One of Zayn Malik’s sisters has thrown her support behind the singer in the wake of Yolanda Hadid’s claims that he struck her.
Waliyha Malik shared a series of posts on her Instagram Story Thursday in defense of Zayn following the back-to-back news of Hadid’s shocking claim as well as the “Pillowtalk” crooner’s breakup with Yolanda’s daughter Gigi Hadid.
“@Zayn you are so loved by all of us [white heart emoji],” she wrote over an emotional quote card about the importance of family.
Waliyha followed up with a series of family photos and then appeared to issue a stern warning about “karma” coming for the Hadid family.
Zayn Malik’s sister Waliyha supported him on social media.Instagram
“Karma comes after everyone eventually,” read a quote from Jessica Brody posted to Waliyha’s Story. “You can’t get away with screwing people over your whole life, I don’t care who you are. What goes around comes around. That’s how it works. Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve.”
Waliyha shared a quote about karma.Instagram
The former One Direction singer, 28, vehemently denied the 57-year-old “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum’s claims, saying in a statement posted to social media that he was hoping for healing so his and Gigi’s daughter, Khai, could have “the privacy she deserves.”
Yolanda Hadid was spotted in New York City as news broke of her claims against the singer.JosiahW / BACKGRID
“I adamantly deny striking Yolanda Hadid and for the sake of my daughter I decline to give any further details,” he added in a separate statement to TMZ, “and I hope that Yolanda will reconsider her false allegations and move towards healing these family issues in private.”
Malik and Yolanda’s daughter Gigi Hadid have dated on and off since 2015.GC Images
Meanwhile, Gigi, 26, broke her silence on the he-said, she-said by asking for privacy.
“Gigi is solely focused on the best for Khai. She asks for privacy during this time,” the model’s rep said in a statement to People Thursday.
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Maybe it wasn’t just the garbage can.
As the Astros play in their second World Series in three years — and third in the last five — it’s hard to pin their success solely on the sign-stealing scandal of 2017.
Just two years ago, the Yankees and Astros played in a tightly matched ALCS that Houston won in six games, punctuated by Jose Altuve’s series-clinching homer off Aroldis Chapman at Minute Maid Park.
We are past bye-mageddon and it’s on to Week 8 of the NFL season with fantasy and gambling advice.
Start: Kenny Gainwell and Boston Scott, Eagles (vs. DET)
Miles Sanders breakout szn was upon us. The Eagles said they would get him more involved, and they did – he touched the ball on six of Philly’s first twelve plays on Sunday. And then, he went down with an ankle injury. Just in time for the Eagles to face the Lions. Sigh. Anyway, Gainwell already had fringe fantasy appeal as a pass-catcher, and had eight targets Sunday after Sanders left the field. Scott might be more of a desperation play, but he out-carried Gainwell (7 to 5) after Sanders went down. In a game where the Eagles are favored, they should run the ball enough to give Scott some viability.
Other starts: Daniel Jones, Kadarius Toney and Kenny Golladay (NYG), Adam Thielen (MIN), Khalil Herbert (CHI), Cole Beasley (BUF)
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Sit: Tyler Boyd, Bengals (@ Jets)
Boyd caught nine passes for 118 yards during Week 4 against the Jaguars. Since then, he has caught nine passes… for 70 yards… in three games. Coincidentally, that was the same week Tee Higgins – who had 15 targets last week – returned to the lineup. You may be tempted by the Jets matchup, but they are actually giving up the third-fewest points per game to wide receivers in fantasy. The Bengals are also 10.5-point favorites and rising, meaning they may turn to the ground game in the second half if they’re nursing a lead. Not a recipe for fantasy success.
Other sits: Mike Davis (ATL), Odell Beckham (CLE), Corey Davis (NYJ), Javonte Williams and Melvin Gordon (DEN)
DFS play: Michael Pittman, IND ($5,300)
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It’s kind of weird that a game involving the Colts has the highest point total of the Sunday afternoon slate (O/U 51), but there should be plenty of offense in this game. Tennessee’s defense is towards the bottom of the league in most metrics, and Carson Wentz has been cooking of late – eight touchdowns to zero picks in his last four games. Pittman was targeted 12 times the last time these two teams faced off, and has found the end zone in two of the past three games. The USC product offers top-WR upside in the same price range as Marquez Callaway and Kalif Raymond.
