Following the international poster released yesterday (see it in the gallery below),20th Century Fox has revealed anIndependence Day: Resurgencemotion poster, showing off just how big the aliens ships are this time around and reminding you this is a global invasion. Check out the motion poster below!
Starring Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox, Brent Spiner, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jessie Usher, Maika Monroe and Sela Ward, the new entry in the franchiseis officially described as follows:
We always knew they were coming back. After Independence Day redefined the event movie genre, the next epic chapter delivers global spectacle on an unimaginable scale. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.
ComingSoon.net had the privilege of visiting the Albuquerque set of Independence Day: Resurgence this summer and well be bringing you lots of behind-the-scenes surprises between now and the films release in theaters on June 24, 2016. You can check out our interviews with the cast by clicking here!
Twenty-two years in the making, Independence Day: Resurgence features a script by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin and James Vanderbilt, James A.Woods & Nicolas Wright.
Dec 11th - Why Abigail Fisher "Literally can"t" about affirmative action
Abigail Fishers mediocrity will forever be cemented in Supreme Court history.
In todays You shoulda kept your mediocrity to yourself news, the Supreme Court upheld the University of Texas affirmative action program, which Fisher thought was wrong after she was denied admission.
In true social media fashion, the reactions have been hilarious:
#StayMadAbby Wasted time & energy when u couldve just transfered in But u were too entitled to do something like that #BeckyWithTheBadGrades
Billy (@TxBornSooner) June 23, 2016
Abigail Fisher be like: pic.twitter.com/tRiusrKNhk
Terrell J. Starr (@Russian_Starr) June 23, 2016
BREAKING: Supreme Court holds that affirmative action was lawful in Fisher.
Selling or moving a work out of Germany has just become a lot more difficult.
The German parliament, the Bundestag, on Thursday (23.06.2016) passed a new law that will closely regulate the international sale of art and artifacts deemed to be of significant cultural value.
"With the new cultural protection law, Germany finally recognizes - with decades of delay - the standards of UNESCO and Europe, which are in effect in nearly every European country," said Germany"s Culture Minister Monika Grtters, who has adamantly backed the protection act from the beginning.
The path to agreement was "sterile and rocky," added Grtters, but "the right balance between various legitimate interests has finally been found."
What is Germany"s national cultural property?
While the bill aims at protecting art of significant cultural value to Germany, a major bone of contention has been the absence of a clear definition as to what that actually means. Thursday in Berlin, a first - if very vague - definition was finally offered. The label applies to works that "bear identity for Germany"s culture" and whose removal would cause a "significant loss."
While that clarification may seem to apply to everything or nothing, it will serve as the basis for a legally binding list of protected artworks and artifacts. Each German state will contribute a panel of experts from cultural institutions like museums, archives, libraries, academia, art dealers and private collectors that will be tasked with compiling the register.
Sound like a bureaucratic nightmare? In a letter from states of Baden-Wrttemberg and Hesse last week, state politicians expressed concern that "an unforeseeable financial and logistical burden" awaited them - which may indeed be the case. However, Grtters said she"s expecting only "several thousand" export permit requests per year, since museums - which have until now been responsible for 90 percent of the permit requests - will be freed from filing deadlines. The federal government promised to review the bureaucratic pile-up in two years.
A vocal critic of the law, Georg Baselitz likely won"t be impacted
Baselitz relieved, private collectors worried
Significantly, works by living artists can only land on the protected list with their approval. The initial fear was that German artists would face an international sales embargo, while "protecting" their works within the country would significantly diminish their value. Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz and Andreas Gursky, for example, regularly claim six- and seven-figure sums for their works abroad, where the art market is much more lucrative than at home.
Last August, in response to a draft of the culture protection bill, Baselitz had announced plans to remove his works from museums, turning control of them over to his family.
So will works by high-grossing deceased artists like Andy Warhol or Jackson Pollock, who were not German, be forced to stay within the German borders, where they can only be sold for a fraction of their international market value, if their current owners are located there? That has yet to be determined by the cultural representatives writing the list of protected works.
