AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — In hip-hop terms, using three names in four decades qualifies as a sign of remarkable consistency.

By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A white tip shark shipped from New York and placed into an outdoor pool for a Kmart commercial in Los Angeles died after showing signs of distress, an official from the animal welfare group that monitored the production said on Thursday. The American Humane Association (AHA), which certifies film and TV productions with animals, had a representative at the scene of the shoot on March 6 and it says everything possible was done to ensure the 5-foot (1.5 meter) shark's safety. ...

By Todd Cunningham LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Movie Review Intelligence will discontinue publishing its popular aggregation website at the end of April, editor and publisher David A. Gross told TheWrap on Thursday. "We are extremely grateful to the readers who have visited our pages during the last three and a half years," Gross said in a statement. "We are an independent website. As such, we do not have access to the content networks and mainstream moviegoers we set out to reach in order to continue our growth. And so we will stop at the end of April. ...

Ang Lee is making the leap from big screen glory to small screen pilot. The "Life of Pi" director will make his television directorial debut directing the pilot episode of FX's "Tyrant" - the story of an "unassuming American family drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation," FX Networks announced in a statement on Thursday.

By Greg Gilman LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Breathe In," Drake Doremus' follow-up to his 2011 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner "Like Crazy," has been picked up for U.S. distribution by Cohen Media Group, the company announced on Thursday. The drama, which received a warm reception after premiering at Sundance in January, stars Felicity Jones as an 18-year-old British exchange student who tempts the married man, played by Guy Pearce, living in her host family's upstate New York home. ...

By Todd Cunningham LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Oz the Great and Powerful" is the odds-on favorite to keep its box office title this weekend, but there are some magic and thrills on tap, too. Warner Bros. Is rolling out the Steve Carell-Jim Carrey comedy "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" and Sony TriStar is debuting the Halle Berry thriller "The Call." Those two will wind up with about $15 million and $11 million respectively, analysts say, as Disney hopes "Oz" can pull in half of its $80 million debut in its second week. ...

By Tim Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The Tribeca Film Institute said on Thursday that it will fund 11 projects a part of its 10th Annual Tribeca All Access program, with a total of $150,000 in grants going to 10 different filmmakers. Ten filmmakers with unfinished projects were culled from 560 submissions across the country, with an additional project being selected to participate through the Total Access program's partnership with the Canadian Film Center. ...

By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - In the month since Rhythm & Hues imploded and filed for bankruptcy, many members of the battered visual-effects community have been agitating for change. But in a fragmented industry hit hard by the cost of doing business in a world of subsidies, cutthroat bidding and cheap foreign labor, the question on many lips is: what now? Possibilities range from a union or lobbying organization to shaking up the way that visual-effects companies charge studios for their services. ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood newcomer Colin Trevorrow was named on Thursday as the director of the long-awaited fourth installment of dinosaur movie franchise "Jurassic Park." Universal Pictures said that Steven Spielberg, who directed the first two movies in the $1.9 billion worldwide franchise, will be the executive producer of "Jurassic Park 4" will not direct. Trevorrow, 36, is little known in Hollywood. He directed the independent movie "Safety Not Guaranteed," shown at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, and had previously made a TV movie and documentary. ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Colin Trevorrow is taking the reins of "Jurassic Park."

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Detectives are investigating the disappearance of a Hollywood studio executive as a homicide 10 months after he vanished under suspicious circumstances, and are seeking the public's help in solving the high-profile case, authorities said on Thursday. Gavin Smith, a 57-year-old film distribution executive for 20th Century Fox, was last seen on the night of May 1, 2012, driving in his black Mercedes Benz away from a friend's house in the community of Oak Park, northwest of Los Angeles. ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Double Oscar winner Ang Lee is moving over to television after winning the Best Director Academy Award last month for "Life of Pi." Cable channel FX said on Thursday that the Taiwanese filmmaker will direct the pilot episode of its drama "Tyrant," about an unassuming American family drawn into the affairs of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation. It is Lee's first venture into directing for television and his first project since 2012's "Life of Pi," the tale of a young Indian boy shipwrecked with a tiger that won four Oscars in February. ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elle Fanning does some incredible work as a teenager caught up in the anti-nukes activism of 1960s London in the new coming-of age drama "Ginger & Rosa."

By Zorianna Kit LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki and his Studio Ghibli have, under their belt, some of Japan's biggest global anime movie successes, including "Princess Mononoke" and "Spirited Away," which won an Academy Award in 2003. Far less known, until now, was Miyazaki's son Goro, who worked as a landscaper for years so as not to compete with his famous father, but later designed the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo and debuted as a director in 2006 with "Tales from Earthsea. ...

In countless films about emergencies, crimes and police work, the 911 dispatcher is but a bit player, an anonymous, robotic voice briefly heard on the other end of a breathless call made by our movie's main players.

By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Court of Appeals on Thursday removed a lower court judge from the murder case of accused mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, saying in a rare step that the official's prior role as a prosecutor called his impartiality into question. An attorney for the alleged former leader of Boston's "Winter Hill" crime gang had asked the appeals court to remove U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns from the case because Stearns had worked in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston when prosecutors were developing the case against Bulger. ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jennifer Garner tries not to look at reviews of the outfits she wears because, inevitably, someone isn't going to like it.

Lena Dunham has taken a lot of flak for stripping down on her HBO show, "Girls," as she doesn't have the body of a supermodel. So if the multi-talented actress woke up in the body of a Victoria's Secret Angel, would she want her own figure back?

It appears Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth's relationship is not over.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jim Carrey has delivered more than his share of great performances. But this undercover act wasn't one of them.