Q&A: David Fincher talks us through the off-screen torture of making 'Seven' (2024)

The Football Association says the FA Cup final between Manchester City and Manchester United will kick off at the traditional time of 3 p.m. (1400 GMT) on May 25. Holder City plays rival United at Wembley Stadium in a repeat of last year’s final. The FA said the kickoff time had been agreed with both clubs, the local authority, safety advisory group and broadcasters. It is the second straight year that the final will kick off at 3pm. In recent years it has had an early evening time slot.

The match official accused of bias by English Premier League club Nottingham Forest got UEFA support by being selected for the European Championship as a video review expert. Forest’s inflammatory social media post on Sunday targeting Stuart Attwell has been widely criticized across English soccer and was even mocked by another club. Attwell is among 20 video assistant referee (VAR) specialists chosen by UEFA to work at the 51-game Euro 2024 in Germany that starts June 14. They include Tomasz Kwiatkowski of Poland who UEFA removed from a Champions League game in November because of his work at a previous game.

A Swedish customs official has told local media the group made one of the country’s biggest-ever cocaine seizures after confiscating around 1.4 tons of the drug last week in a port near Stockholm. The drug was discovered in a container in the Nynashamn port, south of Stockholm, on April 18, Stefan Granath of Swedish customs told broadcaster SVT. Six men have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in its transport. Granath said the drug likely was meant for the European market and that Sweden was only a transit country. The volume of cocaine seized by Swedish customs peaked in 2022, when 1,812 pounds were confiscated, according to official figures.

The National Enquirer's former publisher is expected to return to the stand in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial as testimony continues in the first-ever criminal trial against a former U.S. president. David Pecker was the first and only witness Monday following opening statements. Prosecutors say Pecker worked with Trump and Trump’s then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, on a “catch-and-kill” strategy to buy up and then spike negative stories during the 2016 campaign. Testimony resumes Tuesday. It's the first of Trump's four indictments to go to trial and the first criminal trial against a former U.S. president. He has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts.

Two years ago, Swifties were Googling Joni Mitchell due to “whispers” of Taylor Swift portraying the folk legend in a biopic.

PHILADELPHIA — The release of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department introduced a new crowd to vintage typewriters last week. But a lack of understanding around how the machines were first built is causing a flurry of miscalculated fan theories.

In the remote Alaskan village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, students are allowed 10 excused absences a year for subsistence activities, primarily hunting. “If you don’t do subsistence activities, you die,” says the school principal in the documentary “One with the Whal…

Celine Dion has objectives as she battles Stiff Person Syndrome.

An updated take on a beloved high school comedy tops the DVD releases for the week of April 23.

By any reasonable measure, David Fincher had made it by 1990. He was directing rapturous music videos for Madonna ("Express Yourself," "Vogue") and doing lucrative ads for top brands worldwide. The production company he co-founded, Propaganda Films, had cornered the MTV market, helping launc…

A South Korean man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for killing 76 cats in one of the country's the most gruesome cases of animal cruelty in recent years. The Changwon District Court in southeastern South Korea said that the man, who is in his 20s, was convicted of violating South Korea’s animal protection law last week. It says the man went on a cat-killing spree due to a deep hatred of the animal that he began harboring after other cats scratched his car. The court says the man had caught stray cats and adopted others from online sites to kill them between December 2022 and September 2023.

Faced with falling global sales and a tumbling stock price, Tesla has slashed prices again on some of its electric vehicles and its “Full Self Driving” system. It's an apparent effort to boost the company's earnings growth. But Wall Street was unimpressed and will be looking for other answers from CEO Elon Musk when Tesla releases first-quarter earnings Tuesday. For Musk, the answer appears to be the long-elusive robotaxi, which he has been touting as a growth catalyst for Tesla. Now, Musk appears to be betting that the unveiling of a new robotaxi on Aug. 8 will be the catalyst that his company needs to return to huge annual sales growth.

How do Americans cover unexpected expenses when, according to a Lending Club Corporation survey, 62% of consumers live paycheck to paycheck? Many rely on their credit cards to get by.

The NFL draft has taken the show on the road for a decade, giving cities around the country a chance to be in the spotlight. Detroit is on the clock. The Motor City was once one of the nation’s largest and most powerful cities and has bounced back from filing for bankruptcy in 2013. Fans driving and flying into town from the league’s other 31 cities will see signs of progress from the symbolic to the significant. In the heart of downtown, the NFL's three-day draft will begin Thursday night.

French police have evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the Seine River. It's the latest operation in what aid groups call a campaign of “social cleansing” ahead of the Summer Olympics. Around 30 teenage boys and young men from West Africa were awakened by police officers and urged to pack their tents and belongings. The operation came days after police carried out a large-scale eviction at France’s biggest squatter camp. Such evictions happen every spring. But aid groups say these efforts are intensifying ahead of the Olympics. Paris police say the operation was carried out for security reasons.

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:

Britain’s plans to send some asylum-seekers to Rwanda were swiftly condemned by international humanitarian organizations after Parliament approved legislation allowing the deportation flights to begin later this year. Both the United Nations’ refugee agency and the Council of Europe on Tuesday called for the U.K. to rethink its plans because of concerns that the legislation undermines human rights protections and fears that it will damage international cooperation on tackling the global migrant crisis. Britain’s House of Lords dropped its attempts to amend the legislation, paving the way for it to become law. On Monday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said deportation flights to Rwanda would begin in 10-12 weeks.