Bet: Cowboys -2.5 @ Vikings
I don’t know how much I’m still buying into the whole “Kirk Cousins can’t play in primetime” narrative (though it is notable). What I am buying into is this Dallas team, which is the league’s most efficient offense (6.6 yards per play is tops in the NFL). Minnesota has been solid defensively, ranking sixth in DVOA, but the Cowboys faced the seventh-best team in Tampa – and racked up 450 yards in offense. They haven’t scored less than 35 points since an odd Week 2 game, and they may get Michael Gallup back. The number is the important thing here – the Cowboys are a road favorite, but as long as this stays under 3, they’re still the play.
Other bets: Bears +4 vs. SF, Saints +5.5 vs. TB, Bills -14 vs. MIA
Outside of your Walmart or Walgreens — or 40,000 other U.S. retail locations — there’s a Redbox kiosk where you can rent a new-release movie on DVD, Blu-ray or 4K for a few dollars a night.
Will those Redbox consumers make the leap to streaming?
“Our consumers are value-conscious,” Redbox CEO Galen Smith said in an interview with Decider this week. “They’re typically later adopters of technology who may not have made the full switch to digital, which is what makes our transition to digital so interesting. We’re creating a one-stop shop for transactional video on demand, ad-supported content on demand, and more than 120 free, live TV channels.”
Redbox launched its streaming app in December 2020, and it’s available on nearly every TV and mobile platform. (It’s not yet on Amazon Fire TV; Redbox is working on it.) Redbox’s streamer is built right into the phone app you may already be using to reserve your DVD rentals.
This week, on the occasion of Redbox becoming a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ exchange, Smith spoke with Decider to talk about the company’s streaming ambitions.
DECIDER: The streaming service is about a year old. What’s new?
GALEN SMITH: One thing we’ll build in the coming months is a channels platform. Instead of building a Redbox subscription service, we’ll offer other subscription services to help match our 40 million consumers with digital streaming services that may not have a way to directly reach that consumer today.
So I could pay X dollars and get Curiosity Stream or Magnolias Selects right on the Redbox app.
That’s right. We’re building out those partnerships right now and are planning to launch the product in the second quarter of 2022 with a number of launch partners. We’ll have a simple experience with the billing and the sign-on in one place.
The big AVOD services I see out there are Pluto TV, IMDb TV, Tubi and Crackle. Does your research indicate that your kiosk consumers or your target consumers have high awareness of those services?
They’re not yet aware of all of those services, so that’s a big, untapped market for us. Redbox has been established in the industry for almost 20 years, and we’ve got a loyalty program with 39 million members. Last week we offered 500 points to stream on the app for 30 minutes, and no one else has the ability to do that.
Those services you mentioned are great for ad-supported content, but you have to go to another app to rent or buy movies. We’re offering all of that in one place and bringing simplicity to the consumer experience.
I’m surprised HBO Max and Peacock have not integrated movie rentals and purchases the way Disney+ has done with Premier Access. Do you see the library-building functionality of Redbox as an opening for you?
I do. Having all of your content in one place is a much better consumer experience. We think we can reach new customers and provide them an improved experience by doing all of that in one app. If you buy a digital movie, it will be right there on the Redbox app along with the subscription services and the free content. And purchase you make on other platforms will be available to watch on your Apple devices.
Redbox just announced a distribution deal with Lionsgate, and I’m already seeing Lionsgate movie titles on the service. Will the John Wick movies and other big Lionsgate titles be on Redbox soon?
It’s hard to say when specific titles will be on the services, but we’re looking to get the best titles we can. Lionsgate has been a fantastic partner and is an investor in the business.
Are there other studios or content owners who are investors in Redbox?
Our investors include Lionsgate, Legendary Entertainment, Screenvision Media — which is one of our ad sales partners — and Basil Iwanyk who produces the John Wick movies. We’ve created a label with Iwanyk called Asbury Park that will produce 12 original action movies for us. The first one will deliver by the end of the year, and we’ll release that in 2022.
So those movies will be exclusively for rental in the kiosks and on the Redbox service?
We want to maximize the value of the title and be friendly to talent, so those movies will be available across Amazon and iTunes and other services and on the Redbox kiosks. We’ll sell the subscription rights, or Pay 1 rights, to a streaming service and eventually have them back into our ad-supported business.
Do you think you need exclusive titles or original titles on the Redbox service?
We think there’s an opportunity to bring originals and exclusives to the service. It’s been great for us to license movies and bring them to our consumers, and the opportunity to have those in an ecosystem that we control the distribution rights going forward creates an opportunity to figure out how to maximize the value of that.
One thing we would be able to do is have exclusives and originals on Redbox-branded free channels. We’re adding free channels on the Redbox service that we’ll syndicate to Roku Channels or VIZIO TV, and that gives us some incremental value.
