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  • Tuesday, Jun. 20, 2017
Women filmmakers team on short documentary "Five Awake"
Pictured (l-r) are Susan Willis, Kim Sport, Charmaine Caccioppi, Donna Dees and Mary Claire Landry
NEW YORK -- 

Susan Willis, managing partner of post company Cutting Room Films, assembled a group of NYC’s top female voices in advertising for a screening of Five Awake, the short documentary she directed and produced with activist Donna Dees. The documentary chronicles the journey of five Louisiana women who sought to change the state for the better by pushing through a historic legislative package to protect the victims of domestic violence and save lives. The screening, held at the Helen Mills Theater in Manhattan, also featured a panel discussion with Willis, Dees and three of the five women featured in the film: United Way of Southeast Louisiana EVP/COO Charmaine Caccioppi, United Way of Southeast Louisiana attorney Kim Sport and New Orleans Family Justice Center director Mary Claire Landry.

The panel delved into the progress made to date and the outlook for the future. The women explained how though they had succeeded in passing 60 provisions More

  • Tuesday, Jun. 20, 2017
Star Wars' Han Solo spinoff film loses directors
In this Jan. 5, 2015, file photo, Christopher Miller, left, and Phil Lord pose for a photo at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards at TAO Downtown, in New York. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP, File)
By Lindsey Bahr, AP Film Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

There's been a disturbance in the force and the young Han Solo film is suddenly without a director. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said Tuesday that the Star Wars spinoff is parting ways with directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller due to different creative visions on the film.

Kennedy said a new director would be announced soon.

Lord and Miller had been filming the untitled project in London since January 2017 with stars Alden Ehrenreich as the young Han Solo and Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian. The supporting cast includes Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke and Thandie Newton.

"Unfortunately, our vision and process weren't aligned with our partners on this project. We normally aren't fans of the phrase 'creative differences' but for once this cliché is true," the directors said in a joint statement Tuesday. "We are really proud of the amazing and world-class work of our cast and crew."

Lord and Miller have developed More

  • Tuesday, Jun. 20, 2017
Daniel Day-Lewis says he's retiring from acting
In this Jan. 27, 2013, file photo, Daniel Day-Lewis arrives at the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
By Jake Coyle, Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Daniel Day-Lewis, one of the most widely respected actors of his generation and a three-time Oscar-winner, says he's retiring from acting.

The 60-year-old actor announced Tuesday that he has shot his last film and performed in his last play. That makes Paul Thomas Anderson's already filmed "Phantom Thread," due out in December, his final film.

"Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor," his representative Leslee Dart said in a statement. "He is immensely grateful to all of his collaborators and audiences over the many years. This is a private decision and neither he nor his representatives will make any further comment on this subject."

The announcement sent shockwaves through Hollywood, where Day-Lewis is revered as possibly the finest actor of his time. But Day-Lewis has also long been an exceptionally deliberate performer who often spends years preparing for a role, crafting his characters with an uncommon, More

  • Monday, Jun. 19, 2017
Tony Danza returns to series TV in Netflix's "The Good Cop"
Tony Danza
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- 

Netflix is bringing Tony Danza back to series television for viewers around the world in The Good Cop, a new 10-episode, one-hour dramedy series.
 
In The Good Cop, Danza plays Tony Sr., a disgraced, former NYPD officer who never followed the rules. He lives with his son, Tony Jr., an earnest, obsessively honest NYPD detective who makes a point of always following the rules. This “odd couple” become unofficial partners as Tony Sr. offers his overly-cautious son blunt, street-wise advice on everything from handling suspects to handling women.
 
Andy Breckman, the creator of Monk, will serve as showrunner and executive producer, with Randy Zisk (Bones, Monk), and Howard Klein (The Office, The Mindy Project) also serving as executive producers. Zisk will also direct the first episode. Danza is a producer on The Good Cop. The series is inspired by a format from Israeli production More

  • Saturday, Jun. 17, 2017
McDonald's Olympic sponsorship deal to end 3 years early
This Oct. 21, 2011 file photo shows the golden arches of McDonalds, in Omaha, Neb., McDonald's has ended its Olympic sponsorship deal three years early. The International Olympic Committee says confidential financial terms of the immediate separation were agreed to.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
By Eddie Pells, National Writer

The Olympics and McDonald's used to go together like a hamburger and fries.

They are no longer a combo.

In a surprise move, the International Olympic Committee announced Friday it was ending its Olympic sponsorship deal with the fast-food giant three years before it was supposed to expire — severing a relationship that dated to 1976.

No financial details were released, though as part of the IOC's top-tier program, McDonald's signed a contract extension in 2012 that was reportedly worth about $200 million.

