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The Empire star, 39, sat in Chicago’s Leighton Criminal Court Building, where Judge James Linn informed him that he was also sentenced to 30 months of felony probation with no travel restrictions. He was additionally ordered to pay $120,106 in restitution to the city of Chicago and a $25,000 fine. While the custodial sentence may have come as a surprise to the numerous legal experts who had predicted that the actor would not be imprisoned, the real jaw-dropping moment came through Linn’s damning assessment of Smollett’s actions....

Over the past five weekends, people across the country have watched Michael Jordan and his Bulls teams venture through the 90s on their way to six NBA titles. Twitter has become a family reunion on those nights. Everybody gets together because sports are back for two hours, and social media floods with takes, jokes and reactions. For Episodes 9 and 10, it was no different. Reggie Miller, the Jazz and a few too many pizza delivery people captured Twitter’s attention right away....

Director Jason Hehir, who produced had access to approximately 10,000 hours of largely unseen footage and whittled it down to ten 60-minutes episodes which will take the viewers behind the scenes of one of the most successful dynasties in sports history. While match highlights and statistical records are a click away and may well be still fresh in the minds of most fans, some aspects of Jordan’s final seasons with the Bulls may be a little more obscure or may have been forgotten in the two decades since his final title....

Retelling the first Critical Role Dungeons & Dragons campaign, the R-rated Prime Video series follows its eponymous troupe as they fight to rid the land of Exandria of evil. Vox Machina is comprised of Scanlan Shorthalt, Grog Strongjaw, Percival de Rolo, twins Vex’ahlia and Vax’ildan, Keyleth, and Pike Trickfoot. Voice actors and Critical Role members Sam Riegel (Scanlan), Travis Willingham (Grog), Taliesin Jaffe (Percival), Laura Bailey (Vex), Liam O’Brien (Vax), Marisha Ray (Keyleth), and Ashley Johnson (Pike) and Matthew Mercer (Sylas Briarwood) spoke to Newsweek about how they created their characters....

Favreau employed some of the technology developed for his remake of The Lion King while filming The Mandalorian, including immersive “video wall” backgrounds, combined with “game engine technology, virtual camera work and virtual production.” Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Favreau described how The Mandalorian used the new techniques to old-school effect, following in the footsteps of Star Wars creator George Lucas, who pioneered combining on-location settings, practical models and cutting-edge special effects....

Since the start of the season, viewers have had one impressive theory about Flamingo’s identity. They point to former Cheetah Girl Adrienne Bailon as the star behind the mask. Social media users think Bailon may be the all-pink bird for a number of reasons. Of course, viewers looked at Masked Singer clues for hints. One claimed Flamingo was stuck in his or her career and decided to change professions. This would make sense if it’s Bailon, who was a giant part of the Disney community and the celebrity world but later stepped back....

While her talents kept her from being pinned down for weeks, a sing-off with The Leopard resulted in her removal from the contest. La Belle was a fan favorite on the show, though many viewers had guessed correctly that she was behind the vocal stylings of The Flower, and she knew it. “I knew that Nick knew, and I knew you all knew,” LaBelle admitted, speaking of her close relationship with series host and friend Nick Cannon at the close of episode 8....

The Real Madrid star took home the prize for the second year in a row, defeating fellow finalists Neymar and Lionel Messi. Ronaldo 15/8 fav to be CL top scorer It was yet another individual honour for the 32-year-old, who has managed to stay on top of the footballing world despite reaching an age where many players begin to show signs of slowing down. “The moment is great. I feel happy....

She and fellow musician Carrie Brownstein (Portlandia) both wrote and starred in the film, which is available in theaters and everywhere you rent movies from now. Expect the unexpected in this narrative twisting movie that starts out as a documentary about life on the road, but descends into brain-melting “meta-fiction.” Clark and Brownstein both play themselves throughout, as does Dakota Johnson (50 Shades of Grey) who turns up for an eye-catching and attention-grabbing cameo as Clark’s lover....

Wilson cracked the joke in a tweet on Wednesday in response to the news that the FBI seized a dozen sets of highly classified material from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home last week. The tweet has amassed over 184,000 likes and hundreds of replies from fans of The Office, many of whom applauded the actor’s idea. FBI Raid of Mar-a-Lago The raid took place as part of an ongoing investigation into claims that Trump was improperly holding classified federal documents at his Florida home—a potential violation of the Espionage Act and other U....

