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  • Tuesday, May. 2, 2017
Showtime to air Oliver Stone interviews with Vladimir Putin 
In this Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, file photo, Director Oliver Stone poses for photographers as he arrives for the screening of his movie "Snowden", at the Rome Film Festival, in Rome. Showtime said it will air a series of interviews between Stone and Russian President Vladimir Putin over four days in June 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Showtime is presenting four hours of director Oliver Stone interviewing Russian president Vladimir Putin on four consecutive nights in June.

The network announced Monday that "The Putin Interviews" will air first on June 12 at 9 p.m. Eastern, with three additional hour-long installments on the following nights. Showtime said Stone interviewed Putin more than a dozen times over the past two years, most recently in February.

Showtime is comparing the project to conversations held by British TV host David Frost and former U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1977.

Stone had also interviewed Putin for his documentary "Ukraine on Fire," which was said to take a sympathetic view of Russia's involvement in the conflict there.

  • Tuesday, May. 2, 2017
Assembly hires EP Oritte Bendory
Oritte Bendory
NEW YORK -- 

Oritte Bendory has joined NY-based production company Assembly as executive producer. Taking the helm at Assembly alongside EP Gloria Colangelo, Bendory will also serve as head of sales for MacGuffin, Assembly’s sister company which specializes in tabletop production.

She comes to Assembly following a six-year tenure as head of sales at GARTNER. Earlier she was a producer at Ogilvy & Mather and DDB/Uproar.
 
Assembly represents comedy, lifestyle, documentary, and visual storytellers including directors Christopher Bean, Samuel Bennetts, Ed Burns, Jeffrey Fleisig, Guillame de Fontenoy, Jörn Haagen, Gary McKendry, Mike Rowles, Bruce Van Dusen and Julian West. 

Directors Kevan Bean, Nick Fugelstad, and Marie Constantinsco comprise MacGuffin Film’s tabletop offering, with a state of the art facility in downtown Manhattan.

  • Monday, May. 1, 2017
Fox News co-president Bill Shine is out 
In this April 24, 2017 photo, Fox News co-president Bill Shine, right, leaves a New York restaurant with Rupert Murdoch, second from right, the executive chairman of 21st Century Fox. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
By David Bauder, Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Fox News Channel said Monday that co-president Bill Shine is out, the latest high-level departure at a network beset with charges of harassment and discrimination that have already claimed founding CEO Roger Ailes, leading personality Bill O'Reilly and a top financial executive.

Shine was not accused of any direct wrongdoing. But the longtime Ailes lieutenant was considered vulnerable because of claims that he looked the other way as charges of toxic workplace behavior piled up, with some believing that the network would never truly be able to move on without him and other Ailes loyalists.

His leadership experience learned at Ailes' feet was considered invaluable for the top-rated cable network, and Shine had been named co-president with Jack Abernethy upon Ailes' departure. Abernethy, who has spent much of his time at Fox working with Fox-owned broadcast stations and not the news channel, remains. Fox also said that it was promoting two More

  • Monday, May. 1, 2017
Ellen DeGeneres, Steve Harvey among top Daytime Emmy winners 
Mary Connelly, center, accepts the award for outstanding entertainment talk show for "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" at the 44th annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Pasadena Civic Center on Sunday, April 30, 2017, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
By Lynn Elber, Television Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

"The Ellen DeGeneres Show" won the Daytime Emmy Award for best entertainment talk show Sunday, 20 years to the day that her character came out as gay on the sitcom "Ellen."

"She did it because it was the right thing to do," said Mary Connelly, "Ellen" executive producer, of DeGeneres' decision to be open about her sexuality and do the same for her character in 1997. DeGeneres was absent and Connelly accepted the award.

"General Hospital" was honored as best daytime drama, with top acting awards going to Scott Clifton for "The Bold and the Beautiful" and Gina Tognoni for "The Young and the Restless."

Clifton became the first actor to receive Daytime Emmys in the categories of best younger, supporting and lead actor in his career.

Steve Harvey skipped the ceremony but was a double winner. He was named best game show host for "Family Feud" and best host of an informative talk show for "Steve Harvey."

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  • Sunday, Apr. 30, 2017
Head of Motion Picture Association of America to step down 
Chris Dodd, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), delivers the keynote address during the "State of the Industry" presentation at CinemaCon 2016, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), at Caesars Palace on Tuesday, April 12, 2016, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Former U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd is stepping down as chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America.

The MPAA said Friday that their board will gather Saturday to name Charles Rivkin as successor to Dodd, who is resigning Sept. 4.

Rivkin was previously the U.S. assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs and a U.S. ambassador to France and Monaco.

Dodd led the MPAA for six years, and one of his main concerns was preventing digital piracy and protecting copyrights. He also helped expand the presence of U.S. films in the Chinese market and revise the revenue-sharing model to benefit Hollywood studios.

Disney Chairman Alan Horn said in a statement that Dodd transformed the MPAA into a global association for the digital era.

  • Friday, Apr. 28, 2017
"Moonlight" director Barry Jenkins ready to return to work 
This April 25, 2017 file photo shows Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins at the TIME 100 Gala, celebrating the 100 most influential people in the world, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
By Ryan Pearson, Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Two months after his "Moonlight" pulled out a last-second, best-picture win at the Oscars, director Barry Jenkins says "it's time to work."

