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  • Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018
Netflix signs 4-picture deal with Jay and Mark Duplass
Mark Duplass
LOS ANGELES -- 

Jay and Mark Duplass, the veteran American independent filmmakers behind The One I Love, The Overnight, Creep, Cyrus and Jeff Who Lives At Home, are entering into a new agreement for worldwide rights to four upcoming Netflix films

The Untitled Duplass Brothers Ray Romano Project, the first film on the newly struck deal, will be released later this year. A bittersweet bromance about friendship, mortality, and made-up sports, the film recently wrapped production starring Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond, The Big Sick) and Mark Duplass.  The untitled film is the second feature film directed by Alex Lehmann (Blue Jay) who co-wrote the script with Duplass.  Mel Eslyn, President of Duplass Brothers, is producing with Alana Carithers and Sean Bradley.

Netflix’s relationship with Mark and Jay Duplass goes back to their first feature film, The Puffy Chair, which Netflix’s Red Envelope Entertainment co More

  • Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018
"Black Panther" scores highest Monday ever with $40.2M
This image released by Disney shows Chadwick Boseman in a scene from Marvel Studios' "Black Panther." (Matt Kennedy/Marvel Studios-Disney via AP)
By Jake Coyle, Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

With a massive $40.2 million in ticket sales Monday, "Black Panther" has set another box-office record: biggest Monday ever.

The Walt Disney Co. again raised its box-office estimates for the Marvel sensation on Tuesday. The film's updated Monday performance — $7 million higher than Disney earlier forecast — narrowly topped the previous record, set by "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" in 2015 with $40.1 million.

The higher Monday figure gives "Black Panther" the second biggest four-day weekend, behind only the $288.1 million of "The Force Awakens." With $242 million over the Presidents' Day weekend, "Black Panther" moves ahead of December's "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" in the ranks of four-day starts.

Ryan Coogler's film, starring Chadwick Boseman, is the first big-budget tent pole release featuring a nearly all-black cast. The movie's three-day gross of $201.8 million ranks fifth highest of all time, not accounting for inflation.

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  • Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018
Stars, educators lead effort for kids to see "Black Panther"
In this Feb. 16, 2018, photo, University Prep Academy High School students react in Detroit to an announcement that all 600 students will see the film "Black Panther." (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
By Russell Contreras & Corey Williams
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- 

For years, Zavier Thompson has followed of Marvel superhero movies. But the 16-year-old student in Albuquerque has always wanted to see a popular film with a black superhero and black themes.

Thanks to an Albuquerque educator, the aspiring hip-hop and spoken word artist finally got his wish Thursday when he was given tickets to a private screening of "Black Panther."

"It was amazing. The music, the action...everything," said Thompson, who is black. "It made me proud to see out culture depicted like that."

"Black Panther" is about the mythical and highly advanced African nation of Wakanda, where T'Challa, played by Chadwick Boseman, inherits the throne but is challenged by a Wakandan exile named Killmonger, played by Michael B. Jordan.  It's the 18th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and based on 50-year-old material created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

The movie set a record with its $235 million debut at the top of the U. More

  • Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018
New York Festivals AME Awards unveils shortlist
Michael Demetriades, president and executive director of the New York Festivals AME Awards
NEW YORK -- 

New York Festivals® AME Awards®, for the World’s Best Advertising and Marketing Effectiveness™, announced the shortlist for the 2018 competition.

“Since 1994, the AME Awards has honored campaigns from around that globe that are not only creative, but successfully demonstrate innovative solutions to challenging marketing problems. This year’s standout shortlisted entries represent ground-breaking creative work that has achieved measurable results on behalf of the brand,” said Michael Demetriades, president and executive director of the AME Awards. 

2018’s shortlisted entries submitted from creative agencies around the globe boosted brand awareness and achieved exemplary results utilizing a robust number of strategies including guerilla marketing, branded entertainment, social marketing, sponsorships and promotions and cause marketing. 

Innovative ideas placed brands out front and helped achieve measurable market share including such More

  • Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018
SIGGRAPH launches Themed Entertainment Contest with FlyOver Canada
CHICAGO -- 

SIGGRAPH 2018, the world’s leading annual interdisciplinary educational event showcasing the latest in computer graphics and interactive techniques, has announced a one-of-a-kind Themed Entertainment Contest in partnership with Vancouver-based FlyOver Canada. The contest includes a $10,000 cash prize. The 45th SIGGRAPH conference will take place August 12-16, 2018, at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, B.C.

SIGGRAPH 2018 Conference chair Roy C. Anthony said of the contest, “We invite content creators from around the world to let their minds run free, as they develop visuals their SIGGRAPH peers will never forget.”

Contest entrants are invited to develop content that delivers a rich storytelling experience exploring one of four themes: Halloween/Nightmare; Flight; Chinese New Year; or Generations, the SIGGRAPH 2018 conference theme. Content must be suitable for all age groups.

