Rumors have swirled of late that the latest big name who may decamp to the Saudi-backed LIV golf tour is TNT NBA analyst and onetime owner of the worst swing in golf, Charles Barkley.
07.07.2022 - 02:59 / deadline.com
It’s been a month since Jeff Sagansky’s fiery speech at a NATPE event proclaimed that “we are in a golden age of content production and the dark age of creative profit sharing.” It put the prominent media investor and producer and former top entertainment executive at the center of a conversation about the adverse impact the proliferation of the streaming-driven “cost plus” business model has had on profit participation and ways Hollywood producers, agents and guilds can mobilize and fight to restore backend for creative talent. The issue of vanishing backend, which is estimated to result in as much as $1.5B of lost income a year for creative talent, is expected to be front and center in the looming WGA and other unions’ negotiations with the studios on new a film and TV basic agreement.
I caught up with Sagansky to discuss the Hollywood response to his speech and what he would like to see happen next. Once again he did not mince words, speaking of a “backend theft” and “predatory behavior on the part of the streamers” and calling for immediate action to end the new streaming “business model-dominimus” that is “inherently wrong.” He used the “cautionary lesson” of the 1997 DVD deal costing creatives billions of backend dollars to urge them to fight now because in a year or two it may be too late. “The fight is now,” he said.
DEADLINE: What has been the reaction to your NATPE speech? Do you have any further thoughts on the new streaming business model?
SAGANSKY: Let’s start by reviewing what we know. First and foremost, the streaming services are going to represent an increasing percentage of the total production spend going forward. Today I would estimate that 2/3 of the total TV series spend is being made by the streamers
Rumors have swirled of late that the latest big name who may decamp to the Saudi-backed LIV golf tour is TNT NBA analyst and onetime owner of the worst swing in golf, Charles Barkley.
“Weinstein Effect” is still lingering Monday, five years after mainstream reports of Harvey Weinstein’s dark sexual reign of terror first came to light.Author Ken Auletta’a bombshell new book, “Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence,” dives deep into the ugly truth of the disgraced film producer’s downfall. “[He] had some notion in his head that his body was attractive,” the author, 80, told Fox News, despite witness testimony that he smelled of feces, had genitals scarred to the point they “looked like a vagina” and a back full of “uncomfortable” blackheads.Still, “he really thought he was God’s gift, a Don Juan,” added Auletta, who spoke to multiple former Miramax film studio employees, Weinstein accusers and even his business partner brother, Bob Weinstein, for the exposé.In one chapter, the famed media critic for New Yorker magazine recounts how Jessica Mann — an ex-actress who claimed Weinstein, 70, raped her — testified on the stand that he smelled like “poop” and his private parts looked “deformed.”“I remember the district attorney passed around pictures [at his 2020 trial] … and the jurors barely looked at them.
The pandemic blighted the mental health of people across the north of England far more than the rest of the country, a new report has found. Experts have estimated that the mental health crisis in the north has cost the UK economy £2 billion, on top of the losses caused by Covid-19.
Slipknot‘s Corey Taylor has discussed his mindset while writing the band’s upcoming album ‘The End, So Far’.Taylor was speaking to Kerrang, where he also talked about the band’s previous record ‘We Are Not Your Kind’ and their latest single, ‘The Dying Song’.The frontman referred to the band’s sixth album as a “palette” cleanser before sharing that writing their seventh “felt almost like a reset”.“I could get away from the shit that I’ve needed to say, and get back to the stuff that I want to say,” he continued.He also shared the meaning behind ‘The Dying Song’ during the interview, saying that “For the last few years it’s been very trendy to be offended and outraged by everything, and yet nothing happens – especially in my country, which is just fucking ridiculous.”He added: “It’s almost like the tables have turned, and the more angry people get, the more the people who they’re mad at just double-down on the shit. Instead of there being cause and effect, or crime and punishment, now it’s just like, ‘Fuck you, we don’t care.’“I can’t tell if that’s a reaction because of the almost nihilistic isolation of the cultures themselves, where neither side is acknowledging any of the good parts of each other – they’re just really honed in on the shit that they consider inflammatory.”Taylor then said it felt like people were “ringing the doomsday bell.”“You’re sitting there going, ‘Well, it’s been fun! Everybody, pick up your trash when you’re leaving, and I’ll see you in Hell!’” he said.
