EXCLUSIVE: Yul Vazquez (Severance) has been tapped to star opposite Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera in Apple Original Films’ Camp Fire drama The Lost Bus from writer Brad Ingelsby and director Paul Greengrass, joining in an undisclosed role.
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On Friday, Google began removing California news websites from some people’s search results. The move comes as a test of what would happen should the state Legislature pass a new law requiring the search engine to pay media companies for linking to their content.
Google said in a blog post that it is using a “short-term test for a small percentage of users … to measure the impact of the legislation on our product experience.”
The company said it also would pause new investments in the California news industry, including its partnership initiative with news organizations and its product licensing program.
“By helping people find news stories, we help publishers of all sizes grow their audiences at no cost to them. (This bill) would up-end that model,” Jaffer Zaidi, Google’s vice president for global news partnerships, wrote in the blog post.
The bill in question would require tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft to pay a certain percentage of advertising revenue to media companies for linking to their content. A panel of three judges would determine that fee through an arbitration process.
California has lost more than 100 news organizations in the past decade, according to Democratic Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, the bill’s author. She hopes is passage will stop the attrition in journalism.
“We are committed to continuing negotiations with Google and all other stakeholders to secure a brighter future for California journalists and ensure that the lights of democracy stay on.”
The state Assembly passed the bill last year with bipartisan support despite fierce opposition and lobbying efforts from big tech companies. The California Senate would have to pass it later this year for it to become law.
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EXCLUSIVE: Yul Vazquez (Severance) has been tapped to star opposite Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera in Apple Original Films’ Camp Fire drama The Lost Bus from writer Brad Ingelsby and director Paul Greengrass, joining in an undisclosed role.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle shouldn't be using their Royal titles, Piers Morgan has claimed.The TV presenter slammed the couple, who stepped down from Royal duties in 2020. Harry, 39, and Meghan, 42, were stripped of their HRH titles after leaving the Royal Family, but the pair occasionally still use their Duke and Duchess of Sussex titles.
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Suge Knight has commented on Drake using A.I. to get Tupac and Snoop Dogg to feature on his ‘Taylor Made Freestyle’ diss track.Last weekend, Drake uploaded ‘Taylor Made Freestyle’ online, marking the second time the Canadian has thrown jabs at Kendrick Lamar.
Sonja Christopher, who was the first person in Survivor Season 1 to be voted off the show, has died at 87, according to a current contestant. No cause was revealed.
Addie Morfoot Contributor In “The Strike,” directors Joebill Munoz and Lucas Guilkey chronicle a 2013 prison hunger strike that changed imprisonment policies across the U.S. The doc tells the story of America’s supermax prison Pelican Bay, which opened in 1989 and was designed specifically for mass-scale solitary confinement. For decades, the California prison held mostly Black and Brown men alone in tiny cells without windows for years or sometimes decades based on questionable evidence.
The alleged 'real reason' Meghan Markle ‘turned down’ an invitation to King Charles' Coronation has been revealed. A spokesperson for the Sussexes confirmed at the time that the couple had received official correspondence from the palace, indicating that they had been invited to attend.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Actors Access, the leading online platform for film and TV casting, was hit with a class action lawsuit on Wednesday, alleging that it illegally charges performers for access to auditions. The lawsuit, filed in L.A. Superior Court, accuses the platform of predatory conduct, and of charging working actors hundreds of dollars a year for upgrades that they hope will get them noticed.
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Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer A group of actors filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday against Casting Networks, one of a handful of websites that connects actors to commercial auditions, alleging that the platform functions as an illegal pay-for-play system. Casting Networks offers actors a free tier and two premium tiers. The paid options allow actors to upload more video to their profile and to submit for unlimited roles.
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the first episode of HBO‘s limited series The Sympathizer, which premiered on April 14.
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freestdcheck.org and a photo of the Empire Polo Club, site of Coachella festival, which takes place annually over two separate weekends, with the first three days of musical acts starting on April 12. The festival is expected to draw about 125,000 revelers.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are coming to a TV near you. Netflix on Friday confirmed to Fox News Digital that Archewell Productions is working with the streaming service to produce two non-fiction shows as part of their multiyear overall deal. The first series, which was curated by Markle, focuses on cooking, gardening, entertaining and the joy of friendship.