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Sydney Sweeney Will Feature In And Produce A New Version Of The Jane Fonda Picture Originally Released In 1968
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In line with Deadline, the Euphoria star, solely 25 years outdated, will reportedly star in and government create a brand new Barbarella film for Sony Footage, the identical studio with which she is collaborating on the Spider-Man spinoff, Madame Webb.
Sweeney confirmed the report in an Instagram story on Tuesday. The publish included a hyperlink to a narrative from Deadline and an illustrated poster from the 1968 movie adaptation of the title character, which featured Jane Fonda.
Sweeney penned the caption, “time to guard the universe.”
In line with Deadline, the film is predicated on a sequence of comedian books written and drawn in French by Jean-Claude Forest, which was then translated into a movie. In line with a synopsis supplied on each IMDB and Deadline, the plot of the 1968 movie directed by Roger Vadim facilities on an astronaut from the forty first century tasked with stopping a villainous scientist named Durand Durand from using a weapon referred to as the Positronic Ray.
In line with Deadline, the primary trendy efforts to remake “Barbarella” stretch again to 2013, when veteran James Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade had been contracted to jot down a display screen adaptation for “Gaumont Worldwide Tv.”
In July, The Hollywood Reporter quoted Sweeney as saying that she couldn’t afford to take a trip from appearing for six months. As well as, the star of “White Lotus” remarked that actors aren’t paid as a lot as they was once and that there are not any residuals with streamers.
The massive stars will proceed to receives a commission, however a portion of my earnings should go to pay my lawyer (5 p.c), my brokers (10 p.c), and my enterprise supervisor (3 p.c or one thing related). She defined that I’m required to pay my PR each month. That is much more than my month-to-month mortgage fee.
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U.S. judge overturns $4.7 billion 'Sunday Ticket' judgment against the NFL
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The NFL logo is displayed on the field in Charlotte, N.C., on Nov. 4, 2018. The judge who presided in a class-action lawsuit filed by “Sunday Ticket” subscribers against the NFL said Thursday that the jury did not follow his instructions in determining damages.
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LOS ANGELES — A federal judge overturned a jury’s $4.7 billion verdict in the class-action lawsuit filed by “Sunday Ticket” subscribers against the NFL and has granted judgment to the NFL.
U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez ruled Thursday that the testimony of two witnesses for the subscribers had flawed methodologies and should have been excluded.
“Without the testimonies of Dr. (Daniel) Rascher and Dr. (John) Zona, no reasonable jury could have found class-wide injury or damages,” Gutierrez wrote at the end of his 16-page ruling.
On June 27 the jury awarded $4.7 billion in damages to residential and commercial subscribers after it ruled the NFL violated antitrust laws in distributing out-of-market Sunday afternoon games on a premium subscription service.
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The lawsuit covered 2.4 million residential subscribers and 48,000 businesses in the United States who paid for the package on DirecTV of out-of-market games from the 2011 through 2022 seasons.
“We are grateful for today’s ruling in the Sunday Ticket class action lawsuit,” the NFL said in a statement. “We believe that the NFL’s media distribution model provides our fans with an array of options to follow the game they love, including local broadcasts of every single game on free over-the-air television. We thank Judge Gutierrez for his time and attention to this case and look forward to an exciting 2024 NFL season.”
Calls and emails to the attorneys representing “Sunday Ticket” subscribers were not returned.
The jury of five men and three women found the NFL liable for $4,610,331,671.74 in damages to the residential class (home subscribers) and $96,928,272.90 in damages to the commercial class (business subscribers).
Because damages can be tripled under federal antitrust laws, the NFL could have been liable for $14,121,779,833.92.
Gutierrez did say in his decision that if he did not rule for the NFL as a matter of law, he would have vacated the jury’s damages verdict and conditionally grant a new trial “based on the jury’s irrational damages award.”
Rascher’s models were variations of a college football model. Rascher, an economist at the University of San Francisco, said during his testimony that “they figured it out in college sports, (so) they would certainly figure it out at the NFL.”
Gutierrez said Rascher’s testimony “was not the product of sound economic methodology” and that he needed to explain how out-of-market telecasts would have been available on cable and satellite without an additional subscription.
