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  • Friday, Mar. 8, 2024
Duchess of Sussex, others on SXSW panel discuss issues affecting women and mothers
Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, Katie Couric and Brooke Shields, from left, take part in the keynote "Breaking Barrier, Shaping Narratives: How Women Lead On and Off the Screen" on the first day of the South by Southwest Conference on Friday, March 8, 2024, in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- 

A panel featuring Meghan the Duchess of Sussex came together on International Women's Day to discuss how women and mothers are portrayed in traditional media and across social media, among other issues.

The panel was part of the annual SXSW (South by Southwest) being held through March 16 in Austin, Texas, and also included actor, model and author Brooke Shields, journalist Katie Couric and sociologist Nancy Wang Yuen.

SXSW showcases music, film and interactive media.

Meghan — responding to a report on how mothers are portrayed in the media — said the report found that working mothers are paid 62 cents to the dollar to what working fathers are paid.

The report was funded by the Archewell Foundation, a non-profit created by Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

"There's a lot of work to be done in supporting women and moms," she said. "It's almost feeling punitive at a certain point when you're a mom More

  • Friday, Mar. 8, 2024
"Barbie" and "Ahsoka" take top honors at ICG Publicists Awards
Margot Robbie in a scene from "Barbie" (courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- 

The Publicists of the International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) has unveiled and honored the winners of the 61st Annual ICG Publicists Awards at a Friday (3/8) luncheon at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. 

The Maxwell Weinberg Awards for Motion Picture Publicity Campaign and Television Publicity Campaign were awarded, respectively, to “Barbie” (Warner Bros.) and “Ahsoka” (Walt Disney Studios, Lucasfilm/Disney+), presented by Melvin Robert (“Good Day LA,” “Extra”). Gabriela Gutentag (Unit Publicist) won the Les Mason Award for Career Achievement in Publicity, and Julia Neal (Paramount Pictures) won the Publicist of the Year Award, presented by Jay Ellis (“Top Gun: Maverick,” “Insecure”).

The Motion Picture Showperson of the Year Award went to Local 600 publicists, who in 2023 created outstanding, creative and effective publicity along with Barbenheimer’s extraordinarily innovative and groundbreaking publicity strategy. ICG More

  • Friday, Mar. 8, 2024
American Film Market is moving to Las Vegas
(photo courtesy of Palms Casino Resort)
LOS ANGELES -- 

The Independent Film & Television Alliance® (IFTA®) will relocate its industry flagship event, the American Film Market® (AFM®), to Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas for its 45th edition. Scheduled for November 5 to 10, 2024, this move marks a new chapter for AFM which has been held in Los Angeles and Santa Monica for over four decades. 

The decision to move AFM to Las Vegas comes after a multi-city search and careful consideration of the needs of AFM’s exhibiting sales companies and buyers.
 
“After extensive research, discussions with the [IFTA] board and invaluable feedback from stakeholders, this move underscores our determination to evolving AFM to meet today’s industry needs,” said Clay Epstein, IFTA chairperson and president of Film Mode Entertainment. “The strength of the AFM lies in its ability to create community and present a sophisticated platform for all our participants’ activities in one convenient location. The Palms More

  • Friday, Mar. 8, 2024
"Dragon Ball" creator Akira Toriyama dies at 68
Akira Toriyama is pictured in 1982. Toriyama, the creator of one of Japan's best-selling “Dragon Ball” and other popular anime who influenced Japanese comics, has died, his studio said Friday, March 8, 2024. He was 68. (Kyodo News via AP)
By Mari Yamaguchi
TOKYO (AP) -- 

Akira Toriyama, the creator of the best-selling "Dragon Ball" and other popular anime who influenced Japanese comics, has died, his studio said Friday. He was 68.

Toriyama's "Dragon Ball" manga series, which started in 1984, has sold millions of copies globally and was adapted into hugely popular animated TV shows, video games and films.

Toriyama died March 1 of a blood clot in his brain, Bird Studio said in a statement.

"He was working enthusiastically on many projects, and there was still much he was looking forward to accomplishing," the studio wrote.

A new TV adaptation of Toriyama's "Sand Land," a desert adventure story released in 2000 and later adapted into a 2023 anime movie, is due to be released on Disney+ in the spring.

Messages of condolences and grief from fellow creators and fans filled social media.

Eiichiro Oda, creator of the blockbuster manga "One Piece," said Toriyama's presence was like a " More

  • Thursday, Mar. 7, 2024
Bill that could make TikTok unavailable in the U.S. advances quickly in the House
Fans sit under a TikTok ad at a baseball game at Yankee Stadium, April 14, 2023, in New York. A bill that could lead to the popular video-sharing app TikTok being unavailable in the United States is quickly gaining traction in the House. Lawmakers advanced legislation against TikTok Thursday as they voiced concerns about the potential for the platform to surveil and manipulate Americans. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
By Kevin Freking & Haleluya Hadero
WASHINGTON (AP) -- 

A bill that could lead to the popular video-sharing app TikTok being unavailable in the United States is quickly gaining traction in the House as lawmakers voice concerns about the potential for the platform to surveil and manipulate Americans.

The measure gained the support of House Speaker Mike Johnson and could soon come up for a full vote in the House. The bill advanced out of committee Thursday in a unanimous bipartisan vote — 50-0.

The White House has provided technical support in the drafting of the bill, though White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the TikTok legislation "still needs some work" to get to a place where President Joe Biden would endorse it.

