Amazon Studios, 3 Arts Adapt Futuristic Sci-Fi Novella ‘Young Blood;’ Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari Scripting

The Los Angeles County Registrar’s Office announced it will pick up mail-in ballots more frequently after a ballot box in Baldwin Park caught fire Sunday evening, prompting an arson investigation.  Just after 8 p.m., fire crews responded to the box sitting outside Baldwin Park Library on Baldwin Park Boulevard.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorAs the exhibition industry teeters, global cinema owners beseeched New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to reopen theaters in areas of the state with low infection rates. The response was not promising.The executive committee of the Global Cinema Federation — led by Alejandro Ramirez Magaña, CEO of Cinépolis, in a letter to the governor Wednesday, praised the state’s progress in combating COVID and listed steps exhibitors have taken to keep patrons and staff safe.

The Chainsmokers are being fined for their drive in concert held in the Hamptons over the summer.

It’s not just domestic theater chains that are desperate to see cinemas reopen in New York and Los Angeles, but also cinema operators worldwide.

Amazon Studios is currently in final talks to acquire Eddie Murphy’s “Coming 2 America” from Paramount, according to multiple reports. The sequel to the 1988 hit comedy is said to be purchased by the streamer for around $125 million and will be released on December 18.The film is now the latest to be sold by Paramount to a streaming service as the studio has offloaded several titles in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Coming 2 America” is making one more connection before it arrives to American audiences.The long-anticipated sequel to the Eddie Murphy classic is in the process of being sold by distributor Paramount Pictures to Amazon Studios, in a deal worth roughly $125 million, insiders said.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has acquired Raindrop, a grounded sci-fi action thriller pitch by scribes Anna Halberg and Spenser Cohen.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is turning the Yōko Ogawa novel The Memory Police into a feature, and it has an enviable filmmaking team to bring it to life.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Andrew Richardson (The Last O.G.) has been cast as a series regular opposite Parisa Fitz-Henley in Triage, ABC’s second cycle medical drama pilot from Erica Messer, Jon M. Chu and David Cornue.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersCreated by Cornue, Triage is a character-driven medical drama that follows pioneering surgeon Finley Briar (Fitz-Henley) over three distinct decades at the same hospital.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Oscar winning Traffic scribe Stephen Gaghan will write and direct Barbarian Days for Amazon Studios, based on the bestselling memoir by William Finnegan Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 2016.Gaghan will produce alongside Ted Hope, who will produce under his multi-picture deal with the studio.

Is a live-action Spider-Verse movie in the making? Going by the recent reports and developments, it is hard not to speculate. It was previously revealed that Spider-Man 3 will watch Jamie Foxx reprise the role of his Spidey villain Electro.

Amazon Studios has picked up the action movie Heads of State, to star Idris Elba and John Cena, from The Safran Company, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Harrison Query is penning the script and Peter Safran and John Rickard are producing.

Idris Elba and John Cena apparently had a good thing going in the upcoming “The Suicide Squad” sequel, because the two actors pitched an action film titled “Heads of State” over Zoom to studios and Amazon Studios just picked up the film.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has won Heads of State, a pitch package designed to re-team John Cena and Idris Elba, who star in the upcoming The Suicide Squad sequel at Warner Bros. The project was sold after a Zoom pitch presentation with the actors, screenwriter Harrison Query, and the producers (The Safran Company’s Peter Safran and John Rickard).

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has won Head of State, a pitch package designed to re-team John Cena and Idris Elba, who star in the upcoming The Suicide Squad sequel at Warner Bros. The project was sold after a Zoom pitch presentation with the actors, screenwriter Harrison Query, and the producers (The Safran Company’s Peter Safran and John Rickard).

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Matthew López, the playwright behind the hit Broadway play The Inheritance, has signed an overall television deal with Amazon Studios.The streamer has signed up the writer, who also wrote on Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama The Newsroom, to develop and create new projects.It is the latest overall deal for Amazon Studios, which in the last twelve months have signed up Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Steve McQueen, Gloria Calderon Kellett and Lena Waithe.López’s play The

“Borat 2” has a release date.

Well, the rumors are true and legit—though still no word on the oversized title. “Borat 2,” which was shot in secret— and fast—this year by Sacha Baron Cohen is done and not only that, already has a distributor.