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Hackers Threatening HBO: "Pay-Up, or We'll Release Game of Thrones"
So far the HBO leaks have been limited, falling well short of the chaos inflicted on Sony in 2014. Perhaps most troubling for HBO is the potential of having scripts and recordings from upcoming shows leaked. HBO has already recognized that "proprietary information" has been stolen , and stated that it is now investigating the attack along with cybersecurity experts and police. [Full Article...]
Veteran cinematographer elected film academy president
Share this article: Cinematographer John Baily. His cinematography credits include '"Ordinary People," " American Gigolo ", " The Big Chill ", " Groundhog Day ", " As Good as It Gets ", " The Anniversary Party ", " The Way Way Back " and " A Walk in the Woods ". [Full Article...]
Jurassic crocodile fossil named after Lemmy
Lemmy died in 2015, and now his name lives on not only in his bone-shaking music, but in the bones of a terrifying monster. He also used to be something of an L.A. The exact relationship between Lemmysuchus and its close relatives had been misunderstood as scientists had previously wrongly assigned some other fossil finds to the same species. [Full Article...]
Princess Diana Remembered in These Timeless Photographs
In a recent interview with Channel 9, Burrell , who was Diana's butler, shared his thoughts about the private conversations and Kate Middleton . Working extensively with charities around the world, the Princess of Wales used her fame to bring attention to numerous causes, including awareness efforts for HIV/AIDS, homelessness and landmine blight. [Full Article...]
Video shows father, son fight off armed robbers at Texas store
The father and son fought back when the crooks tried to hold up Kurrum's mobile phone shop in Arlington, Texas. The two employees inside Z Comm Communications had only their bare fists to work with, but they still prevailed. Before last month, Monga said he had never had a robbery at his store. A short while later, the guy who jumped the counter was able to get away, but not without his tail bet... [Full Article...]
Over 180 migrants storm Morocco-Spain border post
Meanwhile, Monday saw 187 migrants force their way through a frontier post in the early hours of the morning after taking border police by surprise. In an appearance before the Spanish Deputy Congress, Zoido revealed that in the mentioned space of time, took place 2,266 attempts of jumping the fence in the perimeters of Ceuta, while in 2016, there was a total of 3, 472 attempts. [Full Article...]
New Star Wars: The Last Jedi images and details shared
Writer-director Rian Johnson confirmed in an interview from May that the story for Star Wars 8 wasn't "mapped out" when he signed on to the project, with the director revealing that the first step in this writing process was figuring out why Luke had exiled himself in the first place. [Full Article...]
Netflix and Amazon on edge as Disney plans own streaming service
In order to fund the services, Disney is buying a majority ownership of BAM Teach, worth $1.58 billion. Nevertheless, according to a statement Disney CEO Bob Iger made to CNBC , Disney had a "good relationship" with Netflix . [Full Article...]