Comic-Con Crisis: Marvel, Netflix, Sony, HBO and Universal to Skip SDCC as Fest Faces Another Existential Threat

Kourtney Kardashian, Drew Barrymore and Hailey Bieber turn to EltaMD facial sunscreens. A favorite among dermatologists and celebs for being a sunscreen, moisturizer, and light tint at the same time, EltaMD sunscreen is now on sale at Walmart for the 4th of July.Walmart is offering incredible deals on multiple EltaMD sunscreens, including the cult-favorite UV Clear and EltaMD’s tinted sunscreen.

Beyoncé, Kourtney Kardashian, Rihanna and more stars have put their love on top to reveal pregnancies in creative ways.

and as TheWrap first reported, Marvel Studios and Universal are sitting out next month’s Comic-Con, according to insiders.Paramount will be making the trek down to San Diego and returning to Comic-Con to promote the upcoming animated film “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” which has been generating positive buzz and strong word of mouth since it screened at Annecy in France. In 2022, Paramount promoted “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” at the convention and was one of the standouts at con.The writer’s strike, along with a potential strike by SAG-AFTRA, is making it tough for studios and TV networks to show up to the annual convention without product and performers to promote their projects.

Comic-Con is the latest event to be hit by Hollywood’s labor issue.

Editor’s note: The interviews conducted in this podcast were recorded at Deadline’s Contenders TV event, prior to the WGA’s strike starting on May 2.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Sony Pictures International Productions and Italy’s Colorado Film have teamed up on Italian comedy/road movie “50km per Hour” which has started shooting with multi-hyphenate Fabio De Luigi directing and starring. The film is an Italian remake of Sony’s 2018 German box office hit “25 Km/h,” written by Oliver Ziegenbalg and directed by Markus Goller about two estranged siblings who reunite at their father’s funeral and make a spur of the moment decision to fulfill their childhood dream of driving across the country on their old motorbikes. It has also recently been remade in Mexico with the title “A Todas Partes” (“All the Places”).

Jordan Moreau In a turnaround for the streaming wars, Warner Bros. Discovery is in negotiations to license a package of library HBO titles to Netflix. If a deal were to go through, it would cement the sea-change in content distribution strategy afoot at Warner Bros. Discovery under the David Zaslav regime. HBO has licensed library content in the past — a deal with Netflix would not be groundbreaking per se, but it is notable in the era of pitched competition among the largest media companies to build direct-to-consumer streaming platforms. Netflix, the upstart outsider from Los Gatos, has been the pace car for television’s transition over the past decade.

The beloved animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender is coming to life in a new way on Netflix.

A new medical documentary has debuted on Netflix, following a hospital visit that destroyed an American family. Critics on Rotten Tomatoes have already dubbed it 'one of the most heartbreaking films of the year'.

curated this year by Christine & The Queens.New songs ‘Blóðberg’ and ‘Ylur’ from ‘ÁTTA’ were performed, as was ‘Skel’, which according to a SetlistFM entry was given its live debut.Deep cuts were also aired including ‘All Alright’ from the band’s 2008 album ‘Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust’, ‘Avalon’ from the 1999 album ‘Ágætis Byrjun’, and a handful of ‘Untitled’ songs from the 2002 album ‘( )’ such as ‘Untitled (Dauðalagið)’.I saw Sigur Rós and the London Contemporary Orchestra tonight and it was stellar pic.twitter.com/sncVM1KFbN— Bryn (@BrynFD) June 16, 2023our souls are not starved for content,our souls are starved for beauty. {wise words from my friend Steve Harding}@sigurros, thank you for calling my heart to ethereal beauty.

Dave and Central Cee sprint into a second week at Number 1.

In the buzzing atmosphere of Tribeca’s Storyteller’s Panel, a great conversation between two long-standing peers, Billy Porter and Idina Menzel took place. Their friendship, born out of shared experiences in musical theater, spans several decades, revealing a mutual respect between them.

Let the speculation begin. Deadline reports that Sony has reserved two dates on the upcoming movie calendar for Sony/Marvel projects: November 8, 2024 and June 27, 2025.

J. Kim Murphy John Romita Sr., one of the key artists in Marvel Comics’ history who co-created characters such as Wolverine, the Punisher and Mary Jane Watson, has died. He was 93 years old.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Hungarian director and screenwriter Ildikó Enyedi brought some art-house royalty to the Shanghai International Film Festival this week with a masterclass that focused on her process and the struggle to maintain a unique voice. At one point in her on-stage discussion with Chinese director Zheng Dasheng, she called filmmaking “essentially a sole desperate cry, hoping to be heard by others.” Enyedi’s voice has certainly registered and been heard at Europe’s major film festivals. She won the Camera d’Or in Cannes in 1989 for best debut feature “My 20th Century,” saw her 1994 film “Magic Hunter” play in competition in Venice and she won the top prize Golden Bear in Berlin in 2017 with “On Body and Soul.”

Today, Outfest announced the centerpiece events and special awardees that will headline the 41st Outfest Los Angeles Summer Festival presented by Warner Bros. Discovery and Genesis Motor America, taking place July 13 – 23 in venues around Los Angeles.

CNN and MSNBC decided to skip live carriage of former President Donald Trump’s post-arraignment speech at Mar-A-Lago on Tuesday night, leaving Fox News as the only major cable news network to cover it live.

The official trailer for “Foundation” Season 2 is finally here, and it’s clear the Second Crisis is imminent. “I have dreams sometimes about things that will happen, and I wake up terrified,” Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) says in the trailer for the upcoming season.

UPDATE: CNN’s chyron read “Donald Trump now under arrest” as broadcast and cable networks grappled with a lack of visuals inside a a federal courthouse, where the former president faces a 37-count indictment over his retention of classified documents.