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Stage version of ‘Paranormal Activity’ hopes to make it on Broadway

NEW YORK (AP) — Movie producer Jason Blum, who has revolutionized the modern horror genre, gets invited, as you might expect, to tons of plays billed as scary. "Everyone is always saying if you could make a play and give the audience the feeling they have in a horror movie, it would be an amazing thing," he says. Blum, whose Blumhouse has produced everything from "Get Out" to "Five Nights at Freddy's," estimates he's gone to see 25 such plays, and 24 times "they come off goofy or you're not scared at all." That changed with his 25th — an adaptation of his "Paranormal Activity" ...

George Lucas presents galaxy of art in Los Angeles museum

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will serve "Star Wars" fans what they crave, but the saga George Lucas spawned represents just one small corner of the galaxy of creative work within the walls of the Los Angeles institution he calls a "temple to the people's ...

The Oscar statuette is Hollywood’s ultimate recognition

LOS ANGELES (AP) — I'd like to thank the Academy for the Oscar. Yes, the awards might have been a mere afterthought in Louis B. Mayer's dreams for "the Academy" — part PR ploy to persuade the public that Hollywood was not a den of sin and scandal, part consolidation of power by a group of producers bucking unionization efforts. Yes, no one knows exactly who is responsible for the name "Oscar" (though Academy librarian Margaret Herrick is said to have nicknamed the statue after her uncle). And yes, they often get it very wrong. Let's not forget that "Citizen Kane" and "Brokeback ...