Need a permit? Age and value matter
While artists like Baselitz can likely breathe a sigh of relief since they can opt out of the protection list, collectors of works by non-living artists have also been sweating out the result of Thursday"s vote, fearing that they may face a drastic devaluing of their collections should their works land on the list of protected art.
According to the new legislation, paintings that are older than 50 years and worth more than 150,000 euros ($169,000) will require special permission to be sold outside of the European Union. Within the EU, an export permit is mandatory for works older than 75 years and worth more than 300,000 euros.
Attorney and art expert Peter Raue told DW in an interview last fall that export permits have until now only been required for sales outside of the EU.
Within the EU, "we"ve always had free trade." For non-European sales, he said, an "export permit [has been] given if the work has not been stolen, does not belong to Jewish heirs, and is not counterfeit. Whether or not the works sold abroad are German cultural assents has never been an issue" - until now.
Minister Grtters has stood behind the bill all along
Though a collector of, say, a Baroque masterpiece that is older that 75 years and worth well over 300,000 euros, could not sell the work abroad according to the new law, a special clause was written in at the last minute as a compromise. It stipulates that, in the case of a blocked sale, the dealer can involve a government appraiser that will recommend an appropriate price for the work.
As for ancient archeological treasures, a permit will be required for international sales regardless of their value. The Deutscher Kulturrat, Germany"s umbrella organization for cultural institutions, on Thursday praised the last minute decision to drop the value from 100 to zero euros.
As far as art loans go, public and private museums are to get a one-time blanket permit to cover works borrowed for exhibitions.
Laws regulating the export of art have been on Germany"s books since 1955, based on lists of culturally significant works that varied in each of the country"s 16 states. In 2013, the federal government decided the laws needed refreshing - and that Germany needed a unified registry for works of national value.
Curbing the black market for stolen art
With the national debate over the definition of national cultural significance and the role of the state in the art market, a second but not unimportant aim of the new protection law has nearly been forgotten: preventing the circulation of ancient artifacts and cultural treasures from the crisis regions like the Middle East.
In Syria, Iraq and other countries in the Middle East, the so-called Islamic State has been known to not only destroy cultural heritage sites like Palmyra, but also to repossess artifacts from national museums, selling them on the black market and filling their war coffers with the revenues.
Until now, artifacts from crisis regions have required written permission from their respective countries to be sold in Germany. According to the new law, they can now only be sold with a certificate of provenience.
Mac "n Cheetos will be sold for about eight weeks or until supplies run out, said Burger King, which is part of Restaurant Brands International Inc. The $2.49 five-pack of portable macaroni-and-cheese bites are similar to mozzarella sticks. The item, which has 310 calories, has already appeared at some Burger King restaurants in a trial phase.
"We"re partnering up with one of Americans" favorite brands," Alex Macedo, president of North America at Burger King, said in an interview. "It"s quite unique."
Facing a fiercely competitive fast-food market, restaurant chains are under pressure to get more creative with their menus. Burger King previously started selling grilled Oscar Mayer hot dogs earlier this year, along with an Egg-normous burrito and Chicken Fries Rings. Other chains, including McDonald"s Corp., are relying more heavily on discounts, such as a two-for-$5 deal.
The Mac "n Cheetos debut also reflects the increasingly tangled web of fast-food alliances. Though PepsiCo owns Cheetos, Burger King"s U.S. restaurants sell beverages from Coca-Cola Co., another company backed by Buffett"s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
However, some of Burger King"s international locations sell Pepsi drinks, and domestic ones offer PepsiCo"s Quaker oatmeal. Yum and PepsiCo, meanwhile, used to be part of the same company, and partnerships between the two are more common.
The new item shouldn"t be seen as a sign that Burger King is switching to Pepsi in the United States, Macedo said.
"It"s not a plan for us to migrate to Pepsi," he said. "Our relationship with Coke is as good as it is with PepsiCo."
The two companies started working together about a year ago to create the mac-and-cheese item. It"s the first time the Cheetos brand has been extended beyond chips into other food, and there may be more hybrids coming.
