Новости за 08.12.2020

A second federal judge has granted his second preliminary injunction preventing the federal government from effectively shutting TikTok down as the legal saga of the wildly popular video sharing app continues. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said the government had “exceeded the express limitations” of IEEPA – the Emergency Economic Power Act […]

The International Olympic Committee has decided to take breakdancing out for a spin with its upcoming Paris 2024 games. The Olympics announced on Monday that the competitive dance form will be among the new sports set to debut during the 2024 games. The Olympics website states that breakdancing (named “breaking”), skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing […]

Christopher Nolan, who was doing consumer press interviews today for the DVD release of Tenet, was asked about that movie’s film studio, Warner Bros., and their recent radical windows plan to drop their entire 2021 slate both in theaters and on their struggling frosh streaming service HBO Max at the same time. It was a […]

Christine McCarthy, the Senior EVP and Chief Financial Officer at Disney, has extended her contract with the company until the end of 2022, Disney said in a regulatory filing Monday. It comes as she has been a key communicator with Wall Street about Disney’s streaming pivot and efforts to manage through the Covid-19 crisis. The […]

Why did the chicken cross the road? To see Mario Lopez act as Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Colonel Sanders on Lifetime, of course. On Monday, Lifetime turned heads when it announced an unusual casting for an even odder title. The network shared a poster on Twitter promoting its new “original mini-movie,” A Recipe For Seduction. The attached […]

Editor’s note: Michael Shamberg is a tenured film and TV producer whose credits include Contagion, Get Shorty, The Big Chill, Erin Brockovich, Out of Sight, Pulp Fiction, A Fish Called Wanda and many others. With the Warner Bros announcement that all its 2021 films will premiere online at the same time as in theaters, it’s […]

The day after Los Angeles County’s number of new cases topped 10,000 for the first time, state and local officials warned about the status of the region’s health care system. By Sunday, said California Governor Gavin Newsom, Southern California had only about 10% of its ICU capacity left. That had dropped from about 15% on […]

Sally Rooney’s breakout drama Normal People was the BBC’s most-streamed series of 2020, racking up 62.7M views since launching in April to help iPlayer to a record-breaking year. The Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal-starrer’s best performing episode generated 6.4M requests as viewers in the UK were transfixed by the textured love story between Marianne and […]

Eve paid tribute to Natalie Desselle following the B.A.P.S actress’ death on Monday. “Can’t believe it. Rest in Peace @nataliedessellereid thank you for your light and spirit. Prayers, peace and blessings. Please pray for her family,” The Talk co-host captioned an Instagram post of Desselle smiling. From 2003 to 2006 the two actresses starred together in […]

Apple TV+ is in final negotiations for Carrie & Me, a new film adapted from Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story, Carol Burnett’s bestselling memoir about her daughter Carrie Hamilton. Tara Miele will write and direct the project, which will be produced by Apple Studios along with iconic entertainer Burnett, Emmy winner Tina Fey, […]

Jeremy Irons is set to join the A-list ensemble of MGM’s Gucci movie that Ridley Scott is directing. Lady Gaga is attached to star as Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci who was tried and convicted of orchestrating his assassination on the steps of his office in 1995. She served 18 years in jail […]

As the United States approached the date commemorating the attack on Pearl Harbor, it found itself facing a new tragic event. In the five days leading up to December 7, the average number of daily deaths in America related to Covid-19 was 2,566. That surpassed the tragic loss of 2,403 American lives on that Day […]