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Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz Circling New Nancy Meyers Movie Budgeted at $130M-Plus – Hollywood Reporter
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Meyers starts taking $500 deposits, seeking beta testers for electric Manx 2.0 dune buggy
Meyers has started taking deposits for its upcoming electric dune buggy, the Meyers Manx 2.0, which is slated to ship in 2024. The company is also taking interest in a 2023 “beta program” for 50 early buyers who will help provide feedback before full production.
The original Meyers Manx, the first “dune buggy,” was a kit car, built on a modified VW Beetle chassis with a fiberglass body kit. It was popular in desert racing in the 60s, though the company folded in 1971. Bruce Meyers, the founder, brought the company back in 1999 and showed off an electric prototype in 2014. The company was sold to venture capital firm Trousdale in 2020.
It’s now back with an electric version, which was first unveiled last week at a private event in Malibu.
While we don’t know pricing yet, Meyers started taking deposits today, at $500 a pop. Deposits are fully refundable.
The company is also searching for interest in its “beta program,” where 50 early owners will agree to drive their car for a minimum amount of mileage in various conditions over a 12-month period. “Beta pioneers” will share feedback on a regular basis with Meyers to help improve the product, which is capable of over-the-air updates.
Meyers released some new photos today, including studio photos of the car. Check ’em out:
We also got a better sense of the car’s storage options. As you can see in the photos above, under the hood there is a storage area – but it only holds a spare tire and tools.
Behind the seats there’s a rear storage area, which is covered by the tiltable roof but is not lockable. You can get a sense of how it works in these shots from the Malibu reveal:
Meyers hasn’t finalized specs yet, but it has shared some estimates. The Manx 2.0 will be available with 20kWh and 40kWh battery options, with the 40kWh battery capable of 0-60 in 4.5 seconds. These will have estimated ranges of 150 and 300 miles respectively, quite a lot for these smallish batteries – but the car itself is tiny after all, only 1,500 or 1,650 lbs, depending on battery size.
Electrek’s Take
It may sound a little silly that early buyers of a product will essentially be signed up for a “job” of driving around and helping the company with testing, but this is not actually unheard of in the EV space.
While Meyers calls this program a “first-of-its-kind,” there was a similar program with the original BMW Mini E back in 2009. Applicants answered a series of questions, and BMW invited around 500 people to lease these early EVs and provide feedback. This led to BMW’s ActiveE program and later to the BMW i3, which incorporated some feedback from early “Pioneers” and “Electronauts.”
Several of the “Pioneers” from that program still keep in touch and have gone on to get positions in the EV industry – such as the author whose words you’re reading right now. The Mini E is where I started my EV journey, and it’s been quite a ride.
Even for other “non-beta” cars, early EV owners have often felt somewhat like informal beta testers anyway – even the Tesla Model 3, a third-generation vehicle, went through a lot of changes in the early days based on early owner feedback. Tesla drivers are also currently acting as beta testers for Tesla’s FSD software, years after paying thousands of dollars for software they’re still waiting for.
So, given this is Meyers’ first EV, this isn’t really unexpected.
As for takes on the car itself – I learned from driving the Mini E that I love small electric two seaters without a lot of cargo space, so it seems like this one is right up my alley. So, if you want to get in line with a Meyers Manx 2.0 deposit, you’ll be standing behind me.
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Panera Bread terminates SPAC deal with Danny Meyer’s investment group
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Danny Meyer’s SPAC and Panera Bread have called off a deal to take the sandwich chain public again, citing market conditions.
In November, the parent company of the sandwich chain, Caribou Coffee and Einstein Bros. Bagels announced it was preparing to go public and had secured an investment from USHG Acquisition, Meyer’s special purpose acquisition company.
It was an unusual deal for a SPAC, which typically uses bank financing and the proceeds from an initial public offering to take privately held companies public. The planned arrangement would have exchanged shares of USHG Acquisition for the sandwich chain’s stock and allowed the company to survive a merger with Panera’s subsidiary Rye Merger.
