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  • Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024
Art Directors Guild names 4 Life Achievement Award recipients for 28th Excellence in Production Design Awards
Wynn P. Thomas (l) and Francine West
LOS ANGELES -- 

The Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800 (ADG 800) will present Lifetime Achievement Awards to guild members David Lowery, Greg Papalia, Wynn P. Thomas and Francine West. The Lifetime Achievement Award recipients will be celebrated at the 28th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, on Feb. 10. 

“It’s our honor and privilege to recognize and award these trailblazers in our guild,” shared award show producers Michael Allen Glover, ADG and Megan Elizabeth Bell, ADG in a joint statement.

The Illustrators and Matte Artists (IMA) Council is bestowing its lifetime achievement award on Lowery, who has worked on more than 100 award-winning blockbuster films including: Jurassic Park, The Lion King and all three Sam Raimi Spider-man films. Lowery was the co-head of story on Shrek, as well as head of storyboards and associate producer on every episode of The Mandalorian.

“David’s 36-year career as a More

  • Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024
Court documents underscore Meta's "historical reluctance" to protect children on Instagram
Meta's logo is seen on a sign at the company's headquarters, Nov. 9, 2022, in Menlo Park, Calif. Newly unredacted documents from New Mexico’s lawsuit against Meta released Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, underscore the Facebook and Instagram parent’s “historical reluctance” to keep children safe on its platforms, according to the complaint. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)
By Barbara Ortutay, Technology Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- 

Newly unredacted documents from New Mexico's lawsuit against Meta underscore the company's "historical reluctance" to keep children safe on its platforms, the complaint says.

New Mexico's Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued Facebook and Instagram owner Meta in December, saying the company failed to protect young users from exposure to child sexual abuse material and allowed adults to solicit explicit imagery from them.

In the passages freshly unredacted from the lawsuit Wednesday, internal employee messages and presentations from 2020 and 2021 show Meta was aware of issues such as adult strangers being able to contact children on Instagram, the sexualization of minors on that platform, and the dangers of its "people you may know" feature that recommends connections between adults and children. But Meta dragged its feet when it came to addressing the issues, the passages show.

Instagram, for instance, began restricting adults' ability More

  • Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024
USC Libraries name finalists for 36th Scripter Awards
Jeffrey Wright in a scene from "American Fiction" (photo by Claire Folger/courtesy of MGM-Orion/Amazon MGM Studios)
LOS ANGELES -- 

The USC Libraries named the finalists for the 36th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards, which honors the writers of the year’s most accomplished film and episodic series adaptations, as well as the writers of the works on which they are based. 
 
The finalist writers for film adaptation are, in alphabetical order by film title: 

  • Cord Jefferson for “American Fiction” based on the novel “Erasure” by Percival Everett
  • Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese for “Killers of the Flower Moon” based on the nonfiction book “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI” by David Grann
  • Christopher Nolan for “Oppenheimer” based on the nonfiction book “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
  • Ava DuVernay for “Origin” based on the nonfiction book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson
  • Screenwriter Tony More
  • Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024
AFI sets dates for 2024 film festival
LOS ANGELES -- 

The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced the dates for AFI Fest 2024. The 38th edition of the Institute’s annual festival will take place October 23–27 exclusively in person at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre in the heart of Hollywood. The five-day festival will once again include a curated selection of Red Carpet Premiere screenings, Special Screenings, World Cinema, Documentaries and Short Films.

“With awards season in full bloom, AFI is also looking to the future and this fall’s AFI FEST,” said Bob Gazzale, AFI president and CEO.  “So as last year’s films take a well-deserved bow, mark your calendars now to experience the very best of what lies ahead.”

AFI Fest is recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a qualifying festival for the Live Action, Animated and Documentary Short Film categories for the annual Academy Awards®. AFI Fest is also a qualifying festival for consideration for the British Short More

  • Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024
CNN's new chief says the network needs to recapture the "swagger and innovation" of its youth
CNN's new chief executive, Mark Thompson, arrives at Portcullis House in London on Sept. 9, 2013. Thompson, a former executive at The New York Times and BBC, said in a strategy memo to his staff that the organization needs to recapture the “swagger and innovation” of its youth. He is outlining an internal reorganization and is challenging his staff to look beyond television for revenue opportunities. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
By David Bauder, Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

CNN's new chief executive says the company needs to recapture the "swagger and innovation" of its early days — and that, he says, increasingly means embracing a future outside of television.

Mark Thompson, appointed CNN's chief executive last fall after stints at The New York Times and BBC, outlined a strategy to his staff Wednesday that included a corporate restructuring but few external specifics on how that transformation will take place.

Once a "scrappy outsider," CNN has been slow to respond to the reality of its primary television business shrinking, Thompson said in his memo. He was not made available for an on-the-record interview with The Associated Press.

"There's currently too little innovation and risk-taking," Thompson said in the memo. "Like so many other news players with a broadcast heritage, CNN's linear services and even its website can sometimes have an old-fashioned and unadventurous feel as if the world has More

  • Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024
Emmy Awards get record low ratings with audience of 4.3 million people
Chandra Wilson, from left, Justin Chambers, Ellen Pompeo, Katherine Heigl, and James Pickens Jr., present the award for outstanding supporting actor in a limited anthology series or movie during the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
By Andrew Dalton, Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

The Emmy Awards telecast on Fox reached a record low audience of 4.3 million viewers, as the long-term trend of diminishing ratings for the show continues.

