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  • Monday, Jan. 25, 2016
AOL chairman/CEo Tim Armstrong, chair of the IAB Education Foundation Board
PALM DESERT, Calif. -- 

Nine prominent leaders from across the interactive and diversity landscape have joined the IAB Education Foundation’s inaugural Board of Directors. They will work alongside AOL chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong, who serves as chairman of the IAB Education Foundation Board, as well as the Foundation’s general manager Michael Theodore, to tackle the twin problems of lack of diversity and a growing skills gap in the digital media and advertising industries.

The new members of the board are:
    --Jennifer Creegan, general manager, Operations, Microsoft
    --Tiffany Dufu, chief leadership officer, Levo League, and former president, The White House Project
    --Phyllis Ehrlich, sr. VP, chief client solutions officer, Time Warner Cable Media
    --Bruce Gordon, executive mentor, Merryck & Co
    --Patrick Harris, director of global agency development, Facebook
    --Maureen Jules- More

  • Monday, Jan. 25, 2016
Director/producer Spike Lee poses during the premiere of "Michael Jackson's Journey From Motown to Off the Wall" during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP)
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- 

As a young artist, Michael Jackson knew he wanted to be legendary.

"I will be magic," he wrote as a teenager, outlining his plans for his career. "I will be better than every great actor roped in one."

Jackson's drive to succeed and his striking talent as a singer, dancer and songwriter are the focus of Spike Lee's new documentary, "Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to 'Off the Wall,'" which made its world premiere Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival.

"This film is all about love toward Michael Joseph Jackson," Lee said as he introduced the film, which is dedicated to Jackson's children Prince, Paris and "Biji" (formerly Blanket), along with family matriarch Katherine Jackson.

Beginning with the Jackson 5's earliest songs with Motown Records - featuring a charismatic 9-year-old Michael on lead vocals - the film explores Jackson's growth as an artist and the perfectionist nature that More

  • Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016
Actresses Kate Beckinsale, left, and Chloe Sevigny pose at the premiere of "Love & Friendship" during the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP)
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- 

Whit Stillman, one of our best chroniclers of the modern leisure class, has gone back to the 18th century in "Love & Friendship," an effervescent comedy about a deviously ambitious social climber.

The film premiered Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival.

In the film, Stillman's "Last Days of Disco" stars Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny have traded their early '80s sequins and Lacoste for bustles and petticoats. Beckinsale is Lady Susan Vernon, recently widowed and on the prowl for status, money and comforts, while Sevigny plays a married American all too willing to associate with the notorious Lady Susan.

We enter the story when Lady Susan takes up an extended visit at the estate of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Catherine Vernon (Emma Greenwall). There she begins a flirtation with Catherine's younger brother, Reginald De Courcy (Xavier Samuel). No one is particularly keen on the More

  • Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016
Singer John Legend, right, executive producer of "Southside With You," and his wife Chrissy Teigen pose together at the premiere of the film at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- 

It's the sweet, romantic story of a first date - albeit the fictionalized first date of the couple who currently occupy the White House.

"Southside With You," the feature film based on Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson's first date, debuted Sunday to a packed house at the Sundance Film Festival.

The movie tells the story of a single day in 1989 - the first day that summer associate, Harvard student Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers), spent with his adviser, Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter), a second-year associate with a Chicago corporate law firm. He believes he's on a date. She believes she's spending the day with a professional colleague. By the end of a day that moves from The Art Institute of Chicago to a picnic lunch to a community organizing meeting, sharing beers and the then-newly released Spike Lee film "Do the Right Thing," they're both on the same page.

Sawyer's portrayal of Obama More

  • Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016
Actor Matt Damon, co-founder of Water.org, takes part in a panel discussion on the global water crisis during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- 

Matt Damon says the movie business has "a long, long, long way to go" when it comes to diversity.

Hollywood must do "much, much, much more" to reflect the audiences who watch movies, the best actor nominee told The Associated Press on Saturday.

"We're talking about huge systemic injustices around race and gender that are a lot bigger than the Oscars," Damon said. "They're massive issues in our industry and in our country."

Diversity has dominated the conversation around the Academy Awards since Jan. 14 when the nominations revealed a second consecutive year of all-white acting nominees. On Friday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced sweeping changes that include doubling its female and minority members by 2020.

Damon said the move is "a wonderful first step."

"But that's what it is," he said. "A first step."

In September, Damon apologized for comments More

  • Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016
Actors Craig Robinson, left, Carla Juri, center, and Markees Christmas, right, pose at the premiere of "Morris From America" during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 22, 2016, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP)
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- 

"Morris from America" isn't your typical coming of age story.

