Netflix Developing ‘Harvey’ Feature with ‘Shrek 2’ Writers

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There have been many attempts in Hollywood to bring the classic Jimmy Stewart dramedy Harvey to the big screen, the latest being about nine years ago with Steven Spielberg (and Tom Hanks’ name being bandied about) under a Fox/DreamWorks machination. Now Netflix is readying to pull the 6 ft. rabbit out of its hat with writers J. David Stem and David N. Weiss who are set to adapt a remake of the 1950 film. Fábrica de Cine, which is in business with Netflix’s highly anticipated Martin Scorsese/Robert De Niro mob film The Irishman, is also on board to produce this one.

Harvey began as a play before becoming a beloved film about a man named Elwood P. Dowd who has a maybe-not-so-imaginary 6ft. tall rabbit friend named Harvey. The story has been brought to the small screen five times since its feature film debut some 69 years ago, but repeated attempts to bring a remake to the big screen has yet to come. The play was written by Mary Chase and it has bounced around Hollywood since 1996 when producer Don Gregory snatched up the rights and then sold them to Miramax before the rights lapsed and was picked up by Fox.

Perhaps Netflix will be the place that brings Harvey back to life; it currently streams the original film. The project offers a number of great roles but the centerpiece is certainly the lovable Dowd.

The writing team is a good one, having previously penned Shrek 2 and The Smurfs franchise. Shrek 2 was nominated as Best Animated Film in 2004. Up next for the writing duo is the Toei Animation/Bona Film Group feature animated film The Monkey King, to be directed by John A Davis (Ant Bully).

Stem and Weiss are represented by Verve and attorney Christine Cuddy.

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Have you seen a new car ad on TV lately?

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Why?

Car companies have been moving ad dollars to the internet… however, car inventories have been piling up sky high during this shift in dollars, and the dealers need the cars sold, like yesterday!

The problem?

They haven’t been selling cars as fast as years past… and the inventory of unsold new cars is exploding! Just In 2017, car sales are down 70% in some segments¹.

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Huawei to spend $2B over five years to beef up cybersecurity

Huawei Technologies on Tuesday said it would spend $2 billion over the next five years to focus on cybersecurity by adding more people and upgrading lab facilities, as it battles global concerns about risks associated with its network gear.

The typically secretive Chinese technology giant made the comments at one of its most in-depth press conferences at its Dongguan offices, after welcoming about two dozen international journalists into its new campus in the southern Chinese city.

Huawei has been in the news these past weeks for the arrest of its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou — also the daughter of its billionaire founder Ren Zhengfei — in Canada at the request of the US.

This has exacerbated the woes of the Chinese firm, which has already been virtually locked out of the US market and has been prohibited by Australia and New Zealand from building 5G networks amid concerns its gear could facilitate Chinese spying.

“Locking out competitors from a playing field cannot make yourself better. We think any concerns or allegations on security at Huawei should be based on factual evidence,” its rotating chairman Ken Hu said. “Without factual evidence we don’t accept and we oppose those allegations.”

Huawei has been communicating with governments worldwide regarding the independence of its operation, he said. He added that Japan and France had not formally banned its telecom equipment. Recent media reports have indicated moves by these governments to shun the company’s equipment.

Sources have told Reuters that Japan planned to ban government purchases of equipment.

Other media reported that the country’s three top operators planned not to use current equipment and upcoming 5G gear from Huawei, and that France was considering adding items to its “high-alert” list that tacitly targets Huawei.

Huawei has repeatedly said Beijing has no influence over it.

At the tour of Huawei’s Shenzhen headquarters on Tuesday, journalists glimpsed some of Huawei’s most advanced R&D labs housed in a three-story building with a white facade and four columns, referred to by insiders as the “White House.”

Wu said Huawei had secured more than 25 commercial contracts for 5G, slightly above the 22 the Chinese technology giant had announced in November.

Scientists spot farthest known object in solar system, nickname it ‘Farout’

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have spotted the farthest known object in our solar system — and they’ve nicknamed the pink cosmic body “Farout.”

