Following is a abstract of present leisure information briefs.

Actor Vin Diesel hit with sexual battery lawsuit by former assistant

A former assistant to the actor Vin Diesel filed a lawsuit in opposition to him on Thursday alleging that he sexually battered her in 2010 and that she was fired from her job simply hours later. In the lawsuit, filed in a Los Angeles court docket, the previous assistant Asta Jonasson alleges that Diesel assaulted her in an Atlanta resort room whereas the pair have been engaged on the film “Fast Five.”

Netflix star Julia Haart visits Israel to point out assist

Fashion designer and Netflix actuality star Julia Haart toured Israeli communities this week, becoming a member of a rising roster of celebrities who’ve visited to point out their assist within the wake of the Oct. 7 assault by Hamas. Haart, star of the Netflix sequence “My Unorthodox Life”, mentioned it was necessary to supply a transparent signal of solidarity with Israel as its battle with Hamas continues into its third month and incidents of antisemitism have risen the world over.

Russians go loopy for avenue gang TV tragedy set amid Soviet collapse

A Russian tv serial exploring the tragedy wrought by brutal teenage avenue gangs preventing for survival, cash and love within the final years of the crumbling Soviet Union has change into a sensation in Russia. The sequence – “A hoodlum’s promise – blood on the asphalt” – exhibits the savagery of the gangs which carved up the Russian metropolis of Kazan in 1989 because the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev gyrated the Soviet Union in the direction of its 1991 demise.

ABBA’s digital present boosts London’s financial system to the tune of $225 million

Thank you for the music, London’s authorities would possibly say, after Swedish pop group ABBA’s digital live performance residency raked in 178 million kilos ($225 million) by way of internet financial profit to the British capital in its first yr. ABBA Voyage recreates Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad as high-tech, digital variations of themselves from their Nineteen Seventies heyday, because of motion-capture expertise.

God save the King’s fingers: Charles makes ‘sausage fingers’ joke in coronation movie

Britain’s King Charles poked enjoyable at his “sausage fingers” – a subject that has drawn immense media consideration and web memes in recent times – in a behind the scenes documentary that charts the royal household’s preparations for his coronation. When his son, Prince William, struggles to lock one of many ceremonial robes, Charles tells him to not fear, as he doesn’t have “sausage fingers” like himself, the BBC cited the then 74-year previous monarch as saying on digital camera.

Lionsgate to spin off studio enterprise in $4.6-billion SPAC deal

Lionsgate will spin off its studio unit in a blank-check deal that values the enterprise behind the “Hunger Games” and “John Wick” film franchises at about $4.6 billion together with debt, the corporate mentioned on Friday. The studio enterprise will merge with Screaming Eagle Acquisition Corp, a particular purpose-acquisition firm (SPAC), to create a brand new public agency for Lionsgate’s movie and tv property that embody about 18,000 titles.

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