Kevin Messick, a producer on Batman Forever and The Other Guys, alleges that Don Granger and Gary Levinsohn of Mutual Film Company edged him out of the film adaptation of Lee Child’s best-selling novel.Messick is asking for unspecified damages, his producer’s fees and the rights to participate in any upcoming sequels. The franchise rights are [...]
China’s stance represents a hardening of tone in a wrangle that has also drawn ire from the United States and India. They argue the EU is exceeding its legal jurisdiction by calculating the carbon cost over the whole flight, not just Europe.The timing of China’s move is significant because next week, Chinese and EU leaders [...]
Australia’s coal industry, which is concentrated in Queensland and New South Wales, was largely unaffected, easing concern about a repeat of last year’s disastrous floods that sent global coal prices soaring.But heavy rain is expected to take a toll on the region’s agriculture, particularly on cotton, sugarcane, soybean and corn.About 2,500 people were evacuated from [...]
Sotheby’s and Christie’s, the world’s leading auctioneers, hold a series of big sales in London over the next two weeks at which the old rivals expect to raise more than 500 million pounds ($800 million).This time last year the equivalent auctions fetched a combined total of around 425 million pounds, although that was inflated by [...]
American cinematographer Michael deGruy, 60, and Australian TV writer-producer Andrew Wight, 52, were killed when their helicopter crashed shortly after takeoff from an airstrip south of Sydney, the media group said on its website.Police did not release the victims’ identities immediately. However, National Geographic and Oscar-winning director Cameron confirmed their deaths in a statement released [...]
Gas supplies to the European Union from Russia improved at the weekend but have not fully recovered, the European Commission said, as Italy convened a crisis committee to handle what it called critical shortages of Russian gas.The dam wall broke and flooded the village in southern Bulgaria following heavy rain and snow melting. Four people [...]
Other commercials from companies such as Anheuser-Busch and Coca-Cola repeated old themes or failed to stand out during American TV’s most valuable advertising time, according to industry experts and online comments.Companies that spent $3. million on average for a 30-second spot ran commercials featuring comedy, celebrity and skin as the New York Giants defeated [...]
Madonna, the first female Super Bowl halftime headliner since the notorious Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction of 2004, was carried, Cleopatra-style, into Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium by a cadre of muscled gladiators.Wearing Egyptian regalia, complete with headdress, and spiked black boots, the pop superstar launched into her seminal hit Vogue, with lighting and other visual effects [...]
Chronicle brought in an estimated $22. million from U.S. and Canadian theaters, studio estimates released on Sunday showed. The movie with largely unknown actors finished just ahead of Radcliffe’s Woman in Black, which took in an estimated $21. million.Both performances surpassed projections from studio executives, who had expected weaker sales against competition from [...]
The fire broke out early Sunday in a part of the Alikhanov Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics in southwestern Moscow that contains a research collider, institute officials said in a statement on its website.There were no radiation sources in the area of the collider, which had been shut off on December 25, and no [...]
