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  • Thursday, Jun. 8, 2017
Roman Polanski sex victim to appear in court for first time
In this May 6, 2008 file photo, Samantha Geimer arrives at the premiere of the HBO Documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired" in New York. A lawyer for Polanski says Geimer, a sex crime victim, will appeal to a judge to end the case against him. Geimer will appear Friday, June 9, 2017 in Los Angeles Superior Court to help make the case that Polanski has served his time for the 40-year-old crime. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)
By Brian Melley
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

A lawyer for Roman Polanski says his sex crime victim will directly appeal to a judge to end the case against him.

Attorney Harland Braun said Samantha Geimer will appear Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court to help make the case that Polanski has served his time for the 40-year-old crime.

The Oscar-winner has been a fugitive since he fled to France in 1978 after pleading guilty to having unlawful sex with a minor.

Polanski feared the judge was going to renege on the plea agreement and send him away for more time than the six weeks he served in prison prior to sentencing.

Geimer, who was 13 at the time, has long supported Polanski's bid to end the case, but has never appeared on his behalf in court.

 

  • Thursday, Jun. 8, 2017
Film spotlights Holocaust survivor's search for US soldier
In this Wednesday, June 7, 2017 photo, Holocaust survivors Israel Arbeiter, left, and Steve Ross, right, greet one another at a theater before the premier of the film "Etched in Glass: The Legacy of Steve Ross," in West Newton, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
By Philip Marcelo
BOSTON (AP) -- 

It was a simple act of kindness by a complete stranger, but it left a lasting impression on a young Polish boy escaping the horrors of Nazi death camps.
Steve Ross searched for decades for the U.S. soldier that had comforted and fed him as Dachau concentration camp was being liberated by Allied forces in 1945. As Ross carved out a new life in America, he retold the story countless times, carrying with him the American flag handkerchief the soldier left him.

"My father was absolutely transformed by that small act," said Michael Ross, a former Boston City Council president and onetime mayoral candidate. "It helped him regain his faith in humanity. It shows that these things we do in life have profound consequences. That how we treat each other matters."

Ross' search for the benevolent soldier and his life after the war is recounted in a new documentary screened in the Boston suburb of West Newton on Wednesday evening.

"Etched in More

  • Tuesday, Jun. 6, 2017
John Hughes, Helena Packer, Kevin Donovan team to launch PHD
PHD founders (l-r) John Hughes, Helena Packer and Kevin Donovan
LOS ANGELES -- 

PHD has been launched in Los Angeles as a collective led by visual effects industry veterans John Hughes (founder of VFX shop Rhythm and Hues) and Helena Packer along with film/TV/commercials director Kevin Donovan. A full service postproduction house working across VR/AR, independent films, documentaries, select TV projects and commercials, PHD also offers clients live-action production services. The company has offices in Los Angeles, India, Malaysia and South Africa.
 
PHD can provide all related services from soup to nuts, including live action production, postproduction, color grading, off and online editorial, visual effects, and final delivery. The company has already worked on various projects including two public service spots for the Climate Change organization 5 To Do Today, and multiple PSAs for WildAid.
 
PHD also collaborates with world class still photographers, including Kristian Schmidt, best known for his stunning More

  • Tuesday, Jun. 6, 2017
Al Pacino to star as Penn State's Joe Paterno in HBO biopic 
In this Sept. 16, 2006 file photo, Penn State coach Joe Paterno watches the college football game against Youngstown State in State College, Pa. Al Pacino will star as late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno in an upcoming HBO biopic directed by Barry Levinson. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, FIle)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Al Pacino will star as late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno in an upcoming HBO biopic directed by Barry Levinson.

HBO says the film will focus on Paterno dealing with the fallout from the child sex abuse scandal involving his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. The all-time winningest coach in major college football history was fired days after Sandusky's Nov. 2011 arrest and died two months later at the age of 85.

A report commissioned by the university and conducted by a team led by former FBI Director Louis Freeh concluded that Paterno and three administrators hushed up the allegations against Sandusky.

The three administrators were sentenced to jail terms Friday. One of them, former university President Graham Spanier, plans to appeal his conviction.

  • Monday, Jun. 5, 2017
Former Guatemalan judge pleads guilty in FIFA soccer probe
Former Guatemalan judge Hector Trujillo leaves Brooklyn federal court after pleading guilty, Friday, June 2, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
By Larry Neumeister
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

A former Guatemalan judge pleaded guilty Friday to wire fraud and conspiracy in the global soccer corruption probe, admitting that he accepted bribes from a company trying to secure sports marketing contracts.

Hector Trujillo, 63, took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes for sports marketing contracts, U.S. prosecutors said.

Trujillo was general secretary of Guatemala's soccer federation when he was arrested in December 2015 in Port Canaveral, Florida, while taking a Disney cruise with his family.

As he pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court, Trujillo admitted taking bribes and agreed not to contest any sentence less than four years and nine months in prison. He spoke through a Spanish interpreter, saying his crimes occurred between 2009 and 2016.

"I recognized that I deprived the federation of my honest services," Trujillo said, appearing emotional enough that a court employee brought him a box of tissues. "I know More

  • Monday, Jun. 5, 2017
Peter Sallis, voice of "Wallace and Gromit," dead at 96 
In this Sunday, Oct. 2, 2005 file photo, British actor Peter Sallis, who voices the part of Wallace poses with a person dressed as the character 'Wallace' on arrival at the Leicester Square Odeon, London for the premiere of "Wallace & Grommit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit." (AP Photo/Paul Ashby, File)
LONDON (AP) -- 

British actor Peter Sallis, who played irrepressible, cheese-loving inventor Wallace in the "Wallace and Gromit" cartoons, has died, his agent said Monday. He was 96.

Sallis' talent agency, Jonathan Altaras Associates, said he died Friday at a retirement home for actors in London.

Born in London in 1921, Sallis began his working life in a bank, but caught the acting bug as a Royal Air Force serviceman during World War II. After the war, he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and built up a diverse career onstage and in British film and television.

He became famous in Britain as a star of the long-running sitcom "Last of the Summer Wine." Sallis was proud to have appeared in every episode during the show's 37-year run.

Millions around the world know his voice from animator Nick Park's "Wallace and Gromit," which charted the adventures of a cheese-loving Yorkshireman with a passion for inventing wild contraptions and his More

  • Monday, Jun. 5, 2017
Director Mathew Amonson joins Ataboy Studios
Mathew Amonson
NEW YORK -- 

Ataboy Studios, a NYC-based creative production company headed by owner Vikkal Parikh, has added director Mathew Amonson, a.k.a. “Nosnoma,” to its roster. Known for his talent in various disciplines (and for combining them when called for) such as 2D cel animation, 3D animation, stop motion, live action, and interactive animation, Nosnoma has more than a decade of experience working in the New York animation community, developing, leading and implementing a wide range of productions. 

Amonson has directed for such brands as Oreo, Sony, Cadbury and KPMG. His animation direction credits include Ray Ban, Google, HP and Panera. He has served as creative director/EP on work for XFINITY, Fresh Direct, Chipotle and Heineken. Additionally, Amonson directed the pilot as well as the first two seasons of a live music TV show, Live from the Artists Den. Nosnoma has worked closely with the likes of Ogilvy & Mather, Creature, Buck, The Hive, Kinky More

  • Monday, Jun. 5, 2017
Donut Brand Studio launched
Ben Conrad
LOS ANGELES -- 

Digital media publisher Donut Media has launched Donut Brand Studio to develop millennial-driven, automotive-themed content. Led by Donut CCO and automotive filmmaking innovator Ben Conrad, former GoPro head of motorsports media James Kirkham, and athlete-driven automotive content providers Jacob Agajanian and Andrew Laputka, Donut Brand Studio will function as a full-scale creative services operation. 

By leveraging the audience, data and insights of Donut Media, Brand Studio offers something truly unique to current and prospective clients in the automotive sector. “Because of the close relationship with our publishing wing, Donut Brand Studio is able to provide a suite of services unlike anyone else in the space,” Conrad contended. “When we approach a project, we are not just relying on the strength of our creatives – which of course is very strong. We are working off of hundreds of millions of views, hundreds of thousands of fans, and millions More

  • Friday, Jun. 2, 2017
Google's Chrome browser to block some ads starting next year 
This Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, file photo, shows the Chrome logo displayed at a Google event, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
By Tali Arbel, Technology Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Websites that run annoying ads such as pop-ups may find all ads blocked by Google's Chrome browser starting next year.

The digital-ad giant's announcement comes as hundreds of millions of internet users have already installed ad blockers on their desktop computers and phones to combat ads that track them and make browsing sites difficult.

These blockers threaten websites that rely on digital ads for revenue. Google's version will allow ads as long as websites follow industry-created guidelines and minimize certain types of ads that consumers really hate. That includes pop-up ads, huge ads that don't go away when you scroll down a page and video ads that start playing automatically with the sound on.

Google says the feature will be turned on by default, and users can turn it off. It'll work on both the desktop and mobile versions of Chrome.

Google says that even ads it sells and manages will be blocked on websites that don't More

  • Friday, Jun. 2, 2017
NatGeo TV kills off movie adaptation of O'Reilly book 
In this Oct. 1, 2015, file photo, Bill O'Reilly of the Fox News Channel program "The O'Reilly Factor," poses for photos in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

The National Geographic TV network says it won't air "Killing Patton," its next planned movie adaptation of Bill O'Reilly's book series on the deaths of historical figures.

The network wouldn't comment on whether the decision had anything to do with the harassment allegations that led to O'Reilly's April firing at Fox News Channel. It was not making any of its executives available for an interview, a spokeswoman said.

In a statement, National Geographic said the movie was in development for a couple of years and "it was a difficult project to crack creatively."

The network's four previous movies on the deaths of Abraham Lincoln, Jesus and John F. Kennedy and the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan had all been ratings winners. Also unclear Thursday was whether National Geographic had any plans to go into business with O'Reilly again.

The decision was first reported Thursday by The Hollywood Reporter.

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