NATAS

SOURCE: Deadline.com | Patrick Hipes
December 1, 2020

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said Tuesday that it has decided to keep its slate of awards shows virtual in 2021, meaning the organization’s Daytime Emmys, Sports Emmys, News & Documentary Emmys and Technology & Engineering Emmys will be online-only again next year.

NATAS was among the first awards shows to shift to virtual ceremonies as the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the spring. Its marquee Daytime Emmys were presented in primetime on CBS in July, while the others were livestreamed on the organization’s dedicated platform.

“Cherry” | Apple

SOURCE: IndieWire | Zack Sharf
November 24, 2020

Tom Holland scored Oscar buzz during the 2012-2013 awards season for his supporting performance in “The Impossible,” and now he’s back on Oscar pundits’ radar with his upcoming drama “Cherry.” Based on the 2018 novel by Nico Walker, the film reunites Holland with his Marvel Cinematic Universe directors Joe and Anthony Russo, who are diving into a hard-hitting character study after the record-breaking success of “Avengers: Endgame.” Vanity Fair has the official first look at “Cherry,” including new stills of Holland and his co-star Ciara Bravo.

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SOURCE: Vanity Fair | Anthony Breznican
November 24, 2020

Cherry is a movie that dares you to try and describe it. It’s the first film that Anthony and Joe Russohave directed following their Avengers finales, Infinity War and Endgame, and it reunites them with Spider-Man star Tom Holland. It also compresses their penchant for large-scale action and cataclysm into the core of a single person.

Holland’s title character is both volatile and vulnerable, a hard-knock nobody from Cleveland who’s just scraping by but doesn’t even have any big dreams to guide him. Every solution to his problems only deepens the trouble: College isn’t working out, so Cherry joins the Army to serve in Iraq as a medic. He returns home haunted and damaged, and starts abusing opioids to blunt his PTSD. To pay for the drugs, he resorts to bank robbery. The more desperate he gets, the more banks he has to rob.

Every step is a step down, a progression into the abyss you can see in these images from Vanity Fair’s exclusive first look.

SOURCE: Deadline.com | Nellie Andreeva
November 20, 2020

The story is part of Deadline’s Reopening Hollywood series. 

After months of brainstorming and negotiations, the Hollywood studios and unions adopted rigorous safety protocols to get TV production going again. And, with fits and starts, it has been going, churning out fresh content with original episodes hitting the air first with the soaps in daytime, followed by unscripted and then scripted series in primetime.

But has not been easy. And it has been expensive.

SOURCE: TheWrap | Jeremy Fuster
November 19, 2020

SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity announced on Thursday that they have reached an agreement on how to handle jurisdiction over recording and streaming of stage shows, ending a dispute triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Earlier this year, Actors Equity accused SAG-AFTRA of undermining its bargaining power by negotiating lower-paying deals with theaters for streaming productions at a time when such productions are the only means of income for many stage actors who are out of work due to the pandemic.

Adobe

SOURCE: Deadline.com | Jill Goldsmith
November 19, 2020

New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney said Thursday that the nation desperately needs pandemic insurance, a “public private partnership that has a mechanism in place that you can depend on,” and hopes some version of it will pass early in the Biden administration.

“There are a number of proposals out there. People who are serious about passing a bill will support my effort to make this part of the first 100 days [when] you can get a lot of things passed,” Maloney told Deadline shortly after a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill. “My goal is to work with all these factions and see if we can come together.”

MTV

SOURCE: Deadline.com | Dino-Ray Ramos
November 19, 2020

EXCLUSIVE: The MTV Entertainment Group (formerly Entertainment and Youth) is looking to make progressive change in its creative community with the newly launched comprehensive DE&I (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) orientation called “Culture Code”. The immersive employee-led initiative is in partnership with The Museum of Tolerance, Color of Change, GLAAD, Anti-Defamation League, The Jed Foundation, MPAC, RAINN, RespectAbility and Storyline Partners.

The aforementioned social justice organizations will collaborate with the MTV Entertainment Group  will help develop the program which will “construct a communal set of values, understanding and baseline cultural norms to create a more inclusive and welcoming creative community.”

Director Steven Caple Jr. poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘Creed II’, in London in 2018.Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP

SOURCE: Cleveland.com | Troy L. Smith
November 17, 2020

CLEVELAND, Ohio – After taking “Creed II” to more than 200 million at the box office, director Steven Caple Jr. has his next blockbuster.

Paramount Pictures and Hasbro Studios have tapped the Cleveland native to direct the new Transformers film. Deadline reports a deal between Caple and Paramount should come to fruition in the next few weeks.

Caple will lead a reboot of the Transformers movie franchise that began with 2018′s “Bumblebee” film. A script for the new “Transformers” movie has been written by Joby Harold, who worked on the sequels to “John Wick.”

SOURCE: Cleveland Magazine | Abigail Cloutier
November 15, 2020

Lauren and Elizabeth Maddox grew up watching the ‘60s gameshow Supermarket Sweep in their South Euclid living room. So when the sisters saw on social media an application to compete on the new modern, fast-paced reboot on social media, airing Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. on ABC, they knew they’d be a dream team.