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BOX OFFICE - From Deadline: "Aquaman" has grossed $649.3 million in international box office. That surpasses "The Dark Knight Rises" $636.8 million in international box office to make "Aquaman" the highest grossing Warner Bros./DC Comics film at the international box office.
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TELEVISION - From RollingStone: Burke Ramsey has settled his $750 million lawsuit against CBS. Burke is the brother of the late JonBenet Ramsey, whose infamous 1996 murder remains unsolved. A CBS docuseries, "The Case of: JonBenet," posed a theory that Burke killed his sister.
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MOVIES - From SlashFilm: "Bumblebee" worked to separate itself from Michael Bay's "Transformers" films.
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SPORTS - From YahooSports: Kimberley A. Martin conducts a long sit-down interview with former Dallas Cowboys quarterback, Troy Aikman. Aikman is a Super Bowl champion, a member of the NFL Hall of Fame, and a long-time member of Fox Sport's top NFL broadcasting team.
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COMICS-FILM - From Variety: The CW orders a "Batwoman" pilot starring Ruby Rose.
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OSCARS - From Variety: Kevin Hart says that he is evaluating his decision not to host the 91st Academy Awards ceremony.
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CRIME - From Deadline: The LAPD has arrested a home-burglary suspect, Benjamin Eitan Ackerman, who targeted more than a dozen celebrities – including music recording artists, Usher and Adam Lambert – recovering more than 2,000 stolen items that included artwork, jewelry, handbags, expensive wines and other high-end valuables worth millions of dollars.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Looks like Warner Bros. will win the rights to the film library of RatPac Dune, its former co-financing partner.
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AWARDS - From Deadline: Halle Berry, Chadwick Boseman, and Dick van Dyke among presenters at the 2019 Golden Globes.
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MUSIC-SCANDAL - From DetroitFreePress: Starting Thursday, the Lifetime network will devote six hours and three consecutive nights to "Surviving R. Kelly," a docu-series chronicling the long-running allegations that music superstar R. Kelly has sexually and physically abused women and young girls. The series is spear headed by Detroit native, Dream Hampton.
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STREAMING - From Deadline: Netflix has ordered a coming-of-age series based on Charles Forsman mini-comics, "I'm Not Okay With This," which Fantagraphics Books has published in book form.
From TheVerge: Netflix says that over 45 million people watched its original film "Bird Box," starring Julia Roberts, during the first seven days it streamed.
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TELEVISION - From TheWrap: Verizon follows Comcast in dropping Jennifer Lopez's Fuse Network.
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STREAMING - For TheWrap: Netflix pulls an episode of "Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj" from Saudi Arabia after the Saudi government objects to some of the episode's content.
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OBAMA - From SlashFilm: President Barack Obama names his favorite movies of 2018.
OBITS:
From Variety: Comedian, writer, and actor, Bob Einstein, has died at the age of 76, Wednesday, January 2, 2019. Einstein was best known for the character, "Super Dave Osborne," an accident prone stuntman and daredevil. As Super Dave, Einstein appeared as a guest and as a star of numerous talks shows, variety series, and TV specials. Einstein was the brother of actor and filmmaker, Albert Brooks (whose birth surname is "Einstein").
From Variety: The musician and Grammy-winning recording artist, Daryl Dragon, has died at the age of 76, Wednesday, January 2, 2019. Dragon was best known as "The Captain" in the musical act, "The Captain and Tennille."
From TheWrap: Pro-wrestling personality, "Mean" Gene Okerlund, has died at the age of 76, Wednesday, January 2, 2019. Okerlund was known for interviewing pro wrestlers belonging to the WWE and WCW, beginning in 1984 with the WWE. He sang the National Anthem at the first "Wrestlemania" back in 1985.
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