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Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorRob Letterman, coming off last summer’s Pokémon Detective Pikachu, has been attached to direct a movie at Netflix adapted from the Ubisoft video game Beyond Good & Evil, Deadline has confirmed. Like Pikachu, the plan is to make a hybrid live-action/CG pic.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe 30th annual IFP Gotham Awards are moving from their previously set November date and will now take place January 11, 2021, organizer the Independent Film Project said Friday.The event is usually the unofficial kickof to the film awards season, and last year was December 2 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorABC’s return to originals of its game-show block and Univision’s lineup split ratings honors in primetime Thursday, with both scoring a 0.5 in the adults 18-49 demographic.Holey Moley (0.5 18-49 demo rating, 2.92 million viewers), Don’t (0.4, 2.31M) and To Tell the Truth (0.5, 2.91M) returned from a week off for ABC, with the former two even and the latter bumping up a tenth.

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.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorShane Prigmore, the animation veteran who has worked for Laika, DreamWorks Animation, Warner Bros and most recently at Walt Disney Television Animation, has been hired as SVP Development at Skydance Animation.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorAfter a week of memorials including lying in state at the nation’s Capitol, congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis will be laid to rest Thursday after a celebration of life at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church.The private service begins at 11 a.m. ET/8 a.m PT, with former U.S.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to The 24th, the period drama based on true events from Oscar-winning BlacKkKlansman co-writer Kevin Willmott.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorNBC’s The Titan Games was one of the lone fresh programs among the Big 4 and the CW in Monday’s primetime, topping the night with a 0.7 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and drawing 3.68 million viewers. It helped NBC tie with Univision as broadcast’s top-rated network.Titan Games, which matched last week’s numbers, was followed on NBC by encores of The Wall and Dateline.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe 72nd annual Emmy Awards nominations will be announced live Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. PT/11:30 a.m.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe family of famed TV host Regis Philbin said Monday it was “overwhelmed by the outpouring of love we’ve received” since Philbin’s death Friday at age 88. His death was made public on Saturday.“Regis’s family is overwhelmed by the outpouring of love we’ve received,” a family spokesperson said Monday.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Paley Center for Media said that PaleyFest LA will go virtual for the first time because of the coronavirus pandemic, setting its 2020 edition for August with a guest lineup for 10 series that includes Cate Blanchett, Justin Bieber and Dolly Parton and moderators including Stacey Abrams and Martha Raddatz.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Walking Dead: World Beyond, the second stand-alone series in AMC’s The Walking Dead franchise, will premiere on October 4 at 10 PM as a lead-out to the mothership TWD.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorApple has acquired rights to Fireball, Werner Herzog’s latest documentary feature, which is now part of the Apple Original film slate and will have its global premiere on Apple TV+.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorNBC’s Blindspot wrapped up its storyline for its fifth and final season Thursday, with the series finale matching a season-best 0.3 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 1.70 million viewers.The episode, the 11th of the season, was shot and completed just before the COVID-19 shutdown of film and TV production.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorSaturday Night Live alum Leslie Jones will host this 72nd Emmy Awards nominations ceremony, which will be held Tuesday at 8:30 AM PT/11:30 AM ET as a livestream hosted by the Television Academy.Jones will be joined by presenters Laverne Cox, Josh Gad and Tatiana Maslany in the livestream, a virtual event this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.“Television has played an integral role in navigating these unprecedented times and has brought us together

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe annual and original Comic-Con, which draws thousands of fans and millions of dollars to San Diego each July, has retooled in the COVID-19 world to engineer Comic-Con@Home, with the confab’s first-ever virtual-only event kicking off in earnest Thursday morning.The event, which officially began Wednesday, July 22 and runs through Sunday, July 26, will play host more than 350 panels and programs via YouTube including the usual slew of presentations

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Bentonville Film Festival set the lineup for its sixth edition Tuesday, with the festival co-founded by Geena Davis unveiling its spotlight and competition program of indie feature films, shorts and episodic titles.The fest is set to run August 10-16 in the Arkansas city and is being engineered as a hybrid event because of coronavirus concerns, with digital screenings, panels and events to run alongside some on-the-ground premieres and

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorFox has set September 27 as the fall premiere date for its Sunday animation block that includes Season 32 of The Simpsons, Bob’s Burgers, Bless the Harts and Family Guy. The news comes ahead of the series’ panels at this week’s Comic-Con@Home event that begins in earnest Thursday.The animation quartet is among the only returning shows in Fox’s fall 2020-21 primetime lineup, which was announced in May.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe 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 EditorMichael Shamberg, the producer whose credits include Erin Brockovich, Contagion, Get Shorty, The Big Chill and Pulp Fiction, has sued the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in an attempt to get the governing body to vote on his plan to boost its social media presence.The civil suit, filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court in Santa Monica, seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, asking that the court impel AMPAS’ board of governors to vote on

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Canadian director Danishka Esterhazy, whose recent projects include helming Lifetime’s TV pic I Was Lorena Bobbitt and horror comedy The Banana Splits Movie, has signed with Paradigm.The move comes as has come aboard as producer-director on the new Syfy series The Surrealtor, which is set to begin shooting in Newfoundland in the fall.

