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  • Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017
Art Directors Guild to present Cinematic Imagery Award to Kathleen Kennedy
Kathleen Kennedy
LOS ANGELES -- 

Eight-time Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Kathleen Kennedy, whose films have consistently reflected the highest quality of production design, will receive the prestigious Cinematic Imagery Award from the Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE, Local 800) at its 22nd Annual Art Directors Guild’s Excellence in Production Design Awards, it was announced by ADG Council chairman Marcia Hinds ADG and awards producers Thomas A. Walsh ADG and Thomas Wilkins ADG. The 2018 Awards, themed “Production Design: Celebrating 100 Years of Imagination,” will be held Saturday, January 27, 2018 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood and Highland and will honor the prestigious spectrum of Kennedy’s extraordinary award-winning work.

Nelson Coates, president of ADG, said “We are thrilled to recognize the amazing contributions Kathleen Kennedy has made to narrative design for more than three decades, while so beautifully creating a cinematic legacy as represented by some of the More

  • Monday, Nov. 13, 2017
Michael Wright to become EPIX president on Dec. 4th
Michael Wright
LOS ANGELES -- 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) has appointed Michael Wright as president of the premium pay television network EPIX. Wright will begin his new role on December 4, working out of MGM’s headquarters in Los Angeles. 

Reporting to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. chairman/CEO Gary Barber, Wright will shepherd EPIX into its next phase of expanded original programming, leading creative and marketing efforts.  Business operations will continue to be overseen by Monty Sarhan, EVP and general manager for EPIX. Sarhan will also work closely with Chris Ottinger, MGM’s president, Worldwide Television Distribution and Acquisitions, on all distribution matters. 

Wright was previously the CEO of Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners, a content creation company he helped launch in 2015. Under Wright’s leadership, the company most recently released the hit films The Girl on the Train, Office Christmas Party and A Dog’s Purpose, and prepared the upcoming More

  • Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017
Spike Lee discusses racism at Charlottesville film festival
In this July 18, 2017 file photo, filmmaker Spike Lee attends the premiere of "Dunkirk" in New York. Lee spoke about racial issues and the country's divisive history Saturday, Nov. 11, at the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- 

Director Spike Lee asked the audience at the Virginia Film Festival to observe a moment of silence to remember the Charlottesville woman killed after a car plowed through a group of protesters during a white nationalist rally on Aug. 12.

The Academy Award-winning director spoke about racial issues and the country's divisive history Saturday at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville.

Lee presented his documentary "I Can't Breathe," about Eric Garner's 2014 death in police custody. He also showed his 1992 documentary, "4 Little Girls," which chronicles the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four black girls and helped spark the civil rights movement.

Lee said in order to move forward, Americans need to accept that the United States "was built upon the genocide of Native Americans and slavery."
 

  • Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017
Lifetime to premiere movie on Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping
This image released by Lifetime shows Alana Boden, left, with Elizabeth Smart on the set of "I Am Elizabeth Smart," premiering Saturday, Nov. 18 at 8pm ET/PT on Lifetime. (Sergei Bachlakov/Lifetime via AP)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- 

Kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart is pleased with how a Lifetime movie and documentary she helped produce about her harrowing ordeal turned out. But she said her visit to the movie set brought back terrible memories when she saw actor Skeet Ulrich looking so similar to the man who abducted her.

The upcoming film titled "I Am Elizabeth Smart" follows the nine months after Smart, then 14, was kidnapped by Brian Mitchell from her bedroom in her Salt Lake City home in 2002 and was raped daily by her captor, the Deseret News reported .

Police finally found her in Sandy with the help of two couples who recognized Mitchell from media reports as a suspect in Smart's kidnapping.

Mitchell was convicted and is serving a life sentence for the crime.

The movie features newcomer Alana Boden as Smart, Deirdre Lovejoy — who portrays Mitchell's estranged wife Wanda Barzee, who aided in the kidnapping — and Ulrich as Mitchell.

Smart was More

  • Friday, Nov. 10, 2017
Voice Arts Awards include special honors for Ken Burns, Lily Tomlin
In this Oct. 26, 2016 photo, Lily Tomlin poses for a portrait in Los Angeles. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP)
NEW YORK -- 

Society of Voice Arts & Sciences (SOVAS™) hosted the 2017 Voice Arts® Awards at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Fredrick P. Rose Hall this past Sunday (11/5). Critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns was in attendance to accept the prestigious Muhammad Ali Voice of Humanity Honor. This special segment of the Awards featured a tribute to Burns by three time Emmy® winner Keith David, who is currently starring in Oprah Winfrey’s hit show “Greenleaf” on OWN. Burns’ attendance was a highly anticipated highlight at this year’s show, where he received a standing ovation. 

“What is so extraordinary about this evening is the name of this award for Muhammad Ali is one of the people who took this world and widened it so that everyone in the world could see, that he spoke his voice even when he no longer had one,” Burns said during his inspiring acceptance. 

