NCT 127 member Jaehyun to reportedly star as the lead in Love Playlist season 5, SM Entertainment reacts

Acting debut seems to be in works for NCT 127 member Jaehyun. The 23-year-old musician of the popular K-pop group is set to embark on a new journey. He has been reportedly approached to star as the lead in Love Playlist season 5.

The news came into light on August 4 after which SM Entertainment, the parent company of NCT, reacted to the reports. They stated that Jaehyun is positively considering to be part of the show.

As per reports, actors Bae Hyun Sung and Kim Sae Ron will be returning to the show. Hyung Sung starred in the third and fourth seasons whereas Kim Sae Ron appeared in the fourth season of Love Playlist. The popular web drama tells the stories of university students, friendships, love life, relationships.

Currently, Jaehyun is one of the hosts for the music show Inkigayo along with present with Minhyuk of K-pop group Monsta X and Naeun of April.

NCT 127 dropped their repackaged album titled 'NCT #127 Neo Zone: The Final Round' on May 19. In March 2020, the group dropped their second full-length album 'NCT #127 Neo Zone' with the lead title track 'Kick It'.

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Music labels to take legal action on TikTok alternatives for copyright infringement

Earlier this year the government of Indian banned the Chinese app TikTok, leaving many content creators of the platform seeking alternative options. In the vacuum created by the banning of TikTok a plethora of apps like Roposso, Triller, Takatak, Josh, Mitron, Snack Video etc. sprang up to capitalize on the market. However, the sudden emergence of these apps has left music labels fuming. Apparently, in a bid to capture the market most of these app have been using popular songs without acquiring the necessary rights from music owners. In light of this blatant copyright infringement music labels have decided on taking the legal route.

Commenting on the same Neeraj Kalyan, President T-series says, “Many content sharing mobile applications such as Roposso, Triller, Takatak (MX Player), Josh, Mitron, Snack Video etc are taking advantage of TikTok’s ban in India and to gain immediate success are using popular music, most of which belongs to T-Series without our permission. Though some of them backed by huge investors such as Tiger Global Management and Bertelsmann India Investments Apps like Roposso are habitually infringing music content since their launch and are busy finding excuses to not respect the rights of the music copyright owners. In today’s time, we as a company have no choice but to serve legal notices and take legal action (civil and/or criminal) against these Apps which are blatantly infringing our copyright. The argument by these Apps that the content is solely user generated is an eye-wash since all these Apps have music libraries where the App itself provide music to users to exploit. These Apps are clearly not intermediaries as they allow our content to be synchronised and downloaded and to add to the injury monetize our copyrighted content on their platform without our permission, earning unlawful profits at our expense and despite being put on notice are not taking down our copyrighted content. In fact, the law requires even an intermediary to conduct regular due diligence of its platforms and prevent such violations and not always wait for a notice.”

Expressing his displeasure on the blatant infringement Kalyan further added, “We spend crores and crores of rupees in acquisition and production of content, year on year and this year has been especially tough for the music and film industry and in such a scenario, the only people who are doing well are infringers, monetizing our content. How can we let this happen? All we are asking Apps like Roposso, Takatak, Triller etc to do is to not use our content without our permission. If they can’t do that, they should take a license and legitimize their actions. Why can’t these Apps just comply with the law? I fail to understand how come respectable Venture Funds like Tiger Global & Bertelsmann are backing such companies which have no respect for the law of the land. We are prepared to go any length to protect our copyrights and will not shy away from bringing their investors into the legal action as they are certainly hand in glove and partners in crime.”

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The Kissing Booth star Joey King to star alongside Brad Pitt in action thriller Bullet Train

In June 2020, it was informed that Hollywood actor Brad Pitt will star in an action thriller, Bullet Train. The film will be directed by Fast & Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw director, David Leitch. The makers have found their leading lady in The Kissing Booth star Joey King.

While her character is kept under wraps, this sure is a big move for the actress after starring in the summer hit The Kissing Booth 2 on Netflix that released on July 24.

Deadline earlier revealed a synopsis that read, "In the novel, five assassins find themselves on a fast-moving bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with only a few stops in between. They discover their missions are not unrelated to one another. The question becomes, who will make it off the train alive and what awaits them at the terminal station?"

Zak Olkewicz will pen the script while Leitch will supervise. The film will be produced by Sony Pictures. According to Variety, "The film is based on the Japanese novel “Maria Beetle” by best-selling author Kotaro Isaka. Ryosuke Saegusa and Yuma Terada of CTB Inc., who represent Isaka and the IP, are executive producers on the project."

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Vidya Balan starrer Sherni to resume shooting in October in Balaghat

Amid the COVID-19 crisis, many film and TV productions are slowly resuming the shooting adhering to the government rules. As per the latest reports, Vidya Balan starrer Sherni: Call Of The Wild will only resume shooting in the first week of October. As 65 percent shoot remains, the schedule will begin in Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh.

Vikram Malhotra, the producer of the film, spoke to a daily and revealed that they will be filming in the jungles of Madhya Pradesh. The reason they waited so long to resume shooting because of the safety of the cast and crew. Even though the cases are going down, they want to keep their guards up. The makers have procured required permission to shoot in MP. They will also follow strict guidelines to stay safe and healthy.

