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  • Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016
In this Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 file photo, Kathryn Bigelow arrives to the Museum of Modern Art's third annual Film Benefit in New York. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

"Zero Dark Thirty" filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow's next project will move her from the Middle East to Detroit.

Bigelow will direct a film set amid the week of deadly race-related rioting in Detroit that claimed 43 lives in 1967.

The as-yet-untitled film will be financed by Annapurna Pictures and written by Mark Boal.

Bigelow and Boal pair previously collaborated on the Middle East war movies "Zero Dark Thirty" and "The Hurt Locker," which earned Academy Awards for best picture, best director for Bigelow and best original screenplay for Boal.

The crime drama is scheduled to begin production this summer and released in 2017 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the riots.

  • Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016
In this Monday, Sept. 21, 2015, photo, provided by QuickBooks, Michael Brown, owner of Death Wish Coffee Company, poses for a picture during Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Big Game finalists tour, in Round Lake, N.Y. (Hans Pennink/QuickBooks via AP)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

A coffee with an edgy name and made by a small business is getting a commercial in Super Bowl 50.

Death Wish Coffee Co. won a competition held by software maker Intuit for a 30-second spot during the third quarter of the big game on Feb. 7. The Round Lake, New York, company beat more than 15,000 other small businesses in voting by the public and Intuit employees.

Death Wish was founded in 2012 by Mike Brown, who owns a coffee house in Saratoga Springs, New York, and wanted to find a strong, highly-caffeinated brew. Packaged in a black bag with a skull and bones label, the coffee, a blend that Brown created, is sold in a handful of stores and online. Death Wish currently sells about 1,000 pounds a day, a number expected to increase considerably after the Super Bowl spot runs.

Brown recently hired two employees to prepare for a jump in business, giving him a staff of 12.

"If even half a More

  • Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016
In this Friday, Jan. 23, 2015 file photo, Joseph Fiennes, a cast member in "Strangerland," poses at the premiere of the film at the Egyptian Theatre during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah.(Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
LONDON (AP) -- 

Joseph Fiennes will star as Michael Jackson in a one-off TV comedy set to broadcast later this year — a casting decision that has added fuel to a raging debate about opportunities for non-white actors in movies and TV.

The white British star of "Shakespeare in Love" plays the black King of Pop in "Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon," alongside Stockard Channing as Elizabeth Taylor and Brian Cox as Marlon Brando.

The script is based on a — possibly fictitious — road trip the three stars are rumored to have made in an attempt to leave New York after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Sky Arts, which commissioned the drama, confirmed the casting and said Wednesday that the show is in post-production and is due to air in 2016. The channel said it was "part of a series of comedies about unlikely stories from arts and cultural history."

Jackson had vitiligo, a condition that causes patchy loss of skin More

  • Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016
In this Jan. 21, 2016 file photo, Robert Redford, founder and president of the Sundance Institute speaks at the premiere of "Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You" during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP, File)
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- 

Robert Redford is pretty sure this is the best Sundance Film Festival they've ever had, and he also knows that things have to change.

It's not the films. The quality, he said, is better than ever. It's the size.

"I'm starting to hear some negative comments about how crowded it is and how difficult it is to get from venue to venue when there's traffic and people in the streets and so forth," Redford said. "We're going to have to look at that."

Redford still seems somewhat bemused that the Festival grew the way it did over the past three decades. He sees it as a combination of the narrowing of the entertainment business - when filmmakers and actors had to look outside of Hollywood to find material and projects worth doing - and a product of globalization.

"When actors came who were well known, then the paparazzi came. Then once the paparazzi came, the fashion houses came. Suddenly this More

  • Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016
Nate Parker, left, the director, star and producer of "The Birth of a Nation," poses with singer Maxwell at the premiere of the film at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- 

Fox Searchlight Pictures won a bidding war at the Sundance Film Festival for "The Birth of a Nation," paying a record-setting $17.5 million for the film's worldwide distribution rights.

The studio announced the deal Tuesday after the film premiered to a standing ovation a day earlier.

It tells the true story of Nat Turner, a slave who taught himself to read and became a preacher before ultimately leading a deadly rebellion that wiped out 60 slave owners.

Fox Searchlight did not disclose the amount of its winning bid, reported to be $17.5 million. Past high-priced titles such as 2013's "The Way, Way Back" and 2006's "Little Miss Sunshine" topped out in the $10-12 million range.

