by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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ENTERTAINMENT AND CULTURE NEWS:
GRAMMYS - From Deadline: The nominations for the 2024 / 66th annual Grammy Awards have been announced. The "Barbie" soundtrack leads with 11 nominations, while SZA leads individual artists with nine nominations. The winners will be announced Feb. 4th, 2024.
ANIMATION - From THR: Just as it shelved the "Batgirl" movie last year, Warner Bros. is shelving its live-action/animation hybrid, "Coyote Vs. Ace," which finished principal photography in New Mexico last year. The films stars John Cena.
DISNEY/NETFLIX - From Deadline: Disney CEO Bob Iger says that he won't "chase bucks" by licensing its "core brands" (Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars) to its rival, Netflix. However, it is in talks with Netflix over other titles.
STRIKE - From Deadline: The actors' strike is over. SAG-AFTRA, the actors union, have agreed to a new three-year deal with the Hollywood studios. The strike will officially be over 12.01 a.m. Pacific Time (PT).
MOVIES - From Deadline: Sony is co-financing with Nintendo a live-action movie based on the video game franchise, "The Legend of Zelda." Wes Ball of "The Maze Runner" franchise is set to direct.
AMAZON - From Variety: Amazon Prime Video has dropped a new trailer for the second season of its popular "Reacher" series. Prime will drop three of the new season's episodes on Dec. 15th.
MOVIE - From Variety: What Ridley Scott had to say to a television historian about "historical inaccuracies in his new film, "Napoleon" (starring Joaquin Phoenix), and what he'll say to the Oscars if he ever wins.
CELEBRITY - From Variety: Jeremy Renner says that he has tried every type of therapy to heal from his near-fatal snow plow accident back in January (2023).
MOVIES - From Deadline: Paramount is remaking its 1974 Burt Reynolds prison football movie, "The Longest Yard," again. This time it will be written by Rodney Barnes, who executive produced and wrote HBO's "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty." Barnes is also the writer of the comic book, Killadelphia, with artist Jason Shawn Alexander. The film was remade in 2005 with Adam Sandler in the lead.
DISNEY - From THR: FX has renewed its drama, "The Bear," for a third season. The series air exclusively on Hulu.
BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 11/3 to 11/5/2023 weekend box office is Universal Pictures' "Five Nights at Freddy's" with an estimated take of 19.4 million dollars.
MARVEL - From Variety: What comes after the Marvel Cinematic Universe? What will dominate in its place? It's not likely to be high-falutin' says Variety's Owen Gleiberman.
CELEBRITY - From Deadline: "Friends" actor, Matthew Perry, was laid to rest Friday afternoon at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles near Warner Bros Studios. His "Friends" co-stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, and David Schwimmer attended the service. Perry died Oct. 28th at his home in Los Angeles.
MOVIES - From Deadline: DreamWorks Animation has changed the release date of its live-action version of its hit 2010 animated film, How to Train Your Dragon. The new release date is June 13, 2025, moved up from March 14, 2025.
ANIMATION - From IndieWire: GKIDS has released the official English-dub trailer for "The Boy and the Heron," the new film from the legendary Japanese director, Hayao Miyazaki.
EMMYS - From THR: The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) announced on today (Thurs., Nov. 2nd) the nominees for the 2nd Annual Children’s & Family Emmy Awards. Disney leads with 92 nominations. The date for the awards ceremony will be announced at a later date.
DISNEY - From Deadline: Disney is going to pay Comcast 8.61 billion dollars for its remaining 33 percent stake in the streaming service, Hulu.
MOVIES - From TheAtlantic: This link leads to an excerpt from David Grann's non-fiction work, "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I." The book is the source material for Martin Scorsese's new film, "Killers of the Flower Moon."
CULTURE - From NYT: Maine resident and legendary novelist, Stephen King, wrote a piece about the mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine. He starts by writing "There is no solution to the gun problem..."
TELEVISION - From THR: Seasame Workshop has announced that "Sesame Street" is set to undergo some major renovations. The long-running PBS children’s series will be getting a creative overhaul for its 56th season, which will debut in 2025.
OBITS:
From Deadline: Television and film actor, Peter White, has died at the age of 86, Wednesday, November 1, 2023. White was best known roles on such daytime soap operas as "All My Children" and "Love is a Many Splendored Thing." White was one of the original cast members of the hit off-Broadway play, "The Boys in the Band" (1968), and he reprised his role in the play in the 1970 film adaptation directed by William Friedkin.
