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  • Saturday, Jun. 17, 2017
McDonald's Olympic sponsorship deal to end 3 years early
This Oct. 21, 2011 file photo shows the golden arches of McDonalds, in Omaha, Neb., McDonald's has ended its Olympic sponsorship deal three years early. The International Olympic Committee says confidential financial terms of the immediate separation were agreed to.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
By Eddie Pells, National Writer

The Olympics and McDonald's used to go together like a hamburger and fries.

They are no longer a combo.

In a surprise move, the International Olympic Committee announced Friday it was ending its Olympic sponsorship deal with the fast-food giant three years before it was supposed to expire — severing a relationship that dated to 1976.

No financial details were released, though as part of the IOC's top-tier program, McDonald's signed a contract extension in 2012 that was reportedly worth about $200 million.

Much of that will be replaced by new sponsors in new categories. The IOC has new deals with Bridgestone, Toyota and Alibaba. The Sports Business Journal reported that Intel is set to announce a deal with the IOC next week , and a person familiar with the negotiation confirmed that to The Associated Press. That person was not authorized to speak publicly because the deal has not been announced.

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  • Friday, Jun. 16, 2017
"Handmaid's Tale" author Margaret Atwood to get literary lifetime achievement award
In this July 28, 2016 file photo, author Margaret Atwood sits for a portrait while promoting her new books "Angel Catbird" and "Hag-Seed" in Toronto. (Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian Press via AP)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Margaret Atwood is receiving a lifetime achievement award from one of the world's oldest literary organizations.

PEN Center USA announced Wednesday that Atwood will accept the honor at the group's annual Literary Awards Festival in October.

Atwood has written more than 40 books of fiction, poetry and essays. The television adaptation of her novel "The Handmaid's Tale" premiered on Hulu earlier this year and has been renewed for a second season that will be released in 2018.

PEN Center USA says the 77-year-old author will be recognized at an Oct. 27 ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Actor and writer Nick Offerman is scheduled to host the evening.

 

  • Thursday, Jun. 15, 2017
Stay thirsty: "Most interesting man" now pitching tequila
In this 2017 photo provided by Davos Brands, actor Jonathan Goldsmith poses with a bottle of Astral Tequila. (Davos Brands via AP)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

"The Most Interesting Man in the World" is giving up beer for tequila.

Actor Jonathan Goldsmith appeared as the sophisticated, eccentric and worldly pitchman for Dos Equis beer for nearly a decade. He's now promoting Astral Tequila.

In a new ad, the 78-year-old Goldsmith nods at his Dos Equis days by raising a glass of tequila and saying, "I told you I don't always drink beer."

Dos Equis announced Goldsmith's departure from the long-running ad campaign last year. It has continued the campaign with a younger actor.

 

  • Thursday, Jun. 15, 2017
2017 Board of Directors set for Location Managers Guild
LOS ANGELES -- 

The Location Managers Guild International (LMGI) has announced its newest board members--Alison Taylor, Matt Chamberlin, Mac Gordon and Dan Taylor. These location professionals join returning leadership Kokayi Ampah, Melissa DeMonaco, Mike Fantasia, Wes Hagan, Phill Kane, Eric Klosterman, JJ Levine, Matt Palmer, Mario Ramirez, Rebecca “Puck” Stair, and Dorion Thomas to serve as the 2017 LMGI Board of Directors.

Taylor has worked in location management for 22 years and been a member of the Hollywood Teamsters (Local 399) for 21. Her credits include feature films and episodic television such as A Wrinkle In Time, Straight Outta Compton, Southland and The Leisure Class.

Gordon (MacGyver, the X-Files, the Hunger Games: Mockingjay) has been in locations for 25-plus years and has supported the LMGI since its inception and watched it expand from a national to an international organization.

Chamberlin (Modern More

  • Wednesday, Jun. 14, 2017
Sony will only release clean edits with directors' approval
In this Aug. 2, 2016 file photo, Seth Rogen, co-writer and co-producer of "Sausage Party," poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, FIle)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Sony is revising its plan to make sanitized versions of R and PG-13 rated movies available for home viewing after directors like Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen publicly expressed their disapproval. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment President Man Jit Singh said Wednesday that they will only make the films available with the directors' approval.

Last week Sony unveiled their Clean Version initiative, which makes available the less violent, salacious and profane broadcast television and airplane edits of certain movies when you purchase the regular title on a streaming service. Titles currently available include "Pixels," ''Ghostbusters" and "Moneyball."

Singh said they believed they had obtained approvals from filmmakers to use the airplane and broadcast television versions of their films for home viewing, but promised to pull individual titles if a director objects.

 

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  • Wednesday, Jun. 14, 2017
Camera operator Bruce MacCallum dies at 70
Bruce MacCallum
LOS ANGELES -- 

Bruce MacCallum, veteran camera operator and longtime union activist, died in Los Angeles on Monday, June 12. He was 70.

