Cary Fukunaga has been appointed to direct the new film adaptation of Stephen King's novel It, Heat Vision reports. Fukunaga will also co-write the script. His co-author will be Chase Palmer, who previously worked on the script for the new film adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune. It is noteworthy that Fukunaga and Palmer are planning to create two films based on the book “It”. The project is being financed by Warner Bros.

During an armed attack on the Albatross shopping and entertainment center in eastern Moscow, a bowling alley was robbed, Interfax reports , citing a law enforcement source. At about 2:00 on Saturday night, three armed men broke into the premises of the shopping center at 69 Izmailovskoye Shosse and, threatening staff with weapons, stole proceeds from the cash register. Then the attackers fled. The faces of the attackers were hidden under masks, the source emphasized.

Spanish banks will need at least 40 billion euros for recapitalization. This conclusion, reports Agence France-Presse , was reached by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which conducted stress tests of Spanish banks.

A case of fraud has been opened in the Kemerovo region. An audit by the prosecutor's office found that an energy company from the city of Prokopyevsk unreasonably forced electricity consumers to overpay 130 million rubles, the supervisory agency reports . The company's management was convicted of entering into fictitious deals in 2009-11 to carry out repairs and emergency work, which either were not carried out or were carried out by the customer.

Mexican presidential candidate Andres Lopez Obrador called on his election rival Enrique Penja Nieto to talk about bribery of the country's main television corporation Televisa, of which the press accused him. The Guardian reports this. On Thursday, June 7, the British newspaper The Guardian published documents confirming a corrupt connection between Enrique Pena Nieto and Televisa.

Spain will soon send a formal request for emergency financial assistance to recapitalize banks. This was Agence France-Presse reports. announced by Spanish Finance Minister Luis de Guindos on June 9, According to the minister, the provision of financial assistance will not entail any obligations from the Spanish government to reduce budget expenditures. De Guindos also clarified that the assistance will consist of loans to Spanish banks on preferential terms, which will be determined later.

The Polish Ministry of Defense intends to purchase from 123 to 205 unmanned aerial vehicles by 2018, Defense News reports. In total, it is planned to spend at least a billion zlotys ($291.5 million) on the purchase of devices. According to the development plan of Poland's armed forces, drones will become the basis of the country's reconnaissance forces.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow on Saturday, June 9, authorized the arrest of three more detainees in connection with the riots on Bolotnaya Square. reports this RIA Novosti . As noted, Stepan Zimin and Denis Lutskevich were each arrested for two months, Mikhail Kosenko received a month of arrest. The preventive measure against Yaroslav Belousov will be issued on Monday, June 11. Until this time, Belousov, according to the court decision, will be in custody as a detainee.

The general director of the Rostov football club "Rostov" Yuri Belous left his post. The official website of the team reports this. According to media reports, Belous will be replaced by Oleg Lopatin, who already held this position from 2009 to 2011. A change in the team's head coach is also expected. Presumably, it will be Montenegrin Miodrag Bozovic, who coaches Perm Amkar.

Repair of the Crimean Bridge in Moscow will begin a month later than previously planned, reports autoNews. According to the original schedule, repair work on the bridge was supposed to begin in July 2012, but was postponed to August due to the fact that a design and survey competition had not yet been held. This competition will end in June, and a tender for repairs will be announced in July.

Director, producer and screenwriter Rob Cohen intends to shoot an action movie, the main character of which will be Isaac Newton. Variety reports this. The film will focus on that period of Newton's life when he was the manager of the British Mint. The scientist took this post in 1699. At that time he was 56 years old. Cohen plans to write the script for a new film about Newton himself.

Editor-in-chief of the publishing house "New Literary Review" Irina Prokhorova, sister of billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov , refused to head the public council under the Russian Ministry of Culture. Prokhorova was suggested to take this position by the head of the Ministry of Culture Vladimir Medinsky . In an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station , he said that Prokhorova explained her refusal by being busy.

Somali militants have offered a 10-camel reward for information about the whereabouts of US President Barack Obama . According to AFP , in this way they responded to a statement from the State Department, which offered to pay a total of $33 million for assistance in the capture of seven leaders of the Islamist group Al-Shabab, associated with Al-Qaeda . The Islamists also offered a reward for information about US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - 10 roosters and 10 hens.

The third "Madagascar" set a box office record for animated films on the first day of showing in Russian box office, reports Central Partnership, the film's distribution company. The cartoon launched on a record number of screens - 1830. “Madagascar 3,” which debuted in Russia on Thursday, June 7, collected 130 million rubles on its first day of distribution.

In Syria, on June 9, a bus carrying Russian specialists was shelled, RIA Novosti reports . Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated this at a briefing. He did not specify whether anyone was injured as a result of the incident. It is also unknown who exactly fired on the bus. The minister noted that the incident with the bus is not an isolated case of an attack on Russian representatives in Syria.