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  • Monday, Jan. 8, 2024
Film Independent president Josh Welsh
LOS ANGELES -- 

Film Independent has announced the winners of its three Emerging Filmmaker Awards at its annual Spirit Awards nominee brunch held on Friday (1/6) at Hotel Casa del Mar. Spirit Awards Honorary Chair Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon, The Unknown Country) and Colman Domingo (Rustin, The Color Purple) served as hosts for the event and handed out the honors. Winners for the remaining categories will be revealed at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Sunday, February 25.
 
“Understanding the enormous challenges independent artists are facing, it’s essential that they are provided the resources to move forward with their artistic visions,” said Josh Welsh, president of Film Independent. “The Emerging Filmmaker Awards provide vital support to these talented artists, enabling them to continue to develop new work and thrive as singular artists.”
 
The Someone to Watch Award presented by Stella Artois was More

  • Friday, Jan. 5, 2024
Nigel Lythgoe arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind" at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. TV producer Nigel Lythgoe said Friday, Jan. 5, 2024 that he is stepping aside as a judge on “So You Think You Can Dance” after lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault, including one from Paula Abdul. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

TV producer Nigel Lythgoe said Friday that he is stepping aside as a judge on "So You Think You Can Dance" after lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault, including one from Paula Abdul.

Lythgoe is also co-creator and executive producer of the Fox dance competition series, whose 18th season is set to start in March.

"I have informed the producers of 'So You Think You Can Dance' of my decision to step back from participating in this year's series," Lythgoe said in a statement. "I did so with a heavy heart but entirely voluntarily because this great program has always been about dance and dancers, and that's where its focus needs to remain. In the meantime, I am dedicating myself to clearing my name and restoring my reputation."

The 74-year-old English-born Lythgoe has been a prominent TV producer for decades in both the U.K. and the U.S., working on reality competition shows including "American Idol."

The singer and dancer More

  • Friday, Jan. 5, 2024
The headquarters of the right-wing television broadcaster TV Republika in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday Jan. 5, 2023. Commentators who joked during the station's on air programming that migrants should be sent to Auschwitz or be tattooed or microchipped like dogs have prompted widespread outrage, including an investigation by prosecutors and companies pulling ads from the broadcaster. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- 

Prosecutors in Poland are investigating after commentators joked on a right-wing television station that migrants should be sent to Auschwitz or be tattooed or microchipped like dogs, and some companies have pulled advertising from the broadcaster.

The remarks were made over the past week by guests on TV Republika, a private station whose role as a platform for conservative views grew after the national conservative party, Law and Justice, lost control of the Polish government and public media.

During its eight years in power, Law and Justice turned taxpayer-funded state television into a platform for programming that cast largescale migration into Europe as an existential danger. The state media broadcast conspiracy theories, such as a claim that liberal elites wanted to force people to eat bugs, as well as antisemitic and homophobic content and attacks on the party's opponents, including the new Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

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  • Friday, Jan. 5, 2024
U.S. actor Christian Oliver arrives at the premiere of "Speed Racer" during the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival May 3, 2008, in New York. Oliver and his two daughters died in a plane crash on Jan. 4, 2024 near a tiny private island in the eastern Caribbean, according to police in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- 

U.S. actor Christian Oliver and his two daughters died in a plane crash near a tiny private island in the eastern Caribbean, according to police in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

The crash occurred Thursday just west of Petit Nevis island near Bequia as the plane headed for nearby St. Lucia, police said in a statement.

They identified the daughters as Madita Klepser, 10, and Annik Klepser, 12, adding that the pilot, Robert Sachs, also died.

It wasn't immediately clear what caused the crash, according to police.

Authorities said fishermen and divers in the area went to the crash site to help as the St. Vincent and Grenadines Coast Guard headed to the area.

"The selfless and brave acts of the fishermen and divers is very much appreciated," police said.

The 51-year-old actor born in Germany had dozens of crediting film and television roles, including in the 2008 film "Speed Racer" film and "The Good German," a More

  • Friday, Jan. 5, 2024
David Soul is photographed at an event in Los Angeles, Dec. 6, 1983. Soul, who hit fame as blond half of crime-fighting duo “Starsky and Hutch” in a popular 1970s television series, has died. He was 80. Wife Helen Snell, said Friday, Jan. 5, 2024 that Soul died the day before "after a valiant battle for life in the loving company of family.” (AP Photo/Wally Fong, File)
LONDON (AP) -- 

Actor-singer David Soul, a 1970s heartthrob who co-starred as the blond half of the crime-fighting duo "Starsky & Hutch" and topped the music charts with the ballad "Don't Give Up on Us," has died at the age of 80.

His wife, Helen Snell, said Friday that "David Soul – beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother – died yesterday after a valiant battle for life in the loving company of family."

"He shared many extraordinary gifts in the world as actor, singer, storyteller, creative artist and dear friend," Snell said in a statement. "His smile, laughter and passion for life will be remembered by the many whose lives he has touched."