They would have wrapped up the film by May if the things had gone according to the plan. Vikram Malhotra said that the first thing was to protect daily wage workers. They made sure that there was no income displacement and everyone on the contract was paid until the first week of May.

Sherni is directed by Amit Masurkar and produced by Bhushan Kumar, Vikram Malhotra, Krishan Kumar, and Amit Masurkar, the film is written by Aastha Tiku.

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Al Pacino, Logan Lerman and Jerrika Hinton starrer Hunters renewed for second season

Amazon Studios announced today it has ordered a second season of the Amazon Original series Hunters, the hit conspiracy thriller created by David Weil and executive produced by Jordan Peele, to stream exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The acclaimed first season of Hunters, starring Al Pacino, Logan Lerman, and Jerrika Hinton, premiered February 21.

“I am beyond grateful to Jen and the Amazon family for their continued extraordinary support of Hunters,” said Weil. “Alongside our magnificent cast, incredible crew, and brilliant writers and producers, I am more eager than ever to share the next chapter of the Hunters saga with the world.”

“With Hunters, David Weil’s bold vision and fearless imagination powered a thrilling, twisty, action-packed first season that engaged Prime Video customers around the world,” said Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios, “We are thrilled that David, Jordan and the Hunters will be back with us for more.”

The debut season of Hunters followed a diverse band of Nazi hunters living in 1977 New York City. The Hunters, as they’re known, have discovered that hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the United States. The series also stars Josh Radnor, Kate Mulvany, Tiffany Boone, Greg Austin, Louis Ozawa, Carol Kane, Saul Rubinek, Dylan Baker and Lena Olin. Season one of Hunters, produced by Amazon Studios, Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Sonar Entertainment, was executive produced by David Weil who served as co-showrunner alongside executive producer Nikki Toscano. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon directed the pilot and was an executive producer alongside Win Rosenfeld from Monkeypaw Productions; Nelson McCormick; and David Ellender from Sonar Entertainment.

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Sushant Singh Rajput Death Case: Lawyer says Rhea Chakraborty is not missing

Actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death probe gets murkier. The actor passed away more than a month ago. He died by suicide on June 14 and was found hanging in his Bandra apartment. After Sushant's father KK Singh filed an FIR against Rhea Chakraborty, it was being reported that the actress was absconding.

But, her lawyer has clarified that she isn't missing. The actress' advocate Satish Maneshinde said that the contention by Bihar Police that she is missing is not correct. He said that the actress has cooperated with Mumbai Police as and when needed and has recorded the statement.

Satish Maneshinde further said that Bihar Police has not sent any notice or summons to her yet. He said that they have no jurisdiction to investigate this case. Maneshinde added that she has filed proceedings in the Supreme Court and transfer the case to Mumbai. He said that the case is sub judice.

Reports claimed that Rhea Chakraborty and her family allegedly left their building. The supervisor of the building stated that Rhea was seen leaving the building in the middle of the night couple of days ago with her family. They were reportedly seen getting in a blue car with huge suitcases.

Sushant’s father KK Singh filed an FIR against Sushant’s girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty and her family for abetment to suicide.

After the FIR, Rhea recently released a video in which she said that the truth will prevail. “I have immense faith in God and the judiciary. I believe that I will get justice. Even though a lot of horrible things are being said about me on the electronic media, I refrain from commenting on the advice of my lawyers as the matter is sub-judice. Satyameva jayate, the truth shall prevail,” she was heard saying.

Mumbai Police has recorded statements of over 40 people including Aditya Chopra, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Mahesh Bhatt, Rhea Chakraborty, among others.

Meanwhile, Bihar Police has begun their investigation and has recorded statements of different people.

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Mumbai Police release Sushant Singh Rajput's brother-in-law's messages sent to Siddharth Pithani

Actor Sushant Singh Rajput passed away more than a month ago. He died by suicide on June 14 and was found hanging in his Bandra apartment. His family released Whatsapp messages screenshots that they had alerted Mumbai Police in February that Sushant's life was in danger. Moments after that Mumbai Police released messages from the Sushant's brother-in-law that was sent to Siddharth Pithani.

Siddharth Pithani, who was Sushant's content manager and his flatmate, had provided the screenshots to Mumbai Police during the statement recording. In the screenshots, Sushant's brother-in-law had asked Siddharth to pass the message to Sushant.

The messages provided to India Today reads:

1. Reached Chandigarh. Thanks for your fervent invitation to Mumbai. It connected me to scores of old friends.

2. Appreciating that you are not in charge of your life, career, or house, I am happy that I guessed the situation correctly and planned my visit accordingly.

3. Please keep my wife away from your problems. It is because of the company you keep, unhelpful habits, and gross mismanagement. I am determined to ensure that my wife is not penalised only because she is good.

4. Appreciating that I am the only one who can help you, I am still available. In case of need, tell whoever is in charge of your upkeep and maintenance - your girlfriend, her family or your manager -to work out a mutually agreeable arrangement with my office.

5. The message is to let you know my thoughts on the subject. If you find it unnecessary, simply ignore, have a government to run, a department to manage, and a family to look after. Awfully "1 short on time and energy. - From Jijaji.

His brother-in-law had sent messages to Mumbai Police to inquire about the threat to Sushant Singh Rajput. But, according to Mumbai Police, OP Singh wanted it to be done informally and that Sushant's father KK Singh did not file a written complaint.

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