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Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorVix, one of the world’s largest free streaming services dedicated to Latino-focused films and TV shows, has struck a deal with SoniFi’s guest entertainment platform that will put its content in 500,000 U.S. hotel rooms.It is the first Hispanic-focused content partner to launch on SoniFi’s platform, and the pact will also allow VIX mobile app users to stream content to SoniFi’s hotel room TVs via SoniFi’s Staycast technology.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorJuried award for the 72nd Emmy Awards were revealed Tuesday, with honors in the categories of animation, choreography, interactive programming and motion design going to the likes of animator Genndy Tartakovsky for Primal, Mandy Moore for her choreography on NBC’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist and the team from Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s HitRecord.The categories require all entrants to be screened by a panel of professionals in peer groups; unlike the typical

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorCBS’ unscripted combo Big Brother and Love Island helped the network to the top ratings spot Thursday, on a night President Donald Trump’s 70-minute speech from the White House lawn in primetime wrapped the Republican National Convention.Big Brother scored a night-leading 1.0 rating and 4.01 million viewers, with the all-star edition off a tenth from Wednesday’s episode, which had matched season-best numbers in the demo.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Hamptons Film Festival will open its virtual and drive-in edition with the world premiere of With Drawn Arms, the documentary about the legacy of Olympian Tommie Smith’s fist-raising moment at the 1968 Olympics.The film will also be awarded HIFF’s Film of Conflict & Resolution Award, given to a project that deals with the complex issues and societal effects of war and violence, and the attendant human dramas, in creative ways.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEmmy-nominated Nailed It! host Nicole Byer will host the 2020 Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which the Television Academy will present in virtual ceremonies over five nights from September 14-19, streaming on Emmys.com the first four nights and concluding with a two-hour ceremony that Saturday on FXX.Byer this year became the first Black woman to be nominated in the category of Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program for fronting the Netflix

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorCBS Television Studios, Rideback and Thinking Hat are reteaming on a second year of the Rideback/Thinking Hat Campfire writers room, which in its inaugural year developed and sold two projects to CBS.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Milwaukee Brewers’ scheduled home game against the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday has been postponed after Brewers’ players met earlier in the afternoon and decided to boycott the game in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake.The news, reported by multiple outlets, follows earlier in the day the NBA having to postpone its three scheduled playoff games tonight in Orlando, a move prompted by players on the Milwaukee Bucks not taking the floor for

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorTom Cruise on Tuesday posted a video on social media showing him and his Mission: Impossible director Christopher McQuarrie attending a London screening of Tenet, Christopher Nolan’s new film from Warner Bros that opens overseas this weekend and over the Labor Day holiday in the U.S.The film’s release date has been pushed back several times because of the COVID-19 pandemic — it has widely been seen as the benchmark tentpole that would herald the return of

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorAnnie Awards organizer ASIFA-Hollywood said Monday that its 48th edition honoring the year’s best in animation will be held on April 16, 2021, the week before the Oscars. Nominations will be announced March 3.A decision will be made in October whether the ceremony will be virtual or live, a ruling most of the industry’s awards shows will have to make going forward the COVID-19 pandemic runs its course.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Republican National Convention kicks off Monday on the heels of last week’s Democratic National Convention and wastes no time, with the official re-nomination of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence set for this morning beginning at 9 a.m. ET/6 a.m.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorDavid Pecker, the longtime publisher of the tabloid National Enquirer, is leaving the role as part of a deal unveiled Friday in which the paper’s parent company American Media LLC said it was merging with Accelerate, a national wholesale distribution company.Pecker, the longtime, often controversial president and CEO of Enquirer parent American Media, will become an executive adviser to the new combined company, which will be known as A360.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorCBS’ Thursday edition of Big Brother was primetime’s top-rated and most-watched program, scoring a 1.0 rating and 3.98 million viewers. That and the network’s coverage of the final night of the Democratic National Convention (0.2, 1.59M) helped CBS sweep the night in the demo and viewers.Big Brother was steady with both its Wednesday episode and last Thursday’s numbers.

Patrick Hipes, Denise Petski Hollywood generally is reacting with praise for former Vice President Joe Biden’s speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination for president Thursday night.“A beautiful speech in an unprecedented time and the salve we need,” wrote actor-producer-director Elizabeth Banks.“The speech of his life. The speech of our lives.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorProducers of the Tony Awards said Friday that the 74th annual ceremony to honor the best on Broadway will be presented digitally this year sometime in the fall, with a date and a platform to be announced soon.The event had been scheduled for June 7 at New York’s Radio City Musical Hall with its usual live broadcast on CBS, but the coronavirus shutdown of Broadway as COVID-19 gripped New York City and the world made it impossible to go forward.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorZack Snyder continued to beat the drum for his director’s cut of Justice League, his version of the Warner Bros-DC superhero mashup that will premiere on HBO Max next year.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorApple’s stock price is up almost five points in early morning trading Wednesday, eclipsing a benchmark that made it the first U.S. company to reach $2 trillion in market capitalization.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorKiko Washington, Warner Bros Entertainment’s head of global PR since 2009, is retiring at the end of the year after a 35-year run at the company in various roles at WB, Time Warner and HBO.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Planters, a do-it-yourself dark comedy written, directed by and starring Alexandra Kotcheff and Hannah Leder in a film they crewed themselves, has scored a North American rights deal via 1091 Pictures. A September theatrical release followed by a December 8 on-demand bow is in the works.In what could be one template for making a movie during the pandemic, Kotcheff and Leder shot for 127 days entirely without an on-set crew.