At the time of the deal, SPACs were still booming, backed by eager investors who liked their accessibility, and the broader market was still riding high. But high-profile busts and the threat of regulation have made SPACs less popular, while the war in Ukraine, soaring inflation and recession fears have deferred many companies’ hopes for going public.
The merger had to be completed by Thursday, otherwise either party could terminate the deal. On Friday, Panera delivered written notice to USHG that it would end the agreement after passing the deadline, according to a regulatory filing.
“Based on current capital market conditions, it is unlikely that an initial public offering for Panera will happen in the near-term, and so we have agreed not to extend our partnership beyond its existing June 30 expiration date,” Meyer said in a statement.
The Shake Shack founder added that his SPAC will keep looking for investments.
Panera went private in 2017 after JAB Holding bought the company for $7.5 billion. As a privately held company, the chain has kept investing in technology, boosting its digital sales and maintaining its reputation as a leader in the restaurant industry.
The termination of the deal is a blow to JAB, which has been trimming its portfolio over the last year. The company, which is the investment arm of the Reimann family, sold Au Bon Pain to a Yum Brands franchisee last June. Under JAB’s ownership, many Au Bon Pain locations were converted into Panera restaurants, shrinking its footprint from roughly 300 locations to 171. Then, in July, Krispy Kreme went public again after being owned by JAB since 2016.
Tina Fey, Seth Meyers Among ‘SNL’ Alums Who Allegedly Witnessed Horatio Sanz Assault Teen Fan
The plaintiff suing NBC and Horatio Sanz has spoken out once more, this time in an affidavit naming several Saturday Night Live cast members who allegedly witnessed Sanz sexually assaulting her as a 17-year-old at a 2002 SNL afterparty.
Jane Doe sued Sanz and NBC last summer, alleging that the comedian groomed her from the age of 15 and sexually assaulted her at an SNL afterparty when she was 17. The complaint also quotes messages in which Sanz allegedly wrote that should Doe want to “metoo” him, she’d have “every right.” (Sanz has denied Doe’s allegations through his attorney.)
Doe remains anonymous due to her age at the time of her allegations. On Wednesday, she filed a new affidavit that claims several cast members—including Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, and Seth Meyers—were not only present but within direct eyesight of herself and Sanz while he groped her at an SNL afterparty. Doe alleges that she gained entry into such gatherings from NBC employees as a teenager on at least 12 dates.
The most explosive allegations in Doe’s newly submitted documents stem from a May 2002 SNL afterparty where Sanz allegedly assaulted Doe in full view of his colleagues. It was allegedly the second afterparty of the night, and Doe claims in her affidavit that she and Sanz were seated on a couch in the middle of the room facing the entrance.
“Both at these parties and afterwards, Sanz kissed me, groped my breasts and buttocks and digitally penetrated my genitals,” Doe writes. “He was also rubbing my vagina over [the] top of my clothes.”
Doe’s affidavit states that she and Ana Gasteyer made direct eye contact while Sanz groped her, at which point, “Gasteyer’s jaw dropped, her arms shook and she became visibly startled.”
“Next to Gasteyer, I saw Fey and Dratch looking at us and laughing,” Doe continues. “When I looked at Fey and Dratch, who were excitedly giggling and talking with their hands over their mouths while looking directly at me and Sanz, they were startled and positioned themselves behind other people.”
“When I looked at Fey and Dratch, who were excitedly giggling and talking with their hands over their mouths while looking directly at me and Sanz, they were startled and positioned themselves behind other people.”
Also present, the affidavit claims, were Seth Meyers and Maya Rudolph—who allegedly also stood “directly in front” of Sanz and Doe, “facing us, and Rudolph looked grossed out.”
When Doe expressed her discomfort to Sanz, the affidavit claims, “He dismissed my shock and embarrassment, telling me to keep going with him despite everyone gawking at us.”
“I made repeated comments that I wanted to leave,” she writes. “I was obviously uncomfortable with the situation.”
