CAA’s Bryan Lourd Wants A Deal With WGA Over Packaging; Believes Movie Going Isn’t Dead, But COVID-19 Has “Permanently Changed” Behavioral Patterns

Breonna Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, filed a lawsuit Tuesday over his arrest the night Taylor was shot and killed by police, asking the court to declare him «immune» from prosecution, citing the state's «stand your ground» law, according to CBS affiliate WLKY.

The National‘s drummer Bryan Devendorf has revealed that he wants the band’s next album to be a “stripped-back rock record” in a similar vein to IDLES.Devendorf was speaking to NME about his surprise new record, released last Friday under the name Royal Green, when we asked him about progress on the band’s follow-up to their acclaimed 2019 album ‘I Am Easy To Find’.“I think it’s back to the drawing board,” he replied. “We’re starting from the bottom of the mountain.

Teen Mom 2 is entering yet another season without Jenelle Evans, and Briana DeJesus thinks the MTV show is missing out. While promoting the new season that’ll premiere on Sept. 1, Briana EXCLUSIVELY admitted to HollywoodLife that she’d like to see Jenelle return to the show! “She was on Teen Mom 2 for a long time. She kind of made the show what it is today,” Briana told us. Jenelle made her Teen Mom debut on 16 and Pregnant in 2010.

Also Read: 'All Rise,' 'Bob Hearts Abishola,' 'The Unicorn' and 'FBI' Spinoff Among 18 Series Renewed by CBSA spinoff of CBS’s “FBI,” “Most Wanted” stars Julian McMahon as Jess LaCroix, the leader of the highly skilled team Fugitive Task Force, which relentlessly tracks and captures the notorious criminals on the Bureau’s Most Wanted list.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Tia Mowry will be part of Lifetime’s original movie franchise for years to come. The Game and Sister, Sister alumna has closed a three-picture deal with the A+E network to star in and produce three holiday movies for their It’s a Wonderful Lifetime slate.

Alan Carr has showed off his incredible lockdown weight loss after going on Adele's diet, which helped her lose seven stone.The 44 year old drew attention from his 884,000 fans after sharing a snap on Instagram that highlighted his slimmed down figure and chiselled jawline. In the picture, where he promoted Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, the star could be seen leaning against a doorframe, wearing a navy blue T-shirt and his signature black-framed glasses on.

straight to your inbox Borussia Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke hit back at suggestions from Paul Scholes and Owen Hargreaves that the German club is bluffing about Jadon Sancho's future. Manchester United were dealt a bombshell earlier in the week when Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc not only claimed Sancho will play for the club next season, but also revealed the 20-year-old has a contract in Westphalia that runs until 2023 - not 2022, as was previously thought.

Also Read: WGA Packaging Fee Lawsuit Delayed to August 2021 by Pandemic“We have not had the opportunity to do that, which is something I think most people don’t know. I think we will, and I expect in the near future that we won’t be suing each other.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterIn a sprawling keynote conversation with Ziffren Brittenham partner Ken Ziffren at the UCLA Entertainment Symposium, CAA managing partner and co-chairman Bryan Lourd opened up about his thoughts on the ongoing Writers Guild conflict, the Black Lives Matter movement and the agency’s efforts to diversify, and the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the entertainment industry.Lourd was a late addition to the roster; former WarnerMedia Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt had

David Robb Labor EditorA federal judge has denied WME’s and CAA’s motions to dismiss the remainder of the WGA’s fraud and price-fixing allegations, sending the case to trial to determine whether agency packaging fees are legal.In his 17-page ruling today (read it here), U.S. District Court Judge Andre Birotte Jr.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe trial in the battle between the Writers Guild of America and the two largest talent agencies will be postponed to August 2021 due to the pandemic.The packaging fee trial was originally set to start on March 23, 2021, but will be moved to Aug.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticCAA’s Bryan Lourd will take over as the keynote speaker for the 44th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium Wednesday, replacing Bob Greenblatt, the former Chairman of WarnerMedia Entertainment.In a virtual sit-down interview with powerhouse attorney Ken Ziffren, the uberagency Managing Partner and Co-Chairman will now be the yearly media conference’s marquee attraction in a session that goes online on August 12, at 5 p.m. PT.

Bryan Cranston would clear his schedule to reprise his role as Walter White on Better Call Saul if show creator Vince Gilligan came knocking on his door.“I would be in it if Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, who are co-executive producers on it, wanted me to be in it,” the actor, 64, told Collider on Thursday, August 6. “I would do it in a second.

Breaking Bad‘s Walter White.The actor, who is promoting his new film The One and Only Ivan on Disney+, said in a new interview that he would be willing to portray drug kingpin Walter White in Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad‘s Emmy award-winning prequel spin-off series, which nears its final season.“I would be in [Better Call Saul] if Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, who are co-executive producers on it, wanted me to be in it,” Cranston told Collider. “I’d do it in a second.

Megan Fox can put away those the sunglasses, because her ex Brian Austin Green is throwing some shade in her direction.Just hours after Megan gushed over her new beau Machine Gun Kelly on Instagram, the "90210" star certainly appeared to have something to say to his ex, whom he was married to for 10 years.On Wednesday morning, Megan posted a black-and-white image of her and MGK, both of them towels around their waists.