"We"re working on a few other menu items," Macedo said. "There"s room for us to do more together in the future."
Ben Affleck doesn"t give a f--k about the critics. The Oscar winner joked about his recent curse-filled appearance on Bill Simmons HBO series, Any Given Wednesday, via Twitter on Thursday, June 23.
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"For those of you keeping score at home, I gave exactly 18 f--ks about my Pats. Upon reflection, 12 probably would have been sufficient," Affleck, 43, tweeted to his 2 millionplus followers.
"We Boston fans have always been known for our subtlety," he continued. "One of my favorite interviews; hope you get to see the entire episode. #GoPats."
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Hours earlier, the Boston native raised eyebrows when he gave a bizarre interview on the sports talk show about Tom Brady"s 2015 Deflategate scandal.
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As previously reported, the New England Patriots quarterback, 38, was suspended in May 2015 for knowing that Patriots staffers had tampered with footballs before the team played the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC Championship Game. The dad of three fought to overturn the decision, and it eventually was by a Manhattan federal judge. Back in April, however, the suspension was reinstated by the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Brady will sit out the first four games of the 2016 season.
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"Deflategate is the ultimate bulls--t f--king outrage of sports ever. Its so f--king stupid that I cant believe it," Affleck told Simmons, 46. The Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice star even defended Brady"s decision not to hand over his cellphone to be searched.
"I would never give an organization as leak-prone as the NFL my f--king cellphone so you can just look through my emails and listen to my voice mails," Affleck said. Maybe its just funny, lovely s*x messages from his wife [Gisele Bndchen]," he continued. "Maybe Tom Brady is just so f--king classy and such a f--king gentleman that he doesnt want people to know that he may have reflected on his real opinion of some of his coworkers."
Rewatch Affleck and Simmons" conversation in the video above!
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Editor"s note: CBS News Associate Producer Jillian Hughes was in the Supreme Court Thursday, when opinions on President Obama"s immigration executive actions and on affirmative action were read.
Seen in the court:
Amy Hagstrom Miller, Founder/CEO of Whole Woman"s Health and Stephanie Toti who represented Whole Woman"s Health during arguments. They were the first two in the public line. They"ll have to wait until Monday for a decision in their case on whether a Texas law governing abortion clinics unduly limits a woman"s right to an abortion.
No sighting of Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, but Ian Gershengorn, Principal Deputy Solicitor General, was front and center.
I also think I caught a glimpse of Ginni Thomas, Justice Clarence Thomas" wife. Today is Justice Thomas" birthday. He is 68.
Mathis v. United States is the first case --Justice Elena Kagan reads the opinion.
SECOND UP -- Birchfield v. North Dakota, Justice Samuel Alito reads the opinion. He makes it clear very quickly that the Court thinks a warrant is necessary for a blood test, but "not when it comes to breath tests." Breath tests, he says "are not painful or inherently embarrassing," not any more so than the "normal process of breathing." At that, there are chuckles from the press gallery and the public section.
Alito says, "We hold that warrantless breath tests are permissible." Gershengorn, who argued the case on behalf of the United States, pursed his lips into a closed fist with his thumb resting under his chin. Alito then announced that because the blood vs. breath circumstances are different in all three cases, the Court is separating them and reversing Birchfield v. North Dakota, affirming Bernard v. Minnesota and vacating Beylund v. Levi.
THIRD UP -- Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the second hearing of a case on affirmative action in college admissions. Justice Anthony Kennedy reads the opinion as Ginsburg takes a drink from what looks like a to-go mug. RBG is sporting a white, circular, lace collar today. Kennedy begins by saying that race is "but a factor of a factor of a factor" in UT-Austin"s decision making process and it becomes clear what he"s about to say: the "Court of Appeals was correct" and the University has met its burden. "She was not denied equal treatment" Kennedy says of the white plaintiff, Abigail Fisher, who sued UT-Austin over her rejection for admission.
Around 10:20, Alito begins reading his dissenting bench statement. He begins by noting that in Fisher I, the first time the case was heard,"we made it very clear what the University needed to do." He says we don"t let the government say, "Trust us" -- it"s necessary to discriminate in this circumstance, so why let state universities?