“I made repeated comments that I wanted to leave. I was obviously uncomfortable with the situation.”
NBC denied liability for Sanz’s “after-hours” behavior in a memorandum submitted this April in support of the company’s motion to dismiss Doe’s complaint. When reached for comment regarding Doe’s newly submitted response, an NBC spokesperson told The Daily Beast, “We believe the plaintiff’s claims against NBC are meritless and have filed a motion to dismiss.”
Sanz’s attorney, Andrew Brettler, issued a denial last year on his client’s behalf in which he described Doe’s allegations as “categorically false.”
“However often she repeats her ludicrous allegations or tries to rope in other high-profile names to generate media attention, they will always be false,” Brettler wrote back then.
When reached for comment by The Daily Beast regarding the new affidavit, Brettler referred back to his original statement. Representatives for Dratch, Fey, Meyers, Gasteyer, and Rudolph did not respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that the legal age of consent in New York is 17.
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Urban Meyer’s daughter Gigi furious after firing: ‘This is war’
Urban Meyer’s turbulent tenure in Jacksonville may have come to an end, but it appears the fallout has only just begun.
Gigi Meyer, the daughter of the now-former Jaguars coach, posted a series of fiery messages Thursday on her Instagram Story in support of her father, who was axed after 13 games into his first season with the team.
“The spirit of the enemy is in full force battle mode in this world & in people. This is war. But like I said… We all know who wins in the end 🙏🏻 ✝️,” Gigi wrote.
In a separate message, Gigi continued, “The enemy (aka the world) REALLY doesn’t wanna see good people win. & you can argue whether my dad is a ‘good person’ or not based on what you see in the media (super reliable source of info as we know) Anyone who truly knows us knows how incredible he is as a person. & the world hates any platform we have, so he’s going to create chaos to destroy it. Little does he know he’s making it stronger. It’s not over. Keep watching.”
Meyer, who was hired as the Jaguars head coach in January, was fired Thursday amid an ever-growing pile of controversies. The latest transgression came Wednesday, courtesy of a Tampa Bay Times piece, in which former Jaguars player Josh Lambo accused Meyer of kicking him during an August practice.
Jaguars owner Shad Khan announced early Thursday morning that Meyer had been let go.
“After deliberation over many weeks and a thorough analysis of the entirety of Urban’s tenure with our team, I am bitterly disappointed to arrive at the conclusion that an immediate change is imperative for everyone. I informed Urban of the change this evening,” Khan said in his statement. “As I stated in October, regaining our trust and respect was essential. Regrettably, it did not happen.”
Meyer came under first this past fall, when he opted to stay in Ohio instead of flying home with the team after a Week 4 loss to the Bengals. Video later surfaced on social media of the coach in a Columbus bar with a woman who was not his wife. In recent days, Meyer was also at the center of a damning NFL.com report, alleging that he belittled his assistant coaches. Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer said Sunday that Meyer told him, “Yes, absolutely I’m had on my coaches. I get on them.”
In additional Instagram posts also shared Thursday, Gigi defended her father’s character, sharing photos of Meyer embracing his players on the field, as well as his family.
“This ‘bully’ always says ‘family is everything,’” Gigi wrote. “Always forced us on stage to be in pics with him bc he couldn’t enjoy the moment without us.”
Gigi added in a separate Instagram Story, “Always spoke about the power of LOVE & FAMILY with his platform. Never once cared about the money he made & his fame.”
“This isn’t about peoples opinions. I don’t care,” Gigi penned in a later post. “But when there’s lies & ppl full on after my family … Then I have a problem & I won’t stay quiet.”
The Jaguars, who enter Sunday’s game against the Texans at 2-11, will be coached the rest of this season by Darrell Bevell, the team’s offensive coordinator.
Seth Meyers Mocks Trump and Bill O’Reilly’s Half-Empty Arena Tour
As shocking new developments continue to emerge in the Jan. 6 investigation, Seth Meyers noted Monday night that we know Donald Trump wants to try pulling off his coup attempt again because he “keeps talking about it,” including this past weekend on his “so-called history tour” alongside disgraced Fox News host Bill O’Reilly.
