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  • Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018
Actress in next Woody Allen film donates salary to Time's Up
In this Sept. 5, 2017 file photo, actress Rebecca Hall poses for photographers at the premiere of the film 'mother!' at the 74th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Actress Rebecca Hall says she's donating her salary from the latest Woody Allen film to Time's Up.

Hall says on Instagram she was hired for Allen's "A Rainy Day in New York" but is "profoundly sorry" and "regrets" her decision to work with the filmmaker. She said Friday she reconsidered the job after reviewing molestation accusations by Allen's daughter Dylan Farrow.

Allen denies molesting Dylan when she was 7.

Hall also appeared in Allen's 2008 "Vicky Cristina Barcelona." She says she was hired for the new film seven months ago but sees her "actions have made another woman feel silenced and dismissed." She hasn't said how much money she'll donate.

Time's Up is a sexual misconduct defense initiative started by women in Hollywood to support victims.

  • Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018
Sandberg, Dorsey to leave the Disney board
This June 22, 2016, file photo shows Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg speaking at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- 

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will be leaving the board of The Walt Disney Co. Neither executive will stand for re-election at the company's annual meeting in March.

A Disney spokesperson says it has become "increasingly difficult for them to avoid conflicts relating to board matters."

With Disney planning to put ESPN online, Twitter live-streaming sports like NFL football, and Facebook prioritizing live video, online video is a likely area of overlap.

The pending departure of the two Disney board members was revealed in a securities filing Friday.

  • Friday, Jan. 12, 2018
Facing critics, Facebook wants feeds to be more  "meaningful"
In this April 18, 2017, file photo, conference workers speak in front of a demo booth at Facebook's annual F8 developer conference in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)
By Barbara Ortutay, Technology Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Facebook is tweaking what people see to make their time on it more "meaningful" in a move that could hurt publishers and news organizations that rely on it to spread their content.

Facebook has said before that it will emphasize personal connections over business pages and celebrities that people follow. But the latest move represents a major shift, one intended to highlight the posts users are most likely to engage with rather than passively consume.

The company says people will likely spend less time on Facebook as a result.

The changes come as the company faces criticism that social media can make people feel depressed and isolated.

There will be fewer posts from brands, pages and media companies and more from people. There will be fewer videos, which Facebook considers "passive."

That's because even if people read such content on Facebook, they don't necessarily comment or interact with it in other ways.

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  • Friday, Jan. 12, 2018
Filmmaker revisits David Bowie to document final years
This image released by HBO shows the late music legend David Bowie in a scene from the documentary, "David Bowie:The Last Five Years," which debuted Jan. 8 on HBO. ( Jimmy King/ HBO via AP)
By John Carucci
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

After British filmmaker Francis Whately captured David Bowie in his 2013 film, "David Bowie: Five Years," he thought documenting the life of his musical hero was complete. Turns out he was mistaken.

The end of Bowie's life was equally interesting to Whately as he centers on the artist's final projects in the new HBO documentary, "David Bowie: The Last Five Years." It started airing this week, which marks two years since Bowie died at age 69.

"It was only after his sort of untimely passing that the BBC approached me again and said, 'Would I do another film?' And initially I was wary of doing anything else because I felt I'd already made a film, while not being completely definitive, did look at the key years of his career certainly up to the 1980s," he said.

The first documentary covered five significant years in Bowie's career, which included the creation of Ziggy Stardust in 1971 and his 1983 commercial success, "Let's Dance," but More

  • Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018
More claim sexual inappropriateness against James Franco
In this Jan. 7, 2018 file photo, James Franco arrives at the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Several women have made further claims of inappropriate sexual behavior against James Franco in a Los Angeles Times article .

In the report published Thursday, two former student actresses described negative on-set experiences with the actor-filmmaker while being directed by him. Sarah Tither-Kaplan said in a nude orgy scene three years ago, he removed plastic guards covering the actresses' groins while simulating sex.

Former students spoke of an unprofessional culture at Franco's now-closed acting school Studio 4, where he taught a sex scenes class. Two women said Franco became angry shooting a strip club scene when no actresses, who were masked, would go topless. One topless scene filmed during class with Tither-Kaplan was uploaded to Vimeo, she said.

Violet Paley said that during a consensual relationship, Franco once pressured her to perform oral sex in a car and that the "power dynamic was really off."

On Wednesday night More

  • Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018
Cindy Crawford recreates iconic Super Bowl ad 26 years later
This photo released by Pepsi shows actress-model Cindy Crawford in a scene from her 2018 Pepsi commercial which will premiere during Super Bowl LII on Feb. 4. The new ad includes her son, Presley Walker Gerber, as well as footage from Michael Jackson’s memorable Pepsi commercial. (Pepsi via AP)
By Mesfin Fekadu, Entertainment Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Cindy Crawford is heading back to the Super Bowl: The model has recreated her iconic 1992 Super Bowl ad for Pepsi, now featuring her 18-year-old son.

