‘Songbird’: Michael Bay-Produced Pandemic Thriller To Skip Theaters & Go To PVOD In December

Traffic on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge slowed to a crawl Saturday afternoon because of a protest caravan supporting the struggles of farmers in India, according to reports.  The jam was reported just before 2 p.m. PT and had started to ease up around 5:30 p.m., according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

You have to hand it to WarnerMedia, the studio isn’t lying when it says that HBO Max is a priority. The fledgling streaming platform that launched earlier this year has been growing steadily since its debut but has yet to capture the tens of millions of subscribers that Disney+ has earned or anywhere near as many as Amazon Prime Video or Netflix.

Neighbours star Takaya Honda, who is best known for playing David Tanaka, recently got married to his long-term partner Amy Schwab.Takaya has already made wedding history when his character tied the knot with Aaron two years ago and it became Australia's first on-screen gay wedding.Now, the soap star has celebrated his own big day as he got married over the weekend at Sundays in Byron Bay, a luxury accommodation venue with panoramic views of the coast.

In a potential sign of streams to come, Amazon Prime Video and Twitch will be the only places where viewers will be able to see an NFL game on December 26.

Dave McNary Film ReporterAnthony Mackie will produce and star in Netflix’s upcoming action-adventure “The Ogun” from producer Jason Michael Berman.“The Ogun” centers on Mackie’s character Xavier Rhodes, who takes his teenage daughter to Nigeria to find a cure for the rare genetic condition that he passed on to her.

There hasn’t been a war movie quite like “Mosul” before.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterWWE announced Thursday that it is exiting its ThunderDome residency at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, and moving to Tropicana Field in Tampa Bay. The new residency will begin with the episode of “SmackDown” airing Dec. 11 on Fox.

, Warner Bros. has committed to releasing the movie — even if you have to watch from your home.On Wednesday, the studio announced that will be released in U.S.

You’ll get to see the upcoming pandemic thriller Songbird a lot sooner than expected!

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterIn a release plan fitting for a movie about a deadly pandemic that’s forced everyone into lockdown, STX’s sci-fi thriller “Songbird” won’t play in theaters and instead will debut on home entertainment.Starting on Dec. 11, audiences can rent the film for $19.99 for a 48-hour period.

here.“Songbird” also stars Craig Robinson, Bradley Whitford, Peter Stormare, Alexandra Daddario, Paul Walter Hauser and Demi Moore and is directed by Adam Mason (“Into the Dark”), who also wrote the script with Simon Boyes.Also joining Bay as producers are Invisible Narratives’ Adam Goodman, Andrew Sugerman and Eben Davidson and Catchlight Studios’ Jeanette Volturno, Jason Clark, and Marcei Brown.More to come…

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEros STX’s acquisition Songbird will be skipping theaters in exchange for a PVOD release starting Friday, Dec. 11.STX picked up the KJ Apa and Sofia Carson Invisible Narratives’ pandemic thriller back in August.

The editorial board of The Sacramento Bee blasted California Gov. Gavin Newsom for attending a party as the state continues to battle the coronavirus outbreak.  The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Friday that Newsom attended an outdoor birthday celebration for political adviser Jason Kinney with at least a dozen attendees at the French Laundry, an upscale restaurant in Napa Valley.

Michael Bay has a new action thriller in the works!

Dave McNary Film ReporterMichael Bay will direct the action thriller “Ambulance” with Jake Gyllenhaal in talks to star.Bay plans to shoot “Ambulance” in early 2021. No distributor has come on board.

This is not a test, people. We have a Michael Bay alert! Make sure to say a prayer for the cars that are going to explode, the big guns that will be fired, the muscles that will need to be oiled up, and the cinematographer that will have to do so, so, so many slow-motion hero shots.

Also Read: COVID Mutates in First Trailer for Michael Bay's Pandemic Thriller 'Songbird' (Video)James Vanderbilt, Bradley Fischer and Will Sherak are producing “Ambulance.”Bay’s last film was “6 Underground” for Netflix and starring Ryan Reynolds, and he’s a producer on “Songbird,” a pandemic-thriller that was shot under safe conditions in Los Angeles during lockdowns. That film stars KJ Apa and will be released by STX.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: After weighing several options, Michael Bay has set his next movie as he is coming on to direct the action thriller Ambulance with Jake Gyllenhaal in negotiations to star. Bay is fast-tracking the project as he is talking to other actors to join Gyllenhaal with plans to shoot at the top of 2021.