Dominic Patten, Patrick Hipes MSNBC on Monday went dark for six minutes on DirecTV amid its coverage of the Democratic National Convention before the signal was restored.“We are experiencing temporary technical difficulties,” read a prompt on the screen of DirecTV watchers. “Please stand by.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe 2020 Democratic National Convention gets underway Monday and kicks off four days of virtual party meetings, events and speeches before Thursday, when the ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are expected to officially accept the presidential and vice presidential nominations in primetime.The coronavirus pandemic scuttled plans for the usually in-person conventions for both Dems and Republicans (the latter have their convention next week); the election

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorContenders Television: The Nominees, Deadline’s livestream telecast Sunday that featured 28 of the year’s most celebrated shows hailing from 17 networks and studios, will launch its streaming site Monday with access to all the panels.The site will go live Monday mid-morning.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorLife Below Zero cinematographers Michael Cheeseman and Danny Day came in from the cold long enough to find out that they were nominated for more Emmys this year for their Nat Geo docuseries, which is now working on its latest season in remote Alaska.Cheeseman and Day, already three-time Emmy winners for the show’s cinematography, joined on location with Emmy-nominated editor Jennifer Nelson to discuss one of Nat Geo’s most popular series during Deadline’s

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed Emmy Lovewell, the fitness pro, dancer and popular senior instructor at Peloton. The agency will rep her in all areas including digital content, endorsements, publishing and podcasting.Lovewell has been at Peloton for the past three years, and currently is a Senior Instructor teaching cycling, dance and strength classes to the live and on-demand fitness platform’s 2.6 million global members.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorCBS’ Big Brother topped primetime Thursday, scoring a 1.0 ratings in the adults 18-49 demographic and 4.06 million viewers on a night that also saw the season finales of CBS’ game show Don’t and the CW competition series Killer Camp.Big Brother, which offered up the season’s first eviction last night, saw its rating dip a tenth from its Wednesday airing, but it was steady with its Season 22 premiere result last week.ABC’s fresh episodes of its game show

Bruce Haring, Patrick Hipes The coming-of-age film Paper Spiders will open a virtual version of the Dances With Films Festival, the producers announced today.DWF:LA’s 2020 lineup has more than 200 titles, including narrative features, documentaries, pilots, web series, music videos, short films, and films by young people.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorStarz is asking a U.S.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorNew York Comic Con said Tuesday it is canceling its annual in-person convention this year at the Javits Center and instead will host an all-digital confab set for October 8-11.Organizer ReedPop said it is partnering with YouTube on the event, with exclusive live streams of panels set for NYCC’s YouTube channel.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorLos Angeles County director of public health Barbara Ferrer said Monday that there were 19 new deaths reported in the region from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total in the cities of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Pasadena to 4,996 since the outbreak began in March.The new total does not include delayed data from the state, which Ferrer says they have not received and have not processed.Still, the latest county coronavirus numbers released today

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorA fire broke out Sunday evening at the Upstate New York home of Rachael Ray, causing extensive damage and forcing Ray and her family to evacuate.

Patrick Hipes, Dominic Patten The WGA on Wednesday provided details of its deal with ICM Partners on a new franchise agreement, a pact pretty much in line with one the guild inked last month with UTA.The deal that will also allow ICM to again represent WGA members for covered writing services also satisfies a clause that will end TV packaging by all franchised agencies by June 30, 2022.In a letter to its members, the WGA Agency Negotiating Committee said today that “the agreement protects

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorFilmLA said Wednesday that it has received more than 570 film permits for 422 film, TV and commercial projects since mid-June, when the City of Los Angeles and L.A. County got the OK to begin the process of resuming film and TV production amid the coronavirus lockdown.Still photography and commercials permits make up almost half of the incoming activity (44%, per FilmLA), with music videos (14%) and reality TV (8%) shoots also beginning to stir.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorDiscovery and Science Channel’s simulcasted coverage Sunday of the return of the Space X Crew Dragon spacecraft from its two-month stint at the International Space Station was watched by 4.3 million viewers on the cable networks, Discovery said. The strong numbers completed the networks’ own mission, after their two-hour live coverage of the historic launch on May 30 drew a combined 7.2 million viewers.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired North American rights to Teenage Badass, the coming-of-age, music-driven comedy co-written and directed by Grant McCord​. The film was supposed to have its world premiere at this year’s SXSW before it was shuttered because of the coronavirus.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Discovery and Abramorama are teaming for a virtual theatrical and broadcast rollout of Apocalypse ‘45, the World War II documentary from Erik Nelson that recounts the harrowing end of World War II through the eyes of 24 men who lived through the events and using never-before-seen footage.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe NASA-SpaceX Demo-2 mission will come to an end Sunday when the spacecraft completes its two-month journey to the International Space Station and back. The two-man SpaceX Crew Dragon is expected to splash down at 2:48 p.m.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorBill Maher returned to original episodes for the first time in a month, still resigned to taping HBO’s Real Time at his own house.He came back with a bang though, with a strong guest list that included Kerry Washington discussing her ACLU documentary The Fight, Jim Carrey on his new bestselling novel, and a spirited discussion with now-ex-New York Times opinion writer Bari Weiss and New York Times Magazine and Harper’s Magazine contributor Thomas Chatterton