With that, the Late Night host cut to a truly disturbing clip of Trump ranting about how Mike Pence didn’t have the “courage” to do what he falsely believes Thomas Jefferson did to rig the 1800 vote count but mostly just said the words “hear ye, hear ye” over and over again.
“I’ll say this,” Meyers responded. “He’s the only guy I’ve ever seen do an episode of Drunk History stone cold sober. I mean, it’s like watching an amnesia patient wander up on stage during a performance of Hamilton.” The host went on to call it “frankly hilarious” that the only thing Trump seems to know about American history is that people used to say the words “hear ye, hear ye.”
But what was even funnier was the fact that the first stop of Trump and O’Reilly’s tour in Sunrise, Florida, featured whole tiers of mostly empty seats and the venue had to “upgrade” ticket holders to even partially fill the lower levels. “Yikes!” Meyers said. “There was better attendance at my son’s kindergarten holiday pageant. Or there would have, if it hadn’t been canceled due to COVID.”
Ultimately, Meyers said the event was evidence of how “deeply unpopular” Trump actually is, which is why he had to “stage a coup” in the first place.
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Seth Meyers Takes Down Paul Gosar, the GOP’s Most ‘Unhinged’ ‘Idiot’
It takes a lot these days to become the most odious Republican in Congress, but Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) got there this week after the House formally censured him for tweeting murder anime that targeted his colleague Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
While President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan infrastructure bill into law this week, Meyers explained that “Republicans spent their Wednesday defending one of their most unhinged members.” In his own defense, Gosar said that if he has to follow in the footsteps of Alexander Hamilton, who was the first member of Congress to face a censure vote, “then so be it, it is done.”
“I love when these idiots try to sound smart and adopt a defiant tone by using dramatic language like ‘so be it, it is done,’” Meyers replied. “You don’t sound like a Founding Father, you sound like Cousin Greg.”
And to Republicans “complaining that this is a waste of time,” the Late Night host said, “This whole thing would have been much easier and taken up much less time if you’d just been willing to step forward and say it was a deeply stupid tweet. But to be fair, he is a deeply stupid man.”
From there, Meyers broke down some of the worst defenses from the “dumbest people in politics,” including Louie Gohmert, Lauren Boebert, and Matt Gaetz. “Our political system can’t function like this,” he said, “where one party, for all its many flaws, tries to govern responsibly and the other wants to burn everything down.”
Meyers ultimately connected the dots all the way to the anti-Democracy movement on the right, because “the same people defending Gosar are the ones who tried to overturn the election on January 6th.” Ultimately, he said that there’s “no behavior too grotesque” for the GOP to defend, whether it’s Donald Trump endorsing the idea of melting down voting machines to make prison bars or Gosar’s “deeply stupid tweet.”
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Colin Jost Breaks Seth Meyers’ Weekend Update Record – Deadline
Colin Jost has surpassed Seth Meyers as the Saturday Night Live star who has appeared most on SNL’s Weekend Update.
Jost has hosted the iconic desk sketch on 155 episodes since he first took the chair in 2014.
Tonight, he ribbed Kanye West, Facebook, Goop and Bridgerton, while Jason Sudeikis popped by to recreate his classic Devil character.
Jost began hosting Weekend Update as co-anchor alongside Cecily Strong during season 39, taking over from Meyers, who left SNL to host Late Night. For the second half of season 39, he hosted with Strong, but starting in fall 2014, he began hosting it with Michael Che.
Jost began on SNL as a writer in season 31 before becoming co-head writer in season 38 alongside Meyers.
Meyers joined the cast of SNL in 2001 and became co-head writer in 2006 alongside Tina Fey and Andrew Steele, becoming co-anchor of Weekend Update in 2006 alongside Amy Poehler. He hosted Weekend Update alone between 2008, when Poehler left, before co-anchoring with Strong for half a season in 2013.