| | What's news: The summer's final Jan 6. hearing was seen by 17.7m viewers. Bill Murray has dropped out of Wes Anderson's Asteroid City. Apple has renewed For All Mankind for a fourth season. AMC revealed a new Walking Dead spin-off series featuring fan favorites Rick and Michonne. Marvel teased all its upcoming animated shows at a raucous SDCC panel — Abid Rahman |
Inside THR and FX's 'What We Do In the Shadows' Comic-Con Bash ►BAT!!!! THR's gruesome twosome Ryan Gajewski and Aaron Couch were on the ground at Meze in San Diego at the What We Do in the Shadows party, apparently 'working', along with the likes of Kristen Schaal, Harvey Guillen, Mark Proksch, Zachary Levi, Jack Quaid, Aisha Tyler, Danny Trejo and the indefatigable Matt Berry and more at the vampire nightclub-themed party. The story. —Rick and Michonne are back! AMC revealed the first look at The Walking Dead’s final eight remaining episodes ahead of its panel at SDCC, along with announcing a new series focused on Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira). Lincoln and Gurira surprised the crowd by appearing at the very end of the Friday panel to tease the new limited series that will launch with six episodes in 2023. The story. —The 2000s, a space odyssey. Apple TV+ has renewed Ronald D. Moore's For All Mankind for a fourth season — with production on the new season set to begin in August. The pickup was announced during the show’s Comic-Con panel on Friday and comes seven weeks into the 10-episode third season which takes place in the 1990s. The story. —"You ready John?" A teaser trailer for the fourth installment of Lionsgate's John Wick film franchise was shared during a Comic-Con panel on Friday, and it was reassuringly full of epic fight sequences, Byzantine plotting and Keanu looking world-weary. The teaser. |
'LOTR' Brings Fiery Trailer — and an Orchestra — to Comic-Con ►All happening. The Lord of the Rings, the property that became a founding mythology for modern geek culture, returned to San Diego Comic-Con Friday with Amazon showing off a new trailer for the mega-budget The Rings of Power TV series. The panel kicked off with composer Bear McCeary and an orchestra (including a choir) performing music from the show for Hall H’s 6,000-strong crowd. The story. —"It just means a lot to expand the MCU into new areas." Friday at SDCC, saw Marvel Studios' very first panel centered on a growing slate of animated content. The presentation included teases of season two of What If…?, Spider-Man: Freshman Year, Marvel Zombies, a revival of the 1990s X-Men cartoon titled X-Men ’97, and a shorts series, I Am Groot. The story. —Pining for Peltzer. The team for Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai announced a number of voice actors and teased nostalgic callbacks during the HBO Max series’ panel at SDCC. During the Friday event, Zach Galligan was a surprise guest, as the star of the 1984 film Gremlins and its 1990 sequel was revealed to have a not-yet-disclosed role on the animated show that is set in 1920s China. The story. |
Vince McMahon Retires Amid Misconduct Probe ►An ignominious end. WWE founder and CEO Vince McMahon, who stepped aside from his executive duties last month amid a board probe into alleged misconduct claims, is retiring from the company. That will include his executive responsibilities and also the company’s creative responsibilities, which he oversaw. McMahon also appeared on WWE programming in character, but those appearances will also end. The story. —Shooting incident. Production on FX’s Justified revival was stopped this week when two cars whose occupants were shooting at one another crashed through barricades on the show’s Chicago set. Justified: City Primeval was filming Wednesday night in Douglass Park on the city’s West Side when the two vehicles broke through the perimeter. No cast or crewmembers were hurt. The story. —Mystery solved. Bill Murray had to drop out of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City just before its shoot in Spain got underway due to COVID-19. Murray, among Anderson’s longtime collaborators, was attached early to the film now in postproduction. But Murray being absent from Focus Features’ star-studded cast list for the film announced this week led to questions about his absence. The story. —"Thrill-inducing, neon-drenched noir series." Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) is returning to his roots for Copenhagen Cowboy, his first-ever series for Netflix. The six-part show stars Angela Bundalovic (The Rain) as Miu, a young heroine who travels through Copenhagen’s criminal netherworld. The story. |
