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The end of Live PD on A&E was as fast as it was stunning. Within days of the show being temporarily pulled June 6 in the wake of nationwide protests against police violence, one of the top-rated series on cable was gone for good June 10 when both A&E and producer Big Fish Entertainment decided to shut it down. “It was like the perfect storm,” a source close to the show tells THR of the circumstances leading to Live PD’s end, as major entertainment companies aimed to align themselves with the Black Lives Matter movement amid protestors’ calls to defund police departments. The fallout for the reality TV patrol-car genre also snagged ViacomCBS, whose Paramount Network canceled the long-running Cops on June 9. The conglomerate also cut ties with Live…
Lil Baby The rapper’s album My Turn returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 65,000 equivalent units earned after originally debuting atop the chart in March. Ellis Jacob The Cineplex CEO moves to sue Regal owner Cineworld after the movie theater giant calls off its planned $2.1 billion takeover of the Canadian exhibitor. Greta Gerwig The director’s Little Women adaptation nears $100 million in overseas box office after strong debuts in Japan and Denmark, which recently reopened their theaters. Tucker Carlson The Fox News anchor loses multiple advertisers, and T-Mobile pledges not to buy airtime, after a June 8 monologue about Black Lives Matters protesters. Showbiz Stocks $70.49 (+0.8%) SONY CORP. (SNE) The reveal of the PlayStation 5 and launch titles helped the Japanese conglomerate, while Sony Music…
Source: THR/Morning Consult poll conducted among a nationally representative sample of 2,200 U.S. adults from June 11-13; percentages are rounded, don’t necessarily equal 100. Respondents were asked, “Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Police officers should be portrayed as heroes on TV shows.”…
In April, when Ashleigh Di Tonto, the senior vp of development at Trailblazer Studios, brought networks a pitch for a documentary miniseries on the subject of a 1921 Tulsa race massacre, she was met with indifference. “No one knew the story other than through Watchmen,” the executive recalls, noting that Damon Lindelof’s HBO series included a depiction of the event — in which white rioters destroyed a wealthy section of the Oklahoma city known as Black Wall Street — in its October premiere. “Now two networks called and want me to repitch it after they passed and said it was too obscure,” marvels Di Tonto. What changed? Arguably, everything. Since the May 25 killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police sparked Black Lives Matter protests, at least four projects are…
As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, “awards season” doesn’t mean what it used to. The film Academy said June 15 that it’s pushing back the 93rd Oscars from Feb. 28 to April 25 and extending the eligibility period — which began Jan. 1, 2020, and was to expire Dec. 31 — through Feb. 28, 2021. Only three times previously has Hollywood’s biggest night been postponed, most recently 40 years ago. The move follows the organization’s June 12 announcement that it had met its “A2020” goals stemming from the #OscarsSoWhite controversy of five years ago — namely, to double its number of female and nonwhite members by 2020 — and that before the 94th Oscar season, it will set up a task force “to develop and implement new representation and…
After weeks of speculation, Warner Bros. revealed June 12 that Christopher Nolan’s $200 million tentpole Tenet will relocate its release from July 17 to July 31 in case theaters take longer than expected to reopen after going dark in March amid the pandemic. Nolan has been adamant about sticking to a summer release for Tenet in hopes of providing a balm to ravaged cinema chains. For now, he’s getting his wish, but cases of COVID-19 are spiking in some locales, raising concerns about whether widespread moviegoing can resume in the near future. Hollywood’s messaging is mixed. While moving Tenet by only two weeks, Warners pushed Wonder Woman 1984 from Aug. 14 to Oct. 2, and took Legendary’s Thanksgiving event pic Godzilla vs. Kong out of 2020 entirely to May 2021.…
