Disney+ Renews Loki for Second Season
On Wednesday’s season finale, Loki used its mid-credits scene to announce that the series would be back for another season. No additional details have been announced. The series just showed a title card with the news. Loki is the first of Disney+’s Marvel scripted series to be formally renewed for a new season. Marvel’s next Disney+ series will be What If…, an animated show that premieres on August 11th.
Henry Cavill Starring in Adaptation of The Rosie Project
Henry Cavill has signed on to star in the upcoming adaptation of the romantic comedy The Rosie Project, written by Graeme Simsion. Cavill will play a professor who’s having trouble finding love, and so he creates an elaborate questionnaire to find a wife. But when he meets a woman who doesn’t happen to fit any of the “requirements” on his questionnaire, he’s surprised to find she might just be the perfect woman for him anyway. Stephen Falk has signed on to direct the film from a script by Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber, and Matt Tolmach. Michael Costigan will produce. The Rosie Project is slated to start production early next year.
Hong Kong Book Fair Subject to Self-Censorship Due to National Security Law
At the annual Hong Kong book fair, attendees will notice a smaller selection of books on the shelves. Booksellers are generally avoiding titles that have been deemed politically sensitive, in an attempt to avoid violating a national security law imposed on the city in June 2020. “Every vendor will read through the books that they are bringing to the book fair to see if there is any content that might cause trouble,” said Jimmy Pang, president of local publishing company Subculture. Other publishers, however, are still displaying books about the 2014 protests and other politically sensitive topics. Raymond Yeung, a spokesman for publisher Hillway Culture Company, explained, “When we publish a book, we put a lot of effort into ensuring the content is legal. That‘s why we don’t think there’s a big problem and would still bring them. We hope this will be an encouragement to our fellow publishers, to show that there’s still some people publishing books like this.”
Demolishing Public Libraries from the Inside: Niles Public Library is a Warning
The people who sit on the Board of your local library can make all the difference. In suburban Chicago, the Niles-Maine Public Library is being destroyed from the inside by politically-conservative Board officials.