| | What's news: Omicron continues to impact the entertainment industry, forcing postponements, closures and production pauses. Hugh Jackman is returning to The Music Man on Broadway. Apple Studios has landed a prestige Audrey Hepburn biopic. The NYT is buying The Athletic. The Golden Globes will not be streamed. Plus: It's Nic Cage's birthday today, so I wanted to take this chance to personally wish him the happiest of happy birthdays... shine on you crazy diamond — Abid Rahman | 'Picard' Production Paused After COVID-19 Outbreak ►Shut down. THR's Lesley Goldberg has the scoop that filming on Paramount+ drama Star Trek: Picard has been shut down since Monday following a sizable COVID-19 outbreak. More than 50 members of the production tested positive on Monday, which was the first day of work after the Christmas break. The series has one of television’s biggest crews, numbering more than 450 staffers. The infections impacted multiple zones, including cast in zone A. The story. —Pushed back. Joe Wright’s musical drama Cyrano has been pushed back by over a month in the U.K., becoming the latest film impacted by the Omicron-fueled COVID surge. The story. —Postponed. BroadwayCon has been delayed to summer 2022 due to the COVID surge in NYC, with the event now set to take place July 8 through July 10. The three-day theater convention initially announced its in-person return following Broadway’s year-and-a-half shutdown for Feb. 18-20. The story. —Positive. Today anchor Hoda Kotb has tested positive for COVID-19. Kotb is vaccinated and has received a booster shot. The anchor is currently isolating at home, and it is unclear when she expected to return. The story. —Positive. James Corden announced in an Instagram post that he has tested positive for COVID-19. The Late Late Show host also announced that the show "will be off the air for the next few days." The story. —Shifting. The IDA Documentary Awards is reacting to the surge in COVID cases by shifting from its original date of Feb. 5, to March 4, and going from an in-person event to a virtual one. The story. —Confident. A day after the NFL confirmed that it was exploring contingency plans for Super Bowl LVI in the event that COVID-19 conditions make Los Angeles untenable as a host city, local officials are saying SoFi Stadium will still likely host the sporting spectacle on Feb. 13. The story. —Back. Hugh Jackman shared an update on his health after announcing a breakthrough case of COVID-19 in late December, which resulted in Broadway’s revival of The Music Man canceling a number of performances through Jan. 5. “I am so excited to get back to the theater,” Jackman said in the video posted to Twitter. The story. —Omicron's impact. THR has put together a running list of entertainment industry events that have been postponed or scrapped due to the Omicron-fueled surge in COVID cases. The list. |
Peter Bogdanovich 1939-2021►"Champion of cinema." Peter Bogdanovich, the Oscar-nominated writer-director of The Last Picture Show whose career, which also included hits like What’s Up, Doc? and Paper Moon, put him on a path toward living up to the example of those like Orson Welles and John Ford he so lionized, has died. He was 82. The obituary. — "A gentle soul with an enormous heart." Tatum O’Neal, Jeff Bridges, Guillermo del Toro, Barbra Streisand, Cary Elwes, were among the Hollywood figures paying tribute to late filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich. The tributes. — Deal done. The New York Times is buying the digital sports outlet The Athletic in a deal valued at $550 million in cash. The Athletic, launched in 2016, has focused on local sports and other sports-related beats with a focus on subscriptions. The story. — Minimalist to the max. As well as no red carpet, celebrity guests, industry insiders or bustling afterparty scene, there will be no way to see Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony. The HFPA has confirmed there will be no live stream of the event. The story. — Heading to trial. Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit against Los Angeles County over photos taken at the helicopter crash site where her husband, Kobe Bryant, was killed is heading to trial in February, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. The story. |
