Paramount's Tentpole Shuffle; 'Indy' Meets Phoebe; Remembering DMX; The Return of L.A. Power Dining
Today In Entertainment APRIL 10, 2021
What's news: Paramount shuffles its tentpoles once again, some major Indiana Jones 5 news, Benedict Cumberbatch taking 39 Steps, a Magic Mike unscripted show, Wanda cashes out of AMC, The Hollywood Reporter wins 10 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, remembering DMX and Marshall Gelfand. Plus: Stacey Abrams on MLB's Georgia boycott, and the return of L.A. power dining. --Alex Weprin Phoebe Waller-Bridge, John Williams Join 'Indiana Jones 5' ►The next installment of Indiana Jones has found its female lead. Emmy-winning Fleabag sensation Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been cast to star opposite Harrison Ford in the long-awaited fifth film in the franchise. In addition, legendary Oscar-winning composer John Williams has signed on to score the film. Williams has scored every previous Indiana Jones title going back to 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark. The story. +Paramount's tentpole shuffle: Paramount made a number of changes to its release date calendar Friday, including shifting several Tom Cruise tentpoles. Top Gun: Maverick will now open Nov. 19, 2021 back four months from its previous date of July 2, 2021. Mission: Impossible 7, meanwhile, will open May 27, 2022 after vacating its Nov. 19, 2021 date. That will be followed by Mission: Impossible 8, now due out July 7, 2023. --The studio also moved up its G.I. Joe spinoff Snake Eyes to July 23, 2021 from its previous date of Oct. 22. Dungeons & Dragons moves back 10 months to March 3, 2023, while an untitled Star Trek feature has been put on the calendar for June 9, 2023. The story. In other film news... +Thomas Jane is teaming with his daughter, Harlow Jane, to star in Dig, an indie thriller to be directed by K. Asher Levin. It will be the first feature pairing for the two, having previously worked in the 2015 History Channel miniseries, Texas Rising, which also starred Bill Paxton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. More. +Elsie Fisher, the star of Eighth Grade, leads an ensemble that includes Amiah Miller, Cathy Ang, and Rachel Ogechi Kanu to topline in My Best Friend’s Exorcism, an adaptation of the cult-hit novel written by Grady Hendrix. Damon Thomas, known for his work on Killing Eve and Penny Dreadful, is directing the horror movie, which began production this week for Endeavor Content. The project is expected to land at Amazon Studios as a negative pickup although deals are still being finalized. More. Benedict Cumberbatch Taking '39 Steps' ►From Hitchcock to Netflix. Netflix has greenlit a limited series based on the classic thriller The 39 Steps, with Benedict Cumberbatch set to play the lead role. The Doctor Strange star will play a man who becomes an unwitting part of a vast global conspiracy. The series is based on a 1915 novel by John Buchan, which was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 movie. The story. +HBO Max is getting Magic Mike back on stage — as an unscripted series. The WarnerMedia-owned streaming service has ordered a competition show called The Real Magic Mike. The series, set to premiere later this year, will feature 10 men who have "lost their magic" competing for a cash prize and a chance to perform at the Magic Mike Live stage show in Las Vegas. The story. The Return Of L.A. Power Dining ►"It's definitely a scene again": Inside the return of Hollywood power dining. With indoor and outdoor options available, COVID-19 vaccines being distributed and a workforce readying to return to normal after more than a year of rolling calls from home offices, reservations are up, Chris Gardner and Gary Baum report. --"Wolfgang Puck, who debuted two new restaurants at the Pendry West Hollywood on April 2, has invested $350,000 in an elaborate outdoor dining pavilion right on Canon Drive in front of his flagship, Spago Beverly Hills. The modular structure, which includes slotted walls and vented semi-private seating areas, will allow the restaurant to accommodate government restrictions as they continue to wax and wane — an eventuality the chef anticipates at least throughout the remainder of 2021. 'We have people like John Legend and Joan Collins back again,' Puck says of Spago, 'and they're so happy to have this kind of space. It makes them feel safe.'" The story. ►Obituaries: DMX, the New York rapper behind such iconic songs as "Party Up (Up in Here)" and "X Gon' Give It to Ya" and the star of action movies including Exit Wounds, Cradle 2 the Grave and Romeo Must Die, died Friday. He was 50. DMX, whose real name was Earl Simmons, died at White Plains Hospital in New York after being admitted April 2 following a drug overdose and subsequent heart attack. He had been on life support and, according to his former manager, in a "vegetative state." The obituary. +Tributes: Viola Davis, Chance the Rapper, Holly Robinson Peete, and Matthew Cherry were among those who reflected on the rapper's legacy. The tributes. --Marshall Gelfand, one of the early icons of the entertainment business management industry, has died. He was 93. Gelfand represented an A-list roster of music clients including Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul & Mary, James Taylor and Carly Simon for more than a half-century. After being established in New York, his firm opened offices in Los Angeles and Nashville catering to the needs of not only musicians but also the Hollywood set. The obituary. ►Stacey Abrams on Georgia voting controversy: "Boycotts work best when the target is responsive." In a wide-ranging discussion, hosted by Chapman University and Glamour magazine, featured talk of bullying, cancel culture, the Andrew Cuomo scandal and how much real change is happening in Hollywood. --Amazon Studios Chief Jen Salke "also revealed a forthcoming announcement, calling it a 'big inclusion policy,' and one that would've seemed too far out of reach even a few years ago. 'We have to step out there aggressively and make it happen,' she said. 'I see huge changes.' One major shift is happening during greenlight conversations when the question inevitably comes up, 'Does this move forward our goals about amplifying under-served voices?'" The story. In other news... --The Hollywood Reporter won 10 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards for best TV critic, best entertainment industry/arts investigative story and best portrait photo, among others, at the 13th annual awards show. --After giving up its majority control over AMC Theatres, Wanda America Entertainment, a U.S.-based division of Wanda, has reaped gains from the recent social media stock surge by the world's largest cinema network. WAE in an SEC filing on Friday said it had sold 15.6 million shares of AMC Theatres via three tranches for around $220 million. --Movie executive Jessie Henderson has joined Apple Studios in its features division. Henderson, who was previously at HBO Max where she held the title of exec VP, original feature films, will report to Apple Original Films’ head of features Matt Dentler and will be based in Los Angeles. --Concerts at The Hollywood Bowl will soon be not just a memory, but a reality. The Los Angeles Philharmonic on Friday revealed that the outdoor venue will welcome limited capacity audiences of approximately 4,000 people starting in May. --Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon Ho said he's been watching the wave of Anti-Asian hate and violent incidents across the United States, and he believes Hollywood can respond by being unafraid to tell bold stories that tackle the issues as a way to create change. --The Sarasota Film Festival is set to open with director Mariem Pérez Riera and Roadside Attractions’ documentary Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided to Go For It, organizers said Friday. What else we're reading... --"The mid-budget comedy is looking for a new home … in the superhero genre" [The Ringer] --"Them's inspiration: A real-life 1950's nightmare" [Vanity Fair] --""Inside the fight for the future of The Wall Street Journal" [NY Times] --"Wynonna Earp came at a dark time for queer women on TV. Then it changed the game" [LA Times] Today's birthdays: Steven Seagal, 69, Orlando Jones, 53, Haley Joel Osment, 33, John Madden, 85, Daisy Ridley, 29.
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