Born David Solberg, Soul was a Chicago native whose acting career dated back to the 1960s, when he joined the avant-garde Firehouse Theater in Minnesota. He continued to appear on stage and screen well into the 20th century, but he was best known for his work in the 1970s.

Soul portrayed More

  • Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024
Actress Glynis Johns is shown, Sept. 11, 1982. Johns, a Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins” and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim, has died, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2023. She was 100.(AP Photo/Carlos Rene Perez)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Glynis Johns, a Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie "Mary Poppins" and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be "Send in the Clowns" by Stephen Sondheim, has died. She was 100.

Mitch Clem, her manager, said she died Thursday at an assisted living home in Los Angeles of natural causes. "Today's a sad day for Hollywood," Clem said. "She is the last of the last of old Hollywood."

Johns was known to be a perfectionist about her profession — precise, analytical and opinionated. The roles she took had to be multi-faceted. Anything less was giving less than her all.

"As far as I'm concerned, I'm not interested in playing the role on only one level," she told The Associated Press in 1990. "The whole point of first-class acting is to make a reality of it. To be real. And I have to make sense of it in my own mind in order to be real."

Johns' greatest More

  • Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024
Iowa guard Caitlin Clark, right, celebrates in front of Michigan State guard Moira Joiner, left, after her three-point basket at the end of an NCAA college basketball game, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, in Iowa City, Iowa. Iowa won 76-73. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer

The NCAA and ESPN announced on Thursday a $920 million, eight-year agreement that will give the network exclusive rights to 40 championships, including the Division I women's basketball tournament, an event growing in popularity that the association has been accused of undervaluing in the past.

NCAA President Charlie Baker told The Associated Press the deal has an average annual value of $115 million, an increase of more than 300% per year on what the previous 14-year deal with ESPN was paying the association.

"Yes, it's a bundle, but it's a bigger bundle and it's a bigger bundle that will be much better," Baker said.

The deal covers 21 women's and 19 men's sports, adding tennis, track and field, men's gymnastics, the women's Division II and III volleyball and basketball championships and the men's DII and DIII basketball championships.

The deal guarantees national More

  • Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024
Attorney Tom Girardi smiles outside the Los Angeles courthouse on Wednesday, July 9, 2014. A federal judge filed a brief order Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, stating that the disgraced Los Angeles celebrity lawyer has been found competent to stand trial on charges that he stole more than $15 million from his clients. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Disgraced Los Angeles celebrity lawyer Tom Girardi has been found competent to stand trial on charges that he stole more than $15 million from his clients.

A federal judge filed a notice of the brief order Tuesday under seal. Lawyers for both sides were given five days to identify any information in it that they would like the judge to keep confidential.

Girardi, 84, is the estranged husband of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Erika Jayne.

Girardi pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles last year to wire fraud on charges that he embezzled from clients, including an Arizona widow whose husband was killed in a boat accident; a Los Angeles couple injured in a car wreck that paralyzed their son; and a man who was severely burned in the 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion.

If convicted, he could be sentenced to decades in federal prison.

The Associated Press sent messages to his public defenders seeking comment. More

  • Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024
Joel McHale
LOS ANGELES -- 

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films has announced that actor and comedian Joel McHale (star of "Animal Control" and "Community") will return as host of the 51st Annual Saturn Awards on Sunday, February 4, at the L.A. Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel. The Saturns will once again be live-streamed on Electric Entertainment’s premium OTT app and FAST channel, ElectricNOW, and will include exclusive interviews from the red carpet, from the winner’s press walk, and from behind-the-scenes with genre luminaries.

In a joint statement, Academy president Robert Holguin and Saturn producers Bradley and Kevin Marcus shared, “We are thrilled to have Joel McHale host the Saturn Awards for the second year in a row. With his remarkable talent, dry wit, and acerbic humor, he embodies the spirit of the Saturn Awards tradition as Hollywood’s entertaining and irreverent awards show. The Academy is truly fortunate to have him as the host for this More

  • Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024
In this Aug. 8, 2017, file photo, The Walt Disney Co. logo appears on a screen above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Disney has reached a confidentiality agreement with activist investor ValueAct Capital Management, garnering its support for the company’s board nominees as it continues to deal with a proxy battle with Nelson Peltz. The Walt Disney Co. said Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024, that the agreement with ValueAct will allow the company to provide information to ValueAct and consult with it on strategic matters, including through meetings with its board and management. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Disney has a new ally in activist investor ValueAct Capital Management, garnering its support for the company's board nominees as it continues to wage a proxy battle with Nelson Peltz.

The Walt Disney Co. said Wednesday that the confidentiality agreement with ValueAct will allow the company to provide information to ValueAct and consult with it on strategic matters, including through meetings with its board and management.

"ValueAct Capital has a track record of collaboration and cooperation with the companies it invests in, and its Co-CEO Mason Morfit has been very constructive in the conversations we've had over the past year. We welcome their input as long-term shareholders," Disney CEO Bob Iger said in a statement.

Last month Nelson Peltz's investment management firm Trian Fund Management said that it was planning to nominate the activist investor and a former chief financial officer of Disney for seats on the media and More

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