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery Monday.

“Farout” is about 120 astronomical units away — that’s 120 times the distance between Earth and the sun or 11 billion miles. The previous record-holder was the dwarf planet Eris at 96 astronomical units. Pluto, by comparison, is 34 astronomical units away.

The Carnegie Institution’s Scott Sheppard said the object is so far away and moving so slowly it will take a few years to determine its orbit. At that distance, it could take more than 1,000 years to orbit the sun.

Sheppard and his team spied the dwarf planet in November using a telescope in Hawaii. Their finding was confirmed by a telescope in Chile.

“I actually uttered “farout” when I first found this object, because I immediately noticed from its slow movement that it must be far out there,” Sheppard wrote in an email. “It is the slowest moving object I have ever seen and is really out there.”

It is an estimated 310 miles across and believed to be round. Its pink shade indicates an ice-rich object. Little else is known.

The discovery came about as the astronomers were searching for the hypothetical Planet X, a massive planet believed by some to be orbiting the sun from vast distances, well beyond Pluto.

Being Santa Claus makes this Orthodox man a ‘better Jew’

Why is this Atlanta-based Santa Claus different from all other Santas? He’s an Orthodox Jew. And Rick Rosenthal, 66, takes being a light unto the nations pretty seriously.

For the past seven years, he’s been a full-time Kris Kringle, deploying his signature bushy white beard and cheery disposition to the delight of children looking for some Christmas magic.

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“Being Santa really does make you a better person because he talks to children, gives them respect, looks them in the eye and listens. And treats them all the same — whether they’re 4 or 94,” Rosenthal tells Story Corps.

This holly, jolly gent bears such an undeniable likeness to St. Nick that when a little boy looked wistfully at him at Home Depot in the spring seven years ago, he couldn’t deny his natural gift and decided to inhabit Santa full time.

“It was a life-changing experience,” Rosenthal reveals to Fox News.

While Santa Rick, who’s married, insists there’s no conflict between his faith and red suit, there are times when Jewish law will prevail, like when Christmas Eve coincides with Shabbat, the day of rest. That’s when Santa Rick will walk to jobs and defer getting paid, for it’s verboten to deal with money on the Sabbath.

“I’m really doing a mitzvah,” he says. “There are a couple of people who think I’m crazy, but we don’t live in a black and white world.”

He also runs the Atlanta-based Northern Lights Santa Academy, which grooms future North Pole disciples in the finer points of Christmas cheer.

“If you look at the world as children do, that’s a better feeling. I’m a better person and a better Jew because I’m Santa.”

Here’s how long it takes to decide to marry someone, according to scientists

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A new study found that a person takes six months into a relationship to decide if he wants to marry his partner. Shutterstock

Maybe Nick and Priyanka didn’t really rush into their engagement after all.

A new study polled married people and found that, on average, it took them just 172 days to decide that they wanted to get hitched.

That’s about six months — and it’s less time, the scientists found, than most people estimate they’ll need before making that big call.

Surveyed singles told the researchers that they’d need about 210 days to make up their minds about their potential suitors.

“Romantic partners might incorrectly assume that deciding to tie the knot is a lengthy and deliberative decision,” Nadav Klein, a PhD student at the University of Chicago and co-author of the study, tells The Post. “Our findings suggest that people misunderstand how quickly they make judgments.”

His team’s study, which was conducted on 2,000 coupled and uncoupled people, delved deeper into how long it takes people to make decisions. Participants told researchers that it took five bad interactions before they realized they disliked someone. But the data suggests that three bad impressions is enough to decide “Thank U, Next.”

Joe Taravella, a psychologist and therapist, says Klein’s findings are consistent with his professional experience.

“After the three-month honeymoon period, people tend to let down their guards and you begin to get a true glimpse of the real person and how they deal with the good and bad and everything in between,” Taravella, who’s based in NYC, tells The Post.

