A $90 million Batman spinoff was shelved Tuesday after being considered “irredeemable” by executives.
WarnerBros Discovery said they decided to cancel the release of “Batgirl” on HBO Max because the movie “simply did not work.’ The movie was developed before WarnerBros merged with Discovery, and the new brass was not on board with the attempted expansion of the “Batman” storyline.
They said “Batgirl” was so bad that it would damage the brand’s future.
Even with the option of reshoots and an increased budget, “Batgirl” is dead, a potential blow to up-and-coming lead Leslie Grace, who portrayed the title character. The film tested so poorly that it was considered “irredeemable.”
The new owners and management of WarnerBros Discovery say they are still committed to building the DC Films titles into huge theatrical events.
Mixed martial artist Ro Malabanan pinned a homeless man who was attacking random people in the middle of Manhattan’s Soho district.
The incident unfolded as Malabanan walked out of a subway station near Broadway and saw two men walking toward him, when a third man, “sucker punched” one of the men in the side of the face, the MMA fighter explained.
Malabanan said he checked on the victim and told him to call the police. Only moments later, two other people pulled up and said the suspect had been punching people as he walked down Broadway. One of those individuals suggested they try to stop the assailant.
“Alright, I’m down,” Malabanan responded. He ran after the reported assailant, who was already a block away, and his “jiu-jitsu instinct just kicked in,” he said. Malabanan is a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and a yellow belt.
“I jumped on his back. He tried to swing me off then, but for those of you that don’t know, a seat belt position dragged him down to the floor and I immediately took his back and pinned him on the ground,” Malabanan continued. “All of this happened in less than a minute.”
The fighter checked the suspect’s pockets to make sure he wasn’t carrying any weapons, he said. While he pinned the suspect, several other people approached claiming they’d also been punched by the man.
“That’s bullsh*t bro, you still don’t punch people in the f*cking face for no reason,” Malabanan can be heard in another video responding to the suspect’s claims that someone had been “walking into [him].”
Six people reported they were victims of the individual.
Malabanan said that he’s often been harassed in New York City over his Asian heritage. While his professional fighting career was put on pause due to concussions, he is a martial arts and boxing instructor and a hopeful actor.
Terrell Owens got into a “heated argument” with a neighbor Wednesday night, with the Broward County Sheriff’s Office getting involved. The incident unfolded between the former Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver and a woman in his neighborhood, who was “screaming profanities” at him. At one point, Owens took out his phone and started a live-stream video of the incident.
The woman accused Owens of nearly hitting her with his car which Owens denied.
“You don’t yell at me and tell me I almost hit you and I didn’t,” Owens can be heard telling the woman in the video.
“But, you didn’t have to get out of your f***ing car!” she replied.
Owens continued, “You didn’t have to talk to me that way, either! Karen!”
That’s when the woman yelled back, “You’re a Black man approaching a white woman!”
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The woman later broke down crying and Owens accused her of “hamming it up” for the police.
A new naval policy that names the United States as Russia’s main international foe was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. During an event in St. Petersburg to commemorate Russia’s Navy Day, Putin signed the 55-page document. In a speech, the Russian president declared that one of his country’s main objectives was to oppose the United States.
“The strategic policy of the USA to dominate the world’s oceans” threatens Russia, according to Putin.
But Putin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine was not mentioned in his speech. He continued by asserting that many vessels would soon be armed with hypersonic missiles.
“The key thing here is the capability of the Russian navy,” Putin added. “It is able to respond with lightning speed to all who decides to infringe on our sovereignty and freedom.”
A few months after Sweden and Finland formally joined NATO, Putin listed NATO expansion as one of the biggest threats to Russia. Finland and Russia are bordered by each other by 800 miles, greatly increasing the likelihood of conflicts between NATO and Russia.
Putin’s speech was delivered on the same day as a drone strike on the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s command center on Sunday. According to Russian officials, at least six individuals were hurt in the attack, which involved a drone dropping an unidentified explosive device. It’s unclear who carried out the attack.
It was a terrifying experience for a Lawton, Oklahoma bus driver when a deer came crashing through the front windshield of her bus.
It’s not unheard of for a bus to collide with a deer but for one to crash through the window is a new one. It was a typical morning for LATS bus driver Alisha Sutton. Just two minutes into her morning route, a deer crashed through the front window of the bus.
“My first reaction was, did that just happen? and I was talking to it trying to calm him down,” said Sutton.
Sutton said she immediately stopped the bus and opened the door to let the deer out.
Sutton and the deer were separated by a plexiglass door and she said she knows it could’ve been worse.
“I was okay until I watched the tape myself and saw how close it was to ending up in my lap with me,” said Sutton.
Sutton was not injured and there weren’t any passengers on the bus at the time.
LATS general manager, Ryan Landers, says he was impressed with Sutton’s reaction.
“I love the way and really appreciate the way our driver reacted and how she dealt with the whole situation, I will be perfectly honest I’m not sure if I would have been able to do that,” Landers said.
