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  • Friday, Sep. 1, 2017
Clint Eastwood re-enacts France train attack
Film director Clint Eastwood aims a gun during the filming of "The 15:17 to Paris" in Arras, northern France, Friday Sept.1 2017. The film recounts the story of three Americans who thwarted a terrorist attack on a Paris-bound train on Aug. 21 2015. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)
ARRAS, France (AP) -- 

Clint Eastwood is in France directing a film that re-enacts the dramatic end to an attempted Islamic State group attack on a high-speed train that saw three Americans take down the gunman.

After renting a Thalys train for five days of filming "The 15:17 to Paris," work was wrapping up in Arras, the town where the express ended up after Ayoub El Khazzani was overpowered by passengers, including the childhood friends from California. They received the Legion of Honor, France's highest decoration. Variety has reported that the friends will play themselves in the movie

Friday's filming shut down two tracks in Arras. El Khazzani's lawyer has said the suspect in the August 2015 attack acted on orders from the leader of the IS cell that attacked Paris three months later.

  • Friday, Sep. 1, 2017
Director Damien Chazelle set for Netflix series "The Eddy"
In this Feb. 6, 2017 file photo, Damien Chazelle poses for a portrait at the 89th Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- 

Oscar-winning (La La Land) director Damien Chazelle comes to Netflix with The Eddy, an eight-episode series from IMG. 
 
Executive produced by Chazelle, who will direct two of the episodes, and written by five-time BAFTA Award-winning and Olivier-winning writer Jack Thorne (National Treasure, This is England, Wonder), The Eddy is a musical drama series that will be shot in France and feature dialogue in French, English and Arabic. Emmy-winning producer Alan Poul (Six Feet Under, The Newsroom), will also executive produce, and original music will be written by six-time Grammy Award-winner Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette’s "Jagged Little Pill," Michael Jackson’s "Bad"). Following on the heels of other productions in Europe, including The Crown and the upcoming Dark, The Eddy continues Netflix’s investment in international and French content.
 
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  • Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017
A quarter of London Film Festival lineup directed by women
Actress Sally Hawkins, left, poses with director Guillermo Del Toro for photographers during the photo call for the film "The Shape of Water" at the 74th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
LONDON (AP) -- 

A quarter of the features in this year's London Film Festival lineup were directed by women, organizers said Thursday as they revealed the schedule for the October extravaganza.

The dearth of female filmmakers at major festivals has drawn much criticism. The Venice Film Festival, running to Sept. 9, has just one woman among 21 directors competing for the main prize.
London, which opens Oct. 4, has done better, with 61 female filmmakers in this year's lineup of 242 films.

The 61st London festival opens with Andy Serkis' based-on-a-true-story "Breathe," and ends Oct. 15 with Martin McDonagh's dark comedy "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri." Among the major galas is "Battle of the Sexes," co-directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell as tennis opponents Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.

Festival director Clare Stewart said the 1970s-set true story is a comic gem, but also " More

  • Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017
Dan Gilroy's "Roman J. Israel, Esq." Completes Toronto Film Fest's Special Presentations Lineup
Denzel Washington in "Roman J. Israel, Esq." (photo courtesy of TIFF)
TORONTO -- 

The Toronto International Film Festival has announced the world premiere of Academy Award® nominee Dan Gilroy’s Roman J. Israel, Esq., completing the 2017 Official Program Selection. Written and directed by Gilroy and featuring an amazing transformation by Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq. is the newest and final addition to TIFF’s Special Presentations program, furthering Washington and Gilroy’s collaborative relationship with the Festival.
 
“The Toronto International Film Festival has a wonderful history with both Dan Gilroy and Denzel Washington,” said Cameron Bailey, artistic director of TIFF. “Three years ago TIFF had the honor of premiering Gilroy’s directorial debut, Nightcrawler, at the Festival. In addition to previously screening The Equalizer and presenting the World Premiere of Training Day, which earned Washington an Oscar for Best Actor, the Washington-starring The More

  • Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017
Amazon Original Series "Goliath" casts Mark Duplass for season 2

Amazon Original Series Goliath has cast actor, filmmaker and producer Mark Duplass (Togetherness, Room 104) as a series regular for its second season debuting next year on Prime Video. Duplass will play Tom Wyatt, a successful Los Angeles developer who wants to give the city a distinct skyline. A prominent philanthropist, he is a major contributor to mayoral candidate Marisol Silva (Ana De La Reguera).
 
The new season of Goliath is executive produced by Peabody Award winner Clyde Phillips (Dexter) and Lawrence Trilling (Parenthood). The series’ cast is led by Billy Bob Thornton (Fargo), who in January won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Goliath’s first season, and has also won an Oscar for his role in Sling Blade. Goliath is created by David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal) and Jonathan Shapiro (The Practice).
 
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  • Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017
Renowned Hungarian film director Karoly Makk dies at 91
In this Sept. 17, 2016 file photo, Hungarian film director and screenwriter Karoly Makk looks on during the 13th Jameson CineFest International Film Festival in Miskolc, 173 kms northeast of Budapest, Hungary. Makk, one of Hungary's greatest film directors whose "Cats' Play" was nominated for an Oscar in 1975, has died at 91, it was reported on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017. (Janos Vajda/MTI via AP, File)
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- 

Karoly Makk, one of Hungary's greatest film directors whose "Cats' Play" was nominated for an Oscar in 1975, has died. He was 91.