From THR: American television writer-producer, Peter S. Fischer, has died at the age of 88, Monday, October 30, 2023. He co-created the former CBS television mystery series, "Murder, She Wrote" (1984-96) with the late television producing partners, Richard Levinson and William Link. Fischer executive produced the series first seven seasons and wrote nearly three dozen of its episodes. Fischer also wrote multiple episodes of such series as "Marcus Welby," "Columbo," and "Ellery Queen," to name a few. He shared three "Outstanding Drama Series" Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his work on "Murder, She Wrote."
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ACTORS STRIKE:
From Deadline: The SAG-AFTRA national board unanimously approved the tentative agreement reached with the AMPTP to end the actors' strike. Now, the actors vote...
From Variety: The Hollywood studios have agreed to adjust language on artificial intelligence (AI) in their contract negotiations with SAG-AFTRA to end the 117-day actors' strike.
From THR: SAG-AFTRA is evaluating the studios' "last, best and final offer" to end the actors' strike.
From Deadline: The studios have delivered a new contract deal to SAG-AFTRA, the actors' union, and more strike talks are scheduled to be held this weekend.
From Deadline: Striking actors are set to meet the studios today for Halloween negotiations, but they are still "far apart on key issues."
From Variety: SAG-AFTRA (actors) and AMPTP (studios) will resume strike negotiations tomorrow (Tues., Oct. 24th).
From Deadline: SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher says that the offer from top-earning Hollywood actors to chip in some money to help end the strike "isn't legally compatible with the union's contract.
From Deadline: Top earning Hollywood actors want to chip in some money to end the SAG-AFTRA strike.
From Deadline: George Clooney, Emma Stone, Ben Affleck, Tyler Perry and Scarlett Johansson were among a group of top talent guild members that spoke Tuesday (Oct. 17th) with guild president Fran Drescher and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland for a detailed debrief, we hear.
From Deadline: The movie studios via AMPTP have suspended their talks with striking actors via SAG-AFTRA. The snag seems to be that actors want "2 precent of potential profits" on streaming.
From Variety: SAG-AFTRA (the actors) and AMPTP (the studios) are to resume strike talks Wed., Oct. 11th, as the actors strike enters Day 88.
From Deadline: The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the Hollywood studios CEOs met for strike talks for the first time since the actors went on strike July 14th. They plan to meet again, Wed., Oct. 4th.
BREAKING - From Deadline: The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) to end its strike after nearly five months. The parties finalized the framework of the deal Sunday when they were able to untangle their stalemate over AI and writing room staffing levels.
From WGAContract: The WGA contract page has additional information on the settlement.
From WGAContract: A summary of the new agreement.
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From Deadline: The actors’ strike is now in its 63rd day. Now, SAG-AFTRA leaders are ramping up their rhetoric against the studio heads, accusing them in the latest issue of the "SAG-AFTRA Magazine" of “behaving like petty tyrants,” “would-be feudal lords” and “land barons in feudal times.”
From Deadline: Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Tony Vinciquerra says that Hollywood unions need to embrace AI.
From Deadline: Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav says the industry must focus and fight to resolve the writers and actors strikes.
From Deadline: Hollywood’s superstars are answering the call from the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, donating $1 million or more each to help their fellow performers during the ongoing actors and writers strikes. Among the big donors are Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Oprah Winfrey, and Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively.
From Deadline: If you are interested, here is a list of the film and TV productions SAG-AFTRA has granted waivers to continue filming.
From Variety: International superstar, Dwayne Johnson, makes a seven-figure contribution to the "SAG-AFTRA Foundation Relief Fund." Foundation president, actor Courtney B. Vance, says the amount will remain confidential.
From Variety: Why haven't A-list stars joined the SAG-AFTRA picket line?, asks "Variety."
From Deadline: Author George R.R. Martin, whose works were the basis for HBO's "Game of Thrones," says the strikes will be long and bitter.
From Variety: Halted film productions due to the writers and actors strikes are costing each Hollywood studio at least 600,000 dollars per week.
From Variety: Said at a strike meeting: “Without a transformative change in SAG-AFTRA’s current contract with the AMPTP, the acting profession will no longer be an option for future generations of performers, and actors already working in the industry will need to pursue other careers in order to survive.”
From Deadline: If you are a "social media influencer" who is NOT a member of SAG-AFTRA, you can be barred from future membership for promoting a film or television series during the actors' strike.
From Variety: The SAG/AFTRA strike begins in New York and Los Angeles. Hollywood actors began striking today, Fri., July 14th.
From Deadline: The site has the video of the powerful strike speech given by SAG-AFTRA president, Fran Drescher, the actress best known for CBS' former sitcom, "The Nanny."
From Deadline: SAG-AFTRA is already preparing strike picket signs in case the actors' strike begins next week.
From Deadline: The Hollywood studios via the AMPTP has given Canadian actors a new contract, including a 5 percent raise.
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