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  • Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016
"Fifty Shades" dominates Razzies with 5 awards
In this Feb. 12, 2015 file photo, Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan pose for photographers at the UK premiere of "Fifty Shades of Grey," at a central London cinema. (Photo by Jonathan Short/Invision/AP)
By Derrik J. Lang, Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

"Fifty Shades of Grey" came out on top - or perhaps the bottom - at this year's Razzies.

The awkward adaptation of author EL James' erotic novel nabbed five prizes at Saturday's Golden Raspberry Awards, including tying it up with superhero flop "Fantastic Four" as the year's worst film.

"Fifty Shades of Grey" also "won" for worst screenplay, worst actor for Jamie Dornan and worst actress for Dakota Johnson, with the pair pinning down the worst screen combo award.

In addition to tying for worst film of the year, "Fantastic Four" was also lambasted as worst remake, rip-off or sequel and earned the worst director prize for Josh Trank.

Other dishonors included Kaley Cuoco as worst supporting actress for "Alvin & The Chipmunks: Road Chip" and Eddie Redmayne as worst supporting actor for "Jupiter Ascending." Redmayne won the best actor trophy at last year's Academy Awards for portraying More

  • Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016
France's film industry honors Oscar contender "Mustang"
French producer Charles Gillibert, right, and French-Turkish director Deniz Gamze Erguven celebrate on stage with their trophy after they won the Best First Feature Film award for "Mustang" Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 at the ceremony of the 41th Cesar Film Awards at Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
PARIS (AP) -- 

France's Culture minister has wished success in Hollywood's Academy Awards to "Mustang," a French-produced Turkish drama that took four awards at a ceremony in Paris.

Audrey Azoulay said Saturday the 41st annual Cesar awards -the country's equivalent of the Oscars'- has honored "the French cinema in all its diversity."

"Mustang," whose director Deniz Gamze Erguven was born in Turkey and raised mainly in France, won four prizes including best first film at the Cesar ceremony Friday night.

The Turkish-language film is competing in Hollywood Sunday amid controversy caused by the lack of diversity in the Oscar nominations.

The French film industry has also honored "Fatima," the story of an Algerian immigrant woman struggling to raise her two daughters in France, with three awards including "best film."

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  • Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016
Women in Film celebrate Oscar nominees, call for equality
Alicia Vikander arrives at the 9th Annual Women in Film Pre-Oscar Cocktail Party at Hyde Sunset Kitchen + Cocktails on Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP)
By Sandy Cohen, Entertainment Writer
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) -- 

The president of Women in Film is done talking about diversity and wage equality.

It's time for action, said Cathy Schulman, Oscar-winning producer of "Crash."

"No more talking about it. No more dealing with it as only philanthropy," Schulman told guests Friday at Women in Film's ninth annual pre-Oscars cocktail party. "This is a business issue. Movies and television for women and girls make money."

More than a dozen women nominated for Academy Awards this year attended the private event at Hyde Sunset Kitchen + Cocktails in West Hollywood, California, where Patricia Arquette and Jennifer Lawrence renewed their call for wage equality for women.

Besides Lawrence, other Oscar nominees in attendance included supporting-actress favorite Alicia Vikander ("The Danish Girl") and Jennifer Jason Leigh ("The Hateful Eight"), screenwriters Emma Donoghue ("Room") and Andrea Berloff ("Straight Outta More

  • Friday, Feb. 26, 2016
Winfrey joins Essence to celebrate black women in Hollywood
Actress, dancer and honoree Debbie Allen, second left, and family Norman Nixon Jr., from left, Norm Nixon Sr., and Vivian Nixon attend the Essence 9th Annual Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Vince Bucci/Invision/AP)
By Sandy Cohen, Entertainment Writer
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- 

Oscar host Chris Rock, producer Reginald Hudlin and film academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs took an afternoon off from Academy Awards preparations to celebrate black women in Hollywood.

Rock, Hudlin and Boone Isaacs were among the guests at Essence magazine's ninth annual awards luncheon Thursday at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Rock and Boone Isaacs didn't speak publicly; Hudlin took the stage to present an award to legendary entertainer Debbie Allen.

The annual Essence event celebrates the achievements of black women in entertainment. Actress Tracee Ellis Ross, entertainment attorney Nina Shaw and filmmaker Thais Francis were also recognized.

Francis thanked the magazine "for creating a platform of visibility."

"A lot of us in this audience know the importance of visibility, especially during a time, in a society, in a world, in an industry that's telling us that we're invisible," she More

  • Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016
Apple ranked as world's most valuable tech brand
Apple CEO Tim Cook, right, and Apple software engineer and VP Cheryl Thomas watch third grade students work on coding at an Apple Store, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Brand valuation and strategy consultancy Brand Finance has released its annual review of the state of tech brands, ranking Apple number one with a $145 billion brand value, up 14 percent from the prior year. Apple revenue for the last three months of 2015 was a record-breaking $75.3 billion. Though there has been much disappointment about slowing growth, this must be seen in the context of an exceptional period at the end of 2014 following the release of the iPhone 6, according to Brand Finance which concluded that “to not just maintain but increase sales in a saturated market is encouraging and assertions that Apple has gone rotten are premature.”

