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Anthony D'Alessandro, Patrick Hipes Thanksgiving Week just got a lot more grim at the box office as Disney on Thursday moved its bit Pixar movie Soul to Disney+, where it will now be released on December 25. It had been set for a November 20 release in domestic theaters.The move is similar to what Disney did with Mulan, which had been set for a global release in March before the coronavirus pandemic lockdown forced it to delay its theatrical release several times.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorShudder has acquired rights to Alexandre O. Philippe’s Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist, the feature documentary that world premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorNominations for the 74th annual Tony Awards will be revealed October 15, organizers said Thursday. The announcement will be hosted by James Monroe Iglehart and stream live on the Tony Awards YouTube Channel at noon ET/9 a.m.

Nellie Andreeva, Patrick Hipes ICM Partners is expanding into athlete representation in sports. In its latest move in the European marketplace, ICM has acquired London-based powerhouse soccer and sports agency Stellar Group.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Iconic Talent Agency, which specializes in repping craft talent in film and TV, has taken the wraps off Iconic Editorial, a new subsidiary that will provide the company’s roster of editors access to commercial and branded entertainment projects.The idea came from ITA founder and ex-WME partner Devin Mann amid the current coronvirus pandemic, which saw commercial opportunities grow via remote workflows, and his clients — including Oscar winner Tom

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorDisney+ said Wednesday that its original series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is getting a holiday special. The cast is reuniting for High School Musical: The Musical: The Holiday Special, a 45-minute show that will premiere December 11 on the streamer.Series regulars Olivia Rodrigo, Joshua Bassett, Matt Cornett, Sofia Wylie, Larry Saperstein, Julia Lester, Dara Reneé, Frankie Rodriguez, Joe Serafini, Mark St.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe lone Vice Presidential debate of the 2020 election season is Wednesday, pitting incumbent Mike Pence against California Sen. Kamala Harris in a nationally televised event at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.The debate begins at 9 p.m.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe American Film Market on Tuesday unveiled more details about AFM 2020 Online, its virtual edition that is set to run November 9-13.Organizers said more than 300 exhibitors have already registered for the annual market, including key sales companies from AGC Studios to XYZ Films, with Lionsgate, Highland Film Group, Protagonist Pictures, Screen Media, Sierra/Affinity, Solstice Studios, StudioCanal and The Exchange among those on the list.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorUTA said Tuesday that it has hired music agents Jeffrey Hasson and Matt Meyer, who both had been at Paradigm. Hasson will join the leadership of the agency’s Nashville office, while Meyer will be based in Los Angeles.The latest moves in UTA Music’s ranks come less than two weeks after former WME Head of East Coast Music Samantha Kirby Yoh joined as co-head.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEdward S. Feldman, the longtime Hollywood movie and TV producer whose credits included the Oscar-nominated Witness and K-19 The Widowmaker both starring Harrison Ford, died October 2 in Los Angeles, his publicist said.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorCircle of Confusion has promoted Katie Abbott and Casey Minella to managers in the literary department, and Megan Herring to director of development in the production department.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorNetflix announced Monday that it has cancelled its wrestling comedy GLOW, reversing the series’ fourth season renewal. Creators LIz Flahive and Carly Mensch told Deadline that the streamer decided not to finish filming the final season due to COVID-19 complications.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThis Is Us star Sterling K. Brown is playing the role John Spencer made famous on The West Wing for the show’s election-themed reunion special that will air October 15 on HBO Max.Spencer played Leo McGarry, the loyal and demon-battling Chief of Staff to Martin Sheen’s President Bartlett, on 155 episodes of Aaron Sorkin’s political drama, which was tied with Hill Street Blues for the most Emmys before Game of Thrones came along.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorNBC News’ streaming service NBC News Now is launching a morning show next week. Morning News Now will be hosted by NBC News correspondent Joe Fryer and NBC News correspondent and NBC Stay Tuned co-host Savannah Sellers and run 7-11 p.m.

Bruce Haring, Patrick Hipes Schitt’s Creek has arrived a few days earlier than expected on Netflix, according to a tweet from series producer and star Dan Levy. Its Netflix bow also added the bonus of an early release of its sixth season on the streamer.The show, which pulled off an unprecedented sweep of the comedy categories at the Primetime Emmy Awards, was originally set for an Oct.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Ricky Martin has been cast in Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, with the Grammy winner and actor joining the ensemble of Netflix’s first original live-action musical film that already includes Keegan-Michael Key, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Forest Whitaker and newcomer Madalen Mills.Written and directed by David E.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorNewFest is hosting a reading of Ang Lee’s groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain at its New York LGBTQ Film Festival on October 18, employing an all-trans cast for the event that commemorates the film’s 15th anniversary.The cast features Leo Sheng (The L Word) as Ennis, Brian Michael Smith (911: Lone Star) as Jack, Jen Richards (Tales of the City) as Alma, Alexandra Grey (Empire) as Lurleen and Disclosure director Sam Feder as the narrator.The original film

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorUTA said Friday that its has promoted 35 staffers to agent, executive or associate levels across 20 divisions.The moves come after last month the company reinstated full pay for employees after having to cut back because of the coronavirus pandemic, which has chilled the Hollywood deal business.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorCBS’ reality staple Big Brother was Thursday’s highest-rated show in primetime, scoring a 1.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 4.19 million viewers.

