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  • Monday, Apr. 11, 2016
Gloria Steinem to produce, host TV series on Viceland
In this Oct. 20, 2015 file photo, Gloria Steinem attends a party for her new book, "My Life On The Road", in New York. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, FIle)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Gloria Steinem will host and produce a new television series on the Viceland network about the political impact of violence against women throughout the world.

Viceland said Monday that the series, which will be called "Woman," will premiere on May 10.

As executive producer, Steinem is leading a team of all-female journalists working on the series. Planned episodes will report on sexual violence in the Congo, sexual assault within the U.S. military and extremism in Pakistan.

The network, a collaboration between Vice Media and the A&E networks, has been struggling to find an audience since launching two months ago.

  • Monday, Apr. 11, 2016
UK's Daily Mail in early talks over bid for Yahoo
This Jan. 14, 2015, file photo shows a sign outside Yahoo's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
LONDON (AP) -- 

The owner of Britain's Daily Mail newspaper and media group is in early talks over a bid for the ailing U.S. internet company Yahoo.

A spokesman for the DailyMail.com said Sunday that, given the success of its site and Elite Daily, it has "been in discussions with a number of parties who are potential bidders." He said the talks are in a very early stage and there is no certainty any transaction will take place.

Yahoo did not respond to a request for comment.

The Wall Street Journal first reported that the Daily Mail was speaking with private equity firms about an offer.

Yahoo is under intense pressure to revive its revenue growth and activist investor Starboard Value, a big stakeholder, is pushing for a change in leadership.

Earlier this year, Yahoo cut 15 percent of its workforce, 1,700 employees, along with branches of the company that CEO Marissa Mayer deemed unworthy of continued support. It pulled the plug on an More

  • Friday, Apr. 8, 2016
Twitter names PepsiCo CFO to its board of directors
In this Wednesday Nov. 6, 2013, file photo, the Twitter logo appears on an updated phone post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Twitter has appointed PepsiCo's chief financial officer to its board.

Hugh Johnston has served as PepsiCo Inc.'s CFO since 2010. The 54-year-old executive also serves as vice chairman of the food and beverage company.

Twitter Inc. also disclosed in a regulatory filing that Martha Lane Fox will serve as a director. The 43-year-old executive is a co-founder of travel and leisure website lastminute.com.

Board members Peter Currie and Peter Chernin's terms expire at Twitter's 2016 annual shareholders meeting. The filing says Currie and Chernin were not considered for re-election, at their requests.

Twitter, a social media site famous for hashtags and a 140-character "tweet" limit, turned 10 years old last month. After a long streak of robust growth that turned it into one of the Internet's hottest companies, Twitter's expansion has slowed dramatically over the past year and a half.

At the end of 2015, it had about 320 More

  • Friday, Apr. 8, 2016
Theron, Rogen inspire schoolkids at first California WE Day
Charlize Theron speaks at WE Day California at the Forum on Thursday, April 7, 2016, in Inglewood, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
By Sandy Cohen, Entertainment Writer
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) -- 

Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato were among the stars bringing thousands of Los Angeles-area school kids to their feet Thursday at California's inaugural WE Day celebration.

The educational event drew 16,000 local students to the Forum in Inglewood, California, for a day of inspirational speeches and celebrity appearances. Students earned admission to the WE Day gathering by participating in yearlong community service projects with their schools.

Theron challenged the young audience to become the generation that ends AIDS. Rogen shared how a lack of resources for Alzheimer's disease inspired him, a self-described "lazy man-child," to start his own charitable organization. Zooey Deschanel and the cast of TV's "New Girl" encouraged the students to participate in a group hug.

Gomez opened the show by performing "Kill Em With Kindness." Lovato roused the crowd with her new song, "Stone Cold." Henry Winkler, More

  • Thursday, Apr. 7, 2016
Spike Lee premieres University of Missouri film near campus
Interim UM Systems President Mike Middleton, left, introduces filmmaker Spike Lee before the premiere of "2 Fists Up", Spike Lee's documentary about protests at the University of Missouri, at the Missouri Theatre on Wednesday, April 6, 2016, in Columbia, Mo. Lee worked with ESPN to make the documentary, which examines how the Black Lives Matter movement sparked activism at the University of Missouri. (Mikala Compton/Missourian via AP)
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- 

A Spike Lee documentary about protests at the University of Missouri this fall, which were spurred by what activists said was administrators' indifference to racial issues on campus, made its premiere Wednesday night at a theater near the campus.

Lee worked with ESPN to make the documentary, "2 Fists Up," which examines how the Black Lives Matter movement sparked activism at the University of Missouri and the rest of the county.

Lee contacted the university to set up a screening of a one-hour version of the film, the Columbia Daily Tribune reported.

It was shown at the Missouri Theatre in downtown Columbia. About 800 people were in attendance, the Columbia Missourian and Kansas City Star reported.

University of Missouri System interim President Michael Middleton introduced Lee to the crowd ahead of the screening.