“This award was created in collaboration with the Champ himself before his passing More

  • Friday, Nov. 10, 2017
Rian Johnson to create new "Star Wars" trilogy
In this Jan. 8, 2013 file photo, screenwriter Rian Johnson attends the National Board of Review Awards gala in New York. The Walt Disney Co. has announced that Johnson will create a new trilogy for the “Star Wars” universe, greatly expanding the director’s command over George Lucas’ ever-expanding space saga. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
By Jake Coyle, Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

The Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday that Rian Johnson will craft a new trilogy for the "Star Wars" universe, greatly expanding the director's command over the ever-expanding space saga created by George Lucas.

The announcement, made by Disney chief Bob Iger on a call with investment analysts, constituted the most ambitious new foray into the "Star Wars" galaxy, moving well beyond the original nine-film framework imagined by Lucas. Disney also announced a live-action "Star Wars" series that will debut on its streaming service which is set to launch in 2019.

The new films will be separate from the Skywalker saga. "Johnson will introduce new characters from a corner of the galaxy that Star Wars lore has never before explored," Disney said in a statement.

That Johnson will preside over a new "Star Wars" trilogy altogether confirms his status as the franchise's new chief guardian. It's a considerable amount of trust to be placed in More

  • Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017
Christopher Plummer to replace Kevin Spacey in Ridley Scott's Getty film
This combination photo shows Kevin Spacey at the Tony Awards in New York on June 11, 2017, left, and Christopher Plummer during a portrait session in Beverly Hills, Calif. on July 25, 2013. Spacey is getting cut out of Ridley Scott’s finished film “All the Money in the World” and replaced by Christopher Plummer just over one month before it’s supposed to hit theaters. People close to the production who were not authorized to speak publicly say Plummer is commencing reshoots immediately in the role of J. Paul Getty. (AP Photo)
By Lindsey Bahr & Jake Coyle, Film Writers
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

In a wholly unprecedented move, Kevin Spacey is being cut from Ridley Scott's finished film "All the Money in the World" and replaced by Christopher Plummer just over one month before it's supposed to hit theaters.

People close to the production who were not authorized to speak publicly said Wednesday that Plummer is commencing reshoots immediately in the role of J. Paul Getty. All of Spacey's scenes will be reshot, the people told The Associated Press. Co-stars Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams are expected to participate.

Scott, who is known to be an efficient director, is intending to keep the film's Dec. 22 release date.

The director's publicist Simon Halls confirmed the switch late Wednesday.

The film was originally set to have its world premiere at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles on Nov. 16 but was pulled earlier this week amid the sexual harassment reports surrounding Spacey, who has also been fired from "House of Cards More

  • Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017
Snap 3Q loss more than triples, stock tumbles after-hours
This Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, photo shows the Snapchat app. Snap Inc. reports earnings, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
By Barbara Ortutay, Technology Reporter
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Snapchat is getting a redesign to make it easier to use. But the new look will not make the latest earnings report from its parent company any prettier for investors.

Shares in Snap Inc. were down more than 16 percent in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company posted yet another quarter of disappointing growth.

Snap Inc. on Tuesday reported a loss of $443.2 million in its third quarter, more than triple its loss a year earlier. The larger loss came with lackluster Snapchat user growth and revenue that was below Wall Street expectations.

The Venice, California-based company said it had a loss of 36 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for stock option expense and non-recurring costs, were 14 cents per share, which was in line with the average estimate of 11 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research.

Snap posted revenue of $207.9 million in the period, up from $128.2 million a year ago. That was well below the average More

  • Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017
Twitter doubles character limit to 280 for (nearly) everyone
This Wednesday, April 26, 2017, photo shows the Twitter app on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. Twitter says it is rolling out a 280-character limit to nearly everyone, ending the iconic 140-character restriction. Users tweeting in Chinese, Japanese and Korean will still have the original limit. That’s because writing in those languages uses fewer characters. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
By Barbara Ortutay, Technology Reporter
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Twitter says it's ending its iconic 140-character limit — and giving nearly everyone 280 characters.

Users tweeting in Chinese, Japanese and Korean will still have the original limit. That's because writing in those languages uses fewer characters.

The company says 9 percent of tweets written in English hit the 140-character limit. People end up spending more time editing tweets or don't send them out at all. Twitter hopes that the expanded limit will get more people tweeting more, helping its lackluster user growth. Twitter has been testing the new limit for weeks and is starting to roll it out Tuesday.

The company has been slowly easing restrictions to let people cram more characters into a tweet. It stopped counting polls, photos, videos and other things toward the limit. Even before it did so, users found creative ways to get around the limit. This includes multi-part tweets and screenshots of blocks of text.

Twitter's More

  • Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017
Charles Roven to receive David O. Selznick Producers Guild award
In this March 20, 2016 file photo, producer Charles Roven attends the premiere of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" in New York. Roven will receive the David O. Selznick Achievement Award at the Producers Guild Awards next year. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

"Wonder Woman" producer Charles Roven will receive the David O. Selznick Achievement Award at the Producers Guild Awards next year.

The Producers Guild of America chairs Donald De Line and Amy Pascal said Tuesday that Roven brings a seriousness of craft to every set he runs. The award recognizes a producer's body of work.

Roven's credits include Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy and "American Hustle," for which he received an Oscar nomination.

Roven will be joining the ranks of past David O. Selznick Achievement Award recipients including Billy Wilder, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg.

The award will be presented at the 29th annual Producers Guild Awards on Jan. 20 in Los Angeles.

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