The major studios have their Pay 1 and Pay 2 deals locked up for the foreseeable future. Will that make it difficult for you to acquire newer titles for Redbox app in the near term?
The Pay 1 window is an incredibly expensive business, so we’re looking at later content for the ad-supported tier of the service. Part of what we want to do is feed the service with our own titles. We know what our customers love, and we want to acquire or make those movies and have them available on the ad-supported side after some period of time.
Redbox is on all of the major TV platforms except Amazon Prime Video, which took its time getting to carriage agreements with HBO Max and Peacock. You think you’ll get an agreement soon?
We’re continuing to expand our platforms and just added Sony Playstation 5 a few weeks ago. We would love to be on Fire TV and think we bring a differentiated consumer to Amazon that may not already have an Amazon account. We think we could have a very interesting long-term relationship with Amazon.
The Redbox app is on Apple TV, iPhone and iPad, but you can’t rent or buy movies on Apple devices like you can on the other platforms. Are you moving toward a new agreement with Apple?
This is an issue with — for lack of a better term — the Apple tax that everyone has to pay. You can still purchase on other devices and watch on our app on Apple devices, but it would be very expensive to offer transactional content on Apple devices.
Depending on where litigation goes or whether Congress steps in, there may be a better solution longer-term. It’s not something we experience with Google and the Google Play store.
If Amazon spins off Epix after it completes its acquisition of MGM, would Epix be a good acquisition fit to get you into the premium subscription business?
I can’t speculate or talk about potential mergers and acquisitions. We’ll continue to look at opportunities to grow our business, and our ability to link our 40 million customers to various businesses may give us some of those opportunities.
Let me ask that in a way you can answer: Is one of the reasons you’re going public to give you a better mechanism to acquire other companies?
So, yes. [Laughs.] Having a new currency in our stock gives us an opportunity for potential acquisitions.
Where do you see opportunities that make sense for you — distribution like other AVOD channels, content like smaller catalogs, or technology that would help you with streaming?
You nailed it. Those are the categories. We’ll look for strategic fits for distribution. Acquiring a library could be interesting. We could possibly fast-forward our technology by doing something on the tech or ad-tech side.
My experience with ads on the Redbox app has been very good, and I’m seeing relevant, local ads. Can you tell me on a very layman’s level how that works? Are you staffing up ad sales or relying on established partners?
We’ve taken a diversified approach of having both programmatic and direct sales. We have a combination of local and national advertisers. We’ve made a lot of progress in ad-tech, but we think there is a huge opportunity to make that better. We’ve got a number of people on our team in ad sales, and we have a partnership with Screenvision for direct ad sales. I think we’re just scratching the surface on the ad side.
You have a coupon deal with Roku. Can you tell me about that partnership in terms of your customer acquisition cost?
On the box when you buy a Roku device, there’s branding for Redbox and a $5 Redbox coupon inside. That’s an efficient and inexpensive way for us to acquire customers on Roku’s platform. Our cost of acquisition is about $3 where others are spending $100 or more in some cases.
We have some key tools in our arsenal for acquiring new streaming. We’ve got the Redbox loyalty program and can provide points for ad-supported viewing or subscribing to one of the streaming channels, and we can bundle free movies at the kiosk for those things.
What impact did the pandemic have on your per-kiosk sales? People had more free time at home to watch movies, but you also had fewer theatrical films going into the rental window.
It was really interesting. In 2019 we had 140 theatrical titles, and they averaged 1.8 million rentals per title. In 2020 we had 68 theatrical titles, and the average went up to 2.2 million per title. We’ve got 26 new titles in the current quarter, and we’re expecting about 140 new releases in 2022.
So far, all of the major studios are sticking with a transactional releases even for movies like Halloween Kills and Dune that go straight to streaming. Do you think those windows will still be around a few years from now?
Windowing helps studios to maximize the value of a title they’re spending — in some cases — hundreds of millions of dollars to make and promote. Some of those windows may get shorter; you may have a shorter theatrical window before the transactional window, but transactional is an important source of revenue for the studios. I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
Scott Porch writes about the TV business for Decider. He is a contributing writer for The Daily Beast and produces the Must Watch streaming podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @ScottPorch.
“Last Night in Soho” — the latest horror film from “Shaun of the Dead” director Edgar Wright, out Friday, Oct. 29 — features a modern-day fashion student Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) who at night finds herself transported to 1960s London. There, she follows an aspiring starlet named Sandie (played by real-life fashion plate Anya Taylor-Joy), as she descends into degradation and doom.
