Hurricane Laura Bears Down On Gulf Coast With “Unsurvivable Storm Surge”; Evacuations Ordered & Productions Halted

Star Trek: Lower Decks, the charming animated series from Rick and Mortywriter/producer Mike McMahan.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorNeon said Wednesday that it has acquired U.S. rights to writer-director Philippe Lacôte’s Night of the Kings, a deal that comes after the pic premiered earlier this week in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival.

Dave McNary Film ReporterNeon has acquired U.S. rights to Philippe Lacôte’s prison drama “Night of the Kings,” which premiered Monday in the Horizons sidebar of the Venice Film Festival.“Night of the Kings” is set to play at both the Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival later this month.

Neon has acquired the rights to “Night of the Kings,” the sophomore film by director Philippe Lacôte that is the official Oscar submission from the Ivory Coast and that has been selected as part of the lineups for Venice, Toronto and the New York Film Festival, the distributor announced Wednesday.“Night of the Kings” made its premiere on Monday in Venice and will next screen at TIFF and NYFF later this month.

Back in March, Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson made headlines for being among the first major celebrities to test positive for COVID-19.

Tom Cruise is reportedly shelling out some of his own cash to help ensure that the production on the new “Mission: Impossible” can go on amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson EXCLUSIVE: Senator Kamala Harris has long been tight with Hollywood, and yesterday Tinseltown’s biggest donors handed over some very big bucks to the Democrats’ Vice-Presidential nominee.In a virtual fundraiser put together by The Politician EP Ryan Murphy, Disney TV Studios boss Dana Walden, PR ace Chrisette Hudlin and Laura Shell, California’s junior Senator raked in over $8 million for her and Joe Biden’s poll leading White House bid.Announced on August 27, the

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Production has been temporarily shut down again on “The Batman” after star Robert Pattinson tested positive for coronavirus.

Production has been temporarily shut down again on “The Batman” after one of the crew members tested positive for coronavirus.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorWith filming on Matt Reeves’ The Batman having only resumed three days ago after pausing 5 1/2 months ago, the UK production at Warner Bros. Leavesden has stopped again after one of the people on the production turned up positive with COVID-19.Said Warner Bros.

Dave McNary Film ReporterFilm permit applications rose 40% in August over July as location production restarts in the Los Angeles area amid COVID-19 restrictions, FilmLA reported Thursday.Since it resumed operations in mid-June after the pandemic forced the film and television business to essentially shut down in March, FilmLA has received 1,127 film permit applications from 829 unique projects.

Apple TV+ has ordered “Five Days At Memorial,” a limited series from Oscar-winner John Ridley and Emmy winner Carlton Cuse, which chronicles events in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.The pickup of the new series, based on the acclaimed non-fiction book by Pulitzer Prize winning author Sheri Fink, comes on the 15th anniversary of one of America’s worst natural disasters.“Five Days At Memorial,” from ABC Signature, chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans, LA, hospital after

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorOf all the calamity that exhibition needs right now as they’re trying to reopen during a pandemic is a hurricane.Box office analysts are divided on Hurricane Laura’s impact as such new fare as 20th Century Studios/Disney’s’ The New Mutants, Searchlight’s The Personal History of David Copperfield, UAR/Orion’s Bill & Ted Face the Music and Picturehouse’s Fatima try to resuscitate the box office.

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson If the most unobtrusive man in America thought tonight was his moment in the spotlight at the Republican National Convention, Mike Pence learned the hard way that Donald Trump always gets the last word.As the powerful Hurricane Laura moved closer and closer landfall in Texas and Louisiana, Trump’s vice president seemed like an afterthought on Wednesday as the boss came onstage to upstage him without uttering a word.Speaking live to a small audience at Fort McHenry in