LOS ANGELES: Disney´s dark fairy tale “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” edged out “Joker” in a fierce battle of the supervillains this weekend, taking $19.4 million in North American theaters, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations said Monday. The film, a sequel to the 2014 live-action hit, stars Angelina Jolie as the evil sorceress of “Sleeping Beauty” fame. This time around, Michelle Pfeiffer …

Kate Middleton and Prince William have been married for almost eight magical years. However, their relationship has not been laden with roses and daisies. Reports have confirmed that although the pair met during their studies at St Andrews, they didn’t get together until 2003. After they initially began dating, the couple’s relationship attracted a large amount of media attention. After …

The creators of Game of Thrones have pulled out of making a Star Wars trilogy because the pair want to focus on their Netflix work, dealing a blow to Disney. David Benioff and D.B. Weiss said they were “regretfully stepping away” from the upcoming trio of movies in the blockbuster space saga, the first of which was originally scheduled for release in 2022. “There …

LOS ANGELES: With two young daughters, Mery Montenegro is preparing to add Disney+ to her list of streaming subscriptions, which already includes Netflix, Hulu and Amazon — and, when combined with her cable TV bill, costs her almost $1,500 per year. Her eldest Victoria, 6, asks every day when the new platform will launch, with its impressive catalogue of films …

SAN FRANCISCO: On October 29, 1969, professor Leonard Kleinrock and a team at the University of California at Los Angeles got a computer to “talk” to a machine in what is now known as Silicon Valley. The event gave birth to a network that later became known as the internet — hailed at first as a boon to equality and …

BRUSSELS: Facebook, Google and Twitter must do more to tackle fake news or face regulatory action, the European Commission said on Tuesday. The threat by the EU executive came a year after the US tech giants together with Mozilla, Microsoft and seven European trade bodies signed up to a voluntary code of conduct to combat fake news in a move …

Tesla’s third-quarter revenue fell 39 percent in the United States, a regulatory filing showed on Tuesday. Sales in the country, the electric car maker’s biggest market, fell to $3.13 billion from $5.13 billion, a year earlier. Earlier this month, Tesla said its revenue fell nearly 8 percent to $6.30 billion for the quarter ended September 30, missing analysts’ estimate of $6.33 billion, …

Chinese internet start-up ByteDance, whose globally popular app TikTok has raised US security concerns, on Tuesday denied reports that it was considering an initial public offering in Hong Kong in the first quarter of next year. ByteDance, which is said to be valued at up to $75 billion, was reported by the Financial Times to be eyeing a listing in the city …

Lahore           –    The Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI) on Monday announced support of traders’ shutdown strike call for October 29th and 30th. While addressing an emergent meeting of the Executive Committee, LCCI President Irfan Iqbal Sheikh, Senior Vice President Ali Hussam Asghar and Vice President Mian Zahid Jawaid Ahmad said government should …