News Voltron Henry Cavill Cast in Live-Action Voltron Feature The five Lion bots will come together to form… By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on October 10, 2024 Screenshot: Netflix Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Netflix There have been rumblings of a live-action Voltron movie for years, and it looks like the project is finally moving forward at Amazon MGM Studios. Today, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Henry Cavill has been cast in the project. Cavill, whose previous credits include playing a grumpy Geralt in Netflix’s The Witcher (pictured above) and Superman in Zack Snyder’s DC-verse, will be the topline star. We don’t have details yet on who exactly Cavill will be playing in the movie, but it could be that he’ll be one of the five Robot Lion space pilots from the popular 1980s animated series who fight together and—when they bring their vehicles together—create a giant robot, Voltron. It also could be that he’s playing some other major character, perhaps even the Big Bad? This is all complete speculation at this point, other than the fact that we’ll likely see Cavill grimacing at least once. The live-action Voltron adaptation has Dodgeball and Red Notice director Rawson Marshall Thurber on board, as well as actor Daniel Quinn-Toye, a newcomer to Hollywood who previously acted against Tom Holland in a West End production. The script was co-written by Thurber and Ellen Shanman. We don’t have details on the plot of the movie or when the film will premiere. Production, however, is supposed to start shooting this fall in Australia.[end-mark] The post Henry Cavill Cast in Live-Action <i>Voltron</i> Feature appeared first on Reactor.

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Showing his command of both the response to Hurricane Milton and Florida state history after viewing storm damage in Fort Pierce, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) closed a Thursday afternoon press conference by sparring with a number of reporters who tried to bait him into directly blaming Hurricane Milton’s existence and damage on climate change. Having none of these political games, DeSantis schooled them. Others were more blatant, but the one prior to them was more subtle: “Obviously with every hurricane the tornado are a concern, but it seems the story of Hurricane Milton really is all of tornadoes. Have you ever seen something of this magnitude, just as far as the number of tornadoes and the amount of damage they did?” DeSantis didn’t engage in this and stuck to the facts that in “every hurricane, we have a lot of tornados spin off...sadly” though “we may of had more tornado warnings on this one than the typical hurricane” “Things churn off these — these weather systems and it's just devastating. And so, this is unfortunately something that is — that is kind of normal with the big storm...[E]ast coast of Florida, Palm Beach, St. Lucie, a bunch of stuff happened over here and you were probably hundreds of miles from the eye of the storm at the time the tornados spun off. But that is just — that is to be expected to a certain extent,” he added. It was here that a reporter invoked “global warming” being behind “an increase in tornadoes” and DeSantis immediately saw what he was dealing with. As he’s shown for years, he was ready to return fire twice as hard, starting with the fact that “you can go back and find tornados for all of human history for sure” and proceeded to walk through the barometric pressure at landfall of Milton versus other storms in the past. While deathly serious, DeSantis explained there’s precedent for far stronger storms, with one in 1928 having killed thousands between Florida, the Caribbean, and the east coast of the United States. He cited this in part to rebut the fact that those with an agenda to inject climate change into everything have “tried to take different things that happen with tropical weather and act like it's something” when “there’s nothing new under the sun” (click “expand” below the video to see his full answer): WATCH: Ron DeSantis absolutely nukes a reporter who tried to tie yesterday's tornadoes from Hurricane #Milton to global warming pic.twitter.com/Pj0nENTilZ — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 10, 2024 I — I think you can go back and find tornados for all of human history for sure. And especially, you know, Florida, how does this storm rate in — in — in kind of the history of storms? I think it hit with a barometric pressure of — what was it — about 950 millibars when it hit? Which I think if you go back til — to 1851, there has probably been 27 hurricanes with lower barometric — so, the lower the barometric pressure, the stronger it is. I think there have been about 27 hurricanes have had lower barometric pressure on landfall than Milton did and, of those, 17 occurred, I think, prior to 1960. And the most powerful hurricane on record since the 1850s, in the state of Florida, occurred in the 1930s, the Labor Day hurricane. Barometric pressure on that was 892 millibars. It totally wiped out the Keys. We haven't seen anything like it and that remains head and shoulders above any powerful hurricane in the state of Florida. The most deadly hurricane we’ve ever had was in 1928, the Okeechobee hurricane, killed over 4,000 people. Fortunately, we aren't going to have anything close to that on this hurricane. Even ones like Ian where you had, you know, it wasn’t even close to that. But I think people should put this in perspective. They tried to take different things that happen with tropical weather and act like it's something — there’s nothing new under the sun.  