Patrick Hipes, Nellie Andreeva Univision’s La Rosa de Guadalupe was Thursday’s top-rated show in primetime among adults 18-49 (Live+Same Day), scoring a 0.6 rating in the demo, along with 1.63 million viewers.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorDelays in production for Marvel Studios’ upcoming Disney+ original series The Falcon and The Winter Soldier caused first by an earthquake in Puerto Rico and then the coronavirus will keep the Marvel spinoff series from making its previously set August premiere date.The series was not on Disney+’s list of next month premieres released Friday.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Melissa King, the winner of the most recent Top Chef: All Stars Los Angeles.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Lesley-Ann Brandt, who plays Maze on Netflix’s drama series Lucifer, has signed with ICM Partners. The news comes as Lucifer preps its return for a fifth season on August 21.The Cape Town, South Africa-born Brandt began her career in New Zealand after her family immigrated there when she was in her teens.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorCNN anchor Chris Cuomo called out President Donald Trump and his daughter and presidential adviser Ivanka Trump on his nightly Cuomo Prime Time last night, saying they were “hawking” Goya products in a pair of social media posts earlier this week.“You tell me how a President in the middle of a pandemic has got time for this bullsh*t? Are you kidding me? Hawking products? Goya, I don’t care who it is.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorNetflix has acquired rights to Bombay Rose, Gitanjali Rao’s animated film that last year became the first Indian animated pic to open Venice Critics Week.

Patrick Hipes, Nellie Andreeva Nick Cannon will continue in his role as host of Fox’s The Masked Singer, one of the most high-profile hosting jobs in broadcast TV, following controversial comments made recently on his podcast.“When we were made aware of Nick Cannon’s interview with Richard Griffin on YouTube, we immediately began a dialogue with Nick,” Fox said in a statement.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Hallmark Channel on Wednesday said it has renewed its flagship daily lifestyle series Home & Family for a ninth season along with reupping its original series Good Witch for Season 7 and Chesapeake Shores for Season 5 as Crown Media Family Networks unveiled is 2020-21 programming slate.Crown Media also announced the first 18 of 40 Christmas movies planned for the company’s two flagship networks, Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorHeather Morris, who co-starred with Naya Rivera on Fox’s Glee, posted a remembrance of her friend Wednesday.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorAmazon Studios has put in development The Undesirables, a half-hour comedy series that hails from Ken Cheng and Arvin Chen, who will write and executive produce the project that hails from from Crab Club Inc.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe famed Rose Parade in Pasadena held each New Year’s Day has been canceled for 2021, with organizers the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association saying Wednesday that restrictions in California’s now-paused phased reopening because of the coronavirus pandemic made it impossible to host the event, which would have been its 132nd edition.It will mark only the fourth time the parade along the famed five-mile stretch of Colorado Boulevard will not take place

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorKristy Chan has been hired as VP Publicity at TNT, TBS and truTV, with the announcement made official Tuesday after she had already been in the mix at WarnerMedia Entertainment’s Turner networks.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorLos Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Monday that the city’s COVID-19 threat meter is “on the border of going to red,” the highest level, which would mean a complete shutdown in L.A. owing to the coronavirus pandemic.“Let me tell you the bad news,” Garcetti said.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: UMC, the AMC Networks streaming service with a focus on Black film and TV, has renewed four of its original series including the top-rated Craig Ross Jr.’s Monogamy and A House Divided, which will both return for their third seasons.The streamer also gave Season 2 renewals to rookies Double Cross and Stuck With You, part of a renewed focus on originals that has seen a new series premiere almost every month on the service in 2020.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorABC’s game-show trio of Holey Moley, newcomer Don’t and To Tell the Truth swept their respective time slots Thursday, giving the network overall victories for the night in both the adults 18-49 demographic and viewers as the lineup returned from a week off.Don’t continued to be the biggest draw, with the show scoring a night-leading 0.7 rating in the demo and 3.25 million viewers, even with its last original two weeks ago.