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MOVIES - From YahooMovies: Ben Affleck steps down as director of the untitled "Batman" movies, in which he will play Batman/Bruce Wayne, because of the box office failure of his recent film, "Live By Night," which he directed and starred.
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CULTURE - From YahooBeauty: "White Privilege" essay contest creates controversy in wealthy coastal town.
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HISTORY - From NYTimes: White House statement on "Holocaust Remembrance Day" fails to mentions Jews...
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of 1/27 to 1/29/2017 weekend box office is "Split," with an estimated take of $26.26 million.
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AWARDS - From YahooMovies: Actor Mahershala Ali ("Moonlight") speaks out against President Trump's "Muslim travel ban."
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ECO - From RSN: Rock music legend, Neil Young, wants people to keep paying attention to Standing Rock.
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OSCARS - From Variety: His film, "A Salesman," has been nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, but its director, Asghar Farhadi, is from Iran. Iran is part of the travel ban via an executive order by President Trump. Farhadi said that he will not travel to the U.S. for the Oscars ceremony even if an exception is made for him.
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AWARDS - From TheWrap: A complete list of winners at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
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BLM - From YahooNews: According to a historian, a key witness in the murder of Emmett Till lied.
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OBIT - From TheWrap: The actress, Barbara Hale, has died at the age of 94, Thursday, January 26, 2017. Hale was best known for playing "Della Street," on the long-running legal drama, "Perry Mason," and for playing the character again in a series of TV movies during the 1980 and 1990s.
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OBIT - From IndieWire: The actor John Hurt has died at the age of 77, Wednesday, January 25, 2017. Hurt's best known work may have been his Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning lead role in David Lynch's "The Elephant Man" (1980). However, many will remember him for being the victim in the most infamous scene in Ridley Scott's "Alien" (1979).
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OBIT - From TheGuardian: The French actress, Emmanuelle Riva, has died at the age of 89, Friday, January 27, 2017. Her 60-year career seemed to culminate in director Michael Haneke's "Amour," for which she earned an Oscar nomination and won a BAFTA.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Millie Bobby Brown, one of the stars of Netflix's "Stranger Things," wills star in Warner Bros. and Legendary's "Godzilla: King of Monsters," which is due March 2019.
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OBIT - From NYTimes: The actress Mary Tyler Moore has died at the age of 80, Wednesday, January 25, 2017. Through her CBS TV series of the 1970s, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (1970-77), she defined the modern woman in the character, Mary Richards.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Netflix has picked up the Keanu Reeves and Lily Collins' "To the Bone" for $8 million.
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: Fox has ordered an untitled X-Men action-adventure TV pilot from 20th TV and Marvel Television.
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COMICS - From BleedingCool: Marvel Comics' next event series, "Secret Empire" begins Wednesday, Jan. 25th, 2016.
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OSCARS 2017 - From Variety: A complete list of 89th Oscar nominations.
From YahooMovies: "La La Land" leads the 89th Oscar nominations with a record-tying 14 nominations. The winners will be announced February 26th, 2017.
From YahooMovies: A record 6 Black actors were nominated for the 89th Academy Awards. Viola Davis is the first Black woman to be nominated three times as an actor. There are also several other Black nominees, including Ava DuVernay as the first Black woman nominated in the "Best Documentary Features" category.
From Variety: Amazon Studios becomes the first streaming service to land a "Best Picture" Oscar nomination - for "Manchester by the Sea."
From Deadline: A look at Oscar snubs.
From BBC: The BBC's website has full 89th Oscars coverage.
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MOVIES - From YahooMovies: Dee Rees' "Mudbound" is getting much attention at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
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STAR WARS - From Variety: "Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi," at least that would be the full title under George Lucas. So Episode VIII is now "Star Wars: The Last Jedi."
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 1/20 to 1/22/2017 weekend box office is "Splits" with a estimated take of $40.18 million.
From Variety: The winner of the international box office is "xXx: The Return of Xander Cage" with an estimated take of $50.5 million dollars in 53 territories.
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POLITICS - From GuardianUK: #WomensMarch signals a return of resistance.
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AWARDS - From Variety: "La La Land" wins the "Film of the Year" award from the London Film Critics Circle, the only award it won.
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COMICS - From DenofGeek: Here is a first look at some of the art from "The Wild Storm," Warren Ellis' reboot of the Image/DC Comics' "Wildstorm" line of comics.
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MOVIES - From IndieWire: James Cameron will return to the "Terminator" franchise after he regains rights to the property in 2019.
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OBIT - From BleedingCool: The comic book artist John Watkiss has died at the age of 55, Saturday, January 21, 2017. He worked on Conan and Batman titles and also drew an issue of Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" in the 1980s. He was an accomplished illustrator and painter and also worked in the film industry, including on the Disney's 1999 animated feature, "Tarzan."
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