"State universities are not angels" whose actions are above scrutiny, he tells the Court. Gershengorn has his fist on his face and his thumb on his chin again.
During his almost 15-minute dissenting statement, Kagan, sitting next to him, at times seems to look perturbed. (She was involved in the case when Fisher came before a lower court, and she recused herself both times the Supreme Court heard the case.) At one point she visibly raises her eyebrows in his direction.
He goes on to take issue with UT"s assertion that it needs affirmative action to admit privileged minorities, for instance, "the black student with high grades from Andover." He argues that that is not the point. The black student from Andover is preventing the poor white student from a rural area or the Asian student with two parents who speak little English from getting in. And at that, he says, "This is affirmative action gone berserk."
Alito says that what the majority has done in awarding a victory to UT in an opinion that fails to address the important issues in the case--"is simply wrong."
He then implies some other justices simply wanted this case to end, saying, "I have no more desire than the majority to see this litigation continued," but, he says, "Judgment should be entered in favor of petitioner."
Alito says he hopes other universities don"t look to this case to guide them, and if they do, it"s "a very sad turn in our cases."
"I therefore respectfully dissent," he finishes.
FOURTH AND FIFTH UP - Chief Justice John Roberts then very quickly announces that in Dollar General Stores v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and United States v. Texas the judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court.
All remaining decisions, Roberts says, will be handed down on Monday.
Kris Dunn Full Highlights 2016.01.02 Providence vs St John"s - 26 Pts, 9 Rebs, 6 Assists!
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NEW YORK Brandon Ingram and Kris Dunn are at opposite sides of the age spectrum among incoming NBA rookies. Ingram, just 18, is the youngest American-born player expected to go in the lottery (Dragan Bender of Maccabi Tel Aviv is slightly younger). Dunn, at22, is only a few months younger than heralded senior Buddy Hield. The age discrepancy showed itself occasionally in the way they carried themselves when we got the opportunity to chat with them last week as part of a special Speed Stick inspired look at what its like off the court for NBA lottery picks.
I dont pay too much attention to the off-court nonsense, except for work, but NBA rookies dont have much of a choice. Theyre trying to capitalize on their moment in the spotlight because the window for big money can close quickly (just ask Adam Morrison). That means commercials and interviews like the one I did with both of them in a dark, nondescript space along 39th Street in midtown Manhattan.
Both Ingram and Dunn are tabbed by most draft analysts to go within the first few picks when names are called Thursday night. Many feel Ingram is the second-best player in the draft, and his smooth shooting and length he stands at 6-foot-9, but has the handle of a guard has led many to call the 2016 Draft a two-player affair. Theres even been talk that, because hes the superior shooter over presumptive No. 1 pick Ben Simmons, Ingram might be a natural selection for the first pick, what with the way the NBA has become such a perimeter-oriented league that emphasizes shooting and the spacing for drives to the bucket the threat of shooting enables.
But Dunn, a muscular 6-foot-4 guard who overcame consecutive lumbar injuries to begin his college career he had surgery his sophomore year only to be named back-to-back Big East Player of the Year and back-to-back Big East Defensive Player of the Year, is slotted to go No. 3 with the Celtics. Some draft experts even say hed be an upgrade over All-Star Isaiah Thomas. Hes ready-made for this stage, and that was madeclear long before this summer.
Despite how close in time they could be called by Adam Silver at the Barclays Center on Thursday night, talking to them together highlighted how dissimilar their paths have been to this moment. Dunn talked a lot about being doubted, and overcoming adversity. Ingram, in a whisper thats almost impossible to hear at times, seemed like your average 18-year-old still trying on personalities as he tries to figure out his own place in the world beyond basketball.
At first, the only difference between Ingram and a standard college freshman seemedmerely physical: incredible length coupled with a smooth jumper, some serious handle for a player his size and a surprising defensive toughness. But as the interview progressed, it became clear that Ingram isnt any normal teenager. Hes already pretty comfortable in his role as future NBA player.