Much of that will be replaced by new sponsors in new categories. The IOC has new deals with Bridgestone, Toyota and Alibaba. The Sports Business Journal reported that Intel is set to announce a deal with the IOC next week , and a person familiar with the negotiation confirmed that to The Associated Press. That person was not authorized to speak publicly because the deal has not been announced.

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  • Friday, Jun. 16, 2017
"Handmaid's Tale" author Margaret Atwood to get literary lifetime achievement award
In this July 28, 2016 file photo, author Margaret Atwood sits for a portrait while promoting her new books "Angel Catbird" and "Hag-Seed" in Toronto. (Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian Press via AP)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Margaret Atwood is receiving a lifetime achievement award from one of the world's oldest literary organizations.

PEN Center USA announced Wednesday that Atwood will accept the honor at the group's annual Literary Awards Festival in October.

Atwood has written more than 40 books of fiction, poetry and essays. The television adaptation of her novel "The Handmaid's Tale" premiered on Hulu earlier this year and has been renewed for a second season that will be released in 2018.

PEN Center USA says the 77-year-old author will be recognized at an Oct. 27 ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Actor and writer Nick Offerman is scheduled to host the evening.

 

  • Thursday, Jun. 15, 2017
Stay thirsty: "Most interesting man" now pitching tequila
In this 2017 photo provided by Davos Brands, actor Jonathan Goldsmith poses with a bottle of Astral Tequila. (Davos Brands via AP)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

"The Most Interesting Man in the World" is giving up beer for tequila.

Actor Jonathan Goldsmith appeared as the sophisticated, eccentric and worldly pitchman for Dos Equis beer for nearly a decade. He's now promoting Astral Tequila.

In a new ad, the 78-year-old Goldsmith nods at his Dos Equis days by raising a glass of tequila and saying, "I told you I don't always drink beer."

Dos Equis announced Goldsmith's departure from the long-running ad campaign last year. It has continued the campaign with a younger actor.

 

  • Thursday, Jun. 15, 2017
2017 Board of Directors set for Location Managers Guild
LOS ANGELES -- 

The Location Managers Guild International (LMGI) has announced its newest board members--Alison Taylor, Matt Chamberlin, Mac Gordon and Dan Taylor. These location professionals join returning leadership Kokayi Ampah, Melissa DeMonaco, Mike Fantasia, Wes Hagan, Phill Kane, Eric Klosterman, JJ Levine, Matt Palmer, Mario Ramirez, Rebecca “Puck” Stair, and Dorion Thomas to serve as the 2017 LMGI Board of Directors.

Taylor has worked in location management for 22 years and been a member of the Hollywood Teamsters (Local 399) for 21. Her credits include feature films and episodic television such as A Wrinkle In Time, Straight Outta Compton, Southland and The Leisure Class.

Gordon (MacGyver, the X-Files, the Hunger Games: Mockingjay) has been in locations for 25-plus years and has supported the LMGI since its inception and watched it expand from a national to an international organization.

Chamberlin (Modern More

  • Wednesday, Jun. 14, 2017
Sony will only release clean edits with directors' approval
In this Aug. 2, 2016 file photo, Seth Rogen, co-writer and co-producer of "Sausage Party," poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, FIle)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Sony is revising its plan to make sanitized versions of R and PG-13 rated movies available for home viewing after directors like Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen publicly expressed their disapproval. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment President Man Jit Singh said Wednesday that they will only make the films available with the directors' approval.

Last week Sony unveiled their Clean Version initiative, which makes available the less violent, salacious and profane broadcast television and airplane edits of certain movies when you purchase the regular title on a streaming service. Titles currently available include "Pixels," ''Ghostbusters" and "Moneyball."

Singh said they believed they had obtained approvals from filmmakers to use the airplane and broadcast television versions of their films for home viewing, but promised to pull individual titles if a director objects.

 

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  • Wednesday, Jun. 14, 2017
Camera operator Bruce MacCallum dies at 70
Bruce MacCallum
LOS ANGELES -- 

Bruce MacCallum, veteran camera operator and longtime union activist, died in Los Angeles on Monday, June 12. He was 70.

MacCallum started his entertainment industry career in 1973 as a personal assistant for Dustin Hoffman. From there he moved into the camera department where he honed his craft as a camera assistant and operator for more than 40 years. Among the feature films he worked on were All That Jazz (1979), Witness (1985), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), I Am Legend (2007) and The Adjustment Bureau (2011). More recently he was working in television on The Night Of and The Blacklist.

During those years, MacCallum helped train and mentor many fellow members of the International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600), where he served as National Assistant Secretary-Treasurer between 2007 and 2016.

MacCallum’s final weekend was spent at a Local 600 National More

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