US begin to mourn the 12 people killed by a gunman at a showing of the new Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, and a candlelit vigil has been held in Aurora, Colorado. US President Barack Obama ordered flags flown at half mast. A man in a gas mask and body armour threw tear gas canisters at a midnight screening, then fired on the crowd, killing 12 and injuring 58. Suspect James Holmes, 24, was ar…
James Holmes, the man accused of killing 12 people in a shooting at a Batman film screening in Aurora, Colorado, has appeared in court for the first time. James Holmes, 24, sat in court in a red jail suit with dyed orange hair, and appeared sleepy during the proceedings. Nine of 58 people wounded by the gunman remain in critical condition. On Sunday, President Barack Obama met survivors and famil…
New reports give details about James Holmes, the psychotic gunman who killed 12 people at a screening of the new Batman film on Thursday night. James Holmes, 24, was a PhD student who was described as “really smart” but was in the process of dropping out of graduate school at the University of Colorado Denver. He is said to have had few friends and barely any social life, instead spending hours i…
an movie screening in Colorado, has been cleared of explosives A man in a gas mask and body armor threw tear gas canisters at a midnight screening, then fired on the crowd in the cinema. James Holmes, 24, was arrested outside the cinema, police said. President Barack Obama is to visit Aurora on Sunday to honor the victims, the White House said. He will visit bereaved families and meet local offici…
Aurora cinema massacre may have been inspired by a Batman comic book strip, it emerged on Friday. The bloodbath is a chilling copycat of a 1986 Batman comic strip which features a deranged gunman opening fire in a cinema. In the second issue of The Dark Knight Returns, written by Frank Miller – the creative mind behind Sin City and 300 – gunman Arnold Crimp opens fire in a pornographi…
Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for James Holmes, who is accused of killing 12 people last July at Aurora cinema in Colorado. On Friday, prosecutors rejected an offer from James Holmes to plead guilty in order to avoid execution. James Holmes, 25, is charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder in the attack in Aurora, one of the worst mass shootings in US hi…
A collection of early comic books has been sold for $3.5 million at auction in New York. The trove of 345 comics had been bought by the late Billy Wright from Virginia when he was a boy. A copy of Detective Comics No. 27, which was sold for 10 cents in 1939 and featured Batman’s debut, got the top bid on Wednesday – raising $523,000. The “jaw-dropping” collection was found last year w…
Jessie J showed off her newly shaved head on Friday night’s Comic Relief show. Jessie J said that having no hair was “the weirdest feeling” and proudly rocked the look on stage on the live show. After having her hair cut, Jessie J emerged to speak to hosts Dermot O’Leary and Claudia Winkleman about how she was feeling. As Dermot O’Leary stroked her head she said: “That feels nice. It…
This year’s Comic Relief charity telethon raised a record £75 million ($120 million) so far. Comedian Lenny Henry, the founder of the Red Nose Day fundraiser which is now in its 25th year, kicked off the live show on BBC One. Simon Cowell, Jessie J, comedian Peter Kay and One Direction all made appearances. There were also reinterpretations of hit TV shows The Vicar of Dibley and Call the Midwife…
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This year’s Comic Relief presented a sketch featuring Rowan Atkinson as the Archbishop of Canterbury which has drawn more than 2,200 complaints to the BBC. In the pre-21:00 watershed sketch, Rowan Atkinson – playing a fictional version of the Archbishop of Canterbury compared boyband One Direction to Jesus’s disciples. He also claimed praying “doesn’t work”. Ac…
David Brent made his big return on Comic Relief after he was off screens for 10 years. David Brent made famous appearing on The Office used his time back in the limelight to debut a political reggae song called Equality Street. Ricky Gervais resurrected his popular character for the fundraising fun and viewers learned that the former General Manager of Wernham–Hogg paper merchants is now a cleani…
…rience the wonder of the Northern Lights. AuroraMAX project has been timed to coincide with the next solar maximum, the period when solar activity reaches an 11-year high, forecast to come in February 2013. An amazing picture of the aurora borealis – the Northern Lights – shows how the phenomenon can light up the sky near the North Pole The solar maximum causes an increase in the number of sunspo…
…out in 1978, Joe Shuster was so poor he was working for a delivery company. It was a box-office success followed by four more Superman films and a Supergirl version. Another is due for release in June 2013. Although $130 is around $2,300 in today’s money, it is a tiny fraction of what the character has earned since then. The heirs of the creators Jerome Siegel and Joe Shuster are still invol…
A Halloween mask of alleged Colorado shooter James Holmes was put on eBay for $500 by an anonymous seller. The creepy, rubber face with bright orange, curly hair led to widespread outrage and disgust, including from victims who were personally affected by the Aurora tragedy. James Holmes, 24, is believed to have opened fire at the Aurora movie theater on July 20, killing 12 people and wounding 58…
…d to happen, so she ended up not being in the film.” The tomboyish 6-year-old did, however, have a role as her father Brad Pitt’s daughter in his film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button back in 2008. Angelina Jolie, 37, stars as the title role in Disney’s reimagining of the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty told from the evil doer’s point of view. The focus of the film centres…
…ile they work to make the set look perfect for their star, security guards with huge Rottweilers patrol the perimeter. The film will be directed by Robert Stromberg and is set for release on March 14, 2014. …
Will Smith angrily slapped camp comic Vitalii Sediuk on the face after he tried to kiss him on the lips on the red carpet in Russia yesterday. Will Smith, 43, was walking the press line in Moscow to promote Men In Black 3 when Ukrainian TV prankster Vitalii Sediuk stopped him to give him a hug and attempted to kiss him. He managed to dodge two lunges, with each kiss landing on his cheek, before h…
James Holmes, the suspect gunman at Aurora cinema, has been formally charged with 142 criminal counts in one of America’s worst mass shootings. James Holmes, 24, faces 24 counts of murder, two for each of the 12 people killed, and 116 counts of attempted murder, two each for the 58 injured. For each person killed he faces a count of murder with deliberation and one of murder with extreme in…
uspected of shooting dead 12 people at a Batman film screening A man in a gas mask and body armor threw tear gas canisters at a midnight screening, then fired on the crowd in the cinema. James Holmes, 24, was arrested outside the cinema, police said. FBI agents and police discovered his flat was booby-trapped when they used a camera at the end of a 12-foot pole to look inside. Technicians made a f…
Iron Man 3 has triumphed at the US box office, with the second biggest ever opening weekend in the US. Comic book sequel Iron Man 3, starring Robert Downey Jr., took an estimated $175.3 million across the weekend. Only 2012′s The Avengers, which united Iron Man with fellow Marvel characters, had a bigger opening, taking $207.4 million when it opened last May. Iron Man 3 is the final episode…
President Barack Obama today signaled he would push for tight gun control in the wake of the massacre of 26 at an elementary school in Connecticut, saying there had been “too many” mass shootings in America. During a moving appearance, the president said the time had come to “take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics”. Barack Obama struggled for words,…
…ify it, not to just reverse the story but tell a bigger story that doesn’t point the finger [at Princess Aurora] either.” Maleficent is directed by Robert Stromberg and is set for release on March 14, 2014. …
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