He added that he’d never seen anything like this and will use this close call as a training tool in the future.
“Yeah she handled it perfectly and we’re going to use this video for a number of years for training purposes,” he said.
A 22-year-old man suffered a horrific death during his Mykonos vacation when he was fatally struck by helicopter blades … and investigators believe it could be a case of a photo-op gone tragically wrong.
Jack Fenton and his 3 friends were getting off their hired black Bell 407 helicopter, coming back from the Greek Isle at the time of the incident.
They were led from the aircraft to a private lounge to wait for a plane that would take them back to London, but Jack headed back toward the helicopter as others shouted at him to come back.
Witnesses who spoke to Greece’s committee for aviation accidents say Fenton was holding a phone to his ear as he went toward the back of the helicopter, where the blade was still spinning and he was stuck in the head, killing him instantly.
Those who saw the incident could only describe it as “horrifying. The pilot of the helicopter, who was “deeply traumatized,” was arrested as were two ground technicians.
Authorities are investigating the accident, including “the possibility of the boy going there to take a selfie in the excitement of the moment.”
Jack’s parents were in a second helicopter heading to the same tarmac when their pilot requested emergency permission to abort the landing to spare them the horrific sight of their son — and instead took them to Athens Airport.
A Connecticut man was simply trying to be a gentleman when he held the door for two women but he didn’t appreciate it when they didn’t thank him so the 25-year-old pulled a gun on them.
Police arrested Joshua Murray this week after he pointed his gun at two unsuspecting women who didn’t say “thank you” for him opening a door.
According to the Hamden Police Department, officers responded to the local Family Dollar where there were reports of “an individual pointing a firearm at customers in front of the store.” A witness said the suspect, Joshua Murray, was angry that two women did not say “thank you” to him for holding a door open for them.
Officers located Murray nearby with a firearm and took him into custody. He also “interfered with his arrest,” according to a statement from the Hamden Police Department.
Murray was charged with carrying a pistol without a permit, a felony, and misdemeanor charges of interfering with an officer and two counts of second-degree breach of peace. No one was injured during the incident or arrest.
He is scheduled to appear in Meriden Superior Court on August 2nd, 2022, and was held on a $25,000.00 bond.
Georgia’s Bureau of Investigation (GBI) says deputies pulled away without closing the back door of their patrol car, leading to a woman’s fatal fall.
Brianna Marie Grier, 28, died a week after she fell from a moving police car during her arrest in Sparta earlier this month.
A GBI investigation into the death found that the back side door where Grier was seated was never closed properly. Hancock County deputies arrested Grier after she “allegedly kicked deputies, dared them to tase her, and said she wouldn’t go to jail before threatening to kill herself.”
Police body camera video shows that deputies forgot to shut the door after placing her in the back seat, “handcuffed in the front of her body with no seatbelt,” investigators said.
Records also indicate Grier had a history of mental illness and may have been going through an episode at the time of her arrest. At one point, Grier refused to get in the car and threatened to harm herself, according to an investigator. She was seated on the ground at the rear driver’s side of the patrol car.
“To put Grier in the patrol car, one of the deputies walked around and opened the rear passenger side door,” according to the GBI. “The deputy quickly returned to the rear driver’s side door. Both deputies put Grier in the backseat of the patrol car. The deputies closed the rear driver’s side door,” but didn’t close the rear passenger side door.
“The deputies left the scene and drove a short distance,” the release states. “Body camera footage reveals the deputies had no other contact with Grier after she was placed in the car until she fell out of the moving car.”
The 28-year-old suffered severe injuries in the incident and died six days later.
An unidentified pilot from North Carolina passed away on Friday afternoon. The small, 10-person plane had Charles Hew Crooks, 23, as one of its two passengers on Friday, but it only managed to land with one person in Wake County, North Carolina.
According to the authorities, Crooks either leaped from the aircraft or fell from it while it was still in the air.
The report states that the remaining co-pilot, who reported to air traffic control that the plane had lost its right wheel and was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, safely made an emergency landing at Raleigh-Durham International Airport. Numerous police officers combed the neighborhood and the plane’s flight path while dozens of emergency personnel were stationed at Raleigh-Durham International Airport to look for Crooks’ body.
Around 7 p.m. that night, his body was discovered in the woods outside a Fuquay-Varina residential area. It was roughly 30 miles from the Raleigh-Durham International Airport, according to authorities. The residents of the home informed law enforcement officers who were canvassing the area after the body fell about 30 to 40 feet from their residence, according to police.
Crooks’ body plummeted at least 3,500 feet, according to Fuquay-Varina Police Chief Brandon Medina, during a press conference that evening. He stated that although it was not immediately evident if the pilot had died before falling, officials are still looking into the situation.
Chief Medina only said that the circumstance was “unique,” declining to specify whether the investigation is being considered as a criminal investigation.
After receiving treatment for minor wounds, the co-pilot who was still alive was discharged from the hospital.
