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‘The Walking Dead’ Lawsuit Fallout: AMC Will No Longer Pay Package Fees To CAA

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EXCLUSIVE: Three years into AMC’s legal battle with CAA and client Frank Darabont over profits from mega hit The Walking Dead, the cable network is making an unprecedented move that affects a talent agency’s most lucrative revenue stream – package fees. I hear AMC parent AMC Networks earlier today sent a letter to CAA, informing the agency that the company will no longer be paying packaging fees on new projects involving CAA clients. The new policy is being implemented… Read

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Kevin Smith Says He’s “No Longer Involved” In ‘Buckaroo Banzai’ TV Series

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There hasn’t been a single ruling in MGM’s copyright lawsuit for a Buckaroo Banzai TV series, but there’s already two clear casualties: Kevin Smith and the show itself, at least for now. After the studio filed legal paperwork November 23 against the 1984 movie’s director W.D. Richter  and writer Earl Mac Rauch, the Clerks creator went online today to declare “I’m no longer involved” with the proposed Amazon TV series version. “This is not what I signed up for,” Smith said… Read

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‘Manchester By The Sea’s Casey Affleck & Kenneth Lonergan Stop For Lunch En Route To IFP’s Gotham Awards

Writer/director Kenneth Lonergan and actor Casey Affleck, at a pre-Gotham Awards luncheon on Monday, November 28, 2016.

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In a run-up to tonight’s Gotham Awards sponsored by the Independent Film Project, nominees Kenneth Lonergan and Casey Affleck — writer-director and star, respectively, of the multiple nominee Manchester by The Sea — answered questions about the seriously adult drama, which has benefitted from a major kick into awards season from both critics and ticket buyers. NBC Today show contributor Dave Karger asked, and fielded, questions after a screening of the film for press and… Read

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‘Kubo And The Two Strings’ Marks Laika Founder Travis Knight’s Passion Project & Directorial Debut – The Contenders Video

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Certainly, 2016 has turned out to be a banner year for feature film animation, and one of the most critically acclaimed has been Laika’s latest, Kubo And The Two Strings, which this morning was nominated for 10 Annie Awards. It marks the directorial feature film debut for Laika founder and studio head Travis Knight, who came to Deadline’s big all-day awards-season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline on November 5 at the DGA theater. In front of a packed audience of… Read

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Art Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Honoree To Boycott Awards Show

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Famed production illustrator Joe Musso is boycotting the upcoming Art Directors Guild Awards, where he was slated to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. In an email to the guild's members, Musso, who's running for president of the union, said he won't show up to receive the honor to protest a Service Award that's also being presented to Scott Roth, the guild's former longtime executive director. "It was because of Mr. Roth's long, troubling history with the guild, too… Read

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TV News Jumps On Ohio State Attack Suspect’s Identity, Refugee Status – Update

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UPDATE with details from afternoon newser: TV news operations took another break from Donald Trump Transition coverage today when word emerged that the deceased suspect in this morning’s Ohio State University attack was a Somali refugee. Abdul Razak Ali Artan, who was shot dead at the scene this morning, was an 18-year-old first-year student at the university. The Somali refugee left his homeland with his family in 2007, lived in Pakistan, and came to the U.S. in 2014 as… Read

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AT&T Launching DirecTV Now With Introductory Offer Of 100+ Channels For $35 A Month

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AT&T officially introduced its DirecTV Now streaming service today — offering less than analysts expected after CEO Randall Stephenson vowed to provide more than 100 channels for as little as $35 a month. That $35 for 100-plus channels will be good for initial subscribers for the November 30 launch. After the intro period — the length still hasn’t been determined — that price will secure more than 60 channels as part of the “Live a Little” package. Those paying $50 can… Read

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‘Hamilton’s $998 Top Yields $3M Week, $300 Average Ticket Price At Holiday Broadway B.O.

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UPDATE, 3:30 P.M.: Fixes total b.o. figures in second paragraph, showing it was indeed a record week. With its seasonal top price of $998, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s historico-musico rap blockbuster Hamilton registered $3.26 million in ticket sales last week, the first of the expected Thanksgiving-to-New Year’s Times Square gold rush. Disney’s pair — The Lion King and Aladdin — both broke the $2 million barrier, at $2.5 million and $2.04 million, respectively. Also in the $2M… Read

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Daniel Trachtenberg In Talks For Lionsgate’s Houdini Film

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EXCLUSIVE: 10 Cloverfield Lane helmer Daniel Trachtenberg is in talks to direct Lionsgate’s film about master illusionist Harry Houdini. This is the film that seemed to pull a vanishing act after reports that Johnny Depp was going to star and Dean Parisot direct. That went by the wayside in a puff of smoke, but I’ve confirmed that Trachtenberg is negotiating to take on a project based on the William Kalush and Larry Sloman's book The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of A… Read

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MTV Head Of Original Programming Michael Klein Exits

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Michael Klein has stepped down as EVP Original Content for MTV after six months. Klein was appointed in March by then-new MTV president Sean Atkins. Klein’s departure follows Atkins’ exit last month when Chris McCarthy added MTV oversight as president of MTV, VH1 & Logo. McCarthy just announced Klein’s exit in an internal memo, in which he acknowledges that the network will be making a change in its original programming strategy. MTV has struggled to launch a breakout new… Read

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Paramount Hires Andrew Gumpert As COO

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Weeks after he left Sony Pictures and his longtime post as head of business affairs, Andrew Gumpert has joined Paramount Pictures as chief operating officer. The appointment was made by Paramount chairman and CEO Brad Grey. At the same time, longtime COO Frederick Huntsberry is leaving Paramount after a decade there. Gumpert will start in January. According to the studio, Gumpert will lead business affairs as well as home entertainment and television transactional… Read

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Larry Wilmore Inks Overall Deal With ABC Studios

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Larry Wilmore has lined up a post-Nightly Show TV gig, signing a multi-year overall deal with ABC Studios. Wilmore was serving as executive producer/showrunner on ABC Studios’ then-newly picked-up ABC comedy series Black-ish when he landed the Comedy Central late-night show. Wilmore, who had joined Kenya Barris’ Black-ish at the pilot stage, stayed on for the first 13 episodes before departing for The Nightly Show, which he hosted for 20 months, until the show’s cancellati… Read

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