The bill takes a two-pronged approach. First, it requires ByteDance Ltd., which is based in Beijing, to divest TikTok and other applications it controls within 180 days of enactment of the bill or those applications will be prohibited in the United States. More

  • Thursday, Mar. 7, 2024
State attorneys general ask Meta to take "immediate action" on user account takeovers
In this March 13, 2019, file photo Facebook, Messenger and Instagram apps are are displayed on an iPhone in New York. A group of 40 state attorneys general sent a letter to Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta expressing concern over what they say is dramatic uptick of consumer complaints about account takeovers and lockouts. The AGs called on Meta to do a better job preventing account takeovers. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) -- 

A group of 40 state attorneys general have sent a letter to Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta expressing "deep concern" over what they say is dramatic uptick of consumer complaints about account takeovers and lockouts.

The attorneys general called on Meta to do a better job preventing account takeovers — when malicious actors take a users' accounts, lock them out by changing their passwords, and post their own material, read private messages, scam contacts and engage in other harmful or illegal behavior.

The letter asks Meta to take "immediate action to increase mitigation tactics and respond to users whose accounts have been taken over." It also asks the Menlo Park, California-based company to provide information on the number of account takeovers over the past five years, the suspected causes of the increase in account takeovers and safeguards it has in place.

"Consumers are reporting their utter panic when they first More

  • Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2024
Which streamer will target password sharing next? The former HBO Max looks ready to make its play
Several browser windows display the MAX sign-in and home pages on a computer, Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in New York. MAX will start cracking down on people sharing passwords outside their household “starting later this year” and extending into next year, Jean-Briac Perrette, the company's president and CEO of global streaming, said Monday, March 4. (AP Photo/Sydney Schaefer)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- 

Which streamer will target password sharing next? The former HBO Max appears ready to make its play.

Now simply MAX, the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned service will start cracking down on people sharing passwords outside their household "starting later this year" and extending into next year, according to Jean-Briac Perrette, the company's president and CEO of global streaming.

That would bring MAX in line with Netflix and Disney, both of which have taken steps to limit password sharing on their streaming services. Both companies have done so while adjusting prices to make their cheaper ad-supported streaming services more attractive.

Perrette declined to estimate how much money the company expected the crackdown to generate. He made his remarks Monday at a Morgan Stanley technology conference in San Francisco.

  • Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2024
Razorfish launches Creator Colab
The Razorfish Creator Colab leverages best-in-class creators to deliver social strategy, creative content, and analytics that engage consumer audiences (Photo: Business Wire)
NEW YORK -- 

Marketing transformation agency Razorfish has launched the Razorfish Creator Colab, a select team of in-house social strategists developing made-for-platform content. These creators specialize in identifying cultural moments and tapping into them to create experiences that consumers care about.

“This is more than just a creator offering--it’s a cultural-relevancy offering,” said Cristina Lawrence, EVP of consumer and content experience at Razorfish. “To stand out, brands must engage their consumers through experiences that are both meaningful and authentic. The Razorfish Creator Colab seizes the opportunity to build those consumer connections that today’s brands need in order to exist tomorrow.”

The offering has five essential elements:

  • Tapping into trends: Razorfish’s in-house creators are social trendspotters that turn brands into trendsetters. With a pulse on emerging moments (even before they go mainstream), they leverage More
  • Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2024
OpenAI says Musk agreed the ChatGPT maker should become a for-profit company
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman participates in the "Technology in a turbulent world" panel discussion during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
By Kelvin Chan

Elon Musk supported making OpenAI a for-profit company, the ChatGPT maker said, attacking a lawsuit from the wealthy investor who has accused the artificial intelligence business of betraying its founding goal to benefit humanity as it pursued profits instead.

In its first response since the Tesla CEO sued last week, OpenAI vowed to get the claim thrown out and released emails from Musk, escalating the feud between the San Francisco-based company and the billionaire that bankrolled its creation years ago.

"The mission of OpenAI is to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity, which means both building safe and beneficial AGI and helping create broadly distributed benefits," OpenAI said in a blog post late Tuesday from five company executives and computer scientists, including CEO Sam Altman. "We intend to move to dismiss all of Elon's claims."

AGI refers to artificial general intelligence, which are general purpose AI systems that can More

  • Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2024
Caitlin Clark's record-setting game draws top women's basketball regular-season TV rating since 1999
Iowa guard Caitlin Clark (22) celebrates during Senior Day ceremonies following a victory over Ohio State in an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, March 3, 2024, in Iowa City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Cliff Jette)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Caitlin Clark's record-setting game for Iowa against Ohio State on Sunday attracted more than 4 million television viewers at its peak and was the most watched women's regular-season basketball game since 1999, Fox Sports announced Tuesday.

Clark scored 35 points and passed Pete Maravich as the NCAA Division I overall career scoring leader during the Hawkeyes' 93-83 win.

Average viewership was 3.39 million and reached a high of 4.42 million late in the second half. Clark set the record with two free throws just before halftime. No women's regular-season game on any network had more viewers since 3.88 million tuned in for UConn-Tennessee in January 1999, according to Sports Media Watch.

The game was the second-most watched college basketball game of the season, trailing only the 5.18 million who saw the Michigan State-Arizona men's game that followed an NFL Thanksgiving game on Fox, SMW said.

Ohio State-Iowa surpassed the 3.01 More

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