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Tom Grater International Film ReporterBrit actor Laurence Fox has been dropped by his reps Artists Rights Group, Deadline can confirm.The agency’s decision comes after the White Lines actor was involved in a string of controversies related to his political views. Notably, an appearance on flagship BBC show Question Time left Fox in hot water after he claimed it was “racist” for an audience member to refer to him as a “white privileged male” while also refuting that press treatment of Meghan Markle was racist.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorIf you’re dying to know what the total revenue reap was from Disney’s combined PVOD/Disney+-overseas theatrical release experiment of Mulan, well, we just have to wait for the studio’s investor day on Dec. 10.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorThe Haunting of Bly Manor topped the Nielsen streaming list for the week of October 12-18, with more than 1.8 billion minutes of viewing as Netflix owned all 10 spots on the chart.The Gothic romance series, loosely based on Henry James and following The Haunting of Hill House, had been the No. 2 show on last week’s chart.It knocked Schitt’s Creek from the No.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterFox won Wednesday night in the ratings with its “Kensday” lineup (both shows feature Ken Jeong), starting with The Masked Singer which delivered a 1.5 in the adults 18-49 demographic and netted 5.82 million viewers.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorThe Weeknd has been confirmed as the halftime performer at Super Bowl LV.The game is scheduled for February 7 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, FL. It isn’t clear yet how many fans will be in the stadium, but the CBS telecast is expected to be the usual TV draw for viewers as well as advertisers.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerFood Network Good Eats and Iron Chef America host Alton Brown apologized today for a series of joking Twitter references to concentration camps and the Holocaust.The 58-year-old Brown at first defended his remarks, then admitted they were in “poor taste.”In his tweetstorm that sparked an uproar, Brown asked, “So, when they move us to the camps, do you think they’ll let us choose the state? I’m going to ask for Kansas because the sky is so gorgeous there… over the wheat,” he wrote.He later added, “Do you think the camp uniforms will be striped, like the ones at Auschwitz, or will plaid be in vogue?” He then said that he had “no gold fillings” when a Twitter responder said the uniform would depend on his

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmJP Richards will leave his post as co-president of Worldwide Marketing at Warner Bros, another casualty of the restructure of WarnerMedia. Richards is a six year veteran at the studio.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: They say you can’t take on City Hall, but someone forgot to tell Sir Lady Java.Now Pose star Hailie Sahar and Genius: Aretha director Anthony Hemingway have teamed to bring the onetime performer and long-time LGBTQ activist’s story to life on the big screen.As you can see in the video below that Emmy winner Hemingway has put together, Good Trouble alum Sahar is slated to play the famed female impersonator – and Sir Lady Java very much approves:Called a “trailblazer” and “a cultural icon” by Hemingway in the video, Sir Lady Java was a frequent presence on the Los Angeles nightclub circuit back in the 1960s.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo said bars, restaurants, establishments with New York State liquor licenses (like bowling alleys), and gyms must close at 10 pm statewide starting Friday in a new crackdown to contain COVID-19.The tightening and hyper-vigilance doesn’t bode well for movie theaters, which have been lobbying to reopen in New York City before more key studio releases drop from the holiday schedule.“It looks like the rest of 2020 is going to be a bust for movies theaters. Even though Wonder Woman is still on the schedule right now, as much as we’d like it to stay there, it doesn’t seem that is going to,” said Joe Masher, president of NATO New York State.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorMedia patriarch John Malone in a rare appearance said he’d pushed DirecTV to buy Netflix when he was chairman of the satellite broadcaster – a position he held from 2008 to 2010.The Liberty Media founder and chairman said he had invited Hastings to a Liberty board meeting “and he assured us all that he had no intention of producing his own content .. to which I responded ‘bullsh-t.’ It was clear where he was headed.

Ted Johnson Barack Obama will give his first television interview tied to the release of his new memoir to CBS News.CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King will interview Obama for CBS Sunday Morning and Scott Pelley will talk with him for 60 Minutes, with both interviews to be broadcast on Sunday. The interviews will be conducted in Washington, with a preview airing on Thursday on CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell and Friday on CBS This Morning.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Sales firms XYZ and AMP are launching new thriller Old Man, which will star Avatar actor Stephen Lang.The chamber thriller is set to go before cameras this January in upstate New York.Lucky McKee (The Woman) will direct from a script by Joel Veach, whose play of the same title is being workshopped at the Actor’s Studio in New York. Marc Senter (Starry Eyes) will co-star.Set deep in the woods, the plot follows a lost hiker (Senter) who stumbles upon the cabin of an erratic and reclusive Old Man (Lang).

