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Sports-focused online streamer FuboTV has raised $75 million, led by AMC and 21st Century Fox, in its latest round of funding, the company announced on Wednesday. The New York-based company has 100,000 paying customers, with its basic package starting off at $45 a month. FuboTV has about 80 channels in its arsenal, and has carved out a niche as a go-to spot for sports fans looking to cut the cord, with NBA TV, NBC Sports Network, Fox Sports, and the NFL Network — along with Fox, CBS, and NBC on the network side. Читать дальше...

F. Gary Gray will direct a live-action “MASK” film for Paramount and Hasbro, an individual with knowledge of the project tells TheWrap. The movie will be inspired by the 1980s action figures and cartoon. MASK is the acronym for Mobile Armored Strike Kommand, a task force led by Matt Trakker, whose goal is to take out the criminal organization VENOM. Also Read: More 'Transformers' and 'GI Joe' Movies as Paramount, Hasbro Ink 5-Year Deal “MASK” will be produced by Hasbro, and Gray. They are currently... Читать дальше...

Alex Jones revived a centuries-old racial taunt Wednesday, telling African-Americans that if they aren’t happy in the United States, they should go to Africa. “Again, if America is so bad — the whole thing is — why don’t you go to Africa,” said Jones. “I’ve heard from so many black folks that were liberals until they went to Africa and they saw how bad it was in some areas and they went ‘Wow, man I’m glad I’m here.” Criticism came swiftly from people who reminded Jones of the existence of slavery. Читать дальше...

Focus Features announced Wednesday that it is giving Josie Rourke’s Elizabethan biopic “Mary Queen of Scots” a December 7 release, right in the middle of awards season. The film stars two of this year’s Best Actress Oscar nominees, Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie, who will respectively play Mary Stuart and her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. It follows Mary after her husband, the French monarch Francis II, dies when she is 18. Defying demands that she remarry, she returns to her native Scotland to become Queen there... Читать дальше...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa appeals court has granted a new trial for a man convicted of murder who argued that the jury was biased against him. The Des Moines Register reports that the Iowa Court of Appeals on Wednesday sided with Lee Christensen, who argued on appeal that several jurors had seen Facebook posts threatening the jury and warning of riots if Christensen weren't convicted. Christensen was sentenced in 2016 to 50 years in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder in the... Читать дальше...

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday during a second day of talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he wants to see "free, fair and reciprocal trade" between the two countries and a whittling away of the trade deficit. "We have a very big deficit, and we're going to weed that down and hopefully get a balance at some point in the not-too-distant future," Trump said. The U.S. trade deficit with Japan last year was $56.1 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Читать дальше...

DETROIT (AP) — A former Detroit deputy police chief who took money from a city towing contractor has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison. The 366-day sentence means Celia Washington can get credit for good behavior and actually serve less than a year in custody. Federal prosecutors were seeking a two-year prison term Wednesday. Washington served as the police department's legal adviser, responsible for overseeing towing companies that remove cars seized by police. She admits knowing that... Читать дальше...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state will restore the voting rights of parolees under an executive order issued Wednesday by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo that will impact as many as 35,000 New Yorkers who have served time for felonies. The move adds New York to a list of more than a dozen states and the District of Columbia that give convicted felons the right to vote once they have completed their prison sentences. Republicans immediately slammed the move as bad public policy and potentially illegal... Читать дальше...

DETROIT (AP) — DTE Energy says crews from five states are trying to restore service to 20,000 remaining customers who lost power during Sunday's ice storm. The Detroit-based utility said Wednesday afternoon that crews had restored electricity to 95 percent of the 390,000 customers impacted by the storm. However, it says the remaining repairs were smaller, more complex jobs that will restore power to the pockets of customers still experiencing outages. DTE says crews have strung more than 250 miles of new power lines since Sunday. Читать дальше...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — As Mexico prepares for the first of three presidential candidate debates, the governing party is struggling to remain relevant in the campaign ahead of the July 1 election. Advertisements for Institutional Revolutionary Party candidate Jose Antonio Meade have even dropped the party's logo. Instead they use three colored triangles meant to represent the parties in his coalition. That decision makes sense given the striking unpopularity of the ruling party, known as the PRI. In a... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on a nanny convicted of stabbing two children to death in their home (all times local): 4:30 p.m. A nanny convicted of murder for stabbing two children to death at their New York home has expressed no reaction to the verdict, just staring straight ahead. The children's father, Kevin Krim, held hands in court on Wednesday with two alternate jurors who said they would stay for the verdict and then hugged them after it was read. They cried together. Jurors found nanny Yoselyn... Читать дальше...

Any Bay Area theatergoer worth his or her salt is well acquainted with the plays by Lauren Gunderson, but many fewer of us have seen her perform. This weekend marks a rare onstage occasion for the playwright whom American Theatre magazine recently named the most produced playwright in America. On the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shootings, she performs her own one-woman riff on Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” speech, “Natural Shocks,” at Marin Theatre Company. It’s part of a... Читать дальше...

