PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — As the Sundance Film Festival kicked off on Thursday, founder Robert Redford weighed in on the controversy over the lack of diversity this year among Oscar nominees in acting categories.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former New Orleans Saints player Steve Gleason was never going to turn a film documenting his life with Lou Gehrig's disease into a sanitized, feel-good story of triumph in the face of tragedy.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A movie theater is suing the Idaho State Police for threatening to revoke the theater's liquor license because it served alcohol while showing "Fifty Shades of Grey."

NEW YORK (AP) — When the weather warms up on Broadway, the stars will come out. Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jessica Lange and Audra McDonald are some of the celebrities slated for the stage this spring. Here's a look at some of the highlights:

NEW YORK (AP) — Will Smith says he will not attend the Academy Awards next month, joining his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and others in protest against two straight years of all-white acting nominees.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Actor, director and producer Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who also founded and directs the online creative collaborative hitrecord.org, was named Thursday as Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals Man of the Year.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jada Pinkett Smith says the backlash to the all-white acting nominees for the Academy Awards "isn't really about the Oscars."

BOSTON (AP) — Mark Wahlberg and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker have met to discuss a film the actor is working on.

NEW YORK (AP) — There is a disturbance in the force.