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  • Thursday, May. 18, 2017
From "Leviathan" director comes another damning portrait of Russia 
Director Andrey Zvyagintsev poses for photographers during the photo call for the Loveless, at the 70th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
By Jake Coyle, Film Writer
CANNES, France (AP) -- 

After his Oscar-nominated film "Leviathan" was deemed "anti-Russian" by Russia's Minister of Culture, director Andrey Zvyagintsev returned to the Cannes Film Festival with an equally bleak critique of Russian society.

Zvyagintsev was to premiere his fourth film, "Loveless," on Thursday in Cannes, where "Leviathan" won best screenplay three years ago. That film, which also won a Golden Globe, was made with Russian state funding and prompted Russia's culture minister, Vladimir Medinsky, to refuse any further state financing for what he called Zvyagintsev's mix of "hopelessness and existential meaninglessness."

"Loveless" was instead made as an international co-production. The film is ostensibly about a bitterly divorcing couple (Mariana Spivak and Alexey Rozin), whose young son (Matvey Novikov) goes missing. But "Loveless" is also filled with state news reports and other sometimes subtle, sometimes blatant references that - as in "Leviathan More

  • Thursday, May. 18, 2017
Iran's Asghar Farhadi collects Oscar at Cannes after boycott 
Director Asghar Farhadi, left, and actress Lily-Rose Depp pose for photographers upon arrival at the opening ceremony and the screening of the film Ismael's Ghosts at the 70th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
CANNES, France (AP) -- 

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi has finally received his Oscar for best foreign language film, nearly three months after boycotting the Academy Awards ceremony.

Farhadi received the statuette during the opening ceremony at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Wednesday.

Farhadi boycotted the ceremony in February over President Donald Trump's proposed travel ban on people from several majority-Muslim countries, including Iran.

In his acceptance speech Wednesday, Farhadi praised Cannes as a "place where cultures speak to one another."

Farhadi won for "The Salesman," a drama centered around the story of a married couple who performed Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" on stage.

  • Thursday, May. 18, 2017
Netflix announces 5th season of "Arrested Development"
In this April 29, 2013, file photo, Ted Sarandos, Jason Bateman, and Mitchell Hurwitz attend the season four premiere of "Arrested Development" at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Netflix says the cast of "Arrested Development" has signed on for a fifth season of the comedy that will return to the streaming service next year.

Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Jeffrey Tambor, Will Arnett and the rest of the series regulars will reprise their roles in the show that follows the Bluth family. Series creator Mitchell Hurwitz is also on board.

Hurwitz says he's "grateful" to Netflix and Fox "for making this dream of mine come true."

"Arrested Development" ran on Fox for three seasons from 2003 to 2006 before being canceled. Netflix brought the show back for a fourth season in 2013.

  • Wednesday, May. 17, 2017
Oscar winner Morgan Neville to direct Orson Welles documentary for Netflix
Morgan Neville
LOS ANGELES -- 

Netflix has announced that filmmaker Morgan Neville--a Best Feature Documentary Oscar winner for Twenty Feet from Stardom--will direct an original feature documentary contextualizing the final 15 years of maverick auteur Orson Welles’ life. Produced by Tremolo Productions, and executive produced by Frank Marshall and Filip Jan Rymzsa, Neville will explore Welles’ complex relationship with Hollywood, both artistically and commercially. The company’s previously-announced acquisition of Welles’ final feature The Other Side of the Wind, will have a significant presence throughout the new documentary, providing a framework into the legendarily volatile dynamics between Welles and the industry. The two films will launch in tandem in 2018. 

“The Other Side of the Wind has long been a ghostly legend in cinema history, but the story behind it is equally fascinating,” said Neville. “I’m excited to be able to tell the incredible More

  • Wednesday, May. 17, 2017
Grey Commemorates 100 Years, Rolls Out New Logo
NEW YORK -- 

Grey--the advertising agency that invented “Leave the Driving to Us” for Greyhound, created the E*TRADE baby, and more recently made your hearts melt with Pantene “DadDos”--is celebrating 100 years. Rising from a one-room, one-man operation to Global Agency of the Year, Grey is kicking off this monumental achievement with a global summit and the reveal of a new visual identity for the entirety of the 2017 Centennial year.  

On Monday night (5/15), 200 agency leaders from around the world came together at the Whitney Museum to begin a week-long series of activities that look at the legacy of Grey and discuss the future of advertising. At the dinner, Jim Heekin, chairman and CEO, and Michael Houston, global president, revealed a new commemorative logo to celebrate this legacy: a remarkable combination of design and technology that celebrates the colorful minds of its 5,000 employees by scanning their brainwaves and turning them into art. 

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  • Wednesday, May. 17, 2017
Michael Moore preps surprise documentary for Donald Trump 
This combination photo shows President Donald Trump, left, at the White House in Washington on March 13, 2017 and filmmaker Michael Moore at the 20th Annual Webby Awards in New York on May 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, left, and Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)
By Jake Coyle, Film Writer
CANNES, France (AP) -- 

Michael Moore is making a documentary about Republican President Donald Trump and says the president should be worried.