Zack Sharf Jeff Bridges was an integral part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s kickoff thanks to his turn as the villain Obadiah Stane in Jon Favreau’s 2008 franchise-launching “Iron Man.” Reflecting on his career in a recent video interview with Vanity Fair, the Oscar winner said making “Iron Man” was “wonderful” but drove him “absolutely crazy” when Marvel threw out the script for the movie on the first day of filming.“It was Marvel’s first adventure into making movies,” Bridges said. “It was so lucky to have Jon on there and [Robert] Downey, because both of them are terrific improvisers, and we spent a couple of weeks working on the script and rehearsing together, because we didn’t like the original script and we thought, ‘Oh yeah, we fixed this, fixed that.’” “Then came the first day of shooting, and Marvel kind of threw out our script that we had been working on, said, ‘No, that’s no good.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez surprised the world with their wedding, and their celebrity friends are also celebrating their union and wishing them the best in this new era. Vanessa Hudgens, who co-stars alongside JLo in the film Second Act, also reacted to the news. “I was literally scrolling through Instagram and I saw that and I gasped,” the singer and actress told E! News.
Some of Prince Harry’s oldest friends allegedly called him “f****** nuts” for dating Meghan Markle after she disagreed with some of their views at a social event, a new book claims.The Duke of Sussex’s friends are said to have been told off by the Duchess, after she heard some of their “endless banter” during a shooting weekend at Sandringham in 2016.The incident is said to have occurred not long after Harry and Meghan had gone public with their relationship, author Tom Bower claims in new book Revenge: Meghan, Harry And The War Between The Windsors.The prince had invited 16 of his friends to the event, including old friends from Eton and their partners. However, some told the author they felt Meghan didn’t make much of an effort with Harry’s pals, as well as calling them out on some of their risqué language and views.
Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra has said a forthcoming reissue of the band’s 1980 debut album ‘Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables’ was done “intentionally” behind his back.The band announced the reissue earlier this month, which has been mixed by Grammy-winning studio engineer Chris Lord-Alge. It’s slated for release on September 30 via Manifesto Records.Though the reissue was approved by the band’s current lineup, Biafra, who hasn’t been part of the outfit since their 1986 disbandment, made his disapproval of the project clear.“People are asking, so I guess I have to say something,” he wrote on Alternative Tentacles, the website for his independent record label. “LISTEN BEFORE YOU BUY!!”Read his lengthy statement below in full:“This was done almost totally behind my back.
Apple TV+’s limited series Lady In The Lake has added to its cast.
Showtime’s Your Honor will end after its upcoming season, series star Bryan Cranston said today in an interview on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast. Filming on Season 2 has just started, with Joey Hartstone, who was a writer on Season 1, as new showrunner, Deadline has learned. Additionally, I hear Keith Machekanyanga, who recurred heavily as Lil Mo in the first installment, has been promoted to series regular for Season 2.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced that half a million people have been supported into work in less than six months thanks to ‘Way to Work’, a UK Government drive to get jobseekers into employment.
recently had to in Ohio, Noem deflected. “What’s incredible is that nobody’s talking about the pevert, horrible and deranged individual that raped a 10-year-old, and what are we doing about that?” Noem replied.When Bash reiterated her question, the governor said: “This tragedy is horrific, I can’t even imagine, I’ve never had anybody in my family or myself gone through anything like this… but in South Dakota, the law today is that abortions are illegal except to save the life of the mother.”Bash then pointedly asked if she would “be okay with a 10-year-old girl having to have a baby,” to which Noem replied: “No, I’m never okay with that.
$2.495 million asking price according to property records.But the “make it nice!” maven won’t go far — she promised.“Not leaving,” Medley, 57, told The Post when she listed the property in February. “Just a change after 21 years.”The current star of “The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip” — ex-wives edition — bought the two bedroom, two bath unit for $1.2 million in 2006.
Netflix‘s new Marilyn Monroe biopic, Blonde, arrives later this year.Directed by Andrew Dominik (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford) and based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde is described as a story which reimagines the Hollywood icon and “blurs the lines of fact and fiction”.Speaking to Deadline last week (June 22), Brody – who plays Monroe’s husband and literary giant Arthur Miller in the film – joked that “there’ll be some controversy” around the fictionalised biopic (per The Independent).Watch the trailer for Blonde below.The film has attracted attention in recent months for acquiring a restrictive NC-17 rating in the US. As reported by Screendaily in February, editor Jennifer Lame (Tenet) was brought in early last year to “curb the excesses of the movie”.Speaking at the time about the rating, Dominik said: “It’s a demanding movie.