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  • Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017
Turner is latest to plan sports streaming service
Napoli's Jorginho celebrates after scoring during a Champions League playoff round, first leg soccer match between Napoli and Nice at San Paolo stadium in Naples, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017. (Cesare Abbate/ANSA Via AP)
By Tali Arbel, Technology Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Turner Sports is the latest TV company to announce a sports streaming service as traditional television companies chase millennial audiences.

The service, expected next year in the U.S., has signed up European soccer with the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. Higher-profile sports on Turner's TV channels, such as baseball and basketball, won't move to the new service. Instead, Turner is looking for new deals with content owners and leagues.

Live sports get TV's biggest ratings and have helped keep customers hooked on the $100-and-up cable bundle. But it's getting easier to find sports online.

Major sports channels come with cheaper, slimmer web versions of the bundle, like Sling and YouTube TV . Amazon, Twitter and Facebook are experimenting with televising games. A sports-focused streaming service, Fubo, has been around for a few years. And CBS and ESPN are planning to launch sports streaming sites.

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  • Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017
Tom Cruise ankle break halts "Mission: Impossible 6" production
In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017, file photo, Tom Cruise poses during a photocall for the French premiere of "The Mummy" in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Production has shut down on "Mission: Impossible 6" due to star Tom Cruise's broken ankle. Paramount Pictures said Wednesday that production will go on hiatus while Cruise makes a full recovery.

Cruise broke his ankle while performing a stunt for the film during its London-based shoot.

TMZ posted a video Sunday that showed a tethered Cruise leaping to a building, hitting its side and then crawling over the top and running away. After he finished the take, Cruise is seen limping, though he was able to rappel back to the building he jumped from.

The 55-year-old actor is known for performing many of his own stunts.

The studio says that the film remains on schedule to open on July 27, 2018.

  • Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017
Susan Sarandon to receive upstate NY film festival award
In a Friday, April 21, 2017 file photo, Susan Sarandon arrives at the "Feud: Bette and Joan" FYC screening at The Ebell of Los Angeles. Organizers of the Woodstock Film Festival say Sarandon will receive the Maverick Award on Oct. 14 at the the annual film festival in New York's Hudson Valley. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)
WOODSTOCK, NY (AP) -- 

Susan Sarandon will receive the Maverick Award at an annual film festival in New York's Hudson Valley.

Organizers of the Woodstock Film Festival say the star of such films as "Thelma and Louise" and "Bull Durham" will receive the award during the Oct. 11-15 event. She also will screen "Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story" for which she was executive producer.

Sarandon will receive the award Oct. 14 during a ceremony at Backstage Studio Productions in Kingston, one of the host communities of the festival.

Previous recipients include Steve Buscemi and the late movie director Jonathan Demme.

Sarandon won an Academy Award in 1996 for best actress for her role in "Dead Man Walking."

Besides Kingston, the festival is hosted by nearby Woodstock, Rhinebeck, Rosendale, and Saugerties (SAW'-ger-teez).

  • Monday, Aug. 14, 2017
Stunt driver dies while filming "Deadpool 2" in Vancouver
A police officer examines a motorcycle after a female stunt driver working on the movie "Deadpool 2" died after a crash on set, in Vancouver, B.C., on Monday Aug. 14, 2017. Vancouver police say the driver was on a motorcycle when the crash occurred on the movie set on Monday morning. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- 

"Deadpool 2" star Ryan Reynolds is mourning the death of a motorcycle stunt driver killed during production Monday.

Reynolds released a statement on Twitter a few hours after the accident near the waterfront in downtown Vancouver.

"Today, we tragically lost a member of our crew while filming Deadpool," the actor wrote. "We're heartbroken, shocked and devastated ... but recognize nothing can compare to the grief and inexplicable pain her family and loved ones must feel in this moment."

Reynolds, a native of Vancouver playing the Marvel Comics superhero Deadpool in the 20th Century Fox movie, said his heart "pours out to them — along with each and every person she touched in this world."

The motorcycle crash happened near the Shaw Tower office building, where a crumpled motorcycle was seen lying on its side and a window was smashed.

Nathan Kramchynski, who works on the seventh floor of the building, said he watched More

  • Monday, Aug. 14, 2017
Oscar-nominated writer Joe Bologna dies at 82
In this October 1989 file photo, the Dalai Lama, left, talks to the comedy writing and acting team of Renee Taylor and Joe Bologna, during a backstage visit prior to the Dalai Lama's convocation on the subject of compassion at UC Irvine in Irvine, Calif. (AP Photo/File)
PHOENIX (AP) -- 

Oscar-nominated writer Joe Bologna died Sunday. He was 82.

Bologna died in the Los Angeles area after a three-year battle against pancreatic cancer, his manager Matt Sherman told The Associated Press.

The actor and director was married to actress Renee Taylor, who credited his doctors for prolonging his life so he could receive a lifetime achievement award at the Night of 100 Stars for the Actors' Fund of America on Feb. 26.

"He had a beautiful life," Taylor said in a statement.

