Kanye West Rants About "Heartbreaking" Black Skinhead Nude Video Leak

North West's daddy is damn angry! Kanye West took a break from tending to love Kim Kardashian and their infant daughter to bemoan the leak of his "Black Skinhead" video late Tuesday, July 9. In the widely circulated clip, a shadowy, CGI version of an extra-muscular West (shirtless, wearing a gold chain) raps the provocative track from his acclaimed Yeezus album, dancing and jumping energetically. Towards the end of the video, the murky West figure appears to be completely nude.

The clip, however, is not ready for prime time. "The BLKKK SKKKN HD video that leaked yesterday was not the official version," West, 35, tweeted. "Me and Nick Knight have been working on this video for 5 months and for creatives it's heartbreaking when something like this happens."

Continued the very emotional new dad: "The final version will be ready within the next week. So any website that may have the unapproved / unfinished ruff. I ask you to please take it down. Allow me and Nick to give the world what we've been losing sleep over."

"And to who ever leaked the video," he fumed, "F-- YOU!" West and Kardashian, 32, have been holed up at Kris Jenner's home during little Nori's first days. "He doesn't leave North for more than an hour," one pal told Us. Added another: "Kanye holds the baby all the time."

'Woman in Black,' 'Men In Black 3' Top 2012 U.K. Film Board Complaints List

LONDON – The arrival of Netflix and the uptick in streaming services has meant the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has upped its workload.
The British censor, publishing its annual report, said Thursday it has recorded a 40 percent rise in its online-only rating classifications.

The number of companies using the BBFC’s watch and rate service for online-only content more than doubled in 2012 compared to the previous year, with 11 new platforms licensed to use BBFC ratings online. Companies signing up last year include Netflix, Sony PlayStation, Microsoft Xbox, British supermarket giant Sainsbury’s and airline operators British Airways and Virgin Atlantic.
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The report notes that the movie generating the most public feedback to the censor was the Daniel Radcliffe starrer The Woman in Black.

The supernatural thriller coined $31 million making it the second most popular British film of last year, only trailing the box office juggernaut Skyfall.
The BBFC said 134 cinema-goers complained that the Radcliffe thriller was too dark and unsettling for a 12A certificate – similar to the PG-13 rating in the U.S.

The censor noted that some said the sense of threat, coupled with the theme of supernatural deaths of children in the film, was too disturbing for young audiences.
The BBFC said that factors including the story being a traditional ghost story with a clear historical setting based on a well-known book studied in schools and the fact it is the basis of a stage play "lessened the sense of horror."

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A duo of U.S. titles also attracted public feedback with the 12A certificate given to The Hunger Games, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth, in the U.K. attracting attention, the BBFC said.
The BBFC classified the film 12A following edits to remove some violent detail but also gave an uncut version a 15 rating -- one that does not have an equivalent in the U.S. but is closer to the R rating – a move which attracted "a small number" of complaints, the censor said.
The complaints were mostly from young fans of the books who believed the film should remain intact and that any cuts to the violence would sanitize its impact.
Men In Black 3, the second sequel in the comedy sci-fi action series with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, received 50 complaints for its language, violence, horror and sexual innuendo.
The film was classified PG -- the same rating as in the U.S., as were the earlier two films in the franchise.
For the third outing some parents found the figure of the villain, Boris the Animal, to be too frightening and the opening prison break sequence too violent for young audiences, the BBFC noted. And the scene in which Boris and his girlfriend French kiss with sight of his unfeasibly long alien tongue, was also criticized; parents felt this "gross out" moment was "too overtly sexual for a PG audience."

The BBFC said parents also expressed problems with the use of words such as "bullshit" and "arsehole," although permitted at PG under the BBFC’s classification guidelines, were not appropriate for eight-year-olds to hear.
The question of language in films at the lower categories was an issue raised regularly by cinema goers, the BBFC said.

BBFC director David Cooke said: "In 2012 we looked back at our first 100 years, often in partnership with numerous organizations and individuals, all of whom added richness and expertise to our celebrations. But in examining the past, we also looked towards the future, where the BBFC will continue working with current and new partners to classify and label online content, better protect children and empower consumers."
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Black List to Host Inaugural Screenwriters Lab in Las Vegas

The Black List announced that it will host the inaugural Black List Screenwriters Lab from Sept. 30 to Oct. 5 in Las Vegas.

Six writers will be invited to the weeklong, all-expenses-paid screenwriting workshop, where they will work alongside four “mentors,” or screenwriting veterans. Confirmed mentors include Billy Ray (The Hunger Games, Captain Phillips), Kiwi Smith (Legally Blonde, Expendabelles) and Scott Myers, host and founder of the Black List blog Go Into the Story.

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“There’s a lot to be excited about here," Black List founder and CEO Franklin Leonard said. “Six writers are going to have the opportunity to workshop their script at an extremely high level and get an education on working as a professional screenwriter from our extraordinary mentors and guests we’ll invite throughout the week.”