The Nielsen company said Tuesday that the Monday night show hosted by Anthony Anderson with "Succession" and "The Bear" raking in most of the top awards was down from the previous record low of 5.9 million for NBC's telecast in 2022, the last time the event was held.

This year's Emmys had a lot working against them. They were was delayed four months from its usual September spot by Hollywood's writers and actors strikes, and had to compete with both an NFL playoff game and coverage of the Iowa caucuses in the presidential campaign.

The audience was less than half of what the CBS telecast of the Golden Globes got eight days earlier. That show, which honored both TV and movies and had bigger stars in attendance including Taylor Swift, had 9.4 million viewers.

The Emmys and More

  • Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024
Disney hopes prosecutor's free speech case against DeSantis helps its own lawsuit against governor
Minnie and Mickey Mouse perform for guests during a musical show in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, July 14, 2023, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Disney is hoping a recent decision bolstering a Florida prosecutor's First Amendment case against Gov. Ron DeSantis helps its own free speech lawsuit against the Florida governor. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
By Mike Schneider
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- 

Disney is hoping a recent decision bolstering a Florida prosecutor's First Amendment case against Gov. Ron DeSantis helps its own free speech lawsuit against the governor.

A decision last week by a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that revived a First Amendment challenge by former prosecutor Andrew Warren, who was suspended by DeSantis, should support Disney's arguments against the governor, the company said Thursday in a court filing.

"The same values are at stake here," Disney said.

After DeSantis and the Republican-led Legislature took control of the governing district of Walt Disney World near Orlando, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts filed a First Amendment lawsuit in federal court in Tallahassee last year against DeSantis and his appointees to the district's governing board. Before DeSantis appointed the new members to the board, it had been controlled by Disney supporters for more than five decades. More

  • Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024
Alkemy X's Creative Studio signs Remade for U.S. commercial representation
Remade studio
PHILADELPHIA -- 

Alkemy X’s Creative Studio has added Remade to its roster for U.S. commercial representation. Remade is a design-based multi-disciplinary animation studio specializing in traditional hand-drawn, cel animation. Remade’s narrative directorial style and highly collaborative process have been applied to everything from films and music videos to national commercials and social media campaigns. 

Creative Studio executive producer Sue Fallon said of Remade, “I am always blown away by the artistry of their work and could not be more excited to partner with them. Everything they do is visually stunning and emotionally resonant. Together, we look forward to crafting new and beautiful animations for agencies and brands.”

DJ Ferro, co-founder of Remade expressed, “We’ve been very familiar with Alkemy X’s impressive history and are thrilled to contribute to their growing success.”  

Remade’s clients include Google, Indeed, The Philadelphia More

  • Monday, Jan. 15, 2024
Survey: More CEOs fear their companies won't survive 10 years as AI and climate challenges grow
People gather in front of a screen with a artificial intelligence generated artwork by media artist Refik Anadol, inside the Congress Center where the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos from Jan. 15 until Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
By Courtney Bonnell, Business Writer
LONDON (AP) -- 

More executives are feeling better about the global economy, but a growing number don't think their companies will survive the coming decade without a major overhaul because of pressure from climate change and technology like artificial intelligence, according to a new survey of CEOs by one of the world's largest consulting firms, PwC.

The survey of more than 4,700 CEOs worldwide was released Monday as business elites, political leaders and activists descended on the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, and it showed a mixed picture of the coming years.

Of the executives, 38% were optimistic about the strength of the economy, up from 18% last year, when the world was mired in high inflation, weak growth, rising interest rates and more.

The CEOs' expectation of economic decline has dropped to 45% from a record-high 73% last year, and fewer saw their company as highly exposed to the risk of geopolitical More

  • Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024
"The Honeymooners" actress Joyce Randolph dies at 99
Actress Joyce Randolph, who played "Trixie" on the TV series "The Honeymooners," on Nov. 24, 1990, in New York. Randolph, who played Ed Norton’s sarcastic wife Trixie, has died at age 99. Randolph died of natural causes Saturday night, Jan. 13, 2024, at her home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, her son Randolph Charles told The Associated Press Sunday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
NEW YORK -- 

Joyce Randolph, a veteran stage and television actress whose role as the savvy Trixie Norton on "The Honeymooners" provided the perfect foil to her dimwitted TV husband, has died. She was 99.

Randolph died of natural causes Saturday night at her home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, her son Randolph Charles told The Associated Press Sunday.

She was the last surviving main character of the beloved comedy from television's golden age of the 1950s.

"The Honeymooners" was an affectionate look at Brooklyn tenement life, based in part on star Jackie Gleason's childhood. Gleason played the blustering bus driver Ralph Kramden. Audrey Meadows was his wisecracking, strong-willed wife Alice, and Art Carney the cheerful sewer worker Ed Norton. Alice and Trixie often found themselves commiserating over their husbands' various follies and mishaps, whether unknowingly marketing dogfood as a popular snack or trying in vain to resist a rent hike More

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