lines of Lok Sabha TV were sought -- that was when members had raised concerns about how channels had zoomed in on images of three Ministers in the (then) Sadananda Gowda cabinet watching porn.

While Speaker K B Koliwad signed up ten MLAs to the committee on Tuesday, one Minister questioned the need for such a committee. Higher Education Minister Basavaraj Rayareddi wrote a strongly-worded four-page letter that freedom of the press is the life-line of a democracy.

"If the MLAs had issues, the Speaker could always call editors for a meeting, explain to them what the concerns are -- maybe sensationalism. But why do we need to form a committee like this, it's against the principles of democracy," Rayareddi told News18.

Quoting specific Constitutional provisions that bat for freedom of the press, Rayareddi has asked the Speaker to either convene a meeting or hold a seminar with editors of all news channels, so that they could together come up with guidelines that ensure the highest standards of journalism.

"I don't say that the pain, helplessness and anguish expressed by the MLAs during the debate was wrong. I have often felt disappointed when I see news that is inaccurate and sensationalised... but I hope you take this advice proactively, to uphold both the values of journalism and the honour of this House," he said in his letter.

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Virgin Media has signed a managed services deal with Netcracker as it looks to overhaul its BSS.

Financial terms of the multiyear deal were not disclosed.

The NEC-owned vendor said it would create new opportunities for Virgin to deliver customised services for its business customers and improve scalability in terms of meeting increasingly complex customer demands.

It has also promised to reduce opex.

The deal builds on a longstanding relationship between the two companies, according to a statement.

It comes as Virgins rivals have been hit by a string of billing-related fines from the UK regulator.

BT-owned Plusnet was handed a 880,000 fine last week for continuing to charge a group of customers after they had cancelled their contract.

In January, EE got a 2.7 million fine for overcharging tens of thousands of customers in 2014 and 2015.

Last year, Vodafone was fined almost 5 million for serious and sustained breaches of consumer protection rules.

Operators in the UK could be forced to automatically compensate customers for delays to repairs and other services under new proposals put forward by Ofcom.

Robin Laliberte, General Manager of EMEA at Netcracker, said: Service providers are constantly evolving to meet new customer needs, which create complexities that can be mitigated through the use of managed services.

Last week, Telefnicas enterprise arm tapped Netcracker to supply an end-to-end BSS/OSS stack.

Including its operations in Ireland, revenues at Virgin Media grew 2.6 percent to 4.8 billion last year.

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The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) qualified a Peruvian bill that seeks to control who can hold executive positions in media outlets a tool for direct censorship of the press.

Article 2 of the bill, Law to protect the informational freedoms and rights of the people, proposes that any person who is sentenced, or who is being investigated by the Public Ministry for corruption offenses against the State is disqualified from occupying any managerial position in a media outlet.

They would also be prevented, under this bill, from holding positions as presidents or board members, shareholders, general managers or attorneys.

This initiative is alarming, which becomes a legal instrument for an authoritarian government to accuse, name and prosecute a journalist or the editor of a media outlet with the intention of moving aside and silencing him or her, said IAPA President Matt Sanders.

Roberto Rock, president of the IAPAs Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information, also said that the bill sets out as the objective to guarantee the right to impartial, truthful, plural and timely information, which was the same proposal used by Presidents Hugo Chvez and Nicols Maduro of Venezuela and Rafael Correa of Ecuador to adopt communication laws with clauses aimed at creating a strategy of legal and legitimate censorship.

This legislative proposal was presented on March 7 by two congressmen of the Fujimorista party Fuerza Popular, rsula Letona and Alejandra Aramayo.

Sanders and Rock said they hoped that the Peruvian Congress would not take up the bill on the grounds that approving it would be returning to dark times in Peru, where press freedom was "hijacked by the Alberto Fujimori government.

In Peru, voices against the Fuerza Popular bill were not long in coming. The president of the Peruvian Press Council (CPP for its initials in Spanish), Bernardo Roca Rey, said that it is inadmissible that a newspaper director could be disabled with only one lawsuit, newspaper La Repblica published.

"You can not imagine that there are people who support this type of censorship of the press. But history shows that the majority of countries that are heading toward the dictatorship of ideas hinder freedom of expression. In Peru, we need a large and broad press freedom," Roca Rey said.

Augusto lvarez Rodrich, the former president of the newspaper Peru.21 and current president of the Press and Society Institute (IPYS) of Peru, told La Repblica that this bill is "one more monstrosity invented by the Fujimorismo to limit freedom of expression."

He added: "Fuerza Popular is creating conditions to bring judgments to media executives and have them manipulated, which has been the fujimorista custom."

Likewise, Claudio Paolillo, former president of IAPAs Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information, told newspaper El Comercio that the project represents a direct attack on freedom of expression (...) It is an old story that politicians in Latin America have applied to determine what is objective and truthful, he said.

For Gonzalo Zegarra, former president of CPP, this is the ideal rule that Alberto Fujimoris former presidential adviser, Vladimiro Montesinos, would have wanted. He controlled the Judiciary during the decade Fujimori was in power in order to neutralize the media, he told El Comercio.

One of the authors of the bill, rsula Letona, told El Comercio that what is wanted with this law is to protect the right to information.

Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski signed the Declaration of Chapultepec on May 3 before an international delegation of IAPA, in celebration of World Press Freedom Day.

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