He says to trust your gut when deciding whether or not to stay in a new relationship.

“People are constantly showing you who they are, so just be aware of what you see and how someone is behaving toward you and especially others,” he said.

“If you see things in your partner that is not aligned or meeting your needs, it’s best to just move on in your search for true happiness.”

Gamer claims assault on pregnant partner during livestream was ‘one off’

The Australian gamer arrested after allegedly assaulting his pregnant partner during a livestream while their two young children screamed and cried says it “won’t happen again.”

Luke Munday, 26, was arrested just before midnight on Sunday, about three hours after he could be heard on his livestream allegedly getting into a violent fight with his 21-year-old pregnant partner.

He has since been charged with common assault and will face court on Thursday.

But on Tuesday he told reporters what really happened would come out in court.

Speaking publicly for the first time since the attack, Munday refused to get out of bed when his grandparents let reporters into the house to try and talk to him.

The telecommunications engineer, who has been suspended from his role pending an investigation, said he had not watched the footage where he can be heard screaming at his partner to “f–k off” and telling her he will be “out soon” after playing popular online game “Fortnite” for hours.

“There’s no point in seeing the video, I know what happened,” he told The Daily Telegraph and 7 News Sydney.

“And what happened is not what everyone assumes has happened.

“You’re all judging the video, you don’t see what happens, you haven’t read the police report, you don’t actually know what happened off camera.

“Everyone thinks I kicked the s–t out of her, which clearly isn’t the case.

“If that happened, I wouldn’t be charged with common assault, would I? Common assault means no injury.”

When asked if he was a “woman basher” he replied, “No.”

“She knows that. It’s a one-off and she’ll corroborate that in court.

“The court will decide what happens, they have the evidence, they have her statement and they have my statement, and they match. There’s no issue there.

“It’s never happened before and it won’t happen again.”

His grandfather John Munday said the incident was shocking but there was more to the story.

“They have their problems but something must have gone … she must have thrown something at him or done something and the whole thing’s just exploded,” he told reporters.

In the video stream, Munday, also known by his Twitch streaming name MrDeadMoth, can be heard telling his partner to go away as she approaches him.

“Can you not? I said I’ll be out soon,” he says.

“No computer, I’m sick of this s–t,” the woman responds.

The gamer is then seen stepping away from his camera — leaving the livestream to keep recording — before a noise that sounds like a slap rings out.

His partner can be heard crying off camera as he says, “How many times do I have to tell you? I said I’d be out soon.”

Munday was once lauded for his tech skills — skills that landed him a top job at Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunications company.

In 2016, Northern Sydney TAFE released an article about Munday and his participation in the Cisco Networking Academy Net-Riders Competition as Australia’s top-ranking IT networking expert.

Munday was profiled by Cisco in November 2017, telling the tech company he was raised by a single mom and that “family security is vital to (me).”

“When my partner fell pregnant with our first child, a lot changes and your responsibilities go through the roof,” he said.

“I kind of had that philosophy I wouldn’t let that happen to my own kids.”

The mother of Munday’s partner said he spends up to eight hours a day on Twitch, a video streaming platform where gamers can make money.

As well as earning money from Twitch streaming and playing “Fortnite,” Munday was also working at Telstra as a network engineer, a job he was offered after placing sixth at the 2016 Cisco competition.

Telstra general manager of media Steve Carey confirmed Munday had been suspended by the company immediately after his arrest.

“We have suspended Luke’s employment pending a full investigation and will co-operate with any police investigation,” Carey said in a statement

“Domestic violence has no place in our community. It is totally unacceptable and needs to be eradicated.”

Munday will face Camden Local Court on Thursday charged with common assault. He was granted conditional bail.

“While the woman was not seriously injured she was distressed and shaken by the incident.

“An apprehended violence order has been served,” police said.

Snippets from Munday’s livestream went viral on social media yesterday after viewers witnessed the altercation.

Police later confirmed the two girls, ages 3 and 20 months, were home at the time of the livestream.