Jan. 6 Hearings Draw 17.7M in Primetime ►Required viewing. The final hearing of the summer for Congress’ Jan. 6 select committee drew another sizable TV audience. According to Nielsen, 17.67m watched the primetime hearing across 10 broadcast and cable outlets. That’s down from the 20m who watched the first televised hearing (across 11 channels) on June 9, but significantly more people than watched any of the six daytime hearings in between the two primetime sessions. The ratings. —Tackling misinformation. YouTube said it will take down videos that show unsafe methods of abortion or otherwise promote false information about the procedure. In addition, the company said it will also launch an information panel featuring local and global health figures under abortion-related videos and above related search results. The policy follows last month’s Supreme Court ruling which overturned Roe v. Wade. The story. —$60m fraud. Jason Van Eman, producer of indie movies Assimilate, Camp Cold Brook and The Tale, has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for defrauding investors out of more than $60m. A federal judge in Florida delivered the sentence on Thursday after a jury found Van Eman guilty of wire fraud and money laundering. He must also pay victims of his financing scheme over $9m in restitution. The story. —Oh, snap. Shares of Snap continued to plummet Friday, following analyst downgrades after the company missed lowered earnings expectations and warned of a tough macroeconomic environment. More worrying still was the fact that the company did not issue future guidance after having revised expectations for the second quarter. The story. |
Box Office: 'Nope' Nabs $6.4M in Previews ►High hopes. Jordan Peele’s sci-fi horror pic Nope started off its North American box office run with a strong $6.4m in Thursday previews. Nope is aiming for a $50m domestic debut, which would mark the best start for an original studio film since 2019. Peele’s second film, Us, opened to a record-breaking $71m in 2019, while Get Out, his directorial debut, launched to $33m in 2017. The box office report. — "I shall be your Ken, for this story must be told." Ryan Gosling has revealed the reason he said yes to playing Ken in the upcoming Barbie film. Appearing on The Tonight Show, Gosling told host Jimmy Fallon that Greta Gerwig's script was the "best script I’ve ever read" and then, thanks to his daughter, he received a sign. The story. In other news... — Atlanta final season gets premiere date and surreal teaser —Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans to world premiere at Toronto Film Festival —Steve Bannon convicted of contempt for defying Jan. 6 Committee subpoena —Verizon loses 86,000 video subs in Q2, adds broadband users What else we're reading... —Gerry Smith reports that Hulu is rejecting campaign ads as rules are different for streamers [ Bloomberg] — Rob Copeland reports on the fight over Elon Musk's fortune amongst his inner circle [ WSJ] —Interesting piece with Zooey Deschanel answering readers questions, including how she feels about the "Manic pixie dream girl" label [ Guardian] —Wait, what? "Colorado man pleads guilty to casting missing wife’s ballot for Trump" [ NYT] —Anajak Thai is the L.A. Times’ Restaurant of the Year for 2022 [ LAT] Today... ...in 2004, Warner Bros. unveiled Halle Berry in Catwoman, a would-be blockbuster that disappointed with critics and audiences and grossed $82m globally. The original review. Today's birthdays: Monica Lewinsky (49), Woody Harrelson (61), Kathryn Hahn (49), Daniel Radcliffe (33), Lili Simmons (29), Paul Wesley (40), Britne Oldford (30), Charisma Carpenter (52), Shawn Levy (54), Marlon Wayans (50), Ronny Cox (84), Stephanie March (48), Kelvin Harrison Jr. (28), Eriq La Salle (60), Lydia Cornell (69), Pippa Bennett-Warner (34), Slash (57), Kathryn Gallagher (29), Stephanie Seymour (54), Fritz Kiersch (71), Michelle Williams (43), Alison Krauss (51), Warwick Thornton (52) |
| Bobbie Faye Ferguson, an actress and the mother of The Conners star Jay R. Ferguson, has died. She was 78. The obituary. |
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