The Szechenyi Academy of Letters and Arts said Makk, who had been its president since 2011, died Wednesday. It didn't give a cause of death.

Makk's film "Love," one of the best films about the aftermath of the failed 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971. Between 1955 and 1987, six of his films, including "Liliomfi," ''Another Way" and "The Last Manuscript," were nominated for the top Palme d'Or award at Cannes.

Makk was born on Dec. 22, 1925, in the town of Berettyoujfalu in eastern Hungary, where his parents owned a cinema.

Information about survivors wasn't immediately available.

  • Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017
Annette Bening says still a long way to go to movie equality
Actress and jury president Annette Bening poses for photographers at the premiere of the film 'Downsizing' which opens the 74th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)
VENICE, Italy (AP) -- 

Female directors should fight film-industry sexism by making movies that appeal to as wide an audience as possible, Venice Film Festival jury president Annette Bening said Wednesday, the first day of a festival that has been criticized for a lack of female voices.

"American Beauty" star Bening, a four-time Academy Awards nominee, heads the panel that will choose a winner of the Golden Lion from among 21 films competing for the festival's top prize. Only one is by a woman: Vivian Qu's "Angels Wear White."

Bening said "it's a long road" to equality but things are changing for the better.

She told reporters at the festival that "we as women have to be very sharp and shrewd and creative ourselves about what we chose to make."

She said all directors struggle to get films made and "there is a lot of sexism of course."

"I think the more that we as women can make films that speak to everyone, we can be regarded as filmmakers More

  • Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017
Creative team set for Matthew Weiner's Amazon Original Series "The Romanoffs"
In this Feb. 6, 2016 file photo, "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner poses at the 68th Directors Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Amazon Original Series The Romanoffs, created, written, directed and executive produced by nine-time Emmy award winner Matthew Weiner (Mad Men), and co-produced with Weinstein Television, has assembled its creative team for the season. The collaborators include executive producer/writer Semi Chellas (Mad Men), co-executive producers Kriss Turner Towner (The Bernie Mac Show), Blake McCormick (Mad Men), and Kathy Ciric (Z: The Beginning of Everything), along with consulting producers/writers Andre Jacquemetton (Mad Men) and Maria Jacquemetton (Mad Men).
 
The series behind-the-scenes creative team includes an array of consummate artists, including DP Chris Manley (Mad Men), costume designers Janie Bryant (Mad Men) and Wendy Chuck (Spotlight), production designers Emmy Award winner Henry Dunn (Mad Men) and Christopher Brown (Mad Men More

  • Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017
Stepdaughter: Fights thwart film remakes of Steinbeck novels
This undated file photo shows American author John Steinbeck, winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for his novel "The Grapes of Wrath." Film remakes of "The Grapes of Wrath" and "East of Eden" fell apart because Steinbeck's late son and widow impeded the projects, the writer's stepdaughter told jurors in federal court Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. (AP Photo, File)
By Brian Melley
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Film remakes of "The Grapes of Wrath" and "East of Eden" fell apart because John Steinbeck's son and daughter-in-law impeded the projects, the writer's stepdaughter says.

Waverly Scott Kaffaga alleges that long-running litigation over the author's estate has prevented her from making the most of Steinbeck's copyrights at a time when marquee names such as Steven Spielberg and Jennifer Lawrence were interested in bringing some his masterpieces back to the screen.

"The catalog has been dirtied by these legalities," Kaffaga told jurors in federal court Tuesday. "The whole Steinbeck canon has been put into doubt."

Kaffaga, daughter of the late author's third wife, Elaine, is suing the estate of stepbrother Thomas Steinbeck, who died last year, and his widow and their company.

The lawsuit follows a decades-long dispute between Thomas Steinbeck and Kaffaga's mother over control of the author's works.

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  • Monday, Aug. 28, 2017
Australian government open to CBS takeover of local network
In this June 14, 2017 file photo, a billboard advertising a television show is displayed near the offices of the Ten Network in Sydney. Troubled Australian television broadcaster Ten Network will be sold to U.S. giant CBS Corp. subject to regulatory approval of foreign ownership, the Sydney-based company's administrator said on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
By Rod McGuirk
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- 

Australia's communication's minister said Tuesday he did not have a preference for who owned troubled Australian television broadcaster Ten Network, with U.S. giant CBS Corp. making a takeover offer while a bid by local media moguls remains stymied in the Senate.

The CBS bid for the network's owner, Ten Network Holdings Ltd., announced on Monday, has yet to be approved by Ten creditors and the Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board, which has to be convinced such takeovers are in the national interest.

The sale price will be revealed in a report to creditors this week.

Communications Minister Mitch Fifield on Tuesday declined to comment on the likely of CBS passing the national interest test.

"I'm someone who sits back from these things and I let the markets do their job," Fifield told Australian Broadcasting Corp. "I'm proprietor agnostic."

Ten appointed administrators as an alternative to filing for bankruptcy More

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