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Saturday, August 31, 2024
Negromancer News Bits and Bites from August 25th to 31st, 2024 - UPDATE #12
by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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ENTERTAINMENT AND CULTURE NEWS:
MOVIES/BOOKS - From TheNewYorker and RSN: "Remembering a Childhood in the South Bronx" by Al Pacino, an excerpt from his memoir, "Sonny Boy."
MOVIES - From Deadline: The next "Jurassic World" film has a title and some first-look photos. "Jurassic World: Rebirth" is due July 2, 2025.
TELEVISION - From Deadline: "John Wick" franchise director, Chad Stahelski, is developing author Jonathan Maberry's "Joe Ledger" novel series for television.
VENCIE FILM FESTIVAL - From Deadline: In Venice to receive the Venice Film Festival's "Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award," Sigourney Weaver talks about her work in the "Alien" and "Avatar" franchises. She looks back at her career and talks about upcoming films.
From Deadline: At the Venice Film Festival 2024, director Tim Burton talks about his new film, "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice," which makes its premiere.
From Deadline: The critics are talking about Beetlejuice Beetlejuice after its Venice Film Festival premiere.
NETFLIX - From Variety: What's coming to Netflix in September 2024? How about "Uglies," which is based on Scott Westerfeld's dystopian novel series, on Sept. 13th.
TELEVISION - From Deadline: Actress Erika Alexander, who starred as "Maxine Shaw" in in the former Fox sitcom, "Living Single," is partnering with "WeScreenplay" to bolster opportunities for underrepresented voices and marginalized people. Alexander and her production partner, Ben Arnon, are working with "WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Labs" to offer a series of workshops, mentorship programs, and writing labs designed to empower writers from diverse backgrounds.
BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 8/23 to 8/25/2024 weekend box office is Disney/Marvel's "Deadpool & Wolverine" with an estimated take of 18.3 million dollars.
From Deadline: "Inside Out 2" becomes the first animated film to cross the one-billion dollar mark in overseas box office. It is currently at 1.003 billion dollars.
From Deadline: The 15th anniversary release of the 2009 animated film, Coraline, is among the top performers at the indie box office.
TELEVISION - From THR: Angela Bassett speaks on why she initially declined the offer to narrate National Geographic's Emmy-nominated documentary miniseries, "Queens." The series examines animal matriarchies from Costa Rica to the Congo.
STREAMING - From Deadline: Chick-Fil-A is developing its on streaming service. It will apparently focus on "family-friendly" unscripted series.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Negromancer News Bits and Bites from July 21st to 31st, 2024 - UPDATE #19
by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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ENTERTAINMENT AND CULTURE NEWS:
DISNEY - From Deadline: Layoffs at Disney Entertainment Television have begun with 140 people let go. National Geographic lost 60 employees - 13 percent of its staff.
TELEVISION - From Variety: NBC expects to surpass 1.25 billion dollars in advertising sales from its broadcast of the Paris Olympics. It previously reached 1.25 billion in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
MOVIES - From BBC: The site looks at the "10 best films to watch in August," from Alien Romulus to "The Crow."
BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 7/26 to 7/28/2024 weekend box office is Disney/Marvel Studios' Deadpool & Wolverine with an estimated take of 205 million dollars.
From Variety: Deadpool vs. Wolverine had a 96 million dollar opening day (Fri., July 26th). It's the largest for an R-rated film and the sixth largest of all time.
From THR: Disney/Pixar's "Inside Out 2" has now surpassed Disney's "Frozen II" as the all-time highest grossing animated film at the global box office. It's 1.462 billion dollars passed the "Frozen" sequel's 1.451 billion dollars.
STAR TREK - From Deadline: Akiva Goldsman says that "Star Trek" might be staged as a musical.
AMAZON - From Deadline: Amazon MGM Studios has confirmed that it has hired former Netflix Chairman of Film and former Vice Chairman of Universal, Scott Stuber, to revive the "United Artists" label for them. Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner also tried to revive United Artists about 16 years ago.
STREAMING - From Deadline: Apple Original Films has won the auction for the rights to adapt author Jonathan Tropper's short story, "The Corsair Code." Tropper will adapt the story, which is attached to actor Chris Hemsworth.
TELEVISION - From Variety: AMC and AMC+'s "The Terror" Season 3 rounds out its cast with CCH Pounder, Judith Light, and Stephen Root.
POLITICS - Variety: Hollywood donors feel tremendous enthusiasm for Democratic Presidential candidate, Vice-President Kamala Harris.
From THR: Netflix's Reed donates $7 million dollars to VP Kamala Harris' election campaign.
FILM FESTIVALS - From Deadline: The full lineup of films for the 81st Venice Film Festival have been announced, and among the big names is "Joker: Folie a Deux." The festival runs from August 28th to September 7th, 2024.
From Deadline: The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival announced its full lineup of "Galas 2024" and "Special Presentations 2024," and which amounts to 63 films from 25 countries. Many include films are from celebrated directors and star some of the biggest names in domestic and international cinema. TIFF 2024 runs September 5th to 15th, 2024.
MOVIES - From Deadline: Recent Oscar winner Brendan Fraser ("The Whale") will portray Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower in Working Title and Studiocanal‘s upcoming D-Day movie, "Pressure."
AMAZON - From Deadline: Amazon Prime Video has taken another big leap into the UK film and TV industry by acquiring Bray Film Studios, the 70-year-old studios where "Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" is filmed.
BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 7/19 to 7/21/2024 weekend box office is Universal's "Twisters" with an estimated take of 80.5 million dollars.
POLITICS - From Variety: President Joe Biden has ended his re-election bid.
From TheAtlantic or RSN: Just in cast you'd forgotten J.D. Vance's critique, "Opioid of the Masses," of his now running mate, Donald Trump, here are two sources where you can enjoy it.
MOVIES - From Deadline: 2024 marks the 25th anniversary of the release of "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999), director Stanley Kubrick's final film. The film starred Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, who were married at the time of the film's production and release. Recently, Kidman talked about how Kubrick found inspiration in the marriage for his film.
STREAMING - From Deadline: Paramount+ has cancelled "Halo," its video game adaptation, after two seasons.