Finishing second--and some $50 billion-plus behind Apple--was Google with a brand value of nearly $95.2 billion, followed by Samsung at $71.2 billion, Amazon.com with $69.6 billion and Microsoft at some $67.2 billion.

Of Samsung, Brand Finance noted that More

  • Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016
Trailer Park opens London office
Simon Peck
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- 

Content and entertainment marketing agency Trailer Park announces a global expansion with its first international office in London. Located in the UK hub of parent company and marketing services network Engine, the new European arm will offer content creative, live production and post-production services to Engine’s existing UK businesses, while also building its own portfolio of clients. Simon Peck, group managing director of Engine UK, will oversee Trailer Park London and its staff of more than 30.

“Our first international expansion allows us to provide breakthrough content marketing solutions to clients around the world and a comprehensive content offering in Europe across our growing Engine network,” said Rick Eiserman, CEO of Engine North America and Trailer Park. “With the increasing need for content in markets outside the U.S., expanding to Europe was a natural evolution.”

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  • Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016
Pair of Neil Young films set for nationwide screening
In this Sept. 19, 2015 file photo, Neil Young performs at Farm Aid 30 in Chicago. (Photo by Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP, File)
By Scott Bauer
MADISON, Wisc. (AP) -- 

The concert film "Rust Never Sleeps" shows Neil Young at his rocking best.

The more rarely seen "Human Highway" shows Young at perhaps his most eccentric.

Fans will get a chance to view newly restored and edited versions of both back-to-back, and hear from Young himself in a live interview, during a one-night special screening in theaters nationwide on Monday. Billed as "An Evening with Neil Young," it will be the first time either film has received a widespread public screening in decades.

Young, in an interview with The Associated Press this week, said the time had come to release "Human Highway" after three years of filming starting in 1978, and more than 30 years of tinkering, because he finally felt like he had gotten it right.

Why did it take so long?

"'Cause I suck, that's why," Young said, laughing, in a telephone interview from Los Angeles. "It takes me a long time to do More

  • Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016
Coogler, DuVernay to attend Flint event on Oscar night
In this Oct. 19, 2015 file photo, director Ava DuVernay attends the 2015 ELLE Women in Hollywood Awards in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
By Lindsey Bahr, Film Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

"Creed" director Ryan Coogler, Ava DuVernay, Janelle Monae and other Hollywood celebrities have big plans for Oscar night. But they have nothing to do with the Academy Awards. Coogler and company will be 2,300 miles away in Flint, Michigan, attending a benefit for residents affected by the town's water crisis.

DuVernay, Monae and others tweeted Tuesday about their involvement in the Sunday night event, which is being called #JusticeForFlint. Hosted by comedian Hannibal Buress, the free show will serve as both a fundraiser and an awareness campaign, complete with performances and testimonials. Revolt.tv plans to stream it live.

About the same time on Sunday night, Coogler's "Creed" is a favorite to win the best supporting actor Oscar for Sylvester Stallone's reprise of his iconic Rocky character. It was the sole nomination for the critically acclaimed film, which many saw as an example of how the film More

  • Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016
Viacom says it seeks minority investor in Paramount
In this July 8, 2015, file photo, people pass by the main gate to Paramount Pictures on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
By Ryan Nakashima, Business Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Embattled media company Viacom says it's fielding interest from investors who want to take a strategic minority stake in its movie studio, Paramount Pictures, heeding calls from shareholders frustrated at the company's sagging performance.

CEO Philippe Dauman told an investor conference in New York that he'll pursue discussions with a select group of potential investors with an aim to conclude the process by the end of June.

The exploration for a strategic investor comes as Viacom shareholders are increasingly frustrated. The stock is down nearly 60 percent since July 2014 and there is uncertainty about who will control the company after founder Sumner Redstone.

Redstone's health and mental capacity are the subject of a trial in Los Angeles, while Dauman and Redstone's daughter Shari are positioning themselves as the best caretakers of a trust that will control nearly 80 percent of the voting More

  • Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016
DuVernay to direct "A Wrinkle in Time" for Disney
In this Jan. 2, 2015 file photo, Ava DuVernay poses at the Palm Springs International Film Festival opening night screening of "Selma," at Palm Springs High School, in Palm Springs, Calif. (Photo by Rob Latour/Invision/AP, File)
By Lindsey Bahr, Film Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Ava DuVernay has been set to direct an adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's 1963 fantasy classic "A Wrinkle in Time" for Disney. A studio source confirmed the collaboration on Tuesday, but was not authorized to discuss the deal publicly and requested anonymity.

The Newbery Medal-winning book follows the interdimensional adventures of a young girl whose government scientist father goes missing under mysterious circumstances.

"A Wrinkle in Time" is expected to go into production later this year with a script from "Frozen" writer and co-director Jennifer Lee. Catherine Hand, who also produced the 2003 TV movie adaption of the book, is attached to produce alongside "8 Mile" producer James Whitaker.

DuVernay is best known for directing the civil rights drama "Selma," which was nominated for a best picture Oscar last year.

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