Endeavor, New Europe Board Venice & Toronto Title ‘The Disciple,’ Executive Produced by Alfonso Cuaron

In modern American society, the threat of lawsuit looms over everything. Did you get into a car accident? Then you might get sued.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorCrown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, announced Tuesday it’s putting out a new book by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo this fall on the pol’s experience dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.American Crisis, Leadership Lessons From The COVID-19 Pandemic will hit on Oct. 13, three weeks before the presidential election.

Tribune Publishing Company, which owns some of the most storied newspapers in American journalism, said Wednesday that it is closing the newsrooms at five of them, including New York's Daily News and The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Management and production company 42 (The Courier) is teaming with fledgling LA-based label A-Major Media to develop and produce Megan Chan Meinero’s play Good Fortune for film. New York playwright Chan Meinero is writing the adaptation.Mary Lee, previously head of film at Justin Lin’s Perfect Storm Entertainment, is producing for A-Major, which she set up last year year to champion Asian-American voices in film and TV.

A massive fire has engulfed cooking show star Rachael Ray’s New York home.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefPowered by Chinese streaming technology, the New York Asian Film Festival will this year move from the real world to the virtual. With strong focuses on women filmmakers and Korean movies, the 19th NYAFF will run Aug.

The New York Times. “Dissolving the corrupt, dangerous, and extremist NRA organization will end an illegal scheme led by the NRA leadership to enrich themselves and push an agenda that leads to the deaths of nearly 40,000 Americans each year,” Lindsay told Metro Weekly in a statement.

Seth Rogen spent 10 months growing out his beard just to shoot one additional scene for his new movie An American Pickle.The Pineapple Express star takes on double duty in the film, which is based on 2013 New Yorker novella Sell Out, about 1920s factory worker Herschel Greenbaum, who falls into a vat of pickles and is brined for 100 years, only to emerge in his great-grandson’s modern-day New York without having aged a day.Rogen grew out his facial hair to play Herschel first and then went

on Sunday that it was in conversations with the company about acquiring TikTok's operations in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.TikTok, which has more than 100 million users in the U.S., has drawn scrutiny because of its Chinese owner. The Trump administration has worried that, through ByteDance, the personal data of U.S.

Business Insider.The new feature will be rolled out to users in Australia and New Zealand today (August 5) and will be launched in other countries at a later date.It comes after Microsoft recently confirmed that it is in talks to purchase the US operations of TikTok after Donald Trump said he wanted to ban the popular app over the weekend.The tech firm recently released a statement saying: “Microsoft fully appreciates the importance of addressing the President’s concerns.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe Venice Film Festival’s industry-focused Production Bridge had unveiled the line-up of projects that will take part in its ‘Final Cut In Venice’ workshop this year. The six films all hail from the MENA region.

Three original films by Oscar-winner Steve McQueen will debut at the New York Film Festival this year, organizers said Monday. The “12 Years a Slave” director will get the opening night slot for the 1980s-set music romance “Lovers Rock” in addition to two other premieres for films in his anthology series.

Oscar winnerAlfonso Cuarón has come on board festival bound feature The Disciple as an executive producer. Chaitanya Tamhane’sThe Disciple will be the first Indian film in almost 20 years chosen to play in main competition at any of the three major European films festivals— Berlin, Cannes and Venice.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorChaitanya Tamhane’s The Disciple, the Indian movie that is executive produced by Alfonso Cuarón, has joined the official competition lineup of the Venice Film Festival. It becomes the first film from India since 2001 to land a competition slot in either the Venice, Cannes, or Berlin film festivals.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorEros International and STX Corp. have formally closed their merger and said the combined firm plans a listing on the New York Stock Exchange in September.The combined entity, which blends the film and TV operations of large-scale indie STX with the production and streaming assets of India-based Eros, will trade under the symbol ESXI.

UTA has partnered with New York's Metrograph to present the Metrograph Drive-In, an outdoor theater series at Hamptons venue Nova's Ark. In the absence of the moviegoing experience amid the COVID-19 pandemic, drive-ins have been on the rise across the United States.

What’s the story?The three-part series, by the makers of Don’t F**K With Cats, follows the true story of the history-making organised crime investigation and prosecution case that was brought against New York’s most formidable mob bosses.“New York was held in the grip of the mafia.