The Las Vegas Downtown Project, founded by Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh, will host the mentors and writers as part of an initiative to cultivate a writing culture and community in Las Vegas called Writing Downtown.

Initially, 15 merited writers will be invited to submit a one-page personal statement. Lab mentors and the Black List will then choose six from the group to participate. Writers can opt to be considered by uploading a screenplay on or before July 31 and confirming they have never earned more than $25,000 for their film or television writing.

Leonard added, “For us, Sept. 30 can’t come soon enough.”

Yoruba Richen's 'The New Black' Wins Audience Award at AFI Docs

Yoruba Richen’s The New Black, a documentary about African-American attitudes toward gay marriage, has received the AFI Docs film festival’s audience award for best feature.

The five-day festival, which took place from June 19-23 in Washington, D.C., and Silver Spring, Md., gave its audience award for best short to Joshua Izenberg’s Slomo, about a doctor who traded his medical practice for Rollerblades and sandy beaches.

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Formerly known as Silverdocs, the festival screened 53 films from 30 countries and attracted 19,000 attendees, including 845 filmmakers, film subjects, journalists and industry members. The bold-faced names making the scene included Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, director Bill Couturié, AFI trustee emerita Ina Ginsburg, Bipartisan Policy Center president Jason Grumet, Attorney General Eric Holder, White House staffer Fran Holuba, filmmaker Barbara Kopple, Sen. Robert Menendez, filmmaker Errol Morris, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, producer George Stevens Jr. and Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Antonio Vargas.

“While this was a transformational year for the festival, with an expanded footprint into the heart of Washington, D.C., at our core remains a commitment to celebrating the best in the documentary form,” festival director Sky Sitney said. “The tremendous enthusiasm and response to the film program and its related panels surpassed even our highest expectations.”

 

Stars Support 'Black Swan' Choreographer's Dance Company at Bel Air Fundraiser

Benjamin Millepied and Natalie Portman

L.A. Dance Project took the stage on Solstice Eve at a private home in Bel Air to raise funds for the year-old dance company headed by Benjamin Millepied, the French dancer who also choreographed the ballet sequences in Black Swan.

Millepied thanked his wife (and Black Swan star) Natalie Portman for her “endless love and support,” adding “I’m so happy you still like dance after Black Swan.”

Portman admitted to The Hollywood Reporter that, despite her hands-on ballet work in the film, she’s no ballet expert. “Dancers know I’m not a pro, but a lot of others definitely make the mistake.”

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Supporters at the intimate summer soiree included Aaron Sorkin, Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton, Reese Witherspoon and CAA’s Jim Toth, Giada de Laurentiis, artist Barbara Kruger, and Black Swan producer Mike Medavoy, who underscored his dance cred by noting he was one of Mikhail Baryshnikov's first friends when the Russian dancer moved Stateside.

After dinner and the performance by the LADP, revelers hit the dance floor themselves, including Rashida Jones, Millepied and Portman.

 

LAFF: 'Mother, I Love You', 'Code Black' Win Jury Awards

The Los Angeles Film Festival crowned Janis Nord's  Mother, I Love You and Ryan McGarry's Code Black as the jury award winners on Sunday.

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Mother, I Love You, which premiered in the U.S. at the festival, won the Narrative Award while Code Black, which made its world premiere at LAFF, won the Documentary award.

The honors were presented at an awards brunch Mary Elizabeth Winstead. The 19th Los Angeles Film Festival, produced by non-profit Film Independent, is held from June 13 - 23. The festival said it premiered 35 titles during the ten-day event.

LAFF kicked off with of Pedro Almodovar's I'm So Excited on opening night. On Friday, director James Wan's supernatural thriller, The Conjuring was screened at the festival. A screening of Steve Carell's The Way, Way Back will close the festival.

The winner's list is below:

DirecTV Documentary Award (for Best Documentary Feature)

Winner: Code Black directed by Ryan McGarry

DirecTV Narrative Award (for Best Narrative Feature)

Winner: Mother, I Love You directed by Janis Nords

Best Performance in the Narrative Competition

Winner: Geetanjali Thapa in Kamar K.M’s I.D.

Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature

Winner: Short Term 12, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton

Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature

Winner: American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, directed by Grace Lee

Audience Award for Best International Feature

Winner: Sony Pictures Classics’ Wadjda, directed by Haifaa Al Mansour

Honolulu Film Office Award for Best Narrative Short Film

Winner: Walker directed by Tsai Ming-Liang

Honolulu Film Office Award for Best Documentary Short Film

Winner: Stone directed by Kevin Jerome Everson

Honolulu Film Office Award for Best Animated/Experimental Short Film

Winner: Oh Willy… directed by Emma De Sweaf, Marc James Roels

Audience Award for Best Short Film

Winner: Grandpa and Me and a Helicopter to Heaven directed by Åsa Blanck and Johan Palmgren

Audience Award for Best Music Video

Winner: Katachi directed by Kijek/Adamski