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  • Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017
Cinefamily to close amid misconduct investigation
In this Dec. 25, 2014, file photo, a visitor takes a selfie with his friend in front of the Cinefamily at Silent Movie Theater in Los Angeles, prior to attending the movie "The Interview." The independent movie theater Cinefamily, which had numerous celebrity supporters, said Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, it is closing in the wake of investigations into the sexual misconduct of two of its executives. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
By Lindsey Bahr, Film Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

The independent Los Angeles movie theater Cinefamily, which had numerous celebrity supporters, said Tuesday it is closing in the wake of investigations into the sexual misconduct of two of its executives.

Cinefamily's board of directors said Tuesday that it was shutting down after 10 years of operation, citing crippling debt and "the conduct of some." The decision came after an exhaustive analysis of the theater's operational, reputational and financial status.

The theater came under scrutiny in August for sexual misconduct allegations against the theater's executive director Hadrian Belove and board member Shadie Elnashai. The accusations became public a month before sexual harassment and abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein rippled through the culture. The board suspended activities of the theater and hired an independent firm to investigate the allegations and both Belove and Elnashai resigned.

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  • Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017
Prague Studios breaks ground on 2 stages
Prague Studios owner Tomas Krejci (center) at groundbreaking ceremony
PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- 

Prague Studios just broke ground on two new stages for TV, film and commercial production. The announcement was made by Prague Studios general manager Jindrich Guttner. The state-of-the-art sound stages will offer filmmakers from around the world Hollywood-style amenities and Prague production value. As part of the expansion, all existing stage space and production facilities at Prague Studios are being upgraded, allowing for support of top-tier international production. Upon completion in Spring 2018, Prague Studios will encompass five stages and total 350,000 square feet of production space.

“Here in the Czech Republic, thanks to incentives, there’s increased demand by filmmakers for more and better stage space,” said Prague Studios owner Tomas Krejci. “With our October groundbreaking, we’re building leading-edge facilities paired with the latest production amenities. When our facility upgrades and the new stages are completed, Prague Studios More

  • Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017
Former marketing exec implicates Fox Sports in soccer bribes
In this May 14, 2015, file photo, CONMEBOL delegate Roger Bello, of Bolivia, left, talks with Boca Juniors goalkeeper Agustin Orion, center, and Alejandro Burzaco, president of Torneos y Competencias, during a Copa Libertadores soccer match between Boca Juniors and River Plate, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano, File)
By Tom Hays
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Fox Sports partnered with a South American marketing firm to make millions of dollars in bribes to high-ranking soccer officials in exchange for lucrative broadcasting rights to major tournaments, the marketing company's former CEO testified Tuesday at a U.S. corruption trial.

Alejandro Burzaco, former CEO of the firm based in Argentina, testified that Fox and other broadcasters were involved in a scheme to pay bribes — concealed using offshore side entities and sham contracts — that secured rights for the Copa America and other events.

As evidence of the scheme, prosecutors at the trial at a federal court in New York City produced a 2008 agreement for the partnership to pay $3.7 million to a holding company in Turks and Caicos that was an alleged conduit for the bribes. They say it was signed by a former Fox executive.

Asked whom he kept informed about the bribe arrangements, Burzaco responded, "Fox Pan American Sports. Fox Sports More

  • Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017
Cannom, Guerrero named recipients of Lifetime Achievement honors at Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards
LOS ANGELES -- 

Oscar®-winning make-up artist Greg Cannom and four time Emmy®-winning hair stylist Mary Guerrero, will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Annual Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards, (MUAHS, IATSE Local 706) honoring outstanding achievements for make-up artists and hair stylists in motion pictures, television, commercials, and live theater. The black-tie awards gala returns to the NOVO by Microsoft in L.A. Live on Saturday, February 24, 2018. 

IATSE Local 706 president Sue Cabral-Ebert said of Cannom and Guerrero, “They are extraordinary artists whose character aesthetics have engaged and delighted audiences in both motion pictures and television for decades and they have set the bar for generations to come. Both are accomplished leaders in the entertainment industry, and it is our pleasure to name them as this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipients.”

Cannom is the only make-up artist (along with Wesley Wofford) to More

  • Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017
Art Directors Guild to present Cinematic Imagery Award to Kathleen Kennedy
Kathleen Kennedy
LOS ANGELES -- 

Eight-time Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Kathleen Kennedy, whose films have consistently reflected the highest quality of production design, will receive the prestigious Cinematic Imagery Award from the Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE, Local 800) at its 22nd Annual Art Directors Guild’s Excellence in Production Design Awards, it was announced by ADG Council chairman Marcia Hinds ADG and awards producers Thomas A. Walsh ADG and Thomas Wilkins ADG. The 2018 Awards, themed “Production Design: Celebrating 100 Years of Imagination,” will be held Saturday, January 27, 2018 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood and Highland and will honor the prestigious spectrum of Kennedy’s extraordinary award-winning work.

Nelson Coates, president of ADG, said “We are thrilled to recognize the amazing contributions Kathleen Kennedy has made to narrative design for more than three decades, while so beautifully creating a cinematic legacy as represented by some of the More

  • Monday, Nov. 13, 2017
Michael Wright to become EPIX president on Dec. 4th
Michael Wright
LOS ANGELES -- 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) has appointed Michael Wright as president of the premium pay television network EPIX. Wright will begin his new role on December 4, working out of MGM’s headquarters in Los Angeles. 

Reporting to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. chairman/CEO Gary Barber, Wright will shepherd EPIX into its next phase of expanded original programming, leading creative and marketing efforts.  Business operations will continue to be overseen by Monty Sarhan, EVP and general manager for EPIX. Sarhan will also work closely with Chris Ottinger, MGM’s president, Worldwide Television Distribution and Acquisitions, on all distribution matters. 

Wright was previously the CEO of Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners, a content creation company he helped launch in 2015. Under Wright’s leadership, the company most recently released the hit films The Girl on the Train, Office Christmas Party and A Dog’s Purpose, and prepared the upcoming More

  • Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017
Spike Lee discusses racism at Charlottesville film festival
In this July 18, 2017 file photo, filmmaker Spike Lee attends the premiere of "Dunkirk" in New York. Lee spoke about racial issues and the country's divisive history Saturday, Nov. 11, at the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- 

Director Spike Lee asked the audience at the Virginia Film Festival to observe a moment of silence to remember the Charlottesville woman killed after a car plowed through a group of protesters during a white nationalist rally on Aug. 12.

The Academy Award-winning director spoke about racial issues and the country's divisive history Saturday at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville.

Lee presented his documentary "I Can't Breathe," about Eric Garner's 2014 death in police custody. He also showed his 1992 documentary, "4 Little Girls," which chronicles the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four black girls and helped spark the civil rights movement.

Lee said in order to move forward, Americans need to accept that the United States "was built upon the genocide of Native Americans and slavery."
 

  • Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017
Lifetime to premiere movie on Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping
This image released by Lifetime shows Alana Boden, left, with Elizabeth Smart on the set of "I Am Elizabeth Smart," premiering Saturday, Nov. 18 at 8pm ET/PT on Lifetime. (Sergei Bachlakov/Lifetime via AP)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- 

Kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart is pleased with how a Lifetime movie and documentary she helped produce about her harrowing ordeal turned out. But she said her visit to the movie set brought back terrible memories when she saw actor Skeet Ulrich looking so similar to the man who abducted her.

The upcoming film titled "I Am Elizabeth Smart" follows the nine months after Smart, then 14, was kidnapped by Brian Mitchell from her bedroom in her Salt Lake City home in 2002 and was raped daily by her captor, the Deseret News reported .

Police finally found her in Sandy with the help of two couples who recognized Mitchell from media reports as a suspect in Smart's kidnapping.

Mitchell was convicted and is serving a life sentence for the crime.

The movie features newcomer Alana Boden as Smart, Deirdre Lovejoy — who portrays Mitchell's estranged wife Wanda Barzee, who aided in the kidnapping — and Ulrich as Mitchell.

Smart was More

  • Friday, Nov. 10, 2017
Voice Arts Awards include special honors for Ken Burns, Lily Tomlin
In this Oct. 26, 2016 photo, Lily Tomlin poses for a portrait in Los Angeles. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP)
NEW YORK -- 

Society of Voice Arts & Sciences (SOVAS™) hosted the 2017 Voice Arts® Awards at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Fredrick P. Rose Hall this past Sunday (11/5). Critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns was in attendance to accept the prestigious Muhammad Ali Voice of Humanity Honor. This special segment of the Awards featured a tribute to Burns by three time Emmy® winner Keith David, who is currently starring in Oprah Winfrey’s hit show “Greenleaf” on OWN. Burns’ attendance was a highly anticipated highlight at this year’s show, where he received a standing ovation. 

“What is so extraordinary about this evening is the name of this award for Muhammad Ali is one of the people who took this world and widened it so that everyone in the world could see, that he spoke his voice even when he no longer had one,” Burns said during his inspiring acceptance. 

“This award was created in collaboration with the Champ himself before his passing More

  • Friday, Nov. 10, 2017
Rian Johnson to create new "Star Wars" trilogy
In this Jan. 8, 2013 file photo, screenwriter Rian Johnson attends the National Board of Review Awards gala in New York. The Walt Disney Co. has announced that Johnson will create a new trilogy for the “Star Wars” universe, greatly expanding the director’s command over George Lucas’ ever-expanding space saga. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
By Jake Coyle, Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

The Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday that Rian Johnson will craft a new trilogy for the "Star Wars" universe, greatly expanding the director's command over the ever-expanding space saga created by George Lucas.

The announcement, made by Disney chief Bob Iger on a call with investment analysts, constituted the most ambitious new foray into the "Star Wars" galaxy, moving well beyond the original nine-film framework imagined by Lucas. Disney also announced a live-action "Star Wars" series that will debut on its streaming service which is set to launch in 2019.

The new films will be separate from the Skywalker saga. "Johnson will introduce new characters from a corner of the galaxy that Star Wars lore has never before explored," Disney said in a statement.

That Johnson will preside over a new "Star Wars" trilogy altogether confirms his status as the franchise's new chief guardian. It's a considerable amount of trust to be placed in More

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