• Gregg Allman agreed Tuesday to drop his lawsuit against movie producers who were making a film about the singer's life when a freight train plowed into their Georgia crew and killed a camera assistant. Attorneys for the Allman Brothers Band singer and Unclaimed Freight Productions told a Savannah judge Tuesday they reached an out-of-court agreement a day after Allman's lawyer grilled film director Randall Miller on the witness stand about the Feb. 20 crash. Attorneys declined to discuss details of the deal, including whether Miller could go ahead with reviving the Midnight Rider movie. "We have come together and reasoned with one another," Allman attorney David Long-Daniels told the judge. He declined to comment further outside of court, and Miller's attorney, Donnie Dixon, did the same. Allman filed suit against the film producers April 28 in Chatham County Superior Court, saying their rights to his life story had lapsed because they failed to meet production deadlines. Long-Daniels said Allman wanted Miller and his production company off the project because the train crash had harmed the singer's reputation. Allman, who had a liver transplant in 2010 and canceled performances in March because of illness, wasn't in court Monday or Tuesday. His attorney told the judge the 66-year-old singer remains in poor health.
• Hugh Jackman said Tuesday he wasn't ready to give up playing the popular X-Men character Wolverine as he visited China to promote the franchise's latest movie. He also said he thinks he will need future treatments for skin cancer after a second cancerous growth was removed from his nose last week. X-Men: Days of Future Past, the seventh movie in the mutant superhero franchise that has grossed $2.3 billion worldwide, premiered in Beijing on Tuesday. The 45-year-old Australian actor, who has appeared in every X-Men movie over 14 years, said it may have been premature for him to have said the next one would be his last. The latest film sees Jackman travel back to 1973 in a bid to change history and save humans and mutants from destruction. X-Men: Days of Future Past will be released in China and the United States on May 23. While Jackman previously said that he was pretty sure he wouldn't act in any further X-Men movies after the next one, which is scheduled for release in 2017, he said: "I think I might have overplayed my hand a little bit by saying I'm almost sure that the next one will be my last."
A Section on 05/14/2014