You know, this is something the state has dealt with for it's entire history and it's something we will continue to deal with. I think what’s changed is we’ve got 23 million people. A storm that hits is likely to hit more people and property than it would of 100 years ago and so, the potential for that damage has grown. But what’s also changed is our ability to do prevention, to pre-stage the assets. I mean we never did the pre-staging of powers assets until I became governor. Now? People, like, expect that. That wasn't what was done in the past. That’s why people would be out of power for three weeks when we’d have hurricanes. We thought that that’s not good. Now, we have to pay to get the guys to come in, but my view is, the quicker you get people hooked up the better, the economy is anyways, so why don't we just do that? Having different search and rescue, having a state guard, all these different things are bringing different tools to the fight allowing us to respond more effectively. So, if we had the tools we had in 1928 to fight in Ian or to fight some of these, you would had higher death tolls. There’s no question about that. Another reporter pressed their luck: “Speaking of history, sir, how many storms form as rapidly as they have between Helene and Milton?” Without notes and from memory, DeSantis had another set of facts to set this leftist actor back: Oh, I mean, I think most people remember 2004 where we had — seemed like we had them every other week in 2004 then there’s also a time period — you know, we had, from 2006 to 2016, we had no hurricanes in Florida. There are times we have had a lot. The 1940s we were getting hit a lot. You know, now, more recently, we’ve had — we’ve had a spate — spade of more, so that's just kind of the nature of it, but — but this really does — it has a lot of similarities to 2004 in terms of the season. A fourth consecutive reporter went political by inviting him to attack those “engaging in misinformation” as a way of ripping Republicans. DeSantis certainly blasted those on the far right making claims about people or groups being able to control the weather, but he also put them alongside “others think[ing] it's all because of fossil fuels”: Reporter to DeSantis on #Milton: “Governor, a lot of folks particularly a lot quite a few who trust you and look to you for information are obviously engaging in misinformation about some entity controlling the weather. Can you take this opportunity to denounce that… pic.twitter.com/y4clMD34Tn — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 10, 2024 For some reason, one of the reporters from earlier chose to waste the press conference’s last question on more partisan showboating: One reporter who had tried to get Ron DeSantis to blame #Milton on climate change came back AGAIN. The result was the same -- not good for him! Reporter: “What about the role of carbon emissions in promulgating said storms?” DeSantis: We’ll, I’ve already addressed the… pic.twitter.com/P8bB1RzW6e — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 10, 2024 To see the relevant transcript from the presser on October 10, click “expand.” Florida press conference [as seen on FNC’s Outnumbered] October 10, 2024 12:51 p.m. Eastern UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #1: Obviously with every hurricane the tornado are a concern, but it seems the story of Hurricane Milton really is all of tornadoes. Have you ever seen something of this magnitude, just as far as the number of tornadoes and the amount of damage they did? GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS (R-FL): I mean, every hurricane we have a lot of tornados spin off. I think we — we may of had more tornado warnings on this one than the typical hurricane, I would think. But to see what happened here, sadly, that is not something that’s uncommon. These tornados — I mean, you’re talking — when mother nature — I mean, this is just — it’s just churning, churning. Things churn off these — these weather systems and it's just devastating. And so, this is unfortunately something that is — that is kind of normal with the big storm. We probably had more warnings than we would with a normal storm, especially the ones that come across the peninsula like this. You know, you could get it, I mean, you’ve east coast of Florida, Palm Beach, St. Lucie, a bunch of stuff happened over here and you were probably hundreds of miles from the eye of the storm at the time the tornados spun off. But that is just — that is to be expected to a certain extent. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #2: [Inaudible] global warming? DESANTIS: Tornados? UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #2: Yeah. There’s an increase in tornadoes in [inaudible]. DESANTIS: I — I think you can go back and find tornados for all of human history for sure. And especially, you know, Florida, how does this storm rate in — in — in kind of the history of storms? I think it hit with a barometric pressure of — what was it — about 950 millibars when it hit? Which I think if you go back til — to 1851, there has probably been 27 hurricanes with lower barometric — so, the lower the barometric pressure, the stronger it is. I think there have been about 27 hurricanes have had lower barometric pressure on landfall than Milton did and, of those, 17 occurred, I think, prior to 1960. And the most powerful hurricane on record since the 1850s, in the state of Florida, occurred in the 1930s, the Labor Day hurricane. Barometric pressure on that was 892 millibars. It totally wiped out the Keys. We haven't seen anything like it and that remains head and shoulders above any powerful hurricane in the state of Florida. The most deadly hurricane we’ve ever had was in 1928, the Okeechobee hurricane, killed over 4000 people. Fortunately, we aren't going to have anything close to that on this hurricane. Even ones like Ian where you had, you know, it wasn’t even close to that. But I think people should put this in perspective. They tried to take different things that happen with tropical weather and act like it's something — there’s nothing new under the sun. You know, this is something the state has dealt with for it's entire history and it's something we will continue to deal with. I think what’s changed is we’ve got 23 million people. A storm that hits is likely to hit more people and property than it would of 100 years ago and so, the potential for that damage has grown. But what’s also changed is our ability to do prevention, to pre-stage the assets. I mean we never did the pre-staging of powers assets until I became governor. Now? People, like, expect that. That wasn't what was done in the past. That’s why people would be out of power for three weeks when we’d have hurricanes. We thought that that’s not good. Now, we have to pay to get the guys to come in, but my view is, the quicker you get people hooked up the better, the economy is anyways, so why don't we just do that? Having different search and rescue, having a state guard, all these different things are bringing different tools to the fight allowing us to respond more effectively. So, if we had the tools we had in 1928 to fight in Ian or to fight some of these, you would had higher death tolls. There’s no question about that. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #3: Speaking of history, sir, how many storms form as rapidly as they have between Helene and Milton? DESANTIS: Oh, I mean, I think most people remember 2004 where we had — seemed like we had them every other week in 2004 then there’s also a time period — you know, we had, from 2006 to 2016, we had no hurricanes in Florida. There are times we have had a lot. The 1940s we were getting hit a lot. You know, now, more recently, we’ve had — we’ve had a spate — spade of more, so that's just kind of the nature of it, but — but this really does — it has a lot of similarities to 2004 in terms of the season. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #4: Yeah, Governor, a lot of folks particularly a lot quite a few who trust you and look to you for information are obviously engaging in misinformation about some entity controlling the weather. Can you take this opportunity to denounce that misinformation and set the record straight for folks who believes someone is controlling the weather? DESANTIS: Look, if I could control the weather I would do, you know, 78° and sunny year around. Now, we get that, you know, a lot in Florida. Coming up in the months. But there would be no reason to ever do. So, look — and this is on both sides. You have some people think government can do this. And then others think it's all because of fossil fuels. The reality is what we see — there is precedent for this in history. Like, it is hurricane season. You will have tropical weather. We hope that, you know, a lot of the tropical weather are fish storms in the Atlantic that never impact us. The reality anything that gets in the Gulf of Mexico — it’s got to hit something. Maybe it hits Mexico. Maybe it hits Louisiana. But Florida is one, especially if it’s move — when they bend east, we’re the ones that are gonna do — so — so, like I said there is nothing new under the sun. This is — these are natural occurrences. We will — we will deal with tropical weather for as long as we’re Floridians. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #3: What about the role of carbon emissions in promulgating said storms? DESANTIS: We’ll, I’ve already addressed the historical record of the storms in Florida. Like I said our biggest storm, our strongest storm by far remains the Labor Day from the 1930s.

