BANGKOK (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio wants Thailand to ban all ivory trade in the country as part of a global campaign to tackle illegal wildlife crimes.

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - David O. Russell can't get enough of Jennifer Lawrence. The "Silver Linings Playbook" director has signed on to direct Lawrence in "The Ends of the Earth," which The Weinstein Company acquired worldwide rights to on Tuesday. Both Russell and Lawrence are nominated for Oscars this year for "Silver Linings," Russell for his direction and script and Lawrence for Best Actress. Weinstein distributed that movie as well. "Argo" scribe Chris Terrio wrote the script for "Ends," which tells the story of oil tycoon Ernest Marland and his downfall after he is caught in an affair. ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The scene: Tehran's Mehrabad airport, January 1980. Six U.S. diplomats, disguised as a fake sci-fi film crew, are about to fly to freedom with their CIA escorts. But suddenly there's a moment of panic in what had been a smooth trip through the airport.

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The upcoming Academy Awards show is the 85th, a significant anniversary that in past years might have brought a reunion of past winners, special film clips or some sort of recognition on the Oscar show. But this year, the number 85 has been quietly retired, and so has the phrase "Academy Awards." Both disappeared from official AMPAS materials about three weeks ago. "We're rebranding it," Oscar show co-producer Neil Meron told TheWrap on Monday. "We're not calling it 'the 85th annual Academy Awards,' which keeps it mired somewhat in a musty way. ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked New York City from getting footage gathered by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns in research for his movie about the five men exonerated in the Central Park jogger rape case.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Filmmaker Ken Burns won a favorable ruling in a battle to keep outtakes from his 2012 documentary "The Central Park Five" from the New York City Police Department after a federal judge in Manhattan sided with his production company on Tuesday. Last October, the city subpoenaed all images, audio tapes and other items related to the making of the documentary, which chronicles the conviction of five black and Hispanic teenage boys for the brutal 1989 rape of Trisha Meili, a white woman who was jogging in Central Park. ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar nominees who don't end up with a coveted gold statuette at the Academy Awards on Sunday won't go home empty handed after all. Los Angeles-based marketing firm Distinctive Assets will be handing out its annual "Everyone Wins at the Oscars Nominee Gift Bag", valued at more than $45,000, to the talented and well-dressed "losers," the company said on Tuesday. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The battle between "Safe Haven" and "Beautiful Creatures" for young female moviegoers provided the biggest surprises at the President's Day weekend box office. "Safe Haven" won, in a knockout. Relativity Media's $28 million Nicholas Sparks romantic adaptation finished a strong third to "Good Day to Die Hard" and "Identity Thief," with $34 million since opening on Thursday - about $10 million more than analysts had expected. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Jurassic Park 4" is hitting theaters in 2014, but franchise producer and new Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy won't be involved, a spokeswoman for Lucasfilm told TheWrap on Tuesday. "Kathleen Kennedy will not be producing the next installment of 'Jurassic Park,'" the company's representative said. "She is currently focusing her time on leading Lucasfilm Ltd. and getting 'Star Wars: Episode VII' underway. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - CBS Films has acquired U.S. rights for "Inside Llewyn Davis," the Coen Brothers' look at the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960s. The film stars scar Oscar Isaac ("Drive"), Carey Mulligan ("An Education"), John Goodman ("The Big Lebowski") and Justin Timberlake (of music and more frequently fashion and movies fame). The film is written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and produced by Scott Rudin and the Coens. CBS Films is planning a theatrical release in the second half of 2013. ...

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Christian Bale is bracing to climb Mount Everest. The Welsh actor is in talks to star in "Everest," a film about two deadly days on the world's tallest mountain that Baltasar Kormakur is in talks to direct for Universal and Working Title, multiple individuals close to the project told TheWrap. The film tells the same story as Jon Krakauer's book "Into Thin Air," but is not an adaptation of it, according to one of those individuals. Krakauer wrote the book about a two-day span in 1996 when eight people died on Mount Everest while attempting to reach the summit. ...

TOKYO (AP) — Donald Richie, a Tokyo-based expert on Japanese cinema who wrote dozens of books and articles about the country's people and culture, has died at age 88.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - If there is one sure bet in this roller coaster movie awards season, it is that Daniel Day-Lewis will take home the Best Actor statuette at the Oscars on Sunday. Day-Lewis, known for his meticulous preparation, would become the first man to win three Best Actor Oscars, and awards pundits say it's not hard to see why. The tall, intellectual actor has swept every prize in the long Hollywood awards calendar for his thoughtful, intense portrayal of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's movie "Lincoln." "No-one has emerged to take him on. ...

On last week's Access Hollywood Live , Julianne Hough revealed she had her first date at 16, with a young man named Creed Archibald. Today, Creed -- who lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma as a seventh grade teacher -- shared his side of their first date story with Access Hollywood's Billy Bush.

(Reuters) - Pat Derby, a show business animal trainer who worked on the television programs "Flipper" and "Lassie" before becoming an animal rights activist, has died of throat cancer, her organization said. Derby, 69, worked on other television shows, including "Gunsmoke" and "Daktari", according to the Performing Animal Welfare Society or PAWS. She was the trainer and spokesperson for the Lincoln Mercury "Sign of the Cat" cougars Chauncey and Christopher, featured in ads. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A new James Bond novel will be released in September with the latest exploits of the British spy written by novelist William Boyd, the estate of Bond's creator Ian Fleming said on Monday. Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, "Casino Royale" 60 years ago in 1953 and penned 13 more before he died 11 years later at the age of 56. The title and plot of the new book remain under wraps, but the Fleming estate gave a hint of the style and the setting to woo fans who have been wowed by Daniel Craig's film portrayal of 007 in "Skyfall" over the past months. ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Her hump, her hump, her lovely lady lump: Fergie is pregnant with her first child.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Pat Derby — a former Hollywood trainer for Flipper, Lassie and other performing animals who later devoted her life to protecting them after seeing widespread abuse — has died at age 69, her organization said Monday.

Fergie and Josh Duhamel are expecting their first child together. The pair both confirmed the news on their Twitter accounts on Monday afternoon.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Seth MacFarlane might be the hardest working man in show business.