Writer, director, producer and star Nate Parker spent seven years making the film he described as a passion project he hopes will serve as a "healing mechanism for America."

Fox Searchlight says it will More

  • Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016
In this Wed., July 15, 2015 file photo, director Woody Allen attends a special screening of "Irrational Man," hosted by The Cinema Society and Fiji Water, at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Woody Allen has an unlikely new female star: Miley Cyrus.

Cyrus will star in Allen's not-yet-titled Amazon series, a spokeswoman for Cyrus confirmed. The head-spinning casting combines the 80-year-old filmmaker with the 23-year-old former Disney star.

Cyrus will star alongside Elaine May in the six half-hour episodes planned to run this year.

On Instagram, Cyrus posted a painting of Allen that she said had been beside her bed for years. Cyrus wrote that she was "looking into his eyes when I got the call to be a part of the cast."

Allen has previously voiced regrets about his first foray into streaming television. At the Cannes Film Festival in May he called it "a catastrophic mistake."

  • Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016
Producer Jim McNiel, left, and filmmaker Werner Herzog pose for a portrait to promote the film, "Lo and Behold Reveries of the Connected World", at the Toyota Mirai Music Lodge during the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- 

The first time Werner Herzog came to Sundance a little over a decade ago with "Grizzly Man," he asked that the Festival prepare the Olympic-sized ski jump ramps for him.

He'd grown up on skis in the Bavarian mountains and was a ski jumper in his youth.

Herzog, then in his early 60s, told them simply: "I want to fly."

"I said it so seriously," Herzog recalled. "I kind of scared the Festival."

"Of course, I am too old for it and would most certainly crash.... I would fly some distance, but don't ask how I would land."

The famed documentarian returned to the Sundance Film Festival this year with "Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World," a wide-eyed look at the world of the internet (and its birthplace) and technology as told through a series of interviews with experts and eccentrics ranging from Elon Musk to the folks living in Green Bank, West Virginia, deliberately removed More

  • Monday, Jan. 25, 2016
Lily Tomlin (photo by Greg Gorman)
LOS ANGELES -- 

Comedienne/actress Lily Tomlin will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 53rd Annual International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) Publicists Awards Luncheon to be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 26.

“Lily Tomlin is being recognized for an exceptional career that dates back to ‘Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In’ and led her to become one of America’s foremost performers across an ever changing range of media – television, movies, theater, animation and video,” said Awards Committee chairman Henri Bollinger.

The beloved comedienne has made her mark across all mediums, from television to movies to theater, from comedy to drama to animation. Anyone who is old enough will remember Ernestine, the irascible telephone operator and Edith Ann, the devilish six-year-old in TV’s Laugh-In more than 40 years ago. And just this year she was nominated for two Golden Globes: lead More

  • Monday, Jan. 25, 2016
In this July 22, 2013 file photo, actress and comedian Carol Burnett arrives at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' at the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

A triumvirate of women in comedy is appearing at the Screen Actors Guild Awards next week.

Producers announced Monday that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will present the guild's Life Achievement Award to Carol Burnett at Saturday's ceremony in Los Angeles.

The prize is given annually to an actor who embodies the "finest ideals of the profession," including professional and humanitarian achievements.

Burnett's trophy shelf is already crowded with multiple Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Mark Twain Prize for Humor and a Kennedy Center Honor. The 82-year-old entertainer joins previous SAG Life Achievement Award winners such as Elizabeth Taylor, George Burns, Sidney Poitier, Ernest Borgnine, Betty White and James Earl Jones.

  • Monday, Jan. 25, 2016
Director Jason Benjamin, center, poses with producers, Jenni Koner, left, and Lena Dunham for a portrait to promote the film, "Suited", at the Toyota Mirai Music Lodge during the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- 

Derek needed a suit for his wedding. Aiden needed something for his bar mitzvah. Everett wanted a sharp interview outfit.

All three found their fit at Bindle & Keep, a custom clothier that specializes in dressing people across the gender spectrum. The New York-based company and its clients are the subject of "Suited," a documentary premiering Monday at the Sundance Film Festival.

The film introduces viewers to people rarely seen onscreen — transgender men — and shows how finding a suit that highlights their masculinity profoundly affects how they feel and see themselves.

Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner produced the film, the third documentary from their Casual Romance production company. It is directed by Jason Benjamin, who also works as the boom-mike operator on Dunham's HBO show, "Girls."

Benjamin was inspired by a newspaper article about the suit-makers, expecting the moment someone More

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