"You live your whole life - not for this moment, but to have a career. So I have a career now. So I'm going to keep going with it," Jenkins said Thursday at the Los Angeles premiere of the Netflix series "Dear White People."

He directed an episode of the series - which looks at race relations and identity on a college campus - in the middle of last year's Hollywood awards circuit promotional push for "Moonlight," which also earned Academy Awards for best supporting actor and best adapted screenplay.

"So my only 10 days off were the 10 days I spent directing this episode. Which was really cool - it was a really good experience," Jenkins said.

Since the Oscars, Jenkins says he spent a month in Mexico.

"I went to Uxmal, which are the Maya ruins. And it was amazing. You talk about More

  • Thursday, Apr. 27, 2017
Weinstein Co. and MPAA settle ratings dispute 
This image released by The Weinstein Company shows Elle Fanning in a scene from "3 Generations." (George Nicholis/The Weinstein Company via AP)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

The Weinstein Co.'s transgender drama "3 Generations" has been reclassified with a PG-13 rating after the distributor made slight tweaks to the movie.

The Weinstein Co. said Thursday that it made "some edits to the film as a compromise" after the Motion Picture Association of America gave "3 Generations" an R-rating. Harvey Weinstein criticized that decision. The Weinstein Co. co-chairman has frequently battled with the MPAA over ratings, often with the benefit of generating inexpensive publicity.

"3 Generations" stars Elle Fanning as a teenager who is transitioning. Susan Sarandon plays the youth's lesbian grandmother, and Naomi Watts co-stars as the mother.

The LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD, which participated in the making of the film, applauded the ratings change. It called the movie "a film that all families should be able to see."

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  • Thursday, Apr. 27, 2017
Roman Polanski's latest movie added to Cannes Film Festival 
This Feb. 25, 2015 file photo shows filmmaker Roman Polanski during a break in a hearing concerning a U.S. request for his extradition over 1977 charges of sex with a minor, in Krakow, Poland. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, File)
NEW YORK -- 

Roman Polanski's latest film is heading to the Cannes Film Festival.

The French festival announced a few additions to its lineup on Thursday. Polanksi's "Based on a True Story" will play out of competition. The French-language thriller, which Sony Pictures Classics has already acquired for North American distribution, stars Emmanuelle Seigner as a Parisian author who meets a mysterious woman, played by Eva Green, at a book signing.

The film is Polanski's first feature since 2013's "Venus in Fur." A Los Angeles judge recently rejected Polanski's bid to end his long-running underage sex abuse case without the fugitive director appearing in court or being sentenced to more prison time.

Polanski had been set to preside over France's Cesar Awards in February, but withdrew after the protests of feminist groups.

Festival organizers also announced the addition of "The Square" by Swedish director Ruben Ostlund ("Force Majeure") to the More

  • Wednesday, Apr. 26, 2017
Sondheim an honoree, Trump a target at annual PEN gala
Meryl Streep, Stephen Sondheim, 2017 PEN Literary Gala, April 25, 2017, American Museum of Natural History Photo by Ed Lederman/PEN America
By Hillel Italie, National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Stephen Sondheim, whose fellow honorees at Tuesday night's gala for PEN America included an imprisoned Ukrainian filmmaker and the organizers of the women's marches in January, was in a humble mood.

"I write songs for musicals, for god's sake. Musicals, the runt of the arts," Sondheim said as he accepted a Literary Service Award from the literary and human rights organization. "But then I thought if institutions of higher learning now not only offer courses on the subject but have entire departments devoted to musical theater; if you can sign up for Cole Porter 101, 102; if Bob Dylan can win the Nobel Prize; maybe it's OK to take musicals seriously — but not too seriously."

Sondheim's speech was one of the lighter moments for a night otherwise unique for PEN America. Past ceremonies have focused on threats to free expression abroad, but Tuesday's gala at the American Museum of Natural History was a long look homeward. Virtually every More

  • Tuesday, Apr. 25, 2017
Disney to premiere "Descendants" sequel across 5 networks 
This image released by the Disney Channel shows cast members of the film, "Descendants" stars Booboo Stewart, foreground from left, Sofia Carson, Dove Cameron, Cameron Boyce, and background from left, Maz Jobrani, Kathy Najimy, Kristin Chenoweth and Wendy Raquel Robinson. (Bob D'Amico/Disney Channel via AP)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

The Disney Channel is giving a big push to its sequel for the "Descendants" movie in July, premiering it simultaneously on five television networks and online.

Disney said Tuesday that "Descendants 2" will air July 21 on ABC, the Disney Channel, Lifetime, Freeform and Disney XD, as well as on those networks' apps. The original "Descendants," about the teenage sons and daughters of some famed Disney villains, ranked as the fifth most-watched cable TV movie when it came out two years ago.

Disney executive Gary Marsh said the passion for the movie is unlike anything they've seen since "High School Musical." It has inspired spin-off books, a music video and other merchandise.

The movie stars Dove Cameron, Cameron Boyce, Mitchell Hope, Sofia Carson, Booboo Stewart and Mitchell Hope.

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