Bat-fans are going to have to wait until next year to see it, but until then, they can take some comfort in Zoë Kravitz‘s new comments about The Batman.
Kravitz plays Selena Kyle/Catwoman in the new film, and while she wasn’t giving Variety any spoilers, she tells the trade she’s “seen a little” of director Matt Reeves’ movie.
“Rob is perfect for this role,” she says of co-star Robert Pattinson, who plays the Dark Knight and his alter-ego, Bruce Wayne. “He was incredible. His transformation was out of this world,” the actress enthuses.
Kravitz also commented, “[Director] Matt Reeves has a lot of heart, and he cares so much for these characters. I’m just very excited for him to be able to go on vacation because he deserves it.”
Zoë adds, “I hope the fans love it because we put a lot of work into this.”
Also starring Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, Andy Serkis and Paul Dano, The Batman swings into theaters March 4, 2022.
(WAUKESHA, Wis.) — Six people were killed and dozens were hurt when an SUV driver barreled into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Sunday afternoon, authorities said.
The suspect, 39-year-old Darrell Brooks, is in custody, authorities said.
Latest headlines:
-8-year-old boy identified as 6th fatality
-13 children remain hospitalized, officials say
-Judge sets bail at $5 million
-‘No emotion’ on face of suspect who drove into parade: Complaint
Here’s how the news developed. All times Eastern.
Nov 24, 4:02 am
8-year-old boy identified as 6th fatality
A young boy has been identified as the child who was among those killed after a car plowed into a Christmas parade in Waukesha on Sunday.
Jackson Sparks, 8, and his 12-year-old brother were both hospitalized in intensive care after being “seriously injured” at the parade, according to a statement released Tuesday by a local church on behalf of their parents.
Jackson, described as a “sweet little boy,” died from his injuries on Tuesday afternoon. His brother “is miraculously recovering from his injuries and will be being discharged home,” according to the statement.
Jackson’s death marks the sixth fatality from the incident.
Nov 23, 7:00 pm
13 children remain hospitalized, officials say
Of the 16 children who were admitted to the hospital following the parade, 13 remain hospitalized, according to the Children’s Wisconsin-Milwaukee Hospital.
Six were listed in critical condition, three in fair condition and four in good condition, according to the hospital.
One child died from his or her injuries on Tuesday, while two others were discharged, hospital officials said in a statement.
The family of the child who died has asked for privacy.
ABC News’ Joshua Hoyos and Victor Ordonez
Nov 23, 7:02 pm
Judge sets bail at $5 million
Darrell Brooks appeared in court for the first time Tuesday afternoon, where he sobbed as a Waukesha County prosecutor announced a sixth victim — a child — had died from injuries sustained when Brooks allegedly drove through the Christmas parade.
The prosecutor said she intends to add a sixth charge, and likely will add more if additional victims succumb to their injuries.
Brooks’ bail was set at $5 million, an amount the judge described as “extraordinarily high” as it is not possible to hold a defendant without bail in the state of Wisconsin.
“The nature of this offense is shocking,” the judge said. “Two detectives not only tried to stop this but rendered an opinion that this was an intentional act.”
Prosecutors also expressed concerns about Brooks’ flight history and ability to obey the obligations of the court, given his lengthy criminal record in multiple states.
“There are not words to describe the risk this defendant presents to our community,” the prosecutor said.
Brooks did not enter a plea. Brooks’ attorney indicated he had no means to pay for bail.
ABC News’ Aaron Katersky
Nov 23, 5:29 pm
‘No emotion’ on face of suspect who drove into parade: Complaint
Darrell Brooks, the man accused of killing six and injuring 62 when his SUV plowed into a Christmas parade on Sunday, appeared to have “no emotion on his face” while doing so, according to a criminal complaint.
At one point an officer “pounded on the [suspect’s] driver’s side door yelling ‘stop,’” the criminal complaint said.
But instead, according to the complaint, Brooks kept going, and later he “appeared to rapidly accelerate” and “took an abrupt left turn into the crowd of parade participants.”
The SUV “appeared to be intentionally moving side to side, striking multiple people, and bodies and objects were flying,” the complaint said.
One witness told police the suspect drove “in a zigzag motion,” the complaint said. “It was like the SUV was trying to avoid vehicles, not people. There was no attempt made by the vehicle to stop, much less slow down.”
Another witness told police it appeared to be “a direct intent to hit as many parade participants,” the complaint said.
