This publicity file photo provided by Saban Brands, shows a scene from the "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" TV show. (AP Photo/Saban Brands, file)
LOS ANGELES (AP) --
Hollywood is taking another stab at bringing the Power Rangers to the big screen, two decades after the last movie flopped at the box office.
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. says it's partnering with Haim Saban's Saban Entertainment to produce a live-action feature film based on the spandex-wearing, martial arts superheroes who are usually called upon to save the world.
Saban said in a statement Wednesday that Lions Gate, the maker of young adult blockbuster series "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games," is the "perfect home" for the Power Rangers.
The last time the morphing teenage characters appeared in a movie was 1997 for "Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie," which grossed a dismal $8.1 million in the U.S.
The Power Rangers have been on U.S. television since 1993.
Charlie Rose attends The Hollywood Reporter's 35 Most Powerful People in Media party in New York, April 13, 2017. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)
Former TV host Charlie Rose has resolved a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by three women in the wake of his #MeToo-era ouster from CBS News in 2017 and the cancellation of his long-running, eponymous PBS talk show.
In settling, the plaintiffs said they assign no "ill intent" to Rose and realize now that his conduct could be subject to interpretation.
Lawyers for Rose and the women — younger employees who accused him of "predatory behavior" and "blatant and repeated sexual harassment" — filed court papers this week confirming that the lawsuit has been resolved. An online court docket listed the case as settled. The terms were not disclosed.
The lawsuit had been set to go to trial Monday in Manhattan after years of sparring over the women's allegations and the dismissal of their retaliation claims against Rose.
Plaintiffs Katherine Brooks Harris, Sydney McNeal and Yuqing Wei said in a statement that the litigation process and the required pretrial exchange of evidence known as discovery had enabled both sides to "better understand each others' points of view."
"On reflection, and after having the benefit of discovery, we realize that different people could interpret the conduct in different ways, and therefore we have resolved the claims," the women said. "We do not assign any bad motive or ill intent to Charlie Rose."
A lawyer for Rose, 82, and his production company, Charlie Rose Inc., declined comment.
The veteran TV host has apologized in the past for his behavior, including in a statement on the eve of his November 2017 firing after at least eight women had come forward to accuse him of misconduct.
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