NHL forward Nazem Kadri claimed in his new book that when he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, he and a teammate confronted coach Mike Babcock for reportedly making one of the rookies cry.The incident surrounds Maple Leafs player Mitch Marner during his rookie season with the Leafs in 2016-2017. According to Sportsnet, Kadri wrote in his new book, "Dreamer: My Life on the Edge," that Babcock got Leafs trainers to rank players based on their effort in the gym.Based on those rankings, Babcock apparently approached Marner about his alleged laziness on and off the ice. The coach then asked Marner to create his own list ranking each of his teammates' effort levels. Marner apparently obliged, even putting his own name on the list.Babcock then reportedly showed the list to both Kadri and teammate Tyler Bozak. 'You just don't do that to a rookie.'According to HockeyFeed, and other outlets at the time, Marner cried over the incident."Marner was in tears after the details of his list were shared, while his teammates were furious," the Athletic's Ian Tulloch recalled.Kadri, who played for Babcock for his entire coaching stint with the Leafs, said he and Bozak "stormed into Babcock's office and laid into him.""He tried to defend what he'd done, to explain the thought process behind the exercise," Kadri wrote. The center then claimed he and Bozak forced the coach to apologize."There wasn't much he could say, and in the end I think he realized he's made a mistake. After that he apologized to Mitch. We'd pretty much made him." He added, "You just don't do that to a rookie."Babcock later denied many of the details in a 2021 interview, around a year after he left Toronto. While confirming that he was to blame for the incident, he called it "crazy" to suggest that he showed the list to other players as a psychological tactic.Babcock specified that he met with Marner and told him to make a list but said that Bozak later accidentally saw it when he came into the coach's office. Babcock then said he asked Marner if he wanted him to straighten out the incident in front of the team, which he admitted he shouldn't have asked the young player about but said that rather he should have done it of his own accord.Kadri, now with the Calgary Flames, saw it differently in his book:"The whole point was to embarrass guys, and it made for some awkward conversations between the players and the training staff," the 34-year-old wrote. "Once you break that trust, it's hard to come back."Babcock went on to coach the Columbus Blue Jackets in 2023 but left just two months into the role. That stint wasn't without controversy.During the "Spittin’ Chiclets" podcast, former NHLer Paul Bissonnette said that Babcock asked Blue Jackets captain Boone Jenner if he could see the photos on Jenner's cell phone. Babcock then allegedly displayed the photos on his office wall.Player Johnny Gaudreau, however, recalled a similar meeting with Babcock but described it as simply sharing aspects of his life with the coach.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A 9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan vilified as "racist" by the sports website Deadspin will have his day in court, a Delaware judge ruled on Monday.The controversial blog, once part of the now-defunct Gawker empire, had filed a motion to dismiss the defamation suit against it. The judge quickly denied it, noting that there was sufficient evidence for the suit to proceed.‘Someone who makes his livelihood through vicious race-baiting.’As Blaze News reported in November 2023, Deadspin attempted to stoke outrage over the image of Holden Armenta wearing Chiefs face paint while attending a game against the Las Vegas Raiders last November.Half of Armenta's face was painted black, half was painted red. He was also wearing a native American headdress. Race-baitingUsing a photo of Armenta in which only the headdress and the black face paint was visible, Deadspin writer Carron Phillips accused the boy of racism."It takes a lot to disrespect two groups of people at once. But on Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas, a Kansas City Chiefs fan found a way to hate black people and the Native Americans at the same time," Phillips wrote. He went on to accuse the NFL of "participating in prejudice":While it isn’t the league’s responsibility to stop racism and hate from being taught in the home, they are a league that has relentlessly participated in prejudice. If the NFL had outlawed the chop at Chiefs games and been more aggressive in changing the team’s name, then we wouldn’t be here.In a since-deleted post on X, Phillips defended his somewhat dubious accusations. “For the idiots in my mentions who are treating this as some harmless act because the other side of his face was painted red, I could make the argument that it makes it even worse. Y’all are the ones who hate Mexicans but wear sombreros on Cinco.”Family faced 'barrage of hate'Armenta's parents, Raul Armenta Jr. and Shannon Armenta, filed a defamation lawsuit against the website in February 2024. The lawsuit was filed in Delaware, where Deadspin’s parent company G/O Media resides.One month after the lawsuit was filed, the entire Deadspin staff was abruptly fired after G/O Media sold the website to Lineup Publishing. The suit described Phillips as “someone who makes his livelihood through vicious race-baiting.”The Armentas said they have been inundated with "a barrage of hate, including death threats" as a result of the article smearing their son. One person even threatened to kill Holden “with a wood chipper,” according to the lawsuit.