Last December, as the film’s buzz intensified, Weinstein and his executives canceled their vacations to design a new campaign. To boost “The Postman’s” Oscar prospects and broaden its audience, Miramax says, it has spent $2.5 million since January. In fact, NEWSWEEK has learned, Miramax spent $6 million–and an additional $1 million targeting Academy voters, buying more ads in Variety than any other studio. The payoff has begun. Last month “The Postman” was nominated for five Oscars, including best picture....

In fact, the reunion was so star-studded (with numerous other special guests) that Reiner quipped, “everyone who was in the cast who’s not dead is here.” However, that was not strictly the case. Though Princess Bride actors like Andre the Giant and Peter Falk died in 1993 and 2011 respectively, one cast member who was still very much alive did not appear during the Zoom call. Fred Savage, who played The Grandson to whom the Princess Bride story was told to, was not part of the reunion, with his lines in the script read-through taken by Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard....

[HTML1] While long a staple of the PC gaming world, MMOs have yet to make serious inroads on the console market. DC Universe Online and Destiny have been successful, and The Elder Scrolls Online will finally hit the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this summer. However, for the most part, it’s still early days for console-based MMOs, as developers struggle to transition MMOs’ complex systems to consoles’ more limited control schemes....

When publisher Bethesda and developer ZeniMax Online announced the delay, they explained that they had to “solve a series of unique problems specific to those platforms” and that “integrating [their] systems with each console manufacturer’s networks–which are both different from the PC/Mac system as well as different from each other–[had] been a challenging process.” Additionally, The Elder Scrolls Online also underwent huge changes at the beginning of the year as the game dropped its subscription fees and only required an initial purchase of the game in order to play....

Ane while anti-retroviral drugs are prolonging the lives of HIV sufferers in industrialized nations, some 96 percent of the infected in the developing world have no access to the medication they need so desperately. The UNAIDS report was released in advance of the 14th International AIDS Conference, which begins in Barcelona on Sunday. Thousands of AIDS activists are gathering in the Spanish city to discuss new treatment and prevention options for a pandemic that is spreading faster and more widely than epidemiologists once believed possible....

RELATED: All The Bethesda Video Game Franchises Xbox Now Owns The most interesting fights have multiple answers to them and create a sense of victory in the player afterward. Ranking the fights by creativity and immersion are the best parameters since that’s what survival horror is all about. In other words, the best fights make the player feel like they’re directly involved in the battle and the worse ones make players feel disconnected from the events happening on screen....

In July, Paramount+ revealed that the new version of the animation about a boy with two wish-granting fairy godparents will be a mixture of animation and live action, and will feature a new generation of the Turner family. Read on for everything you need to know about The Fairly Odd Parents reboot, including the cast and plot. Who is in the cast of The Fairly Odd Parents reboot? On the live action side of things, Audrey Grace Marshall will play Viv Turner, the teenage cousin of original protagonist Timmy Turner....

In early previews and the two official trailers, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier teased a globetrotting buddy cop adventure in which the two protagonists would be facing off against the likes of Baron Helmut Zemo, Marvel B-lister Flag-Smasher, and the huge question mark that is Captain America stand-in John Walker. However, there wasn’t much room for the bad guys, considering the show had to set up what Sam and Bucky’s everyday life and motivations are right now....

‘Wenger is up there with Ferguson’ The police report, which notes 46 incidents from 2005 to 2016, further questions why the Football Association’s inquiry has a cut-off point “up until around 2005”, while demonstrating sexual abuse in football is very much still ongoing. Every year from 2005 to 2016 has been named in the reports, with 187 incidents from 1996 onwards, and 23 relating to 2011 or later. Dino Nocivelli, a leading child-abuse lawyer involved in the process who is representing a number of football child-abuse survivors, believes the number of cases is likely to be considerably higher, too....

Japan may be the richest country in Asia, but it’s not immune to the pressures of the “shrinking middle.” In elections earlier this year, the opposition Democratic Party of Japan scored an upset victory that gave it control of the upper house of Parliament largely by harping on the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s perceived failure to deal with the growing “income gap.” The numbers do seem compelling. Japan’s Gini coefficient—a measure that compares the disparity between the top and bottom extremes of household incomes in an economy—reached a new peak in 2005, putting it more on par with the United States than the superequitable Scandinavian nations that it once resembled....