“Last Night’s” Soho abounds with grime, gore and ghouls galore — yet even at its most ghastly, it exudes a seductive glamour, thanks to costume designer Odile Dicks-Mireaux.
“The clothes needed to be beautiful enough that Eloise would then feel inspired [in her own contemporary designs],” Dicks-Mireaux told The Post. “But they also had to be as authentic to the period as possible.”
“Last Night in Soho” costume designer Odile Dicks-Mireaux channelled swingin’ ’60s style for actors Matt Smith and Anya Taylor-Joy.Parisa Taghizadeh
To get that swinging ’60s vibe, Dicks-Mireaux watched dozens of films from the era — including Roman Polanski’s stylish thriller “Repulsion” and the teen exploitation flick “Beat Girl” — and studied ingenues like Brigitte Bardot (whose tousled blond locks inspired Taylor-Joy’s mane in the movie), actress Julie Christie and singer Cilla Black.
Brigitte Bardot’s signature hairstyle inspired Anya Taylor-Joy’s ‘do in “Last Night in Soho.”Courtesy Everett Collection
She also looked at hundreds of historic photos of Soho, which had its own distinct style at the time.
“Soho and around there was very much a theater world — where people came into town dressed up and put their best jewels on,” said Dicks-Mireaux, calling the area “flashy.”
Sandie’s pink tent dress is a spin on a real dress modeled by Twiggy.Popperfoto via Getty Images
Dicks-Mireaux drew on that razzmatazz for Taylor-Joy’s first look for the film, a stunning peach chiffon tent dress that she wears to the famed Cafe de Paris nightclub.
“That actually came from a paper pattern that I found,” Dicks-Mireaux admitted. “At the time, a lot of women — including myself and my mother — made their own dresses, and that dress had a pattern whose shape was quite simple.” That was key, since Sandie is a wide-eyed ingenue with no money, and would have had to sew her own frocks.
In other words: “It couldn’t be high fashion, but it needed to look sophisticated enough to get into the Cafe de Paris.” Dicks-Mireaux based the pinkish hue on a photograph of Twiggy wearing a similar dress. “It’s such a beautiful color … and it goes great with blond hair.”
The white vinyl coat that both Sandie and Eloise wear throughout the film, meanwhile, was initially supposed to be black, inspired by the sleek black mac Petula Clark wears in a video of her singing her hit “Downtown” (which Taylor-Joy also performs in the movie). But Dicks-Mireaux changed her mind when she saw Julie Christie wearing a white version in the 1965 movie “Darling.”
Julie Christie’s white raincoat in 1965’s “Darling” also sparked ideas for the “Last Night in Soho” wardrobe.Courtesy Everett Collection
“It was so great for all those night shots,” she said. She then found a white vintage coat in a costume shop that fit Taylor-Joy like a glove. She also found white space-age Courrèges boots that she had remade in the actress’s size.
The coat was so fabulous that the filmmakers rewrote the script to have McKenzie’s character — newly obsessed with Sandie — go into a vintage shop and buy a similar style. “It just came out of trying on things with the girls and always keeping the collaboration and dialogue between everybody open.”
But probably the biggest surprise came from Terence Stamp, the 1960s heartthrob who plays a rather nefarious barfly in “Last Night in Soho.”
“I watched his earlier movies [for inspiration], and when I finally met him, he said, ‘You know, you can use my clothes [for the film],’” Dicks-Mireaux recalled. It turns out Stamp “adores” clothes and had an extensive collection, which the costumer used to pattern actor Matt Smith’s slick 1960s suits.
“We copied the silhouette of one of his coats for Matt,” she said. “It was really fun.”
A mass turtle death has been recorded on the Pacific coast of Mexico, with preliminary reports pointing to illegal fishing nets as the cause.
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A mass turtle death has been recorded on the Pacific coast of Mexico, with preliminary reports pointing to illegal fishing nets as the cause.
An official with Mexico’s environment ministry has confirmed that a minimum of 300 olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) were found drowned recently, the BBC reported. Their bodies washed onto Oaxaca’s Morro Ayuta Beach.
While the reason for the sea turtles’ deaths has not yet been confirmed, officials believe they likely became tangled in “ghost nets,” the unofficial term for illegal fishing nets, many of them abandoned in the high seas.
That it was olive ridley turtles impacted is especially tragic as the species is listed as vulnerable by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Not only is their population decreasing, according to the IUCN, but olive ridleys are more geographically specific than other species, only nesting in a small number of areas.
The beach where the 300-some turtle bodies were recently found is one of the known sites where they lay eggs. Turtle expert Ernesto Albavera Padilla told local media that all of the turtle bodies found were female, the BBC reported.
