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Indianapolis Star
25-05-2025
- Automotive
- Indianapolis Star
Hey you on the red carpet: What's your favorite car in a movie or television show?
IndyStar posed a single question to several celebrities and athletes who walked the Indy 500 red carpet Sunday: What is your favorite car you've seen in a movie or show? Here are some of their answers: Terry Crews (retired NFL player and actor from 'Everybody Hates Chris' and 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine'): Herbie from 'The Love Bug': 'It was cute. It was wonderful. It was for family. It's kind of like me,' Crews said with a laugh. Kathy Ireland (actress; designer; entrepreneur; and model for Sports Illustrated, Vogue; and Cosmopolitan): the magical flying car from 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.' DeForest Buckner (Colts defensive tackle): James Bond's Aston Martins. Kat McNamara (singer and actress known for 'Shadowhunters'): the Mystery Machine from 'Scooby-Doo' and the Millennium Falcon from 'Star Wars.' 'I'm just a big old nerd,' McNamara said. 'Those were the ones that I think were iconic for me growing up as a kid. Full disclosure: When I'm at Comic Con and there's a Mystery Machine or Millennium Falcon, I will go see it and sit in it and hang out.' (Editor's note: People may disagree as to whether the Falcon is a car, but it's race day and we're having fun, so we're counting it.) Matt Barr (actor from 'Hatfields & McCoys' 'Blood & Treasure,' and 'Walker'): the Shelby Cobra from 1995's 'Bad Boys.' 'There's something about those kind of classic cars — there's a danger to them, you know … you just drive and the universe decides what happens,' Barr said. Katie Feeney (social media content creator who has covered major sporting events): the Batmobile. 'I love superheroes, and I love any Marvel … type of movies,' Feeney said. Natalie Grant (Grammy-nominated vocalist who sang the national anthem at the 2025 Indy 500): Herbie from 'The Love Bug.' It was 'cute, felt like it was your friend, felt like it loved you. It was just like, how could you not love it?' Grant said. Ephraim Owens (musician, composer and bandleader from Indianapolis who sang 'America the Beautiful' at the 2025 Indy 500): 'My son would hate me if I didn't say this, but 'Lightning McQueen' wins every time.' Owens said his son loves that McQueen is 'really, really fast and he's funny. And he loves saying 'Ka chow.'' Michael Evans Behling (actor, known for 'All American' who attended Columbus North High School in Indiana): the Batmobile Tumbler from 'The Dark Knight.' 'I love its versatility and the fact that it can blow things up but also go silent,' Behling said. Reggie Wayne (former Colts player and now wide receivers coach): 'Eleanor,' the 1967 Ford Mustang from 'Gone in 60 Seconds'.
Yahoo
04-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Fox Corp. Expects to Launch New Stand-Alone Streamer by End of 2025
Fox's Sunday-afternoon football games and Fox News host Jesse Watters may soon have a new digital home. Fox Corporation expects to launch a new stand-alone subscription-based streaming service by the end of 2025, as the company, which has resisted the call to plunge millions into developing premium content for broadband audiences, sees new allure in the business. The plan, said Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch, would be to launch a new broadband outlet that helps 'put our content in front of everybody who wants it on any platform,' and would be ''holistic of all of our content, sports and news.' More from Variety Fox Corp. Gets Q2 Profit Boost From Political Ads, Sports Will Cain Aims to Bring Freewheeling Video Podcasts to Cable News. Could Others Follow? Disney, Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery Scrap Venu Sports Streamer Murdoch said the company believed it could reach a new audience separate from the one that watches Fox properties via cable and broadcast. Fox has 'no intent' to drive linear audiences to the service, he said, but rather wanted to reach a demographic that does not subscribe to traditional TV. 'We see the traditional cable bundle as still the most value for our consumers and for the company,' Murdoch said, but the company feels an increasing need to reach 'a large population outside the cable bundle.' Launching the new outlet might create some overlap. Fox already operates Tubi, a free ad-supported streaming outlet that aims for younger audiences via a wide range of programming niches, and offers everything from 'Everybody Hates Chris' to 'Gilligan's Island.' Fox will give the service a massive boost later this week when it streams Super Bowl LIX on Tubi, a change in recent strategy that had the gridiron classic appear on Fox Sports' digital sites. Fox also backs Fox Nation, a subscription-based outlet that caters to Fox News fans with an increasing array of lifestyle content and documentaries, along with a store of programming from Fox News Channel that is made available after it appears on the cable network. The maneuver appears to be predicated on the demise of Venu, a streaming joint venture that was backed by Fox, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery. That outlet would have offered all three companies' sports line-ups, but was foiled by legal challenges, leaving all three backers to pursue their own strategies. Fox has been reluctant to make its portfolio of sports rights — which includes games from MLB and NFL as well as LIV Golf — available on streaming services, choosing not to upset the lines of revenue it generates from assembling linear audiences. Murdoch said the company had 'modest' expectations for the new stand-alone service, and said Fox would not ramp up investment in new rights or content. The service 'will package existing content and existing brands,' he said, and the cost will be 'relatively low.' Now dig into a VIP+ subscriber report … Best of Variety Grammy Predictions, From Beyoncé to Kendrick Lamar: Who Will Win? Who Should Win? New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week What's Coming to Netflix in February 2025
