| | What's news: Netflix has landed the media rights to video game franchise Gears of War. Chris Evans is People's Sexiest Man Alive. Whoopi Goldberg has joined the Twitter exodus. Amazon's Carnival Row will end with season two. Disney+ has confirmed the cast of Star Wars series The Acolyte. — Abid Rahman |
How Hollywood's Favorite Charity Went Broke ►"We are now operating in dangerous territory, rapidly depleting our cash reserves." Founded in 1921 by silent-era legend Mary Pickford, the Motion Picture & Television Fund has long provided care to aging industry veterans. But despite a glamorous Oscar season fundraiser and an A-list donor base, the non-profit is at risk—in the words of its director—of "imminent demise." THR's Gary Baum and Katie Kilkenny report on what went wrong at the MPTF. The story. —"My mom will be so happy." People Magazine has named Chris Evans as its Sexiest Man Alive for 2022. Evan’s selection was announced Monday night on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The 41-year-old actor, famed for playing Captain America across 10 films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, inherits the mantle from fellow MCU star Paul Rudd. The story. —"I just feel like it’s so messy, and I’m tired of now having certain kinds of attitudes blocked now getting back on." Whoopi Goldberg has become the latest celebrity to announce they’re leaving Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover. The View co-host made the announcement on her ABC show Monday. The story. —Ryan's world. After breakout successes from Ryan Murphy’s two latest Netflix series, the streamer has ordered two additional installments of Monster and picked up a second season of The Watcher. The former will become an anthology series a la Murphy’s FX shows American Horror Story and American Crime Story. Details about season two of The Watcher are being kept quiet for now. The story. —Coming to a close. Carnival Row, the fantasy drama series starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne that last aired in August 2019, will end with its previously announced second season on Amazon Prime Video. The series will return for its final 10 episodes on Feb. 17, 2023. Episodes of the drama, a co-production between Legendary TV and Amazon Studios, will debut weekly. The story. |
Netflix Lands 'Gears of War' Film, TV Rights ►Over 40m copies sold. THR's Borys Kit has the huge scoop on Netflix securing the film and TV rights to video game phenomenon Gears of War. The announcement comes after long months of negotiations in a competitive environment, with the streamer nabbing the media rights and partnering with The Coalition, the Canadian game developer behind the franchise. Borys writes that Netflix has grand ambitions for GOW, with an initial plan that includes a live-action feature followed by an adult animated series. The story. — 🎭 Casting news 🎭 Disney+ has confirmed the ensemble cast for its upcoming Star Wars series The Acolyte. The ensemble includes Carrie-Anne Moss, Dafne Keen, Rebecca Henderson, Dean-Charles Chapman and Amandla Stenberg. They join an impressive cast previously revealed by THR that includes Lee Jung-jae, Charlie Barnett, Manny Jacinto and Jodie Turner-Smith. The story. —Late addition. Daniel Kaluuya has joined the voice cast of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the sequel to the Oscar-winning animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Kaluuya will voice the character of Hobart “Hobie” Brown, aka Spider-Punk. The character is a more recent Marvel Comics creation, and is a homeless teenager who becomes a hero to the oppressed citizens of New York in his dimensional universe. The story. —Two more. Ted Lasso star Brett Goldstein and Saturday Night Live breakout Bowen Yang are the latest to join the voice cast of the animated Garfield movie. Chris Pratt will star as the lasagna-loving cat, with Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult, Hannah Waddingham, Cecily Strong and Ving Rhames also lending their voices to the feature. The story. |
Behind NBC's Election Night Plans ►The midterms will be streamed. The changing TV environment means that fewer homes have easy access to NBC News linear programming. For journalists that are focused on informing the public, making that journalism accessible is critical especially during the midterms. THR's Alex Weprin spoke to anchors Chuck Todd and Kristen Welker and network execs about their strategy to reach as many people as possible on election night. The story. —Don't shoot the messenger. Lin-Manuel Miranda will have a recurring role in Disney+'s Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the series adaptation of Rick Riordan’s best-selling series of novels. Miranda will play Hermes, the messenger god who looks out for travelers and thieves and is himself a trickster. The story. —Leaning into animation. Fox has given a series order to a show with the working title of Universal Basic Guys/The Hoagie Bros. from creators Adam and Craig Malamut. The show, slated to premiere in 2024, is a co-production between Fox Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television, with Fox’s Bento Box Entertainment as the animation studio. The story. —Coming back. Period drama series The Empress is set to return to Netflix for a second season. The drama series stars Devrim Lingnau, who plays the titular Austrian Empress Elisabeth “Sisi,” and Philip Froissant, who plays her husband Emperor Franz-Joseph I. The first season launched in September and appeared in Netflix’s global top 