Producers Harvey and Bob Weinstein announced Tuesday that they have secured worldwide rights to the film, which Moore had dubbed "Fahrenheit 11/9." The name is taken from the day after the Nov. 8 election when Trump was declared the president-elect and is a reference to Moore's 2004 President George W. Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11."

Moore has been secretly working on the film for months and promises it will be explosive.

"No matter what you throw at him, it hasn't worked," Moore said in a statement. "No matter what is revealed, he remains standing. Facts, reality, brains cannot defeat him. Even when he commits a self-inflicted wound, he gets up the next morning and keeps going and tweeting.

"That all ends with this movie."

The Weinsteins will shop Moore's latest in Cannes, where "Fahrenheit 9/11 More

  • Tuesday, May. 16, 2017
Jimmy Kimmel set to return as host for 90th Oscars
In this Feb. 26, 2017 file photo, host Jimmy Kimmel appears at the Oscars in Los Angeles. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, May 16, 2017, said Kimmel will return for the 90th Oscars on March 4, 2018. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Despite his jokes that he'll never get asked back, Jimmy Kimmel is set to host the Oscars once more. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday said Kimmel will return for the 90th Oscars with producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd, the team behind this year's ceremony.

Ratings for the 89th Oscars this past February were the lowest since 2008 with 32.9 million viewers tuning in, even with the drama of the envelope gaffe in which Faye Dunaway, reading an incorrect card, announced "La La Land" as the best picture winner. The snafu was corrected on stage and "Moonlight" was given the award.

The 90th Oscars will be held on March 4, 2018 in Los Angeles and broadcast live on ABC.

Kimmel recently garnered attention for comments he made on his late night show that all Americans deserve the same level of health care given his infant son, who was born with a heart defect that required surgery to repair. He has criticized More

  • Sunday, May. 14, 2017
Depp to star in film as McAfee antivirus software inventor 
In this combination photo, actor Johnny Depp, left, appears at the premiere of "Alice Through the Looking Glass" on May 23, 2016, in Los Angeles. and anti-virus software founder John McAfee appears in the South Beach area of Miami Beach, Fla., on Dec 12, 2012 after being deported from Guatemala, where he had sought refuge to evade police questioning in the killing of a man in neighboring Belize. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, right, and Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Johnny Depp is set to star in "King of the Jungle," a dark comedy about the eccentric inventor of McAfee Antivirus software, John McAfee.

Condé Nast Entertainment said Sunday that the story is based on a Wired magazine article about the tech titan who left the business to live an isolated existence in the Belize jungle.

From "Ed Wood" screenwriting team Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, "King of the Jungle" will follow the reporter assigned to write about the paranoid McAfee.

"King of the Jungle" will be directed by "Crazy. Stupid. Love" directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. International and domestic distribution rights are up for sale at the Cannes Film Festival.

Depp can be seen next in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales," out May 26.

  • Friday, May. 12, 2017
Fox to air "A Christmas Story" as a live musical in December 
This Feb. 26, 2017, shows Justin Paul, left and Benj Pasek, right, accepting the award for best original song for "City of Stars" from "La La Land" at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

The Fox network is getting in the Christmas spirit with its announcement Friday of "A Christmas Story," a live TV musical scheduled for December.

The three-hour special is inspired by the film "A Christmas Story" and the Tony Award-nominated Broadway show, "A Christmas Story: The Musical."

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, recent Tony Award nominees for the musical "Dear Evan Hansen," and lyricists of "La La Land's" Oscar-winning song, "City of Stars," also scored "A Christmas Story: The Musical." They will compose new songs for the television version.

The film "A Christmas Story" was released in 1983, based on Jean Shepherd's semiautobiographical story of 9-year-old Ralphie Parker's desperate attempt to land an air rifle as a Christmas gift, despite warnings from everyone that he'll shoot his eye out.

It has since become a holiday classic. Two sequels followed. The original Broadway production of "A Christmas Story: The Musical" More

  • Tuesday, May. 9, 2017
HBO sets movie about "Fantasy Island" star Herve Villechaize 
In this April 10, 2016 file photo, actor Peter Dinklage attends the season six premiere of "Game Of Thrones" in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

HBO says it's green-lighted a movie about Herve Villechaize (ER-vay Vill-SHEZZ). He's the late actor who played Mr. Tattoo on TV's "Fantasy Island."

HBO said Tuesday that "My Dinner with Herve" will star Peter Dinklage of "Game of Thrones" as Villechaize.

"Fifty Shades of Grey" star Jamie Dornan will play a journalist who comes into the actor's life.

Villechaize's shout of "The plane, the plane!" greeted arriving guests in the 1977-83 series "Fantasy Island,"

He played bad guy Nick Nack in 1974's James Bond film, "The Man with the Golden Gun."

The HBO film's writer and director is Sacha Gervasi, who interviewed Villechaize shortly before he died.

The 3-foot-11 (1.2 meter) Villechaize endured health problems and died in 1993 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at age 50.

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