FlyOver Canada utilizes state-of-the-art More

  • Monday, Feb. 19, 2018
Religious protests against gay films show divide in Romania
In this Saturday, May 20, 2017 file photo, a child holds a sign that reads "No to homosexual marriages and adoptions" during a counter march before of a gay pride parade in Bucharest, Romania. Religious protesters in Romania have disrupted the screening of two movies in Bucharest in Feb. 2018, saying they violate traditional values. The recent protests illustrate divided views about homosexuality, a provocative and difficult topic in the European Union member. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, file)
By Alison Mutler
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- 

Religious protesters in Romania have disrupted the screenings of two movies featuring gay themes, saying they violate traditional values. In response, a new screening of the Cannes award-winning movie "120 Beats Per Minute" is going to be held Tuesday in Bucharest.

The dispute illustrates Romania's divided views about homosexuality, which remains a difficult topic in the eastern European Union member where more than 85 percent of its people belong to Christian Orthodox churches. Homosexuality was only decriminalized when Romania prepared to join the EU in 2002.

Protesters calling themselves Christian Orthodox burst into a movie theater on Feb. 4 during the French AIDS drama "120 Beats Per Minute" by French director Robin Campillo.

Days later, protesters disrupted another movie featuring a relationship with a Romanian man and an ex-convict from the nation's oppressed Roma, or Gypsy, minority titled "Soldiers: A Story from Ferentari More

  • Monday, Feb. 19, 2018
Facebook to verify ads with postcards after Russian meddling
In this June 4, 2012 file photo, a girl looks at Facebook on her computer in Palo Alto, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) -- 

Facebook will soon rely on centuries-old technology to try to prevent foreign meddling in U.S. elections: the post office.

Baffled in 2016 by Russian agents who bought ads to sway the U.S. presidential campaign, Facebook's global politics and government outreach director, Katie Harbath, told a meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of State in Washington on Saturday that the company would send postcards to potential buyers of political ads to confirm they reside in the U.S.

The recipient would then have to enter a code in Facebook to continue buying the ad. The method will first apply to ads that name candidates ahead of the midterm elections in November, said Facebook spokesman Andy Stone.

The plan was unveiled a day after special counsel Robert Mueller charged 13 Russians with interfering in the presidential election. Mueller's indictment described how Russian agents stole social security numbers and other information More

  • Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018
Stanley Nelson's documentary showcases historically black colleges and universities
In this March 2, 1965 file photo, The Rev. Martin Luther King speaks at a Charter Day ceremony at Howard University in Washington. King discussed his civil rights movement theme, "We shall overcome." According the federal government a historically black college or university is an accredited learning institution started before 1964 that had a primary mission of educating black people. There are about 100 of them in 2018. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)
By Deepti Hajela
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson knew he wanted to tell a story about the nation's historically black colleges and universities — not just about individual HBCUs, many of which have their own celebrated histories, but about what they collectively have meant to black people.

And in making the documentary "Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities," Nelson said, something quickly became clear: HBCUs never were just about learning what was in books. From their beginnings in the years after the Civil War, the nation's HBCUs have been driving forces for African-American economic and political advancement.

"As we were making the film, it became for us a look at American history, and African-American history, through this lens of HBCUs. They were involved in so many central events," said Nelson, who wrote, directed and produced the film, which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival last year and is getting its national More

  • Friday, Feb. 16, 2018
First Slate of Presenters Set For 90th Oscars
This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Daniela Vega in a scene from, "A Fantastic Woman." Vega plays a transgender woman whose partner dies and is subjected to harsh treatment by the family of her deceased lover and by police investing the death. (Sony Pictures Classics via AP)
LOS ANGELES -- 

Producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd announced the first slate of presenters for the 90th Oscars® telecast.  Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the Oscars will air live Sunday, March 4, on the ABC Television Network.

The presenters, including past Oscar® winners and nominees, are Mahershala Ali, Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Laura Dern, Jennifer Garner, Greta Gerwig, Tiffany Haddish, Tom Holland, Kumail Nanjiani, Margot Robbie, Emma Stone and Daniela Vega.

“Whether returning to the Oscars stage, or gracing it for the first time, each of these artists bring their own distinguishing and energetic appeal,” said De Luca and Todd. “Their contributions will make for an unforgettable evening.”

Ali won an Oscar for Actor in a Supporting Role for “Moonlight” (2016). His credits also include the Oscar-nominated film “Hidden Figures” (2016), “Free State of Jones” (2016), “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2” (2015) and “The Hunger Games: More

  • Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018
Integrated studio Brickyard Filmworks launches in Santa Monica, Boston
Brickyard Filmworks' Andrew Bell (l) and Steve Michaels
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- 

Integrated content creation studio Brickyard Filmworks has launched in Santa Monica and Boston. Brickyard Filmworks is comprised of directors, creative directors, designers, animators, and technologists, offering clients a streamlined approach to content creation that strips away nonessential layers and curates the right team for projects of any scope, on any platform.

“Over the years we’ve seen the industry evolve so we created a resource for clients and projects that demand a more flexible and efficient approach,” said Steve Michaels, managing director/partner, Brickyard Filmworks. “Brickyard Filmworks is a natural progression as our client landscape continued to shift. We’ve taken the time to build an incredible roster of diverse talents than can handle everything from creative concepting to directing to shooting to VFX/animation to VR/AR.”

“Coming from an agency background, I know firsthand how many different companies need to be hired More

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