| | | | | | What's news: Dan Schneider has been the given the go ahead to sue WBD and the producers of the Quiet on Set docuseries. Neon has secured a $200m credit facility. Jake Paul has denied the Mike Tyson fight was rigged. Apple's Drops of God won best drama at the International Emmys. Courtney B. Vance will replace the late Lance Reddick in Disney+'s Percy Jackson and the Olympians.— Abid Rahman
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Animation Guild Reaches Tentative Deal With Studios ►🤝 "This new agreement gives us a solid foundation to work with" 🤝 The future of animation work in the AI era is beginning to take shape. Following a high-stakes negotiation that stalled due to a fierce battle over the burgeoning technology, The Animation Guild has reached a tentative deal with studios and streamers over a new three-year contract for members in the L.A. area. The result of three months of on-and-off negotiations, the provisional pact includes AI language with “notification and consultation provisions,” according to the union, which did not provide any other specifics on this key part of the agreement. The story.
—Moving forward. Former Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider, the subject of Investigation Discovery’s Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, has been given the green light to proceed with his defamation suit against Warner Bros. Discovery and the docuseries’ producers. Judge Ashfaq G. Chowdhury of the Los Angeles Superior Court dismissed a bid by WBD and Maxine Productions to have the lawsuit tossed out. The ID docuseries alleged that, behind the scenes, underage stars and crew were treated inappropriately on TV sets run by Schneider. The story.
—🤝 New credit facility 🤝 Neon, the indie distributor founded by Tom Quinn that has had box office success with art house titles like Parasite and recently with Sean Baker’s Anora, has secured a $200m credit facility with a lending consortium led by Comerica Bank. The facility will help grow Neon’s operations, including film acquisition, development, production and distribution, while also driving the indie studio into new international markets. In 2022, Neon secured a revolving credit facility with Comerica Bank to expand the studio’s previous credit facility. The story.
—"Americans know little or nothing — on climate change, on Ukraine." Alec Baldwin is in Italy to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Turin Film Festival, and the actor was typically candid at a festival press conference. Among a range of topics, Baldwin opined on U.S. politics and the state of the news media back home. THR Italy reports that Baldwin appeared at the presser on the condition that the fatal Rust shooting was not to be brought up at any point. The story.
—Doth protest too much. Jake Paul‘s Most Valuable Promotions would like to make it crystal clear: Paul’s fight with boxing legend Mike Tyson earlier this month was entirely above board. Paul’s company released a lengthy statement Monday, decrying allegations that the fight was rigged as “incorrect and baseless.” MVP also said that it was hoping that the fight could lead to a long-term deal with Netflix, which streamed it globally, and saw enormous viewership. The story.
—🏆 ICYMI 🏆 Zach Bryan is the leading nominee at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards. The alternative country singer has a whopping 21 nominations across 18 categories, including a bid for top artist. Taylor Swift follows with 17 nominations, while Morgan Wallen earned 11 and first-time nominee Sabrina Carpenter received nine. Those four acts, along with Drake, will compete for top artist at the Dec. 12 show, airing live on FOX, Paramount+ and Amazon’s Fire TV Channels. The nominees. |
'Yellowstone' Director Explains Why They Revisited Key Death Scene ►"I will say, I gasped when I read it." THR's queen of chat Jackie Strause spoke to Yellowstone director Christina Voros about the latest episode of the Paramount Network hit series. The audience is "embodying what the children are feeling in their gut but can’t see," explains Voros of flashing back to the night that explained the fate of Kevin Costner's character, John Dutton. Warning: Spoilers! The interview.
—🏆 Congrats! 🏆 The best in global television was honored in New York on Monday night at the 2024 International Emmy Awards, with winners picked across nominees from 21 countries. The big winners on the night were Apple TV+'s Drops of God, which won best drama series, Timothy Spall winning best actor, Aokbab-Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying winning best actress, División Palermo winning best comedy and Liebes Kind winning best miniseries. The winners.
—🎭 New Zeus just dropped 🎭 Courtney B. Vance has joined Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The Emmy winner will take over the role of Zeus, the king of the Greek gods, in a part played by Lance Reddick in season one. Reddick died in March 2023 at 60. Season two of Percy Jackson is currently in production and slated to premiere sometime next year. Vance is one of several additions to the cast for the coming season, along with Daniel Diemer, Tamara Smart, Andra Day and guest stars Sandra Bernhard, Margaret Cho and Kristen Schaal. The story.
—🤝 Production deal 🤝 France’s Newen Studios and free-to-air broadcaster TF1 Group have signed a deal with Netflix that will see the partners co-produce the streamer’s first-ever daily drama series for France. The series, Tout Pour La Lumière (All for Light), a family series set in the world of music and dance, will shoot next year and become available on Netflix five days prior to its free-to-air broadcast on TF1 and VOD player TF1+. The story.