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Put Mads Mikkelsen atop the list of actors being considered to replace Johnny Depp in the David Yates-directed Fantastic Beast 3, the third installment of the Harry Potter spinoff based on the JK Rowling fantasy franchise. Sources said he is Yates’ choice to play Grindelwald and he is in early talks.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorIMDb TV, Amazon’s free, ad-supported streaming service, has confirmed an early season 2 renewal for its hit spy thriller series Alex Rider, from Eleventh Hour Films and Sony Pictures TV.The renewal, which had been expected, comes ahead of the series’ Season 1 premiere in the U.S., Canada, Italy and Latin America. The first season premieres Nov.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterNBC’s The Voice and ABC’s Dancing With the Stars tied for the night’s top ratings spot Monday in primetime. The Voice entered its first round of socially distanced battles to earn a 1.0 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 7.10 million viewers, steady in the demo compared with last week while slipping in viewership.The two-hour episode was followed by Weakest Link (0.5, 3.39M), which dipped in the demo from its last fresh episode.On ABC, DWTS (1.0, 6.30M) grew three tenths in the demo from last week as the dancing competition revealed its semifinalists.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Arrow, the UK based genre label, has taken all rights in the U.S., Canada, UK, Australia & New Zealand to thriller-mystery The Bloodhound.Arrow will release the film on its new Arrow streaming service in North America and on its Prime Video Channel in the UK on December 1. Blu-ray and digital on-demand will be set for Q1, 2021.From writer-director Patrick Picard, the film is a take on Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic classic The Fall of The House of Usher, and stars Liam Aiken (A Series Of Unfortunate Events), Joe Adler (The Maze Runner) and Annalise Basso (Ouija: Origin Of Evil).

Ted Johnson Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto cut off a Trump campaign press conference in which Kayleigh McEnany alleged “illegal voting” and fraud but did not offer proof to back it up.Trump’s team has been making claims that the election is being stolen from him, but it is part of an effort to sow doubt about the results, even though networks have projected Joe Biden the winner and he is likely to win the electoral and popular vote by substantial margins.McEnany is the White House Press Secretary, a government paid position, but she has been appearing as a spokesperson for the campaign as well.“We want every legal vote to be counted, and we want every illegal vote to be…” Cavuto then cut in. “Whoa.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticBert Belasco, who starred on BET’s 2011-14 sitcom Let’s Stay Together and appeared in Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here and Fox’s Pitch, has died at the age of 38, Deadline has confirmed with his agency. His body was discovered Sunday in a Richmond, Virginia hotel room.Belasco was in Virginia filming a movie role, and was staying inside the hotel under required quarantine prior to joining the film set.

Peter White Television EditorWheel of Fortune is getting a celebrity spin-off series for the first time at ABC.The network has ordered a series of Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, which will see the long-running game show make its primetime debut.The spin-off will be hosted by Pat Sajak and Vanna White and will see celebrity contestants come spin the wheel and solve word puzzles for a chance to win up to $1M with all of the prize money going to a charity of their choice.It is the latest daytime game show to score its own celebrity spin-off following the likes of The Price Is Right at Night and Let’s Make A Deal, which also recently secured its first celebrity spin-off this season.

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski EXCLUSIVE: The American Forces Network is getting a special Veterans Day broadcast of Netflix’s World War II animated drama series The Liberator, for military service members and their families. Based on the book by Alex Kershaw, the series hails from writer Jeb Stuart (Die Hard), A+E Studios, Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne’s Unique Features and Triscope Studios.The four-part limited series, which also launches Nov.

Andreas Wiseman, Tom Grater Few North American film markets have taken place amid such tumult as this year’s virtual AFM. If it’s not the deadly pandemic, it’s the excruciatingly tense U.S election and its fallout.Will the industry be able to pull itself away from CNN for a minute to focus on the event? “Last week it was very challenging to focus on AFM projects,” said one market regular.