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The summer box office continued to lack mojo, as the R-rated “Sex Tape” failed to turn on moviegoers over a weekend where “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” maintained its rule. 20th …

NEW YORK (AP) — Few actors could register disbelief, exasperation or annoyance with more comic subtlety.

BERLIN (AP) — Germany on Sunday honored a group of Nazi-era officers who tried to kill Adolf Hitler 70 years ago. The plot — portrayed in films such as the 2008 Hollywood movie “Valkyrie” — helped establish a principle under which German soldiers today are encouraged to defy orders if they would result in a crime or violate human dignity.

CAIRO (AP) — Hollywood star Tom Hanks has started shooting portions of his new film “A Hologram for the King” in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Hurghada, the country’s state news agency reported Saturday.

Universal Pictures said on Friday it has acquired worldwide rights to Angelina Jolie’s next film project, “By the Sea,” written and to be directed by the actress who will also co-star and co-produce the drama with partner Brad Pitt. It will be Jolie’s third directing effort, after Bosnian war drama “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” and “Unbroken,” the story of Olympic runner and war hero Louis Zamperini, another Universal film that opens in December. “Angelina continues to showcase her extraordinary storytelling abilities in front of and behind the camera and we are thrilled to extend our relationship with her on ‘By the Sea’,” Universal Pictures Chairwoman Donna Langley said in a statement.