The documentary was initially slated to premiere May 31 as part of a package of short films by Lee More

  • Thursday, Apr. 7, 2016
Lupita Nyong'o still basking in glow of 2014 Oscar win
Lupita Nyong'o arrives at the premiere of "The Jungle Book" at the El Capitan Theatre on Monday, April 4, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
By Nicole Evatt
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Lupita Nyong'o's career has moved well along since her Academy Award two years ago, yet she's still basking in the glow of her Oscar win.

"I never expected to win in the first place, so I didn't have any expectations as to what life would look like after that, but I'm happy. I'm a really happy person. I love my life," said Nyong'o at the world premiere of "The Jungle Book" this week in Los Angeles.

Nyong'o, who won best supporting actress in 2014 for "12 Years a Slave," currently stars in Broadway's "Eclipsed" and is back on set for "Star Wars: Episode VIII."

"I sleep whenever I can. I get massages and acupuncture and I eat well," said Nyong'o of surviving her busy schedule. "I plan what I eat a week in advance and then I don't have to worry about it on a day-to-day basis."

Nyong'o voices Raksha, Mowgli's adoptive wolf mother in Jon Favreau's live-action remake of "The Jungle Book," in theaters April 15.

"I channeled More

  • Wednesday, Apr. 6, 2016
Almodovar cancels new movie promo events on offshore news
In this Monday Jan. 13, 2014 file photo, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, left, and his brother the producer Agustin Almodovar poses for photographers during the photocall of the Jose Maria Forque Awards in Madrid, Spain. (AP Photo/Abraham Caro Marin, File)
By Alan Clendenning
MADRID (AP) -- 

Spanish movie director Pedro Almodovar canceled his appearances this week at promotional events for his new movie "Julieta" following intense interest in the offshore company he owned with his brother years ago, Almodovar's production company said Wednesday.

The director nixed planned interviews and a photo shoot ahead of the debut of "Julieta" in theaters across Spain Friday, his El Deseo company said in a statement and emailed comments to The Associated Press.

The statement did not directly blame the revelation of the director's previous offshore company via leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm, but strongly suggested that was the reason by saying the events were called off due to attention on matters unrelated to the movie.

"Julieta" is Almovodar's 20th movie. Actors in the movie including Emma Suarez, Adriana Ugarte, Rossy de Palma, Daniel Grao, Inma Cuesta and Michelle Jenner did do their planned interviews to promote More

  • Wednesday, Apr. 6, 2016
Judge approves settlement in Sony Pictures hacking case
This Dec. 18, 2014 file photo shows the entrance of Sony Pictures Entertainment studio lot in Culver City, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

A judge on Wednesday approved a multimillion dollar settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by former Sony Pictures Entertainment employees whose private information was stolen in a massive data breach.

The U.S. government blamed the hack on North Korea in an attempt to derail the release of the North Korean-focused comedy "The Interview."

U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner approved the agreement that gives roughly 437,000 people impacted by the breach identity theft protection from the time of the 2014 hack through 2017.

Under the deal, Sony agreed to provide identity theft protection — as well as an optional service that will cover up to $1 million in losses — and create a fund to cover any additional losses.

An exact figure for the settlement is not yet available, since a deadline for workers to sign up for credit protection and reimbursement hasn't yet passed.

Klausner noted that three years of free credit More

  • Wednesday, Apr. 6, 2016
LeVar Burton: 'It was time' to remake 'Roots'
View of the stand of the new tv series "Roots" at the MIPTV, International Television Programme Market, Monday, April 4, 2016, in Cannes, southern France.(AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
By Thomas Adamson
PARIS (AP) -- 

LeVar Burton was initially skeptical of remaking "Roots," the groundbreaking miniseries that launched his career in 1977.

But Burton, who played a young Kunta Kinte, overcame those concerns after seeing the educational value in helping the new generation of Americans better relate to the plight of slaves and African-American history, particularly after the election of Barack Obama, the United States' first black president.

"It was time - almost 40 years had passed. It made sense. If we want to keep these stories alive in the cultural consciousness, we have to reinvent them and retell them," he said. The current political climate in the U.S., he said, "has triggered a fear, an underlying sense of disquiet that was there all along."

Burton is the executive director of the new "Roots," which will debut on the History Channel next month. The all-star cast includes Laurence Fishburne, Forest Whitaker, Anna Paquin and Jonathan Rhys Meyers More

  • Wednesday, Apr. 6, 2016
"Lowriders" to open LA Film Festival
A scene from "Lowriders" (photo by Justin Lubin)
LOS ANGELES -- 

The LA Film Festival, produced by Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that also produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards, has announced that Ricardo de Montreuil’s Lowriders will open this year’s Festival. The film, produced by Academy Award® winner Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind, 8 Mile, American Gangster) and Oscar® nominee® and Emmy Award winner Jason Blum (Whiplash, The Gift, HBO’s The Normal Heart), stars Eva Longoria, Demián Bichir, Melissa Benoist, Theo Rossi, Tony Revolori and Gabriel Chavarria. It was also announced that Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station, Creed) has been named the 2016 Guest Director. 
 
Additionally, Ava DuVernay (Middle of Nowhere, Selma) and Array Releasing will receive the Festival’s annual Spirit of Independence Award. This award, which honors those who advance the cause of independent film and champion creative freedom, has previously been given to Don More

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