Alex Jones Ordered to Pay Nearly $1 Billion in Sandy Hook Defamation Trial

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has rounded out the ensemble cast for Sunny (fka Dark Manual), a half-hour darkly comedic drama, starring and executive produced by Rashida Jones. Joanna Sotomura (Barry) stars in the titular role, along with annie the clumsy (Miss Osaka), YOU (Nobody Knows), Judy Ongg and Jun Kunimura (Kill Bill) join Jones in the series from Katie Robbins (The Affair, The Last Tycoon) and A24. Lucy Tcherniak (Station Eleven, The End of the F***ing World) is attached to direct.

EXCLUSIVE: Rizwan Manji (Schitt’s Creek), Atharva Verma (Stargirl), Ayana Manji (Mira, Royal Detective), Meesha Shafi (The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Alicia Silverstone (The Killing of a Sacred Deer) and Hasan Minhaj (The King’s Jester) have signed on to star in the Pakistani American coming-of-age film Mustache — the first feature from writer-director Imran J. Khan.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Band of Brothers” writer Bruce McKenna is teaming with David Broyles (“Six”) and Nick Jones Jr. (“Yasuke”) to write and produce a limited TV series “Buffalo Rangers” about the 2nd Ranger Company, the only all-Black special operations combat unit in U.S. history. They were notable for their efforts in the Korean War. The series is being produced by South Korea-based Moving Pictures Company, which has a growing English-language slate. No broadcaster or streamer has been announced. Producing alongside Broyles, Jones and McKenna are Thomas Suh (through his production company Système D Entertainment), Paul Merryman (“The Outpost”), Debra Martin Chase (“Harriet,” CBS’s “The Equalizer”) and Jariko Denman (“The Outpost”), a retired master sergeant with 15 combat deployments.

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate Television is on board Irish-Belgian drama series co-production Northern Lights.

Strictly Come Dancing's Tony Adams has revealed that he had a backstage "row" with his professional dance partner Katya Jones just hours before his performance on Saturday night. Speaking on Strictly spin-off show It Takes Two, the former professional footballer, 56, explained that he had become overwhelmed with fear during rehearsal, leading to Katya deliver some home truths.Tony told host Rylan Clark: "I was full of fear beforehand. We had a team talk.

The brothers who founded a group of high-end Chinese restaurants have revealed plans to expand overseas and open two new Manchester sites under different brands over the next 12 months.

Forget P. T. Barnum, Roy Jones Jr was The Greatest Showman during his prime. Whether it be Superman, RJ or Captain Hook, Junior went by many different names throughout his career.

Eve Best (House of the Dragon, Nurse Jackie) and Stockard Channing (The Good Wife, The West Wing) are adding more star quality to the cast of Suranne Jones’ upcoming three-part ITVX drama Maryland.

EXCLUSIVE: International sales firm MSR Media is launching four film titles at this week’s Mip market: action film The Island, the mystery thriller Ocean Deep, the sci-fi/action feature Black Noise and the mystery drama Strictly Confidential.

M.I.A. has clarified her stance on COVID vaccines, saying she’s “not really” an anti-vaxxer after she was criticised earlier this week.Yesterday (October 13), the singer faced a backlash for a tweet which compared alt-right figure Alex Jones’ falsehoods about the Sandy Hook shooting to celebrities “pushing” vaccines.Jones was this week ordered to pay nearly $1billion in damages after falsely claiming for years that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School never happened.“If Alex Jones pays for lying shouldn’t every celebrity pushing vaccines pay too?” M.I.A.

Alex Jones unsurprisingly has zero remorse. On Wednesday, a jury handed down nearly $1 billion in damages to the families who sued him for his comments regarding the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. But they can’t get an ounce of remorse out of him.

The hosts of “The View” went off on InfoWars host Alex Jones on Thursday morning’s show, calling him “demonic” and “a vile scumbag” for his claims about the Sandy Hook massacre. Host Sara Haines even went so far as to say that, beyond monetary punishment, Jones deserves to feel “even a fraction of the pain” endured by the parents of those kids.The discussion came following the latest decision in the ongoing litigation against Jones, in which he was ordered to pay almost $1 billion in damages to the families of Sandy Hook victims, for his repeated claims that the deadly shooting was a hoax.

ordered him to pay $965 million to the families of the children murdered in the Sandy Hook massacre in compensation for years of harassment, slander, lies and threats Jones lobbed against them. Jones claims he’s bankrupt and can’t pay it, but whatever the case, it’s great news for the people he tormented and terrorized.

M.I.A. has garnered backlash for a tweet she sent comparing alt-right figure Alex Jones’s falsehoods about the Sandy Hook shooting to celebrities “pushing” COVID-19 vaccines and suggesting the latter, too, should “pay for lying”.In a tweet shared today (October 13), the rapper and singer referenced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was this week ordered to pay nearly $1billion in damages after falsely claiming for years that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School never happened.

Alex Jones was not in a Connecticut courtroom today as a nearly $1 billion judgement was read against him in the defamation case brought by families of children murdered in the Sandy Hook School Shooting, whom he has repeatedly and erroneously accused of being so-called crisis actors. But Jones did find the time to do a simulcast mocking the judgement — and by extension the families — as it was read.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Right-wing conspiracy figure Alex Jones’ company has already filed for bankruptcy protection, and it’s not clear how much of the staggering $965 million verdict reached Tuesday he’ll actually wind up paying to the 15 plaintiffs in the defamation case about his lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. Jones plans to appeal the massive monetary damages that a Connecticut jury ordered him to pay, which comes after a judgment against him in August awarding $49.3 million to the family of a Sandy Hook victim in a separate case in Texas. But legal experts say Jones, founder of Infowars — which has been banned by all major internet services — is almost certainly ruined financially.