PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The "Star Wars" version of Monopoly will add a game piece based on the female character Rey after an 8-year-old girl wrote to game maker Hasbro complaining about the omission and telling them: "Girls matter."

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Saturday Night Live's" Kate McKinnon and "Silicon Valley" star Kumail Nanjiani will co-host the 31st annual Independent Spirit Awards.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A man who persuaded investors to give him more than $24,000 to produce a cowboy documentary he claimed would be narrated by Clint Eastwood was permanently barred Thursday from soliciting investments in Montana.

NEW YORK (AP) — Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis is turning the 1975 bank robber movie "Dog Day Afternoon" into a stage play.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Furious 7" was named favorite movie, "The Big Bang Theory" won top TV show, and Ellen DeGeneres set a record at the People's Choice Awards.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Move over, "Avatar," there's a new force in town. In just 20 days in theaters, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has unseated the James Cameron pic as the No. 1 North American movie of all time.

NEW YORK (AP) — "Allegiance," a challenging musical that set several love stories against the setting of an internment camp and an atomic bomb blast, will close on Broadway on Valentine's Day.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Spotlight" is dominating awards season, but the Writers Guild has recognized a diverse slate of films, including "Trainwreck" and "Straight Outta Compton."

LONDON (AP) — Robert Stigwood, the impresario who managed the Bee Gees and produced 1970s blockbusters "Grease" and "Saturday Night Fever," has died. He was 81.