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Daniel Day-Lewis says he’s retiring from acting

NEW YORK – Daniel Day-Lewis, one of the most widely respected actors of his generation and a three-time Oscar-winner, says he’s retiring from acting. The 60-year-old actor announc...

DATE: Jun 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Michael Moore making Trump film titled ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’

CANNES, France – Michael Moore has been secretly making a Donald Trump documentary that he has dubbed “Fahrenheit 11/9,” titling it after the day Trump became president-elect. Pro...

DATE: May 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Kill Bill’ actor Michael Parks dies at 77

NEW YORK – Michael Parks, a prolific character actor and a favorite of directors Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith, has died. He was 77. Parks’ agent, Jane Schulman, says the acto...

DATE: May 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Jonathan Demme, ‘Silence of the Lambs’ director, dead at 73

NEW YORK – Jonathan Demme, the Oscar-winning director of “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Philadelphia,” and whose Talking Heads documentary “Stop Making Sense” is considered one of the great...

DATE: Apr 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘Boss Baby’ dethrones ‘Beauty and the Beast’ with $49M debut

NEW YORK – The taskmaster toddler of “The Boss Baby” dethroned Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” at the box office with a $49 million debut, handing its star Alec Baldwin what President Donald...

DATE: Apr 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Take two: ‘Moonlight’ wins best picture at Academy Awards

LOS ANGELES — “Moonlight” won the best picture trophy at the Academy Awards in a historic Oscar upset that followed Warren Beatty at first reading the wrong winner. Shock and chao...

DATE: Feb 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Song and dance, protest and politics to mingle at Oscars

LOS ANGELES – The 89th Academy Awards should be a very schizophrenic affair: equal parts pomp and politics. The only thing expected to take the stage more often than the frothy fr...

DATE: Feb 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

‘Amanda Knox’ pulls back curtain on a media circus

New documentary now on Netflix

DATE: Sep 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Ava DuVernay’s racial inequality doc ‘The 13th’ to open NYFF

NEW YORK – Ava DuVernay’s “The 13th,” a documentary about racial inequality and mass incarceration in the United States, will open the 54th New York Film Festival. The Film Socie...

DATE: Jul 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

In a France darkened by fear, Cannes hopes to supply light

NEW YORK – The first time Jodie Foster came to the Cannes Film Festival, she did so as a co-star in Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver,” and as a wide-eyed 13-year-old, soaking in the spectacle....

DATE: May 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Will Smith joins Oscars boycott

NEW YORK – Will Smith says he will not attend the Academy Awards next month, joining his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and others in protest against two consecutive years of all-white acting nom...

DATE: Jan 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘The Martian’ claims Globes’ award for best film comedy

“The Martian” rocketed to best film comedy at the 73rd annual Golden Globes, where even its director, Ridley Scott, wondered whether his science fiction epic about a stranded astronaut quite...

DATE: Jan 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment