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

By Deepa Seetharaman SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc’s message to investors has always been clear: trust in founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Some on Wall Street wonder if Amazon may have bitten off more than it can chew. After an unusually busy first half of the year that saw the online retailer spend on developing everything from mobile phones and Hollywood-style production to grocery deliveries, investors are ready to see it curtail its ambitions and start delivering sustainable profits. “It does get frustrating when they continue to spend quarter after quarter and they don’t let the revenue flow through,” said Michael Scanlon, who manages $3.5 billion at Manulife Asset Management and holds shares of Amazon.

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.