Electronic sports' popularity is on the rise and Walt Disney World is leveling up its efforts to capture a piece of this lucrative market.  ?We think it could be a very huge market for us,? ESPN Wide World of Sports General Manager Jose Mola said. ?We think it's emerging and growing at an unbelievably fast rate, which is exciting for us.? As previously reported, Disney (NYSE:DIS) inked a deal with the Blizzard Entertainment to broadcast the e-sport OverWatch League on ESPN and Disney XD.?

Streaming services such as Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Hulu and others have transformed the entertainment landscape. Here are recent stories on the streaming industry reported by The Business Journals and elsewhere: With Comic-Con 2018 underway, fanboys and -girls can preorder DC Universe, the new digital subscription service from comic-book brand DC Entertainment. And we now know how much it will cost: $75 for the annual membership available for preorder now?

?The Equalizer? is rife with plot potential, especially in this sequel ? the first ever for star Denzel Washington and director Antoine Fuqua. Here, former black ops agent Robert McCall (Washington) has left his job at a hardware store and works as a Lyft driver ? the better to identify people in trouble who need his help. The bookshop owner whose daughter is kidnapped and whisked to Turkey by her husband, for example, or the young woman who is drugged and assaulted by a penthouse full of?

After 14 years at the studio, Paramount Television President Amy Powell has been fired. The move came after an internal investigation found the executive allegedly made inappropriate comments ?in a professional setting.? ?Last week, multiple individuals came to us to raise concerns around comments made by Amy Powell in a professional setting, which they believed were inconsistent with our company?s values,? Paramount CEO Jim Gianopulos wrote in a memo to staff on Thursday. ?Having?

Deaths caused by liver disease are up dramatically and young adults were the hardest hit. A new study, published in the British Medical Journal, said cirrhosis-related deaths increased by 65 percent from 1999 to 2016, and deaths from liver cancer doubled, The Washington Post reported. The rise in death rates was driven predominantly by alcohol-induced disease, the study said. People aged 25 to 34 had the highest increase in cirrhosis deaths among the demographic groups studied, averaging a 10.5?

The premiere bioethics oversight group in the United Kingdom says that genetically engineering human embryos to alter a baby's characteristics is acceptable, including preventing inheritable diseases and not ruling out the possibility of cosmetic adjustments.  The UK?s Nuffield Council on Bioethics said in its report, ?Genome Editing and Human Reproduction: Social and Ethical Issues,? that it is ?morally permissible? to genetically engineer human embryos as long as the future child and?