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  • Friday, Jan. 19, 2024
For the first time in its 84-year history, Peabody Awards to be held in L.A.
ATHENS, Ga. -- 

Peabody has announced that its annual ceremony, the Peabody Awards, will be held in Los Angeles at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Sunday, June 9. This marks Peabody’s first in-person ceremony since 2019 and the first time ever in its 84-year history that the awards will take place in Los Angeles. Peabody also has appointed Doug Herzog, Cynthia López, Orwa Nyrabia, Russ Schriefer, Cynthia Tucker, Mark Whitaker and Andrea Wishom to its Board of Jurors. Wonya Lucas has been named as the next chair of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors. 

“For the first time in the history of Peabody, we’re thrilled to recognize the most compelling stories of the year at a joyful and inspiring ceremony in Los Angeles,” said Jeffrey Jones, executive director of Peabody. “By including more talent and honoring the winners in a city that deeply admires the power of stories, we are confident that we will add some tangible excitement to our ceremony. We’re also thrilled to More

  • Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024
Visual Effects Society elects officers; Kim Davidson makes history as new Board chair
Kim Davidson
LOS ANGELES -- 

The Visual Effects Society (VES) has announced its 2024 Board of Directors officers. The officers, who comprise the VES Board Executive Committee, were elected at the January 2024 Board meeting. They include Kim Davidson, who was elected Board chair, and is the first Board member from outside the United States to hold this role since the Society’s inception.

“It is my privilege to serve as chair of our worldwide community of visual effects artists and innovators,” said Davidson. “Since I joined the Society 18 years ago, I have seen the VES grow from a California-based organization to a global society with 15 regional Sections and members in 45 countries. As the first chair elected from outside the U.S., I am representative of our thriving globalization, and I look forward to further championing our expansion worldwide.  The leadership on our Board bring enormous commitment, expertise and enthusiasm to their volunteer service and I’m excited about More

  • Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024
John Waters to receive ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award
John Waters
LOS ANGELES -- 

American Cinema Editors (ACE) will honor director John Waters with the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award, recognizing an artist who exemplifies distinguished achievement in the art and business of film.  As previously announced, ACE will also bestow career achievement honors to film editors Kate Amend, ACE and Walter Murch, ACE for their outstanding career contributions to film editing, and Stephen Lovejoy, ACE will receive the ACE Heritage Award in recognition of his unwavering commitment to advancing the image of the film editor, cultivating respect for the editing profession, and tireless dedication to the American Cinema Editors. All honors will be presented at the 74th annual ACE Eddie Awards on March 3 at UCLA’s Royce Hall where winners will also be announced in 13 categories recognizing the best film editing achievements of the year. 

“John Waters isn’t just a filmmaking icon,” stated ACE president Kevin Tent, ACE, “He’s a punk More

  • Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024
Art Directors Guild names 4 Life Achievement Award recipients for 28th Excellence in Production Design Awards
Wynn P. Thomas (l) and Francine West
LOS ANGELES -- 

The Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800 (ADG 800) will present Lifetime Achievement Awards to guild members David Lowery, Greg Papalia, Wynn P. Thomas and Francine West. The Lifetime Achievement Award recipients will be celebrated at the 28th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, on Feb. 10. 

“It’s our honor and privilege to recognize and award these trailblazers in our guild,” shared award show producers Michael Allen Glover, ADG and Megan Elizabeth Bell, ADG in a joint statement.

The Illustrators and Matte Artists (IMA) Council is bestowing its lifetime achievement award on Lowery, who has worked on more than 100 award-winning blockbuster films including: Jurassic Park, The Lion King and all three Sam Raimi Spider-man films. Lowery was the co-head of story on Shrek, as well as head of storyboards and associate producer on every episode of The Mandalorian.

“David’s 36-year career as a More

  • Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024
Court documents underscore Meta's "historical reluctance" to protect children on Instagram
Meta's logo is seen on a sign at the company's headquarters, Nov. 9, 2022, in Menlo Park, Calif. Newly unredacted documents from New Mexico’s lawsuit against Meta released Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, underscore the Facebook and Instagram parent’s “historical reluctance” to keep children safe on its platforms, according to the complaint. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)
By Barbara Ortutay, Technology Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- 

Newly unredacted documents from New Mexico's lawsuit against Meta underscore the company's "historical reluctance" to keep children safe on its platforms, the complaint says.

New Mexico's Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued Facebook and Instagram owner Meta in December, saying the company failed to protect young users from exposure to child sexual abuse material and allowed adults to solicit explicit imagery from them.

In the passages freshly unredacted from the lawsuit Wednesday, internal employee messages and presentations from 2020 and 2021 show Meta was aware of issues such as adult strangers being able to contact children on Instagram, the sexualization of minors on that platform, and the dangers of its "people you may know" feature that recommends connections between adults and children. But Meta dragged its feet when it came to addressing the issues, the passages show.

