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  • Thursday, Mar. 13, 2014
'Noah' barred by censors in UAE, Qatar and Bahrain
This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Logan Lerman, left, and Russell Crowe in a scene from "Noah." (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, Niko Tavernise, File)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- 

Officials say censors in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar will ban the release of "Noah," the upcoming big-budget Hollywood film featuring Russell Crowe as the ark-building prophet.

Director of media content at the National Media Center in the UAE, Juma Al-Leem, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the movie will not be allowed in cinemas because it contradicts a generally agreed upon taboo in Islam of depicting a prophet.

Paramount Pictures told the AP that along with the UAE, censors in Qatar and Bahrain also have confirmed they will not release the film because it contradicts the teachings of Islam.

Officials in Pakistan and Tunisia say they doubt censors will approve the movie.

The film, directed by Darren Aronofsky, will open March 28 in the U.S.

  • Thursday, Mar. 13, 2014
Members announced for 5 Cannes juries
CANNES, France -- 

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has announced the members of the first five juries participating at this year’s annual event for the Titanium & Integrated, Radio, Press, Outdoor and Film Craft categories.

Leading these five juries will be  Prasoon Joshi, chairman, CEO and chief creative officer, India & South Asia, McCann Worldgroup (Titanium & Integrated Lions); Tony Hertz, owner & creative director, Tony Hertz: Radio & Brand Sound, The Philippines (Radio Lions); Rémi Babinet, founder and creative director, BETC, France (Press Lions); Jose Miguel Sokoloff, president, Lowe Global Creative Council & Co chairman and CCO Lowe SSP3 Colombia, (Outdoor Lions); and Brian Carmody, co-founder, Smuggler, USA (Film Craft Lions). Here’s a rundown of the juries:

Titanium & Integrated
Prasoon Joshi, Chairman, CEO and Chief Creative Officer, India & South Asia, McCann Worldgroup – Jury President More

  • Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2014
Yahoo's search engine leans on Yelp for help
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- 

Yahoo is cribbing from Yelp's online reviews of local merchants to soup up its search engine.

Ratings and excerpts from Yelp's merchant reviews began to appear in Yahoo's search results on Wednesday.

Financial terms of the partnership weren't disclosed. News of the deal first leaked out last month, so it didn't come as a surprise. Yahoo's stock dipped 7 cents to $37.49 in afternoon trading while Yelp's shares gained $2.48, or nearly 3 percent, to $92.48.

Yahoo Inc. is hoping the snippets from Yelp Inc.'s popular service will spur more people to rely on its search engine when they're looking for information about a specific city. Yelp could generate more revenue and polish its brand by having its content featured in Yahoo's search results.

Boosting search traffic is a high priority for Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer because the queries spawn insights into users' interests. That knowledge can More

  • Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2014
SXSW swag blamed for airport delays
By Will Weissert
AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) -- 

Swag given to attendees of the South By Southwest festival set off airport security alarms Wednesday, leaving passengers complaining of long delays as they tried to head home.

Jason Zielinski, an Austin-Bergstrom International Airport spokesman, said that a particular type of ink on some item was thought to have made it difficult to scan baggage with X-ray machines, forcing officials to individually screen bags.

Zielinski said he didn't know the exact cause of the problem, but said he'd heard it blamed on festival promotional items, including stickers, a free magazine "or any combination of things."

He referred all questions to the Transportation Security Administration, adding "it's out of our lane."

TSA also wouldn't say what was causing the problem or exactly how it was detected, citing security concerns. In a statement, the agency said only that "if an item in a bag is unable to be More

  • Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2014
Czech filmmaker Vera Chytilova dies at 85
In this Feb. 2, 2009 file photo Czech film director Vera Chytilova poses for photographer at her home. (AP Photo/CTK, Rene Volfik)
By Karel Janicek
PRAGUE (AP) -- 

Czech film director Vera Chytilova, one of the leading filmmakers of the new wave of Czechoslovak cinema in the 1960s, has died. She was 85.

Czech public radio and television, citing relatives, say Chytilova died Wednesday in Prague after battling an unspecified illness for several years.

Chytilova's highly acclaimed farcical comedy "Daisies" from 1966 proved her reputation as a provocateur and helped establish her as an artistic force at home and abroad.

Like the movies of other new Czech directors of the time, it represented a radical departure from socialist realism, a typical communist-era genre focusing on realistically depicting the working class' troubles.

The heroes of "Daisies" — two teenage girls — decide to get spoiled because the entire world is spoiled, and they want to have some fun.

