Entertainment

LOS ANGELES, Aug 22, (RTRS): The World Soundtrack Academy has announced the first wave of 2017 World Soundtrack Award nominees. Among the contenders: Academy Award winner Justin Hurwitz (“La La Land”), and Academy Award nominees Mica Levi, Nicholas Britell, Dustin O’Halloran and Johann Johannsson. As previously announced, the lifetime achievement …

LONDON, Aug 21, (RTRS): US crude inventories are falling more than expected in a sign of the success of OPEC and non-OPEC production cuts, Kuwait’s Oil Minister Essam Al-Marzouq told CNBC Arabia on Monday. “We are now seeing the impact of those cuts (in the first half of the year) …

WASHINGTON, Aug 21, (Agencies): Hollywood comedian Jerry Lewis, who died Sunday aged 91, perfected a goofy brand of slapstick that endeared him to millions over the course of a career spanning six decades. One of the most popular American entertainers of the 1950s and ‘60s, Lewis made his name as …

LOS ANGELES, Aug 21, (RTRS): Oliver Stone, the ever controversial American-French director, has been named as president of the competition jury for the upcoming Busan International Film Festival. The Busan festival is no stranger to controversy. Stone heads an impressive panel including Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi (“A Time for Drunken …

LOS ANGELES, Aug 21, (RTRS): Stephen King will turn 70 in September, yet shows no signs of slowing down. Currently, he has “The Dark Tower” in theaters and “The Mist” on TV. September will see the film adaptation of “It” and a book co-written with his son, Owen King, called …

MUMBAI, Aug 20, (Agencies): As India marks the 70th anniversary of its independence this year, a slew of movies tackling its colonial history are hitting cinema screens, including a controversial account of partition by the director of “Bend it Like Beckham”. Gurinder Chadha’s “Viceroy’s House” released in India on Friday …

LOS ANGELES, Aug 20, (RTRS): Two music biopics get domestic distribution and Harvey Weinstein launches an animated films label. Under the Milky Way has acquired US domestic theatrical rights to the music biopics “Dalida” and “Django”, Variety has learned exclusively. “Dalida”, directed by Lisa Azuelos, will open in the fall. …

LOS ANGELES, Aug 20, (AP):  Dick Gregory, the comedian and activist and who broke racial barriers in the 1960s and used his humor to spread messages of social justice and nutritional health, has died. He was 84. Gregory died late Saturday in Washington, D.C. after being hospitalized for about a …

LOS ANGELES, Aug 19, (Agencies): Oscar-nominated filmmaker Stephen Daldry is in early talks to direct a “Star Wars” spin-off about Jedi master Obi Wan Kenobi, US media reported on Thursday. There is no script yet and no actor lined up to play the bearded warrior and sage made famous by …

LOS ANGELES, Aug 19, (RTRS): Oscar winner Geena Davis has spent more than a decade pushing Hollywood to create meatier roles for women. Through the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, a non-profit research organization, she’s been urging film and television executives to have as many girls as boys …