Born Dec. 30, 1934, Bologna was a native to Brooklyn, New York. After he graduated from Brown University with a degree in art history, Bologna served in the Marines.

​Bologna and Taylor married in 1965.

"Joe was a loveable man, a kind soul, a good friend and always a pleasure to be with," Sherman said.

Bologna was nominated for an Oscar in 1971 for best adapted screenplay for "Lovers and Other Strangers." He won an Emmy in 1973. More

  • Monday, Aug. 14, 2017
No "Game of Thrones" in latest HBO hacker leak
This image released by HBO shows a scene from an episode of "Game of Thrones," which aired Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. The series continued its ratings reign with a best-yet audience of 10.2 million. (HBO via AP)
By Tali Arbel & Frank Bajak
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Hackers continue to pester HBO, but didn't release any material related to the network's hit show "Game of Thrones" in their latest leak.

The hackers, who broke into HBO's computer network and have been doling out stolen information for the past several weeks, released more unaired episodes, including several of the highly anticipated return of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," which debuts in October.

The latest dump includes Sunday night's episode of "Insecure," another popular show, and what appear to be episodes of other lower-profile shows, including "Ballers," the unaired shows "Barry" and "The Deuce," a comedy special and other programming.

The network acknowledged the hack in late July, and the thieves have been dribbling out stolen video and documents since then while demanding a multimillion-dollar ransom .

They have leaked "Game of Thrones" scripts, sensitive internal documents like job offer letters and a month's worth of More

  • Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017
Industry Mourns Edward J. Greene, CAS
Edward J. Greene
LOS ANGELES -- 

Edward J. Greene, CAS--a multiple award-winning mixer in television production, postproduction and an audio system design consultant--died peacefully in Los Angeles on August 9, with his family by his side. He was 82 years old. 

Born and raised in New York City, Green attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  He began his professional audio career with a summer job in 1954 at Allegro Studios in New York doing voice and piano demos for music publishers. Within two years the studio was doing full recording sessions. Greene joined the army in 1956 and served as recording engineer for the U.S. Army Band and Chorus in Washington, D. C.  Upon discharge from the Army he co-founded Edgewood Studios in Washington, with two partners--radio and television commentator Charles Osgood and composer George Wilkins. Some of Greene’s recordings are legendary and include Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz’s “Jazz Samba” and Ramsey Lewis’ “The In Crowd”.

In 1970, More

  • Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017
POV to stream "Two Towns of Jasper" free for 30 days
Directors Whitney Dow (l) and Marco Williams

Independent documentary series POV is streaming and rebroadcasting Two Towns of Jasper as a part of its 30th season this August. Originally presented in January 2003 during POV’s 15th season, the film explores race relations in the town of Jasper, Texas, following the brutal murder of a black man by white supremacists. 

When James Byrd, Jr. was chained to a pick-up truck and dragged to his death by three white men in Jasper, Texas in 1998, his murder shocked the nation. On a June night, three young white men from the town—John King, Lawrence Brewer and Shawn Berry—went out for a drive. After some drinking, they picked up Byrd, a local man, chained him to the back of their truck and dragged him for three miles. Byrd was alive for much of this ordeal. Eventually his head was shorn off and his body disintegrated. It was a modern-day lynching.

Two Towns of Jasper, which received a 2003 George Foster Peabody Award and More

  • Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017
Deal set to turn Staten Island correctional facility into TV/film production studio
Howard Zemsky
NEW YORK -- 

Empire State Development (ESD) announced that a final deal has closed on the redevelopment of the former Arthur Kill Correctional Facility as a first-class television and film production studio space. Upon its completion, the project will support the creation of approximately 1,311 permanent jobs on Staten Island.
 
“This state-of-the-art film and television hub will create over 1,300 jobs on Staten Island and build on New York’s booming entertainment industry,” said ESD President, CEO, and Commissioner Howard Zemsky. “When New York State sought proposals for the redevelopment of the former Arthur Kill Correctional Facility, we promised Staten Island a creative project that would generate vibrant local economic opportunity and today’s announcement exceeds our expectations.”
 
The Arthur Kill Correctional Facility consists of an approximately 69-acre unused, vacant site on the Rossville waterfront on Staten Island. In May 2013, ESD More

  • Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017
Seth MacFarlane favors sci-fi optimism in TV's "The Orville"
Seth MacFarlane participates in the "The Orville" panel during the FOX Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- 

Seth MacFarlane is seeking escape from the current wave of dystopian science fiction, and his vehicle is "The Orville."

MacFarlane said Tuesday that he wants to recapture an optimistic view of the future in his new space adventure for Fox, one that echoes past "Star Trek" series.

He told a TV critics' meeting he also wants to buck the trend of serialized dramas, with each one-hour episode of "The Orville" a self-contained story.

He said continuity is provided by the characters, including the Orville captain that MacFarlane plays in the show he created.

The show set 400 years in the future will include comic elements, MacFarlane said, but isn't a satire in the style of space movies "Galaxy Quest" or Mel Brooks' "Spaceballs."

"The Orville" debuts Sept. 10 on Fox.

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