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Gutierrez also found flaws in Zona’s “multiple distributor” models because it predicted consumers would have paid more if another service besides DirecTV offered “Sunday Ticket” and there was an unsupported assumption that another distributor — either cable, satellite or streaming — would have been available.
“Without knowing what “direct-to-consumer” meant, it is impossible to determine if it would have been economically rational for consumers to purchase ”Sunday Ticket” from an alternative distributor at a higher price,” Gutierrez said. “And, that definition was necessary for determining whether a viable alternative distributor even existed during the class period. Without that information, the Court cannot determine whether the but-for worlds without exclusivity were modeled reliably.
The jury’s amount also did not conform to Rascher’s model ($7.01 billion) by Daniel Rascher, or the model ($3.48 billion) by Zona, who was an expert witness in the case.
Instead, the jury used the 2021 list price of $293.96 and subtracted $102.74, the average price actually paid by residential Sunday Ticket subscribers. The jury then used $191.26, which it considered as the “overcharge,” and multiplied that by the number of subscribers to come up with the damages amount.
Gutierrez said the jury did not follow his instructions and “instead relied on inputs not tied to the record to create its own ‘overcharge.’”
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It is not the first time the NFL has won a judgment as matter of law in this case, which has been going on since 2015.
In 2017, U.S. District Judge Beverly Reid O’Connell dismissed the lawsuit and ruled for the NFL because she said “Sunday Ticket” did not reduce output of NFL games and that even though DirecTV might have charged inflated prices, that did not “on its own, constitute harm to competition” because it had to negotiate with the NFL to carry the package.
Two years later, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the case.
It is likely the plaintiffs will again appeal to the 9th Circuit.
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Noah Lyles Crowned World's Fastest Man, Months After World Champion Debate
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Noah Lyles is a true world champion … crowned the “World’s Fastest Man” after winning the 100m dash — months after he told NBA champs to stop calling themselves world champions.
The Olympian just took gold in the men’s 100m in a heart-stopping finish … narrowly edging out Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson by .005 seconds to win Olympic Gold.
NOAH LYLES’ OLYMPIC DREAM COMES TRUE!
100M GOLD MEDALIST. #ParisOlympics pic.twitter.com/qR6bkXLHhE
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In fact, the race was so close commentators initially thought Thompson won … before the photo finish proved otherwise.
With Lyles’ win, he takes home the gold and the unofficial title given to the winner of the Olympics 100m — “World’s Fastest Man” … a big honor especially considering the X beef NL engaged in last year.
ICYMI … Lyles won three golds at the World Athletic Games in Budapest last year — and promptly called out NBA title winners for referring to themselves as world champions ’cause they only play other North American teams.
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We caught up with Noah who told us he didn’t give a single you know what about how NBA players were feeling … adding they totally missed his point about wanting to give track the same level of exposure as basketball.
Now, he’s got the highest honors in his sport … and an international-related nickname to boot — your move NBA!!!
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Sunday Puzzle: An A.C. puzzle to beat the heat
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On-air challenge: Every answer today is a familiar two-word phrase or name with the initials A.C.
Ex. Summer cooler –> AIR CONDITIONER
- Type of electricity
- Something that rings to wake you up in the morning
- LAX for Los Angeles International or LGA for La Guardia
- Color prism for Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon,” e.g.
- Ship from which military jets take off
- Mystery writer who created Miss Marple
- Gangster known as “Scarface”
- Longtime host of “Masterpiece Theatre”
- French playwright who wrote “The Plague”
- Annual yachting competition
- Closest star system to Earth
- What Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren each wrote
- Container that sprays a mist
- Signal that danger is over
Last week’s challenge: Last week’s challenge comes from listener Adam Aaronson, of Deerfield, Ill. Think of a classic movie title in which the initials of all the words up to the last one, in order, spell the number of letters in that last word. The number of words in the title is for you to discover. What film is it?
Challenge answer: “The Wizard of Oz”
Winner: John Nacy of Jefferson City, Missouri
This week’s challenge: This week’s challenge comes from listener Judy Seaman, of Sandy Springs, Ga. Think of a famous American woman with a two-syllable last name. The first syllable is spelled like a body part, but isn’t pronounced like one. The second syllable is pronounced like a body part, but isn’t spelled like one. Who is this famous woman?
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If you know the answer to the challenge, submit it here by Thursday, August 8th at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: include a phone number where we can reach you.
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