If you’ve browsed the rosé section of your local liquor store lately, chances are you passed by a bottle of Post Malone‘s wine, Maison No. 9. If you need a visual, the wine comes in a sleek bottle with white lettering and a glass stopper. Now, to help wine lovers get excited for the holidays, the “Circles” singer has dropped a brand new collection of merchandise that celebrates his pink drink.
The capsule collection includes shirts, hats, sweaters, scarves and more. One of the more unique additions is a pair of white tube socks that bears the brand’s logo and has a description of the wine printed on the side.
Posty also has something for those wine drinkers who love spoiling their dogs: a $20 pink, plush, dog-toy version of the wine bottle.
The exclusive new merch is available to purchase now on the Maison No. 9 website.
(ATLANTA) — A Georgia jury has convicted three white men of murder in the death of Ahmaud Arbery.
Travis McMichael, who fatally shot Arbery in February 2020, was convicted on all nine charges, including malice murder and four counts of felony murder.
McMichael’s father, Gregory McMichael, 65, was found not guilty of malice murder but was convicted on the remaining charges, including the felony murder counts.
The McMichael’s neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, 53, was found guilty of three of the felony murder counts as well as charges of aggravated assault with his pickup truck, false imprisonment and criminal intent to commit a felony.
The jury verdicts were read in court by the presiding judge in the case, Timothy Walmsley.
Arbery’s father, Marcus Arbery, who was in the courtroom shouted out “long time coming” as the verdicts were read. The outburst prompted Walmsley to halt the proceedings briefly and ordered Marcus Arbery to leave the court.
Outside the courthouse, a huge collective cheer went up from a large crowd of protesters.
As the verdicts were read in court, none of the defendants showed any emotions.
The panel sent Walmsley a note around 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday saying they had reached a verdict after deliberating about 11 hours over two days.
The panel began deliberating the nationally televised trial on Tuesday after hearing 13 days of evidence and listening to numerous witnesses, including the testimony of defendant Travis McMichael, 35, who claimed he shot the unarmed Arbery with a shotgun in self-defense during a face-to-face fight over his weapon.
The McMichaels and Bryan had all pleaded not guilty to a nine-count state indictment. The charges include malice murder, multiple charges of felony murder, false imprisonment, aggravated assault with a 12-gauge shotgun and aggravated assault with their pickup trucks.
The defendants all face a maximum sentence of life in prison.
During the trial held in Brunswick, Georgia, the jury of 11 white people and one Black person heard wildly different theories based on the same evidence in the racially charged case. Prosecutors alleged the defendants pursued and murdered Arbery because of wrong “assumptions and driveway decisions” they made that the Black man running through their neighborhood had committed a burglary, while defense attorneys countered that Arbery was shot in self-defense when he resisted a citizen’s arrest.
The shooting unfolded on Feb. 23, 2020, in the Satilla Shores neighborhood near Brunswick after Arbery, who prosecutors claim was just out for a Sunday jog, was spotted by a community resident inside a home that was under construction and where Arbery had been previously captured on security video looking around but never taking anything, according to the evidence.
The chase of Arbery started when Gregory McMichael, a retired Glynn County police officer, spotted Arbery running past his home. Prosecutors said Gregory McMichael rushed into his residence to fetch his gun and his son, Travis, who armed himself with a Remington pump-action shotgun before they got into a truck and chased after the Black man.
Bryan, who lived near the McMichaels, joined the chase not knowing why the McMichaels were chasing Arbery and told investigators that he used his truck to help corner Arbery just before Travis McMichael shot him.
(NEW YORK) — T-Mobile will pay some $19.5 million as part of a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission after a 12-hour outage in June of last year resulted in the failure of tens of thousands of emergency 911 calls.
The FCC announced the agreement that would resolve its investigation into the matter, saying T-Mobile has agreed to pay the multi-million dollar settlement and implement a compliance plan with new commitments to improve the 911 outage notices given to public safety answering points, as well as provide follow-up notices to them within two hours of the initial outage notifications.
On June 15, 2020, a 12-hour and 13-minute outage took place that led to congestion across T-Mobile’s 4G, 3G and 2G networks, according to the FCC, and resulted in the “complete failure” of more than 23,000 911 calls. The outage also resulted in tens of thousands of 911 calls without location or call back information made available.
“We understand how critical reliable connectivity is to ensure public safety and we take that responsibility very seriously,” T-Mobile told ABC News in a statement Wednesday. “We have built resiliency into our emergency systems to ensure that our 911 elements are available when they’re needed.”