“It intentionally painted a picture of the Armenta Family as anti-black, anti-Native American bigots who proudly engaged in the worst kind of racist conduct motivated by their family’s hatred for black and Native Americans," read the lawsuit.Last resortThe Armentas claim to have made repeated requests for Deadspin to retract the article and apologize. Instead, Deadspin revised to take the focus away from Armenta while retaining the allegations that the boy was racist. The headline was changed from "The NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in black face, Native headdress" to "The NFL Must Ban Native Headdress And Culturally Insensitive Face Paint in the Stands."The family noted that Holden's grandfather was on the board of the Chumash Tribe in Santa Ynez, California. In their bid to have the case thrown out, Deadspin lawyers argued that the claims against Armenta amounted to opinion, which is constitutionally protected speech. Crossed the lineHowever, Superior Court Judge Sean Lugg vehemently disagreed"Deadspin published an image of a child displaying his passionate fandom as a backdrop for its critique of the NFL’s diversity efforts and, in its description of the child, crossed the fine line protecting its speech from defamation claims," Judge Lugg wrote. "Having reviewed the complaint, the court concludes that Deadspin’s statements accusing [Holden] of wearing black face and Native headdress ‘to hate black people and the Native American at the same time,’ and that he was taught this hatred by his parents, are provable false assertions of fact and are therefore actionable," Lugg noted.A spokesperson for G/O Media told the Associated Press that the company had no comment regarding the lawsuit.Watch Sara Gonzales — host of "Sara Gonzales Unfiltered" — skewer the woke media for attacking the 9-year-old Chiefs fan. - YouTube www.youtube.com Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The online world reacted with perplexed horror at a very bizarre video released of Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer feeding a Dorito chip to a kneeling left-wing podcaster. The brief eight-second video was posted to the Instagram account of Liz Plank, apparently to publicize her interview with the governor. It shows plank on her knees being fed a tortilla chip by Whitmer, who then stares at the camera. Doritos are the favorite junk food of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. 'This Gretchen Whitmer video is so bizarre that I’m at a loss for words.' The video went viral as people commented with confusion. "Whitmer feeds the actress a Doritos chip - the favorite snack of Harris - in what appears to be slightly pornographic and a mockery of the Catholic view of Holy Eucharist. What is the point here?" asked podcaster Doug Billings. "Very rarely do I come across a political video that I have no comment on. This Gretchen Whitmer video is so bizarre that I’m at a loss for words," read another response. Some, like Liz Wheeler, believed the video was meant to mock the Catholic rite of communion. "Democrat Gov Gretchen Whitmer blasphemes the Eucharist, feeding a Dorito to a leftist podcaster as if it’s Holy Communion. Wearing a Kamala hat," she posted. "It’s wild that some Christians refuse to vote when Democrats obviously loathe you… because you’re Christian." One critic noted that on their interview, Plank and Whitmer joked about killing the governor's two daughters in "post-birth abortions." In the description of the video, Plank claims that it is in support of the CHIPS Act that authorizes federal spending to support the manufacture of semiconductors in the U.S. "Chips aren’t just delicious, the CHIPS Act is a game-changer for U.S. tech and manufacturing, boosting domestic production of semiconductors to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers! Donald Trump would put that at risk," she writes. Michigan is one of the pivotal battleground states that may determine whether the presidency stays in Democrat control or is regained by former President Donald Trump. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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