Instagram, for instance, began restricting adults' ability More

  • Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024
USC Libraries name finalists for 36th Scripter Awards
Jeffrey Wright in a scene from "American Fiction" (photo by Claire Folger/courtesy of MGM-Orion/Amazon MGM Studios)
LOS ANGELES -- 

The USC Libraries named the finalists for the 36th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards, which honors the writers of the year’s most accomplished film and episodic series adaptations, as well as the writers of the works on which they are based. 
 
The finalist writers for film adaptation are, in alphabetical order by film title: 

  • Cord Jefferson for “American Fiction” based on the novel “Erasure” by Percival Everett
  • Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese for “Killers of the Flower Moon” based on the nonfiction book “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI” by David Grann
  • Christopher Nolan for “Oppenheimer” based on the nonfiction book “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
  • Ava DuVernay for “Origin” based on the nonfiction book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson
  • Screenwriter Tony More
  • Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024
AFI sets dates for 2024 film festival
LOS ANGELES -- 

The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced the dates for AFI Fest 2024. The 38th edition of the Institute’s annual festival will take place October 23–27 exclusively in person at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre in the heart of Hollywood. The five-day festival will once again include a curated selection of Red Carpet Premiere screenings, Special Screenings, World Cinema, Documentaries and Short Films.

“With awards season in full bloom, AFI is also looking to the future and this fall’s AFI FEST,” said Bob Gazzale, AFI president and CEO.  “So as last year’s films take a well-deserved bow, mark your calendars now to experience the very best of what lies ahead.”

AFI Fest is recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a qualifying festival for the Live Action, Animated and Documentary Short Film categories for the annual Academy Awards®. AFI Fest is also a qualifying festival for consideration for the British Short More

  • Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024
CNN's new chief says the network needs to recapture the "swagger and innovation" of its youth
CNN's new chief executive, Mark Thompson, arrives at Portcullis House in London on Sept. 9, 2013. Thompson, a former executive at The New York Times and BBC, said in a strategy memo to his staff that the organization needs to recapture the “swagger and innovation” of its youth. He is outlining an internal reorganization and is challenging his staff to look beyond television for revenue opportunities. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
By David Bauder, Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

CNN's new chief executive says the company needs to recapture the "swagger and innovation" of its early days — and that, he says, increasingly means embracing a future outside of television.

Mark Thompson, appointed CNN's chief executive last fall after stints at The New York Times and BBC, outlined a strategy to his staff Wednesday that included a corporate restructuring but few external specifics on how that transformation will take place.

Once a "scrappy outsider," CNN has been slow to respond to the reality of its primary television business shrinking, Thompson said in his memo. He was not made available for an on-the-record interview with The Associated Press.

"There's currently too little innovation and risk-taking," Thompson said in the memo. "Like so many other news players with a broadcast heritage, CNN's linear services and even its website can sometimes have an old-fashioned and unadventurous feel as if the world has More

  • Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024
Emmy Awards get record low ratings with audience of 4.3 million people
Chandra Wilson, from left, Justin Chambers, Ellen Pompeo, Katherine Heigl, and James Pickens Jr., present the award for outstanding supporting actor in a limited anthology series or movie during the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
By Andrew Dalton, Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

The Emmy Awards telecast on Fox reached a record low audience of 4.3 million viewers, as the long-term trend of diminishing ratings for the show continues.

The Nielsen company said Tuesday that the Monday night show hosted by Anthony Anderson with "Succession" and "The Bear" raking in most of the top awards was down from the previous record low of 5.9 million for NBC's telecast in 2022, the last time the event was held.

This year's Emmys had a lot working against them. They were was delayed four months from its usual September spot by Hollywood's writers and actors strikes, and had to compete with both an NFL playoff game and coverage of the Iowa caucuses in the presidential campaign.

The audience was less than half of what the CBS telecast of the Golden Globes got eight days earlier. That show, which honored both TV and movies and had bigger stars in attendance including Taylor Swift, had 9.4 million viewers.

The Emmys and More

  • Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024
Disney hopes prosecutor's free speech case against DeSantis helps its own lawsuit against governor
Minnie and Mickey Mouse perform for guests during a musical show in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, July 14, 2023, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Disney is hoping a recent decision bolstering a Florida prosecutor's First Amendment case against Gov. Ron DeSantis helps its own free speech lawsuit against the Florida governor. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
By Mike Schneider
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- 

Disney is hoping a recent decision bolstering a Florida prosecutor's First Amendment case against Gov. Ron DeSantis helps its own free speech lawsuit against the governor.

A decision last week by a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that revived a First Amendment challenge by former prosecutor Andrew Warren, who was suspended by DeSantis, should support Disney's arguments against the governor, the company said Thursday in a court filing.

"The same values are at stake here," Disney said.

After DeSantis and the Republican-led Legislature took control of the governing district of Walt Disney World near Orlando, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts filed a First Amendment lawsuit in federal court in Tallahassee last year against DeSantis and his appointees to the district's governing board. Before DeSantis appointed the new members to the board, it had been controlled by Disney supporters for more than five decades. More

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