10 non-English TV list for five straight weeks. The story. —🏆 Three to beat 🏆 Lukas Dhont’s Belgian coming-of-age drama Close, Ali Abbasi’s Persian-language crime thriller Holy Spider and Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s satirical black comedy Triangle of Sadness, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, topped the nominations for the 2022 European Film Awards. The ceremony will take place on Dec. 10 in Reykjavík, Iceland. The full list of nominations. —Lateral thinking. AMC Theatres is partnering with Zoom Video Communications to turn select theaters into Zoom conference rooms. The two companies plan to launch the rooms in 17 of AMC’s major U.S. markets in 2023. At launch, companies can book a three-hour block of time at several theaters simultaneously, in order to hold virtual events across multiple markets. The story. |
'Magnum P.I.' Gets NBC Debut Date ►Back on the case. NBC has set a midseason lineup that includes Magnum P.I., which it picked up after a somewhat surprising cancellation at CBS. The revived show — produced by NBC’s sister studio Universal Television along with CBS Studios — has a two-season order and will make its NBC debut on Feb. 19 as part of an all-drama lineup on Sunday nights. The lineup. —Schedule set. Fox will make some significant changes to its schedule for midseason, unveiling eight new and returning series and moving veteran 911: Lone Star away from its previous Monday night home. The network will also use the NFL to launch a few shows, including the missing-persons drama Alert on Jan. 8 and a post-Super Bowl premiere for Next Level Chef on Feb. 12. The story. —Locked in. ABC has announced its midseason schedule, which includes premiere dates for the Milo Ventimiglia-led drama The Company You Keep and Gina Rodriguez comedy Not Dead Yet. The network will also launch a new Tuesday block featuring The Rookie and its Feds spinoff starting Jan. 3 with a crossover between both shows from creator Alexi Hawley. The Ramon Rodriguez procedural Will Trent will launch out of The Rookie pairing at 10 p.m. The lineup. —Bumped. ABC's The Wonder Years has been moved to the summer. The second-year comedy was left off of ABC’s newly announced midseason schedule and will not air until a date to be determined in summer 2023. Sources say the scheduling has nothing to do with original star Fred Savage, who in May was fired from the ABC reimagining following a misconduct investigation. The story. —"We’ll continue to build on the show’s success and legacy." NBCUniversal has renewed syndicated daytime talk show The Kelly Clarkson Show for two additional seasons. The renewal takes the series fronted by the former American Idol breakout through its sixth season in 2025. The story. —"I wanted to follow these friends for five seasons and leave them when the time was right." ABC announced that the upcoming fifth season of A Million Little Things will be its last. The conclusion of the DJ Nash-created ensemble family drama series will return Feb. 8 at 10 p.m. The story. |
Film Review: 'Bruiser' ►"A mellow and compelling spin on a familiar story." THR critic Lovia Gyarkye reviews Miles Warren's Bruiser. Trevante Rhodes (Moonlight) and Jalyn Hall (Till) headline this narrative feature about a teenage boy searching for paternal wisdom and connection. The review. In other news... —Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery trailer puts Daniel Craig on new murder case —CFDA Awards: Catherine Holstein, Emily Adams Bode and Kim Kardashian among winners —Rebel Wilson welcomes baby girl via surrogate —UTA promotes 67 staffers across 27 departments —Snoop Dogg signs with WME —Terrell Grice, host of The Terrell Show, signs with CAA —Keren Shahar to replace Alon Shtruzman as Keshet International CEO —Krista Smith promoted to head of publishing at Netflix as Michelle Lee departs —Time Magazine enlists new CEO What else we're reading... —Kerry Howley profiles Jamie Spears and looks at what pushed him to seize control of his daughter Britney Spears' life [Vulture] —With unhinged tweets, fleeing advertisers, and botched layoffs, Charlie Warzel writes that Elon Musk is terrible at running Twitter [Atlantic] —Kurt Wagner writes that Twitter's need to cover $1.2b in interest payments add urgency to Musk’s turnaround plans [Bloomberg] —Vanessa Thorpe looks at Knives Out, Agatha Christie and the current nonstop murder mystery boom [Guardian] —Miles Surrey writes that Starship Troopers, a cautionary tale about reckless militarism and the dangers of fascism, was ahead of the curve [Ringer] Today... ...in 1973, Disney unveiled its 83-minute animated adaptation Robin Hood, featuring music and songs from George Bruns, Roger Miller, Floyd Huddleston and Johnny Mercer. The original review. Today's birthdays: Matthew Rhys (48), Parker Posey (54), Gretchen Mol (50), Richard Curtis (66), Tara Reid (47), Courtney Thorne-Smith (55), Jessica Lowndes (34), Alfre Woodard (70), Dania Ramirez (43), Jade Pettyjohn (22), Kaniehtiio Horn (36), Alain Delon (87), Jocelin Donahue (41), Leif Garrett (61), Keir O'Donnell (44), Brooke Lyons (42), Phil Fondacaro (64), Gordon Ramsay (56), Don McManus (63), Chris McNally (34), Jack Osbourne (37), Kazuo Ishiguro (68) |
| Leslie Phillips, the British actor and Casanova of the Carry On movies who turned to serious supporting roles in Out of Africa and Empire of the Sun before voicing The Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter franchise, has died. He was 98. The obituary. |
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