Friday, November 8, 2019

Negromancer News Bits and Bites from November 1st to 9th, 2019 - Update #23

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TELEVISION - From Deadline:  ABC's sitcom, "Fresh Off the Boat," will end Friday, February 21, 2020, the completion of its sixth and final season.

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MOVIES - From Deadline:  "Scream 5" is in early development at Spyglass Media Group.  It would be the fifth film in the franchise begun by writer Kevin Williamson and the late director, Wes Craven.

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MUSIC - From YahooEntertainment:  Robyn Crawford was Whitney Houston's best friend, and the two always denied that they were lovers.  Now, Robyn is talking in her new book, "A Song for You: My Life With Whitney Houston.

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CELEBRITY - From YahooEntertainment:  Actor Richard Gere may be 70-years-old, but that did not stop him from impregnating his 36-year-old wife, Alejandra, with their second child.

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MOVIES - From THR:  Legendary Hollywood star and icon James Dean died in a car accident in 1955.  Now, Dean has been posthumously cast in the film, "Finding Jack."  Dean will be reconstructed via "full body" CGI that will use actual (archival) footage and photos of Dean.  The CGI will probably be posted on a body double actor, and another actor will provide Dean's voice.  Dean's family has apparently approved of this.

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MOVIES - From CinemaBlend:  Denis Villeneuve is working on "Dune 2" even as he is still compiling his "Dune" reboot.

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TELEVISION - From Deadline:  Actor Lucas Black has left the CBS series, "NCIS: New Orleans," after six seasons of playing the character, "Special Agent Christopher LaSalle."  Black was an original cast member.

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CELEBRITY - From Variety:  Jamie Lee Curtis talks about her addiction, even freebasing once with her late father, legendary Hollywood star, Tony Curtis.

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TELEVISION - From Deadline:  ABC's next "Live In Front Of A Studio Audience" will feature recreations of classic episodes of "All in the Family" and "Good Times" and will debut December 18, 2019.  "ABC’s "Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons’" was nominated for three Emmy Awards, and took home the prize for "Outstanding Variety Special (Live)" and premiered on May 22, 2019.

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TELEVISION - From Deadline:  In spite of recent controversy, the cable TV series, "Mayans M.C.," gets a third season from FX.

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TELEVISION - From Deadline:  CBS has given a pilot production commitment to a reboot of its 1980s TV series, "The Equalizer" (starring the late, great Edward Woodward).  This time Oscar-nominated actress, Queen Latifah, will play the lead role and executive produce.

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BOX OFFICE - From Patreon:  My review of "Terminator: Dark Fate"

From THR:  With an estimated debut of 29 million dollars in the U.S., "Terminator: Dark Fate" is looking like a box office bomb, especially with its production cost of 185 million dollars, which does not include marketing costs.

From Variety:   The newest release in the "Terminator" film franchise, "Terminator: Dark Fate," seems fated for a lackluster box office debut weekend.

From TheWrap:   "6 Major Ideas ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Copied From Previous ‘Terminator’ Movies"

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ECO - From TheGuardian:  Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio praises child climate change activist, Greta Thunberg.

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MOVIES - From Deadline:  Director Rian Johnson says angry tweets about his film, "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" inspired his new film, "Knives Out."

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MOVIES - From ThePlaylist:   Francis Lawrence has confirmed that he is talks to direct a "Hunger Games" prequel film.

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STEAMING - From ThePlaylist:  Al Pacino is joining producer Jordan Peele on a new Amazon series about Nazi hunters.

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OSCARS - From IndieWire:  There have been some changes to the Academy Award category, "Best International Feature Film" (formerly "Best Foreign Language Film"), including that voting members of the Academy (AMPAS) will be able to view the film onlin.

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MOVIES-MUSIC - From Deadline:  "Bohemian Rhapsody" producer Graham King is one of the parties behind a biopic about the Bee Gees, the brotherly singing trio.  They wrote songs for the 1977 film, "Saturday Night Fever," which yielded several hit songs and made the film's soundtrack, "Saturday Night Fever," one of the biggest selling albums of all time.

OBITS:

From NBCNews:  The acclaimed Louisiana-based novelist, Ernest J.Gaines, has died at the age of 86, Tuesday, November 5, 2019.  He was best known for his 1971 novel, "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman."  The novel became a 1974 CBS television movie starring Cicely Tyson, which went on to win nine Emmy Awards, including one for Tyson.  Gaines 1983 novel, "A Gathering of Old Men," and his 1993 novel, "A Lesson Before Dying" were also made into TV movies.

From Variety:  British music and film producer, Nik Powell, has died at the age of 69, Thursday, November 9, 2019.  Powell was one of the co-founders of Virgin Records and of the film production company, Palace Productions.  Among the films he produced were "Mona Lisa" (1986) and "The Crying Game" (1986).

TRAILERS:

From YouTube:  First trailer for Universal/Blumhouse's "Invisible Man" starring Elizabeth Moss.  The film debuts Feb. 28th, 2020.


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