The capturing of sea turtles has been banned in Mexico since 1990, and killing the creatures is a harshly punishable offense.
Olive ridley turtle hatchlings.REUTERS
The Mexican navy is assisting in the investigation of how these hundreds of turtles died, in assistance with environmental authorities, according to the BBC.
In slightly more positive sea turtle news, a helpless baby was recently rescued and miraculously recovered after having its tiny stomach pumped of 158 individual shreds of plastic. The 60 grams of plastic found in its belly — mostly netting and plastic bag bits — were revealed in an X-ray, which found they were causing a blockage in the animal’s intestines.
The tiny turtle child is now convalescing at the Sireetarn Marine Endangered Animals Rescue Center in Thailand, the Bangkok Post reported.
Viral video shows the moment an enraged man slugs a woman in the face in a crowded Big Apple subway car during rush hour — after she tells him to take a “chill pill.”
The disturbing incident — initially posted on TikTok and reshared on Twitter Wednesday, where it’s received 2.4 million views — unfolded on a D train near 145th Street in Harlem around 5:50 p.m. Monday, the original poster said.
The disturbing incident — initially posted on TikTok and where it’s received 2.4 million views — unfolded on a D train, though the exact date and location are unclear.
The footage begins with the man standing over the woman, who was sitting down, yelling, “Say it to my face now! Tell me to take a chill pill! Say the word, ‘chill pill.’”
“Chill pill,” she replies, looking him in the eye.
He immediately socks her in the side of the face — as people in the car gasp.
“You wilin’, she a female!” the filmer says.
“Mind your business — say it again,” the man threatens the woman again as he moves away. “I’m dealing with my f–king kids, you understand?”
He then launches into a tirade, addressing the whole train car, ending with, “When I’m standing on the train, move out the way!”
The man and woman seen arguing on the train.meannn.beauty/TikTokThe man punches the woman.meannn.beauty/TikTokOne passenger captured the assault initially on TikTok.meannn.beauty/TikTok
The video doesn’t show what led up to the act of violence.
The assailant “was already tight off life” when he got in the train car, and was “telling ppl to gtfo him & his kids way,” the original poster wrote.
“All [the woman] said was he needs a chill pill & his kids repeated it to him and it was just up from there.”
The NYPD told The Post it is “aware of the incident” and is “investigating the assault.”
The video doesn’t show what led up to the act of violence.meannn.beauty/TikTok
However, the victim never came forward to report the incident, police sources said.
The price of Shiba Inu (left) has rocketed around 180 percent in the last seven days, according to CoinMarketCap, leapfrogging Dogecoin (right) to become the eighth most valuable cryptocurrency with a total value of $42 billion.
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Dogecoin, watch out!
Meme-based cryptocurrency Shiba Inu soared more than 45% over the last 24 hours, muscling its way into the top 10 largest digital tokens by market capitalization.
Shiba Inu is a spinoff of Dogecoin, itself born as a satire of a cryptocurrency frenzy in 2013, and has barely any practical use.
Yet its price has rocketed around 180% in the last seven days, according to CoinMarketCap, leapfrogging Dogecoin to become the eighth most valuable cryptocurrency with a total value of $42 billion.
However, trade is volatile – by 10:08 a.m. Eastern time Shiba Inu had given up around half its earlier gains but was still up by a quarter over the 24-hour period.
Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency with a market cap of $1.2 trillion, was up a little over 4% on Thursday, but below the record high it hit last week.
Known as “shib” to a growing army of retail investors, Shiba Inu coins are worth a fraction of a cent. Its website calls it “a decentralized meme token that has evolved into a vibrant ecosystem.”
Driving the gains, analysts said, is the promise of quick gains – also a factor behind the broader explosion of cryptocurrencies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Others said crypto-specialist market makers were trading large volumes of the token. “People are always looking for ‘the next Bitcoin’,” said Mati Greenspan, founder of crypto analysis and advisory firm Quantum Economics. “Get rich quick is a very powerful motivator.”
The price of Shiba Inu remained up by a quarter mid-morning Oct. 28, 2021, even while losing some ground amid volatile trade. NurPhoto via Getty Images
Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency with a market cap of $1.2 trillion, was up a little over 4% on Oct. 28, 2021, but below the record high it hit last week.Getty Images
Expectations of more mainstream acceptance was also driving gains with talk the meme-based cryptocurrency will be traded on more retail trading platforms.
“Shiba has posted incredible gains on speculation that it will rival or replace the concept of Dogecoin and its utility,” said Chris Kline, chief operating officer and co-founder at Bitcoin IRA.