Rooney Mara to Play Audrey Hepburn In Apple Studios Biopic ►Apple flex. Rooney Mara is set to star and produce in a biopic of legendary Oscar-winning actress and style icon Audrey Hepburn. Call Me By Your Name filmmaker Luca Guadagnino is attached to direct and Michael Mitnick (The Current War) writing the script. The prestige project is set up at Apple Studios, another coup for the tech giant’s fledgling film unit. The story. —Yeah, but is he happy? Clearly awash with cash, Apple paid CEO Tim Cook $98.7 million in compensation during the 2021 fiscal year, representing a whopping 569 percent increase from the previous year. Apple's top exec received $3 million in base salary, $12 million in non-equity compensation and $1.4 million in other compensation. The majority of Cook’s payday came from $82.3 million in stock awards. The story. —"Slick but joyless." THR's chief film critic David Rooney reviews Simon Kinberg's The 355. Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz, Lupita Nyong’o, Diane Kruger and Fan Bingbing star in this globe-trotting espionage thriller about an all-female group of operatives chasing a deadly cyber weapon. The review. —Strong starts. The Netflix-produced awards contenders The Power of the Dog and Don’t Look Up rode to strong numbers in their separate streaming debuts. Power of the Dog scored 209 million minutes of viewing time in the U.S. for the week of Dec. 6-12, making it the most-watched specialty film of the frame, according to Nielsen. Per Netflix data, Don’t Look Up is already one of its most-viewed titles ever, scoring 263.3 million hours of viewing time to almost match Bird Box. The streaming movie ratings. —Fond farewell. The final season of Lost in Space drove the Netflix series to the top of the streaming rankings for the second consecutive week. The sci-fi show was the only title in Nielsen’s streaming charts for Dec. 6-12 to top a billion minutes of viewing time. Hawkeye finished second among originals for the week with 527 million minutes of viewing time on Disney+. The streaming TV ratings. |
Thank Pod It's Friday►All the latest content from THR's podcast studio. — TV's Top 5. Lesley Goldberg and Dan Fienberg break down the latest TV news. This week the guys discuss the future of The CW amid sale talks and the Omicron enforced shutdowns. They also talk Peacock and how the streamer has got its Winter Olympics strategy right. Abbott Elementary showrunner Quinta Brunson drops by for a chat. And Dan offers reviews of The CW’s Naomi, the final season of HBO Max’s Search Party and Fox’s freshman half-hour, Pivoting, among others. Listen here. — Awards Chatter. Awards analyst Scott Feinberg talks to the great and the good of Hollywood. In this episode, Scott speaks to Halle Berry. The Hollywood trailblazer reflects on race, beauty, the "Oscar curse" and, at 55, directing for the first time and playing an MMA fighter in the film Bruised. Listen here. In other news... — Ozark season 4 trailer released by Netflix —Jennifer Garner named Hasty Pudding’s 2022 Woman of the Year —BuzzFeed names Complex’s Christian Baesler as COO — Dalip Sethi promoted to partner at Rain Management —The most talked-about watches and Hollywood collectors of 2021 —Cannes’ American Pavilion sold to Penske Media — Please Baby Please with Andrea Riseborough, Demi Moore to open Rotterdam Film Fest —Amazon Prime Video signs deal with second Nigerian studio —IFC Films hires Endeavor Content’s Scott Shooman to lead acquisitions What else we're reading... —Inside The Harrowing Decision to Show Emmett Till’s Brutalized Body On Network TV [ Los Angeles Times] —NPR’s Losing Top Talent — Everyone Has A Theory Why [ The Verge] — The Lost Daughter: The Movie That Understands the Secret Shame of Motherhood [ The Atlantic] —Brian Wilson Isn’t the Type of Genius You Think He Is [ Slate] —The Spine Collector [ Vulture] Today... Today's birthdays: Nicolas Cage (🎉58🎉), Jeremy Renner (51), Linda Kozlowski (64), Leslie Grace (27), Lauren Cohan (40), Ruth Negga (40), Robert Sheehan (34), Michaela Jae Rodriguez (31), David Caruso (66), Sammo Hung (70), David Marciano (62), Katie Couric (65), Jessica Darrow (27) |
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