Nellie Andreeva, Patrick Hipes The supersized Season 24 premiere of Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s South Park on Wednesday tackled the COVID-19 pandemic and drew a slew of viewers in the process, with Comedy Central’s animated veteran scoring 2.3 million Live+Same Day total viewers and a 2.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic on the network. That was the show’s highest L+SD demo number in seven years, up 168% vs.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorWarner Bros is expanding its partnership with Dr. Seuss Enterprises with news coming on a slew of projects, including a feature film based on the Seuss book Oh, the Places You’ll Go! that will be produced by Warner Animation Group and adapted by Bad Robot Productions, a project that will mark the feature animation debut for J.J.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Indie distributor Abramorama has launched Abramorama Selects, a new label that will aim to shepherd global digital distribution and marketing for nonfiction feature films and TV series.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Washington Post said it will offer a free screening of the Jamal Khashoggi documentary Kingdom of Silence for its subscribers beginning Thursday, the day before the film’s Friday premiere on Showtime.Friday, October 2 marks the two-year anniversary of the murder of Khashoggi, the dissident Saudi Arabia-born WaPo journalist who had been openly critical of Saudi Arabia’s government and its Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorShowtime’s two-part The Comey Rule has seen by more that 1 million viewers combined for its linear debuts Sunday and Monday.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorMac Davis, whose music career included recording 20 albums, writing the Elvis Presley hit “In The Ghetto” and starring in films like North Dallas Forty with Nick Nolte and on his own TV show, died Thursday in Nashville.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorUPDATE, SEPTEMBER 29: The Just for Laughs Festival has announced new additions to its lineup, including Chelsea Handler, Judd Apatow, Kevin Hart, Jimmy Carr, Wanda Sykes, Tig Notaro, Gina Yashere and Bobby Lee.PREVIOUS, JULY 21: The Montreal-set Just for Laughs Festival is going virtual for its 2020 edition this fall, setting a two-day online event for the annual A-list comedy showcase for October 9-10.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorA trio of shows on a trio of networks shared top honors in Friday’s broadcast primetime ratings, with Fox airing the fall premiere of WWE SmackDown, NBC showing Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals and ABC a fresh 20/20.Fox, NBC and ABC tied for the nightly win in the demo, while ABC was the night’s most-watched network behind a repeat of America’s Funniest Home Videos leading into 20/20, which drew a 0.5 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 3.82 million

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorPresident Donald Trump pretty much secured the main talking point for this week’s Real Time With Bill Maher after a Wednesday press conference in which Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he lost the November election to Joe Biden.The topic of the concern over whether Trump would refuse to vacate the White House peacefully has been front and center for Maher for almost two years.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Trial of the Chicago 7 writer-director Aaron Sorkin, Stephen Colbert, Sienna Miller, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Lee Isaac Chung have been set for Montclair Film Festival‘s first Storyteller Series during the virtual fest, set to run October 16-25 in Montclair, NJ.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorFreestyle Digital Media has acquired North America rights and set a October 16 theatrical release for Twiceborn, the Hiroshi Akabane-directed inspirational drama. The film, produced by IRH Press, is having its U.S.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorLongtime Cincinnati Reds TV broadcaster Thom Brennaman resigned Friday from the team and from Fox Sports Ohio, exiting the role as the MLB franchise’s play-by-play announcer he has held since 2007 a little more than a month after he was suspended for uttering an anti-gay slur on an open mic during a broadcast.The incident occurred during the broadcast of a Reds-Kansas City Royals doubleheader August 19.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorCBS’ Thursday edition of Big Brother finished as primetime’s top-rated show with a 1.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 4.00 million viewers (Live+Same Day), while facing stiff competition with the season premieres of ABC’s game show block. As a result, the two networks tied for the top spot in the demo.

Patrick Hipes, Amanda N'Duka Giant Pictures has acquired North American rights to The Sounding, the feature writing and directing debut of Catherine Eaton. She also stars in the pic, which is shifting release gears from theatrical owing to the pandemic lockdown and now will premiere on-demand nationwide October 20.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Sarah Paulson Hulu thriller Run will have its world premiere as the opening-night film at Nightstream, the virtual film festival that has come out of the partnership of genre fests Boston Underground, Brooklyn Horror, North Bend, Overlook and Popcorn Frights.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorDisney honored Chadwick Boseman on Thursday by unveiling a new mural of the Black Panther star at Anaheim’s Downtown Disney. The installation was created by concept artist and former Disney Imagineer Nikkolas Smith.The inscription on the mural reads:“As a former Disney Imagineer, I had the honor of working on a major children’s hospital initiative and Avengers Campus as my final two assignments.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorPeter McGuigan, who co-created the New York literary agency Foundry Literary + Media with Yfat Reiss Gendell, has launched a new agency dubbed Ultra Literary.The move comes after the news last week that Gendell exited Foundry to form YRG Partners, taking Foundry agents Tanusri Prasanna, Peter Steinberg and Adriann Ranta Zurhellen and their clients with her.