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By Alan Baldwin BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Niki Lauda has apologised to Ferrari for making critical comments about his former team’s Formula One car. The retired triple champion, who is now non-executive chairman of championship leaders Mercedes and also a television pundit, was quoted in Spanish newspaper El Pais last weekend as saying Fernando Alonso was driving a rubbish car. Mercedes have won nine out of 10 races this year with Britain’s Lewis Hamilton and Germany’s Nico Rosberg. Ferrari have not won a race for more than a year and McLaren since 2012.

HONG KONG (AP) — “Lust, Caution” star Tang Wei found legendary director Ingmar Bergman’s island home to be the perfect scene for a wedding.

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese fans want it known: The radiation-breathing, skyscraper-stomping monster they call “Gojira” was born right here in Japan, 60 years ago.

A Chinese tourism company is suing Paramount Pictures and a producer of the movie “Transformers: Age of Extinction” saying they had failed to show the company’s logo in the movie. Like other Hollywood filmmakers, Paramount has been eager to cash in on robust box-office revenues in the world’s second largest film market. Chongqing Wulong Karst Tourism Group, which manages the Wulong Scenic Area in southwest China, said it had lodged a lawsuit seeking 20.8 million yuan ($3.36 million), against Paramount and the 1905 Internet Technology production company, in a court in Chongqing city for reneging on their contract. A spokeswoman for Paramount, a unit of Viacom, declined to comment.

Woody Allen’s “Magic in the Moonlight” stars Colin Firth as a stage magician and Emma Stone as a young medium whose self-proclaimed powers he’s trying to debunk. Allen shared some thoughts with The AP about magic, filmmaking, and the meaning of life —or, in his view, the utter lack thereof.