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SAG-AFTRA's TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee informed members last night that they're awaiting a response from studios on the guild's AI counter from Wedensday, along with the "comprehensive counter proposal" they put forth to the AMPTP five days ago.
As Deadline reported earlier, there were no talks on Thursday. However, sources believe that the studios are reviewing all the AI intel the guilds put before them.
"The Negotiating Committee was on standby today awaiting a response from the AMPTP on both the AI counter we presented yesterday, and the comprehensive counter proposal we passed across the table five days ago," the TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee said in a statement. >>>Streaming Deal Looking Good
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A Box Office Feast - A pair of Thanksgiving releases and awards-season contenders, Disney‘s Wish and Apple Original Films' and Sony‘s Napoleon, are set to open over the Wednesday-to-Sunday holiday stretch with respective grosses of $50M+ and $24M+. Both pics open on the eve of Thanksgiving, November 22. >>>Comps
Everybody Wants 'How To Rule The World' - Warner Bros and producer Amy Pascal have emerged victorious in a spirited book-rights auction for How to Rule the World: Yacht Parties, Culture Wars and the Downfall of a President at Stanford. Written by Theo Baker, book tells his story of being an 18-year-old freshman at Stanford who wrote a series of reports for the university’s newspaper that toppled the school's president. >>> CAA-Brokered Deal
'From Gallipoli' To 'Saving Private Ryan' - David Thomson’s new book, The Fatal Alliance, deals with the history of the war movie from Gallipoli to Saving Private Ryan, guiding readers from “war is hell” to “war is a blur.” In fact, the Israel-Gaza tragedy of enormous and dramatic proportions is symbolized by TV's chaotic cross-cutting from drones to tunnels. >>> Peter Bart On Film
'The Marsh King's Daughter' Review - The Marsh King’s Daughter starring Daisy Ridley and Ben Mendelsohn doesn’t really have much more on its mind than just serving as an effective thriller, but it achieves its goals thanks to an outstanding cast that makes it all work, and a filmmaker who navigates it all in style. >>>Pete Hammond's Take
‘I Need That’ Broadway Review - Clutter – physical, emotional – is the subject of Theresa Rebeck’s new Broadway play I Need That, a comedy-drama that star Danny DeVito works mightily and with increasing futility to stuff with laughs and meaning. >>>Greg Evans' Take
In Brief - Snafu With Ed Helms, the iHeartPodcast hosted by Helms about history’s greatest screwups, has been renewed for a second and third season…Vanessa Kirby and Lauren Dark have come aboard as exec producers for Swiss Oscar entry Thunder from writer-director Carmen Jacquier…Derry Girls creator, writer, and executive producer Lisa McGee has signed with CAA for U.S. representation… Prison Break, is poised for a comeback with Hulu in early development on a new incarnation of the Fox drama. |
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It may be the comeback of the decade. In her first film role in almost 30 years, Bulgarian actress Eli Skorcheva — who had gone into self-exile from cinema, changing careers and working odd jobs including as a cleaning lady – stars in Blaga’s Lessons. She won the Best Actress Award at this year’s Karlovy Vary Film Festival and the film is Bulgaria’s 2024 International Feature Oscar submission.
The film, directed by Stephan Komandarev, also won the Grand Prix Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary and just added the Grand Jury Prize at the Rome Film Festival.
Like Skorcheva’s accidental first foray into movies in the late 1970s with a lead role that made her a star, her successful return was not planned. Her triumph with Blaga’s Lessons also may have been foreshadowed by Baba Vanga, the famous Bulgarian blind mystic credited with predicting 9/11 along with other major world events. >>>Read The Interview |
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Emmanuelle Chriqui and Hayes MacArthur have been set to star in A Love Like This, an indie romantic drama directed by John Asher based on an original screenplay by Jeffrey W. Ruggles. The film, in production in Malibu, is billed as a romantic tale of two lovers who rent a beach house for the weekend, but there is more to their relationship than it seems. |
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More News 📺 AMC Networks reported double-digit declines in advertising and affiliate revenue in the third quarter, with those results a drag on overall quarterly numbers. Streaming was a faint ray of sunshine, with 100,000 subscribers joining the fold in the quarter and revenue in that category climbing 9%.
🍿 Major exhibitor Cinemark reported $875 million in third-quarter revenue, a company record, and swung back to profit. Thanks to Barbie, Oppenheimer and other hits, quarterly revenue was 6% higher than the same period in pre-pandemic 2019, leaving the company "highly optimistic" about the future of moviegoing.
❌ HBO and Max Content CEO Casey Bloys said tightening up on password sharing is “definitely on the ‘to-do’ list” for Max, though it has yet to develop details of how Max would implement the policy.
🏈 Advertising inventory on Super Bowl LVIII next February, which will air across CBS and other Paramount Global platforms, is “virtually sold out” and pacing ahead of schedule, a Paramount spokeswoman confirmed to Deadline.
📺 HBO announced that Euphoria won’t return until 2025. The same news was shared about the return of The Last of Us. |
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Trending  Paramount Global beat Wall Street analysts’ estimates in the third quarter, thanks in large part to streaming flagship Paramount+, which added 2.7 million subscribers to hit 63 million globally.
🔻 Apple narrowly topped estimates but saw another revenue dip -- its fourth in a row -- with sales down about 1% for its fiscal fourth quarter. Accordingly, the tech giant saw its shares dip 1% after the bell. | |
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Sun - Lawman: Bass Reeves premieres
Mon - Former President Trump to testify in NY civil fraud trial
Tue - TKO earnings; Brian Cox on Fallon
Wed - Disney, WBD, Endeavor, Nexstar & AMC Ent. earnings; The Morning Show S3 finale; Ivanka Trump testifies
Thu - Deadline's Sound & Screen; NBA's first In-Season Tournament begins; restored Egyptian theater reopens |
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Friends Helping Friends - Before his untimely October 28 death, Matthew Perry’s plan was to start a foundation to help others overcome drug and alcohol abuse.
“When I die, I don’t want Friends to be the first thing that’s mentioned — I want helping others to be the first thing that’s mentioned. And I’m going to live the rest of my life proving that,” Perry once said, adding “Addiction is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone. But together, one day at a time, we can beat it down.”
Following his sudden passing, friends and loved ones have turned his dream into reality. To support the work of the The Matthew Perry Foundation, go to matthewperryfoundation.org. |
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