Culture and leisure

The American company The Walt Disney Company broke the world record for annual box office. This writes Quartzy.

The Japanese government intends to provide financial assistance to Kyoto Animation, whose animation studio was set on fire by an attacker.

The American animated film "The Lion King" (The Lion King) once again led the Russian film distribution, collecting 513.5 million rubles for the past weekend. This is evidenced by preliminary data from the portal kinobusiness.com for the period from July 25 to July 28.

About two thousand fans gathered in one of the bookstores in Moscow to get an autograph of Rammstein's keyboard player, Christian Flake Lorenz.

Moscow for the first time organizes the Planet of the Ballet festival, which will be held from August 19 to September 8. The venue was chosen for the Palace of Youth.

The creators of the cult TV series "Game of Thrones" David Benioff and D. B. Weiss left the company HBO, which collaborated for over 10 years. According to The Hollywood Reporter, their new “home” will be another streaming service, for example, Disney + or Amazon.