Reuters Entertainment News Summary

09/06/2016 8:59

Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs.

Cosby due back in Pennsylvania court for sexual assault case

Comedian Bill Cosby is scheduled to return to a Pennsylvania state court on Tuesday, two months after a judge rejected his latest bid to have criminal sexual assault charges dismissed. The 79-year-old entertainer is accused of drugging and then assaulting Andrea Constand, a former basketball coach at his alma mater Temple University, at his home in 2004.

Hugh O'Brian, star of TV's 'The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp,' dies at 91

Hugh O'Brian, who starred in the long-running series "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp," died Monday. He was 91. The actor died peacefully in his Beverly Hills home, according to a statement from Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership.

Fans bid farewell to singer Juan Gabriel at Mexico City wake

Thousands of fans have paid their final respects to singer Juan Gabriel in Mexico City, many traveling from across the country to bid farewell to the entertainer who died late last month from a heart attack at the age of 66. Crowds lined up on Monday at Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts, filing past an urn holding Gabriel's ashes.

Roan Johnson's 'Piuma' brings laughs and irony to Venice film fest

Among the dramas and thrillers screening in Venice this year, Roan Johnson's story of two Roman youngsters and their families coping with an unwanted pregnancy is part of a genre much rarer at film festivals: a comedy. A fast-paced Italian movie filled with laughs and irony, "Piuma" (Feather) tells the story of Ferro and Cate, played by Luigi Fedele and Blu Yoshimi Di Martino, as they prepare for final exams, plan a trip to Morocco and get ready for a baby.

'Don't Breathe' wins again as summer ends on strong

What had been a troubled U.S. summer box office is ending on an upbeat note as Sony's horror-thriller "Don't Breathe" dominated the four-day Labor Day weekend with $19.6 million and "Suicide Squad" crossed the $300 million mark. With Monday marking the final day of the season, the summer box office is running about dead even with the last year's $4.48 billion, according to comScore. The 2016 season had 123 days, while last year's had an extra week.

Bridget Jones is back in new film, this time facing motherhood

Oscar winner Renee Zellweger puts on her British accent again to play bumbling Londoner Bridget Jones in the third installment of the film franchise, with the much-loved character, now in her 40s, single again but unexpectedly pregnant. The Texas-born actress reprises the role of the weight and love-obsessed character for "Bridget Jones's Baby," with Colin Firth back as the reserved Mark Darcy and new addition "Grey's Anatomy" actor Patrick Dempsey as her love interests.

'Blade Runner' sequel 'an insane project': director Villeneuve

Canadian director Denis Villeneuve says making a sequel to 1982 cult film "Blade Runner," in which Harrison Ford hunted down humanoids, is "an insane project" but that it is one the way nonetheless. He heaped praise on cast member Ryan Gosling.

Villeneuve says creating alien world in new sci-fi movie was 'nightmare'

Canadian film director Denis Villeneuve said making sci-fi thriller "Arrival," which has premiered in Venice, was the biggest challenge of his career so far because it meant creating a foreign civilization that obeys different kinds of laws. In the film, Amy Adams plays a linguist hired by the U.S. government to go inside one of 12 spaceships that have touched down around the world. Her task is to establish contact with the extra-terrestrials on board, to develop a common language and discover the purpose of their visit.

Dornan, Murphy tackle WWII roles for thriller 'Anthropoid'

"Fifty Shades of Grey" star Jamie Dornan joins "Peaky Blinders" actor Cillian Murphy for a World War Two thriller about the assassination of one of the main architects of the Holocaust. "Anthropoid" is based on the operation to kill SS Obergruppenfuehrer (general) Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942. It follows Czech soldiers Jan Kubis, played by Dornan, and Jozef Gabcik, portrayed by Murphy, parachuted into occupied Czechoslovakia from Britain to kill Heydrich in "Operation Anthropoid."

Mexican director uses fantasy creature to explore how we relate to sex

Director Amat Escalante uses a fantasy creature to explore the sometimes ambiguous relationship people have with sex in his film "La Region Salvaje" (The Untamed), which had its premiere at the Venice film festival on Monday. The drama tells the story of Alejandra, a young mother of two, played by Ruth Ramos, whose boorish husband Angel, portrayed by Jesus Meza, has an affair with her gay brother, Fabian.

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