Crawford recently filmed the commercial, which will debut at Super Bowl 52 on Feb. 4. It includes her son, Presley Walker Gerber, as well as footage from Michael Jackson's memorable Pepsi commercial.

The 51-year-old said she didn't hesitate to recreate the ad 26 years later, especially since she was able to work with her son.

"Just as a mother, we drove to work together that day and we shared the same trailer. And when he was doing his thing, I was just a proud mom watching from the sidelines, trying not to annoy him," she said in a phone interview Wednesday.

The new Super Bowl ad, dubbed "This Is The Pepsi," is part of the company's "Pepsi Generation" campaign honoring the brand's 120-year history in pop culture.

The original features Crawford in a tank top and jean More

  • Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018
New study finds male dominance in Hollywood unchanged
Martha M. Lauzen
By Jake Coyle, AP Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Women made up just 18 percent of all the directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors and cinematographers who worked on the top 250 American films released last year, according to a new study.

The 20th annual "Celluloid Ceiling" study on the behind-the-camera employment of women was released Monday by San Diego State University's Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film. The results show virtually no change in the last 20 years for women in Hollywood. In 1998, the same calculation of behind-the-scenes jobs for women was 17 percent.

The study found that in last year's top 250 films, 25 percent of producers were women, 11 percent of directors were women and just 4 percent of cinematographers were women.

"The film industry has utterly failed to address the continuing underemployment of women behind the scenes," said Martha M. Lauzen, the study's author. "This negligence has produced a toxic culture that More

  • Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018
Discovery Communications to move global HQ to New York
In this Monday, July 31, 2017, file photo, the Discovery Communications logo sits atop its headquarters in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
SILVER SPRINGS, Md. (AP) -- 

Discovery Communications, the company that operates the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TLC and other popular cable channels, announced Tuesday that it will relocate its global headquarters from Maryland to New York City.

The company, which employs about 1,300 people in the Silver Spring area, said it plans to sell its current headquarters and move into a new building in New York in 2019.

David Zaslav, Discovery's president and chief executive officer, told employees the decision was prompted by rapid changes in the media industry. He said many of the company's advertising partners, investors, analysts and content partners are based in New York.

Zaslav said Discovery will keep some of its operations, including network and support functions, and government relations, in Maryland. It also plans to expand its media distribution facility in Sterling, Virginia.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said he has had ongoing discussions with More

  • Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018
CBS appoints John Dickerson as Charlie Rose's replacement
In this Feb. 13, 2016 photo released by CBS, "Face the Nation" host John Dickerson moderates the CBS News Republican Presidential Debate in Greenville, S.C. CBS News has selected Dickerson as Charlie Rose's replacement on the "CBS This Morning" program, pairing him with current anchors Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell. (Chris Usher/CBS via AP)
By David Bauder, Media Writer
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- 

CBS News has selected "Face the Nation" host John Dickerson as Charlie Rose's replacement on the "CBS This Morning" program, pairing him with current anchors Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell.

Rose was fired in late November following allegations of sexual misconduct. CBS appointed Dickerson on the sixth anniversary of the morning show, which is in third place in the morning ratings but has made inroads with a newsy approach.

Dickerson will no longer host his Washington-based Sunday morning political show. That sets him apart from ABC "Good Morning America" host George Stephanopoulos, who continues to host ABC's "This Week" on Sundays.

CBS had no immediate announcement of Dickerson's replacement on "Face the Nation."

Dickerson starts Wednesday on "CBS This Morning." With his appointment, CBS News President David Rhodes said in a memo to staff that "we will be doubling down on serious news coverage."

The appointment comes More

  • Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018
Danish film exec OK'd for work after harassment review
In this Sunday, May 20, 2007 file photo, Danish film producer Peter Aalbaek Jensen, the then head of the Zentropa film production company, talks to the media during a press conference at the 60th International film festival in Cannes, southern France. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
By Jan M. Olsen
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- 

A former Danish film executive who co-founded the Zentropa production company with director Lars von Trier has been cleared to return to work following an investigation into claims of sexual harassment, the company said Tuesday.

Peter Aalbaek Jensen, 61, who stepped down as Zentropa's CEO in 2016 but has remained an employee, was accused in November by nine female former employees of behavior that included groping and slapping their behinds.

Denmark's Working Environment Authority conducted an assessment of the company on Dec. 14 and "found no workplace problems at the time of the probe," Zentropa's current CEO, Anders Kjaerhauge, said.

"Although it was an assessment of the situation here and now, they had the old accusations in the back of their heads," Kjaerhauge told The Associated Press. "The bottom line is what was tolerable five years ago, is not OK nowadays."

Aalbaek Jensen — an outspoken provocateur known for stunts More

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