The film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, focuses on a pair of Americans — a widowed father and son — living in Heidelberg, Germany. The father coaches a soccer team. The 13-year-old son, Morris, is trying to learn the language and make some actual friends. And, to make matters even more trying, they are essentially the only black people in town.

The result is delightful.

In "Morris From America," Chad Hartigan, who came to Sundance previously with "This Is Martin Bonner," avoids both the clichés and banalities of this tired genre and has instead made something entirely fresh. This big-hearted film about that strange time in life when adolescents dip their toes into reckless teenager-dom is not to be missed.

Stars Craig Robinson (Curtis) and newcomer Markees Christmas (Morris) bring Hartigan's vibrant More

  • Friday, Jan. 22, 2016
In this March 13, 2014 file picture US film director Darren Aronofsky arrives for the screening of the movie 'Noah' in Berlin. (AP Photo/dpa, Joerg Carstensen,file)
LOS ANGELES -- 

Director Darren Aronofsky and his production company Protozoa are in development on his next feature film starring Jennifer Lawrence. The project marks the filmmaker’s return to his indie roots and displays his passions as a writer, director and producer.

Aronofsky is known for breaking actresses out of predictable type-cast roles as we saw with Natalie Portman in Black Swan, Marisa Tomei in The Wrestler, Jennifer Connelly in Requiem for a Dream and most recently Emma Watson in Noah. Both Aronofsky and Lawrence are represented by CAA.  Scott Franklin, one of Aronofsky's partners, will be producing the film which is scheduled to begin shooting in the spring of 2016.

Aronofsky is also partnered in production house Chromista which specializes in branded content.

  • Friday, Jan. 22, 2016
This photo provided by the University of South Carolina shows a scene from the Battle of Iwo Jima, recorded by the U.S. Marine Corps in 1945, is part of a collection of silent, color films being preserved by the Moving Image Research Collections at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C. (U.S. Marine Corps/University of South Carolina via AP)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- 

Never-before-seen films of Marines ramming artillery shells into large guns on the beaches of Iwo Jima in 1945 and standing amid sandbags during the 1968 siege of Khe Sanh in Vietnam are part of a vast collection of silent, color footage being repaired, preserved and eventually placed online for all to see.

The Marine Corps is sending the rare stockpile of films to specialists in South Carolina. Some of the images have been in storage for 70 years and offer viewers a gritty "you-were-there" view of military life. Most films were not even seen by the combat photographers who shot them with hand-held cameras from the late 1930s through World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

Marine Corps historian Thomas Baughn, who manages the film repository at the Marine Corps University at Quantico, Virginia, said it's important the unique "Leatherneck legacy" not crumble away. Understanding the history and tradition of More

  • Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016
In this Feb. 24, 2013 file photo, singer Adele performs during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Sorry, Psy. Adele has outpaced the South Korean pop star on the race to 1 billion views on YouTube.

The streaming service announced Thursday that her music video for "Hello" greeted its 1 billionth view in 87 days, breaking the 158-day record held by Psy's "Gangnam Style."

"If anyone deserves it, it's Adele and that song," said Susanne Daniels, the head of original programming at YouTube.

YouTube said 17 videos have reached 1 billion views.

Other music videos in the billionaire club include Maroon 5's "Sugar," Major Lazer's "Lean On," OneRepublic's "Counting Stars," LMFAO's "Party Rock" and Sia's "Chandelier."

There are several music videos on the cusp of reaching 1 billion views, including Shakira's "Waka Waka," Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" and Ellie Goulding's "Love Me Like You Do."

YouTube said the feat is still rare, but newer music videos such as Katy Perry's "Roar More

  • Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016
This photo provided by Disney shows Daisey Ridley as Rey, left, and John Boyega as Finn, in a scene from the new film, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," directed by J.J. Abrams. (Film Frame/Disney/Lucasfilm via AP)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

There is a disturbance in the force.

The release of "Star Wars: Episode VIII" has been delayed from May 2017 to Dec. 15, 2017, the Walt Disney Co. announced Wednesday. The date change postpones the anticipated next "Star Wars" set installment to follow the box-office hit "The Force Awakens."

Though "Star Wars" was once synonymous with the summer blockbuster, the date change means that the franchise will again look to dominate movie theaters in the holiday season. It has proven a lucrative match for "The Force Awakens," which has made a record $861 million domestically and $1.88 billion globally in five weeks of release.

Disney offered no reason for the delay, but rumors have recently swirled that writer-director Rian Johnson ("Looper") is rewriting the script. Production is set to begin next month in London.

In the interim, the "Star Wars" spin-off "Rogue One" is due out Dec. 16 this More

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