It was immediately banned before winning the Grand Prix at the Bergamo Film Festival More

  • Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2014
Eastman Kodak names Clarke as new CEO
ROCHESTER, NY (AP) -- 

Eastman Kodak has tapped Orbitz chairman Jeffrey Clarke as its new CEO, taking over from Antonio Perez.

The photography and film pioneer, which emerged from bankruptcy in September, said Wednesday that Perez will remain as a special adviser to its board. Perez, 68, had served as CEO since 2005.

Clarke will continue as chairman of online travel company Orbitz Worldwide Inc. The 52-year-old Clarke is the co-founder of private investment firm Augusta Columbia Capital and served as a managing partner there.

Clarke will also become a member of the board of directors at Eastman Kodak Co.

Shares of Kodak, based in Rochester, N.Y., fell 73 cents, or 2.7 percent, to $26.50 in morning trading. Its shares had fallen more than 24 percent so far this year through Tuesday.

  • Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2014
"Fast & Furious 7" to film in Abu Dhabi in April
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- 

Vin Diesel and other members of the "Fast & Furious 7" cast are heading to the Mideast city of Abu Dhabi after months of uncertainty about the fate of the film.

Abu Dhabi's government-backed twofour54 media hub said in a statement Wednesday that shooting in the United Arab Emirates capital is scheduled to take place in April.

Filming of "Fast & Furious 7" was put on hold in December following the death of star Paul Walker in a car crash.

A crew filmed some helicopter shots, stunt footage and other scenes in Abu Dhabi in November. Cast members including Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and Chris "Ludacris" Bridges are expected to arrive when filming resumes next month.

  • Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2014
Leno, Murdoch, Dolby among TV Hall of Fame inductees
Comedian Jay Leno, left, and his wife, Mavis Leno, attend the 2014 Television Academy Hall of Fame on Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP Images)
By Lynn Elber, Television Writer
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- 

Bill Maher took advantage of pal Jay Leno's Television Academy Hall of Fame induction to offer a spirited attack on what Maher called undeserved "bad publicity" for the former "Tonight Show" host.

Introducing Leno at Tuesday night's ceremony, Maher said his behavior never warranted the brickbats tossed at him over Conan O'Brien's short-lived tenure as "Tonight Show" host.

"Jay Leno reminds me a little bit of Israel," Maher said. "He's not perfect, but he's held to a standard nobody is expected to live up to but him."

The media helped fan the myth that Leno "stole Conan's dream" when NBC brought Leno back to host "Tonight" after the show's ratings dropped in 2009 with O'Brien at the helm.

Maher, host of HBO's "Real Time," used an expletive to dismiss the idea that such a theft is possible, then offered himself as a tongue-in-cheek example: He claimed that Tom Cruise robbed him of the More

  • Tuesday, Mar. 11, 2014
Spike Lee to attend Roger Ebert film festival
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- 

Director Spike Lee will attend a 25th-anniversary screening of "Do The Right Thing" at late movie critic Roger Ebert's film festival.

The festival announced Tuesday that the screening will take place April 25 during the 16th annual Ebertfest at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Ill.

Ebert gave "Do The Right Thing" four stars when it debuted in 1989.

The festival previously announced that director Oliver Stone would attend a 25th-anniversary screening of his film "Born on the Fourth of July." Comedian Patton Oswalt will attend a screening of his 2011 movie "Young Adult."

Ebert died last April at age 70. The year's Ebertfest is April 23-27. The full lineup will be announced soon.

Ebert's alma mater, the University of Illinois, is based in Champaign and neighboring Urbana.

  • Tuesday, Mar. 11, 2014
Draftfcb simplifies brand to FCB
Carter Murray
NEW YORK -- 

Six months after becoming global CEO of Draftfcb, Carter Murray is changing the agency’s name to FCB (Foote, Cone & Belding).

“Two distinct brands, Draft and FCB, were merged together seven years ago,” said Murray. “The entities have united and now have one seamless offering. It’s time to simplify our brand name as well to reflect our focused identity and direction.”

Specifically, the global network will be called FCB (Foote, Cone & Belding), with an important local element celebrated market-by-market. Typically, each office will add the city in which they operate, for instance, FCB Shanghai, FCB Paris or FCB Chicago, using a diagonal line through the B and the first letter of the local moniker. In some markets we will add the name of an acquired company such as in London, where the office will be FCB Inferno, due to the local equity and relevance of the acquired company. In instances where there is an agency with specific More

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