Month: February 2021

LOS ANGELES — The ending hasn’t been written yet, but Hollywood is moving quickly to bring the story of the GameStop investment saga to the screen. Separate projects at Netflix Inc. NFLX, +2.59% and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. are already in development about the past week on Wall Street, in which an investing-focused group on a Reddit message board banded together to boost the share prices of struggling companies such as GameStop Corp. GME, -46.91% and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. AMC, -38.12%, in the process crippling the hedge funds that had bet against them. Netflix is in talks with screenwriter Mark Boal, who dramatized real-life events such as the Osama bin Laden raid in “Zero...

Logitech sold enough keyboards, mice, and PC webcams during the pandemic that it can afford its first-ever Super Bowl commercial. The 60-second spot, titled “Defy Logic,” will air during the first quarter of the game on February 7th and feature rapper and songwriter Lil Nas X. The documentary-style ad spotlights how artists and other creative types use Logitech products for their work. It shows Lil Nas X writing and recording a song, along with graphic and visual artists; streamers; musicians; and climate, gender equality, and education reform activists demonstrating their Logitech items. In May, Logitech reported sales of its products were booming as the pandemic kept millions of people working and schooling from home. Sales of its video collaboration products — which include...

Tori Spelling paid tribute to her late "Saved by the Bell" co-star Dustin Diamond following his death at age 44. The actor was diagnosed with stage 4 small cell carcinoma cancer last month. His agent told Fox News that Diamond died on Monday "due to carcinoma." It didn’t take long for his regular co-stars on the hit sitcom to speak out and eulogize the late star.  Among them was Spelling, who shared a lengthy caption about Diamond on Instagram along with a black-and-white photo of them as children on set. Spelling had a run on in 1990 as the girlfriend of Diamond’s Screech character, Violet Bickerstaff. "My 1st onscreen love Dustin Diamond got his Angel wings today…" she began her note.  ‘SAVED BY THE BELL’ ALUM DUSTIN DIAMOND HOSPITALIZED AS UNDERGOES TESTS, TEAM SAYS: ‘HE’S SCARED ...

Atlanta rapper Silento, whose legal name is Ricky Hawk, was arrested on Monday and charged with murder in the shooting death of his 34-year-old cousin Silento, the Atlanta rapper best known for his hit song Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae), was arrested on Monday and charged with murder in the shooting death of his cousin. DeKalb County police said in a statement on Twitter that the 23-year-old rapper, whose legal name is Ricky Hawk, was arrested in a suburb of Atlanta.  He was booked into the county jail on a count of first-degree murder in connection with the January 21 death of 34-year-old Frederick Rooks. Hawk was being held without bond early Tuesday. The Atlanta Journal Constitution had reported previously that police responded to a call of shots fired on January 21 abo...