So here we are at the start of July. Believe it or not, six months and fully half the year of eligible 2024 contenders have gone by, and what do we have to show for it? Not much.
Most pundits point to Dune: Part 2, which, until Inside Out 2, had been the year’s box office leader and is following the 2021 first part, which won six Oscars and was a Best Picture contender. At this point, it appears to have the best chance of any film from the first six months of 2024 to land in the Best Picture race, especially if the lineup continues to be rather sparse.
Some are now saying Inside Out 2 should also be considered for Best Picture, not just as Animated Feature. It is the first billion-dollar grosser since Barbie and the industry might want to reward it just for that. However, no animated film since Toy Story 3 in 2010 has received a Best Picture nomination. >>>Other Possibilities |
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'Chicago Med' Locks Down Core Cast - Chicago Med has locked in its three remaining original cast members for 2024-25. S. Epatha Merkerson, Oliver Platt and Marlyne Barrett, whose most recent contracts were up at the end of this past season, have closed deals to extend their tenure on the NBC medical drama. >>>Behind-The-Scenes Transition
Say It Ain't So, Joe - The Biden reelection campaign tried once again to calm the nerves of Hollywood donors over the president’s terrible debate performance with a group call featuring campaign chair Jennifer O’Malley Dillon and about 500 donors. It did little to quell the anger that some felt. >>>“Stupid Spin”
'Dolly' Finds Her Man - Bartlett Sher, nine-time Tony Award directing nominee and winner for 2008’s South Pacific, will direct the recently announced Dolly Parton musical Hello, I’m Dolly, set for Broadway in 2026. >>>Parton's Statement
New CEO At Chicken Soup - Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Saturday, has installed a new CEO and board of directors. Bart Schwartz, whose business career has not included any significant media or entertainment experience, is stepping in to replace Bill Rouhana as CEO. >>>His Background
'All Out Of Love' - Pirates of the Caribbean and Collateral screenwriter Stuart Beattie is penning the biopic All Out of Love: The Air Supply Story about the 1980s soft rock band Air Supply. >>>Band's 50th Anniversary Approaching
In Brief - Stampede acquires Frenesia for series adaptation... Phoebe Dynevor signs with WME |
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In 1961, a key architect of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, was tried in Israel and sentenced to death. An odd thing happened. Officials didn’t want to bury him and risk creating a shrine, so they decided on cremation. That is strictly against the Jewish religion and there were no crematoria in the country.
The story forms an element in director Jake Paltrow's film June Zero.
In a conversation with Deadline, Paltrow says, “I had gone to Israel with an idea of a more fictionalized version of what this story was... I really found that there is a much bigger thing underneath." >>>Read The Interview |
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Richard Gere is set to star opposite Michael Fassbender and Jeffrey Wright in The Agency, the upcoming espionage political thriller series for Paramount+ with Showtime.
Julianne Moore, Meghann Fahy and Milly Alcock have been set to topline Netflix's Sirens, a female-driven, dark comedy limited series created by Emmy-nominated writer and showrunner Molly Smith Metzler (Maid ) and executive produced by LuckyChap.
Patrick Brammall, co-creator and star of breakout Australian comedy Colin from Accounts, is swapping laughs for a white-knuckle thriller and will star in a series adaptation of Ryan David Jahn’s book The Dispatcher for Apple TV+.
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On the heels of a historic Emmy nomination for his role in Season 1 of HBO’s The Last of Us, up-and-comer Keivonn Montreal Woodard has found his next project in Gagged, an indie action comedy marking the feature directorial debut of Todd William Schroeder, who also penned the script.
Garret Dillahunt (Sprung) is set to recur in the new ABC drama High Potential. The series is set to premiere this fall.
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Rudy Mancuso (Música) is set for a key recurring role in HBO's Welcome to Derry (working title) the It prequel series starring and executive produced by Bill Skarsgård. |
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More News 💀 Tim Burton‘s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will open the 81st Venice Film Festival, organizers have announced. The Warner Bros sequel, which stars Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and a roster of other top names, will be screened out of competition on Wednesday, August 28. The premiere will mark a return to the kind of glitzy red carpet fare with which Venice has become synonymous. Last year’s Lido event had less star-wattage than usual, as it took place amid the SAG-AFTRA strike.
🎾 Daniel Brühl is returning to the director’s chair for biopic Break starring Felix Kammerer as real-life German tennis champion Gottfried von Cramm who found himself in the crosshairs of the Nazi regime in the 1930s.
⛰️ Barry Diller is exploring a bid for Paramount, The New York Times reports. The Hollywood potentate-turned-digital media-pioneer’s IAC Corp. has inked nondisclosure deals with Shari Redstone’s National Amusements Inc.
📺 Netflix’s Shondaland series Bridgerton remained atop the Nielsen overall Top 10 streaming chart for a third consecutive week with 1.38 billion viewing minutes for all existing seasons. |
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On the Radar
Tue - U.S. Olympic Trials: Women's Gymnastics
Thu - Independence Day; UK general election
Sat - Bronny James' debut as a Laker
Sun - U.S. Olympic Trials: Swimming
Tue - Alec Baldwin trial begins |
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Happy Anniversary, Bob - A Disney company tradition calls for longtime employees to be recognized with Service Awards on major anniversaries. Popular collectable items, the awards come in the form of intricate — and somewhat creepy — bronze statuettes of famous Disney characters. CEO Bob Iger on Monday shared his award “recognizing 50 magical years with the Walt Disney Company.” He posted a photo of the personalized Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs statue on Instagram. |
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