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View on web New reader? Subscribe SUBSCRIBE. IT'S FREE. B.O.SHOCKER: 'KPOP DEMON HUNTERS' LOOKS TO SLAY 'WEAPONS' 1,100 OF THE ANIMATED FILM'S 1,700 LOCATIONS ARE ALREADY SOLD OUT Netflix, the $512.6 billion streaming company that is all about subscriptions and never theatrical, is releasing a sing-along version of its widely watched animated movie Kpop Demon Hunters in roughly 1,700 locations. This is strictly a Saturday and Sunday play in most circuits except for AMC. There are 1,100 sites sold out. As of this minute, per sources, Kpop Demon Hunters is looking at a surprise No. 1 win with around $15 million (some have it higher), besting the third weekend of New Line’s Zach Cregger movie Weapons, which is looking to do $13.5M. Here are the asterisks: Kpop Demon Hunters is a slight headache for some box office sources to predict because it’s only a Saturday and Sunday show. The movie isn’t really going to register on some weekend reports until Saturday. But that being said, presales on Kpop Demon Hunters have sources excited. >>>230M Views On Netflix Deadline Exclusives & Originals Par+ Takes A Bite Out Of Apple - Paramount+'s Head of Originals Jane Wiseman has made her first move with a high-profile hire. She is bringing in Chris Parnell, most recently an Apple TV+ creative executive and previously co-president of Sony Pictures TV Studios, to her team at the streamer overseen by Cindy Holland. >>>EVP For Originals Jeffrey Katzenberg's Next Frontier - Media mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, whose interest in technology has grown in recent years, envisions millions of people willing to pay to see drone-fueled storytelling light up the skies over deserts and stadiums around the world. That conviction, he told Deadline, is at the heart of his collaboration with Nova Sky Stories, which was founded by Kimbal Musk, Elon's younger brother. >>> Next Stop: Burning Man Edward Berger Talks 'Ballad Of A Small Player' - After following his Oscar-winning epic All Quiet on the Western Front with Conclave, director Edward Berger has taken another radical turn, this time to the gaudy glitz and desperation of the Macau casinos for Ballad of a Small Player. Here, the director discusses his high-stakes gambles in spurning franchise jobs like Ocean’s Eleven and James Bond for movies that on the surface bear little resemblance to each other. >>> Q&A Reality Casting Emmy Nominees Roundtable - Deadline gathered Jesse Tannenbaum (The Amazing Race, Survivor) Goloka Bolte (RuPaul’s Drag Race), Danielle Gervais (Queer Eye) and Sean Bowman (Love on the Spectrum) to talk about how they separate  “fake” and “performative” applicants from those “authentic” people they want on their shows. >>> Conversation THE DEADLINE INTERVIEW Richard Linklater On Hitting The Fall Fest Circuit With 'Nouvelle Vague,' His Love Letter To French Cinema Richard Linklater's latest film, Nouvelle Vague, premiered to much acclaim and a big standing ovation at Cannes in May. The film reimagines the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1959 New Wave classic Breathless, which starred a young Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. Netflix picked it up and will release the film October 31 in select U.S. theaters and on Netflix in the U.S. on November 14. The streamer plans a full-blown awards campaign in all categories for this one. That news will certainly will please Linklater, who explains why he took this whole thing on in the first place. >>>Q&A              Quotable   "I actually genuinely thought I was dying" - Austin Butler on an episode of exhaustion that left him temporarily blinded while filming 'The Bikeriders'   RENEWALS, CANCELATIONS & PICKUPS  HGTV Spices Up Slate With ‘Cheap A$$ Beach Houses’ & ‘Tropic Like It’s Hot’, Renews ‘The Flip Off’ For Season 2   Exclusive Investigation Discovery Logs Into ‘The Tech Bro Murders’   Exclusive Lil Rel Howery Inks Tubi Deal For Stand-Up Special ‘Rel Talk’ Casting About Exclusive Kiernan Shipka is the latest to join the ensemble cast of upcoming comedy The Sh*theads, starring Dave Franco, O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Peter Dinklage.  Oscar winner Nicolas Cage is in talks to headline the upcoming fifth season of HBO's Emmy-winning crime anthology series True Detective, which marks the return of Season 4’s Issa Lopez as writer-showrunner. Percy Jackson and the Olympians is expanding its cast for the third season. Dafne Keen (Deadpool & Wolverine) and Saara Chaudry (PAW Patrol: The Movie) are set for recurring roles in Season 3 of the Disney+ series, which will be based on The Titan’s Curse.   exclusive FBI: Most Wanted alumna Alexa Davalos will headline the second installment of Fox's Biblical limited series The Faithful. Tom Mison (Sleepy Hollow), Tom Payne (The Walking Dead ) and Ben Robson (Animal Kingdom) also will play leads in part 2 of the six-episode series based on The Old Testament’s Book of Genesis.  BY THE NUMBERS   $600M - Potential value of NBCUniversal's in the works three-year deal with Major League Baseball  MORE NEWS 📺 TV news crews have been scrambling for information about the FBI's raid of John Bolton's home and office. The former national security adviser has become an outspoken critic of President Trump. 🗞️ Doctor Who star Noel Clarke has lost his libel case against the Guardian four years after the newspaper published accounts of misconduct against him from around 30 women. The Guardian’s team defended what it said was a “careful and thorough investigation conducted conscientiously” by its journalists. ❌ Erik Menendez was denied his attempt at parole after a very long and sometimes jarring virtual hearing. He will not be eligible to try for early release again until 2028. 💰 Lionsgate has acquired the Tom Melia spec The Survival List as a starring vehicle for Blake Lively that she’ll also produce. An action rom-com, the film follows Annie, a highbrow reality TV producer who against her wishes is assigned to a new show hosted by famous survival expert Chopper Lane. 🔍 Two House Democrats are the latest lawmakers seeking details of how the Paramount–Skydance merger cleared the FCC shortly after a $16 million settlement of Donald Trump's lawsuit against CBS. HIRINGS, PROMOTIONS & EXITS   Exclusive Kaplan/Perrone Hires Media Rights Manager Ali Lefkowitz Draggan Mihailovich Named Executive Editor Of ‘60 Minutes’ ON THE RADAR Fri - Edinburgh TV Festival ends, Invasion S3 premiere Sun - U.S. Open tennis tournament begins in New York Wed - Final Emmy voting ends; Venice Film Festival opens PHOTO OF THE DAY Family Gathering - Pierce Brosnan with son Dylan Brosnan and grandaughter Isabella Smith at The Thursday Murder Club UK premiere. This email was sent to punjabsvera@gmail.com by Deadline. Please add email@email.deadline.com to your address book to ensure delivery to your inbox. 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