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In January, the Cowboys became the first NFL franchise to win at least 12 games in three straight regular seasons without reaching a conference championship game. An organization with a generation-long knack for unraveling, going winless in seven consecutive divisional-round games since 1996…

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — After the most dominant three-year stretch in program history, Michigan is starting over. Sort of. Not really. Not completely.

NEW YORK — The ending — the chaos and collisions and the stones that it took Donte DiVincenzo to take that second three-point shot and make it — is what everyone will remember, but really, it’s only the beginning. Lawdy, finally, the 76ers and New York Knicks are starting to hate each other.…

SAN FRANCISCO — José Buttó started learning English during his first season in the minor leagues, with the Mets setting up their prospects in the Dominican Summer League with English classes. Still, it would be a little while before the Venezuelan right-hander would need to use any of the ph…

The first full weekend of the NBA playoffs are already in the books, leaving a few lasting memories and sparking intrigue surrounding the remainder of each opening-round series.

Part of my weekly mock draft preamble explains it is an attempt at figuring out the best players available in this season's draft class, and which teams they'd match up well with considering the draft order. The closer we get to draft day, the more I attempt to match what teams will actually…

Allisha Gray is glad to be back playing 3x3 with an eye towards being a member of the team at the Paris Olympics this summer. She’s the only player returning from the foursome that took home the gold at the Tokyo Games three years ago. That was the inaugural appearance of the sport at the Olympics. Gray was one of eight players selected from the 15-person training camp over the weekend to participate in a 3x3 tournament in Springfield, Massachusetts at The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. She’s on a team with Dearica Hamby, Cameron Brink and Linnae Harper. The other U.S. team in the tournament features Cierra Burdick, Rhyne Howard, Lexie Hull and Hailey Van Lith.

The STIHL Group, a leading manufacturer of chainsaws and outdoor power equipment, continued to successfully roll out its battery strategy in fiscal year 2023. The internationally active family business was able to increase the share of sales from battery-operated tools to 24 percent — up fro…

DENVER (AP) — Colorado forward Cody Williams is entering the NBA draft. The 6-foot-8, 190-pound Williams averaged 11.9 points and three rebounds to help the Buffaloes reach the NCAA Tournament. Williams shot 55.2% from the field as he made the Pac-12 all-freshman team. His brother, Jalen, wa…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a Russian missile strike that smashed a television tower in Kharkiv was part of the Kremlin’s ongoing effort to intimidate Ukraine’s second-largest city. Kharkiv has come under increasingly frequent attack. Zelenskyy said the strike sought to “make the terror visible to the whole city and to try to limit Kharkiv’s connection and access to information.” The northeastern Kharkiv region straddles the about 600-mile front line where Ukrainian and Russian forces have been locked in battle for more than two years since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The front line has changed little amid a war of attrition, focused mostly on artillery, drones and trenches.

At least 5 people have died while crossing the English Channel, according to French media, hours after the UK approved the migrant deportation bill.T he Voix du Nord newspaper said the bodies were discovered at the Wimereaux beach in northern France on Tuesday.This came only hours after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s latest effort to send some migrants on a one-way ticket to Rwanda finally won approval from Parliament. Human rights groups have described the legislation as inhumane and cruel.

A legendary rugby player has cited the fear and anxiety that has invaded his life among the reasons for urging the Australian government to fund support services and education about chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Wally Lewis was known as “The King” when he played rugby league for Queensland state and Australia in the 1980s. He made an appeal on behalf of the Concussion and CTE Coalition for millions of dollars in funding during a National Press Club address Tuesday. The 64-year-old Lewis said he’s living with probable CTE, which he described as a type of dementia associated with repeated concussive and sub-concussive blows to the head. Lewis says “The fear is real."

At least 5 people, including a child, have died while crossing the English Channel, according to French media reports.

Four years ago, Claudia Aleman and her family had only one way to get online — through their cellphones. Without internet service on a computer, her youngest daughter couldn’t get homework assignments in on time, her parents couldn’t keep up with online doctor visits, and the English classes…

BOISE, Idaho — Dr. Becky Uranga has always loved working in emergency obstetrics. As an OB-GYN, she and her colleagues at OGA Women’s Health rotate emergency shifts, when Uranga spends 24 hours covering labor and delivery and caring for Treasure Valley patients with urgent medical needs.

The Toronto Maple Leafs host the Boston Bruins in game three of the first round of the NHL Playoffs with the series tied 1-1.

The Vegas Golden Knights visit the Dallas Stars in the first round of the NHL Playoffs with a 1-0 lead in the series.

The Edmonton Oilers host the Los Angeles Kings in the first round of the NHL Playoffs with a 1-0 lead in the series.

Kate Movius knew it would be challenging when her son Aidan, who experiences profound autism, turned 22 and aged out of the programs and services provided through his school.

Carrie Lester looks forward to the phone call every Thursday from her doctors’ medical assistant, who asks how she’s doing and if she needs prescription refills. The assistant counsels her on dealing with anxiety and her other health issues.

SEATTLE —Over the past couple of years, Washington lawmakers have wrestled with a daunting task.