“This was a short-term isolated outage and we immediately took steps to further enhance our network to prevent this type of event from happening in the future,” the company added. “Now we are moving on from the FCC’s investigation and continuing our focus on our ongoing network build.”
The settlement announcement this week comes on the heels of a separate cyberattack saga T-Mobile recently disclosed to customers. In August, the company said that the personal information of millions of current and prospective customers had been compromised in a data breach that was the result of a “highly sophisticated cyberattack.”
Mean Girls star and 911 veteran Lacey Chabert is mourning the loss of one of her older sisters.
In an Instagram post Tuesday showing a graduation photo of her “beautiful” sister, Wendy, Chabert captioned, “Our hearts are shattered into a million pieces that I don’t know how we will ever put back together again now that you’re gone.”
“We love and adore you more than we can ever say and we will continue to forever and ever and ever,” Chabert expressed. “The shocking loss has left us so broken hearted. Our lives will never be the same without my dear sister, but we cling to the promises of Jesus that we will be together again in eternity. Please keep our family, especially her two boys, in your hearts and prayers. Thank you so much.”
Wendy was 46 but no details were given about her death. Lacey is the youngest of three girls; just days ago, she posted a birthday tribute to her eldest sister, Chrissy.
Chabert’s message brought sympathy posts from Lacey’s fellow Hallmark holiday movie mainstays, including Candice Cameron Bure and Danica McKellar.
“Oh my goodness, Lacey. I love you so much and am sending prayers and love to you,” McKellar told the Christmas at Castle Hart star. “I don’t know what I could possibly do but please call on me if I can do anything at all.”
Bure posted in part, “we are praying for you, your family and Wendy’s family. We love you, always here for you my sweet sweet friend.”
(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) — Four years after “Unite the Right” was held in Charlottesville, Virginia, a federal jury has ordered the white nationalist leaders and organizations who backed the deadly rally to pay more than $25 million in damages to nine plaintiffs.
The rally began as a protest against removing a prominent statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, and it turned deadly when James Alex Fields Jr., a self-proclaimed admirer of Adolf Hitler, drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring several others. Fields later was sentenced to life in prison.
The 11-person jury that announced judgment in the case of Sines v. Kessler did so on its third day of deliberations. Plaintiffs in the civil case initially had asked the jury to consider judgments ranging from $7 million to $10 million for physical injuries and $3 million to $5 million for pain and suffering.
Despite the $25 million judgment, the jury also announced it was deadlocked on the first two federal claims of the existence of a conspiracy possibly motivated by animus toward Black or Jewish individuals.
The two deadlocked federal claims in the civil lawsuit, which was filed in 2017, were based on a rarely used post-Civil War law, the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. The law allows private citizens to sue other citizens for civil rights violations and for conspiring to interfere with the civil rights of others. Some rally organizers and attendees have maintained that they merely were exercising their right to free speech.
Integrity First for America, a civil rights nonprofit that’s supported the plaintiffs in their years-long legal battle, told ABC News that the battle isn’t over.
“Our team is committed to holding these defendants liable,” Executive Director Amy Spitalnick said in a statement Tuesday. “Our plaintiffs also secured default judgments against seven other defendants that we’ll be pursuing.”
Those potential defendants include: the East Coast Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Fraternal Order of the Alt-Knights, Nationalist Front and Moonbase Holdings, LLC, Andrew Anglin and Augustus Sol Invictus.
Following the jury’s decision, Roberta A. Kaplan and Karen L. Dunn, lawyers for one of the plaintiffs, said in a joint statement that the verdict “sends a loud and clear message that facts matter, the law matters, and that the laws of this country will not tolerate the use of violence to deprive racial and religious minorities of the basic right we all share to live as free and equal citizens.”
Added Spitalnick: “At a time when extremism is on the rise and democracy is under threat, this case provides a model for accountability.”
(SAN JOSE, Calif.) — Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes placed the logos of two major drug companies on blood-testing validation studies, which she then sent to Walgreens executives ahead of their lucrative retail partnership, she told jurors on Tuesday. Theranos also sent the reports to investors who bought millions of dollars of her start-up’s stock.
The embattled former CEO also acknowledged that Theranos did not publicly disclose it was running blood tests on third-party machines rather than the devices the company had pitched to potential investors and VIPs during demonstrations, chalking it up to trade secrets.
Holmes made the bombshell admissions before a packed courtroom in California’s Silicon Valley during her criminal fraud trial, where prosecutors have previously argued that she failed to tell investors about the third-party machines and doctored documents, which led them to believe the pharmaceutical companies had endorsed Theranos and its blood-testing technology.
