Reuters Entertainment News Summary

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Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs.

Actress Leslie Jones' website hacked, nude photos posted

"Ghostbusters" actress and comedian Leslie Jones' website was hacked on Wednesday and nude photos and personal information including her passport and driver's license were posted, according to media reports. The website, www.JustLeslie.com, was subsequently taken offline.

Jason Statham promises plenty of action in 'Mechanic: Resurrection'

Jason Statham, Jessica Alba and Tommy Lee Jones join forces for action movie "Mechanic: Resurrection," a sequel to the 2011 thriller about an elite hitman. Statham reprises his role as the lead character Arthur Bishop, and promised fans plenty of action.

'Birth of a Nation' slavery movie stumbles in Hollywood

The American Film Institute has called off a Los Angeles screening of slavery movie "The Birth of a Nation" amid controversy over an old rape case involving the film's director just as Hollywood's awards season swings into gear. The screening, scheduled for Friday at the AFI, was to be followed by a question and answer session with director Nate Parker in what would have been Parker's first public event since it emerged last week that the accuser in his 1999 rape trial and acquittal committed suicide in 2012.

Courteney Cox regrets 'horrible' bids to fight aging

Former "Friends" star Courteney Cox says she is now reconciled to looking older and regrets some procedures she had in the past to keep the wrinkles at bay. Cox, 52, spoke out during an expedition with outdoor adventurer Bear Grylls in the Irish highlands, in which the pair abseiled down sheer cliffs and shared maggots found in a rotting sheep.

BuzzFeed splits itself into news, entertainment departments

Online media outlet BuzzFeed will split itself into two new departments that will focus on news and entertainment, CEO Jonah Peretti wrote in a memo sent to employees. The move to create two departments - BuzzFeed News and BuzzFeed Entertainment Group - comes at a time when online media companies are grappling with the balance between covering news and politics, and lighter fare like social media, entertainment and lifestyle.

Actor-director Krasinski mines tears, laughs in 'The Hollars'

An aging matriarch's brain tumor diagnosis may not be the obvious scenario for a comedy, but actor-director John Krasinski wanted to show in his movie "The Hollars" that life does not always differentiate between tragedy and humor. "You don't have time to prepare for the bad moments in your life, and you don't have time to prepare for the good moments in your life," Krasinski said. "They just sort of happen to you."

21st Century Fox says Snider to start as film studio CEO in Sept

Twenty-First Century Fox Inc said Stacey Snider would take over as chairman and chief executive of its film studio business on Sept. 1 as Jim Gianopulos was stepping down earlier than planned. The company had said in June that Snider would replace Gianopulos in June 2017.

Jennifer Lawrence ranked world's highest paid-actress for second year

"Hunger Games" star Jennifer Lawrence on Tuesday topped a Forbes magazine list of the world's highest-paid actress for the second straight year, earning some $46 million, followed by Melissa McCarthy. Lawrence, 26, took the top spot largely through a slice of the profits from the final movie in the "Hunger Games" franchise, as well as a big upfront fee for her forthcoming space adventure movie "Passengers," Forbes said.

Robert De Niro gets back into the ring with 'Hands of Stone'

Actor Robert De Niro has re-entered the ring in the new boxing drama film "Hands of Stone." But this time, he's not the one throwing the punches, he's training famed Panamanian fighter Roberto Duran, portrayed by Edgar Ramirez.

Celebrities join Native American pipeline protest in Washington, DC

Actors Susan Sarandon, Riley Keough and Shailene Woodley joined members of North Dakota's Standing Rock Sioux Tribe outside a courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to protest against construction of a pipeline they say would pollute water and desecrate sacred land. About 100 members of the Native American group demonstrated outside the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia while others filled a courtroom inside where a legal battle unfolded over the $3.7 billion project.

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