Tom & Jerry and Disney’s
Raya and the Last Dragon. The films will come out in theaters on February 26 and March 5 respectively at the same time as in other territories.
Tom & Jerry will be the first new U.S. studio title to come out in China this year. The Lunar New Year will have just ended. Regulators ban foreign film releases during the holiday, which is the country’s busiest movie-going period.
The confirmation of the dates follows the recent announcement that China has lifted the last of its remaining local lockdowns. Domestic transmission of the coronavirus is now officially at zero. (Caveat: China doesn’t classify asymptomatic cases as part of its official total of confirmed cases, and there were eight such cases yesterday.)
Meet Smash Ventures, the low-flying outfit that has quietly funded Epic Games among others
When in 2018, Smash Ventures showed up as an investor in a $1.25 billion round for Epic Games reportedly the largest ever investment in a video game company at the time it was the first time many had heard of the investing outfit.
When the brand showed up again last summer in an even bigger round for Epic last August, the games giant announced $1.78 billion in fresh funding at a post-money equity valuation of $17.3 billion a diner near Epic’s Cary, North Carolina headquarters that sells “smash waffles” started getting calls from reporters, says Eric Garland, who used to lead venture and growth deals for The Walt Disney Company after selling his company, BigChampagne, to Live Nation in 2011.
Disney Plus has a busy spring planned, with the release of the animated Star Wars spinoff series The Bad Batch; the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Loki, starring Tom Hiddleston; and the Monsters, Inc. spinoff Monsters At Work all inbound soon after the conclusion of Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Here are release dates for Disney’s spring lineup.
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