MacCallum started his entertainment industry career in 1973 as a personal assistant for Dustin Hoffman. From there he moved into the camera department where he honed his craft as a camera assistant and operator for more than 40 years. Among the feature films he worked on were All That Jazz (1979), Witness (1985), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), I Am Legend (2007) and The Adjustment Bureau (2011). More recently he was working in television on The Night Of and The Blacklist.

During those years, MacCallum helped train and mentor many fellow members of the International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600), where he served as National Assistant Secretary-Treasurer between 2007 and 2016.

MacCallum’s final weekend was spent at a Local 600 National More

  • Wednesday, Jun. 14, 2017
Verizon takes over Yahoo to complete $4.5 billion deal
In this Jan. 7, 2014, file photo, Yahoo president and CEO Marissa Mayer speaks during the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. On Tuesday, June 13, 2017, Verizon took over Yahoo, completing a $4.5 billion deal that will usher in a new management team to attempt to wring more advertising revenue from one of the internet’s best-known brands. Tuesday’s closure of the sale ends the nearly five-year reign of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who isn’t joining Verizon. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)
By Michael Liedtke, Technology Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- 

Verizon has taken over Yahoo, completing a $4.5 billion deal that will usher in a new management team to attempt to wring more advertising revenue from one of the internet's best-known brands.
Tuesday's closure of the sale ends Yahoo's 21-year history as a publicly traded company. It also ends the nearly five-year reign of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who isn't joining Verizon. She will walk away from Yahoo with a compensation package currently worth about $125 million, including her severance pay and stock awards that will be fully vested with the deal's completion.

Yahoo's email and other digital services such as sports, finance and news will be run by Tim Armstrong, who has been running AOL since Verizon bought that company for $4.4 billion two years ago. Armstrong will now be CEO of a new Verizon subsidiary called Oath, which will consist of Yahoo and various AOL services.

About 2,000 Yahoo and AOL workers are expected to lose their More

  • Tuesday, Jun. 13, 2017
Chris Harrison sorry for "Bachelor in Paradise" suspension
This Oct. 28, 2012, file photo shows Chris Harrison at the Hamilton "Behind the Camera" Awards at the House of Blues West Hollywood, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

'Bachelor in Paradise' host Chris Harrison says he's sorry for "any inconvenience and disappointment" to the cast, crew and fans of "Bachelor in Paradise," which has been put on a production hold amid misconduct allegations at the filming site in Mexico.

Harrison tells ABC News in a statement that the decision by producer Warner Bros. to halt production on the ABC reality show was made with the "safety and care of the cast and crew of our show" in mind. Warner Bros. spokesman Paul McGuire says the company is investigating the accusations and will take "appropriate responsive action." Neither Harrison, nor McGuire offered any detail on the accusations.

The spinoff of "The Bachelor" was shooting its fourth season. It was set to premiere next month.

  • Tuesday, Jun. 13, 2017
LA Film Festival features diverse slate of films, directors
This combination photo shows actress-director Lea Thompson, left, during the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 19, 2014 in Park City, Utah and her daughter, actress Zoey Deutch during the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 20, 2017, in Park City, Utah. Thompson will make her directorial debut with, “The Year of Spectacular Men,” in which she directs herself and her real-life daughters Zoey Deutch and Madelyn Deutch. The film will be featured at the LA Film Festival running through June 22. (Photos by Victoria Will, left, and Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP, File)
By Lindsey Bahr, Film Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

While Hollywood continues to be a place of inequality for non-white male directors, the LA Film Festival is making a name for itself by being exactly the opposite. The Festival, which kicks off Wednesday night in Culver City, has made norm-busting strides in programming films and panels from a diverse array of voices. This year, 42 percent of the films are directed by women and 40 percent by filmmakers of color while panels plan to touch on everything from whitewashing to non-transgender actors playing transgender characters.

The numbers alone are significant even compared to that of the other major festivals. The Sundance Film Festival, for instance, generally hovers around 25 percent for female directors, although this year it rose to 34 percent.

"The festival is really representative of Film Independent as an organization which has dedicated its broader mission is to amplifying underrepresented voices," said festival director Jennifer More

  • Monday, Jun. 12, 2017
Richard Linklater's "Last Flag Flying" to open New York Film Fest
In this March 10, 2016 file photo, Richard Linklater appears at the 2016 Texas Film Awards at Austin Studios in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Richard Linklater's "The Last Flag Flying" will open the 55th New York Film Festival.

The latest from Linklater is described as a "lyrical road movie." It stars Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne as a trio of Navy veterans who reunite to bury the son of Carell's character, who has been killed in the Iraq War. It's conceived of as a kind of sequel to 1973's "The Last Detail," with Jack Nicholson.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced the selection Monday, handing "The Last Flag Flying" one of the fall film festival circuit's premiere slots. Amazon Studios will release the film on Nov. 17.

The New York Film Festival runs Sept. 28 - Oct. 15.

Linklater's two most recent films were "Everybody Wants Some!!" and the Oscar-nominated "Boyhood."

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