EXCLUSIVE: Bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon, best known for her Dark-Hunter series, has signed with Zero Gravity Management for representation in film, television, and book-to-film-and-TV rights.
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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorA Delaware computer repair shop owner sued Twitter, alleging the social network defamed him by labeling him a “hacker” after his business was cited as the source for info obtained from a laptop allegedly owned by Hunter Biden that served as the basis for several New York Post articles in October.In the lawsuit, John Paul Mac Isaac said he was forced to shut down the Mac Shop, his computer repair business, after Twitter initially said the NY Post stories violated
.EXCLUSIVE: Bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon, best known for her Dark-Hunter series, has signed with Zero Gravity Management for representation in film, television, and book-to-film-and-TV rights.
campaigned for Biden during the election — has been confirmed to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the swearing-in ceremony next Wednesday, the inaugural committee told Variety.Fellow New Yorker Jennifer Lopez is another star name involved, although details of her performance were not revealed.Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, has long backed Biden, and even hit the campaign trail for him in Pittsburgh in November, saying, “Vote for Joe.
NEW YORK -- Two former National Book Award nominees, Deesha Philyaw and Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, are among this year's finalists for the 17th annual Story Prize for short fiction.Philyaw's “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies” and Bynum's “Likes” were finalists, along with Danielle Evans' “The Office of Historical Corrections."“In a difficult year, these three books provided solace — not by offering escapist fantasies but by directly engaging with past and current realities through truly inventive
Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo raised eyebrows on Monday by making a drastic public shift on lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic. Previewing this year's State of the State address, Cuomo called for New York's economy to be reopened regardless of the slow coronavirus vaccine rollout.
Following the series end in 2004, there had long been reports that Kim, 64, SJP, 55, Kristin Davis, 55, and Cynthia Nixon, 54, weren't exactly best of friends. In a 2017 New York Post article, titled 'Inside the mean-girl culture that destroyed SATC', it notes that SJP and Cynthia quickly became friends as they knew each other before their time on the show as young Broadway actresses, and they then included Kristin in their group.
Conservative journalist Susan Ferrechio took issue with New York Magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi on Saturday for penning that her lasting image of President Trump was of a man with "one finger on the nuclear button, the others glued to his phone." "Wait was he threatening to use nukes???" Ferrechio, the Washington Examiner’s chief congressional correspondent, balked. "Whoa.
NEW YORK -- One of the world’s top festivals of contemporary opera and theater has shifted format because of the coronavirus pandemic.The ninth annual Prototype festivals opens Friday night with the world premiere of “Modulation,” a self-guided digital work for distanced times by 13 composers exploring isolation, identity, and fear.Two other world premieres will be presented through Jan.
EXCLUSIVE: Exile Content has teamed with Pulp Fiction producer Lawrence Bender to acquire the rights to Azam Ahmed’s New York Times article, “He Was One of Mexico’s Deadliest Assassins. Then He Turned on His Cartel”. Exile and Bender are currently developing the story into a film or series with Ahmed and Caitlin Roper as producers.
Lee Breuer, a cofounder of New York’s groundbreaking experimental theater company Mabou Mines and writer of Broadway’s Pulitzer Prize finalist The Gospel at Colonus, died Sunday at his home in New York. He was 83.
NEW YORK -- There’s a government office right there in the very title of Ted Danson’s new series, but the new NBC comedy “Mr. Mayor” is anything but political.“If you consider politics the headlines in the papers and the breaking news on CNN, that ain’t us,” said Danson, who stars as Los Angeles' mayor Neil Bremer.“We point out the foibles and silliness, and wonderfully lovable, pathetic, lame side of humanity but we don’t stop and preach.
NEW YORK -- Ryan Seacrest will have a special pair of guests alongside the music stars at this year's New Year's Eve celebration on ABC — the president-elect and the future first lady.President-elect Joe Biden and Dr.
A three-judge panel on the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has upheld the bribery conviction for Chi Ping Patrick Ho, the former Hong Kong home affairs secretary and former chairman of a think tank funded by a Chinese energy conglomerate, CEFC.
The owner of a Mac repair shop filed a $500 million libel lawsuit against Twitter on Monday, claiming that the platform’s defamed him when it blocked the New York Post’s expose on Hunter Biden.
A Delaware computer repairman who went public with the sordid contents of Hunter Biden’s hard drive is now suing Twitter for defamation — claiming its content moderation unfairly branded him a "hacker." In October, the New York Post exclusively reported on the tranche of damaging documents on the laptop which was left at John Paul Mac Isaac’s repair store in April 2019 but never collected.
Just in case you didn’t read the story of the mother who tracked down the cartel kidnappers who murdered her daughter when the New York Times published it earlier this month, you’re in luck, because Variety reports that Blumhouse just won a heated bidding war for the rights to the story.
The final curtain has come down on Upright Citizens Brigade’s Sunset Boulevard theater. The comedy troupe says the venue has been sold as the group has “been unable to make mortgage payments during this extended shutdown.”
Angelique Jackson Blumhouse has acquired the rights to The New York Times’ story about Miriam Rodríguez, the Mexican mother who fearlessly tracked down the kidnappers who abducted and murdered her daughter, Karen.Rodriguez — who went on to become a prominent human rights activist, helping to imprison 10 members of the local cartel in San Fernando — was shot and killed in front of her home on Mother’s Day in 2017.
In a very competitive situation. Blumhouse has won the screen rights to a Dec. 13 New York Times story which chronicled one desperate mother’s revenge spree in Mexico, when she avenged her daughter’s murder by taking on the drug cartels and tracking down the perpetrators by herself. She saw ten of them apprehended by police before she was shot and killed in front of her home on Mother’s Day, 2017.
tweeted on Saturday. “I would love to go forward knowing that Biden was the victor because I nailed that s–t.
Much of Ryan Murphy’s star-studded “The Prom” is set in Indiana, around the high school that is the location of the film’s title event. But the first 13 minutes of the movie take place on a block of the Broadway theater district in New York.