—Snapped up. Netflix has acquired global streaming rights to the Israeli drama series Bad Boy from creators Ron Leshem and Hagar Ben-Asher. The eight-part series will launch globally in 2025, with the first run on Israeli channel HOT followed by a global launch in Netflix’s 190 territories. The series stars Daniel Chen, Havtamo Farda and Guy Manster. Leshem was the creator of Israeli teen drama Euphoria, which Sam Levinson later adapted for HBO. Inspired by a true story, Bad Boy revolves around Dean, who was held in a cruel juvenile detention facility in his youth. Twenty years later, Dean is a star comedian who is desperate to keep his past a secret. The story. |
Charlize Theron Joins Christopher Nolan's Latest Movie ►🎭 Another A-lister 🎭 Charlize Theron is joining the Nolan-verse. The Oscar winner is the latest bold faced name to join Christopher Nolan's new feature. Matt Damon, Zendaya, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o and Anne Hathaway are all set to star. Nolan wrote the script and is directing the project, which Universal will distribute. The studio has set a release date of July 17, 2026. Plot details are being kept under wraps. The story.
—🏆 Making headlines 🏆 Kneecap won four British Independent Film Awards craft prizes, with wins elsewhere for Alex Garland’s Civil War and Rose Glass’s Love Lies Bleeding. Rich Peppiatt’s Northern Irish hip-hop comedy — which leads this year’s BIFA nominations with 14 nods — triumphed with best casting for Carla Stronge, best editing for Julian Ulrichs and Chris Gill, best original music for Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante and best music supervision for Chris Welch and Jeanette Rehnstrom. The craft category winners were revealed on Tuesday by co-hosts Ella Kemp and Connor Swindells. The winners.
—🤝 Rights acquired! 🤝 Newly launched production banner Bridge7 has acquired the film sequel and TV rights to the Academy Award-winning best picture winner Slumdog Millionaire. The rights were picked up from U.K.-based Celador, which produced and financed the 2008 box office hit in association with the U.K.’s Film4. Slumdog Millionaire, directed by Danny Boyle, starred Dev Patel in his breakout role and Freida Pinto, and earned eight Oscars. Los Angeles-based Bridge7 is run by producer Swati Shetty and veteran CAA agent Grant Kessman. The story.
—🎭 Coming together 🎭 Sterling K. Brown, Rita Ora and John Kim have boarded the live-action feature Voltron based on the mecha anime that Rawson Marshall Thurber is directing for Amazon MGM Studios. The trio join Henry Cavill and relative newcomer Daniel Quinn-Toye to star in the ensemble piece that gets underway December in Australia. Voltron is based on the Japanese sci-fi series Beast King GoLion and Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV. World Events edited and dubbed the series as a syndicated show, naming it Voltron: Defender of the Universe, which ran in the mid-1980s. The story. |
Film Review: 'Dear Santa' ►"'Tis the season for mediocre Christmas movies." THR's Frank Scheck reviews Bobby Farrelly's Dear Santa. Bobby Farrelly directs (and Peter Farrelly co-writes) the wacky tale of a young boy whose letter to Santa gets into the hands of Satan (Jack Black), thanks to an unfortunate misspelling. The review.
—"A real-life rehearsal for A Hard Day’s Night." THR's chief film critic David Rooney reviews David Tedeschi's Beatles '64. Produced by Martin Scorsese, Tedeschi’s Disney+ doc film threads contemporary interviews and historical context through rare footage shot by the Maysles brothers. The review.
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—Berlin Film Festival adds new screening venue for 2025
—Santa Barbara Fest: Timothée Chalamet tapped for Artist of the Year Award
—Queen Latifah to host 47th annual Kennedy Center honors
—Former Netflix, Snap ad chief Jeremi Gorman joining Fanatics
—Tom Sandoval, Tom Schwartz announce closure of Bar Schwartz & Sandy’s
—Barry Pepper signs with Paradigm
What else we're reading...
—Bill Donahue reports that Drake, in a legal petition, is accusing UMG and Spotify of a plot to "artificially inflate" Kendrick Lamar’s "Not Like Us" [Billboard]
—Will Oremus and Naomi Nix write that Meta is scrambling to bring in changes to Threads as Bluesky continues to surge [WaPo]
—Peter Hoskins reports that Trump will hit China, Mexico and Canada with new tariffs on day one of his presidency [BBC]
—The scandals keep on comin'. Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan report that a top Trump aide has been accused of asking for money to "promote" potential appointees [NYT]
—Whizy Kim reflects on Elon Musk and the age of shameless oligarchy [Vox]
Today...
...in 1942, Michael Curtiz's Casablanca made its world premiere at the Hollywood Theatre in New York City. The original review.
Today's birthdays: Rita Ora (34), Peter Facinelli (51), Lia Williams (60), Tamsin Egerton (36), Leslye Headland (44), Arturo Castro (39), Mark L. Lester (78), DJ Khaled (49), Thea Sofie Loch Næss (28), Garcelle Beauvais (58), Jessica Camacho (42), Trevor Morgan (38), Kristin Bauer (58), Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (36), Sara Mitich (34), Ryan Robbins (52), Aidan McArdle (54), Jamie Rose (65), Adam J. Harrington (52), Scott Adsit (59), Asha Banks (21), Trace Ayala (44), Katrina Lenk (50), Don Lake (68), Jessica Bowman (44), Arjun Rampal (52), Rob Raco (35), Mallory Bechtel (25), Michael Gregory (80) |
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