Just like his rapper persona on FX’s “Atlanta,” star Brian Tyree Henry isn’t quite used to getting stopped on the street by fans. “It becomes a little daunting — a lot of daunting, actually — because now you can’t really navigate the streets the way you used to,” he told TheWrap in a recent interview. “I find myself having to go left instead of right, but I’m used to going right sometimes.” Henry said that, yes, people definitely stop him by calling out “Paper Boi!” just like on the show. It’s “difficult,” but “good.” Also Read... Читать дальше...

Check out this week’s most emotionally reacted-to TV personalities and characters. A beloved singer, the former director of the F.B.I. and a player for the Milwaukee Bucks had viewers talking passionately on social media over the past seven days. The Wrap has partnered with Canvs, the emotion measurement company, for a weekly look at some of the characters and personalities that have TV viewers the most worked up on social media. The data below covers April 11-17 and is drawn from the most emotionally reacted-to television programs... Читать дальше...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The engine explosion aboard a Southwest Airlines jetliner puts new pressure on airlines and regulators to act faster to inspect the fan blades that may have snapped off and triggered the accident that killed a passenger. The initial findings from investigators show that Tuesday's emergency was eerily similar to an engine failure on another Southwest plane in 2016. That breakdown led the engine manufacturer to recommend new inspections of fan blades on many Boeing 737s. Investigators... Читать дальше...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — Friday is April 20, or 4/20. That's the numerical code for marijuana's high holiday, a homage to pot's enduring appeal and universal slang for smoking. Festivities are planned worldwide, culminating with a synchronized smoke at 4:20 p.m. How the marijuana-loving world came to mark the occasion is believed traceable to five Northern California men now in their 60s with bad backs and graying hair. They are the unofficial grandmasters by virtue of the code they created nearly... Читать дальше...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Twenty South Carolina prisoners have been killed at the hands of fellow inmates in the past 16 months. The staggering amount of violence, which includes the gang-fueled bloodshed that left seven prisoners dead and 22 injured this week at Lee Correctional Institution, has some legislators calling for more oversight and transparency at the state Department of Corrections. At a news conference, Corrections Director Bryan Stirling said officers stormed in and took the... Читать дальше...

Amy Schumer’s trademark as a stand-up comic was self-delusion. She’d tell stories that supposedly showed how generous or socially concerned or irresistible she was and reveal the opposite. Now in “I Feel Pretty” that comic strategy is blown out to fill a feature length movie that turns out not only to be funny but endearing and humane. Schumer plays Renee, an office-worker in a cosmetics firm who wishes she were beautiful. She sees her life as a series of minor deflations and humiliations... Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charlize Theron no se irá de Estados Unidos por un tema de racismo. Pero la actriz sudafricana blanca, quien adoptó a una hija y un hijo negro, dijo que está “constantemente preocupada por la seguridad" de los pequeños. “No conozco a un padre que no lo esté”, manifestó. En una entrevista publicada por la revista Elle la semana pasada, Theron fue citada diciendo que no viajaría a ciertas partes de Estados Unidos con su familia por temor al racismo y que ha considerado irse del país para que sus hijos estén seguros. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — President Trump wasted no time before seizing on last week’s report by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog on misconduct allegations against the FBI’s former No. 2 official, Andrew McCabe. Trump tweeted it was proof that his archrival James Comey, the former FBI director, “totally controlled” McCabe. But the report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz said no such thing. In fact, it depicted clashing accounts of a conversation they had that contributed to McCabe’s dismissal. Читать дальше...

The 13th annual Poems Under the Dome event unites poets and poetry enthusiasts alike for a night of open mike readings at San Francisco’s City Hall. The free event, in honor of National Poetry Month, is scheduled to take place from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in the North Light Court. Performance slots are determined through a lottery during the event, and selected readers are invited to read one poem — of their own authorship or a favorite by another’s pen — that clocks in at less than three minutes. Читать дальше...

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A group of University of Massachusetts Medical School students have taken part in a nationwide student "die-in" in their medical school's lobby. The Worcester Telegram reports the school's chapter of White Coats for Black Lives took part in the UMass demonstration in hopes of addressing police violence committed against African-Americans. Thirty medical students lay down donning lab coats in the lobby while chapter officer Imani Williams read from a petition... Читать дальше...

The Raiders have been widely projected to target an inside linebacker with their first-round pick in the upcoming NFL Draft. NaVorro Bowman, their starting middle linebacker for the second half of last season, remains a free agent and the Raiders don’t have a clear long-term successor at the position. Georgia’s Roquan Smith and Virginia Tech’s Tremaine Edmunds are considered the two best inside linebackers in this year’s draft class. But according to ESPN draft analyst Todd McShay... Читать дальше...

Amazon has cut a deal to sell voice-controlled TVs at Best Buy, the latest attempt by the online retailer to get its burgeoning suite of tech products out where people can see and touch them. Best Buy already sells the Amazon Kindle and other gadgets, but the deal announced Wednesday makes the electronics retailer the only other place where you can walk in and buy a TV powered by Amazon’s Fire TV software. Amazon has begun to make its physical presence known, buying... Читать дальше...