Witnesses from both Pfizer and Schering-Plough Corporation testified earlier in the 12-week trial that Holmes did not have permission to use their trademarks on the studies.
But Holmes told jurors on Tuesday that she did not conceal her use of the logos, saying she used them “because this work was done in partnership with those companies and I was trying to convey that.”
“I wish I had done it differently,” Holmes said.
Holmes, a 37-year-old native of Washington, D.C, is charged with nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. She could face decades behind bars if convicted.
She remains on direct examination and will continue her testimony Monday, after the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Members of both the press and public began lining up outside the Robert F. Peckham Federal Courthouse in San Jose early Tuesday at around 2 a.m. PT to claim one of only 34 seats inside the courtroom to see Holmes take the stand for a third day. They stood outside the building for hours before Holmes, wearing a forest green dress and face mask, entered the courtyard just after 8 a.m. PT hand-in-hand with her mother, Noel Holmes, and her partner, Billy Evans.
While testifying Tuesday, Holmes said that in 2013, her company grappled with the high number of blood samples returning to their central lab. So they came up with inventions that allowed them to run the drops of blood originally intended for Theranos machines on modified third-party devices, such as the Siemens ADVIA.
Holmes admitted to jurors that she did not explicitly tell investors, or even Walgreens executives, “in this way” about these third-party devices Theranos was running samples on, per advice from her company’s legal counsel.
“If we disclosed that information, we would lose trade secret protection,” she said. “The big medical device companies like Siemens could easily reproduce what we had done if they knew what we were doing. They had more engineers than we did and a lot more resources.”
Throughout her testimony, Holmes only mentioned the name of her ex-boyfriend and former Theranos COO Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani a handful of times. But when she did, she talked about how he was in charge of financial projections and responsible for handling some investors.
Balwani was charged as Holmes’ co-conspirator, but their cases were severed after Holmes claimed they had an “abusive intimate-partner relationship,” according to court documents. Balwani has denied the allegations.
Nathan Morris, Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men and Brett Young perform at the 2019 CMT Music Awards; Mike Coppola/Getty Images for CMT
Brett Young dropped his first holiday album, Brett Young & Friends Sing the Christmas Classics, this year, but that’s not all he’s doing to get into the holiday spirit.
Next month, the singer will bring his collaborations album to the stage for a televised special on CMT, called CMT Crossroads Christmas: Brett Young & Friends. It’s a mash-up of a Christmas special and an episode of CMT Crossroads, which pairs artists from different genres together onstage.
That’s perfect for Brett’s album, which features a number of out-of-genre collaborations with acts like Christian artist Chris Tomlin and pop singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat.
The special also gives Brett a chance to team up with some performers who aren’t on his album, including Boyz II Men, the legendary R&B trio who joined Brett for an installment of CMT Crossroads back in 2019.
This time around, Brett and Boyz II Men are performing “This Christmas” — a seasonal classic that actually doesn’t appear on the track listing of Brett Young & FriendsSing the Chrismas Classics. The full special will air on CMT on Dec. 8, but ahead of the show, fans can check out a clip of the two acts’ rendition of the beloved holiday standard.
Other stars joining Brett for his CMT Christmas special include Gavin DeGraw, Maddie & Tae, Darius Rucker and more.
Two Thanksgiving traditions, the Macy’s parade, and the Detroit Lions NFL game, will feature soulful entertainment.
Nelly and Kelly Rowland will begin their holiday celebration Thursday, performing during the 95th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, airing live on NBC from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET.
The rapper and the singer won a Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Performance for their 2002 duet, “Dilemma.” The song was also nominated for Record of the Year. “Dilemma” was the first single from Rowland’s 2002 debut solo album, Simply Deep, and remained at number one on the Billboard 100 for ten weeks.
Kelly is also starring in the holiday movie Merry Liddle Christmas Baby, which premieres Saturday on Lifetime.
The Lions, who have not won a game this season, are hosting the Chicago Bears in the 82nd annual Thanksgiving Day Classic, airing 12:30 p.m. ET on Fox. The team is calling upon a Motown native to inspire them to their first win: Big Sean will perform at halftime of the game at Ford Field. The “Bounce Back” rapper announced two weeks ago that he began construction on a movie multiplex in Midtown Detroit.
Before Sean hits the stage Thursday, three-time Grammy winner Ne-Yo will sing the national anthem.
